Hello everybody and thank you for joining us today for the Virtual Vertica BDC 2020. Today's break up session is entitled Migrating Your Vertica Cluster to the Cloud. I'm Jeff Healey and I lead Vertica Marketing. I'll be your host for this break up session. Joining me are Sunit Kizwani and Chris Daley, Vertica Product Technology Engineers and key members of our Customer Success Team. Before we begin, I encourage you to submit questions or comments during the virtual session. You don't have to wait, just type your question or comment in the question box below the slides and click submit. As always, there will be a Q&A session at the end of the presentation. We'll answer as many questions we're able to during that time. Any questions that we don't address will do our best to answer them offline. Alternatively, you can visit VerticaForms.Form.Vertica.com to post your questions there after the session. Our engineering team is planning to join the forums to keep the conversation going. Also, as a reminder that you can maximize your screen by clicking the double arrow button in the lower right corner of the slide. Yes, this virtual session is being recorded and will be available to view on-demand this week. We'll send you a notification as soon as it's ready. Now, let's get started. Over to you, Sunit. Thank you, Jeff. Hello, everyone. My name is Sunit Kizwani and I will be talking about planning to deploy on my Azure Vertica cluster to the cloud. We may be moving an on-prem cluster or setting up a new cluster in the cloud. There are several design and operational considerations that will come into play. Some of these are cost, which industry or which expertise you have, in which cloud platform. There may be a personal preference too. After that, there will be some operational considerations like DM at cluster sizing, what vertica mode you want to deploy on or enterprise depends on your use case, what are the DevOps skills available, what elasticity, separation you need, what is your backup and DR strategy, what do you want in terms of high availability. You will have to think about how much data you have and where it's going to live and in order to understand the cost and the benefit of this deployment, you will have to understand the access patterns and how you are moving data from into the cloud. Thanks to consider before you move a deployment, a vertica deployment to the cloud. One thing to keep in mind is virtual CPUs or CPUs in the cloud are not the same as the usual CPUs that you've been familiar with in your data center. A vCPU is half of a CPU because of hyper threading. There is definitely the noisy neighbor effect. There is depending on what other things are hosted in the cloud environment, you may occasionally see performance issues. There are IO limitations on the instances that you provision. What that really means is you can't always scale up. You might have to scale out. Basically, you have to have more instances rather than getting bigger or the right size instances. Finally, there is an important distinction here. Virtualization is not free. There can be a significant overhead to virtualization. It could be as much as 30%. When you size and scale your clusters, you must keep that in mind. The other important aspect is where you put your cluster is important. The choice of the region, how far it is from your various office locations. Where will the data live with respect to the cluster? Popular locations can fill up. If you want to scale out, additional capacity may or may not be available. These are things you have to keep in mind when picking or choosing your cloud platform and your deployment. At this point, I want to make a plug for Eon mode. Eon mode is the latest mode. It is a cloud mode for Vertica. It has been designed with cloud economics in mind. It uses shared storage, which is durable, available and very cheap, like SD storage or Google cloud storage. It has been designed for quick scaling, like scale out and highly elastic deployments. It has also been designed for high workload isolation where each application or user group can be isolated from the other ones so that they can be built and monitored separately without affecting each other. But there are some disadvantages or perhaps there is a cost for using Eon mode. Storage in S3 is neither cheap nor efficient. There is a high latency of IO when accessing data from S3. There is API and data access cost. It is associated with accessing your data in S3. Vertica in Eon mode has the pay-as-you-go model, which works for some people and does not work for others. Therefore, it is important to keep that in mind. Performance can be a little bit variable here because it depends on the local people, which is a cache. And it is not as predictable as Eon mode, so that's another trade-off. So let's spend about a minute and see how a Vertica cluster in Eon mode looks like. A Vertica cluster in Eon mode has S3 as the durability layer where all the data sits. There are subclusters, which are essentially just execution groups which is separated compute, which will service different types of data. They can service different workloads. So in this example, you may have two subclusters, one servicing ETL workload and the other one servicing. These clusters are isolated and they do not affect each other's performance. This allows you to scale them independently and isolate workloads. So this is the new Vertica Eon mode which has been specifically designed by us for use in the cloud. On this, you can use Eon mode or Eon mode in the cloud. It really depends on what your use case is, but both of these are possible and we highly recommend Eon mode wherever possible. Let's talk a little bit about what we mean by Vertica support in the cloud. Now, as you know, a cloud is a shared data center. Performance in the cloud can vary. It can vary between regions, availability zones, time of the day, choice of instance type, what concurrency you use, and of course, the noisy neighbor effect. You know, we in Vertica, we performance, load and stress test our product before every release.  We go through all of them, make sure that we haven't regressed any performance and make sure that it works at the standards and gives you the high performance that you've come to expect. However, your solution or your workload is unique to you and it is still your responsibility to make sure that it is tuned appropriately. To do this, one of the easiest things you can do is pick a tested operating system, allocate the virtual machine with enough resources, pick something that we recommend because we have tested it thoroughly. It goes a long way in giving you predictability. So after this, I would like to now go into the various platforms, cloud platforms that Vertica has worked on. And I'll start with AWS and my colleague Chris will speak about Azure and GCP and our path forward. So without further ado, let's start with the Amazon Web Services platform. So this is Vertica running on the Amazon Web Services platform. So as you probably are all aware, Amazon Web Services is the market leader in this space. I mean, they really are the biggest provider by far and have been here for a very long time. And Vertica has deep integration in the Amazon Web Services space. We provide a marketplace offering which has both as you go or bring your own license model. We have many knowledge-based articles, best practices, scripts and resources that help you configure and use a Vertica database in the cloud, etc. We have several customers in the cloud for many, many years now. We have management, console-based point and kick deployments for ease of use in the cloud. So Vertica has deep integration in the Amazon space and has been there for quite a bit now. So we have a lot of experience here. So let's talk about sizing on AWS. Well, sizing on any platform comes down to these four or five different things. It comes down to picking the right instance type, picking the right disk volume and type, tuning and optimizing your networking, and finally some operational concerns like security, mentality and backup. So let's go into each one of these on the AWS ecosystem. So the choice of instance type is one of the important choices that you will make. In the on-mode, you don't really need persistent disk. You should probably choose a firmware disk because it gives you extra speed and it's free with the instance type. We highly recommend the i3, 4x instance types which are very economical, have a big 4TB D4 cache per node. The i3 metal cache is similar to the i3, 4x, but has got significantly better performance for those subclusters that need this extra oomph. The i3, 2x is good for scale out of small ad hoc clusters. They have a smaller cache and lower performance, but it's cheap enough to use very indiscriminately. If you were in EE mode, well, we don't use S3 as the layer of durability your local volumes are where we persist the data. Hence, you do need an EBS volume in EE mode. In order to make sure that the instance or the deployment is manageable, you might have to use some sort of a software array over the EBS volumes. The most common instance type we see in EE mode is the R44x, the C4, or the M, for instance types. Of course, for temp space and depot, we always recommend instance volumes. They're just much faster. Let's talk about optimizing your network or tuning your network. For the best thing you can do about tuning your network, especially in EON mode, but in other modes, too, is to get a VPCS endpoint. This is essentially a routing rule that makes sure that all traffic between your cluster and S3 goes over an internal fabric. This makes it much faster. You don't pay for egress costs, especially if you're doing external tables or your communal storage, but you do need to create it. Many times people forget doing it, so you really do have to create it. Best of all, it's free. It doesn't cost you anything extra. You just have to create it during cluster creation time and there's a significant performance difference for using it. The next thing about tuning your network is sizing it correctly. Pick the closest geographical region to where you'll consume the data. Pick the right availability zone. We highly recommend using cluster placement groups. In fact, they are required for the stability of the cluster. A cluster placement group is essentially AWS's notion of RAC. Nodes in a cluster placement group are physically closer to each other than they would otherwise be. This allows 10 GBPS bidirectional TCPIP flow between the nodes, and this makes sure that you get a high amount of commits per second. As you probably are all aware, the cloud does not support broadcasts or UDP broadcasts. Hence, you must use point-to-point UDP for spread in the cloud or in AWS. Beyond that, UDP does not, point-to-point UDP does not scale very well beyond 20 nodes. As your cluster size increases, you must sweep over to large cluster mode. Finally, use instances with enhancement working or SRIOB support. Again, it's free. It comes with the choice of the instance type and the operating system. We highly recommend it. It makes a big difference in terms of how the workload will perform. Let's talk a little bit about security, configuration, and orchestration. As I said, we provide cloud formation scripts to make the ease of deployment. You can use the MC point and click. With regard to security, Vertica does support instance profiles out of the box in Amazon. We recommend you use it. This is highly desirable so that you're not passing access keys and secret keys around. If you use our marketplace image, we have picked the latest operating systems. We have patched them. Amazon actually validates everything on Marketplace. It scans them for security vulnerability, so you get that for free. We do some basic configuration, like we disable root SSH access, we disallow any password access, we turn on encryption, and we run a basic set of security checks to make sure that the image is secure. Of course, it could be made more secure, but we try to balance out security performance and convenience. Finally, let's talk about backups. Especially Neon Mode, I get the question, do we really need to back up our system since the data is on S3? The answer is yes, you do, because S3 is not going to protect you against an accidental drop table. S3 has a finite amount of reliability, durability, and availability, and you may want to be able to restore data differently. Also, backups are important if you're doing DR, or if you have additional cluster in a different region. The other cluster can be considered a backup. Finally, why not create a backup or a disaster recovery cluster? Storage is cheap in the cloud, so we highly recommend you use it. With this, I would like to hand it over to my colleague Christopher, who will talk about the other two platforms that we support, that is Google and Azure. Over to you, Chris. Thank you. Thanks, Meaton. Hi, everyone. While there's no argument that we here already have a long history of running within the Amazon Web Services space, there are other alternative cloud service providers where we do have a presence such as Google Cloud Platform or GCP. For those of you who are unfamiliar with GCP, it's considered the third largest cloud service provider in the market space, and it's priced very competitively to its peers. It has a lot of similarities to AWS and the products and services that it offers, but it tends to be the go-to place for newer businesses or startups. We officially started supporting GCP a little over a year ago with our first entry into their GCP marketplace. It's a solution that deployed a fully functional and ready-to-use enterprise mode cluster. We followed up on that with the release and the support of Google Storage buckets, and now I'm extremely pleased to announce that with the launch of Vertica 10, we're officially supporting EON mode architecture and GCP as well. But that's not all as we're adding additional offerings into the GCP marketplace. With the launch of version 10, we'll be introducing a second listing in the marketplace that allows for the deployment of EON mode cluster that's all being driven by our own management console. This will allow customers to quickly spin up EON-based clusters within GCP space. And if that wasn't enough, I'm also pleased to tell you that very soon after the launch, we're going to be offering Vertica by the hour in GCP as well. And while we've done a lot to automate the solutions coming out of the marketplace, we recognize the simple fact that for a lot of you, building your cluster manually is really the only option. So with that in mind, let's talk about the things you need to understand in GCP to get that done. So I'm wondering if you think the slide looks familiar. Well, nope, it's not an erroneous duplicate slide from Sameeth's AWS section. It's merely an acknowledgement of all the things you need to consider for running Vertica in the cloud. In Vertica, the choice of the operational mode will dictate some of the choices you'll need to make in the infrastructure, and you'll need to make sure that you don't have to change. Just like on-prem solutions, you'll need to understand the disk and networking capacities to get the most out of your cluster. And one of the most attractive things in GCP is the pricing, as it tends to run a little less than the others, but it does translate into less choices and options within the environment. If nothing else, I want you to take one thing away from this slide, and Sameeth said this earlier. GCP runs on top of hardware that has hyperthreading enabled and that a VCPU doesn't equate to a core, but rather a processing thread. This becomes particularly important if you're moving from an on-prem environment into the cloud, because a physical Vertica node with 32 cores is not the same thing as a VM with 32 VCPUs. In fact, with 32 VCPUs, you're only getting about 16 cores worth of performance. GCP does offer a handful of VM types, which they categorize by letter, but for us, most of these don't make great choices for Vertica nodes. The N-Series, however, does offer a good core-to-memory ratio, especially when you're looking at the high-mem variance. Also, keep in mind, performance in IO, such as network and disk are partially dependent on the VM size, so customers in GCP space should be focusing on 16 VCPU VMs and above for their Vertica nodes. Disk options in GCP can be broken down into two basic types, persistent disks and local disks, which are ephemeral. Persistent disks come in two forms, standard or SSD. For Vertica and EON mode, we recommend that customers use persistent SSD disks for the catalog, and either local SSD disks or persistent SSD disks for the depot and the temp space. A couple of things to think about here, though. Persistent disks are provisioned as a single device with a setable size. Local disks are provisioned as multiple disk devices with a fixed size, requiring you to use some kind of software rating to create a single storage device. So while local SSD disks provide much more throughput, you're using CPU resources to maintain that RAID set, so you're giving it a little bit of a trade-off. Persistent disks offer redundancy either within the zone they exist or within the region. And if you're selecting regional redundancy, the disks are replicated across multiple zones in the region. This does have an effect in the performance of the VM, so we don't recommend this. What we do is recommend is the zonal redundancy when you're using persistent disks as it gives you that redundancy level without actually affecting performance. Remember also, in the cloud space, all I.O. is network I.O. as disks are basically blocked storage devices. This means that disk actions can and will slow down network traffic. And finally, the storage bucket access in GCP is based on GCP interoperability mode, which means that it's basically compliant with the AWS S3 API. In interoperability mode, access to the bucket is granted by a key pair that GCP refers to as HMAC keys. HMAC keys can be generated for individual users or for service accounts. We will recommend that when you're creating HMAC keys, choose a service account to ensure that the keys are not tied to a single employee. When thinking about storage for enterprise mode, things change a little bit. We still recommend persistent SSD disks over standard ones. However, the use of local SSD disks for anything other than temp space is highly discouraged. I said it before, local SSD disks are ephemeral, meaning that the data is lost if the machine is turned off or goes down. It's not really a place you want to store your data. In GCP, multiple persistent disks placed into a software rate set does not create more throughput like you can find in other clouds. The I.O. saturation usually hits the VM limit long before it hits the disk limit. In fact, performance of persistent disks is determined not just by the size of the disk, but also by the size of the VM. A good rule of thumb in GCP is to maximize your I.O. throughput for persistent disks is that the size tends to max out at 2 terabytes for SSDs and 10 terabytes for standard disks. Network performance in GCP can be thought of in two distinct ways. There's no-to-no traffic and then there's egress traffic. No-to-no performance in GCP is really good within the zone with typical traffic between nodes falling in the 10 to 15 gigabits per second range. This might vary a little from zone to zone in region to region but usually it's only limited or only limited by the existing traffic where the VMs exist. So kind of a noisy neighbor effect. Egress traffic from a VM however is subject to throughput caps and these are based on the size of the VM. So the speed is set per the number of eCPUs in the VM at 2 gigabits per second per eCPU and tops out at 32 gigabits per second. So the larger the VM the more eCPUs you get the larger the cap. So some things to consider in the networking space for your vertical cluster pick a region that's physically close to you even if you're connecting to the GCP network on a corporate LAN as opposed to the internet. The further the packets have to travel the longer it's going to take. Also GCP like most clouds doesn't support UDP broadcast traffic on their virtual networking so you do have to use the point to point flag for spread when you're creating your cluster. And since the network cap on VMs is set at 32 gigabits per second per VM maximize your network egress throughput and don't use VMs that are smaller than eCPUs for your vertical nodes. And that gets us to the one question I get asked the most often. How do I get my data into and out of the cloud? Well GCP offers many different methods to support different speeds and different price points for data ingress and egress. There's the obvious one right across the internet either directly to the VMs or into the storage bucket or you can you know light up a VPN tunnel to encrypt all that traffic. But additionally GCP offers direct network interconnects from your corporate network. These get provided either by Google or by a partner and they vary in speeds. They also offer things called direct or carrier peering which is connecting the edges of the networks between your network and GCP and you can use CDN interconnects which creates I believe an on-demand connection from the GCP network to your network to the GCP network provided by a large host of CDN service providers. So GCP offers a lot of ways to move your data around in and out of the GCP cloud. It's really a matter of what price point works for you and what technology your corporation is looking to use. So we've talked about AWS we talked about GCP it really only leaves one more cloud. So last but by far not the least there's the Microsoft Azure environment holding on strong to the number two place in the major cloud providers. Azure offers a very robust cloud offering that's attractive to customers that already consume services from Microsoft. But what you need to keep in mind is that the underlying foundation of their cloud is based on the Microsoft Windows products and this makes their cloud offering a little bit different in the services and offerings that they have. The good news here though is that Microsoft has done a very good job of getting their virtualization drivers baked into most Linux operating systems making running Linux based VMs in Azure fairly seamless. So here's the slide again but now you're going to notice some slight differences. First off in Azure we only support enterprise mode. This is because the Azure storage product is very different from Google cloud storage and S3 on AWS. So while we're working on getting this supported and we're starting to focus on this we're just not there yet. This means that since we're only supporting enterprise mode in Azure getting the local performance right is one of the keys to success of running Vertica here. With the other major key being making sure that you're getting the appropriate networking speeds. Overall Azure is a really good platform for Vertica and its performance and pricing are very much on par with AWS. But keep in mind that the newer versions of the Linux operating system sent to us run much better here than the older versions. Okay so first things first again just like GCP in Azure VMs are running on top of hardware that has hyperthreading enabled. And because of the way of Hyper-V Azure's virtualization engine works you can actually see this right so if you look down into the CPU information of the VM you'll actually see how it groups the vCPUs by core and by thread. Azure offers a lot of VM types and is adding new ones all the time. But for us we see three VM types that make the most sense for Vertica. For customers that are looking to run production workloads in Azure the ESV3 and the LSV2 series are the two main recommendations. While they differ slightly in the CPU to memory ratio and the IO throughput the VSV3 series is probably the best recommendation for a generalized Vertica node with the LSV2 series being recommended for workloads with higher IO requirements. If you're just looking to deploy a sandbox environment the DSV3 series is a very suitable choice that really can reduce your overall cloud spend. VM storage in Azure is provided by a grouping of four different types of disks all offering different levels of performance. Introduced at the end of last year the UltraDisk option is the highest performing disk type for VMs in Azure. It was designed for database workloads where high throughput and low latency is very desirable. However the UltraDisk option is not available in all regions yet although that's been changing slowly since their launch. The premium SSD option which has been around for a while and is widely available can also offer really nice performance especially at higher capacities. And just like other cloud providers the IO throughput you get on VMs is dictated not only by the size of the disk but also by the size of the VM and its type. So a good rule of thumb here, VM types with an S will have a much better throughput rate than ones that don't meaning and the larger VMs will have higher IO throughput than the smaller ones. You can expand the VM disk throughput by using multiple disks in Azure and using a software rate. This overcomes the limitations of single disk performance but keep in mind you're now using CPU cycles to maintain that rate so it is a bit of a trade off. The other nice thing in Azure is that all their managed disks are encrypted by default on the server side so there's really nothing you need to do here to enable that. And of course I mentioned this earlier there is no native access to Azure Storage yet but it is something we're working on. We have seen folks using third-party applications like to access Azure Storage in the S3 bucket so it might be something you want to keep in mind and maybe even test out for yourself. Networking in Azure comes in two different flavors, standard and accelerated. In standard networking the entire network stack is abstracted and virtualized. So this works really well however there are performance limitations. Standard networking tends to top out around 4 gigabits per second. Accelerated networking in Azure is based on single root IO virtualization of the Melanox adapter. This is basically the VM talking directly to the physical network card in the host hardware. And it can produce network speeds up to 20 gigabits per second so much, much faster. Keep in mind though that not all VM types and operating systems actually support accelerated networking and just like disk throughput network throughput is based on VM type and size. Now let's talk about for networking in the Azure space. Again, stay close to home. Pick regions that are geographically close to your location. Yes, the backbones between the regions are very, very fast but the more hops your packets have to make the longer it takes. Azure offers two types of groupings of their VMs, availability sets and availability zones. Availability zones offer good redundancy across multiple zones but this actually increases the node to node latency so we recommend you avoid this. Availability sets on the other hand keep all your VMs grouped together within a single zone but make sure that no two VMs are running on the same host hardware for redundancy. And just like the other clouds, UDB broadcast is not supported so if you have point, you have to use the point to point flag when you're creating your database to ensure that the spread works properly. Spread timeout, this is a good one. So recently Microsoft has started monthly rolling updates of their environment. What this looks like is VMs running on top of hardware that's receiving an update can be paused. And this becomes problematic when the pausing of the VM exceeds 8 seconds as the unpaused members of the cluster now think that the paused VM is down. So consider adjusting the spread timeout for your clusters in Azure to 30 seconds and this will help avoid a little of that. If you're deploying a large cluster in Azure, more than 20 nodes use large cluster mode as point to point for spread doesn't really scale well with a lot of vertical nodes. And finally pick VM types and operating systems that support accelerated networking. The difference in the node to node speeds can be very dramatic. So how do we move data around in Azure? So Microsoft views data egress a little differently than other clouds as it classifies any data being transmitted by a VM as egress. However, it only builds for data egress that actually leaves the Azure environment. Egress speed limits in Azure are based entirely on the VM type and size and then they're limited by your connection to them. While not offering as many pathways to access their cloud as GCP Azure does offer a direct network to network connection called ExpressRoute offered by a group of large group of third party processors partners the ExpressRoute offers multiple tiers of performance that are based on a flat charge for inbound data and a metered charge for outbound data. And of course you can still access these via the internet and securely through a VPN gateway. So on behalf of Jeff's meet myself I'd like to thank you for listening to our presentation today and we're now ready for Q&A.


How France made these 14 African countries poor? In 2019, a diplomatic row erupted between France and Italy over increased migration to Europe, with Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio accusing France of impoverishing African countries, stating that if today we still have people leaving Africa, it is due to several European countries, first of all France, that didn't finish colonizing Africa. He further said that France was controlling the economies of 14 African countries that used the CFA Frank, a CFA Frank backed currency pegged to the euro. He then added, if France didn't have its African colonies, because that's what they should be called, it would be the 15th largest world economy. Instead, it's among the first, exactly because of what it is doing in Africa. It's been a few years since Italy's Prime Minister made the statement, and even before that, questions have been asked like, is France really robbing its former African colonies? Is the current relationship between African countries and France preventing successful African development and sovereignty? In this video, we will take a look at facts that will answer these questions and prove that France is truly destroying Africa. To be sure, African leaders can be corrupt and not work in the best interests of their citizens, but even if they wanted to be honest leaders, they would be unable to do so. The big question is, why? The answer is clear. It's simply because the powers that be, that is, the West, would not allow them to do so because they benefit more from Africa in its current state.  Following the Congress of Vienna, which sealed Napoleon Bonaparte's fate, France could no longer claim to be a European, let alone an international power. The fall of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany in 1870 was the final nail in the coffin of France's world power status, and it was at that point that they shifted their attention to Africa. They were among the leaders in the enslavement, colonialism, and raping of the African continent. For more than 300 years, France governed more than 20 countries in Western and Northern Africa, encompassing around 35% of the continent. Countries such as Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Benin were used as slave trade centres by France during those years, and all resources in the region were exploited. They stole African gold, diamonds, and other natural resources to construct all of the magnificent structures you see in Paris today. In addition, uprisings launched by individuals fighting for France in the world wars with the promise of independence were mercilessly suppressed. The five-century colonial period and wars of independence in the region killed more than two million Africans. Then, in 1958, President Charles de Gaulle reluctantly decided to hand independence based on French terms to former colonies. Secco-Turé of Gania, who saw the so-called independence, decided to pursue his own country's independence. However, this decision turned out to be a tragic one because when the French colonial elites discovered this, they became so furious, and in a historic act of fury, they destroyed everything in the country that represented what they called the benefits of French colonisation. They took all their possessions as they left and destroyed all they could not take, including schools, nurseries, buildings of the public administration, cars, books, medicines, and instruments of the Research Institute. Contractors were crushed and sabotaged, horses and cows on farms were killed, and stored foods were burned or poisoned. As scandalous and outrageous as this act was, it was obviously meant to send a message to all the other 14 colonies that the consequences of rejecting France's terms would be very high. This was how fear slowly spread through all the other African elites, and no other country found the courage to follow the example of Secco-Turé, whose slogan was We prefer freedom in poverty to opulence in slavery. Thinking of finding a solution to the problem, Sylvainus Olympieux, the first president of the Republic of Togo, a small country in West Africa, found a middle-ground solution with the French. Sylvainus didn't want his country to continue to be a French dominion, and so he refused to sign the colonisation continuation pact that Gao proposed but agreed to pay an annual debt to France for the so-called benefits Togo got from French colonisation. This was the only condition for the French not to destroy the country before leaving. However, the amount estimated by France was so large that the reimbursement of the so-called colonial debt was close to 40% of the country's budget in 1963. Consequently, the financial situation of just independent Togo was very unstable, and in order to get out of this situation, Olympieux decided to leave the monetary system set up by Colonial France, the FCFA, Frank of the French Colonies of Africa, and create the currency of the country. Sadly, on January 13, 1963, just three days after he started printing his country's own currency, a squad of illiterate soldiers backed by France killed the first elected president of newly independent Africa. Olympieux was reportedly killed by an ex-French foreign legionnaire army sergeant called Etienne Yosinbe, who supposedly received a bounty of $612 from the local French embassy for the hitman job, and his dream of a truly independent nation died with him. Olympieux Sylvaines was not the only leader who was killed by the French because they sought independence from France. On June 30, 1962, Maudibicata, the first president of the Republic of Moli, decided to withdraw from the French colonial currency FCFA, which was imposed on 12 newly independent African countries. For the Moli and president, who was leaning more toward a socialist economy, it was clear that the colonization continuation packed with France was a trap and a burden for the country's development. And again, like Olympieux, Cata became a victim of a coup carried out by another ex-French foreign legionnaire, Lieutenant Moussa Traoré, on November 19, 1968. In fact, during that turbulent period of African fighting to liberate themselves from European colonization, France repeatedly used many ex-foreign legionnaires to carry out coups against elected presidents, including David Deco, the first president of the Central African Republic, Maurice Yumiogo, the first president of the Republic of Apovolta, now called Burkina Faso, and President Hubert Mega, the first president of the Republic of Benin. In sum, during the last 50 years, a total of 67 coups happened in 26 countries in Africa, 16 of those countries are French ex-colonies, which means 61% of the coups happened in Francophone Africa. This demonstrates that France is quite desperate but active to keep a strong hold on his colonies, whatever the cost, no matter what. The colonial pact signed between France and the African colonies maintained French control over the African states' economies, it took possession of their foreign currency reserves, it controlled the country's strategic raw materials, it stationed troops in the country with free passage, it demanded that all military equipment be acquired from France, it took over the training of the African police and army, it required that French businesses be allowed to maintain monopoly enterprises in key. Areas such as water, electricity, ports, transport, energy, etc. France not only imposed import restrictions on a variety of commodities from outside the franc zone, but it also imposed minimum volumes of French imports. These treaties, as inhumane as they are, are still in force and operational. For the past half century, the clandestine and powerful African cell has handled France's strategic interests in Africa, reporting only to one person, the French president. Some of the obvious repercussions of a dependency policy for African countries include reliance on the French economy, reliance on the French military, and an open-door policy for French private enterprise. So, in fact, what Italian Prime Minister Luigi stated is correct. France is the West's gendarm in Africa. Its dominion is exercised through a murky network of informal empires, with dominance in trade, banking, military, and political control. Till today, all the Francophone countries remain slaves to the French. They continue to pay an unfair colonial tax as compensation for non-existent benefits of French colonialism, which makes no sense because they are the ones who came to colonize Africa and are therefore supposed to compensate Africa for centuries of enslavement, colonization, rapin, and outright grand larceny. Aside from the colonial debt, all Francophone countries have their national reserves kept by France in the central bank of France. According to estimates, France has almost $500 billion in African countries' money in its treasury each year and will go to any length to maintain it. Furthermore, African countries do not have access to this money. In fact, France forced its former colonies, CFA countries, to deposit 65% of their foreign currency reserves in the French treasury, plus another 20% for financial liabilities, leaving them with only 15% of their own money. And if they require additional funds, they must borrow from France at market rates. Thus, these African republics are French taxpayers, but their populations are not French and do not have access to the public goods and services that their money helps to fund. It's no surprise that France is so developed because it funds itself with money from Africa. One major question is, do French people realize they have been living off the wealth of African countries for over a half century? And if they do know, do they care at all? Aside from that, France has the first right to purchase any natural resources discovered on the territory of its former colonies. African countries are also not free to seek other partners because French interests and enterprises are given preference in public procurement. They have the final say when it comes to natural resources. France also has the sole right to offer military equipment and training to African militaries, as well as to deploy soldiers and intervene in African countries to safeguard France's interests. This means they may violently topple any regime that does not dance to their tune and must only ally with France in times of war or disaster. In addition, France's former colonies are required to use the colonial currency FCFA, the CFA franc, and to submit an annual balance report to France. The Bank of France issues CFA currency and sets the general framework for economic and monetary policy. As a result, countries that use the CFA franc, known collectively as the CFA franc zone, have little to no control over domestic inflation rates. As a result, France reserves the right to depreciate the CFA franc anytime it sees fit, as it did in 1994 when the CFA franc was devalued from 50 CFA francs to 100 CFA francs. By controlling this currency, France keeps its ex-colonies, mostly in western and Sahel Africa, in constant debt, enticing them to borrow more and more. So how do you expect African countries to truly develop when they're busy using all the money they've generated for the past 50 years to pay a so-called colonial debt? This system used by France to continue the colonisation of African countries is an evil one that has even been denounced by the European Union, but France is not ready to move from that colonial system, which puts about $500 billion from Africa into its Treasury Year in and year out. Former French President Jacques Chirac rightly stated. Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third world power. His predecessor, the enigmatic François Mataend, predicted in 1957 that, without Africa, France will have no history in the 21st century. Africa cannot grow as long as France views the continent just as a means of enriching France and advancing France's worldwide political dominance. The French and European invasion of Africa is and has always been a tool used to destroy cultures, cripple civilizations, and reduce societies to ruins. Thankfully, today's African leaders have realized that they have power and don't need France or other Western nations. They now understand that they can refuse to be bullied and will not just follow the lead of the West. Anti-French sentiments have been growing rapidly and spreading all around Africa. The coups in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and most recently Niger have led to these African countries pulling away from France. France's military troops have completely been withdrawn from Mali and Guinea, and if the coup in Niger is successful, they will follow suit. Recently, Mali dropped France as its official language, and it has been seen as a welcome development, signifying an end to the colonial power exercised by France. There is still a lot to be done before African countries can truly be free from the colonial shackles they have been bound in. Hopefully, in the coming years, we will see more changes occur and complete freedom enjoyed by Africans. What do you think? Do leave your comments down below, and don't forget to like and subscribe to our channel.


Hey everyone, welcome back to my channel. If you're just here for the first time from Kali Fabrics blog or newsletter, welcome. Be sure to hit the subscribe button before you leave so you can get notified of my future videos. When I saw that Kali Fabrics had the double brushed poly that I feel like everyone has been talking about lately, I knew I had to try it. But which one? I was torn between the two stripes and the floral and the different color ways. So I decided to grab a little bit of each and just see how things went when it got here. If you follow me on Instagram, then you know I was playing around with the mixing of the patterns. I ended up going with the one on the far right. It was a tough choice, but I'm thrilled with the outcome. The fabric itself is a breeze to sew with. It's no wonder it's become so popular. I used a size 80 stretch needle in a combination of my regular sewing machine and my serger to sew this particular dress. As you can imagine, the fabric is handled a lot in making this garment. The fabric held up beautifully to all the gathering and nipping and tucking. The hems on the wrap are so clean and were very easy to press into place. I used McCall's 7319 for this one and I really think it's one of the most flattering silhouettes for me. I just love the ruching on the sides and the gathers of the skirt at the center front. It was the perfect pattern for this slightly stable knit. So Kali Fabrics actually has a ton of different double brushed polys in right now. I particularly love the same fabrics I used for this dress but in navy or the mint. I literally just read where hot, hot pink was a major color trend for spring. So for that reason, I'd also pick the neon pink grunge. You can really make any knit dress with this fabric. A lot of people have been making simple fit to flare dresses with circle skirts which is a great basic pattern that lets the print shine. Or you can find a complex knit dress similar to what I've done and that will work too because the fabric has such great durability and recovery. The fabric has great drape which is why trapeze dresses are also a good choice. So I hope you like my pattern mixing double brushed poly knit dress. I still have the green color way to play with so look forward to seeing that. In the meantime, head on over to KaliFabrics.com and check out their amazing selection. Thanks for watching, bye.


I've said this before and I'll say it again, capitalism is a virus. It seeks to constantly commodify every single component of our society and it cannot coexist with democracy because it's not just like, you know, capitalism will stop short of democracy itself. No, it will eat away at democracy as well so that way even that becomes a money making venture where we introduce a profit motive. And you know, if you are going to try to get capitalism to coexist with democracy then you've got to have some really, really strong controls. You have to have it written in the constitution that we will not allow capital to subvert democracy itself. But understand that since capitalism is a virus it's going to evolve, it's going to change and you can institute some type of regulation to curtail its influence but that's only temporary because capitalism will always find a way to destroy whatever it sets its sights on. But with that being said, progress is progress so even if we could find some way to temporarily curtail its influence then I think that's a victory. Now just to demonstrate how we've entered late-stage capitalism in the United States a 2014 Princeton University study shows how capitalism has corrupted democracy because doctors Gillens and Page found that policy outcomes are not driven by preferences of average Americans rather they are dictated by the preferences of elites and special interests. And this is what capitalism does. You can say that you know capitalism broke our system but if you understand how capitalism functions and you understand the fundamentals of capitalism then this is kind of what you'd expect. Of course it's going to start eating away at our democratic institutions because that's what capitalism does. The goal is to increase money. There's that incentive for everyone. It even pits us against individuals within our own family. If your brother borrows a hundred bucks from you and doesn't pay you back that could permanently strain your relationship because to survive we have to constantly be maximizing the money that we have and the money that we make. So that's what capitalism does. So we complain about for-profit private interests in health care and charter schools and private prisons and you know that's an issue right? But these capitalistic influences within these industries they get a lot more difficult to root out once capitalism starts really eating away at the democratic process itself and you know starts requiring capital for electoral success and capital as a means of influencing policy outcomes. But Bernie Sanders amazingly has been able to unilaterally subvert the capitalist status quo when it comes to electoral politics. So he's not taking campaign contributions from special interests because he knows that these contributions corrupt other politicians and influence their world view. So he's changing the game by rejecting that money and he's also trying to change the status quo. So his campaign style isn't just going to be the exception but will instead become the rule and he announced the plan to get corporate money out of politics once and for all and he is doing this by targeting corrupt institutions like the DNC and also the presidential inaugural process and I love it. So this is the issue that he wants to draw your attention to. In 2016 17 donors gave three quarters of the Democratic National Convention funding with large corporations like Bank of America, Pico Energy, Comcast and Facebook each donating over one million dollars. Their lobbyists were everywhere and filled the VIP suites. This type of corporate sponsorship is a corrupting influence and must end if politicians are going to represent the American people and when it comes to presidential inaugurations corporate donors spent tremendous amounts of money on inaugural events. In 2016 Trump's inaugural donors included AT&T, Bank of America, Boeing, ExxonMobil, General Motors, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and many more. Private prisons also shelled out hundreds of thousands of dollars for Trump's inauguration and this is nothing new. Corporate donors to the 2013 inauguration included Microsoft, Boeing, Chevron, Genotech and numerous federal contractors. Many of these corporations have federal contracts in business that comes before Congress. It is absolutely absurd that these entities are allowed to spend enormous sums of money in an attempt to garner favor with the president and vice president of the United States. So the question is what is he going to do about all this? What is he going to do to stop that corporate influence? He's going to ban it. He's going to ban corporate influence from the DNC, the DNC convention and from presidential inaugurations. And he's also going to cap individual donations at five hundred dollars a piece. That will have a substantial influence, but to really have structural change. You also need to find a way to change the way that we finance elections. And Bernie Sanders is taking his model and he is going to try to make that the rule of the road, right? So what we need to do if we truly want lasting change, if we want to get capitalistic forces out of the democratic process, you can't just pass the law because that law will be chipped away at the courts. We'll eat away at it. You need a constitutional amendment. And that's what Bernie Sanders is proposing.  And what he's proposing is a constitutional amendment to overturn Supreme Court decisions like Buckley v. Vallejo and Citizens United, which say money is speech and unlimited sums of money can anonymously be given to super PACs. Now, on top of that, he's going to pass legislation that will end super PACs entirely. That will be a game changer in and of itself. He'll also abolish the FEC and replace it with a federal election administration, which actually will have some teeth and can regulate campaign finance violations more effectively. He'll end the influence of corporations at the DNC, which means banned donations from lobbyists and corporations, Institute of Lifetime ban on lobbying for national party chairs and co-chairs. And most importantly, he's going to mandate publicly financed elections for every single race. And he'll also create a system of universal small dollar vouchers that allow normal Americans to donate to federal candidates. So this is incredibly important, incredibly important. Because the reason why we allow there to be a profit motive in health care, in education, in private prisons and basically every single sector of the economy is because capitalism, like the virus that it is, has made its way into the democratic process itself. It has corrupted democratic institutions. So that way, these for-profit vultures have more staying power within the industries that offer what should be public goods, which shouldn't be profitable ventures. Like when we talk about health care, the mere discussion of private insurance should be foreign to everyone. The fact that it's not shows how powerful capitalism is as a force. So Bernie's trying to change all of that. And this is really, really important. Now, the one area where I would offer correction is I'd say rather than just offering legislation to publicly financed elections, add that to the constitutional amendment. I get what he's saying because if we overturn, you know, Citizens United, McCutcheon, Buckley v. Vallejo, then the courts won't really have the authority to overturn something like, you know, legislation that mandates publicly financed elections. However, a future administration or, you know, a Republican-controlled Congress can just overturn that or even a Democratic-controlled Congress, you know. So these things, if you want them to have lasting power and you want to maintain capitalism, you need to codify that into the Constitution. Otherwise, you know, you could have a really phenomenal effect in the short term, but long term capitalism will come back and undo these changes. But with that being said, this really is this is what we need, at least for right now, right? This is a fix to the issues because a lot of people, I think, rightfully point out that we're not going to get meaningful legislation when it comes to climate change. We're not even going to have a chance of passing Medicare for all so long as we don't get money out of politics because these special interests who profit from these industries are contributing to these politicians and lobbying them. So we're not going to have a chance in hell of getting these things that we want codified into law unless we get money out of politics. And what Bernie Sanders has proposed here is a plan that would allow us to curtail the money, even if it's just temporarily, but curtail the money, nonetheless, in politics. And that would be huge. The impact that that would have could potentially not just be life changing, but save the planet, alter the course of history. That's how big this is. That's how substantial this is. Now, on top of that, what he's also proposing is that we ban advertising of corporate news stations if they are going to host presidential debates, because it's absolutely absurd that presidential candidates talk about health care and Medicare for all. And then CNN hosting a presidential debate will cut to commercial where they advertise, you know, pharmaceutical companies and private health insurers. That's absurd. If you're going to offer what is a public good and host presidential debates, you shouldn't be able to profit off of it. So he's proposing that on top of that, he is going to shut the revolving door in D.C. once and for all by instituting a lifetime ban on lobbying.  Nope, he will close the door to that.  It's not just bold because Bernie Sanders is trying to right one of the biggest wrongs of capitalism. It's bold because this puts him directly at odds with the DNC. He is naming them. He's saying we're going to stop the DNC's corruption. And that puts him at odds with the institution that has the power to royally screw him again if they want to do. But Bernie doesn't care because this is a principled position. And even if Bernie Sanders isn't successful, just elevating this issue using his platform as a top tier presidential candidate, say, you know, we need publicly financed elections. This shifts the Overton window. This influences other candidates to adopt policies that align with this. So it's incredibly important. And Bernie Sanders week after week, I keep saying it, he proposes a new policy that would fundamentally change America for the better, change our system, change our institutions, decmodify at least the democratic process for a while until, you know, capitalism seeps back in. But for now, this is good. This is really good. We need to shift towards democratic socialism. And you do that by moving towards policies like this, where you decmodify one industry and you decmodify another one. It's about beating back the forces of capitalism. And in a way, you can say that that is incrementalism towards democratic socialism, but in the short term, this is what we have to do, right? You're not really going to get, you know, a huge fundamental change where we pass a law saying we are democratic socialism now. Like that's not something that is conceivable. That's not realistic, but this is realistic. This is something that will have a really positive impact on the country. And I absolutely applaud Bernie Sanders for being a leader now who is trying to curtail corruption. And look, he has the street cred here. Everyone else is doing big fundraisers, or they did do big fundraisers like Elizabeth Warren and then transferred the money that she got from big fundraisers to her presidential campaign. Bernie did not do that. He doesn't hold big fundraisers, right? He's not going to hold big fundraisers in the general unlike Elizabeth Warren. He is saying we're in a publicly financed elections and we are going to do a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. And we're also going to curtail the corruption within the organization that controls elections, that I will be in charge of the DNC. I cannot stress how big of an impact that could potentially have on democracy.


So, eventually, you know, not having Joe, how much did that trickle down from just not having his production, but just also impacting the way they kind of defended you guys overall? Yeah, Tom, overall, you know, when you don't have all the components of your card, it puts stress on different parts. And that was the result tonight. Just put extra stress on different individuals to make plays that they might not have had to make if Joe was here. Brian? I'm curious, was one of the worst victims of that? Jared, was that the way that they defended him that he didn't get a single shot? Or was that just the nature of the way you guys were game-planning? No, I think overall, Brian, I think that the game just unfolded that way. We even got to a point where we ran after timeout play form, he got fouled on it. So, we were definitely trying to keep him involved. You know, he was really on the glass for us tonight. They did a good job of keeping him off. The rebounds that he got, offensively, he ended up passing those out. We didn't get him the ball in the half-roll a little bit. That's Gasol's minutes matching up with his. Probably was an emphasis of that. But overall, not part of the game-plan, not to get him, but to get the ball to him. But it was a part of our game-plan to shoot 53s. Christian? Hey, coach, tonight's result, was it a byproduct of anything the Raptors did specifically or is that just they've got so many different options out there that they can just get you in any way? Yeah, Christian, I don't think there's anything, you know, tactically or schematically that caught us off guard or anything. I think they really came out with force in trying to send a message early. I like the way our guys continue to rally and get back in the ball game, but nothing tactically that we hadn't seen before. Greg?  What kind of message do you try to give them going forward to game four? Yeah, Greg, I think the message leaving the locker room is, you know, as a net, do you have a standard? A standard is a standard. And so we'll put on our compete ability and be ready for the next game. The fortunate part is we do have a next game, and that's the challenge for us is to win that. Alex? Hey, Jacques, what do you think of Tyler's game, you know, career high in the playoffs room, especially given you needed him to step up without Joe? Yeah, really stepped into the role. Alex provided some offense for us. We needed everyone to have his field goal percentage tonight to give us a chance, but he did a good job of filling in.  We inserted him into the lineup, thinking that he would get some shots to make because Cares would have the ball in his hands, so great to see him have some success. Brian Mahoney? Jacques, obviously three-nothing in the NBA has been in the best of circumstances impossible. No one's ever done it. When you factor in now, the body's being out and the situation of it, you know, how challenging it just to even make yourself want to play in a couple days, knowing that how much has got against you for the last four or five weeks? Yeah, Brian, that's a great challenge, and I hope our group accepts that challenge. You know, this is unprecedented time. I didn't think I would be talking to you through a video cam with a mask on, and so I hope our group embraces the now, the moment that they're in. We don't know what this thing's going to look like a month, a year, two years from now, so you have moments in your life that you can hold on to. We can embrace this time, and you never know what happens if you win one game.


Five bold predictions of the 2019 NBA free agency Remember these are just bold predictions if you want my actual realistic predictions I have it on the screen right now and I made a video where I explained why I think all these guys will go there That was two days ago when I posted that so if you want to watch it and you haven't watched it I recommend go watching that because that is more realistic So these are my bold predictions and let's see if any of them transpire Let me know yours in the comment section down below and be sure to leave a like and subscribe if you are new and let's get Into the video number one is a Thomas returns to the Boston Celtics in 2016 when you thought of the Boston Celtics you thought of this man in his 2016-17 campaign with the Celtics Thomas average a career-high 29 points per game while recording six assists shooting 46% from the field and 38% beyond the arc since then he's only amounted to 44 games in the last two years Most recently with the Nuggets where he averaged just eight points in 15 minutes now He's an unrestricted free agent He has the choice in where he wants to play and it doesn't seem likely that he'll go back to the Nuggets But it also doesn't seem likely that the Celtics will target Isaiah Thomas due to their ambition of Kemba Walker But let's just say that plan fails Somehow which it doesn't seem likely but if it does I wouldn't be surprised if they settled for a guy like Nikola Vustavich or even a DeMarcus cousin's big man and they would still need a point guard obviously and Whilst there are a few options the Celtics could go after and the obvious one just bringing back Terry Rosia Why not go after Isaiah Thomas? Not as the sixth man, but as the starter you would have a lineup of Isaiah Thomas Jalen Brown Jason Tatum You can probably bring back Marcus Morris and then you could have a big man such as DeMarcus Cuttons or Nikola Vustavich and that is actually not a bad squad if Isaiah Thomas could play anywhere near how he played in 2016 2017 it's just a thought to consider I think we'd all like Isaiah Thomas to return to Boston and even just to return to a little bit of his former self Remember, this is just a bold predictions. The Celtics will probably end up with Kemba Walker But we've seen strange things happen in free agency Number two Julius Randall to the Phoenix Suns See, I know the Suns are really targeting DeAndre Russell and he's a good friend of Devon Booker's But so is Karl-Anthony Towns of the Timberloos and they actually have a chance to sign him too Plus there are many other teams like the Lakers, Paces, 76ers and many other teams that also want DeAndre Russell So if the Suns lose out on DeAndre Russell Having a guy like Randall mixed with Devon Booker and DeAndre Aiden may not be a bad option or a bad fit at all I would say that Dallas has a higher chance to get Randall or even the Brooklyn Nets But I do believe that Dallas will try to get a guy like Al Horford or DeMarkets Cousins and therefore the Mavericks may not Go after Julius Randall. Likewise with the Brooklyn Nets I think they're gonna go after Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant and if they get those guys Then obviously Julius Randall will not be a fit in the Brooklyn Nets So if they don't get him the Phoenix Suns could be a team that sweeps in it's definitely an intriguing fit Julius Randall in the end may just be the piece that finally pushes this young Suns core out of the basement of the Western Conference And allows them to attract some potential free agents next season The best case for the Phoenix Suns in my opinion is they end up with a starting five of at the one Terry Rozier At the two Devon Booker at the three Josh Jackson at the four Julius Randall and at the five DeAndre Aiden And the worst case scenario is probably they end up with another top ten pick in next year's NBA draft But it is about time that they get Devon Booker some help before it gets bad for them Number three Jimmy Butler to the Miami Heat If you didn't know you're about to find out Jimmy Butler is and has been for a very long time Reportedly being very interested in the Miami Heat Unfortunately for both parties cat space has been the big issue so far all rumors surrounding Jimmy Butler have been rumors about What the suitors want which are the Lakers nicks 76ers they're the teams and they're the suitors for Jimmy Butler But what does Jimmy Butler want according to NBA rider Tim Reynolds? The four-time author is very interested in the Miami Heat And this gives us an indication of where he may want to play next season He has also stated that he'd be very interested in LA for both teams the Clippers and the Lakers and the Houston Rockets LA of course would be the most likely destination as they are the team that actually has cat space Unlike Miami and unlike Houston But this is a bold predictions video. So let's talk about the other two teams Much like what the Houston Rockets need Butler would be a guy that could fit in with that team alongside cp3 and james harden As for the Miami Heat, they just want a star player that can help them advance in the eastern conference In the end if Jimmy Butler does want to go to the Houston Rockets or the Miami Heat Butler would have to force the sixes into a sign and trade with the heat or the Houston Rockets Whilst the preferable scenario to trading him to either places keeping him Miami may actually possess a couple of young assets worth asking for But the Houston Rockets are seeking to trade clinker peller pj Tucker and ery gordon in exchange for first round pigs So they can potentially perform a silent trade for jimmy butler and that was posted by espn But why would the Philadelphia 76ers want that the Miami heat can offer players like josh richison A player that has merged as one of the best perimeter defenders in the league and his offensive game is steadily improving He's a guy that can definitely hit the three ball and would be a good fit for Philly honestly He's just 25 years old and he has two years left on his deal between 10 and 11 million and a player option for 2021 22 so that's a really good contract and a guy that would fit very well with the 76ers The second guy is bam adabaya He's another player to consider and while he hasn't quite lived up to his lottery status He has been a solo contributor to the Miami heat and he'd be a very solid backup to jewel and bead Or even to players starting power forward if they want to run both players He's just 22 years old And they say the big men take long to develop in the league and is only on the third year of his rookie deal James johnson would be another guy who actually is a very solid player And he'd probably have to be in the deal to make the contract situation work out and if Philly asked for even more The Miami heat may have to even throw in Tyler hero their first round pick of this year's NBA draft Now some may say that Miami is losing this trade But you have to think about it like this Miami has pat Riley and he's a guy who owns the winning philosophy He rarely brings up draft picks and develops them and people know that about him And he's even stated that himself Although he has stated that that's what people think of him and that's not the case When you look at history, it is really the case There hasn't been a lot of draft picks by the Miami heat that have stayed and stuck around apart from dwayne wade And a few other players But they've ended up being shipped off to future teams Or I can take some assets and some young players and Turn them into a lines of money And I think we all know pat Riley is a guy who looks towards free agency So developing these young players and we've done this Four times now had a good group of players young players and then either through free agency Or or through trade brought the superstar And he even said when the deals come off the books in the summer of 2020 They are ready to pound Riley said he will be targeting two max free agents when that time comes around in 2020 We'll have A lot of room We'll also have the possibility to have enough room to go after two max contracts and we're going to do that So so we're planning that 2020 will be the room here. The thing is when I look at the 2020 NBA free agency I personally don't think it's an amazing free agency So right now find the Miami heat and I add Jimmy Butler My lineup of 2019 would look like this at the point guard gory and tragic a former all-star point guard at the two Jimmy butler at the three Justice wins though who has the potential to improve even more at the four kelly olinic a guy that can space the floor And at the five we still have her son white side Who would be happy if you can actually get playing time and in my opinion That is not a bad team to enter the 2019 season and challenge with in the eastern conference And then you still have a max spot in the summer of 2020 given the choice between a deal or resigning butler Resigning butler is the easy decision But if it isn't the 76ers choice the heat might have more of an offer than the houston rockins number four de angelo russell to the philadelphia 76ers I actually posted this in my predictions video, but this was my boldest prediction out of that entire video So i'm also putting it in here too so I can explain it Russell is a six foot five 198 pound guard and yeah I said guard because he really can play shooting or point guard He is a definite combo guard in the mba at this point He's a guy who's a great shooter, but he's also developed into a pretty solid passer And he would be comfortable in playing his game off the ball or on the ball too This means he can play next to ben simmonds and we have seen it before I mean just look at their time together in florida when he and ben simmonds won a pair of high school national championships As the team's top two options together de lo and ben simmonds went 45 and 2 Vaulted each other into the conversations to be the top two draft picks in 2015 and 2016 A lot of people don't actually know this but so were russell and joel and bead Well for a little bit before he later transferred to rock academy Now they didn't ever actually share the court at the same time But the duo clearly became friends over their time together as you could imagine De Angelo russell on a four-year contract to the philadelphia 76ers would mean that they have a young core And a big three for many many years to come And don't count out that russell westbrook james harden kevin durant big three This one would be very similar. They are all so young and number one kawaii Leonard joins lebron james and anthony davis Literally kawaii Leonard and his rumors have been the talk of the town recently Originally it was kawaii Leonard staying with the raptors Then it became kawaii Leonard's potential chance to join the lakers And then it now is kawaii Leonard's potential chance to join the clippers with another star player like jimmy butler So we don't know where this is going But that's a bold prediction Let's say he joins the los angeles lakers because that is the boldest of predictions But every day it does seem more likely it could happen Imagine if you heard this though straight after kawaii Leonard won his mba championship You would have been like come on man. He's i'm gonna leave this team and join lebron james anthony davis But this is seriously a bold prediction That could actually happen First the lake is freed up max cap space Which was soon followed by the news that lennon would actually grant the lakers with a meeting once free agency began Then word came down that he specifically wanted to speak to magic johnson And that lebron james and anthony davis would also recruit kawaii Leonard as well in a private meeting Finally later on friday night the lakers title odds started to move up Quickly followed by the latest report of mark stein who made it sound like many around the league are starting to think that Leonard may be a laker as well There's a lot that we don't know But what we do know is that he really wants to play in los angeles one way or another But ultimately i don't know if it's gonna happen and at the end of the day the raptors have the last say they have the last meeting Could the lakers get kawaii or do you think he will sign with the toronto raptors at the end of the day Or do you think he'll go to another team or join the los angeles clippers And let me know if you think the greatest big three of all time will happen in l.a With that said leave a like on the video if you enjoyed subscribe to your new hit the notifications for me on instagram And enjoy free agency. I am out peace