Welcome to this special edition of Moving Hawaii Forward. I'm your host, Tim Appichella. In about a month from now, the state legislature will come together in a special session to decide how to best fill up the $3 billion deep hole for the Honolulu Rail Project. This still remains to be seen what tax funding strategy will be chosen, if any at all. No matter what path is chosen to come up with a $3 billion, hold on to your wallets. Thanks to the persistent efforts of the outspoken critics of this rail project from the very start, the voices of Randy Roth, voices of Cliff Slater, voices of Ponos Prevedoras, voices of Governor Ben Canetano and Scott Wilson, all voices either printed in newspaper editorials or spoken on TV, radio, or internet interviews tried to warn all of us of this place we now find ourselves in. Only now the state legislators, certain council members, and the public are hearing their warnings, their voices, their stand against truth to power. With me today is one of those clear and strong voices who has taken a steadfast position to talk to anyone who's willing to listen. Our guest, Randy Roth, who is a recently retired law professor at the University of Hawaii, Minoa, tax attorney and author of two important publications, The Price of Paradise and Broken Trust. Mr. Roth has spent years of his time and resources to shine a light upon Mayor's bold and broken promises of 10,000 new jobs for locals, or Hart's hyperbolic rail ridership projections of 116,000 trips per day, or the recent claims of rail stations that will be desirable centers for affordable housing. Most recently, Mr. Roth attended a city council committee meeting to testify and debate that the tax funding strategy of choice, the general excise tax, is a regressive tax, is a tax hardship on those who can least afford it, the poor and middle class of this island. Today we examine the tax alternatives of the legislature we'll look at and Hart's ridership numbers. Randy, thank you very much for coming on the show. I know you're getting ready to go on vacation, so spending time here before that is very much appreciated, and you share your time and your thoughts with us. It's my pleasure. Thank you. You know, in the introduction I said you've spent a lot of time and a lot of resources.  How did you have time for all this, and what keeps you motivated? I got a call from Cliff Slater one day asking if I would get involved in a lawsuit that he was contemplating in an attempt to stop rail. And I was opposed to rail, but I hadn't really done anything out of the ordinary in trying to help people understand it or to oppose it. And I remember him saying, oh, it won't take much of your time. Well, many, many, many thousands of hours ago. What motivates me, and it motivated me on what some people call the bishop estate controversy of the late 1990s that the book Broken Trust is about, and it's motivated me on a number of other things that I've done during my life, is that I really expect our elected and appointed officials to at least be honest with us. I can disagree on whether rail is good or bad, whether heavy rail is better or worse than light rail, those sorts of things. But when it becomes clear to me that people who are representing us in these powerful positions, when it becomes clear to me that they are intentionally misleading the public, that gets my juices going. And that's the answer to your question on rail, is once I figured out that this was intentional deception on the effect on traffic congestion, on the effect on energy use, you go down the long list, and so that's what keeps me going. Well, it's interesting because in the previous show I used the term voice in the wilderness. Because I feel like you've been out there, you and Cliff Slater and Panos, Prevedores and Governor Cayetano, been out there as a minority voice and although you've gotten a lot of newsprint editorials and things like that, it just seems like you're up against a gargantuan concrete wall. We've had our names out there because we've written a lot of things that have appeared in the newspaper and elsewhere, but especially recently I've become aware there's just a tremendous number of people out there who are very upset about rail. Some of them were for it from the beginning, but they don't like the way it's been done and many of them have been against it from the beginning. And I got to be fully aware of that recently when I retired, I decided I would get involved with Facebook. And so I did my first post, which was a three-minute video of me giving testimony against rail at the City Council meeting, and the darn thing went viral. It's been viewed 47,000 times. Fantastic. And there have been... Your first post? My first post! Wonderful. And there were countless comments and I've read every single one, and some of them are mean-spirited and some of them use bad language, but the vast majority, these are people who are paying attention, who really care overwhelmingly are opposed to rail at this point in time. And it's made me feel less as though those of us who've had our name in print, less that we're out there voices in the wilderness and more we've just been the ones who've had a higher profile. But there are a lot of people who are following this closely who are very upset about how it's going. That's good. And finally, it's filtering through our legislators. I think so. Very slowly, but it's getting there. Yeah. Just later, Panos Prevoderovich and I have met with some members of the legislature and slowly but surely, they're getting it. And I'm hopeful, almost guardedly optimistic, but I'm hopeful that if and when they come into special session, they will look at the issues with their eyes wide open. Great. Telling themselves, you know, this is a city project and the city has an ability to raise the funds it says it needs. It's got a variety of alternatives that it could do and not need any additional money. If the legislature says, look, if they think taking heavy rail all the way to Alamoana is worth doing, then let's let them raise taxes. Why would the legislature get involved in doing that? And especially what is resonating with legislators that we've been talking to is the city has made no effort to try to figure out what's gone wrong thus far. It's six years behind schedule. The estimated cost is virtually doubled. And the heart board and the city council and the mayor don't know why it's out of control, why everything's gone so wrong. And I went to a heart board meeting several weeks ago, first one I'd ever attended and my jaw dropped into my lap when one of the board members actually said, we don't want to muck around in the past. So they're quote. Why look at what went wrong? We just want to look forward. That's not my goodness.  And then two seconds later, another board member chimed in. He said, yeah, and maybe what we would find is that we've already fixed whatever it was that went wrong. Now, this is the heart board whose primary job is to provide oversight. And they're saying, we don't want to see what's going wrong. Don't look behind this curtain. I'm going to make the old Einstein quote and bend it a little bit.  I saw those quotes, actually, the other day. And if I may, I'd like to quote it directly. This was from Amber Shin, I believe, and it was quoted, it's not my intent to muck around in the past and try to figure out what we did wrong in the past. I'm just trying to get forward. And I saw that quote.  Yeah, that's your tool. But that's in the past. Well, I memorized your line.  And we're not, you know, we're not dealing with a few million. We're dealing with ten billion. And that's why it's not funny. Some farcicles are funny. I try to laugh occasionally. Otherwise, I'll just be crying all the time. It, especially now that the council has authorized the issuance of general obligation bond, only 350 million right now. But the director of finance was there testifying and they expected to go up to $2 billion. This is a mortgage on our kids and grandkids' future. So it's wrong. Yeah. And it would be wrong for us who recognize that it's wrong for us not to be doing something. And I think we're at a tipping point. I really do. I feel it when I talk to legislators. Certainly, I feel it when I read the comments on that Facebook post I was telling you about. I think we're at a tipping point. And once we hit it, things are going to change quickly. And someday people are going to look back and they're just going to marvel at how this rail fiasco could go on so long. And it'd be so obvious that it makes no sense whatsoever. It'll be good that we will have turned it around, but people will marvel at how long it took. You know, there was a meeting on Friday from the Honolulu Transit Task Force or Salvage the Rail. And one of the clear messages that they left on my mind was if we stop at Middle Street, it's not too late to fix it. To do something different that's going to cost a lot less money, less time, and do something that won't regret down the line. So that was a big message on that part. You know, I attended that same program. I thought they did an excellent job of presenting their idea. I've been influenced by Panos Prevaderis to where I don't think that's the best of the options that are available. But clearly that's something that the city has as an alternative where it could complete a rail system that goes, you know, through the city, including to Manoa. They could do basically the route they're talking about now and come in under budget on the monies that have already been provided for without any new tax increase. And I thought they presented it well. Panos says an even better alternative involves using the guideway that's been built, you know, extending it a little bit further to Middle Street, but using it for specially designed buses and he's gone through all the numbers. They're fitted to those tracks. Oh yeah, it's like if you're in a car wash. Right, you're not going anywhere. Only it's going to be going 60 miles an hour. So Panos, because of his credentials and just his personal gravitas on anything having to do with transportation, I'm convinced that's a much better alternative. But there are additional ones. There was an article in Civil Beach on Kalamoto, wrote an article that said, you know, nobody wants to tear down that guideway, but we could use it the way some other cities have used that sort of space for a bikeway, for a walkway, and you could have solar panels, you know, just aid people. It could be a real tourist attraction. Nobody would ever set out to spend billions of dollars to end up with that. Yeah, it would be one that would save. But that's not the question. It isn't do we start from scratch. It's what the heck are we going to do with that guideway if we stop heavy rail? And my point is that whether it's the group you mentioned on Friday, it's Panos, or it's John Kalamoto, or there are several other possibilities. The city has some options. One of which is to do what it seemingly wants to do, which is plan A, full speed ahead, heavy rail all the way to Alamoto, which I think makes no sense whatsoever. But if that's what they want to do, let them raise the money on their own. Legislature, stay out of it, or if the legislature wants to get involved, say first you figure out what's gone wrong so far, you figure out why this is out of control, and then we'll think about raising taxes some more. Right. Well, we're going to go to break here pretty soon. But one of the things that I think that the city and heart and the supporters of rail just can't get off and they use it as a primary argument that we shouldn't touch it at all is the FTA, the Federal Transfer Administration, and the $1.55 billion they've committed to the project. We've received maybe $600 million, and so the rest of the money has not been allocated. But they seem to be using it as an argument that just can't be tampered with. And when we get back from the break, I'm going to dive into that a little bit and figure out why that argument is really kind of a fallacy. And it is. And it is. There we go. I'm Tim Appichelle. I'm here with Randy Roth, and we're going to take a commercial break, and we'll be right back. Welcome to Sister Power. I'm your host, Sharon Thomas Yarbrough, where we motivate, educate, empower, and inspire all women. We are live here every other Thursday at 4 p.m. and we welcome you to join us here at Sister Power. Aloha and thank you. Hi, I'm Tim Appichelle. This is Moving Hawaii Forward. Welcome back. I'm here with Randy Roth, and we're talking about real potential rail funding here that's going to be coming up in a special session. And we're going to talk about right now is about FTA and the argument that they use why we can't divert from any other plan on this rail project. And you wrote an op-ed for Honolulu Civil Beatback on October the 10th, 2016. And the title of it, and I love the title, pay FTA back, question mark, we should not pay up any. I love the title. And in there, it says FTA failed miserably to provide oversight for the rail project. That makes it complicit, not just morally, but legally. And I think the just that you were getting to is that if all the critics that say we can't touch the rail project, it has to go as is or else we're going to have to pay all this money back. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think your point is maybe we don't have to pay it back. I think that's right. It's, as you said, $1.55 billion. Approximately half has been delivered to us already, and another half hasn't been, roughly speaking. As the article addresses, the half that we've already received, I just don't see any way in the world that the federal government is ever going to have to, is ever going to come after that and say pay it back, because the record is real clear. Our federal lawsuit that didn't stop rail, because of the discovery that you're able to do when you get involved in litigation like that, we have e-mail within the FTA back 10 years ago when they had a statutory responsibility to provide oversight to the city on rail, and they're e-mailing each other saying these guys don't know what they're doing. They're saying these guys are being very dishonest. You know, they've got false statements and, you know, on and on and on. Let me go through a couple of those quotes. I want to interrupt you here because some of the quotes I find jaw-dropping. I love this quote. It's about their culture, about the heart culture and the culture of this rail project. They never have enough time to do it right, but lots of time to do it over. I mean, they have this, as you said, a statutory producer responsibility to oversight on this project, and yet these e-mails are indicating that this thing's off track from the very beginning. Yeah, I think they got some political pressure from our senior senator at the time who was the chair of the money committee in the Senate, and not that it matters anymore, but in making sense out of why the FDA would sit on their hands knowing that the folks in Honolulu didn't know what they were doing on the rail project and weren't being honest with the public, the only explanation that makes sense to me, because these are professionals at the FDA, they know where their budget comes from. So I think it was basically political pressure that they were succumbing to. Regardless of the reason, they failed miserably in fulfilling their oversight responsibilities. So the chances of them coming back now and saying, give us that money that was given to you during that period of time, I think are basically nil. The half that we haven't gotten yet, number one, as this estimated cost goes higher and higher and higher and is $10 billion now, the panel says you're looking at at least $13 billion to all of them want to... Whatever it's going to be, the percentage that the federal money consists of that total amount is getting smaller and smaller, but what's going to happen on the half that we haven't received, no matter what we do at this end, that's a total wild card. You just can't predict once the Trump administration has their FDA administrator in place. All I can say for sure on the politics is that they're not going to feel a whole lot of aloha for us on a political level. I personally don't like politics in the thought of whether it's the Republicans doing it to the Democrats or vice versa. I just don't like the thought of it. As a practical matter, the FDA administrator appointed by Trump is not going to go out of his or her way to help the folks in Hawaii, maybe the opposite, but in any event, this is such an unusual situation that nobody can predict what they're going to do, regardless of whether we do the city's plan A or we do some other approach to dealing with this situation that we have now where we've got some options, but none of them are really very attractive. Well, it is interesting that when New Jersey Governor Chris Christie decided to cancel their big tunnel project, the FDA actually settled on about a third of what was owed to them for a lot less. And they had no complicity there whatsoever. Exactly. They had absolutely nothing wrong. They had just to the T, they had done what they were supposed to do, and they settled quickly for 30 cents on the dollar. I mean, if that and that alone should be overspoken right away as soon as we hear, oh, we can't do anything because of FTA, you know, da-da-da-da-da, we should be saying, well, you know, D, it's funny that FTA with no issues at all settled for a third less. And frankly, and I can't predict how other people are going to behave, but I would bet the farm, as we say in Kansas when we feel pretty sure about something, I would bet the farm that the city's approach on all of this would not change one bit even if the Fed said you're not going to get another penny. Mayor Caldwell, I think for political reasons, who knows why? I don't want to question the fact of the matter is everything from his actions thus far suggests that if the legislature gives him anything else, he's just going to go full speed ahead. If they have to live off of borrowed money for, you know, the next year or so, and if they have to raise property taxes after that in order to keep going, that and that alone is going to get them to look seriously at these other options. And once they look seriously at those other options, especially if the public hits that tipping point and lets its feelings be known by members of the city council and whatnot, I really think the city will eventually decide to do something other than its plan A, but it's got to be forced into that. If the legislature just gives them more tax money, it's just like giving drugs to somebody who's addicted. Keep on going. They're just enabling it. Well, that's the genius of how this whole thing was set into play because a general excise tax is that slow boil that you just don't realize it's occurring. As the term's been, it's been baked into everything. And it's genius. I mean, that's how you're going to fund this and no one really feels the pain directly but maybe indirectly they feel it. That's the genius of a get. Everybody, when you say general excise tax, they say, oh, the half percent for the rail, that's only a half penny for the dollar I'm spending at the cash register. It just doesn't sound like much at all. But if every time you bought something, a good or a service in Hawaii, in addition to the 4.71% that gets stated on many transactions, if in addition, if we were told, oh, by the way, this item that you're buying is X dollars more because of this business tax. See, that's the other thing you and I don't fill out as consumers. We don't fill out an excise tax return because it literally is a business tax. It is a tax on the gross receipts, on the sale of goods and services in Hawaii. Well, some of that gets passed at the point of sale to the consumer, but most of it is just as you put it baked into the cost of goods and services. But doesn't it get replicated over and over again? For example, let's say I make stools. I'm the manufacturer of stools. Well, if I'm going to ship this stool to my retail outlet, the shipping company is going to, because it's a business, they mark it up a half percent, right? And then when you get it to the point of retail, they have an obligation to address the excise tax on that one stool.  It is, and we use the term parameting. Unfortunately, it's actually more complicated than that in the sense that we have experts for the Hawaii State Tax Review Commission that come in periodically, that study this and analyze it, that report on its findings. And when you read those studies, what you come away with is a realization that this is not simple. For example, you've got to make a distinction between who pays the tax and who bears the burden of the tax. And with respect to any taxing mechanism, take property taxes, for example. If you raise the property tax on some landlord and their property tax goes up, let's say, $500 that year, so they turn around and they increase the rent. $40 a month, let's say. Well, $40 a month is $480. They have shifted the burden of that $500 tax increase. They've shifted $480 of that burden to the person who's renting the place. Now, what I've just described isn't earmarked as property tax, but in that example, you can see how the landlord has effectively shifted the burden to the renter. So the people who study are taxing... Which causes an inflationary effect. Well, that and you get into this question of, okay, now once we've pinpointed where the burden of the tax is, is that regressive or is that progressive or is that somewhere in between? And most people, when they talk about a fair tax structure, they're talking about something that is disproportionately burdensome on the rich as opposed to the poor. Well, Hawaii's general excise tax system is notorious for being certainly the most regressive tax system in Hawaii, one of the most regressive systems across the United States. And what that means is that on a proportionate basis, based on a person's income, how much ends up directly and indirectly being paid or the burden of it born by low-income people, what you find is that the excise tax is the least fair of any possible taxing mechanism. Because they have smaller incomes, therefore it's a bigger portion of their income. Exactly. And further complicating all of this, you get into the question of what the experts call exporting. How much of the tax burden can we export? How much of the tax burden can we get non-residents to pay? And tourists come to mind as a classic example, but it's not just tourists. Well, the mayor has said over and over and over with the excise tax, we get up to a third of that that is exported, paid by, born by non-residents. Well, the studies indicate that the export rate with property taxes is at least as high. So in other words, that's not a reason for using excise tax. I am not in favor of raising property taxes to pay for a rail. I think that rail is wrong for Hawaii, but the point, and this is really directed to the legislature, is why in the world would you enable these people who are spending money like crazy on something that's totally out of control? Out of control. Why would you enable that by raising even more taxes with the least fair taxing mechanism available to you when the city, if they really want it, could raise the taxes themselves? They never would because property taxes are too obvious. People know what it's costing them. See, that's, and this, you asked why I got involved in this and why I would spend so much time on this. It outrages me that the city over here is pushing that excise tax and saying, this is a wonderful way to raise the tax, et cetera, simply because the bulk of the burden is hidden. It's inherently dishonest. So it's not just unfair, it's dishonest. And that riles me. That's not right. Well, that's, I hate to say it from a Machiavellian point of view. That's where it's genius to have the GET as the funding source for this thing because no one feels it. Well, they feel it, but they don't know how they feel it. Yeah, that's kind of like saying, if I get your wallet into my pocket and the gun that I put to you, the cameras don't see. See that. That's genius. Yeah, that's not genius. That's immoral. Immoral genius. You know, criminal. Yeah. And that's the other thing. I've stressed that the legislature shouldn't give another penny, especially until there is an audit. People are using the term forensic audit. I shy away from that because some people, they hear forensic audit and they think that you're only looking for evidence of a crime. The audit that needs to be done now, you know, could find a crime if a crime has been committed. But more importantly, we just want to find out why is this thing six years behind schedule? Why is the estimated cost of construction almost double what it was not that long ago? And until the city can give us good answers on that. So far, the first thing I mentioned as well, the litigation, we've pinpointed what the litigation cost, directly and indirectly, as confirmed by heart. This is something that they had to communicate to the FDA. And the point I'm making is the city hasn't begun to explain the bulk of that cost overrun. They haven't begun to apply. Nor do they want to. Nor do they want to. Of course they don't.  Until, of course, the tourist industry, ex-mayor, Mufi Hanuman, who's the CEO of this organization, said, well, wait, tie it out. Wait a minute. I mean, it's kind of ironic that it kind of ended up in his lap. So, you know. I've got a letter here from a whistleblower, a guy at a high level position on the rail project up until, you know, right at the end of 2016. And he goes on page after page after page of very specific descriptions of a project that is just out of control. He basically is an engineer, and he talks like an engineer. He gets into the detail.  And he said, until you can pinpoint what's gone wrong, expect to have more of what you've had in the past, more overrun, more delays, more screw ups. Yeah. And another whistleblower got a hold of me and he said, this guy worked for hard, high level. He said, this structure is not going to be safe. He used the word catastrophic. He said, there's going to be a catastrophic, I'm not kidding, there's going to be a catastrophic failure. I said, will you go public? He said, no. Okay. He doesn't want what would come his direction. He could be the deep throat of heart. This is a guy who had a high level position and when he used the word catastrophic. That should catch all of our attention. Well, and I'm still working on him. I'm still working on him to come to go public. Yeah. I hope you're successful because we need to hear these stories and it is scary to be a whistleblower because even though you may have some protections by law, a lot of times they just don't work their way into the reality of you being the whistleblower, terminated, ostracized. And, you know, so keep working on it. Let me quickly say whistleblowing is difficult anywhere in an island community. It's devastating. 2,000 miles from any place else where a lot of these people have very, very deep roots in this community, whistleblowing is a very, very difficult thing to do. You won't be working in this town again, as the old saying goes. We've run out of time and I want to thank you, one, for the motivation that you have in keeping up the fight and trying to keep this project at some level of sanity, which is really difficult to do. So thank you for your efforts. Thank you for explaining the general excise tax to our viewers because it's complicated and it's not easy to understand. So please come back again. Thank you for all your time. Thank you. And have a great vacation. Thank you. I'm Tim Apachello with Randy Roth. This is Moving Hawaii Forward and we'll see you in a couple of weeks.


In a bid to contribute to the growth of Nigeria's economy by ensuring that Nigerians buy what they produce, an entrepreneur, Buki Ojo, has created an electronic platform called Produce Nigeria, while Nigerians at home and in the diaspora can't transact business. A correspondent, Paul George, was there. Gathered at this venue are young entrepreneurs, journalists, and the Nigerians Industrial Commission, among other stakeholders. The creator of ProduceNigeria.com, Buki Ojo, tells us the motive behind the innovation, which seeks to promote trade among Nigerians. She says Nigerians have the ability to produce qualitative products if supported. The products that we make here in Nigeria is fit to feel to match any international product. The only challenges we're having is volume. It's encouragement for those who are making it, and that's why ProduceNigeria is here. Please tell our government to please support initiatives like this so that we can help strengthen what we're doing and help the ones that need us the most. Ojo, who is also a certified carpenter, says Nigerians are set to meet at an exhibition to showcase their talent. I worked as a carpenter for many years. As a licensed carpenter, I built a lot of houses in Canada, and I still have my license. But now I work as a publicist, which is easier, quieter for me. ProduceNigeria just becomes that connector for them to be able to still help these people that they left behind and give them everything they want. The next one now is our trade fair, and we're very excited about it. We're having a lot of people call us and register, and I'm going to also use this medium to tell everyone if you want to be part of the trade fair, you want to go and register for the vendor application. Just go to the ProduceNigeria.com and then look for where it says vendor application. It's on the 31st of October this year, 2022, and it's going to be at the LTV launch arena. The co-founder of ProduceNigeria.com prints Noah Abiola, Lord Nigerians, for their ability to excel in whatever thing they engage in. It speaks alongside Oladiko Odeboale, who represented the chairman-CEO of Nigerians Industrial Commission, Dr. Abike Dabiri Erewa. The need come DG urges residents to buy what they produce for economic viability. Nigerians are extremely creative people. We are industrial, we can move mountains, there's nothing we cannot achieve. So we should begin to have that consciousness of changing narratives and bringing out the best enough to have cargo airports at various locations that can assist us in moving the goods in speedy time to various customers. I think that now helps. The way we are here is to give them the platform to showcase what they can offer to the outside world, even locally and outside world, so that there could be increased patronage on our products here from people in diaspora. Because we believe that once they patronize you all here, we have investments being channeled into the country and in the process too, employees are being generated. As Nigeria gradually moves from being a consumption to a production country, residents are hopeful that the future will be better. Paul George plus TV News.


Franz Letz reported for the New York Times that in dynastic times of Egypt, the journey to the afterlife was so perilous that you needed a guidebook to get there. The dramatic headline was inspired by the research being carried out by a team that is being led by Harko Willems of the University of Leuven who examined multiple high-resolution images of 4,000-year-old wood fragments recovered from a burial shaft in the necropolis of Dear Elbersia and detects texts from the ancient guide to the underworld known as the Book of Two Ways. This copy of the Book of Two Ways was etched into the cedar coffin of a woman named Ankh who may have been related to a provisional official and is thought to date to the Middle Kingdom, making it about 40 years older than other known copies. Such an illustrated guidebook would have offered directions and spells necessary to navigate challenges met in the underworld, whether a soul chose to travel by land or by water in order to reach the realm of Osiris, the God of Death, and become linked for eternity to the creator Ra. A journey more perilous than New York City's subway system, the Book of Two Ways is a mysterious cosmic roadmap and a guide to the Egyptian afterlife. This is a precursor to the Book of the Dead and depicted two zigzagging paths by which scholars long ago concluded the soul, having let the body of the departed, could navigate the spiritual obstacle course of the underworld and reach the realm of Osiris, the God of Death. Who was himself dead? If you were lucky enough to get the go-ahead from Osiris' divine tribunal, you would become an immortal God. Rita Lucarelli, an Egyptology curator at the University of California Berkeley, made a statement to the New York Times on the matter when interviewed and she said that the ancient Egyptians were obsessed with life in all its forms. Death for them was a new life. In the new study which was published in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Dr. Willems detailed how a team of researchers under his direction on Earth remains of a 4,000-year-old Book of Two Ways, the earliest known copy of the first illustrated book, and in 2012 they reopened a long-abandoned burial shaft in the cliffside necropolis of Deer el-Bershaw, a Coptic village midway between Cairo and Luxor on the eastern side of the Nile which was the main cemetery for the region's governors, or monarchs, during Egypt's Middle Kingdom. The shaft that Dr. Willems investigated was one of five in the tomb complex of the Nomark Ankh. Twenty feet down, the researchers found the remains of a sarcophagus neglected by previous generations of archaeologists, however most of its contents had been looted or destroyed by fungi, but two rotting cedar panels turned out to be etched with images and hieroglyphs. Under Dr. Willems' amazement, the fragments of text were from a Book of Two Ways, inscriptions found nearby referred to the reign of Pharaoh, who ruled until 2010 BC, and these suggest that the manual is some four decades older than any of the two dozen extant copies. He has directed the dig at Deer el-Bershaw since 2001. Before that, the last time the tomb had been investigated was 86 years earlier when it was explored by George Reisner, an American Egyptologist, supported by Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The images were only applied in paint, but the hieratic text were written in black and red ink and later traced coarsely with a knife and although almost all color of the planks had disappeared and only the scratches remained. Dr. Willems managed to decipher many of the faint engravings using high resolution images and he says, to me what's funny is the idea that how you survive in the nether world is expressed in male terms. To the ancient Egyptians, creation and regeneration were solely the province of male gods. The goddesses were believed to be protective vessels. The pronoun he was essentially even for female deceased people because they needed to be like Osiris. Generally, each individual's book differed in length and lavishness depending on its owner's wealth or status. This one begins with a text encircled by a red line designated as Ring of Fire, Dr. Willems said. The text is about the sun god passing this protective fiery ring to reach Osiris. Gates feature prominently as two looping lines indicating the separate roads to the afterlife surrounded by malignant spirits and other supernatural beings. The final image shows a bark dragged on a sledge, Spell 1128 and follows the final text Spell 1130 which yokes the dead person's identity forever to the sun god, Ra, the creator. Assuming Ankh cast her spell properly, she has become a god. Just a short one for you guys today to help us jumpstart the new year and we will of course be back just shortly with more content in our search for understanding as to who we are as a people and why there is so much forgotten knowledge present in the construction of the ancient things as well as what was going on here on earth in the distant past. Make sure to be part of the journey and we will see you in the comments section below. Thank you guys for hanging in there as I'm recovering from a very terrible cold in this new year so be sure to comment below guys and as always thank you for watching.


Spokesperson of the Senate and Chairman House Committee of Youth and Sport Senator Yemi Adara Moudou has reacted to the choking allowances given to them on their recess. In the reaction, Adara Moudou said that after the swearing in in June 2023, the senator has not collected the salaries and have been walking out the ministerial list presented to them by the president. Speaking further, he said the senator entitled to legislative annual leave which practice all over the world and that they fairly leave to the conclusion of the screening of the ministerial list sent to them by the presidency. I don't think we must take him to the gogota and then nail him into the into the cross and crucify him. It's just a act of transparency that nothing is done under the table and that when the judge will go and find how much the token is, if what that token that is given to me, if I don't merit it for the libonos and now that once in a year, once, not twice, not twice, not every month, not every week.


All right, so Collar Murray was drafted by the A's last year in the top 10 and he's given a four-point whatever million dollar bonus Which he had to pay back if he ever did football now at the time Collar Murray was not considered a top flight football prospect But he goes on he was the Heisman Trophy because Lincoln Riley is a quarterback whisperer first Baker Mayfield and now Now Collar Murray so he becomes a first-round draft pick and all like Luit So he announces today that he's fully committing to being a football player Okay, fine, but there are a couple of People that get hurt in this well really one one entity unless the Oakland A's When the Oakland A's drafted this guy, they had no idea that he would ever be a first-round draft pick He was not thought of us that way in the NFL. He was an outstanding college baseball player That's why they gave him as much money as they did So now he wins the Heisman Trophy He's been told he's gonna go in the first round in a draft. That's not quarterback deep and the A's get nothing They don't get another pick. They don't get a compensatory pick. They don't get any bonus slot money. Nothing. They got burned There should be some sort of codicell That major league baseball has that if this happens to a team, they should get a similar draft pick the next year And make it tight and make it sure that nobody could take advantage of it, but this is not fair the Oakland A's I don't know what you do about it. Like you said give another pick Well, but but you don't do those things at a vacuum if you say, all right We're gonna give you the tenth overall pick in next year's draft to compensate for what you lost But if I've got if I'm team X with the 10th big now I dropped to 11 just because you happen to get screwed even if you don't do that then give them a compensatory pick Listen Kaviyat Amtor fire you where right? Honestly, they knew he was a player. No, but you knew he was a football player Alright, so maybe you have to almost be an NFL scout the same way you aren't MLB scout How good a prospect could he be? Could he play his way into the first round of the draft? Right. I mean, I I I understand he kind of feel bad for the Oakland A's but Hey, that just happens. All right. You're taking it a guy that's a two-sport player You misjudged his town as a bit as a football player now That's not your Ballywick your baseball guys So you're not supposed to know but this is the risk you run that maybe that's why the other nine teams There were ahead of them passed on them because they knew that this was a good be a possibility I feel bad for the A's but I don't know what you do about it And he did return the portion of the bonus money that he was given to he would have gotten the remainder of it If he had reported to camp next week Now the question which I think advances the story Did he make the right decision and I'm gonna tell you this Because everybody out there listening to the show knows how I love baseball. It's my favorite sport Then football and basketball in one order and others next I love baseball, but I got to tell you this They're losing the great athletes that are coming through the system. They just are because of the way the sport is set up in terms of you sign You end up going down to the minor leagues the minor leagues from what I've heard I was lucky there there were there were broadcasters that worked nine ten years in the minor leagues.  Sometimes the the accommodations are awful.   Boom. You're in the pros basketball go to college for one year Get drafted. You're in the pros. There's no minor leagues per se in baseball and Now with the way the collective bargaining agreement is fleshed out. Let's say you go to college Let's say you leave after your junior year. You're 21 years old. You get drafted Let's say at the at the least you're gonna be the minor leagues two years Maybe three you get called up at 24 The team that has control of you for six more years. You become a free agent at the age of 30 Maddie Machado and Bryce Harper whatever warts they might have are outstanding players They're 26 they've not been able to get a job when you're 30 you're in that tweener land where you're not going to be able to cash in So you get the sign? How many contracts that are big none? Arbitration is the only time you're gonna make decent money and that's a year-to-year basis Collar Murray gets drafted in the NFL. He gets drafted in the top half for the first round There's guaranteed money and then he ends up playing four years signs a big money contract He's a good player. I'm telling you everything set up Donna Peter for baseball to lose the great athletes that are out there


Good day, fellow investors! Yesterday we discussed the risk reward for copper as a metal and a long-term bull thesis. And today we're going to discuss a very stable, disciplined quality business that is London mining, which has about 66% exposure to the metal copper. So if you want exposure, London should go on to your watchlist as it is on my watchlist. So we'll give a company overview some of parts value as there are four mines that have to be valued, the cash per share and the outlook for the company. You might be familiar with London because it started the Nefsson takeover saga. They offered about 3.6 to buy Nefsson. The Chinese offered much more, so they didn't want to pay too much for Nefsson. My 15% return target price for Nefsson was 3.15, London offered 3.67, whatever. So London's discipline target return is 12% from the available things plus eventual future potential from exploring Timoklower zone, exploration, Eritrea that they want to get for free. So very smart, very disciplined. I like the way this management is leading the company and what they have done in the past. So you might be familiar with London from there. Let's see what London is about. Before that despite the discipline, London is and as with any miner will be always extremely volatile. You can see the stock price was below 3 in 2016, above 5 in 2014, then above 7 in 2017 only to drop a gain down to below 5 currently. You can trade it on Toronto, NASDAQ and over-the-counter in the States, number of shares 733 million. The company for operations Eagle, Nickel Copper in the US, Kangalaria in Chile, Finland, Freeport Cobalt, not that significant for now, Zinc Gruvan, the IKEA mine in Sweden and Neves Corvo in Portugal. As I said 66% Copper, 16% Zinc, that's another interesting metal, 8% Nickel and 7% Gold and Silver. So let's go on to some of parts value. We have the mines there, let's see. This is the Kangalaria Copper production profile. I have used the Copper production, I have looked at the average mining costs from the technical report, planted the tax rate on that in order to see okay what are the cash flows also minus the capital expenditures expected and currently incurred, what are the cash flows that will be free for landing from this mine. Here we have the costs after that I have estimated based on the production let's say sustainable cash flows but they're probably expand the mine so that's another thing to take into account. Average costs 1.39 average life of mine, I have used 1.5 just to be more conservative but then I have also changed it to what are their expectations in the shorter. So this is my model, back of an Epkin model, a little bit of taxes included and I got to okay the value 542 million at a Copper price of 2.5 dollars per pound plus a 15% discount rate to the future free cash flows. The Eagle Mine only five years left but is very highly profitable because their costs are 1.1 per pound of nickel while the price is around 9 dollars so extremely profitable low remaining capex as it is almost ending the life of mine. My value comes in at 668 million at current metal prices current nickel prices so extremely positive. Neves Corvo Portugal extremely low costs at 0.29 per pound of zinc when per pound of zinc when including other metals as a bike product. So again another low cost putting in all the data in a model the value comes out at 610 million at zinc at 1 however zinc is another potential exploding metal with copper as supply is getting tight. Zinc groove 1 it looks like an Ikea table or something to me the name that doesn't matter smaller mine value I have come out in my model to 230 million something that I always like to get for free but London is extremely good in exploration and increasing the life of mine. Look at what they did in Candelaria you can barely see the dotted line is what was the expected production when they bought it and now you can see what is the current production and what is the expected production in the future. So they really increased the production at the company and they increased the life's mine for almost seven eight years so this is London very efficient if they would have acquired Neveson and Timok they would have done extremely well to there I don't know whether the Chinese will be able to do the same as Neveson as London management is doing around their mines that they are owning however they're probably investing something new if they get the chance. Also they are exploring all around their existing mines to take advantage of the infrastructure that is already there in order to get a high return on the investment. So to sum up Candelaria 542 Neveson 610 Zinc groove 1 230 Eagle 668 total value of mines 2 billion 1.5 billion on cash and freely available as they plan to acquire Neveson they also say they might pay out some extra dividends so that might be a bonus however I'm not going to account for all the cash available because I'm going to discount it by 20% if they pay you dividend I have to pay taxes on that and that's always you never know what they are going to do with that so we have a value of around 3.2 billion for the company so the 2 billion for the mines is 2.79 per share at a 15% discount rate plus 1.64 the cash the discounted cash the total value I get is 4.46 current price is around 5 so still not yet a buy for me however if this is a 2.5 copper over the long term if copper prices are average 3 3.5 then it's a completely different story from London however if copper prices go to 2 then all the analysts will take 2 as a long term price average no matter the cost no matter what because that's how analysts work and that's why the stock price as you have seen it in 2016 there will be debt concerns refinancing can they finance this can they do that they will probably as London is they will buy another mine at those low prices they will try to buy it cheap as they have tried to buy Timok when Neveson did but they didn't want to overpay risk reward again very conservative very disciplined so expect a lot of volatility the stock price was 8 now it's 5 can it go to 3 yes can it grow to 10 also yes so that's just an analysis for now of London see how it fits your portfolio I am going to compare this with many other copper gold miners zinc miners to see which one is best for my portfolio exposure and what's my investment strategy because with the volatility you have to have an investment strategy which I have elaborated on my stock market research platform so please check that and see whether that fits your portfolio thank you for watching looking forward to your comments please subscribe as there will be many many more videos from a value in investing conservative low risk high reward approach on investing where we analyze countries everything that is a relatively cheap at the moment and then cover that sector and see when it's the best time to invest see ya in the next video


Hello and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brent and today we are doing another crafting Episode this time we are in Azteca last time we were in Zafari. So if you haven't checked that out, that was probably I think two weeks ago when I posted that so go check that one out it was fun and Now we are in Azteca. We got the quest last time Zafari from Zafari to Azteca From the guy in Zafari who does the crafting. Where are we even going? Who knows over here apparently Okay Hello, why are you all the way over here? Who knows? Hello You have come seeking knowledge sure have man Making the grade hear me when I say the way of the crafter is the highest of callings More so than even magic. It requires the utmost dedication Will the highest perception as well as the soul of an artist If you wish to improve your skill as a crafter make for me an eagle war shield a powerful symbol of Aztec and culture I can sell you the recipe if you wish Then you will have to find the ingredients yourself a government or you can find in the mangrove Marsh The other items you must find on your own return to me with the eagle war shield once you I finished it Demonstrate your skill to me Okay, eagle war shield Wall hangings yes, okay We just need Ra and a Galvanector sweet This is probably the easiest one we've done. We only need one right? I think it's only one which is great So first off they tell you they show you where you go to find agave Which I have a lot of because I've just been collecting it up over the time because I don't know how much we needed for this crafting and I know my life has probably has some nectar left over From its time and various places collecting stuff especially chrysalis it spawns a lot and Chrysalis as well, and I've just been picking it up everywhere. I go just so I know I have it But yeah, so they suggest you hit over to mangrove Marsh to get the agave and Down by the village where we were ages ago Probably an episode I'm gonna say a hundred and Fifty Five or something no no suit list listen that hundred and fifty two We'll say that one. I don't actually know what that is, but that could be something important 152 maybe so yeah, there's usually a Couple of things in here. There's sometimes stuff in there. There's also the um UFO if you haven't found that I Think I showed that on that the episode when we were here anyway, but down here You find some agave and do I I don't see any agave But often there's I'm just agave down there and here we're normal all around there So yeah, we need to go and craft this wall shield. I'll go and see if I have the What is it one agave nectar on my life character? Hello, who is in the world trade? That's cute. Um, let's see. Oh That's right. He was doing the um daily assignment. I do daily assignments.  Just I don't know. I don't know. It's just gone into a habit when I check my plants I just do it On my life, and I just don't know my death before I start recording, you know, um, what are we doing?  This is if I plan this We will go home. You will see my lovely Life house. Do I put my life house wrong? I'm still in my barn farm In my barn farm. Okay I need to tend to my plants That's cool What do they need? They just need quest. I will I'm gonna quickly do that just because otherwise I'll forget and they'll die because that would be bad um Yeah, I kind of just Yeah, do that And go away. Do you have anything? Chairman needs You're good. Cool. Okay. Um, see I have a small wee farm for EMPs and um catch potatoes just to get pets next which I'm slowly stocking up over time. Um Do What are we doing backpack so quiet in here? um Cards agave nectar move to shed bank There we go. Fantastic. Um, so yeah, that is this basically crafted already Um death death death. Hello. Hello. There we go. See my other characters.  I struggled so hard getting the agave which is why I got um So much while I was just questing around. Um on the walkthrough Just because I knew it was such a struggle um bank We will get some Nerf to backpack Furniture yes, most likely um Eagle war shield Oh, we need to raw. That's right. Um, where would we go for raw? archivist um Raw TC, let's google it Um, where's the best place treasure card raw. I'm assuming the archivist. I would go to the bizarre, but I don't know I want somewhere where it's definitely sold card packs Um gardening sources recipes I don't know vendors. No vendors sell that treasure card. Okay. We have to go to the bizarre That's cool. Um Yeah, okay, um Oh, hello Yeah, they can be so it was uh, which is cool Otherwise, you just have to get them from bosses. Um, but I quite often sell My unneeded treasure cards just to free up space because I do tend to get Quite a few chew chew chew. I don't know. I do tend to get quite a few.  Who knows? I am kind of scared. I'm in scarecrow. So Um, yeah, there could be anything happening there. At least it's not woo. That would be Crash my game if I went into the shopping district Um, actually it's probably not around that time because it's like afternoon for me. So it would be like night times It's probably closer to my morning time when that Shady stuff happens. Um treasure cards balance Ra MR hello buy more one two. I think it's just two, isn't it? two um Yeah, two. Um, yeah, as you saw I'm currently in the midst of crafting deonite Can't wait for that slowly collecting the resources for that and I hope I will hit that soon. There'll be a video coming up about that when I've done it Um, because I'm so looking forward to getting denite um Yeah, where do we doing this one here? Hello, forget where I'm going half the time. Um, what are we doing eagle war shield? create Amazing we had everything which is At first for me to be honest. Um, okay, let us hit on back to as teka Um, I could probably use my port there. Where is that? That's in cloud burst. Yeah, we can do that. It'll be quicker Save a loading screen or two Um And then Bum bum bum bum bum bum Zocalo, yeah, I've just finished off recording the Last episode that you saw earlier today one six five. Um, so if you haven't checked that out Go do that already. It's already out. Um, is what I meant to say instead of go do that already Sounds quite passive aggressive. I'm sorry um But yeah, I finished recording that And this is the last video I have to record before I am free to go away. Yay um So, yeah let us Talk to us to mecca And then after that the next one is in chrysalis. So when we get to chrysalis There'll be another one. Yay, and then we have a break for a long time until we're in mirage I think we have to be 120 as well to get that last champion Yeah, we must have to be 120 for that. I'm pretty sure and then there's revered which is um Imperia, so yeah Coming to the end of crafting or coming to the end of a game full stop That is a fine eagle war shield a fine shield indeed your skills are worthy Yay Okay, where's the crafter? Hear me when I say that the stories of your talents have reached my ears Sadly my art may soon be no more But if you are to carry my knowledge forward and enhance your skills You must continue your study as far from here. I was trained by the legendary Stendill hammer tail who hails from the shadow the world of chrysalis Seek Stendill hammer tail in the silent market of bastion He must now guide you along the way of the craft. Okay, so next crafting episode. We will be heading on into chrysalis um, but yeah, we have to get into chrysalis first so Probably in middle of december. I'm saying I'll probably have that out um, we also need to get the Sunskull trainer, which will be probably next week this time next week Um, so we can get good stuff Um, so yeah, anyway, thank you for watching remember to leave it I can subscribe and if you're very subscribed press the little bell so you know exactly when I post another video and remember craft outside the box


Breakthrough doesn't always mean a change in circumstance. Sometimes breakthrough isn't a major change in circumstance. Most of the time, breakthrough is a small shift in the internal perspective. Just a slight variation with it. Instead of staring outward, you now shift to inward. And when I say inward, I'm not saying look unto self. I'm saying that self now begins to look unto the spirit.


Family Theatre presents Danny Thomas and Jean Cagney. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents It Can't Happen Here, starring Jean Cagney. And now here is your host, Danny Thomas. Family Theatre's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we're to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families, and peace for the world. Family Theatre urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. And now to our transcribed drama, It Can't Happen Here, starring Jean Cagney as Linda. Yes, sir? I want to talk to you. You went exploring again, didn't you? Yes, ma'am. Come up here on the porch, Bob. I didn't really go far. Sit down. Now then. How far did you go? Not far. Beyond the mountains? Yes, ma'am. How far to the river? I don't see why you worry about me like you do. I'm... Well, I'm almost a man. You... you went past the river. I went all the way to the desert. There was the most beautiful place. One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in my whole life. You ought to see it, ma'am. It's... It's like the ocean ought to look, but it isn't. Green glass. Yeah, glass. All green. As far as you can... You've seen it? Yes, Bob. I've seen it. Come into the house. Wasn't it about the most beautiful thing you ever saw? Green glass. As far as the eyes can see. Beautiful? I think... I think it's the most hideous thing in the world. That's the way I feel about it. But you didn't ride out onto it. Old Chigger's getting pretty old. I didn't think he could keep his footing. Your father will want to have a few words with you about this, Bob. Yeah. Do we have to tell him? Do you think he'd be right not to? I suppose we have to tell him, but... But what? As long as I can remember, he's been telling me not to leave this valley. We've both been telling you that. For a long time you said it was because... Because there just wasn't anything beyond this valley. It doesn't exist anymore. Are you sure, ma'am? How can you be sure? We're fairly sure. But you're not positive. Deep down inside. Is that what you feel you have to do? Make sure? Maybe someday. After all we've told you about the radiation. I know. I know what you told me about it. But it's pretty hard to be afraid of something when... Never mind. No, no, no. Go on. What are you going to say? When you can't see something or smell it or taste it. When you can't even feel it. It's pretty hard to be afraid of it. But we've told you about it. Yes. You've told me about it. But... But because it's never really hurt you. Because it seems far away, remote. You're having a difficult time being concerned about it, huh? You're not the first person to feel that way. If you were, well... Perhaps the war never would have come. What do you mean, ma'am? It's the way people think. We each felt down deep inside that we were really not vulnerable. We were immune to hurt. And if we had a feeling of personal immunity, we also had a little of that same feeling for our country. Too bad, we thought. Too bad about those little countries in Asia and the Middle East. Too bad about their wars. Aren't we lucky that such a thing could never happen here? We got complacent. And that was the first step down. First step down to what? Oblivion, you might say. Is that the way you felt about things, too? I'm afraid it was. Perhaps not as strongly as some, but it was generally the way I felt, even on the day it happened. It was on Thanksgiving Day 15 years ago. A day when customs called for most Americans to be at home with thoughts of war in the furthest part of their minds. But I wasn't at home. I was 26,000 feet in the air on a transcontinental flight from New York to Los Angeles. I remember I was a little afraid. I didn't know it then, but I was a thousand times safer there than I would have been almost anywhere on the ground. Oh, this is really your first trip by air, eh? Does it show that much? My goodness, no. I was having a little trouble believing it. I suppose that's why I asked you again. Look as calm as can be. Why, thank you. It's an effort, believe me. Actually, I'm almost ready to go and tell the pilot to fly a little closer to the ground. That's a good one. I wish they'd let you smoke cigars and these things. Oh, I can give you a cigarette. That wouldn't even feel like smoking to me. Oh, look. Up there, those white lines. Oh, contrails. Looks like skyriding. But I can't imagine anybody doing any skyriding way up there. Natural phenomenon has something to do with vapor. Air passing around the wingtip or something like that. Planes up there? Pretty high, aren't they?  Oh, I see them. I see them. They look like specs. They're awfully high up. Quite a number of them, too. Must be, uh... See, must be easy 25. Heavy bombers, Air Force boys outspending the taxpayers' money. And there ought to be a law against it if you want to know what I think. Well, I suppose it has to be done. Always maneuvers. And a pig's eye, it has to be done. Do you know it takes 2,000 pounds of fuel in this size just from the hangar to the runway? And if you drive a car, you can figure the cost of a thing like that. Oh, what must it be costing them to keep all those planes in the air? A fortune. A hundred fortunes. It's criminal the way the government spends our money. I wrote my congressman about that last armed services appropriation.  Money for the missiles program for this and for that. Those people down there in Congress think money grows on trees. But still, don't you think we should have a good radar system?  But even if we did, can you tell me the sense in sticking it up there in the frozen waste just because they think the commies might start a war and if they did, they might come over the pole? Not even logical. Pound and money down a rat hole, that's all it is. Oh, look. Look, more contrails. That's what you call them, isn't it? Where? See? Hmm. Bigger formation than the last two. Government keeps this up, America will be one vast poor house. Then you don't think there's much chance of a war? Absolutely no reason to worry. Well, the conversation certainly took a doer turn, didn't it? I guess it did. All those Air Force bombers flying around, joyriding at the taxpayers' expense, kind of makes my hackles rise. What's everybody looking at? Oh, glow there on the horizon. What do you suppose it is? Some smelter running a little hot, more than likely. It might be a forest or a grass fire. Everything looks different from up here. 25,000 feet, isn't it? Pilots calling the stewardess up front. We'll probably be told about it in a minute or so. Isn't that another one? Another fire? There. Your attention, please. This is the flight captain. I've just been informed that... not until I have to. I have just been informed that conditions are unfavorable for our scheduled landing at Denver. But I have to be in Denver today. We will therefore be continuing to another field where conditions are more favorable. Please fasten your seat belts. We may be passing through some rough air. Rough air? There's not a cloud in the sky.  Something big's going on. I know it. Here comes the stewardess. Maybe she could... Stewardess! Fasten your belts, please. Fasten your belts. Thank you. Stewardess! Please fasten your seat belts, sir. Hang the belt. Can you tell us what's going on? I've got to be in Denver today. A great deal depends on it. I'd like to be in Denver, too, sir. Fasten your seat belt, please. Is something wrong? Is it the fire? Please let go of my arm, sir. Not to you tell me why we're not going to land where we're supposed to land. My ticket says Denver. There isn't any Denver. Those fires are from atomic bombs. America's under attack. There isn't any more anything. When we heard it, we didn't believe it. But we believed it when the shockwaves began to bounce the plane around as if it were nothing more than a caulk and a heavy sea. We believed it when we saw crater after crater instead of city after city. We could see a thousand fires reflected against the sky. After a while, the pilot told us as much as he knew about what was happening throughout the country. And then for a long time, we just sat there listening to the droning of the engines and wondering about what was happening on the ground. It was almost dusk before the pilot spoke again. Your attention, please. The city you saw a few minutes ago was Nogales Juarez. I had hoped that its proximity to the Mexican border would mean that it had been spared. I had also hoped that if it hadn't, we could have gone into Mexico. I've been informed that Mexico too was under atomic attack. That was the last radio communication I've been able to raise and it was 20 minutes ago. It's possible that some of the buffeting the plane has gone through may have damaged our radio equipment. But as a captain of this ship entrusted with your safety, I must assume otherwise. And I must try to put you on the ground where we all might have a reasonable chance for survival.  I think our best chance would be in one of the mountain valleys of the Rockies where the chances of dust contamination would be small. I've selected a place 12 air miles just from Grand Lake since there is no airfield. We will have to make an emergency landing. None of us ever thought to question the ideas of the pilot. Perhaps because we were too stupefied at what we'd seen to think for ourselves. Let your seatbelts are firmly fast. But I'll always remember that last part of the trip. The sun was going down, but there was no darkness. The night was illuminated by uncountable fires on the ground reflected by the contrails of the enemy bombers. Half of the forest seemed to be aflame. Fortunately, not the valley 12 miles due south of Grand Lake. Hello. Don't you want to know where you are? That's supposed to be the first question you ask. It used to be in the films. Where am I? Blackfoot Lookout Station, sometimes known as Fire Watch Number 14. You were in a plane crash. Remember now? Oh. Oh, the bombing. It wasn't... It wasn't a dream, no. Oh, there were others on the plane. Yes, the plane burned when it hit. I probably wouldn't have found you otherwise. Am I the only survivor? There were nine of you. Were nine. The others took my station wagon. They're going to try to make it over What's that? It's a town, a little town. The bombers haven't noticed yet. Why didn't they take me? Two reasons. One, you have a broken pelvis, which probably couldn't stand the ride. And... And the other reason? There wasn't room for you in the station wagon. Not room for a stretcher case, anyway. You said a little town that the bombers hadn't noticed yet. Yeah. You think they'll come back? I think they're still coming. Why do you say that? This is a total war. And I think in this kind of a war, you throw everything you have with the first punch. There have been two waves. Well, how do you know that? I shot wave radio over there. I've been monitoring the military frequencies. The first wave was precision, military targets, industrial cities. The second wave was the city area bombing. The third wave will be mop-up. Oh, but surely the smaller cities, the towns with no military importance... And Fort Collins, a college town. Grand Junction, an agricultural community. Aurora, strictly residential. I can't get a call to or from any of them. Aren't we... aren't we doing anything? If all the enemy was across the Canadian border, our planes were on the way. Reports I've heard say that our interception has been 65% effective. Maybe if so many of us hadn't been hiding our heads in the sand, it would have been 100% effective. Less than 10 hours ago, I was talking to a man about something like that. He thought the taxpayers were pounding money down a rat hole. In a way, I guess that's what we were doing. We just didn't pound enough down. The rat got out anyway. The third and final wave came late that night. Just about the time our planes would have been over the enemy's homeland. The next day, John noticed that even the mountain around the valley had been changed. He pointed out where the flashes had started fires in the valley itself, fires which were automatically put out by the concussion that followed. The day after that, we heard our last radio transmission. I had it a minute ago. CQ, this is Butterfly 7 out of month. Hello? Hello? Hello, CQ, this is Butterfly 7. Do you read me? Over. I think that's a bomber. I think maybe he's looking for survivors. Only one way to find out. CQ, this is Butterfly 7. I'm losing altitude fast. Will somebody give me a fix? Over. Butterfly 7. Hello, Blackfoot Lookout. Do you want a long count? Hello, Blackfoot Lookout. I was beginning to think I was the last man on Earth. Where are you? Colorado Rockies, 12 miles south of Grand Lake. Oh, that's not close enough. I'm somewhere over Hudson's Bay. Did you say Hudson's Bay? Affirmative. I'm on a rescue mission. I have a woman who needs medical attention. Sorry, Blackfoot. I'm returning from a bomber mission. And I'm losing altitude fast. I have a report to pass this on, will you? I will. What's your message? Just tell them the mission was successful. We hid something in the Urals. Depot, maybe. Magazine, something like that. Took half the country with it when it blew. We'll, uh, we'll pass the word. Looks like I'm losing an engine now. Did you say there was a girl with you? That's what I said. Is she pretty? Yes. Yeah, she's very pretty. Can I talk to her? Just a minute. Push this button down when you talk. All right. This one? That's right. Hello. That you? Do you think you can make it all right? Oh, not a chance.  Anything. Push the button. Oh, that's good. Anything you want. Will you pray for me? We, we will. Anything else? A man and a woman. Adam and Eve all over again, huh? I, I guess you could say that. Another favor? What is it? This time, Eve, please don't take that apple. What happened? Stop transmitting. Then he's down. Very likely. We, we couldn't be the last two people left on Earth. No, but I think it'll be a long, long time before we find the ones who are left. About, about this Adam and Eve. Well, we'll wait till you're well before we talk about courting. Okay? Okay. It was about a month after that that your father and I exchanged vows. And a year after that, that you came along, Bob. And you never even saw anyone else? Oh, a few stray cattle and horses, and I don't know how they survived. But never any people. Once a week we'd ride the Ring of Mountains with that Geiger counter and always the same answer. Too hot for survival. But it's been a while since we checked last. Maybe things have cooled off a little. We'll talk to your father about it when he comes back from hunting. Maybe we can organize a small expedition. Find you someone to talk to besides parents. Why did it have to happen? It didn't have to happen, Bob. What could anybody have done to stop it? Oh, we could have been better prepared as a nation. But how could you, as individuals, how could you have done anything to keep the world peaceful? Something that I think that I'm sure would have worked if enough people had done it. What? We could have prayed for peace instead of taking it for granted. This is Danny Thomas again. When you think about it, there's nothing we have which isn't a gift. Friends, family, good health, each blessing we can count is something that has been given us by the author of all blessings, our Creator. That's an easy thing to forget when our lives are flowing along smoothly. And yet, if we want, there's a very simple method we can all use to remind ourselves of God's goodness and generosity. The method I have in mind is prayer. Daily family prayer. It only takes a few minutes. It doesn't have to be a big production. You can do it at bedtime just before the kids pile in for the night. It doesn't matter what words you use. Don't worry. Just kneel down. Look around at how much you've got to be thankful for and the words will come. And speaking of gifts, there's a special gift of happiness that comes from family prayer itself. Ask anyone who's tried it. The family that prays together stays together.  Family Theater has brought you transcribed, It Can't Happen Here, starring Jean Cagney. Danny Thomas was your host. Others in our cast were Peter Voltrian, Lynn Allen, Barney Phillips, John Stevenson and Jason Johnson. The script was written and directed for Family Theater by Robert Hugh O'Sullivan, with music composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman. 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Brought to you by DIS, keeping companies connected with cloud-based solutions. Come on, City! Conor, good to chat with you again. I'll start by getting your thoughts on Saturday's performance and result. Now, two days on, what are your thoughts and feelings? Yeah, I'm really disappointed with the overall result and performance for probably a larger partner game. I felt we started well, but again, from conceding, we switched off and conceded again. When it was important that we stayed in the game and made it difficult and built on that. So, yeah, overall we're really disappointed. Mark, after the game, referenced a lack of fight, maybe, from some of the players. What do you think that's down to? It's hard to put your finger on exactly what it's down to. But I agree, and we both had conversations regarding that. The running stats, except you were really high, just like normal. So it wasn't something that was having to go effort or anything like that. It was more just being more aggressive in our play and making it harder for them to play. Do you feel at all let down by the players with that lack of fight in mind? I wouldn't say let down. What I would say is it gives us an idea of the squad better, plays who you can trust and plays who you know that are going to give absolutely everything to the cause. Again, the players have got an opportunity to put things right and to react in the right way, and we're hoping for that to happen. Is that something that you've communicated to the players since? I know Callum has just spoken to us and said that you've done a fair bit of analysis work today. Yeah, you know, you're trying to improve on the areas that you've maybe not done so well on in the previous game. And then when it comes down to maybe a lack of fighting desire, these things can be corrected. But it's just sometimes what happens with players at all levels is sometimes on certain days they don't quite perform or show that level of aggression for whatever reason. So now that's been highlighted, we hope to see a real fight performance. You talk about that opportunity for both you and Mark to learn from Saturday's performance. I know that you're in a period now where you can be a bit more experimental and try different things. Despite the defeat and despite maybe the lack of fight from some as referenced, do you still have the opportunity to learn a fair bit about the team in that system and formation? Yeah, I think every game you're learning and you're figuring out people in different ways. And again, I think what we need to see and everybody needs to see is people out there who want to be leaders, who are good team players, who put the side before themselves, who are willing to do the ugly things to get in victories. So I think players that want to put the team first and then in possession they show the qualities is what we're after looking into a positive end to the season. I asked Mark a similar question on Saturday, but from your own opinion, how much is this shaping your summer? Yeah, as a football player we've got to do the work off the field and players have got to perform because players are out of contract at the end of the season. So from now to the end of the season, the traits in players are visible to all staff and we want to make sure that from the start we said it about recruitment, we want the correct characters who we know we can trust to go out there and do the job. How productive was that open conversation that you had amongst the players after the result on Saturday? Brilliant because it shows people care, people have a lot of ownership on what they do and how they want to approach things and one thing's for sure, if you want to be successful, you're going to have to play successful teams. Football is not tennis or golf, it's not an individual sport and to win things, to win trophies, you've got to be a good team player, you've got to go out there and put everybody else in front of you your own development and own performance at times and you've got to go out there and get the result and I think that's what we're trying to build here as a club and as a team, we want players who are going to put the team first at all times because we've got good players in this building and I'm sure if they do that, we'll have success. And again speaking to Callum only a few moments ago, he spoke about the need to maybe take things back to basics and what simplify things and find that form that you had previously in the season that served you so well. Yeah and it comes back to collectively being on the same page and players doing their role and their responsibility to the best of their efforts even though potentially it might mean them having to play or defending certain areas that they don't want to be because they're an attacking player but again we have to reinforce the importance that everything is about the team and the three points at the end of the game. What's more important for you and Mark now with these three games remaining I realise that you will want to win every single game but are you still going to try and experiment and go for different things, different systems, formations or is it now you need to get the win? I think it's a balance of both. What I would say is there's an opportunity for players to right their wrongs from the last game but there's also enough time for us to experiment from now to the end of the season which is brilliant if you think about it because we're starting to try different players in different formations and different players coming from the squad into the starting line up so I'm hoping that we can really get to know this group of players even further which will benefit us longer term. And with that mantra in mind Conor do you then feel that you should be judged as critically as you have been previously given that now you are looking to try different things? I think it's hard for me to say I think everybody is entitled to their opinion and rightfully so you know me and Mark are the managers of Bradford City and with that becomes a lot of pressure to perform and we know that but what we want to do is to build something to be successful and to work on things because we're trying to develop different areas in the club to make sure that this club is a success and giving the chance to do that is what we need. Looking forward to tomorrow's game I'll start by getting team news from you firstly How is Oli Cranshaw because I know there was a deal of concern after Saturday? Oli's asthmatic so he's had a little bit of complication with his breathing etc we've been reassured that it's nothing on term or anything like that but with the season changes in weather it can cause different things happening with asthma so we've just got to monitor him a little bit further Does that rule him out of tomorrow night's game? Yeah it rules him out just from a health point of view and looking after him Elsewhere Billy Clark I know that you were awaiting some results back from a scan Yeah it's a muscle strain but it's not a bad one it's just a grade one so we can look to involve him in the next week or so Better news yeah So not season over for Billy Clark? Not yet no And Lee Novak as well how did he fare with the minutes that he got under his belt and how was he looking fitness wise? Could he make a full 90? Obviously he's been out for quite a long time for Lee and I think he said to me it was his first operation ever for somebody of his career and where at this stage he is in his career it's quite surprising so it just shows what a great athlete he is and what he's done in the game but again to getting the minutes on the pitch was a real lift to everybody else so we're looking to build his minutes up but we're also mindful that the season's not you know we've only got three games left How big an opportunity is that for someone like Lee Novak who I know for a fact will have been so frustrated to have not played as big a part as he would have wanted to this season he's got three games remaining now to really show you guys what he can do Yes he did play a number of games for us when we took over and you know he was brilliant and so now we've got to manage Lee and his expectations because he probably wants to play every minute of every game but realistically that's probably not quite possible Looking ahead then too to Salford City as opponents what do you make to them as a side now of course under the stewardship of Gary Barrier Yes really good side they were a good side under Richie Wellins and now Gary Boyer's gone in there and he's done a fantastic job so far and he's from the time that he was at this club he was a great guy and a real pleasure to work with How was your working relationship with Gary when he was at the football club Yes he was brilliant with me and Mark he involved us in quite a lot of things at times which was nice and which was maybe a little bit different but I guess coming from his development past he understood the process I wanted to ask you Conor about the planned social media boycott that's going to take place this coming weekend all football clubs in the English Football League and further afield as well will be taking part as a stance what do you make to it and what the intended target is Yes I think everybody's in the green in the football pyramid obviously on social media and things like that you hear a lot of things going on which is not nice so I think the stance will be positive for everyone and hopefully it's not going to change everything but maybe it highlights it a little bit more Has he got to a point now with social media that something has to give something has to happen I think ideally something needs to happen for people in football and I guess things like accountability for your profile is maybe one that would solve it quite quickly how easy that is to do I'm not really sure but I imagine it would solve a lot of problems Finally from me Conor, I wanted to get your thoughts if I may I was watching the League Cup final yesterday and with the 8000 fans inside Wembley didn't half make a difference I've got to say I don't know if you watched the game at all but I just wondered with fans now seemingly planning to come back into grounds how big a difference would the fans have made so far in your time as joint manager of Badford City I think everybody, I didn't watch the full game yesterday but I saw the start of it etc and you could just see the added intensity in the game and the natural noises you know not with the fake one in the background so it was really nice and actually quite surprising because it's been so different recently so from my side I think having the Badford City fans back would be a massive boost I think players etc for everybody at the club and the amount of people that come through the door at Badford City is remarkable so for them to be here cheering the team on getting behind the team would be first class and we're really hoping for it to be as soon as possible I know you're busy bees I know you work hard away from the football field but do you often think about what could be when the fans are back and what that emotion will be like It's just exciting really I think you could determine it just saying it's very exciting to think one day that when we come out there's going to be people there shouting the team on and really being that 12th man and that's what everybody needs and I think every manager in the division would tell you at times it doesn't feel quite like a lead 2 game at the minute just because of the lack of atmosphere and I think there's going to be a real buzz because it's when you're not being allowed to do something for so long as a fan and you come back you've really got that appreciation for it Go out tomorrow Connor, cheers Thank you, cheers Jamie Hi Connor Obviously part of the coded situation has been not just the fans out there but also that you haven't been able to arrange the friendly games, not just to get players fit as you said earlier to try out different formations how difficult has it been to actually to manage the club away from the actual league matches to get stuff like that done when you can't arrange friendly matches? Yes obviously it's a squad game and you know you're in charge of making sure everybody's in the best condition that they possibly can be and so there's obstacles along the way and that does include from a Covid point of view that you know you can't just you know we're playing a friendly against Blackburn on Tuesday or Wednesday there's a lot more procedures and a lot harder to do but you find ways to train in different ways to keep people fit but again these obstacles along the way And has that in some ways made the players take longer coming back because they can't get that thickness from playing friendly? Yes I think ideally you've got a game to bed players in before they actually return to the to the competitive league, of league too but at this moment in time we've not long left in the season and we've got to put players in without being in a game before you Just a touch on us all for the game what are you actually expecting from them tomorrow because they're in that situation you were in a couple of games ago where they're just outside the playoffs and they want to win but they won't want to lose either but it's a difficult situation for them Yeah we've seen bits of them and been watching them I don't think they're a type of team to sit off I think they're going to be coming for us and being on the front foot and being aggressive I think we can expect that type of game and from what we've seen they're very good and they're up there for a reason so I think again we've got to make sure we go out there and perform and put up a real fight Thanks very much, good luck tomorrow Cheers Pete, thank you Hi Connor Hi there You were saying earlier about obviously the team ethic I mean is that individuals perhaps getting away from those around them and perhaps we won't say doing their own thing but perhaps sort of forgetting they're sort of part of a bigger unit I think these things can happen subconsciously within a season for whatever reason but again as managers myself and Matt we weren't everything about the team everything's about it's not about being selfish it's not about being a luxury player and just wanting to affect the game when you've got the ball there's a job to do and everybody's got to do it and that's how football is and that's how we want it to be I was going to say obviously we talk about these sort of meetings after games and every now and again and people sort of say it's a good idea because it stops things building up but is it part of you as a frustrating that you have to have a discussion like that at this stage of a season? I wouldn't say disappointed I think throughout a season there should be discussions like that irrelevant of performance so you know if things are going well and then you know you're thinking about complacency and you're trying to have meetings around complacency and not wanting things to get away from you and keep doing the things that give you success Obviously you know the stats have been great for yourself and Mark so far but you're currently on this little run I mean how desperate are you as a managerial pair to sort of see the back of it and get back to what you were doing a few weeks ago That's key for you know for games is not good enough without a win especially with the defeats but for everybody at the club and for the fans you know the players the staff everybody shares that frustration shares that hurt and disappointment but again you know you can't the worst thing you can do is just sort of be downbeat you've got to be positive you've got to feel like you can make a difference you've got to stick together you've got to work together and pull through What you don't want is what's been a very encouraging half a season to sort of finish on a bad note and then be remembered for perhaps the finish rather than the major part of that Yeah exactly and everybody just wants to put things right and make sure the next game we've got high performance levels and that's all you can do sometimes you lose games but as long as your effort and aggression and desire is all for everyone to see then you can manage mistakes and things like that I'm looking forward to putting it right and I think there's a real edge and a real excitement to go and prove to people that we're a team that's the hardest working etc And again the fact that you're playing a team we've got so much to play for as well probably helps because it gives that edge to the game naturally doesn't it Yeah possibly naturally yeah because they're fighting for it and we've got something to play for because we've lost games and we're trying to put a stop to our current form and I think it'll be a good encounter