Friends welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers Blue Plan. Today I am here to share with you my top 10 tips to be successful on WW. These 10 things I have done to lose almost 60 pounds So if you're excited for today's video give it a big huge thumbs up and don't forget if you're new or you haven't subscribed, hit that little subscribe button and don't forget to ring the bell next to it So you never miss a single video down in the description box. You're going to find my nutrition coaching website I do offer personalized to you macros and calories whether you're on WW or not you need to know how many calories you should be eating every day to lose weight But to sustainably do that and keep it off long term I also offer 30 and 60 minute coaching sessions if you want to talk a little bit more individually on your goals So check that out down in the description box You're also going to find links and discount codes to all of my favorite things as well as my Facebook group So definitely head on over and join us over on Facebook. We'd love to have you I'm excited to share my top 10 tips to be successful on the WW program All the time what my tips are to be successful But have I done to lose almost 60 pounds? So today I'm going to share with you my top 10 tips things that I've done and will continue to do Along the rest of my weight loss journey on the WW program tip number one is to use the WW app Download that app to your phone your laptop your tablet make sure that you're consistently using the app It's a great place to track your food to be most successful on your weight loss journey It's important to track your food You can see how many points you've eaten for the day as well as how many points you have left for the day all In the app there's tons of recipes built into the app as well as a place to log your weight now Remember your points on WW will change as you gain or lose weight So you want to make sure that you're consistently tracking your weight in the app if you attend a WW in person workshop The guide will go ahead and enter your weight into the system and it will reflect in your app If you are an online only member or you're just using that app You'll need to go in and manually enter your weigh-in every week or every two weeks or however often you weigh in on the scale But utilize the app. It's a big feature on the WW program So make sure that you're using it every single day to track your food Look up recipes and make sure that your weight is accurate in the app as well tip number two is something I swear by and that is to plan and prep your meals fail to plan plan to fail one of my Favorite sayings of all time This doesn't mean that you have to spend hours and hours in the kitchen every single week prepping all of your meals What this does mean though is to think about what meals you're going to have during the week and plan for that Write down your breakfast your lunches your dinners Snacks things that are on your plan to have for the week that way when you're putting together your grocery list You can stay on budget Stay on track at the grocery store not add random things to your cart And you'll also at least have an idea or a plan in place for your meals for the week When we don't have a plan or when we haven't prepped or gotten ourselves ready for a successful week We find ourselves in the drive-thru we find ourselves picking things out of our pantry or fridge or freezer That aren't the healthiest options because they're quick. They're easy and they're convenient So one way to really stay on track and to consistently lose weight is to set yourself up for success Maybe chopping up all your fresh vegetables and your fruits for the week and having those front and center in your refrigerator Would help you choose those over the chips in your pantry or the unhealthy snacks in your refrigerator Just make sure you're setting yourself up for success This is so incredibly important to do plan and prep your food for the week Tip number three is to pre-plan your day even go as far as to pre-track your day Dinner is generally the heaviest meal or the highest in points at least for me during the day So if I know what I'm having for dinner and remember I've planned this out when I did my grocery list I may have even prepped some of the ingredients taking the meat out of the freezer pre-chopped up the vegetables When I know what I'm having for dinner I can pre-track that in my app that will take away the points for dinner and let me know what I have left For my other meals and snacks throughout the day I also find that it's easy to sit down one time a day and track all of your food Not only does it save you on time throughout the day, but your food's tracked and it's done And you don't have to think about it again during the day We get busy things come up And that's when we fail to actually track our food is when we just get too busy to sit down and enter it all Into the app so by pre-planning pre-tracking your food that can save you a lot of time during the day and make your weight Lost journey a lot more successful because everything is planned and tracked in the app tip number four eat breakfast A lot of people aren't hungry first thing in the morning and when I say eat breakfast I don't mean that you have to eat the minute you roll out a bed But make sure you're starting your day off in a healthy way My goal for breakfast is no less than 20 grams of protein and I want my breakfast to be well-rounded I want to pair macronutrients together I may have a carb and a protein or maybe a protein and a healthy fat But I want to make sure that I'm starting my day off right Breakfast stands for break your fast. You've been sleeping for several hours Now it's time to refuel your body to re-energize it for the day So whether big or small make sure that you're eating a healthy breakfast every single day tip number five is a super super Important tip and this is to find WW friendly or healthy alternatives to your favorite foods This means having point-friendly snacks even sweet treats and meal components on hand I have done a ton of videos here on my channel with my favorite WW snacks. I'll make sure I link that down below for you I also have a recipe website where I have hundreds and hundreds of WW friendly recipes I'll go ahead and put that here on the screen and that will also be linked down in the description box Make sure you're stocking your fridge freezer in pantry with healthy snacks and healthy sweet treats that way again You're not reaching for the less healthier option Maybe you have ice cream in there for your husband and ice cream in there for yourself If you didn't have ice cream in there for yourself chances are you're reaching for the one for your husband So make sure you set yourself up for success and have those healthy snacks sweet treats and components for your meals on hand tip number six is plan ahead if you know that you're going to have a really high point dinner Make sure that you're planning for lower point options for the rest of your day kind of like we talked about with the pre Tracking again, if you're going to have a point-heavy dinner Maybe lean on those zero point foods during the day to make sure that you're getting some nutrients in you're feeling full Unsatisfied because if you don't eat all day because you're saving up for a high point dinner Chances are you're going to go into the high point dinner Super hungry and very likely to overeat. So just because you have a really high point dinner Maybe it's taking most of your points for the day That's when you should be leaning on those zero point foods to help fill the gaps help you reach your calorie goal and Make it so you're not ravenous going into that dinner tip number seven is find alternatives to some of your favorite recipes We all have that favorite comfort food recipe Maybe it's one from our grandma or our mom or one that we made all the time before we really got into a weight loss Journey you can still have those recipes just make them a little bit lighter for myself and my husband We love tater-tot casserole. That's actually one of our favorite things to have So what I've done is I have taken a not WW friendly high point high calorie tater-tot casserole and I've lightened it up I've made it a lighter version so that we can enjoy it whenever we want to have it I know a lot of people struggle to come up with what? Substitutions to make in these recipes to make them lighter That can really be the challenging part when you're lightening up some of your favorite foods I do offer a monthly meal plan. It is actually part of my Facebook group So if you're not in my Facebook group head on over and join us that way you can take part in the meal plan But what I do is I put together for you all of your meals for the entire month dinners breakfast lunches and Snacks and I do all of the work to lighten up those recipes so it fits into your daily points budget So I basically have done all the work for you. I include points for all three plans as well as calories So take advantage of something like my meal plan or a way to really lighten up your favorite foods That way you never feel deprived You never feel like you can't eat your favorite foods because what happens when we deprive ourselves or eliminate foods We're far more likely to binge on those foods And we are far more likely not to stick with WW or any weight loss plan if we feel that we can't have the things that we love Number eight is join a community. This is so incredibly incredibly important As you know the WW app has connect which is basically like Facebook for WW There are a ton of Weight Watchers at Facebook groups including mine that you can join for community and support You can take advantage of people like myself a weight loss nutrition coach Dietitian or nutritionist to use for support to ask your questions and to even be your accountability You can also have a buddy or a friend This may be your spouse. It may be a close friend a co-worker Someone who's on a weight loss journey as well to be your support to be your community Just make sure you have someone in your corner Someone who's supporting you someone who you can maybe ask your questions to or bounce ideas off of it's just really important To have a community when you're trying to lose weight We're all more successful on a weight loss journey when we have somebody to do it right alongside with us at number nine is The most important tip I would say or one of the most important tips that I'm going to share with you in Today's video and that is to use your weeklies eat your weeklies all of your weeklies every single week What I've found following the WW program myself and coaching people on the WW program is that if you only eat your daily points every day You are going to be severely Under-eating you are going to be in too extreme of a calorie deficit Now if you are someone who eats a lot of zero-point foods, and I mean a lot of zero-point foods Hardly eat anything processed or packaged and you really focus on whole foods. You may be the exception You may actually hit your calories every day and stay within your smart points But 99% of people following WW don't eat that way. We're all about convenience We're all about making our lives a little bit easier and that includes some convenient and prepackage and processed foods There's nothing wrong with that. No food is bad or good But if you're someone that doesn't pretty much entirely eat zero-point foods or whole foods You're probably under eating by just staying within your daily smart points WW wouldn't give us weeklies if they didn't want us to eat them And they certainly wouldn't give us weekly points if it was going to cause us to gain weight They're business and they wouldn't want us to quit because we weren't successful on their program The reason they give us weekly points is so that at the end of the week We are in a calorie deficit, but a reasonable calorie deficit You do not want to under eat for a long period of time. It damages your metabolism Your metabolism goes into metabolic adaptation Which basically means that it will only burn as many calories as you're feeding it Which also means that you'll likely hit a weight loss plateau rather quickly It'll be really hard for you to break that plateau and when you get to maintenance Chances are going to be extremely hard for you to maintain your weight and not gain weight back when you're upping your calories Or your weight watchers point so use your weeklies Whether that be in one single day or dividing them up over the week Make sure that there isn't a week that goes by that you haven't eaten all of your weeklies This is how you're going to lose weight in a healthy way You're going to be able to sustain that weight and you're going to be in a healthy calorie deficit Not a severe calorie deficit. That's going to cause damage to your metabolism and tip number 10 is think of WW or any weight loss journey that you're on as a lifestyle not a diet It's not something you're going to do to lose weight and then as soon as you lose the weight You stop doing it. That's when you're going to gain the weight back. Take it from me. I'm a prime example of that I did WW about 15 years ago lost a hundred and twenty five pounds when I got to my goal weight Stop doing WW and over the course of the last 15 years have gained a large amount of that back So whatever you're doing to lose weight, you need to do to maintain your weight Whatever you're eating to lose weight, you need to eat to maintain your weight That's why it's important not to put yourself in such a severe calorie deficit eat as many calories as you can every day And still lose weight. That's where weekly points come in Just remember it's not a diet. It's a lifestyle It's something you have to do essentially for the rest of your life or use the tools that you've learned on WW for the rest of your life, maybe you don't want to track your food forever You don't necessarily have to but what you've learned when it comes to choosing healthier options portion control from WW That'll help carry you through your maintenance journey and make this into a permanent lifestyle Where you're not like me and you have to start over and lose that weight for a second third or fourth time So those are my top 10 tips to lose weight and keep weight off with the WW program down in the comments Let me know what some of your tips are that have helped you be successful as a community We could use as many tips as we can so make sure you're leaving those down in the comments Don't forget to give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it and of course subscribe to my channel and ring The bell next to it so you don't miss a single a video. I hope this helped you I know that these are tips that I thought about Research that I've done as a weight loss and nutrition coach and Implemented into my WW program to make me more successful to lose weight a little bit slower But to be able to keep it off and keep my metabolism working at its peak performance If you have any questions, of course, I'm here to help make sure you're checking out that description box for nutrition Coaching macros and calories highly highly recommend again You need to make sure you're eating enough on your weight loss journey also one-on-one coaching if you need a little bit more Community, let me be your community. I'd love to help you links discounts to my favorite things And of course my Facebook group definitely come over and join that community as well It's a very loving and supportive and positive and we'd love to have you Thank you guys again so much for watching and I'll see you next time


Look, I don't mean to sound like an alarmist, but our civil rights and civil liberties are gradually being eroded by our governments and nobody really seems to notice. And Americans don't notice because it is constantly happening, albeit slowly. See, it's really easy to discern a loss in civil rights and civil liberties when it happens all at once. For example, back in 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and millions of people in multiple states lost the right to bodily autonomy like that. But that was not spontaneous. See, for decades, there was this slow buildup to dobs. Red states over time would regulate abortion more and more that restrict access to reproductive health care in indirect ways. And those were all warning signs that people pointed out. But I mean, when something is being taken away from us slowly and gradually, it's really difficult to get people to acknowledge how serious that threat is or even care about it until it's too late. We're all kind of frogs in a pot that don't realize the water is boiling because the heat's just being turned up slow enough for us to not even notice. But we need to recalibrate and adjust our sensitivity to these issues because if we don't, then we're going to lose more rights. If we don't see the warning signs and respond accordingly, we're bound to get more wake-up calls like dobs. Now, there's a number of civil rights and civil liberties at threat. The House just voted in favor of warrantless surveillance by reauthorizing FISA, which is a brazen violation of the Fourth Amendment. And on top of that, multiple states are taking away somebody's liberty to just be trans. So there's a lot to pay attention to. And there's a lot of civil rights and civil liberties at stake. But today, I just want to talk specifically about the First Amendment because millions of people in multiple states effectively lost the right to organize mass protests as Ian Milheiser of Vox reports. The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear McKesson veto. The decision to not hear McKesson leaves in place a lower court decision that effectively eliminated the right to organize a protest in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Under that lower court decision, a protest organizer faces potentially ruminous financial consequences if a single attendee at a mass protest commits an illegal act. So how did this happen? Well, back in 2016, Black Lives Matter activist D. Ray McKesson organized a protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana following the murder of Alton Sterling by police. Now at that protest, one of the many people there decided to throw a rock at a cop and seriously injured him. Now nobody knows who threw the rock to this day. Now the court is allowing D. Ray McKesson to be sued since he's the one who organized the protest, even though he didn't throw the rock at that cop, nor did he say we should throw rocks at cops. But here's the thing, the Supreme Court already affirmed that organizers can't be held liable for violence at protests that they organized in the 1982 case of NAACP v. Clayborn Hardware. And they also reaffirmed that in 2023 in the case of Councilman v. Colorado, where they made it clear that you can't charge an organizer with incitement of violence unless their words were specifically intended to incite violence, even if they accidentally incite violence by using rhetoric that's just a little too charged, they have to purposefully incite violence in order for you to charge them. But when it comes to McKesson v. Doe, the Trumpian Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously argued that previous precedent wasn't sufficient for this case and argued that new restrictions to the First Amendment should be set because of this case. Milheiser continues, the Fifth Circuit concluded that Clayborn's three separate theories that might justify holding a protest leader liable are a non-exhaustive list and that the MAGA-infused court is allowed to create new exceptions to the First Amendment. It then ruled that the First Amendment does not apply where a defendant creates unreasonably dangerous conditions and where his creation of those conditions causes a plaintiff to sustain injuries. And what exactly were the unreasonably dangerous conditions created by the McKesson-led protest in Baton Rouge? The Fifth Circuit faulted McKesson for organizing the protest to begin in front of the police station, obstructing access to the building, for failing to dissuade protesters who allegedly stole water bottles from a grocery store and for leading the assembled protest onto a public highway in violation of Louisiana criminal law. Now the Supreme Court chose to not take up this case, meaning that the unconstitutional ruling from the Fifth Circuit is going to remain in place. And as a result, people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas have effectively lost the right to organize mass protests. Because think about it, if somebody gets violent, you could be held liable. And you might argue that, you know, you can protect yourself from legal culpability if you proactively dissuade people from getting too rowdy. But here's the problem. That doesn't protect you from sabotage. Quote, as Fifth Circuit judge Don Willett, who dissented from his court's McKesson decision warned in one of his dissents, his court's decision would make protest organizers liable for the unlawful acts of counter-protestors and agitators. So under the Fifth Circuit's rule, a Ku Klux Klansman could sabotage the Black Lives Matter movement simply by showing up at its protests and throwing stones. Now for those who don't know, there are counter-protestors and antagonists at virtually every Black Lives Matter protest. The same is true for pro-Palestinian protests and pro-borsion protests and pro-LGBTQ plus protests and so on and so forth. And all it takes is one person in these states, and the organizers could be the ones who gets punished for the crimes of somebody else, including a saboteur. This is absurd. I mean, under these conditions, who's going to want to organize a protest? And if nobody's organizing protests, nobody's going to be attending protests if there's no organizers. I mean, sure, spontaneous protests can still break out, but I mean, you understand the chilling effect that this has on free speech in these states where this is now the de facto law. It's just, it is so horrifying that the Supreme Court basically allowed this to go on. But it's not surprising. Now in states where organizers can't yet be penalized for the actions of individual protestors or antagonists, elected officials are doing their very best to incite violence against Americans for simply exercising their free speech rights. For example, sitting senator Tom Cotton recommended vigilante violence against pro-Palestinian protestors who blocked a freeway, writing on Twitter, quote, I encourage people who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mobs blocking traffic, take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way. It's time to put an end to this nonsense. And a day later, after many wondered how violent he's encouraging people to get, he shared a clip of protestors being physically dragged off the streets for blocking traffic. Now, you're probably assuming that he just feels really strongly about these types of protests, which aren't very popular admittedly by their very nature. I mean, the point is to be as disruptive as possible to get headlines, mission accomplished, right? But it's not just these types of protests that he's against. He's made it very clear that he's generally against our First Amendment rights.  So his instinct is to respond to protests with violence. Now some random person says, I don't like these protests, let's drag them off the street by their hair. That's different than somebody who was an elected official who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, which includes the First Amendment saying that very same thing. And here he is vocalizing his disdain once again for people exercising their First Amendment rights. But he's not alone because the House of Representatives actually just passed a resolution deeming the phrase from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free as anti-Semitic. And it was sponsored by Anthony de Esposito, Josh Gothheimer and Jared Moskowitz, all-benefit series of APAC donations, by the way, and it passed overwhelmingly 377-44-1 with somebody voting present. And every single Republican voted for it, excluding Thomas Massie, and most progressives voted against it expectantly, excluding perpetual disappointment Ro Khanna. Now to be fair, supporters of this bill aren't explicitly calling for violence like Tom Cotton, but they do support violence, just not against American citizens. They support violence against Palestinians. And as Rashida Tlaib put it, we are seeing the same, quote, messaging bills on the floor every single week. These bills are just an attempt to distract from the genocide in Gaza. I am not voting for any of these bills while the genocide of Palestinians continues. And she's right. In fact, she was censured herself for saying from the river to the sea, even though she is a Palestinian woman, the only Palestinian in Congress, mind you, who clarified that she doesn't mean anything negative or genocidal by saying that she simply means liberation for Palestinians. And she wants both Jews and Arabs in the region to be free from injustice. But despite that, many Democrats joined Republicans in condemning her speech. But you might be thinking, maybe these politicians, they're just against violent rhetoric. And since from the river to the sea can be co-opted or used nefariously for anti-Semitic purposes, they felt compelled to support that resolution because they're just against violent rhetoric in general. Now, that might be a persuasive counterargument if they condemned actual violent rhetoric, but they won't. In fact, Republican Tim Wohlberg recently called for Gaza to be nuked and he wasn't censured. In fact, as Marissa Cabez reports, the 22 Democrats in particular who voted to condemn her, she did to leave, haven't had much to say about that Republican calling for mass murder when she reached out to all of their offices. Now, out of 22 of them, she got three responses. So one of them surprisingly was from Richie Torres, who called Wohlberg's comments deranged and depraved. And his press secretary idiotically said that Wohlberg's comments were somehow on the same level of tolebs. But despite thinking that, they didn't respond when they were asked if Torres would call for Wohlberg to be censured. Now, the second person she heard from was Greg Landsman, who condemned Wohlberg and said that he would vote to censure him if a vote were in front of him, although he's obviously not willing to take the initiative and hasn't sponsored a resolution himself. So apparently he's not that angry. And finally, she heard back from Brad Schneider, who said that Wohlberg's remarks were bad, but he appreciated Wohlberg walking it back. And when he was asked if he would vote to censure Wohlberg, he said, no, because, quote, we need to stop talking about censure and focus on governing. So he voted to censure Rashida Tlaib for saying from the river to the sea, but he wouldn't vote to censor Tim Wohlberg for saying that we should nuke Gaza because we need to focus on governing and move on. Well, I'm sure you will be incredibly surprised to learn that Schneider voted in favor of condemning the phrase from the river to the sea. Yeah, so they're pretty selective in the speech that they choose to condemn. But the point is Congress members have no business condemning which phrases activists use. It's none of their business as far as I'm concerned. And to be clear, it's not like they're saying use of this phrase should come with a penalty, but this is a microcosm of a bigger problem in this country when it comes to free speech regarding Palestinian human rights specifically. And as these lawmakers repeatedly condemn American's free speech, they also stand idly by as pro-Palestinian speech comes under fire around the country. And I say this because the Jewish Virtual Library reports that 38 states have adopted anti-BDS laws, all of which punish people that exercise their First Amendment right to advocate for a boycott of Israel. And some people are required to sign loyalty pledges in these states to Israel in order to get state jobs or contracts. And even though no federal anti-BDS law has been signed, both the House and the Senate has passed anti-BDS bills. So what stands amount to condemnation of speech today could become full on criminalization tomorrow. And regardless if there's legal penalties or not with these types of resolutions, they still have a chilling effect on free speech overall. Americans are constantly punished for pro-Palestinian speech. And the most recent victim is USC graduate Azna Tabasim, who was selected as valedictorian, but had her speech canceled due to unnamed security concerns. Now, those security concerns that they cited for canceling her speech also comes after there was a lot of backlash to her being announced as the valedictorian. Now, at the time that I record this, the university hasn't said why there's a security concern, but it's clear why her speech was canceled when you scratch just beneath the surface. So the university has said that this is not a free speech issue. Do you view it that way? I think there's a nuance here.  The hate and the vitriol that was unleashed towards me after, I think was part of the reason that the university caved in. And so when it comes to being a free speech issue, sure, maybe my valedictory speech is a privilege and it's a privilege. I do not take lightly and other students and evidently people around the world do not take lightly. But at the end of the day, my views, the views that I have expressed and the views that USC has instilled within me as well, um, where we're stifled and we're subject to hate. Now, to be clear, this isn't a First Amendment issue because the First Amendment protects speech from governments, not universities. This is a private institution, technically. But with that being said, it's still a free speech issue and governments set the tone for the rest of the country. And if universities receive funding from federal and state governments who have passed anti-BDS laws, as is the case in California, they might feel inclined to follow the lead of lawmakers even if they don't technically have to. In fact, lawmakers, they usually set the parameters of the Overton window, not just in DC, but across the country. And as a result, other institutions tend to align with the level of respectability established by Congress. In other words, when Congress leads, we all follow. But in conclusion, the rights that we have now are being eroded and we shouldn't allow this to be normalized.  Free speech is important. And the silence from so-called free speech absolutists about these stories is deafening. Now, I'm not saying free speech is absolute, but you can't just defend it when it's speech you like. You actually have to be consistent if you genuinely care about it. And we should all care about it and speak up now before it's too late, as Dobbs has taught us with other civil rights and civil liberties.


and join me in welcoming to Burlington for month this afternoon, no other than the Reverend Al-Sharp. As we come together to remember the late summarize leader, let me ask you what kind of world do we want to live in? And how do we make this happen? Do we want to live in a world that is characterized by peace, justice, and equity? In order to have a world that is characterized by peace, we must have a world that is characterized by justice, and by justice, we must have a world that is with listeners from all here today. I welcome Senator Senator John Trace, representing Senator Lady, state, federal, and city officials, distinguished ladies and gentlemen. It is my great honor to welcome to Burlington Mr. Al-Sharp. Today is a special day as he joins us in this celebration. Every year, we honor community members who dedicate their lives to the service of others. I will now invite Mr. Hal Colston, followed by Ken Pound, to read the citations. If Dr. Wanda Heddingbrandt will present the first award. It is the most segregated time of the week in America. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King could be here today. He would be proud of this community. Evelyn Kwanza has made an impact throughout Vermont as an engaging, dynamic performer, and much sought after vocal teacher. She has displayed her talents in a variety of venues and genres. Raised in Oklahoma, Evelyn has done extensive research and performance of art songs by African American women composers. She recorded some of these pieces on her recording, The African American Woman and the Art Song, 1999. Evelyn is an adjunct member of the University of Vermont Music Department and a member of the new Alpha Missionary Baptist Church in Burlington, where she directs the children's choir. She is the assistant music director of the popular Andrew Gospel Fest program held annually at the Flynn Theater. Evelyn has honored Dr. King's legacy in many ways that she has served this community with her musical talents and humanitarianism. She devotes her time to the church and its children by teaching them many of the traditional songs that honor African American heritage, as well as mentoring and coaching the young and old for success. She and her husband, Mota Saint Kwanza, are the perfect team as they collaborate with their leadership and commitment to King's legacy. Mota Saint Kwanza is a copy editor with the Burlington Free Press, and he is also deacon in the new Alpha Missionary Baptist Church. Deacon Mote, as he is known, works extremely hard to fulfill the commitment to the church by showing compassion and dignity. He remembers King's dreams by addressing the illicit society in our community. He volunteers within the church to give back to the community with his involvement with food drives and basket donations. Deacon Mote is always altruistic in his efforts. He is the kind of individual that we should be honoring as we commemorate the life of Dr. King. As he and Evelyn go about their daily lives, we are most grateful that they keep truth and justice at the center of all that they do. And I'm pleased to introduce you to our Senator, Senator Bernice Adams. I think we have seen him. He has long been a champion of civil and human rights as a student at the University of Chicago. He was active in coal, Congress of Racial Equality, and has been committed to racial and social justice ever since. As a mayor of our great city of Burlington, among many initiatives, he reached out to other cities and other nations and established the sister city program, first with Yaroslav and the former Soviet Union, and then with Puerto Cabezas, a municipality which is at the center of the indigenous mosquito population in Nicaragua. As a member of the United States House of Representatives, he worked closely with the Congressional White Caucus, and he was a founder of the Progressive Caucus, the Hispanic Caucus, which brought together members of the Black Caucus, the Hispanic Caucus, and supporters of the labor and social justice. As a member of the United States Senate, he serves on the Health and Education Committee, and has been a tireless advocate of increasing funding for Head Start and Pell Grades, which enable students from low and modest income families to attend college. Senator Bernice Adams has a deep understanding of Dr. King and his message of peace and justice. A year ago, Senator Sanders stated, let us never forget that Dr. King was not only a leader in the anti-segregation efforts of the 1950s and 1960s, but he was also a leader in the anti-war movement and the fight for economic and social justice for all the world. He understood that when people stand together for a bright future, there is no force on earth which can stop them. Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present the senator from our great state of Vermont, Bernie Sanders. It helps to say, sure, people, this will not be an eight-hour speech. Thank Patrick Brown, you know, for years and years with the musicians. Thank you very much, we appreciate that. Thank all those who made this award possible. It means a great deal to me, because in my view, Martin Luther King Jr. was the outstanding political and moral voice of my lifetime, and I think one of the great heroes of our entire country. Because he received that award, it means a great deal to me tonight, and the media comments on Martin Luther King Jr. What they will focus on, and certainly that is appropriate, is the leadership role that he played in the 50s and in the 60s in any discourage and segregation in this country. And we all know what his epic was about. We know that at least some of our life in the United States is a mess. There were places in this country where African-Americans went to segregated schools, segregated restaurants. They were the first five and the last hired segregation was rampant. And Martin Luther King Jr. and many others put their lives on the line, some lost their lives, in order to end that horrible period in American history. But I think it is also important to understand that Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a great African-American leader. He was a great American leader who happened to be black.  Then anyone go to any restaurant will live in any house, in any neighborhood they want to. It doesn't mean much if that young person can't afford to go to that college. We think back to why everybody loved him. He was an American hero and you check it out by many. Because they said, Dr. King, you're doing okay when you speak about civil rights, about economics, and the disgrace that so many people, not just Hispanics, Native Americans, can't find a job. We got to change the economy so that all the corporate media said to him, they said to step it out of your place, mister, don't talk about economic justice. There's other Christian leadership council. Stop coming in. Big money guys said, we don't want you talking about that. And then Dr. King did something in their lives even worse. You know what he did? He said, I have, if I talk about nonviolence and if I talk about a world of justice, I have not to talk about the war in Vietnam. Got to do that. Well, children in America, go home. It was like he wasn't on the front pages of the papers anymore. He was pushed to the back. So how do we honor Dr. Martin Luther King? Well, we honor that memory by understanding that this man was a revolutionary. That this man had extraordinary courage and ultimately lost his life as a result for standing on for a different type of world. So today, when we know that 16% of our people are unemployed or unruly, let us remember what King would have said. Jobs for all people and 50 million Americans have no health insurance, what he would have said. Health cap for all Americans. Is we continue that struggle until that day is long. Thank you all very much. Despite being in the program and I would just say Reverend Sharpton, your accomplishments are too great and your honors too numerous. That I can only sum it up in two words. I'll shout. I was then happy to be here today this afternoon and I'm very honored to have been part of presenting an award to Senator Sanders. Let me say that I know a lot of elected officials and there's none that served in the United States in any capacity today that I have more respect for than I do Senator Sanders. I got to Burlington Airport that there was a controversial speaker Patrick had today, so I want to get out of here. In 1968, the New York Division of SCLC Operation Breakfasting for under a year, I had been a boy freedom in the Pentecostal Church. In April 1968, I was approaching my 14th birthday. I was directed to Reverend William Jones who headed New York and Reverend Jesse Jackson who headed National. And I remember like it was yesterday, the television program Island Side was on. It's down in Ravenberg and they interrupted the program to say that Dr. Martin Luther King had been killed in Memphis. And though I had met him a couple of times, though I was a recent part of his nationalization, I couldn't understand why my mother cried so uncontrolled. And we could not in any way comfort her. It was like a very close friend of our family had died. And my mother said to me, you would have had to be born in Alabama like me and have the indigility of riding in the back of buses or being thirsty and being denied going to a water fountain. Or being denied a couple of calls to understand what Dr. King meant. As I grew older and I never left the movement, I did begin to understand what he meant. And I understood it more by what Senator Sanders said because when I came 18 years of age all of my friends went to Vietnam. Because I was a minister, I was given a lower classification. And I lost friends on award and Martin Luther King gave more funding and support to go against. You must remember that Dr. King fought against racial segregation, but he also fought against the political segregation. And the political segregation is that you are only supposed to stay in your spot if you deal with women's rights to stay there.  And it is really outrageous to think that someone that would bring down the walls of southern apartheid would also agree to segregate his human rights activity. The reason that is important today is as I grew and developed, I realized that you cannot fight for your rights without fighting for everyone's rights. To be followed, you've got to not only deal with the continued racial institutional inequities, but you've got to deal with gender bias, you've got to deal with bias against immigrants, you've got to deal with bias against gays and lesbians. We start losing support.  That's a king great, was that he understood that you cannot limit justice and the quest for freedom, and you cannot be intoxicated by those that would praise you and pat you on the back. One of the things that I became very close with Mrs. King and work hand in hand with his son on the third, the organization I mean National Action Network, one of the things that was always very interesting to me is that when Dr. King came out against the wall, as Senator Sanders correctly said, not only did he lose funding and friends, it was even the northern eastern establishment meeting that vilified it, New York Times. I'm not talking about the Birmingham, whatever their paper was. The New York Times, the northeastern establishment. And Mrs. King said to me, one of the reasons they took such offense was as long as we were fighting bigots down, as long as we were fighting the Archimonde, it was all right. But don't challenge us here. Don't raise the competition here because we all are great and progressive when we are addressing the sins that are falling, rather than the ones that are right at home that we have a comfortable level in law. And you can't celebrate Dr. King without addressing what is going to make you uncomfortable. Dr. King once said that the source bottle is called to make the comfortable uncomfortable and make the uncomfortable comfortable. And that may mean that you're going to lose friends, that may mean you're going to take stand that others don't agree, that may even mean you've got to talk eight hours in the U.S. Senate. First of all, you have to decide at some point in your life, what is the purpose of your life. And you must gauge everything by that purpose. The reason many of us never achieve what we want is we never figure out what we want. You can't arrive without a destination. When I leave here the next few minutes, hit the bridge and airport, we will know in whatever length of time whether we arrive. But if I were to leave here and say let's just hang out two or three hours, Patrick, I couldn't get upset that we didn't get anywhere because we weren't headed anywhere. Most of us never sit down and say what is my life's purpose. And we go through whatever falls our lives and try to get comfortable but we never define what our life is. Dr. King did. I can tell you the hardest job of a creature is to preach the funeral of an irrelevant person. The front row's crying and carrying on. And we're supposed to get up and hallucinate in life a few minutes. And you're coming out of that cemetery. And very well known honest, I will not give his name. Pull me over and say Reverend Al, I said yes. He said I was very touched by your unity. I said thank you. He said no, it really moved. I said well thank you. He said if I die first, I want you to do a unity for me just like that. Well you might have to give me something to work with. Who we are and why we are. Mrs. King told the story of how in the middle of the month, Bumbley was boycott the breakdown segregation. They were harassed all night one night with phone calls threatening me alive. Dr. King got up and got a cup of coffee and sat in the kitchen. He began meditating and praying and he came to the edge of himself and had decided that he was at the end of his wish. But it was that night that he made the decision that this was the purpose for which I was born. And he committed himself to himself and his God and he could fight that battle. And no Nobel Prize and no honorary degree and no time magazine man of the year made him forget who and what he was. Which is why with all of that he died fighting the war that we had no business engaging in and meeting a poor people's campaign of blacks and Latinos and women and Chicanos in the Washington. Challenging a president who had been friendly with him. Lyndon Johnson was not a person that was bad or mean to Dr. King. They were friends that worked together to get the city votes on civil rights. But Dr. King put who he was and his mission above all of that. And if we're going to celebrate King Dave the first thing you need to do is define what it is you are doing. Who are you and where do you fit in? Because many of us compromise based on we want the comfort again of maintaining relationships and popularities and access.  There's a reason why 42 years after his death the world remembers him because he never compromised himself for whoever held a temporary office or wrote a check that would bounce in the bank of the route. Because of Dr. King. Who would have ever thought when John Lewis and Jose Williams were leading that march across the Edmund Pennis Bridge in Selma, Alabama to get the Voting Rights Act and they were beaten by Alabama State Troopers and Dr. King came and finished that march to Montgomery and that drama led to the Voting Rights Act. Who would have thought 65 we have today an African-American president and an African-American attorney general who would have thought with family behavior was the first we made and we have made great strides but we still are not where we need to go because today even with all of that we still have inequality in education in the criminal justice system in the economy. We still have the widest gap between the wealthy and the poor. Those that are talking about Dr. King's dream have realized never believed in the dream and don't know what the dream was. It was not just a racial dream. It was a dream for economic equity and fairness. It was a dream for fairness to everyone. As long as 50 million Americans don't have health care you'd not fulfill King's dream. As long as we have the top 100% of this country with vulgar wealth and the body wondering how they want to get to the next meal that's not Dr. King's dream.  This dream is on the same commitment and the same self-denial that brought us to where we've made this progress is what we need today to finish the journey. Not because a lot of the turbulence is gone. It doesn't mean we've arrived but I flew in this afternoon from Washington, D.C. going back to Washington. You fly sometimes. Some of the sirens make sure they're tripled up. You hit a cloud in turbulence. Blame troubles another.  You don't get up and get off the plane because you've got turbulence. You still wait on the plane to descend and safely land and safely pull up to the gate. Too many want to get off in a minute because we don't have the riots and we don't have the back of the bus. That's the turbulence. That doesn't mean we've arrived yet. We're not as exploited and oppressive as the others. Just as Dr. King and that generation fought Jim Crow, we must be prepared to fight a son, James Crow Jr. Esquire. He's more refined. Don't believe that he has the right to render all of us to the camps that he doesn't make or she doesn't make us and that they enjoy it so much while the rest of us so little. Those are the ones that now with state deficits, rather than talk about the greed of the corporate elite want to demonize working class people and how do they want to bring the deficits down to clear war on the Union? The problem is the state federal employees come to problems. Let me get this right.  We wouldn't invite them to the party. We couldn't go to the party. Now the time has come in for the party and you want us to pay for it. We're fighting for absolute employees that they're not demonized. And the answer is not to keep engaging in war. Can't go from Vietnam to Afghanistan and hang up Dr. King's picture. We must be consistent and we must honor this man by honoring him for what he stood for and what he was but also doing it in the spirit that he did. Dr. King preached nonviolence and he preached peace and he did it knowing every day of his life could have been the last thing. And unless this country and this world embraces them we will always continue to see the madness that we saw last weekend in Arizona. We are debating on how and what motivated somebody rather than the reality that we have gotten to the point where people could kill a 90-year-old girl and we're sitting around trying to rationalize and finger point rather than understand there's something going wrong that all of us need to examine ourselves and all of us need to see how could we in a civilized society have children where they're in danger to go here in Congress. In my growing in the movement the early 90s there was a racial killing in Brooklyn, New York Benson there was a young black male named Yusuf Hawkins was killed because they said he shouldn't be in the neighborhood and we went and marched in that neighborhood we protested the killing and that 21st week a young white male ran out in the crowd and stabbed me in my chest leading the march and I remember as I laid in that hospital upset mad I came in terms with the family if I remember the walls of a student of Dr. King I had to get by my own brothers and the hardest thing I had ever done was I went to the court when that young man was on trial and asked the judge to give him leaves the judge said that's a noble act but he gave him nine years of care and it wasn't enough I wouldn't visit him in jail but it wasn't enough there because a couple years later they were protesting a merchant in Hawkins he victimized someone that we'd all thrown in at night and they came to me and said this man shouldn't do this job this man should do this in our community we know this gentleman I said you're right and I got on the radio and said we're going to go down and march and I mentioned this man's race we marched and that is when it had burned himself up and it was going up and I had to say you know I was wrong no I didn't tell the man it burned no the man didn't even like me it was two and a half months later but even to bring the poisonous issue of his race up is wrong and what I say to the goals of public life after Arizona is we've got to be big enough to say that even if the specifics don't lead to me we can't continue in any indirect way to add to the poison and then act as though once we put poison in the system then if somebody drinks the water somewhere else it's not our fault we've all got to be big enough to say we must become the change of your secret so my message to you is that you want me to choose your own who you are what you will do leave here today saying this is what I will do to continue that struggle and second have the faith to know that you don't fight because you will win you fight because it's right in the world never knew what you were going to win but they knew they were right and when you have to calculate a fact if you only take on a fight based on your calculus that you're going to win or make some advantage then you have to take a tomorrow's thing and you have to struggle with courage courage is when you don't know what the outcome will be but you know in your soul you can't remain silent and still while something must be done that's courage that's what Dr. King had I close by saying as I said earlier in my statement Mark III and I have become close worked down for the years together I will never give one night when you were flying into a city and as the branch was descending and we were circling and I looked that far and I said you know Mark III this is going to sound strange to you but your father won he said wonder what do you mean I said in the end he won I know that sounds strange he was killed before his 40th birthday and that's what he was never knew any of his four children married had children went to college never beautiful widow never lived to see some of the things he fought for coming to fruition but he still won because history has a way of confirming victory even if you don't live long enough to see what's the pictures of your father being dragged down the courthouse steps in Alabama under arrest as he was fighting the civil rights of women and gunmen he said yeah I said do you realize that actually Monday in January that courthouse is closed the church can't come to work the church has to stay home the plaintiff can't open up that courthouse is closed on your father's birthday the seventh day of school he couldn't go to in Atlanta it's closed kids stay home teachers can't teach to celebrate his birthday in the end those that despise you have to honor you for you not submitting and surrendering to them at this office on the banks of the Potomac River there are three memorials there's a memorial to A. Lincoln there's a memorial to Thomas Jefferson there's a memorial to Gerald Washington on August 28th the anniversary of Dr. King's Iberdreams speech they will open the forth memorial to a man that never held office and never knew what it was to set the legislative chain for the man who discovered who he was and never turned back because one man or woman with a determined mind can change the world and we will honor Dr. King but the biggest honor will be those of us in every village and hamlet of this country that figured out our part of making the dream come true facing our local Bill Collins and our local New York Times and say no matter what I'm going to stand for something so when it's over they can say I want not because I outran somebody but because I stood for something and rational overpower might King's right the office of the university is not but it bends toward freedom and then they ridicule those of us that seem out of step but one day when this country has closed the wealth gap and we don't have to see the names of wealth recipients and when we have health care for everyone and when every child can go to school one day we may be named in our graves we can smile and know like Dr. King we want because we would not frame this fact so thank you Ladies and gentlemen Reverend Sharpton for that very moving message has not been here for a long time The Abundant's Life will talk for about 5 minutes our Governor will be there and I look forward to seeing a lot of people there as we leave today I want to thank you I want you to reflect on the message left to us here by Reverend Al Sharpton and in this absence let's give him a round of applause


A crimson shade stained by blood Your misery driven by love The healing where suffering a stiff successor Open this scroll in the Father's hand or to look into it The elder said to me, weep no more, weep no more Behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David Has conquered so that he can open up the scroll and its seven seals Verse six, and between the throne and the four living creatures and all the elders I saw a lamb standing as though it had been slain With seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God Sent out into all the earth and he went and he took the scroll From the right hand of him who was seated on the throne And when he had taken that scroll The four living creatures, the 24 elders They fell down before the lamb Each holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense Which are the prayers of the saints And they sang a new song Saying, worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals Worthy are you to take the scroll, Jesus, and open its seals For you were slain, you were slain And by your blood you ransomed people for God From every tribe and language and people and nation You have made them a kingdom and priest to our God And they shall reign on the earth Lord, we declare that right now We join with the elders and the creatures around your throne We join that new song that we see in Revelation Saying, worthy are you, oh Lord We don't have to be freaked out about what's happening in the earth Lord, you know what's happening You hold the scroll in your hands The tildy to the earth, all the plans and purposes that you have And Lord, we declare you are worthy to hold it You are worthy, Jesus You are worthy, Lord, for you were slain You were the land that was slain You redeemed us by your blood Oh God, we thank you for your blood We thank you for your body broken, Lord And we respond today with praise and adoration Saying, worthy are you, Lord Come on, in your own voice, just tell them Worthy are you, Lord Just let it rise out of your own mouths right now Just say it out loud, worthy, worthy


Mario Christmas and welcome to the breakfast at Plus TV Africa time for us to go through the papers this morning. We call it off the press GDA Johnson joins us this morning via Zoom. GDA compliment of the season and thank you for being with us this morning. It was always wonderful morning to start the weekend on Plus TV. Good morning to our viewers all over the world. Good morning to Kofi. Good morning. Most important, most important. Good morning to beautiful messie for messy. All right. Merry Christmas and happy new year. Merry Christmas to you GDA Johnson. You look set, you look set to, you look set to jump into the Christmas celebration I can see. Yes you need. Exactly and then you'll be waiting for that messie for smile and we call you. All right fantastic. All right let's start off with the leadership newspaper this morning. The stories are quite interesting. On the headlines it talks about at Lagos River's Rally. Tunibu Obis speaks to issues underscore governance plans. This is a bold caption you find. I will convert Niger's challenges to opportunities as APC presidential candidate.  I think who tells PMB. Well quite interesting right there but you know when politicians make all of these promises we call them we tack them campaign promises and this is just statement and even if you had a government in place there might just be policy statement because you need to have an action plan and beyond having an action plan you also need to have implementation. So I'm hoping that the electorate are asking the right question as to how all of these things will become. Cash withdrawal limit, Naira redesign not political. The central bank of Nigeria is quoted to say of course you have a picture of the CBN governor, Godwin and Mepheli himself. No amount of threats will stop 2023 elections. The federal government is committed to that, it vows. Again I will unveil my presidential candidate in January we can say shouldn't he be supporting you know candidate from his party. Illegal abortions report and vindicate army fingers foreign NGOs. Anyways that's very very interesting. Southern Uni Abuja lecturers get one billion Naira research grants and Kaduna emerges best performing state in world banks projects analysis that's the much we can take this morning on the leadership newspaper. Let's go to the next paper we have on our list and the nation newspaper has some interesting stories, the lead story there, tiddable multiple exchange rates, petrol subsidy to go, APC candidate promises to fix power, introduce students loans. We'll look at both of the paper, wiki allies to unveil preferred presidential candidate next one. One of the stories are two series on the paper, we'll look at some of them as we go on with our guest. Well let's turn our attention from the nation newspaper this morning and quickly look at the Guardian newspaper. The Guardian says lawmakers constituency project delay 2023 project or budget. I take that again lawmakers constituency project delay 2023 budget. Senate fixes December 28th for passage of appropriation bill. United States Africa leaders summit beyond the symbolism or catch up race with China and 2023 and mentally affirmed CBN's neutrality state's benefits of the policy. Now as we just move away from the Guardian we quickly take this I will remove fuel or petrol subsidy to Nibu vows at business launch. Obey Supreme Court order on souk or fuel by also tells the RMAC and you find airlines operators ricks imprisonment fines for non-remittance of sale charges really. Why are we having this as a conversation? MBA shoes minister of women affairs, Pauline Tallin over kangaroo comment. That's the much we have this morning on the Guardian newspaper. The next paper on our list is the punch newspaper with these headlines cash limits not anti-people CBN insists reps knock him if you leave policy will open row under self-communities economic opportunities. CBN deputy governor ipex bank orders 500 million pieces of new notes says nation ready for cashless economy. Mayfully flouting CBN act policy ill timed irresponsible law makers xadc. Kailas of US based hotelia Lagos Ibarro highway kidnappers arrested. We have still from the punch and in pc marketers a plan 148 naira per litre that tinnable insists on subsidy removal. If G may reintroduce telecom tax in 2023 according to report and the national assembly uncovers errors delays passages of the 2023 budget seems that that may not happen before the new year some stories on the front page of the function. Well aside for us to have GD Johnson share his thoughts this morning on the papers GD it's good to have you join us and please which of the headlines interest us went through the pages this morning. Well let's start with them the story on tinnable be sticking to issues and what we are looking for to 2023 is issue based campaign not campaign based on ethnicity not campaign based on personality personality will not solve problem but it's issues that are also the problem and like you said in your monologue not only for them to outline these issues make these promises but also to give us the action plan we have had a lot of promises in the past that we were promised to do to do these to do that and that they have not been held accountable to the promises they made. I hope moving forward we as the election is doing there to be issue based and then we also ask them about the action plan of what they intend to do to solve the merits of problems that we have this country. There's no doubt that that the problem facing Nigeria is multifaceted however a constructive program by decisive leadership we solve all the problems that we have to a certain extent so for me it's a welcome development and I need I think that we need to to hold them accountable with respect to what they are going to do beyond highlighting these issues beyond identifying these issues what are you what are the steps that you are going to take to solve the problem you know what the problem you know what to do the critical question is how is it critical questions we should be asking them to go about because what you want to do is to solve public governance problem and that's that's for me this is step in the right in the direction that we've started talking about issue other than abusing themselves and insulting one another which has always been the major approach that has been adopted in the past with respect to dealing with them campaigning for public offices in Nigeria it should be all right the House of Representatives have tried they've tried to get the CBN governor got it away fully into the green chamber for some time now unsuccessfully they've given him several I mean he says he's out to the president you say come tomorrow you know when I saw that I said I say how can someone just come tomorrow when he's abroad you know so he's written to them telling them he can't come he's outside the country there's nothing you see the updates the updates on that as we read earlier from the punch in that headline on the front page of the punch these are cash limits and not anti-people CBN insists reps knock him a feeling the paper just gives us the details of what happened when representatives of the CBN appeared before the House of Representatives to represent Gordon Mayfield please the bottom line is that I can't imagine the chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States been invited by the Congress either by the House of Reps or by the Senate for to appear before the committee and would they not appear you see the the talent we have with our democracies that's uncertain institution believes that they are both or that they are both checks and balances the beauty of democracy particularly the type of system of governance that our practice is about checks and balances it talks about separation of power the power of oversight function lies with the with with the with the legislature so there's no need that hemiphoelid issue acts the assertion of arms to arrest to arrest him because if you are invited it deals on you to appear the the House of Representatives legislature is the representative of the people the old organizations cannot come and ask you questions but they've elected their representative and have been summoned by the representative and you are you are you are sending a rep you are postponing your appearance and then you are sending someone to represent you are you telling us that you are bigger than and I don't have any reason to blame them to be in that manner it is because the way the National Assembly itself have conducted itself when people that are meant to be to exert control over over ministries department and agencies of government another executive they go cap in and beg them for for for wanting to appear or so they've lost some of their respect because it's I can't just imagine a federal reserve of united states being invited by the congress to appear and it's not appearing it's it'll be subject to criminal prosecution you you you for defining the congress the content of congress could send him to jail so it's it's a content for for the legislature which is the true representative of the people how could you come up with a policy a policy like that that would change the monetary policy in Nigeria we need to put other arms of government in the know even if they didn't write the national assembly that okay we are about kind of this particular policy they didn't involve the the the the committee on finance or the committee on appropriation in in in all of this in all of this policy because government is meant to be a collaborative a collaborative venture it's not it's not the neutral decisions that we take it by the executive weight on because the executive and the legislature are both elected as representative of the people so as well as I'm concerned they should just send their sergeant of arms to to pick him up where you said or someone to appear before and it's not appearing before you use the full weight of the law use the full weight of of what the constitution has provided place for you to exact and assert your authority right GD Johnson let's also move away from that and look at all the issues on the papers this morning and my attention is on the punch it talks about the federal government reconsidering reintroduction of telecom tax in 2023 remember that that was suspended after you know public outcry but what do you make of this if it was like you know there's a lot of hardship well um well thank god that they are coming up in the open even without the we don't even know whether the taxes have been have been collected directly or indirectly because if you look at if you look at it um what has happened to the rates what has happened to the rates of that would be for data that would be for for for voice calls and the rest of it now if government is with the present economic hardship with inflation at double digit and the government is also thinking of imposing additional tax burden on the people then it tells you about what 2023 will look like on the perspective of government in terms of what it remains for Nigerians to survive or not in 2023 as far as i'm concerned different form of taxation are directly or indirectly being imposed on the people and then there's with nothing else to shift to shift for it in terms of the revenue that government is making upon all the revenue that government is making we are still indebted to foreign to foreign nations and foreign bodies and yet we have nothing to shift for it in terms of deliverables of of democracy just to carry on do does it look like when a christmas is just to carry on do how many people have sent you text messages or phone calls that you have received with people asking for one form of help or the other because they have a big christmas ahead of them all right jenny johnson want to thank you very much for your time and for joining us this morning and of course uh we've enjoyed your analysis not just today not just this month but indeed throughout the year 2022 let me let me quickly add this coffee um whoever knows what is your advising that he needs to learn from a machine and he needs to learn from peter oddily and he needs to learn um uh from james ebore these were people that were larger than life when they were holding the executive position of the governor as far as i'm calling son the party's training it is not to be advised if it does not take the rightful distinction it's just we're going to political oblivion after i leave the office in 2023 all right thank you i'm sure reacting to one of the papers i think a couple of them up that headline he says he announces a preferred presidential candidate next year i don't know if it's on a personal note or as leader of the mg five group of governors or the integrity group we'll see what happens um but we'll look forward to seeing you next week as we have a swan song for 2022 have a fantastic weekend merry christmas and advance to you merry christmas and happy new year in advance thank you let's smile again thank you all right we have more conversations ahead we'll be right back let's take a look at judgments of landmark and significant judgments that were recorded in the year 2022 as we review activities this year please stay with us


The Deutsche Bank research department thinks the Brexit will eventually speed up the introduction of helicopter money and one never knows Deutsche Bank thinks that maybe a new UK government may be forced to spend more and we'll see the UK as an early adopter of this concept of Helicopter money the Bank of America Mary Lynch analysts add that yield curves in the US treasuries should generally flatness immediate yields run out of room and the 30 year is the most attractive point for global investors indeed you get like two and a half percent still for the 30 year duration, which is kind of like Quite decent especially when you add the specter of a continued bull market in the US dollar to this equation While research departments of those banks call for more central bank intervention The banking stocks themselves dropped sharply yesterday The total combined market cap of all European stocks has fallen to a record low in the in yesterday's trading The story has been told by European officials over and over again that after a strict regulation of the banking sector After the Lehman crisis chances are very low that the next crisis will have its Origins in the banking sector again, but when you look at when you take a look at the share prices of those companies Then you find out and you might come to a very different Conclusion some share prices dropped by a third compared to before the referendum Those of Barclays and Royal back of Scotland have given up half their value Given that the fact given that and the fact that the UK government Did still not officially hand over the formal exit requests to Brussels leaves markets in some sort of stalemate The real economy could very well be heard by this Back-and-forth action between London and Brussels and some investors decide to flee all risk Assets and go to safe haven investments This is not the kind of in of environment the greatest cash stacks of investment funds since the year 2001 are likely to return to the markets again It might even be the case that funds have not yet finished selling of all risk assets Just because as the famous saying goes if in doubt stay out Analysts from JP Morgan say European investment banking stocks are to be avoided considering current general inability to assess short-term counter-party Liquidity and market gapping risk, but also structural uncertainties such as the risk of the EU Passporting which would lead to net additional staff and cost for investment banks Yeah, a market volatility. It is still higher It can be expected to be so in the coming days a sign that that things are getting really serious is When central bankers start withdrawing from central bank gatherings something mark Connie The government of the Bank of England now Janet Yellen the president of Federal Reserve have done in this case pulling out of the ECB forum On central banking that started yesterday and lasts through Wednesday So maybe the Chinese are right their Premier Li warns that a disillusioned Britain British butterfly has Flapped its wings and this could affect the global economic recovery and financial market stability This in turn affects the real economy which has already been weak before the current market turmoil So the valuation multiples go down in equity markets with growth Prospects, which means that nothing else that there can be a further correction in equity prices And that might be quite likely you


Following the opening of U.S. 460 Corridor Q, Breaks Interstate Park has observed an increase in car and elk collisions. I spoke with Park Superintendent Austin Bradley to learn more about the issue. When the new section opened between, again, Breaks and Southern Gap, we started becoming aware of and then also responding ourselves to accidents involving motor vehicles and elk. They are drawn to the area, the elk are drawn to the area because of basically abundance of food.  They grass, there's lots of grass along the shoulder of that road project. And so it was an abundance of animals along the new road. What we were afraid of started to happen. Over five collisions have occurred in the last 30 days in the area. No major injuries were reported, but several elk were killed as a result. Basically what we're encouraging people to do is just slow down, be vigilant along that section that goes all the way from Southern Gap to Elkhorn City. Another thing that draws them onto the road is the use of road salt to melt snow and ice. The speed limit is 55 at night without president on the roadway. That's just too fast to go through that section. And so we're hoping with our social media posts that we could raise awareness that people just need to slow down below 55 and just really be watching not only in front of them, but also to the sides for elk stepping out onto the roadway. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.