Energy in America, we should never underestimate its role in America going forward. And we have Lou Puliarisi, our correspondent and the CEO of E-PRINC, an energy think tank in Washington, D.C. to help us understand these macro issues. Welcome back to your show, Lou. Be here, Jay. Just in from Japan a few hours ago. Oh, that's great. I'm going to carry your bag next time. Anyway, you're doing so many great things and I'd love to follow your travels, your adventures, and the lessons you learn. Anyway, so this is a great topic for us to discuss. We're calling it, to what extent is energy a factor in these campaigns? Energy and the elections to come. It's, what, 15, 18 months away and it's not very far and, you know, warming up. The working title for this would be, will the Green New Deal elect Donald Trump? Yes. Right. Well, yeah, or could a Green New Deal hand the election to Donald Trump? Exactly, exactly. So what do you think? What about that? So I think what we ought to do is, you know, I'm quite stunned watching the democratic debates of the lack of any moderation among the candidates. I guess you could say Joe Biden is at least close to the center, but that, and you know, I understand that the way these elections work is that you try to work your base to get the nomination and then you drive to the center to try to win the election. But I actually think they've gotten them, some of these candidates have gotten themselves so far out on the limb, it's going to be pretty hard to get back to the center. So it's not, it's not easy to change your position as we've seen with Kamala Harris. Right. It's not easy. So I thought we would just take a look at the new, I guess the Green New Deal, not the new Green Deal, but the Green New Deal, just a small few pieces of it and talk about why not only is it very unrealistic and kind of pie in the sky, but why it is likely to cause a huge backlash among a lot of the constituents that they're trying to get to vote for them. And we can talk about some aspects of this, but I do think the proponents of this program are going to be subject to a lot of ridicule and actually frightening counterattacks. So maybe we should go to the first image here. Okay, let's do that. And this is, you know, AOC or Anastasia Cortez. She's really, she's speaking, stridently I can tell from the photograph. Right. And so if you look at the, now some of these positions or the compositions of the Green New Deal are under debate, but basically it talks, you know, from what we understand it requires, or at least as an objective, the elimination of all cows, because I don't know if your audience is aware, cows emit quite a bit of methane. So that is a problem for those worried about climate. Then the Green New Deal also provides subsidies for those unwilling to work. You could say people don't find jobs unwilling to work. A hundred percent of power demand through clean renewable energy sources, upgrade all existing buildings with energy efficiency technology, and of course all of these goals should be completed over the next 10 years. And the reason why I think this is kind of important is the U.S. has become a major oil and gas producer. It is now the largest oil and gas producer in the world. And I'm going to show you why, even in areas where you might be able to get renewables for a little more than these, actually generally will be a lot more expensive, you're going to lose something else. And that's something we're going to talk about a little bit, it's called economic rent. And this economic rent has value to society because people can use it to do things like build schools and roads, mental health clinics, things like that. So if we go to the next kind of picture here, Graf, I think that it's very interesting to see that there is a kind of radicalism in the implementation strategy, right? What they want is a Manhattan-style project of clean energy sources to immediately stop burning fossil fuels. And then this quote I really like, we need to ditch the patriarchal models of wealth and status reproduction that have been constituent of nearly all expansionist war-making and resource-depleting societies over the past 10,000 years. So I thought that this- Oh, that's pretty heavy stuff. Yeah. And I just think before we get, I'm going to show you a nice little picture here coming up in a second, but I don't think you'll understand. Last year, I looked this up today, last year, producers, refiners, and marketers of oil and gas spent about $184 billion in new capital investment. That's one year. The utility industry spent $131 billion last year. It was not all on green. Very little this went to- some of it went to green in the utility sector, but most of it went to kind of making the existing capital base more efficient, maybe substituting out some coal for gas, but these are colossal amounts of money. I mean, if you think about the stimulus package alone for the 2008 recession, which was considered a huge number, that came just under $50 billion for energy programs. And that was special. This is huge, yeah. Yes. So these numbers are big, and these capital outlays occur every year, right? So why are we spending so much? You say upgrade, make more efficient. We have to spend as much- There's some of that awful lot of money just to do that. Yeah, it sounds like a lot of money, but we're a big country, and we use a lot of energy. And if you look at the- so one of the things I want to talk about though before- there's a couple of other things. Let's go to the next picture, the next- and you see this is a quite- I think this is really interesting. Now, I don't know if you know that the state of New Mexico, it's dominated by the Democratic Party, and it has a very active initiative to ban all fracking, you know, because fracking is bad, right? And I found this picture, which I think is interesting, not too long ago, not too long ago at the beginning- sometime last year, the Interior Department, you know, the state of New Mexico has a great deal of public lands, held a lease sale, but as a bid for the rights to produce oil and gas from public land in New Mexico, right? The sum of those high bids came to $1 billion. But under the sort of revenue sharing laws of the Congress, a big chunk of that money went to the state of New Mexico. And that- you can see the picture of this check, a relatively low level Interior Department official is handing a check to an even lower level set of county officials for $486 million. And so the reason why this is important is because this conventional fuel source, energy source, oil and gas, has in it a lot of economic rent, and that is its value to society. Its value to society far exceeds its cost of production in many cases. And in the case where there are public lands, the government collects this extra value. And so if you want to have a program to get rid of this, someone needs to go look at that check and say, well, gee, what could I do with that money? I could build schools. I could take care of old people. I can have health clinics. I can- I can take care of people who don't want to work. You can do a lot. And so any decision to transform American society out of these traditional energy sources into these fuels of the future probably mean moving to a set of fuels which are relatively expensive and have little or no rent. Actually in many cases they will require subsidies. And so it's not just the cost of the- of production of these alternative fuels. It's what are we going to do with the- what do we do about the loss of this economic rent? What we call- it's a kind of term of art among economists. And this exists all through American society now because we are the largest oil and gas producer in the world. So that's- Have you mentioned- have you mentioned the cost of changing out the infrastructure of transitioning to new systems? No, we're not even getting to that. That's going to be- we know in the- in the- there's a lot of discussion, particularly for the electric grid. It can be quite expensive. But just think about the cost of transitioning the entire auto fleet to electric cars or all the- all the other aspects that we use oil and gas for in the petrochemical industry and the- the- how we're going to distribute these new supplies, however they might be. So I think that of course you can argue the Green New Deal is just a silly idea and it's not going to go anywhere. But I do think a number of very prominent politicians are now promoting it. And I think they're not- you know, they haven't really had a chance to confront it. I actually don't think it would have much chance even if- even if one of the candidates won. I don't think in the Congress it would get very- Well, let me- let me- let me add this though, I mean we had a millennial on the show last hour and what she was saying, 27 years old, local, and very articulate and smart, what she was saying is my generation is willing to make a compromise. We know we have to change things. We know we're going to suffer a certain amount of discomfort and, you know, and you know, change is hard, change is painful. We know that. We're willing to do that. Now I'm not sure that's true for everyone or for her entire generation, but there are those people out there that are saying, you know, OAC may be unrealistic and certainly this- this Green Energy Plan sounds- Green New Deal Plan sounds unrealistic, but it becomes more realistic if everybody gets out there and says, we know it's painful, we're willing to suffer it. I don't know if I see that political will, but- So this young woman lives on the- somewhere on the Hawaiian Islands, I guess. Yes. Right. So if it gets too hot, she opens the window and if it gets too cold, she closes the window. I'm not really thinking- I don't know what sacrifice she's talking about. If she lived in the Central Valley of California, right, we have people who, when it gets too hot, they can't afford the electricity, they have to go to the Walmart to Kula. Okay. Oh my God. So I think- and we do have people who don't make a lot of money and who high electricity prices is a huge problem. Okay. And we do. We've talked about this before. The California has as close to a new Green Deal as anybody in many ways and we know that the price of electricity has risen over the last 10 to 15 years, five times faster in California than it has in the rest of the country. And that gasoline prices are about a dollar more than the rest of the country now. For lots of Californians who have high incomes and live in the coastal regions, that's not a problem. But for a lot of Californians, it's a severe problem. And I don't want to get too far off track here, but this is an exotic program, a very complicated program. And I always wonder, you know, I think before the governments take on these very complex programs, that will show us that they can take care of the homelessness, that they can prevent dams from coming apart, and they can keep the road system and the transit system operating. I mean, I just think there should be some requirement apart of the government to show that it can functionally deliver the basic services before they go ahead and sign up for these more exotic programs. But yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's very important.  And so that's why I think this, this, this very, you know, I could, we could do a lot of analysis with charts and graphs. But seeing, seeing this government's federal officials handing this monster check to the state of New Mexico, I think it brings it all home for me. Sure. So where do we go from here? You have another slide that points this out. Yeah, yeah, we can go through. There's two, there's only two more. This, this is a slide. I think a lot of people don't understand the scale and scope of the American kind of energy infrastructure. This kind of elaborate slide where all these bubbles show you all the natural gas, they show all the kind of pipeline. They don't really show all the pipeline show the major pipeline networks and then all the distribution hubs for natural gas in the United States. OK, that is a massive investment. It's worth, you know, probably several hundred billion dollars, if not close to a trillion dollars in capital investment. Are you really going to abandon this actually functional energy complex in a few years? And do you really think you can abandon it without any kind of serious economic consequences? So I think, and once again, to get back to the politics of that, I think if, in fact, one of the Democratic candidates really embraces this. And I don't think, and it's quite possible, Biden's not going to make it. You know, but I think Biden is probably, you know, he's probably a center left guy, but he's going to be commonsensical. But if Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warden get and they run with this, I think there's just going to be a big big bullseye for Trump. And he's going to start talking about this and scare and the American people are going to get scared. Well, I think I'd be scared of this.  He has not really endorsed renewables. He has not endorsed clean energy. And when he gets a chance, he tries to, you know, incentivize coal yet again. And I mean, you know, I mean, speaking as somebody who at least is, you know, interested in and wants to see renewables succeed, maybe not at the same speed as OAC does, but ultimately succeed. I have a lot of trouble with Trump going back to coal. Because I mean, I consider him ill educated or and ill motivated on the subject. So people like me are not I'm not. I don't think that she's going to hand the election to him on that basis. She's going to have to come up with a better plan. So it's a dynamic, Lou. And I want to offer you the two possible dynamic. One is OAC gets more realistic and her friends. And the other is Trump gets more moderate about renewable energy. These two possibilities may happen. So I think the first let's talk about the reality. In the electric power sector, the federal government is a very minor player. Renewable fuel, renewable portfolio standards, what you have in the state of Hawaii and the government and 100 percent of these are driven by state or regional transmission, you know, offices or, you know, organizations and not by the federal government. In fact, in all the modeling on the Clean Power Plan for which we participated in, there was almost very little difference between what Obama tried to do with Obama's Clean Power Plan and without his clean, clean power. I mean, you I just tell you that the error term around the where you ended up swapped any point estimate because the relative price of coal versus gas was driving the coal out, even though many cases the coal was cheaper. Let's say when there, as far as I know, in the last 10 years, no utility in the United States has built a new coal plant. We're just talking about the pace at which the coal retirements occur. Right. So so it's hard to now. I I don't I think I think the way Trump uses Twitter and the way he talks to the American people is very counterproductive.  But the he does appeal to a certain number of people, enough, apparently, in the last election to win, which say, you know, he's right.   And I think he you know, you could argue that he sort of understands that. And that's what he's he's just operating as a political animal. And I think that's true. He's connecting with that's not an efficient way to proceed, either. I agree with you. And there and their numbers are increasing. Last last number I heard is a 47 percent approval rate for him. It's a problem. I mean, let's say in any if you any political analysis, the United the a normal president, but this kind of national economy would be at 55 or 60 percent. It's strictly Trump's behavior, his commentary, and you could argue, his character that's holding him back in mind. And all the major political models. Yeah, it's so interesting that you will win. The young people, let's call them the millennials and the ones who are not in the in the red states per se and form that that red base of his. They have a completely different view of the world than he does. And so many issues.  I agree. I agree. And but I think the opposition has to present something that, you know, that addresses the fundamental fundamental issues of the national economy and job security and a lot of other concerns that have brought appeal in the American electorate.  As long as it remains a religious issue, I cannot I cannot talk to anyone. If it's a technocratic issue, then we can talk about, OK, how do we get on the gradient that is least cost that doesn't sort of bankrupt the country that is robust against uncertainty? We can start talking about those things. And then finally, yeah, go ahead. I worry that climate is going to catch up with us, though. And it could be on a sudden death basis. So but we do have some research on that, which suggests that most of the a lot of the discussion of it is quite alarmist. In other words, climate is a technocratic problem. It is a problem. It is in my mind, I don't think the data supports it, including the non-Trump touched worst case scenario that the interagency process generated. It is not an existential threat. OK, it's the earth is not going to explode in a big fireball in 10 years. I mean, that's just and I think if you present this to the American people this way, they're going to not listen. That's why it's, you know, they people keep saying it's the end of the world. And people say, well, OK, it's hot, but, you know, is it really the end of the world? Well, you know, if there is extreme weather in a given look, you know, what what is it? Somebody said that there is another climate change incident in this country every week, every single week. So I don't know who said that before. And I suggest that all we need is one really bad one and the subject and the discussion will change. I got it. But if you are a hard data person, the only research that I have seen on this at NCARA in Colorado by a group of four eminent scientists, Pellke, who led that research that cannot find, for example, for hurricanes and typhoons that cannot find an increase in the incidents and the severity over the last 100 years. I just can't find it. Yeah, you can have colossal damage to these things, partly because people are building in places that used to get hit by them before. And there was nobody there, so there was no damage. And so I think, yeah, we have a. The climate is a problem, right? It is not, in my opinion, an existential threat. Well, let me ask you this problem. Let me ask you this. You know, we talked about always see in the New Green Deal, talked about the economy. We talked about how unrealistic some of those points on our New Green Deal are that they'll never be adopted, but they're not good policy, either, in view of other needs of various constituencies in the country. But if you integrate your thinking, your research and the political factors that are in play and that are likely to continue to be in play in the next 18 months, what do you get? If you were advising the president or, for example, all these Democratic hopefuls as well, what would you say the best platform would be on energy to get them elected? What should they espouse at this point to cross the board to bring in both sides to the middle and sort of try to satisfy everybody's concerns and everybody's sense of reality? Yeah, so if you look at sort of what I would call responsible Democrats, right? Like the former secretary of energy, Ernie Moniz, has this Energy Futures Initiative and and you sort of think about, OK, we can't really go and we're not nobody is going to agree to live in a cave. We have to accept that and that if this stuff is too costly, the American American people will walk against it and people say they're willing to sacrifice. OK, well, how much this test? Go do a little survey on the streets of Honolulu and ask them, OK, I've got a plan for Hawaii. It's fantastic. It's only going to cost you $1,000 more a year.  Can I sign you up? I just want you to go go down to your local Starbucks and just cry that out next week. OK, and let me know what you what kind of results you got. We should try that. I would be so interested in it. Tell them they need to give you a hundred dollars to get it started. Or how about five thousand or ten thousand? Yeah. And so and I think the thing is, is that, all right. So if you're going to do this, you can't give up on nuclear power, right? Nuclear power is clean. It doesn't emit anything and all these these. So if you abandon all kinds of what we know works and you just sort of want to run on a bunch of slogans, it's not going to happen. It's just not going to happen. You may even lose the election. You could win the election with slogans. I agree. I agree. You can win. Lots of wacky people have been made president before. Trump is not the first one. But do you think, you know, here's one thing that I would like to post you. You think that energy is that important in the mind of the electorate? I'm not really sure it is. I'm not sure they understand that they know about it. Energy is is prolific. And in the United States, relatively cheap. As a percent, I would be surprised if the. Tire percent of growth of disposable income dedicated to energy, including gasoline. I doubt it exceeds 10 percent of most Americans income, disposable income. That's amazing. If you think about it, when we went back in history, food and energy probably consumed half of the income. So the productivity of the world and the United States economy, especially, has made it cheap and plentiful. So we have room to do some things as long as they're not too wasteful. Yeah, yeah. Well, I just think it's I don't hear that much discretion over it. And we should put a lot of, yeah, and we should put a lot of money into research. I don't have a problem with that, but a lot of money. That's the kind of Bill Gates strategy. Look, I mean, what Gates and what these big, you know, these big billionaires who are thoughtful and giving away their money. What they're saying is, look, we have to have technologies that are competitive. That's how we're going to transform society through technology, not through command and control, not through sort of forcing you know, the whole world to move on to something that is unrealistically, operationally and in cost-wise. And you could see by the last, we can go quickly, look at the last picture, something we're very interested in everything. And you could see here that the growth of LNG worldwide is now, you know, virtually exploding. That means that the large supplies of gas from the United States, West Africa, Australia, are now making their way to all these destinations around the world. Where they can be used to back out coal and heavy fuel oil. And that's why I get kind of upset with AOC and a lot of folks saying, well, you need to get rid of the gas. You need to get rid of the oil and get rid of the gas. No, we have to get on the gradient. You can't just do it overnight. This is the, and by the way, although US CO2 emissions were up last year, over the last 10 years, the US is probably, I'm sure of this, the US is the best performing large economy in reducing CO2 emissions by far. We have reduced emissions. I think after I will send you the data on it, but two to 3% a year per annum for the last 10 to 12 years. We did have a bump upward last year having to do sort of some unique conditions in the American economy. Well, I come away with two thoughts on this. One is we don't yet know how much of a role energy is going to play. And I think that AOC's program, the New Green Deal, it needs a lot of work. And I think I agree with you that if she sticks on those points, it's going to work in Trump's favor because he's absolutely going to argue it's all unrealistic. But the other thing that reminds me is that from a discussion is that we need to plan these things from the technology on out. And not only a matter of planning, you know, the type of resource you have or or what the grid is made of or the electronics, it's a matter of looking at every step you take as against the economy and other things that government has to do. And I don't think we're doing that. I think we're limiting ourselves to planning in silos. Don't you agree? No, I absolutely agree. And I think we need to have a more honest conversation. You can't. Is my wife always says when we go to a party, don't talk about climate. And we have one guy who comes out of the School of Journalism. He says, that's the only thing to talk about. Don't talk about climate. It was great to talk to you. Let's get together in two weeks time, assuming that we can find you on the planet. So two weeks time. Yes, I might be in Mexico City, but I will be able to do it. OK, well, they have broadband down there. I know. Yeah, they do. Thank you, LuPoZarisi, CEO of E-Prank, joining us from Washington about energy policy and how they will. That policy will affect the elections coming soon. Thank you so much. Thank you, Jay.


Good afternoon everybody I'm Tommy O'Brien coming to you live from TF9 headquarters in St. Petersburg Florida 12 noon eastern time on Wednesday middle of the trading day and we got markets making new all time highs S&P futures reached 3299 today currently trading up seven points at 3295 Dow Jones up 145 points trading 29084 Nasdaq positive by 36 trading it's 92 88 got gold contract up about $8 at 1552 oil negative 45 cents at 57 79 oil inventories at 10 30 this morning we saw a draw of 2.5 million barrels market had been looking for somewhat of a build that a bit of a surprise but still oil trading lower and the dollar index off 196 ticks at 97 196 yields a little bit lower prices on the note and the bond a bit higher the 10 year up five ticks at 120 909 the 30 year up 16 ticks at 158 13 we'll start things off we'll jump over the charts and we'll start it off with the indices there's your Dow 30 right up there near session highs and actually as I do this I put this on you know what that's a bummer these are all going to be on daily charts but we'll drill it down there's your 15 minute chart 29,040 quite an acceleration right out of the gate Nasdaq 100 putting this on a shorter time frame chart there is your chart from this morning all the indices accelerating right out of the gate on the open S&Ps 15 minute chart there is your print of 32 98 87 32 98 87 right up there near 3300 go contract 15 minute chart gold reached about 1557 early this morning at 9 a.m. back and off a bit to 1552 crude oil now check this out this is on a daily and we you had that run last Tuesday so that's eight days ago crude was almost at 66 dollars and this morning we reached a low of 57 38 were up a bit from that level you see the cascade to lower prices even on the surprise draw in the inventories on crude currently trading 57 83 and the euro US dollar trading at 111 59 putting that on a shorter time frame trending a bit higher from 4 a.m. This morning with some euro strength stay tuned folks we have Steve Rhodes coming up live at 1 o'clock with the trader's edge Dave White live at 2 o'clock with the power trading hour and Tom O'Brien live at 3 indices near record territory bank earnings still in full swing target trading a bit lower today but nonetheless markets at high stay tuned folks will be right back


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No, I will never bash Africa, you know, I sat next to a lady in the in the plane she was an American and And she said it flat out. She said I'll bash My u.s. When I'm within the u.s. But outside the u.s. I will never bash the u.s That's what everybody else does, but internally we talk as children, but Africans don't do that We don't we're actually the ones that take the negative news to them to them exactly It's stupidity of the heist order and as soon as you start preaching positive about your own Yes, and you must be with the government is always against the ruling party. It's not about the government We support whoever is in power That was done after the Berlin conference is putting in place a System to make the Africans believe that everything African was bad and everything European was better We suffer from the legacy of colonialism We automatically feel inferior when faced with our Caucasian brothers and sisters That is something that we as individuals need to deal with it goes to How we are going to make decisions about Africa when we are faced with them So yes in some cases we have not been good negotiators for Africa. We need to do better We need to wake up as Africans and realize that we are just as good as anybody else And when we come to negotiating for Africa and getting rid of those boundaries the issues you are talking to you're right We should have addressed them 55 years later since au their issues our pan-African fathers spoke about in 1963 that we are yet To address we are yet to attain that perfect African union Our solution to truly removing corruption out of Africa is when Africa speaks with one voice as one continent and we are there You know white supremacy And the fact that we were being called black and they are calling themselves white. I call that line number one It is just such a blatant lie They are not white. We are not black and yet For centuries We have failed to denounce the lie. What is wrong with us? You see what I mean? Yeah, and yet that lie has such profound effects Subliminal messaging all around We just know that we have inferior You know, we just know that we are not as as beautiful as they are Somehow we are programmed to just take second place You know, it's like one of those cases where the front door is open But we feel more comfortable going through the back door those kind of things we do them without thinking We are automatically just Given taking second place when we could take first place in the grocery store If a white person is behind it go ahead the brainwashing is so deep That we have to be in the present. We have to to be consciously aware of what we are doing and constantly check ourselves We did not end up of this mindset overnight It's going to take a lot of undoing over time And that means one has to be conscious One has to accept the fact that they are suffering from the legacy of slavery and the legacy of colonization If you don't accept that you're suffering from this ailment, how do you begin to heal? It's like me as a doctor. I can't help you As a doctor if you don't realize you're sick and you come to me So first it's acceptance That we are suffering from these two conditions and not only are we suffering from them.  So it's not even they don't know. They're just automatically They're living in a world that just says you're second class You're inferior, you know, and we have never really done anything to denounce that line So if you don't know your history where we are sitting right now, right? This is a replica of Grey Zimbabwe And Grey Zimbabwe was built by our ancestors, right? And you see, I think she put mortar Our ancestors never used mortar. This alone should make you feel like should make you feel superior Because even they were doing research trying to say that no, it was not done by Africans So this is how Africans need to know that you need to travel more within Africa Just to discover yourself just to know that you are not what they tell you that you are When I went to Grey Zimbabwe, I felt so proud as an African But you know what though we could start with our history books Why are we still using colonial textbooks in 2022? You see what I'm saying? They used the books The educational system To brainwash us It's going to take the educational system To undo the damage But I'll tell you the place where they need to really take responsibility is religion It is religion that was used to brainwash the Africans And it's going to take religion to also undo it Why do we go into a church and see a white Jesus Christ? We all know Jesus Christ was a black man That's a fact In fact, I like to say Jesus Christ was an African diaspora Born in the Middle Eastern Grew up in Egypt That's the definition of an African diaspora That's the definition of an African diaspora I mean, let's face it That comes to my next question What is the main function of ADDI? African diaspora development institute So Jesus is your number one Number one African diaspora Number one African diaspora Well, what is the main function of the ADDI? To mobilize African diaspora to participate in the development of Africa There are more Ghanaian doctors in New York City Than in the entire country of Ghana There are more Nigerian doctors in LA Than in the entire country of Nigeria So let's be serious here What Africa needs is capacity, capacity, capacity And that capacity is in the diaspora So it behooves us to bring the diaspora together Let them understand what is really going on in Africa Diaspora not going home Diaspora angry about Africa Because they are not understanding the root cause of why Africa is where it is today They think getting rid of the president will take care of the problem far from it That president is just going to be replaced by another one We have the six regions of Africa We have the six regions of Africa Which is just an entity that's just by name only What do you mean? Can you say six regions is like Echoes? Is like Sadak? What does it mean? Where do you go if you want to go to the sixth region? I thought they had an office in Ghana Where? Okay, I've seen an office in Ghana which it's ADDI Not ADDI but it's an office for the sixth region No, the sixth region has not been officially approved as a decision by the African heads of states All they have done is to approve it And made it a part of the constitution That's it I'm so confused because I went to the launch of the African Diaspora flag though So I mean I have to do more research about that then There are processes in which the African Union works You are a smart man You can look them up yourself One person doesn't get up and decide they're going to do something Without consulting the people Consultation with the people is important What do you think will happen to Africa if the African diaspora decide to invest more in Africa? That is the only solution What I tell the African diaspora is that we are the true gold We are the true gold You know the reality is people don't realize as we speak There is not a single African country that has the capacity to build an airport Capacity to build a railway line But collectively as the continent we have all the expertise we need But each country is trying to look within this country And when it cannot find the expertise they go outside Outside the continent Because we are not united It will even be very difficult for them to find engineers next door Because we are not united So my hope was that the AFCFTA would begin to put us together Bring us together in a way that access to professionals is easier But that's not happening So ADDI is saying we have expertise galore Black people must understand what is really going on Because what we are showing instead is Oh look at those Africans killing each other There are some serious games that have been played in Africa for far too long And once we understand that we can strategize As to how we can begin to bring the difference And bring the change that Africa needs And that change can only come if the African diaspora are united And the Wakanda villages as I call them It is our organized way of saying starting with one African diaspora send off excellence It will be a new city, a developmental hub That we can let take from there every sector is developed Take healthcare How many doctors do we need in this region to take care of this many people We pick up education, same thing We pick up engineering We pick up electricity How many megawatt power do we have in the region How many do we need Be it solar, be it wind, be it hydro, be it geothermal, be it I use the example of the airport in Atlanta The busiest probably most beautiful airport Most well run airport It was built by majority 50, over 50% black people Mayor Maina Jackson of Atlanta back then When he was commissioning the airport A lot of white businesses came in and they were putting in their proposals And he realized there were no black companies They said, where are the black companies? They said, we can't find them So he pushed the purpose back and said Hey, I'm not signing this until you find some black companies So they had to go find them So that's how black people ended up participating in building the Atlanta airport Why aren't we getting them? They're still there in Atlanta Why aren't we getting them to come and build airports in Africa? None of the airports are built by black people Because we're not united So ADDI is saying, let's have some way that we can all come together We all speak with one voice And we can all build the Africa that we want together So we prevent it being exploited I was in Zambia and I saw one Turkish man With the big apartment complex that he built Now that's how does a young man from Turkey Decide I'm going to go to Zambia And I'm going to make money These units are 100% booked Average rent is $500 to $5,000 a month This Turkish man flies in He's a manager He's making money out of Africa And I said to myself, why can't African diaspora do this? Other people are seeing what Africa has But the diaspora cannot see what Africa has You don't think the diaspora complains a lot? Yeah, we do But why do we complain about Chinese people coming in? I know, when we are not coming I think there's this thing I need to tell people man Wherever there are people complaining a lot That's where the opportunity is This is our, absolutely But yes, when Africans get so comfortable with life in the US Life in Canada, Europe And they start saying that there's nothing in Africa I think you've built a successful business in Africa Yeah, absolutely And I think there's a lot of people that have moved back We need to look at the opportunity Because when you are in the diaspora And you come back, you have When you come, you see so much opportunity And I think that, look, sometimes it's not about you working alone It's about you partnering with somebody Right? Because you can't do it alone There are businesses, there are young entrepreneurs here Who just need investment? Who just needs somebody with your expertise? All you need is investment From somebody in the diaspora to come and partner We need more partnership That's how we're going to grow But you know what? With ADDI Those who are members of ADDI The conversations have changed The conversations have changed But those who are not yet aware They complain That's all they do Somehow they expect change to come to Africa Through osmosis They want to complain from 10,000 miles away And they want somebody to build an Africa That they want That looks more like the West So they can just waltz in But they don't realize it It's happening Africa is moving forward Except we don't own it The outsiders are owning those nice Grocery stores that you go in And they're well-stabbed with everything you want Hardware stores with everything you could ever think I can live a life in this country Like I live in America But we don't own it Who owns Africa? Who owns Africa You see, you got to understand That when we were under colonization The companies that ran the economies of all African countries Were companies that belonged to the colonizer If a country was colonized by the British The majority of the companies That controlled the economies of those countries were British If you're colonized by the Germans German countries German companies If you're colonized by the French French companies And so forth That my brothers and sisters They never gave up They still continue to control the economies Of their former colonies To this day But the opportunities are still there There's still room Plenty of room For African diaspora to come in In spite of the many years of exploitation and abuse The statistics are telling us that they've only exploited Maybe 10% of Africa's natural resources And every day We're discovering more and more African natural resources So we are inheritors of an amazing, amazing continent With endless riches If we can just wake up to realize that And it doesn't take much invest in Africa There's so many low-hanging opportunities And our people are being told Don't go to Africa You went to Borodale Yep Would you think you are in Zimbabwe?  But outside the U.S. I will never bash the U.S. That's what everybody else does But internally we talk as children But Africans don't do that We don't We're actually the ones that take the negative news to them To them Exactly It's stupidity of the heist order And as soon as you start preaching positive about your own continent Ah, you've been paid to say Yes, and you must be with the government Always against the ruling party It's not about the government We support whoever is in power Period Because at the end of the day they come and go But the people and the programs must continue And we the people as private citizens and private sector Must make sure that those programs continue But we just like to complain And that is another serious disease Which again now says When it's all said and done In spite of all the other issues and factors That come into play For us to be where we are today as a people When it's all said and done It goes down to you And imaging the mirror Your mind You see a free mind If a mind that is free of colonization It doesn't matter where you take me If my mind is clear And I can see clearly You cannot use me to destroy myself and my people What color fires want to join ADDI?  Chivu Where is Chivu? Chivu is in National and East Oh okay Yes So you grew up here? Grew up here I left soon after high school to go to college Oh okay Yeah I've been out of the country for 45 years Married a Ghanian And so I'm a very proud Ghanian wife I said when it came to husbands I knew where to go I get in trouble with Zimbabwe men for that But also there was a study that said Ghanian men made the best husbands in the world No that's a fact I have to agree with you So which is the qual come from the Ghanian? That's the Ghanian one yes How was life growing up in Zimbabwe? I think I believe that 45 years ago During apartheid And that's what really saddens me When you see young people You even hear some young Zimbabwe say Life was better during Ian Smith If you had something like that No people would talk like that Even to today Yes Yes Life was better during Ian Smith Are you kidding me? When you were only able to be either a domestic worker If you're lucky to become a nurse Or a primary school teacher That was it Then the rest farm worker That's that's where the only options You couldn't go to college You were not even good enough to be a bank teller That's how bad things were We were relegated to to the west parts of the countries Where no rains You couldn't really do any meaningful farming They pretty much had us cornered And you called that Because you were able to to to have a bag of mille mill And have your sardza every day You called that life Even the ones who are complaining the most They are the doctors and the lawyers and the accountants They're all these professionals You couldn't be doing any of those things during Ian Smith Some people died People don't realize It took a few young men Bold awoken young men To get out of their heart And say if I go east in this direction I shall end up in a country called Mozambique That is sympathetic to my course I'm risking my life I'm living my family I'm going to go out there I'm going to learn how to fight And I'm going to come back And defend what belongs to me If I go north I'll end up in a country called Zambia Town than here And so young men left with nothing But the belief that things cannot continue To be the way they are Where are those young men? It is those young men Many died did not come back But they made those ultimate sacrifices So to want to insult them By telling them life was better with Ian Smith That is sad And you are where you are today Because of those young men and women Who risked their lives to liberate Zimbabwe Where are we going wrong? Why are they not getting this? We are now in what we call the fourth War of Liberation The fourth jimreka in Zimbabwe would call The first jimreka was when the British came And the Mbya Nehanda's War of Resistance The second one when the young men and women Went into the Bush Gorilla Warfare The third jimreka for Zimbabwe Is when the war of liberating our lands And now we are in the fourth jimreka Which is the economic liberation And they have to realize For us to be economically liberated It takes unity It takes understanding Clearly being submissive To those who have always abused us Is not how we are going to get to the promised land Our people must wake up And for them to wake up They need a serious conversation With the image in the mirror Your final message to the youth of Africa The youth of Africa please wake up Africa is yours to take Africa is yours to rule and manage But for you to do so You must understand your Africa Understand the issues And what's really going on But above all Protect yourself from being used As an instrument of your own self-destruction Guard yourself because you are red meat When it comes to the West And their desire to destroy and exploit And control Africa through you The question is Are you willing to be used Are you going to be one of the few brave men Who came out of Zimbabwe Out of Mozambique Out of Namibia Out of South Africa Out of Angola Out of Algeria And many other African countries To say I am sick and tired of being sick and tired I'm going out I'm going to learn how to fight And I'm going to come back And I'm going to defend my turf Are you one of those? So my desire is to see all of us Africans Wake up And defend our turf How about an event in October? We have an event in October As you know I've been traveling in Africa The past six months I went to seven different countries Looking for a home For ADDI And I ended up in Zimbabwe Which was the last country that I thought I would end up in But during my travels I met with a couple of presidents And former presidents And one in particular I was challenging them as to What is this all about the sixth region? You only proclaimed all people of African descent Living outside Africa Which still is not correct Because you are making an assumption That I have the same privileges As the African American Which is not true I am an American citizen But I'm also a Zimbabwean citizen An African American only has one citizenship They also need a citizenship in an African country That's how we equalize the playing field So what were your plans and how are you intending To equalize this? And that's when this Former president said well We did our part We incorporated the sixth region Into our constitution And now it's up to you diaspora To organize yourselves And we need a meeting A representative sample of diaspora From every corner of the world They must come You must find a host country To host you And you meet You deliberate on what you want If you tell us what you want We'll be happy to approve it But it cannot be just one small organization here He even mentioned a couple of people And he said no It has to be people from everywhere Every corner of the earth He said ambassador if you can call that meeting I'll be happy to get my own president To host that event Then he took me through the whole history Of the Pan-African Congress Going back to W.E.B. Du Bois And the first five PSCs And then the sixth PSC in Tanzania And the seventh in Kampala And then they're voted eighth In South Africa and then Ghana But he suggested that Who could hold the ninth Pan-African Congress But focus on the sixth region Where you guys tell us your demands But the important thing is Get people from all over the world If we can get that sample Find a government to sponsor the event That government can then deliver Your demands to the other heads of states At whatever summit they will present it That's how we can actualize the sixth region So I was armed with knowledge And I was very grateful For all that information that he gave me So I went around calling and talking to diaspora Sharing with them what I had been told And a lot of people got really interested So by the time I got to Zimbabwe I decided to have a conversation With the Zimbabwean government And President Nongoga agreed That they were comfortable with the country Sponsoring the Pan-African Congress And also I have my own desire To see diaspora come to Africa And see and appreciate the opportunities So it's going to be a combination of that conference As well as investing in Africa Spotlight Zimbabwe So that's going to be held in Victoria Falls From October 14 to 19 We're hoping to really just have a group of diaspora From all over It's not one organization It's from all over People are coming They're representatives of different organizations To just have a conversation What do we want as a people living outside Africa? As is Nobody can claim the Sixth Region Because it hasn't been commissioned They haven't made a decision on it Because we have never brought anything To the heads of states So in one kind of turn Yes, yes, yes Our strict law invitation No, it was out We just sent it out There was a question here One fills out And we are submitting the names to the government of Zimbabwe It is the government of Zimbabwe That will send out the letters Okay All right, so I guess if you want As long as you're of African descent, of course Yeah If you are watching this video Probably we're going to get a link So that you all can fill up If you are interested in coming And am I invited? You are definitely invited We're very proud of you Especially that you are an African youth Who is awoken Who is enlightened Who gets it We hope that more and more young people can emulate you And realize that Africa is going to be built by the Africans The good, the bad, and the ugly We must own it That is our Africa We can no longer continue To bash Africa If you don't promote Africa Then who are you?  For what reason? There's so much good out of Africa I've chosen to highlight The goodness out of Africa That's it Let the others who want to spend time Bashing Africa Go ahead There are enough of you out there I have decided For the remainder of my days I am going to highlight The goodness out of Africa Because you see, it's like two wolves The good wolf and the bad wolf If you continue to feed the bad wolf He just gets stronger And will destroy you I've decided I'm going to feed the good wolf And that's talking about The goodness out of Africa And there's plenty of goodness out of Africa Exactly So thank you for your work That's exactly what you're doing Thank you Thank you so much for that I really appreciate you I still can't believe that I'm sitting down with you And I hope and believe that There's going to be more conversations That we're going to have Absolutely Probably one of these days I might invite you online For us to have another conversation Like this online Absolutely And I look forward to seeing you here in October Thank you