Went to bed yesterday and the temperature was pretty mild around minus 8 Celsius. I Woke up and it's minus 17 now and it's supposed to keep dropping till about minus 20 throughout the day and Over tomorrow night or I guess tonight. It's supposed to go down to minus 31 So it's getting colder again today the plan is to deliver half my trailer here into Thompson and Then go up to Gillam Manitoba, which is further north than I've ever been before in my province of Manitoba Way up north. It's like a hydroelectric town. There's a big generating station a big dam up there and our delivering some stuff to that town and drop that stuff off and Head back down to Winnipeg and hopefully get out of here before the cold sets in I'm not sure if we'll be able to Get all the way back today But I'm hoping I can set it on a little timer. So it starts I wanted to start the truck at about 715. So I started it at 515 That way by the time I wake up, I can open the hood check the oil check everything underneath there close it up and turn it over and It's nice and warm Cranked over just fine in minus 17 usually in that cold of weather It it should start if you got good batteries and a good starter But it's kind of getting to the point where it's like if you don't have like it plugged in the block heater plugged in or an engine heater running It may be difficult to turn over and start it in the mornings tomorrow night would definitely be minus 31 That's very cold So for my American followers, let's just do the conversions for you here real quick Because I know you guys speak in what you call freedom units. The rest of the world just calls it Fahrenheit So we went to bed yesterday. It was minus 8 Celsius What's minus 8 Celsius in Fahrenheit? Minus 8 degrees Celsius is equivalent to 17.6 degrees Fahrenheit Okay, so that's when we went to bed a nice mild temperature is pretty warm. What is minus 17 Celsius in Fahrenheit? Minus 17 degrees Celsius is 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit Okay, so we're almost at zero Fahrenheit and tonight like tomorrow night is supposed to go down to minus 31 What is minus 31 Celsius in Fahrenheit? Minus 31 degrees Celsius is equal to minus 23.8 degrees Fahrenheit. Okay, so Now I know that a big chunk of my audience is American So now you understand the temperatures that I'm talking about It's supposed to get cold this week up here, but stay relatively warmer down south around Winnipeg That's why I'm trying to get everything done today So that we can run back south and okay That's over.  Oh, I feel like swimming on a beach Palm trees, it's not working. It's not working. I'm picturing it in my head. There it is. Yeah, there's the nice beach Nice warm blue water. No sharks. Yeah Open bar all inclusive Right beside me. It's nice teakie bar I'm on vacation Palm tree over me There it is. Okay. That's enough of that. Now we got to go north or then we are already Okay, Gillum Manitoba is about 250 kilometers from here That should be two and a half hours on good highways. We're not going down a good highway. So it's gonna be probably Four hours. I'm thinking four maybe more four maybe more So it's a quarter to ten now. Let's say once by the time we get rolling here gonna get on my gear off Gotta make some food Ten well one two which be there by two. I have two drops over there Get them off before five o'clock. I should be able to get empty tonight or today and then head back As far as I can And point our nose south and just don't stop ever don't stop until you see palm trees just like we're facing south right now Okay, straight south till we see palm trees What hours of service? It's not that bad. Whatever we live up here, right? We have to well I don't live up here I live in the south south part of the province, but it is still my province so my country You got to love every corner of it, but no one says you have to love every corner equally I like the warmer parts those are nice I Know Canada does have warmer parts people in the south of the US right now are laughing at me What warmer parts?  It's just there's way too many people there Everybody else had the same idea. They don't want to live where the snow is So it's just packed full of people out there and it's so expensive to buy like a two-bedroom bungalow house like a single-family house It's like three million dollars It's like two million American dollar two and a half million American dollars for two bedroom bungalow like built in the 60s Yeah Gotta be rich to get out of the snow Okay, I'm gonna go right back into Thompson back to that petrol pass I just want to stop in there and collect myself check the map Call ahead to the customer make sure they know I'm coming Ask them how the roads are up that way I'm guessing they're not good highway 280 Which takes us from highway six north of Thompson here east northeast to to kill them up the Nelson River Don't stretch is where there's no cell service no services no nothing but Wild wilderness because they're very hungry. It's winter time bears are hibernating I always don't want to eat you.  I Don't know what you were expecting, but this is what I was expecting The snow was supposed to taper off Into the afternoon. What's falling now should be the last of it, but you know the weather man's never right So we'll see what happens.   It's going up this winter road. I Need weight on my drives because if it's all on my trailer what it does It sort of lifts up my fifth wheel a little bit, right and I'm pulling the weight Which means I'm gonna be constantly spinning and getting stuck and I could also have less traction and Less stability so you want to have more weight on your drives all the time they move the freight forward that was nice of them now I'm just about ready to Head out head up the road So I got a hold of my customers up there. I got two of them and The guy said he's like be careful. It's crazy out there They got like three feet of snow in some places. They're working on clearing everything So hopefully by the time I get there It's all cleared and stuff, but he says we don't know how that road is the 280 from Thompson out like past split Lake Out to Gillom. So this might be a very interesting day. We're gonna take her easy and We're gonna see what happens Let's do this Okay We're ready. My lights are cleaned off Checked over my whole truck again. Tires are all inflated lights are working lights. I just said lights are clean Got lots of fuel Lights are on Let's do it Let's do it 306 kilometers Into the bush. Let's go Into the snowy snowy cold cold bush Karen knows swearing on this show. It's a family show. I Know I'm thinking the same thing though. Let's go see how bad it is Hmm today's gonna be a good day, right? It's gonna be a good day. I Just don't know how it's gonna be a good day yet, but no, we'll figure it out We got lots of food in the truck. We got extra blankets lots of warm clothes Someone's jogging in this weather. Hard core Look at this guy go commitment man. Wow Good for you. That's dedication. Oh I saw this guy who's parked at the petro pass overnight as well Yeah Well, he'll he'll call one season Thompson I'm going to Gillum and I'm hoping to come back this way tonight yet Nine one nine one one might work on your cell phone still that's supposed to work anywhere Yeah, well, you kept it upright. So that's good pick up truck Who is there who stopped is gonna go into town where there's cell signal because there's no cell signal here, right?  There's no cell signal you're out here on this remote road He said he passed someone and it was a whiteout and he couldn't see where he was going by the time the snow cleared He was in the ditch so on our way back. We'll check on him. Make sure he's all right He said he's got plenty of diesel fuel his truck is running. It's upright. He said he's fine in his truck He's off the road. He's not worried about being hit So he wanted to stay with his truck Here comes that grader Maybe he can pull him out. I don't know. He was fully loaded. So it's gonna take quite a bit to pull that truck out of there And he quite a bit and it's so far out here in remote Hey, it's gonna be tough to get that out of there. The road now is cleared. That's much better. Look at that We have half a road now. That's way better than one lane. Now. We got like one and a half lanes Nice. This is one of our generating stations Gotta go Over top of it to the other side of the river And cross over the Nelson River Which is the main powerhouse of Manitoba is where a lot of our electricity comes from just this one river This is the water that comes up the Red River into Lake Winnipeg and then overflows in Lake Winnipeg on the north side into the Nelson River Comes all the way up this way It creates electricity for all of us and for parts of Minnesota Huge Wow That's amazing. I'm gonna be able to get past this guy. Uh-oh. I can get past him. I think I can squeak past We'll see This is where some of our electricity comes from Can't really see much from the road. I guess It's all underneath us big turbines that spin from the Energy of the water we take the energy of the river And we capture it and we send it south so that when I go home I can turn the lights on doesn't that cool No emissions that everyone keeps talking about nowadays, right I Don't think it gets much cleaner than that that I'm any expert on it or anything. I mean I'm a truck driver Just about empty And we go home Won't make it all the way home today yet, but we'll get as far as we can I'm gonna show you something on this looks pretty cool. You don't see this all the time Huh Isn't that engine you think that that would cause my tires to be really like imbalanced, right? I didn't notice it nice smooth ride The other ones did that Yeah, look at that Interesting right that was pretty cool The motorcycle doors all the way back on is gonna go down really soon though And I really don't want to be up here on these winter roads Or on these northern roads At night if I don't have a rating station, I'm just I'm always just amazed at humans Amazed at what people have accomplished what they can build Roughly right all being held back by a man-made dam That's creating electricity that's being shot down some wires Hundreds and hundreds of kilometers down south so that when I get home I can turn on my oven and make myself a pizza pop all of this You know makes you appreciate every single pizza pop whether you cook it in the microwave or in the oven It's better if you cook them in the oven or if you bake them in the oven That's better. I would love to go down and see the Hoover dam one day In the US and then you know if I ever get like lots of money and feel ambitious I'd love to go see what's it called five gorgeous dam in China at the world's largest water dam generating station Not be interested to go see that too Shoot, but someone's coming though Okay, oh shoot. Do you got food and water? Okay? Okay, take care Stay warm made it back to Thompson It's a lot quicker On the way back because the roads had already been plowed and then try to trip plan With the amount of hours I have left on my log from Thompson to Gillum back to Thompson Today was 714 kilometers Pelican landing grand Rapids Manitoba This is where we made it with about seven minutes left in our clock yesterday What a day that was a long exhausting day I was so tired I just went straight to bed But tomorrow's another day. So thanks for hanging out with me through those crazy winter roads Excuse me we made it we made it So I'll see you right here tomorrow. Don't forget to subscribe We make a new video almost every day my life trucking around North America or around the Midwest mostly And sometimes we include a little bit of stuff from home as well So there's a big variety on the channel. So I'll see you right here tomorrow Take care


We were basically going back to the history of our members who were harassed or under the hands of the Zamba Police Service. And you were saying we would want to slide back to those dark days of seeing members being harassed. And our standing order is equal to provide for privileges of members of parliament. And one of the privileges is such that a member must not be in any way prevented from performing his duties without the consent of the speaker. So now the contradictions, the one of the Ministers of Local Government was giving assurances that no one should be harassed. The Minister of Home Affairs also comes with his own contradictory position. I must make it very clear that members are not demanding for any unit which they don't have. Members like other citizens are subjective to the same laws that other citizens are subjective to. And so it's not the question of members avoiding to be arrested if they breach the law. But the manner in which members are treated is what is being contested. Here we go to honourable members. Some honourable members and have been Ministers by entitlement to go and get those gunshots when someone has died. It's a short respect that someone has earned for saving the nation. So why should that same respect be accorded to these citizens when they are still alive? So all the members are demanding for is to be treated as leaders who are well known. They are only about 155. And we are not just saying opposition members. It's members of parliament across board. So the issue of abducting members like a common criminal does not make sense at all and that's what the report was condemning. So honourable members should not justify wrongdoing because we all remember the complaints they had as opposition. They are in government today. They are not going to be in government forever. So the same police service which was there when MMD was in government, when PF was in government is the same Sandra Police Service. So we must encourage them to do their work professionally. What's wrong with saving a member of parliament so that the speaker who assigns members to duties is able to plan that a member is all going to be available at this point of time, point in time because of the police wanting to interact with the honourable member of parliament. So the members are not asking for special rights that they don't have but they do have privileges that they end when they are elected by the fellow citizens. So to see wanting to justify wrongdoing is wrong in itself and we expect the Minnesota Home Affairs to be above board being a lawyer himself and knowing that today's minister like ours tomorrow there will be someone else and so two hours of duty begin and end. Lastly, we just want to comment on the court ruling that came out of the constitutional court. You saw the constant judgement which the attorney general entered into with the 35 police officers who were removed from the police service and removed from the payroll before they could get their entitlement. We want them that they are breaching the constitution even then. All of you have seen that constant judgement. It's now cause for government to reinstate those police officers on the payroll and pay them their areas with interest. So government is now made to start paying interest which they shouldn't have been paying. It's a waste of resources. Dr. Peter Machungwa, you yourself have decided to be relegated from former minister of home affairs to go and be chairman of the police service commission. If it was me, I would retire and go sit in Shuangan in the first place. Two, you should not politicize that institution. That's why we have always taken people that understand the police service in the past to chair that police service commission because they know their affairs of the police. How can you get the politician to be chairperson and you get someone to depitize him who has got the only qualification of being a former wife to a police officer? How does it work? Go and ask them if you think I'm lying. Dr. Peter Machungwa, a politician, former minister of home affairs has been accepted to be reduced to go and be chairperson of one that component of home affairs. So we are calling upon you to stop harassing members of the Zambia police. Those police officers joined the Zambia police when you met Dr. Peter Machungwa as minister of home affairs. How can they become cadders today? These are senior officers that have invested their time, their careers in serving the nation as police officers. It had to take the constitution court to interpolate the constitution that they were not supposed to be removed from the payroll before they got the entitlement. And we commend the act in general for not wasting court's time. But you go further and ensure that the system restores them before you get people ignoring that judgment. So I want to just end by encouraging the new inspector general of police. You heard the report which we tabled in parliament and which pointed to the frustrations of officers who feel that the command should not be taken from retirement. But you're already there. So what you need to do is to ensure that you motivate your officers. Hope with them. Let's not abuse officers who are professionals. Like I've said, tours of duty come and they go. I thank you. There is one element I think we should not go campion within the church on which would be so much of interest to you journalists. The issue of the cyber security pay off. Because if we are not careful, I think this is one bill which would make most of us being arrested because of maybe one or two issues. Let me once again ask the Honourable Kampion just to say one or two issues concerning the cyber security bill. I think Honourable, actually it's something that already our chapezole leader has spoken to. Yesterday you recall that we were adopting a report of our committee responsible for broadcasting and communication and they had a topic they covered which was the role of Zikta in preventing cyber crime. I must say that we are glad that the New Dawn Government has now appreciated the rationale behind the introduction of the cyber act of 2021. Cyber number two of 2021 because we in government did realize that there were a number of crimes that were emerging in the cyberspace. The only unfortunate part is the selective enforcement of that act which our colleagues have undertaken. Why do I say so? Just like I spoke yesterday in parliament is that there are certain crimes that they are ignoring and they are quick to act on certain crimes. And I cited examples even yesterday that if anyone of you calls me on my mobile line we have a discussion and without my consent you record me at that point you are breaching the law. You record me without my consent you are breaching the law. West Steel, if you circulate what I have discussed with you online without my consent it's also further breaking of the law. Now members of the public will recall that there were two senior government officials who recorded each other when they were discussing the legislation of certain political party, a female secretary and an advisor to the president and that discussion went viral. It's not like the way they are discussing our legislation you have never heard of anyone being called to police under the same law to go and get answerable. Recently you heard of a conversation between the head of state and the minister of a province discussing distribution of maize from FRAE. And it was an extensive discussion. As we speak today we have never heard of anyone being called by police to be accountable and in fact presidential discussions must be at the apex so if it can't concern you that the presidential discussion of distributing maize needs to be investigated you want to start a portion in Brem I don't know if you are saying it's appear that was in that discussion so we want to see the law enforcement agencies enforce that law on everyone because that's what the law is it shouldn't have a face. But lastly you have seen me as a whip standing next to Honubu MP for Chamara South Honubu Mungando To our members is just to assure you that the Honubu member is to a bona fide member of the party at front and the issues surrounding him are being handled administratively by the party and you must have heard that he has been written to by the party and as a law abiding member of the party we make him avail himself and deal with this matters administratively so for now we could have allowed him to say anything but until his issues are concluded by the party we allow him to have some privacy so just for you, even for you as members of the press because we have heard a lot of stories covered about him but he is still here and we are going to make sure that he responds to the issues that the party would want him to respond to and at an opportun time he will be allowed to share what he would love to share with the members of the party and the public so thank you very much once again and Honubu manjua woka Thank you once again chief At this moment I would like to call upon our leader of opposition to come and summarize the all issues which have been discussed and to wind up our interaction I call upon your leader of opposition Thank you, thank you, thank you Honubu I recognize the presence of the weeps members of the Central Committee Honorable members that have spoken before me members of the press Ladies and gentlemen I wish to thank you for your continued support This platform offers our people out there yet another opportunity to learn more about what is happening in parliament and also in the country generally you know that the procedures of parliament are governed by standing orders and sometimes we are unable to exhaust all the business on the floor of the house and we take advantage of this platform to be able to explain certain things and clarify a certain outstanding matters Now ladies and gentlemen countrymen and women today we have Honorable Charles Milupi joining the list of ministers against whom raise motions of censha we had a meeting with the weeps this morning we are basically finalizing assembling these motions to be presented before the floor of the house soon and the reason for moving a motion of censha against Honorable Charles Milupi because he came to the floor of the house and lied to the nation and indeed to the house that he had attended on the floor of the house a copy of the deposit slip of 65 million kwacha he went against the order of Madam Speaker who ordered him to bring a deposit slip he lied to the whole nation he came with a bundle of documents that did not contain a deposit slip as earlier required of him a very serious offence against our rules on the floor of the house I'm sure Comrade Charles Milupi in his limited wisdom he thought would not survey the documents that he tendered on the table but when pursuing this matter very seriously because it involves a lot of money we took a lot of interest and surveyed the documents and discovered that the deposit slip was not among the documents that he brought on the floor of the house so we have taken up this matter seriously and we want to censure him for lying on the floor of the house and lying to the many Zambians who were waiting to see that deposit slip Ladies and gentlemen countrymen and women that mysterious deposit slip eluded the auditor and everybody else including you know parliament that is the most expensive deposit slip Zambia has ever had it has just disappeared God knows where that deposit slip is as the auditor was explaining my dear friend the question here let's go to the original position the original position was that the auditor general said there is no money in Contro 99 that's all I'm an auditor myself in my auditor training so for me that's a starting point before we even go far the auditor general says the 65 million is not in Contro 99 and the minister has not responded to that query nobody has explained as to why the auditor general was unable to see the 65 million in that account and that's what the problem is so that deposit slip is not there as far as I'm concerned it's not there because that money was stolen for me I will not wait we can't wait there is nothing to wait for look the auditor general had interaction with the audit client for some time they were unable to see the 65 million they were unable to see the deposit slip he raised a management later the minister has had an opportunity to come to the floor of the house on two occasions and that deposit slip is not there and we want us to still wait for him to come back to the floor of the house giving him an opportunity now to come with that document that I want to speculate on the honorable member talk about matero I don't know what is in matero in relation to the deposit slip certainly we brought on the floor of the house we don't want to think about matero we don't want any documents of matero to be tendered on the floor of the house so for me I'm saying countrymen and women what is clear is that that 65 million was stolen what we're supposed to be talking about now is that let the law enforcement agency swing into action and bring to book the criminals that took advantage of that money also release Imanu Muamba release Zumani release Andy and Thompson those are innocent what zambians want is to see who took advantage of that 65 million the stories about money going to students those are stories we understand the procedures through which approvals are done we sit in that house we never saw that request so countrymen and women we are dealing with a government that is not that is dishonest and remember that I want to take my heart off to come read Stumbekom Sokotwane he's an honorable gentleman there's a reason why he didn't come to stand by this particular defense and defend this position Honorable Sokotwane took leave conveniently because he wanted to preserve his integrity Komred Musokotwane we all know him he's a gentleman with impeccable repute and to be forced to come and defend the position like that he said no let me take leave let somebody else do it so we all know the embarrassment that Komred Musokotwane has saved himself from could you imagine that the finance minister now negotiating debt restructuring negotiating with the IMF he simply removed himself from there he said look I've got a much bigger assignment to try and save Zambia restructure Zambia's debt and save the many lives from dying out of shortage of drugs and many other things so please excuse me let somebody else do it Komred Musokotwane on that point alone I wish to salute you you're a gentleman you did the right thing you left it up to others who could take such careless risks to come and destroy their reputations on the floor of the house by bringing questionable documents Komred Musokotwane continue on that trajectory there may be a gleam of hope that we may have one or two honest people in the UPND maybe one or two Komred Musokotwane may just be one of them because the rest of them have got questionable reputations as it was and the reason why Komred Musokotwane was not the one to come and defend that very lousy position because that deposit slip is just not there the money was misused suddenly like I said last time in BEMBA we are the same kwa wushikumukotia fuile chimbichanyem fui from nowhere we have seen Tantame now everywhere in freedom way yes we are seeing people this Jito from nowhere Jito is liquid he appears at shopping malls just giving money careless to put money changers aren't you suspicious from where? leaders in the UPND are going to freedom way people lined up and this Tantame something they condemn and on the other side 65 million is missing so Zambia let's not be fooled that 65 million or has been stolen by criminals within the UPND government the criminals have taken advantage and stolen 65 million kwa wushikumukotia for me there is no deposit slip that anyone will bring on that floor of the house that I respect because they miss an opportunity on two occasions we didn't need a bunch of documents we only needed one page copy of a deposit slip that's all comrade Charles Milupi brought a bunch when the order by madam speaker was bring the dead deposit slip he brought a bunch and for any descending person we became suspicious why has he brought a bunch instead of one page we decided to look through he thought would not look through those documents we did and there is no deposit slip whatsoever so he lied to the the house he lied to the nation and asked for which reason we are going to move a motion of station so ladies and gentlemen this is very clear that we have a government a very dangerous a party in government that is ready is on a war path to plunder any resource that they find along the way a typical example is the 65 million kwa wushikumukotia they have gone all over confiscating confiscating impounding vehicles so that they take advantage of so the fight against corruption cannot be won when those that are fighting corruption are the corrupt themselves when you look at the document that brought to light the issue of the 65 million the same document talked about officers ending allowances that they did not work for now this is the same offence that the officers at the outer general's office were suspended for so we do not know why up to now there is no action against officers at the corruption commission who got allowances that they did not work for in terms of evidence whether the evidence was illegally obtained under the rules of evidence even illegally obtained evidence is evidence so we want an investigation and action to be taken against officers at the ACC who were busy ending allowances for doing no work because that's the same offence for which the officers at the auditor general's office were charged with now we have a situation now where because of that particular report officers at the auditor general's office have all been removed and sent all over the show different departments now what kind of government do we have we have a government that does not want to look at itself in the mirror because the picture is very ugly every reasonable government waits for an audit report to be able to understand and know how they are positioning themselves and how they are governing the country this particular government is dead scared to look at itself and that mirror is the audit report the FIC report is already out 6.1 billion worth of questionable transactions ladies and gentlemen you remember how president Haka in the Ichilema and his MPs would get excited in the past whenever the auditor the FIC report was out have you heard any of them talking about the FIC report countrymen and women 6.1 billion that has been planted according to FIC report and the president is quiet the president is saying that they are now in the champions league maybe yes because of the amounts that are being looted those amounts can only belong to the champions league the amounts that are being planted are colossal they can only belong to the champions league 6.1 billion so ladies and gentlemen we want to say that we have a corrupt government in place the issue of sincerely mine an operation sponsored by government officials within KCM is still going on and still outstanding there has been no response from government our members of parliament looking at illicit financial flows visited KCM and they found a mechanized syndicated mining operation within KCM people at KCM have been asked not to question that operation when you ask about that operation you are labeled PF fired and transferred so we are dealing with a government that is there to oppress citizens citizens should not question and today you want to promise the people that you will restructure the mining sector they won't do it why because the criminals in UPND who are benefitting from sincerely mining operation would like that operation to continue so they can continue collecting the money that's what it is so ladies and gentlemen when you are talking about corruption you are talking about the UPND grand corruption I remember one opposition leader it must have been Dr. Fred Membe talking about other governments may have been stealing petigas now we have a government that is full of grand corruption these are just a few examples that we are giving for me and for us and my colleagues members of parliament we became very suspicious when they began to disturb the office of the auditor general because the office of the auditor general is an office created by the constitution this is an office that is created to ensure that constitutional safeguards are not undermined the moment you undermine that office you begin to allow a constitutional safeguards to be undermined so that office plays a central role to constitutionalism and how a government must obey and respect constitutional provisions so this is the government that we have been placed to that the other point that Honourable champion Gautach Stone is what Honourable Jack Mwimbo has been trying to justify the truth of the matter is that we know we are not above the law but as members of parliament we enjoy certain privileges we believe that if a member has been found with some questions to answer they simply should be given a call out to appear before the police now because there are no offences that these people are committing it's pure persecution now our fear is police action is going to cause a very big problem not too long from now what happened to Comrade Mwimbo residents of that area began to react they were now shouting slogans we want change they can't take that anymore so it's a warning to the IG that you should not necessarily conduct yourselves to bring about breach of peace the people losing patience people reacted that is the truth if the police were conducting the activities in a professional manner why did the police go back and confiscate phones of all those innocent citizens that were taking videos where that transpired why did they confiscate those phones that was an admittance that indeed they had done something wrong which they didn't want the general public to see so we expect the general police you have talked about sending the police for training my position is let's start with the top command the top command need to be trained I think there's a lot of kadas that have come into the police service and they think it's a police force where they've got to use brutal force to arrest people or bring people to the police so conduct that training we have a professional police service it's no longer a police force many of the people that have been called from retirement still have that mentality of the police force they may need to be brought in line to understand that it's a police service they are supposed to offer a service to the people not what we are seeing now now lastly I want to talk about Komore Dimano Mwamba young Andy and young Thompson they are being punished for allegedly circulating a document which the government itself say it was a fake document now ladies and gentlemen look at the weightage they are attaching to this fake document who bothers so much about a fake document how much effort or energy do you want to expand on a fake document wouldn't you rather just ignore it as a fake document to make a statement and tell about it ignore it so the position where we stand now we are now beginning to doubt whether or not those are fake documents maybe the church needs to go back to those documents and read the contents of those documents they may not be fake documents after all the police as it is now are constructively authenticating those documents I am now persuaded to think those are not fake documents looking at the reaction this reaction from the police is just a fear that they have about a possible reaction from the church because the church has now become aware of what their evil intentions are I doubt whether those are fake documents because the police themselves are authenticating those documents we didn't bother the moment the government said they were fake we forgot about them we are now forced to look for those documents and just trying to understand what is those documents maybe the church should also look at those documents they may not be fake after all otherwise the police would not have paid so much attention to those documents Honourable Mwamba is in there the police know very well that he did not author those documents those documents on social media they were posted on whatever blog that was attached to Honourable Mwamba but my point is if you look at the force if you look at the attention the energy the weight that is being attached to those documents they may not be fake after all and if they are not fake it is very very unfortunate that the government can have such evil plans against the church we are now forced to talk about the substance because the government itself is giving weight to those documents I had occasion to read those documents it is very very unfortunate and if at all that is what they are planning to do then we have a very big problem with this government the church has a big problem with this government so ladies and gentlemen I just thought we could comment on some of these things that are very topical but remember that members of parliament have voted for to represent you ministers are expected to be professional and ethical in the manner that they conduct business especially on the floor of the house when ministers begin to lie kumred muto apiri lied that there was enough maize when there wasn't kumred syuviyama said well lied when she said there was a sufficient drug when there wasn't now kumred milupi brought a deposit slip when it did not so these are the three cases that we want you to look out for we are assembling motions of censure so that these ministers can now be brought to both ladies and gentlemen with those few remarks I would like to thank you oh yes yes as kumred shisanga area commented I think the confusion around the vice president's office is on account of the fact that this government is very shy to announce that the president has gone out of the country and that the vice president has provided for by the constitution is now acting president I don't know why this should be very easy to simply say the president has travelled out vice president mutayan alumango is now acting president I don't know why it should not be difficult that is the reason why citizens are not speculating you know I mean the vice president alumango was running me to president Nakaende Ichilema and that's how he won you know the reason why we respect her as leader of government business is because she was voted for together with the president nobody should really get the position of the vice president and feel that maybe you can just ignore her and really get her she was voted for at the same time with president Nakaende Ichilema because you are the vice president in the name of mutayan alumango who should act as president whenever he steps out and there must be a statement made to say the acting president now is madam mutayan alumango nobody should speculate who is president or whether she has resigned or not so to want to really get the position of government we are members of parliament we are the constitution the fact that we are in the opposition does not mean we should support the wrongdoing by the government trying to really get the position of the vice president she remains vice president she remains acting president whenever the president is out so what's so difficult about that so please let's call the respect to the vice president and I'm happy that Honorable Jack Mwimbu as acting leader of government business clarified that she hasn't resigned the regulations are generated by the way government is acting whenever it comes to dealing with matters around in the vice president she was voted for like president Nakaende Ichilema was and that's how he won because he had that vice president as a running man so the president is out there I think on a mission to try and broke a peace between Ukraine and Russia we will not want to say so much about it but we want to remind you that look at the difficult position president Nakaende Ichilema finds himself in he already took a position in that matter that he was supporting Ukraine can you imagine how difficult it is for him now even as he faces the other people because the position is gone so that's why we've said as a country there's a long tradition that we have kept our forefathers our leaders and so on president Khaunda was very strong at that because he would go and negotiate with Saddam Hussein he took a neutral position the entire world would wait for KK the Zambian president to go and intervene he would go personally and meet Saddam Hussein and be able to broke a peace so even as our president has accompanied other leaders from the region I know that he may be in a very uncomfortable position because of the earlier position that he took and like we've always said it's work in progress we hope that he has learnt a thing or two such that in future he will not be in a hurry to take a position because then he would find himself in a very uncomfortable position like he has found himself in now thank you ladies and gentlemen thank you so much to the media


So my father works at the railroad, so a blue collar job that kind of grew up in that culture, and there's something that's unique about blue collar workers that you don't really see in a lot of the circles that we end up running in more of the white collar stuff, because they just kind of say what's on their mind. It's less veiled, and honestly there's some integrity there, it might not be nice, it might be less polite, but it's honest. And my dad has these couple of interactions. It's really, really interesting and highly disappointing actually. So he's kind of open about the fact that I'm his son and I'm a priest. Comes up in conversation, he's candid about his Catholic faith, and he talks about it, especially whenever guys come to him for advice. But word gets out, and there are some of these other guys, and they're not so open to it.  It's what they believe, and they'll tease, and they'll poke, and they'll prod, and they'll harass, and so my dad has to deal with that. And there's another guy that he works with whose son is also a priest. But my dad and this guy have two different ways of dealing with it, because they both face the same trial. Well this other guy, he responds with anger and threats of violence. It stops the harassment. It's effective. However, he's angry then. He's wound up, and he's upset, and it demeans him. My father, on the other hand, takes this very interesting approach, and they don't know what to do with it. He comes along and he says, you don't know what you're talking about. Just go away. Just go away. But he says, I'll pray for you. And they get all flustered about that. Whenever he says, I will pray for you. They don't know what to do with it. They actually get upset themselves. And then they go away, and it's over. But to that point is the gospel for today, where Jesus says, pray for your enemies. Love your enemies. Pray for those who persecute you. It's counterintuitive. It doesn't make sense, because everything in our being, from the natural point of view, from our fallen nature wants to freak out and become angry. And there's so many reasons. There's so many reasons to become angry. Whether it's the secular media, whether it's corruption, whether it's our own brothers who have maligned our good name by their actions. We could get angry. YouTube theological commentators who undermine the church. And the list goes on and on and on, or just difficult parishioners. All these various aspects of our life, reasons we could choose to become angry. And in some sense, maybe rightfully so. But the challenge of the gospel is to live differently. The challenge that Jesus lays before us today is to live differently. Because, as he says, well, the tax collectors and the sinners, they do the same. The Gentiles do the same. They only care for those whom they're close to and like. But we have the example of the early church, the martyrs. And onward, in the face of persecution, rather than reviling, rather than getting angry, rather than being resentful and bitter and spiteful, they turn with love. To pray for their persecutors. To pray for those who are going to kill them in a few minutes. And it's that witness that brought about so many conversions. The witness that, although we, in their minds, should respond with anger at the injustice that we see and that we experience, when we don't, there's a difference. People see the gospel, they see Jesus in us. He who was accused falsely. He who was reviled and persecuted and opened not his mouth. He who suffered death to take the sin upon himself and it changed everything. Now, easier said than done, obviously. Obviously. Because of our own strength, I can't do it. You can't do it. None of us are capable of our own strength to take on this burden, to live out this call, to love our enemies, to be patient enough to pray genuinely from our hearts for our persecutors. From those who accuse us falsely. But we don't have to do it alone. Peter was speaking early about how difficult and how dark and how the powers of darkness are rising up. And we see it. In and out, I was talking to someone last night about the exorcist, chief exorcist of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. He made a comment. He's a blog that he writes. And he said, you know, there's a saying that exorcist or that possession is rare. And at the end he said, I'm not so sure that's true. And this is a man with experience. But the point is not to despair, but the point is to rejoice because when sin abounds, grace abounds all the more. That we are given the authority and the power to deal with it by the grace of God. That we are given the inroads into people's lives that they can entrust themselves to us to seek our assistance. And we can provide it to give them that care, to walk with them, to bring them into the life of the church once again. Through the sacraments, through those extra sacramental inroads. But again, we can't do it on our own strength. I've tried it. It doesn't work. Okay, I'm sure many of us have tried it. And we end up burned out, tired, exhausted, seeking the wrong things, worn out, and just frustrated. Because we run out of ideas. We run out of energy. We run out of everything that it takes. But it's only, it's only whenever we seek that friendship, that brotherhood with Jesus, daily prayer, every day. When we seek that brotherhood with our other brothers, brother priests, brother deacons, if you're seminarians, brother seminarians, to seek that fraternity. But ultimately it's the Lord who has to inspire it in us. And so where sin abounds all the more, grace abounds more than that. So there's a great darkness, but it's a time of grace all the more. Gifts, I'm sure, gifts of the Holy Spirit that we haven't yet seen. Gifts for evangelization, gifts for healing, gifts for deliverance, gifts for perseverance in the midst of trial and affliction. But we have to ask the Lord. We have to seek the gifts of the Holy Spirit. So we're speaking of baptism of the Holy Spirit earlier. If you haven't experienced it, go for it. It'll change your life, all for the better.  You don't know what the Lord's gonna do. But it's good. It is good. Because then we lose, we begin to lose track of our own ego and focus on the Lord. It becomes about serving him and him alone. Now I've only been a priest two and a half years. A lot of you have a whole lot more experience than me, so maybe I'm preaching to the choir here. But we all need a good word. We all need the encouragement. And so we, through this week, I really want to, again, encourage, hammer that point home, again and again and again. It seems to be a grace that the Lord wants to pour out. That through this last year, the dead branches have shaken and they've broken off. And the weak ones need to be strengthened. But when we rely on the Lord, when we draw upon his strength, when we turn to him in this Eucharist and offer him those struggles and offer him those joys that we have too, the ways that we've seen growth. And we'll receive that grace to love as he loved, the grace to persevere as he did, to forgive his offenders, to forgive his persecutors, to forgive and to bless them, to give them that grace that they may always seek then to serve the Lord when their hearts have turned to him.


Hello, and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything one piece. Well, except for today, because we have reached a triumphant 14,000 subscribers, we are going to celebrate, as is customary, by featuring some more of your best channel comments. Enjoy! Alright, we're going to begin this special by featuring one of my many daily threats, on this occasion coming from Max A.U.S. or Max Us. He's from Australia, but that'll become apparent. Hey, Grand Line Review, come get a bunning snag with me. Turn it into a cute little date, or I will feed you to the bin chickens. And you know, I do enjoy a good bunning snag. But something tells me this is a trap. So bring on your bin chickens, I will defeat each and every one of them. Next up, we have Jamie Bochenegra expressing the feelings of every person who has ever been featured in one of these videos.  I know, right?  You should be so proud. However, someone who should be a bit less proud of himself is Deckid. Or Deckid? Deckid.   Maybe try some Viagra, yeah? So I recently did a Top 5 Feeble Old Men in One Piece list. Brilliant list, if I do say so myself. But Cage is here, believes I forgot someone. What about yourself?  Moving on, we have some usual madness from It's Mr. Bubba. Would you name your kid after me?  Next up, we have a complaint, I think, from John John. I'm still black. And you know what? I'm gonna go ahead and let my wife take this one. Me too! I'm black too. Hey buddy, John John. Little Johnny, John John. Johnny, Johnny, 44 minute, John John Johnson. And now here we have Krabs Krabs, who seems to have misinterpreted my entire arc review on marine food. Marine is so rich that it's having a Ford. That's right, the budget for the entirety of the marine organization is just enough to afford one of the cheapest brands of cars in the world. But let's feature some more complaints now. And here we have Balthazar Samra, who has an interesting criticism of my One Piece 101 on Kobe. This is the first time I'm seeing one of your video, but this is a resume that you did. You didn't explain the character or what he apports or can apport to the story. All right, this is a weird one. Usually I just point out some horrible English, have a jolly good laugh and move on. But this guy has used the word apport twice, meaning that this isn't just some spelling mistake or autocorrect, he genuinely believes that it is an English word that I should know. And wow, actually, would you look at that? Apport is indeed a word, meaning a material object produced supposedly by occult means, especially out of sounds. And sure, why not? I apologize for not detailing what kind of things Kobe could produce by occult means in the story. But let me try to make amends by telling you the true story of how Kobe joined the Marines. Kobe was a young lad like any other who applied to become a marine and secured a job interview. Unfortunately, the interviewer was Admiral Arcaynu, and he immediately stated, all you've done is provide me with a resume. You didn't explain your character or what you apport or can apport to the Marines. Kobe, like most English speakers, will have never heard this word before. So like a typical millennial, he whips out his phone mid-job interview to look it up.  This displeased Arcaynu. Thankfully, Shang stepped in, or things would have not gone very well for Kobe at all. Anyway, that was long-winded, but I hope Balthazar is now satisfied.  Moving on, we have Franco the Shawnee Man.  So what kind of black magic did you use? Well, Franco, let's just say I apported something and leave it at that, because it's time for the Photoshopped US President of the Week, featuring special guest, the Sly Silver Fox. This week, we are featuring a certain president Photoshopped all over the cast of Twilight. Sly Silver Fox, if that is indeed your real name, what would you label this group? Bush people. Thank you, Loro. But now it's time to get down to business. Last time, you were all asked a disturbingly important question from Andy Royd 16, and that was, why don't Sanjis Pants get damaged when he uses his fire kick? Well, Droid, we have our answers. We're going to start with Koryosami and Mark Neal, who both gave word for word the exact same answer. Because they're hot pants. Although Mark Neal used a full stop, so he is technically more correct. But now let's move to an alternate take from Mr. Damako Endurance.  Unfortunately for the fire, she doesn't wear pants, so it never gets the opportunity. Mr. Damako proposing the very interesting suggestion that fire has a gender. But Aaron Big One seems to have a more meta reasoning behind his answer. Sanjis Trousers do not get damaged, because same that all Logia clothing do not get damage turned into fire or ice. It's because you would see their wee Willy Winkies out and the show would go from a 12 age rating to a 15 or 18 age rating. That's fair enough. I guess Sanji can't just whip it out at 9.30 a.m. on a Sunday in Japan. But let's have one final theory from Zeethalus. His pants never catch fire, because right before he activates Diablo Jumbo, he pees himself in order to quell the flames. Now, if anything, I'm pretty sure that would enhance the flames. So maybe that's how he activates Diablo Jumbo to begin with. You know, start spinning around for some friction, pees down his leg, and when the spark happens, bam, he ignites. Mystery solved. I mean, not the mystery that we wanted to solve, but hey, we'll just go ahead and say that wraps this up. So let's move on to our next curious inquiry, this time put forward to us by James Kataldo. If there are devil fruits, are there devil vegetables? So I look forward to your answers to that. 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Atiab Community Development Association is calling on the federal government to deploy more troops and relief materials for persons affected by the recent attacks in the part of Cardinal State. Habela Darufai from Cardinal Fais, the support, has presented in our studies. The Atiab community in Cardinal State is worried by the frequent attacks they have been experiencing. They suspect they have been intentionally targeted for extermination by Fulani militia. At a press briefing, the National President of Atiab Community Development Association, Samuel Ache, discloses that 42 people have been killed, 12 villages attacked, seven churches razed and 338 houses burnt, with seven people wounded, eight cars, 13 motorcycles, generators, food and domestic items were either looted. In a continuation of their onslaught on our land, the Fulani militia have unbelievably stormed and unleashed terror, bloodshed and destruction in the following communities just within the span of two weeks. What is most surprising is the ability of this militia to successfully continue to test the power of the military by carrying out their well-ochested evil acts of killing, maiming and burning hundreds of houses for several hours without little or no intervention by the security forces. Farmers have abandoned their lands, schools have been shut and the number of displaced persons is growing. Many of them left at the mercy of the weather. Communities that are raised down, as I'm talking to you now, and as a result of that, we now have an IDP count in Samarukkata that, as I'm talking to you, have over 5,000 people now being housed there because they are rendered homeless. Ache is not only worried about the regular attacks, he's also disturbed by what he says is the silence of the Cardinal State's government while violence is meted on persons of Atiap descent. The absolute silence of the government on all these happenings in Atiap land makes us to begin to wonder whether the Atiap people are still citizens of the state because we are yet to see any practical step by the government to end these killings in our soil. Neither has there been any comforting statement in reference to our situation. The family compound of the paramount ruler of the Atiap people and the homes of retired army generals, which are about three kilometers from a military checkpoint are among those destroyed in the attacks.