A sustainable volunteering project for quality education. Education is the most powerful weapon we have as human beings.  Education in the international community. Quality education had been a highly debated concept in the past years, especially before UNSC number four, United Nations Sustainable Development Goal on Education, was introduced. Now the international community tends to have a fairly uniform interpretation on the concept of quality education, on which the majority of the countries can count on. The United Nations community has never attempted to provide a full definition of quality education, but from the World Declaration on Education, in 1990, and from the following UNESCO's resolutions, quality education can be defined as that that provides all learners with capabilities they require to become economically productive, develop sustainable livelihoods, contribute to peaceful and democratic societies and enhance individual well-being. Source, the Bob Education for Development. Why Society Needs Education. The importance of being educated can be clearly seen in consideration of the differences based on educational background, which are often the main causes of undeniable and oppressive socioeconomic disparities due to the great disparity into the labor market, thus free access to education can make an enormous difference in the quality of life of an entire community. As a consequence, we can see not only an important reduction of poverty but also an increasing number of people's lives saved by commonly acknowledged basic medical treatments. In this specific social context, an effective volunteering work tends to set the basis for sustainable education system, following the UN guidelines for sustainable development. For these reasons, this kind of external help aims to have a positive long-term impact on the population without compromising its beliefs, and its environment, without underestimate the importance of cultural sensitivities. A community has to be given the chance to improve itself from within. Volunteer Work and Education. On these premises, the clear objective of volunteering in the education field is to provide free access to education to the local communities in need, to give them the basis on which to build their personal improvement, and create robust roots for ongoing educational development. Collaboration with local partners is usually a useful instrument to expand learning opportunities. Effective partnerships in the local community become, moreover, particularly beneficial when dislocated hubs are available. This is an efficacious and powerful way not only to build up connections among the neighborhood but also to reach out to real communities. A volunteer organization and local partners can work on collaboration deals, where partners, for instance, will provide locations, and promote the availability of free classes, while the volunteer organization will provide free classes and workshops of any subject for the local community, and work on its own resources. A practical example can be found in Luang Prabang, Laos. Here an international volunteer association works along with the local library to deliver free English classes to children, monks, and teenagers. In this example, the library makes its rooms available to the volunteers, while these last ones bring with them all the necessary teaching material. Disadvantages of Volunteer Work. Another important element that can not be left out of consideration, with regard to a volunteering teaching project, is the local teacher's community. Public and private schools hire local teachers and pay them a monthly salary. When a volunteer association appears on the scene, the biggest risk is the creation of a competitive environment between free study opportunities and local schools. This is what needs to be avoided. A sustainable project aims to support local teachers as well as public education, in wants to empower them, rather than taking their jobs. A solid collaboration can be built between the external education support and the local institutions. Pay teachers, along with volunteers, can develop an innovative teaching curriculum without breaking the general governmental guidelines. Local teachers are also a great resource in this specific environment, as they boast considerable experience in the education field in their own country. Public institutions and local teachers are able to mitigate the impact of a pure western education system, taking into consideration local culture and customs and every decision step. In this case, open communication with the schools and the Ministry of Education is a possible solution to develop an effective collaboration. Are you ready to teach English abroad? Working alongside local communities, and gaining their consent through a mutually respectful collaboration, are crucial elements to keep in mind when working on a volunteer education project. Compromises are fundamental in order to avoid being culturally invasive and to respect the local education system. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


What's the word y'all? Today we had NBA media day, man. And it was a circus. We had some old faces in new places. We saw Lonzo Ball and Demarda Rosen, the Bulls Jersey for the first time officially. I had just been looking at the photo shops and it's real. They sign those contracts, baby. It's a real deal. So a lot of different things happen today and I'm here to talk about my favorite, at least favorite things about media day. I don't do this around here on this channel very often but I'm gonna remind you to leave a like and subscribe. I have big time goals for this channel. I wanna hit half a million. And here's my elevator pitch for you to subscribe if you're new around here. We, as a community, are a group of NBA fans that love the game of basketball more than a lot of things. But we also respect each other's opinions. So if you disagree with what I say or what someone else's community say, we not squaring up and trying to fight to the death.  So let's talk about the elephant in the room because the most asked question in media day this year was about the virus and about the vaccination to the virus. Hopefully this is the only time I have to talk about something like this. This is a place we try to keep everything basketball related but there are some impacts when it comes to basketball around this and it was such a big part of media day. I have to talk about it for a brief second. So whenever someone came up to the podium, one of the first questions they were asked was about their vaccination status. Are they vaccinated? What are their opinions about it?  The Minnesota Timbers said, hey, we got one more person that needs one more shot and we're good, we're 100% vaccinated. That was one thing we saw. We had players to come to the podium and say, hey, I am vaccinated and here's why. John Morant told the story of the reason he got vaccinated is because he has a kid at home and he wants to be safe for her. Montrez Harrell told the story about his aunt that's on dialysis and he wants to try to protect her as much as possible and that would be getting the vaccination. We had some people come to the podium like Josh Richardson and Coby Irvin and say, hey, that's private information. I'd prefer not to talk about it. Let's keep it basketball.  I am never going to tell anyone to do anything. I would encourage everyone watching this video if you have the opportunity to get the vaccination but at the end of the day, it is your choice. So as much it will be cool to have Bradley Beal be an advocate for this, it's just not gonna happen and that is okay. But one thing I want or I would prefer with Bradley Beal's approach was for him to realize the amount of weight that his voice has. If Bradley Beal were to go down with Verona, he will be okay. He is in the top 1% when it comes to physical health. His job relies on him being physically healthy but he has to remember everybody that listened to the things that he said today aren't in peak shape like him and the virus could get to them and do some deadly things to them. He deserves the right to not get the shot. Same thing with Jonathan Isaac who spoke about it as well. But I just want people to maybe approach it in the Kyrie way and say, hey, I would rather not talk about it. And that's my only complaint about Bradley Beal. But it does have some on-court implications, right? Kyrie Irvin couldn't show up to media day because he was not vaccinated. I went to New York last week and he barred restaurant anything I tried to do before I walked into the door. They say, hold on brother, show me that car and show me all ID to prove to me that this is you. And that is the way New York is. So unless Kyrie decides to get the yadig, he can't play at home games. And of course that is a topic of conversation for the Brooklyn Nets. It is a topic of conversation when Kevin Wright steps into the podium, when James Harden steps into the podium and they have to say, hey, listen, we trust Kyrie Irvin and we believe that he will be ready to play when the ball is bouncing. But it seems like Kyrie Irvin is not gonna get it at least at the moment. Anything can happen between now and the beginning of the regular season. So there are some implications there. That's all I'm saying. And I just want to clear some things up. Everybody that came to the podium and said that, oh, that's private information. That doesn't mean they aren't vaccinated. I talked to a player that 100% is vaccinated that went to the podium and said, hey, that's private information. You know why? Because everybody in the organization is it. So hypothetically, if I come to the podium and say, hey, hell yeah, I'm vaccinated. And my next teammate said, yeah, I'm vaccinated. Then my next teammate said, yeah, I'm vaccinated. And that one teammate said it's private or I don't want to talk about it. Then the whole world knows that he is the one that hasn't been vaccinated. And yeah, maybe you would want to know that as an NBA fan, but as a team that's trying to build camaraderie, it ain't the safest thing to be like outing that player the first day of media day. So yeah, everybody that said that doesn't mean they haven't got to shop. Someone pointed out on Twitter that if the Brooklyn Nets and the Los Angeles Lakers were to meet each other in the finals, Kyrie literally couldn't play. He'd be at the Korea watching like me and you. Anyway, people be safe. Please be safe in any way that you can. All right, let's get to the actual stuff that y'all want to hear about. It must be weird for like, the Philadelphia 76er organization as a whole because they knew going into media day, there is one thing on people's mind and one thing only. And that is the Ben Simmons situation. Again, I don't want to be the dead horse, but we saw a lot of good quotes whether it be from Joel and B, Doc Rivers, Daryl Morrie about the situation. And some of them are a little bit outlandish and some of them are comedy. But I believe that Daryl Morrie came out and said, like, hey, we believe that we can reconcile this relationship kind of like, who was the court Jimmy Garoppolo? I guess he requested a trade once upon a time. Then he decided not to. And now things are fine and dandy. I believe they're too far gone in Philadelphia. Let's be honest with you. My favorite quote about all of this is they asked Joel and B, okay, if Ben Simmons does come back, what do you want to see from him?  Like, I do believe that he was not trying to take a jab or trying to make fun of Ben Simmons, but just the response is so, was this funny? He say, well, we all saw the videos of him working. Now we want some of that. Yeah, we do. In the workout videos of dudes shooting 100% from three. He doing stuff he ain't never done in the game. But I feel like that's just so far gone. I don't know. Joel and B also talks about the business side of the NBA. And I love to hear players be, again, transparent about these type of things. His exact quote was, you have to deal with them. If the Warriors called and offered Steph and Clay for me, do you think the Sixers would say no to that? I wouldn't say no to that. Because at the end of the day, the game of basketball, the NBA itself is a business, right? And organizations are gonna try to do what's best for them and kind of cut off the head of the players. Is that the right thing to do? Is it the wrong thing to do? You make that decision. But it kinda is a fact. Yes, Ben Simmons' name is gonna be in trade rumors until he gets traded. If he comes back into the Philly practice facility, that don't mean that he not gonna be thrown into trades until he is traded. My favorite thing about Media Day was Carl Anthony Towns in his transparency, right? I did not watch the Minnesota Timberwolves press live. I actually got a tweet. I asked people on Twitter before Media Day started, if you see something great, please tag me in it so I can see it, so I can talk about it in the video. And y'all did an amazing job. Thank you for that, because without that, I would have missed a lot of these gyms. Someone said, hey, Kenny, you gotta go to the Timberwolves Facebook page. Why the, who the, I had to download Facebook again. It was a scary place. And go watch Carl Anthony Towns' interview and he was dropping a lot of gyms. But Carl Anthony Towns and the Minnesota Timberwolves, our team, I want to be successful, but not because of the organization, because they've been a dog, a dumpster fight for a long, a long time. Now, because I feel for Carl Anthony Towns, bro, he dropped a lot. Man, he was so similar to what I said about Joel. He was so transparent about everything. He told his entire journey as an NBA player. Hey, I came into the league and flipped Saunders. He passed away, man. Now I got his son. I love that family. Then now I'm switching this team. I'm switching this regime. All of this is happening. We sold the team. And just a week before, right now we got rid of a dude that I was a big fan of and Gersot Rosas. Yes, it's tough. And I've been the punching bag to a lot of the jokes around the league. And I've just swallowed that. I ate it because I love the Minnesota Timberwolves and I'm ready to go to war for the Minnesota Timberwolves. It got me hype. I want to see them be successful. They said the Anthony Edwards grew like an inch or so. I don't know what's going to happen. But for Cardin Towns segment, I just want to see him be successful because he's one of those players that when you watch and play, obviously he's super fun to watch. But when you watch interviews with him, he tries to be selfless. He tries to be down to earth or he is down to earth. And those are the type of players I like. Cardin Towns has gone up on the list of my favorite players. I'm not saying he number one or even number 10, but I'm just saying a player that I enjoyed watching before is like just a normal fan. I'm actually actively rooting for Cardin Towns at this point. And you gotta think about all the stuff he's personally been through that outside of the Minnesota Timberwolves organization, bro. It's been a crazy, what, six, seven years of Cardin Towns in the NBA, but it even crazed your personal life for Cardin Towns in the last two years. It came out even before me today that he had lost 50 pounds because of the Rona. 50 pounds. Or if I lost 50 pounds, I would be 70 pounds. No, I would be 80 pounds. That's insane, bro. And I'm saying it's a little bit different because he's a six, 10, six, 11 beast, but you get what I'm saying. But I'm actively rooting for Cardin Towns. I wanna talk about the Dallas Mavericks. A weird off season for them, right? They didn't do anything dramatic. They brought in Reggie Balak, which I think is gonna be a really good pickup for them. And they got a new coach and that coach is Jason Kidd. Now I'm on record on my podcast and saying that I don't believe in the Mavericks as a whole. I believe in Luca, but everybody else on that team right now is kind of iffy. Tamar Dewey Jr. had a great end of the season. I want that to be him. Porzingis has had up and downs in Dallas and I want him to be on the up and up. And this is an interesting thing that Jason Kidd said about Kristaps Porzingis at the presser. They wanna start him at the Power Ford, not the center. Okay, he's seven, four, but okay. He wants to be a basketball player. Who would have thought it? Porzingis wants to be a basketball. The guy in the league wants to be a basketball. Feel free to put the ball on the floor, make mid-range shots and I'll be limited to shooting threes. Then Porzingis himself said he wants to be what's best for the team and doesn't want to clog driving lanes for Luca just because he has the green light to post up. He acknowledges the game is changing and there aren't as many post-ups anymore. But he wants to post up more. All right, let's talk about it. I am not of the camp that says, hey, Porzingis, because he is seven, four, he got to post up because he's bigger than everybody on the court. That ain't the case. The statistics tell you straight up. When Porzingis posts us up, it ain't a good sight. You know, his points per possession are extremely low when he posts us up. But I am at the camp of him putting the ball on the floor and being more of the spot of shooter. And if that's what Jason Kidd of Porzingis have discussed and that means he will get more to the Porzingis that we saw be an all-star and that makes me a little bit more optimistic about the Dallas Marics. But today is media day and everything that people say is going to be exciting. The Bulls had a lot of different things. They got me hype, but I know 80% of it probably ain't gonna come true. And that could be the case in a lot of these situations. Briefly, I want to go over, clean in the glass, shout out to them. One of my favorite websites to be on. And Chris, that's Porzingis last year with the Knicks. He shot 23 of his shots from the three-point line. And then once he got to Dallas, that's when he became a guy that's gonna spot up and only shoot threes. And that got you to the 39% of his shots being there, the 35% of his shots being there. And what you saw in his years where he was successful in being an all-star, he shot a ton more mid-range shots than when he did, 20% more. So if he gets back to that, then he might be able to get back to form as an offensive player. The idea of Chris Dapsporzing is being exactly this. And there's so many things that happen in media day.  We could talk about the fact that Zion broke his foot and then he came to media day and people were talking about how chunky he looked, whatever. But this was another interesting one to me. This is from Neil Loche. If you didn't know, Neil Loche is the general manager of the Portland Trailblazers. He said, we will never be receptive to moving dame. End quote. Something that, this is something to think about. Oh, and Michael Porter Jr. got a Max Ricki extension. So shout out to MPJ. Big things coming for him. Media day. What was your favorite part? Let me know in the comment section below. And interact, man. Y'all know this community is as good as it gets. Interact with your fellow, your fellow viewer, your fellow friend. And I'll be down there too, man. I'll see y'all tomorrow.


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Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we have with us Professor Vijay Prashant and we will be discussing Trump's victory and assumption of office in the US. Nice to be here, thanks. Vijay, Trump has taken over office in the United States while there's been a lot of controversy regarding the size of his inauguration crowd and so on. But he seems to have also taken certain other measures which does not seem to have been registered in the media so well. One of it is trans-specific partnership, the TTP. So how do you see Trump's withdrawal from TTP which he has announced and how do you see its long-term play in the global scenario? It's true that he's pulled out of the trans-specific partnership, the 12-country trade alliance that was being negotiated largely in secret. He decided to walk away from this saying that it hurts American workers at the same time as he pledged to renegotiate the North American free trade agreement. But by the way also and less well reported from the White House website, the web page on the trans-Atlantic partnership which was the kind of trade agreement with the European Union has also disappeared. Now it's interesting, why has the Trump administration decided to go after these particular trade agreements? One reason is that this is exactly the issue that he campaigned on and he campaigned on this very strategically because in the contentious states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan where the great old American working class used to exist, sections of these states have become the rust belt. Here there's a great antipathy to trade agreements. There's a belief that it's a result of trade agreements that they've lost their job. So Trump won these parts of the United States and this is what swung the election to his side. It was impossible for him not to do something. But what has he really done? In other words, are these agreements, is the trans-specific partnership really about trade or is it about geopolitics? And it's my sense that this is really not going to impact the question of trade very much by itself. In other words, the United States has bilateral agreements with most of these countries. Trade in this circuit is largely liberalized. Of course, there are some issues on agricultural subsidies in Japan, perhaps so-called point of origin certificates on automobiles imported from Japan to the United States. There are some issues that have not been resolved and they hope that TPP would be the forum to resolve this. But really, this is not a trade pact. The main issue here is the isolation of China. In fact, in 2015 Barack Obama in a press conference directly said, we need to have the trans-specific partnership because we cannot allow countries like China to write the trade rules. In the same way, the Trans-Atlantic Partnership, which was the hallmark of the deal between Germany and the United States, in November of last year Barack Obama and Angela Merkel, wrote an op-ed together in the German press, basically saying that the values of the United States in Germany should be at the core of European-American trade agreements. In other words, Greece, Russia, these countries should not be able to influence the trade agreement. What I am suggesting is that this pushback against the TPP was on the one side a sop to the very important base that helped Trump get elected. But really, these were never about trade. These were always about geopolitics. You have talked about the geopolitics of this TPP and other issues. Now, it seems that there is a move in the United States which would like the Russia-China coming together to break, effectively detach Russia from China. Unlike what Obama and Hillary Clinton's policies had done, one using Ukraine against Russia and South China Sea against China had really brought them together. Do you see this playing out and Trump taking a different position on this? Of course, in the early days, it is hard to say definitively whether it is one way or the other. But if we accept the view that Trump has a sort of lighter, softer touch regarding Russia, then you might surmise that he has taken the position that you try to bring Russia on site and isolate China. Because his rhetoric on China is quite dramatic. Henry Kissinger, of course, has the other approach, which is join up with China to isolate Russia. Kissinger's view is that China at least is economically dynamic. It's essential to the American economy. And Russia is the real threat. But then again, Kissinger is an old cold warrior and Russia was always the enemy, which is why he made the opening to China in the early 1970s. But he takes that view. I think Trump generally the tendency seems to be is moving in the other direction to soften relations with Moscow in order to put the screws on Beijing. So I don't know. It's early days, as I said, it's hard to say whether he's going to, as Mao says, hit out in all directions or he's going to be strategic in going after one rival and then perhaps later another. But by the way, I think that this might this kind of more strategic or lighter touch might have worked when commodity prices collapsed and there was a real crisis in the economy of Russia and China enduring crisis. But I think what the Obama and Clinton strategy did in the encirclement of all of Eurasia is to really integrate the strategic understanding of the Chinese and the Russians. And along that great Silk Road project that the Chinese have, the Russians have now made some very considerable investments. And the Russians are understanding, I think that the Chinese are perhaps better customers for their natural gas than the Europeans. And I think this is a significant different context. In other words, the integration between Russia and China strategically, diplomatically, economically and militarily has gone down the road quite considerably. And I doubt now whether there is the same atmosphere of suspicion as there was, say, during the Sino-Soviet split in the 1950s. Vijay, the Indian foreign policy has become very difficult to predict. It seems to be entirely predicated on Mr. Modi, the prime minister's wish of the day and how and who has reacted to him in what way. So, if you leave that out, we don't seem to see any consistency in Indian foreign policy at the moment. When you come to the Chinese-American mix, we see a very strange scenario where the United States is now trying to articulate protectionist policies. While China is following relatively aggressive move into everybody's economic policies and has been, in fact, the articulator of globalization, as we saw in Davos. Now, given that, there is this fear that the Chinese are too big and economically too powerful and therefore, Southeast Asia and East Asia will fall to the Chinese economics way. If the Americans don't act as a counterbalance to TPP, etc., do you see that as something that might really play out? Do you see that it's ironic that we seem to see a reversal from the opium war when China was being asked to open its economy by the so-called globalizers even to opium? Well, look, I think that Trump is on this more rhetoric than anything. There was a very sober study done a few years ago that showed that since 1979, the hemorrhaging of jobs in the United States cannot be put at the door of trade agreements. It said that only about 12% of American jobs were lost because of trade agreements, but 88% of American jobs it suggested was lost because of mechanization or other productivity gains. Mechanization is really the issue here and that doesn't mean one says we're against mechanization. One might ask the question, why should the share of mechanization, the productivity share, the wealth be distributed upwards and not socially among people? In other words, it's a good thing to have mechanization. Let's now move to a four hour day. Why should people work 8, 10 hours, 12 hours? Let's work for four hours. Let's share working time with other people and let's have much greater leisure. Let's read newspapers. In other words, there could be a progressive socialist way to understand mechanization for the betterment of humankind. But of course, this is not even something on the table. Nobody is discussing the real reason why there's been a hemorrhaging of jobs. It's not on the agenda. It's essentially irrational politics to blame China or Mexico for the hemorrhaging of jobs for what Trump called American carnage is actually beside the point rather than talking about what's taking your jobs away, you're talking about this. In other words, what I'm trying to get at is that there cannot be a return to protectionism. The American economy is so fundamentally integrated to economic activity around the world. I don't just mean financial integration. I mean, from the very smallest thing, there'll be paralysis in the consumer market. If you think that what Modi did to India with demonetization was insane, it was almost like a Bond villains plot against the Indian economy. If you think that was insane, the idea that you can suddenly erect trade barriers around the United States 45% trade barrier and it's not going to completely paralyze Walmart. Therefore, paralyze basically the working poor's ability to get consumer goods.  And so Trump's rhetoric about 45% is that and the other, none of his advisors are going to go for it. Let me just put one thing to you. He's exited TPP. Fine. But there are 500 American trade advisors. If you ever go to a trade meeting with the American delegation, they come with like, it's like lawyers at a courtroom. 50 of them show up with briefcases heavily armed as it were with the documents. I mean, you have to remember that at the WTO, the World Trade Organization, if the United States has a case against say Mali or Senegal, Senegal barely has representation there. The Americans come with a raft of so 500 of these so-called trade advisors, they all bought and paid corporate people. Not one of them has been fired. You know, when Trump came in, he basically fired all US ambassadors, but he has not fired the trade advisors. So let's not take seriously on the surface this exit from TPP as an exit from globalization. This is, as I said, a sock to this base, the strategic base that got him elected. His commitment to globalization is quite fundamental in the structure of the administration. And when they do renegotiate NAFTA, you're not going to have unemployed, you know, steel workers at the table. You're going to again have corporate executives, proxies sitting there negotiating rules that they like. So I mean, I think in a sense, the madness of demonetization in India is not going to be repeated in the United States with massive trade barriers. I think I really do feel this is much more rhetoric than reality or then policy. So do you agree with Jackie Ma's argument that the basic problem with the US is the trade wars, not trade, but the physical wars that it has conducted and spent $14 trillion on? Well, I wouldn't say that's the problem. I think that's one problem. Of course, another problem is that the American wealthy have been on tax strike for about 40 years. During the Reagan administration, tax rates started to decline for the very wealthy. And the very wealthy really no longer pay taxes and it's perfectly acceptable. In fact, at the hearing for Mr. Mnuchin, who's the secretary of treasury, he was asked about how his firm has basically shell companies sitting in the Caribbean and operating there. And he was asked directly, isn't this a tax shelter? And he said, no, it's just a way to do business. You know, it's perfectly acceptable for the secretary of treasury's company to have tax shelters. So the rich basically have been on strike. They've refused to pay tax. And once you have that situation, you basically dry up the exchequer. So whatever the treasury is able to collect in the way of taxes, if more than half of that is spent in war, you're going to obviously damage the capacity of the state to produce any kind of policies that are meaningful for people. So it's a combination of essentially this political strike that the rich have been involved in the wars that the country has conducted. And as I said, the general dynamic of capitalism, which substitutes human beings for machines. And if you put all this together, you're going to get immense inequality. Hence you had the Occupy Wall Street movement, the rhetoric of the 1% against the 99%. That was a very powerful vocabulary. But there was no left force in the United States able to pick that up and carry it. What you got instead is you got this kind of ventriloquist of the Occupy language, which is Donald Trump. Donald Trump essentially was the ventriloquist dummy, you know, and of kind of sometimes left rhetoric. But really he's a man fundamentally of the right. Other set of issues really what's happening in the United States. We had a huge protest led by women and fortunately this time not on the slogan that Russia has told in our elections. They seem to have really focused on Trump and his policies and identified that as a problem. The second is of course also the kind of steps he's taking. He's already seems to be moving on abortion. He seems to have talked about the pipelines that he has signed. So internally he seems to be on a trajectory which is extremely shall we say against whatever the American liberal left sections have won over the last 50, 60 years. And on a much more aggressive internal shall we say capitalist project. Well, look, in the United States the culture was that is the wars of over how one should live one's life.  These culture wars are an open wound. And it was thought every once in a while people believe that the wars are settled. You know, the question of gay marriage is settled or the question of abortion is settled, but it's not settled. It opens up. It unravels. And there are many theories of why the culture was so intense in the United States. One of them, which is often talked about is that the culture was essentially are an alibi for the other issues in society, issues of say, you know, endemic poverty, lack of health care, etc. Where the Republicans have used these so-called dog whistle issues like abortion to distract the population from other fundamental questions. I mean, I don't actually believe that this is what's happening. I think that there are real serious and genuine social debates inside the country that are alongside these other debates. I think good if these kind of issues come to the forefront, what you have just raised, instead of the Hillary Clinton versus Trump binary Russia stolen on elections, which seemed to have been the earlier kind of slogans that we saw. If it does focus, if the resistance does focus on the kind of issues we have said and they can come together, there is hope of a left platform and we will discuss that in the future. Let's see how these resistance to Trump, different resistances to Trump pan out and we'll continue to discuss this with you, Vijay. That's all the time we have today for NewsClick.


Ms. Chivas's elements are plotting to cost disaffection among Bola, Tinnabu, Abdullahi, Ganduji and Ibrahim Masari, says the Canaan State government as they react to elict audio of Ibrahim Masari, a former placeholder and vice-president of candidates of the APC. And stakeholders retrait need for original autonomy as the only solution to Nigeria's problems. This is Plus Politics, and I'm Mary Annicole. Ibrahim Masari, a former placeholder, vice-presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressive Congress APC, has said President-elect Bola Tinnabu is making it difficult for people to trust him. He said this in an elict phone call he had with the governor, Abdullahi Ganduji, of Canaan State, over the meeting Tinnabu held with Rabiu Kwonkoso, presidential candidate of the new Nigerian People's Party, NNPP. Now, in the audio, Masari was heard advising Ganduji to have a one-on-one meeting with the president-elect, but Ganduji, a strong backer of Tinnabu, kept lamenting that he had been betrayed. The former placeholder, vice-presidential candidate said Tinnabu was sending the wrong signal that would prevent people from trusting him. Meanwhile, the Canaan State government has reacted to the audio of the phone call between the governor, Abdullahi Ganduji and Ibrahim Masari, a former vice-presidential candidate's placeholder of the APC. In a statement, also, Malam Mohamed Garabah, commissioner for information and internal affairs in Canaan State, said the exaggerated publicity on the purported audio clip was the handy walk of paid agents trying to unturn the so-called conversation with a view of cussing disaffection between the two political gladiators. Joining us to discuss this is Shehu Musa-Garbham, he's the national chairman of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, and Shegul Shopitan, who is a public affairs analyst and is also of ACT Network. Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us and good evening. Good evening. Good evening. Thank you. I'll start with you, Mr. Garbham, as a politician. This obviously doesn't come to you as a surprise. We've had so many leaked phone calls. Most of the time, what people are waiting to hear is if this audio was authentic or not. But from what the spokesperson of the Canaan State government has said, it sounds more like it was authentic, but then the words were twisted in favor of the people who you would call detractors of the governor of his state, and of course, Malam Mohamed Tilibu. What are your thoughts on the content of this conversation? Well, first and foremost, we are in an era of leakages, you know, where a lot of information had been leaked. But then to the authenticity of the audio, it's difficult for anybody to ascertain it. It takes an expert to say, this is authentic or this was state managed. Number two, the issue of the case holder is an academic thing for now because he was there on temporary grounds, he was replaced, and he admitted to it. I'm sure he must have signed the documents of replacement based on INEC guidelines for you to be substituted. You must have signed the letter of resignation not to participate anymore. So I'm not in APC, I'm not speaking for APC, but knowing the power structure and the compositions of power, some of these things are going to be tougher because some of the strong elements that are around the president-elect are doing everything only possible to have their way, and those who have contributed either directly or through progress are also fighting very hard to make sure they are part of the system. Formation of government is extremely very difficult, and then you take a strong leadership to look at the entire scenario, you know, critically and come up with processes that would define their sense of direction. For now, given the fixations of power and the complex nature of religious politicians around the president-elect, we don't expect it to be easy, because people are negotiating for a lot of things, and if the president is not being careful, if he's being carried away, he will end up from day one having a cabinet that cannot fly. Just the way we are having this current outgoing government, I expect the president-elect to go outside the box and look for people with capacity that will help him to be on his feet from the day of flowing in. But if he goes by the tradition of what APC government have done, President Mahmoud Bahri, it is extremely difficult for President Bola to take off from the ground. It's going to be extremely very complicated, given the vicious nature of the people around him who wants to be around the cabinet at all costs, and then continue the business as usual. So I expect the president to understand that the elections are over. It is time to govern Nigeria. And governing Nigeria needs people with capacity, with a commitment, with national interests to change the narrative that we are having now, to deal with the insecurity, deal with a lot of segregations, agitations, just like we have Shahgari regime. You have to remodel the Shahgari regime and make sure that people have a sense of long distance of participation, so that there will be quietness in the land and people will begin to embrace a new leadership that have a vision of moving Nigeria forward. So it's normal. Some of these things you will see, what's up it, you will see more of the legacies, you will see a lot of gossip, you will see a lot of attempt to derail the process, but I believe that as a nation would not allow it to happen because May 29 is sacrosanct by law, and then whatever happens, somebody must be sworn in. For now, it is the president because there's not any judgment that set that aside. And once he's been sworn in, he needs to do the needful, and he needs to keep the ground running, and then we wait for the final judgment of the cost of the land. Let me move to you, Shagong. Looking at the situation between what happened during the elections, of course, we saw how Kanu was swept by the NNPP, knowing obviously also that Kwankusul does have a hold of sorts in Kanu, and the meeting that the president-elect did have with the NNPP presidential candidate, how do you think the Kanu state government is taking it again? With all of the deals that have been made publicly or privately, how easy is it going to be for those who think that they have supported the president-elect within the party, and of course, the strides that he's making with those who are outside of the party? Well, look, this is what politicians do. They do deals, they host trade, they seek support from each other in exchange for something or the other. And what we are seeing playing out in Kanu is not particularly different from what you would normally see from politicians. The reaction of the Kanu state government and the APC in Kanu state maybe is not surprising, you know, because if the president-elect is having meetings with a member of another party, especially a party who more or less is now in control of Kanu state, then of course the APC people in Kanu state should be worried. For example, what does that mean for them? Constitutionally, the president-elect must pick appointees into his cabinet and into his government from all the 36 states of the federation, must have at least one minister from Kanu state. What that means for the APC is that there is a strong possibility that the person that will represent Kanu state in the president-elect's cabinet will not be appointed by the APC, will not be recommended by the APC, which is a loss of ground and a loss of power. So that would explain why they are worried and of course that would trickle down to other appointments that the president-elect will be making that might have come as recommendations from the APC. It would mean that the APC has lost ground to Kanu so in Kanu, not just with elections, but even within the political calculations within that state. So yes, the APC should complain, it should be worried. For us as Nigerians, what does this mean? For me, as a good governance advocate, it's neither here nor there. This is politicians being what they will do. I'm not on the inclusion as an ordinary Nigerian or as a Nigerian that speaks for the ordinary Nigerian that all of this host trading and negotiations has anything to do with good governance, has anything to do with the interest of the larger population. If anybody's interest is being served by all of this, it's the interest of the people with influence, the people in the political circles in that area and that's about it. So for us, we just watch with some measure of attention just so that we're informed and we know what's happening and we know where our appointees will be coming from and how they came about and that's just about it. One of the other things that I think this should say to political watchers is it would be interesting to see how the president-elect navigates this situation. We know his politics from Lagos, but now he's moving to the national level and even he will find that dealing with the political calculations, the political schemes, is a completely different ballgame now that he's being at the national level as against what was going on in Lagos. It cannot just appoint people single-handedly the way it used to do. It has to be more broad-minded and broad-based in his approach and maybe this is a testament to the fact that he's willing to do this, the fact that he's willing to talk to an MPP rather than just his own party. Maybe it means that he's willing to step on toes a bit in order to ensure that some measure of national unity is sustained. We will see. I'm not saying that's what it is, but it could be. So it's all very interesting to support that political evidence. Back to you, Mr. Gabram. It's interesting how everybody's talking about the meeting with Kwan-Kaw. So we've seen, you know, Governor Wike, we've seen the governor or your state governor-elect who's also sitting governor, you know, meet with, but this is not the first time that people who are outside of the APC have met with the president-elect. But then Kwan-Kaw's meeting seems to be raising dust in Kano state. The PDP, as it's two weeks ago, if I'm not mistaken, were getting set to award the likes of Governor Wike and Governor Makin Day as outgoing governors for not just what they've done in the states, but also in the party. So what would be the fear that you presume the people in Kano would have over this talks with Kwan-Kaw? So being that he also had eyed these perverted seats, which is the presidency. And now, of course, he's lost out. The likes of Reno Mockery is wondering also why Tinibu would be hub-nobbing with Kwan-Kaw. So what exactly he'd be needing from him? Well, if you study the body language of the, of Kwan-Kaw, so even before the election, it suggests clearly that he has a sort of sympathy given the long-standing relationship between himself and Bola Ahamed Zinengu. During the SDP days of Bola, Konkoso was a deputy speaker under SDP. Kwan-Kaw was a senator elected from Lagos under SDP. So they've been friends for a long time politically. And then, of course, you know, that friendship updates his relationship with Ganbujie. And then in trying to form a political alliance to move the country forward, you have to look for forces that will balance possibility of crisis, you know, around the political zones. Who are those who have the muscle that can water down possibility of conflict or crisis around the country? That's how visionary leaders look into issues. They don't just pick anybody, but the people that will add value in terms of upgrading the quality of the leadership. So it's not a surprising thing for those who know the history of the relationship between them. And of course, if you also followed the interview conducted with Konkoso before the election, he certainly gave advantage to Bola Danachiku. So there's that linkage between them for a very long time.  He refused, he said, we'll take it to the end. And now, of course, the election has come to an end. So they are renewing their political relationship. It is likely that Bola is looking at the political weight of Konkoso and what value is going to add to his government and giving the size of Kano. The economic importance of Kano. It is going to be a strategic advantageous to him than perhaps what the outgoing governor is going to give. Don't also forget the fact that the outgoing governor has his own hitches at home domestically that was generated, that is into a multifaceted, that issues that is also generating a lot of negative reaction in terms of supporting him in terms of his home-based support. So it's a multifaceted team. And for the president-elect to have some level of stability given the results that have been declared by INEG. And in a country where you have over 90 million registered voters, we end up having 8.7 million to produce a president. Either he could earn tax or any zeroes leader to look into in terms of forming cabinet and stabilizing the country. There will be a lot of challenges, tremendous challenges, like I've said, some of the people around him are very vicious, are very vicious in terms of fighting hard to make sure they get the position. And then if you give them the position, you have not done your mathematics very well, you will not get the formula right. And then the ball stopped at his own decks. So knowing the president-elect that I know with level of independent of his mindset in terms of dissected issues, there's a possibility we'll go off the course not to what people are thinking about. You will go for quality people that are going to add value to the government because already it's from behind. Given the results of the elections, the agitation, the fracas around the system, we need to do something, we need to get people that have capacity to move all people together and pacify the system for a proper take off. There seems to also be in the tone between the conversation between the two gentlemen, the governor and of course the placeholder. There seems to be that tone of sadness, of abandonment. Could this be the general feeling from the people in the North being that the North had boldly come out to say they supported him? And I'm talking about the North, I'm talking about the governor who supported his emergence and those who have continuously stood by him all through the elections. Could this be the same disaffection that is resonating across the Northern supports that Bola Metinibu enjoyed during his campaign? Well, I really don't think so because the people are in a hurry to make assassinations. First, the cabinet lists are not out. So people are just speculating. Those that have pressed the desperate button thinking by now maybe the president would have released the list of his possible upcoming cabinet have not seen that speculations are ongoing, maybe rightly or wrongly some fact lists are going around and that is creating the agitation, that is creating the fear that maybe the president can not stand by what he said if there's any private agreement between him and the so-called placeholder before. But I think the timing is wrong for us not hitting up the system. The need for the placeholder to understand that he need to wait and see how the cabinet will go. But I don't know what agreements are in between them. What position he have bargained for or they have bargained for him. But it is necessary for people to exercise patience for us to have a peaceful transition and for the president-elect to determine the kind of people he's going to work with. You know, experience have shown us that the current people that are running the country lack the capacity to run the country. And if you repeat the same kind of mistake by electing very weak people to preside over his cabinet, certainly Nigeria will be in for a disaster because globally we are having the economic recession all over the world. Our economy is down, it's on its knees. And then you need people with creativity, with economic skill and expertise, with political skill, you know, to bring the country together, create a political environment for investment and otherwise coming. So for me I would advise the president-elect to be extremely very careful in his decision we have said this several times. In any short of being extremely careful and very technical and very deep in his assessment of the quality of people he's bringing in, certainly he's going for a very nasty situation to deal with. The poverty level is extremely very high. You know, the unemployment is unimaginable. Our health sector have gone on its knees. The educational sector have gone on its knees. So all the vital organs, the fundamental pillars that are supposed to drive the nation to stability are very weak. The national assembly is trying to come on board. They have crisis to manage the national assembly, the national assembly already. So from all fronts it's been confronted with a lot of challenges. So he needs people that have the right thinking, the right stability to do that.  But let me come back to Shagun. How trustworthy is Ebola in Tunibu because you see Mr. Gabam here keeps saying that, oh yes, of course the deals that were made or whatever, you know, people need to be patient. He sounds more like he trusts what Ebola in Tunibu may be able to deliver upon. But how trustworthy is he? Because again, the tone of that conversation, even though we've not been able to understand the veracity or the authenticity of that particular conversation, even though nobody has also said it didn't happen. I'm wondering, does it not seem like the people are questioning if he is a man of his word? And for you who's experienced him as a politician, as the governor of Lagos State, et cetera, et cetera, how trustworthy is Ebola in Tunibu in terms of a man who can keep his word? Well, that's a difficult question to answer. And it depends on what we are looking for. So you put me on the spot if it's... It's a politician. He's a man who wants his canvas to be president of this country. He said it's his turn. He's been a kingmaker. It's time for him to be the king. He's given us a project hope to look forward to. But how trustworthy is he in terms of delivering? Yeah, so the thing that we must recognize, first and foremost is that the man in the boat is very ambitious. We know this about him. He's a long-term planner type of person. So some people will describe that as being a visionary, but I have a different definition of being a visionary. So he definitely looks at the long term when he's making his calculations, his political calculations.  They've used a lot of appellations for him that are positive. But we also have to remember from history and from his antecedents in Lagos and in Southwestern politics that there have been situations where he's been accused of betraying the people that worked for him and that he was in bed with. You will remember vividly, for some people will remember vividly what happened in 1999, in 2003 specifically, where the AD, as of that time, lost almost the entirety of the Southwest as a result of a deal that Tinnubu went into with the opposition, with the election of a president. The deal where they went into a deal to say they're gonna vote for the president who is of a different party but will vote for our governors at the gubernatorial elections and it backfired. And the AD lost the entirety of Southwest except for Lagos where he was in control. So we've seen that the man can look at the political calculations independent of loyalties to the people who might have expected him to stay loyal to. So for example, him going into bed with Kwakwan So who pretty much is as of now almost a mortal enemy of the APC hierarchy in Kano will definitely be seen as a betrayal by the Kano, by Kanduja in particular and the other APC hierarchy in Kano. So how trustworthy is he when it comes to politics? I'm sorry, I think that the man will do what number one is in his best interests from a political point of view. And secondly, what is in the best interests of his party and his loyalist before any other constipation. So if I were the people that were in bed with him now I'll remember the different instances in the past where he may have been said to have betrayed certain people. We remember what happened with Amber Day as an example also after Ibn Fashola, you remember, look at the people that are political observers will know that whatever romance that is going on between Fashola today and Tinubu is a recent development. There was a time that there were really, really a daggers drawn at the beginning of the Bwari administration over the fact that the man Tinubu did not want a second time for Fashola who was willing to discard him and he did discard Amber Day. So when it comes to political strategy and calculations, Tinubu is brutal. Tinubu will be as, yeah, let me just use the word brutal as necessary in his view. And he will not look at certain considerations that somebody might have said, oh, you need to be loyal, you need to be honorable, and all of that. Those considerations may come secondary to him. If he feels that his political interests would be better served by working with somebody else. So if I were the people working with him I wouldn't close my two eyes. I'll be looking over my shoulders once in a while just to be sure that I'm safe. Quickly, before I go back to Mr. Gabon, still talking about, in your words, he being brutal here. Do we see a lot of ethnic and religious sentiments coming to play, especially with the picking of people who he would be working with in the long run? Well, I think by and large, the man has shown himself to be largely tribalized and maybe not particular about what religion you practice. We can look at the different appointments that he's had, his closest political allies, and all of that. And you see that it's very broad-based. You have pastors, you have Christians, you have Muslims, you have Northerners. You can see the way the North has rallied behind him. You have Southerners and all of that. So I'm not sure that we need to worry about his cabinet, for example, being particularly tribalistic or maybe skewed towards a particular religion. Of course, because he's a man from the Southwest, a Yoruba man who grew up in the Southwest, you are likely to see that there will be a slight tilt in that direction in his appointments. But I don't think that it will be unbalanced. The way, for example, that people are complained about they are doing President's appointments, I don't think we see that kind of skewedness. OK. Back to you, Sheryl. You talked about something. You kept talking about quality people. You're asking that the president-elect look in that direction of getting people of quality. What quality exactly do you speak of here? Because I remember six months into President Bahari's administration, we were yet to see a list of people who he was going to make his ministers. And he kept saying that the delay was because he was looking for men and women who were upstanding, rather upright, I beg your pardon, men who were decent, those who did not have any skeletons in their cupboard. But here we are at the close of his government. Can we really say that six months was what's the way to again? What is the quality that you speak of in terms of the people that Bala Mertinibu should be focusing his attention on? First, I believe President Bahari did not believe he was going to win the election. That would lead to the delay in the formation of his government. There's no any president that is prepared to take over power that would waste six, seven months before forming the government. Nigeria have a surplus of some of the best brains we can find anywhere. If you are a serious president, you will have access to them at any time. Secondly, let me also remind that if you look at recent, even the administration of President Babangida, you will remember some of the best brains that have run the government. Forget about whatever happened politically. But he produced some of the best brains. If you look at also President Bahari, he tried and showed for some quality people that happened in driving his own government. So President Bahari had a delay because they are not sure they are going to win the election. So there was no plan of takeoff immediately. And that one led us into this mess economically, politically, and otherwise. So when it comes to the president elects, and given the history of what happens under Uberson Joe, under Eradua, under Jonathan, and Bahari himself, I think you have a sufficient lesson to learn and do the needful. And in every state of the Federation, I can bet you have been to every state of Nigeria. In every state of the Federation, you will get the best 20 quality people that will give you what you want. So it's a matter of making your choice, preparing for what you do, and committed to what you want to achieve. He will get the best people he's looking for in every state of the Federation, except if he's not ready to go back, except if he's not ready to go back. Nigeria has so close of some of the best you can think of. So for me, if you experience any problem in the formation of cabinet of President Wala Amitunubu, it means he's not ready for it, because there's a shortfall of capacity to show for quality of people that can help him in driving the government. So I strongly believe in that. And also, I strongly believe he will try as much as possible to be a national leader, devoid of being ethnic or religious sentiments. Because history has proved over a time that he has some level of balanced mind. Not the way we saw some government. I mean, this present government, all the appointment to treat those one particular section of the country. I do not expect that. Like I've said, apart from I'm not speaking for ABC, somebody that I know one on one, I've interface with him, I've interrogated some of his thinking and his capacity to look at issues. So we are wishing the system well. The elections are over. We are looking forward to peaceful Nigeria, peaceful coexistence, economic prosperity, unity, conducive political environment for the country to move on. This is our prayer. We will not pray anything bad to happen to our country under any circumstances. Does it seem like there's trouble ahead after May 29 for President-elect Tunibu Wala Amitunubu again, because these are all, we're all speculating for you. You're hoping, you're praying that he's listening and that this might be his intention. And but then when we look at everything that has played out up until his election, and of course where we are today, does it seem that it is going to be an easy road for him, an easy journey ahead of him a task? Again, there's so many things on his plate. We have an economy that is almost, in fact, we're facing a downturn. We're looking at a petroleum sector that is in tatters. Earlier today, all of them across party lines were here in Lagos, celebrating the Dangote refinery, but then we have Moribond refineries getting talked around maintenance every now and again, but we're not producing anything. I mean, talk about security. Talk about, I mean, there's so many things that lie ahead of the Bala Amitunubu administration. How easy is it going to be for him? I have no doubt in my mind he's going to inherit a very precarious situation. I have no doubt in my mind. The economy is very weak. There's lack of capacity to drive the economy. The political environment is polluted by politicians who don't believe in anything good, who don't want to see the country peaceful. And then, of course, above all, you have already security crisis at hand, that is taking the life of innocent people, wiping out villages, actually or weekly or daily basis. These are fundamental issues that he need to deal with straight ahead. If he's not decisive, I don't see him having a stable government. He must be very decisive. There must be deterrence. If he lack capacity to create deterrence, then there's no hope for him. Deterrence is fundamental for him to succeed. Those that are part of the killing and the maiming and the raping and the production of orphans must pay for it, must be persecuted. Those that are responsible for economic sabotage must pay for it. The central bank that have ruined our economy, that have commercialized our economy, have hijacked the public fund, must be investigated. All things that led us to where we are, must be investigated. That is the only way you can create deterrence and people will have a hope that there's a better future. But if he's coming in okay, his business are usual. I'm sorry for him. I sympathize with him because study, administration of the administrations and participating in the electoral process over decades. I know that anybody who is going to be the president of Nigeria and he lacks the will to take tough decisions. I'm sorry for him. He's not gonna be it. I sympathize with him. He's going to inherit tremendous problems, very deep challenges, particularly from the security angle, from the political angle and from ministries, strategic ministries that have to change the life of Nigeria. And it's in short of breaking the best. Then it's a big issue that we have to face as a nation. Finally, Sherwin, because we're out of time. For those of you who are into good governance and advices cases that have been on governments come and governments go pushing for good governance. Also again, I'll just ask you almost the same question I asked you. If you are looking at the antecedents of this man and how he got here, because Sherwin talked about him being creative and coming up with the best ideas on how to deal with issues, does he look like, does he seem like he will be creative, will he care about it? Because I remember talking to the secretary of the Northern Elders Forum at some time about President Buhari and he said, the President Buhari was only ambitious and wanted to be the president, but was not ambitious as to leading Nigeria to a better place. So do you see Ebola met, wanting to just be a president who wanted to change Nigeria and living that legacy for posterity to remember him quickly? Well, I think very quickly, the person of Ebola met in Oguiz is an enigma, is an intriguing mind, right? He's very intelligent, he's deep. So I do not foresee a situation where you're gonna have an armchair president who just wants to be president, is to build his ambition and that's just it for him. He's going to be very active, he's gonna be trying a lot of things, he's going to try new ideas. The problem that I think he's going to have, my brother has already said that he has a big job, you know, Nigeria is in tatters in every sector that you can talk about. Tough decisions are needed. The problem that this president elects when he becomes president will have is that he has a legitimacy issue.  Unfortunately, you know, the outcome of the elections as announced by INEG, which is still being contested heavily in court, is such that only 37% of the people that voted for him, which is 63% that do not want him as president and those people are likely to resist everything he does every step of the way. So it's going to be a tough job. I don't envy him at all. Well, May 29th is just around the corner. We'll be counting down to that and of course watching to see what happens. Sherwin Musa Gabham is the National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, SDP and Shagun Shabitan is a public affairs analyst and he's also of ACT Network. Thank you so much gentlemen for having this conversation with me. Thank you. All right, we'll take a short break now and then we will be discussing the cause for original autonomy in Nigeria. Stay with us.


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in at Bursa shot show 2024 and this is one of the most exciting booths They have some launches that I think you are very much going to like let me start with the BP 9 full size This thing is really nice And if you know Bursa they are priced to sell in the working man's budget and this is no different This will be available in some months But what it offers 17 round magazines for in a quarter-inch barrel you can see it has slide cuts They come optic ready in that very nice Bursa trigger that so many people love I've got the BP 9 CC and that trigger is amazing. It's short. This is very nice as well. It's available in Flat Dark Earth and Black with that Gold barrel really looks cool. It really Makes the slide cuts stand out if you see that love the way this feels four and a quarter inch That's the FS full size, but also they have a double stack nine millimeter subcompact handgun I think a lot of Bursa fans will be pleased with this because this is the hottest thing going in today's market Here is Bursa's version with a 13 round magazine once again It has the slide cuts tritium sites both rear and front and they all come optic ready So here we have the 13 round mag a 15 round mag will also be available But the overall feel is very nice It's very Bursa which is what's gonna make a lot of people happy with a nice trigger pull and a short Reset very light which is pretty common and then here is the black one Much like the full size okay 13 and 15 round magazines 3.3 inch barrel and that gold looks super cool with the black frame and slide Another thing that Bursa is doing that is taking a lot of people by storm here. It's shot Choke nobody saw this coming, but they are making 1911 70 series 1911's they have a whole bunch here made of 416 steel now This is one of their more fancy ones highly polished tritium front dot Novak rear sights VZ G10 grips a very nice trigger with eight round magazines And you know that that reset with the 1911 is so nice To top it off Bursa is going to price this In a way that's very attractive in the American market people are going to want to see that Let me show you another one to actually have a whole bunch here But here's another one same same qualities forward serrations tritium sights 70 series 416 steel and VZ G10 grips with that 1911 trigger that keeps me coming back for more every time just loaded chamber and 45 ACP so that's four examples Let me make it another one with the 1911 just to show you the flexibility that they have with their handgun So the people who love Bursa you're going to see a wide variety of offerings coming out in 2024 and to top it off everything that I just showed you is made in the US and That's one of the things out in here as people say I want something made in America. Well, these are all made in America We've got an American 1911 made by Bursa It checks all the boxes and I think you guys are gonna like it I am certainly excited another thing that may take you by surprise is Bursa is making Suppressors, it's actually whisper tech by Bursa and here they are they are made in the USA This is a 22 long rifle. This is a 556 and they have multiple calibers here that they're going to Eventually released out to the public. They are smaller. They are lighter and What I'm told is it certainly keeps the decibels down This one may shock you even more than the whisper tech suppressors made by Bursa. They are making drop-in triggers It is Adjustable with the poundage and the reset they drop right in very easy install it comes in a curved trigger and a flat trigger and Hey, what can you say when you when you can drop in a trigger and have those types of options? It's certainly beneficial and the shooter can customize it to their shooting style If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button Thanks for watching and you guys be safe


Mako what's going on nothing my dad walk on hey man hey we a god didn't drop the bomb on me I know say man you hear a man yeah man you never been watching him he worked it is you can't be denied the man and put it a bmf I know hey man this dude here not only that the nigga really really created a whole nother pop wave to be honest with you for me I seen it man the boy a man I love this cat man Zayn in the middle of the baby hey man good to be here man are you feeling me man hey man I feel real good man now that you hear a boss talk man what a boss is talking thank you man hey man we've been going up man yeah I never seen it coming I'm like dang man we first got this place I when we first got the ball you know we've been in 15 year but the whole little setup I was just doing it saying I'm gonna bring some people in but did my nigga D map from out of Atlanta shout out D map he designed for 8732 in the clothing brands back so Jewel house for boo see yeah he called me say man he thank you man you did hey man you I love what you're doing for the culture I got it has his own way of doing things man so what you think man one thing and God has another plan in store man he's always on time right check it man oh we want to know a little bit about you growing up where you from your household you sibling things we want to get all in that business man let's get into it man we're growing up you know born in Yonkers New York what you don't have that New York accent Atlanta for a minute though you know all my family from Yonkers New York though how old were you when you left um I was young like probably like four okay yeah I understand Atlanta move to Atlanta like three or four my mom pops my mom and pops been together for like what going on I think this day 40th anniversary 35 35 we trying to get there we're trying to get there we gonna get there all right you know so I'm right with you know saying came from a household with both you know it's a weird story with me you know I'm saying like it's a weird story coming you know shout out shout out you know saying to my to my pops you know Sam and mom's like I came from like you know family where you know the posses there miles is there you know I'm saying and I had siblings you know how many siblings I got three other siblings I'm the oldest of four wow and so so up so always been like the person that just like that everybody looked up got everything first like got the ass whooping furthest had to go through the BS first you know and um and always that's what made me who I am no cuz it's like I always had to share you know some of my brothers and sisters so it made me like not a hater like someone that's I get to shut up my back you know how much older are you then and your siblings um like two years older than my two years older than one under you then I got one I'm like four years older than five years older than and then I got a sister I'm like six years and all of you raised in the same household yeah yeah okay you know I mean so um you know we grew up in the day always they always born in in Atlanta okay you know so me I was born in Yonkers New York moved to Atlanta when I was like four did your parents ever tell you why moved to Atlanta out of anywhere else just why Atlanta yeah um we were um actually you know my dad started like you know he was hustling out there and I think it was a shootout or something like we was in a shootout of some my brothers it was like I don't really remember it like that but we didn't shoot out in the park or someone and they found me up like laid over my brother you know so that from that day they was just like it was time to pack up I think like they told me we they moved like the next day so so boom that happened shootout we moved to Atlanta and then from like you know five until I was probably like 21 I lived in Atlanta doing music went to school in Atlanta raising Atlanta elementary junior high you know high school so Atlanta's like where if someone asked me where I'm from it's like Atlanta's where I'm from how old were you when you found a love for music oh man love for music first song I ever learned was before I let go my Frankie Beverly man yeah before I let go Frankie Beverly in Mays Whitney Houston my mom all those songs and classic songs my mom used to play while she was cleaning up or something that's how I grew up on music so Frankie Beverly in Mays Whitney Houston Bobby Brown so she had a love for music not your dad as much yeah my mom and my dad like just really they none of them did mute my dad right store oh I think I get my poetry from like my dad because he my dad got over like 10,000 points you know so he was a writer for sure I got my name from Zane Gray to the writer Zane Gray okay yeah so I think I think names are important very important my grandma name my dad at the Zane Gray I mean at the Zane you know the writer he ended up being a writer you know not a professional writer but like if it's funerals or anything they're like yo big Zane right and he's big Zane like that's my that's not my stage name like little Zane is really like if you had if you was if you had if you was your dad's name Larry you know I mean you Larry you Larry junior so they call you little Larry yeah I'm lucky yeah like no matter how your dad still alive I know he passed away but I'm still I'm still looking when I see we could relate that but hold on but you've told me when I tell him I say you still you junior he's like no I'm not junior no more I'm senior now because I am senior but I'm still like that I feel like that a lot of people say well you don't say you little Zane why change your name boom boom but I'm like you know stage name for me like in my house you got to say like big Zane little Zane you got to say one of those cuz both of us come down and now I have a son named Zane so he's a third no he's baby Z so I change he doesn't have the same exact he he's Zane Jeremiah Copeland okay that's the adult yeah I'm saying Rudolph Copeland I got I got the fucked up I wasn't trying to do that did you ever get teased about that middle name did I oh my god every Christmas come around this little thing that shit that's crazy so you know I changed my son name of just so you have his own identity you know so but growing up people always so I ain't change your name whatever it's like I feel like you was like big Zane is till he pat till if some Lord forbid some I don't really feel comfortable saying oh big Zane how much money I got how much shit I did you always little E I'm always be looking and I respected him to the day and I respect my dad to play with that like I never with it yeah no cursing no I respect my own play like and he passed away but still I know that you know I did what I supposed to do man I can sleep at night I mean that's real man like and that's the fun you said that could mean my pops ain't really seen out of our right now like you know I went there with mine to years but it ain't too late but yeah but I lately I've been reaching out and stuff like he just had a birthday on Thanksgiving so I just been reaching out cuz like life is so short videos you know I'm saying you don't want to get that call or you know I'm saying you just like damn I shoulda yeah boom boom boom and like you said we got so much respect for him it's like how can you say you got so much respect for him and still I had to even when they wrong dog I feel like I feel like my dog wrong sometime but I'd be like just cuz I have so much respect it's like damn I gotta you know how dad is like that they gonna call us bro no cuz they got that pride they got that pride like they know they was there for that's right they know that was there I broke my leg in my dad still didn't even come to the hospital we haven't spoken a year in something and I was hurt behind that my stepdad was at the hospital I was like dude where my dad at I was really pissed but I knew we wasn't seeing out I when it had happened but at the end of the day he eventually came to see me but they you know they they got this thing that you do disrespect to the God yeah yeah especially when they know they've been there for exactly no matter what I did what I said that's it I was there fucking 20 how was you now nigga I'm still there I was there when you was born Wow that's the part where you you forget cuz you what you can't remember that Wow but they was there but I would but I would think too because y'all are now fathers you know you gonna be that person that down the line where you had to deal with your child and your child gonna be thinking the same thing that you're thinking right now yeah yeah it's crazy it's it's a you know yeah and no because you know it's a lot of things I would do different you know some of my kids did my dad did with me too not saying yeah but I thought the same way but my son yeah he was mad at me on a couple of things he didn't say it yeah but then somebody else come back like yeah he on like he don't see how he quiet but yeah he ain't too much feeling that such such such so I think you don't get around those blows you could try but it's just something to where it's gonna be those time but those are the times that you grow in yeah that relationship is growing when you go through those stages and then it's like being that being a father to us like you know now when we discipline our kids or whatever it hurt us more yeah yeah so it's like damn like he was I thought he was being the worst but he's probably he's probably doing it's probably it's probably hurt him more than it hurt so now having kids I realized that like you know I screaming my kids some time over they put on punishment and two minutes later I'm like which I want from the store yeah yeah let me give you an example of something that I went through with my mom like you know growing up you know how like for me personally I used to always say that I wish that she would say I'm proud of you because I would never get that but I get all the love the hugs I love you all of that but I just wanted to hear that so as I got older I'm like why have why you never told me that well for her her mom never told her she loved her so she overcompensated with that for me so you didn't get something from your dad you're gonna overcompensate for your child with that but there's always something that's lagging that that child is gonna be like but he didn't do this yeah no matter what no matter what yeah no matter what that's the crazy and then you learn that you know parents ain't perfect parents ain't perfect nobody's perfect nobody's perfect but as a kid you wanted you think you know you think it is yes but then you just learn like growing up it's like sometimes my son be doing some things and I'd be like y'all I was doing that like he'll tell you that your son yeah so yeah shout out the pops are all the real dads cuz they don't we don't get enough credit man no we don't and we get bunk a gift for father's day I get it man yeah they be hating on us they love their mama or even though you do everything you can you could tell my little girl love me though thank you no wrong you know what I don't want to hear that we are we got a dain in here man yeah so so how did you end up on a BMF the how did you end up dealing with a 50 on that it's just been a long journey man just um you know I went on a couple auditions you know in Tasha called me well my agent called me and was like we got this audition for you I didn't know what it was at the time and we sent it to me I saw was a BMF I went into it like I didn't really even think I was gonna get it I ain't gonna be I ain't even gonna hold you like I was just like I ain't gonna get this shit and I just went in there kind of did it like you know like I didn't care about it but I guess the park called for that yeah the park called for somebody with an so it's like literally like usually when I do audition I might do it like three four times and sit there and look at it pick the best one but this one I just did it that one time was just like I send it like really like me you talking oh so it's a video audition you know it wasn't in person you know I mean it wasn't an in person taping and that's another thing too man sometimes you know I think when you go in the in person it'd be nervous of course cuz somebody really just reading it to you like you all into it like you like yeah and they're just like this so what did you do yesterday but they that's their job to just be straight playing that's right and you still got it and that energy everything right and you're trying to read their emotion and they're not showing any so when you do the self tape it's kind of like a little different because you're not expecting it so you just you know I mean self tape you already mentally like okay it's just me when you naturally if you in the room and we're giving each other we're feeding off each other you want that feed on yeah yeah I don't think I was doing too good with and I don't do too good in person yeah yeah you like you like that yeah you like the ones that you have to say I think I do not you know I ain't gonna take I'm gonna take that back cuz I booked before but what I want to say is it's better to me that self tape is like because you got a chance to do it a couple times it's in the best one I think that's the fairest but when you get in you might have a bad first you might have a bad day right before you got an audition so now that affects your in-person audition but you don't know what they're looking for just like you said you know you went in with this don't care attitude and you didn't realize that that's what we're looking for winning with a don't care attitude that's what I was looking for about two weeks later I heard back okay you want you want stand by I was like all right cool to stand by me my agents like just stand by so you can't really plan nothing else you shit coming in you just like okay I can't really do nothing in another week went by so about for about three weeks you know it was just that did he get it boom boom so finally they calls like you shoot on this day boom boom and it was just crazy like so but I worked with Tasha about about two three years before I did BMF on a movie called Winner when love kills okay and I had a small part in I was a little DJ in it and but she said that one line I was in the corner like practicing it like it was the last line the only line I ever had in life she was like he over there practicing that one line and basically you know the work ethic she was just like I knew I wanted to work with you on something else so BMF came up then my little you know my little one two woman audition so I guess when they came across the table just timing timing I like it man I think that's that's dope I really I really like the way that you you working you're working he think of we here acting classes when nobody looking at classes watching a lot of movies watching a lot of I'm a movie kind of sore like I love watching films but it's hard for me to just watch a movie because I'm looking at the moment you're looking at the different things you know because I want to be the best I'm watching the Denzel's I'm watching I study Denzel I study do you imitate their accents and stuff like that um you know one thing about me I can I can imitate almost any accent I think since a kid that been like my gift like if I hear something enough that's the best accent that you can I mean how I can't really say I just know like I can get on the phone and do some don't do you want like you want to give me you know but my man be saying it's racist sometimes look at your make a story I'm talking to me at Brezhren Brezhren what's up Brezhren my youth my youth but you know it's just with me it's like I love people man I love people I love culture you know I'm saying I love different cultures so it don't be me trying to be funny I'm really just trying to embrace it like China these people might say like you know I'm going up watching Chinese flicks I'm saying when I try to talk like I'm I wasn't trying to be raised I was trying to like yo this is cool to me like I'm one of them kids that mad cuz I don't know know how to speak a language like I always tell people I told my kids other day I was like you don't do nothing learn a language for me like just learn a language for me I'm just pick one and learn it yeah you know my kids is Spanish they mix with Spanish I need to learn a language because really it's important and I'm like if that's something I could do all over again I would have took a language in school because you go across the world and like people be speaking these languages and you be like damn I really don't you know saying and I I could understand Jamaican more that's why certain places I go like the Caribbean it's Caribbean I love that broken accent in English so it's so it's easier for me to relate when I get around Caribbean people or Jamaican it's like you know I feel like somewhere down my line of my culture I was a little Caribbean kid I love the water I love the beach I love the ganja I love to grow my hair out I just feel like somewhere down the line I was a little island boy. So what I wanted to know is okay so two years before BMF you did a small film so did you audition for anything in between that and BMF coming up?