Welcome to Digital Asset News to get top stories in crypto and bring them out of bite-sized pieces. So today, just like the thumbnail suggests, we're going to take a look at everything that is going on the market and the factors that would consider someone to sell their cryptocurrency. And on this channel, I don't try to do everything that is Hopium and everything's going to the moon. It's all fantastic. I try to give you the flip side of every story so you make the best decision for yourself. So we're going to take a look at what is essentially a bear market and actually put a definition behind that so we can move on. Also, we're going to take a look at what's going on the traditional markets because the traditional players have carried over into the crypto market and you can see there is a heck of a lot of overlap. On top of that, we're going to take a look at what exactly caused our crypto market to lose three to five percent in 24 hours. We're going to take a look at some data from Bybit and also, friends of the show, George over at CryptoZorus, he's uncovered some fascinating information. And then, I also want to share with you just a little piece of long-term investment thinking of how I see things and how other businesses see things as far as long-term. And then, finally, we're going to take a look at what I call the five to 10 percent penalty and the potential cash-out plan. And then also, I need to take just a quick mention that tonight we'll be doing a live stream with Coin Bureau and Crazy for Cryptos price predictions, which is just them criticizing me in my price predictions over on the second channel of Dan Clips. But that'll be later. But first, let's just break in to what's going on as far as what is a bear market. So, I keep getting this comment in the comments. And they keep talking about, why won't you just say it's a bear market? Why won't you say it's a bear market? Okay. Well, here it is. A bear market, just so everybody knows, is what a market experience is prolonged price declines. Okay. It typically describes a condition in which securities, stocks and stuff, prices fall 20% or more from recent highs in widespread pessimism and negative investment investor sentiment. Okay. Bear markets are often associated with declines in an overall market or index like the S&P 500, but individual securities or commodities can also be considered individuals, kind of like cryptocurrencies, to be in a bear market if they experience a decline of 20% or more over a sustained period of time, typically two months or so. Bear markets can be cyclical or long-term. The former lasts for several weeks or a couple of months and the latter can last for several years. I think we've already seen those types of things as far as the bear market. So, the question is, are we in a bear market? Well, as a definition by Investopedia, if we take a look at the Bitcoin price and we go over, let's do 90 days and we'll zoom in real quick and we can see that the price in May was pretty darn high, right? 59,000, 60,000 somewhere around there and that's May 9th. And then so in June 9th, we saw quite a bit of a decline, right? And then in July, we're still on a decline as we keep going down. So, can you say it's a bear market? Well, by the definition of Investopedia, yes, it is a bear market. The question is, how long is this bear market going to last? Are we talking about weeks? Are we talking about months? Are we talking about years? So, in my personal opinion, I don't think it's going to be a crypto winner like we had in 2018 to 2019 and 2020 really, when everything was moving a lot of sideways actions. I mean, there was still some peaks and valleys here and there, but I don't see a crypto winter right now and yes, it is a bearish and is a negative sentiment and that is very true. So, if you want to know, if you want to put a title to it, yes, technically, it is a bearish market. So, I hope we can just agree on that part and then just move on to the next part where we talk about what's going on and what's causing all this. So, first of all, let's take a look at what's going on in traditional markets and the reason I like to look at this is because it gives us an insight as to what is happening as far as the traditional players because there's a lot of overlap between the traditional markets and people investing over there as they come over here and the reason why is because there's only one market that's liquid 24-7, 365 and that's cryptocurrency. So, right now, yesterday was a pretty bad day for the S&P 500, Dow Jones and NASDAQ and there was all these articles actually, well, I guess it just changed, but yesterday it was like doom and gloom, everything's awful and it's all going, the sky's going to fall and everything else. So, from the opening for today, 9.30, it was down, right? But then look at this nice sweet little rally, so great. And then we take a look at what happened with the NASDAQ, the same thing, what happened with the Dow Jones, same thing, a nice fat recovery. So, as everybody was talking about it, the video we did yesterday we talked about when in doubt, zoom out. And we took a look at, let's take a look at the S&P 500 over five days. Yeah, so yesterday, if you just zoom in, it looks pretty awful. Look at that. Oh, my God, what was that? 1.24%. That's pretty crazy, right? For the traditional markets. Then we look at a month, okay, well, it's about the same. And I did the same thing yesterday, six months, if we take a look at it, not too bad because let me look how down we were. And then for one year, still pretty good, five years, and so on and so forth. So, again, still pretty good. That is what is going on in the traditional markets. And then also, some people have brought this to my attention, they go, Rob, you don't understand because there's this new Delta variant as far as COVID. Do not give me a thumbs down because you don't like COVID or the Delta variant stories. That is not the purpose of this one. I hate how I have to preface that every single time because when I talk about politics or talk about some stories, people will give me a thumbs down. It's like, Delta variant doesn't exist. That's not the point. That's not the point if it exists or not. What we're talking about is how that affects the market. So, real quick, Dow fell about 725 points. Monday, 2.1%. All right, Dow plummeted more than 1,000 points six times last year. So, yesterday was a pretty big day for the traditional markets. So, where are they going to go to recoup some of those losses? Well, there's always crypto. And I got this Bitcoin laying around just like Jim Cramer, who sold all his Bitcoin for I think it was like a new house or something or his mortgage. So, yeah, good for that guy. Anyhow, long-term bond rates continue to slide as well. A sign that fixed income investors are now far more worried about a Delta variant-induced economic slowdown than they are about rising inflation fears. The yield in the 10-year U.S. Treasury sank below 1.2% for the first time since February. So, here's the thing. We take a look at these T-bills and we're taking a look at what's going on. Yes, it did slide down a lot. And this is where people keep their money if they want to be like the safest option. Again, you could dispute it in the comments. I don't care. But it fell below 1.2. And that's a sign for life's traditional players to go. There's something wrong. However, if you just look at today, we've been fluctuating between 1.2, 1.23, somewhere around there, 1.21. So, a little bit of a recovery. So, that in and of itself is pretty good. So, I'm not so concerned about that. But again, I think it sends a signal to the traditional players. Also, as consumer prices continue to rise, CPI, which the spending ability of the dollar has gone down, consumer price index, and all those things, some worry about a more insidious threat, the possibility that another COVID-19 outbreak could slow the economy, even as inflation pressures mount. That's a phenomenon known as stagflation. And we talked about that as far as decreasing GDP. There's also an increase in the unemployment rate, which could lead to stagflation. So, that is one of those concerns. But it doesn't seem to be that big of a thing as we make a nice little recovery today in the traditional market space. That is that part. What is going on in our space? Well, we're at 1.2 trillion, down another 3.5%, almost 4% for the day. Let's take a look at what is going on with coins. So, I'm going to take a look here. Over the last 24 hours, 3% down for Bitcoin, 2% for Ethereum, 1790. I would like to say nobody cares, but some people keep talking about Tether and all these different things. Look, I know there's this big issue about Tether printing and things like that, but Tether hasn't printed for quite some time. People are worried about this audit. Look, the market cap of Tether is $60 billion. Let's just say for argument that they are a shady company and they are just printing things out of thin air. If we lose so many billions because we just don't have it backed up, then we lose it, right? Our market cap is $1.2 trillion. We used to have $2.5 trillion. Is it really that big of a thing? If 20 to 30 billion, let's say half, let's just say $60 billion goes out the door. Well, $60 billion, like, okay, well, that is what it was, and that's another black eye for cryptocurrency because that's just what happened. But would it cause everything to crash to zero? No. So I don't really care. When I say Tether nobody cares, maybe it's just me. I just don't care. I know people keep asking about it. It's just not on my radar. Binance coin, down, down. Everything's down. Everything's just down. That's just how it is. So what happened and what is going on with this crypto dip? Well, as we talked about before, everybody likes these stories. Well, I don't like these stories, but it seems like CNBC and CNN and NBC and all these places, they love these fud stories, you know, where the crackdown of the Bitcoin miners and then JP Morgan seems to really like this story about the grayscale shares. And just so you know, the grayscale Bitcoin shares, shares not Bitcoin, has an unlock period. Let me blow this up so you can see it. And so for people who have invested in these shares, there's an unlocked period of around six months or 12 months, some around, I think it's like six months now. Check me in the comments. But after that timeframe, those shares become unlocked and they can sell the shares, the shares, the shares of their Bitcoin stock, of their grayscale Bitcoin shares. So it's not like they're selling Bitcoin. However, JP Morgan has latched onto this and a couple of different news outlets and they say it's going to be awful. But I will just make mention that. Can you see this date of 21 July? See the most, the highest point of these grayscale shares? Well, today's 20th of July. So I think people, as they talk about fud stories, they can just kind of point this goal, it's going to be a massive massacre, it's going to be a sell off and people believe it and they start to sell. So there is that part and it is what it is. Also, I like this one from George over at Crypto's RS. He was looking at some data analytics and he saw that somebody had moved in an exorbitant amount of Bitcoin into Coinbase Pro. I think it was equivalent to like $2.5 billion. And it was moved in there. The way it sounds to me like what George said, it was moved, I don't think it was sold. But maybe it was sold. And if it was sold, that means it was sold, not OTC, but just as like a retail investor. And that may have caused another slide of Bitcoin. But sure, if you want to sell it, go right ahead. And that's just a couple of different reasons on top of all the different stories that we've heard about, on top of the Guggenheim, on top of everything else. So these are things that really it could come down to as to why it is. It's all about sentiment. And I can't stress this enough. It's not like the fundamentals have changed.  We're going to ban crypto globally. No one has come out and said, oh, the Satoshi Wallet got moved and he sold all his Bitcoin. And there hasn't been a double spend.  There's so much different developments and partnerships and even institutions really buying a ton of it. There was a great segment over on Alex Maschioli's show where he spent like five minutes just talking about all the different institutions that are dumping a ton of money into crypto. It's like, what's really going on? So this leads me to my next point about long-term thinking. And I'll get to the point about selling a bit because it's just something you have to consider. But this is kind of how I see things. Long term, just long term.  It's an old type of statistic. It might not be true anymore. I'm not for sure. But it is, I mean, in my case, all the businesses that I've started, they haven't been profitable in the very beginning.  But you have to work at it. And there is no get rich quick things. So this is what I think is how a bunch of businesses saw things as far as Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining. So this was on July 17. It states the U.S. is the second biggest mining destination on the planet, accounting for nearly 70% of all the world's Bitcoin miners. Marathon Digital's Fred Thiel expects most new miners relocating North America to be powered by renewables. So that's good for the car salesman. He can finally get off his high horse and start accepting Bitcoin. There's two things I want to make mentioned. First of all, Thiel said this, 500,000 formerly Chinese minor rigs are looking for homes in the U.S., said Marathon Digital's Fred Thiel. If they are deployed, it would mean North America would have closer to 40% of global hash rate by the end of 2022. That is amazing. And here's what it comes down to as far as the mentality of the long-term investor. America's rising dominance is a case of luck and preparation, which is how all businesses work. A little bit of luck, a little bit of preparation. The harder you work, the more luck you get. The U.S. has quietly been building up its hosting capacity for years before Bitcoin miners actually started coming to America. Companies across the country made a gamble that eventually, if adequate infrastructure were in place, they would set up shop in the U.S. Really what's going to come down to this is that the gamble is paying off big time. When Bitcoin crashed in late 2017, remember those days? The wider market entered a multi-year crypto winner. There wasn't much demand for big Bitcoin farms. U.S. mining operators saw their opening, jumped to the chance to deploy cheap money to build up the ecosystem in the States. So when we talk about this as far as the mentality, the get rich quick person looks at this and goes, everything's drying up. I'm not going to make any money. I'm going to cut my losses and I'm out of here. And that's fine. You can do that. I'm not here to be anybody's dad and be like, you shouldn't do those things, whatever else. This is an investment opinion on investment advice. But the more that I look at the long-term investors, the ones that go, you know what, there's an opportunity here. We're not 100% sure if it's really going to work out. But what we're going to do is we're going to take a little bit of a gamble and we're going to put this money into the infrastructure because this was in 2018, mind you, when China had like a lockhold of the mining operations, they said, we think they're going to come over here. And when they do, it's going to be big. And it seems to have worked out pretty well. We did a video yesterday about Warren Buffett and he talks about the 20 punch card rule where he says, if you only got 20 opportunities to invest in something and it was just that punch card, you would think real hard for the thing that you actually invested into. And all the things that you are kind of like wishy-washy on, you wouldn't do it because you do a heck of a lot more research. And I think that's really what it comes down to as far as like these Get Rich Quick and these meme coins. People are looking at that now and they're like, man, I'm just going to get out because I shouldn't have done that. And that's good. You should have. You shouldn't have. And there's no money in that. And people will say, ah, what the community and da, da, da. It takes a lot more than just the community to make a project run. There is a business structure. There is difference. People that actually have to come in. There's actual, I mean, just infrastructure that has to be done and partnerships and things like that and in marketing. So I don't know what to tell you. But to finish this up, it states, your companies like North America Crypto Mining Operator Core Scientific kept building out hosting space all through the crypto winter. That takes vision so that they had the capacity to plug in new gear. And he states, a majority of the new equipment manufactured from May through December was shipped to the US and Canada. So again, this is the mentality to really take a look at as far as like the long term. When things are down, this isn't the opportunity. This isn't the time to go, poor is me and oh, I shouldn't have done this and no, it's just awful. Maybe it's time to take a look at what the big picture is and go from there. Now having said that, it's really time to buckle down and take a look at some five to 10% penalties and what I call the cash out. So what I'm talking about here is first of all, see this guy in the thumbnail? That should never be you. That should never be you.  Look, in 2017, like I talk about, like when I was, I dumped a lot of money into it. I was like, hmm, well, I'm not in the business of losing money. I don't see how this couldn't work out in the long run. So I'm just gonna keep the other cost averaging. I did that for four years, worked out pretty well. And I might tell you what to do again, do your own research. But that should never be you because even if you are depending on where you got in, it really comes down to, you know, what do you want to do from this point on? And there was, when I talk about the five to 10% penalty, this was actually a pretty good statement from Alex Becker. And he came out and he said, look, he said, I think the market is going to go down. And I'm looking all these different things. So I'm going to sell everything. And if it's, you know, if it goes the opposite way, let's say it pumps up 5% or 10%. Well, I sold everything. I'll probably just buy back and then just ride the wave up. I got to pay a penalty. And that's my five to 10% penalty. And I was like, man, it makes a lot of sense actually. Now there's one caveat there. And that is that you can't keep doing that forever. Because if you keep taking 10% penalties, eventually it's 100%. It doesn't really make a lot of sense. So for some people, if they're looking at this and they look at the RSI, they look at the MACD, they look at the Bollinger Bands, they look at the research, they look at the news, and they go, you know what? I think things are going to go down. Then this is where, again, I'm not a channel of pure hopium. This has to be your decision. This is not financial advice. I can tell you what I'm going to do later. But for you, if you decide, you know what, I think it's going to go, I think Bitcoin is going to go down to $15,000, $10,000, $6,000. Well, then if that's what you believe, because you've done all the research and everything else, then the decision is pretty much made for you. And you probably should sell. And then you should sit back and then buy back in at that $6,000 price point. I personally don't believe that's a good thing to do. I don't think it's going to go down to $6,000 or whatever craziness is out there. But if that's what you believe, that's what you believe. And as time goes on, I've just seen that the investors that just kind of like take their time and they just kind of hang around and they just don't even pay attention to the charts are the ones that usually make it out. But again, it's all up to you. You can keep taking those penalties and just sit back or you cannot. Here's what I'm doing. So when we talk about that, you have to remember that I've been doing these videos for a while and I call it the exit strategy. And I've talked about this ad nauseam before and I didn't really talk about it too much. But you have to understand for me, the reason why I'm not so bummed out and everything else, first of all, I dollar cost average a heck out of it. And the second one is I stuck to the plan. And the plan was to sell a little bit along the way and take your profits like my friend CJ over Mark Rebellion. Nobody, everyone broke taken profits. And that's pretty much what it is. And what did I do with it is I did this. Whoops, not this one. I did this. I deployed that into what I wanted to do, which was I put 10% I left it in cash 25% roughly, I didn't do like perfect, I'll always be honest with you, stable coins. 35% was property between land and housing and 10% went back to my Amazon and 50% I dumped into the crypto so I can actually stake it. And then of course, the other one was my IRA. And I did this because I'm like, I don't know what's going to happen. I'm not that smart. I got a diversify just a little bit and it worked out okay. Now, did I do this? I keep doing that wrong one. Did I do this perfectly? Well, for Ethereum, I did because $2,000, that was pretty easy. It was like, yeah, I'll stop 20% not a big deal because I didn't think it was going to, you know, I was like, I'll probably go to 10,000, but I want to take profits along the way. And then there was the chain link one. I didn't follow this to a T and I wish I would have, but I would have been totally sold out of chain link, but I did get to the $32 mark. I think it topped out at 55 bucks. And I've sold a lot. I've sold a lot of chain link and that's just what it is. And then for, let's see, for Bitcoin, you know, I think I, yeah, at 60,000 I sold a little bit, but it wasn't it wasn't that much. And again, I didn't stick to that 20% like I should have, should have, but I didn't, but I can't be myself over it. I can't be myself up over it because it's like, well, I did as best I could. Eos, I still got a little bit, but I got rid of that stuff. Cardano, $1.10, already 220. I did not hit the 220 even though it did go above it. I just held on because I thought it would go higher. That was my fault. So I stuck, I tried to stick to my plan as best as possible, but didn't really work out because I got greedy. And then Theta, I did sell a good amount of Theta because I was trying to stick to my strategy, but I didn't get, I didn't sell all the way that I like I should have, but I still hold. And that's really what it comes down to. So am I, did I sell at the top? No. Do I wish I would have sold the top? Sure. Is that ever going to happen? No.  I both sold it 64 cents. That was like the closest I've ever gotten, but that's about it. And then I can see my portfolio as time goes on and there's some dips.  And I'm like, well, that's a bummer, but guess what? I believe it's going to go up. I took a little bit of profits over there. And what did I do? Well, I just showed you, I put it into different properties. I put it into stablecoins. I just stick it around. And that's why I think the next big thing I want to try to get to everybody is that if you got a plan, just stick to your plan.  And that's it. So look, that's it for today. It's a lot to digest, but I thought it was important because as time goes on in July and maybe even part of August, we're not going to have a great month. And I don't think it's going to be that good. So really, it comes down to what do you want to do. And I'm not here to say that I'm diamond hands going to hold forever, diamond hands. It's really up to you and what's best for you and your family. That's all I got. So look, thanks for sticking around. I appreciate it. If you liked the video, give it a thumbs up, give it a like. I appreciate that. Also consider subscribing. A lot of things we talk about on this channel are time sensitive. And again, we are going to do that price prediction. Who does a price prediction in a bear market, this guy, because I think people need a little bit of hope. And this is what I believe. And then we're going to have Guy. Well, actually, we're going to have Dave from Crazy for Cryptos. He's going to be on. This is at 7 p.m. Texas time. Dave's over in Thailand, so we got to do it at 7 because it's like 8 a.m. Guy did a prerecorded one because he's in the UK and it's like 2 a.m. and I'm not going to have him wake up at 2 in the morning. But he's already sent me the video. I've already looked at it. It's pretty interesting. It's pretty cool to see Guy like just do like an off the cuff type of thing straight and not have a reading from a teleprompter. That was pretty cool. And that's it. So thanks so much. I appreciate it. See you in the next one.


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Senegal is in the throes of what many are calling a constitutional coup as President Mackie Saul is postponed elections. The country was set to hold elections on February 25th after years of protests against Saul who is not eligible to run for a third term. The decision to postpone the polls was approved by parliament which was originally set to discuss another proposal by the opposition for a delay due to alleged irregularities in the process. But this was used by the president to postpone the polls instead and during the parliamentary vote police entered the premises and removed opposition deputies. It's quite confusing and there's a lot of chaos and to understand the situation in Senegal we go to Abdul. Abdul, thank you so much for joining us. Very dramatic developments in Senegal, could you maybe first take us through what has been happening. Many people in fact calling it a coup by the president himself. Well Prashan, this is called constitutional coup because this is something which is you can say at least unique in some ways for Senegalese politics. It has the Senegal does not have a history of the kind of things which has happened in the last few days in which President Macky Sal has basically gotten an extension until December 15th to his term was getting over it on February, sorry in April 1st week and now he will be president till December 15th as per the resolution adopted by the Senegalese parliament national assembly. It basically the resolution which was proposed by the opposition PDS Senegalese Democratic Party which basically supported by Macky Sal's party and got but the resolution was voted in a way where most of the other people, most of the other members of the parliament who opposed this resolution were thrown out of the parliament were not allowed to debate on it and so and so forth and the resolution was adopted. So the way it is adopted and the way it has happened as I say unprecedented development in Senegal that's why it is called the constitutional coup by the opposition members. It means that the election which was scheduled later this month may not happen until December 15 and there are also apprehensions that this may even be further delayed and because it depends and this also means that the opposition which basically it basically it means the opposition which has been opposing Macky Sal's policies and kind of it was sure that he will not be contesting the election this time will basically remain in power in a way as opposition is claiming unconstitutionally for and that basically creates a possibility of kind of some kind of danger to the political stability in the country and the freedom of the people to vote and elect their representatives. So that's what has happened several people who are protesting the move have been arrested and in fact the government has ordered suspension of internet and other in fact some of the media houses also claim that they have been shut down following the reporting they carried out from the opposition point of view. Abdul tensions have been building up in Senegal for a while right now we have seen considerable protests by various sections and a very strong crackdown by Macky Sal's government on these protests so could you maybe also take us through what has been the situation over the past few years what is the kind of opposition why are they are proposing his policies. Well Senegal in under Macky Sal has basically implemented a kind of economic policies which basically are very unpopular among the people. This has led to of course the economic problems in the country and that basically has mobilized people behind a leader called Usman Sonko who emerged very popular and there were a large number of demonstrations which were carried out not only by Sonko but other groups which basically are coalition of different civil society groups and organizations which have been historically opposed to imperialist and colonialist interventions, neoliberal policies and so and so forth and that coalition basically is seen as a threat to the establishment in the country and that's why you will see the coalition which has emerged during the vote in the parliament between the main opposition party and the ruling party in the country. There are also claims that the constitution institutions in the country have been demolished by Macky Sal's government including the courts and the constitutional council which basically oversees the elections in a way and this has led to attacks assaults on all kinds of opposition candidates. In fact one of the major reasons which has been cited for postponing the election by the Macky Sal government itself is that the constitutional council cancelled the candidature of some of the prominent opposition members including Usman Sonko which has seen as the face of the popular movement. But this of course there is a sense that this is used as an excuse because Sonko has basically extended support to another candidate Basirao Faye and Faye seems to be gaining ground in the country because he was standing for the issues which were raised by the popular movement in the country primarily the economic suffering, the colonial interventions, the destruction of the institutions in the country in the last few years by Sal's government. So this is a peculiar excuse made by Sal in basically to retain power and to postpone. In fact there was a speculation that Sal wanted to contest for the third term defying the constitutional provision in the country and that also could be one of the reasons that he now seeks extension through this particular move which is widely considered as unconstitutional in the country. Abdul, thank you so much for that update we will get back to you when there is more news but do stay back because we are going to ask you some questions about our next story as well. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in West Asia again with a variety of aims including trying to finalize some version of a ceasefire and purportedly restricting the escalation of Israel's war on Gaza. However the US itself is responsible for and is a catalyst for this escalation as it is clear from its attacks on Iraq, Syria and Yemen. The US also continues to push for some kind of normalization between Arab countries and Israel. However Saudi Arabia has made it clear that it will not consider this until an independent Palestinian state is established. Meanwhile on Monday the UN Security Council discussed the US attacks in the region. To get a sense of what's happening we go back to Abdul. Welcome back Abdul a very heated debate in the UN Security Council on the situation in the wider West Asia region. Could you take us to some of the major arguments that have come up after the US launched these strikes over the past weeks targeting Yemen, Iraq and Syria? Well the meeting security council meeting emergency meeting was called by Russia and of course basically saying that what happened on February 2 in Iraq and Syria basically constitutes a threat to regional and global security. And the representatives which spoke includes both Syrians and Iraqi ambassadors along with Iranian ambassador and all of these three countries basically raised similar issues which basically rejected US claims that what happened on February 2 was a retaliatory attack in self-defense because US forces have been attacked in the region and three soldiers died in Jordan. These countries the representatives claimed that this is not the root cause for the attack. This actually happened because one of course what is happening in Gaza Israel and Palestine in general US support to the Israeli occupation is the primary reason for the resentment against the US forces across the region one and the second thing is the US presence of US forces in the region itself is illegal and constitutes an occupation. So until the occupation ends both the Israeli occupation in Palestine and the US forces withdraw from the region those attacks will not end and that the similar arguments made by all three countries. Russia in fact said that the US attacks are unprecedented in the sense that this is the largest attack since Iraq invasion in 2003 which US has carried out in the region and this basically is an attempt to drag Iran into the larger regional conflict and basically escalate the tension at the regional level which basically completely is against the US stated policy of not trying to control the conflict and not letting it grow at the regional level. Similar arguments were made by Chinese representative as well and most of the other country except for the UK which basically bought the US argument that this basically constitute a retaliatory action and so forth. Rest of the countries most of the rest of the countries opposed US attacks and basically demanded a much more proactive action proactive steps from the UN Security Council. Of course this constitutes a much more of a kind of intention rather than its action because of course we know Security Council will not be able to act this without US being party to that action and that US will not do such thing harming its own interest in the region. Also where does where do you how do you see things heading in the next few weeks we know of course that they have been attacked by resistance forces in all these countries against bases US continuously retaliating the situation in Yemen is there as well and Blinken now visiting the region so where do we you know how does things seem poised at this point. Well as you rightly pointed out Blinken is in the region again this is the fifth visit he is making in the region not right now he is in Israel and it seems that his visit again has failed to achieve whatever goals he had stated basically whatever where the goals may pointed out earlier. For example he visited Saudi Arabia saying that reiterating the US claims that US wants normalization of relationship between Israel and Saudi Arabia in fact if you see media coverage most of the western media seems to kind of hint that Saudi Arabia is ready to normalize relationship with Israel at any moment but if you see the statement made by officially made by the Saudis today sorry on on Wednesday it basically rejects such a claims and says that there will be no normalization of relationship between Saudi Arabia and Israel until there is a Palestinian state and a peace in the region peace in Palestine. So it seems that US is basically what Blinken's visit as well as the attacks which are carried out in Iraq and Syria and Yemen basically shows a very confused US stance at least on the regional situation at this moment they do want to kind of create some kind of situation where Saudi Arabia and Israel come together and there is a larger acceptance of Israel in the region but at the same time they are not able to convince even the Israelis not to do any such a provocation for example there was an attack on Syria the day Blinken visited Israel and and that again I said before goes against the goals of Blinken one of the goals as I said before is the attempt to restrain the conflict from spreading in the region. So and as far as the Iraq and Syria is concerned the resistance in Iraq and Syria is concerned of course both the PMF, Popular Mobilization Forces and what we generally call Islamic Resistance Forces have reiterated their claims and who these of course that they will not stop attacking US forces or the target Israeli targets until there is a ceasefire in Gaza and there is attempts to make a larger peace in the region means the two state solutions and so it seems that US is not getting this primary message and that basically is a fact that even the ceasefire agreement which was which is right now is being discussed in Qatar is also not getting traction for the reason that there is no concrete steps taken by the US to kind of create that confidence where it seems that the the basic concerns raised by the players in the region and the countries are even attempted to address to be right. Thank you so much Abdul for those updates. 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Hey, this is Brett, and this 2021 Ford F-150 Super Crew Short Box XLT is stock number 12775ZA. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used light-duty truck headquarters. This 2021 Ford F-150 has the 3.5-liter V6 EcoBoost engine, puts out 400 horsepower. It's combined with the 10-speed automatic transmission. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video, inside, underneath, start it up, and take a look under the hood. Black agate metallic or over-carbonized gray metallic is the color scheme. I shoot all my videos in 4K, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now, because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition options, and cleanliness of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and how I do things here at Summit Automotive, consider clicking the subscribe button to my YouTube channel, and then click the bell notifications and you'll get updates every time I do videos here at Summit Automotive. This one comes with the 18-inch chrome-dalloy rims, and it has General Grabber LT265 70R 18 tires. These tires have right around 60% of the tread left. Frame and underbody looks very good on this truck. Front fender is in fantastic condition. I didn't see any dents or dings on there. This one does come with the LED headlamps, LED running lights, and the LED fog lamps. Front bumper is in excellent shape. I didn't see any dents or dings on there, and it does come with the chrome tow hooks. This one does have the 360 camera. You get the chrome-trimmed grille. The hood is in really nice shape as well. Passenger side front fender looks really good, too. No dents or dings on that. And the passenger side rim, no major scuffs or scrapes. Now, as you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. Take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesmen know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you. Very clean down that side, this passenger side, back rim, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. And the back tires have just about as much tread as the front tires. Frame and underbody is very nice and clean, and it is like that all the way underneath as all the remaining factory exhaust, and the lower rockers all look really good. Comes with the nice factory chrome step bars, FX4 off-road suspension package, chrome-tipped exhaust. Coming around to the back, rear bumper is in perfect condition, no dents or dings on there. It does have the backup parking sensors, full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch and seven pin wiring, it also has this trailer connector, it's for the trailer backup assist system, tailgates in excellent shape, I didn't see any dents or dings on there. Has the shock down assist tailgate, has the access soft roll up tonneau cover, has a spray and bed liner, and that is in very nice shape, it is a bullet liner. And you get the LED bed lights back here. You also get a 120 volt 400 watt plug-in back here as well, you can turn those lights off with that button right there. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly, and as you go down the driver side just as clean as that passenger side, no dents, no dings on the box, and for full disclosure this back rim is in excellent shape as well. Has the capless feel fill, and down the rest of the side of the truck, cab and doors all look really good, it's insinine dents, insinine dings, and it does have the driver side door code entry. If you ever wanted to find out what your door code is for your 15 to 22 super duty in the upper right hand part of the screen, I got a video showing you how to find that. Blind spot monitoring, LED side lights, part of the 360 camera right there. Inside the XLT package gives you the grey cloth interior. There are no rips, there are no tears, kind of a cool design. It's almost like a retro look with that material. Power driver seat, factory all weather floor mats, these front seats are heated. You do get auto headlamps, power drop down tailgate, tilt, telescopic steering wheel, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, and inside the door looks really good, we'll take a quick look at the back seats. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats, no rips or tears back here, and it does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Power sliding rear window with the built in rear defrost.  Seats go down like so, and the back doors has your child safety locks, and everything, bottoms of the doors all look really good, we'll hop inside, check out the miles, the radio, and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. Kind of a really crazy feature on this one too that I'm going to show you, I'm going to try and dim this down here, and yes we are going to be putting some fuel in this truck right after this video, 26,890 miles on this truck you do get the digital speedometer, and this one has the lane departure warning right there, cruise controls, lane departure, volume controls, on the left information center controls, bluetooth controls, the 10 speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift, and I believe this is the sync 12 inch radio, has the factory navigation system on there, it is huge, big radio, has AM, FM, and serious XM radio capabilities, of course the navigation system which you can make big or you can put over here, I mean you can do so much with this radio, have all your different apps, has Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, this is also where your backup camera shows up and once we start up the truck I can show you that, actually we can do the camera right there, there's your 360 cam, your front view cam, you can change all the different cameras, you can do your cargo cam, a wide view of the front, a narrow view of the front, and then when you're backing up you can obviously get your camera right there, there's your start stop, downhill assist control, stability control, there's your pro trailer backup assist, and that's what that weird plug-in is by the receiver hitch that we looked at, and what that wiring's for, factory brake controller, push button, four wheel drive, you have your different drive modes, and it looks like it has rear axle lock as well, dual climate controls, heated seat buttons, down here is your USB, USB-C, you get a keyless entry, remote start, power drop down tailgate, another 100 tonnie volt 400 watt plug-in, and another 12 volt power point, you keep that top club box open with that button right there, and then your regular glove box is there, passenger side, floor mat and seat are in fantastic condition, I don't think this truck's ever been smoked in, smells very clean inside, and the headliner is absolutely perfect, you do get map lights up there, we'll start it up and then we'll take a look under the hood and I want to show you this one crazy feature in just a second here, first off there's your backup camera so that's working nicely, now if I put it in a drive and I open up the door, watch what happens to the shifter handle, I'm not pressing anything, it'll automatically put it back in the park if you open the door while it's in drive, really really crazy safety feature, but I thought that was kind of neat, wanted to show you, anyways no check engine lights or anything like that, we'll take a quick look under the hood, I'll show you all those LED running lights and headlights, and I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video, you'll have been able to verify the quality condition options and cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside and out, those headlights are very nice and bright and under the hood we have the 3.5 liter EcoBoost V6 engine, twin turbo, once again 400 horsepower on this truck pretty amazing out of a V6 and once again this truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go there is your emission sticker, shocks are working nicely and I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint and to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, halftones, recoder tons, one tons, you name it we got to go to that website right there is summitauto.com, full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto remember to like, subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there click the bell notifications you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day here at summitautomotive in fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to my YouTube channel the upper left the link to more F-150 videos that I've done in the upper right linked to this vehicle on our website in the lower left and linked on how to find your door code for your 15 to 22 F-150 in the upper or in the lower right click those check us out and we're super excited to help you with this ultra clean 2021 Ford F-150 crew cab short box XLT FX4 in a gate black over carbonized gray metallic thanks again for checking out the video remember to like, subscribe and share on my YouTube channel I really appreciate it thanks again


With the first half issues, it's been a trend most of the season, at least in losses. How do you try to fix that and get out to faster, stronger starts? I think we have to not stall in the red zone. Great play by Tajé that forced a defensive pass interference, took a sack, and then ended up a yard short on 3rd and 14th. Missed a field goal. Come back and gained 13 yards with Derrick. Had a holding, had a face mask, had another face mask. Ultimately, obviously ended up punting. I think we need to, we gained some yards, 23 yards AJ. Next play was a false start. So those are a lot of self-inflicted wounds. That's really just not allowing us to get into drives. Because when we have gotten it down to the red zone, we've continued to score touchdowns. And so I'm just not hurting ourselves, not killing ourselves. Is that something that you've observed at all? If the things that I just talked about is because of energy, then then we should focus on energy. But I don't know, committing penalties and holding and face masks. Last I checked, that didn't have anything to do with energy. Going down the stretch last year, it seemed like your winning formula revolved around 22. This year, is there an attempt to form an identity on offense? And where does Henry fall in that picture? He's a very large part of it. As you can see that once we were able to stay on track, like we were in the second half, it was a large part of it. Had a couple screens, a catch and run out of backfield. We ran the ball, we were able to block 59 and gain yards. But because of the way things went in the first half, it made it hard. Like I said, we had 11 plays out of the first 21 plays that were either first and 15, second and 10 plus, third and extra long, third and 14. Those are tough spots to be in. When you want to try to have an identity to run the football, throw play passes, run boots, run screens, mix in, drop back passes, those are tough down in distances to run that. But when we can stay on track and run it, throw play passes, throw screens, you can see that there was some effective and good football. Did you get more in that first half than you've been using? Was that a plan going in? Why? Why was he? Well, I know that when we handed it to him, we gained 22 yards on two runs. That's pretty efficient. Yep, we would take 22 yards on two runs, which is what we got. And so those were plays that we liked. Again, the results were there, unfortunately. On one carry, we fumbled. In the games where you've not been able to get anything going in the first half had, I think, been shut out four times in the first half this year, other than the penalties, have you found any common denominators that might be faculty to do that? Other than not scoring? Yes. Yeah. I think just when guys, we have to recognize when we see a look during the game that maybe somebody ran last week against us, that that might have worked, that we've prepared for and we've coached, but maybe hadn't showed up as much on film, or we just have to be ready. Hey, if there's five defensive linemen and they're all down in a stance at the line of scrimmage, we have to reasonably expect that there's going to be some kind of game. There's going to be some kind of twist or pick game, so that you continue to have carryover from week to week. And just understand what's going on and how we're playing the game and the things that we have to do, and essentially the keys to the game for us to have success. And that was being able to block 59, put a hat on 59. And when we did that, we honestly gained yards. Go back and track it. And when we did it for whatever reason, whether somebody missed a block or someone missed ID or there was some communication at the line of scrimmage, we didn't gain any yards. We knew that our ability to get down to the red zone and continue to score touchdowns was going to be a key. We just didn't get down there soon enough. So we just have to make sure that we're ready to go and that we're not hurting ourselves early in the game. And when we do get it down there, that we're able to string some plays together like we did the other day, whether we get it down there by a big player, it happened to be a penalty.   And what has to happen there to... Yeah, we just have to make a play. You know what I mean? We got to get them on the ground. They pushed the pile for two yards and give them credit. They made the play and pushed the pile and we didn't get them on the ground. And we still have an opportunity to go play football on a 40-yard line. Be tough for them to score from the 40 with a field goal or anything like that.  We've been through this before, whether it's on the 10-yard line or it's after a fake punt or a fumble or a turnover or a sudden change. And we've done that. We've done that where we've had a sudden change situation and they've gone out there and responded. And that's no different than a sudden change situation. How about Malcolm Butler? Malcolm's probably not gonna make it this week so I would say probably not good. You mentioned down in distance. Dion's longest run was 15 yards. I think it was on first and 20. Is there something to that where you feel like Dion is kind of like that, get out of trouble option? Well, I just think that there's certain plays that we like and maybe in this case, Dion knowing that there might be some space in there for his skill set to be able to take advantage of that. And again, I felt confident that handing a ball off to Dion and those plays that we had up for him were good options. Gained 15 yards and then gained seven yards on another, I would say quick hitter where he did a nice job and a hole to make a really good cut. That's a possibility. We'll let you know when we find out more. How do you evaluate the job that Arthur Smith has done so far this season? Well, I think that the value on all of our jobs is below average because we're four and five. So we haven't played well enough and we haven't coached well enough. That's where I value all our efforts, starting with me. So I guess kind of the same question. How many guys are living up right now to the value or the expectation you have for them? And if they're not, do you guys have to reassess how many touches certain guys are getting or where your focus is? Well, the thing when you talk about touches, I think that there's plays that I think are designed maybe for guys, but I don't want to fall into that trap. I want to make sure that the one thing I coach the receivers is you can't control how many times they throw you the ball. You can only control that you're open. When you do run a route and it's our job to evaluate that you are open and then the quarterback ultimately makes the decision where to go with the football. And we have to coach him up when there's favorable looks or somebody's taken away, the first option to be able to progress, but then to be able to do that, we need great effort from the offensive line, which it all ties together. And then the expectations, again, it's not we talked to him about not looking around and saying, man, who's fault is that? It's everybody's fault. Nobody's played good enough for us to remain consistent, but there's been times where we have played well and there's times where everybody's performed. Whether we drop a ball or fumble, those are all things that contribute to not playing well. I guess if there aren't many guys that are living up to the expectation they have or you have or whatever, do you have to reevaluate what you're doing in totalities and offense because no one's playing well? Well, that's not, I don't think I said that, that no one's not playing well. No one's playing well enough. And that's how I look at it. I would hate for somebody to walk in here today and say, I did my job. That would be the absolute worst attitude that we could possibly have. Is that, well, I did what I was supposed to do. Maybe some of the rest of these guys could get going. I don't want that attitude. And I hope that I didn't come across and try to answer your question and say that they're not because there's times where we are. But when you lose, everybody can do a little bit more. Everybody can coach better. Everybody can play better. And everybody has to do that for us to win. That's a common theme that we hear a lot. As you address those, do you continue to hammer away at them the same way or do you look for other ways to address similar problems? I try to explain and I spend a lot of time on penalties. I mean, we sit here on Thursday mornings with a video, with TV copy, with rules about how to play this game and what they're looking for. As it relates to points of emphasis, as it relates to defensive pass interference, offensive holding in the run game, hands to the face penalties, everything that really gets called.  Like that's what happens. And then if they, whatever reason, we flinch a young player that flinches on third and one and they get a first down. So we spent a lot of time on penalties. I understand how important it is. And it's not whether we agree with how they're calling it, it's that we have to, because as a player, you're never gonna be like, yeah, that was a good call. I mean, I understand that, but we have to be able to see and appreciate what those guys are looking for when they make penalties, when they call them, when the guy that's standing behind you, when they see you at the point of attack and they see your hands are outside of them and that player breaks the framework of your body. That's what they're looking for. So we do spend a lot of time and we'll have to continue to coach it and show them. And because it costs us, it costs us opportunities to move the football. How about implementing the offensive game plan? Is that something that you spend a lot of time in that room? Yep, it is. Because I feel like I can add value to say, hey, this is how they're playing it. Let's see if we can take advantage of this or what do we think of this play? And we talk through those things and we go down to the red zone. I say, you know, meet with Arthur and his staff and try to help wherever I can. So that being said, you said something along the lines yesterday of you were seeing different looks. Well, my point was about like, hey, we get, you normally wouldn't see five defensive linemen all upfront, covering everybody up right in a bare look and whether teams show that a lot, but we got that a lot, you know, from Tampa.   We were a little loose on the games, the twist game. And I guess that was my point that, you know, we have to be able to understand how the game is being played regardless of what maybe they have shown on film, that they said, okay, well, Tampa did this. And, you know, we show it to them and we correct it and they understand that, you know, you have a high probability of getting games in that situation and passing situation. So just continuing to get those guys working together. You know, you can't block games by yourself. It has to be done in tandem, using teamwork, communication and technique. Kind of not scoring in the first half, what kind of a challenge does that present to you as a head coach and how do you respond to that when that's happening? Well, the challenge is try to get them to play better, to understand how to do their job, understand that when they go out there, it's up to the 11 players on the field. It's up to the coordinator to get the call into them in a timely fashion to make adjustments on the sidelines. But then as players, when you go out there, it's them that have to work together. You know, I can't help them. Once it gets underneath 15, you can't talk to them anymore even if you had something to tell them. So just making sure that they're clean on the details, that they're gonna help them do their job better. Continue to rep technique, confidence, and get them to go play the game fast. There were some things that probably, I wouldn't say it was terrible, but there were a few instances where maybe having a guy that's been out there as much as Ben's been, you know, might have been avoidable. He was just seven and 15 kicking field goals this year, and how deflating- And we missed the extra point too, so we've missed nine kicks. Yeah, so man, how deflating is that? A lot. A team, and is the expectation, I guess, that Ryan settles in? The expectation is that they make them. Just, you know, that they make the kicks. Okay, maybe not the 56 starter, but we can't take a sack. I got that one, so eight kicks. What should have happened on the touchdown of the little past on the calendar? Well, I got picked. You know, we were in man coverage, fourth and two, and we got picked. We got picked down the field. We got picked and, you know, we couldn't get through. So last week about opportunity from four and four to really still finish with a good record, is your opportunity greatly diminished at four and four? I don't know. You'd have to check with all the analytics people that'll tell you what the percentage is for us. I'm not really sure, but I know that we're going to play a game this week, and we can't lose too much ground. I would agree with you. Like, now it's time to go. You got to win games in November. That's when the NFL season starts. So we, you know, we did, we took a step back in trying to do that, and we're going to try to take a step forward, and we're going to start that. As soon as these players get in here, they finish their workouts, coach them, teach them, get them some rest, get them healthy, and play a critical game here in our season.  How do you kind of start the practice week, not knowing whether it's my homes or more? Well, I think you always plan for it to be the, you know, the starter, kind of track his health. You know, they have a lot of weapons. They have plenty of speed that we're going to have to defend in the secondary. They have a very good tight end. We know what kind of runner McCoy is, now he can impact the game. So it'll be important that, you know, regardless of who plays quarterback, that we understand the weapons and the talent and the skill set that they have offensively, as well as what they're trying to do defensively. Ryan had a couple turnovers yesterday, obviously, and the first half struggles for the entire offense, but overall, did you still like the operation and the way things worked with him? I thought it was, I mean, there were some plays that he'd like to have back, like a lot of other players. But I think that there was some signs of good football.  But I felt like he stood in there. He took some shots. Scramble was a huge play. Again, there were some reeds I think he would have liked to have back, but I felt like there was a lot of positives, too. In a loss, not probably, Harold Landry? No, I don't think, no. I mean, again, I appreciate his effort, and he, you know, nobody played, I would say that nobody could possibly play their best game in a loss. That one would be tough for me to say. What kind of progress is Jarrell banking? I think that we'll continue to evaluate him and continue to try to get him back as soon as we can. I know that Jarrell wants nothing more to be able to play football for his team with these guys.  He's the reason he's been voted captain by his teammates. And I'm very proud of his effort, not only on the field, but in the classroom, in the meeting room, but then also trying to get back from what he's dealing with.