The Legion 7 is an outlier in the flagship gaming laptop market, relying on more than RGB to grab the attention of consumers. The 2022 version is completely powered by AMD, which should offer some advantages, mainly improved performance and efficiency thanks to AMD's smart technologies. The laptop exudes quality, having a fully aluminum lid and chassis. Compared to the Legion 5 and 5 Pro laptops, you get a lot of RGB, including a glowing Legion logo on the lid, lights inside the heat vents, and a long strip on the bottom panel. The laptop is very elegant, with sharp edges and rounded corners. It can be a bit difficult to carry around, weighing 2.53 kilograms but the profile is slim, measuring 19.4 millimeters. The lid shows a tiny bit of flex, but it opens with one hand, which is a show of quality. Thus, we see the base, with the keyboard and touchpad. There is next to no flex from the keyboard deck, while the keys themselves are very comfortable for typing and gaming. The touchpad is covered in glass, which is very smooth, along with being amazingly accurate. The input output is split between all three sides of Legion 7. The left side has two Type-C ports, both with DisplayPort 1.4 output. On the right, we see one more 10 gigabit Type-C port, an audio jack, and a shutter for the webcam. Lastly, most of the ports are on the back, with a LAN port, one 10 gigabit Type-C port, an HDMI 2.1 port, and two full-sized 5 gigabit USB ports. On the front, we see a familiar display, with a 16-inch 16-10 IPS panel with a QHD plus resolution. It's the same one that's found on the Legion 5 Pro, with great 470 nit peak brightness, high contrast ratio, and 92% sRGB coverage. Accuracy is decent out of the box but gets even better with our design and gaming profile. You can get it from the link in the description below the video. With a 99.99Wh battery pack and AMD hardware, we expected big things out of the Legion 7. However, the laptop only lasts for 5 hours of web browsing, or 5 hours and 33 minutes of video playback when paired with the Ryzen 7 6800H and the Radeon RX6850MXT. Only 2 per 100 people watching this video are subscribers. If you decide to just start following us, we'll be able to reinvest more in our laboratory thus making even more helpful videos for you. Thank you, you're awesome. The Ryzen 7 performs well but still falls behind the Intel 12th generation Alder Lake H series processors, with even the Core i5-12500H showing a higher score. The 6850MXT comes with 12GB of GDDR6 memory and shows similar performance to the 150W RTX3080. In games, we tested the GPU using an external monitor in full HD. At that resolution, there's hardly any game that can stop the RX6850MXT, except for Metro Exodus, which ran at the extreme preset, reaching 47 frames per second. In other games, you can expect well over 60 frames per second at the highest settings, as the GPU is made for much more than 1080p gaming. If you want to check out more footage of the RX6850MXT, we have a full playlist of games that we've tested over on our laptop media benchmarks channel. If you fancy any other GPU, we've probably tested it as well with the same attention to detail. The Legion 7 uses a big vapor chamber with two fans. The whole thing spreads across most of the motherboard, cooling the VRMs and GPU memory as well. It keeps the Ryzen 7 running at nearly 4GHz even after 15 minutes of testing. The temperature was also stable, albeit a bit high at 89°C. The Radeon GPU does even better, maintaining constant wattage of 140W. Our DNA2 cards are notorious for clocking highly, and the 6850MXT keeps a frequency of 2.4GHz even after 30 minutes of gaming. Comfort is alright, as the fans don't get super loud. On the other hand, the base gets noticeably warm, with a hot spot of 48.6°C. Finally, you want to know how the device will fare in the future, as game sizes get larger and RAM requirements increase constantly. There are two Sodium slots that fit DDR5 modules and 2M.2 PCIe X4 slots with generation for SSD support. We have a detailed teardown video, which shows how to get access to the memory and storage slots inside the Legion 7. All in all, the Legion 7 doesn't take full advantage of the AMD Advantage software that's available to it. While it does crush games, other similarly priced flagship gaming devices come with NVIDIA's top tier graphics, which are not only beasts in games, but also open the door to a lot of creator work. We have a more detailed version of this review over on our website, which goes fully in-depth.


How's it going guys? Welcome back to another J.H.R. view and today we're going to be looking at something a little bit more simple and kind of a short video But I didn't want to pass this up because I thought it was a really unique idea and the cable actually works for my cell phone itself So let's kind of zoom in on this brand right here. So this is mochi eerie As a cute little design right here. It looks like that. There's a bunny Cat and maybe a hamster It's a USB micro-c cable This is what it looks like Let's go ahead and zoom out a little bit. It comes in this really nice kind of pink packaging on the side It says that it's one meter long And that it charges things I guess on that one. I can't read it. So If we turn it to the back It gives kind of the generalization of the specs of it, I believe and we can just open this up I believe There's no tear tabs. So we're gonna need to Cut this one open. So I'm gonna pull out the trusty Humvee knife And make sure to cut away from myself and then we can close that up. So what's interesting about this We zoom in real quick. You don't normally ever see yellow USB cables It's always gray black or maybe like a blue and some of them have LEDs built-in But you never really see kind of a pastel Cute C yellow, which is really interesting Comes with an actual little rubber band on here, which can be reused And if we look down here, this is the main part right here that I wanted You get the little kind of cat cupcake and as you guys know, I really like cats So as you can see right here, it has two little kind of um Blushy faces on it That actually stick out and then he's doing kind of like a happy but murr kind of face If we turn it around It's just regular kind of yellow the material is actually kind of like a Soft plastic not too soft though that it's gonna break the cable is decently long From here all the way over to here, and if you don't know What a C cable looks like oh, there's a little face on here to a very cute This is what a C cable looks like Versus a micro which has the little prongs on the outside. So it's kind of what all Android phones are moving to very cute and Kind of funny or very paying attention to detail is they put the face on the exact same side on the opposite end as well Even though it's a cable connected So it's kind of any little detail that they decided to keep in there and make Very nice What do you guys think do you think that? USB C cables are a lot more sturdy and manageable than micro USB's. I know in my day I've used many micro USB's and they They got destroyed very fast between my PlayStation 4 controllers and using them for my I think it was my galaxy note It was very very fast. They would it break usually around this area But I haven't really had many issues with C's. I've had a few break, but not as many as the other What do you guys think? Very cute cord idea. I like it a lot and I'm excited to keep it around my computer So they can transfer files and charge my phone when I'm sitting at my desk a huge shout-out to my patreons Thank you guys so much for your support. You guys are awesome If you enjoyed this video, don't forget to comment rate and subscribe and as always I'll see you in the next video


Alright everyone, what is up and welcome back to another video. My name is Jacob McDonald and I'm going to discuss a topic that I wouldn't normally discuss on this channel but seeing as I've just competed, which I never really thought would happen again, but I have competed on a bodybuilding stage this year in 2020 twice actually and four times in total in my life. I'm still a lifetime natural athlete that means drug-free, performance enhancing drug-free. I do smoke marijuana and I'm open about that so if you think I'm not a natural athlete or a natural bodybuilder or a drug-free drug-free bodybuilder anymore because I smoke weed well well I guess this is obsolete but basically it's not because I'm talking about steroids today. I'm not talking about recreational drugs I'm talking about steroids you know which can be just as addictive I'm I'm lead to believe. So today's video, the title of this video is how I almost began taking steroids but never did and there's a story to it. There's a story that's that's progressed as I get older you know I'm almost 30 now I probably you know I'm gonna begin this story thinking about seriously taking steroids when I was about 24 so almost six years ago now you know I was 24 that wasn't early by any means but God I mean my knowledge I didn't even know about steroids when I started so thank God I had a little bit of naivety about me and I saw guys in the gym that were huge and vascular and ripped and I thought well I can get that eventually I mean if I train hard enough and eat well enough and do this for long enough and be consistent enough I can get there and that was my genuine attitude for the first six years of of of lifting first five years of lifting whether that lifting was considered serious or you know consistent by any means is you know is I guess questionable but certainly my my my underlying attitude and an opinion of any impressive physique that I saw whether it be in the gym or on the street or on the internet I firmly believed you know I guess it was I guess it was a little bit of narcissism it might have been on my part thinking that I can do anything and thinking that I'm the man you know and thinking that fuck if they look like that I can do it one day not knowing and you know not not having the knowledge that a lot of these physics not all okay not all because there are genetic outliers out there but a lot of these physiques that are really impressive you know have been built somewhat or are being maintained somewhat through the use of exogenous hormones such as testosterone and different different steroids so I guess I guess it all started back when I was 24 I began becoming obsessed with my testosterone level I began believing that I had a low testosterone level I got a couple of tests done my testosterone came back as normal possibly on the lower side of normal definitely not on the higher side definitely not on the higher side and I guess I guess I was sort of hoping that either my test would be like off the charts low or off the charts high and anything in the middle wasn't good enough for me you know I thought I thought I thought I want to get on testosterone I want my testosterone level to be jacked up so I can start making some crazy gains and start looking like all these guys that are so impressive that's how I felt but I was still I was still really I was still holding on to the fact that I was a natural I was still proud of that and and you know in the early days I used to preach it I used to preach hard in fact I probably used to hate on steroid users well not so much steroid users the ones that hit it you know the fake natties I began hating on but then at the end of the day that just fade it faded it faded with maturity it faded with age with time and I began you know taking on the opinion of anyone can do anything you know you're entitled to your you know you're entitled to your opinions on the subject you're entitled to do whatever the hell you want but I started forming opinions on steroids and on people and on I guess practices around taking steroids that I can then you know I guess tell people about such such things like make sure you fucking train five years at least hard heavy in the gym naturally to see what your body can do you know to see what kind of genetics you've got you know if you were to go down the steroid route start with a small dose of testosterone no not 500 milligrams fucking something like 250 get blood work done before you start take 250 milligrams of test for six or 12 weeks and see what your fucking body does mate see what your body does physically and also with your blood work I'm telling you your test testosterone to be jacked up you will put on 10 pounds of muscle like that it's crazy shit and you don't need much anyways guys I'm coming to you as a lifetime natural I still haven't taken anything I'm not saying it's out of the question but I haven't and so there are safe ways to do it I'm not completely against it I do have this this sort of I guess burning feeling in the back of my head sometimes that I'd love to as a man as a capable man I'd love to feel you know that superhuman feeling and strength and power at least once in my life but it hasn't happened yet anyways guys those feelings I had way back then and that's that's why I became not only interested but but tempted to go down that route so yeah I got my testosterone checked a couple of times I discussed it with the doctor you know I was looking at getting TRT I was looking at possibly getting a doctor's prescribed testosterone you know I was looking at you know hopefully my thoughts were from these tests my tests will come back low I will be an eligible candidate for TRT I was 24 years of age 24 and I was willing guys that's the thing okay even steroids TRT I wanted to do it through a doctor okay I wanted to do it you know right I wanted to do my blood work properly I wasn't ever gonna buy my testosterone or steroids from the black market so if I couldn't get a low testosterone level reading from the doctor it wasn't gonna happen but I was 24 guys and I was willing I was willing if it was slightly low if that doctor agreed to put me on TRT I was willing to do it and I was willing to shut down my natural level for the rest of my life and be on an injection or a fucking a gel or something for the rest of my life just so I can have a few more muscle gains at age 24 guys that is the kind of I hate to say it but that's the kind of decision people make and at the age 18 can you imagine the kind of decisions people make so thank God I've made it to my late 20s and you know I've seen it all I followed the YouTube fitness industry for fucking 10 years I've literally I've seen it all I've watched all the videos you guys have and now I'm here to give you guys my own opinion I've been talking for 10 minutes I don't know how the fuck I've done that anyways guys test level was fine I then I began looking into psalms because I thought no you know what I well it seems stupid now but I thought well I'm not gonna go and buy black market steroids let me go and buy black market pills I mean you know you started hearing of of the lesser side effects or no side effects you know steroid like results with no side effects and I was 25 at that point still obviously looking into options to enhance my lifting but possibly down a route that wasn't going to suppress me for my entire life and that's when I started looking at psalms thank God I didn't take the man because people started you know making videos about how safe they were but then slowly but surely these videos started coming out about people who were suppressing their their their testosterone level through just taking psalms and also through you know they were getting testosterone based side effects only on psalms you know what I mean steroid based side effects on psalms and it's like well shit man that's dodgy that is dodgy and and and and I never ended up doing them I literally had an order from an enhanced athlete in the car ready to go two bottles I think it was 60 or 120 days worth of psalms and I did not click buy I didn't end up doing it so there you go no testosterone from the doctor and no psalms and so at the end of 2015 I decided man you know what I'm gonna forget about this shit for a while I'm just gonna keep doing my thing keep being natural probably not preach it as much because I felt well I mean I can I seriously considered going down that route right so I'm not gonna be this guy that preaches natural bodybuilding as the only way because I know that it's not so anyways we move on that was the end of 2015 got through 2016 began a video series on this YouTube channel could make called making gains which covered me over a 365 day period bulking up for nine of those months and then cutting down for three of them so please go back in my video library and check those out that was basically the first time that I went real hard on YouTube you know really trying to put my put effort into content and create a really decently sized video series for people to watch and so I think there was like 150 episodes I went really hard and I really enjoyed it and I learned a lot but you know at the end of that I wanted to compete again but I I still was dealing with my gyno so I it's yeah funny funnily enough you know I've never taken any steroids but I had gyno came in through puberty as a lot of guys get it probably the age of 11 you know I can't really remember before being 11 years of age having to worry about it or maybe that's just when people started teasing me about it like honestly I don't know but I went through a lot of shit at at intermediate and high school because of it and so it was always something I wanted to get sorted I did compete for the first time on a bodybuilding stage in 2015 I did get quite lean but the gyno was still there and it pissed me off and I said to myself you know whether I take steroids or not I'm never getting back on a bodybuilding stage unless I get the surgery unless I get the shit sorted so it took me another two years to get that done and at the end of 2017 I finally got my gyno comastia surgery so the reason I bring up that is because another form of not steroid but drug that I was offered to try and reduce my gyno without the need for surgery which would never have worked because my gyno was not steroid induced it came through puberty okay it was never gonna work but I was asked if I wanted to take letrasal which is a extremely powerful anti estrogen and I once again was so tempted I was so tempted I was like fuck man I don't want to get the surgery I want to still say I'm natural so to speak but then I started thinking you know I'm not gonna be able to say I'm natural I'm not I've taken something and then I started looking at the side effects of taking letrasal like fuck that shit that stuff would have really fucked me up mentally I would have started feeling like absolute shit bro and all these bodybuilders that take these strong anti estrogens in the the final part of their prep to counter to counteract the the increase in things like training stuff which will not only increase your tests but also increase your estrogen so they cut that out completely with letrasal something strong like letrasal and and the way that people feel on that shit I've you know I've I've heard it's terrible I've heard you know yeah we think that we only need testosterone as a man but that's not true so anyway that was the third sort of inkling I had to take something that wasn't legal certainly not away from adopters prescription so you know I was off with that and I decided no you know what I'm not going to I'm gonna keep my guy no I'm gonna get through it and then at the end of 2017 after knowing that okay I'm not gonna take steroids because my test level is fine I'm not gonna take psalms because they're too dodgy and I'm not gonna take letrasal because I'm gonna have the surgery I got the surgery end of 2017 boom a lot of you guys would have seen that surgery video series in fact if you haven't seen it it was a fucking disaster and I'm literally sitting here November the 10th 2020 almost three years post-surgery and it's still not perfect and it probably never will be but I'm glad I had it done so there you go that was that that's how that's basically how I almost started taking steroids so sadly after that surgery and having the the recovery go so bad I probably spent the next year like seriously like in and out of the gym like the worst I'd been in the previous five years my consistency was shot I lost motivation I felt like I you know my chest was shit this thing that I'd waited for for so long you know went like shit and it really affected me so eventually probably halfway through 2018 I did get back in the gym and up until early 2020 the probably the next 18 months or so it was really stopped start really stopped start in the gym and and I suffered from some severe anxiety and depression now I'm not saying I actually don't know exactly why that was but I feel like a lot of it was my situation at the time my environment so I guess the fourth time that I decided like so I guess there's there's more than three times there's four times in total that I've actually considered taking steroids or getting them and the fourth and final time was when I was really in my depth of depression due to my circumstances in my environment and I went to the doctor and I said I said I tried to convince the doctor that I was suffering all of the symptoms of low test Ostrone I'm 29 years of age or 28 years of age but I've got low T and this doctor didn't even give me a test this doctor fucking refused he said no I'm not gonna give you a test to check your hormones and I was like what I can come in here I'm allowed to tell you exactly what I want and he ended up honestly convincing me that it wasn't the low testosterone he went through all of these signs and symptoms that I didn't have and so I walked out of there thinking man you've probably done me a favor mate you're a real fucking champion and so I went on went on my way you know forgot about it again forgot about my test level depression still hung around but at the end of the day once I did change my environment once I did change my situation the depression started to lift and so I then I realized that I realized that you know I've probably still got that medium to low-range test testosterone level but it's not you don't need steroids Jacob you certainly don't and I proved that to myself this year because I jumped back on a bodybuilding stage in decent condition with a decent amount of muscle as a lifetime natural and I tell you what that meant a whole lot more to me than any show I would have ever done enhanced so guys if you are considering it for any of those reasons please take my advice I would say do what I say not what I do but in this one I'm gonna say do what I do what I do to because you know I'm still I'm proud to say I am proud to say I don't preach anymore but I am proud to say that I'm a lifetime natural and look I don't get asked very often at all if I take gear or if I have taken gear but on the one occasion every now and then when someone says look are you natural or not or you know do you know where I can get some steroids or something like that in fact that never happens guys that's a fucking straight up lie but some people have asked you know am I natural and if that ever happens I get the smile I get the biggest smile I've ever had on my face and I say yes I am thank you for asking I'm gonna take that as a massive massive compliment so I guess my goal moving forward as a lifetime natural is to start making people think that I'm on steroids you know what I mean just through the way that I look so I guess I'm just gonna have to keep on keeping on keep on training stay in shape the fastest way guys I'll leave you with this the fastest way the fastest the most foolproof way without any drugs to make yourself look like you've just put on 10 pounds of muscle is to lose 10 pounds of fat and with that being said I'll see in the next one hope you've enjoyed the video guys a little bit of an insight into the way I think it's a touchy subject hopefully will bring in a few views if you have enjoyed the video or you've got something from it please hit like if you want to subscribe that would be hugely appreciated and I will see you in the next one peace out everybody


The book is called Not My Idea. It's being taught in hundreds of schools in Illinois and Chicago. It's actually the subject of a federal lawsuit by a teacher named Stacey DeMar who protested this and was forced to teach it. And these are the kind of things you can retreat to the defensible territory of saying it's just looking at the history of racism in society. But when you actually look at the specifics, they're telling kids that they are fundamentally racist because of the color of their skin. They're telling people that they should feel shame, guilt, and anguish because of their inborn characteristics and traits. These are the kind of lessons that I've uncovered in dozens of schools. It's now being endorsed by the NEA in 14,000 public school districts across the country. And you can't retreat because parents know what they're seeing every day. Parents know what they're seeing when children come home with workbooks like Not My Idea. And they're right, and they're rightly and very strongly pushing back. Let me just, I'm scooting up in my chair, Joe, because I'm getting upset. Oh, you're upset.  Let me first just say that Christopher Rufo is making real progress in this fight against the racist communism brainvirus known as CRT. That really seemed to start gaining steam right around the same time as coronavirus, weird. He's been going on MSNBC more and more and this most recent appearance on Morning Joe was actually quite good in exposing the CRT proponents as the extremists that they are to the point where even Joe Scarborough himself couldn't get behind it. This is interesting and it's something that people won't say when they're on the television set. They won't say polite dinner parties. I'm not sure why they whispered or texted or emailed it to me, but liberal members of the mainstream media, Democrats that are huge contributors to the Democratic Party and even people that like work for Democrats. I've heard over the past three or four years I've got to get my kid out of this private school. They're teaching my seven year old boy that because he's white, he's a racist, he's part of the pro, et cetera, et cetera. Who would have thought that people would have a problem with blatant racism in their face?   No, no, no, nothing racist about that at all. What's going on here is that they know that they're obviously racist and they're trying this cheap dollar store Jedi mind trick that is apparently working on way too many people. That's exactly why the left wants to get this indoctrination into the school systems so that in a couple generations, you have a nice group of compliant communist sheep. How do we short through all of this and make sure that we don't throw out teaching about slavery and teaching about racism over the past 400 years? This has never been about teaching history. We've always learned about America's dark past. The problem is we don't learn about it in context and the fact that the whole world was dark at that time. Not to mention the entire problem with CRT is this broad assigning of traits and judgment on people based on their skin color. You can teach history all you want, but you can't condemn people now because of their skin color. But part of what we have to do in this moment, Joe, and we've talked about this, is to confront the ugliness of who we are. And part of what I hear in these sorts of arguments is this sense in which that confrontation must be one where we're comfortable, where we feel good about who we are, who we are after we confront it. So in some ways, I get, let me just, I'm scooting up in my chair, Joe, because I'm getting upset, seeing right now in real time a reassertion of the lie. The very thing that keeps us from becoming a different America because we don't want to accept who we are.  Especially when guys like God or Marxists who want the country to resemble something more like the USSR. Or to make the broad judgment that we're a country of ugly people who are somehow connected to the evils that happened hundreds of years ago.  And he constantly tries to assert that all of us, based on the fact that we're white, have some sort of connection to things that happened hundreds of years ago. But that's not true. Many of us, our families only came here in the late 1800s and have absolutely no connection to any of that. And again, the evils of slavery stretched worldwide and included black Africans who sold other Africans. Part of what I'm thinking is that if once you concede the initial claim that America in some ways comes into being in light of this extraordinarily painful reality, the contradiction that is at the heart of our beginnings, once you concede that, the way in which you begin to think about American exceptionalism shifts, right? Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Again, like I just said, history is complicated and there's a lot of context, hacks like this guy want to leave out so they can push a political agenda. This idea that we are wholly innocent, that we're absolved of our sins, that recognizing who we are somehow condemns us to hell as it were that we're being bludgeoned by our sins. But we are innocent. We have nothing to do with what happened back then. And that's the problem with what guys like this hack are pushing. This guy wants collective judgment and punishment all based on your skin color. And he's very disingenuous the way he keeps saying we when what he really means is white Americans. When he's talking about our sins, he's talking about the alleged sins of white Americans who are somehow guilty because they share skin color with some of the humans that did evil hundreds of years ago. This sort of argument, this sort of argument is happening right now. And I want us to link it to January 6th. I want us to link it to the attack on voting rights. This is in effect, in my view, Joe, an attempt to arrest substantive change in the country. And we give these folk the credit that they're giving, that they're making the arguments in good faith. And I don't think they are. And I would say that to Christopher, right to his face. I don't think this is a good faith argument, period. Well, there you go. He's just openly stating what he wants. I swear these people don't have any self-awareness. He's trying to connect things that are in no way connected to achieve a political outcome that resembles a Maoist revolution in China that led to millions of people dead. The nerve of this guy to accuse his opposition, the people that are criticizing blatantly racist, actually institutionally racist policies that have crept their way into every one of our institutions. When he's the one lying about what CRT is, lying about what institutions it's creeping into, lying about history, lying about an attack on voting rights that's non-existent and lying about any kind of weird connection to January 6th. So what do you all think about this? Has Rufo established a beach head against CRT in the Democrat state media? Getting Joe Scarborough to admit that CRT is becoming a growing concern even among liberals is pretty significant in my opinion. Let me know in the comments section and hit that like button on your way out. Thanks for watching. I'll see you all next video.


Hello everybody, HoodedCobraCommander788 here and this is a very quick look at the 1983 GI Joe Helicopter Assault Trooper codename Airborne. Now this figure is very nicely paired with the 1983 Dragonfly Helicopter, not as the pilot but as the gunner and based on the file card I think that's how this figure was intended to be used and indeed that is how I usually have him displayed either in the helicopter or standing near the helicopter with the pilot wild bill. I do like to display him with his accessories. He had some very nice accessories for the time. He had this really cool looking XM16 with a bayonet. He had this backpack which was reused on a lot of other action figures. He had a unique helmet with these goggles sculpted on, very nice. Now I've had this figure complete for a long time and I haven't done a full review and I'm not sure exactly why. I did have this figure when I was a kid. I liked it when I was a kid and I still like this action figure. But even now when I think about doing a full review on him, I can think of a lot of other figures that have a higher priority. So I'm not sure exactly when I'm going to get to doing a full review on Airborne. This figure has sort of become the forgotten action figure in my collection. He's kind of a blind spot. I kind of forget about him. Which is a shame because this is not a bad action figure at all. A lot of his parts and accessories were reused on a lot of other action figures. When I do get around to doing a full review, it will be a favorable review. But for now we'll just have to stick with this quick look at him. I hope you enjoyed it and please keep checking back with this channel for full vintage GI Joe tour reviews coming up. Thanks for watching and I'll see you next time. Bye.


Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm pleased to be able to join you for this auspicious event, the Nigeria-Indonesia Trade and Investment Forum. It's a very appropriate event given the close ties between both countries, which share a number of similarities and can learn from one another. It's also a very good opportunity to highlight the potential for increased trade and investment between Nigeria and Indonesia. In addition to being large democracies with diverse peoples, both countries are major oil and gas producers and members of the organization of petroleum exporting countries, as well as leading global producers of agricultural commodities like palm oil and cocoa. We also face similar challenges of providing much needed social services to our large populations and in building modern infrastructure to underpin economic growth. It's a matter of great pleasure for us in Nigeria that Indonesia is doing well on several fronts, despite difficult global conditions. The high growth rate of this country at 5.4%, low inflation, political stability, and huge infrastructural investments show us that our priorities in Nigeria are not displaced or impossible to achieve. It also underscores the scope for mutually beneficial cooperation between our two countries. Nigeria is also doing well on several fronts, with GDP growth rising steadily after the COVID-19 induced recession of 2020. GDP growth in the second quarter of 2022 was 3.54%. We have also implemented huge infrastructural projects in power, in roads and railways, as well as an innovative and pathbreaking social investment program, which is helping to increase opportunity and reduce poverty. Just as Indonesia moved up 47 places in the World Bank ease of doing business rankings between 2014 and 2020, Nigeria has also moved up 39 places in a similar period. Indeed, we were twice rated as one of the top 10 performers in this regard globally. This background of similarity and shared interests persuades me that the theme chosen for this forum is appropriate. After a period in which global trade and investment was disrupted by COVID-19 and associated lockdowns and supply chain disruptions, the situation is now being further complicated and compounded by increased geopolitical tensions that are further straining global economic ties. It is therefore very important that our two countries, which play significant roles in our respective regions and indeed the world, are deliberating on reawakening global commerce. A good starting point for reawakening global commerce is to revitalize our bilateral trade and investment ties, given that Indonesia is an important member of the G20 and Nigeria is Africa's largest economy. Trade between both our countries is relatively diversified and is estimated to have reached a volume of 2.1 billion US dollars in 2021. This is hardly enough, given that the combined GDP of both our countries is 1.7 trillion US dollars, which means that the value of trade between us is less than 0.1% of our combined national incomes. There is certainly a great scope for increased trade, which fortunately cuts across agricultural commodities, mineral goods, and manufactured goods. We can surely scale up the volume of bilateral trade by improving transport links and facilitating trade, which will be helped by the unrelenting efforts to improve our respective business environments. Such improvements are also key to increasing investments and I strongly believe that this forum will provide an additional opportunity to deepen investment ties between Nigeria and Indonesia, which will in turn expand and deepen our economic collaboration. On its part, the federal government of Nigeria has improved the national investment landscape through the upgrading of our investment schemes, which are now compiled in one document called the Comparium of Investment Incentives in Nigeria, and it's produced by our Nigerian Investment Promotion Council and the Federal Inland Revenue Service. There are in addition other frameworks to support specific sectors and to promote public-private sector partnerships, which I encourage our Indonesian partners to utilize. As we reawaken commerce bilaterally, we should also do so at the regional and global level. Indonesian businesses should see Nigeria as the natural gateway into the African continent of free trade area, which brings together 54 African countries with a population of 1.3 billion people and a market size of $3.4 trillion. In addition to our large internal market and improving business environment, we are well located in the Gulf of Guinea and nearly equidistant to all parts of the continent, especially in terms of land and air links. Current global developments, including geopolitical dynamics and climate change, have created challenges for developing countries and placed enormous responsibilities on countries like Nigeria and Indonesia. It is in this context that I must commend the exertions of President Yoko Widodo regarding the conflict in Ukraine, which intervention resulted in a mitigation of global food shortages. Nigeria on its part continues to call for a just transition towards net zero carbon emissions by enabling the use of natural gas to overcome energy poverty in Africa while reducing emissions from more polluting fossil fuels and saving forests from being cut down for use as firewood. Let me at this stage thank the government and people of Indonesia for hosting this forum and for the decision to prioritize Nigeria as one of your investment destinations in Africa. I also salute my compatriots Ambassador Usman Ogha, Ambassador of Nigeria to Indonesia and Mr Ishmael Balogun, President of the Nigeria Indonesia Chambers of Commerce and Industry for their role in organizing this very important event. I'm confident that with the spirit shown by participants and working together we will see a substantial improvement in the trade and investment ties between Nigeria and Indonesia. Thank you very much for your kind attention.


ain't gonna study or no more, ain't gonna study, ain't gonna study or no more, ain't gonna study We're gonna march for peace and harmony down by the riverside, down by the riverside, down by the riverside We're gonna march for peace and harmony down by the riverside and study I ain't gonna study or no more, ain't gonna study, ain't gonna study, ain't gonna study We demand for more revival to politicians at the capitol here in Montpelier and in 40 states across the country And others are returning to Vermont's capitol to demand a reduction in military spending, a ban on assault weapons, and the demilitarization of local communities That's right Strengthen our Veterans Affairs Poverty programs Supposed to military spending In 1967, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, shameful corridors of time That's right It's shaped by so-called Christian nationalists who have forgotten scriptures, calls for us to care for the sick, women and children, immigrants, and the poor That's right The least among us We cannot afford to stay silent We can no longer allow ourselves to be dragged down Today, as the New Poor People's Campaign, we are taking action We are committed to bringing America out of the long and dark corridor to a better future Yes Willing to do what it takes to make our message heard That's right For protest That's right I will vote All right Even at the risk of arrest Two weeks ago for the launch of this campaign as a delegate from Vermont I was joined by people from all over the country, from all walks of life Who made the commitment to say that someone is hurting our brothers and our sisters And our women and our children and our families and our communities And we won't be silent anymore Weeks are just the beginning This is the start of a multi-year movement And we won't stop until we end America's war on the poor They're one of the oldest non-profits self-supporting theatrical companies in the country Red and Puppet is radicals like us, huh? Their home is Glover, Vermont And Red and Puppet is a network of volunteers using art that is homemade And which reflects on and addresses the concerns of the world and celebrates its beauty Thank you, Red and Puppet, for joining the Poor People's Campaign Nothing else you have Lonely through the light Eat, it lives on freshly furnished meat It eats the rabbit and the goose It eats the hedgehog and the moose It eats the elk buck and the... Everybody, I'm Rachel Siegel I'm with the Peace and Justice Center I'm really happy to be here as part of the Poor People's Campaign It is a glorious day, right? It's a glorious day for solidarity and for resistance We know that the war economy disproportionately affects poor people and people of color And that our country instead of investing in social and economic programs That would invest in our future and our well-being Our country prioritizes investing in weapons and in war I'm going to read a quote from Reverend Barber Sermon on May 6th He said, better than I can Overcommitment to militarism and war has completely distorted our economy So our country, the wealthiest country in history Is the only developed country that does not provide healthcare to all of its people That's right, that's messed up In our country, the wealthiest country in the world Women are more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes Than in any other developed country In Washington DC, the capital of the wealthiest country in history The death rate is the highest in the country And it varies by race with black women More than three times more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes than white women Side note, there's an amazing article in the New York Times magazine about this Reverend Barber goes on, why? Not because we are a poor country, not because we can't afford healthcare Or first-class education, or good union jobs And a decent infrastructure for our country But because our economy is first a war economy Before it is an uplifting our people economy That's right, that's right So he said it well, I have a couple of other thoughts to add We know that militarism isn't simply a problem Because it's morally despicable and devastates people's lives It's also something that amplifies other problems When young people get recruited into the armed forces They don't necessarily know what they're getting recruited into They are deceived and lied to And sometimes when they return from combat zones They're likely to develop conditions that stay with them for life These people are often preyed on because they have a lack of options So they are exploited economically Workers that are turned into murderers Because they have no other source of income We also know that the people who live in countries that are most terrorized by our military Are people of color, and so racism plays a role in militarism That's right And when communities here in the United States are harmed by nuclear manufacturing It's largely indigenous and poor people We just had the pleasure of hosting a woman, Vieta Sosipena For the Vermont Peace Conference in Burlington I know a couple of you heard her She's from New Mexico, and the nuclear weapons manufacturing complex Near her home of Santa Clara Pueblo Pollutes the water and causes sickness, especially cancer in the women Not only that, but the chemicals have been found in their breast milk But here's where we need to look at the intersectionality We're going to really address this fully That very place that's profiting while making them sick Is one of their only options for employment So the people who live in this community also work at the factory If we simply close the factory, what will the workers do? It is not simple We need to look at the places where racism, worker exploitation Poverty and climate destruction overlap And that's how this campaign was started When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. initiated it Here in Vermont, Century Arms is making AKs and other guns In Fairfax, Franklin County And we know that Franklin County is not a wealthy place So again, we need to look for a just solution That doesn't just take away people's jobs That's an argument that's also been made in favor of the F-35 The job argument They say that if we don't get the F-35s at the Burlington International Airport For our air guard, we'll lose jobs and it'll hurt the economy But we know that this is not true from a statement that the Air Force themselves made That said we will not lose jobs if they don't come They will find a different mission And we know that the people who are most impacted by the F-16s currently And who will be even more impacted by the F-35s are the folks in Winooski, Vermont Which is the community that has the most former refugees in Vermont So these are people who've been devastated by war that we participated in And now they're getting put into place where their lives are going to be diminished Their children will be impacted, their health will be impacted Because of war I want to read one more thing from somebody else before I introduce our speaker This is Kathy Kelly Who went to Afghanistan She was in Kabul working with a Peace Volunteer Initiative Working with a group of students And she says she was talking to them about the school shootings in the United States This was right after the shooting in Parkland So March 1st that she wrote this I tell some of the Afghan Peace Volunteer students about the school shootings In the United States and the remarkable determination of teenagers from Florida And elsewhere we know To demand that lawmakers take action on gun control These Afghan students have also heard about Black Lives Matter activists Who've been tear gassed and beaten When they've demonstrated against police brutality The Afghan teens identify with the activists facing danger But still standing up to insist on change I, Kathy Kelly, asked if they thought that the US media and government Would heed Afghan young people raising their voices Asserting their anguish and fear regarding US aerial attacks and drone assassinations Which they live with daily Your dreaming, said Hamad, one of the students He flashed me a warm smile and shook his head saying, No one will ever listen to us Nasir, a third year university student Who majors in mapping technology tells me He thinks teens in the United States have a chance to be heard Like Habib, he doubts that the same is true for Afghan voices Seeking to end the 16-year-old war they live in But Zanab, a high schooler in the class Added that she thinks it would be great to record a vigil of teenagers in Kabul Sending their support for US teenagers who've survived school shootings And who've begun shaming the adult world into action On the issue of gun violence The outrage now directed toward the National Rifle Association Should also challenge all assaults made by the US military Could international teen solidarity challenge both the US military And the National Rifle Association to end assaults on human life Our goal must be to demand that every person around the world Agree to stop producing and using weapons, says Nasir Courageous clear-eyed Afghan and US youth are working in both countries To sow seeds that bear needed fruit Hoping they can change the adults as well So we tried to get high school students here, but they're in school They don't have as many options as adults in many ways And they are kicking butt all over Vermont right now So go look for some high school students to support So today, a day after Memorial Day, we remember all the people who died in unnecessary war Children and families in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Palestine and elsewhere Because of decisions to promote war instead of peace The support of the Israeli army by our government Is currently part of the cruelty that's happening in Gaza And our next speaker is Kathy Shapiro She's an activist with Vermonters for Justice in Palestine And I will let her tell you more about that Thank you very much for the opportunity to include the struggle of Palestinians In this rally today for the Poor People's Campaign Thank you Just a note about BTJP Vermonters for Justice in Palestine We work to support the survival of the Palestinian people And to end the 50 year long illegal Israeli occupation We are committed to full civil and political rights and self determination For all Palestinians to promote equality and safety of both Palestinians and Israelis We also recognize that the struggle for Palestinian rights is inextricably linked To the struggles for poor, minority and indigenous people of the United States It's a struggle against militarism and policing that are used to protect the interests of the rich and powerful But what does Palestine have to do with militarism in America and our own engorged military budget? Here's how two of today's demands are connected to the US-Israel alliance against Palestinians One, the demand that asks for demilitarization of our communities on the border in our interiors And an end to federal programs that send military equipment to our state and local communities Israel is the largest recipient of US military aid receiving almost $4 billion a year That's more than $10 million every single day of our tax dollars The US and Israel have a lot in common Both countries are founded on settler colonialism while white Europeans coming to foreign lands And subduing or eliminating indigenous people Both countries treat protest movements as a military threat Look at the militarized forces that met nonviolent dappled demonstrators and the people of Ferguson Look at the IDF snipers that picked off one by one young men and women in Gaza As they demonstrated non-violently in cold blood, killing 107 of them and injuring more than 12,000 civilians Over 6,000 of them so seriously that they'll be handicapped for the rest of their lives Many with amputations Israel prides itself on the development of state-of-the-art weapons and surveillance equipment And it markets it to the rest of the world as already tested in the field Who is it tested on? Palestinians In testing these weapons and marketing them, they promote Islamophobia in the name of counter-terrorism Much the same as the US enforces law and promotes racial discrimination in the name of our community's safety Since the year 2000, Israeli and the US have been engaging in police exchange programs Bringing together police, ICE, border control agents, campus police and FBI from our country to Israel To meet with police, border agents in Israel, police, border agents and the army in Israel In these programs, worse practices are exchanged that exist in both countries including extrajudicial executions Shoot to kill orders, policies of police murder, racial profiling, massive spying, surveillance, deportation, detention And attacks on unarmed human rights defenders Even Vermont has participated in such exchanges in the past And we need to ensure that never happens again The second demand I want to address is to cease the call for building a wall at our border with Mexico Israeli contractors have been intimately involved in our own security at the borders To give only one example, Elbit Systems, one of Israel's most successful military tech companies Has played a key role on the US-Mexican border through construction of surveillance towers The same that are used at checkpoints within occupied Palestine and at the borders of Israel That control, contain and humiliate Palestinians on a daily basis They are the first people who would be engaged to build a wall that walls us off from the country of Mexico Should that actually come to pass Palestine is important because Israel's war on Palestinians has become a model and a laboratory For a global war against we the people, including our own US-backed militarism has a devastating humanitarian impact that threatens lives and civil liberties of ourselves and people all around the world As we struggle for the rights of Palestinians, we join you in the fight for the rights of our own communities Against the militarist, racist, imperialist powers that control both governments We will not be free until all are free That's right I'm sort of the historical person here today We're looking back 50 years to 1968 when non-violence really got going at the time of the first four people's campaign But I want to take us all the way back to 100 years ago That was when World War I was ending 1915, 1917 But the person I would like to bring before you today is my grandmother, Lola Maverick Lloyd Who tried to end World War I with a group of women She left the United States across the Atlantic before it had already started There were submarines everywhere She met with other women from the other side whose husbands and fathers were possibly fighting people from the other side England and France and Germany And from their conference they went to try to get the non-violent Try to get the neutral countries and the warring countries to talk to each other and propose mediation I mean they were just saying it's time for you to stop killing each other You have to talk to each other, you have to support mediation You have to support conciliation You have to make agreements that are supported by law And if there is, if it's only the vanquished and the victors that make agreements at the end You can be sure that the settlement will not be really lasting And of course that was the Parasite Treaty which really laid the groundwork for the Second World War So I'm just trying to say that people claim that brutality and force is the default position for mankind But I believe and I think all of you who are here today believe that there is a powerful counter force That declares that war and non-violence can build a powerful path away from violence And it must be practiced with commitment and diligence as we are doing today That's right Let's do it! The point is mediation does work It's active, it's inactive use thousands of times a day It's called getting along together or cooperation You talk rather than yell You listen, you seek compromise You treat all as equals And that's what needs to be happening now We need an affirmation of moral values Diplomacy, diplomacy not threats Compensation rather than bullying Both globally and locally Police forces around the nation need to back off from using violence on non-violent community members And on directing their force against people of color That's right It's outrageous that last summer the Justice Department renewed permission for armored vehicles, large caliber weapons, ammunition and other heavy equipment to be repurposed from foreign battlefields to America's streets No way! There has been a militarization of law enforcement over the last few decades Even in Vermont where the Burlington Police Department has used tasers and rubber bullets on community members This is just the tip of the iceberg that the way militarism has seeped its way into our society So we're building a movement here today for justice We're all as mad as hell We're going to change the things now To just conclude, my grandmother and her colleagues did not stop World War I But they formed an organization that still exists today And is one of the sponsors of the Poor People's Campaign The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Alright! We're 103 years old and still marching I'd very much like to introduce Reverend Dr. Leon Cumpley He's the minister of the North Chapel Universalist Church in Woodstock, Vermont This conference that I went to once in Texas in Fort Worth And there were people all around wearing the same buttons This siren is sort of like what it feels like inside my heart right now But all around Fort Worth, Texas, there were people wearing the same buttons And the buttons all set the same things They were worn on hats and lapels and on re-rends and on pocketbooks And they said the most radical thing we can do is introduce ourselves to one another Alright! So if you could just pause for a second Look at the beauty of this day Look at the row of flowers that's being planted behind you Alright! The beauty of the sky and the beauty of your own heart And let us remember who we are There's an old song called Long Cash that we sung once I went to see the grave site of a man named James Cheney Is that name familiar with you? So James Cheney, we went to his grave site in Mississippi And we sang a song that sounded like this I'll just sing one verse and then share the words with you I went down to Long Cash to see Bobby Sands He was not there but his spirit kept on walking I could see his smiling face on the man and on the women Then the children, they sang freedom songs And then there was another one I went down to Mississippi To see Fanny Lou Hamer She was not there but her spirit kept on walking I could see her smiling face on the man and on the women Then the children, they sang freedom songs And it goes through several other people It goes to Atlanta to see Martin King It goes to India to see Mahatma Gandhi It goes to Belfast to see Bernadette Devlin And all the time we're singing together And we're remembering who we are We're breathing together and remembering who we are The most radical thing we can do is introduce ourselves to one another Good afternoon Good afternoon Thanks for being here Good afternoon My name is Leon Dungley I serve the North Universalist Chapel Society In Woodstock, Vermont It's an honor to be here in Montpelier In the capital of this great state Among these hills and mountains Green again after months of winter It's an honor to be a part of this great day of peace And to speak with people who will push themselves to the limit To tell the truth of their own story It is an honor to protest here Protest meaning to testify in favor of something That's right It's a positive thing to dream the good world And to being and to testify To speak in favor of the way of grace and beauty To protest It's a positive thing to struggle against that Which magnifies human suffering And it's beautiful to work for that Which relieves the pain And so we protest It's a positive thing to know And to long for life's gifts and blessings To speak out loud on their behalf So we protest John Dewey once said That government is the shadow cast By big business over society Wow But he wasn't thinking of any of us That's right He was preserving the best in us So with that in mind How do you get past the outrage of what's going on in our world The militarism, the racism, the systemic and violences The systemic violences, the systemic injustices How do we put down the fear that it takes That wants to keep us separate from one another Martin Luther King said Now more than ever before He was thinking about the difficulty of poverty And racism and systemic injustice in the world He said now more than ever before We are forced to grapple with this particular question Because the world does not afford us The luxury of an anemic democracy That's right That's right And the cost that this nation must pay For the segregation of the Negro and other racial groups Is the price of its own destruction for the hour is late The clock of destiny is ticking out And we must act now before it is too late How do you reset that clock of destiny That's a real question Because I saw a troop of theater people Resetting that clock just a second ago That's right How do you reset the clock of destiny That's a real question Because I saw a woman up here Falling down and getting up again To speak the word of truth That's right And we get past this By recognizing the beauty that we see all around us And not letting anyone at any time diminish that beauty That beauty within us shall not be defiled So what I think Martin What I think William Barber is striving for That sort of national call for moral renewal Is that magnification of that which is already best within us How do you let it out? How do you let it shine? That's the beautiful question before us today So when they were singing in long cash About Bobby Sands and Mahatma Gandhi And Fannie Lou Hamer and Bernadette Devlin And Bobby Sand The song is asking us to remember That we're part of the same tradition We're part of the same family So when we struggle for justice for one We're truly struggling for justice for all That's right May we be the ones May we be the ones that seek truth and justice May we be the ones that show us how To remember the best that is within us And to show our government Lead with our government Demand from our government Demand from ourselves and from our leaders That spiritual energy that pushes us forward Thank you It's a blessing to be here for you Alright Let's take another song This is a song by Pat Humphries Who came of age during this 50 years ago when this original campaign was happening She came of age during the time of the shooting At Kent State When unarmed students were shot down By the National Guard for protesting war It's also on the little song sheet And this sensibility We're hearing about and thinking about That we're going to move forward with vision And change the world together We're going to keep on moving forward Keep on moving forward Keep on moving forward Never turning back Never and bold together Long and bold together Fight for peace and justice Peace and justice We're going to teach our children courage Teach our children courage We're going to change this world together Change this world together We lost the United States $5.6 trillion Over 23,000 active duty Military families were on food stamps In 2013 Over 50% of kids in schools on military bases Were eligible for free or reduced lunch Since 1998 The Department of Defense Cannot account for $21 trillion That's 235 years of the food stamp program Shame Military spending in 2017 was $688 billion Out of a federal discretionary spending And out of federal discretionary spending Only $190 billion was for anti-poverty programs That's a shame Nevertheless, somehow In 2015 The military spent an additional $6.5 trillion It cannot account for And for which it has not one single receipt $6.5 trillion That's way over That's ten times That's a hundred times That's a thousand times what it was allocating That means that while officially The government spent 66 cents Of every federal dollar on the military And only 12 cents on anti-poverty programs In fact, it spent 90 dollars And 66 cents on the military For every 12 cents it spent on anti-poverty That's a more It is not just as if But it is that The military is at war with the poor Most of the resources to war Do not benefit our troops They benefit Wall Street Raytheon General Electric Boeing And private military contractors Such as Blackboard Criminal In 2016 CEOs of the top five military contractors Earned an average of $19.2 million More than 90 times The $200,000 earned by a general And 640 times The $30,000 earned by army privates in combat Nearly half of female military personnel Sent to Iraq and Afghanistan Reported being sexually harassed And nearly a quarter said They had been sexually assaulted In 2012 Suicide claimed more military deaths And as of September 2017 An average of 20 veterans died by suicide every day As we gather this Tuesday Some of us are wearing carnations To remember the people who died While serving in our nation's military We remember the Memorial Day's roots In black people honoring the graves of soldiers Who fought in the Union Army To enslave and create the possibility Of reconstruction We honor each person who is willing to serve When we cry out against unjust war And war-making and unnecessary military spending That robs the poor here at home We remember those who have suffered Moral injury and died from suicide And from the loss of limb and mental stability The truth is that instead of waging war On poverty, we have been waging a war On the poor at home and abroad For the financial benefit of the 0.1% While it is morally indefensible To profit from perpetual war It is evil to perpetually war for profit We have the right to protect our communities From the ravages and weapons of war We demand an end to military aggression And war-mongering We demand a stop to the privatization Of military budget and any increase In military spending We demand a veteran's administration system That remains public We demand the demilitarization Of our communities on the border And in the interior We demand an end to the federal programs That send military equipment into local And state communities Our next speaker is Adrian Kinn From the Vermont chapter of Veterans for Peace Veterans for Peace is a global organization Of military veterans and allies Whose collective efforts are to build A culture of peace To understand the true causes of war And the enormous costs of war With an obligation to heal the wounds of war Adrian So many other things that I was going to speak about today Have really been covered in such fine, fine, fine ways But, you know, one thing I've been thinking about I've served 10 years in the military And now I'm going on my 11th year in peace work So I'm very happy to have the military And first started really questioning In 040506, what we were doing In Iraq, Afghanistan What we're doing to people all over the world And it seems like too often movements get wrapped up In who is or isn't president Or who isn't in charge or what What party is in power Because it seemed like there was such a momentum In the peace movement during the George W. Bush years Vaporated when Obama was elected And the last eight years You know, people being involved in peace work There were a lot of things still going on But the masses were gone Because people were putting their faith in a system That has absolutely no desire to change For the benefit of the people This did not change under Obama It got worse And I'm thinking and hoping that things will change And people will start getting involved again And it only has to happen because there's no other option But peace work really is environmental work Environmental work is human rights work Human rights work is for people's campaign work And when we start getting all of these pieces Fitting together that we will be able to effect change And what I hate to see is people still Even in the peace movement Even in the environmental change movement Even in the poor people's campaign movement Somehow thinking that we can be pro-military And support the troops while actually still Accomplishing what we need to do To change the world and make it a better place And we have got to question militarism We have got to question the role our military plays In the United States and around the world We have 800 bases around the world That are wreaking havoc on poor people Worldwide Worldwide So I guess this is just my thing I know Veterans for Peace is a national And now actually international movement Is in England, Ireland, Okinawa, Japan Vietnam England and growing And it will be when we all start Really connecting with one another The world around that we will achieve our goals So I just thank you very much And I'm looking forward to seeing The momentum of this movement taking us forward National call for moral revival Did you all know that? Do you feel that? Action The nation has just paused for memorial To focus this week on our challenge to militarism And the war economy As well as the proliferation of gun violence in the U.S. We believe the greatest patriotism For moral agents Is insisting that America become A more perfect union That's right We are here Are we here?  People who will die this year Because of low wealth While we invest over Seven hundred billion Dollars Seven hundred billion dollars In a bloated military budget That's right We declare that as long as 140 million people live in poverty In the richest nation In the history of this world None of us None of us Are truly honoring those Who gave their lives to this nation That's right As long as systemic racism Cripples our democracy Through voter suppression And as long as this administration Weaponizes deportation Even deporting veterans And their family members We are not honoring liberty And justice for all Papierski He is a resident of Winooski A veteran Has experienced homelessness And I have been honored to work On the Vermont Poor People's Campaign with him He's a member of the Vermont Worker Center He's been active in the fight For universal health care And a post to frat gas And a post to DC to join the Poor People's Campaign When it launched in May 14 And I'm proud to introduce to you David Papierski My name is David Papierski I am a member of the Vermont Worker Center And the Vermont Poor People's Campaign I have been asked to speak today About American militarism And its war economy As I am a homeless fact Who presently resides at the Canal Street Veterans Homeless Shelter In Vermont On January 8, 1977 I turned 18 years of age I was in my final year of high school And I had joined the Marine Corps I thought it was a good idea at the time As I wanted to learn some valuable job skills And gain work experience To arise from poverty At least this is what the Marine recruiter At my society's culture Had told me anyway In retrospect It became the worst mistake of my life That I compared To jumping out of a frying pan Then into the fire I should have joined the Peace Corps Instead of the Marine Corps What I found in my six years of service Were either vets that had just returned Home from Vietnam Or new recruits like myself From unhealthy home and school environments Who were misled to believe That they would escape from living in poverty By joining the military Now 59 years of age I find myself homeless for the fourth time Needless to say I have never been able to break free From living in poverty One out of every four homeless people Are vets About 400,000 vets experience Homelessness every year On any given night Over 40,000 vets On the street Every month 1,000 vets attempt suicide Every day 22 vets die from suicide That's almost one per hour No There's far more that is dying In our endless senseless, costly Unsuccessful, damaging, and traumatizing wars Countries never win at war Both sides always lose Always Always I simply suffer from post traumatic Stress disorder Alcohol and drug addiction Some of these drugs The VA itself administers Self blame for mission failure Depression, anger Survivor guilt And other mental illnesses Physical injury A high number of both men Both women and men Are victims of sexual violence By other military personnel Poverty High cost of housing And inadequate healthcare Rarely is it ever discussed As to what the individual loses In war Nor is it discussed What our country truly loses Let's discuss the financial cost Of war first In 2017 The military budget was about $773.5 billion It is expected To soon climb to over a trillion dollars Unless we do something to stop it Shame Shame This cost does not include foreign aid And externalities Such as rebuilding a country We have just destroyed Utilizing multiple government contractors These funds Include arming and training A new foreign army to buy our political will America spends more Military than the next nine countries combined Despite only having 5% Of the world's population We spend over 50,000 50% of the world's Total military expenditure Also understand That all of our tax money That is spent on war Is profited upon by the rich Burlington simply does not need 24 nuclear capable F-35s At well over 100 million dollars each That's right This money could be better spent on Healthcare, child care Teachers and nurses salaries Supporting the disabled Affordable housing Higher wages Increasing the SNAP program Ending racism Ending poverty Ending environmental destruction And provide affordable access To college and job training America could work to heal itself And become a respected leader worldwide Instead of perpetually being at war And both hated and attacked By most other countries I just so happen to serve Between 77 and 83 One of the few periods in our country's history When America's military Have been at peace Most vets have not been as lucky And are much worse off Than myself They live in the woods Or commit suicide Being a homeless vet is a direct reflection Of America's Unhealthy culture And war economy The twisted culture That encourages an 18 year old To join the military In what amounts to killing Other people like ourselves Other poor people like ourselves In the foreign countries Because there are no better alternatives Here in our country The most difficult hurdle For a homeless vet to overcome When seeking help from an inadequate system Is to trust the very same Unhealthy culture That made them homeless in the first place Then they are rewarded By being reintegrated into An unhealthy society And living in poverty While our country perpetuates this cycle By enlisting new recruits For a never ending war While vets never really return home from war Some never return from living in the woods While they hope and pray That someone will listen And finally put an end To our war economy We're in the home stretch now Alright, somebody's been hurting my people It's been going on far too long And we won't be silent anymore We won't be silent Come up here behind me And just in a minute We're going to make a procession over This is the Poor People's Campaign A national call for a moral revival We're in our 40 days We're in the home stretch now Alright, somebody's been hurting my people It's been going on far too long We're in our 40 days of action Every moral Monday Today's a truthful Tuesday And we will be out here On the steps of the Montpelier State House Meanwhile, our sisters and brothers Across the country Are gathered in 37 other states As we gather here today To say, says We're going to take a walk around this side Of the state house over to the accessible entrance We're going to go inside Our state house Whose house? We're going to continue this discussion That a war economy Is a war Till we begin to make the change In our call for a national call For a moral revival So I want you to all come up To join up, we're going to sit next week Walk together Those of you who have banners on sticks Please leave those over to my left To your right Don't take those inside You can take Any good cardboard sign with him Bring these along Avery's going to start us off With a song as we leave together We want to all be together Let nobody left behind We want to give our garden crew A good shout out for all their good work Putting in the flowers Thank you garden crew They did a great job Please You my sisters and brothers Have made this world a more beautiful place Being here now Let's go inside and make the capital Beautiful together as well Forward together Now one step back Forward together Now one step back Forward together


Hey, what's up everybody? It is Friday July 28th. This is the weekly video update to review all the trades from the week Got some new members on here quite a few new members So I wanted to go through and make sure you are aware of our new e-book It's currently out the trade hackers ultimate playbook. You can get this on the website standalone's 49 bucks. We put a ton of work into this so it's worth a lot more than that but Or if you buy one of our courses on the site, we give you this to you for free So check it out. It's an awesome guide. A lot of traders are just printing it out Keep it in on their desk while they're trading to reference. So good stuff Got a lot of good feedback on it. So keep the comments coming and Let's jump into this week's alerts. So starting with Monday on 24th, so first trade we opened was in FXC and This is really just a directional play FXC has been on a tear to the upside So just looking at this from a contrarian standpoint If we take a look at the chart of FXC, you can see it's just had this massive run up And so we're just looking for a short-term pullback It's going against us a little bit so far no big deal So just need some more downside to FXC to benefit that position Next trade was an iron condor that we closed out in corn. So we booked that for over 40% of max profit These grains, you know, they were having huge moves there for a while And now they're starting to get a little bit more range bound But still decent premium still decent volatility to trade in the grain So we've still got positions in soybeans and wheat which I'll go over in a second But now we are completely out of corn Next trade was a an adjusting trade in SPY. So we had an iron condor Price breached our upside break even so we removed our put side Still holding the call side. We we did not as I stay here in the comments. We did not Enter a new iron condor because the the IV and SPY has just been absolutely horrendous now With the market being down the last couple days, we're starting to get a little bit of a pop and And so if it gets up a little bit more, we'll enter another iron condor But for now, we're just holding that call side. So we still have the call vertical and Just waiting for a little bit of a down move a little bit more of a down move in SPY To to get out of that as well Next trade was an opening trade in XRT So IV spiked up spiked up to IV percentile was up to the 80 level So we sold a strangle in XRT You see that's still very centered Looks like implied volatility has gone up a little bit since then even now to 74 But still very centered. So we'll continue to monitor XRT On the 26th we did an adjusting rolling trade in XOP So price had breached our upside break even and so we needed to roll our puts up So we wanted to roll our puts from 30 to 32 But with only 23 days left in the August cycle Remember we want to be out of these strangles either close them or roll them when you get down to that 21 days to expiration because then that the gamma the risk really starts to accelerate in those last few weeks of expiration So we want to roll that out to September so we not only rolled our puts up From 30 to 32, but we rolled the entire spread out to September. So if we take a look at XOP It has Continue to move a little bit higher since then even and so if we look at the analyze tab You can see need some down movement in XOP to benefit there Next trade was on the 28th. So no trades on the 27th, which was Thursday yesterday So trade this morning. We did and I sent it out in two separate alerts. So this was on our GLD calendar We had the 117 one 117 put calendar and we had the 119 Call calendar and so price breached to the upside So we took our 117 put calendar closed that out and rolled it up to the 121 call calendar so we now have the 121 call calendar and the 119 call calendar So it's a double calendar now. It's nice and centered now We need some acceleration of implied volatility and for GLD to stay in a in a range for us to benefit there And then lastly today, we took a trade in Facebook where we bought a butterfly So even after Facebook announced earnings a couple days ago They still have the implied volatility is still over 50 So right around 55 at this point of this recording And so we're just looking for Facebook to kind of settle down in this range and By doing that we did a nice big wide butterfly So we'll take this off for about about 20 to 25 percent of the debit paid which in this case was 631 So let's see a couple other positions that we also have on in the ES S&P futures. We've got this Put vertical so looking for a down move there and again I keep repeating this but we've we've got this on for short delta in our portfolio anytime you sell premium You've got to protect yourself to the downside and so that's what we've got here now Obviously when the market has been in a grind higher for what seems like forever, you know that short delta is gonna hurt you It's gonna be a little bit of a drag on your portfolio But you got to keep it in there and if we get a little bit of a continuation of this down move You can see the markets down S&Ps down almost nine today at this point And maybe we can get some momentum and get some of that off as well Soybeans still in this iron condor kind of hanging out on the lower end But still well within its range need a little bit of a move up in soybeans to get out of that one for profit and Same story with wheat So next week we will probably look to add another grain position to get a little bit more centered Widen our breakevens, but same thing and wheat need a little bit of an upside to get out of that one DIA we had this iron condor and we took off the untested side this thing will load and So we're still holding the call side of this DIA iron condor and so we're looking for a continuation Down to benefit there and again that helps us add that short delta into the portfolio And let's see cues still got a strangle on in the QQ cues and Still very centered no profit or loss at this point. So we'll continue to watch that RUT we've got this calendar spread on total risk on this is 965 so we want about a 20% 25% profit, so we're looking for about 180 to $200 profit on this one. We're at about 150 right now So wait for a little more expansion in an IV to benefit that one Mention XOP and I mentioned XRT. So last thing. I just want to go to the closed trades Having a really good the July So haven't haven't booked a losing trade yet Just pretty awesome so Hopefully the trading continues Hopefully we get a little bit more of this two-sided action preferably to the downside in stocks It's gonna help our portfolio as well as spike implied volatility and give us some more opportunities To put on additional positions Everybody have a great weekend and we'll talk to you next week


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Seeing none, the member from Stormont-Dundas and Stormont-Dundas in South Glangaria, a member of the State of New York. Alright, thank you, Speaker. I want to give a big shout out to the great people of my riding in Stormont-Dundas in South Glangaria who time and time again donate their time and money to bring the spirit of Christmas to all. Yesterday, the South Stormont Fire Department held their annual food drive where people in the community were so generous. The Benson Center, the Benson Group, along with the Cornwall Coast, held the annual charity hockey game raising $4,500 for the St. Vincent de Paul Society. And in the morning, the Alchemist Club of Chrysler held their breakfast with Santa. Speaker and the community after community volunteers gathered to help make this time of year better for all, especially those in need. On Friday, we had the schools involved bringing in thousands of pounds of food that go towards food banks and for baskets for individual families. The City of Cornwall, along with many of the small communities, in my riding, organized Santa Claus parades where local businesses, service clubs and individuals come together to truly put on a great show for the little ones. Speaker, there's so much more. The CP Holiday Train raising funds for hunger awareness, the Salvation Army, Christmas Food Baskets, the Smarkey Tory Drive by the City of Cornwall's Fire Department, the Snow Suit Fund, Christmas Day Meals for those who are alone or in need, and much, much more. The Speaker is with great pride that I want to thank all the volunteers of Stormont Dundas in South Hungary for the huge difference they make in people's lives, whether it be a Christmas or a throughout the year. Thank you. Thank you. Further member's statements? The member from Windsor to Coombs. Speaker, all I want for Christmas and Hansard, please record this comment, is a day without heckling in our provincial parliament. I want to speak today about the quorum here in this, our legislative forum. I'd like to challenge a parliamentary tradition to give our partisanship more acceptable definition. Now, I may be committing political heresy, but I want to see a better example of our democracy. No one was elected to come here and do nothing but heckle, so why did we turn into Mr. and Mrs. Hyde and then Dr. Jekyll? It's one thing to bellow out our dissent, but what about those we came here to represent? Why do we look across the aisle and see a minister or a critic as a conspirator? Then turn our daily question period into a circus of political theater. Why not for just one experimental day for go making what amounts sometimes as political hay? Why not a civilized discussion? There'll still be room for political repercussion. Let's go out on a limb and leave it to trust. Why pretend? Arguments from the other side only leave us with disgust. Just one day, no heckling, a more collegial reckoning. Why must we always test the speaker's resolve? Why do we get so personally involved that we act as children yelling at recess out in the yard, hoping not to get named by the speaker and then barred? Let's for once in this parliamentary chamber just one day calmer and tamer. We'd still have questions asked and then answered. It would still be there in black and white on the pages of Hansard. Further members, see now they're heckling the speaker again. Further members, David, the member for Megalinkton Lawrence. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to pay tribute to the Toronto FC Soccer Club. As you know, this team which represents Toronto but also represents Ontario and Canada won the MLS Cup on Saturday afternoon. And this is the first time a Canadian team has won that cup, which has competitors all over North America. It was a wonderful team made up of players from all over the world, including Canadians. It has great superstars like Josie Altador and Jovenko Sebastiano. And it has incredible fans. I don't know if you've ever been to a game or seen the FC on TV. The fans are so enthusiastic, passionate, real, and the players and management really appreciate the fans. And I think that is quite unique in sport where the fans are as big a part of the team as the players are. So hats off to this wonderful team of young men from all over the world who won the championship and it's a tribute to their courage, their bravery, and especially as you know they lost last year the same team in shootout, the Seattle Sounders. So this year we brought the cup back to Canada and Toronto. So hats off to Toronto FC. Congratulations Toronto FC. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for their member status members from Perth Wellington. Thank you. Thank you, Speaker. Speaker, I have the honour of serving 11 municipalities including the counties of Perth Wellington. Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Perth County warden's election, an inaugural reception. For those who don't know, the warden presides over county council as sort of mayor of mayors who helps bring together the shared interests of municipalities and advocate with one voice for Perth County. It's a challenging role that involves managing the county's budget and assets and charting out a strategic plan to build success in the future. The new warden of West Perth, the new warden of West Perth Mayor, Walter McKenzie is in the unique position of serving in this role twice. He was previously elected as warden in 1995. On the subject of Walder's long political career, St. Mary's Mayor Al Strath to remark, Walter has been sort of a mentor of mine for a long time, a political person, and recently I believe he's celebrated 35 years of political service. Someone should have told him a life sentence in Canada is only 25 years. I'd also like to thank the outgoing warden, Merch Schneider, for his excellent work over the last two years. He worked hard to expand Perth County's agricultural and other key industries and helped make our community an even better place to live and work. As county council prepares for a new season session, I look forward to working with the new warden, all county members and dedicated staff. Thank you. Thank you. Further member statements? A member from Goma, Manitoum. Thank you, Speaker. And my statement today is the Liberal Road Maintenance Program, Winter Road Maintenance Program isn't working. Here's some of the stories that we regularly see in our local newspapers across Northern Ontario. Highway 101 opens after multiple collisions, multiple deaths. Victim identified in fatal collision near Shaplow. OPP identify man killed in Wawa area single accident. Man dies in collision on Highway 617 north of Wawa. Two killed and crashed near Massey. Three others hospitalized. Driver identified in fatal Highway 17 accident. Fatal crash closes Highway 17 at Whitefish. OPP investigates fatal incident in Elliott Lake. Two men died and head on collision and suffered. Multiple vehicle crashes, it closes Highway 17. Three vehicle crashes north of the zoo. Two vehicle collisions, Starrl Highway 17. I think you get the picture, Mr. Speaker. And it just isn't working. When are they going to change the Winter Road Maintenance Program? Just recently, Paul Beauregard, a truck driver, showed an incident that happened across one of our highways in Northern Ontario. Absolutely unacceptable that people should be put under those circumstances. My friend and colleague from to Mr. Minkaukaran, South Timoganing, they lost a death just a few weeks ago. Up in Coppercliff, the member from Nickel Belt, they lost some deaths. Highway 101, 144, 17, and 129 are all under Winter Road Maintenance concerns. And just this morning in McCarroll, another death. Enough is enough. Thank you. The member from Etobicoke North. Thank you, Speaker. Please take this opportunity to speak about a number of remarkable investments that are being made in Etobicoke North. Some of which are detailed, Speaker, in my calendar, which I'm not currently using as a prop, which will be distributed across the entire riding. These include, for example, the $2 billion expansion of transportation in my riding, the Finch West LRT, which has eight stops, Speaker. Eight stops within my riding. All the way for Humber College, Highway 27, Westmore, Martin Grove, Albion Road, Stevenson, Kipling, and Islington. This also includes, Speaker, a massive infrastructure expansion of Etobicoke General Hospital, part of the William Osler Health System. We're looking at a $400 million expansion. This will, Speaker, quadruple, quadruple the floor space, the footprint of that hospital. There are a number of other initiatives, including, for example, the massive uptake of free tuition for folks making less than $50,000 a year for two- to four-year college and university tuition. Particularly welcome, of course, at Humber College. Speaker, there are a number of developments. As you will know, January 1, 2018, minimum wage hits $14, and what's especially welcome and I'm very pleased to share with as a doctor is the expansion, massive expansion of pharmacare, biggest in a generation. We're looking at, as you know, January 1, 2018, zero to 25 years of age, medications, 4,400 of them will be free. Thanks, Speaker. Thank you. A member did draw my attention to the fact that he read from his calendar, which indeed it is a property. He won't use it again. The member from Kitchener, Conestoga. Yes, well, thank you, Speaker. It's an honor to report on the world-class service at St. Mary's Regional Cardiac Care Center in Kitchener. Speaker, this weekend we learned that St. Mary's was one of only three hospitals out of the 38 cardiac centers to rank better than the national average on all quality indicators at a new Canadian Institute for Health information report. The hospital's record for both successful bypasses and valve replacement well surpassed most other providers. As Chief of Cardiovascular Services, Dr. Brian McNamara indicated, the national recognition is a team effort that everybody has congratulations in order. Surgeons, nurses, orderlies, and those in admin, all to be congratulated. Speaker, last alone, St. Mary's Cardiac Center performed 5,400 cath procedures, 850 bypass and valve surgeries, and 590 pacemaker insertions, as well as 10,000 outpatient clinic visits. Dr. McNamara makes it clear that from the vigorous triage of patients before surgery to the procedures themselves and through excellent post-surgical care, is due to all who boost patient outcomes at St. Mary's. But they're always looking to do more, Speaker. I would add that behind our world-class cardiac staff, there is a very supportive St. Mary's Hospital Foundation and I want to specially thank our generous community in support for their generosity in supporting St. Mary's cardiac care. I, of course, encourage all who want to support our nationally recognized cardiac care center to scroll over to supportstmarys.ca where our money raised is live saved. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you for the member's statements, the members from Ottawa South. Thank you very much, Speaker. And tomorrow night, families across Ontario and across Ottawa South, of course, will be lighting the first candle of Hanukkah. And I just wanted to take this opportunity to extend to my friends in Ottawa, Rabbi Cher and Rabbi Volka at Congregation Aziquimadas, all the families that are in that congregation. Indeed, all the families across Ottawa and across Ontario who will be celebrating. And I wish for all of them a joyous time with family, peace and happiness. Speaker, I also represent a writing that has families from over 125 different countries that speak 90 languages, that practice dozens of faiths. I feel very fortunate to represent the writing of Ottawa South. And, you know, we live together, we work together, and we celebrate together. And definitely tomorrow night, we will all celebrate together. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for the member's statements and members from Perry's House. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. During the Christmas season, many of us give to those less fortunate. I'd like to take this opportunity to talk about the Table Soup Kitchen Foundation in Huntsville, which operates a soup kitchen, a bank, exchange store, and the only men's shelter in Perry Sound, Muskoka. While all these services are very important, today I want to focus on the shelter. It opened one year ago this month, but its future is already in jeopardy. The shelter is funded exclusively by donations and right now they are facing a decision about whether they can afford to stay open after December 31st. It is a small shelter with eight beds, but as I said, it is the only shelter for homeless men in the area. Over the past year, this shelter has hosted 80 men. It offers not only a warm place to sleep, but meals, access to laundry facilities, and a sense of community to the men who stay there. The shelter opens daily at 6pm, and the men are required to leave by 8am. The Foundation would love to be able to offer day programs, but right now they're focused on keeping the doors open. Many local businesses support this shelter. I want to recognize that just last week, the Huntsville Canadian Tire store donated $10,000 to the Table Soup Kitchen. To help save the men's shelter, visit www.thetablefoundation.ca. I want to encourage everyone to not only shop locally this holiday season, but give locally and support important local charities like the Table Soup Kitchen Foundation. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to thank all members for their statements.