and welcome to Hawaii Together on the Think Tech Hawaii Broadcast Network. I'm Kili Iakina, your host and president of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii. My guest today is Sterling Higa. He's the executive director of the new non-profit Housing Hawaii's Future, which aims to educate and organize students and young professionals to help end one of the biggest problems that we face in Hawaii, which is a shortage of affordable and available housing for everyone. In other words, Sterling believes that youth can be a formidable force in solving our housing shortage and crisis in Hawaii. Young people can make an effective difference as change agents and they can get involved in the civic process. We're going to talk about that today and I want to welcome to our program Sterling Higa. Sterling, welcome to the program. Awesome. Thank you for having me, Kili. I appreciate it. Well, I appreciate all that you're doing and your group as well. Tell us first a little bit about yourself and give our audience a little bit of background about you. I grew up in downtown Honolulu. I'm a graduate of public schools. I attended Royal Elementary, Kauanaka Intermediate and Roosevelt High School. I then went on to attend the UH System School starting at Honolulu Community College and then completing my bachelor's degree in speech with a minor in English at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I went away to get a master's degree in education at Harvard intending to work in arts nonprofits and return to Hawaii in 2015. I ended up teaching middle school performing arts for a couple of years. I taught at Hawaii Pacific University coaching debate and teaching public speaking for about five years. And I've also written as a columnist for Honolulu Civil Beat and as a contributing writer for Hawaii Business Magazine prior to getting involved with Housing Hawaii's future. I was approached by two of the founders, Kili, Zachary Yamada and Evan Gates, who had come up with the idea for this organization. And they wanted an executive director who had a background both in education and communication. And as soon as they presented the plan for the organization, I knew that I had to be a part of the organization. Well, you've got quite an impressive background already in your life and I'm impressed to say the least. But what is it that drives you to work on the housing crisis here in Hawaii? There are many things you could do. I imagine that there's a lot of passion in that for you. Yes. Well, I've seen my classmates from high school and from university move away steadily year by year to pursue opportunity elsewhere. And I'm 31 this year and as I think about starting my own family in the next few years, I worry that my children, my grandchildren won't be able to afford to stay in Hawaii. So it's an issue that every year becomes more urgent for me and for many of the people in my generation, millennials. Well, we'll talk a little bit more about that later on. But first, tell me a little bit about housing Hawaii's future, the nonprofit that you lead. What's the organization committed to and what does it do? Awesome. So housing Hawaii's future is a movement that is led by young locals who will create opportunities for Hawaii's Gen Z and millennials by ending the workforce housing shortage. Our goal is ultimately to raise awareness of the housing issue and to equip young leaders, our young professionals, our students, people who are working with the skills and knowledge they need to advocate for workforce housing. Because our belief is that these generations have the ability to advocate for themselves and that they are the ones that are being most viscerally affected by the cost of housing and forced to leave. Well, you're tackling a very important problem and sometimes people may not realize fully how significant the problem is. How bad is Hawaii's housing situation right now and who is hurt by it? I mean, you see a million dollar median home prices on all of the islands. The working class, people who earn between 80 to 140% of the area median income. These are civil servants. These are people who work in education, people who work in healthcare, hospitality, skilled laborers even. These vital members of our community are really struggling and every year you see thousands of people leaving to California or Nevada or Colorado or Washington or Texas to pursue a life somewhere else dividing families. The issue is bad. You know, we've often focused in the past just on the homeless issue, which is the most visible manifestation of our housing crisis. But I think that we've neglected the fact that the middle class here is really being squeezed. I've appreciated the opportunity to sit around a table and talk with you about this. So I'd love it if you could share some of your insight as to why we have so many barriers to housing right now in Hawaii. What are these barriers? Sure. When we do presentations and we've been doing a tour of the neighborhood boards explaining the work of our organization, we typically divide the barriers into three categories. So the first are the underlying economics. Obviously we have scarce developable land because we are islands and material costs are high because we have to import things. The second category of barriers are the regulatory barriers and there was a recent report about the Wharton index that was prepared by you hero at the University of Hawaii. That showed that the counties in our state are among the most regulated in the country in terms of putting up barriers to housing. One of these barriers were well-intentioned at first, but it is death by a thousand cuts where if each barrier creates a slight friction for development and you keep adding barrier after barrier, you can end up in a situation where no new housing is being developed. And then the third category of barriers are what we call NIMBY opposition groups. These are not in my backyard people who come out to oppose development projects. One of the examples of this would be in Kailua. There was an affordable housing project proposed there that was ultimately shot down. And currently this is playing out in Manoa Valley where there is a senior housing project proposed for the Chinese cemetery in the back of the valley and some members of that community who oppose the developments of any new housing there. Well, that's a very concise response that you've given and I think it's fairly complete. You've told us that one of the problems is scarcity in and of itself. Secondly, the regulatory conditions here in Hawaii through our government. And third, the opposition that is faced by advocates and various advocacy groups. Now, with all those barriers, it's a wonder that we get any housing built. But let's just for a moment parse out a little bit of each of them. When you talk about scarcity, is that a real and actual scarcity of land available or is it more a contrived scarcity that we experience? Sure. I think there are two elements to that. The first is we do have a very small percentage of our land in the state zone, not zoned, but allocated basically to urban uses through the state land use. Sort of the facto zone, so to speak. Correct. About 6% I think of the land is available for urban usage. So we do limit the amount of land. Now, I think there's some merit to that. Obviously, in Hawaii, our natural resources are very important to the functioning of our society and to the culture here. So we don't obviously want to build everywhere, but we do artificially limit the amount of land that can be developed at the state level. There's a second element though as well, which is the density of housing that is allowed on land. And that is usually something that is affected at the county level. So if we only have 6% of our land zone for urban uses, but we don't allow a lot of density, we're going to struggle to accommodate housing needs on that land. What other kinds of regulatory barriers do we have to increasing our live housing? So this is something that would require like a disposition. There are people who are much better informed on this subject than I am. There are a variety of permits and processes that people have to go through at the county level in order to get their projects approved. Very often they have to, for large projects that have an impact, they have to get some measure of community support. The affordable housing project, for example, that was slated to be developed in Kailua ultimately stumbled because the county council declined to approve that project. So there are discretionary decisions that government bodies can make like the county councils that can sometimes stymie development. It is possible sometimes even when permits are approved by say like Honolulu's department of planning and permitting for those permits to be subsequently revoked because of community protests. So there are a variety of ways that projects can be locked down. There's also the potential lawsuits related to say environmental assessments has happened with Coa Ridge. And so there's a variety of ways that development can ultimately be hampered by regulatory barriers. Sure, you also mentioned not in backyard, nimbism to speak. But in addition to that, are there other forms of advocacy that are difficult for development to go forward? I am asking you in particular because you are very well versed in understanding your generation. And it looks like there are many advocates that are out there amongst youth who, although they may not benefit from this in the long run in terms of housing, who find themselves in opposition to development. Yeah, I think there is a in large part a general bias against development in part because many local people feel that the kinds of developments that are taking place are not the kind that low hardworking local families can afford right the so-called luxury developments. And to some degree, that is a legitimate criticism, right? Obviously with million dollar median home prices, if we are building to meet that demand, that's really limiting these people within the 80 to 140% area median income, your middle class who really can't be affording million dollar homes. I think that the key to overcoming that resistance is to make sure that we have policies put in place that help to incentivize the construction of workforce housing or the kind of housing that local families can afford. Ultimately, you're not going to generate a broad consensus in favor of housing development if that development is just going to be snatched up by foreign buyers or people who don't live in those homes. As you may know, Grassroot Institute has run a series called Why We Left Hawaii. We've interviewed large numbers of individuals who would want to live in Hawaii their home but have left largely because of the cost of living and in particular the cost of housing. But there are other problems as well that young people who may not leave Hawaii face with regard to the high cost of housing and its shortage. Sterling, what are some of those problems that young people in Hawaii are facing due to our housing situation? There are many problems. Here are a few. The first is many people are stuck in multi-generational living situations. They're not able to afford leaving their families. This ultimately impedes their own ability to become independent but also to form their own families. It means that people delay marriage or having children. On the business side, you have a lot of people where it is hard to form a small business in part because you can't attract and retain quality employees because the cost of housing here means that you'd have to raise wages so high to compete with other places on the continental United States where the cost of housing is lower. It delays family formation, it impacts the small business climate, makes it hard for people to start and expand businesses and in a lot of ways it's affecting people. But a bigger problem is one third of our state's population are so-called members of the Alice population. That's your asset limited income constrained and employed families. These are working class families who are one car accident or medical emergency away from falling into poverty. So there's a very real sense where these families that are spending perhaps 40% or even 50% of their income on housing are not able to save. They're not able to escape from this Alice category, which means they're always perched on the edge of disaster. It's a very precarious perch, unfortunately, and it means that a lot of people in fact are just one paycheck away from living in the streets. Sterling, I love the name of your organization Housing Hawaii's Future. It's extremely positive. Your approach, I believe, is to engage young people and students and professionals in particular.  How do you engage them and why is it important to reach them in particular? Sure. For students, we've been reaching out to Hawaii clubs at colleges and universities across the country. We're reaching out as well to the University of Hawaii System Schools, all 10 campuses. And we've reached out to organizations like the Center for Tomorrow's Leaders and the Odo Fellows groups that are working with these young leaders. It's important for students to be involved in this issue because students have been at the forefront of so many of these movements for social change. They've led on the issue of the environment, they've led on civil rights, and now it's their turn to lead on housing as well. For young professionals, people who are in the working class, we've been reaching out to them through the organizations they work for, through service clubs like the Rotary, the Junior Chambers of Commerce, and other organizations where young professionals congregate to help them realize that this is an issue, obviously, that they feel more acutely. Many of them are paying for their own housing, unlike many students who are still sheltered by their parents. But the young professionals understand this issue. To engage them, what we've tried to do is to create opportunities where they can participate in the civic process and be effective. Now, what's been the response from young people as you've reached out to them and attempted to engage them? Initially, I think there's a lot of cynicism and pessimism, to be honest. Most young people, we've talked to some teenagers even who feel like they don't have a future here in our state. As we sort of talk through some of the opportunities that are available to them, you start to see the glimmer of hope, optimism, and even some excitement where they realize that if they come together that they can actually make a difference. And that's one of the most rewarding aspects of this work. What are some of the ways young people can actually make a difference? Sure. So there are a variety of places that young people can engage civically. One of the most important, and it's often not discussed much at all, is the neighborhood board system. So on the island of Oahu, there are 33 neighborhood boards that represent all of the communities. And these neighborhood boards do play an advisory role for the county council when it comes to these large developments. And they also are impactful in influencing the decisions of elected officials, both at the county level and the state level, who attend these meetings. The governor and the mayor also usually send a representative to these meetings. So for our elected officials, they use the neighborhood boards as a place to keep a pulse on what the community is concerned about. The neighborhood boards tend to skew a little bit older in their membership. And so very often the concerns of people who are just forming their families, young workers or students are not represented at all. One of our hopes is that we can get young people engaged in all of the neighborhood boards, just so that their voices are represented in the conversation there, so that our elected officials are getting a more broad spectrum of the concerns in their community.  We are not a politically affiliated organization. As a 501C3, we are nonpartisan. To be honest, I think all that is necessary is to have young people involved in these discussions. Party affiliation doesn't matter. The sad truth is that many people who are near retirement age or retired are disconnected firsthand from the kinds of struggles that young people are going through in terms of the cost of housing. So just getting young people at a seat at these tables so that they can represent both their own experiences, but also talk about the experiences that their peers are facing is one of the greatest ways that we can sort of shift the narrative and help people to understand the challenges that are being faced. Now, our city and county neighborhood boards are really the starting point for public service in terms of an elective office. What kind of influence does a neighborhood board have? One might think that it's the lowest level of governance, and it certainly is the one that is the most local, but what have you discovered about the potential power and influence of neighborhood boards on housing decisions? I think the neighborhood board system is much more powerful than people assume. A lot of people think that it's insignificant, but it is quite significant because these community members are often the most engaged. They're the people who participate in service and volunteer opportunities. They're the people who participate in sports teams or various clubs in the community. They're the people who help out their schools. Being able to help these most influential members of the community understand the struggle that young people are facing builds this sort of grassroots momentum across our island here on Oahu, where all of the elected officials who participate in these meetings and the members of the community begin to see that this is a real issue that's being faced by so many of the community, and that ultimately builds the sort of political will to take action. I think a lot of people have talked about solutions for years. The challenge has always been just to get people to actually be brave enough to take action. And I think that our elected officials should be brave because the challenge is severe and there are thousands of young people who would love to call Hawaii home and would love for their elected representatives to take action to make that possible. Well, encouraging young people to get involved in the neighborhood boards is a great way of preparing them for future roles of service, leading to legislature and beyond. And so that's a very smart strategy. What is your long-term vision for the organization or what it will accomplish? And what are maybe some of the plans you have coming up in the near future? Ultimately, the hope is to build this constituency of young people who understand the workforce housing issue and have the skills and knowledge they need to advocate so that we can finally solve it. Some of the things we're working on is a pledge. So our hope is to have a few thousand young people sign a pledge in favor of workforce housing that's coming up as the election season proceeds toward the end of the election season.  It's something we need to address. And here we are, thousands of young people standing up to demand action. Beyond that, we're hoping to host candidate town halls for the candidates for governor. So the active leadership on this issue is so important, and it's important that our voters are able to understand in depth what their candidates views on housing are. A lot of times in a typical debate, there's one question about housing, it's do you support affordable housing? The answer is yes, and then it's next question. But what about an hour where candidates are encouraged to engage in depth on the issue and to roll out their specific plans? Ultimately, that kind of information providing is the only way that the voters can make an informed decision about which candidates actually have their interests in mind. So we're hoping to host candidate town halls in the governor's race to help the voting populace understand which candidates have the best housing policies for them. Very good. Well, Sterling, it sounds very promising. I want to thank you so much for leading Hawaii's future, right? Did I get it correct? You got it. And thank you so much for all that you're contributing to future leadership of our state. My guest today has been Sterling Higa, and you've heard directly from him that there's much hope in our young people as we look to them for solutions for tomorrow. I'm Kili Iakina, your host on Hawaii Together on the Think Tech Hawaii broadcast network. Until next week, aloha.


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This we're not having an expense. We're putting it into the factory overhead because it's depreciation on the factory So remember we already allocated out of the factory this 109. This is all the stuff that we allocated Here and so the 109 minus all the debits means that we're off our allocation was out of bounds by the 3000 that's okay. That's an estimate. We're gonna have to deal with that though at the end here All right, so now we transferred jobs from work and process to finish good So now we have work in process here the 260 we're gonna we're done with some of that stuff So we're gonna take it out of there and put it into the finished goods. So here's our job cost So we jump we transferred 14 and 15. So here's 14. Here's 15. We're gonna say it's not open anymore. It's now closed It's now closed. So if we take out the calculator here, we're going to say that the two jobs that we have are this 186 thousand plus the 314 Thousand those got allocated out five hundred thousand. Those are allocated out. What's left just the yellow account of 260 260 that's what's gonna be left in work in process This and this are gonna be allocated out to the 500. How do we do that with a journal entry? We're gonna debit the finished goods 500,000 putting it into 500 and we're gonna take it out of work in process If we look at the general ledger account, what's happening? It's going in the finished goods debit finished goods 500,000 that's where this number came from crediting work in process was at 760,000 minus the 500 credit brings it to 260. There's the 260 These need to be backed up by the job cost report as they are here All right, so we're still tied out there and next item now We're gonna sell so now we've got stuff and finished goods and we're gonna sell it Meaning it's gonna move to cost a good sold now the confusing thing when we sell something we sold job 14 And they give us a sales price when we think about job cost system The sales price can actually throw us off because we haven't been thinking about the sales price at all We've been thinking about the cost the whole way through this sales price has nothing to do with our job cost report We may have gotten to the sales price by using the job cost report But the book is usually gonna give us a sales price and we're gonna record the same journal entry We would if it was just a service company or at least the first half of it's gonna be the same meaning we're gonna debit In this case the cash 380 and we're gonna credit sales. So that's just we got 380,000 cash. We're gonna credit sales. Now, would we come up with a 380? The books gonna have to give it We did some kind of markup. We don't we didn't tell us that right? We came up with a sales price What we do know though is job 14 was sold here's job 14. It's no longer closed. It's shipped. It's gone It's out and it had a cost of the 186 so what's gonna happen this finished goods? We're gonna have to give it up Crediting the 186 and we're gonna have to put it into the cost of goods sold So we're gonna debit cost of goods sold the expense related to the asset that we sold and we're gonna credit the finished Goods taking it out of finished goods. So in terms of our asset accounts, the finished goods is gonna go from the 500 Down by the 186 to the 314. So here's the 314 there Here's the 314 here and of course and here's gonna be the 314 here represented by the job that has been closed But has not yet been shipped out. It's gonna be in the finished goods So if we recap this then we could see that the 260,000 260,000 will be in the job cost that represents the job that's still open the job that we're representing With the yellow item, it's gonna be still open still in the job cost That's backing up the work and process account now the job cost system is also gonna have jobs that have completed and have gone through The process so we have this job 15 that has closed but it has not yet been shipped That's gonna be the 314. That's what's gonna be in the finished goods here That's in the finished goods and that's in the finished goods on the trial balance And then of course we have the job that has been shipped out so this job has been completed been shipped out We've represented that by highlighting the shipped area. That's gonna be the 186,000 and that's gonna be what the cost of goods sold is representing at this point because it has been shipped out And therefore expensed. All right, so then we have the last piece. We got the adjust for underappreciated or overappreciated factory overhead So what are we talking about here? And we're looking at the factory overhead remember last time we had we left off with this 3000 credit in factory overhead. We applied out 109,000 to our jobs and then we put all of this stuff that's makes up the factory overhead And our estimate was off by the 3000 we need to make that go to zero because we want to Basically have a zero at the end of this time period so that we can make a new estimate next time period So we just need to make that zero so how do we make it zero? That's a credit Therefore we're gonna do the opposite thing to it and debit it making it go down Where are we gonna put the other side easiest thing to do put it into cost of goods sold Crediting cost of goods sold now you might be saying well, that's kind of funny because cost of goods sold is a debit balance And it's an expensive count. Why would we be crediting it? We don't normally credit cost of goods sold and the reason is because it's a small amount Hopefully it's immaterial we're doing this because the estimate was off It's going to be off because it's an estimate and we need to to take it down somewhere if it's immaterial then taking it to cost of goods sold is the easiest thing to do because Cost of goods sold is something that will then close out to retained earnings Unlike some of the permanent accounts all the permanent accounts which would not close out therefore once it closes out to retained earnings it'll be gone and That'll allow us to basically make a new estimate next time From scratch from fresh start so that's going to be the idea now if it was significant if it's a large amount Then we may have to do something else But if it's insignificant me it's not going to affect our decision making Then it would seem appropriate to just put it to cost get sold sold that being the easiest thing to do Also, just note that if if we happen to have gone the other way meaning that we ended up with a debit of like 3000 we would do the same thing we would make it go to zero We're going to do whatever we need to do to make it go to zero and in this case It would be that would be accredited to make it go to zero and then we would debit cost to get sold once again Doing whatever we need to do to make it go to zero as long as it's an immaterial amount No effect on the job cost system of this We still have the 260 tying out to the 260 because the factory overhead We're just dealing with the factory overhead and not the working process not to finish goods at that point


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the pattern of mob morality, kind of tribal in-group, out-group dynamics that are still very much in human society. I drew a lot from the work of a philosopher, René Girard, I guess a philosopher slash anthropologist, and he described the original social problem as being retributive violence, blood feuds, tit for tat violence that escalate. So somebody, you know, wrong somebody else and they or their kin get revenge, but the original party feels that they were in the right, so they get revenge back on them and it just escalates and everybody has to choose sides. Which side are you on? You have to demonstrate that you're not with them, otherwise you're my enemy too. So the sides taking this violence spreads like a disease until it engulfs the whole society and rips society apart before it even really has a chance to get established. So the ancient solution to this existential crisis was to turn on a scapegoat or a small class of scapegoats, people who are semi outsiders in society and for everybody to get together and kill them instead in an act of unifying violence in the process, also discharging the desire for vengeance, the desire of the blood loss, the desire we've got to do something about this, we can't just let it slide. So everybody goes and turns on the witch or the Jew or the misfit or the weird kid, the kid in a class that has cooties. Remember, if you touch that kid, you've got cooties too and you get ostracized.  Today, it's the unvaccinated who are getting ostracized, who are getting blamed, scapegoated and so forth. The pattern is you have to find somebody who is in but not of society or make them into somebody who is in but out of society to prepare them for sacrifice. So that basic social dynamic has programmed us really deeply with an instinct to orient toward which ways of wind blowing, who's on the in, who's on the outs, who can I associate with? How can I demonstrate my belonging to the good people? You know, in our current age leads to all kinds of virtue signaling and identity politics and it can be manipulated by governments. You know, that's what are these forces that are channeling our psychic energies into conflict. This is one of them. And it makes us very susceptible also to totalitarian control or fascism.  And then everybody falls into lockstep around that or it could be the unvaccinated or it could be the white supremacists or it could be the Antifa. Left and right do the same thing here. Not aligning with either of the sides. And this is one of those filters. People might be listening, okay, which side are you on? Is it okay to believe, to listen to what you say Charles? Because are you one of the good guys or one of the bad guys? Let me figure out if you're one of the good guys or one of the bad guys by decoding the hidden messages and what you were saying. When you said white supremacists, was that with disgust or with a little bit of sarcasm? Which side are you on? Is it okay to be associated with you? That is one of the patterns I'm talking about. And that is almost universal. And if our society is ever going to change for real, we're gonna have to transcend that.


U.S. admonishes Israeli officials for saying the quiet part out loud about ethnic cleansing. The U.S. State Department has issued a statement indignantly finger-wagging at two Israeli officials who recently drew headlines for openly endorsing the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip. The statement reads as follows. The United States rejects recent statements from Israeli ministers Bezelal Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir advocating for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza. This rhetoric is inflammatory and irresponsible. We have been told repeatedly and consistently by the government of Israel, including by the prime minister, that such statements do not reflect the policy of the Israeli government. They should stop immediately. We have been clear, consistent and unequivocal that Gaza is Palestinian land and will remain Palestinian land, with Hamas no longer in control of its future and with no terror groups able to threaten Israel. That is the future we seek, in the interests of Israelis and Palestinians, the surrounding region, and the world, end quote. The offending statements by Ben Gvir and Smotrich promote the idea of encouraging Palestinians to flee Gaza en masse, absurdly referring to this hypothetical outcome as voluntary migration, despite the fact that Israel has been doing everything in its power to make living in Gaza impossible. You will note, probably without surprise, that the statement contains nothing but empty scolding. No mention is made of the faintest possibility of any consequence of any kind being brought to bear should Israeli officials continue to openly advocate for eliminating the Palestinian population of Gaza and replacing it with Jewish settlements. This is because the US has no intention of actually doing anything to hinder Israel's ethnic cleansing agendas, and make no mistake, that absolutely is Israel's agenda. The State Department can claim all at once that such statements do not reflect the policy of the Israeli government and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has assured Washington that there are no plans to resettle Palestinians outside of Gaza, but Netanyahu himself has been publicly contradicting this claim with increasing brazenness. Just last week, at a Likud party meeting, Netanyahu explicitly said that his government is working on finding countries who will be willing to absorb Palestinian refugees from Gaza, claiming that the world is already discussing the possibilities of voluntary immigration. Indeed, it's fair to say that the extreme right ministers Ben Gvir and Smotrich are not actually saying anything on this front that is significantly different from what Netanyahu himself has been saying. BB's just a bit more polite about it, with Ben Gvir openly thumbing his nose at the State Department's remarks, saying, we aren't another star on the American flag and facilitating the relocation of hundreds of thousands from Gaza will allow those in the Israeli Gaza border communities to return home and live securely while safeguarding the IDF soldiers. In fact, one could easily argue that Netanyahu as well as Ben Gvir and Smotrich have been entirely in alignment with the State Department's own language on this subject. The idea of voluntary immigration does not contradict the position asserted by Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the US vision for Gaza involves, quote, no forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, not now, not after the war. Notice Blinken's careful insertion of the word forcible there. His wording makes it clear that the US would only object if Palestinians were actually forced onto ships, or marched across the Egyptian border at gunpoint, as Middle East analyst Mu'in Rabani recently observed on Twitter, quote, alarm bells should have started ringing in early November when US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other Western politicians began insisting there could be no forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. Rather than rejecting any mass removal of Palestinians, Blinken and his colleagues objected only to optically challenging expulsions at gunpoint. The option of voluntary displacement by leaving residents of the Gaza Strip with no choice but departure was pointedly left open, end quote. So contrary to its self-righteous moral posturing, the State Department is not actually upset with Ben Gavir and Smotrich for advocating the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. They're just upset they said the quiet part out loud. If there's one thing Blinken and his cohorts understand, it's that you're not supposed to describe the evil things you want to do in evil-sounding language. You've got to tap dance gracefully around the actual depravity you intend to inflict, uttering flowery prose about humanitarian concerns and compassion for both sides to keep everyone dazzled and hypnotized while the killing machines are quietly rolled out in the background. You've got to be eloquent and elusive about your murderousness. Like Obama, the US war machine is every bit as depraved as the state of Israel, and the Biden administration is just as culpable for the horrors being unleashed in Gaza as Netanyahu and his goons. Ignore their words and watch their actions. Don't let them dazzle you with their feigned concern for human rights.


Hey, this is Brett and this 2016 Chevy Silverado 2500-cab-shortbox 1LT is stock number 14006Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2016 Chevy Silverado has the 6.6-liter Duramax diesel engine. It is the LML engine, which puts out 397 horsepower. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video. Inside underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood to give you the most accurate representation that I can of the truck. Autumn Bronze Metallic is the color, very unique color, G1F is the paint code. I shoot all my videos in 4K and if you like the video, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, which is youtube.com slash Summit Auto. Click the bell notifications to get updates on the videos I do each and every day as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle and heavy-duty truck walk-arounds on YouTube. This one comes with the 18-inch chromed alloy wheels. They're in pretty nice shape. Didn't see any major scuffs or scrapes on there. And it has very new Michelin Defender LTX tires. These are LT26570R18s and these tires I would say have 90% of the tread left, maybe 95% of the tread. They look very new. Framing on the bodies in pretty nice shape. This is a clean title history, clean car facts out of Maine. Front fender is in excellent condition. Projector lamp headlamps, factory fog lights, front bumper is in fantastic condition. No major dents or dings on there and you do get the chrome trimmed grille. The hood is in fantastic shape as well. I didn't see any major dents on there. You do get the cab lights up top and the passenger side front fender is in fantastic condition as well. Passenger side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. Bottom bronze metallic has a lot of metal flake, a lot of gold, really a cool color. This was actually featured on our YouTube channel, this particular truck in its transformation when we polished it and buffed it. Looks fantastic and as you go down this side of this 2016 Chevy Silverado 2500, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck here, the truck and of confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Back wheel is in excellent shape as well and the back tires have just as much tread as those front tires. Once again, frame and underbody, pretty nice shape, looks like it has been undercoated, has all the remaining factory exhausts that hasn't been altered in any way, or rockers, cab corners all look really good and it does come with the factory chrome step bars. Under side box is in a very nice shape. Coming around to the back of the vehicle, the rear bumper is absolutely perfect, no dense or dings in there. It does have the rear bumper parking or rear bumper steps, full towing package which includes receiver hitch, 4 pin and 7 pin wiring, you do get a receiver hitch reducer on there as well and the tailgate is in excellent condition too, no major dents or dings on there. It does have a Truxedo soft roll up tonneau cover, just a little bit of wear on it, just for full disclosure the tonneau cover is probably the least nice thing of this truck. And inside we have the bed here, we have factory all weather formats that come with this truck, spray and bed liner, you get the 5th wheel and goose neck prep package, 7 pin wiring, this one also has LED bed lighting back here, and you can see that that spray and bed liner goes onto the tailgate which is a really nice feature to have, that tailgate shuts nice and solidly, and as we go down the driver's side just as clean as that passenger's side, no major dents or dings on the box, looks really good, and for full disclosure this back wheel is just about as nice as the rest, no major scuffs or scrapes on there, coming around to the rest of the vehicle here, doors and cab all look really good, it does come with this back rack piece here as well, I didn't see any dents or dings on those doors, this one does have the telescopic tow mirrors, built in directional signals, LED side lights, a telescope out like so, and they fold in like that, they actually go in really easily. Inside the back seats here, no rips, no tears, latch child safety system, for any child car seats, fixed glass rear window with a built in rear defrost, smells very clean inside this truck, these seats do fold up, carpeting is nice and clean, very all weather floor mats back here, still got a little bit of tire dressing or vinyl dressing on there, that's how freshly this has been detailed, side curtain airbags, inside and bottoms of the doors all look pretty good, I'll show you the VIN sticker here, no Canadian trucks here, there is your tire and loading information sticker, inside the 1LT package gives you the gray cloth interior, 40-20-40 split bench seating in the front, no rips, no tears on those seats, power driver seat, weather tech floor mats in the front, that's why those factory ones are in the back, auto headlamps turned out four wheel drive and factory brake controller, tilt and telescopic steering wheel, power windows locks and mirrors, you get the nice silver finish on the doors there, hop inside, check out the miles, the radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior, can see this one has 44,764 miles, you get the digital speedometer, compass display, instrument clusters, very nice and clean, comes with the leather wrap steering wheel, Bluetooth and information center controls on the right, cruise controls on the left and it does have audio controls on the back of the steering wheel, there is your shifter for the 6-speed Allison heavy duty transmission with the optional tap shift, this one does have the Chevy MyLink radio, you get AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities, you also have projection manager, you can project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, so while this one doesn't have the factory navigation system, project your cell phone up there with Waze or Google Maps, and it's like you have nav right on the screen, so that's a really nice system to have, this one does have the CD player as well and dual climate controls down here, you get stability control, that's for your cargo lamps, that's also how you turn on your LED side lights on the mirrors, and how you turn on your LED lights in the bed of the truck, factory exhaust brake and you do get a 12-volt power point and 110-volt, 150-watt plug-in, passenger side gloveboxes, floor mat and seat are all in excellent condition, no rips or tears on there, once again smells very clean inside this truck, I don't think it's ever been smoked in and the headliner is in excellent shape as well, you do get map lights up there, on-star and SOS buttons in the mirror and the windshield looks like it's in really nice conditions and see chips or anything on there, let's start it up and take a look under the hood, starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that other than my hood's open, and I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today, check out those LED side lights there, super bright, and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality condition options and of course, cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside and out, really in nice shape for a 2016, cab lights look really good, under the hood we have the 6.6-liter Duramax diesel engine, engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth, 397 horsepower, this truck has been fully safe and inspected by a service shop and is 100% ready to go, there is the emissions sticker, and I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint, like new tires, really unique color and just in really nice shape all the way around, and to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 550 new-news cars, trucks, SCVs, minivans, Wranglers, halftones, decoder tons, one tons, you name it, we got to go to the website right there, summitauto.com, full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle all at summitauto.com, and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto, click the bell notifications to get updates on the videos I do each and every day, as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle and heavy-duty truck walk-arounds on YouTube, almost 9,000 videos and counting, in fact, in a second you'll see links to subscribe to my YouTube channel in the upper left, a link to all the Chevy 2500 truck videos I've ever done in the upper right, link to this vehicle on our website in the lower left, and a link to one of our latest YouTube videos in the lower right, click those, check us out, and we're super excited to help you with this ultra-clean 2016 Chevy Silverado 2500 Double Cab Short Box 1LT and Autumn Bronze Metallic, thanks again for checking out the video, remember to like, subscribe, and share on the YouTube channel, I really appreciate it, thanks again.


Jeremy Huber here after Stevenson's big win tonight over Morrisville State with head coach Dominic Dawes and coach Let's just start off with the biggest thing. You got a brand new program, but you're 2-0. How does that feel? I mean, it's a great feeling. The goal of never going in every game is to try and score more roles than the other team, right? So I think the guys showed a lot of character tonight. I don't think they came out like we plan to come out I thought Morrisville played a lot better coming out of the gate But I think we responded and responded well and got the job done You talk about response and I guess to you then it's not a shock that your captain Davis would come up with a big goal to kind of get things going How important was that first goal to kind of break the ice? Oh, it's huge and that's what Mike brings every day and that's why he's the captain and that's why he's the leader He is pure energy. I mean It's a good thing when your hardest-working guy every day is is your leader and that's what he represents I think with the hat-trick tonight kind of scored him all kinds of different ways talk about his performance I thought he'd great I thought I mean his game is his speed and when he moves his feet he can be successful And I thought he got you know better as the game went on and finally coach You go with a little goalie change you bring in caphrie in the second period Obviously didn't see that many shots the ones he did he stopped them all how do you think he did? I thought he did well and and not I thought Dustin I mean nothing against Dustin's performance either. I thought just the team need a little bit of spark and That's what Jake brought and we got the job done well coach You move on you get these two wins you move on to conference play next how do you feel about your team moving forward? Well our goal here in this whole thing is just to try to get better every day And that's really all we we can do and we'll go from there Well, you're doing a pretty good job at 2 and 0 with a brand new team coach congratulations on the win. Thank you very much


German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has made a decision to provide Ukraine with Leopard 2 combat tanks, Spiegel publication reported today. According to the publication, at least one company of Leopard 2 A6 tanks will be delivered to Ukraine. This includes about 14 tanks in line with NATO standards. According to the report, Leopard tanks will be provided out of Bundeswehr stocks. Additional tanks can also be produced in the medium and long-term perspective. Spiegel reported that Berlin's decision was influenced by consultations with allies, especially with the United States. Today it was also revealed that Poland made a request to Germany of a re-exporting of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.