This 2017 GMC Sierra 3500 Crew Cab Short Box Single Rear Wheel is stock number 12346Z. We're here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin near new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2017 GMC Sierra 3500 has the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel engine with the L5P engine which pumps out 445 horsepower. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. Has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this truck is 100% ready to go. We're going to go inside all the way around underneath, start it up and check out under the hood as well in this video. And we shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone or television I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition and options of the truck before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and want to subscribe to our YouTube channel where we do videos of our new and used inventory each and every day in the upper right hand part of the screen is a link to subscribe to our channel. On YouTube click that and then click the bell notifications and you'll get updates every time we do videos here at Summit Auto. This one comes with the chromed alloy rims and it has Michelin LTX LT265 70R18 tires and these tires have right around half the tread left on them. Frame and underbody looks really good as well. Front fender is in excellent shape, I didn't see any major dents or dings on there. This one does have the HID headlamps, the LED running lights and the factory fog lights. Front bumper is in excellent condition, I didn't see any major dents or dings on there. Comes with the chrome trimmed grille, headlight lenses are nice and clear, comes with a very nice bug shield and the hood is in excellent condition as well. That is a true cowl induction hood so we'll show you how that works in just a second here. The passenger side front fender is in excellent shape, no dents or dings in the passenger side rim, no scuffs or scrapes. I want to show you this color, it's called pepper dust metallic, it's got a lot of metal flake in it, when the sun hits it you can see just how shiny and reflective it is. Really a cool color. And as you go down this side of the truck take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by, just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the truck, you can see the truck, hear the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that buying decision let your salesman know that you saw the video that it helped you out and that Brett sent you. His back rim is in excellent shape as well and the back tires have just about as much tread as the front tires. Frame and underbody is in very nice condition, it's like that all the way underneath, has all the remaining factory exhaust so it hasn't been altered in any way and the cab corners and lower rockers all look really good. Comes with a nice set of Laverne chrome step bars, these are nice wide step bars. The passenger side box is in really nice shape as well and as you come around to the back of the vehicle rear bumper is in pretty nice shape, does have a full towing package, receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring, backup parking sensors and rear bumper steps. Now there are a couple little dings on the rear bumper but it does not hurt the performance of that bumper or the truck, tailgates in pretty nice shape as well, does have a locking tailgate, backup camera, has a shock down assist tailgate so it's never going to slam on you. This one has a fifth wheel and gooseneck prep package looks like it comes with an auxiliary fuel tank as well and you also get seven pin wiring back here. You also have LED lights in the bed and there's one on each side, couple box tie downs, access soft roll up tonneau cover and that's in really nice shape as well. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly and as you go down the driver side just as clean as that passenger side, no major dents or dings on the box and for full disclosure this back rim is in excellent shape as well. Driver side doors look really good, does have the telescopic tow mirrors, they have built in directional signals, LED side lights, they telescope out like so and they also fold in like that. Inside the SLE1 package gives you the black cloth interior, 40, 20, 40 split vents seating in the front, no rips or tears on the driver's seat, looks really good, power driver's seat, weather tech floor mats, auto headlamps, turned out four wheel drive, factory brake control, you get your tilt and telescopic steering wheel controls right there, power windows power locks and power mirrors and you get the nice wood grain trim on the door. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, the radio and everything that this truck has to offer. You can see that this one has 35,279 miles, instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the leather wrapped steering wheel, cruise controls and I'm sorry Bluetooth and information center controls and the right cruise controls on the left, does have audio controls on the back of the steering wheel and this one comes with the six speed Allison heavy duty transmission with the optional tap shift. Comes with the GMC and telelink radio, AM FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities, you also have the factory navigation system on here and you can see you get your AM FM and Sirius capabilities there. This is also where your backup camera shows up and this is also has the projection manager, we can project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. So if you like a navigation system on your cell phone better than the one on the radio, you can project it to the screen and use it through there, it's a pretty cool system. CD player, heated seat buttons, power pedals, stability controls, that's how you turn those cargo lights on and also how you turn on the bed lighting and LED side lights on the mirrors, downhill assist control, you can turn the parking sensors off and your factory exhaust break is right there. It does come with a 12 volt power point and there is a 110 volt, 150 watt plug-in underneath here, kind of hard to see, but it is right there, my gimbal doesn't always like doing that. Passenger side format and carpeting and seat are in excellent condition, no rips or tears on there. I don't think this truck's ever been smoked in, it smells very clean inside, almost like new, headliners in great shape, you do get map lights up here, this button lets you know that you have the snowplow prep package on starin' SOS buttons in the rear of your mirror. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up, take a look under the hood, we'll also check out those HID headlamps. Back seats are in excellent condition as well, no rips or tears, factory latch child safety system, power, I'm sorry, rear defrost, fixed glass rear window, no rips or tears on the back seats, factory floor mats back here, these seats fold up for extra storage and you can see that the carpeting is very nice and clean back here, bottoms of the doors are all in really great condition, comes with some nice chrome kick panels on here and we'll start it up and take a look under the hood, starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that, turn all those lights on for you. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today, there are those LED side lights in the mirrors, but I'd personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you will have been able to verify the quality and condition of this truck all the way around, inside and out, there are those HID headlamps, LED running lights, factory fog lights work nice, under the hood we have the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel engine, 445 horsepower, engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth, you can see that cull induction hood comes right here into the air cleaner, there's your mission sticker and like I said this truck's 100% ready to go, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this one's all set, I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint and to see more pictures of this truck, one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, halftones, three-quarter tons of one tons, you name it we got it, go to that website right there at www.SummitAuto.com, full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at SummitAuto.com if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to www.youtube.com slash www.SummitAuto.com, number two, like, subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there, click the bell notifications, you'll get updates every time we do videos here at Summit Automotive, in fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel in the upper left, link to more Sierra 3500 truck videos like this one the upper right, a 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 2017 GMC Sierra 3500 crew cab shore box single rear wheel SLE-1 and pepper dust metallic thanks again for checking out the video remember to like subscribe and share


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Okay, we're back. We're live. It's noon on a given Monday, and I'm here with Marco Mangelsdorf. Hi, Marco. It's great to talk to you always yet again. Well, just to have Tuan Moa on for a change, even though we love our guests. We have over the past month, and we've had some great ones. I mean, it's great to be just Tuan Moa again on this Monday of February 11th. So thank you so much for having me back, my friend. Absolutely. Energy 808, the cutting edge. So let's talk about something about, talk about. Let's talk about the talk about. And that's namely, you know, the problem with making Hawaii, from an energy point of view, reliable, having reliable systems, and having resilient systems. There's an awful lot of talk about that. There's so many conferences, and so much you see in the newspaper, and everybody, you know, expressing themselves on the issue. Can you help me define what we're talking about when we talk about reliability and resilience? We'll not be happy to.  Terms of utility planning and power generation seem to be focusing on R&R, not so much rest and relaxation, but to resiliency or reliability and resilience in terms of what needs to be done, and in my opinion quite a bit needs to be done. What needs to be done in order to, or if you're a vegetarian tofu up, the grids across our island chain to be able to be more robust and more able to withstand adverse events, whether it's a lava flow like we've had here on the island for a number of months last year, or whether it's adverse weather events like the whole state has been enjoying, enjoying in quotation marks just over the past couple of days. I mean, there were gusts on the top of Mauna Kea here on this island up to 191 miles an hour over the past 24, 36 hours. And that, of course, those kind of wins can play havoc with the utility grid in terms of blowing over poles, knocking trees into power lines, and there weren't a small number of people across the state, tens of thousands of people who were without power at any given moment or for hours or longer over the past couple of days. So what needs to be done in terms of making our grid more robust and reliable in terms of staying on, and then the resilience part, according to our friends at FERC, FERC being the federal, they define resilience as, quote, the ability to withstand and reduce the magnitude and or duration of disruptive events, which includes the capability to anticipate, absorb, adapt, and to and or rapidly recover from an event, close quotation. They use some alliteration there, anticipate, absorb, and adapt. So it sounds to me like reliability is at the front end, it's preparing, it's making yourself stronger, and resilience is developing systems to recover after you've had a problem of some kind. Right, so reliability, you can harden the system so to speak, whether, you know, harden an IT system against the likelihood or possibility of a cyber attack, or harden the actual physical infrastructure and backbone of utility grids. And I know Hawaiian Electric and the folks at KIUC are putting a priority on doing this, but my great fear is, Jay, my huge fear is that we are living on borrowed time in a sense that last year we had six major weather events cruise on through the central Pacific, four of them were hurricane strength and one of them managed to get up to a category five, which is the highest category. So sooner or later one of these pull an aniki on Oahu, Maui, Kauai again, the big island, as what happened on Kauai 1991. So what can we do, question number one, what do we need to do, question number two, in a short term time frame to beef up, harden our electrical infrastructure so that it won't be catastrophic in terms of the results as the folks on Puerto Rico are still dealing with, which is going to require essentially the rebuilding of that grid to the tune of multi-billions of dollars and where's that money going to come from. So we don't experience what Iniki wreaked on Kauai 91 or what a couple of hurricanes did to Puerto Rico in 2017. And amongst the various priorities that our legislators and our regulators and the general public at large, what priority do they put on increasing the reliability and resiliency of the electric grid versus other societal priorities such as homelessness, education, deferred maintenance of UH, and on and on and on and on. And my case would be, I would make the case that this should be a high priority item. Well, this is survival. This is survival. And if you don't do this, lives will be lost. That's the part that escapes me because, I mean, that concerns me. We have so much discussion about these things. So many organizations and commissions and nonprofits and conferences, Hither and Yan, and they all come to make the point that, you know, we are going to suffer extreme weather. We better get ready for it. Okay, I know that. You and I know that. I'm not sure the legislature knows that, but you and I know that. So how do we go from there from that conclusion, which we've already made, to taking some steps? Well, let's try it out a little bit right here on the show. Now, narrowing the focus here is we're talking about the electrical grid because we see that as a very high priority in a way higher than any other priority because of the disastrous results if we don't have a working grid. So the question first is, you know, I'm not assuming that not much has been done to really harden it or to develop resiliency systems. So the question is what is likely, most likely, again, a priorities list, what is most likely to happen? Well, it's not, you know, climate change in the sense of sea level rise. We have to deal with that later. That's not a priority right now. What's a priority right now, especially in the year of El Nino, is extreme weather. And we've seen it, you know, every day, including this polar vortex thing, including, in my opinion, these high winds. So the question is, what are we likely to suffer? And you pointed out that we likely to suffer another iniki and worse of course in Honolulu. And what can we do to harden the system and to make the systems in general more resilient? So if I gave you a checkbook for a billion dollars, Marco, where would you start in taking these affirmative actions? Well, I'm glad you asked that question, Jay, because my response is that the easiest, in my opinion, one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to move in the direction where we need to move in, a massive, massive increase in the deployment of battery storage across the board for the state of Hawaii, because we want to call it distributed energy resources, or DER for short, or distributed generation. The idea and the concept of going away from the traditional centralized power hub and spoke model, which is very Edisonian going back more than 100 years, where you have a central power plant sending transmission distribution lines far hither and yon to provide power to people, sometimes hundreds on the mainland, thousands of miles away, that effectively over the past 20 years has been shifting and metamorphizing to a distributed generation where you have small power plants on people's homes, power plants on the roofs of people's businesses. So by adding energy storage both to these nano grids or making nano grids for people's homes and also energy storage for or shopping centers, that you are creating a much different architecture, not just of the future, but hopefully of today of the present, where if a particular area of the grid is hard hit, infrastructure is taken out, poles are down, power plants are damaged, then there will be at least other parts of that grid that will be effectively micro gridded or nano gridded to be able to provide power to those people within that circuit or even possibly export that power to other parts of the grid that are undamaged. So to answer your question in a nutshell, batteries, batteries, batteries, and that is what we can do in the near term, as in not the next five to 10 years, but the next 12, 24, 36 months. So one of the ways that our government and our society can support that would be to get a bill to Governor David E. Gay by the end of this legislative session, which would have a separate state tax credit for the addition, supporting the addition of battery storage to existing renewable energy systems and the same bill failed in 2018, 2017, and 2016, never made out of conference committee. So I'm yet again holding my breath and lighting my pooja sticks and my incense that maybe just maybe there will be success this time because we just don't have the time to waste, in my opinion, and battery storage exponentially increased in terms of deployment will get us where we want to be in terms of a greater and more robust electric grid for our isolated island grids. Okay, so let me unpack some of that. First of all, gee, I'm with you on the timeframe. We've got to do it as soon as possible. I can't for the life of me understand why you can't get a tax credit when you want to add batteries. It's so obvious that that will make the whole thing more resilient if we add batteries to existing solar facilities. It means that these individual homeowner facilities will be able to stand by themselves when necessary, otherwise they won't because no sun at night, no electrical power. Not only that, but big batteries are bigger than we've been thinking before. So in order to do that, you've got to spend the money. The tax credit obviously is going to affect conduct. It's going to encourage people to do that even if they wouldn't do it otherwise. It's going to say the government has considered this and cares about you and cares about making us more resilient. So here, have a few bucks, have a tax credit, get some storage. So that should happen right away. And for the life of me, I don't understand why it hasn't happened already. The other aspect though is that only deals with the single family residents and possibly a community solar kind of installation. Are you talking about storage for the larger utility scale solar farms as well? You haven't really identified whether your suggestion covers that, does it? Well, the new solar projects, which are now going through, will be going through the approval process. Seven of them I believe that Hawaiian Electric announced not too long ago, which will have to meet PUC's scrutiny. All of those systems, two on this island, two on Maui and I believe three on Oahu. All of those would have utility scale solar as in multi-megawatts of PV arrays and utility scale megawatt hours of battery storage. So pretty much every new substantial commercial, not commercial but utility scale PV or wind for that matter, virtually all of them I think going in from hence forth will most likely have substantial amount of battery storage to do two important things. One is to minimize the surplus renewable energy power being fed into the grid when the grid doesn't need it, which is let's say during midday hours because there's already a fair amount of solar. And two would allow that during daylight hours to be discharged to the grid when people need it the most, when the grid needs it the most, which is typically between 5 p.m. to 9 or 10 p.m. So what we're seeing with these new projects is battery storage is parting, has become thanks in no small part to KIUC leading the way several years ago by pioneering this in our state, but has become the way to go. So no, I'm not dismissing it at all, it's a very important piece of the puzzle but I'm thinking more from my perspective as a small to midland solar contractor that there is tremendous market potential for retrofitting the 80 plus thousand rooftop solar systems on people's homes and businesses with battery storage. Let me return to the larger utility scale for a moment. So I mean I don't have solar on my house and a lot of people don't. I mean there's a lot of people who do but still more people don't and they rely on the utility to provide electrical power. So you have an issue here and you talked about the wind knocking down the power lines and all this. So you can have some great solar and great storage and utility scale solar facilities. But what happens when the power lines get knocked down? It doesn't mean much to me. Now I don't have power because the power lines aren't there. How can we make the system more reliable when it's not that I have it in my house, I don't have it in my house, I rely on the utility. How can we make the system as it affects me more reliable? So I understand your great question Jay. So let's assume that it's not a total worst case scenario which is that Jay Fidel's home has had power poles knocked down to the right and to the left and you are physically disconnected from the grid. Let's just assume that that worst case scenario did not happen. Let's assume that you are in a circuit which hasn't been directly hit in terms of power poles being knocked down feeding that circuit. Where we are moving towards I believe and this will take some time but we're moving towards where there are these entities called aggregators that can take and are taking the X number of rooftop solar plus storage systems in a given name and offering the so-called bulk services or grid services of those PV plus storage to the utility operator where your neighbor or your neighbor two houses down or three houses down, let's say you've got a whole bunch of people in your neighborhood who have PV plus storage, it's conceivable. And again I'm not on the cutting edge in terms of the engineering on this but it's conceivable conceptually that you could have the Jay Fidel neighborhood or block that would be stand alone, could stand alone as a micro grid by you essentially taking advantage of for remuneration but taking advantage of and benefiting from your neighbors having solar plus storage. Yeah, that sounds like a great idea. It's like compartmentalization in a ship or submarine where you limit the damage by having separate compartments and I'd be interested in all in favor of that. However, we're not doing it now and we don't have a system to do it and it hasn't been worked out on a regulatory level and gee Wiz, you think we could do that by the close of the session this year? I don't think so. Perhaps not by the close of the session but I know for a fact that Hawaiian Electric is moving forward with a program to be able to dip their toe in the water and then their whole foot and then their whole leg and then their whole body, the whole eco body so to speak, where they are working with these aggregators who have proposed providing various services and benefits to HECO to be able to have HECO tap into the benefits that these individual PV plus storage homes and businesses could and will provide to Hawaiian Electric over time. So this is, as far as I know, I don't know of anybody else in the country that's doing this stuff. It sounds a great idea Marco. It really does and it's logical, it's consistent and at least theoretically it's doable. So I'm encouraged to hear that Hawaiian Electric is looking into it. We're going to take a short break Marco and when we come back I'd like to talk about whether it's necessary either on a single family or small installation or on a utility scale installation to re-anchor, rebuild, strengthen the supports and structures around the solar panels and for that matter around the batteries so that they can better deal with a storm. When we come back let's tackle that and for now let's take a one-minute break. Marco Mangostore, HoVision Solar. Hey, loha. My name is Andrew Lanning. I'm the host of Security Matters Hawaii airing every Wednesday here on Think Tech Hawaii live from the studios. I'll bring you guests, I'll bring you information about the things in security that matter to keeping you safe, your co-workers safe, your family safe, to keep our community safe. We want to teach you about those things in our industry that may be a little outside of your experience so please join me because Security Matters. Aloha. Aloha, I'm Yukari Kunisue, the host of Konnichiwa Hawaii, Japanese talk show on Think Tech Hawaii. Konnichiwa Hawaii is all Japanese broadcast show and it's streamed live on Think Tech at 2 p.m. every other Monday. Thank you so much for watching our show. We look forward to seeing you then. I'm Yukari Kunisue. Mahalo. Energy 808, the cutting edge. We're here with Marco Mangostoff, who joins us by remote from Provision Solar and Hilo. And we're talking about reliability and resilience in the case of extreme weather, which is probably coming. So, you know, we did a show a couple months ago about Puerto Rico and we had some guy who had studied it in Washington. He was with an NGO in Washington and he had these photographs, these large solar farms in Puerto Rico where half of the solar farm in each case would be installed by one company and one type of installation system and the other another kind. And what was remarkable about it is that one kind of installation system was way better than the other and you would see that the wind tore up half of it and left the other half alone so much so that the other half was actually still working after Maria had done her damage. So what it shows to me is that you can have systems that are really strong and systems that are not so strong and you've got to make sure that they're strong. And so my question to you is, do we need, either on the rooftops of single family homes or on larger solar facilities, do we need to go through and make an analysis to see which ones are the strong ones and which ones need to be short up somehow? Well, here you're talking about design, construction, building practices and what the requirements of the, what we call the authority having jurisdiction or AHA for short, what their requirements are in terms of constructing a PV system, whether it's a ground mount, we're using thousands of modules 10 modules on someone's home. So I can't comment all that well on what happened in Puerto Rico other than, you know, there are micro climates of course that you could have a wind speed of X in one part of the island and then maybe just two miles away is going to be X plus 50%. So I don't know why some PV arrays took off in the wind and others stayed put, but as long as, the reality is that if you get a wind speed of, you know, a gust of 191 miles an hour like we saw on Mauna Kea, there's not a whole lot that can be done in terms of keeping stuff batten down with typical construction practices. So the question is, the more you require of businesses like mine and engineering companies to have super, super hard and hardened PV arrays, it's going to drive up the cost. So you can't necessarily, and you shouldn't design for the worst case scenario of 175, 191 mile an hour winds for all applications because that would drive up the cost, you know, to be cost prohibitive. So there's got to be some type of modus vivendi here between what are good standard engineering practices and building practices to keep the vast majority of PV systems on roofs versus spending a tremendous amount of money to harden it to such an nth degree that it becomes cost prohibitive.  That's probably kind of a, not the most satisfying answer for you, Jay, but that's the best I can come up with right now. Okay, well, what bounces around in my head is that every year I have to take my car for a safety sticker inspection. And that, you know, of course it makes it safer for me, but it also makes it safer for the other guy on the highway. And when you have the roof coming off or the panels flying around, it's not only that you're losing the panels of the roof in your house, but you know, your neighborhood is at risk as well. And so I really wonder whether we are ultimately going to have to deal with an inspection system where somebody goes out and makes sure that the way the thing is anchored, it's not likely or less likely to fly off. I know that hasn't happened yet. We don't have such a system. We rely on, I guess, the license of the installer and the insurance of the installer in case it all flies off. But I think ultimately if we want to have real reliability here, and I hate to suggest the need for government action because that's always a layer of bureaucracy. But at some point along the way it probably would behoove us to have some system to make sure that what's on there, even if it was well-installed at the beginning, is still well-installed. And it's not likely to fly off and after 5 or 10 years and we're entering that, you know, that area of time now, after recent installations, we do need somebody to look at it.  One other thing before we close up because we had two words that we were dealing with. One was reliability. We've talked about that. And the other is resiliency, which means coming back after some kind of disaster. So, again, the same question. What action points would you suggest right now to improve our resiliency after extreme weather, especially about the grid? Well, I'll just reiterate having an exponential increase in battery deployment makes a tremendous amount of sense for me. I'm also encouraged that I know Hawaiian Electric and KIUC take disaster planning very, very seriously. And I think my friend, Jake Nassio, who just recently retired from Helco after, gosh, 12 years, well, 11 years at the helm. I mean, he did a fantastic job. So I firmly believe that the utility companies sure get it, and they work closely with each other, and you'll see MECO trucks on the big islands sometimes, and you'll see MECO trucks on Kauai. So the attitude of we're all on this canoe together, and we've got to help each other out. So I think, you know, I give us a lot of credit, give our utility friends a lot of credit for doing what they have been doing with the drills, having incident management teams ready to go. So that really helps. I absolutely agree that we've had a number of discussions with Hawaiian Electric with respect to, you know, incidents of bad weather over recent times, and they do have tremendous systems where everybody in the company is deployed to try to get things back together again as quickly as possible. It's notable, and it's worth mentioning that we've had experience with bad weather, and they have had experience in building their resiliency systems to put things back together again. But who knows, you know, how serious these storms will be, who knows how much more serious they will be than the storms we've had and the damage we've had, and so you can only make a model based on reasonable expectations. You can't expect 191 miles an hour all the time, but you know, there are probabilities and we ought to look at the probabilities and figure out what kind of system response we need to have and I think that is largely within the hands of the utility to figure out what to do. In terms of the individual homeowner, what's he going to do? He doesn't have another system in his garage. He's not going to be able to go up on his roof and fix it. I guess the important thing for him is to stay connected to the grid which gives him another option in case his solar system and his batteries fail for some reason in the extreme weather. So it's probably better for him to be connected at the end of the day that completely disconnected because then he won't have that secondary option. Well, I just, you know, sincerely hope, Jay, that we collectively see this for things along with homelessness and other things that stare us in the face on a more kind of daily basis and we are more proactive than lazy in terms of really putting some time and effort and some money, some general fund money if necessary to be able to move in the direction of making our islands more reliable and more resilient. Yeah, and it's really important. Lives are at stake here. This weather is going to be unforgiving and we better be ready for it and ready to recover after when the legislature has to, and the executive for that matter, government has to pay attention to this. It is an issue as you and I agreed which is paramount which has to be at the top of the heap and we cannot attend to small issues when we have this huge large issue that has to be addressed. This session, this session we want to meet. We, we. We, we. Okay, we got agreement on that. I'll see you in two weeks Marco I look forward to that. I always do. Mahalo Nui, my friend. Aloha. Bye-bye.


And welcome back to ThinkTact, this is Transitional Justice where we talk to people all around the world and find out what's doing in transitional justice, which means the investigation of atrocities, violations of human rights, war crimes, and all that. And one of our earlier guests is going to appear again with us today. She's Cynthia Ibali and she is in Uganda right now. And we're going to talk about Darfur and Khartoum and Sudan in general and all those warring factions that we see and can't understand very well. Cynthia, welcome back to the show. It's so nice to see you. I'm sorry about all the trouble, you know, when we spoke last, it seemed to be a light at the end of the tunnel for Sudan. And maybe there was going to be some rational result, but that hasn't happened. That was, what, six or seven weeks ago? And gee whiz, it's just gotten worse ever since. Can you give us a status report? Thanks for having me Jay. And yes, a few weeks ago when we spoke, I did, we did, a number of people of all did think that there would be an end to this crisis, or at least some kind of meeting of minds that would agree for the better of the country. Unfortunately, we are seven weeks into the conflict and there's mass devastation across, in Khartoum and Darfur and also parts of North Kodofan in El-Obaid. So, and this, if I could just also go back to the beginning, the fighters between the rapid support forces, who are the RSF in short, were headed by General Muhammad Dagelo, also known as Hemen T, and the Sudan Armed Forces, who are headed by General Al-Bahan. Yeah, you'd think they would get together for the benefit of the country, the people of the country, but they keep on fighting. You know, if you and I could get in a room with them, I'm sure we could explain to them just how destructive it is to keep on fighting and make the civilians in the middle the targets of all this. So it really hasn't changed in six or seven weeks, and they've been fighting all this time. And I suppose I should ask you about the change in terms of, you know, other countries, other powers, if you will, that are trying to bring this to an end, I mean the fighting to an end, including the the US, and all the efforts to take care of refugees, have people escape, leave the country. That has to be going on too, I hope. Yes, so there have been efforts, diplomatic efforts by various parties, sorry, foreign governments to try and, you know, resolve the conflict in Sudan, the current conflict, like you already mentioned, the US and Saudi Arabia had engaged in talks with both sides. That's most recent, the most recent engagements with the armed parties, but unfortunately, last Wednesday, this is 31st March, talks were suspended after the Sudan Armed Forces pulled out, claiming that the reports indicate that they claim the RSF has been not adhering to the ceasefires, which is, I mean, both sides have not been adhering to any ceasefire agreements, or even honored their commitments for humanitarian access or humanitarian corridors to allow access to those in need. The situation with the, in terms of refugees, or at least people fleeing, seeking refuge for two other parts, sorry, to neighboring countries, is also a bit, has been a bit tricky, is that the word, but not the best response. So you have, at the start of the conflict, a number of people, actually, majority, I think, about over 300,000 fled to Egypt, and you had long queues at the border, and, you know, a new border, certain restrictions that processes that would ordinarily take maybe a day or two are now taking weeks, a week or more. And this is a journey that also takes another week to get to Cairo or the other destinations that people are seeking. There was also concern because these border areas do not have the facilities to handle the influx of people that are coming in. Then at the, also at the start, you had people from the four, the nearest would be Chad, and so a number of people were fleeing and had already fled even before the conflict, because remember, the four has been in a conflict affected zone for quite some time. So at the start, we had reports that Chad had, you know, closed its borders, but despite that, people have managed to gain access using, so they're walking all the way from Elginina, taking the journey across to Chad, because, you know, the border with Chad, because of the insecurity in the four. Then you have people coming into South Sudan, and South Sudan, you have people coming in from the four, but also from Khartoum. South Sudan is receiving people who have fled from South Sudan to Sudan for refuge and now forced to go back to a country that they had fled. That must be really hard on them. Yes, it definitely is. So, yeah, and then also you also have Sudanese and other nationalities who are trying to get out of, to safer areas. The journeys have been long. There have been reports of a number of checkpoints that people have had to go through as they're making these journeys. And of course, such as during, at these checkpoints, the insecurity of what to make this journey, the amount of money because with the demand, of course, people have capitalized on that and prices have gone up for transportation and the like. So, yeah, in a nutshell, that's pretty much. Well, let me ask you some questions about it. See, that border thing with Egypt really sounds disturbing. It sounds like the U.S. border with Mexico, where you get stopped and there's opportunity to take advantage of you, you know, and that the people who provide the transportation probably do that by asking you for money that is way too much for the transportation. And then, of course, exactly in a refugee situation, what do you want to have all these checkpoints for? What's the purpose of that? What are they concerned about? What justification can they provide for having all these checkpoints? Who's operating it? Tell me more about the checkpoints. So, the checkpoints I have heard about from, you know, colleagues I've spoken to, especially people who are fleeing the force seem to be mined by RSF. And what they're asking you is where you're going, you're aware about who, you know, trying to figure out who you are if you're engaged in activities. If you're engaged in activities, if you're one of the which side are you on type of situation? Numerous questions answered. Sorry, I asked about, you know, why you're making this trip. So, yeah, and then also there's been, yeah, so pretty much. What about the border with Egypt? I mean, Egypt was there at the beginning. You and I talked about Egypt's presence at the beginning of this, but it apparently left Sudan and had troops there in Sudan that left. What's the status of Egypt's involvement now? So far now, the status of the involvement has been with the receiving of refugees or people fleeing. I don't know if refugees are the right time, but at least people fleeing the conflict in Sudan seeking refuge. So, yeah, I guess you can say refugees. Is Egypt offering them refuge? It's been a bit tricky. So, to say yes, some people have, no, a good number have gotten through the border, but a good number still stuck or trying to get through. And I think also probably people justify that they're also looking out for their resources to support the people who are seeking refuge. So, that could also be another issue. A number of times these countries are also opening doors, means you're stretching the resources you have and so are, but still... Which side is Egypt on? Is Egypt on the Sudanese army side or the RSF? So, Egypt was or is aligned with the Sudan armed forces. I haven't seen or had reports of whether they are taking sides, but they are known to be a bulk of the Sudan armed forces. I think at the beginning when we spoke about Egypt's involvement, they were helping with some evacuations at that time. Whether they've been actively engaged in a conflict, I can't say for sure that they have, but they are known to be allies or at least have backed the Sudan armed forces in the past. Now, that makes sense, doesn't it? I mean, it's the legitimate... I mean, if you care to cast it that way, the legitimate government of Sudan is the army. That's what it is. What about... Go ahead. So, that's actually an interesting comment because there's also been a bit of... What a bit. But, yeah, there's been conversations about people taking sides in this conflict. And so, because it's a campaign and not a war, not a war campaign that the civil society resistance committees have backed not to support anyone in this conflict because all it's doing is causing mass destruction. And so, to say whether who is... Both sides are... Whatever you engaged in is wrong. But, of course, there's been... What can I call it? Backers of especially Sudan armed forces or what they call the Islamist movement, calling those who haven't taken sides that you're probably a traitor or how do you not back the Sudan armed forces because they are the establishment, the state military force. So, yeah. I see why you say it's an interesting comment. It's an interesting conversation. So, they ask you who's side are you on? And you say, I'm not on anyone's side. I just want this killing to stop.  But wait a minute. I told you that I'm not on no one's side. Of course, then you could say, well, okay, I'm on your side. No, actually, the side of the civilians. There's three parties in the game. There's the army, there's the RSF and the pavilion. And the army and the RSF have all the weapons. And they're shooting the civilians. Madness. It's madness. So, how about Ethiopia? Is Ethiopia involved at all in trying to help people? Oh, yes. So, they have been, sorry, I hadn't spoken about that, people crossing over to Ethiopia. So, that's towards the east of Sudan and onto Ethiopia at the borders. Again, there's been, there's not as many reports, but there's been issues with receiving of people seeking refuge from Ethiopia. But yes, these are restrictions or border entry restrictions have been imposed, but people have been able to go through. It hasn't been as smooth, I must say. I probably think maybe the smoothest entry, but that's also has been quite long, has been maybe people who have gone into South Sudan. But again, it hasn't been as smooth because I mean, other barriers that have heated people trying to flee into safety. What about Uganda? It's not that far. It's not contiguous, but it's not that far. People trying to get into Uganda and seek refuge there. Yes. So, Uganda has received a number of people who have sought to seek refuge here. People fleeing the conflict from Sudan, but they're visually transited to another country. So, probably you're coming either from Cairo or you've made it to Addis or you're going through South Sudan and have continued into Uganda. Yes. So, we have an open policy or it's been, I haven't had issues about entry into Uganda. I don't know. So, Kenya has received some people fleeing there. So, I haven't had any issues, but of course, the entry restrictions. So, to tell you Uganda, you need a visa. So, yeah. You know, it sounds to me like, first, the economy and the social society of Sudan is the train wreck right now. How can you have an economy with this and everybody's afraid for his life or her life and then you have refugees trying to get across into other countries. And so, this is not only destabilizing, tell me if I'm right, not only destabilizing in Sudan, it's destabilizing in the surrounding countries because refugees put pressure on the country, both in terms of, you know, the geopolitics, but also in terms of the resources, as you said, in the case of Egypt. So, this is not good for Sub-Saharan Africa. It's not good. Or, I guess, this is North Saharan. This is Eastern Africa is what it is. Yeah. It's not good for any of those countries. It's destabilizing, isn't it? Yeah. So, of course, no one foresaw that there would be an influx of people coming in. So, that means, you know, resources are spread out then. I mean, even for the people, something we're also not spoken about is that, you know, not everyone is able to live. So, people have been displaced in other parts of Sudan. So, within Sudan, internally displaced people from Hattu fleeing to states that are bordering, or at least, yeah, bordering Hattu. And even with that, so now, like let's say, recently in El-Obaid, this is also an area that has experienced conflict. If those have been raided, I think World Food Programme mentioned that the stores was raided or looted, rather, just last week MSF has also had reports of, so it has reported looting of their stores, but then also with their Hattu factories have been looted, you know, which are called silos, holding grain have also been looted. There's been also a bit of, not a bit, a collapse in the backing system with fossil oil, you know, the fighting, the bombings and all have destroyed some of the infrastructure. So, let's say, like electricity or mobile networks, which I needed to run certain systems, but then also banks have been looted. Businesses have also not have not been spared, and so, you know, there's also looting there. So that has just also increased, you know. So, it's hard to get food then? Well, yeah, there's access to food has definitely been hindered, and then also with, you know, a lack of humanitarian corridors, you know, you can't get food into where people are needed the most. The airport and cartoon is still not functioning? Oh, no, no, that's not functioning. Yeah. So, you know, what's really remarkable is that these two guys keep on beating each other up at the expense of the country. Is there anybody sending aid or, for that matter, soldiers or material to either side or are they just all limited to their own indigenous armies? So, aid or humanitarian response has been taken on by civil society. Actors on the resistance committees have laid a response to devastation that has occurred. So they've created what they call, especially the cartoon, they've created what they call emergency response rooms.  And these are very neighborhood focused. So that's how, you know, on the ground and closer to the people they are. But then there's also been, because Sudan is quite communal, they look out for each other. And so, even with the people who have been displaced, people have made makeshift shelters, or at least opened their homes. I remember the steps, the first weeks of the conflict, there were pictures as people were fleeing on the highway, people were coming out to give them food, to give them water, to wish them well on their journey. And so, but yeah, a few weeks back, you know, there was a receipt of aid, or I think it was a World Food Program, and also WHO, the World Health Organization, had received a sub-supply through the Red Sea State, so through Port Sudan. And they're trying to now, you know, take it out into, you know, inner parts of the country, destination was Hattu at the point. But again, with these roadblocks and stuff, it's been a bit difficult. Oh my goodness. So when you have two armies fighting with each other like this, you need money. You need money for weapons and ammunition, you need money to pay the troops, and you need to buy them food and supplies and what have you. Where is that coming from? Do both of these armies have resources that would allow them to, you know, continue this fight, or are they going to run out of money? And ammunition? Or is there somebody outside supplying them with this to sort of encourage them to continue the fight? I mean, they do have their companies where they have, they have economically benefited, and that has also provided the resources they need for the weapons and so even before the fighting, they did have their own companies. And interesting that you say that, because during the conflict, I think a week or two weeks ago, but Burhan, General Burhan, who is the de facto head of state being the de facto, because he's the head of the army at the time, sorry, he's the head of the army actually now, issued a decree where the frauds, salaries going to the IRSF, who are now what they consider the terrorist group, their enemy. And so this is what apparently triggered the looting of banks because they'll listen to their salaries. But I mean, they do also have companies that do, if I'm correctly, they also make their own weapons. And interesting that you say that because just last week, I'm sure you had the US issued sanctions on two companies owned by the IRSF and also two companies owned by the Sudan Armed Forces in a way to also curb financial flaws that would continue to fluctuate. Are they of equal size and strength and arms, these two armies? Or are they changing? Is one side gathering more money and troops and weapons than the other? I don't think they are equal size and strength. They have their strength. I think for now what you're saying is that the Sudan Armed Forces seem to have the machinery to do airstrikes and airboat mudmen and stuff like that. But the IRSF also have support especially, have seemed to gain more ground on, sorry, when it comes to fighting on the ground. And so are able to infiltrate the war through neighborhoods because that's been the attack. That's the hardest. That's the worst of all because it's face-to-face with civilians. What about the United Nations? What about the United States? Let's talk about sanctions recently. But are they doing anything? Are they trying to force these two guys together to make peace? It all seems like it could go on forever. And the question is what are the powers that be doing to try to bring peace to the region? Yeah. So there have been a number of briefings at the security council level. But we haven't seen much movement, I must say. I mean, there have been statements issued asking for both parties to cease fighting. Other than that, the negotiations that have really taken place have been the U.S.-Saudi, Saudi Arabia-led talks in Jeddah. But like I mentioned just last week, they were suspended. There are calls to try and have them back on the table. The African Union has also had its own mechanism, established an expanded mechanism that's aimed to address the conflict in Sudan. So we're waiting to see how that plays into negotiating a ceasefire. And the United Nations, have they taken any steps? I think they're waiting for, I think they were waiting on the U.S.-Saudi-led talks. There hasn't been much. Sounds perfectly dreadful, Cynthia. Take a guess and tell me how you think this is going to evolve and how long it'll take to get there? The way things are looking, one can tell. But it looks like the fighting is still going on for some time, unfortunately. But we do hope, we do really hope that we can reach a ceasefire, an actual ceasefire, to stop the destruction. Why is it that they enter into these agreements for ceasefire and it breaks down almost immediately? How does that work? Well, I like to think it's also because they're no serious consequences if it breaks down. Yeah, I will agree to it, but continue our status. There hasn't been enough incentive to make them want to stop, if I could say that. Let me offer a thought to you and I'll see what you think. It's like my theory of the stock market. The stock market goes up until people get tired of seeing it go up, then it goes down, and it goes down until people get tired of it going down, then it goes up. And so, I think after a while, history moves through this and people, both armies, both generals, will get tired and it'll stop because they're tired of doing it. You can't do that your whole life, I hope. Do you think they're getting tired now? I do hope they get tired soon because we need an end sooner rather than later for sure. I don't think it doesn't look like it, but I really do hope we get to that point where it's like, okay, yes. A project expert at justice is always interested in violations of human rights, atrocities, war crimes, and all that. And I would, maybe there's not enough information out from what is happening on the ground, but I would imagine that there's plenty of atrocities going on, plenty of war crimes. When you have armed, not only one, but two armed camps killing civilians, bombing, it's the same thing as Ukraine, isn't it? Bombing apartment buildings in which only civilians live, bombing hospitals and schools in which only civilians are present. That's an attack on a civilian community, and that's what's happening here. So, isn't that arguably a war crime? I mean, there are acts that definitely have occurred that could amount to war crimes, or crimes against humanity as well.  There's been also, I mean, like we mentioned, looting, property destruction.  There's been reports of rape and torture? Yes, yes. Detention and torture of people who are suspected to be allied with the other side, and a number of these are people who are just engaged in providing humanitarian assistance, something that is too worrying, but is unblocking. So, it's, yeah. I mean, also, do you think there'll be accountability here? I mean, for example, in Ukraine, there are virtually thousands of investigators investigating war crimes, and like thousands of them. And, you know, a lot of them are documented already, but I'm not sure that's happening in Sudan. Are there people investigating war crimes there? Will there be accountability or is the evidence sort of slipping into history? That's a good question. So, people are documenting, you know, based on the resources they have. So, there's been lots of reports or at least shared on social media. Of course, with the insecurity, documentation has been a bit tricky going to, you know, my sites, but there's documentation going on. It's interesting that you mentioned accountability. I mean, right before the conflict, people, you know, there was a push for accountability for mass atrocities that occurred during the previous regime. I remember that, yes. So, this is a second level, a second layer. You're just adding to the list of atrocities that need to be accounted for. Just, you know, adding to a long list of atrocities. So, again, I believe that the push for accountability is still there. When we'll see it, yeah, time will tell, I think. The history of humanity is told by the survivors and those who don't survive or they don't make good witnesses. Sorry. Yeah. So, how do you feel about this? I mean, you've been covering it. You've been close to it. You've talked to the people coming, coming out of Sudan. You've been following all these mad events.  Since the last time we met, it seems to have gotten to you. Am I right? It definitely has.  It's been tough for sure. But we push on. It's been heartbreaking to see, you know, what's happening in Sudan. I mean, during 2019, I remember I was excited with the majority who saw, you know, Hope for a new Sudan. And so that seems to, that seems like a distant past. But I don't think we should give up that easy, though. So, I mean, you get on, you see these reports of these atrocities being committed that gets to you. It's only, you know, I'm only human. So it does definitely get to me. But you have to try and find a way to keep pushing, to keep supporting the people needed and to keep, you know, adding to the voice and advocating for along with them. So, yeah. Well, you got to keep on reporting what you see, what you feel, what's happening. And we'll have to come back to you again. I'm looking forward to the next time, although I hope it's better news then. Let me say this to Cynthia, you're doing our work. You're doing the work that the world needs you to do. So, as I say, thank you for your service. Thank you. Thank you, too. Cynthia Ibali, Project Expedite Justice in Kampala, Uganda. Thank you.


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The opinions expressed are necessarily those of the speakers. Sir Oliver, on our Chronoscope show, we've had a number of visitors from Britain recently, and we've discussed our mutual problems in the world. Tonight, sir, since you are a distinguished educator, as well as Ambassador to this country, we'd appreciate some of your views on the mutual problems of the English-speaking people in the world. Now, today, I believe you'll agree, is a rather harassed period for us. And I wonder if you think, as has been charged, that perhaps we English-speaking people are losing some of our vitality in the world, what of our ability to stay in command of the situation? Well, no, I don't think so. It seems to me that in the last few years, our countries have demonstrated beyond all possible doubt that we haven't lost any of our vitality, and that we've got all our old grip. I myself don't feel any doubts or hesitations that we'll be able to do what's necessary if it should be required in the future. Are we producing leaders today, as our forebears did? Cromwell, for instance? We're always told that back in the past there were great men. But what I think is this. I know of no great crisis in my country. I believe the same holds for yours. Of no great crisis when we haven't produced a great man to meet it. I think we'll do that in the future, too. Of course, when our people look at some of our leaders today, like Truman and Atlee, for instance, they look a bit anemic compared to some of the great men of the past, like Lincoln and Disraeli and Bladston. Do you really think that we are producing the capacity of leadership that we produced during the 19th century, for instance? I don't think that I can argue about these differences of perspective, but I don't doubt our ability to produce leadership when and where it's wanted. Specifically, sir, during the, for some 300 years, the English-speaking people protected the human procession from the Napoleon's and the Hitler's and the men who would have enslaved it. And Britain took the Russian barbarians and opposed them for many, many years, and while they marched across the map of Europe, the Russians never got to warm water. And do you think today that we have the vitality and the strength to deal with the Russian crisis? I think that already in the last 18 months, we've taken measures and we're beginning to give effect to them, which have begun to alter the balance of things in the world. I think we're already on the right road, and that if we're willing to proceed along it, keep our resolution, not lose our heads, we stand a very good chance of coming out all right. Do you think there's newfound resolution, there's newfound change in the pace of the English-speaking people, particularly the people in Britain, has anything to do with the recent change in government in Britain? I think that's a question which you'll find answered differently by a great many different people in Britain, because we in our country, as you in yours, have two great parties, and the answers tend to go according to the parties.  That's quite true. Your father was a congregational minister, so was my grandfather. Do you regard yourself as a churchman?  Yes, I'm a congregationalist too. Well, now, that was a rather stern creed. That creed placed a lot of responsibility on individuals. There was a lot of emphasis on being instead of on having and on duty and not on rights. Now, sir, do you think that the people of Britain and perhaps in America that we are no longer willing to subscribe to those stern creeds that made our father strong? I think that the people of Britain, whenever they're clear that there's a job to be done, are perfectly prepared to rise up and do it. And in our very recent history, I think there's very clear proof of that. I don't have any worries on that score. You are not concerned about a spiritual decline in our two countries. No, I am not. And I'll give you one particular piece of evidence. Before I came out here as ambassador, I was head of my college in Oxford University for two years. And at that time, we got 300 students there, nearly all of them veterans from the war. I've never had so steady, so hardworking, so intelligent, so well-behaved a student body. And they knew what they were doing. And they were confident that when they went out into the world, they'd do a job for themselves and for their country. They were as good as any people we'd ever had. And my college has 600 years of history. Speaking of Oxford and your 600 years, Sir Oliver, is the old-school tie what it used to be in Britain? Does it still... Well, Oxford and Cambridge, do they still rank where they always did culturally and in society and in politics? Or has a change in... Well, let's be frank, the socialistic trend of both our governments is what about a change in that atmosphere, that heredity? I don't know quite what the answer is to that question. I think I'd say this. I think Oxford and Cambridge are both, much what they've always been. But one of the things that is important and encouraging in Britain is that over the last decade, the newer universities have been steadily coming up, improving in quality, and now today they have their own traditions and we people who were students at Oxford or at Cambridge are very glad to see that happening. Your distinguished education, Mr. Corsair, here in America we felt that there was some criticism on a recent show, Mr. Felix Morley was here, and we've thought that there's been considerable criticism of American teachers in the last 20 years for lodging too much faith in Moscow. Has there been a similar... is there reason for criticism in Britain on the same grounds? Well, now I don't think I know. I don't think there is. I've not come across it myself. You don't have the disillusionment among teachers in Britain today over what's happened in Russia, over what's happened in Moscow. I don't think that there's disillusionment in Britain about what's happened in Moscow. I think we are much more concerned to make our own way in the world and to complete our recovery. And we are not worrying all that much. Have you had some things as loyalty oaths at Oxford and Cambridge? Has there been a discharge of professors because they were members of the Communist Party? None of these things. No, we haven't had any of that. Do you feel unnecessary at Oxford, which you know? No, I don't. Now, you mentioned your experience with young men in Britain and the fact that you allege some hope in them. Is there a feeling among young men in Britain today that there's been a decline and opportunity for young men there? Well, it's always a rash thing to guess for a younger generation than oneself. But my guess is that they don't feel that. There are plenty of jobs waiting for them. There are good careers open to them. There's plenty of employment in the country. And I think they go out into it cheerfully and with a good confidence. Do the young men feel that there is sufficient incentive? Of course, you can't accumulate wealth as our ancestors did. Do they feel that they, not opportunity, but incentive is there? I think that they feel that there are things that they want to do and that they can get on. Particularly, I suppose, in the scientific fields. Yes, and not only in them. Though I think it's true that in the sciences, more particularly in basic research, we've done a lot of work and achieved some very surprising results. Well now, our own education, sir. Do you feel that there's being too much emphasis placed on technological training in the British education system today? No, I wouldn't say that. We've always had, in Britain, a strong tradition in the arts. And I think you'd find that in the years immediately after the war, the good many people felt that it was time that more emphasis was placed on technology. And I believe the number of students taking technological courses has something like doubled. Well now, all in that, sir, was there a feeling that Britain had to manufacture more and that you had to become more material minded than you had been before? Is there a trend toward materialism in Britain today? Well now, taking the two questions that you've just asked me, my answer to the first is yes and the second no. We did feel that we got to manufacture more.  I think 45% in the last five years in volume.  That's something that we just had to do because we have to earn our living. We have to pay our way. But it's not true that that just means a more materialist outlook because after all, the object, the effort that we're making isn't a material one. It's the survival and the success and the prosperity of our own country. Has this affected Britain's culture in any way, the culture which has been so important to the English-speaking people? It's very difficult, I think, to take a period like three years or six years and project it forwards or backwards and say what its influence or difference in culture is. But I'd say no. Sir Oliver, you've brought our audience a message of hope tonight. I believe what you're saying is that you think that we are going to be able to survive the present pressures against us and we'll be able to turn back the modern barbarians and we can look forward, hopefully. 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Hey guys, it's Jen from iCreateCrafts. In today's video I'm gonna show you how to make candles using this kit box from the purple ladybug.  I have some of this stuff laid out. I actually did try one already just to kind of see how it goes before I go ahead and show you how to do it. And I will tell you it is the simplest thing to do and they give you everything for it, so let's get started. Okay, like I said, this is the easiest thing to do. I already created one here just to kind of see how it would go and I love this how this turned out. I've never made candles before, but it comes with everything you need. So for starters, they have these beautiful little candle holders just like this. They're really tiny, very cute, and what you want to do is set them up. And I'm gonna show you how to do that, but I'm gonna show you what it looks like each way.  You can use them over and over once they're done and it comes with soy wax.  You just got to peel the back. So it's sticky on both sides. Then you're gonna want to take it and put it directly in the center there. Try to get it as good as the center as you can. Then you take your wick and you stick that in there too, and then I just take my finger and make sure you push it on really well. Then they give you these little popsicle sticks that has holes in it. You're gonna take it and put it right over the top. This will ensure that when you put your wax in that your candle is going to stay nice and straight. I'll show you some other things they give you. They set everything up for you. So they have cups that you can throw away after you're done with them. They have other popsicle sticks that you can stir with. It also comes with the measuring cup, which comes in really, really handy, and then they have these really beautiful colors. So here are the colors. It has like purple, green, orange, yellow. They're really, really pretty. And then on the bottom of your box, it will tell you different colors and how to make them like blush, pink, light purple, teal, hot pink, peach, and ivory. So it's kind of fun that it teaches you how to do it if you want to do it. Otherwise you can do your own colors however you want. So I'm gonna just try to push this one aside for a second. You want to start somewhere where you're not gonna have to move it. You want it to set overnight for at least 24 hours. So what you're gonna do is take your soy wax, which I love. I love soy wax. And then open it up and then put it into your measuring cup. And it fits perfectly in here. So one soy mix here is one candle. So you're gonna want to stick it in there. And then comes the fun part. Then you can pick out which colors you want to put in here. So this first one, I did a red color. So I forgot to mention, they also have essential oils with this. So they have rosemary, eucalyptus, and then mint. I forgot to add that as well. They actually have those in there too. So they thought of everything with this kit. So the next part you're gonna want to do is figure out what colors you want to use. And to do that, to figure out which colors they are, because they kind of look the same, is you can use them as like crayons. You can just kind of draw like this. And you can see what color is there. So there's a purple in here. There's a purple. And then they got a blue. And then a yellow. So you gotta figure out which one you're gonna want to use. If you want to use these color ones, you just gotta go off of this. So I kind of want to do this light purple one here. So it's telling me four in four make light purple. So I'm just gonna take a knife and cut off a little bit of the purple one. And then I'm also going to cut off the red one. Alright, here's the red. So I already used it. So I'm gonna take a chunk of that off. So now I have the purple and the red. I'm gonna throw that in there. And then you're gonna want to put this in the microwave. This is a microwave safe container. Throw it in the microwave. You want to do it for 60 seconds. Stir it. Do another 60 seconds. Stir it again. You kind of get the point. So here's what it looks like. And I'm gonna show you what it looks like when it's all finished. Alright, so that's done. I have my stirrer that it comes with. And I'm gonna show you what it looks like. So it's gonna be not completely melted right away. So what you're gonna do is just stir it around.  But you want to stir everything in here, including the color that you have in there. So it's gonna take a couple of times. So be patient. But I promise it's going to be worth it in the end. So I'm gonna put it in for another 60 seconds and then we'll see what it looks like. Alright, so now it is done in the microwave. You can see it's a beautiful color. It's nice and liquidy. So you're gonna want to take it out of this container and put it into the cup that they give you.  So they come with these scents. The rosemary, they have mint, and they have eucalyptus. So because I already used the mint before, I'm gonna use rosemary. And it depends on how much scent you want in here. So you're just gonna want to take it and dump some in here. And then you can smell it. Oh my gosh, that smells amazing. You can smell it when you dump it in here. So it all depends on how much you want. It recommends about half a bottle per candle. So it kind of depends if you want to mix and match different colors in here or different scents in here. You can do that. So you just want to take your stirrer and stir it really well. And then just grab your candle that you already have prepared. This guy already got the candle part in there. Whoops, and I forgot. You want to add this piece on it so it holds it up straight. And you just want to carefully pour your candle mix in. And they do a really good job at actually measuring this whole thing. This whole bit is going to fit perfectly in this candle container. Look at that, perfectly. So I have another one that's already dry. And you can see what it looks like here. Just a little bit warm. But you want to make sure that you're not going to handle this for a little while. But this is what it's going to look like. And then when it's done, you can cut the wick off at the top and take it off. But wow, it smells beautiful already. So they're going to look beautiful. So there's one. And then I did this other one as well. So you can choose what colors you want to put in there. So this is a nice pink color. This looks like a purple color. So it has the scents in it and then also the coloring in it.  It just tells you who it's from. And you're going to want to put it on the bottom of your candle. And then also they have these warning labels, which is also really nice to just come and send stuff. But you want to put it onto the cover of your top here. So that's it. So this kit was absolutely amazing. It comes with everything you could possibly need. It comes with extras too. So once your candles are all done, you can make some more. You just need to buy some more soy wax. You're still going to have some scents left.  And then obviously you can reuse this. So you just got to buy some more soy for it.  I highly recommend it. I had a lot of fun with it. I hope it helps you guys out and happy crafting.


A man set himself on fire on February 24 outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. A U.S. Air Force spokeswoman and Stafanek confirmed that the man was an active duty airman, officers with the U.S. Secret Service extinguished the fire outside the embassy in northwestern Washington, said Vito Mojilo, a spokesman with the city's fire department. The man was taken to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries and remains in critical condition.No embassy staff members were injured and all were accounted for, according to Tal Naim, a spokeswoman for the embassy. The man appeared to have filmed the protest and live-streamed it on the social media platform Twitch at the time that the police said they responded to the incident. In a video of the incident, obtained and reviewed by CNN, the man identifies himself as Aaron Bushnell and says, I will no longer be complicit in genocide before going on to say that what he's about to do is minimal compared with the suffering of Palestinians that he then sets the recording device on the ground before pouring an unknown liquid over himself and igniting it while yelling free Palestine repeatedly. He eventually collapses as police officers rush to douse the flames with fire extinguishers, Rose Riley, a spokesperson for the U.S. Air Force, told CNN, I can confirm an active duty airman was involved in incident. By the time firefighters were dispatched to the scene, the fire had already been extinguished by the U.S. Secret Service. The man was transported by capital fire to a local hospital and remains in critical condition. I am an active duty member of the United States Air Force, and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I'm about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it's not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.