Hello everybody and welcome to another Red Hat OpenShift Commons briefing and this time we're going to talk about bringing Red Hat OpenShifts to the IBM Cloud with Chris Rosen. I'm going to let Chris introduce himself and take us on a tour and talk about his journey with OpenShift on IBM Cloud and give us a bit of a demo and there'll be live Q&A at the end so Chris take it away. All right thank you Diane, appreciate it. Thanks everyone for joining. My name is Chris Rosen. I am the program director of offering management responsible for all things containers and microservices related running an IBM Cloud. So really excited today to kind of go through a few slides on what is the actual offering and then I think more exciting we'll get into the actual demo and if you're watching this after the fact feel free to reach out with any questions or comments you can see my email and my Twitter handle are both listed on this page. So before I get into the actual technology I want to quickly touch on the use cases because when we're developing offerings you know it's it's cool when we build new things and new widgets and new capabilities but the reality is if they're not solving some of our customer's problems then you know really what's the premise of doing that. So when we're building things like Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud from here on I'll basically just call it Managed OpenShift for short because it is quite a long name. What are the use cases that we're really trying to identify? And the first one is really about innovation and it's enabling our users who are generally developers and they're building new applications and they need to be able to do so and move quickly and automate everything in their CICD pipeline so that way it's all source code controlled and they've got the right teams that have the right access to be able to make those pushes and changes and do so in a very secure manner. So some of the offerings that we build around this use case are of course using the Managed OpenShift. We see some things like IBM Cloud Functions for our event driven serverless and obviously that's a very dynamic space as we get into Knative starting to become more prevalent in those use cases and really enabling developers with CICD tooling things like the IBM Garage if that's a new term to you it's basically a way that think of it as IBM's consultant branch where they'll go out and they'll work with our customers through a garage session and what that means is the customer brings their real problem I'm trying to solve X and you'll go through a design thinking session where at the end of it you'll have a thousand post-it notes all over the walls and you think about how to solve your problem what's the ultimate lighthouse kind of solution for it then you sit down and pair program with IBMers and by the end of that session you have a real prototype so what's great is it's not just a you know workshop where you're getting hands on with the technology although that's very valuable as well this is actually solving your problems and at the end you've got a prototype you're thinking about how do I solve these not only technically but then generally the biggest hurdle is culturally how do I adopt in this more cloud native dev ops dev sec ops type world and the garage helps our customers through that transformation and then the second one that I want to mention is really about app modernization and there are different flavors in that spectrum do I simply want to repackage my existing app as a container and get some benefits around packaging and deployment and monitoring and logging or is it worth the investment to completely refactor to microservices and run that in a truly cloud native application and you'll see a lot of consistency obviously with the solutions running an IBM cloud to help solve that and redhead openshift on an IBM cloud being our our lead offering the lead landing spot for those containerized workloads whether they are brand new cloud native apps or if they're coming in from a modernization sales play effort so let's get into the actual offering you know we've been running managed kubernetes and containerized workloads for nearly five years and IBM cloud through several iterations and so we're excited when we launched this offering on august 1st 2019 after you know the acquisition with red hat and bringing them on board so we're excited to bring all of the value of open shift so IBM's not done anything to open shift red hat and we provide all of the same capabilities as the managed service open shift obviously could run on any infrastructure in any cloud so how do we make it optimize in the best landing spot to be able to run those workloads in public cloud so that's really our focus is bringing the the value to this managed service so we leverage our existing sre management capabilities for the 20 000 plus production clusters that we're running and we bring that to managed open shift and so you'll see some things around not only the day one deployment of your compute your networks your storage but then day two lifecycle management whether it's a rel patch anything in that stack whether it's open shift itself which obviously red hat vets and make sure is that those things that updates are validated and ready or anything in that entire stack IBM's going to manage that lifecycle for you and you'll think about kind of the line of roles and responsibilities whereas a customer you want to focus on those use cases whether it is delivering innovation or at modernization so let IBM manage the infrastructure in the lifecycle so that way you can focus on solving your line of business objectives some of the things were very focused on building in operational characteristics to the offering so things like with every cluster having highly available masters and with a multi-zone cluster now i'm distributing masters and worker nodes across three different data centers in a given IBM cloud region so for example if there were some catastrophic network outage in one of those data centers well my api endpoint is still accessible i still have workloads running in those other two data centers and then i could auto scale out to get to the right capacity required to run those workloads so my end users don't know that there was an outage or that there was an upgrade happening so as i update from one version to the next we seamlessly roll through that upgrade so that way again it's a seamless for the end user experience compliance is something that we take very seriously in IBM cloud as well our managed open ship offering went at gade back on august 1st had all the things around stock one stock two type one and type two hippo readiness pc i compliance and compliance is a two-way street so obviously you know we've got responsibility to control the the compute side of this and you as a user have responsibility as well and how do you maintain access and encryption and all of those capabilities within the workloads running inside your clusters isolation choices including bare metal so if you need that amount of resource or gpu or 10 gig bond at ethernet you can get that as a part of the managed service and then the last point here is an industry leading 99.99 sla for that multi-zone cluster so because all of our control plane and most of the services running in ibm cloud have standardized to run on top of kubernetes that built-in resiliency and availability has allowed the platform to increase its sla to the 99.99 and the far right bringing the fact that open shift as i said earlier is open shift consistently wherever you run it that's the real value prop of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud and using open shift as that platform now i can consistently run workloads wherever i want to run and wherever i have i as the far right column is really talking about taking that platform and integrating it to the ibm cloud capabilities so things like bring your own key with ibm key protect or keep your own key with ibm hyper protect services and the difference there being with keep your own key it's phips 140-2 level 4 encryption we're the only public cloud to be able to get that level of encryption and customers own the keys so even though it's a managed service from ibm we don't have access to your data if you lose the keys we have to replace the physical hsm that stores those keys so depending on the level of encryption and isolation of those workloads our users can determine which level works best for their use cases and requirements and they may mix and match depending on different projects or different life cycles of an application this chart uh you know obviously there's a lot of words here but we start to when we think about the word managed and at least in ibm the word managed means something different to everyone for a cloud managed service essentially what it means is that we're taking off a lot of the operational burden for our user that instantiation of the cluster originally or that ongoing updates and lifecycle management tying out with the rest of the platform so that way as you start to focus and build or add cognitive capabilities to your apps and you want to bind a Watson service or create a chat bot or use weather data or iot or analytics you can securely consume those within your red hat open shift on ibm cloud cluster and just extend those apps make them work smarter work better with the existing code base that you have and now you're leveraging these higher value services from ibm cloud we'll show a lot of these things in the demo but quickly just kind of you know talk through a few of these points the first one is around simplified cluster management you know you'll see there's a lovely UI where you can point and click through things but the reality is most of my users will do that once and then they're going to automate that either through the cli or the api we also have ibm cloud schematics which is our infrastructure as code based on terraform and soon ansible to do that deployment in a consistent manner of your clusters of your lifecycle management we talked about highly available masters user controlled worker node management and that's a mouthful but essentially what that means is that ibm is providing all of the tooling but our users determine when is the best time to upgrade so if they're running on for example open shift 4.3 and we say hey 4.4 is available they determine when is the right time for them and even though we'll roll through like I mentioned earlier they still control and determine when that upgrade will take place all they need to do is click the button and then we take care of the rest of the magic for them essentially the way it works is we take the first node we drain all the deployed pods from it once it's quarantined then we reload it top to bottom when it's online and healthy we move on to the second node third node so on and so forth until we've completely rolled through your cluster's capacity we also support worker node auto recovery you know the reality is we're just dealing with hardware and software so things can and will go wrong so it's really about again simplifying the operations building in that that chaos monkey mentality when we're building our apps and ensuring that they are architected to be able to handle those types of failures and outages and then the last thing is worker node auto scaling so as you need to add additional capacity you can do so and control when to scale up or down designing your own cluster you know it's really about one is about compute isolation choice and IBM cloud you could have shared compute which is a single tenant virtual machine multi-tenant hypervisor hardware just think of any public cloud VM we also have what's called dedicated compute where it's single tenant VM hypervisor hardware so I'm the only tenant running out a physical piece of hardware in IBM cloud and then the last option is bare metal like I said earlier if you need that amount of compute and resources in one node you can get that as a part of the managed service the other thing that we provide are something called edge nodes and think about this is really just minimizing the attack surface of your cluster so instead of one worker pool where everything is running now I've got an edge pool and all of my inbound and outbound traffic route through this there's my IPS and my IDS are all running my actual containerized workloads are in a fully separate pool that only have private IBM backbone networking so again just adds a layer of protection from your workload security and isolation you know obviously we could spend an hour on this one a few other things that we we enable here for our users we use lux encryption by default on all of the secondary drives where your containers are running if you are running some high performance workload you could opt out of that or you know whether it's at the worker pool or cluster level so you can determine the amount of encryption and the isolation that we talked about before we also integrate with image signing with red hat notary so that way you can ensure that images have not been tampered with from container registry to deployment the fourth thing is around extending your apps with IBM cloud services and I briefly touched this earlier where IBM is really focused on these higher value services we acquired the weather company a handful of years now because weather impacts all of us or other industries having that weather data can make our apps smarter and they can make our engagement models more more engaging with our end users so really focused on that the other thing that I'll mention here and we'll see this in the demo are things like integrating with IBM cloud identity and access management so now I can be very fine-grained and prescriptive over the amount of control that I give users because some of my customers will create different clusters for different teams or different stages of that application's life cycle but other customers will create a larger internally multi-tenant cluster such that within that I've got different projects and I've got team a in this project and then I've got team b in this one and I can give access down to that project level so it allows me to control and leverage my underlying resources much more efficiently the fifth thing you know open source obviously very important to IBM and red hat both have not only been core contributors to these technologies but also consume and build our commercial offerings on top of open source so that was you know really obviously red hat and IBM have been partners for over 20 years and bringing the acquisition last year just brings that to a closer relationship where we both continue to contribute and run these open source projects so I think that's great when I talk to customers obviously they want this whole eliminating vendor lock-in and that's what container technology has given them so now they've got that ability to package up their apps and all their dependencies and have that movement but the reality is these open source projects are hard when you look at all the components that go into open shift and into our managed open shift offering there are a lot of open source projects so let IBM and red hat handle the complexity so if an update in one community ensuring that it doesn't adversely affect anything else in the stack or making sure that when new updates are available that they are in fact secure upgradable operational you know all of those things that are important to you is end consumers of our offerings and then the last thing is around integrated operational tools as I've said several times open shift is a platform so there's a lot that comes baked into open shift itself to have that consistently consistency anywhere that it's running in IBM cloud we also have managed services whether it's monitoring or logging or security tools that can live outside of the life cycle of an individual cluster you can also leverage those from other compute choices or other solutions whether it's an IBM cloud other cloud or on prem to give you operationally that consistency now the great thing is that if your customers have already chosen some other vendor to provide monitoring or logging or security or CICD you know fantastic no one is advocating that you scrap what you've invested in then those technologies you can deploy those very easily and open shift and send those metrics out to your you know the source of truth whether it's a SaaS offering or something running on prem and again your operations teams don't need to learn the new model of managing an environment even though they may be running red hat open shift on IBM cloud for the first time it's really about consistency and easing that adoption curve one quick topic before I jump into the demo is around IBM cloud packs and I want to talk about that briefly just to kind of make sure everyone is aware of what we're doing and I'm sure we'll have a deeper dive into these as we proceed through these sessions a cloud pack is basically think about IBM bringing its standard middleware stack of applications and capabilities to a containerized ecosystem and from a cloud pack if I'm a software seller obviously want to be able to sell that cloud pack that solution to run on any open shift environment in any of these public clouds in a consistent manner so open shift becomes that vehicle to provide IBM cloud packs in your data center and IBM cloud or any of these other public clouds that are listed here today there are six cloud packs you know each of the cloud packs are really targeted toward an individual kind of use case or mission so for example let's just use cloud pack for multi-cloud management is our example and coming back to this relationship with red hat and IBM red hat owns the multi-cloud management open source technology they're developing it then the cloud pack around it which includes that and some other capabilities as well so now I deploy this cloud pack for multi-cloud management and it gives me insight to my clusters running in different clouds it gives me governance it gives me access in a through a single pane of glass to these regardless of where they're actually running so as I said each of these cloud packs can run anywhere my challenge as the offering owner in IBM public cloud is how do we make IBM cloud the best place and most optimized place to not only run open shift but also cloud packs so the things that we've already talked about with managed open shift around our compliance and our security isolation all that operational experience that's all consistently true here as well to run that cloud packs but a few other things that we've done to make it easier the first thing is around discoverability and that's really with our IBM cloud content catalog bringing content or software as a first class citizen to IBM cloud so now you would discover all of the cloud packs that are out there other software from IBM and Red Hat so discoverability is easier now I find this cloud pack from multi-cloud manager and I think you know that sounds pretty awesome let me deploy it now through a one-click installation with IBM cloud schematics which is I mentioned earlier that's our Terraform and soon to be Ansible based infrastructures code offering I can deploy that to an existing Red Hat open shift on IBM cloud cluster now I've easily discovered it number two I've easily deployed it now I'm running that cloud pack software stack in my open shift cluster now I've got all the benefits around deploying and lifecycle management right here now I can leverage that cloud pack for what its real value is whether it is a multi-cloud management solution or cloud pack for data which is going to look at my existing data likes and analyze that and help me make more cognitive and in tuned decisions around that data to enhance my end user experience so with that let's jump over to a demo I think you know that will speak louder to kind of what we've just talked through Diane I'm sure you'll jump and yell if you cannot see my web browser where I've logged into IBM cloud you can see my overview dashboard of all my resources all the things that are happening whether it's maintenance or my usage my users all that is a quick overview when I log into IBM cloud let's jump into the catalog and you'll see here before I look at this this software tab that's what I talked about with all of bringing software as a first class citizen I can select cloud packs and I can see all my cloud packs that are available let's go back and take a look at the the offerings because that's what we really want to demo here today you can see right here under my featured or I could navigate under containers and I can see red hat open shift on IBM cloud of course my login has expired so it always works out best for a demo and I have to log in in the middle it's hard to plan that any better so this will load here and it'll take me back to my landing page for red hat open shift on IBM cloud where I've got some as I get started some basic cluster information so what do I want to call this nothing better than calling it demo under resource group here I could this is what I talked about earlier with allocating resources to different people within my IBM cloud account so maybe this is going to go to my prod resource group because this is a very important demo cluster I could also tag it so that way I could find it later as I scroll down here you'll see location now here I've got single zone we support all six of the existing multi-zone regions or MZRs for short and 35 single zone regions or SCRs so if I needed to deploy something in San Jose or in Montreal or Toronto when I create a cluster there the masters the workers everything remains in that boundary so when I talk to customers in Canada you know especially they need to ensure that data logs etc are not leaving the Canadian boundary so now they've got that option they could deploy to Montreal or Toronto and have that that isolation you can see it's out here querying that I have no VLANs in those data centers so it would go ahead and create one for me let's go back to multi-zone because I think that's slightly more interesting in that original capability at cluster creation time so under geography I can search whether I want to do AP or Europe for this example let's let's just pick Europe under the metro I can do London or Frankfurt and we'll use Frankfurt here so these are the three different data centers that I talked about no VLANs there either which is no problem let me scroll down so now we've got our default worker pool today we're g8 on 3.11 when we developed this offering it was during our acquisition quiet period so we couldn't actually talk to red hat and say hey this is what we're going to build what do you think we had to go build it once the acquisition closed then we could go back to the team and say hey look at this is how we run it this is how we operationalize open shift and then go from there based on that we needed to do some joint work with an open source project called the hypershift toolkit which basically enables how IBM manages our infrastructure and what that means is when we create this cluster the master nodes deploy to my infrastructure account in a separate cluster then the worker nodes that deploy to your infrastructure account in a different cluster so that's where this joint collaboration with red hats open shift team and my team came into play to make that a reality so now we're currently in an open beta on 4.3 we will GA on April 1st here in just a few weeks so we're very excited to be able to get this live and out the door for our customers so let's use the beta because that's more exciting on the left hand side I've got some filters so as I mentioned earlier if I want that bare metal or different virtual machine isolation choices I can select that and then I could scroll through and read different basically t-shirt sizes or flavors with a baked in amount of virtual CPU and memory so well let's just use a 4 by 16 here's the encryption that lux encryption that I talked about you can turn it on or off and then you know how many nodes do I want in each zone so when I think about my Frankfurt 0204 and 06 data centers by default I'm going to put three workers in each of those zones and then the last little check is I've got an infrastructure permissions checker because if I'm running a multi-tenant account maybe I've given you access but I'm not allowing you to create and deploy resources so then you would see a red X in here that says you know maybe you don't have the right permissions to create networks or storage this is my account so you can see that I could go ahead and deploy it one thing that you'll notice that because this is a beta we're not metering and billing for the open shift license itself once we GA all beta clusters will will be removed after 30 days and you'll have to redeploy new production clusters where we are in fact metering that so I'm going to click create and it'll go off and churn once this jumps me out to the right page you know since that will be less exciting to watch that deploy let's take a look at something that's already running an IBM cloud on my left hand nav you can see I can take a look at different types of compute or resources that I'm running in the catalog when I look at my open shift clusters landing page here's the new guy you can see him he's off and churning and creating my master nose and getting that ready to go for this example let's take a look at here we go so when I look at my cluster again I've got a big blurb across the top which is again doesn't play very well in a demo but it's telling me that this is a beta cluster and it will be purged after we GA but I get a lot of relevant information to my cluster the ID the version where it's running my ingress subdomain which is a very painful long name I obviously if I'm running production workloads I'm going to bring my own domain name to this so that way it's just chris's app.com not this whole big arbitrary name so you can do that as well under worker nodes I can see additional detail around individual nodes what's the flavor what are their public and private vlands what's their hardware isolation choice and this is where I would do life cycle management so here I could select all three and say update and it's going to take me to 4.3.5 1514 and say yep let's do it so let's go ahead and do that update and like I said earlier it's going to roll through it's going to take this first node offline reload it second node third node so on and so forth worker pools it's a fairly common construct when I was the first time I created default pool if I later said well the 4 by 16 it's not big enough I need some larger some additional capacity obviously I can't change that on the fly but what I can do is create a new pool so I call this pool 2 and I need this to have 16 by 16 my apps are very CPU intensive so I need that and here I could create a multi-zone pool or I could keep it as a single zone pool so now it's all running in Dallas 10 in this example now I'm say yep let's go ahead and create that let's jump back out but it allows you now in this model if I wanted to now I could delete the default pool and essentially will automatically redeploy anything from that pool to the second one so that's how I would grow and expand and add new capabilities this other tab is called the add-ons tab these are things that IBM is managing as a part of the overall offering so we've got something called the diagnostics and debug tool I'll open that up here and that will essentially allow me to run some queries against routes and against other services that are a part of my managed service and make sure that they're running properly gives me some great insight so as I start to troubleshoot things and try and figure out you know that networking is that something in my yaml really try and identify the root cause of that problem and then the last tab is DevOps and so this is bringing from a broader view of CICD tooling from IBM cloud which is moving toward the tecton base if I've got some workload if I already had a CICD pipeline deploying to this cluster it would show up here but I don't so with this would allow me to create that tool chain that lives outside of that cluster so now I could be deploying from from here to this cluster or to other clusters running anywhere consistently so it kind of gives me that ability to control the CICD tooling again whether I want to do it directly in OpenShift or if I want to do it from an IBM cloud services capability the last thing that I want to show because I talked earlier about a native consistent user experience which is obviously really important for our users if you're using OpenShift on prem or in any other cloud you want the same capabilities when you come and try redhead OpenShift on IBM cloud so things like making it easy one click to get out to the OpenShift console you can do that you may have seen that I got asked to reauthenticate again security extremely important here at IBM so we need to make sure that we're we're checked and updated but once I do get in now I've got access to the same capabilities that you would see in OpenShift 4.3 anywhere I've got my administrator view I could go in here I could discover operators I could go up here to the dev console I could look at my build my pipelines my deployment topologies I can see all of that in this cluster so you know obviously this call is not meant to do a an OpenShift 101 we're assuming that you already have that level of experience and what I want to show is that it's the same capability again whether you want to do it from the UI or the CLI and start running OC commands you can do that either model with that same consistency that same ability to bring your existing YAMLs and apps and run that in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM cloud just as you would whether you're running on ARO or OpenShift on prem or you stood up something on your own IaaS consistency simplifying that that ease of getting started so with that I'll take a pause and see if we have any questions there have not been any questions from outside but I've actually learned quite a bit about things that I hadn't realized about the IBM offering including the HA availability bare metal and the edge stuff so I think maybe when you get to the end of this if you can talk a little bit more about how how to go about using maybe the bare metal or that piece and also totally blown away by getting to see 4.3 beta live demoed so this is totally on target with what you're delivering so keep on motoring on here excellent that's good to hear the bare metal so one of the differences that you'll see and it's the same flow if I create something like some bare metal generally the use cases that we see there are two main ones today number one is you'll see some of these flavors and I can even filter over here if I can find it extra storage for software defined storage and this is providing additional local disks you don't need to use file block or object storage from IBM cloud IaaS it's directly built in to that flavor and now you can consume that one of our largest users runs all bare metal with this attached local desk that way they have the ability to be able to run that workload keep all the data in proximity for much faster compute time the other use case is really around you know machine learning or we have a lot of data scientists that are running workloads and that allows them to run that in very you know resource intensive manner and what's great is that I don't have to be an IaaS admin when I deploy this if I select this and it goes and deploys IBM is going to handle deploying that bare metal server and all the life cycle so to you as a consumer it just looks like bare metal resources that I'm deploying my open shift worker nodes to I'm running my workloads there I could pin workloads so particular pool or cluster if I needed to to have access to that amount of compute and resources that's awesome and probably the easiest deployment on bare metal I've ever seen so that's that's great to know and just on the support for 4.3 do you have a timeline for when that might go GA yes so we've we've been working with a number of customers on the beta getting their feedback working very closely with the open shift team they've just got us some fixes this week so we're excited we should have everything tied out with a GA announcement on April 1st so everyone keep that between us friends right now and stay tuned for all of the blog announcements and all of the twitterverse noise that will happen when we are virtually popping champagne since we all have to be isolated from each other right now yes I will be popping a bottle here at home as well it is an interesting choice of dates April Fool's Day so maybe maybe it's auspicious maybe it's not but I'm really looking forward to seeing 4.3 and you may actually be the first managed service to support that release I'm guessing my dates correctly so that'll be really something to celebrate I'm not seeing any other questions in the chat at the moment hopefully we will get more beta testers and a lot of people using this one of the things that always is the toughest is getting all those industry level compliance offerings and so I'm pretty impressed with with that achievement on on your hot path with open shift so I think you're going to see some real interesting use cases come your way so looking forward to having you back again soon Chris to hear from your customers and more feedback on open shift so thank you very much for taking the time today absolutely thank you very much if anyone has questions afterwards again my contact information is up here and we'd love to hear your feedback so thank you


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Welcome back to the breakfast here on Plus TV Africa. Our next conversation remains in the National Assembly where some staff who had been employed since 2018 have begun a protest asking that they, of course, be asked to resume work and their salaries be paid for the years that they, of course, have been employed. We are speaking this morning with Iyanulua Babatunde, who's joining us. Good morning and thanks for joining us. Good morning. Good morning and thanks for having me on this show this morning. All right, give us a brief history of where this is coming from since 2018. The story says that there has been, there was a recruitment process. You have, of course, filled all the possible forms to get yourself fully registered as a staff, but that doesn't seem to have been any actual work since then. Yes, actually, we got our employment letter in 2018 and we were asked to resume on the 1st of August, 2018, and, as expected, went for the process to documentation, do screening and all of that, which actually started. But all of a sudden, we're told to stay back a while, that they needed to, they needed to do some processes, do some finishing and all of that. And we'll be back on back on, and gradually we're waiting for weeks, months, and we're waiting for almost three years now. But within this period, a time came and we're agitating. Why do we have to wait? What's really happening? And thank God for the management of NATS, National Assembly Service Commission. They were, they are involved or they are to carry out recruitment for the National Assembly, and then they called us and did our documentation. That was last year in November, that was 2020. Now, before this break on us to come for our documentation, there was no commission initially. So when a new set of commissioners came and thanks to them, we are not, we really need to say thank you to those guys because they now did an investigation and said that these people are actually supposed to be in house already. And what's happening? So they called us for documentation, gave us our file numbers, do all they needed to do and asked us to go to the National Assembly. That's not to be documented there. And then that's where they will now do the internet posting. And then we can now start work and payment to start. And when we got to NATS, the management said we should go and come back. They are not ready yet. That was in November. We should come back in December, December 10th to January and January. And we are already in June. And the question is why are we still kept waiting? Out of the group of people that have been employed into the National Assembly, some have been absorbed in. They were two years in April. So they received their pay for two years plus.  Now you get 10 people jobs and you thought five people to come and resume and ask five to wait. On what criteria did you choose those who are supposed to resume? So those who resumed, is there anything that they did different? No, it's the same later. It's the same date. What I'm asking, is there anything that they did different that has made them get these jobs while you guys have been asked to wait still? Okay. You've only speaking to the best of my knowledge. It's nothing, I don't know anything they've done. Frankly speaking, I don't know what they have done that we have not done. Or who they have or who they know that we don't know or have. We're in Nigeria. All right, anything is happening. You said there were 10 people who received the employment letter. I gave an instance. Okay, so how many people were employed in 2018? Initially, over 500. Over 500 people employed. What did the employment letter say? I mean, was the recruitment role, the job role? We all were given, according to our qualifications, we're giving levels, you know, giving this level for these, all that. And then after 500 plus that was employed, they called in 200 plus. And when I remember, really, that when I heard that my friends were getting messages to come and do their documentation at the National Assembly, I called and I asked was that we should wait. We are in the second batch, batch B. And we'll be called upon. And a week turned to two weeks, two weeks turned to months. And we are counting years already. Those who were called initially, I've spent two years plus already receiving pay. What they did, like you asked earlier on, that has given them the edge over us is what I don't know. All right, Ian, I need to ask you, are you trying to say that, you know, since 2018, the other set, you know, yourself inclusive, have not actually been working with the National Assembly? 20, okay, those who were called, we're not even called immediately. There was a saga, there was, like, divine all around that. What's happening? That's why they called the process. The criteria they used in picking the process, we didn't know. So if it's finances, you claim there is no finances to finance all of us at a blow. You have finances to cater for 200 plus. What happened to the remaining 200 plus? What I'm asking you, Ianu, my question is, have you been working since you got that letter? I work. How do I work? I have a letter to work. We go to the National Assembly, we have access into the building, but you don't, you can't go into an office that has not been allocated to you. Okay, so I want us to get this clear because the protest here is about the fact that you received an employment letter, but you have not been cleared to resume work since 2018. Yes, yes, I mean those of us who have not resumed. There are some medical practitioners among us who have resumed, are working and are yet to be paid. Do you get that? Yes. So they are working, for two years now they've been working and no payments. And some of us have not even been allowed to work at all. So what have you- We don't have a patrol, we don't have an office there at all. So what have you been doing in the last, in the last, since 2018? We've gone to the last management, we've gone to the commission management and the commissioners, the present commissioners we have now, when they came in and we have biffed on what has been happening, they did their investigations. And as a result of that investigation was what led to our documentation at the commission in November. And they asked us to go resume at the assembly. But getting to the assembly, the assembly say, we can't come in yet. We can't come in because of this reason or that reason. So what's the reason? Initially it was finances to manage, to take us in, they gave. But our plight and pain is, in I believe in every room there is an idea of truth. Two years back there was retirement of over 150 senior staff from both the National Assembly and the National Assembly Service Commission. And the excuse they gave at that time why those people needed, why our buses they needed to go was so that they can accommodate the new set of workers that are coming in. Two years have gone down the lane, they've been retired and we are yet to be absorbed. My question is, why are we yet to be absorbed? Come to think of it, these people who have retired, few of them salary we cater for, what level are we coming in on for crying out loud? That's it. I just talked about this. Based on what are we talking about? What even the excuse that there is no money to absorb some people, but there is money to absorb the others. Based on what criteria have they chosen those who are supposed to be absorbed? I think that's where there is a challenge. The criteria through which they pick those who they picked and then that's somehow. Yes, it's a very big challenge because I mean those who were absorbed. Yeah, but if they say there's no money, I'm not sure how you can really fight that. If they say wait until there's funding to accommodate everybody, the challenge will be. No, that's what we're saying. If they're saying is the money to do the nature, then those who are in, where are they getting the money from? There are some people who have been in. Well, I get it. Some people have been in for over two years. They've taken what they're funding, but it's also a conversation that needs to be had from their end to understand better why they've taken those people. So I was asking what have you been doing since 2018 in a size this struggle? We've visited the management. No, no, I'm not talking with regards. I'm not talking with regards, trying to get into the national economy. Yes, how you earn a living, yes. I'm married, thank God. And thank God my husband has a good job. I'm not dependent on his income. I had to go learn something to do for myself. And thank God I have one or two hands worth I do. I cook, I do event management. I sew, I had to, I couldn't just wait for them. Now, I have the opportunity to go do other things. But I have colleagues of mine who are yet to be called. The protest we had yesterday, we had to gather TP, transportation for them. We told them, okay, we'll rally around and meet ourselves and give you transport to come and go. All fingers are not equal. I have the opportunity, does not mean everybody has the opportunity. So I mean those of us who have these jobs and are yet to be called. In the process of come for your documentation, come for this, we've lost two persons. Homes have been broken. The economy is not smiling on anybody. And if you have a spouse, you know that you need resources, no matter how little, you need to manage yourselves. And when you don't have this, you tend to throw tantrums and everybody has a way of reacting to what's one action or the other. Homes have been broken. All right, Ian, what would you like the National Assembly to do as a result of the protest and speaking to the press? Yesterday we said, we want that, I told some of the management, I said, if National Assembly want to call us within this week, today is Wednesday, yesterday was Tuesday, if they want to call us this week to do our documentation, it is doable. See, where there is a will.  I will work towards it. It's in their power to tell us come in, let's sit on the table, let's come to an agreement, let's come to a compromise. We've suffered this for two years. They should be considering. There's nothing wrong in them calling us and saying, this is what we want to do. And we'll tell them, this is how we want it. We'll come to an equilibrium and come to an agreement. I am still saying it, there's nothing wrong. If they allow us into the office this June, I am still saying it, we have to get into the office this June. The management of the NAS know they can absorb us. If they want to, if they tell them, they should look at us as their siblings, as their kids, as their spouse. Some of these management staff have spouses, I mean spouse, some have resumed and some are yet to resume. But what criteria? What about? Since we don't have it. Yeah, let me, I'm just asking them, maybe play devil's advocate here. Is there a possibility that the employment spaces in the National Assembly have been filled up by the ones who have been employed? I'm sorry, it's not possible because I'm not saying this week, I have worked, it will shock you to know, I served with the National Assembly Service Commission about seven, eight years back. And for every office, you have a number of people. Before this set, the set we ask to, people retire every day, you don't employ every day. You need people to manage certain things in an office. The National Assembly is not one small cubicle. What could you do the National Assembly for one building to the other? It's not, it's not an easy thing. It's a large, they can accommodate us. That's, I don't, I don't see any excuse. Now, if they have an excuse, they should call us. And the time of us even listening to those excuses have elapsed for three years. You've been patient. Okay, they will call us. These are the people we will work with. They will be our bosses. Let's find a way to come to an agreement. And all this while we have waited till now. Please, how long do they want us to wait? All right. How long? If I had a child at that time, the child would be three by now. Yes. If I told the child to give me an answer. When is the next meeting you have, or when is the next time you are meant to be at the National Assembly? We, we, thanks, they have access to friendly representatives. I mean, to us, to them. They are really working hard. We are not disputing that fact. The commissioners are doing their best. We are not disputing that fact. But we want results. We want to get into office. It's not even one if you start receiving our pay too. Yeah, but there's a, I think it's a seven day deadline. Automatum, yes. That's supposed to be a lapse on Wednesday, next week, a week from today. Okay, so what happens after that? After the work, let's get there and then we'll cross the bridge. Let's get there and then for now, let's give them to them. Then if nothing happens, then we can now know or we can now do what we think we can do. We just need, because all I'm saying is if you have absorbed some people, then the others have the right to be absorbed. All right. If not, put all of us on a plain ground. We either all go in or we all find our way out. So yes, indeed, your colleagues that are already in the National Assembly, legislative aides, you know, disrupted a seat in, has skin for payment of their salaries. This was in April and we know that Femigua Jabyamela asked for patients. You know, it's been about two months now. So we'll try to get their own side of the story and see where the most communication is coming from. But we do hope that everything turns out well. Thank you very much, Ian, for your time. Thank you for having me. We really appreciate this. All right. So we're now going to Kaduna for our next conversation regarding that NLC protest a few weeks ago and how it affects lecturers in the state.


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Account types matter What's up money geeks mr. V here welcome to another video guys so in today's video I want to answer a very important questions that I've been getting from you guys Asking me what account type you should be trading with on the webo platform So basically there's two types of accounts you can open in webo for trading you can either open a cash account Or you can open a margin account, but before we get started guys if you're new to the channel We took about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build wealth So if that's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button and your notification But so you don't miss out on new content So again the question is which account type should I start with there's two types of accounts on the webo platform for You know for you to trade with your cash account or your margin account So we're gonna take a look at your cash account. We'll talk a little bit about it And we'll take a look at the margin account. We'll talk a little about it Then I can tell you which one I think is the best base on how much money you have and then I'll tell you what I'm using Which accounts that I'm using and how I'm trading in in each of this account. So first let's start with the cash account On the webo platform when you have a cash account you get unlimited day trading So you can buy and sell Securities are limited the only difference is that once you buy security and sell it It takes two days for the money to settle before you can Use that same funds to buy and sell without getting a good faith violation on webo So if you do if you get a good faith violation though, you know You get that that that email warning and then again if you do it again They can liquidate your asset and shut your account. So you don't want to be in that position So why would you want to use? A cash account again the first thing is that you get unlimited day trade The second is if you don't have $25,000 and then a cash account is your best bet because you can still trade Five days a week even with a small account So if you have a small account in a small account I'm saying anything from a thousand dollars to say five thousand dollars. That's pretty much a small account You can you know break it into two and use each portion to trade every single day Why the other amount settles? So if you have so I say a thousand dollars you break it into two Hubs of 500 you treat with 500 on Monday Trader 500 on Tuesday and then by Wednesday the 500 you treated with on Monday setters on Wednesday You can use that to trade On Wednesday and then on Thursday what you treat with on Tuesday setters on Thursday You can treat know what you treat with on Wednesday setters on Friday and you can treat so see you can trade five days a week Without any problems, but the only difference that you can you have to split your your money into two two halves And that's one drawback, but hey, it helps you treat five days a week Again again the cash account is for for people that have Small accounts. Let's switch over to margin accounts. If you're on a web of platform If you have a margin account that has under $25,000 then what happens is you get three day trades in a five business cycle So again three day trades. So you buy and sell a stock. That's that same day That's one day trade, you know, you buy and sell the stock again. That's two day trade You buy and sell the stock again. That's three day trade So in one day if you buy and sell a position three times or you buy and sell three separate positions You've already used up your three day trades for that week So if you do it on Monday, and then you stuck Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday You can't day trade if you have on the 25,000 because you've already used up your three day trades and then The next week, you know, it's a you know, it will reset again and you can start day trading again You have those three day trades in a five business cycle So but if you have over $25,000 you get unlimited day trade so you can trade as much as you want like knock yourself out You can buy sell buy sell buy sell unlimited Amount of times if you have over 25,000 thus which makes the process a lot easier. So back to our Our original question What kind of account should you start with and we will and the answer is it depends It depends on how much money you have in your account So if you have anything on that 25,000 dollars, then I'll say open a cash account If you have over 25,000 dollars and then open emerging account If you have over 25,000 dollars in a cash account in Weibo, it's easy You can just convert that it takes about two days You can convert your cash account into emerging account so that you can start trading Unlimited trade emerging account also gives you obviously margins or You can get maybe 2x 3x 4x You know marginable stocks that you can actually trade and potentially make some extra money But I do have bought a cash account and emerging account on Weibo You know I've talked about this in multiple videos, which I'm gonna hook up here if you want to go check them out I don't I use my cash account for swing trading and I use my margin account for day trading Just so that way when I'm swing trading I don't have any confusion with the stocks that I'm day trading. So it's just kind of separate So I have over 25,000 dollars in my margin account. So that helps me You know to day trade Unlimitedly, whereas in my string trade account, I don't have that much But I only do string trade but again, I use it now to take the that I've explained to you guys here I use, you know, a certain amount of money and trade one day and you steal the balance and trigger the other day So I can trade five days a week in that account as well. Even though I swing trade it doesn't really matter because It did I buy today a sell tomorrow buy the next day sell the next day or maybe two or three days after So that doesn't really Impact that account a lot. So question of the day. What kind of account do you have? Do you have a cash account or a margin account? And what do you think about the differences? Are you planning on switching anytime soon between either a cash account or a margin account? 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church is messy and it's supposed to be because of the people that make up the body of Christ which are full of hypocrites liars backstabbers thieves all sort of lusts and so forth because that's who God has chosen to make up the body because if he didn't use those there would be nobody because that's all that's who we are we are vile people with a lot of nasty idiosyncrasies some sinful things that we still have not yet gotten out and because of that there is going to be a lot of census mess in us there's gonna be mess in the body that needs to be brought out and it takes people in the body to deal with the body that's why Paul makes a statement in Galatians 2 speaking to Peter and about Peter the Bible says that he had posed him to his face why he says because for prior to coming to certain men from James he used to eat with the Gentiles but when they came he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof fearing the part of the circumcision in other words fearing the Jews he says the rest of the Jews joined him in his his hypocrisy with the result that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy and so the reason why you confront people the reason why you expose folks the reason why you do this is not to hurt the person it is because there are other people that will follow suit who may not know any better and the sad part is we've got preachers who do that and some of the preachers can be very well intended very well meaning but some of them may not be his name is in me not only like I said like in me do you understand angels recognize who I am devil's recognize hear the voice of God I stand the waters fire the only God and I thank God that now I'm here who was the biggest loser Satan no God out of the life come on the well for her Jude tells us in Jude 3 he says beloved while I was making my earnest effort eagerly wanted to write you about your or our common salvation I want to talk about how good our salvation is the Lord is what I did do I felt it necessary or I felt the necessity to write you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints why would you say such a thing why would we just skip over or you know what let's put on the back burner our love for the Lord and our salvation which that's not a back burner issues not a secondary issue but there's something that's pressing he says the reason why for certain persons have crept in unnoticed well how do you creep in unnoticed well you have to look like you belong you have to in some cases speak like you belong you everything about you seems like you belong and so what and matter of fact you may very well belong but the point is we have to contend for the faith the faith is the more important thing the tenets of the faith and you've got people nowadays who are going to want to vilify the scriptures and tell us that we ought not look at certain things as a matter of fact we should study the Bible and we might want to move away from the Bible that's why the idea of theology or the study of God is so asinine and sophomoric to me the pride to think that God was sitting your petri dish to be observed by you said that the Bible is the authority the Bible says the Bible teaches the word of God because of that language consequently most Christians most thoughtful Christians believe what's in the Bible are you ready for this because it's in the Bible and you have to help them change that now some people get mad because you point out their errors but look Paul makes a statement I think this is a very worthwhile statement he says he says so have I become your enemy by telling you the truth what we're going to say some things to someone who they may not agree with there are some things that I've said things that folks don't agree with and they were offended well I'm not trust me I'm not saying anything about you or what you're saying because I have an issue with you if I've ever said anything to anyone calling something out or exposing something and you were offended I apologize that you were offended I apologize if maybe how I said it was maybe wrong was maybe not compassionate maybe maybe a bit insensitive it's not my point not my intent my intent is to contend for the faith to defend the faith why because it's bigger than you or me it's bigger than any of us it's important because there's some people coming along who are going to listen to certain things and follow certain things and if we can't talk as a body if we can't be brothers and sisters and have a conversation well that's a problem which is let me tell you something third eye doesn't come because you're a christian or because you're a witch every human being is born within third eye people can say things like that and not want to be held to account but that's just not godly that's not right and it hurts people because it causes people to think of the scriptures in an incorrect fashion and then you got folks who just want to put on a show they they're all about making a scene or a spectacle i'm gonna have faith for it i'm actually gonna build my stamina i'm actually gonna do something sir ball over the communion don't care so much over the bible too go back to kick we're gonna get some emails here we go so whether it's getting tackled by some woman on stage whether it's jumping on trampoline pouring syrup on the bible or if it's kicking a football there's no regard for holiness there's no regard for the sanctity of the sanctuary not that the building is so holy but it's the fact that you have this gathering amongst the saints why to give their devotion for corporate prayer corporate fellowship in honor of who to christ to the lord and we are to approach him in a holy fashion but some people have a huge problem with it as a matter of fact some people have a bigger problem with us calling out the foolishness but if you don't call out the foolishness then you might be the person that's in sin paul says do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness but instead even expose them for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret but now what's happening the things that are being done in secret or thought about or spoken of in secret they're making their way out to be boldly stated in public to be boldly acted out in public these people's inner inhibitions are coming out on stage things they talk about things they do even vulgar things things that just let me just let me just throw a little bit of a sexual innuendo out there you all know what i'm talking about and it's okay because we're all adults here give that man some pasta give that man some peace and i'll let y'all fill in the other pee somebody should have ran around the church so i'm just playing that was good the three peas and you know what that woman needs she needs dedication yes some dollars and i'm gonna let y'all figure out the other team well you can only say something like that because you have given the feeling by people or because no one has held you accountable to think that you're more than what you really are again we're not contending for each other the bible doesn't say contend for each other we are continuing for our faith this faith that is given to us by our father and so we should make sure that no one including other christians make a mockery of that that's what paul says in first Corinthians five he's speaking about this man who is sleeping with his father's wife and it's going to apply to us as well in our own local church as he says for for i on my part thought absent in the body but present spirit have already judged him who has committed this as though i were present in the name of our lord jesus when you are assembled and i with you in spirit with the power of the lord jesus i've decided to deliver such a one to satan for the destruction of his flesh so that his spirit may be saved on that day paul says kick him out put his behind out get rid of him put him out why not because we want to destroy him but turn him his flesh over for destruction in hopes that his soul his spiritual life might be saved on or by or in the day of the lord he says you guys are both sick because you think that i'm not being too judgmental where we live and let live let the lord deal with them paul says your boss is not good do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole dough clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump so the problem is we let this stuff go on because we don't want anyone to think that we're judgmental we don't want and probably maybe the biggest reason why we have that is because we have people that do not love the scriptures do not hold tighter the scriptures don't value the word of god because they don't value god so much so that anybody who just has any sort of fanciful feeling can decide that you know what i want to be a pastor even though i'm not qualified either by gender or my understanding or my actions or my lifestyle or my heart i'm not qualified but what the heck why not yeah i'm very start a church with my partner just i mean it ain't no big traditional churchy church mess but i'm sick and tired of church people with all this judgment and all this crap i'm sick and tired of it like it's i'm over it i don't want a holier than thou's at no church than i'm a part of amen keep your holier than thou ass at home and not just someone like her we've got folks that just feel like that they deserve some sort of adoration they feel entitled why because people have become heaping praises upon them and so they feel good about it and when they feel good about it they start acting like they get this little god complex this little king complex or queen complex they love you so much mama it is such an honor to serve you i honor you as your spiritual daughter i love you and you're my favorite you're my favorite person you're everything to me you're my spiritual mom you're my david because i have this complex to where no one can tell me anything they end up saying any and everything i mean things that are just clearly ungodly they make it up as they go and still no one holds them to account god cursed the earth because of adams mess up but the devil messed up when he got the woman to be the seed and god said because you've done that snake i'm gonna put in the tea in between her and you her seed and yo see so when doctor won't get up and preach the way she preached and then she get upset because she has what the man don't have is called enmity so god put enmity between the woman and say no you're missing the point sir but again no one holds them account because they don't read the scriptures do this do this reign subdue all of the things god told adam to do do you know the greatest problem with that you know the most powerful issue with that you know the most profound challenge with that adam did not have a body and adam didn't have a body how silly is that that you are more than the mistakes that you have made that the great i am lives in you and whatever he is you are too and then of course whatever god is you are because after all we're just like god we're little gods as a matter of fact this is the stuff that we are called to contend for and the fact is guys this is going to be messy i can love you you can love me you can call me out if i say something wrong it can be messy i can feel bothered by it but if it's right it's right again we should be the church should be the body should be big enough and godly enough humble enough to be able to take what someone says if we see it is incorrect if it's wrong paul says we should preach the word be ready in season matter of fact let's go to this patch look what he says and let's just follow this as our guideline he says be ready in season second time before two and out of season that means all of the time he says reproof that means to prove someone wrong if that's the case rebuke that means if they are wrong and they don't want to get right you correct them even if it bothers them exhort that means to encourage them how do you do all those things with great patience and instruction all the time constantly and do so why how with instructions using the scriptures that necessarily means guys that it has to be or it has to involve reproving rebuking and exhorting believers as well this is not this is not a game guys this is this is life literally life and death and he says to do so why because the time will come when they will not endure sound doctor we've seen examples of these people who don't who don't have sound doctor and they get a large following and because now some of those folks not all those folks that that are following are ungodly not all those folks that are following and listening are unsaved as a matter of fact some of the preachers who might be preaching and stuff many of them are saved they just are how does Mike Todd put it you can be saved and stupid treat that you can be saved and stupid now Paul says in doing so to fulfill your ministry be sober and fulfill your ministry as an evangelist spreading the gospel we want people to know the gospel there's two things we want to do we want to let folks know the gospel the true gospel to reprove rebuking exhort but also we have to contend for the faith we've got to call things out notice Paul in his deathbed does say this he says Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm the lord will pay him according to his deeds be on guard against him for yourself why for he vigorously opposed our mess this is paul's deathbed so there's there has to be a balance between calling something out but also spreading the gospel let me just say this if all you ever do is call people out if all you ever do is expose if all you ever do is engage in the dirty messy stuff then i'm going to submit to you that not that you're not saved but that you are immature that you are not concerned about the other things the things that we are most responsible for which is to preach the gospel and so if all you could ever do is name what is wrong and that's all you got to offer within you don't have much to offer you have a critical spirit an attitude of criticizing however let me say this because we don't talk about this as much as well if all you ever do is give the gospel and you never warn anyone you see danger coming and you don't warn your brother what you are is also equally immature because it shows a lack of love a lack of love for the person a lack of not caring you may yourself not be a believer because if you don't care or love for the other person whom you see danger coming and you don't warn them could you imagine knowing that there is some sort of terrorist some vile person someone waiting around the corner to hurt people and you see your brother sister going that direction and you don't say anything about it what does that say about you you know the bridge is out and you don't warn people hey the bridge is out you know there's a fire in the building you get all of your stuff and you leave and you don't tell anyone what kind of person are you and so there's got to be a balance again oftentimes we might try to balance it too and we might not do so artfully we might say something harshly or too harshly if i've ever done something i'm pretty sure i have i apologize the goal is to spread the gospel and also to warn even brothers and sisters who might be involved in that and so guys make sure that you have a balance but also if someone warns about you or calls you out accept it go back and look and see and then if you think that you're right well then defend it you cannot be we cannot be the kind of people that we don't listen to someone who disagrees with us as a matter of fact we either vilify that person or we ignore that person and call that person a heresy hunter a whatever you want to call them no if the person has a legitimate concern remember you're not the only person that's saved and if you're saved and they're saved as paul says am i your enemy because i tell you the truth well i'm not your enemy i'm a friend of god i'm a friend of the gospel i might be wrong myself and if you don't speak to me then i'll never know the other side i'm calling what i see i could be wrong and so it's incumbent on you whoever the you are or me to explain this is why i believe what i believe you should have an open door policy not a public open door policy where we display these things out in public but at least the ability to discuss with folks why this is and if you are a preacher if you are leading a flock and you can't defend what it is you're preaching then you shouldn't be preaching it if you don't have the ability to walk through the scripture and say this is why this is this is why this is not then you have no reason to be in the stands if you can't let the text speak for what it says and you want to dress it up you also have no no reason to be there because now you're just trying to put your imprint your personality and let that be it if the word doesn't speak for you then don't you speak for it and so yes church our church our body is messy it's supposed to be it's a work in progress as paul says we are all filthy filthy rags before the lord and so the cleaning process oftentimes we see a spill it's the cleaning process that people don't want to get involved it's easy to make a mess it takes some time you got to get down on your knees and get your hands dirty to clean the things up and so we want to make sure that we present the gospel as well as we possibly can even with people who we at times might disagree with and so let's continue for the faith together amen


Es un placer estar con ustedes, disculpenme, pero mi español no es muy bueno, y estoy hablando con ustedes el día de hoy en inglés. Let me begin by telling you that I am more than aware that there is a humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico today and that the U.S. Congress and the administration must address this crisis as soon as possible. The people of Puerto Rico are experiencing enormous economic pain as a result of a depression that has now lasted more than a decade. Since 2006, Puerto Rico has lost 20% of its jobs. About 60% of Puerto Rico's adult population are either unemployed or have given up looking for work. Over the last five years alone, more than 150 public schools have been shut down and the childhood poverty rate has gone up to 57%. At a time when the rich get richer, Puerto Rico now has more income inequality than any state in the United States. In the midst of this massive human crisis, it is morally unacceptable that billionaire hedge fund managers have been calling for even more austerity in Puerto Rico. Austerity will not solve this crisis. As we all know from throughout the world, austerity will cause more suffering for working people and make the richer we must vigorously oppose all efforts at austerity. It is unacceptable to me that vulture funds on Wall Street are demanding that Puerto Rico fire teachers, close schools, cut pensions, and abolish the minimum wage so that they can reap huge profits off the suffering and the misery of the children and the people of Puerto Rico. We cannot allow that to happen. We will not allow that to happen. I think all of us understand and your government understands that Puerto Rico's $70 billion debt is unsustainable and it is unpayable. And the reason that it is unsustainable has everything to do with the greed of Wall Street vulture funds.  Which is why, among other things, I am fighting to break up the large banks on Wall Street. The United States, Puerto Rico, the world needs a financial system which is designed to increase jobs, to grow the economy, not to live as an island unto itself, only concerned about their own profits. These vulture funds are getting interest rates of 34% on tax-exempt bonds that they purchased for $0.29 on the dollar. That is obscene. It has been estimated that as much as half of Puerto Rico's debt is now owned by these vulture funds. We have got to make it clear to these billionaire hedge fund managers that they cannot have it all. Children in Puerto Rico will not go hungry, will not lose education, will not lose health care to make billionaires even wealthier. And what must be made abundantly clear is that these hedge funds must take a massive haircut. They are not going to get it all. The people in Puerto Rico should not be forced to suffer even more so that a handful of wealthy investors who have done so much damage all over this world can make even more money. El futuro de Puerto Rico no debe ser sequestrado injustamente por fondos buetas abusivos. And please forgive my pronunciation. Puerto Rico's debt must be restructured. Puerto Rico must be given the time it needs to grow its economy, to create jobs, to reduce the poverty rate, and expand its tax base so that it could pay back its debt in a way that is fair and is just. The economic situation in Puerto Rico will not improve by eliminating more public schools, by slashing pensions, by laying off workers and allowing corporations to pay workers starvation wages by abolishing the minimum wage and relaxing labor law. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and UBS racked up hundreds of millions of dollars in fees to manage Puerto Rico's bond sales. These Wall Street banks have profited off of the suffering of the people in this island, and together we will end that process. And by the way, as I'm sure many of you know, just last month, Goldman Sachs paid a $5 billion settlement to the United States government because they were selling worthless packages of subprime mortgage loans which helped precipitate the major financial crisis. And I think all of us have got to recognize, as the people of the United States increasingly do, that the business model of Wall Street is fraud. Eight years ago, Congress and the Federal Reserve acted with a fierce sense of urgency to bail out Wall Street, I didn't vote for that, and the largest financial institutions in this country that were considered too big to fail. The Treasury Department provided $700 billion that went to every major financial institution in America. The Federal Reserve provided over $16 trillion in virtually zero interest loans, not only to every financial institution in the United States, but to foreign banks and corporations throughout the world. Do you all remember that? $16 trillion of virtually zero interest loans, the central banks all over the world. If the Federal Reserve could bail out Wall Street, it can help the 3.5 million American citizens of Puerto Rico. Today, I am calling on the Fed to use its emergency authority under Section 133 of the Federal Reserve Act to pave the way for an orderly restructuring of Puerto Rico's public debt. On the current law, the Federal Reserve has the authority, quote, in unusual and exigent circumstances to lend to individuals, partnerships and corporations outside the banking system that are, quote, unable to secure adequate credit accommodations from other banking institutions. Washington rescued Goldman Sachs and Wall Street from its bank. The Puerto Rico people are more important than them. We must act now. Moreover, in my view, we need an independent audit of Puerto Rico's debt. If this audit determines and concludes that any of Puerto Rico's debt was incurred in violation of its constitution, it must be immediately set aside. I believe that Congress should act immediately to give Puerto Rico the same authority granted to every municipality in this country to restructure its debt under the supervision of a bankruptcy court. Unfortunately, the Republicans in Congress continue to oppose this. The people of Puerto Rico cannot wait any longer. It is time for the Federal Reserve to act. And let me also be as clear as I can be the Republican plan in Congress to establish an unelected oversight board that would be given the power to slash pensions, cut education and health care, and increase taxes on working families is not the answer. In fact, this would be not only a major anti-democratic effort, but it would move this island in exactly the wrong direction and it must be rejected. Now, let me tell you what I think we should be doing. We need a major jobs program in Puerto Rico by rebuilding the infrastructure here and aggressively moving toward a clean energy economy. And let me be very clear is that it is not only the infrastructure of Puerto Rico which is in trouble in virtually every state in the United States infrastructure is collapsing as well. We need to rebuild our infrastructure and when we do that, we create millions of good-paying jobs. Last year, I introduced the Rebuild America Act that would create over 150,000 good-paying jobs in Puerto Rico and put 13 million Americans to work in the United States. This legislation would help address Puerto Rico's crumbling roads and bridges, improve its ports, upgrade its drinking water and wastewater plants, and fortify flood control projects. It would improve public transportation within cities like San Juan, Bayamon and Carolina and other major cities and towns. It would modernize Puerto Rico's antiquated electric grid to end rolling blackouts and make it easier to integrate new solar and wind installations. And very importantly, it would expand high-speed internet and affordable broadband services throughout the island. And as best as I can understand, when we talk about the need to combat climate change and in my view, climate change is a global crisis that has got to be dealt with throughout this world. When we look at that crisis, it makes no sense to me that 99% of Puerto Rico's energy comes from fossil fuels. Puerto Rico is blessed with abundant solar and wind resources and has great potential to expand biomass and geothermal energy. We must give Puerto Rico the tools it needs to aggressively move towards a clean energy economy instead of being dependent on importing dirty fossil fuel that is bad for the environment, bad for the Puerto Rican economy, and bad for the planet. In my view, it is time for the people of Puerto Rico to be allowed to take charge of their political future and for the United States of America to redefine its legal relationship with the people of this island. The people of Puerto Rico should not and cannot provide colonial-like treatment of its citizens. The people of the United States cannot continue a colonial-type relationship with the people of Puerto Rico. It is unacceptable to me for the United States government to treat Puerto Rico like a colony during a time when its people are facing the worst fiscal and economic crisis in its history. In my view, the people of Puerto Rico must be empowered to determine their own destiny. I do know I am not a great expert on the history or the politics of Puerto Rico, but I do know there are differences of opinion about that future, and those differences are probably in this room right here. But during my first year in office, I will do everything I can to give the people of Puerto Rico the opportunity to vote on a binding referendum that would allow them to choose from three clearly defined options on whether or not to become our 51st state, whether or not to become an independent nation, or whether or not to reform the existing Commonwealth relationship. That is a decision that must be made by the people of Puerto Rico. I am aware that probably all of you are concerned about Oscar Lopez Rivera. Lopez Rivera is one of the longest serving political prisoners in history. He has been in prison now for more than 34 years, longer than Nelson Mandela was in prison in South Africa. He is currently incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana in solitary confinement. This man is 73 years old, and his health, as I understand it, is deteriorating rapidly. We are talking here about a Vietnam War veteran who was awarded a bronze star and a respected community activist. A petition asking President Obama to immediately release Oscar Rivera Lopez from prison is, as I understand it, widely supported in Puerto Rico. That petition is supported by the AFL-CIO, by Coretta Scott King, the widow of Montluther King, Jr., by President Jimmy Carter, by 10 Nobel Prize Laureates, by the United Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church of Puerto Rico, the Catholic Archbishop of San Juan, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and a number of political leaders and social activists in Latin America and in the Caribbean. I say to President Obama, let him out. Oscar Lopez Rivera has done his time, he must be given a chance to enjoy his remaining years in freedom. And if President Obama does not do that, as I hope he will, as President of the United States, I will pardon Oscar Lopez. I have throughout my entire life believed that healthcare is a right of all people, not just a privilege. And that means that whether you are poor, whether you're rich, whether you're old, or you are young, you should be entitled to the best quality healthcare that the system can provide. All of you know the healthcare system today in Puerto Rico is in very, very dire straits. And if we do not act soon, the well-being of three and a half million American citizens will be put at severe risk. According to an August 2, 2015 article in The New York Times, Puerto Rico's financial crisis stems in large part from a vast disparity in federal funding for healthcare on the island compared with the 50 states. This disparity is partly responsible for 25 billion of Puerto Rico's $73 billion debt as its government was forced to borrow over time to keep the Medicaid program afloat, end of quote. That arrangement is unfair and unacceptable. Today, the people of Puerto Rico pay the same Medicare and Social Security taxes as do the people in the 50 states, but they only get about half the rate of federal healthcare dollars. While that is beginning to change, it is still not good enough. The federal government should not be discriminating against the people of Puerto Rico by providing much lower Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates. The people of Puerto Rico are American citizens. They deserve nothing less than equal reimbursement rates. But let me add that it is also important to understand that the crisis in Puerto Rico's health system is not only about equal treatment in the distribution of federal funds, but also about the current model that ensures that private insurance companies make hundreds of millions in profits even during a time when millions of Puerto Ricans are suffering unprecedented pain. In my view, we, all of us, need to join every other major country on earth and provide high quality care to all of our people, and that certainly includes Puerto Rico. My Medicare for all plan would apply equally to states and territories. It is time to get this done. It is time for the United States to join the rest of the industrialized world. Healthcare is a right, not a privilege. What this campaign is about, and as you all know on June 5th, you will be participating in the Democratic primary here. What this campaign is about is an understanding that we cannot bring the kinds of changes that we need in the 50 states and in Puerto Rico unless there is a political revolution. Unless millions of people begin to stand up and demand that we have a government which represents all of us and not just the 1%. I am tired of the disgrace in the United States of billionaires spending hundreds of millions of dollars to buy elections. That is not democracy. That is oligarchy. So let me just conclude by thanking all of you who are standing up, who are fighting back, who know the incredible potential that exists in this beautiful island. If elected president of the United States, you will have an ally in the Oval Office. Thank you very much.