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My fellow Americans, yesterday, April 15 was tax day, and I know many of you are still recovering, so I hate to mention taxes again. But there's something I think you should know. It's about misrepresentation surrounding the withholding tax on interest and dividends. People are being badly misled, and that misinformation shouldn't go unanswered. Americans have been arguing over taxes ever since the Boston Tea Party more than 200 years ago, when an angry band of taxpayers dumped a shipload of tea into Boston Harbor. Well, in the spirit of the Boston Tea Party, I'd like to dump all the misinformation you've been getting on withholding taxes. In fact, I'd almost like to dump overboard some of those who have been spreading this misinformation and scaring people, especially our older citizens, many of whom have written me very frightened. As you may recall, this whole business started last summer when the Congress passed and I signed a law requiring banks and other financial institutions to withhold 10 percent on interest and dividend income. This withholding, which starts this coming July, is not a new tax. I came to Washington to reduce taxes, and I can tell you I wouldn't have signed the withholding law if it had been a new tax on our people. It's simply a more effective way of collecting tax money that's already owed. Just as employers have been withholding taxes from our paychecks for almost 40 years, a procedure most wage earners accept as both fair and necessary, what it really gets down to is this, even in a law-abiding country like ours, there's still a minority of people out there who cheat on their taxes. Last year, Uncle Sam lost billions of dollars in taxes on unreported interest and dividend income. President Kennedy back in 1961 said, this is patently unfair to those who must as a result bear a larger share of the tax burden. Well, that was true then and it's true now. I agree with what one editorial writer said about those who cheat. When they don't pay their taxes, someone else does, you and me. Withholding 10% on interest and dividends will allow the internal revenue service to recover an estimated $18 billion in otherwise lost revenues over the next five years, and that's without taxing honest taxpayers a penny more than they now pay. Past experience has proven that withholding is by far the most effective means of combating those who don't pay their tax bill to the government. The only people who stand to lose under this law are those who haven't been paying their taxes in the first place, and what's wrong with that? While I'm at it, let me expose a few of the myths which may be bothering some of you. First off, withholding will not place burdens on our older Americans or lower income individuals. The vast majority of older Americans, 85%, are exempted under the law. And to get that exemption, all they have to do is fill out a form no more complicated than a deposit slip. As for low income individuals, anyone who paid $600 or less in taxes last year or married couples who paid under $1,000 are exempt as well. In addition, everyone with small savings accounts with interest payments of $150 or less are also exempt. So, for example, most kids' accounts wouldn't have withholding. All of this raises an obvious question. If withholding is nothing more than a more effective collection method, what's all the controversy about? Well, some of the banking interests seem to think withholding will inconvenience them, but we've taken measures to make sure this change over isn't burdensome. And, as for savers, it will actually be a real convenience for many of them. For example, withholding will free many taxpayers from the chore of preparing quarterly tax payments. It'll prevent other citizens from being faced with a substantial accumulated tax bill on April 15. Most wage earners already prefer to have tax withheld from their paychecks rather than having to come up with a whole bundle on that annual day of reckoning. Some of the banks and savings and loans have said withholding will reduce the incentive to save. Well, that just doesn't make sense. Withholding will have a minimal effect on a crude interest. For example, the annual loss on a $1,000 account earning 9% interest would be less than 50 cents. And such an account would be exempt anyway. But I think most Americans would forego the 50 cents if it meant others who are cheating on billions of dollars of unpaid taxes would have to pay their fair share. The fact of the matter is that those already paying their taxes can get back all of the amount withheld by reducing their estimated tax payments or by adjusting the number of exemptions on their wage withholding. Thanks to the pressure from a very busy lobby, however, the Congress is now considering repeal of withholding before it's even gone into effect. This would help no one who's doing their fair share. But it would let all those who are not paying their taxes on interest and dividends off the hook. So I'm not about to let it happen. Rather than asking those who are paying taxes to pay more, I say that those who already owe taxes should pay them. And I'm carrying my veto pen right behind my ear. If the repeal passes the Congress, I'm all set to veto it just as I'm prepared to protect the July tax cut and indexing with a veto if necessary. Until next week, thanks for listening and God bless you.


Hey everyone, in this episode we are going to be covering the recent tragedy that happened in Monterey Park, California. It left 10 innocent people dead. The gunman was Asian. This happened within the Chinese community. And although mass shootings seem to be unfortunately a common occurrence in America, it's definitely not something you expect to happen within the immigrant Asian community. So I do think that there's some stuff to unpack from here. First off, RIP to all 10 people who passed away. I heard that they were all in their 50s, 60s, and 70s, which means that their families are impacted forever by this. I know that they would probably ask for privacy in this time. We're going to be donating to the GoFundMe, the Monterey Park Lunar New Year Victims Fund. And I hope that anybody else watching this that feels compelled to do so do that. I think in all the internet and the media talk about what happened, the motive, who's going to politicize this event, who's not able to politicize this event, the actual impact on the families can get overshadowed. And yeah, so we just want to go ahead and put that out there first. Point number two, Andrew, this is kind of personal for anybody who's obviously lived in the 626 St. Gabriel Valley, particularly in Monterey Park, very nearby Garfield and Garvey where this occurred.  And now it's like completely going to have a different energy and a different image. And it's just something that you never want to see Monterey Park trending for this reason. You know, I mean, a mass shooting is probably one of the last things you would think would occur in Monterey Park. Yeah. No, definitely. And it is shocking. And I think it's Monterey Park in this area, the 626 in general is going to be changed forever, maybe. So I guess we're going to move on to just basic details about what happened. Obviously, if you guys want to read all the articles, you can. We're not going to get into too much detail. But these are the things that have came out from the events that happened. Yeah. Obviously, there was a 72-year-old Asian male. You know, he was a divorcee. He was looking for his wife. He didn't get an invite to the Ballroom Lunar New Year Festival, you know, event that they had. He was very, very disgruntled. I heard he had actually been off the grid for several years. I'm assuming, obviously, nobody knows, very, very poor mental health. He gets a hold of a very high-powered firearm. And he went to do the worst thing possibly that you could imagine at about 10.30 at night. Yeah. And so after the first location in Monterey Park, he does go to another dance hall in Alhambra, which is also close to where we used to live as well. And he attempts to look for more victims. However, he is stopped by a 26-year-old Brandon Sey, who disarms him and kicks him out and calls the police. So shout out to Brandon. You know, you need to give credit and celebrate the heroes while they're there. But yeah. And then he ends up in Torrance, California, in a white van. And he offs himself and ends that kind of whole ordeal. And that's pretty much the general details. Of course, there's a lot more details coming out of, like, interviews with his wife and other witnesses and stuff like that. But overall, yeah, it's a tragic event. And I think it leads to a lot of different reactions, David. A lot of different people weighed in. And some people are taking it, obviously, super tragically and very seriously. And then, of course, as the internet would, there's there's people who are not taking it as seriously. But I guess what are the main, like, reactions to this? Yeah. Well, I guess that, of course, there's always the sorrow on a micro level in the sense of, like, people saying, man, this always happens in America. Why does it always happen in America? Why are we always willing to accept this? Or other people go, you know, it's just a part of being American, almost like the structures that we have built in that a lot of people are not changing. Obviously, it turns the more further up and up you go into a huge debate about gun control, non-gun control, personal responsibility, mental health.  This other political side wanted it to be that because that's what would serve their political agenda more so. But because it was almost like an internal, older Asian immigrant, you like internal thing, there was a lot of talk about people like, oh, well, nobody knows what to do with this in the sense of like this side cannot jujitsu it in terms to push their larger macro agendas. And this side cannot use it to push their political resolutions and bills. Yeah, I mean, I think there's a lot of things involved. I think that the big the names of the victim not not being released. And, you know, I'm sure that's partially because of the families of the victims. They don't maybe want the names out there. But I think like, you know, you know, everybody's just going to it's human to just try to relate to things that feel closer to you or people that look like you and because this happened in the Asian immigrant community, particularly, I mean, we're talking about Garvey Ave. Like we were very familiar with this area. It's like, yeah, it's it's like, I guess a little bit outside of just mainstream America period. So I think there's some people talking about that. But I mean, either way, obviously, like people are kind of wondering what's next, like, what does this lead to? Is it actually going to lead to gun reform? Because I'm sure he got this weapon illegally. It seems like an illegal weapon to have in California. In California, it does have very, very strict gun laws. But of course, it doesn't stop bad people from getting weapons. Yeah, I mean, I don't really want to get into the gun aspect, even though a lot of people are making it about the gun, right? Because he had a Cobra M 11. It's almost like a in between a pistol and a machine gun, like some sort of like hybrid. I would say that, you know, for me, there is a discussion about mental health, right, especially mental health in the older Asians. And immigrant community, because that's got to be the sector of the Asian community. First of all, the Asian community in general, doesn't have a lot of exposure to mental health talk, even the second gen kids that are born in America, much less than a second gen of another. They don't do it in Asia. But let alone you can imagine only that the mental health is talks or rehabilitation is really low amongst the older people. Yeah. And I think that hopefully my hope is that, you know, because gun laws are so hard to change and there's so many mass shootings and nothing changes. So I don't want to talk about that. But what I think can change is systems in place in this whole different way of looking at mental health amongst the older immigrant Asians, right? A lot of these immigrant Asians, they they went through a lot of things in Asia. They're from that generation. I mean, he's 72. He remembers a lot from Asia and coming over here might have carried over, possibly some people said he potentially and these are all like, I don't know.  Yeah, exactly. And I think that, you know, when someone in the community looks disturbed and obviously he was actually part of the ballroom dancing community years ago, left it. Maybe he kind of got like exed out or left out of things. And then it rolled and kind of snowballed into that thing. But yeah, I mean, it's tough, but people need to get checked on. And this is the nature of America where, you know, people do have mental illness, people do get angry. There's a lot of things in this country that can make you angry. And then also there is access to weapons, you know. And especially like lonely men that are not grounded in society, that are not seeing people that do not have hope for a better day. That are not part of a community that are essentially like off the grid. You know, they're like detached from societal systems. Yeah, I mean, and even like if you want to take it to an Asian aspect, if you know about sometimes like the mass incidents that happen in Asia, right, where there's actually no guns, but sometimes people do it with knives and stuff. And cars, yeah, cars or whatever. You know, oftentimes it's a clap back or a revenge on society. Maybe they're poor. Maybe they're starting to see all this wealth flow in. And, you know, these are things that is hard to change, right? It's hard to tell people, hey, don't be wealthy, right? Like you can't tell people that. But that's why I think the talk about mental health and just having those conversations and checking up on people who have fallen off the grid or fallen out of the group and fallen out of like, I guess, you know, public society. Like it is important to check. And I think in all these arguments about everything, you know, there was an argument about like, why isn't this getting more mainstream coverage? Oh, is it because it's Asian on Asian? That's a discussion, right? I think that's part of it. There's a discussion about like, is it about gun control or gun culture or gun availability? Or is it about assault weapons? But then now the gun was even a half assault gun, half pistol.  And then there's a whole another debate about Asian and mental health and stuff like that. And it's just like, man, I just think that in all of that, it's all like a stew. You know how a lot of people are like trying to focus it? When you stew a bunch of elements together, how can you say what was like the dominant element? Yeah.  And I think the reason why you never expected in the Asian community, let's be honest, like gun violence within the Asian community is super, super low. Like it is statistically so low. So it's almost like in certain Asian communities, and I'm just saying certain Asian communities, it almost, and we grew, and we lived in the 66, by the way, this is why I'm talking about it's like, it almost feels like guns don't exist. Like it's not a gun toting area. It's not even, there's not even a lot of like gun ranges. People maybe do airsoft, they barely think about weapons. So I think when, you know, something like this happens, it's like, whoa, like we, it's a reminder that unfortunately you do live in America and that, well, and that their guns are plentiful here. Yeah. I would almost say that the shootings that I have seen into Asian in even that area are more almost common amongst immigrants than from the kids that are like born second gen. Statistically speaking, people of the same community or group or tribe are the ones more likely to attack each other. So yes, it's a lot of like, there have been immigrant crimes. This is not the first time that a Chinese or Asian immigrant has killed other people in that area. But the level of this is massive.  But anyways, guys, you know, I think again, it's a hard thing to talk about. You know, it's not supposed to be a fun video, but hopefully you found it interesting and hopefully this helps people have this conversation because, you know, everybody's saddened by this and everybody's shocked. And I think it's easy to be derailed by the comments. Like I said, people are trying to pull it this way, pull it that way. Some people are mad that nobody can use it. And you know, but obviously as an Asia community, a Chinese community or people who have lived in the 626, you're just sad for the families and looking for a way forward from this point. Yeah, I mean, it just goes to show you there are deranged, broken, angry men of every group. That's a fact, you know. Guys, make sure you check out the GoFundMe link. It is verified, so, you know, I know that that's the thing that people- All right, everybody, go ahead, leave your comments and leave your thoughts down below. Check out the GoFundMe links. You guys can check out other links to some of the news articles that have more details if you want to delve into it. Thank you so much for watching and until next time, we're out. Peace.


Good morning. Welcome to CMC Markets on Friday, the 29th of July. And this quick look at the week ahead, beginning the 1st of August with me, Michael Hueson. And I think we've seen a bit of an interesting shift in the narrative this week. Certainly the decision by the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates by 75 basis points wasn't a surprise. I think most people had been expecting that. The real question was really around whether the Federal Reserve would pre-commit to further rate rises into September. And ultimately, the decision by Jay Powell, the FOMC to basically call a time on forward guidance wasn't really too much of a surprise, given the fact that the European Central Bank had done pretty much the same thing the week before. But what we have seen, and I think this is significant, is a sharp turnaround in yields. You know, the big question is, I think the bigger question at the moment or the debate at the moment is, will the weaker economic data that we're currently starting to see and have been seeing for the past four or five weeks prompt central banks to start slowing down the pace of their rate rises? And certainly indications are if you look at bond pricing, bond market pricing, that is certainly the case. That being said, the press conference from Jay Powell would appear to suggest that the Federal Reserve aren't in a mood to dial back the pace of their rate rises. The markets, on the other hand, have completely different ideas. And let me show you this particular chart that I shared on social media earlier this week. It's this US 10 year yield chart. Now, this is one that I've been looking at for a while, and that looks to me very much like a head and shoulders breakout, which means essentially that we have seen the top in yields and that ultimately we're going to go quite a bit lower. And the measuring objective for something like a head and shoulders breakout is for to take the head, the top of the head, which is around about 3.5% measured down to the neckline, which is around about 275. So we're talking 75 basis points measuring down from the breakout point, which is around about we take around about here is about 280. So we're essentially targeting and moved to 2% on the US 10 year yield sometime over the course of the rest of this year. Now, if that's the case, then how many more Fed rate hikes can actually play out, certainly to listen to an awful lot of the economists on Bloomberg and financial TV. Certainly there's an expectation that we could get another 50 basis points in September, but there's two CPI reports to come between now and then, as well as two payrolls reports, one of which is next week. So I think there's quite a significant repricing set to take place in the bond markets and we're already starting to see it. Obviously, if we go back above this neckline here, then all bets are off, but certainly the direction of travel for yields is quite clear. We've got lower lows and we've got lower highs. So to reverse the downward trend in yields, we still need a significant correction back higher. And at the moment, we don't look as if we're going to get it. We've also seen a big correction in the dollar, and we can see that here in the dollar index. This is the weekly chart that potentially could be a bearish reversal, not totally convinced about it myself. But certainly if we look at the daily chart, say, for example, on a chart like that, there is a decent area of support on the dollar index at around about 105.80, which is pretty much where we are now in terms of the lows. So that sort of equates to 102.75 on euro dollar. That has capped pretty much every single rebound that we've seen thus far from the lows that we saw earlier this month at 0.9950. So has the dollar topped? Well, I think certainly there is an argument for that against the yen in the short term. I'm not entirely convinced against the euro. And the reason for that really goes back to obviously this chart here, this weekly chart and my longer term target for the euro to go to 0.9620. But we've still got potential for a short squeeze. Certainly on the weekly candle, we've got a little bit of a bullish reversal here, which would appear to suggest as fairly decent supported around about just below 101 at around about 1.0070, because it coincides with the lows on that weekly candle there and the lows on that weekly candle there. So we've got a fairly decent area of support just below 101 if you ignore the spike down to 0.9950. So we could squeeze all the way back to 103.40. We could also squeeze all the way back to the 50 day moving average without undermining the downward momentum in euro dollar. So there is certainly potential for the dollar weakness against the euro. And it's a similar sort of story against the pound. And this is particularly important given the fact we've got Bank of England coming up next week. And we've also got non-farm payrolls from the US. Now it's interesting with the pound is that we've got a fairly decent area of resistance around about the 50 day moving average, but also this downtrend line from the February peaks here. So in terms of overall momentum, the pound is looking a little bit susceptible to a short squeeze. But ultimately what we need to see is a move above the 50 day moving average, which is around about 1.22 and a half, which could then bring us all the way back to 1.24, 1.25. I'm probably less bearish on sterling than I am on euro. But with respect to euro sterling, that's still in the same old range that it's been in for about the past year or so. And I don't see that really changing anytime soon. But I think an awful lot will depend on how the Bank of England comes across when they meet next week. Because essentially the Bank of England has exactly the same problems as the US and pretty much everyone else. The only difference is that at the moment the UK economy isn't in a recession even if it's heading for one. And this then brings about the rather thorny issue of how you define a recession. The US is in a technical recession. Because a technical recession is basically classified as two consecutive quarters of negative growth. Of course, you've got a whole host of people in the US now trying to redefine that definition. But I was paying attention in my economics classes when I was learning all about this stuff. And we're talking about semantics here. Who cares? Two negative quarters, minus 1.6, minus 0.9. If it sounds like a recession and it looks like a recession, it's a recession. It really doesn't matter whether or not you would stick a label on it. But nonetheless, central banks now are faced with the prospect of deciding whether to prioritize inflation. Or basically prioritize whether or not they slow down rate rises. Now on their own, I think the slowing economy should take care of inflation. But unfortunately, we have this thorny problem of Russian gas and energy prices. And certainly there is an awful lot of scope in the weeks and months ahead for prices to keep going up. And that's a problem. That's a problem not only for central banks. It's also a problem for governments. At the moment, markets don't seem to care. And I think that's largely on the basis of the fact that you're seeing bond yields slide lower. And that's really borne out by what we've seen in equity markets over the course of the past month, because we're on course for a very solid positive month for equity markets. S&P has broken through my little downtrend line here. It's now looking to retest 4,200. That's the next key resistance level. So we've seen some fairly, we've seen some decent results. We've seen some horrible results. But by and large, the numbers have been broadly positive, albeit with some headwinds. And we all know what those headwinds are. Amazon and Apple reported last night as I record this video. And those numbers have been generally greeted with a degree of positivity. And certainly I think when you look at some of the companies that have been reporting their numbers, they're able to pass on price increases without unduly hurting the volumes of product that they shift. Companies like Unilever, Nestle, Mereket, Bankiza and what have you. So overall, equity markets are enjoying a fairly decent rebound. The bigger question is how sustainable is it? And I think that's the big question at the moment. It's sustainable and I think in the short term, but at some point we're going to start have to think about whether or not we're going to start to roll over. So the next target on the S&P is 4,200. This is peaks here back in May. If we look at the NASDAQ, which has helped lead an awful lot of this move higher. It's the level that we're currently at at the moment, 12,913,000. There are there abouts be interested to see whether or not those particular moves are sustained. We look at the weekly chart again here momentum does appear to be starting to turn a little bit positive. But again, we're still very much in the downtrend that we've been in since the beginning of the year. So I think as we head into August, you know, the big question will be is whether or not the momentum that we've garnered from July after the declines in June can be maintained as we head towards September, because we are now very much in holiday mode. FTSE 100 popped back about 7,400. Again, looking fairly positive on the daily charts. Again, if we look at the weekly chart, it's a similar sort of story, very much range bound. But certainly I think in the overall scheme of things, the likelihood is that we are potentially now back in the realms of bad news. It's probably better news for equity markets than was the case beforehand because markets are now starting to price out the prospect that we're going to get as much tightening as perhaps we thought we were five or six weeks ago. And that's really borne out. I think in the way dollar yen has behaved over the course of the past couple of days. In fact, the past couple of weeks, if we look at this weekly chart here, that is directly correlated with US yields. And what's happening here is you're getting you're getting the divergence that you've started to see between US yields and Japanese yields reverse quite sharply. And as a consequence of that, you're seeing dollar yen bear the brunt of that. And the likelihood is we're probably going to see more declines in dollar yen towards 131.50 130 over the course of the next few trading sessions, particularly if we break back into the cloud. Here, if we break back down here, we're probably going to come back down to around here and back towards initially what the 130 area, which was this series of peaks through here 131.50 in the short term, but 130 in the medium term. Based on that head and shoulders reversal I showed you on the US tenure. So Bank of England is coming up. We've talked about that has been an awful lot of to and fro with respect to the mixed messaging from the Bank of England. The fact that they are a little bit tentative when it comes to raising rates. We've never raised rates by more than 25 basis points ever since the NPC came into existence and yet they're very, very quick to cut by more than that when they need to. I think we will see a rate rise of 25 basis points at least. There is a good chance that we could see a 50 basis point rate move. Why because the recent PMIs from the UK have probably proved to be slightly more resilient than say, for example, those in Europe. Nonetheless, if we do see 50 basis points in August, I think that could be it for the rest of the year, particularly given the fact that the economic data is unlikely to improve anytime soon. And I think the same could well be true when it comes to the Federal Reserve and the ECB markets are already starting to price out the possibility of rate rises much beyond this year. So the bigger question is how many more are we likely to get and that's what you're seeing playing out on bond markets at the moment. There is a perception on the part of markets that central banks won't be able to hike, even though they will articulate their desire to do so. So Bank of England on Thursday. We got non farm payrolls on Friday. One of the things Friday the fifth of August one of the one of the notable things that I've been seeing in weekly jobless claims is they are now at an eight month high. And yet we're told that the US labor market is as tight as a drum 11 million vacancies and what have you. We have or we are expecting to see more payrolls growth in July 250,000 against the backdrop of a low participation rate. Also wages are showing very little sign of a group of accelerating much above 5.2% for the US 5.1% was a number in June. That's expected to remain fairly steady in July. So around about 5% for wages 250,000 for non farm payrolls. We've also got global services PMI's I'm less interested about them as I would be otherwise. We've also got one more central bank meeting and that's from the RBA. And the RBA has been very much behind the curve when it comes to raising interest rates and now they're having to play catch up. So we can certainly expect to see another 50 basis point rate hike this week when they meet on Tuesday they've already hiked by 50 basis points for two meetings in a row. They've hiked for three meetings in a row as it is. So this is expected to be the fourth meeting in a row and the third that we will see 50 basis points unemployment is at 50 year lows in Australia 3.9% vacancies are a record highs q2 CPI rose to 6.1% in the most recent numbers released by stats Australia. So I think the RBA will find it very very difficult to justify not doing at least 50 basis points this week at the time when the strength of the US dollar is pushing an inflation wave its way. So the big the big level I think on the Aussie is around about 70 70 it's this series of peaks here 70 70. If we break above that then you could argue that we could we'll see a move back to 72 over the course of the next few weeks. In terms of the earnings numbers. This week we've got BP Rolls Royce and HSBC now BP's will be interesting in light of the shell numbers that we saw earlier. There were a bumper set of numbers record q2 profits and revenues on the back of higher oil and gas prices. Obviously there's an awful lot of an awful lot of criticism that they're making so much money but that's hardly their fault, given the fact that prices are so high, you can certainly justifiably criticize them for not spending enough on capex and renewables, but certainly I think one thing the profits this year have done is they've helped offset the huge losses these oil companies posted in 2020, when the oil price oil and gas prices collapsed and the energy price level is already been implemented so that's not a horse that can that horse is already gone. So the bigger question is how much more money is BP going to be making in q2, bearing in mind that obviously it's having to take a hefty loss on its Rosnevsteak uptrend line that we've seen coming in here comes in around about 371. We've got a fair bit of resistance around about 408, but a decent set of numbers here should well keep the upward momentum of the share price, pretty much intact if we look at the reaction of the shell share price however, after this week's decent numbers, you can see that it was fairly muted pretty much because the record profits were priced in. And I think the same will probably be true when BP reports its numbers later in the week roles Royce. Again, this has been one of those companies that's really struggled. And a part of the reason it struggled is because of the lack of a rebound if you like, in the civil aviation sector and if anything while we've seen a little bit of a lag in the airlines we've seen a lag in roles Royce but this week we've seen IG British Airways post a quarterly profit we've seen Brian air post a quarterly profit on increased passenger traffic. So you would expect to start to see a pickup in the roles Royce share price at the moment we're trading very much in a range between 78p and 92p and that's probably going to continue to be the way of it over the course of the next few weeks but with a bias potentially towards the upside you'd like to think banking HSBC direction to travel there is fairly clear sideways consolidation and the big question around HSBC, even though it's been one of the better performance so far this year share price wise is whether or not it will be compelled to split up into its business between Asia, and the rest of the bank. One of the more controversial events that's taken place over the course of the past. Since since the last trading update was the bank taking the step to allow the formation of a Chinese Communist Party committee. This investment banking subsidiary inside China is also a big Chinese shareholder Hong Kong by shareholder ping an once HSBC to split the business between its Asia business and the rest of the bank. That'll be, I think that will be a particularly interesting dynamic when HSBC releases its numbers is first off numbers on Monday, the first of August, certainly that's that's that's a discussion that's not going to go away anytime soon. Other companies due to report all us Ubers second quarter numbers, second of August Airbnb Madonna on the third of August and Robin Hood markets, also on the third of August and amc entertainment. So that's pretty much it for the week ahead for this week as we head into August and another new month if you're not on holiday. Have a good weekend and see you all same time same place. This week where we'll also be covering non farm payrolls live from just after one o'clock in the afternoon. Thanks for listening and have a great weekend. Thank you.


And on to other parts of Africa. A U.S. delegation arrived in Sudan to meet with its finance minister on Tuesday. The topics of discussion are the economy and the tension over Ethiopia's now dam project. Negotiations are ongoing between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan aimed at resolving a years-long dispute over the grand Ethiopian renaissance dam Ethiopia being built on the Nile's river main tributary. Egypt and Sudan fear its impact on their water supply. The two sides also discussed the latest developments on the Sudanese Ethiopian border.


You know, like I said, when we buy a house, we get everything that's in it. However, you know, when you find things like this that people have missed, that you know that we're going to be sentimental is, and this is something that we have been searching for. It's one of the things they sent us in here initially for was to find jewelry. This looks like this may belong to the deceased himself. The sisters and the wives were telling me there is some very vice jewelry that used to belong to their grandma, their mother, their mother. So I believe I have found that. A lot of this looks very dated. So I think this will be fun for them to be able to keep. Might not be anything of great value, but I'll think a lot of sentimental value. So these are some of the lovely treasures that, you know, we can discover. But it takes some digging. It's worth a little bit of effort to be able to give the family something back like this.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casewrakes.com coming at you with Jaspy's 10 box Stanley Cup playoffs hockey mixer All 31 teams are in no vet commons ship the cards in the photo or some potential it's from that hip parade Right there. So there's there's some there's some things to chase in those two emerald boxes right there We got some ultimate trilogy SPX five boxes of series one big. Thanks to this group for making it happen Appreciate it. Congrats again to the people who won spots in those lure packs To help fill up the spray And all 31 teams are in let's do it. Let's roll it. Let's randomize names and teams eight the hard way four and a four one two three four five six seven and eight in final time After eight we got jeffrey on the pole down steve lock four and a four eight the hard way for the teams one two three four five six seven and good luck eighth and final time After eight we've got the Tampa Bay lightning down to the arizona coyotes All right jeffrey with the lightning martin with the panthers brian with the kings Matt with the caps martin with the hurricanes matt with the oilers brian with the sharks martin with the canadiens brendan with the ducks matt with the The Bruins and the canucks benet with the maple leaves david with the abs steve lock with the pred martin you got the jets chris with the red wings mike with the rangers steve with the devils steven with the flames martin with penguins britney with the flyers steven with the black hawks matt with the stars matthew with the blue jackets michael with the golden knights martin with the blues Matthew with the islanders martin with the senators kevin with the sabers matt with the wild matt arnold with the wild in seedlock arizona coyotes So let's keep this get all try to get all the teams all on one page here. Let's sort by team alphabetically And we're going to pause the video when we come back. We're going to see if there's any trades And then we'll have the break. We'll see on the other side All right. Welcome back ladies and gentlemen No trades no deals were done. So that list remains the same. Thanks everybody for making this happen Appreciate it. And let's see what we got. So there's our one two three four five Six seven eight nine you ten. All right So we're going to get the series one out of the way first before we start working into some of the uh The higher end box that will close out with the two hip parade emerald boxes. There could be some real monsters in there But first let's work through this So we're basically looking for young guns cards in here in the series one among others That's the main chase Nice mic drafted out of golden west college in huntington beach, california That's just about probably about 40 minutes south of us Do you have some hockey on tonight tnt? Oilers are in colorado Oilers at abs. Who does everyone have in this matchup? So rex is doing a little Little pregame research here. This is the the win-loss total for the oilers abs Wait, I don't understand this the win-loss total for the oilers abs is 86 87 and 8 Are these head-to-head matchups you're saying? And their playoff record is 40 48 and 4 ESPN is claiming that uh This may be the best possible conference finals rangers lightning abs oilers got you so historically Oilers and abs have been have been have matched up pretty even At least record-wise Pretty similar Now mike tower saying montreol anaheim florida boss in new jersey He thinks are the good teams in series one With a possibility of maybe some clear cuts exclusive number to hundreds high gloss number to tens That would be pretty nice Yeah, I think we'll be seeing the clear cut those are the acetate cards or we'll probably see some of those See what we got. Good luck everybody Some dazzlers here. I think those are somewhat shorter printed Some young guns Ross colton for tampa bay is going to go to jeffrey Anthony mantha will go to the capitals. That'll be for matt We'll see connor mcdavid in action a little bit later in about 20 minutes I think we'll still probably be In the middle of this break by the time The puck drops It's for edmonton. That'll be for matt lemond. We've got some more young guns. There's uko pecca lukonen For buffalo kevin the sabers Yeah, the canvas cards do look really cool too. I think there are Young guns cards that could be cams as well Which would be nice to see there's a canvas right there Got spencer night from florida. That'll be for martin rookie retrospective alexi lafreniere capriza Uh portraits, I don't know how short printed that is but Got a couple wild cards Here a couple wild cards kailyn adison for matt arnold in minnesota And the capriza of portrait my tower saying spencer knights are going. Yeah, you're gonna have to let me know ladies and gentlemen i'm working on just being more knowledgeable about hockey but You have to let me know who the uh good ones are or not as the case may be Wade alex and young guns For the flyers. That's gonna be for britney in philadelphia. Oh and in game jersey That's robert thomas going to the blues st louis that's gonna be for brian Or check that martin at st louis And we'll do a let's say we'll do a left right randomizer on those These portraits a little more common than we think I initially thought All right, joshua done For columbus that's gonna go to matthew wood Mike's saying about 20 30 bucks for that Spencer knight Is that rob? So maybe with a good grave maybe a little bit more than that. It's not bad Right not not rob thomas. That's robert thomas hockey player not robert thomas uh Pop star So looking at the so-called experts On espn Predicting the eastern conference finals rangers versus lightning Uh shon alan i'm not going to read all of these names Lightning in six lightning in six lightning in seven lightning in seven lightning in seven lightning in seven lightning in seven lightning says chris chelios We got a rangers vote mostly rangers in seven, but it's all lightning lightning lightning lightning Rangers in six rangers in seven lightning lightning rangers lightning rangers lightning lightning rangers rangers rangers lightning rangers so most of these so-called experts saying uh Saying the the lightning take a 20 of the 28 Going with the lightning It did I uh, I just forgot to upload it taylor. I'd upload it should be up now I uploaded about an hour or two ago All right western conference finals looks like most if All of the votes are abs consensus pick avalanche 25 out of the 28 votes Are all picking abs mostly in six or seven the few oilers picks mark messier saying oilers in seven Arta o' call oilers in six kevin weeks oilers in seven In case you're wondering mark messier did pick the rangers to win the seven It was one of the One of the eight taking the rangers on that other side. All right next box. Good luck Okay, katelyn adison young guns from minnesota It's another one for matt arnold There's one of those clear cards right here. These are pretty cool, too That'll definitely ship only vet commons don't ship Right messier picking the two teams and for which he played it makes sense joshua dun young guns right Rex of course Is uh, is has vested interest in the oilers Because it was connor mcdave that he has In this collection Yeah, will the abs take I mean I think ab's one of the big favorites going into the stanley cut playoffs I think the knock on them is that sometimes They suffer an exit a little bit earlier than a lot of fans or experts Maybe this year's the year. There's our two ruo stallion I'm gonna roll with that buffalo kevin of the savers other young guns That's daniel wallcott For the tampa bay lightning Perhaps the brother of english footballer theo wallcott. There's that spencer knight another one for florida Martin with the florida panthers my tower saying that about 20 30 bucks a pop Will spencer knight young guns raw some dazzlers And there's coal lean for vancouver. That's going to go to matt lenin and use soros Dazzlers nashville. That's going to be steve lock Yeah, those young guns cards were We're similar a couple doubled up. We'll see a little more variety In this one these packs. Let's see what espns say about these matchups Yeah, so the rangers. Let's see. How did they get there? They beat the penguins in a seven game series beat the hurricanes in the seven game series Goalie confidence rating a 10. I'm assuming this is out of 10 apparently got a few breaks Coming up here looks like uh chris crider forward chris crider saying I've kind of referred to us as cockroaches Rangers chris crider. We just didn't go away. That's always been ingrained In the culture of every good team I've been on here. We just don't go away regardless of the score Regardless of where the game is we just keep on trying to find our game and playing for each other Rangers according to the rider here. It still aren't an impressive five-on-five team relying on chris sir going to build them out even at strength, which he has They're tremendous on the power play though. That's carolina They have depth at forward or getting excellent play from defensemen like fox and truba The coach jarard gallant is pushing the right buttons when it comes to line Combinations Is a benyad led the way with three points crider two bowls. They need continued offense from fox etc etc Player needs a step up Our temi panoram. Let's see. Tampa Bay Lightning also goalie confidence rating of 10 The maybelies took them to seven but they swept the panthers We're supposed to be Fairly far but I maybe put up more of a fight But they've got andre avasilevsky one of the greatest postseason goalters in angel history All right. Yeah, they're pretty Tampa Bay is a pretty tough team All right next box We've got some more young guns speaking of Tampa Bay There is alex barre boulet Jeffrey with the lightning All right, and we've got dakota joshua For st. Louis young guns card for martin another one of those clear-cut foundations card mark shyfully and nicolai ellers Die cut as well. These are pretty cool winnipeg. That's going to go to martin Zach jones For the rangers young guns card That'll be for mike tower. That's a cool shot The ice kicking up there I've got jack akhan for boston That's going to be for matt leman and the ruins More young guns. We've got jeremy swayman For boston another one for matt some dazzlers coal coffield For martin and montreal Yeah, mike saying swayman's a good one too more young guns This one's for the sharks jeffrey veild That's bryan with san jose coal coffield canadian's montreal Oswayman was the starting gold tender for the u.s in the world championships All right It's a young guns canvas That's gregory denis enko That looks pretty cool For the florida panthers that's going to be for martin and more dazzlers alex new hook same as the old hook colorado, that's going to be david my knife bit me see that It doesn't but nice to you The coalfield's about 90 dollars. That's awesome. That'll be for once again. That's for uh, martin and the canadian. It's nice all right So lightning we know they're good kita series nikita kutcheroff Player needs to step up lack of the What they're saying is a lack of production is injury related injury related So if they if they can get john cooper back in the action yeah, if they So two really really good goalies here. This person is predicting rangers in seven so maybe They have that sort of nebulous postseason magic that cinderella Season a match of really good goalies Goal tenders. So are we taking unders? on these games All right, what about what about the abs abs swept the preps and then beat the beat the blues Four to two in that series goalie confidence rating 7.5 out of 10 So nada is not as confident as the two other guys It's kind of like a conference finals Sort of trying to get a little primer for me So I guess kemper has not seen a lot of Shots in the playoffs, but he's going to see a lot With connor mcdavid and leon drystall et cetera mccarr and mckinnon will be the keys to the abs Kemper maybe Miko rontanen maybe need to step up according to espn this espn rider That's all right rex. I've been watching the pregame Game does start at the top of the hour What about the oilers? They beat my kings in a seven game series and then beat their rivals calgary flames four to one goalie confidence eight out of 10 This pal connor dazzlers winnipeg martin with that one I think a lot of people will say that Say that a solid series from mike smith will keep the oilers In play And this rider says colorado in seven is the prediction Yeah, marn's pointing out kutroff in his two and a half months. There's brinston passage on young guns for san osa that'll be for brine and the sharks we got michael hauser young guns for the sabers and it'll be for kevin buffalo We got young guns for vancouver mark michael's mantleyman with the vancouver canucks The f1 break you mean? It'll help if I make that video public There you go taylor should be up now refresh your page It should be towards the top There is shane pinto for the ottawa senators martin your help if I press publish ladies and gentlemen turns out that'll make your uh Make your videos live so people can watch it. That's the whole point pal connor dazzlers for winnipeg martin a little mixer being built right before my out. Oh Okay That looks looks like a fun giveaway happening in this mixer too It's like a baseball mixer ladies and gentlemen Gold ink autograph on a black baseball that looks awesome too So keep an eye on the website jaspyscasebreaks.com The baseball mixer may appear In the next day or so logan thompson vegas golden knights michael robinson and we got a That looks different for some reason It's more of a oh because it's numbered right there. I knew it was different It's 182 out of 250 leon dries it out Edmonton that'll be from at leeman Puck drop about to happen soon. All right fifth and final series one box and we'll get into The rest of these boxes back here. So the base heavy stuff done and we'll get into Sort of those one pack a box sort of things or I think trilogy might have a couple but anyway Rex has some trivia for us. How many teams have never made it to the stanley cub finals? And which team has the longest drought? There must be a number of teams that haven't made it to the stanley cub finals, right? I mean Right, that's a good. That's a good uh good question. Mike. Mike's asking appearance drought or winning drought No, i'm good sir. Thank you. Appreciate it Appearance drought Yeah, steve locks like he's a wild minnesota wild fan. He's like They've never made it even even in the uh north star days I guess that's a completely different team technically the kraken have never made it Have arizona. I don't I don't think I remember arizona being in a In a stanley cub finals. Maybe it's fewer teams than I thought North stars did make it once when obviously they're now the dallas stars So I don't know I say Five teams have not never made it to the cup finals longest drought appearance drought I'll say I don't know. I'll say The autoa centers I don't know. Pay off the trivia rex. What are our answers here? Mike freshwater thinking nine teams have not made it and then sabers longest appearance drought I'm I'm just taking shots in the dark. I really don't know. Am I right with five teams? That was a wild guess, but Someone fact check rex as well. Sometimes he tends to look at just the first google result That has happened before There's tanner lakazinski Young guns for philadelphia. That's going to be for britney and the flyers Is it toronto toronto may believes rex is saying longest uh 54 years since they've made an appearance In the uh stanley cub finals. Wow ross colton tamper bay lightning. That's going to go to jeffrey Did they win it 54 years ago There's garrett pylon capitals young guns washington. That's going to be for matt connor helibut dazzlers for winnipeg martin Who are the five teams that uh That have never made the appearance Can we figure that could we figure that out? Between us in the chat There's all olé all sing For autoa. That's going to be for martin Yeah, I wouldn't have guessed toronto as well. I would have thought that like In like the 90s they would they would they would have made an appearance or something like that early 2000s or something We got for the st. louis blues dakota john uh dakota johnson not dakota johnson dakota joshua dakota johnson's a different person Uh martin with the st louis blues Young guns canvas nice That's david forance for nashville That's going to go to steve lock and the preds We've got parker kelly for autoa. That's going to go to martin young guns Mike saying kraken bluejack. It's wild maybe uh arizona as well And those are your five boxes of series one all right now Ah, arizona and Winnipeg jets All right some trilogy uh Yeah Oh, yeah, you're not showing me how that works. Um, there's philip kurshev 399 lexie lefrenier rookie super stage and there he is again rookie premieres level two to 499 Rangers that's going to be mike tower. I don't know how many levels there are but There it is and Looking like he could be a nice contributor Hey dalindrea rookie renditions rally. Oh nice signature pucks roman yosi 17 out of 21 one For steve lock and the predators tried to trade couldn't trade mojo He's super stage steven lorenz carolina martin and nick philigno philigno new jackets matthew wood so so the list apparently covers The old jets who became the coyotes and the new jets formerly the atlanta thrashers mike freshwater pointing out man the jets kind of uh A cursed team name Yeah, they just did both they did oh canada first and then they did uh Did the did our national anthem? I think so. Yeah, no offense canada, but It's a bigger finish at the end too, you know Uh ours ours has to be older right Because I feel like canada was a a a british Principality an english principality for a long time. So they're still probably singing god save the queen Right until much more recently, you know, then they just right There's doug wilson super scripts for chicago that'll be perceived. Okay. That's an anthem is 1814 Okay, and us Oh canada That's got to be like 1910 In 1980 Oh canada wasn't proclaimed in 1980 Yeah Uh, chicago black hawks. That's going to be for steven kinder. There's terracenco to 299 for the blues We've got mikey anderson for my kings 283 out of 349 obsidian rookies brian hayman And the relic Is philip kuryshe for chicago. That's going to be going to steven k All right. How about some ultimate collection hockey?  That sounds cool All right. We've got a nice ultimate introductions alexi lefrenier Nice it's for mike tower. We've got yonas yohansen ultimate rookies Buffalo It's going to go to kevin and the savers I think my uh, my favorite national anthem was uh, olympics sprinter carl lewis pier olivia joseph 67 and 99 Classic Pittsburgh that's going to be for martin Rex is saying jimmy kimmel vince von zoey d chanel kendrick tomorrow all live in hermosa beach Yeah, actually, uh, they have to have him as a jaspy guest. Sure That's true. Yeah, you don't have access to yeah, no no access to our to our vip streams Patron only Come to our car shop into our vip streams zoey has been here before uh nikolai knizov actually nick has haven't you You've seen vince von like at the beach right like yeah like riding his bike or something like that. Yeah vince von definitely spotted around here So vince von's definitely around town. I don't think I don't think he's zoey d chanel kendrick lemar really seen around town. I don't know if these might be secondary He might have a house in hermosa beach. I don't know if he actually lives here. All right, and we have robert tomas nice patch nice autograph 85 out of 249 from the cup hockey For the st. louis blues martin with st louis nice All right, and the final box Now we'll eventually get some more hockey back on the site. See The appetite for hockey is waned a little bit So we have to we have to starve the people of a little hockey and then we'll We'll put some back up on the site. All right last one is gonna be alex de brinkett 30 out of 50 another one from the cup hockey nice patch Nice autograph and a nice one for steven kendrick And the chicago black ox 30 out of 50 nice All right, so quick little recap. Those are your hit parade hits.  Let's roll it and randomize it One and a five six times side on top after six. We'll get them one two three four five And six in final time right once more. Yeah one more And that's going to be the right side So all the right side teams will get those uh those checklist cards And there you have it boys and girls that was jaspy's 10 box stanley cut playoffs mixer Random team break number one. I'm joe. We'll see you next time for the next break. Bye. Bye


respected listeners, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala is the Soaring Lord of the heavens and the earth. Tabarak al-Ladhi bi yadihi al-Mulk wa hu'ala al-Lisha'i al-Fadih. He is the owner and the Lord of the entire universe and all the power and He has power over everything. Wa Lillahi Junudu Samawati Wa Al-Ard. All the armies in the heavens and the earth are under His leash. All the affairs and control is in the hands of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. Wa Lillahi Al-Puwa to Jamia. All the power and strength is in the hands of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. There is no power or strength except in Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala respected listeners, shortest living in the COVID times, who is in charge, who is in power, who is helpless and who has been humbled. Wa Lillahi Al-Mulk wa Al-Lisha'i al-Fadih. He is the owner of the entire kingdom in the heavens and the earth. He gives power to whom He wishes. He takes away the power from whom He wishes. 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Allah is telling us to become, to recognize him, to recognize his presence, to have faith. Allah is in charge. Allah is in control of everything. Coronavirus respected listeners. Coronavirus doesn't give death. Heart attacks don't give death respected listeners. Of course, we take all the precautions. If Coronavirus gives death, then where did you eat and eat and meet go?  People with heart attacks survive. People with Coronavirus survive. This shows that death, walla yakhir allahu nafsani idha ajaluhah. Allah says when that moment comes, when that moment comes, when that second comes of you living the world, nobody can delay that second. The death comes with the Amr of Allah, respected listeners. Yes, heart attack becomes the means for a person to die. Coronavirus becomes the means for a person to die. But the death is in the hands of Allah, one of my friends, Dr. Sohail yesterday evening, fine, hardly 50 years old, no issues, no complaints, no problems. He had pain in his leg. He went to see a therapist yesterday evening at Muhrib time. Then he said, I have to go to the bathroom and not feeling well. I have to go to the bathroom. He went to the bathroom, did not open the door. After some time, they knocked on the door. They had to force open the door and they saw him dead lying on the ground. His janazah is in an hour with the Livermore Symmetry. Death is in the hands of Allah, respected listeners. This yakhir may Allah bless his soul. He was a very pious person. You can count on the fingers, people you know of good akhlaq in this world. silman qata'a wa'fu amman zalamak wa'ahsinu ila man asa'a ilayk people who do good to others, even though who do bad to them. People who join ties with those who break away ties with them. People who forgive those who run just to them. He was one of those. You will not miss his Salah. You will meet everyone with good akhlaq who would help others out of need, and this way he would help them. But Allah took his soul away because our souls we have come from Allah we are returning back to Allah and this is the yakeen we have to constantly put in our hearts respected listeners. this is the time respected listeners all of us need to get closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has sent a major sign to all of us via this coronavirus. The signs cannot get more major than this for us in our lifetime respected listeners. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Meenah haditha fuqsi the report of Imam Bukhari Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says I declare war on a person who shows enmity to my friend. And then Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said a person gets closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala a person gets nearer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when he performs the farayah when he or she do not miss the fardh salah, they do not miss the Ramadan fasting, they do not skip the payment of the zakah, the only two and a half person Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling us to spend out of our savings at the end of the year whenever you want to calculate there is all Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants us to do and perform Hajj if you can afford when you do this Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said you attain the nearness to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and then if you want to attain more nearness to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and then when you perform the extra non obligatory prayers non obligatory acts of worship then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala starts loving you said Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam you not only become more closer and nearer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves you and then and then what happen if you love him you will hear him and see him and then when Allah loves you Allah becomes your years with which you hear Allah becomes your eyes with which you see Allah becomes your hands with which you strike Allah becomes your feet with which you walk and then if you ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah will grant it to you and if you ask protection from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah will give you that protection three things respected listeners to get closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not miss no matter what our salat respected listeners not miss our fasting not miss our zakah not miss our hajj if you can afford to do hajj and then increase our prayers increase our non obligatory prayers rabiya razi allahu ta'ala young sahabi and from the Ansar comes to Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he stands every night outside his house carrying the water pray is tahajjud sallam Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam ask me something I will make dua for you what do you want to ask rabiya razi allahu says o prophet of Allah make dua pray o prophet of Allah that I have your company if you want my company in paradise increase your prostrations increase your suju the non obligatory acts we increase that respected listeners we increase that to attain the closeness of Allah and then Allah becomes our eyes if Allah becomes our eyes how can we commit a sin with our eyes commit our sins with our hands if Allah becomes our hands how can we walk to places which displease Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he becomes our feed respected listeners Allah says I will protect you you come under my protection I will forgive your sins we make dua to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us among those when my heart says I should read at least one page of Quran right now we should read one page of Quran when you do that one of the names of Allah Allah will make us move ahead more closer to him more nearer to him more nearer to him respected listeners many thought of good deed comes from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we should do that if he postpones it, shaitan tells us always to postpone he doesn't tell us not to do it he tells us to postpone we should try to do it immediately and gain that nearness to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala


Welcome to Dispatches from India, a show by People's Dispatch where we bring you major news developments from the country over the past week. In this episode, we will be looking at a gas leak in the city of Vishakhapatnam that killed 11 people. We will also be looking at the continuing impact of the COVID-19 lockdown in Kashmir and a recent scandal which has exposed the patriarchal mindset in Indian society. Our first story is about the gas leak that took place in the south Indian city of Vishakhapatnam. The incident took place around 2.30 am on May 7th, Thursday. The gas that leaked from the plant of LG Polymer India Private Limited was tyreen, a poisonous substance which can cause cancer to those exposed to it. The leak took place during an attempt to reopen the plant after the COVID-19 lockdown. As the gas leaked, horrific incidents were reported from the villages near the plant. People began waking up, experiencing breathlessness and rushed out of their homes. Many collapsed on the road as mass panic broke out. Thousands rushed to hospitals. In a few hours, 11 people had died, including one minor. Hundreds were hospitalized. State agencies and military forces were pushed into the leak work. A compensation was announced for the families of the victims. The next day, India's National Green Tribunal announced a fine of over 66,000 US dollars on the company which is a subsidiary of the South Korean company LG. The incident brought back memories of the horrific Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, when thousands of people were killed following the leakage of the toxic gas methyl isocyanate. But what caused the gas leak? Experts say there were regulatory failures and not enough drills were conducted. News click spoke to D. Raghunandan of the Delhi Science Forum on this issue. Raghunandan, India's National Green Tribunal So there are a lot of questions that are emerging out of yesterday's incident. The most important question is that from what we know right now, has there been any gap in the security measures, has there been a gap in the safety measures that have been taken? Well, as of now, we don't know all the details, but some things we can definitely note. Styrene is normally stored as a liquid at minus 20 Celsius and it was stored in a fairly large tank. Now what seems to have happened is that the temperature control systems seem to have malfunction and the liquid then vaporized, got converted into vapor which has escaped from the tank in an explosive manner and has spread into the nearby areas. Now although literature says that this is not fatal in nature, but if concentrations are very high, like it would have been in the vicinity of the plant, then either directly by asphyxiation, by just suffocation or by overdose at very high levels of concentration, it can lead to fatalities. Now as for the leakage itself, I would have thought that before starting the operation of the plant, they should have been a preliminary safety drill or a safety audit conducted of the plant and a trial run done before full scale operations are started. Now we don't know exactly what was done, but it looks as if operation was commenced without a very rigorous safety drill or a trial run. And the other question is that should, is there any basic flaw in the way the plant is set up itself? For instance, it is set up very close to areas of residence, there are a number of hamlets in the vicinity and we do know that also a key water reservoir is just about 2 kilometers away from the plant. So does all this, is all this in some ways also quite dangerous? Well, it is dangerous and this is the deja vu time because it harts back to the Bhopal gas strategy and almost exactly what happened in Bhopal, the Union Carbide plant there when it was set up was outside the city limits, but the city gradually expanded so that the Union Carbide plant then became at the center of a population center, which was a very congested area. Very similar thing has happened in Vizag, when this plant was first set up quite some time back when it was known as Hindustan polymers, it was located in the suburbs of Vizag, but now the suburbs have become part of the city itself. So it is not that the plant was located in the middle of population centers, but population centers were allowed to expand right up to the vicinity of the plant. So in that sense, it is not a siting problem of the plant factory itself, but a siting problem of the city municipal authorities who have allowed population centers to come up to the plant vicinity, either that or the municipal authority should have told the plant to shift outside, but to allow population centers to come up in the vicinity of the plant is certainly dangerous. In our next story, we look at the COVID-19 situation in the country. As of 8 a.m. on May 9th, the total number of cases was 59,662 of these nearly 40,000 cases were active, over 1,980 people have died. The lockdown that was imposed on the midnight of March 25th continues in many parts of the country. In some areas, the lockdown has been eased. However, the fact that the number of cases continues to rise at a steady pace has left experts concerned. The economic impact of the lockdown continues to be seen in thousands of ways across the country. The situation is made worse by the fact that most governments have not put in place enough measures for the poor. In our continuing coverage of the lockdown's impact, we look at the situation of the drivers in Kashmir. Take a look at this feature video by Newsclick. How can Ali Mohammed summarise the loss of his livelihood, his work, since the overnight change that came in when the central government scrapped Article 370 in Jammu in Kashmir and turned it into a union territory? HUMC has been at least a year since last August that we had some work. Eight months later, the valley sees another lockdown. This time it is to stop the coronavirus pandemic from spreading in newer territories. Transport business is our only support. Tourists are not coming since lockdown was imposed last year. We taxi drivers have no other way to earn our livelihood. This coronavirus has further increased our plight. We have no earnings, our vehicles are all standing idle. We have no money to pay our loans. When we do not have enough money to run our households, how do we get money to pay the loans? As you can see, all the vehicles are just idle standing all around here. The government has imposed various kinds of taxes. We also have to pay insurance money which is minimum 30,000 rupees. How are we supposed to get this money? Our government should pay attention to our problems. We do not have enough to pay for our food. Lockdown may have saved people in one way but most of the people have no money to pay for their food. Government has made no arrangements to deal with all these problems. In our final story, we look at a major scandal that emerged last week called the Boys Locker Room issue. Boys Locker Room is the name of an Instagram group. The members of this group were mainly schoolboys from some of the most prominent institutions in India's capital, New Delhi. These children shared pictures of girls that engaged in very abusive language including discussions about gang rape. The existence of this group became public when one of the girls who was targeted found out about this and revealed the information on social media. The police acted quickly, questioning the boys and arresting one of the group's moderators who was above 18. The issue has raised a lot of questions on the role of patriarchy and violence in Indian society. Experts pointed out that this group cannot be seen in isolation. In fact, the behaviour of these boys is only a reflection of the larger issue of sexual violence in the Indian society. In this context, it is important to remember that violent and abusive language is used constantly by supporters of India's right-wing government against their opponents. After this incident happened, many experts recall the case of Safoora Zargarh, an activist and a critic of the government who was arrested recently. Right-wing trolls have been using very foul, violent and abusive language against her on social media. We talk to journalist Basha Singh on this issue. Basha, thank you so much for joining us. So the Boys Locker Room controversy has exposed a lot of issues about, shall we say, Indian society itself and the way we are organised, the kind of patriarchy that we see around us. But this in itself is not really an isolated incident. It is located in a larger context, the impact of which we see every day around us in multiple ways and especially online, especially when around the politics. So could you talk a bit about the larger context with reference to this issue? Yeah. Basically, how I see that this issue is anyhow the panic button for all of the civil society and especially for all the homes that how we are dealing with our youngsters, the next generation, what we are teaching them. I just want to take you to the case of the Safoora Zargarh. She is a student activist, very vocal activist against the movement which was going in the Jamia University, Jamia Miliya Islamia and she is now behind the bars and the police has made a case against her that she was involved in, Deli Royce and all that thing is being called. And now when she is in jail, she is being targeted by the great BJP leader, Kapil Mishra in Delhi and in a very abusive language. And from there till now, when we are talking also, you will find that there is bundle of tweets which is attacking her pregnancy. They are talking, they are just believing that it's a better to assassinate a character. So character assassination is going on of Safoora Zargarh and not a single voice from the ruling party, from the people who are attacking, no police action is being done. So you see that this is one of the recent case where we find that when there is an attack on woman dignity, her body, her pregnancy, everything. So there is almost a consciousness, everybody has collided together that we can do this and nobody is being held accountable for this. And at the same time, this boy's locker room case erupts. And I think that it was very good that these girls have shown so much guts to come in public and show us that what is going on across the thing. I'm not worried that what is going to happen to these 25, 22, now they are saying they are 51 and the interrogation is going on. But if you see the kind of text which they were dealing with and the kind of impunity they were enjoying with, and it's a horrifying thing that when these all chats were leaked in a social media on the Sunday, then immediately they made our next group. And in that next group, they were deciding, they were discussing that how they are going to abuse these girls. They were planning to release their nude photos. So that shows that this kind of impunity we have built, at least in the capital also, where these boys were claiming that my father is very powerful. I'm very well off. I'm studying here.  We have so far seen that there are many video games across the country and across the globe which deal with the rapes. So these boys are experiment now are into it. They are into a criminal act and they know by their environment, their surrounding that nobody is going to be held accountable.  So this is a horrifying incident. This is basically, this was going on across when we are, we find that Asarambapu. The people who are behind the bar, when we find that there are such a person, when we find Kuldeep Singh or when we find Chinmayanand. And their following is not being reduced a little bit. Their political patronage is not reduced a little bit. Then you see in that context, then you will find that basically the rulers of this country have been very systematically, they have been made this that if a rape is being done by a person in power, by a person of some religion, then there is a 100% impunity to it. That's what the boys were doing. And in so far, we are discussing about the, this locker's room, but we are not discussing about the Safoora Sagar. Why not those people who are abusing her, they are booked. That's all we have in this episode of Dispatches from India. We'll be back next week with some of the major news developments from the country. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.