On September 30, 2015, pension law was modernized in British Columbia. To harmonize BC with other jurisdictions in Canada, the province introduced financial hardship unlocking for pension funds, held in either a locked-in retirement account, known as LERAS, or a life income fund, known as LIFS. If you meet the requirements, hardship unlocking is now permitted under the new Pension Benefits Standards Act, PBSA. This video is designed to educate owners of LERAS or LIFS about the unlocking process. It is important to understand that you can only make one application annually under each of the five grounds described in this video. Let's get started. First, download the general application form called Application to Unlock British Columbia Funds due to financial hardship from the Financial Institutions Commission of BC's website. As the owner of the LERA or the LIFS, you must sign your application not more than 90 days before you make an application to the Financial Institution holding your locked-in vehicle. If you are married, your spouse must sign the waiver form in the presence of a witness, but outside your presence not more than 90 days before the date of the withdrawal of the funds. A copy of the spousal waiver form, Form 1, is also available on the Financial Institution Commission's website. Your withdrawal will be subject to taxes and may be subject to processing fees by your financial institution. If you are unsure about whether your financial institution is charging processing fees to unlock your pension, please talk to them directly before you attempt to unlock your funds. Understanding the application of early withdrawal taxes is very important. For example, if you want to withdraw $5,000 and the tax rate is 10% and no processing fees are charged by your financial institution, the total amount withdrawn will be $5,555.56. $555.56 will go to the Canada Revenue Agency, the CRA. You will receive $5,000, but your locked-in vehicle will be depleted by $5,555.56. Be aware also that the marginal rate of tax will increase. The larger the amount you expect to withdraw, the larger the amount of taxes you may have to pay, so be sure you understand the total amount of taxes that will be paid to the CRA as part of the unlocking process. In order to properly assess the impact of these charges, we advise getting either independent financial advice or consulting with your financial institution so that you withdraw the appropriate amount to meet your financial needs. Although your immediate financial needs may be your first priority, the withdrawal of funds for reasons of financial hardship may significantly affect your financial security and comfort in retirement. Under the new PBSA, there are now five grounds under which you can apply to unlock your locked-in funds. We will provide examples of how each of these work later, but for now, let's list them. Low income. You may unlock your lira or your lift if your expected income falls below a set amount. For closure. To avoid the foreclosure of your or your spouse's principal residence, you may be able to unlock to pay the amount of the mortgage in arrears and the associated legal fees. Eviction for rent in arrears. To avoid being evicted because of unpaid rent on your or your spouse's principal residence, you may be able to unlock the amount of the rent owing. First month's rent and security deposit. Your lira or lift may be unlocked in order to secure a new home for you or your spouse. You may be able to unlock the amount of your first month's rent and the security deposit or a pet damage deposit. Medical costs and renovations. The cost of medical expenses for you, your spouse, or dependents may be unlocked from your lira or lift if these expenses are not being covered by a medical plan or by another source. If a doctor approves, you may also be eligible to unlock funds to pay for renovations to your main home to help you or your spouse, or a dependent, better cope with an illness or disability. Let's talk more about the first grounds under which you can unlock. Low income. What is a low income? In order to make an application for a withdrawal under the low income exemption, your total income from all sources cannot exceed 66 and 2 thirds of the year's maximum pensionable earnings known as YMPE. The YMPE is the earnings on which contributions are made to the Canada Pension Plan. The YMPE for 2015 is $53,600, which means that you may be eligible to unlock your funds if you expect to earn less than $35,733 in the next 12 months or 66 and 2 thirds of the YMPE. The YMPE is adjusted each year, so the low income amount will also change each year. To verify the YMPE amount for the current year, please visit the Financial Institution's Commissions website. By law, the maximum low income amount that can be withdrawn is capped at $26,800. This is 50% of the YMPE. This amount is fixed under the Pension Benefits Standards Act and Regulation and cannot be exceeded. In order to withdraw your pension funds as part of your application, you will need to calculate your total expected income before taxes for the 12 months following the date on which your application is signed. So, how do you calculate this amount? To calculate the amount, include all of the income you expect to earn in the next 12 months from all sources, including employment earnings if applicable, employment insurance payments, life income fund payments, spousal support and payments received from any other source. If you are receiving payments and are unsure about whether or not they should be included as income, please contact the Canada Revenue Agency. If you do not expect to earn any income in the next 12 months, then put zero in the expected income line. Having calculated your expected income before taxes, multiply this number by 0.75, then subtract $26,800 from this number or 50% of the YMPE. The resulting amount is the amount that you can withdraw from your locked-in pension vehicle. In order to unlock your funds locked in a lira or a lift due to foreclosure, you must provide supporting evidence to the financial institution holding your lift or lira.  You cannot unlock your funds for any other residence you occupy. It must be a principal residence and you must be facing a foreclosure on the residence if the default is not rectified. It is important to note that this exception applies only to your or your spouse's principal residence. It does not apply to any recreational or rental property that you or your spouse may own. To qualify, you will need to provide a copy of the notice of foreclosure for the mortgage and arrears and the documents showing the amount of the mortgage in arrears owing to the financial institution or lending agency holding your or your spouse's mortgage. You may apply for the release of funds from your locked-in lira or lift if you or your spouse is facing the threat of eviction from your principal residence because rent is in arrears. This opportunity only applies to your principal residence. In order to qualify to unlock your funds, you must bring supporting evidence of your situation to the financial institution holding your lira or lift. You will need to bring a copy of the notice of eviction for your or your spouse's rent in arrears and documents showing the amount of rental arrears owing by you or your spouse. You may also apply to unlock funds to secure a new principal residence for you or your spouse. In this case, you may apply the funds to pay for the first month's rent, security deposit, or pet damage deposit required to be paid to secure your principal residence or the principal residence of your spouse. To unlock the funds, you will need to provide proof by showing a copy of the relevant lease rental agreement and supporting documents showing the deposit required to secure a new residence such as documents showing your first month's rent, security deposit, or pet damage deposit. In order to help you or your spouse or a dependent better cope with an illness or disability, you can apply to unlock pension funds to cover medical costs under the new PBSA. Medical costs include renovations to your home, dental and orthodontic costs. You can claim these costs for yourself, your spouse, or a dependent. In order to qualify, you must demonstrate that you, your spouse, or your dependent's costs or potential costs cannot be paid by any other means and are not being reimbursed by any other source. These medical expenses are those that have been incurred or will be incurred in the one year period following the date on which the application for withdrawal is signed. In order to apply for the coverage of medical costs, you will need to take the following documents to your financial institution holding your funds. A medical certificate from your medical practitioner affirming that medical treatment is required to treat your illness, your spouse's illness, or your dependent's illness or disability. You can claim expenses that have been incurred or will be incurred. Also provide a copy of the receipts for or an estimate of the expenses that you or they have or will incur. We hope that you have found this video helpful. If you do not qualify to unlock your lira or your lift for reasons of financial hardship, you may qualify under the four exceptions that have been carried over from the previous legislation. Small locked-in pension amounts, age 65 and total pension entitlement, non-residency in Canada for tax purposes, and shortened life expectancy. Please see the corresponding video on FICOM's website for more information on these unlocking exceptions. Thank you for watching.


You think it's more real for me to go sly for my brother or take her as kids and raise him up to be millionaires? That's real. That's real. That's real. Second one? Second one? That's real. That's real. You know what's real. Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101. Even there, it's like, bro, I just think different, like I told you, I used to argue with him about this, so like, you answer this question. You think it's more real for me to go sly for my brother or take her as kids and raise him up to be millionaires? That's real. That's real. Second one? You're going to raise him up and be... No, you know what's real.  For your kids? For the kids. Right.  That's because of what these people tell them. That's because a mother can make you feel like you're supposed to do that. Not knowing... I don't know. I don't know. I've been through this all my life. I know n**** sitting in there. Not knowing that, like, bro, if I do go sly, if a n**** do go sly, damn, my brother kids need to get to a girl. My kids need to get to a girl. If I go to jail, I need to be good to a girl. And the only person that's going to do that is my mom. She ain't going to go sly, like, for real. So what you talking about, like, it depends on where you come from and what you come on the line. I come on some real n****s who are really living like that, like, really doing it.  And that's the n****s I slip up, like, you know, that's different. But, like, you know, I'm my brother's keeper for sure. And the funny thing, a lot of people know that because we hear people say all the time, but they still do crazy stuff. Why? It's society. It's come... I got to keep saying, like, it come from... That's why I'm trying to put something different. I'm really trying to put something different because I ain't trying to be like a preacher who's no... Who's like, you know how n****s be preaching, but they ain't living like what they preaching. I ain't trying to do that.   Like, if a n****, if a n**** wasn't slyin' and the internet didn't care about who was slyin' and what it wouldn't be talked about.  Like, n****s do that. N****s don't want to get beat up on camera because they don't want to look like that. N****s dying because they don't want to look like no hoe because high look.  You know what I'm saying? But if you really own some gangsta time, you slyin' back there. If you really think, like, if you're the... I'm gonna take care of the kids. You can't do both. You can't do all three for real. You got to do something. And this one, everybody coming to play.  I don't trust n****s because, like, you know, three one of them. Like, if it was anybody else, three head first out here, so it was like, I see that. Like, what I look like for real. Like, my n****s, my n****s. Like, we gonna do whatever for each other.  I don't care about that. I went down to New Orleans a few weeks ago because of the documentary that came out on Soldier Slim. Yeah. And I went and interviewed those guys. I interviewed the sister, the son, he come here and me and him real cool. Yeah. And they had some different things they felt about Latham and what happened on their episode. I just want to ask you, how did you feel about you guys' episode? The documentary. And the documentary. And did you feel like it was everything you thought it would be? Nah, it ain't what I thought it was going to be. I'm going to say that. And then, for two, I'm going to say it was good for my mom and them. I liked it.  It was cool. I won't watch it again, though. That's it. You were just able to see it before it actually came out to the air. And just kind of knew it was going to happen, but like. But it didn't show you the documentary before it came out. What did you not like about it? You got to say. I just don't like how they, they ain't really take care of who they put on there. So they picked some of the wrong people to put on there? They ain't picked the wrong people. They just could have picked better people, if they make sense. Like, you going to tell the story, like, you know, at least, you know, at least make it make sense. But like, I don't know. I don't want to be on there. Who did they leave off? Huh? Who did? Who would you like to see on there? There's nothing wrong with saying it.  All I'm saying is I don't know if y'all tapped into the, to the M.O.3 story. If y'all know how far the story go back. I'm saying this. I'm cotton could have been on it. You know what I'm saying? Real life could have been on it. Like it's just people like that, that's like they really, prophecy could have been on it. You know what I'm saying? Like they, that's what I said. I agree with that. They did right. I know some people could have swapped out with some real people that could have gave y'all, you know, but it's like it's TV and I understand that's the thing. Like I ain't tripping for real cause I understand what they was on. Like, but it's just me personally. I ain't promoting it. Like here we ever gonna do this? Cause I know like if I put my stamp on it, I'm saying it's true.


Okay. Let's quickly go on again. So back to Ukraine, as you might know, probably know, in a, oops, what did I do there? In a, I guess, a meeting with high-level donors, Biden said something like, you know, we're closer to Armageddon now than we have been in any point in time since the Cuban Missile Crisis. And you know, that might be true. I'm not sure we were that close to Armageddon during the Cuban Missile Crisis, but yes, there hasn't really been a nuclear crisis, a global nuclear crisis since then. Although one could argue that Yom Kippur won 1973, I think, I think the U.S. had nukes in the air. Israel certainly had nukes in the air. Russia was intense because Russia was supporting the Arabs, the U.S. supporting Israel, and there was a little bit, everybody was on, pins and needles. And in those days, I think we weren't talking about tactical nukes in Ukraine. We were talking about Russia, U.S. annihilating each other.  I mean, I know Joe Biden doesn't quite realize this, but maybe somebody should whisper in his ear that he is the president of the United States of America, that his job is not to scare the bejesus out of people. It's not to terrify people, particularly not if he wants to continue supporting Ukraine. But it's actually to calm things down. It's not to spur Putin on. It's not to reveal our strategic options. It's actually to calm things down and to actually plan with his military generals to plan for how to make sure that we don't achieve nuclear armageddon. That is that even if the Russians use a tactical nuke, how do we A, try to encourage them, encouraging, quote, not to use the tactical nuke and B, even if they do use the tactical nuke, how do we make sure that doesn't turn into a humanity ending global armageddon? Instead, he tells them, yeah, we're close to them again. They use tactical nuke. We could be a damn again. And that is unhelpful.  Instead, what he could do is say, look, I'm drawing a red line. And this is a red line. We, the United States, as the most powerful military on planet Earth, is drawing. We as right now, the guarantor of security in Europe is drawing as a NATO, as the leader of NATO is drawing. And that is, we will not accept the use of nuclear weapons in Europe. If nuclear weapons are used, that would be a declaration of war against NATO, but that would be more than that. Not only would Putin have written a death warrant on himself, but everybody in the line of command, everybody in the chain of command in Russia associated with this decision, everybody from congressmen to military leaders who are associated with the decision to use a nuclear weapon in this war will be, you know, will be a war criminal and will be open season for assassination. Every single one of you. We will not tolerate this. Now that is strength. That is kind of a Ronald Reagan, you know, evil empire. You will not do this if you do.  And it doesn't mean, and you could even say, we're not going to nuke Moscow. There's a lot of innocent people in Moscow. We don't think it should suffer from this, but Putin, look right into the camera, Putin, you're a dead man.  I think that would stop them. They don't want to die. They don't want to die. So anyway, that would be what I would do. I'm not president of the United States. Joe Biden is, but I don't think he realizes it quite, or at least you forget sometimes.  And these people, they don't think strategically. This is one of the great fallacies of foreign policy, American foreign policy. Since World War II, I do not think the United States has had a foreign policy strategy. I don't think we've had presidents capable and competent enough to actually think strategically. Think strategically.  And you unlikely to ever have to do it. Again, don't have to invade any place in order to do it. First of all, you destroy every piece of Russian equipment that's in Ukraine today. You could do that by air. You could do that within days. The NATO Air Force would absolutely demolish the entire Russian military that's in Ukraine. And in Russia, but, you know, if you don't want to attack Russia itself, you could just stick it to Ukraine.  Imagine what an F-22 and F-35 would do to that bridge. One, play. I mean, that bridge would be gone. It would be, you know, it would be complete in rubble if the United States decided to do that. So, no, I mean, you don't have to invade Russia. You don't have to inflict so much pain on them and describe that pain in detail in advance so that, you know, it just wouldn't exist. This idea, I mean, the Russian military is a paper tiger. Always has been, was in the days of the Soviet Union, certainly is in the days of Russia under Putin. It's a paper tiger. It's a nothing entity. And our president needs to stand up and say that and project strength and project certainty and project commitment and draw red lines. Draw red lines. So, and look, Russia's poor. Russia's getting poorer. 60,000 plus Russians already dead in this war. You just articulate and spell out what would happen without being vague, without Armageddon. Armageddon means we're going to launch against, I mean, really, spell it out in detail. And it will, you know, they will back down. They will not use tactical moves. They do not want to. All right.   Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to Iran book show dot com slash support by going to Patreon, subscribe star locals, and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those, any one of those channels. 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On May 31st, 2020, thousands of people filled the streets of Athens, Georgia to protest the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. This was one of the largest demonstrations in Athens history energized by the spirit of revolution that was sweeping the country. Poles estimate between 15 and 26 million people participated nationwide, and they were successful at achieving some of their objectives, but at a cost. Up to 30 people may have lost their lives in connection to the protests. Over 14,000 people have been arrested, mostly for low-level offenses like curfew violations. In Minneapolis, business owners claim over $500 million in property damage. Despite the protests being entirely peaceful in most areas, 32,000 National Guard troops have been activated nationwide as of June 9th. Without exaggeration, it's clear that these protests are one of the most significant events in modern American history. Today, I'm going to focus on one small part of these protests, which is the violent police overreaction here in Athens on the night of May 31st. We'll find out what really went down, what the police said about it, and how we can stop this kind of overreaction from happening in the future. First, let's take a look at the facts of what happened. On May 31st, at 5 p.m., Black organizers in town, including Commissioner Mariah Parker, called for a march for a world without cops. The protests began at the courthouse in downtown Athens. From there, they took to the streets, marching to College Square where speakers, including Mayor Kelly Gertz, stood atop the Confederate monument to address the crowd, which by this point numbered between 1,500 and 2,000 people, according to police. The protest was entirely peaceful, although at around 7.30 a small group of boogaloo extremists, armed with rifles, made a brief appearance as the protest was winding down. It's unclear what they were trying to accomplish, but this is the only time anyone reported as having seen them. By all accounts, they left the scene before dark, as did most of the crowd. But about 1-200 people stayed put hanging out around the Confederate monument, which some of them defaced with spray paint. APN examined the scene at the monument around 9 p.m., when the National Guard was already mobilizing. Most of the protesters remaining were of college or even high school age. A quick note about this footage, this is from a channel called 1990 Views, I'll link it in the description, and you really should check out the full video over on that channel. And this footage is from the downtown security cameras. It was provided by ACCPD. Around 9.40 p.m., ACC Assistant Manager DeBoro Loneham declared a state of emergency and a curfew downtown, making the gathering around the monument illegal. At that time, four different military and police agencies coordinated to surround protesters on all sides. At midnight, ACCPD gave the official order to disperse through a drone flying overhead. Some protesters left, although most stayed put, locking arms in a defensive formation as the police started to close in. Then, in the words of Chief Sprule, I made the decision to utilize gas as a final attempt to get the crowd to disperse, without having to use higher levels of force. Before police fired canisters of smoke and tear gas at protesters, no protester behaved violently towards police, although they did throw water bottles in their general direction and set off fireworks. Regardless of Sprule's wishes, the police did use high levels of force. Rubber bullets or bean bag rounds were fired at protesters, specifically those who tried to snuff out tear gas canisters or kick them back at police. At this point, remaining protesters either fled to a nearby building under construction or sat down where they were and awaited arrest. Nineteen people were arrested in total, and all, I believe, were released the next day. No weapons were found on protesters or at the scene. Let's be clear. This was an unprovoked assault on Athenians exercising their First Amendment right to assembly. While yesterday was mainly very positive, there were some elements that were dangerous and challenging. Beyond those individuals that were visible, there was an element that was not visible that was behind the scenes. And our department had very strong intelligence that after the demonstration, we needed to clear downtown for the safety of the individuals who live there and frequent there and for people's workplaces. On June 1st, ACCPD issued a press release saying that many of the protesters occupying the area around the Confederate Monument appeared to belong to a violent extremist group. This is, as you can see, a lie. At a press conference on July 31st, police changed their story on this. They now say they merely saw indications that, quote, suggested the presence of extremists, such as one protestor out of roughly 200 wearing a Hawaiian shirt. They also said they saw protesters carrying heavy backpacks into a tent at the center of the protest area. Could they be stockpiling bricks or other tools of destruction? Once police cleared the area, Chief Spruill said that they did find, quote, stacks of bricks inside tents that we believe the group was planning to use to throw at officers or damage buildings. This was also untrue, which was admitted by police at the press conference. What were they doing with the tent? Was that like a medical triage kind of situation? Or? I don't know exactly. Everything they were doing with the tent, we weren't sure what it was. It's kind of an unknown threat at that time, is my understanding. As you can see in the video, at one point one of the officers moved the tent, the pier did not have anything significant in it at length, so I don't know anything else beyond that. Regarding Mayor Gerst's statement that they had strong evidence they needed to clear downtown to protect businesses there, this appears also to have been mostly inaccurate. How do I know? Well first, if protesters were keen on smashing windows, they could have done that any night for the past two months. There have been many protests in Athens since May 31st, but to date, no property here has been destroyed related to them. But let's take a look at the events of May 31st from the perspective of police, so you can decide for yourself if you feel their actions were justified. In a stand in solidarity with protesters in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston, Detroit, Louisville, Kentucky, Brooklyn, Atlanta, and those who will be gathering here at Athens as they use whatever means necessary to make their voices heard and demand justice for Mod Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and the countless victims of police violence and systemic racism in this country. Before the protest on May 31st even started, police were already concerned that it would get out of hand. In Athens, police were monitoring the social media feeds of organizers and groups they classified as extremist. They were also monitoring the feeds of people who were not involved with protest organizing. After George Floyd's murder, many Athenians were of course angry and were not always careful with how they expressed their anger. But police took every outburst very seriously and became very concerned about police took every outburst very seriously and became progressively alarmed and frightened of their own community. This letter from a traumatized black queer activist was circulated before and during the May 31st protest and was read by police with concern. Other people began to share stories about past violence they suffered at the hands of police. One such story went viral and caught police attention. Next we have Commissioner Mariah Parker's statement of solidarity with the nationwide protests. The police were paying attention and they were not happy about it. Even this completely harmless tweet by an Atlanta socialist group seemed to cause panic at police headquarters. Because the group is based in Atlanta, police labeled them outside agitators. Never mind that they aren't outsiders or agitators at all. Both members of the party of socialism and liberation who attended the rally live in Athens and they left well before dark. Never mind the fact that the people posting stories of police violence were not involved in the protest organizing. Never mind that the actual organizers had no violent intentions and never encouraged violence. Mariah Parker wanted to promote her plan to reduce police funding. She didn't want to break windows, but it seems that everyone involved became a suspect for a crime that hadn't happened yet. As chief's rule became more and more worried about the possibility that the coming protest might turn destructive, he reached out to state authorities for help. That's when the National Guard was activated. He also asked the local government for an emergency declaration and curfew before the protest even started. He was denied at that time by D'Borolonin who thought there wasn't enough evidence to justify a curfew. She was right, of course, but police had also received reports that members of the Boogaloo movement would show up, as they did. Now they are extremists, and their presence armed with rifles was certainly agitating to everyone nearby. That included the police. The presence of Boogaloo confirmed the department's pre-event intelligence concerning extremist groups and elevated the threat assessment at that time. When they arrived on scene it seemed to confirm everything police had been worried about. From then on they started interpreting normal behaviors like wearing a backpack or a respirator during a pandemic as potentially threatening. Now protestors were preparing to protect themselves from potential police violence, there's no doubt about that. Apparently they were right to do so. After the Boogaloo arrived, assistant manager Lonin finally agreed to declare a curfew. This was the first in a series of small decisions that led to the police turning violent. The second happened when the National Guard informed Chief Sprule that they would be pulling out a little after midnight. Sprule was fearful that he wouldn't be able to maintain control if the National Guard pulled out. Those assets were needed elsewhere. My officers did not have the training and did not have the equipment that was necessary to be effective in that kind of an environment. And so rather than waiting longer, we decided that we were going to disperse at that time. Since he believed the crowd was about to start breaking windows, setting fires and potentially even attacking police officers, he felt he had no choice but to disperse the crowd while he still could. The third decision in this series of events involved how the crowd would be pushed out of downtown. One option could involve approaching the protesters and arresting everyone who refused to leave. But that's not what Sprule chose to do. Our objective was not to arrest people, our objective was to get people to leave. When police saw protesters forming ranks and linking arms, they realized they would be difficult to remove without using tear gas. ACCPD aren't trained on how to handle a group of people like that who choose to resist arrest. They also feared that some protesters might fight back. They were imagining officers being hit with bricks and they were also worried that some protesters might have guns. Covert operatives say they did see that some protesters had firearms, although ACCPD hasn't presented any proof of that. If protesters fought back, they would be shot or clubbed with a baton. Of course, this is a completely paranoid scenario. We're talking about unarmed high school and college students. If any protester had a gun and wanted to go out in a blaze of glory, my guess is that they would have done that regardless of the method police chose to clear the area. But that didn't happen. So, the decision was made to use tear gas. And that decision led straight to the next one, which was to shoot protesters with rubber bullets. And hey, if you believe those tear gas canisters were the only thing stopping an all-out brawl or potentially even a gunfight from breaking out, you're going to protect them. And that's what they did. Any protester who interfered with the canisters was shot.  So, that's how it happened. One decision led to another and another, and finally to potentially deadly force being used against regular people who weren't doing anything besides standing in the road. This was an irrational response disconnected from the reality of what was actually happening. And unfortunately, they didn't come to their senses afterward either. You may not have heard this, but Chief Sprule asked for another curfew which would have canceled the AADM protest held a few days later. Sprule's reasoning? He was freaked out by a public art project. Yeah, there's an artist in town who likes to paint railroad spikes to look like colorful little characters and they're scattered around town as public art. They have nothing to do with the protest. But for some reason, the police thought they were pre-staged weaponry. And I'm not kidding, Sprule wanted to cancel AADM's protest. I mean, is Sprule okay? Does he need help? Thankfully, the manager's office saw things differently and declined to grant him the curfew. And nothing happened, of course. I mean, this must be so embarrassing for them. I'm embarrassed. And yet, police are using this shameful and embarrassing chapter in their history as a reason why they should get more funding. They want to buy an LRAD soundcan and to use against protesters next time. I don't know what to say. I wish I could end this on a more positive note. But the truth is, the police have completely lost all credibility with me. 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Hey, welcome to this vlog. We're talking about the Tilburg Educational Profile Of course, they've released a new profile talking about knowledge skills and character and a research paper was actually Underlying that so we have Sunday here a student from Liberia student of economics And we're going to post some quotes from that paper and see what Sunday has to say to that So thank you for coming. Thank you very much So let's see so the first quote that actually popped out is just in general an international learning environment Is a must and you mentioned that you actually believed in that importance. Can you expand on that a little bit? Yeah, an international environment is a must because It is important to have across sections of people from diverse partner We have had some level of experience we'll have some level of endowment that Individuals can easily share their benefits from so if you have an international environment that is conducive That is attractive Incorporate people from diverse background It creates an opportunity to have a free flow of exchange of ideas and views that everyone can benefit from And it can be of use in the future So it is actually good and that's everything I really want. It was this before they came to have an institution as International oriented, so it is a must So another quote from the paper still university students has to become thinkers of character people who do right So what do you think about that? Yeah, I 100% believe the fact and I'm a fan of the last one most especially because You can acquire the education you can have the skills you have the knowledge But in the absence of a part of the character Absolutely, you're incomplete because character Are they a character of those quality that you find us as him or me and character concepts a lot of people in integrity accountability on this day self-sacrifice All the things constant I mean like being courageous Dating all the things constitute a character of an individual So even if you have the skills you have the education they know that you can get a job Of course, but in order to stay on that job in terms of your career So when I graduate hopefully I want to go back to the universal To be able to provide my services to teach the knowledge I acquired We'll pass it on to all people so that it can be a useful they can be also useful in society So I hope I mean to be a humanitarian I hope to be a philanthropist and I hope to be an educator to make all the people out of poverty It's very key serious