Hello, in this lecture we will define betterments. According to fundamental accounting principles, Wild 22nd edition, the definition of betterments is expenditures to make a plant asset more efficient or productive, also called improvements. When we're thinking of betterments, we're typically thinking of property plant and equipment, those longer lived assets, those typically depreciable assets, assets that will be put on the books as an asset and then depreciated over the useful life in accordance with the matching principle. For example, if we had our forklift here, we would put the forklift on the books as an asset, then depreciated over its useful life. When we're thinking about betterments, we can compare that to a normal expenditure, a normal expenditure like repairs and maintenance would just be expensed at the time it was done. As opposed to a betterment, a betterment, if we were to completely re-innovate this forklift, we put a whole new forklift together, a new engine in it, possibly we make the forklift capable of doing a job that it was not doing before, those would be types of betterments and betterments rather than being expensed at the time of the betterment will need to be put on the books as an asset and then depreciated in a similar way as the original purchase, that being because the asset now has a longer life and or a new purpose to it and therefore should be treated in accordance with the matching principle by putting the cost on as an asset and then depreciating it as it is used.


can I start? Hello everyone. Here is the home region of Japanese non-profit organization GO2SOS. Can you see a meeting with Dorm on the roof? This is the real size museum in Japan, Saipir. I have many remote classrooms for children at Saipir. About whales and dolphins, space exploration and astronomy, Earth and life evolution, and use their world and climate change. We are sending out the climate change portal where people can learn about science spaces of climate change for ESD, Education for Sustainable Development. This is Gauga, the famous painting. Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? This is the same approach with climate change research. So I designed this portal the same way. First floor is learning from past and present. Second floor is future prediction and impact. And third floor is action for the future sustainable development. And there are many graphs. Graph is difficult for children and two-dimensional graph doesn't need 3D space. So it is better to teach them in real classroom and teacher. But there is virtual space has an advantage that graphs can be arranged in unlimited 3D space to find each relation easily. And let's start learning from past. This is residential. So this is global advantage. Can you see the red arrow? Pretty focused on. And this is global advantage temperature, average temperature in the past 170 years. Here is high heat. Few years ago someone said global warming is a fake. Climate will go into a racial period in corresponding with the decrease of solar activity. Solar activity is now decreasing. But now we can see the temperature rising is continue. And Hageitas is one of the temperature stagnation like this. So next graph. This is the northern hemisphere average temperature in the past 2000 years. And colorful lines are past temperature reconstruction using proxy data like drill rings, ice core, coral reef from particles in the lake sediment. We can see warm period here in the middle age about 1000 years ago. And cool period in the little ice age about several hundred years ago. But after industrial revolution, black line is observation data and temperature is increasing so steeply. The steepness is very problem. So please look above these graphs here and here. These are solar activity. Until 1950, so temperature change looks like corresponding with solar activity. So high activity and high temperature and low activity is cool period. And increasing solar activity corresponding temperature rise. But last 50 years, last 50 years, the temperature is rising in spite of decreasing solar activity. So warming looks certainly enough. And then warming is not always bad things. But there is concerning data. So please look at these graphs. So this is number of natural disasters in the past 39 years. Red color, can you see? So is earthquake and blue cano number. And green color and blue color and yellow are weather related disasters. So green is flooding, blue is storm, tibia storm. And yellow is extreme high temperature. These weather related disasters are apparently increasing. Of course, number of disasters will partly increasing in corresponding with expansion of human living area. And but so this is so new hand reassurance company's data. Very good data. But so I'm sorry. So again, a number of disasters will partly increase in corresponding with expansion of human living area. But red color, number of earthquake and volcano increase a little. In comparison, weather related disasters are increasing apparently. From this graph, world insurance companies realize that they need to determine their insurance ratio in considering with climate change. Is your relationship between hematological event and hydrological event? So the direct proof of realization is difficult. So insurance company is proof by data. And so for me, 64 years of Japanese, global warming is apparently because past comfortable spring and autumn were gone from present Japan and typhoon past shifting east. So that is next graph. This chart is recent change of water fire from 2003 to 2014. Only 11 years comparison.  So you know, California recent fire well so and in Australia. So increasing is at the east coast. So I think more recent long dry season in Australia is inter seasonal inter seasonal inter year change or decay of change in variation due to the natural variation. And yes, so eukary tree eukary tree can easily burn. And so next corner is a shield level in the long history of the earth. But first graph is so 800,000 the greater integration cycle. So black line is recent observation data. So prominent high so and blue line above graph. Can you see very high blue line above graph is extent of future CO2 level in corresponding with CO2 emission scenarios. So like so a 100 years prediction and each of each scenario extension is blue blue line. So question cycle is due to change of earth orbit parameters mainly in 40,000 years and 100,000 years. So he said that 400,000 years ago, yeah, is resemble with current days. One period is long enough. So and we only start only a period. And so don't worry about coming racial period soon or at least 1000 years 1000 years racial period don't come. So next graph next is three point million years in human ancestors history. So human ancestor explained current temperature here. But but future prediction blue line is extraordinary high in this history. So in any way so blue blue lines is very high and unmanaged future CO2 level can be same order of cretaceous age 100 million years ago dinosaurs were walking and green house earth without polar ice seat and 250 meters sea level rise and one third of land radio was sank. So we can explain such world by teleport using this panel. But but today we'll pass the answer. Please visit later. The place trigger region is very good science region. They reconstruct not only dinosaur but also vegetation. So next is learning from present earth. We can visit various unknown nature for climate change. This is a teleporter to the field study center at bonus. You can touch the then so explanation and teleport URL shown in nearby chat. Field study center at the bonus made by National Institute of Education Singapore. So there are coral breach simulator and mangrove ecosystem and earthquake simulator was any exhibit so this bit later. So this region is constructed based on a checks running a particular design framework. So learning by being so and learning by collaborating and exploring and building a championing and uh expressing presentation by presentation or liberty social media. So this is a very very similar idea of our teacher training tower. And so also please visit field study center later. And this panel is teleported to the coastal coastal habitat created by the lake. Drifting polar bear and kelp forest and mangrove forest and coral reef all are vulnerable for climate change. But we will also pass today. And here present earth observation and modern. So today I'll show you new exhibit of present earth from space and it's teleported. So I'll type in nearby chat. So please click this URL please teleport. So can you see around? It takes time to read the textures. Can you see? And you need to set auto play immediate play. Oh here is uh here is 3500 sky of the observatory. Uh jeez wait a moment wait a moment that's okay. So jeez boxes are as assimilator of jam stick Japan agency of marine and science technology in Yokohama institute where I am working working. Then so come here please. If you can please focus on uh earth behind me. We can see present earth by satellite observation directly. But simulation using the data shows earth different earth which cannot be observed by directly. But first earth is a satellite data which is most similar with true color from space. So resolution becomes four fold than before. Uh please look opposite side of the earth and there are night side. It is winter now so north pole region is under polar night. Can you see north pole region uh using uh camera and uh art key and mouse click left click. Can you see? Look down from north pole. North pole region is under polar night. And please look opposite side downside is uh Arctic region. Arctic continent is under midnight sun. Please so to teach seasonal variation of vegetation and white plankton it is need to teach polar night and midnight sun. Then so move to second earth. Please look at behind uh earth look behind me. This uh earth display is ocean current and sea surface temperature. So ocean current can't be observed by satellite sensors directly. So this is uh simulation data calculated by the earth simulator. This uh current pattern is resemble with uh atmospheric current of jupiter. So can you see jupiter beneath the earth? So you can find uh current pattern resemble. And next third earth can you see uh green earth behind me. This is this use uh media shared media. So you need to auto please auto media place. So this earth shows vegetation and uh white plankton 10 years seasonal change. Green colors uh means chlorophyll 2 observed by satellite sensors. Please look down from north pole using so art key and mass click. In summer very large area of northern hemisphere becomes green and due to midnight sun and long daylight. And in winter becomes white and due to polar night and short daylight. So change of green and white is so dramatically. So please remember.  Come please can you see this earth behind me. So this uh earth is also shared media. Maybe you you see the uh sun. So this and this shows various earth using numerical model just five of NASA good earth specified center. So that is a console and select uh data so you can see various earth. So don't touch from now. I I operate this a console now don't touch. So now I choose shields carbon dioxide. Then can you can you see carbon dioxide installation of seasonal change. So this this is a short construction in one year. So now is uh January February. You can see China. So please use your camera. So China uh emitting lots of CO2. So the emission per population of China is half of USA. But uh per population is six-fold of USA. So China emit very much of a lot of CO2 emission. And China depends on coal coal very much. So CO2 emission is 30 percent higher than all. So now please remark uh North Sun hemisphere. So she is in the summer July and August. So no almost low North Sun hemisphere CO2 concentration is really low. On the opposite side uh southern hemisphere is rather increasing. Why now uh October. So uh short construction concentration is increasing again. The increasing of December November and December very very high density at North Sun hemisphere. So why does CO2 in North Sun hemisphere disappeared in summer. So please type in nearby chat. Touch console now. Yes mic yes plant use of CO2. Uh reason is due to vegetation uh photosynthesis absorbed CO2. So uh children can realize how human are emitting CO2 so much. And also children can realize how vegetation can um absorbed and affecting for or Earth's environment. So do you have any question until now. So cast cast the question how how long does you have to calculate this thing with your computer. So very easy. I use YouTube of NASA. So very quickly only 10 seconds. So but maybe NASA Goddard Space Flight Center uh use computer supercomputer. Choose five. Take a long time. I don't know. But the display on the sphere is very easy. Returns uh let's return to climate change portal. So I type uh it's a URL in nearby chat. So please come back to uh climate changing portal. And uh I think so beautiful and sad. But please so we need to wait until textures uh the reading. Can you see around graph again. Okay so please go upstairs. Here come on. Oh oh very severe for my PC. Everyone okay. Can you read uh graphs again. Here is a future prediction and impact. So please look at this graph behind me. Right. So please uh uh focus on uh red arrow here behind me. So this graph shows uh temperature prediction for next 18, 85 years. Of course uh prediction uh depend on future short emission scenarios. So like this. So there is four scenario. RCP 2.6 and RCP 4.5, RCP 6.0 and RCP 8.5. So and most blue line of lower graph is uh most desirable prediction. So represent representative concentration pathway RCP 2.5. But this scenario uh is please look upper graph uh needs considerable effort to realize zero short emission until uh about 2050. And uh red prediction is uncontrolled future. So RCP 8.5 of upper graph. Here President Trump says uh this prediction uh is uh fake. So global warming theory is a fake. I don't know we can teach children why the theory is global warming theory is true. Because it is impossible for children to read and understand more than a thousand pages of IPCC assessment report. But uh these are minimum panels to teach how to predict global change. Or do you know uh low rents calcium or or butterfly effect? Please click this panel behind me. Uh play button. Yes yes strange effect. Um click start button so the button become red and click again. Then so movie will start. So low rents find these strange attractors. And so right right left is so random. But but the trajectory is uh focused gradually two point. So maybe you know a single weather forecasting result changes largely by slight difference of initial condition. So long range forecast is difficult. But uh we can indicate the range of possible future by many forecast calculation. It is said as ensemble forecast. So I show you example. So can you see this panel behind me? Okay so this is nine month forecast of El Nino event. X is observation and yellow chic line is ensemble means of 17 models. So there's many lines for 47 17 line is each prediction of each model and chic yellow line. Can you find chic yellow line is ensemble means of 17 models. So in all mode cases observation and ensemble mean is well coincided. Except in super El Nino event in 2015. One of the decadal natural variation. But scientists think multi-model ensemble is useful for 20 years or 50 years long prediction. Yes, George. Yes, I sense. So I've fallen. So please look up graph behind me. So this next graph here. Please look up behind me. So upper graph is uh is top is a radiation forcing volcanic. So this is volcanic effect. And the middle is solar activity. So the middle is warm middle age and cool electrolytes age. And the lower line is greenhouse gas effect in the past one thousand and the two hundred and fifty years. Lower graph red line. The line are simulated by multi-model. So many models. And gray zone is reconstructed temperature change. So red line and gray zone is almost fitting. It means volcano sun activity and greenhouse gas effects are adequately considered in many models. Then next graph is so in same condition of these panels. The predictions are estimated by about 40 models in the world. So please look precisely. So red line is so non-control emission, CO2 emission. And blue line, you can see blue lines are so controlled CO2 emission. So that is why a climate change prediction is adequately estimated. But I don't know President Trump to understand my explanation. So next this corner, I said warming is not always a bad thing. So impact for human society and ecosystem by global warming are next question. So upper graph, please see red arrow. This is future tropical storms. Up by the number of tropical storms decreasing almost around the area. And only this part is number is increasing so ocean. But please look at lower graph here. This is the number of severe tropical storms. Number of severe storms are increasing near Japan and west coast of North America. And happy to say for another region, so severe storms also decreasing. So already such a tendency, it's severe storms increasing for Japan is appeared in decent Japan. Also lower graph is the global forest fire increasing at 1.5 degrees C warming. So Australia is increasing very much. And India and Brazil, South America, please focus this graph. This chat, last chat is about ecosystem adaptation. So each column, so tree and grass and animals and small animals, monkeys and insects. And so this column is so maximum speed and so average speed across the land of each species.  So if weather temperature is rising, so each species will move to the each habitable, suitable habitat. So warming global temperature rise, so each species will move to north. And the horizontal lines blue is the line shows speed of temperature across land of each CO2 emission scenario. So uncontrolled scenarios, so speed of temperature is very high. So many species can't adapt. So only RCP 2.6, this means so 1.5 degree warming scenario. So only RCP 2.6 can avoid severe extinction. So this is a major reason why scientists think global warming of 1.5 degrees C is essential target. So go to third floor. Here is action for the future. So this panel behind me shows a phosphate limiting 1.5 degrees C warming. So Greta Thunberg talked about this at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York on September 2019. So this report is very difficult to read, but Greta is very nice interpretation. So you can understand, read, ask the stand to buy, watch YouTube of Greta speech, then read IPCC special report on 1.5 degree warming. And lower YouTube is present Trump statement in 2017 about exit from police accord for climate change. Watching both speech is very interesting. So please watch later. Then last corner, adaptation. I'll talk about relation between climate change and 70 SDGs, so sustainable development goals. So pink frame, this and this and this is so relating with vulnerable countries for nature disasters, natural disasters, poverty so derived from so natural disasters often. And so blue, blue frame, this and this is relating with low carbon society. So this is the reason why this portal can be also such basis for a sustainable development goals. And so our paragraph paragraph is SHIOTS emission per country. So China becomes twice than USA, but low graph, low graph is SHIOTS emission per population. So China is half than USA. So last report is ETOPE. This region is made for demonstration of low carbon society. So please report last report. So in this region, China not only renewable energy, so wind power generator, but also on water recycling system and bamboo bicycle and the ecology of food production. But these are not enough for sustainable development or no carbon emission, so no carbon society. We need to visualize more ideas for sustainable of society. Then I've finished today's trip. You can walk around by this here, this board, quick, this board, so you can walk around by this slide. And you can get more information. So story, there are several story teller avatars. So touch this avatar, you can get little information. So thank you very much, my field tour is finished. And is there any question? Thank you. I'm glad to hear that.


Joe Biden's been in the race now for a little over a week and he's finally starting to give us some insight into his current foreign policy positions and as pretty much all of us would expect, it's a mixed bag. So there's some good, but there's also some bad. Some really bad. So we'll get to the good first. When it comes to the issue of US support for the Saudi-led genocide in Yemen, he has come out against that. And as Zach Budrick of the Hill reports, former Vice President Joe Biden, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, is calling for an end to US support for Saudi Arabia's military campaign in Yemen as part of his first major policy proposals released since launching his campaign. Vice President Biden believes it is past time to end US support for the war in Yemen and cancel the blank check the Trump administration has given Saudi Arabia for its conduct of that war. Foreign campaign spokesman Andrew Bates told the Washington Post's Josh Rogan. He urges Congress to override President Trump's veto. All right, so credit where it's due. This is the correct position to take. However, this is the position I would expect anyone running in the Democratic Party primary to take because this really isn't a difficult issue. If you arrive at the opposite conclusion, then there's something wrong with you. I mean, even Tea Party Republican Mike Lee agrees that we should end US complicity in Saudi Arabia's genocide in Yemen. So if a Democratic presidential candidate didn't come to a solution that's such a no brainer that even a Tea Party Republican can see it, it would be really bad for Joe Biden. We'll just say that. However, since this is an easy issue and I'm still willing to give him credit, the real question is how is he going to respond to more complex issues? Issues like Venezuela. Because as we all know, Joe Biden is someone who has done the bidding of the military industrial complex. He aligned with neocons throughout the course of his career. I mean, he voted for the Iraq war. His administration turned Libya into a failed state functionally. Him and Obama increased Bush's drone war. So is he going to be able to resist his interventionist instincts when it comes to the issue of Venezuela? Did he learn his lesson? Is he going to come out against Donald Trump here and what him, Elliot Abrams, Mike Pompeo, and John Bolton are trying to do? Well, the answer, disappointingly, is no, because Joe Biden tweeted this out. The violence in Venezuela today against peaceful protesters is criminal. Maduro's regime is responsible for incredible suffering. The US must stand with the National Assembly and Guaido in their efforts to restore democracy through legitimate internationally monitored elections. So what he said there is relatively vague. And because he spoke in coded language, I think a lot of people might see or might not see rather why what he said there is problematic, but let me break it down for you there. He essentially just signaled support for the US coup in Venezuela. He's functionally taking the side of Donald Trump here. And his position is incredibly ironic. I don't think he realizes this because you're essentially saying I'm against Maduro because he is an illegitimate leader. He was not elected democratically, but let's side with this person who also wasn't elected. Now he didn't go so far as to recognize Guaido as the president like Donald Trump did. But I mean, this is essentially a wink and a nod to Guaido and it legitimizes Donald Trump's regime change effort currently. So this is a horribly troubling indication of what's to come for someone who again has been very interventionist in the past. The correct answer and the only answer here is to stop meddling in Venezuela. Full stop. Leave them alone.  I mean, we've already did enough for those of you who don't know both Bush and Obama and now Donald Trump, obviously they wanted Venezuela to play ball with them. They wanted to access to Venezuela's oil reserves. So the US has for years now been trying to find ways to undermine Venezuela to get access to that oil. And once Maduro came to power after Hugo Chavez passed away, well, the United States government thought that this would be an opportunity. Maybe Maduro would be a puppet like other countries are with huge reserves of oil. But Maduro, like his predecessor, didn't want to play ball. So what the US did was they aligned with Saudi Arabia and Israel to destabilize Venezuela since normal diplomatic relationships wasn't possible since they didn't trust us and rightfully so, I think. But what we did was we worked with Saudi Arabia and Israel to artificially drive down the price of oil. And since Venezuela, I think stupidly so, didn't diversify their economy. And their entire economy essentially was propped up by oil revenue. What happened after that? Well, they were forced to compete, which ultimately led to a loss of revenue and since their economy was not diversified. Well, of course, this led to economic issues, which subsequently led to political destabilization. And once we sowed the seeds that ultimately catalyzed political instability, we then placed sanctions on them to punish them for their response to set instability that we tried to cause in the first place. And now we're looking for any excuse possible to invade. And we have John Bolton on national television admit that, you know, it'd be really great if we could get in there and have access to Venezuela's oil reserves if American companies can get in there. This can be a benefit for us and Venezuela. So this has always been about oil. And yes, I acknowledge that that explanation is an oversimplification. But for the most part, we're not worried about what's happening in Venezuela because we have humanitarian impulses. We're worried about Venezuela because we see that as a potential revenue source for us because we want their oil. That's what it's about. This is what it's about a lot of the times. I mean, we are in Afghanistan because we want access to their minerals. We intervene in countries because we want what they have. And if they don't play ball with us, if we don't have a puppet in there to do our bidding, then oftentimes we'll overthrow their entire regime to put in someone who's going to play ball with us. It's really disgusting. And what I am worried about is Joe Biden is now essentially legitimizing Donald Trump's regime change efforts. And what's worrying is that this is someone who's one of the front runners. He could actually win. So if Joe Biden wins, if he becomes the Democratic Party nominee, once again, like in 2016, you have the choice between a warmonger and another warmonger. And as Glenn Greenwald points out, wouldn't it be ironic if Democrats, after spending three years indignantly protesting, quote, meddling by foreign countries in our internal affairs, end up marching behind the person who said this in 2002 about why he supports Bush and Cheney removing Iraq's government. And he linked to a video of Joe Biden saying this about the Iraq War and his support for it. Considered in the context of the president's speech this week and is addressed last month in the United Nations General Assembly, this resolution, though still imperfect, deserves our support. And let me explain why. First, the objective is more clearly and carefully stated. The objective is to compel Iraq to destroy its illegal weapons of mass destruction and its programs to develop and produce missiles and more of those weapons. President Bush did not last out precipitously at Iraq after 9-11. He did not snub the UN or our allies. He did not dismiss new inspection regimes. He did not ignore Congress. At each pivotal moment, he has chosen a course of moderation and deliberation. And I believe he will continue to do so. At least that is my fervent hope. I wish he would turn down the rhetorical excess in some cases because I think it undercuts the decision he ends up making. But in each case, in my view, he has made the right, rational, and calm, deliberate decision. So as you can see, Joe Biden has a very troubling history.  Other people, like Bernie Sanders and Barbara Lee, realize what George Bush was doing. Essentially lying his way into a war and Joe Biden didn't see it. And now we can see him in real time gravitate towards making the wrong decision once again. Now, he elaborated a little bit more on his position with regard to Venezuela. But for the most part, it was pretty much word solid.  Look, I've been talking to my foreign policy team back home in Washington. I've not seen anything. I think what I understand so far is that Guadalcan Lopez, and I've spent time with his wife when he was in jail, is I think the anticipation that there was going to be a military rise up has been slightly underestimated. And I think what we have to continue to do is make it real clear to us, because I'm a foreign policy wife. But I think that it's very important we stay calm here. And what I think ultimately what's required is for the international community to demand that there be free elections. Only one democratic election has taken place in that place. And it's for the assembly. There are the people who were actually democratic elected. Maduro was not democratically elected. And there's got to be a commitment that we hold democratic elections. And that's why it's important we continue to maintain and increase the confidence that the rest of Latin and South America has in our judgment. And we've got to put people together because I think that's the only way this works without there being some real serious problems. Now, that was incredibly difficult to follow. But you can really see that his thoughts there were scattered. He wasn't prepared to answer that question clearly. But if you could take anything away from that, you can see that he says, look, Maduro is illegitimate. He was not democratically elected. But yet, ironically, your kind of signaling support for Donald Trump's position, which is to recognize someone as president who also was not democratically elected. Now, let's just say, hypothetically speaking, Maduro really was the authoritarian dictator that they say he is. So is that the new standard that we want to create? We medal and intervene in countries that aren't democratically elected. Because if that's the new standard, then we're going to have to intervene in Russia. We're going to have to intervene in Saudi Arabia. We're essentially going to have to intervene in every single country under the guise of making them more democratic. Do you see the issue with that here? Do you see why, logistically speaking, that is a fool's game? Are we going to invade North Korea and democratize them? Are we going to invade Morocco and overthrow the king? And rather than focusing on our own issues here, rather than focusing on the fact that maybe America isn't the most democratic country in the world, the person who got the most votes is not the president. Someone in Georgia literally was able to control his own election. He was Secretary of State. He put up various barriers to voting, and he won narrowly because he cheated. Maybe if you're worried about democracy, look at what's happening here in America. But Joe Biden, he just has the worst instincts imaginable. And he does not have the best judgment. And this was a huge issue that Hillary Clinton had back in 2016 and why progressives couldn't get on board with her campaign because she was too hawkish. And Joe Biden obviously has the same problem. And by really giving a wink and a nod to Guaido and signaling support for Donald Trump's efforts here, what you are championing is U.S. interference in Venezuela that has essentially devolved into this proxy war between the United States and Russia. So are you going to continue to fan the flames of regime change knowing that you've been wrong before, knowing that this is now a proxy war and that we don't need to escalate the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia? I mean, imagine how damaging it would be if Joe Biden became the nominee. Everybody is talking about electability and how he's the best bet to go up against Donald Trump. But we got someone in 2016 who was overly hawkish who was basically on the wrong side of every U.S. interventionist issue. So do we really want to make that mistake again, people? Really, where we give individuals the choice between a warmonger and a warmonger?  Do we really want to see what would happen if we did the same thing again, if we made the same exact mistake? I mean, we have to learn our lesson, people. And if you're against regime change wars, then you have to be consistent and you have to acknowledge that there are three people who we can trust here. Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard, and Elizabeth Warren. And to her credit, Tulsi Gabbard has absolutely been the strongest in this regard. She's not only spoken out against the New Cold War, she's also been the most forceful in speaking out against the United States' regime change efforts in Venezuela. So for the love of God, people, if we don't want a repeat of 2016, don't vote for Joe Biden. Vote for someone who actually is going to provide voters with an alternative in 2020. That obviously is not Joe Biden, because if he's siding with Donald Trump on a key issue here, there's going to be problems. That is not going to inspire the base to come out and vote. That's not going to get non-voters to want to come out and vote for someone who, again, is going to do the same regime change war policy and allow the military industrial complex to run roughshod over him.


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Do not pray that the poor be fed unless you are willing to provide the bread How can you explain the seeming inequities in the world today? The wicked generally go unpunished and the swindler Prosper's while the honest man goes bankrupt Isn't God concerned about such things? If you have pondered thoughts like this, you're not alone Centuries ago Job asked the same Penetrating question about the prosperity of the wicked He looked around him and saw a distorted business ethics perverted justice Unpunished criminals and unjust suffering Everywhere he looked there was cause for pessimism until he looked up And suddenly everything snapped into sharp focus The god of eternity works out his plan from the perspective of eternity In the end all accounts will be settled justly But for now god calls upon the righteous to trust him leave vengeance in his hand And walk by faith Pick an unfair situation from daily life and look at it from god's perspective. What do you see? How will you respond?


Honourable Ministers, Prof. David Miller, ITU, Special Envoy for Academia, Distinguished Participants to the Workshop on ICT Competency Development in the Telecommunication and Education Sectors in Africa. Ladies and gentlemen, I add hope to join you today in Bujumbura, but as you are aware, we are holding in Geneva all this week the WISIS Forum. You will understand that as one of the hosts of this WISIS Forum, I am compelled to remain here in Geneva. Please accept my sincere apologies. This workshop on ICT Competency Development will be addressing a wide range of issues of highest importance. I am therefore delighted at the high level of seniority of the colleagues participating at this meeting. This indeed reflects the high priority that the ITU membership through the regional initiatives gives to human capital development in general and to e-learning and North-South cooperation in particular. As I say, everywhere I go and will continue to repeat, developing countries cannot own technology and use it to lever their development without first having the right individual and institutional capacities. Capacity building is therefore at the centre of my priorities. The result of your discussion this week will be of utmost importance for me. I look forward indeed to receiving the detailed report of the outcome. In the meantime, I wish you a very stimulating series of discussion. I thank you very much.


We don't want to call anything a weed.   It's something growing in the soil and that's what we want to keep.