First of all, i thank god for being alive and for the mandate and mission of presiding over brazil and for the opportunity to reestablish truth which is of course a good thing. Mr. President of the General Assembly, mr. Secretarygeneral of the United Nations organization, heads of states of government and delegations, ladies and gentlemen. I come here before you today to introduce you to a new brazil with a country that is now reemerging coming from the brink of socialism. A country that is rebuilt on the yearnings and the ideals under my administration to regain world trust with lower unemployment and businesses to reduce those bureaucracies to deregulation and by leading their example. Close toy was very socialism which led to a situation of widespread corruption and serious economic recession and high crime rates and continued ceaseless attacks against religious values that are part and parcel of our traditions. In 2013, an agreement with the cuban dictatorship brought to brazil 10,
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Good afternoon and thank you for coming. My name is siri worthington, executive director of the United States Energy Association and this is a us ea briefing on addressing Energy Poverty in the United States, a federal state collaboration. This is a little bit of a different topic for your sca. But one that we are very eager to have a conversation about and im hoping that this will be the first of a continuing conversation. Because the matters that were going to address this afternoon are taking on a degree of urgency. It always been urgent but i think myself that the urgency is growing so thank you all for coming. We have an excellent set of panelists here today. Or our discussion, we hope to have audience participationas well. Moderating todays session is mark will, mark will provide the discussion and moderate the discussion forthe need for Energy Assistance. He is an economist, and is an expert on local andregional energy and housing financing. He is consulted regularly for general
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