Friends and we are in this great museum and with the exception of the chilly weather and we have an excuse to say this and to date, what i want to talk about in the auto empire and we understand this crucial moment to get a better grasp of it. We turn our attention to this experience. Its not easy to be the first speaker after the lunch break but ill try to make it interesting. For the ten long years between 1912 and 1922, through the period of crisis which was in conflict. In 1912 and 1913 and the First World War in 1914 and finally the turkish war in 1919, 1922. The empires in the capital room had millions of people dead wounded and captive. A lot believed they were the one on a much larger scale in the conflict step preceded and followed it. Its four years from october 1914 to october 1918. The hope of regaining the territories lost in the previous conflict is the most valuable but also the empires last promises in africa to the cold war against italy in 1911, 1912. More importantly
No trading in the u. S. Because of the Martin Luther king holiday. Global stocks, another record today, up by 24 . Multiyearcy market, highs for the euro, the pound, highest level since june 23, 2016. It has risen for four straight weeks. Cpi data, big brexit events. The eu withdrawal bill returns for debate in the Lower Chamber of the house of commons tuesday, wednesday, the europound, little changed. It has been stuck in a range of 87 to 90 since september. Check out the bond market. Yields tipping for the u. K. 10year, down by a couple basis points. A two month high on friday. 40 basis points since falling to an eightmonth low since june, 2017. Yields in germany rising up 59 basis points. From 29 basis points in the last month, Economic Data to watch out for this week, cgi data. On wednesday, expected to confirm inflation is remaining below the ecbs goal. Lets get to oil, remaining at the highest level in three years. Iraq echoing the call by the uae and other producers or opec, let
Have not told you is not a single political leader supported the movement. Matt won the crusade for voters. And naacp down. Elected leadership down. Nobody anywhere supported it so we asked the city council would you at least put the measure on the ballot so that the people can decide whether they want it or not. Would you allow the people to vote on it, and they didnt do that. At the time i think tim kaine was the mayor of the city, and i said, tim, can you work something out to at least put it on the ballot that people decide it . He said i can only get four votes. I cant get five votes, the majority to do it. Now with that, so what we had to do was to go out and get the people to sign the petition, and if you get the percentage of numbers of people to sign the petition, then it can go on the ballot, so we were able to get about 15,000 signatures to make certain that it had gone on the ballot, and even though the entirety of the leadership was against it, when the people voted, 80 of
Today we will bring you the voices from the streets. Ll of that and more coming up. This is democracy now. The war and peace report. I am amy goodman. We are on the streets of new york city where maybe hundreds of thousands of people from around the country and around the world are gathering for what could be the largest one of the largest political marches in history and certainly the largest peoples climate march. We are in new york city at Columbus Circle. Interesting that it is Columbus Circle, considering the march will be led by hundreds of people that came from around the country and around the planet. Right now to layout the scope of what is taking place today in this historic moment is the founder of one of the organizations that organized this mass march today. Welcome to democracy now. Thank you so much for being here and for documenting what will be a pretty remarkable day. I think what you said is right. There hasnt been a political gathering about anything this large in t
Before we get to the vault and if you did not know, young eric had a birthday over the weekend. Happy birthday. The wrong side of 40, folks. That is just the way it is. Cannot do anything about it. Cannot do anything about the news either. The top stories of the morning. News forecast from Goldman Sachs. It will not curtail shale drilling at least not until it falls to 40 per barrel. Goldman sachs cut the forecast for the west texas intermediate rate benchmark to 39. Prices fell more than 4 today. Now below 47 per beryl. The biggest acquisition yet for a shyer for shire. This gives them treatment for rare diseases. They have been trying to boost growth since a proposed 52 billion sale collapsed last year. Genetic testing partnering with the biggest drugmaker in the united states. Sharing dna data at 350 thousand people with pfizer. The data will allow new targets to treat dizziness and diseases and design clinical trials. Maybe the end of the road for peyton manning. Struggling as denv