Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us again today. As per usual, we will be right here every day at 1 00 to make sure everybody is wellinformed with the best facts as possible so we can keep ourselves safe and healthy as we deal with the coronavirus. As you can see from the data isplayed on your screens, or will be in a second, the cases in rhode island, and the deaths in rhode island and hospitalizations continue to rise. Although it is sad, i dont want folks to panic. It is consistent with what we have expected. It is why i am giving you what i am giving you. I wish we were out of the woods. We are not quite out of the woods yet. That means the stay home order, which is in place until may 8, is something we all need to continue to obey. I know if your family is anything like my family, it is getting harder every day. We are all sick of it. We wonder if it is necessary, wearing a mask makes it even more difficult. He answers are it is necessary. It is a critical two weeks ahead. If
Welcome. The Hingham Heritage Museum. My name is deirdre anderson. I have the pleasure of serving as the executive director of the hingham Historical Society. Whose home is here at the Hingham Heritage Museum and welcome to this soldout program. On behalf of our board of directors and our small staff, i would like to thank you all for making us a part of your week. Excuse me. I would like to thank cspan for filming us so that others who cannot be with us tonight can see it at a later date. And thank you to the Abigail Adams Historical Society and their board of directors, who offered us this wonderful opportunity to partner with them as we did last year with their gillis. Their speaker, edith gillis. Abigails rich history in this region inspires us every day. Thank you. The hingham Historical Society is focused like never before on its history, to understand all voices. We currently are in the midst of a campaign for the Benjamin Lincoln house, which is our effort to purchase the home
Thank you all for making us a part of your week. I would like excuse me. I would like to thank cspan for filming us so that others who cannot be with us tonight can see it at a later date. And thank you to the abaco atoms Historical Society and their board of directors, who offered us this wonderful opportunity to partner with them as we did last year with their speaker, edith. Abigails rich history in this region inspires as everyday. Thank you. The hingham Historical Society is focused like never before on his history, to understand all voices. We currently are in the midst of a campaign for the Benjamin Lincoln house, which is our effort to purchase the home of hinghams American Revolutionary war hero. Benjamin lincoln received the british surrender at yorktown. Or as we like to tell schoolchildren, that is Benjamin Lincoln on the white horse. He is featured so prominently in the rotunda of the u. S. Capitol. Benjamin lincoln served hingham as a clerk, constable, and selectman. He a
Trivial to transact but impossible to forge and duplicate. And to verify they must be able to carry this information about any information so it has to do some platforms and networks and machines to generate effectively those transaction laws and records so to figure out how to make cash digital is a tall order which raises the question of why you would need to build such a thing in answering that question is surveillance to build parallel covert societies to libertarian economics and money to the pursuit of mortality all of these agendas fed into the creation of that coin and cryptocurrency. This isnt a story of just payment platform but a test to engineer a future society. A technological project i call the speculative fiction these currencies were platforms with the aid they are imagining. And then to inspire fear or hope and not just in relation to the future but one of the things i came to enjoy as i was working on the book is the currency world prick on one of the many terms of p
Conference today on north korea. As we think about what might be coming down the road on the Korean Peninsula and the broader region, its very easy, i think, to succumb to the temptation to be pessimistic. In fact, as we sit here in washington today, it seems like theres all kinds of reason to be pessimistic. We seem to be facing on the home front a variety of challenges. Were in the midst of a wrenching president ial impeachment process. The broader country seems to have some deep cleavages societally. We have a big problem with mutual distrust in the country. When we look abroad internationally, the headlines we were reading this morning suggest we might be on the brink of a very dangerous war with iran. We last week read about the development of hype tr sonic weapons in russia and coupled with the demise of arms control and the return of great power competition, it looks like the world is getting ever more dangerous. Even American Relations with some of our longstanding allies seem