Host what is facebook trying to do and why . Guest the simple answer is that they are trying to create a Digital Currency that people can use across borders and a Digital Currency means not necessarily a theirment currency, but own private currency that people can use and ship to one another in different parts of the world. The reason why they are doing this is a little bit complex ause no one knows exactly they have explicitly said that they want to, and i am reading this because i think it is useful for the listeners to hear, to enable a simple, global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people. There are some financial motives as well. Host as far as the current system, what would facebooks plan do that others do not . Is planning to create this look currency and by doing so, have established a consortium of different kinds of larger, Global Technology companies and a couple of nonprofits. The global currency is called the libra currency and the consortiu
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, quote ouro tweet excellent guest, and enjoy the event. We look forward to a timely, great conversation with our guest. And youcarry this live are welcome, if you are not here and you are watching us, you are also welcome to tweet using the aciraq. Here is the format. We will get brief remarks after i finish and then i will ask some questions, then we open it to the audience for some questions. That is how we are going to proceed today. Membereemed guest is a of the Iraqi Council of representatives. Of the future fundamental group, deputy chairman of the Civil Society committee, a very Important Committee and the Civil Society of iraq and he is a member of the iraq, United States friendship committee. He was a cofounder of the new Generation Movement and he washingtonworked in as the bureau chief for nrt and u. S. Tv. He worked as a political and cultural advisor. Mr. Shamsulddin thank you. Good afternoon. Im honored to be here with you today to discuss the current state of affairs in
Secretary assistant secretary of state for International Security and proliferation, christopher ford. First put forth by iran and egypt in 1974 as a u. N. Resolution to be expanded to weapons of mass destruction in egypt, thefrom proposal has been discussed for many years. Cns has worked many years and we have publication on the zone issue. Most recently in november, 2018, the u. N. General assembly adopted a resolution asking the u. N. Secretarygeneral to convene a conference about weapons of mass destruction free zone starting from 2019 and continuing until there is a legal binding treaty. The first conference will be right now is being planned for november 2019 in new york, but the initiative has been received in the region with mixed results. We are very delighted that dr. Ford agreed to speak about it today. Let me introduce dr. Ford. Chris served as special assistant to the president and senior director of weapons of mass destruction at the nsc. And ased on capitol hill an intel
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. I had my students go online and say, what do we think about reconstruction . They came back with the same answer. What were teaching our students is that reconstruction was a failure. Either from the left or the right, people are saying its a failure. I thought that was too easy. The most ambitious experience in American History, calling it a failure doesnt seem adequate. Here is what we found is that the opponents of freedom, the opponents of reconstruction fought so long and hard during and after the war that the u. S. Government, the u. S. Army and a small majority of white northern population was empowered, virtuvi virtually forced to destroy the roots of slavery. Without confederate cessation, emancipation was impossible. Without the war, emancipation was politically impossible. Without the violent resistance to the freedom of the people they held as slaves, there would have been no radical reconstruction. As one republican paper put it, the whi