Live in a village far away from the hustle and bustle of the big city thats the ideal for a lot of people in germany actually many refuse to move to other places because their families have owned the land for generations but the villages in our next report may soon disappear one of germanys Largest Energy firms has been allowed to relocate all of the People Living in the village of kind back in western germany the Company Wants to expand its coal mining activities in the brown coal mine of god but many villages are not ready to give up their homes. For closer to the village the greater the threat to norbert and its far. From. Here and the digger is already right there in front. Its about 3 or 400 metres away its come a lot closer in the last few. Only 3 more years than this whole undesigned would have disappeared to guts for the europes largest open karslake night mind germany has pledged to phase out coal of by 2038 but thats too late for the vid since. They live as an extended family
Government plans to withdraw from the is simple convention on combating violence against women even though more and more women are being murdered violence against women in turkey has been on the rise for years the perpetrators are often people well known to the victims a husband and ex partner earlier this year one case that sent shock waves through the town of backyard kind western turkey is that of people that go to kid she was killed by her exboyfriends back in july war than 200 women have become victims of femicide just this year but now turkish president to one wants to withdraw all from a European Convention that was the zine specifically to protect women from violence and abuse there is strong opposition against this plan not just in p. R. s hometown. The friends describe her as a fun loving young woman. This was the image techie was left with of the 27 year old student penn ill go to him on july 16th exboyfriend strangled her to death remember her body. Flowers and a photo comm
Thank you to the federal society for hosting this debate at. Im delighted to be here for the question, should the Electoral College be abrogated . Electoral college choosing a president. In their respective states electors choose wedding for president and Vice President. Electoral college would provide Vice President Alexander Hamilton wrote in federalist 68 that the Electoral College would provide a practicable obstacle to cabal intrigue and corruption. He said that it would interpose capable men of discernment for deliberation over the selection of the president. Moreover, hamilton thought the system best designed to prevent tumult and disorder. Debates about the Electoral College once again emerged over the desirability of our constitutions method for selecting the president. So this debate is an important one about our republic. And about our constitutional form of government. It raises questions of principle. What are the values to be promoted in a democratic republic . In a feder
Were elected through back channels, small party conventions. In 1968, 73 of democratic delegates through the convention had been elected this way. Less than 25 were elected in the way we normally do it. President Lyndon Johnson took himself out of the race. He was not up for reelection in 1968. This initiated a freefall in the Democratic Party between a number of candidates. One of which who was very popular was unfortunately dead by august of 1968. That was robert kennedy. He was a peace candidate. He had been a unifying candidate for many people in the party. He was assassinated in june of 1968. That is one thing lying behind the convention in august of 1968. The kennedy delegates who had been elected, pledged to kennedy. Hubert humphrey, Lyndon Johnsons Vice President had become the nominee by august. There was another peace candidate, mccarthy who had delegates like kennedy who showed up in chicago in august. It is something of a freeforall where the delegates are concerned. It is