The us. I have. At the end one topic yet. In an historical much of the placebo for democratic and although i was in the countrys history. A search and rescue should i choose to long races against time to looking like an eighteen seventies black box before it stopped getting sick. Protest japans move to new School Textbooks the claim that value islands of japan in her territory the nt all security demonstrators clash with Police Outside the headquarters of the European Union in brussels. Oh and welcome to cctv do i look in beijing is two pm here in the chinese capital. We begin with the president ial elections in afghanistan. At least two rainbows were wounded saturday morning a blast of a Polling Center in eastern afghanistan will go our province. A district governor gave that information. It was the first attack against voters in the countrys president ial election soul fall. The injured were shifted to a District Hospital in the province some sixty km south of afghanistans capital ka
The presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the ayes are 98 and the nays are zero, and the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider be inquired made and laid upon the table, and the President Shall be immediately notified of the senates action. Under the previous order, there will now be two minutes of debate equally divided prior to a cloture vote on the kadzik nomination. Without objection, all time has been yielded back. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of peter joseph kadzik of new york to be assistant attorney general, signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, is it the sense of the senat
It ranks in the top 200 of Global Companies by revenue, according to the fortune global 500 list. It would be a great loss to our country to see it incorporated offshore. Still, its difficult to blame them for this decision. According to sources, a desire to escape the high u. S. Corporate tax is part of the motivation for this merger. This type of transaction where a u. S. Corporation merges with a foreign entity and incorporates elsewhere to escape the u. S. Tax net is sometimes referred to as an inversion. Inversions are a growing problem here in the United States. Indeed, Large Companies are leaving our country at an alarming rate. If you count the number of american corporations in the worldwide list of fortune 500 companies, youll see that the number has declined dramatically over the past decade, which is very unfortunate. This decline means less capital and less investment in the United States. It means a smaller u. S. Tax baste base and most importantly, it means more jobs tha
What are the things we can do right now . We are now on a war footing. It took us there. My sense of hopelessness was that we couldnt do anything in these countries. Thats why we want to put these financial mechanisms in place. When the finance ministers begin to understand the downside global risks to my economy are huge, then they will have conversations. Now, thats my job. Part of my job instead of conversations with ministers of finance. And i think we can put together mechanisms that could protect us from outbreak in the future. This has been fascinating. Thank you for doing this. Thank you. Thank you. So one of the things the nigerian finance minister said that was important to was not just gs addressing fear i dont mean to hold you up, but is there not something that can be done in the in terms of a mobile phone drop or teaching about the practice of dead burials . The u. S. And the u. K. Are putting into place extenders for the cell phone networks. There wasnt a huge amount of
Programs from the past 15 years online at booktv. Org. [applause] well, this is fun. Im a fan, and i dont see any dead people here today. [laughter] a little joke. [laughter] actually, one of the memorable lines is i see dead people which is really fun. I like it. [laughter] i want to start up with something from your writing because i think when people want to read the book, they want to read something that you wrote. Its a personal book. It came out of you. It was not assigned to you. You picked the topic. You picked the passion, education. This wonderful line is when you were in high school, a tough neighborhood in north phillie, where we grew up, irish somehow, black, and very tough, and its a tough rundown neighborhood, the whole place, and you were talking to the kids, africanamerican kids there, wondering why you are the highest paid writer in the world, you tried to get their interest, right way to do it, i think. Im more me than they are them. Explain that about your success a