Two competing scenarios, two sort of theories of what the 2014 mid term elections could be about. One theory was some of the challenges problems facing the Republican Party in 2012 would just sort of flow on into 2014. The other was that this would be a classic mid term election referendum on the incumbent president and with all that that entails. So two competing directions and it could have really gone either way. In terms of challenges facing the Republican Party some of them were with key voting groups, some of it was sort of their own, sort of some of the things they were doing just sort of a nutshell. The challenge of minority oters as we know that governor romney got 59 of the white vote and gosh nobodys ever gotten 59 of the white vote and lost a president ial election before and quite simply what was happening was the country is changing so much that its getting hard and the vote for congress was almost identical if youre losing the African American vote by 87 points and the l
Relationship between chronic illness and vaccines, if we have not compared health outcomes, we cant assess that risk benefit analysis. We know that some people have a genetic predisposition that they will be injured or will die from vaccines. That is not a decision and ethical government can make. Vaccines traditionally have been a scapegoat for a variety of illnesses, for which we dont have a clear cause or clear treatment, and autism certainly falls in that category. One mississippi affirms every public and private School Student sb vaccinated, vaccinations have become an issue in the president ial campaign. Two possible republican candidates, Chris Christie and rand paul have raised questions about mandating vaccines. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The chair of the federal Communications Commission has unveiled what he calls the strongest open internet protections ever proposed by the [agency]. Fcc
, rekindling debate over whether parents should be forced to vaccinate their children. Today we will spend the hour looking at this polarizing issue. If we havent studied the relationship between chronic illness and vaccines, if we have not compared health outcomes, we cant assess that risk benefit analysis. We know that some people have a genetic predisposition that they will be injured or will die from vaccines. That is not a decision and ethical government can make. Vaccines traditionally have been a scapegoat for a variety of illnesses, for which we dont have a clear cause or clear treatment, and autism certainly falls in that category. One mississippi affirms every public and private School Student sb vaccinated, vaccinations have become an issue in the president ial campaign. Two possible republican candidates, Chris Christie and rand paul have raised questions about mandating vaccines. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace r
President ial directive 39. Interagency and white house then began focusing on threats aimed largely within the United States and pdd 62 was born. I came aboard to nsc to implement president clintons protection against unconventional threats to the homeland and americans overseas focusing on domestic cbrn preparedness and response missions. Whereas we had the usual core players state fbi justice cia, cod and joint stas we were adding hhs and other departments and agencies which played important roles protecting against unconventional threats aimed towards the u. S. In the late 1990s our office under Leadership National coordinator security and counterterrorism rather quickly realized in order to populate newer mission we would have to figure out a way who in the interagency should participate. One of the ways to do this was, one, uncover who had the mission, operational and it will capabilities and three budget authorities. Unfortunately this time and as it stands now theres still no w
We must be suspicious of legal classifications based solely on sexual orr orientation. And we must endeavor in all of our efforts to uphold and advance the values that once led our forbearers to declare unequivocally that all are created equal and entitled to equal opportunity. Now, this bed bedrock principles immutable, timeless, and it goes to the very heart of a what this country has always stood for even though the cause of civil rights has shown our understanding of it evolves over time. As i suggest after the administrations decision on doma was announced, americas most treasured ideals were not put into action or given the full force of law in a single instant. On the contrary, our ideals are continually advanced as our Justice Systems and as our union are strengthened. And as social science, human experience, legislation and judicial decisions expand the circle of those who are entitled to the protections and rights enumerated by the constitution. As we gather here in washingto