Of the sea. Because im front of me is the port where those 2700 tons of Ammonium Nitrate exploded last tuesday to every Apartment Building shattered or destroyed in that building in the 12 its right on the lawns all the way along the waterfront and inland a 3 kilometer radius from the port cleanup operation still ongoing of course its going to be years long but most of that cleaning up being done by volunteers and theyve been out in force again this morning the government the local government now estimates 70000 homes have either been damaged or destroyed as a consequence of that explosion and we already know about 250 and maybe as many as 300000 people have been left homeless most of them taken in by relatives elsewhere in the country all being put up in hotels or other peoples friendly helpful neighbors homes russias president Vladimir Putin says the country has become the 1st in the world to approve the use of a Coronavirus Vaccine it follows less than 2 months of human trials the p
Been a what i know is that the people of lebanon have electricity shut down every day and its not working the provision of imports and exports has collapsed because of the Financial System so there are its is for the short term that we need as we know the answer is to fight corruption reform the energy and electricity systems the customs we need transparency for imports and exports we need reforms for all the sick does and insist on these changes quickly what lebanese authorities have detained 16 people as part of their investigation into the blast according to state media 18 port and Customs Officials involved in Maintenance Work at the ports have reportedly been questioned the death toll has risen to 149 but that is expected to rise dozens of people are still missing and hospitals are overwhelmed our correspondent burnet smith is in beirut with more. All we saw all day were armies all mainly young people out with groups and pickaxes and shovels trying to clean up the trying to clean
The economist of course, two weeks ago there was a wonderful article in the economist on literary realism. And i will approach you with this and paragraphs of that. For years, had been americas establishment. Their own country the mystery around. American positively fantastic stories and has writers in the manhattan residence cant be bothered to look further than the end of their noses. In this quote, and impale to this moment in history of american literature, mr. Tom wolfe wrote, we need a battalion to head out into the smile look bizarre and predictable august stomping country of ours. And reclaim it is literary property. Yet the trouble of turning yourself into an american is that you immediately expose yourself to being trumped by reality. And better sort of critics are from going over the top pretty using cartoon characters to exaggerate the eagles modern society. But the truth is the opposite predict pales into insignificance compared with the hog stomping reality that he tries
Want to looking all to city lights. We are thrilled to have Samuel Woolley with us here tonight celebrating a very, very important new book called the reality game how the next wave of technology will break the truth. It is from our friends at Public Affairs book. He is a a writer and researcher specializing in the study of ai, emergent technology, politics, persuasion and social media. Hes an assistant professor in the school of journalism and Program Director for competition all Propaganda Research of the center for media engagement of university of texas at austin. Dr. Woolley founded and directed the Digital Intelligence lab at the institute for the future which is a 50yearold think tank based in the heart of silicon valley. He also cofounded and directed the Research Team at computational propaganda project at Oxford Internet institute at the university of oxford. He has written on political manipulation of technology or a variety of publications. These include wired, the atlantic
Timothy carneys new book and a discussion about its claims and i think you will find both tims remarks and the panel of interest particularly timely given the moment we find ourselves in strictly right now so i look forward to the discussion. Tim is going to come out and offer a few words and then he will be followed with a Panel Discussion withCharles Murray who is known to probably everybody here. Hes a high chair and Cultural Studies here at aei and Megan Mcardle who is probably known to all of you, Washington Post columnist with a lot to say on this issue as well. Tim is a visiting fellow here at aei and hes also the commentary editor at the Washington Examiner where hes been a columnist for a while and you are all aware of his columns to his previous books on cronyism are what any of you probably know him for. The big ripoff and obamanomics. But this new book alienated america is a New Enterprise for him, adeep dive into whats going on in the heartland and im holding this book up