May the peace, mercy and blessings be upon you. Since have passed took place. Six then, 6 million Palestinian Refugees continue to suffer from the cruelty of exile. The continue to wonder at loss of their stable lives in their homeland. They are part of the 13 million palestinian whose country has as a fullrecognized member in state of the United Nations. We determining their right. Despite resolutions reaffirming the right to statehood on the national excellencies, we are the descendents of the canaanites that lived in the land of palestine 5000 years ago. We continuously remain there to this day. Rooted. T people remain builtlestinian people their own people and homeland and made contributions. Libraries, newspapers, publishing houses, economic with wide,ns regional and international influence. All of this existed before and after, issued by the british 1917. T in 1970 Team Government bears responsibility for the catastrophic consequences inflicted on the Palestinian People as a resu
[background chatter] good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Can you hear me . I am kimberly cline, president of long Island University. It is fitting that we are here today in the First Amendment lounge of the National Press club that is truly representative of the mission of the polk awards. We have so much to be proud of at long Island University, from our elite experiential learning programs to our worldclass faculty and teachers throughout our university, from the vibrant part of brooklyn to the 322acre campus on long islands gulf coast area one of the longest lasting and proudest honors is to serve as the home of the george polk awards. This year we commemorate our 70th anniversary of the murder of george polk, who played paid the ultimate price for reporting truth during the greek civil war as a cbs news correspondent. Long Island University created a Journalism Award in 1949 to carry on george polks legacy. And for 69 years it has honored journalists who deliver origi
Jefferson and friends divided. Look for these titles and bookstores this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on cspan2. He is also the director or International Institution and Global Governance program. Known in shorthand as the iigg. Stewart is a quintessential policy practitioner at the rockefeller studies program. As a doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University where he was a rhodes scholar. He served on the state Department Policy and planning staff for the george w. Bush of administration and he has been with us here at cfr since 2008. As you might have gathered from stewarts very long title that he is an expert in multilateral cooperation and International Institutions. He has written widely as well on topics ranging from fragile states to u. N. Security Council Reform to the merits of Ad Hoc Coalitions of the willing. I will refer you to the internationalist available here on cfr. Org but tonight we are not here to talk ab
Money to invest, not their own money, and tell us about what the next innovation or technology will be the wave of the future and economically successful. Time and time again that fails which is probably why theyre in washington and not on wall street. One of my favorite quotes that i use when talking about government is is something i use time and time again, in fact i used it when i testified in front of the House Oversight committee. He writes that the task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they know about what they imagine they can design. Really, truer truer words cannot be spoken about the biofuels. Its shown how the government cannot essentially plan Energy Markets and the unintended consequences it creates when doing so. Theres a lot of those unintended consequences. Economic, environmental and ethical when you talk about the rising food costs. So to demonstrate one of those, i would like to paint a picture for you and just have you imagine something for a second
President s daily brief delivering intelligence to the first customer. 50 years ago, president johnson in an address to American Business leaders said a long axiom in my political thinking is a mans judgment is no better than his information on any given subject. Since its creation, the president s daily brief has served to provide our commanders in chief with the intelligence that informs Vital Decisions relating to our foreign and National Security policy. In short, these classified documents offer president s the tools they need to render their best judgment. First known as the president s intelligence checklist, or the pickle when it was introduced in june 1961, the document became known as the president s daily brief, or pdb in december of 1964. It represents the distillation of intelligence material deemed worthy of a president s attention, providing not just news, but importantly, context and analysis. Todays program which includes our nations top intelligence officials will she