Seen across the country. We will speak to raj patel, author stuffed and starved the hidden battle for the worlds food system. Then a betting pool . That is what managers at a tyson pork slaughterhouse set up a to bet on how many workers would get covid. Six workers died at the iowa plant. More than 1000 were infected. Finally, 2020 has become the deadliest year on record for transgender and gender nonconforming people. We will speak to tori cooper of human Rights Campaign. Vionce iibly toxic and all of these Different Things that make trans lives being devalued. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The Trump Administration has cleared the way for president elect joe bidens transition after 16 days of delay that threatened to derail the incoming administrations preparations for reviving the economy and battling the coronavirus pandemic. Emily murphy, the trumpappointed head of the General Services administ
2021 index of u. S. Military strength. This is the seventh edition of the index and the index has come one of the flagship publications. Our goal has been unchanged. It is to provide both the leaders of this country and the American Public a premiere open source and author tatetive of Armed Services and their ability to protect the nation. I think we have not only achieved that goal but continued with this effort. And this years edition is the best ever. In addition to our usual subjects, it includes National Security concerns and one of these is the emergent of the new space force. We have a new chapter on the subject of space this year and look more hearing from the editor of the new index in his presentation later. Today as part of our launch, we welcome a speaker with decades of matters, representative Mac Thornberry. He was the first elected to congress in 1994 and has supported a Strong National defense since. He is currently the Ranking Member of the house Armed Services committ
Lines stretching for miles are seen across the country. We will speak to raj patel, author stuffed and starved the hidden battle for the worlds food system. Then a betting pool . That is what managers at a tyson pork slaughterhouse set up a to bet on how many workers would get covid. Six workers died at the iowa plant. More than 1000 were infected. Finally, 2020 has become the deadliest year on record for transgender and gender nonconforming people. We will speak to tori cooper of human Rights Campaign. Vionce iibly toxic and all of these Different Things that make trans lives being devalued. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The Trump Administration has cleared the way for president elect joe bidens transition after 16 days of delay that threatened to derail the incoming administrations preparations for reviving the economy and battling the coronavirus pandemic. Emily murphy, the trumpappointed head o
The northeast and part of the country particularly the new york metropolitan area, the curve was like this. When you look at what we saw in the Southern States when we tried to reopen, the curve was also like this. Right now, the curve is like that. It is going up at a very rapid rate. And you looked in a most every single day, in fact gives you another record. Having said that you do not want people to get terrified. But you want them to understand that we can do something about that. By mitigation methods. And also, help is on the way. So we should not look upon this as a hopeless situation. And one of the things, when you get covid fatigue, which is understandable, that people just throw up their heads and say heck, we are not going to be able to do anything about it so lets do what we want to do, that is the wrong decision. Because vaccines are coming. And they are going to be available relatively soon. If we can hang in there with the mitigation methods. And implementing them. We
This in person on our aspen campus, we will have conversations between health advocates, artists, scientists, invo innovators. And today we have a conversation between lisa mosconi and on Womens Brain Health. Shes made it her lifes work to study the womans brain and a road map to diminish the risk of dementia. If you want to buy a copy well have a link in the chat. I would certainly recommend it, its fantastic. So as we begin to dive into this conversation, let me briefly and properly introduce our wonderful speakers. Lisa mosconi is professor of neuroscience in neurology and radiology at real Cornell Medical College where shes the founder and director of the womens Brain Initiative and associate director of the alzheimers prevention clinic. An adjunct faculty member o department of psychiatry at nyu school of medicine, a ph. D. In neuroscience and Nuclear Medicine. Her research i focused from the Early Detection of alzheimers disease in atrisk individuals espially women and how alzhei