Threat of violence many want to if they can be free. And want to thank 2 phase of the 19 how montana. Actions on aljazeera. Hello im come all santamaria this is counting the cost on aljazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week boyle just because youre resource rich in 2020 doesnt mean youre making money well look at the economies of some opec nations which arent making a cent in earnings thanks to the price crash and the coronavirus also oil versus lithium as calls grow for a green economic recovery post pandemic maybe green power could be the death knell for crude. And saudi arabia the oil giant whose Economic Diversification has led it to the north east of england but critics are accusing the kingdom of trying to sports watch its human rights record. Look we all know were in the middle of a storm like no other right now and really its no one even if you are a country with oil sure some of the bigger players are doing ok though even saudi arabia is cutti
This is true because of the incredible success the Broadband Program has had across the country here and at the Brooklyn Library amazing things. Making Great Strides and addressing the digital skill divide. Many of us are wondering where the additional funding is going to come from . I should take a moment on the Digital Literacy spectrum to talk about the room we are sitting. This is a digital commons. It provides us through an increasingly sophisticated set of tools, faster connectivity. It cost around 34 million and how can we build more because we know the need is there. I am hoping the panel will talk about this. It is my pleasure to introduce the director of Library Services. Susan has done so much in her tenure to elevate libraries in the consciousness and we owe her gratitude and will be sorry to see her go. Susan, please, thank you. [ applause ] i would ask our gentlemen, the two toms if you dont mind joining me on the stage. Good morning, everyone. Well it is so wonderful to
Accountability institutions of the u. N. , there are three of them. There is the Ethics Office, where comes to whistleblower protection. There is an office of internal wersight services, to which referred, the inspector general, and the third is the justice system. Each one of these is broken in some way. Office, if we just look at the evidence, of the numbers, and i get these from the Government Accountability project, which is representing me in terms of advocacy here in washington and elsewhere, and we have the president here in the audience , there have been since the establishment of the Ethics Office in 2006, as i ever been told, 2013, there have been more who 300 whistleblowers and have come forward to the Ethics Office. Of those, the Ethics Office reviewed 99, and they found retaliation in only two cases, two. Mine is not one of those two. They turn down my case for but that is an astonishingly low percentage. 2 or depending on what your denominator is, but it is a very, very l
Sanctuaries to launch suicide and car bomb attacks into baghdad. Theres already some of that going on now. This is precisely the tactic they used against the United States, and so they were pushed out by the american surgery and general petraeus in 2007 and 2008, and i think its likely theyll return to that. Host michael gordon, were you surprised at how fasthis host were you surprised at how fast this seems to have come on or have you been monitoring this for a while . Guest these days even though i covered the iraq war, covering the state department, a whole big world to track, im not surprised that alqaeda in iraq, which is basically the group thats come back under a new moniker, alqaeda for iraq and the lot, or sometimes its isis. Im not surprised the comeback because they have taken heat all. This is a group that doesnt respect borders. Theyre in syria and in iraq. Nobody is putting heat on them instantly and nobody is putting the heat on them in iraq. This is a problem you can go
Was always on hiring. Increasing hiring. And i think that there are some aspects of the Affordable Care act particularly higher up the income ladder that the and on businesses, that they are reluctant to hire to the extent that they might have given the uncertainty or the requirements in the program. And thats just very difficult for people who are on welfare programs trying to help low income people get into jobs. Because, sometimes those jobs are discretionary hires. You know they may not really need them or may not want to necessarily do it but they need to have an environment where theyre comfortable and happy and positive about hiring people of all kinds of skills. And i think that we dont have enough of that in the country, and thats part of the reason why people are not in. And frankly, particularly on men who have struggled in the labor force a significant increase in the minimum wage up to 10. 10 nationwide, regardless of the economic circumstances of a particular area, is not