Now, testimony from Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Monetary Policy and the state of the u. S. Economy amid coronavirus. He spoke about low Interest Rates, unemployment numbers and what future Economic Growth and recovery could look like. Help in front of the House Financial Services committee, this is three hours. So the committee will come to order. Thank you. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times, even when theyre not recognized by the chair. Members are also reminded that they are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves and to mute themselves after they are finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations accompanying h res 965, staff will only mute members and our witness as appropriate when not recognized to avoid inadvertent background noise. Members are reminded that all house rules relating to order and decorum apply to this remote hearing. T
Public policy issues, one of our intellectuals. Thank you. Welcome, one and all. This session will examine the Civil Liberties issues that have been raised by Government Actions to content with the coronavirus pandemic. We will hear from four imminent legal scholars. One from new york law school, chairman of the american Civil Liberties union. Eugene of the ucla law school, host of the eponymous website of conspiracy. Julia of the university of Virginia School of law, who specializes in property, public finance, and constitutional law. And finally mia Love University of Virginia School of law, who specializes in comparative constitutional law and International Law. Further information about each of them is available at the conference website. Our session will run up to 90 minutes, concluding not later than 5 15 eastern in the United States. We will have individual presentations and a general Panel Discussion and questions from attendees. When question time arrives, i will ask those wit
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Screen with you and we can get right started. Ok, great. So as always, what we are looking at in this class today is about the rise of the american obsession with fitness, withfitness culture, working out, even as the United States is not a particularly fit nation. And if anything in the past 75 to 100 years or so that we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or signal of individual virtue and morality even as the ability to do so and having a fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. That is the kind of overarching arc of the class. Today, we turn to the 1980s. So the name of the lecture is a quote from one of the oral histories that i have done for the Book Research im doing, on which this course is based. It is i would have been a pe teacher. We will get there to the end of class. I will tell you who said it, but that idea that in another historical moment, the people who became architect
China the court system is not independent here in the vast majority of cases like these are found guilty and if they are found guilty these 2 men could face up to life time in prison strength as Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the country is being targeted by a sophisticated cyber attack he wouldnt say whos behind it but there are suspicions its part of a growing rift with china what i simply can confirm is there are not a large number of state by state actors that can engage in this type of activity and it is created by strongly advise that we have received that this has been done by i start by stacked with very very significant type abilities the clear gauges in the australian capital of camber and she says the attack is widespread. From health and education through to Critical Infrastructure organize ations and this is something that the Prime Minister says is happening more frequently and on a lot just scale and he said that was the reason why he was announcing it to the public