Thank you. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Never has an International Community raise so much money on a single day for a single crisis. Supporting syria and the region conference has been a great success. I would like to thank and highly command the Prime Minister and all sponsors in the chancellor and with germany than the Prime Minister of norway, for their leadership, engagement, and generous contributions. And many other countries very generous contributions. As of this moment just set by the Prime Minister more than 10 billion has been pledged, more than half, i think all the participants for their generosity and solidarity for the syrians who are experiencing horrendous conditions. We will continue region millions of people with lifesaving aid. The premises of long term funding and alone mean that humanitarian and Development Possibilities will be able to Work Together to get children back into school, design employment programs, the commitment of countries hosting large nu
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Actually irresponsible to see these critical hours, when citizenry is most engaged and in an metion and emotional and very riveted way, to let government message goes unchallenged. They dont wait before they start politicizing. Not just the event but even these well intentioned emotional rituals that spring up around them. I think its worth talking that as well. But the most significant part of this dynamic, and i want to spend the bulk of my time talking about, is the way in which we have been persuaded to ink about the world in a drastically different way than reality ought to suggest. By that i mean that we have been persuaded to think about our own societies and our own governments and our own behavior in the world that theres very little recentral wlens to the reality of what weve allowed our society and governments to do in the world. And to illustrate that as best as i can, i want to share with you a little anecdote. That involves canada. The very first story from the snowden ar
The 18 no votes were all republican no votes. All of the Senate Republicans voted in favor of ending the crisis. That is not true in the house. Democrats voted yes as a bloc, unanimous on the idea that the u. S. Should not the fault and the government should reopen. Most of them voted no on that. Most republicans in the house wanted to blow past the debt ceiling and keep the shutdown going. They wanted that by almost 21. What this means is that john boehner pass this bill without the support of his own members, his own Republican Caucus. Thanks to all the democrats and to the minority of his caucus who did support him in this vote, we did finally bring about the end to this selfimposed National Crisis tonight. President obama is expected to sign the bill right away, as and basically now. After that, the government will reopen its self after this long and painful shut down. The office of management and budget is expecting employees to return to work in the morning, as in thursday mornin