Use the hashtag artist places. Fire up your smart phones if you get a chance. I am mark muro, senior fellow at the metropolitan policy program and my privilege to kick off todays auspicious event. I say our event today is auspicious for several reasons. It is always auspicious to welcome and help launch a book into the world, given it is a red letter day for fred bacher whose excellent book the smartest places on earth is just out and if i do say so, rush to pick up a copy, we have some out beyond the back, on the way out please do that. Also two experienced economic observers focusing not on the standard inside the beltway with spin cycles, and at brookings, the most fundamental elements of national wellbeing, r d and stem worker advanced industries from aerospace, Regional Technology clusters, Regional Technology ecosystems, critical, that is part of their focus, and collaborations they accelerate. The fact that cities and regions themselves can become incubators of growth. They trav
And not be overturned by the Supreme Court. If their jury was 75, 84 for death and the judge imposed it, then we might have a situation where the Supreme Court says no. Reporter today the florida Supreme Court heard from lambricks attorney. Since the process was ruled unconstitutional his sentence should be commuted to life. Although he committed two murders, we have an 84 jury recommendation. Two more jurors voting for life, he would have had life. Reporter in the meantime around 40 of nearly 400 other death row inmates have pending appeals. And locally in bradenton, trials that havent even happened are in question. The attorneys of bradenton accused triple murderer avalos says the state cant move forward with the capital murder trial. Those cases will probably be put on hold until we decide what the legislature is going the Death Penalty in the state of florida. Reporter and the Florida Attorney Generals Office argues that this ruling should not apply to former cases, so it should no
Besides the fact that is completely impractical, and we also have free speech, the reality is that these companies are doing something about it. They are at different levels. We have worked with them. They have endorsed our best practices. They remind people that people who are trying to exploit their services that not only is there a legacy of Technical Innovations that have been created, but these Companies Take seriously the fact that people are trying to exploit them. Theyre also trying to come up with Creative Solutions to mitigate those who want to exploit them. They are part of the Community Coming up with strategies. That has been a critical partner for us as well. Finally, i have to say at the end of the day, what is the most effective way to walk someone off that led . You can share information with Law Enforcement, you can share strategy with the tech industry. And you have your own peers who are willing to not only identify a problem, but have the courage to step up, that i
Cultivate the alienation, and that festers. They themselves arecriminals, gangsters, thugs on the farthest fringes of the faith they claim to represent. Yet they prey on disaffected young people without jobs or even a sense of belonging of where they were born. And they exploit social media to bolster their ranks and make fear go viral. Extremists have a strategy for hate. We need a comprehensive strategy for harmony, reintegration and peace. Second, preventing violent extremism and promoting human rights go hand in hand. Time and again we have seen that the most effective recruiting agents for extremists are the very actions taken against them. All too often counterterrorism strategies let basic elements of due process have respect for the rule of law. Shaping testify in additions of terrorism are often used to criminalize the legitimate actions of opposition groups Civil Society organizations and human rights defenders. Government should not use the fight against terrorism and extrem
The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered today by our guest chaplain, mr. Rajan zed, universal society of hinduism, reno, evada. The chaplain ohm. The transnenl glory on the supreme, who is inside the heart, inside the life of the sky and inside the soul of the heaven. May he stimulate and illuminate our minds. Lead us from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality. Fulfill all your duties, action is better than inaction, selfish actions imprison the world, act selflessly without any part of personal profit. Strive constantly to solve the welfare of the world. By devotion to selfless work, one attained to the supreme goal of life. May we become united with the all powerful and allknowing lord who dwells in the hearts of all, is the supreme goal of life and infinite peace and love. Lord, be kind to us with your invisible form, lead us to eternal joy, fill our hearts with unending peace and free us from all bondage. Abandon us not