It includes comments by Edward Snowden. Imagine a place of people dedicating their lifes to others. This is an object in a cruel experiment and over us to supervise this is a dictatorship. A kind of north korea like situation. [laughter] welcome. [ applause ] c1 welcome to this extraordinary debate on state surveillance. My name is rudyard griffiths. Its my privilege to act as the organizer of this semiannual series and to once again serve as your moderator. I want to start tonights proceedings by welcoming the north american Wide Television and Radio Audience tuning into this debate everywhere, from the canadian broadcasting corporation, to cpac, canadas Public Affairs channel, to cspan across the continental u. S. A warm hello also to the thousands of people watching this debate live right now on the internet, on theintercept. Com and munkdebates. Com. Its terrific to have you as virtual participants in tonights proceedings. And finally, hello to you, the over 2500 people whove once
Ubiquitous, more and if were not carrying it on ourselves personally, nor were being watched by somebody else who has a reason to do that for us. When it becomes that ubiquitous, when the chair becomes smart, the water glass becomes smart, is it useful to think of that as Information Technology or is this a new state of being and how does hewlettpackard make any money off this . The question is, who controls all of the information, whether its individuals, the government, the companies themselves. I think we have time for one more question. Before we take this one, i want to remind all participants thats meeting has been on the record so everything said will be held against you in a court of law. Yes, in the white jacket. Im emmy with the Johns Hopkins applied physics lab. Can you talk about the educational of policymakers on the state of the science and scientists on the state of policy and how to make sure theres not a gap between the two communities. Good final question. Im less int
Reigniting debate on issues ranging from gun control, protection of u. S. Military facilities, and even Media Coverage of tragedies. This morning, we want to open up our phone lines on washington to hear your thoughts and reactions to the Navy Yard Shooting. Those phone lines are open now if you want to give us a call. Host and if you are outside the u. S. Host you can also catch up with us on twitter and facebook and you can also email us. A good Tuesday Morning to you. I want to show you some of the headlines from some of the papers today in the wake of that Navy Yard Shooting. Here is the Washington Post. Host the headline times washington headline and here is the wall street journal i want to read from the front page of usa today e the latest massply shooting leads 13 dead in d. C. Here is the story. President obama responded to the shooting at the Washington Navy yard. I want to play you a bit of what he said. [video clip] i have been briefed by my team on the situation. We still
Ali. We report from the streets of hong kong, where opinion remain divide after weeks of protest. Protest. After months of conflict and instability, polls have opened in ukrainian parliamentary elections. Difficult times for the extion annexation of crimea. 36,000 are registered for the elections. Correspondent Barnaby Phillips is joining us live from the capital kiev now and barnaby how is the voting going . From what weve seen, voting is going smoothly. 8 00 in the morning local time polls opened. Many people in this city are going to those polls with high expectations. Kiev was instrumental in the overthrow of president yanukovych back in february of this year. Since then, i think theres been frustration at the slow pace of reform and the feeling that the old parliament, the rada was preventing legislation from being pushed through. Whether we will see those sweeping changes or not however is a bit of a moot point. Part of the issue lies in the complicated Voting System we have in u
Like california, alzheimerrizo florida and texas. Governor greg abbott warned next weeks numbers will be worse. Officials in houston warned their hospitals are becoming overwhelmed and facing a potential repeat of what happened in new york back in april. Meanwhile arizona recorded 4200 more cases. This is the sixth consecutive day of more than 3,000 cases. And florida recorded 11,000 new cases. They also recorded a new record in hospitalizations, 435 of those. The president was in florida for a drug traffic briefing. He had no coronavirus specific events and made no mention of floridas spike in cases. Yesterday dr. Anthony fauci said areas have seen improvement, but nationally it is not great. As a country, when you compare us to other countries, i dont think you can say we are doing great. We are just not. Fauci attributed the surge to cases like arizona and florida to reopening too quickly. Reports in those states along with texas and california, new beds are being added and special