Moment and a reflection of the part we all have to play when slowing the spread of covid19. In light of this remote format i also some reminders to the members about conduct of the hearing. Members keep their video feed on as long as they are present at the hearing. Members are responsible for muting and unmuting their microphones and please keep your microphones muted when youre speaking. And finally if members have documents they wish to submit for the record please email to the committee whose email address was circulated prior to the hearing. Well, good afternoon, and well coom the First Virtual hearing of the committee on investigations and oversight. Today were discussing a critical issue. Research into repurposing existing therapeutic drugs for covid19 treatment as well as scientific basis for the federal governments evaluation of such drugs. I appreciate our witnesses being here under these unusual circumstances, but these are very important issues, and we look forward to your
Harmful is noise to our health and what kind of effects can it half. A sinking city bancorp is desperate for solutions to its flood problem. Traffic jams and backed up streets could be a thing of the past with self driving cars. With a computer at the helm they could smooth the traffic flow by up to 30 percent but do Artificial Intelligence systems know whats going on around them. The also official Intelligence Systems that drive Autonomous Vehicles have to interpret what computer scientists call optical flight. Patterns of light in official seem to identify objects that are. Its crucial the optical flow systems get it right all the time. So do they. Thats what 3 researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and tubing and germany want to determine. This system represents the movement of an object in different colors in different degrees of brightness depending on the perceived direction and the speed its going in. Your cars moving to the right then and then your opti
For the cia mind control project known as m. K. Ultra the new book boys are in chief by former New York Times Foreign Correspondent Stephen Kinzer sheds light on m. K. Ultra and the man behind it Sidney Gottlieb he joins me now from cape cod in massachusetts stephen welcome to going underground before we even get to this amazing book your reaction to this 40000000000. 00 pentagon money appearing to go into the next Coronavirus Relief package apparently your country needs you have 35. 00 b. s of a junior class attack submarine whatever that is and some kind of directed Energy Weaponry to target china there seems to be no aspect of Public Policy including how care in the united. Doesnt become somehow the property are. Its true that in the bill or so. You were coronavirus by not all these military programs the horrors that playbook talked about. Were justified. Why this concept that everybody seems to share you know that the world the freedom loving people that everywhere they see an immi
Are people who are overweight or have chronic diseases already sort of dietary guidelines are extremely important in helping people understand where to eat but they are so heavily politicized its almost impossible to understand were being me now i actually want to seize on this point because youre making the a dollar notes on how big corporations are abusing. Trade on science on power on people how but i think it wasnt until they called it 19 that the full damage of those practices really hit home as as just sat the lethality of this virus as with many other viruses was super charged by the problems of. Diet and g. s disease list and i just wonder if that would put an additional sort of political impetus on those scientists to perhaps at least when it comes to public recommendations to change the advice. Did. Says far as we can tell is going to be pretty much the same as a whole always has been only a little bit more strict in recommend and recommending limits unsaturated fat which is
You to follow because they doesnt accommodations that we are talking about theyre influencing School Lunches theyre influencing what people have fat in hospital theyre influencing what people give a setter and a large degree theyre also influencing the give it a very the practices of big multinational that todays iraq. Yeah theyre enormously influential in the odd ways but theyre written in a euphemism and theyre written in euphemisms because its politically impossible in the United States to advise eating less of anything that has a industry behind it that makes a lot of money. As im going to say over and over again we know what a healthy diet is it means not eating too much for one for one thing and eating less is very very bad for business it doesnt make anybody rich if people eat less food other coated 19 pandemic has illustrated how reported it is for people to eat healthily because the people who are at very high risk for this disease are people who are overweight or have chronic