About a program that put more than a decade of nasa astronauts into space. At morehead, we still talk about the role that we played on the front lines of the cold war. The space race was a Major Initiative within the cold war. T 10 t minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 0. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, we are in the campus of the university of North Carolina at chapel hill. I am standing in front of the morehead building, home of the morehead planetarium. John morgan the third is from a famous North Carolina family. His family was the governor of North Carolina. John morehead the third attended carolina for undergraduate school in chemistry. Made an accidental discovery in a Chemistry Lab as an undergraduate that ultimately led to the founding of Union Carbide and the fan he became an extremely wealthy man, and he came up with this idea, what he leading Science Education contribution was he built the planetarium. When we opened in 1949, the planetarium was the first one in the south. His contribution was significant.
Ive been working with the program for two years, though this program has been around for 16 years now. Its an Amazing Program working with 200 interns at 60 organizations in new york and d. C. Were really excited to have a speaker with us today. Her name is lori wallach and she is the director of Public Citizens global trade watch. Public citizen was founded in 1971 and is a nonprofit research, lobbying and litigation organization based in washington, d. C. Global trade watch is the newest of Public Citizens five divisions. It was launched by mrs. Wallach in 1995 and global trade watch is the leader in the Global Citizen movement for fair trade and investment policy. Over the course of the past decade, wallach has helped create a new Public Awareness around globalization. The emerging issue of our time. Working closely with n. G. O. s, scholars and activists in developing countries and with u. S. Congressional environment, environmental, labor and other allies, wallach has played an Im
O appellate body may fall into disfunction even next month should be here the urgency of the given field would form needed to be undertaken immediately the w t o has come under fire from groups across the political spectrum for decades but just what exactly is the role of the organisation and how do they affect trade across nations lori wallach of Public Citizens global trade watch joins the show to bring us up to speed on the moves of the mysterious giant we have this and so much more today so lets dive right in. There are effectively 13 days left for china and the u. S. To nail down the details of a phase one deal in order to avoid yet another escalation in the trade war that has already cost consumers and Companies Millions of dollars in lost productivity u. S. President donald trump has threatened another wave of terrorist by december 15th that will hit for the 1st time the supply chain of the consumer goods if a resolution is not met while merely a few weeks ago we had messaging o
Very good morning to you welcome to the program live from the r. T. Worldview center here in moscow this tuesday 3rd of december its kevin over here youre 30 minute live update 1st and its a landmark day for nato leaders of the Member States are gathering in the u. K. To celebrate the military alliance is 70th anniversary present going to be there but some are expecting a showdown maybe because the u. S. Leaders been critical of nato recently ones calling obsolete but thats not the only problem the alliance is facing is nicaea and explains this morning. Happy best day nato is that 70 years of strategic economic and security stability especially if you ask them yourself nato is the most successful alliance in history that strive to join showing their historic suspects im going to problem later on and theyve been the most successful alliance in the history but not everyone is in a policy newt the thing is the Alliance Members just dont get along us. Well as they used. The advent of donal
A position that both sides want to pin all of their trade hopes on was certainly for the u. S. I think hong kong was a very important card to play and it was a way for trying to exert maximum leverage either sign phase one of the deal or i will sign off on the legislation that obviously has not worked and in fact backfired on china because china is clearly trying to separate the 2 issues one saying this is a political move and were talking trade these are 2 separate issues and we should try to keep them separate and so thats why they sanction the u. S. Vessels which clearly doesnt really have any effect at all whether no effect on trade no effect on Economic Activities the u. S. Ports and vessels can clearly dock anywhere else in the philippines singapore australia anywhere else so really has no effect is more so a reputational thing so no going back to phase one of this trade deal where we seem to be looking like were further away from it what happens to businesses and consumers if ph