Politics. Hi, priscilla and brandon. You have to unmute. Nice to be here. Thanks for having us. When i was asked to sort of moderate this, one of the thing that it brought up brought to mind or brought null mill enemy he was now in the early how 200s there was a panel u. S. Discussion of the future of books and people making prediction about he future of books and how things had to change and which way they needed to go and that was all tied to the emergence of ebooks and ebook technology and most of the people saved at that time did not turn out to be true. Ebooks did not take over from print books. And in particular, younger readers more than any other Demographic Group preferred print books. So, the idea that Book Publishing needed to change with this technology, maybe it did some ways but not maybe in ways that people thought, and im wondering first, priscilla, i dont know if you remember that time or the kind of craziness that win along with it, but do you feel that i dont know ho
The United States is facing a growing backlash over its threat you probably hold the funding to the w. H. O. And thats after President Donald Trump said the organizations missteps have come i found extreme cost and i think theyve done a. Very sad job in the last period of time and again the United States pays them 450000000. 00 a year china pays them 38000000000. 00 a year and theyre a puppet of china theyre china centric to put it nicer but theyre a puppet of china. Well russia has become the latest global power to condemn trump threats Deputy Foreign minister has been quoted as saying it is against the breaking the w. H. O. For another members political purposes. Or accuse the United States of attempting to avoid responsibility for the handling of his own outbreak of the transfer marks were meant to criticize chinas response efforts made the u. S. Tries to use china as an issue to shirk responsibility and bargain over its International Obligations to the w. H. O. This is a miscalcula
A 542000000000. 00 fund to finance the reader of the European Unions economy. On the brink of collapse the mayor of brazils largest city wants its Health Care System has reached 90 percent capacity. The country at the heart of the crowd of ours outbreak thats infected nearly 5000000. 00 people around the world is defending its handling of the pandemic tried is now pledged billions of dollars to fight the virus president xi jinping made the announcement during an annual Health Conference run by the World Health Organization. China will provide 2000000000. 00 over 2 years to help with the global covered 1000. 00 response and to help with economic and social development in developing countries china will also work with the un to set up a global humanitarian response to pro and hub in china. President also told the Virtual Meeting he supports an inquiry into the Global Response to code 19 only once its been brought under control chinas face growing criticism from countries including the u.
Pandemic. The paycheckum Protection Program receiving 349 billion and another 310 billion of supplemental legislation. And with accountability are crucial because the moment theti administration became clear for those that needed it most. So we are not taking any other floor and then to take this opportunity for unanimous consent to get Something Real done with bipartisan support and who can be against transparency and otaccountability . Were close to 700 billion of the taxpayers money iso going and unfortunately the publicly traded companies have secured ppe loans putting some Companies Truly Small Businesses however hundreds of thousands of momandpop shops with the Restaurant Owners with the baker and the candlestick maker have been shut out with a standing relationship with a big bank. So when it comes to minority owned businesses with the center for responsible lending 90 percent of africanamerican and latino ownedno businesses are likely to shut out of ppe funding womenowned busin
Those who needed it most. So today we are not any other action on the floor dealing with covid, so we thought we would take this opportunity to ask unanimous consent to get Something Real done that should have bipartisan support on both sides of the aisle. Who can be against transparency . Who can be against accountability . An to know where close i to 700 billion of the taxpayers money is going . Is it going to the right places . Unfortunately today at least 200 publicly traded companies have managed to secure ppp loans, and most of those are not very small, including some Companies Whose owners are large contributors to President Trump. Truly, Small Businesses, however, hundreds of thousands of momandpop shops with less than 20 employees, the proverbial restaurant owner, or the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker have been mostly shut out because they didnt have a standing relationship with a big bank. Thereve been great despairs when it comes to minorityowned businesses. Ac