Innovative approaches to support our participating in this emerging marketplace. As a pioneer, task rabbit welcomes the opportunity to work with policymakers as our company grow and matures. We consider this engagement rewarding on many levels. Just last month we became the First Technology company to announce we would follow the diversity principles outlined in the Congressional Black Caucus in its tech 2020 initiative. Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member velazquez, we thank you for you and your committees interest and taking the time to understand our business and how its changing what we call the fure of work. We appreciate the bipartisan interest in the platform economy, most notably by the sharing congress. We hope we can channel this Bipartisan Energy towards constructive policy solutions that will further enable task r rabbit to continue grow. To further empower Small Business owners and entrepreneurs to effectively provide services across the country. Thank you. Thank you very much
First though, that big hacking news. A News Conference set to get under way any moment now. We have the details from d. C. Earlier today u. S. Authorities unsealed this massive 68page indictment alleging a global hacking scheme against j. P. Morgan, wall street journal and a host of other companies and institutions in the United States. This scheme, according to the indictment, involves hacking attempts against major financial companies, attempts to manipulate individual stock prices and also a whole host of other alleged criminal activities including running illegal internet casinos and illegal distribution of pharmaceuticals. A big Coin Exchange and a host of other activities around the world. The three men indicted here are jerry shalom, jash what samuel aaron and israel, United States and russia. You dive into this, what you see is a picture of a vast global hacking scheme that had pockets in all corners of the world including a server in egypt that was used to allegedly hack into
School in northeastern nigeria. Then occupy on trial. I ended a 40 something our stay in jail and ended up with this. Occupy wall street activist Cecily Mcmillan has been found guilty of assaulting a new York City Police officer in a trial that critics say should have been about the police assaulting her. She faces up to seven years in prison. After the trial, she was immediately taken to Rikers Island. We will speak with her attorney. And former black Panther Kathleen Cleaver and actor danny glover on black power mixtape. Youre able to reflect on a moment and understand the core values of that moment. It was james brown, but at the same time from he said, im black and im proud at the same time. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Ukraines interior minister says 30 prorussian insurgents and four soldiers have been killed in the eastern city as ukraine continues an assault to reassert control. Ukraine is al
Independence. Our third line, 202 5855883, set aside for iraq war veterans. You can contact us via social media, cspanwj. Facebook. Com cspan if you want to make a comment and participate that way. You can send an email. Of the financial times. Obama to send 300 troops to iraq as sunni rebellion grows. That is how they headline it. Inside, they have an editorial. Where the blame lies in iraq. The instinctive response of many western is is that the usled invasion of 2003 is the cause of todays turmoil. The invasion is judged to have been a mistake. Host all this was bound to create longlasting turbulence your custom of the editorial in the financial times. Of the newront york times. Obama orders 300 advisors to iraq. A story below that about Prime Minister Nouri Almaliki and potential replacements. Challengers emerge to replace maliki. Three members of the shiite majority have emerged as possible candidates to take over as Prime Minister. It says that the kurds want the Iraq Central Gov
It so requires. Dont be fooled, she said. Only the Supreme Court so required. The federal arbitration act was never meant to produce this outcome. In the hands of todays majority, arbitration threatens to become more nearly the opposite, a mechanism easily made to block the vindication of meritorious federal claims and insulate wrongdoers from liability. The court thus undermines the federal arbitration act no less than it does the sherman act and other federal statutes providing rights of action. So, commissioner wright, in your written testimony you argue that the courts should set the rules of the road for internet openness through antitrust law. But how could a complaint of anticompetitive behavior even reach the courts if its lawful to force every consumer, Small Business and employee to arbitrate their claims in a foreign venue that is secret, thats for profit. Youre familiar with the arbitration process . No jury trial, no right to appe appeal. How does your opinion about how th