Good morning. My name is kevin gaines and its a pleasure to welcome you to the Miller Center for a conversation about the postpresidency of barack obama. In his farewell address, president obama spoke of threats to american democracy and called for an actively engaged and vigilant citizenry to preserve democracy. It falls to each of us, he said, to be those anxious, jealous, guardian of democracy, contemplating his future as a private citizen after the honor of serving his fellow americans. Obama pledged, as he put it, that he will be right, right there with you. As a citizen, for all my remaining days, he urged Young Americans to believe in themselves and their ability to effect change. We know what happened next. The Trump Administration sought to undo the policies of his predecessor, and at every turn, trump sought to undermine the democratic norms that obama had extolled and defended. Adhering to political custom. Obama remained largely silent for most of the one term Trump Adminis
Are approaching five hundred, over 120,000 people have fled their homes. This morning information emerged about an exchange of strikes in southern lebanon. In israel, more than 7,260 people were killed in the attack on the participants of the Music Festival in kibbutz reim alone. The hamas militant wing also claims to have launched rockets towards the airport. Bengurion. Our embassy says that it is still technically possible to fly away, despite. And they are ready to take measures to remove our citizens. As stated by the press secretary of the russian president dmitry peskov, moscow is extremely concerned about the situation and calls on the parties to the conflict to bring everything back to a peaceful direction as soon as possible. Today, events in the middle east will be the focus of sergei lavrovs negotiations with the secretary general of the league of arab states. Anna kurbatova is monitoring the situation. Air raid alert in israeli. Fell silent that night, the militant wing of
More than a thousand libraries, 160 childrens schools, 77 museums, an impressive range of work that is going on in new russian regions are already producing results, as the minister of culture reported to the president , as Olga Lyubimova said, the federal theaters and Exhibition Centers provide patronage support, everyone meets together at allrussian educational seminars, the first one was held in august. When we started working in four regions there were two cinema halls, now we are working as it is and there are older generation guys and young people, it was decided that it was possible to watch any kind of cinema at all. There were two cinema halls, two cinema halls for four regions, and now in the new regions there are 51 cinema halls, of course. It is very important for us that young people and the older generation have the opportunity to come to the same films, which are now showing in all regions, the rest, we are coping with this together, discussing premieres, some people lik
Of biological. Many states in various regions of the world have fallen into the sphere of us military interests, while the Us State Department is actively involved in bioprograms on the territory of foreign countries. Were documents are presented confirming the direct participation of the gsdp in the so called biosafety Enhancement Program initiated by former us president obama. Certain countries of the middle east are considered Priority Areas for the implementation of the program. Southeast asia and africa, as well as ukraine. To conceal the customers and purposes of the research, washington uses third parties. These are contracting and intermediary organizations metta, ch2m hill, eco health alliance, more than twenty companies in total. For nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations are actively used to cover the actions of the state department. According to the documents received, amounts were spent to finance them only during one year to ensure participation. At least 80 contract
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