As two american missionaries are released from the hospital after being cured of ebola, after being given external drugs, the death toll in west africa nears 1500. We spend the hour with partisan Health Cofounder dr. Paul farmer on what can be done to stop the epidemic and what it means for Public Health system in africa. , which isla outbreak the largest so far in the history that we know about, is merely reflection of the Public Health crisis in africa. It is about the lack of staff, stuff, and systems that could protect populations, particularly those living in poverty, from outbreaks like this or other outbreaks. Senegal has just shut down its border with ginny. South africa has been on citizens traveling from guinea. Iberia and sierra leone. Library police opened fire on protesters in monrovia after they quarantined residents in an effort to keep the spread of ebola. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman
Who are trying to figure out how to include social and emotional into the multiple choice format. I think the behavioral tracking stuff is pretty valuable. Just making that an Upcoming Trip all by itself, you know sick days for students, fighting expulsion, there is be able to put things can be very very powerful as indicated of the Overall Health of the school as a system. The other thing is do you see a tendency to realize that objective testing is not always the way that we have to start trusting the subjective can you speak about that . This is a very core point of which are thing. We all make assessments every day and we all have to deal with other peoples assessments and judgments every day. Decouples towards data is a really, really strong in our culture right now and were all kind of living our lives by external metrics but we dont necessarily understand the quality of the data that goes into those metrics or the nature or the algorithms to produce the outcomes of the metrics.
Host you served formally as an abbasid or two switzerland inlet as an ambassador to switzerland in liechtenstein. In looking at this relationship between the u. S. And iran, where do things stand now . Guest i am optimistic. In 2009, the two big missions were of secrecy. To get the swiss government to agree to the enhanced sanctions. Switzerland was at risk of being the whole of the donut in europe, the place iran would go to trade oil. And we have and our argument was we have to find some way to bring it to the table. When we finally bring them to the table and we get a Framework Agreement, this is a great step forward. We are where ahead of where we were just two years ago. Host the issue of iran will land first and foremost next week with the senate. I want to play you some of the comments from senator bob corker, this set the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his concern over the deal expressed on Fox News Sunday yesterday. [video clip] one of the proposals bei
More endless searches of american phones and computer records are unamerican and a threat to your civil liberties. [applause] i say your phone records are yours. I say the phone records of lawabiding distance are none of their damn business. [applause] is this where we light up the phones . [laughter] the president created this vast dragnet by executive order. As president on day one, i will immediately end this unconstitutional surveillance. [applause] i believe we can have liberty and security, and i will not compromise your liberty for a false sense of security. Not now, not ever. [applause] we must defend ourselves, but we must never give up who we are as a people. We must never diminish the bill of rights as we fight the long war against evil. We must believe in the founding documents. We must protect economic and personal liberty again. America has much greatness left in her. We are still exceptional and a beacon for the world. We will thrive when we believe in ourselves again. I
Langley, was a challenge. In the end, we won because i have the right experience and background to get that done. It was a great experience. And that is what i am doing here. Most of my responsibility as a representative from this area is to fight the bureaucracy from the people who need the bureaucracy thought. You can watch our interview with freshman congressman will heard at 9 00 eastern on cspan. Self identified political independents gathered in new york. We will hear from jackie salit and author of a book on the topic. Please welcome to the stage the chairman from united independents of illinois, david cherry, along with the pollster who helped get Mike Bloomberg elected, doug schoen. Doug schoen jackie salit has been in front of the front lines and begin depended movement before there was an independent movement. I am proud to have worked with her for 25 years. As a colleague and as one of her students. She has taken the movement from a partybased movement, as it was during the