Met and labrov made it clear that president putin will not discuss the matter until the crimeaen vote to enter the nation. And secretary of state kerry was looking for a way to delay the referendum voting in crimea. A vote that will determine not when, but if crimea leaves to become part of russia, because the ballot only contains two questions and the only answers possible are, crimea joins russia now, or crimea joins russia later. It is a ballot and an election that carry president obama and u. N. Secretarygeneral ban kimoon claim violates International Law. If the wrong choices are made, then there will be no choice, but to respond appropriately because of the gravity of this breach of international standard, breach of International Law and challenge, frankly, to the global standard by which nations have been called on to try to behave. Lou foreign minister labrov and putin see things differently. Labrov comparing crimea to previous ones, kosovo and the islands. And he out right rej
From air pollution but its not do anything different moral consequence. If people die as a deliberate act, thats different from consequence of people dying from not putting on enough scrubbers on power plants. They both matter but there is a difference. Most law and philosophy. Those are two of the most prominent acid rain is certainly almost a risk for easy calculations to show the. I think the big concerns are the ones we have in products. Make a more general point, and that is complexity. It seems to me that although for the last 20 years climate scientists have made enormous advances in understanding how the climate system works, its all so true in a sense that we know less than a sense eskridge a look at it, it just becomes vastly more complex. As we know, as soon as we start by but claiming that in changing the climate we start time of the of the component, so were talking about the earth as a whole as a total system that would be edited with and changed in certain ways as result
The cube to be new government will work out on the issue. Increasingly on the strategic and political side. Within europe and indeed, within nato. I think that the United States needs that strong leadership from germany a willingness to stand up and be part of not only a collective but indeed a leader of that collective. Within nato and within the European Union and broadly. Speaking in order to ensure that the United States will have this partner. Not only in we are lib berlin but indeed europe we need. Germany is the big kid on the block. It is militarily the big kid on the block. It doesnt have the expenditure on Nuclear Weapons that others have. It is transforming its military in to a force that is quite able to conduct the military operations. Its efforts in afghanistan are underappreciated. They are they have been a leader in the north. A true leader. They are the first and only countries so far to have stepped up and said they will be there not only other countries but the first
I will say in years past jonathan in his work and much of the work that is being presented here when we were at meetings on innovation and the big bugaboo that ui is heard, the bogeyman, the fda. Fda is responsible for all the problems. Not true obviously and not what you hear now. I emailed some colleagues at the fda recently. I said interesting fda is not coming up at all. What is coming up is the specter of not being able to have products be reimbursed and so i think that is one that everybody can sort of lean in collectively and Start Talking about this value equation. To further comment on the economic realities, one of my responsibilities is to balance the budget of a medical school. Well we put in 60 million in for each dollar that comes in we spend about 25 cents and we are. Efficient in extra dollars to support the Research Enterprise. That is the importance of cms. Where those dollars come from for most medical centers where there is a mission not an option to invest in other
You can also reach out to us online on twitter, facebook, and email. The decision from the Supreme Court is expected to happen around 10 00 this morning. We will follow with live coverage. At antake it a a look article from the wall street journal. This time on whether religious beliefs give them the right to opt out of the laws requirement of contraceptive coverage for employees. They are expected to rule on the final day of the tony 14 court term in a case challenging unions to collect fees from who declined to join. That store is in the wall street journal. The first caller is in maryland on the republican line. I think that hobby lobby ought to be able to decide. It sounds like they will out everything but. Ie reason i feel this way is have a similar situation. I am a nurse. I work for a catholic hospital. When i was going through infertility, they said they would not cover in vitro. They covered a certain things but they did not feel it was good. Decidei had a right to and if i di