After todays selfimposed deadline britain and the e. U. Need a trade deal to prevent chaos on the borders starting on january 1st. On pablo foley s welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel has set the table for a bleak Holiday Season a short time ago she announced a raft of tough measures saying they were necessary to bring down the spiraling numbers of new covert 19 cases. The measures that we put into place on the 2nd of november have not been sufficient. For a while we were able to stop the exponential growth and how to plateau movements but now were seeing a new rise in infections an exponential growth once again and what that means is that many people are dying you have been following the statistics im sure and we also know that we are close to exceeding the response capacity of our Public Health systems and aim was always to prevent this thing in the end this is why we must act and we must act fast and the results of the decisions that we made today. Well lets break
Socialism sucks, is more irreverent than most Public Policy books we usually organize events around here at cato but i can assure you the authors we are featuring today are serious accomplished economists with decades of scholarly work. Inevitably, they have drinksn their hand, probably because we chat at receptions, hotel bars and the like. But the conversation is always interesting, informative, and fun. Thats also true of this new book. This is a light book about a heavy topic. So its fortunate, fortuitous rather, that we are featuring today on the birthday of the late milton friedman, one of the greatest economist of the 20th century and the champion of economic and overall human freedom. We were lucky to have known him, or some of us to have worked with him to a limited degree. Im sure he, too, would agree with the title of the book, though i i cant really recallm ever putting his opposition to socialism in quite those terms. Today, socialism has gained an appeal among some americ
Down toward hollister, Southern California. It will only be for a day, we have big changes by the weekend. More on that coming up in 10 minutes. Here is an update on your traffic. Traffic is picking up a bit, it is wrapping up on some areas. He had a lighter the neutral start. We are getting more crowding here and there. This is a look at the Richmond Bridge heading over to marin. There is slow traffic here. 80 was bound, 26 minutes. That is wrapping up to the normal time. At the bay bridge, we have a delay of 20 minutes before you make it onto this span. Another update minutes ahead. New this morning, chp says a big rig driver was not paying attention when he drifted off of the freeway in vallejo and caused a train reaction crash involving half a dozen cars. This is what it was like this before 2 30 this morning when the first call came in. Chp says a semi truck driver veered off of westbound 80, went through a fence, and onto a side street. There was a loud noise in the ground starte
Parliament up being barred from congress. Welcome to the program huge crowds have gathered in the iranian city of kut a man for the final funeral procession the general concepts of the mahdi the top military commander was assassinated in the u. S. Airstrike in iraq on friday and hell be laid to rest in his hometown well in response to the killing Irans Parliament has now approved a motion designating the u. S. Army and the pentagon as terrorist organizations well a short while ago irans foreign minister said the u. S. Had miscalculated by targeting ceremony accusing it of making the world in secure. Matter to me don the iranian nation and Freedom Fighters are mourning this great loss the United States by assassinating a Senior Iranian general i started a new chapter that will cause them problems the beginning of the end of americas presence in the region has started they do not respect International Law they are attacking iranian history which is a shared heritage to the whole world as
Congolese families who say theyre being pushed out of lucrative mines to make way for foreign companies. So the u. S. Defense secretary has had to clarify that there has been no decision to pull troops out of iraq and other military figures set the record straight after a draft letter from a top general was in their words mistakenly circulated the confusion follows that vote in Iraqs Parliament pushing for all Foreign Forces to go after the assassination of the top iranian commander so the money iraq is also urging the u. N. Security council to condemn the killing of so the money and militia leader who died alongside him so the man is coffin has also arrived in his hometown this is kind of man where he will be laid to rest later on tuesday the Supreme Leader ayatollah mohammed they wept as he led the funeral prayers a day earlier that was in teheran. So well go back to iran shortly but if you want to have a look at this letter which talked about u. S. Troops in iraq heres some of it in