This fight against poverty . Guest well, a lot of it is through official aid agencies like usaid, the american aid agency or the world bank, and some of it is through private philanthropy like the most famous is the Gates Foundation from bill gates, bill and melinda gates. Theyre giving money to Technical Solutions to help the worlds poor, and they think theyre being politically neutral or indifferent to the presence of autocrats that are oppressing poor people at the same time theyre doing this. But unintentionally theyre, unfortunately, kind of colluding with the autocrats that are in power. Host give an example. Guest so one example is ethiopia. Ethiopia is a place that was ruled for a very long time from 922012 when he died of natural causes, he was a guy whos been praised by gates. Gates said he was proud to work with him, he gave a moving eulogy for him, praised his equally autocratic successor as continuing his policies, this is all great. Whats not so great is he was a serial h
On the upper right side of the page. New York University professor Marion Nestle sat down with booktv to talk about her book, food politics, about the power and influence of the Food Industry in the u. S. This 30minute interview, recorded in new york city, as part of booktvs college series. The book is called food politics how the Food Industry influences nutrition and health. The author, marian nestle, who is a professor of Public Health at new York University. Professor nestle, how big is the u. S. Food industry . Guest oh, its more than a trillion dollars a year. Its enormous. It employs a vast percentage of the nations people. Everybody eats every day. It couldnt be more important. Host in your book you compare it to the tobacco industry. Guest only in certain ways. Food is very different from tobacco. Tobacco is really simple one product, really bad for health, clearly responsible for a terrible form of cancer and deaths, and theres one message, dont smoke. Food is much more compl
It employs a vast percentage of the nations people. Everybody eats every day. It couldnt be more important. [inaudible] food is different from tobacco. Its simple. One product is really bad for health [inaudible] they cant live with it if they dont eat and its not just one product. Its thousands of products but the question dealing with nutrition issues [inaudible] [inaudible] calories available in the food supply every day and the people read about these figures so the Food Industry is competitive and it has to find lots of ways and in doing that as the number of calories increase it is to contain more and more ways to push food on people and it did that very effectively. Host how did it do that . Guest we have to go back into the 70s. Starting in the late 1970s, early 1980s three things happened. First was that the cultural policy is changed so that instead of paying farmers not to grow food, we paid them to grow as much as they can and they do and thats why theres more calories in t
Violation of the right to free speech. Your argument first this morning, john walker vs. The Texas Division of the sons of confederate veterans. Thank you mr. Chief justice. May it please the court. Messages on texas plans plates are government speech. The state of texas etches its name on each license plate and texas law gives the state sol control and Approval Authority of everything that appears on a lance license plate, texas is not abridging free speech rightsful motorists me remain free to speak with a Bumper Sticker or window decal but the First Amendment does not mean a motorist can compel any government to place its imprimatur on a battle flag. One of the problems of the standard whether it is regarded as offensive to many people. Is it government speech to say mighty fine bourbon to advertise a project . Yes the government can approve the messages just because it has endorsed messages or is accepting and generating revenue to proven gait the messages doesnt defeat the fact it
Misdemeanors and those convicted of three or more misdemeanors. So heres my ask. We want to work with you to restore this relationship. Weve replaced secure communities with a new program for the benefit of Public Safety. But i need a partner. In those in this room, in governors and mayors county commissions, and so forth. Weve done our part to end the controversial secure communities program. Now i ask that you and others get with your city attorney, your city council, your police commissioner, your chief get a hold of the policy document that i issued in november to see how weve replaced the secure communities program. For the benefit of all of toes we serve. And if youre one of those 177 jurisdictions, you will get a knock on the door from me. Because we want to work with you to rebuild this relationship. In my view it is a Public Safety imperative. Elsewhere in our department were moving forward on our Cyber Security mission. We had legislation passed late last year. The administra