Michael link thank you so much michel for coming on im going to say that when you were appointed special rapporteur you probably didnt think you were going to be thinking of the illegal occupation in the context of a Global Pandemic how about is coronavirus in the occupied territories that alone gaza. Look at the very beginning it appeared opin when the crown of iris 1st hit in march it appeared that the the occupy palestinian territories were going to actually weather this extremely rather well in part thats because of a negative situation other such limited freedom of mobility. And movement with respect to other gaza strip in particular and that many you know a huge number of the palestinian population in the west bank is also extremely limited freedom of movement around behind the the wall and as really checkpoints well whats happened with respect to the 2nd wave that were experiencing now is that cases both in gaza the west bank and including East Jerusalem are rising exponentially
And i do think unfortunately before we see february we could be close to form 50000 americans have died from this virus the u. K. Meanwhile has become the 1st western country to approve a covert 1000 vaccine for public use those most at risk including Health Workers and care home residents will get the inoculation from next week Prime Minister bars drugs and praise scientists for their work but also said people still need to be cautious Hong Kong Media tycoon and prodemocracy advocate jimmy lie has been refused bail on fraud charges this is seen as part of a growing crackdown on dissent its just a day after 3 prominent activists were jailed themselves. U. S. President giving a speech or cast on social media repeating his unfounded allegations of Election Fraud facebook and twitter post warnings on the video statement a day after trumps claims were contradicted by the attorney general himself from alan fischer. It was remarkable this may be the most important speech ive ever made more f
Want to thank the commentators and everyone for assembling this deeply honor especially to be giving the William Roger lewis in the flesh. We were on the state Department Committee suffering through a lot of bows and arrows back in the decade prior, and i got to know him well and i feel really honored to give a lecture that is in his name. This book came about and so many of you, my friends, have heard this origin story. This came about because lewis liked the review i had done and mentioned the series that helen was doing that would use my biography to teach history that would pick biographical topics or would use a representative biography to get a broader subject of history. They had just published their first volume. It was on pocahontas. And issues regarding native American History, they were looking for somebody to do something on foreign relations, he offered me the opportunity to put together the perspectives. These were supposed to be short and concise books, that was the idea
We have it signed here but his book is the luckiest n, light with john mccain and jim and i have been fascinated with it. I didnt expect to read every word as my reading list is so vast and once i started i couldnt put it down. Its kind of you tosay, thank you. You worked with senator mccain in 2005 and i am blanketing, i know you did seven books, do you remember which was the 2005 one . It could have been a book on character assassination. We sold thousands of copies and one to the senator and i believe we ran low on signed copies. I find this a little strange to be talking about him without him after spending time with him. The other thing id like to say before i turn this over to jim was that i was really surprised that the mccain family listened to deep roots. I just assumed he had western roots. Im a carpetbagger in arizona. But i didnt recognize that john mccain was perceived as something of a carpetbagger when he ran for office but i asked johngrisham when we did an event , of c
Had a broad streak of paranoia and mistrustful, and that sometimes worked against the instruments of government like the state department. In the end he ruined of self by bragging about his own catastrophic downfall in the watergate scandal of 1972 to 74. We are going to look at the good and bad side of the nixon presidency, and his partnership with National Security adviser kissinger. Im going to share this screens we can look at powerpoint pictures as we go through the sequence. First of all, here is nixon himself, he would be back in 1913 in california, grown up in a lower middle class family in california, went to the local college there. He graduated and went to Duke University law school and this was the worst years of the great depression, the mid 19 thirties. During the Second World War he joined the u. S. Navy, how the left you can see the photo of him as a young navy officer, he served with distinction, as a logistics expert getting the right equipment to the right place at t