Breathing thing. Especially in the technology world, where you have Companies Like twitter that are young. Twitter will turn 9 later this year. Some of you in this room think it has been here forever, but it has not been here forever. Not even close. Because of the truncated cycles of our world in the media and Technology Full fold, there is a sense of attachment to things, including culture. Even in cultures like ours, there is this poll to preserve parts of our culture. At twitter, we have certain like you have these core values, at twitter, we have a number of them too. We want to create a culture where those values can continue to exist, but that is different from preserving the culture. I actually think so, inwardly facing, our responsibility as a Leadership Team is to create an environment where those types of values can continue to flourish. Also, being really openminded about some of these things are falling down. I will give you a specific example. We have two core values whic
Undercut the argument for the necessity to pass this bill in the first place. It is a rational thing for all companies to do is to do the kinds of things this bill requires. You dont need to pass the bill. Not passing and is not going to have a substantial effect on interstate commerce. Discrimination is not going to be having substantial effect on your state congress. Companies are going to be taking steps to get rid of it, anyway. I think there are going to be situations where taking Sexual Orientation into account is going to make sense. It may not be common and it may not be something that involves what most companies do this is another problem with passing onesizefitsall federal legislation. It may be that people who make airplanes have no reason to consider Sexual Orientation. The people who are in the caregiving business might want to consider Sexual Orientation. It just depends. There are thousands of businesses out there. They are all different. I dont think we should be passi
Insurgents started happening after the iraq war and you have a lot of sunni individuals who came to kuwait at the time that were displaced in the conflict that happened. And i think that they have a lot of influence actually and as he said, kuwait has open politics and there has been some situations. And they actually broke down in the middle of these issues and what escalation was part of sm and also in lebanon as well. And this includes the parliamentarians in their support for them as well which i think tells you something about how the sectarian policies of the region are becoming much more prominent and syria takes that too much higher level. And everyone actually has their own players and a lot of the fears that were built up from these other things than that includes what it means and they have their own actors and it will now be a part of another foreign setting. Its just as we talked about. And i think the problem in kuwait is that the politics are much more open. At the same
Anything who knows haiti or Disaster Relief that many of these issues occurred. They occur here but in a different way after sandy. I was playing close attention to the news as the storm was coming up. And you saw the same tropes come and you saw the fear of mob mentality taking over. And people were looking for the any sign they could find of society breaking down, the looters coming in, and usually blowing it out of proportion because as there are isolated incidents here it wasnt a big deal. In katrina, that attitude had major implications. You have people who survived a disaster and are trying to stay alive and are getting shot to death by the police because the Police Assume they are stealing something they are not. So that is a long way of saying that it would have been nice if there had been a period of reflection and new plans were made for Disaster Relief Going Forward so when the haitian earthquake hit at an hour of no ones choosing it could have been implemented. It is never
The cell phones before we begin to see if they have been turned off, we will appreciate it. Our panelists are here and we would think presdient Vladimir Putin. We have the focus on u. S. Government institution and programs for strategic outreach to the public a Foreign Countries as well as more traditional diplomacy. She is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and serves on the board on political journalism and the center for free inquiry at Hanover College and is a member of the council on Foreign Relations. Please join me in welcoming helle dale. [applause] we are here to talk about the ukraine and today we will be looking at the elections in the president ial elections coming up on sunday. These are quite contested, it is a subject that are three analysts who cover from a number of perspectives, one of which i am sure whether they will take place at all. There are some in the ukraine and in Eastern Ukraine the first speaker is going to be Janusz Bugajski. He is welcomed and it is grea