Today, the covid and convention, but this is a big deal. Im outside in port arthur, texas. That is the biggest u. S. Oil refinery. That is the motiva refinery. It is shut down, flaring some gas. Just a skelton crew. They cant shut it completely down. That is shut. Oil and gas throughout this region shut. But more importantly the people. Take a look at the latest pictures of this morning people getting, the last plane out of saigon almost. The last few buses out of the port arthur dead center in the cone. Were dead set the eye of the storm could come ashore. If it is a cat4 storm that comes ashore, and youre in the wall, you will get quite a ride. You point out unsurvivable water in terms of storm surge. We talked to some folks that stayed in other hurricanes but after their experience, this time they say, im out of here. Trying to stay, when they said it would be category, would end up being a category 4, the possibility we would be in the eye, that is kind of scary. With harvey, we we
That is just who he is. There are times when i couldnt even imagine how he did it, how he put one foot in front of the other and kept going. But i have always understood why he did it. For the doctor who convinces her mom to finally get a Breast Cancer screening, and misses work to drive her to the clinic. For the Community College student who has faced homelessness and survived abuse, but finds the grit to finish her degree and make a good life for her kids. Mom is little boy whose serving as a marine in iraq, who puts on a brave face in his video call and doesnt complain when the only thing he wants for his birthday is to be with her. Joe givesose people, his personal phone number two, toevents, the ones he talks for hours after dinner, helping them smile through their loss, letting them know they arent alone. He does it for you. Joes purpose has always driven him forward. His strength of will is unstoppable, and his faith is unshakable. Because it is not in politicians or political
United states its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line. Hello im daryn jordan this is counting the cost on aljazeera your look at the world of business and economics this week cracks in the Global Economy stocks saw to record highs despite the coronavirus pandemic billionaires become richer but the poor get poorer so is it time to finally confront capitalism. Remaking china on the world in president cheese image is the middle kingdom looking inwards as the chill of a new cold war threatens the factory of the world. And global debt saws as government spend spend spend on the world cope with even more debt. Well no nation has been spared from the coronavirus pandemic with 22000000 cases and almost 800000 deaths the Health Crisis is far from over a secondary spikes flare up we may have seen some of the worst economic costs but most pain could be lurking as we head into the final few months of the year well most of the industrialized world has
Politics. Today well be looking at kind of the rest of the political landscape. What people now refer to as the liberal consensus of the 1940s and 1950s and determine what actually happened in the main thoroughfare of american politics and the way people are thinking about politics. You also had free readings, all of which in every day dealing the kind of idea of political ideology and all share a set of assumptions that ideas matter. So sort of thinking today how they kind of frame those ideas, and this is the kind of transition class where we move from discussing the geopolitics of the cold war and red scare to discussing whats happening in america in the 1940s and 1950s. I assume there are very few questions about this one. Yeah . So is he essentially saying that, like, the political ideology in the imperial age are just kind of not worth it anymore, and focusing on Economic Issues and focusing on the government and just making that one country the best they could possibly be the be
In rural areas than anywhere else at the peak of the epidemic millions of people in the United States were prescribed 259000000. 00 prescriptions of opioids that means on average every adult is on one opiate you know once or twice a year if not more scares the living out of me opioids are a major category of medical spending according to the centers for Disease Control its about. 24000000000. 00 in direct cost for the medications and other 75000000000. 00 in Health Care Costs people are doing and oxycontin 8010. 00 pack a day thats a 1000. 00 worth of medication the kids who are spending hundreds of this month thousands. Of her own walking. And its cheap. Really cheap really inexpensive and readily available the shame of it. Diction keeps us from knowing the actual numbers but at least 2000000 americans and probably millions more are addicted to prescription opioids prescription drugs. Causing more deaths for example. Car accidents from 999 to 2070 over 500000 americans have died from