I will be the moderator. Senior fellow at the Hudson Institute who put together this panel, which i think is on a key issue. It is talked about a lot, but there arent that many panels about the topic around town. I look forward to this discussion. As i mentioned for the past couple of years, there has been a lot of debate about Multilateral Institutions. And on chinas influence and how that is quickly growing and leading to changes in the fundamental rules of these institutions, and also giving rise to alternatives to the old ones. Arises then,that does that make the institutions that we already have counterproductive to preserving a liberal world order when authoritarian states rise within the institutions and partly take over responsibility for them . Another key issue is the one on fragile states. They seem to be continuously bogged down in poverty, lack of education, etc. Although, we have spent decades on development aid, peacekeeping, etc. From the institutions such as world bank
Statewide Union Conventions to get the big crowd and then you have on the other side, the early mornings that 4 00 a. M. Wakeup calls that you can catch a plane. The early stage, are easy to get to so from ohio gotta go to chicago and then to iowa somehow or another charlotte and then into South Carolina or atlanta. So the travels, the packing and unpacking of the bags. Being away from the family. Thats really the hard part. The one thing thats been interesting, is almost like the consensus in the country, not just how screwed up washington is but the challenges of the country. You can be in a Manufacturing Center in youngstown, the hospitals close, they lost jobs. The challenges with opiates of some kind of drug addiction, and shes around the environment. Water whatever. And you can go into the rural and is the same thing. They are losing their maternity board, the hospital and they are dealing with methane and phentermine issues. They are losing manufacturing in their downtown needs
Take radical action within the next 10 or 15 years, we could be talking about a civilization collapse. We could be talking about food shortages, mass starvation, hunter is possibly of millions of refugees hundreds of millions of refugees and social collapse that we have not talked about in the modern era. And need to talk more about ben and liz preparation for war endless preparation for war. Bring the boys home. We should be talking about waiting peace, waging peace. We cannot just deal with the guns and just deal with the military budget, we also need to have a u. S. Department of peace, department of children and youth, we need to pay reparations, we need to get real in this country about the things that we need to get real about. Donald trump has ushered in an era of political theater. And we will not be going back. Ladies and gentlemen, it is not just a politician. He is a phenomenon. And the only way we will defeat them is if we create a phenomenon of our own. And a phenomenon of
Stadi scathing letter from the manager, bashing the city for making last minute changes to their concert and cancelled planned pyrotechnics, the manager wrote the impression i and many others in the industry have is your facility is getting so restrictive and dysfunctional, its no longer worth the effort to play there, due to the myriad and random rule changes. Initially the city was cheered by some for extending concert curfew to 11 00 p. M. For the famous band. Personally. Tit doesnt matter whos playing, metallica, rolling stones, it doesnt matter. The noise ordinance in place for a reason. Reporter a spokespersons is echoing the concern, saying in a statement, the city manager jeopardized future events and guaranteed a decline in stadium revenue. Such stunts may appease mayor gillmore, but they continue to harm every santa clara resident. We reached out to the City Managers Office which is denying many of the allegations including cancelling the bands fireworks show, telling nbc bay
It will likely increase the cost of doing business though, which is problematic because uber and lyft have never been profitable. Ubers legal officer says they negotiated in good faith, and their offer gave driver access to sick leave and injury protection among other things. Establishing for the first time ever, a guaranteed minimum running standard that would provide stability for drivers while allowing them the flexibility to earn more and to work whenever, wherever and for whomever they choose. West said the vast majority of the drivers dont want to be employees, and they are disappointed that lawmakers couldnt reach a compromise. If Governor Newsom signs the bill, which he is expected to do, it will go into effect in january 1 of 2020. The bill creates exemptions for dozens of businesses. Now lyft highlighted that in this statement saying the fact that they were more than 50 industries carved out of ab 5 is very telling, we are fully prepared to take this issue to the voters of ca