[background noise] the university of massachusetts amherst announced the acquisition of papers of Daniel Ellsberg, which will be available to the public. In an event marking the acquisition, pentagon papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg talks about the proper problem with Nuclear Weapons. His recent book the doomsday machine, confessions of a Nuclear War Planner details his three pentagon papers work as a teacher analyst for the Rand Corporation strategic analyst for the Rand Corporation. He talks about the role of whistleblowers in the 21st century. All right, good evening, good afternoon, good evening. Thetings and welcome to 21st annual friends of the Umass Librarys fall recession. I am the dean of libraries here. Today i have the honor of welcoming you to a special program, planning to celebrate the acquisition of daniel bysbergs personal archive the university. This represents an important addition to the Umass Library archives and the university. The Library Special collections a
The survey number was 95. Present situation, 94. 2. That is better than last time. In terms of expectations, though, 91. 5. The Manufacturing Index has come through better than the survey. Last time, it was flat with expectations at five. We came through at 10. The consumer is getting jittery. Alix especially as the sunbelt is hit. We had an announcement from the fed earlier. Michael mckee is with us. Walk us through the numbers and to talk about the fed meeting tomorrow. Mike the numbers are connected to the meeting, with Consumer Confidence following and the outlook for the next six months dropping dramatically as it did, the economy is looking like it will go back into some sort of contraction, based on the new covid19 cases we are seeing. The fed sees as something they do not like, because moments ago they announced they are extending seven of the nine lending programs they put into place in march, through the end of the year. They were going to expire on september 30. The only one
Twitter shut down 32,000 accounts tied to china, russia and turkey for manipulating the platform. This after joe biden called out facebook for failing to curb misinformation and not taking a stand on political speech, oed i many who watch the by many who watch the social network. The company spends a lot of time outlining Community Standards they are supposed to enforce against all users, and when one particular user comes along who happens to send his posts from 1600 pennsylvania avenue, theres a different standard. In a lot of ways, facebook is too big to fix right now. Facebook has 2. 5 billion users around the world constantly posting in more than 100 languages. That is a system too big to govern. You have one young white man who has one experience in this life who has the control of billions of people, what they see and view. It is wrong. I dont know if he is drunk with power or simply just in a bubble. Us is someone else who has an opinion, roger an author. Ive got to get your te
Dictabelt consequences and the profound recent miscalculation. Also coming up tonight 2 more charges against disgraced hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein as his sex abuse trial begins in new york. I pulled my arm away finally and headed to the door he started following me and telling me that he could introduce me to bob going and that i could get a 3 picture deal and that he would green light my script but i had to watch him after me. On to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with worries about war between iran and the u. S. And more questions but answers last weeks u. S. Drone attack which killed irans top general is threatening to bring both countries into a military conflict with consequences across the middle east and beyond and yet we still know very little about the intelligence indicating and alleged imminent attack by iran today the u. S. Briefed nato on that intelligence but nothing new was offered after that meeting
At full consequences and a profound respect miscalculation. Also coming up tonight for more charges against disgraced hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein as his sex abuse trial begins in new york. I pulled my arm away finally and headed to the door he started following me and telling me that he could introduce me to Bob Weinstein and i could get a 3 picture deal and that he would green light my script but i had to watch him after. All to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with worries about war between iran and the u. S. And more questions but answers last weeks u. S. Drone attack which killed irans top general is threatening to bring both countries into a military conflict with consequences across the middle east and beyond and yet we still know very little about the intelligence indicating and alleged imminent attack by iran today the u. S. Briefed nato on that intelligence but nothing new was offered after that meeting this