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gap between china s onshore and offshore currency has widened to a record after they cut again rates for a seventh straight day. the offshore saying that s going to a five-year low. that is the weakest level since april 2011. let s take look at the markets. closed for the lunch break, here is how they were trading in the morning session. the hang seng down close to 1%. afternoon they say this is the picture in singapore, tokyo, red.ubai all seeing some north korea confirming this nuclear test. emily: i m emily chang and this is bloomberg west. coming up, we will look at the big news coming out of this year s consumer electronic show. plus, the world s most valuable company, a little less valuable today. sellers take a bite out of apple s stock price and the company is cutting back iphone production. virtual-reality about to become a real reality for consumers. we will preview the developments for 2016. first, the lead. cars that can drive themselves and speak to your ....
you would be sent to mccarthy s committee and blacklisted, deported somewhere. they decided to adhere to nonviolence when they were marching. the people we associate most with nonviolence like dr. king, he often had armed bodyguards surrounding his home. it s a fellowship of reconciliation, went to visit martin luther king in the early days of the montgomery bus boycott. he had decided on being gandhian. he wrote back and said, this place is an arsenal. you had so many guns around the house, and they convinced him not to do it great it s a mess, i think. it. it s a mess, i think. questions? thank you all so much for coming. [applause] coming up next on american history tv, historian and author douglas charles discusses his book, hoover s more on days, war on gays. thanbi accumulated more sex000 pages on so-called deviants. these files were destroyed in 1977 and 1978. professor charles discusses his research into the history of the program and the public and ....
his files to using get his way, often times, with politicians. mansecond is of a secretive wearing a feather blower, sashaying around washington, ..c. with his lover one of those is verifiable. based on historical evidence. .he other is not nevertheless it has become an irrepressible cultural meme rooted in innuendo, and supposition. it captured the two major hoover era of sessions. .ommunists and gays until now the fbi preoccupation with gays and the means a targeted gays have not been documented and examined only in limited ways. public discourses over the fbi and gays center around the idea of a gay hoover targeting his own through overcompensation. we cannot know what his sexuality was unless we are willing to use stereotyping as evidence of a person s character or nature. having no convincing evidence sexuality isover s a causal factor in explaining why is fbi targeted gaze for 40 targeted gays for 40 years is not helpful to understanding what the fbi did. let me ....
j edgar hoover. two images come to mind. the first is the long serving fbi director with his vaunted files. targeting communists and leftists. using his files to get his way with politicians. image is of a secretive man wearing a black cocktail dress and a feather boa and high heels with his secret lover, clyde tolson. one of those is verifiable. the other is not. an irrepressible cultural meme with innuendos and suppositions. they capture the two major hoover of sessions of communism and gays. the fbi s preoccupation with gays, has not been very well documented and examined only in limited ways. public discourse over the fbi and gays often center on the idea of a gay hoover targeting his own through some kind of overcompensation. the fact of the matter is we don t know. we cannot know what his sexuality was. unless we re willing to use stereotyping somehow as evidence. not knowing and having no convincing evidence means hoovers sexuality is a causal factor in why the ....
a most talked about art gallery in australia. if you think that is strange a madonna montage and a machine that defecates. the man behind the museum. well, starting in greece, where voting s underway in a snap general election that could change the direction of the country sharply. left wing syriza party says it will end austerity if it wins. a country in flux for next few years. let s hear from barnaby phillips. it s a tour of athens by foot but these people haven t come to see ancient ruins but instead modern buildings in derelict condition. unemployed and worried he ll soon lose his apartment. not only the people in the street in the bins or in the paper box to sleep. i am homeless also because i own very many rents to of my house so i live in fear that every day they knock ton door and say go out. some parts of ancient athens doesn t tell the whole story of the greek crisis. many young entrepreneurs have been busy sitting is up new business setting up new ....