You come at a time when usaid is making headlines for doing nothing more than the job you were appointed to do. That we say to the record, when it comes to the issue of cuba or your work in any closed society, i do not believe usaids actions, as clearly articulated in your Mission Statement to promote resilient democratic societies that are able to realize their potential, are in any way a cockamamie idea. I believe it is exactly what the people of cuba, iran, burma, belarus, north korea, and other authoritarian nations need to help them communicate with each other. To help them achieve the usaids stated mission of a free, peaceful, and selfreliant society with an effective, legitimate governmen. So i commend you for helping people have a less control platform to talk to each other, helping them find a way to connect and share their views. Global Internet Freedom programs , u. S. International broadcasting, and support for human rights activists are all fundamental components of our co
I do not believe that usaids action that were quoted to promote quote democratic societies that are able to realize their potential are in anyway a bad idea. I believe it is what the people of cuba, iran, burma, north korea and other nations need to help communicate with each other and help them achieve usaids stated mission of a quote free, peace full and self Reliant Society with an effective government. I commend you for giving people a less controlled platform to talk to each other, for helping them find a way to connect and share views. Global Internet Freedom programs and use broadcasting for support were human rights activist are components for our longstanding efforts to promote democracy over states. For 50 years, the United States has had an unwavering commit to provide free information around the world. Our work in cuba is no different than promoting this in ukraine, iran, russia, china or north korea. It should be noted there is 76 million set aside to promote global Intern
Thank you, senator. I do want to respond to some of the comments made earlier. The chairman started out by talking about the cuba issue and said i will just bear freeze, it is down, down, and even dumber to essentially shield cuba from the influences that we have on other dictatorial regimes and authoritarian regimes. I could not agree more. I could not agree more. This why i oppose our policy on cuba for so long. Mentioned another senator mentioned that iran is the only country less free cuba. But even iran, we dont shield the people from the influences or the government from the influences of americans traveling there. We encourage it. North korea to my of their government would allow more of it we would encourage more of it. We had a similar situation with cuba praising the education system. If we had bob from peoria our friend from the mind it would say no such thing because they would realize that its a different world than is described by some with travel there was enough for the
There are swarming capitol hill, a lobbyist. I got 100,000 i had a hundred thousand people write me their objections. The first thing i would do is stop this deal. I would not let this go through. Its not up to me. Its up to the fcc in the doj. Senator frank and weighs in on the proposed comcast Time Warner Cable merger tonight on the communicators at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. And over tonight at 8 00 eastern a debate between former director of the cia and the nsa. The nsa is Data Collection and surveillance program. Here is some other debate. Here is Google Data Center one and two. Here is the line between them. The nsa goes in and sits on that. Everything that it wants from that even though hundreds of millions, billions of those communications will be u. S. Communications. So let me make sure i understand the premise youre suggesting. You believe that the mail should be as safe haven for legitimate for intelligence targets of the United States. And that is exactly how i translat
Two weeks after his death in Police Custody sparked a movement against racial injustice, calls for changes in policing and protests worldwide, george lloyd was laid to rest. This will be a homegoing celebration. Floyds funeral at the fountain of praise church in his hometown of houston cap six days of mourning after services in minneapolis and north carolina. Religious leaders remembered the 46yearold father and said his death would not be in vain. I leave with you one word, his final word which was breathe. Attendance was limited to 500 people and included family members of other africanamericans killed by Police Including breonna taylor, michael brown, and eric garner. There will be no more 8 minutes and 46 seconds of injustice. What that order will say is in this city we will band choke holds and stranglehold. Is the floyd family thanked all those that came to support them they reiterated all their calls for justice. I want justice for my brother, everybody is going to remember him