Of drugs for severe illnesses and as a result of this work that i was doing on drug pricing in the United States looking at these issues, i eventually began to get more aware of the International Discussions about the u. S. Could do and what was happening in the countries in 1994, i was invited to argentina and brazil by people that have picked up my name as someone working on these issues and i really became aware for the first time the extent to which the United States and the state department and through the trade office and the whole apparatus of the Foreign Policy was putting pressure on the developing countries to extend and put in place monopolies on pharmaceutical drugs so wha a lf developing companies have excluded the pharmaceutical drugs from the patent system and you could buy drugs from argentina and others and at that point also from brazil and the u. S. Was pushing all these countries to put those in place but also going way beyond that. And i remember when i was at arge
sesquicentennial, our 150th national birthday. here in texas i imagine it was quite a big deal. but in fort worth, texas, just to waste on here, the festivities were overshadowed somewhat by a local battle, what that include political, religious, business and civic leaders. the catalyst of this battle was a preacher. the issues republican personal, and citizens found themselves polarized. some talk about conspiracies, others about troublemakers. on july 17, 1926, it all came to every successful businessman, someone well connected to the movers and shakers of the town, went to pay a visit on a local pastor. but this was not just any pastor. far from the typical man of the cloth, he was a multifaceted personality ruling over a religious empire. more than just a preacher, he presided over the largest protestant congregation in america. in many ways america s first mega church. he was a radio broadcasting pioneer and star, the publisher of bob corker tabloid newspaper there he wa
them in brains can machines and had them what a horror movie and then had them describe their feelings. .. up next on booktv, president obama sister, maya soetoro-ng read her children spoke to a group of kids at tenley friendship library here in washington d.c.. her book, ladder to the moon was inspired by her wish that her late mother ann dunham head had lived to meet her grandchild. greetings one and all. and on behalf of our chief librarian jenny cooper, welcome to the d.c. public library. my name is wendy lukehart. i buy the children s and teen books for the library system. i am thrilled to have the special children s author with us tonight. let me tell you how thrilled. not only is maya soetoro-ng an amazing person who has written a book you are sure to love, but this moment is all the sweeter due to be, let s call them district administrative obstacles, that threatens to derail peace these efforts during the last dates of planning. we nearly had to concede defeat
of these united states meanwhile, washington told john j. in 1796. and i believe they will always act well, whenever they can obtain a right understanding of matters. let me say that i share washington s fate and essentially sound common sense of americans. except perhaps that of the coming generation whose male members seem unable how to put a baseball cap on so the brim points for. i am not saying when our national government under either party is capable or even desirous of actually educating the citizenry about the islamist threat confronting america. today americans simply do not have what washington called a right understanding of the threats from the persian gulf region. in my writings i ve sought to acquaint americans with the nature of these threats, whether from iran in its religious in iraq and lebanon, the vicious martial, anti-christian, anti-jewish and anti-western brand of islamic theology exported under saudi arabia s official, or the forces of osama bin laden