A prison in argentinas capital inmates demand better protection from the coronavirus determined not to die in jail. And how the pandemic is forcing muslims around the wilds to change the way they celebrate the holy month of ramadan. Now its being hailed as a landmark collaboration wild leaders have pledged to speed up development of a Coronavirus Vaccine and ensure that everyone will have access to it its part of a Health Organization initiative but the United States with the death toll now over 50000. 00 says it will not take part of that diplomatic editor james bass reports. Its just the place you would have expected in previous times to have seen u. S. Leadership in a Global Crisis and World Leaders coming together with a response not the idea of this event to coordinate the search for a vaccine testing and treatments for covert 19 and to make sure all the widely available the world needs distorts and it needs them fast. But experiences has stored those that even when tools are avai
Do not track through developing some tools for consumers is very important so consumers can control the extent to which they are tracked online. Do not track is an issue that some folks have been dealing with very deeply. And have go oned some tools. Some of the browsers have developed tools. Some trade groups have developed tools. And some standard organizations are working on developing tools around tracking online. I would like to see more progress made there. And finally, you know, when comes to legislation here in the United States, all that ive been talking about thus far havent been in the legislative sphere. Its been more in term of developing best practice and providing better tools to consumers so they understand how the data is being collected and used for what purpose orth. We can use some more laws in the United States. Baseline privacy legislation would help. Dont need to worry about and would make clear to consumers you know what their rights are and what could happen to
A community away to grow back into the economy and succeed. The transition has to look at the transition of the people and the Community Getting back to some kind of help so you dont just pull the plug on them and say, you are on your own. Dodd. Is town or community another twitter question. Should unions get an obamacare exception . Whenever they have built the first automobile, it wasnt a perfect automobile. When we started playing baseball , it wasnt the perfect again. It has evolved. Obamacare is a good start. Good things in it, unintended consequences that do need to be looked at and change. We need to build on it. Some classic mistakes. First, we exempted the pharmaceutical industry and said that medicare couldnt use its buying power to drive down prices. That needs to change. We jettison the public options so there wasnt the competition. E needed to keep prices down we made mistakes with the exchanges. We made mistakes with the system. A lot of mistakes. Quite sure it was. It is
Snowden recently asked brazil for political asylum. Ambassador to. Brazil talks about u. S. Relations with the country. From the Wilson Center, this is two hours. Good morning. Good morning to our good friends in the audience. I am jane harman. I am delighted to welcome you to this before the christmas holiday. The Wilson Center knows a lot about brazil. So does tom shannon. Our Brazil Institute is the premier place in washington for dialogue on u. S. Brazil policy. We were first to honor the president of brazil. We sponsor the brazil economic conference. We host brazilian governors and legislators. We air the good, the bad, and the ugly in our relationship. Tom shannon represents the good. I hope he is relieved to hear that. Ther close to four years as foreign ambassador to brazil, he is back in washington as Senior Advisor to secretary kerry. There are lots of rumors about his future. Brazil is the b in bricks. President rousseff was an alleged target of u. S. Surveillance. These wil
WASHINGTON (AFP) – United States (US) Secretary of State Antony Blinken next week pays his first official visits to Brazil and Argentina, the State Department said on Friday, as he looks for common ground with the Latin American powers’ independent-minded leaders. Blinken will hold talks with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brasilia and […]