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UN nuclear chief urges Russia and Ukraine to ban attacks at Europe's largest nuclear power plant
"UN nuclear chief urges Russia and Ukraine to ban attacks on the zephyria power plant. Raphael grossi, who leads the International Atomic Energy Agency, is asking UN Security Council members to support 5 principles to avoid a nuclear accident at the tsaritsa plant, Europe's largest. It comes after fighting there on 7 occasions as recently as last week and disruptions to critical power supply. The principles include banning attacks prohibiting heavy weapons storage and ensuring uninterrupted offsite power supply, Kremlin's forces took over the plant after Russia's invasion, and Ukraine opposes any proposed legitimizing Russia's control of it. I'm Mimi Montgomery
Crypto Curious
Debt Ceiling News Pumps BTC
"Let's go straight into some market talk. Is it all around what's happened with the debt ceiling, do we think? Or is there a bit more to it? I'm not sure, but that news about the debt ceiling has really pushed up all asset classes, and Bitcoin had a bit of a shakeout last week. Even you had a bit of a panic sell trace, but we're back to the races now. Police. I don't know if I had a panic sell. Come on. We're back to the pre -sell -off levels. I guess it was the debt ceiling, which you can give a bit of an update to. Let's talk about that. Crypto prices had a nice little pump on Sunday night with the news that the US lawmakers had ended their stalemate over the government's debt ceiling debate. As part of the deal agreed between President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the plans are a 30 % tax on crypto mining also has been shelved as part of this deal. So I think what exactly was the deal as well? There's no debt ceiling until January 2025? I mean, that's interesting. It's the kicking the can down the road scenario that every country is doing basically, but particularly America has been leading the way for well over a decade. I'm certainly no financial expert, but what I do know is if you keep printing money, money is going to be useless. Absolutely. We've been on the way there for a long time. I'm sure that's why many people are in crypto. I didn't see this coming. I thought they'd sort of let what needs to happen happen, but how much further can they go? They sort of keep making their own rules and, like I said, keep kicking the can down the road. So the inevitable will happen at one point or another. All they're doing is, in my opinion, making what will inevitably happen
Mark Levin
David Jolly: Ron DeSantis Is Far More Dangerous Than Donald Trump
"But here he is hat tip news busters on MSL cut 12 go You and I have talked a great deal about desantis authoritarianism in Florida Nevertheless This is really precious coming from these Democrats Joe Biden just said the other day that he had the power to unilaterally Raise the death scene Which would be the biggest grab of power in American history By one branch against another Ever Go ahead This week that he would quote aggressively go after pardons for one 6 insurrectionists No Matty I say this with conviction I think Ron DeSantis is far more dangerous than Donald Trump Donald Trump is willing to ignore the rules ignore the constitution And hold on hold on hold on hold on down to Trump never ignored the constitution Name once Never ignored the constitution He must have been confused with Biden You moron You know there's nothing worse than a Republican who's gone to the other side
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New US aid package for Ukraine will total about $300 million and include munitions for drones
"A new U.S. aid package for Ukraine will likely include munitions for drones. I'm Lisa dwyer. A U.S. Military aid package where you crane that is expected to be announced this week will total up to $300 million and will include additional munitions for drones. The drone decision comes after new attacks by unmanned aircraft targeted Moscow. There has been no suggestion that U.S. made drones or munitions were used in the recent attacks and U.S. officials have repeatedly said that Ukraine has agreed not to use any American provided weapons for attacks on Russian soil. U.S. officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the latest aid package has not yet been publicly announced. I'm Lisa dwyer
The Dan Bongino Show
Sen. Mike Lee: This Imposter Bill Puts the Onerous on Republicans
"I find it odd that we undermine their own piece of legislation which already passed the House for a week or bill that you now have to fight to pass the House That call me crazy center but that sounds like regression not progress It is regression precisely And we undermine that in the process we undermine all Republicans Look a few weeks ago I put out a letter a letter that we signed by 43 Senate Republicans We only needed 41 but we got 43 three others that they agreed with the substance of it for strategic reasons didn't want to sign it What that essentially said was let's assuming those 43 at a minimum would have been willing to vote to pass Bill like limits save grow What that meant was that it would be up to the Democrats because it'd be up to the Democrats to limit safe growth had already passed in the House They didn't even need to Democrats over there All we needed then was for Chuck Schumer to find 17 Democrats to vote for it So as to avoid what the Democrats themselves are touting as an imminent emergency By doing this by coming forward with this impostor bill that purports to have all these savings measures in it but on further examination it's just smoke and mirrors he's now put the onus back on Republicans You watch remark my words Dan what they're going to do this is going to unite Democrats Democrats are going to be just thrilled about this You will have more Democrats excited to vote for it than you have Republicans This will be good for them put the onus back on Republicans You're already seeing conservative Republicans who are opposing it Being attacked And that is because of this very thing And by the way the reason the only reason why they have any ability to claim that this is the only deal is because of this fake June 5th deadline
The Dan Bongino Show
Daily Caller: Bud Light Sales Reportedly Keep Plunging
"And if you notice during this week and there were a lot of pictures going around the Internet a lot of people were obviously recognizing the fallen over the important solemn holiday Memorial Day but some people were out in supermarkets and there was some pictures floating around One of them from the daily caller specifically about these beer shells and supermarkets and conspicuously the one beer that was not selling was Bud Light in a lot of these places Now this is not a story to be discarded lightly This is a heavy news day I never talk about these stories He's like kind of filled stories during heavy news days at all I try to avoid them all together sometimes to be honest with you but this is an important cultural story for us folks The left can never ever admit They screwed up I told you any sane operation right now The LGBTQ PC two plus lobby would go to Bud Light and say which is by the way it's been very generous to these groups in the past And very generous to them in the past and would say listen thanks for your help in the past Dial this thing down So you don't think I'm speaking with forked tongue folks I have been really honest when I was running for office that what is a politician want more than anything They want money they need donations to run their campaigns It's that simple right When I was running for office there were more than a number of people Friends of mine who were from out of state and said hey I'll donate to your campaign And I kid you not I said to him don't do it Because anything over $200 is going to appear on an FEC report And with this whole thing going on right now let me just handle this race You do you later on and we can show up later on or whatever but just give me some time to work this out Because I'm insane operator I don't want to see anybody get hurt especially with a nascent campaign right I want to see if we gathered some steam first Folks the left can not do that The left can't do it
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Crucial days ahead as debt ceiling deal goes for vote and Biden calls lawmakers for support
"There are crucial days ahead as The White House and congressional leaders work to pass a compromise package in time to lift the nation's borrowing limit and prevent a U.S. default. A key test will come this afternoon when the House rules committee is scheduled to consider the debt limit package and vote on sending it to the full House, officials say the U.S. risks default as soon as June 5th, President Biden says he feels good about the deal negotiated with House speaker Kevin McCarthy and has been calling lawmakers ahead of this week's votes in Congress. There are still concerns about the deal's passage with some hard right conservatives criticizing the lack of deep spending cuts they wanted, and liberals denouncing policy changes like new work requirements for older Americans in the food aid program, the full House is expected to vote on Wednesday. Jennifer King, Washington
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LGBTQ+ activists call for new strategies to promote equality after Target backlash
"LGBTQ+ activists call for new campaigns after targets announcement last week that it had removed or relocated prod displays from some stores following backlash. The activists say new strategies are needed to convince corporate leaders not to cave to anti LGBTQ+ groups. Target said its actions were aimed at ensuring the safety and well-being of its employees after protesters knocked over pride signs and confronted workers and shoppers in stores. It's the latest company to face backlash over its support for the community. Meanwhile, nearly 500 anti LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced in state legislatures around the country this year and at least 18 states have enacted laws restricting or banning gender affirming care for transgender miners. I'm Julie Walker
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Police fire tear gas and protesters burn vehicles near home of Senegal's main opposition leader
"Clashes between police and the supporters of Senegal's main opposition leader have continued days before a court verdict is expected on charges against the politician. Police fire tear gas and demonstrators burn cars near usman sonko's home. He's being tried for rape and death threats against a woman working at a massage parlor and could face up to ten years in prison if convicted he would also be barred from running in next year's presidential elections. But sonko and his supporters accused president Mackey Sal's government of trying to derail his candidacy. The clashes come a day after police stopped sonko's freedom caravan from traveling from his hometown in the south where he's mayor to the capital where he was forced into his duck our home last week, one person was killed and others were injured in similar clashes between police and sonko's supporters in the south. Senegal's government says it will stand firm against any attempt to disrupt public order. I am Lawrence Brooks
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30 international peacekeepers injured in fierce clashes with ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo
"The NATO led peacekeeping force and Kosovo has raised the number of its troops injured in fierce clashes with ethnic Serbs to 30, the Serbs were trying to block newly elected ethnic Albanian officials from entering municipal buildings in northern Kosovo after taking up their posts last week. A statement says 11 Italian and 19 Hungarian soldiers have sustained multiple injuries including fractures and burns from improvised explosive incendiary devices. It adds three Hungarian soldiers were wounded by the use of firearms, but their injuries are not life threatening. Kosovo police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd as they tried to let new officials into the offices. Serbia put the country's military on high alert and sent more troops to the border with Kosovo, the two countries have been foes for decades with Belgrade refusing to recognize Kosovo's 2008 sovereignty. I'm Lawrence Brooks
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The day has arrived for Elizabeth Holmes to report to a Texas prison
"The disgraced CEO of health technology company theranos begins her stint in a federal prison today. Elizabeth Holmes is scheduled to begin her 11 year federal sentence at a women's prison camp in Bryan, Texas, Holmes was sentenced in November for overseeing a blood testing hoax that claimed theranos technology could quickly scan for diseases and other problems with just a few drops of blood taken with a finger prick. She'll be leaving behind two young children, a son born in July 2021, a few weeks before the start of her trial, and a three month old daughter who was conceived after a jury found her guilty on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy in January 2022, investor and fellow theranos executive ramesh sunny balwani was convicted of 12 felony counts of fraud and conspiracy, and already has started serving his nearly 13 year sentence in a Southern California prison. I'm Donna water
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76ers hire former Raptors coach Nick Nurse, AP source says
"The Philadelphia 76ers have hired coach Nick nurse, weeks after he was fired by the Toronto Raptors, according to AP's sources, nurse led the raptors to the 2019 NBA championship after they beat the 76ers in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Nurse will replace Doc Rivers, who was fired after he led the 76ers to their second straight 50 win season behind NBA MVP Joel embiid, but again failed to lead them to the Eastern Conference Finals. I'm geffen coolbaugh.
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Teenager walks at brain injury event weeks after getting shot in head for knocking on wrong door
"Weeks after being shot in the head after knocking on the wrong door, a teen has joined others to bring awareness to brain injuries. I Norman hall. Ralph jarl of black teenager who was shot in the head and arm last month after mistakingly ringing the wrong doorbell, walked in a brain injury awareness event Monday in his first major public appearance since the shooting. Jarl, who is 17, suffered a traumatic brain injury when he was shot while trying to pick up his younger brothers in April Andrew last year in 84 year old white man is accused of shooting y'all. Jarl walked with family friends and other brain injury survivors that going the distance for brain injury, a yearly Memorial Day event in Kansas City, his aunt says Gerald has debilitating migraines and balance issues. I Norman hall
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
You Gotta Be Crazy to Short Bitcoin Right Now
"Bitcoin traded near $28 ,000 on May 28th. Would traders still worry of a full correction of weekend upside? And here you're looking at the Bitcoin One Hour Candle chart. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Point Trading View showed Bitcoin cooling volatility after a last minute surprise saw the action around the weekly close with the US markets closed for Memorial Day holiday. Crypto markets were quite quiet. Traders waiting for a congressional vote on the proposed deal to extend the US debt ceiling. Bitcoin up 4 .4 % on May 28th. Meanwhile failed to convince everyone that the bulls might now have the upper hand. Uploading a potential Bitcoin price roadmap on Twitter, popular trader Crypto Tony called a move back to the low of $23 ,000. Still very much a possibility. Quitting him here. If we close back below $27 .5, I will close my long and look for a short position. And quoting decent trader, the Bitcoin long short ratio has been declining as the price has gone up. This suggests a lot of retail traders on Binance are adding shorts. You got to be crazy to be short in Bitcoin at a time like this. Just saying. But on chain monitoring resource material indicators nonetheless cautioned over dismissing the uptick as a fake out. As someone who frequently uses the phrase while Wes weakening crypto actually believe the Bitcoin PA we have seen for the past few days is legit for multiple reasons, including the fact the bounce came from a key technical support of the 200 week moving average and the debt ceiling deal announcement
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You Gotta Be Crazy to Short Bitcoin Right Now
"Bitcoin traded near $28 ,000 on May 28th. Would traders still worry of a full correction of weekend upside? And here you're looking at the Bitcoin One Hour Candle chart. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Point Trading View showed Bitcoin cooling volatility after a last minute surprise saw the action around the weekly close with the US markets closed for Memorial Day holiday. Crypto markets were quite quiet. Traders waiting for a congressional vote on the proposed deal to extend the US debt ceiling. Bitcoin up 4 .4 % on May 28th. Meanwhile failed to convince everyone that the bulls might now have the upper hand. Uploading a potential Bitcoin price roadmap on Twitter, popular trader Crypto Tony called a move back to the low of $23 ,000. Still very much a possibility. Quitting him here. If we close back below $27 .5, I will close my long and look for a short position. And quoting decent trader, the Bitcoin long short ratio has been declining as the price has gone up. This suggests a lot of retail traders on Binance are adding shorts. You got to be crazy to be short in Bitcoin at a time like this. Just saying. But on chain monitoring resource material indicators nonetheless cautioned over dismissing the uptick as a fake out. As someone who frequently uses the phrase while Wes weakening crypto actually believe the Bitcoin PA we have seen for the past few days is legit for multiple reasons, including the fact the bounce came from a key technical support of the 200 week moving average and the debt ceiling deal announcement
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
You Gotta Be Crazy to Short Bitcoin Right Now
"Bitcoin traded near $28 ,000 on May 28th. Would traders still worry of a full correction of weekend upside? And here you're looking at the Bitcoin One Hour Candle chart. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Point Trading View showed Bitcoin cooling volatility after a last minute surprise saw the action around the weekly close with the US markets closed for Memorial Day holiday. Crypto markets were quite quiet. Traders waiting for a congressional vote on the proposed deal to extend the US debt ceiling. Bitcoin up 4 .4 % on May 28th. Meanwhile failed to convince everyone that the bulls might now have the upper hand. Uploading a potential Bitcoin price roadmap on Twitter, popular trader Crypto Tony called a move back to the low of $23 ,000. Still very much a possibility. Quitting him here. If we close back below $27 .5, I will close my long and look for a short position. And quoting decent trader, the Bitcoin long short ratio has been declining as the price has gone up. This suggests a lot of retail traders on Binance are adding shorts. You got to be crazy to be short in Bitcoin at a time like this. Just saying. But on chain monitoring resource material indicators nonetheless cautioned over dismissing the uptick as a fake out. As someone who frequently uses the phrase while Wes weakening crypto actually believe the Bitcoin PA we have seen for the past few days is legit for multiple reasons, including the fact the bounce came from a key technical support of the 200 week moving average and the debt ceiling deal announcement
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
You Gotta Be Crazy to Short Bitcoin Right Now
"Bitcoin traded near $28 ,000 on May 28th. Would traders still worry of a full correction of weekend upside? And here you're looking at the Bitcoin One Hour Candle chart. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Point Trading View showed Bitcoin cooling volatility after a last minute surprise saw the action around the weekly close with the US markets closed for Memorial Day holiday. Crypto markets were quite quiet. Traders waiting for a congressional vote on the proposed deal to extend the US debt ceiling. Bitcoin up 4 .4 % on May 28th. Meanwhile failed to convince everyone that the bulls might now have the upper hand. Uploading a potential Bitcoin price roadmap on Twitter, popular trader Crypto Tony called a move back to the low of $23 ,000. Still very much a possibility. Quitting him here. If we close back below $27 .5, I will close my long and look for a short position. And quoting decent trader, the Bitcoin long short ratio has been declining as the price has gone up. This suggests a lot of retail traders on Binance are adding shorts. You got to be crazy to be short in Bitcoin at a time like this. Just saying. But on chain monitoring resource material indicators nonetheless cautioned over dismissing the uptick as a fake out. As someone who frequently uses the phrase while Wes weakening crypto actually believe the Bitcoin PA we have seen for the past few days is legit for multiple reasons, including the fact the bounce came from a key technical support of the 200 week moving average and the debt ceiling deal announcement
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South African president appoints judge to oversee weapons-for-Russia inquiry
"The South African president Cyril ramaphosa has appointed a judge to oversee an inquiry into allegations the country supplied arms to Russia. The U.S. ambassador to South Africa claims weapons and ammunition were loaded onto a Russian flagged cargo ship that secretly docked at a naval base near Cape Town in December last year, ambassador Ruben brickett indicated that the allegations were based on U.S. intelligence and that he would bet his life on the accuracy of his claim. The container carrying ship named lady R is already under U.S. sanctions for being tied to a company that has transported weapons to aid the Russian war effort in Ukraine, South Africa has denied there was any government sanctioned deal to provide weapons to Russia, although it hasn't categorically ruled out that an unofficial transaction took place involving another entity. The South African president's office says the panel has 6 weeks to complete its investigations and another two weeks from then to provide a report to ramaphosa. I am Lawrence Brooks
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"You can just see that a judge could be some merrily removed on the basis. That he or she has reached her judicial oath and interpretation of that old lands with the central people's complement of course an implemented through people like the chief secretary and you can just see that the judges are not stupid. Of course they can see the writing on the wall. So if i have an important piece of a case that has won a few of those are very sensitive political leaders in the opposition on trial and the people stadium has already pronounced the verdict. If you're a judge you know. Of course you can see the writing on the wall. You'd go decide for yourself how you're gonna ruin that case. The consequences could be dire if you arrive at the golden input wrong decision because some summary removal of someone in official position on grounds that he her speech oath of office is marrying and could be easily applied to judiciary and the judges know that. That's number one number two the key person who controls judiciary senior promotion and also see neha Judicial appointments is actually the chief secretary and this point is sometimes overlooked because if you look at let's go proceedings under the basic law senior judicial appointments. I'm talking about court of appeal upwards all have to be approved by less show and given the go today. There's no balance. There's no check and balances all pro-beijing views pro-beijing appointees number one number two. The person who actually moves the motion to confirm judge for senior position is actually the chief secretary. The chief secretary is responsible to put that person's name forward in the lesko. A meeting to say. Can you please approved person and endorse him. Ask the next chief justice and if the chief secretary things you're not a patriot. He have all the power to say. I'm not moving this person forward. Because i have questions about his patriotism. The chief secretary controls that decision making process by being in his role asked. Who was the person responsible for putting forward at again as judges. We all know that as as people who are familiar judiciary in hong kong. We we know that that that that process well. So you again to think about whether judges who understand that would be affected by such a system so i think systematically and you're looking at the institution as a whole. Can you still say hand on hot at the hong kong judiciary is independent. I was very disappointed with the uk supreme court when they came out to Continue to say they will continue to send judges in hong kong because they believe that the hong judiciary is still largely independent. I'm disappointed because the statement doesn't provide any reason. It doesn't explain why they still believe that and i would like to see some reasons but i have my serious doubts about that assertion so those are the free points that i wanna make and Happy to any questions on any of you have thank you jerry. Can you share well. That was a powerful statement is lots of issues. I've got a few comments myself. But i'm eager to hear from sharon Jeez originally from hong kong she became a distinguished graduate of nyu law school. She's a active civil libertarian. For over thirty years she's taught in china. Ah sharon is the executive director of human rights. Watch run of our most active organizations that covers this field. So sharon if you could give selected comments and then we'll have a discussion but we're really glad to see you am. I think you were the one who first introduced me. Dennis and then i decided to invite him years ago to speak the council. Thank you very much. Thank you so much jerry for that kind introduction and and dennis thank you for Those really detailed opening remarks and thank you for all of the work that you have done. And i know. We'll continue to do abroad I want to offer a few comments but from centering. The perspective of an international human rights perspective. But if i could just. I add a quick comment to dentists remarks in particular these social engineering project that's underway and i completely agree that the social engineering project on the mainland is absolutely spreading an interrelated with what is happening in hong kong There are two things about that. Social engineering project one is that it is supported by a completely interrelated. Set of law propaganda disinformation censorship and then the whole panoply of police security Apparatus the second wanted to say there's an insidiousness about the way in which these various social control and clean up and crackdowns are being formulated and they are being formulated under the cover of what i would say arguably reasonable legitimate rationales that is addiction to gaming by teenagers who really will go till they drop. Monopolistic practices by these gated walled gardens by the large tech industries. Dd controls eighty. Two percent of the industry and the other large ones are indeed trying to tie in monopolistic practices so that is a legitimate goal. Terrorism is legitimate real threat and the fact that students are so stressed out. Why this endless tutoring and the need to address. That problem are real threats. So my point theories is that it is an insidious packaging that labels all of these practices at under a rubric. Where you could say. Those are real problems. The problem is how to deal with these problems. In the way in which The leadership is dealing with them is not within a rights brain framework or a in compliance with its international obligations The one i would say is is not only insidious but i would say is not reasonable is trying to create what they call the correct standard of beauty now. that is why no more sec- men no more men wearing makeup and it extending to. What can you sing in karaoke clubs. So i think that you know those are objectives that i would say. I don't agree with from the start so Let me let me Regarding the law itself let me focus on. The law has been clearly widespread local and international expert concerns regarding the vague and overbroad provisions in the nfl and the lack of transparency and accountability of the entities. Which have been created and also very specific legal analysis and concerns regarding the misuse of terrorism as rationale the misuse of the sedition legislation in hong kong that you are referred to dennis and widespread fear before the passage of the national security law about the risks of arbitrary arrests and the complete undermining of rights protections and the rule of law and therefore prior to the passage of the national security law..
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"With an open acknowledgement that. This is a really tough time. Eight that we don't gloss over that or skipped past that that we do give them many many many many openings to be able to speak to somebody rather that's appeared peer right whether that speak to a professional whatever that is and that we continue to not just. It's it's important frankly that we don't just cheer lead and push people. I think as you might be alluding to towards you know. Just keep going just stay. Everything is fine but openly acknowledged that everybody right now is really slogging through it and that coping is incredibly difficult and i think that the other piece is that bind you. This starts with leadership. This really is not effective in cannot happen if the president doesn't embrace it because it really trickles down from there frankly And it has to be in multiple places so this should be reflected in a statement that's on every syllabus rate it should show up on the bernie management system. it should show up in correspondence. You know anything that the institution can do to remind students that they get it Cutting cutting red tape right now. Right removing bureaucracy Relieving and getting out of any requirements that are not necessarily all of those things are human centered things. I appreciate everything that sarah offered and doubled down on that in terms of thinking about the senior administrative approach to this certainly there exists. Concentrated means to to engage students. And i think we utilize those Having had the opportunity to work on different kinds of campuses. I do think it's mindful for for us to be attentive of the populations that don't easily have ready access to senior administration. Having had the opportunity to serve at a community college quite often. We know that there is a more Guided path to get directly to student input feedback But i think it's critical to you. the necessary means to get directly to students. I think the intention -ality that. Sarah points out in terms of having empathetic messages. Communicated in different mediums as critical whether we're using social media whether we're doing that on our syllabi whether we're doing that specifically as it relates to the messages that we put out to the campus community. I think there has to be consistency in the chorus. That speaks to the empathy of the now. And how we're working to navigate this together Toxic positively that you referenced. I think is prevalent at a number of institutions and for us to be mindful of what that means one of the ways that we were able to execute that here at the university of pittsburgh was a town hall series that we put in place for all stakeholders called. This is not normal to just identify collectively as a community that what we're experiencing experiencing is absolutely abnormal and talk about what that experience was into think about collectively how we could move as a community to respond to the needs and to have ongoing triage ian and collective concern and outreach by all constituents i think to do that and to be attentive to those populations that are most removed from hired from senior administration is something that we have to do so utilizing our colleagues at all levels specifically looking at peer mentoring models that that offer opportunity to have communication with students and think about starting those messages during the orientation process is a front and center consideration to move that agenda for next pro robinson so pro robinson i do amcham politics international relations At tufts university on this being the council on power relations. I want to bring up the issue of study abroad and certainly last year both undergraduate and graduate study abroad. International relations is very important university. Decided it had to bring home students from all of our study abroad programs except oxford which was deemed safe and we were told everybody was living with families and of course at the end they had to eventually bring those people home the game so now. We're talking about our study abroad programs. Will we have one in ghana. I have counseled to students who are going to be studying africa at either. So as or llc maybe we have to shutdown africa because it's too dangerous actually want to know are there that are thinking about. The implications of creating are not having a study abroad opportunities for students in non-european places and ways in which you might be able to do things like i participated in a couple of very exciting webinars. They're universities where. There's some kind of interaction so i just wanna know. Has anybody been thinking about that. And does the council may be have a had that on its agenda or have you been doing it secretly and i didn't know about it we can look at it for future Topic pearl you want to. I don't have any expertise in the space except to say that i spoke to folks. Aa yesterday and they're very concerned about students health and wellbeing. And in the same on my end. I wou i wouldn't have anything in terms of expertise to offer but but which say from an administrative standpoint. It's intentional for us to be mindful of the different opportunities that we engage with into us an equity lens with regard to how we're monitoring those experiences I know loud and clear as we think about race and ethnicity being affront consideration as part of this pandemic and our response to be mindful of the ramifications and the impact on different communities so leadership should put that front and center in consideration but in terms of specific things that i've seen directly nothing that i could offer but i do If should i find information. I'll definitely pass them along Torino and just to follow on a bit from a different angle what about the pandemic related inequities facing international students. What is the you know on your campus international students and have been able to come this year And maybe that would be an opportunity to create some International experiences on campus. Absolutely i think different institutions obviously are different places with regard to that. We've had a number of students who have been able to return to campus but to be mindful that there has been a significant impact particularly as they think about housing and What the experience is like in the community And as we think about particularly depending on where individuals come from how they self identify and the the rising tide of what i would classify as racism and xenophobia potentially impacting. Those students is a consideration that we have to put front and center. I would say that you know again. We had big problems before the pandemic which folks not being able to afford to be here the way that they had hoped to be able to really afford to be here. We had students international students at good pantries Well before the pandemic You know Certainly the number who can't be here at all right now is one issue but i also want to note that One good thing is that the federal government's Higher education relief funds the her three dollars in particular which came out this year which provided emergency aid to students does not require students to be united states citizens in order to get those spots. It doesn't even require them to fill out a fafsa either so institutions. All of them that receive title for have a substantial amount of emergency aid dollars right now which they could choose to leverage to.
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"Have an inflection. Point here We have to i think. Focus on cuba for cubans resolve cuba's problems amongst cubans here and there. When he's someone helped. Bring all that together in american play constructive role there. That's number one number two. I'd keep the s. And the un out of this. I'd keep third countries out of this. Cuban community can work together to solve problems. They've done it before they've done it all throughout history they can do it again finally administration. Please don't give up the pressure points you have. Before we start easing sanctions again have a roadmap have red lines and do it in a way that we can show measurable goals connected to. Us national interest first and foremost make start doing some of that and start talking with each other. Even people disagree with each other. We're going to move product in a very good way. We have to talk to people on the island. Naturally it has to happen. Those are the folks taken the risks. Those folks you know. Support lillian if you have a quick point and then i'd like to try to fit in another question or oh wow okay well. I'll be very quick. I think that biden has his whether he wants it or not. He has no power to change the embargo that has to house to happens. We congress in that allows him to do other things. And i think that he needs to take you off the terrorist list. He needs to restock the diplomat. The diplomacy in havana. He needs to have consular services and of anna which are taken away under the trump administration and sent to third countries These kinds of things and he needs to find ways to to get some remittances to cuba without the cuban military Gaining from every dollar we son These are ways that the united states could stop playing the scripted role. The cuban state has been granted them and they continues to benefit from and and we need to stop being the bad guy. You know and if your rear to stop being the bad guy and we're going to ignore in fact all of them -tations to play the bad guy role. The cuban state gives us that doesn't necessarily include that we take absolutely no moral stances on the repression. I mean from havana in havana. You we as presence there can bring the opposition to the embassy. We can demand issue statements about what's happening on the ground. We can be witnesses. And as long as we have a no presence there than we allow the cuban state to continue to create the narratives that does to spin those narratives into distribute those narratives worldwide. And so i think we need without using the word engagement. Because i think it's something different. It's radical friendship. I think it's you know it's it's moral right. you know. We should be there as as witnesses not as imperial manipulators of the scenario in cuba a ticket. What could point. We'd love to be there but guess what when those of us were not even allowed to go and visit with the distance and the opposition in cuba. We should be allowed to go. And the by the ministration. Maybe should tell the cuban government you want to travel. Let's allow americans to visit with dissident leaders and not end up in jail. Like client of mine has been for five years and other americans arrested. It's not that easy to go to police state. Why should we go to an embassy. I think we can sure that. I'm gonna have all kinds of trouble going there. I mean i may not be able to get in. I do think that there are things that you say publicly as part of your policy isn't there are things that you don't say publicly and in view start making demands publicly bite administration. Paul is cards on the table. Then he's got no way to negotiate so there are things that when when that he needs to be careful to keep in the pocket you know that become the negotiating principles Who our presence there. you know an for remittances had the cuban state is desperate for cash even if it pretends it's not you know and it's desperate for for tourism even if it is minimal and it is family based right so out up. Stop go ahead. Sorry no actually. I think perhaps then this is the best way for for us to wrap up with a little bit of a glimpse into the lively debate even within the cuban-american community I i tend to agree with your lillian that the the the embargo has played the role of the perfect scapegoat for the cuban government for many decades But no i. I think both of you have made fantastic points. I know noda unless you have something to add but you. You're you play the role of the the more objective reporter of the one making policy recommendations And while it is very difficult for cubans to end on time. I know that c- afar is it is now one pm. So i'd like to thank everybody so much for joining today's virtual meeting and big. Thank you to our speakers. Please do not the audio and transcript of today's meeting posted on farts website. Thanks so much. For more event audio. Subscribe on itunes or visit us at c. f. r. dot org..
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"Know they also have to bring senator menendez conversation and an taking on what he wants so for what i understand. There's a lot of you know policy debate going on and meetings and under trying to get feedback but still they haven't figured it out You know how they're going to do for example Restoring remittances nuts. They'll still On on you know a debate issue. I think there's a difference between perhaps their political or policy preferences and the political constraints. You alluded to the paddle senator menendez and a fifty fifty senate for example At this time. I'd like to invite our members to join our conversation with their questions as a reminder. This meeting is on the record and the operator will remind you how to join the question. Queue. please cute operator every time we'd like to ask a question. We'll take our first question from tom. Mcdonald did more great program Tom mcdonald partner From washington also former us ambassador to zimbabwe. I'm actually proud to say. I was instrumental in saving the lives of two cuban doctors who sought asylum my embassy in two thousand. One is a md and the others a dennis. They're married with kids. You know in in miami dade and they were in zimbabwe in jail Which you never wanna be were in the crosshairs of rodolfo. Sarah gino at the time was the cuban ambassador i wanted to. I wanted to ask a question related to africa in in sort of sort of taking this discussion different way will. These demonstrations the close relationship between The cuban government in africa. And where do you see that south-south relationship going between The cubans and The african governments especially those that it came out of the liberation struggles. Thank you very interesting. Question I think how latin american governments have responded would also be an interesting angle since we tend to focus so exclusively on the us cuba relationship but the africa. One is super interesting I don't know if you follow at this at all or he would like to tackle that. I haven't seen honestly Be action a common front african governments It might be the case that we're not paying attention. We had saying you know how awesome allies in the region have reacted. They have said aid. They had supported The government. But i'm afraid that's a good question. That's something can take a look briefly. I think it will be interesting to see if these ideologically aligned governments. Come to the defense of the way they used to. I think you're in latin america for example seeing some of that in peru where you're seeing some little bit of shifting happening but that's what. Us leadership comes to play. I think if we were to become a little more proactive in this process We can help shift. That a lot has changed. You know we have a five presidents since the end of the cold war from bush all the way to a president trump that had one way to view this issue. This is post july eleventh. I think it's important to focus the discussion little bit. That way and i it's post july. I still believe cuba cuba. Nineteen thousand nine can still happen. In twenty twenty one years leadership will be essential and helping corral national forces the way trump administration did on the venezuela policy. Whether we agree it was good or not it should be. Marshall is part of us law by the way part of the libertad act was supposed to be bringing nations around the us policy on. Cuba never been done. I think it should be done. And it's an issue that i think with africa and latin america. We can make a lot of headway if we focused efforts on it I think that you know so far. We haven't heard anything negative really other than from some folks in holland and we haven't really heard something. That's you know significant in terms of re breaking radically or even slightly with Support for the cuban government's narratives. Now what really matters is whether africa against vaccines doesn't vaccines. I mean right now. The percentage of people who are vaccinated in africa is in single digits I do think that the cuban government had the expectation that they would create a much more powerful vaccine earlier on and that it wouldn't take three shots and they would have one of the five working if not to sufficiently that they could then export that and make money from it. Not just you know big muddy from i should say rather make a lot of sort of Hey as we would call it from kansas from it the notion that they would gain in prestige and they would gain in terms of of the marketability of their main source of income right now which is the exporting of doctors in the contract and doctors abroad of as well as other as well as other engineers so. I think that we need to think about that too. Because that isn't that is definitely on on the top of the escalating. Yeah i would also may decide that Many countries around the world view. Us policy towards cuba such a domestic issue There's a lack of support unfortunately End at least for the latin american left african left as well There's a lot of st geel nostalgia after the cuban revolution and it's easy to just focus on criticizing the embargo rather than government. Some really quick because they'll never comes up and it really matters in the state of florida and this speaks to not just the past nostalgia for the past but the reality that the cuban government is currently the cuba. Cuba is on the list of states for terrorism trump. put it back on the list And that from the perspective of people in nigeria is a little ridiculous..
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"And when we recall how the taliban regime protected qena members in afghanistan soil will do same thing is happening in venezuela model and they regime has Andoni let's leader of has monica. A dissident revived. Biza isn't learn fire. They have also. Joan mentions was visited. Provide who plotted the car bomb equal. That fortunately didn't become into a major tragedy and it was aimed not only kill colombians to kill us citizens so if you evaluate the essence of resolution thirteen seventy three that came out of the un security council twenty years ago well. It is evident that was taking grazing. It's a violation of denver's huge. That's why i consider. They should be declare. Now is that degration is sober notice. Not because i think we have to concentrate in how we build the path could democracy and the pathway economic and social reconstruction and that also has to do with what venezuelans can do. And that's why the democratic Resistance is is approaching their regime trying to bill a erode map so that there can be a recovery of democracy. Is that going to work. We don't know because while we have seen over the years. Is that every single time. There is negotiation. Wants to become stronger. They wanna win time. They want more pressure. And maybe what we have seen is not a substantial result. Can this time be different. Maybe yes how. Can it be different. Maybe with international pressure and that's why columbia has expressed united states that we want to be part of the solution not part of the problem that we want to work hand in hand with the united states as we have done it over the last five years because the lima group was created with a division of united states colombian other countries. We acted multi-laterally. We acted delivery of the oas reacted with the lower lead. Lima the id. So can we do something. The lateral yes and we will be working hand in hand with the united states of there has to be strong pressure so there. There are free elections with all full guarantees so that people can really experienced that whatever they decide is going to be respected by by the regime that there can be a new tomorrow and sada. Thank you for for your question. And i'm very happy because i remember that twenty nine thousand nine. We had a visit to silicon valley. We were able to To have dial ups with the big tech companies in the united states we had a great conversation with people from the world economic forum in san francisco in the industrial revolution center. We also had a great conversation with anti-gatt superman amazon with with session. Adela for microsoft. And what happened since that. This is that most of the big tech companies of united states have increased investment. People as something that was the was asked them. We want to be there. We know that you have the interest of making gloria a silicon valley in latin america. We need to have more programmers and we launched in the midst of the pandemic a program to train one hundred thousand for ranch as of today. We have do thousand verses that are being trained as programmers and we will have fifty thousand more in the next semester. We have done this with universities. We have done this for virtual education and this is going to be a revolution because most of the skills are going to be used to to make a place for app development and to have been tag golf ethnic your name it and using for example the ford industrial region especially in iot s instruments. That are going to be connected with the greasing of coverage of four g networks and then transition to five g networks to start by the end of this year and last but not least and you mentioned center last year. We decided to putting blazed non-conditional cash transfers. The families were more affected by that means that we have to to to send a resource store almost four media families and we did that through fintech so we made the largest expansion of financial inclusion in a latin american country twenty twenty we ranked number one in twenty nine hundred by the i d be and i believe now seeing new bank ludovic and new in opportunities in in virtual banking columbia is going to be disruptive market and we will have new generations of romanian using this kind of services through virtual technologies so we are now a congress working on dynamic transformation of the financial markets in order to connect to the new technologies. And i think this is going to make the number one mic for fintech math in america. Already in that position. Are we want to consolidate this for years to come so it has happened because we have approached a regulation but also because we have promoted interpreter. Sheep and i think we have created an environment so that companies can be founded can grow and grow at three digit levels becoming it unicorns as is called in the world of german. Let me just in my role as vice chairman global affairs at the carlisle group. Simply underline. what. The president has said and the potential in colombia. Something we're well aware of are invested in columbia as well as the president knows. Well i think mr president we have time for perhaps two more questions so Why don't we see how they laura. Let's let's t- up to questions for the president place. The first question will come. From mark rosen as a reminder please stage affiliation for asking your question. Good morning mr president. A good morning admiral I was the recent till recently. The united states executive director international monoprix funds. And before that. I spent thirty years as an investment banker bringing capital to latin america particularly to the andean region and Today i think investors look at the indian region which has beaten seen for. Many decades is a very attractive place to invest with some concern. As you know yesterday. President castillo was inaugurated as president of peru representing a marxist leninist party even though he said he is not a marxist leninist hopefully will govern from the center in chile. Leading candidate is mr barak. The communist candidates communist party candidate was defeated in the primary. Recently as you know but he certainly the To the to not necessarily pro business. I would say and in your country The leading candidate next year is Senator petro mr petro again there is some concern about his about his positions from the perspective of foreign investors and investors generally. So i wanted to ask you. Where does the end in region go with this time. Next year we have present. Castillo president. Boric president petro in the andean region. What what do you say to investors is. Are they going to govern from the center. Have they looked at columbia. They looked at venezuela colombia and recognized what went wrong and that they will not follow those kinds of policies and keep rb concerns. Thank you mark. Okay and i think we have time to very quickly laura. Whoever the next question is please be concise rate. We'll take the last question from sara lee whitson off President my name is sara lee whitson from democracy for their world. Now i know typically you in your position. President received lots of advice from united states. But i wondered if you could offer some advice. Offer some advice to the biden administration and it really ties into your remarks about sanctions on venezuela for terrorism of course there are sanctions on cuba There's been a new condemnation by the state department on cuba for attacks on protesters and these policies are quite in contrast to america's role in the middle east. Where for cease-fire resolutions were blocked As the war by israel against gaza continued military. Support for. Israel continues. I know you've seen some of the consequences of israeli abuses given your role investigating the attack on the flotilla. I believe in two thousand ten gay. Thank you very much. We'll go ahead and let the president answer. We only have four minutes left. Thank you for your question. Okay thank you amaral mark on your question. I'm not good at breeding future am good..
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"As you know renewable energy and distributor can like grades and Angela panels on bring electrification. She knew on developing countries. I think more the solutions will become even more viable. hey We have time for one more question. If anybody has a question please raise your hand. Okay mona i think I think that's it for questions if you want to wrap up today. Thank you so much. i think. Actually sorry about that. I think the last question. I have is You know that you successfully preparing for the future of mobility will require transformation In a number of factors so my question to the to both kilian. Jody is what do you think the most important criteria will be to accelerate the adoption of of this. You know what we were talking about today of of You know. E- mobility micro mobility artificial intelligence and transportation. What do you think is the most important and it could be more than one criteria for to to have mass adoption of of both of your respective companies. I definitely don't think there's one silver bullet I it's going to be a combination of a lot of things on including supportive. Healthy from government Senior researcher that you know we talked a lot about on we. We need We need companies to start thinking about well Super examples some companies are testing out on providing an amount of what message Chew people that don't you know ride that don't take private car. Don't get access to free Free parking at their workplace and that's been shown to incentivize the uptake or public transit and been biking now so i think it's a combination of a lot of things But we do know that. Electrification is really Keita's new jersey As well as know shared mobility which went lift is also very focused on on autonomous and connected. So i think dose were features are going to be the future of mobility and And we need public and private sector actors work together on to nibble that hugh hewitt jodi. We are very lucky in that. We don't have a huge adoption problem. At least in urban cores around our core product people want to use ridesharing for thomas biggest thing seeing people do it in the real world so the biggest thing we see in our our user research over and over is the single saying it makes someone most likely to want to try and self driving bride. That someone who's a real person has done it on real car on a railroad so lift is going to be a huge part of that adoption journey. Because we're helping people see what this is like In their real lives is a real transportation option. That's that's with my eighty hat on with my broader societal hat on i think the single biggest forgetting adoption of sort of alternative mobility options single biggest bang for for our collective faulk is getting government investment in abyan structure. I will like having looked at the economics of this a lot. This is a place where the the private market is going to have. Trouble funding is any individual player is the capital spend is just so high and to lift is committed to one hundred percent part e fleet or of our fleet being ev by twenty thirty and the single biggest walker that were seeing in that is not driver behavior. It's not vehicle availability it's not vehicle rage. It's access to easy charging. And i think that's that's probably it's nazi stopping adoption of this of alternative mobility but it stopping alternative mobility companies from moving to a more electric or solo a all electric option And that's really where. I wanna see the world going. So that's that's my boat. Yeah i would just say as someone that does That primarily focuses up clean energy electrification and trying to a sustainability practices those countries around the world that are more that provide more government incentives and support. We're seeing a lot more adoption. Not just in the mobility. We're seeing it with solar wind hydrogen etc just beyond that and So i completely agree with you. Jodi thank you. So i guess i'm going to send this back to see a far I believe we're out of time. And so i want to thank our audience. Of course. I want to thank my very Distinguished panelists huey and jodi thank you so much for your time and It was it was really delightful to to be here. And i hope that our audience members learned like i did some really interesting data points for more event. Audio subscribe on itunes or visit us at c. f. r. dot org..
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"This event is presented by the council on foreign relations ache you. We're we are delighted to be here. Today are to talk about Micro mobility my name is mona. Johnny and i am the global co head of the energy and infrastructure practice at pillsbury winthrop shop. Hitmen and i'm joined here today. By huey who is the director of sustainability for spin which is a micro mobility unit of ford motor. And i'm also joined by jody kelman. Who's the general manager of lists lift autonomous. So before we get into our questions. I would like to start with huey to just tell us a little bit about herself. And her role and Talk a little bit about spin and the What you're what you're doing there. And then i'll i'll ask the same question for jodi. Inks much and stain. As mentioned is a micro mobility company. We deploy easterners in e-bikes in cities across the us And see the end campuses across the us as well as on canada spain uk and germany. Our goal is to help build a more sustainable future in cities to providing service that offers riders more sustainable modes of transports for first and last mile trips and to connect to transit emissions in the transfer sector is approximately fifteen percent of global emissions. And it's growing and road. Transport is a contributor to approximately three quarters of that So we believe that it's important to provide solutions that can hope decarbonised cities. My role is to ensure that spin operates as sustainability possible through ensuring our operations or sustainable scooters that were deploying sustainable ensuring working with cities to help make the case for riders to shift modes on to more sustainable modes for short trips south. Just past their raid. Thank you jody. You want to tell us a little bit about your role at lift so Good morning everyone from san francisco where the sun is finally starting to come up seven. Am here so i am. I am downing my coffee As we speak by at my name is jody coming. I lead lists.
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"Org and on itunes podcast channel religion in foreign policy as always see if our takes no institutional institutional positions on matters of policy. We're delighted to have ambassador. Michelle gavin with us today to talk about the conflict in ethiopia's ethiopia's tigray region. Michelle gavin is currently senior fellow for africa studies at the council on foreign relations. She was formerly the managing director of the africa center. A multidisciplinary institution dedicated to increasing understanding of contemporary africa and prior to distinguished career in the government from two dozen eleven to two thousand fourteen ambassador. Gammon was the ambassador to botswana and served concurrently as a us representative to the southern african development community. She also served part that President obama and the senior director for africa at the national security council and before joining the obama administration ambassador gavin was an international affairs fellow and adjunct fellow for africa at the afar. So michelle. thank you for being with us today. it would be great if you could provide us with an overview of the conflict in tigray region of ethiopia. And talk about what's led up to it and policy recommendations as you see a what we can be doing here From the us vantage point or will thank you so much for inviting me to join you today and thanks to everyone is taking time to engage with this issue which is wine that genuinely does keep me up at night And i think is is keeping a lot of people so this is a conflict that broke out last november but had frankly been along time coming. The ethiopian state had for a decade been governed by a coalition a coalition of political parties. But there was one group that was kind of first among equals that was dominant in this ruling coalition and that was the tepe elf and the tigrayan people's liberation front at so the to which make up about six percent More or less of ethiopia's population there is a theo. Pia is a federation so there are states demarcated on maps with a different kind of local government and sometimes local defense forces as well. The tigrayans had been kind of dominated. Federally intel really at the rise of the current prime minister. Vip prime minister. Abby op-ed who is not great in he is a from is a romo ethnically although his background is is mixed which is true of many ethiopians and also a mixed religious background. Interestingly his father's slim his mother in ethiopia orthodox christian himself is pentecostal so as president. Excuse me prime minister. Abby a Power kind of reform agenda because indian all observers inside and outside ethiopia agreed at that time the ethiopian state wasn't really working. There was a great deal of popular dissatisfaction with the federal government with the center. A lot of political contestation and so he unveiled a reform agenda much of which was celebrated domestically and internationally designed open up political space in the country but part of the reform involved and eliminating some of the kind of preferences and the the sort of first among equals role of the left. So you have to gray in a senior to grains who had long enjoyed very influential roles in politics but also in the economy in the military Finding at some of that power being stripped away and it set up at a fairly antagonistic relationship now over time at the prime minister's reform agenda stalled in some areas. They're still a great deal of discontent in contestation. any theo. Pia aside from in tigray but things really came to a head with the grants around the question of elections so ethiopia in june just completed elections but those elections had been delayed so be original. Election date was postponed because of cova nineteen and the difficulty of of campaigning of organizing the midst of a pandemic. the grands chose to go ahead with elections in their region in defiance of federal authorities. And this really kind of set up a standoff and then the it was you know both sides were clearly mobilizing forces for actual conflict that the spark that lit the tinder was a preemptive attack on the part of two grey enforces on some federal forces in the area. And then what you had was a a devastatingly costly conflict where you ended up with four different armed groups. A in the mix in tigray and civilians suffering. You had the federal ethiopian forces you had the two grain forces pushing back but aligned with those federal forces and very much complicating the picture you had eritrean forces who crossed the border to to support prime minister abbey in this campaign against a teepee aleph and worryingly you had militia forces from 'em hara another very large ethnic group in the country who claim. Some of the land that on maps had been considered not so this devastating conflict which has been accompanied by clear mass atrocities Use of sexual violence as a weapon. Refugees have been attacked health. Care centers have been deliberately destroyed which is a war crime across have been deliberately destroyed and in fact hundreds of thousands of two grains are now living in fan conditions. people have begun to die Because of famine it's a man made famine in tigray. So you have the conflict you have atrocity crimes and you have this devastating lack of food and access to healthcare. We're almost there. Were almost up to the president but something very interesting happened last month. Where essentially the two grands who a more or less have been fighting as a guerrilla force You know they kind of those who weren't immediately killed or captured kind of melted away regrouped in the mountains at the trains ended up reclaiming a great deal of territory from the federal forces. Federal forces then withdrew from the two grain capital for most of tigray and prime minister. Abby announced a unilateral ceasefire. It didn't really meet it. Didn't look like what ceasefires usually look like right with arrangements for communitarian access etcetera but there was this kind of Inflection point in the conflict outwear appear the to grandparents had gained an upper hand. The ethiopian federal forces withdrew with rain did not accept at a ceasefire unconditionally. They wanted the or trans out. They wanted those emperor militia out. Essentially the ceasefire is gone now. A fighting has resumed and has in fact spilled out of teague right into a neighboring region..
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"Other countries that we could cooperate with and and just carrying those standard messages of of traditional democratic values ban. That's something that we were kind of uniquely positioned to do because it was not if those were not the messages that were coming from the federal government so we have freedom in that sense. I think we should be thought of as kind of places where you can also experiment with things. So we we. I think it's more more on the practical sense of say. There is a Well globe guaranteed basic. Income is is an idea that is now percolating and it was. It was a finnish idea originally and now you have states and localities You know doing pilot programs to test it we're gonna Start a large Later this year. So that's more as a more domestic policy concept that came from abroad but that's a role that we can play on as foreign malinche. I'd say and then we we also We we sometimes can just don't have the the constraints of having in in a lot of our relationship even with allies. You know we. We have the positive messages in the positive cooperation in them. We also have to deliver the kind of slightly more difficult questions. But you know when we're talking to the germans for example we don't have to talk about the pipeline we can. We can talk about our cooperation. So in some ways that's nuance because there are times where we're talking to governments that. Have you know human rights violations. Where were we will absolutely talk about that. Even though the conversation. But i guess what i'm saying. Is that the the conversations can be different. They can be Single issue they can be more talking about the benefits than than the difficult issues Let's just another you know. That's more freedom that we have your average foreign service officer the let me ask you a follow up. Just thinking out loud here. I guess this would be relevant for for everyone Paul one of the things that seems to be a foot in foreign policy is some modest decoupling from china because we want pharmaceuticals we want. Semiconductors we want medical equipment like masks to be produced in the united states. Because we don't want to be dependent on china does that create opportunities to repatriate jobs or pre production and and create jobs. Are you seeing any tangible ways. In which this kind of sense that we need to pull back is creating opportunities for la to question I'm trying to think if i can think of any like particular example. I mean the mask issues interesting Spent the first few weeks like you know in a frenzy looking around for masks and competing with others. Us cities in states like getting undercut by and prices with deals that we had at the end of the day Our masks from china. For what for one reason or another did not work out and we ended up contracting with honeywell in arizona. I believe for millions of asks. And so i imagine the honeywell had to hire poor workers to get those masks. They're not la jobs but but they are Do have a very high manufacturing base in los angeles. And i'm i'm sure there are examples. I just can't. I don't know of any one example of someone saying you know this is like too volatile gonna move. I'm going to bring my stuff back ally But i bet there is about. There are examples of that great at charlie. Can you talk a little bit about on a domestic abuse of the us role in the world today to other times. Us history. I mean you you were going back a little bit further that before bam you think it would be good just to give sort of an overview of the contours of it. Yeah i mean is arena mentioned publish a book at the end of last year which is a history of of isolationism and i started writing at before. Trump was elected Actually quite a years before trump was elected. And i have to say that when when he came into office and he gives an inauguration speech where he says for this day forward. It's america i. It's only the america first. Bite my head kind of exploded. Because i had spent the previous day reading the america first committee founded in nineteen forty one to keep the united states out of world war two and even though trump for many was a kind of bolt from the blue. He really wasn't he was harkening back to earlier. Strains in american history and american identity in american strategy some in neo isolationism the unilateralism. The native the protection of they were all there from the beginning. Seventeen eighty nine when we began life as a federation right through until pearl harbor right. We generally wanted to stay out of international affairs. We didn't wanna stand our troops and expand blood and treasure of broad We had a very restrictive immigration policy. And i'm not just talking about non whites. I'm talking about catholics and jews. I mean most. Americans probably don't know this but in nineteen twenty. Four congress passed legislation that cut immigration by jews and catholics by ninety percent. This is from southern and eastern europe. And then we proceeded to deport a million americans of mexican heritage many of them were american citizens right so so a lot of stuff that we saw bubbling up. During the trump era was not out of out of the blue it really it did have roots and in american history and especially in the american heartland this kind of more traditional american identity has has remained reasonably alive and well which is why i think trump tried to tap into it. But this is all by way of saying that we are we are at a at a at an inflection point here where a lot of these bigger debates about who we are. What's america's role in the world. Where's our domestic a population head in terms of mississippi and religion. All of these things are very much part of a national conversation that we've been happening having for for for quite a long time. And i think it's important for us to keep that that history in zoo as we as we engage in debates and and i think it's partly because i i i was aware of how tenuous how fragile our engagement in the world has been across american history that i think it's so important for people like us to gather foreign policy cone heads as i called myself and local politicians a to have this kind of conversation. Thank you need. i'm let you have the final word..
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"The kind of restoration that's needed is psychology cowl material as well as social. So how can we build on the tim. Gins from what this cornelius. Social activists have done and a professor of college. Can i turn to you. And what do you think should be done. Or how do you see addressing those bigger systemic issues. I i think At the very core of these issues is that a lot of states do lack the political will to change some of these things. And i'd like to think that. Because i mean a lot of our governments are mill dominated on these taken up. She's like this have their own spillover effect on so it has a way of turning around and affecting them in a way that they would want to But one of the things that we're focusing on here in. Nigeria is a advancing women's political representation on on it does it is a very a complex passed to take but we also realize that you know we can the kind of work that we the kind of Solutions that we can get some of these people in government to adopt are going to be very limited because for one like i mentioned these. These areas very much dominated on second. You know they. They just cannot prioritize things that they do not feel affect them and in the in the context of a northern nigeria and nigeria. As a whole as you know the professor is familiar with is that we have a security situation is forever evolving tearing toward a more dangerous pass. nigeria has become a lot more dangerous for women than when we started this advocacy. 'cause now we have the issue of banditry and kidnapping the northwest of nigeria. Where at the at the core of it's women being raped for ransom and i'm talking about thousands and thousands of women in captivity every single day we hear about hundreds of children and especially women being kidnapped so You see that the priority has shifted because now the you know the state is having to deal with these issues that they see as more pressing than countering sexual violence and they get to use it as an excuse to not implement some of the promises that they have made a for the protection of women. so right now like a lot of the work that we see being done around you know social reengineering advocacy especially at the grassroots is being carried out by a lot of ngos like you can see very minimal involvement in of government in these areas so a lot of the a lot of the organizations that are doing this kind of work at the end of the day of the grassroots organizations. Don't necessarily have resources on Is this point of contention where A lot of the the aid because obviously we do not get funded locally. The billionaires millionaires that you hear of here Across africa in the forbes. This very few of them actually contribute to you know some of these organizations and agencies so a lot of the resources come from outside. So i think it's very important to refocus led. The resources are coming to because then it deeply affect social reengineering when you are funding. Let's say an organization in a buddha or legos for example to do the work of groceries a grassroots communities before the funding goes trickles down. It never does before it goes down the only. Have you know. Just a bit of that for okay. Let's have all of the women in one place on lizzie. Speak to them. So you're not really implementing anything you're speaking to these women that understand what sexual violence is. The have experienced sexual violence. You're speaking to them about. Oh you know this is how you protect yourself your girls. But you're not putting structures in place to ensure that they're able to counter some of you know they're able to use some of these structures that you've helped build a with them you know. You haven't capitalized on that. So at the end of the day. Yes you know the resources flow but it's not dominant within the community and it flows out so without any real impact or real structure being created within local communities pressing or the restoration. The kinds of things that that are just really want to uplift Just said you know. And i feel like it's so important to have women leaders and local leaders like create in exactly these spaces. I wanna shout out the afar for letting us change the usual way that we announce fellows books in allowing us to invite for created. Join us because this is really. The heart of the issue about whether aid is working or not right. Our resources getting to who can do the best work and this is only the right thing to pursue. It's also about effective inefficient use of aid and ultimately. Us taxpayer dollars. We should be putting resources where we can see stomach change. You know globally less than one penny of every dollar a foreign aid. Globally goes to women led organizations women's organizations during the kind of work that for create another woman that we profile in the book do less than one penny of every dollar that seems really low for women. Being at least fifty percent of the population it seems perilously low. Right you know so. I think it's really important. For folks in dc in for members of the council in policymakers to hear like what is the real experience of folks on the ground for some these really well intentioned ideas and policies have we made short works for people locally because those are the those are the women who are going to be delivering the future of their communities. And they're the ones that we believe. We.
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"Thank you very much. Paul can you hear me. You can you and thanks to our panelists were very interesting Discussion quick question regarding Soft power engagement by especially in the education sector You know we traditionally think of. China's engagement is brick and mortar focused. Obviously it's changed a lot since then and the technologies fear is rising on the education sector. I'd have heard about The the extent to which china's engaging especially in west africa in the training of african students in mandarin chinese and overseas education there of course on the obama side There's the young africa leaders initiative and other things. But i'm just wondering how china's engagement in the education sector is a feud within africa. Thank you would like to try. Yes shaw enemy to set Time i think the great question net team then that the chinese have been in the continent for a long time under education time since they started to spread the confucius institutes. I in key countries account. Remember how many countries in the african continent. But we have a couple of those constituents. Kim they in the consultancy count i essentially to promote him. China's konczal language and also to find the style of monitoring. And i think there's been an uptake because he simply can't ignore that force of china but more recently in the broad african continent outside of sopheak item did. The chinese have been giving scholarships providing training opportunities and in pots to count up on ams at japan's eight aids ed giddy shave own name title development increasingly. The chinese are also a protein partner sheets as through what they called china. Institutes which i depowered. Forms of engagement to encourage joint scholarships between africa ten and the chinese and in a sense to socialize. Africom skin to chinese way of thinking By doing joint scholarships. But i certainly think the chinese are lagging behind the us with respect to solve power. They they've they've they. They've have a long way to catch up with them. They they you ask Systems and power attraction traction Night Power power for traction contract attraction. If you ask students to choose between going to have a great could sing why they want to watch for a wonderful ivy leagues in he the uso but eroding over time that is rotating over time. I suddenly cannot be taken for granted. Okay michelle time. We have anything to add there and just to wholeheartedly agree yet. It's a great question because there's been a lot of activity on this Nope cultivating affinities among young people through educational opportunities exchanges and really welcoming and seeking out african as students to study at in china. And and certainly you know. I i think the us message to foreign students has certainly been mixed one in recent years. And that's something that can can quickly be addressed. But it is thinking about how very young african societies are and how to to start to build the kinds of relationships and personal networks is is something we can't rely on kind of our big cultural soft power alone to see us through. It's really it's deserving of genuine strategic thinking and an effort okay Sadly we are out of time. It's two o'clock and This is being a fascinating discussion. I feel like we barely scratched the surface to be honest and it's somewhat rizal that we hope to to cover so many topics on such a huge place in in the space of of ala. Maybe we can revisit 's issue down the road of but in the meantime i wanna thank you both michelle zoom for joining us today. I really appreciate it especially to zoom this. It's must be late in the evening In south africa. And also thank all of you on on the line today and we look forward to seeing you again in the not too distant future. So thank you. For more event audio subscribe on itunes or visit us at c. f. I dot org..
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"Thanks michelle. okay. We're gonna now turn to you in a which just a reminder will be on the recold erica. I think you're gonna just give us the briefing on how to Aas questions most of pretty familiar these days but Erica thanking as a reminder to ask a question please click on the race hand icon on your resume window when you are called on. Please accept the anew. Now prompts then proceed with your name and affiliation followed by your question. Okay um so. I think i stop is Hannifin honey Please ask a question thank you very much. This has been a very good discussion for a long time. We've been hearing about that. Africa policy focus in africa and i think speakers Properly articulated that the opera shifted from nine ideological elliptical geopolitical issues into more economic and colleges and the two things that are of concern to me years on that one is economic total trade between the united states and the entire african continent peaked around thirty billion dollars in Thousand and twenty and perelman who data Actually dropped to about twenty billion dollars. By contrast the one china china's total trade with africa is about six seven times as big as as As the second is the issue of Demographics at misgovern spoke of africa's populations about one point four billion people The rate of growth in africa is among the highest in the world. It's over two percent and by regardless it's set to exceed four billion people by End of the century. That's the question really is what the priorities are for for the us dealing with africa and how it should execute its priorities. In a way that addresses the needs the infrastructure investment healthcare delivery drops and obviously technology and to the best of my knowledge. We don't have a focus and consistent policy of than Pretty pretty Wide ranging questions there on. He maybe zoo if you could go first and maybe talk little bit about The trade issues and and Places where the us may be offense game and trade to africa. Yes i think. Undertake france we should also remember that to him. The patterns of trade between the us between china and and the african continent I largely and rain for stated competitive advantage. The african continent they naturally meteorologist ron processing rows commodities And and they don't have african economies to take diversification Desiccation where most of the jobs are so. The volumes are high but in terms of the content. The structure of trade is still weighted in favour of of china. Africa has had china to stimulated industrialisation. You know through the exploit of raw materials for submit for symantec for construction am etc. It has kept a finishes chrome federal chrome finish faces spending in china so we've had the chinese to absorb many unemployed from the countryside's so the trade between the us and africa africa it's largely diversified because a goal is flexible Many african countries have been able to you'd Capacities in textiles and clothing at this afghan to sector benefit hugely from From from a goal. I am and also other aspects paul fair michigan. The value added products side cetera. I mean the the fortunes by these are not too stringent. I think is an opportunity for the us to grind. Roddy nuts to remove ago together. I tweeted twenty-five but to ways to greg. Friday loosen as it negotiates by trump free trade agreement with with some can contract and products finally under trade issues if you look at the fta the free trade agreements. Templates that you ask us. This is extremely rigid. It it's very very very very rich. Eat and and i think this needs to be adopted to african conditions. I mean if you if you ask shades. Fta with japan. It would be the same template that he used for economies. That have not reached a certain level of competitiveness but by and large upping the u. as trade strategy in the african continent is better than china's at from the point of view of promoting economic diversification. Some african countries have taken advantage of eat. Some have not by day. Okay michelle and the second part of honeys from the question of our ties. Asian you know. Do we lean you know. This is a pretty comprehensive agenda. We've been talking about that. But all their areas that we should focus on on on going to not only have a if you will out a quick likelihood of of success at are going to yield the benefits. will will maybe make make then the or should make 'em the priority area. Well of course. You always have to prioritize. But i think you know i do want to return to kinda where i started. Which is one really important takeaway. I hope is that the. Us can't keep thinking of africa as a continent. Were you have one big policy initiative per administration. It's just nuts. It's not the way we think about the rest of the world right. It has to be integrated into the totality of us foreign policy and so as as importers prioritization is. I don't think it's the case that you can kind of pick wine and just That that's going to be what you do with africa. It won't work. And i also disagree a little bit with. The premise of the question is as hard as we might try to get away from. Some of our security related concerns really have dominated a lot of the washington. Based conversation about africa agra win sort of combating global terrorist threats was the highest order priority. There's still some really worrisome security trends on the continent. I don't i don't think there's any ignoring that. An imagining that somehow were going to develop really robust economic relationships and global governance relationships. You know while you have this level of instability in the suhel you have the threat of massive state collapse in the horn. You have these very worrying trends in in mozambique and continued instability in central africa. So again you have to if you wanna act like a global power and i think the. Us is not in any way ready to see that. It's an all hands on deck sort of approach. But i do. I do think that what can't ever be bumped down on the priority list is this continued work. Honest not preachy. Work on governance and governing capacity. While while is it going to be important to engage civil society and that's actually part of a governance agenda right ultimately to have fruitful partnerships with african states. You need to be partnering with governments that have capacity and and so hard government strength is is in transparency and legitimacy part of it too is in service delivery and this has been something that was not invoked for a very long time right. It was a pretty easy throwaway lines about bloated civil services and but when you take a hard look actually at the size of kind of a public service in some of these states is incredibly small relatives to our own or or to other states. And i do think that you know some rethinking about what does it mean when we say good governance. What do we mean by that. Do we just we just me kind of some of the lying principles or do we mean capacity to deliver for people because that's a huge part of pushing back on an authoritarian about.
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"Sweeping and complex engagement strategy that is most manifest in economic engagement but includes very clear political increasingly military dimensions but the notion that a major power rivalry is is really how we should understand what. What's the us doing in africa. Is i think hugely problematic. Not just because of the kind of echoes of the cold war that it conjures up for anyone familiar with us history on the continent right where we ended up supporting regimes. That were incredibly abusive. Often deeply corrupt that fundamentally led to easy simply because they were on our side in in some imagined. Great game right. It's not just the aversion to a cold war nostalgia. It really is fundamentally a concern about a tremendous lost opportunity of building meaningful and effective partnerships with african states where there is some significant overlap in a van diagram of shared interests and values. And if were seeing everything through the lens of these other actors what were missing entirely is the agenda of african states themselves which are which are in this is incredibly dynamic time on the continent right. Africa continues to be the youngest region of the world. i think we're going to continue to see More assertive afrikaner international stage and some interesting political transitions. Where a there's going to be an opportunity right to work with africans on a set of global problems on on envisioning and actually building the global governance infrastructure of the future and goes opportunities. I think will be lost. And if we become kind of obsessed with this notion of competition china so before. I tend to mizzou for for his take on this. I just wanna be cleo while it seems unlikely that we would revert to something close to what we saw. During the cold war proxy conflicts and so on chinese motives on on the continent often portrayed as having some of malign intent all that some zero-some consequences for the us. Can you. can you just walk us through in what. What are we worried about with. Chinese influence and presence in africa is that other is no strategic access. Is it undermining democracy alerting development. Work right yeah. All of the above. I think you know. I think one way to think about it is sort of is is putting it into some some baskets around these tensions right And the the biggest rain is what are we worried about worried about the global competition right around norms around the model of the state whereas the us you know and the biden administration in particular continue to express concern about democratic backsliding about resurgent authoritarianism and at constantly beat this drum of of of trying to shore up a rules-based international order. You have on the other hand. Very explicitly a a model of the state that's really authoritarian development model. Where were china harnesses. It's incredibly impressive. Record in in bringing its own people out of poverty to suggest that a a different a different politics is the way forward to try and achieve Development games and indeed that kind of global norms should allow for more leeway for states to decide which which rights actually matter within their own borders. Right sort of less less of this idea of of universal norms around human rights civil and political rights. So there's this big debate but then there's also some more nitty gritty stuff around a competition regarding a global technology standards right and the access and influence the the winner of this competition may have there's competition around two minerals Particularly the the nature of the energy economy changes. It's a shift away from the kind of old debates about access to big oil producers but still a number of incredibly important strategic minerals that are essential for the future of green economy right are found in africa. and there's a very clear effort to sort So up exclusive access to this so there are there are different levels right of of this competition a big political piece and then some more discreet at economic at pieces. There's no support for herford candidates at international institutions. It really plays out almost every level policy. Got it okay. Give us a sense of if to the extent you can sort of capture. How this emerging rivalry is is portrayed discuss them africa to the extent that it is is the on a contending viewpoints from people. Do some see it as an opportunity for africa. A great risk for africa again if you could just sort of give us a sense of of how. This is viewed from africa extent. You say skill. What must be quite diverse views from many quarters. Well thanks thanks opponent. And thanks sam. Shire for ted for They suddenly few views are changing the african continent at least from my observation in how african see at both china and the us having an initiate. You you're forty. I in the early two. Thousands about china's for eight in into the african continent building infrastructure roads ports. And also you know the exchange between soft loans and access to me neurons these way the deficiencies at china's deficiency was backs at these deals way. Be tech to the elites. So china doesn't have a historic normative framework recognizes as civil society and also That that is comfortable with all penn liberal democratic norms and i think the us has not been able to fully exploit at china's on a baby on some of these talk issues. I think over time. They s been disquiet about some of the practices by china in the african continent and in someone's deceased infrastructure collapsing or not not being a fully rehabilitate tax. The the use of china's rank house in some of these these projects by buying notch. If you put up china and the u s i think many africans would would would would kind of align themselves to add to china because the us and in many western countries have a a checkout history of he got called the team fabric organism in the case of the us supporting regimes that have been a liberal side. Adding the us has to be a lot more carefully and how it's It's diplomacy are to to the african continent more sensitive understanding that tam. They you know they they. It's viewed it comes from a it's viewed in very critical lights are combined to china because china daas only say that. Tam they've never called macadamia african country all or failed all align themselves with that european countries. That ray where former former quarterlies fathom all. There is a growing realization of africa's own agency at the idea about tim. It doesn't matter whether they to use a deng xiaoping's formulation doesn't matter. The cat is black. Allied as long as it catches mice could catch so it doesn't really matter whether you america china but if if these countries i able to africa africa's interests They go to work with a pragmatic position. And we've seen this with kenya. Kenya is a intensity negotiating. Bilateral free trade agreements with With with the us It's cultivated very close relationships with china which has invested in significant item structure projects in in the country. It's talking to many players on wants to retain on a post brexit's at trade arrangements so many africans. It's about Realization of africa's own agency. And any this periods is. I'm touching some on my son off. These means so i want to pick up on this point about african agency. I can appreciate. How many african leaders don't want to be if you will in the crossfire of between china and the us. And and i'm is there any kind of high level discussion among senior African leaders about how this rivalry may Evolve and and and how africa should you know not lose agency to try to shake things to their advantage is is happening or is it. It's still really in a very early stage. I've.
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"Providing them with financial resources and staff needed to fulfill their mandates. Thank you we'll. We'll end our remarks there and look forward to answering questions from the members of the group. Thank you very much. That's great presentation. Go to all of you now for your questions you either raise your hand and ask the question or you can type up your question right your questions in the qa box already see that we have three or so And if you're on an ipad you can click on the button and you can raise your hand in that That window so i mean. Take the first question from Let's see dr to jit. Batali of religions for peace I continued to be concerned about the rise of right wing religious nationalism in south asia particularly in the largest democracy of the world india. Could you kindly address why. India was moved into the category of cpc sure Thank you thank you for that question. india was actually moved into the category of cbc recommendation. Last year in new serves twenty twenty report report and then we reiterated This the cbc recommendation again in in In in the twenty twenty one annual report A key factor was the citizenship amendment acted discriminatory law that was that was enacted in In in twenty nineteen Making a making up providing preference to certain are religious groups for citizenship We we also have long been concerned in in india with issues of Mob violence where mobs act with impunity and target religious minorities and legal legal structures that prohibit that prohibit conversions or restrict conversions and Now worrying new development there were several laws enacted during the during twenty twenty to restrict Interfaith marriage which resulted in numerous arrests during during the year Another concern expressed in the in the twenty twenty one chapter is the increasing repression of dissent Including those who spoke out against the citizenship amendment. Act in its discrimination against muslims and those who otherwise advocated for minority rights or religious or religious freedom there also. How has been a tightening of the space for civil society. Organizations ngos in india including restrictions on on foreign contributions contributions from abroad on and the the the closing of human rights and religious humanitarian ngos. Great on okay. So the next question comes from victor people should raise their hand to victor. Golly beg on who is an author philanthropist and community leader My question is about respect for the holy spaces in jerusalem on city that holds a special place in my abrahama religions Especially in light of the recent on axa. What's the position of state department. Such actions add to stomach antisemitism and islamaphobia. Thank you for that question i can. I can address that for such as specify that you serve the us commission on international Freedom is separate from the state department so to speak for the state department. But i can reference to the release of their report last month. as well There was a question on this issue. And of course Ineffective there was such that You know pieces is vital because of an ongoing conflict is stone pieces vital to Getting to respect for broader human rights and religious freedom. You know this is an issue. We've tracked for many years You know the situation there. Things flare up at different times. We've seen a flare up recently reprehensible to see people being denied but at the same time. It's extremely complicated as security Measures and concerns that fact iran But we certainly You know. I would like to see a movement here on the on the broader conflict. Is that indeed. A lot of the data that we followed over the years demonstrates when there's broader conflict broader instability extremism that diminishes a human rights protections as a including religious freedom. So i if the if we can address these broader pressing crises Then unfortunately it's going to be the human rights that that are affected and are impacted severely. Thank you don free. Who has written a question but he's also raised. Its hands so don mono you just Yourself at say who you are and ask your question hi. I'm don free with the united religions initiative but also with the covenant of the goddess so. I'm curious practitioners neo-pagan witchcraft fall under the witchcraft category. That's currently illegal. In many african and south asian countries or it's often punishable by death and i know from personal experience that the communities in such countries are very underground does usurp looking against accused witches in assessing a country or non governmental entity as that included under religious rights. Thanks thanks for that question I can i can start. And then if if i want to time but the short answer is is yes under a freedom of religion or belief as protected under international standards It's an individual right to believe or not to believe as one's conscience dictates And very clearly under the international texan interpretations It applies to all beliefs There's not sort of distinctions. Made between quote unquote traditional Beliefs versus nontraditional beliefs et cetera. Some countries do legally make those distinctions. But they're problematic under the international standards. So we we have Reported on Ac accusations of witchcraft or sorcery in in different countries in our reporting And i believe the state department has as well and there are reports over over the years in in in different places so so absolutely as long as people are You know peacefully practicing Their their own beliefs and exercising of their conscience. It is protected. Thank you let's go to karenna gore. Who.
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"Excellence take our next question from joel mentor on eight. Thank you for your time and insight this evening So my question. Can you tell me something that you were taught or at least once believed was important for success in life that now based on your experience you no longer believe in whether that be. You don't believe that at all or it's not as important as you once thought thank you. That's such a hard question. Jaw really interesting. One to you know it's Giving some thought because there's not a lot of things that we all grew up with that were cliche or that. We all thought that that would be good so one of them. I have to say was that the more hours you put in and the you know if you really by working hard i mean long hours you will actually do better and that you're being more conscientious cetera. And you know. I don't think it's as part of you. You know as you get more experienced what i have realized and you know. David mentioned my husband. He writes for you know as a historian. And you know going back to my father who also wrote but also academic life. I think just putting our does not do it and i really was. I was called the nerd when i was at school. I was a hard worker. Lots of long hours. And i think being smarter and and being more strategic is much better and then last but not least on that front by the way is i got to be enough to know. Well somebody called. Peter caught son which i think big also used to run their gic which is the singapore investment authority. And he so happens when i met him. I didn't know this see was older ahead of me. But he had spent on the first part of his career at the world bank briefly and work with somebody called. Jean burke was a legendary Treasurer of the world bank and he kind of went back to singapore built basically g. I see out of scratch and you started doing meditation. And he was teaching meditation to the leader of his country and then to many others he was in washington and he said on speaking at georgetown. Will you come. And i said i always learn from. You had left to come and see what's going on. In singapore whatever you went to share economy investments in business. And all that said no. I'm there to talk about meditation and anti took me with him. And and you know. We went to georgetown to this. Meditation and georgetown university was was is still using meditation as one of the practices put their mba students and others but also has a christian meditation center. But it's really not particularly necessarily religious affiliation but it's really about meditation for the students brothers and he was very involved in that and he's been very involved in bringing that to really business communities and i just learned how much more affected you get a by following. Peter and i tried to do that and he's still involves Some of his events and some of his You know work that. But i've come to become a big believer. I think david one of your good friends mandy works with you and with many of us also is a big practitioner in this area. But certainly it's not just hours but it's how you think how you put everything you're learning together. Excellent our next question is from cassiano sek. How am thank you so much for your time. Today my name is casio. Janacek a partner at mckinsey and i lead our strategy work in the energy sector and as you know We're facing some really unprecedented change going. On as we face the energy transition and a lot of built up issues ranging from in flattening supply and demand certainly investor pressure etc and. I'm just interested in your perspective. On how you think about making investments in the energy sector You know if you've got your own criteria how you think about ese metrics today and and You know what you think holds The future holds for the industry. Thank you for that question by the way by with displeasure. My son the they mentioned was in. Medical school is at barton this year. And is doing an internship at mckinsey as we speak so if you hear any background noise is in another room working on his internships in terms of what you put your finger on. I think energy is going through a huge transition. Since i started working on energy i remember. I worked with somebody for robert maverick oxford and he was early. Created the occidental institute and he said to me. You're a woman. Go learn about something else or the boys know about oil. Learn about gas. Nobody knows about it. So and it's a cleaner fuels. That's how i started. Learning about. Natural gas. And i fought fast forward. I go to the world bank. And then i run into somebody who's very famous in. The david may not sure nothing. You'll see buyer was sort of the father venture in israel and you'll see worked as it turned out with me when i ran the banks energy business and he had been banished from his earlier job and he said when he was working with the world bank we asked him to look among other things at at deng as a source of energy but he said that was life changing. That's him to go back and become. The father of venturing is well. So so i think yes she has been with us for a long time and and While i was at the bank we were not just investing but we were doing shadow pricing. We we're doing will coming up with ways of innovative ways of doing carbon pricing early early today when we do investments really in my firm but also many others that i talked to be are including that carbon costs in implicitly. Even if there's not an explicit market cost now whether you know we get to a situation where countries do with an explicit cost of carbon on goods remains to be seen not impossible. But i think i'm as we are looking at energy we're going to say huge transitions going through You so what happened with exxon right in the last few weeks now. Even a few weeks ago you would not have had a few years ago. You would not have had that happened right you. Energy companies were basically saying one thing but continuing with their continuing with the same carbon footprint as they were before as of today. I don't think that's possible anymore whether you're shell whether you are exxon. Whether you are really any multinational or small company you have to look at the future of energy..
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"Now. Were there many women in senior positions of the world bank when you were there. I was very fortunate While they were not senior women of my first bosses at the world bank was a woman. Apple deanne. Julius was not day julius on the advisory board of rock creek work but also on the chart chatham house. She was on the board of domestic on the board of bp ab chief economist at shell etcetera etcetera so. I was very fortunate to have her as one of the first by work with and she's sort of basically allowed me to think that being a woman should not be a shortcoming and you can do pretty much anything and then similarly just kind horned who was treasurer. Before i was pressured was also another woman. I work with so very fortunate on some of the women. Mentors i have gotten jessica was very involved with the council of force and is continued to be involved with the council. Now the firm. Your start is called. Rock creek Where'd you get that name. So the name comes from the park in washington. Dc and you know a lot of financial firms. You are have creeks and rocks stones and things like that. So brock break was sort of in the backyard. When i started the firm show rock creek is a firm that kind of money you manage to do. Do private equity do public equities fixed income. What is it that you specialize in so at drug weekly. Due to businesses one is where we create customize for years of venture private equity and stocks and bonds for an endowment or foundation and we basically became become their outsource. It's sort of more for what we did when we started to more Multi asset class. So that's one part of the business. The other part of the business is we have our own funds. We have our own funds investing. Let's say in quantitative type model driven investments. We also invest in climate in In energy clean energy in education health and interestingly through kobe some of the most interesting areas on the investment side and the highest return have been more impactful areas. That i've been very excited. About how much. Money do you have under management. Now while i'm david given but you have built it's very small it's Close to seventeen in. Eighteen billion is very very large How many women own money management or industrial management firms are there that are bigger than seventeen billion dollars. I'm not sure if there are others I hope that there might be ones that. I'm not aware of We might be right up there. I think you are about the biggest but are not suppose. I say i watching this interview right now and i say she's a very smart person. She's got a lot of experience. I want to give her some money. Can somebody just call you up and become a client or if you have to be like the world bank to be one of your clients so drug week. Our clients have been institutional again. Universities foundations pension plan sovereign funds. And that's sort of been the model and And it's been a kind of a two as learning. It's sort of a little bit like when we were at the world bank where we provided what we used to technical assistance and also i manage money for some of these central banks or sovereign funds or others and we sort of continue to learn and to do as we can. We also have done a lot of investments in technology through time. And and what. I'm really excited about is also on the impact side starting to share what we started to great which is The objective data collective with sort of the world that is interested in investing more in sort of more sustainable and impact ideas. Let's say like investment advice on. Should i worry that because we have a big debt in the united states that may be at some point and we have. Were barring a lot of money eventually. We're going to have high inflation. Should i worry about that right now or should i not worry about that. Well you know again At least Might be is that right now no question. Inflation is creeping up I think it's going to be more short-term than very long term so no questions this short-term inflation that we have part of the supply demand imbalance that we're experiencing because of transport problems coming out of covid. is creating a lot of imbalances in semiconductors or other areas. So you have those kinds of things going on the one hand but but might use the You going to get rid of that and this sort of Inflation that is creeping up is going to lead us. So i'm particularly excited about where we are in the economy because as you have more equity in the economy you're going to have higher breath as people shared the goods that are coming out of the economy. You're going to have higher ross. Higher growth economy is going to be healthier to invest in then s laura croft economy. Both i say to you. I like your firm an institution. I want you to manage money. But i'd say look. I want the highest rate of return. You can legally get with for me forget. Es gee i don't care about diversity inclusion environment you can destroy the environment. I don't care. I just want the highest rate of return. What do you say to those clients. I think even if you don't have those goals it so happens again. Let's let's take the last twelve months right Maybe in the last month or two has gone up a little bit but really renewable energy has been one of the best areas if you were invested. They did in some of the companies. Were there were emerging markets or in denmark or in the us particularly companies providing services to solar and wind. You could have made twenty thirty forty percent education. unhealth don't care about it. S g or impactful investment..
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"And max this is my name is ryan van slyke. I am originally from new york and my affiliations would amilton down in dc. I really appreciate getting to learn from both of you. Because you're both journalists would social science backgrounds and especially a social science and liberal arts which is history and being able to shed the historical light. I was wondering throughout your experiencing throughout your careers. How has listeners readers consumers of your work taking you seriously and been able to include and integrate your research. Your findings urinalysis into their decision. Making you know to to matt's point urge you know max. How have you seen that leaders in our military air. You've taken your advice from your history and scholarship of us. Guerrilla warfare gail. How has the state department and a and dod thought about protecting disadvantaged minorities within afghanistan in using your scholarship in practice. Thanks so much. Max and i go to jail well. I think it's pretty clear that based on the tremendous successfully found in iraq and afghanistan much better student the us military closely following my virus. I take full credit for that. It's actually not seriously it's it's a hard question to answer and this is something that i think. We struggle with the council and other think tanks. How do you measure influence very very hard to do. you know. i've been lucky enough to be able to be with us. Commanders outgoing many talks to military personnel in the us and iraq afghanistan all over the world. Europe whatever And you know. I think kind of the big idea that i've been associated with the revival of insurgency doctrine which occurred during the course of the iraq war. And i you know. I wrote about the historical american foods counterinsurgency in in that book the savage wars apiece. And then i wrote about the entire history of guerilla warfare and terrorism. An invisible armies. And so. i've i've talked about that. Have tried to you know. Kinda tried to spread that message about the difficulty of fighting insurgents and basic idea. Being that you this is not a struggle that you can kill your way out of because you can kill a lot of the enemy but they will just be replaced unless you can provide twenty four seven security and basic our mental services. I'm really secure the areas that you are that you are fighting for and you know i think that was you know. That's that's that's a viewpoint that was developed a very coach. Only by general's tryon mattis in their army marine field manual on counterinsurgency which came out but the of twenty sixty in which general betray us. implemented in iraq and. I think that's really help to get casualty levels down. But you know. I think you've seen in the case of afghanistan and no surprise that this is not a silver bullets loosen. It doesn't work in every case and in the case of afghanistan. I mean actually have a new article on this subject just came out and foreign affairs today but you know i think there's basically three reasons why coin failed in afghanistan. The first of them being that we just did not commit the kind of resources and time necessary to make. I mean we had some very small-scale limited coin successes in districts in kandahar and and where we put in the resources but then we pulled out and the taliban moved back in the second aspect of it is that we've never gotten the kind of performance from the afghan government that we need to secure military games. You know counterinsurgency governance competition. The taliban have been out governing the to the macabre regime in many parts of southern eastern afghanistan and now the final aspect of it is the reason why we haven't succeeded. As because the taliban have secure across blur sanctuaries in pakistan pakistan has always continued to support that movement. And that's always been the number one determine success or failure for insurgencies. So you know. I try to. I try to make these analyses. And and you know to try to put out there. What i see and you know. Sometimes i'm right sometimes. I'm wrong sometimes. Folks in the military or political circles will listen to me. Sometimes they don't. It's really hard to you know. It's it's really hard to know but your impact is. But you know. I just try to. You know analyze the history and contemporary events. As best i can and hope that that provides some useful vantage point for somebody out there. The best you can do and even if they don't Follow your advice to the letter. Doesn't mean they didn't listen to you. You might have made a bad plan just a little less bad right because they actually you. A little worse can go both ways right. Let's be honest Gail it's interesting. Years ago i did a call with Service member who is about to deploy decades and completely forgot about in fact i would have absolutely forgotten about it entirely except that two and a half years later he called me email me and then i called him because i was so dumb struck by the match saying the conversation. We had about listening to local officials and listening to local courses. An actually looking at what they haven't played on the ground was where we started our dialogue versus what we thought we were going to enter with. And it made a huge difference for this deployment doesn't mean the mating huge difference for the war. But it made a difference for my folks in this deployment. And i always think about that. Because i quite honestly you did not remember the initial conversation. I remember having spoke by didn't remember the particulars and i think i'd had a day where i felt quite frustrated. Damascus they keep writing the same piece thing. you know. it's not as desolate you think. In fact there are lots of breed. -chusetts we could only tie them together and talk to people and see what is actually working for folks on the ground instead of people unable to even go see what was happening on the ground in afghanistan. So i start with that story because you won't always be able to see it and sometimes you know at the end of daughters. The story of than northeastern syria is the ending is written in invisible ink that no one has yet to decipher. And i think that that's really about impact about the same thing you have examples that are true privilege to appreciate right for example this email or you go brief i remember. I know max This week like we could gauge our age. In the number of afghanistan policy reviews that we lived through and remember being in the beggars walking through indicators of success with the teams are your. Here's how i would think about the population coming out. Here's a popular patient in economic activity at any feel fancier than i remember the somebody from state departments. What are you doing over at eggers suing. Now we're doing us for the embassy. Perfect right. I mean i share that because we look from the outside as if policies this pristine with with marble columns and in fact just people often especially.