The actual number is believed to be far higher. The lebanese government has long said it could be close to 2. 5 million. There are small informal settlements everywhere. Syrians renting flats, working in menial jobs. Population nowe are Syrian Refugees. Many of them are based in the homs. , which is close to a new influx the couple of weeks ago with a fighting over the border. All of this in the same week that another major milestone was it one 150,000 people were in the syrian conflict. Lucy, since you have seen this up close over the last three years, what are the conditions like for the refugees . Pretty dire. Fears theymps for could be stated destabilizing. These are informal settlements the syrians have built from eight agencies. They often do not have running water, food, and medical supplies are often scarce. They have had to cut those rations. A woman tried to burn herself to death in front of her four children here in lebanon because she said she had been trying to get aid fro
Signal to be brought into a local area and that cuts out the local communities commerce. Where do you sell your chevy when you talk about chevies in los angeles and you happen to live in buffalo, new york . We think the local stations should be sported. We want people to view it and we are working with the nfl to preserve this and allow them to work it out in a market way without the Congress Taking an approach that ultimately damages local television and economies and we dont think that is good. Host and i want to close with the opinion on the aereo case and the closing lines that were we remand the case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. Are there other cases out there . Guest i believe there is one before the 9th Circuit Court of appeals called aereo killer and i think they put a stay on that pending what the Supreme Court decided. There maybe new things coming along but this decision really reenthrones the principle of copyright as it relates to telecommunication
For having the with tom to publish a really wonderful and meaningful book. I think a lot of you know ron personally, looks like, good, friendly audience. For those who arent as familiar with him, rons bioreads like one of the more interesting novels of all time and were lucky to have it here in this memoir. He was both a senior military Intelligence Officer in the army and observer for the u. S. Department of state, and he is a combat veteran of afghanistan, serving in the army and army reserve for 25 years, entered as a private and retying an lieutenant colonel. As a soldiers and diplomat serving in a want day, kosovo, afghanistan, and iraq, and sudan, and received awards. His policy writing has appeared almost everything there is mention and he is the founder and the director of the veterans writing project, a Nonprofit Program that provides nocost writing seminars for veterans Ad Service Members and their family. A truly amazing fellow and a wonderful writer so we are thrilled to we
Civilian in the military is one of you guys were saying life comes with. Trauma necessarily comes with attempts at recovery. Thats what we do and to get back to an earlier point of the whole idea of what has to be careful here because of the whole notion of perpetuating the stereotype of a soldier and so on. The fact is they are our broken soldiers from these wars. It doesnt mean they are going to be forever broken. Probably most of them back but that doesnt mean you dismiss this moment as you know other words were tougher trade we have always had a version of this. People have figured out themselves, we dont have to act as reactive before. We can advance an act with more compassion and understanding than we have in the past. It became one of the legal issues and the benefits trial for my son whether we could point to a particular incident that had caused trauma. And we couldnt. There were three possibilities of times that he had been in trauma that one of the symptoms was that he woul
The interviewer looked stricken. Her supervisor quickly looks down at her notes. Shame wild and my throat and eyes. My humiliation was absolute. Even the doctors were laughing at me. Welcome to the office of Veterans Affairs psycho boy. [applause] thank you thank you very much. Again, thank you so much for coming. I really honestly very, very much appreciated. We have some time for questions. Michael and james are going to circulate with the microphone. Any questions . I am happy to take them. About any part of the story, past, present, future. Boy, that first one is always the hardest, isnt it . Someone is going to ask that first question. Thank you. I say that before i hear the question. Been to your story is a very personal one, something that is much larger and yourself. So stepping back from your disempowered act of witnessing, at least you were witnessing, do you have a broader conclusion about how International Organizations can operate more effectively . I have a couple of thin