Advisory committee. Which you president david costco and so many advocates. I want to recognize that this legislation came out as one of the top three legislation out of the tennants convention out of the Tenderloin Elementary School over 700 tennants came out in the pouring rain to fight for this legislation. This is just a piece of this conversation. This is a dialogue about how we are going to create stabilization along with creating tools that hold us accountable to those that we supposedly believe in. I wanted to thank everyone for their work on this and thank you chair yee for chairing a very long rules committee. Im getting used to it. You know when i was asked to sign as a cosponsor, never did i think that this particular initiative was the answer to every problem that we have on housing. I always felt like this was part of a solution. It was a part of statement, a value that we want to, i want to support to say that we need more Affordable Housing and that also there has been
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Television for serious readers. Im now happy to introduce you to tonights guest speaker. Robert house has been a visiting professor at, among other institutions harvard law school, tel aviv university, the Hebrew University of jerusalem and the university of paris. His books include the regulation of international trade, the wto system law, politics and legitimacy and outline of a femmenology of rights. Professor house has been a frequent consultant or adviser to agencies including the Interamerican Development bank. Professor house is also a member of the board of advisers of the nyu center for law and philosophy. He serves on the editorial Advisory Boards of the london review of International Law, the journal of World Investment and trade, transnational legal theory and legal issues of economic integration. He is cofounder of the new york City Working Group on International Economic law and is a former ihouse resident. Please join me in welcoming him to international house. [applause
Explore the history of espionage during world war i, focusing on four american agencies that participated in spying. Including the u. S. Army. Public library and Truman Library institute cohosted this hourlong event. Thank you for the warm introduction and warm welcome. I was not planning on talking about ufos. When the topic comes up, its irresistible. Recently let me say that in the 1990s the cia declassified a u2 Spy Plane Program written back in the 1970s, if i recall correctly. Thatf the findings was they had carefully gone back and correlated domestic ufo reports with classified u2 flights and discovered an extremely high correlation. This is true. A lot of these that they had seen where the sun glinting in a way that cannot be discussed at the time. All right. Down to business, it is a real pleasure to be here. I am flattered by the introduction and turnout today. Much so much. Lets talk about intelligence. Intelligence history has been dominated by the history of the creationge