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Its own issues without external influence. Meantime, must protest to erupt in a number of african countries with crowds have demonstrated, ultimately calling for an end to western into farrah and the continents offence we condemn pressure on ethiopia by the west and the United States. I want to call on them to take their hands off ethiopia with which they are terrorized in our country with it is monday evening now here in moscow. And its so good to happy with us with some heavy hitting headlines...

Any of that at all whereas i tend to try to balance might Corporate Media with independent review will like democracy now and you hear all the time on democracy now about soldiers refusing to deploy. I just wondered if you saw any signs of that . Thanks. Thats a great question. The short answer somewhat tellingly is i think in my experience at fort hood and among the folks that i knew there, the short answer is basically no. I had one friend who is involved with a relatively oriented Veterans Ad...

There is a movement for democracy among people that work there, thinking it matters more and more to their work. And that is also true in the United States. During this last 25 years in the United States government. These last 25 years it has become part and parcel of every diplomats dna to appreciate that the democratic character of governments that we partner with affects their International Posture and policies as well and our military establishment and intelligence agencies i think increasin...

The Border Control and security initiatiinitiatives. We have been blessed to navigate the challenges. Welcome me in welcoming jim zigler. [ applause ] thank you for that very kind and generous introduction. It is pleasure and honor for me to introduce the keynote speaker. Senator Patrick Leahy from the great state of vermont. I consider him to be a good friend. And for all of you who are doubting it is possible for republicans and democrats to be friends in washington today. Didnt say it was eas...

Possibilities. My own office at the state department has had a pretty consistent budget thanks to the congress to support Civil Society actors in a variety of countries and, of course, the National Endowment for democracy remains the pree moore institution in the world premier institution in the world for targeting assistance to democrats usually many tough places. So they know they have support from the outside community, from the International Community. So let me mention a couple of things ju...

To see disorder, particularly in key parts of the world as were seeing now in the middle east. Second reality that we face is that oftentimes states that democratize can become democracies, may become less close partners of the u. S. In security matters, specifically the case if the u. S. Had supported an authoritarian regime that preceded it, then a new regime comes in and they seek to distance itself to a may not seek to doubt the full panoply of u. S. Security agenda. With the difficulties in...

Right,want to get this we have to understand what you think is happening and what is happening. We are going to try to have a conversation in a couple of weeks so that they do not use this as protection. Remember, companies in france, germanys, they are saying, lets exclude these companies so that we can say this information is safe because it is in servers in france. France just put in a provision that said they do not even need to go to a judge to get private communications other server compan...

How to get it assigned to me. I was the longestserving junior justice in history almost. I could get it assigned to me. Here is how. It breaks down forfour. How do i get it to me, which i certainly did not want. I said, i am not sure. They have to assign it to me. That will determine the outcome. I better be more certain than that. Nonetheless, he has to try to get the court, do it by the numbers, and that he has some discretion. Then we sit down, we write, i get my law clerk to write a long dra...

The program and i talked to him and said this is how it works and he said whats the biggest barrier . I said we have trouble making people understand how to better treat their clients. Im a huge fan and knowing what we need to do is to make sure those people that need help get the help they want. Our clients are offered treatment and across the board every Single Person arrested for that are offered services an they all get help. Everyone of them gets help. And my outcomes show that they benefit...

You were a substance treatment expert for the medical center. I understand there is some promising new treatments about alcohol that maybe on the horizon. Tell us about that. As far as treatment for alcoholism, the first things to consider is how somebody gets into treatment in the first place. There is 4 ls, liver, livelihood, lover or the law. Those 4 things. Liver, livelihood, lover and law. Within those ls is when somebody shows up in my door, someone suffering, a Family Member suffering who...