A crisis moment for the Global Trading system the World Trade Organizations Appeals Court is on course to collapse after successive u. S. Administrations blocks the appointment of new judges global trade looks set to lose its ultimate empire. The man is not for budging and unless theres an 11th hour breakthrough the face of the World Trade Organizations top of course has been sealed us some bosses are to the w t o denis chase says hell continue to block the appointment of new judges whose job it is to rule on trade disputes here is what that means the applet body is made up of 7 judges 4 whose terms have expired have not been replaced because the United States has blocked the naming of their replacements 2 of the remaining 3 are due to leave on wednesday with only one member remaining the court would no longer be able to function and the director general said that he will be now holding intensive consultations of a political nature or get to his statement in a minute but what he said w
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to ord order. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled an examination of facebook and its impact on the Financial Services and housing sectors. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. Today we are here to examine the act of facebook on the Financial Services and housing sectors. Our sole witnesses the facebook chairman and ceo, Mark Zuckerberg. Facebooks plan to create a Digital Currency, libra, and a digital wallet raised many concerns relating to privacy, trading risks, discrimination, opportunities for diverse owned financial firms, National Security, Monetary Policy and the stability of the Global Financial system i and other democrats have called for a moratorium on facebooks
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