Pandemic to help Small Businesses just in time for christmas. And the lights turn on but everyones at home a quiet start to christmas celebrations in bethlehem as coronavirus restrictions keep the crowds away. Welcome to the program what was meant to be a rally to back to Senate Candidates has turned into an opportunity for donald trump to once again falsely claim that he won last months president ial election and hes been campaigning in georgia for 2 republicans who are up for runoffs next month this month sorry the poll will decide which Party Controls a state. Which the u. S. Senate pardon me but trump spent much of the time criticizing democrats and georgias republican governor who refused to endorse a substantiated claims of voter fraud in the president ial election. I want us correspondingly how good how small from the rally. His 1st since joe biden was declared the winner of the nov 3rd president ial election still donald trump says that he is not giving up on challenging and tr
Its really ironic that you women are centered around crime. Because thats not something that we see very often. Know, john, you are right. I grew a lot as far as this county goes. The bookmobile from the library was coming out, and then directly it was in front of our house. And not only can i read, mostly in the summer, all day. And it was just wonderful. And that includes being directly in front of the house, we would go out and get to come back, maybe, you know, two or three weeks later and as far as the eye can see, there were pine trees, and then there was a deep, fast running stream, somebody cutting a rope to a tree limb and he would run ss is a good its going way over the water and if he were any good at all. I guess it was natural instinct. You are running. There are some items there. We didnt know about it, about all of the hate and the crime, didnt know anything about it. And just before my wedding to my fiance, he was murdered. And he was shot, five times in the neck in the
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Them out . Palami, welcome to comfort zone. Good to be here. I want to look at 1st, the governments handling of the pandemic in recent months. We know that a vaccine now appears imminent, but after a decade of conservative rule, britain was woefully unprepared to deal with this. Pandemic any pandemic, wasnt it . Despite numerous warnings and dress rehearsals, why was your party asleep on the job for so many years . Well, i think what we saw with the pandemic was that the vast, vast majority of countries found themselves unprepared for it. And the reason for that, the fundamental reason for that was that the nature of the pandemic wasnt quite what was previously expressed is expected. What was generally expected by most countries was something that resembled blue. I realize it was different, but look at the figures before the coronavirus hit, the u. K. Had just 6. 6 intensive care beds per 100000 people. Thats fewer than latvia, fewer than cyprus, half the number that italy had, and abo
To know why the why dont you go down with the white house. So i dont know how i dont think its the fault of the clothes. Of the. Top that wanted to develop. A new number 1000001 it. May. 6 6 2 well. To so think of visionaries me Sophie Shevardnadze in times of uncertainty empathy our moral compass and altruism is our way through but how to make sure that our good intentions are not pave the road to hell i ask effective altruism evangelist professor of philosophy at Oxford University william mccaskill. William macaskill professor off the last of the at Oxford University and the cofounder of the center of for effective altruism its really great to have you with us today welcome to our show was. Great to be here thank you for inviting me on so all right so the movement here associated with this called sect of altruism i mean the very notion of this active altruism makes me wonder can altruism be in the affective or even harmful and in what cases yes i think suddenly isnt very often as ine