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interest. what we need first is transparency of contracts and resource flows. the payments were not known and the step-by-step there's a little bit more knowledge of this even when the world bank was involved in helping to lead the pipeline to the terms of the contracts that were secret. i remember asking the bank i want to see those contracts. no those are secret. and that's when we can't go on this way. we need people to be transparent. countries should look over over and see my neighbor is getting a higher tax rate. let's understand why our royalty rate is so low.
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what is private banking it is the minister will take your money and put it same place safe. that is a little footprint of thinking is and we will help to hide resource flows. so, why do small caribbean islands host trillions of dollars of deposits because of their great banking sectors? no. why do some of the largest multinational companies collect their profits in bermuda? they did it in stanford so why are the tactics with the international profits going to
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bermuda? because it gave them a free pass. this is what has to stop. how can we give way to powerful interest? >> i am going to conclude by reading you two sentences from the book. i have explained the historical geographical burdens are not favorite destiny they are the reasons of action and it's our job to understand how the end of poverty can be achieved and then act to make it happen. [applause]
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just outside at the same time a person was standing on the i-95. he was a cop and was arresting anyone she could find that she suspected of being a drug user. he had long hair and a hot temper and new that a few busted people the cops would keep 80% of everything they keep at it they would see it was paying the wages. he couldn't have been a stronger believer in the war on drugs.
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he used to share an ied and they looked alike and they were always together. with one thing in mind that's why she went into it. but we is an honest person and noticed something. when you are a cop give you a rest a rapist if you a rest a dealer there is always someone else in the corner corner but then you can lean into something even more important, it actually goes up. how can this be and what she discovered is that if she establishes a reputation you trigger the war and the prize-winning economists said
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there are 10,000 deaths a year in the united states as a result and there are a lot of people being caught in the crossfire. she didn't know what to do with this insight. then an agent agent that believed very strongly in the gun war to debate could -- drug war was just another dealer and he goes and looks and thinks i can't do this anymore. now she spends her time getting the convictions to the drug arrest that she did and lee is actually here today and i am so proud to know her. >> you can watch this and other programs on the tv.org. here's a look at upcoming
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eisenhower. the representative is currently reading those angry days by lynne lynn olson that looks at the debates over the u.s. involvement in world war ii. he recently finished paul johnson's book eisenhower a life. he recommends steven and post biography which traces the path from soldier to president. asked on the list is going home to glory a memoir by his grandson david eisenhower and wife julie nixon eisenhower. next is the white house years by jim newton editor at large of the "los angeles times." next is the personal account of the strategies battles and outcome of world war ii and crusade in europe. representative tom cole represents jean edward smith portrait. to see what other books the congressman has recommended that
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it cold of house .gov. >> it became possible as a society where white wasn't based solely on appearance but also on dress, behavior and mannerisms. indeed skin color and physical appearance were usually the least reliable factors. racially ambiguous slaves drew on highly sophisticated understandings of racial gender and social norms and by doing so many successfully passed to freedom. ellen passed as a white man crossing both racial and gender lines to speak freedom. while he played the role of her sleeve. it was necessary to pass as a man because she knew it was
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unconventional for a white woman to travel along the female slave. the third performance required far more than her white skin. it was the knowledge of how to dress and comport herself like a southern gentleman and her nuanced understandings of the social and gender norms that made this undertaking a marvelous success. the concern of her beardless face might country her or the literacy woodpecker from registering her name at hotels, she became a master of improvisation. she downed her right hand in a sling so she could ask others to sign her name for her. she bandaged her face so that no one would knew that she had a beard. with illness, disability and even deafness she politely
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excused herself from conversation and she won the sympathy of other travelers. in fact she played the role of a southern gentleman so well with other ladies swoon what other ladies swoon that her presence. [laughter] lf ff tho dar >> let's introduced thee. panelists.ext to me we have the author of dog whistle politics he is also a at e professor of law at thety of university of california berkeley and then we havee he leonard -- [applause]is. >> he's the miami herald columnist and co-author of the
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