at a meeting of the advisory council for the affairs of belarusians abroad primit, they summed up the results of their joint work over the year and discussed prospects for the future. a loud scandal in lithuania, here the authorities finally set in motion the matter. they were long and carefully pushed into the back drawers of the prosecutor's desks. in the canon of the last presidential elections , a certain state security officer stated that his department was collecting information on politicians and businessmen in the interests of one of the candidates. after almost five years, it turned out that the person who ordered the surveillance was nauseda, then only a contender for the post of president. the scandal hardly broke out by accident; there are about six months left before the new elections and they clearly want to discredit nausėda. in order to prevent him from again sitting in the chair of the head of state, exposing corruption, clanism, uncontrolled police force can harm in power, however, judging by the current scandal, the tools of his opponents are all the same, only, as

any questions from the commissioners on the advisory council report? >> i just had one and it is more of a thank you to commissioner lum and jung for working through the joint leg new structure and getting that past. appreciate that and think it will allow to operate more effective and provide more time to do advocacy work which is priority. >> having been on that group for quite a while, i think it is a exciting change as we work through the process over the next year. especially with a brand new session starting with brand new bills, so thank you. >> good morning. thanks for your report. i wanted to ask, you said you have 5 openings? which districts are you still needing because i'm actively recruiting? >> 1, 5, 7, 9 and 10. >> okay. thank you. >> and we sent two resumes to two supervisors. >> thank you. >> our members are looking also, so we keep-we are doing our best. priority of mine for next year. >> any other comments from commissioners? >> thank you commissioners. commissioners, item 8 is joint legislative report presented by diane lawrence. >>

a meeting of the expert advisory council under the presidium of the council of the republic of the nationalical university. this is the sixth such meeting of senators of the current convocation. each time the meetings are devoted to the most pressing issues of economic development. light industry is a direction for which belarus has always been famous. today the industry is represented by 30 large enterprises and 2 thousand small organizations engaged in this business. 80% of goods, geography of expert and advisory supplies - 95 countries. participants of the council meeting got acquainted with the exposition of white goods. educational institutions that train personnel for the light industry and enterprises of the country presented their developments. in this industry. clothes, shoes, accessories. the meeting participants highly appreciated the products of the orsha flax mill, lenta, komvol, belvest, mark, polesie, gallantea. there are a number of issues that we, as legislators, must resolve. those issues that should be resolved at the government level, today we will write down these propo

participants of the meeting of the expert advisory council got acquainted with the exhibition.s and five universities, including vitebsk state technological university, which has been writing history since 1965. for almost six decades it has been called the sails of light industry. there is a significant number of graduates here today, 30% are personnel for the country's textile, clothing, and shoe factories. in addition, the university is a platform for scientific developments, which are successfully being implemented in... the production of non-flammable fabrics, canvases from catonized flax fiber, soles made from textile waste, nanofibrous materials, this is the invention of scientists at the vitebsk technological university, student clothing collections win awards at prestigious fashion design competitions. currently, we are very actively engaged in new types of yarns, new types of fabrics, from the main raw materials of the republic of belarus, this is, of course, our new flax. to fabric and our young guys, designers, are developing youth clothing, we aimed this project at

sergei lvovich, you recently came to minsk to participate in a meeting of the advisory council at theinistry of foreign affairs on affairs belarusians abroad. that's how comfortable it is today. these spiritual bonds, it is so clearly manifested in communication with representatives of all 193 nationalities who live in the russian federation, from ours... they sit very intently with interest with very great pride that both russians and belarusians have preserved exactly this is their core, the core of the bearers of high spirituality, high culture, high education, and the fact that our enemies today are trying to do something, to break it, they have this in their lives it will never work out, because neither the russians nor the belarusians, they were even close to the values ​​​​that are being promoted in the west today, everything else comes from these spiritual values, this is economics, this is finance, this is their beast, which is called askal against our unity, so i think that finally all these things have appeared, which have further strengthened our unity, which have further

we have proactive measures within the framework of our advisory council for the protection of consumerntry council, and there is a council at the level of the countries of the commonwealth of independent states, because the common market, a significant part of the marketplace has no borders at all, we are trying to work with large marketplaces in order to so that they do not allow preventive maintenance, without even waiting for some... statements of court cases, but react only to primary complaints, today this is working out, not as quickly as we would like, but in general they they hear, and this is also important to note. ayurna, another topic that i would like to touch on with you is labeling: more and more products require mandatory labeling, how do you evaluate the intermediate, perhaps so far, results of this work and what are your plans? well, you know, we are getting a very important tool, we strived for it, we wanted it and we defended it. i’ll tell you why such a possibility of control, but if you take it 30 years ago, the number of units of goods on the shelf was incomparab

a meeting of the advisory council on the affairs of belarusians abroad was held at the foreign ministryting participants discuss? as foreign minister sergei noted. according to the un , almost one and a half million belarusians live outside our country. compatriots abroad are united in 207 organizations, they carry out activities to preserve the popularization of our culture, history, language, and participate in the implementation of business projects. well, representatives of different nationalities. the start of the brightest and kindest event was in belovezhskaya pushcha, where children from different parts of the country came, but the whole country became connected with the estate of father frost; during the opening of the charity marathon, a teleconference was organized, this was the first time such a scale was organized. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! this is a truly magical place with its ancient forest and especially before the new year the atmosphere of some kind of fairy tale. i came from the city of magelyovo for the first time to visit santa claus, and i gave him a letter so that all my wi

advisory council for belarusian affairs abroad. at the opening, the head of the foreign ministry sergei oleinik emphasized: belarus appreciates the positive contribution of belarusians abroad in conveying truthful information about our country. the event was attended by representatives of diasporas from different parts of the world, including the countries of the european union and the usa. leaders of belarusian organizations spoke about new projects and shared the results of their activities abroad. at the meeting of the advisory council, the results of the joint work were summed up. work for the year and discussed prospects for the future. well, representatives of different nationalities living in belarus are united by the republican festival of national cultures. in june next year , grodno will host this large-scale event for the fourteenth time. now qualifying rounds are being held in all regions of the country. in the grodno region, it was held according to tradition in lida, where, by the way, representatives of sixty nationa

the ministry of foreign affairs hosted a meeting of the advisory council on the affairs of belarusiansopening , the head of the foreign ministry sergei oleinik emphasized: belarus appreciates the positive contribution of belarusians. force the consumer to choose one manufacturer or another. in turn , belarusian pharmaceutical enterprises today they offer the market modern drugs that are not inferior in quality to foreign analogues, while the price is an order of magnitude cheaper. there must be equal representation. here we have a brand resolution that concerns trade in general, where we say that goods within the eurasian economic union should be equally represented. the same principle should apply here: here is an imported drug, it costs so much. there is a belarusian drug, it costs so much, it is an analogue, so the consumer must have equal rights to choose what he needs. at the end of last year, belarusian enterprises produced medicines worth $600 million as part of import substitution. belgos food industry is expanding its export geography, and belarusian confectionery products are

khabaz said that we have meetings where some former governors are present as aref's advisory council. the shaerian political movement, which consists of personalities with a fundamentalist background, has invited volunteers to join the base if they are aligned with the ideology of this movement's manifesto. introduce yourself online. until the end of the qualification review period there are only two weeks left for the candidates for the 12th parliament elections in the provincial supervisory boards, and the results of the candidates for the leadership expert assembly will be announced in a month . from january 1 , it is mandatory for economic operators to issue electronic invoices , according to the tax affairs organization, for natural persons with sales of less than 18 billion. your work device is considered as an electronic bill. mr. mohadi said that legal entities and other natural persons should refer to the maadian system to issue invoices . the head of the regulatory center of the organization tax affairs regarding the latest implementation of the law on store endings and the

, drink coffee and chat with local residents, i come every year because i am a member of the advisory councilsident at one time, i really love belarusian nature, i can come to the forest, just stop, stand, look at the sky, admire this beauty, probably you belarusians are used to to this beauty, but for us it’s something extraordinary every time. i will take my heart away with love, respect for us, love , this is my name, probably obliges me, sometimes i once complained to archimandrite joseph, well, i’m tired, this is a social work, he says, well, this is your mission. and i’m inspired by this word, that i have this mission, this is what i live by, no, now i ’ve taken the notes, we’ll sing cranes in the woods , there are a lot of master classes taking place , internships are taking place, we are exchanging experiences, repertoire, and we learn, remember, our culture, because it doesn’t always work out, we don’t have a belarusian library as rich as there is a library here, that is, this is a very useful, very necessary thing, i think, because the energy with which we are charged from our nativ

sergey lvovich, you recently came to minsk to participate in a meeting advisory council of the parishfairs of belarusians abroad. that's how comfortable it is today. now all these things have appeared that have further strengthened our unity, which have further strengthened our solidarity, we didn’t even think that we were so strong, it turned out that when the time came, well, let’s not deceive ourselves about certain trials, we showed exactly our character, the character of russians, belarusians, that we, firstly, are still more united together, and secondly, those indicators that are well... about food products, that this is our dear belarus, in my opinion, is capable of feeding not only russia and china, as time now shows, this is really a treasure, a treasure of our gost super elite products, that’s what, this is the first, second, this is how recent events have shown years, when a special military operation began, it turned out that our enterprise. only the military-industrial complex, all our enterprises, industrial ones, they showed fantastic results, and today that’s all the

defense advisory council and chair of the american security project.come to the national press club. i figured i would start with senator hart and james risen for questions and then broaden the topic out to others. please feel free to pop in if you have other comments or questions. i will try to ask as many questions for the audience as possible so write them down on a card and hand them up to me. jim, you spent decades doing investigative reporting on national security issues and have written several other books on the kgb, the cia, abortion, and other topics. what prompted you to read about frank church specifically and why now? >> thank you, again, for having us. the reason i wrote -- and tom wrote this book was, the idea originally came to me because i covered the cia for the new york times for many years, especially after 9/11. after 9/11, if you remember, the bush administration started complaining very loudly and publicly that the 9/11 attacks had been made possible by the frank church and the church committee which had existed 20 years before u

the council of the republic held a regular meeting of the advisory council on issues of adaptation andlege of digital technologies, where special young people study, also heads of an it company, work and show excellent results, noted natalya kachanova. our country has a fairly systematic exhibition. the women's union summed up the past year and discussed plans for the future. all bsg projects are aimed at strengthening the role of women in society and its significance. today there are more than 160,000 people in the organization’s ranks, active representatives of our country. the association is involved in political life. thus, the day before , the issue of the participation of the organization’s divisions in the preparation and conduct of the upcoming election campaign was decided. the results of work in the international arena were also summed up. during the year, the union successfully held forums with colleagues from russia and uzbekistan and plans to expand the list of countries next year; we recently organized a united organization of state standards belarusian women's union , to

state department international security advisory council chair of the u.s. department threat advisory council and chair of the american security project. gentlemen, welcome to the national press club. >> i figured i would start with senator hart and james rison for a couple of questions and then broaden the topic out to the rest of the panel. please feel free to pop in if you have comments or quotes you want to give with a different question. i will try to ask as many questions from the audience as possible so just write them down on a card and hand them to me jim. you spent decades doing investigative reporting on national security issues and have written several books on the kgb, cia and other topics. what prompted you to write about frank church specifically and why now? >> thank you for having us. the reason i wrote, tom and i wrote this book is the idea came to me because i covered the cia for the new york times for many years. especially after 9/11. after 9/11, if you remember the bush administration started complaining very loudly and publicly that th

was noted by the minister of foreign affairs of our country at the opening of a meeting of the advisory councilelarusians abroad. sergei oleinik also emphasized that belarus appreciates the positive contribution of belarusians abroad in conveying truthful information about our country. the belarusian diaspora very clearly represents the belarusian state, belarusian culture, belarusian history, regardless of the country where it is located. representatives of the diaspora from different parts of the world gathered, including from the countries of the european union and the usa. belarusians in the states have their own opinion about illegal sanctions against our country. we understand that sanctions, in general , are mostly people who suffer, ordinary people, we try, but unfortunately, they don’t always listen to our voices, in general, if there was an opportunity, then everything would be fine differently, but... again, you have to hope for the best, somehow i always think, do what you need to do, what will happen. we are also coping with sanctions by increasing production cooperation with russi

. >> it's great to be here with so many members of our national advisory council. excuse me.es are left behind from when the hurricane hits, together you delivered boosting our resilience and expand our use of electricity. >> it's making no sense. but at the same time biden is pushing infrastructure spending. zelenskyy was out saying don't spend your money on roads and bridges, america. >> do this. not build roads for today. don't do it. spend all your money to the weapon, to the drones, to society, to the pensions, et cetera. >> to their pensions? we are spending money on their pensions? people are wondering if they are going to have their own pensions in the united states win push comes to shove. >> it is absolutely remarkable, laura. you have here a guy begging coming with hat in hand and telling mayors don't spend on roads and bridges. give me your money. this is crazy. we have given you hundreds of billions of dollars. you've got to draw the line somewhere. i want to go to the story, laura, breaking in the iowa state house. it's a display of satan erected by the such an

most chillingly, the rapist served on the lgbtq plus advisory council for the district attorney's officeid that stevens had multiple sexual relationships with underage boys. after what happened, according to the american press, even there has been a wave of publications in which the authors ask the question: is this the identity we are fighting for? indeed, in the west in recent years , identity has become a permissive vice. gays and transgender people can do anything, theirs. opponents are only allowed to remain silent. in the uk, according to the daily mail, local police have charged rachel mclean with a so-called haight crime incident. what did the woman do that was so terrible? she reposted, that is , spread a message on her social networks that a transgender is running as a green party candidate, called him a man. along the river, a man pretended to be a woman. maclean eventually had to apologize, and she apologized, it turns out, for the truth, otherwise there is no other way to call it. well, the lgbt agenda in britain is only now gaining momentum; scannews devoted an entire repor

so the advisory council or the advisory board of the un that your co-chairing are you breaking down these these four different categories and trying to articulate appropriate regulations around each of these ? well, we're thinking through first of all, this is the un high level advisory body. so we've kind of organized ourselves to think about three kinds of areas. one is to think about the opportunities and enablers of the opportunities. keep in mind, as we all said, there's so much that's exciting that could benefit the world. so we're thinking about those opportunities and enablers. then we're also second thinking about the these complexities and risks of all these different kinds that i just described. then the third area we're thinking a lot about the governance questions. what's the right way to think about co ordination and governance? and so forth in ways that benefit the whole world? because one of the risks that we have is we likely could end up with a patchwork of regular relations and frameworks that are just so confusing. so i just thought it was useful to think about the bro

he's a member, the advisory council of scholars for the u.s. capital historical society. his articles, book reviews, op eds appear regularly in national magazine and in newspapers from the new york times, wall street journal to the l.a. times. in earlier years, as a journalist he reported extensively politics, economic issues and culture from asia, the middle east, europe and africa, and worked for a time even at the united nations. he's a genuine new yorker who did his undergraduate and graduate degrees at city college of new york, a columbia university, and he has lived and worked actually all around world. he and his wife, jean, currently reside on capitol hill in washington, d.c. mrs. bordewich is a playwright, an adviser to national and international philanthropies on democratic governments. she's with us today. and you also meet and visit with her at that signing tent after our hour or 50 minutes here is over. so i think, for starters fergus, how about opening this with a reading from the very beginning of your book? it's right at the start. his preface. it's your o

he's a member, the advisory council of scholars for the u.s. capital historical society. his articles, book reviews, op eds appear regularly in national magazine and in newspapers from the new york times, wall street journal to the l.a. times. in earlier years, as a journalist he reported extensively politics, economic issues and culture from asia, the middle east, europe and africa, and worked for a time even at the united nations. he's a genuine new yorker who did his undergraduate and graduate degrees at city college of new york, a columbia university, and he has lived and worked actually all around world. he and his wife, jean, currently reside on capitol hill in washington, d.c. mrs. bordewich is a playwright, an adviser to national and international philanthropies on democratic governments. she's with us today. and you also meet and visit with her at that signing tent after our hour or 50 minutes here is over. so i think, for starters fergus, how about opening this with a reading from the very beginning of your book? it's right at the start. his preface. it's your o

president biden was giving a speech, it was a meeting for the national infrastructure advisory councilo message in the speech the most part before the press was removed, a lot of questions were shouted to the president regarding his son. take a listen, this just happened. >> thank you all for being here. i'm going to ask the presto step out so we can begin our briefing. thank you, thank you, thank you. >> mr. president, should your son have defied the subpoena? >> did you watch hunter this morning? >> mr. president -- >> sandra: that just happened. we want to make sure we showed our viewers at the end of the speech there, a second time i've watched it, appears he winked at the press corps as they were shouting the questions. >> john: not going to entertain any questions on that topic. but you know, as we pointed out before we went to the break, the house is actively debating a resolution on impeachment inquiry could change things for the president in the new year, by the way is an election year. >> sandra: he did answer some shouted questions just yesterday, he said it's all a lie, nev

kathy henderson is one of the neighborhood advisory council people is furious and wants better answersl: the non-stop crowd of migrants. border patrol had to shut down several checkpoints further north in arizona and reassign agents to process thousands of new arrivals. chris clem, retired yuma sector border patrol chief. you are in lukeville, arizona. nice to see you and good to have you on. bill melugin is down there yesterday. he pops up yesterday with dana and me and he describes as the sun is coming up hundreds, maybe thousands, of single adult males from all over the world. then he rolls this video of a hole in the wall and they just come flooding in and at the very end of the line there is a smuggler, black hat, black face, throws his hands up in the air and salutes and walks away. we have asked you to make sense of this all the time, chris. we can't. can you? >> there is no making sense of this. this is three years running of what we're dealing with down here. you know, just like you reported and what bill reported, what you are seeing right behind me this is military age singl

encouraged that one of the architects of the ai bill of rights, who's also now on the un, i advisory council is dr. alondra nelson. and i definitely think social science sensibility is not just nice to have essential for sure, but it continues to be sorely lacking lacking. hello and thank you for all of the work you've done. i still like you a so my question is in really some of the students in the room and of the students who couldn't be here right. given kind of the room that we're living in right now. in the event of also still layoffs, while the same companies are doing these mass layoffs, doubling down on ai systems. right. is just what is also being unearthed. and the biases of who's being impacted. and so kind of what are some words hope in this and especially hearing as someone who also kind of you're in this space and you didn't kind of like the traditional mainstream. mind set that, hey, i'm maybe within being an academic. these are the hoops, these are the hoops that i want to jump. yeah, but in building resistance, kind of what are some words of hope also in some of the students

encouraged that one of the architects of the ai bill of rights, who's also now on the un, i advisory council is dr. alondra nelson. and i definitely think social science sensibility is not just nice to have essential for sure, but it continues to be sorely lacking lacking. hello and thank you for all of the work you've done. i still like you a so my question is in really some of the students in the room and of the students who couldn't be here right. given kind of the room that we're living in right now. in the event of also still layoffs, while the same companies are doing these mass layoffs, doubling down on ai systems. right. is just what is also being unearthed. and the biases of who's being impacted. and so kind of what are some words hope in this and especially hearing as someone who also kind of you're in this space and you didn't kind of like the traditional mainstream. mind set that, hey, i'm maybe within being an academic. these are the hoops, these are the hoops that i want to jump. yeah, but in building resistance, kind of what are some words of hope also in some of the students

columbia university law school professor catherine frankie who at one time sat on the academic advisory council committee of jewish voice for peace. upon her landing in tel aviv, write an official at the airport showed her what appeared to be her canary mission profile. after being held for 14 hours, she was deported and informed she would be permanently banned from israel. this is just one example. jim bamford, thanks for being with us, investigative journalist well known for exposing cia. the new york times has called him the premier journalist on the subject of the nsa. the new yorker calls him the nsa's chief chronicler. we will eat your series and the nation, including the last one, "who is funding canary mission?" back with the bartered professor -- barnard professor in moment. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. we are going to a bernard professor but we just learned we're joined now come if we can reach him, by akram al-sarri, a gaza-based journalist, talking to us from rafah in southern gaza. it is

i want to say thank you so much to my mental health and substance use advisory council. a group of law enforcement officers, educators, parents, and community members who i work with regularly to find ways to address opioid crisis in our home communities and across this great country. your stories and especially the memories of your loved ones that you have shared with me over the years have truly touched my heart. and it is these stories and memories that have informed the policies that we champion here. and are at the top of my mind as this bill stands on the house floor today. thank you for your tireless drive and dedication. you are helping to make our community safer. we have so much more work ahead of us as a community in minnesota 2 and as a nation. but if it helps to save just one life, it's worth doing the work. thank you to the members who are coming together from both sides of the aisle today to support this important bill. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the the gentlewoman from iowa, mrs. miller-meeks, for