News September 21, 2018

News Stories

• Congress, Don’t Let Trump Usurp Your Power Over Trade

  SPEAKER: Robert Zoellick

  (Wall Street Journal) – Congress should reassert its constitutional authority over trade. To start, lawmakers should insist on their prerogative to decide whether to retain the North American Free Trade Agreement or adopt President Trump’s proposed replacement.

• Leonardo DiCaprio: ‘The polar photography of Paul Nicklen is a climate change warning’

  SPEAKER: Paul Nicklen

  (iNews) – The Hollywood actor and environmental campaigner highlights the message about global warming behind these beautiful images

• GVNA Executive Leadership Breakfast announces ALS advocate as featured speaker

  SPEAKER: Nancy Frates

  (Gardner News) – GVNA HealthCare has announced that the keynote speaker for the 9th annual Executive Leadership Breakfast will be Nancy Frates, an ALS Advocate whose son, Pete Frates, was the inspiration for the Ice Bucket Challenge.

• Newt Gingrich: Why John McCain was such an inspiration to me

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – John McCain was always pushing the margins, looking for new ideas and trying to find better ways to do things.

• Voters are still devouring Donald Trump’s dark materials

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Times) – If Hillary Clinton were president, Congress would have already impeached her

• Omniex Hires Former SEC And FDIC Execs As Members Of The Board of Advisors

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (HiBusiness) – Omniex has appointed previous Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) Chairman Sheila Bair as a member of the board of advisors.

• Sean Spicer predicts six more years of President Trump

  SPEAKER: Sean Spicer

  (Irish Examiner) – Former White House press spokesperson Sean Spicer has insisted Donald Trump will remain as US president for six more years, saying the US must come back together and stop undermining its systems of government.

• The Dangerous Myth The U.S. Is Winning The Trade War With China

  SPEAKER: Harry Broadman

  (Forbes) – There’s been a spate of high-profile press headlines and news stories pointing to seeming evidence that the U.S. is winning the trade war with China. 

• A National Geographic photographer’s new book shows how stunning animals in the Arctic and Antarctic really are

  SPEAKER: Paul Nicklen

  (Business Insider) – In his upcoming book, ” Born to Ice ” — which is being published by teNeues and will be released in North America in October — Nicklen has collected photos from the polar north and south.

• From Refugee to One of Ford’s First Female Engineers

  SPEAKER: Damyanti Gupta

  (FordIT) –  Over 300 people attended the FAIA event to meet Damyanti Rani Gupta, a woman who broke multiple barriers inside and outside of Ford.

• Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Forget science (for now); living longer is in your hands

  SPEAKER: Sanjay Gupta

  (CNN) – Ever wonder how much of your longevity is determined by your genes vs. your lifestyle? It has been a scientific debate for years that has even set off an arms race among genetic testing kits and fitness monitors.

• China thinks long-term on financial stability — so should we

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (Yahoo Finance) – Where are we in the global economic cycle? I wish I had the answer.

• They Appoints Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala & Zoellick to Board of Directors

  SPEAKER: Robert Zoellick

  (PR Newswire) – Twitter, Inc.  today announced the appointments of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Robert Zoellick to Twitter’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) as new independent directors, effective immediately.

• What Veterans of The Financial Crisis Have To Say About The Next One

  SPEAKER: Henry M. Paulson, Jr.

  (SF Gate) – Architects of the government’s response to the last financial crisis worry the country is ill-equipped to handle another, fearing an “amnesia” has taken hold of policymakers, regulators, and the public that could lead to the next panic.

• The World’s 50 Smartest Teens—2018

  SPEAKER: Shubham Banerjee

  (The Best Schools) – Each of them saw a problem that troubled them enough to cause them to use their time, energy, and resources to discover — and in many cases implement — a solution. Yes, these teenagers are inventors, but perhaps more accurately and more importantly, they are problem solvers.

• P.W. Singer: Adapt fast, or fail

  SPEAKER: P.W. Singer

  (The Strategist) – The overwhelming speed of technological development means armed forces must change their approach to everything from who they recruit and train to how targets are attacked and how a nation defends itself.

• Trump boosts Spicer’s new book: It’s ‘really good’

  SPEAKER: Sean Spicer

  (The Hill) – President Trump touted his former White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s upcoming book on his Twitter account Saturday, urging supporters to buy the book, which he called full of “heart and knowledge.”

• Dr. Gupta: After all my years of reporting, this haunts me

  SPEAKER: Sanjay Gupta

  (CNN) – Most of the time when you hear me talking about food, I am talking about the food we eat. But a few years ago, I realized I needed to talk more about the food we DON’T eat.

• Voto Latino aims to register 1 million new Latino voters by 2020

  SPEAKER: Maria Teresa Kumar

  (Fox 23) – Nonprofit Voto Latino wants to register 1 million new Latino voters by 2020, launching this week on-the-ground and digital efforts that target young people.

• Stephen Harper Interview with Maria Bartiromo

  SPEAKER: Stephen Harper

  (Fox) – Former Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper on U.S. trade relations.

• Facebook “Embeds,” Russia and the Trump Campaign’s Secret Weapon

  SPEAKER: Brad Parscale

  (CBS News) – Brad Parscale, digital director for Trump’s campaign, was a critical factor in the president’s election. Now questions surround how he did it

• The Economy is Thriving on Trump’s Reforms

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Nasdaq) – President Trump’s positive impact on the U.S. economy and markets is unassailable.

• Newt Gingrich: The Republican comeback is a real threat to the elite media’s ‘blue wave’ theory

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – Every time members of the elite media mention the “blue wave” that is supposedly coming in the Nov. 6 congressional elections, they seem more and more delusional. In fact, as the elections draw closer, Republican victories are looking much more likely.

• GINGRICH: The Reality of the American Dream for the Class of 2018

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (The Dailywire) – This year, close to 3 million college students are graduating across America and will continue to pursue the American dream.

• Advocates for Opioid Recovery Advisor Newt Gingrich Releases Blueprint for Addressing the Opioid Crisis

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Markets Insider) – Advocates for Opioid Recovery (AOR) advisor former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is releasing a new book this week, Trump’s America, in which he discusses the ongoing opioid epidemic and the handful of solutions that will make a significant difference in the lives of all Americans touched by addiction.

• Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption

  SPEAKER: Stephen Harper

  (Newswire) – Signal Books is pleased to announce Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption by Stephen J. Harper, on sale October 16, 2018 in North America.

• An Interview With Newt Gingrich on Trump: ‘People Recognize How Effective He Is’

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (The Daily Signal) – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich spoke exclusively to The Daily Signal’s Ginny Montalbano about his new book “Trump’s America: The Truth About Our Nation’s Great Comeback.”

• First female engineer with an advanced degree at Ford Motor Company

  SPEAKER: Damyanti Gupta

  (TIME) – ‘Hard work and confidence can take you far.’

• The US will be the loser from Trump’s focus on trade deficits

  SPEAKER: Robert Zoellick

  (Financial Times) – People around the world are bewildered by President Donald Trump’s manoeuvres on trade. Their confusion is understandable, because Mr Trump rejects 70 years of US policy.

• Israel’s 70th Anniversary celebrated with tribute to Prime Minister Harper

  SPEAKER: Stephen Harper

  (The Suburban) – Some 1000 Montrealers gathered at the Shaar Hashomayim synagogue to celebrate the special anniversary by paying tribute to the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, the former Prime Minister of Canada, for his unflinching support of Israel throughout his political career.

• Allen West: North Korea Is On A Path To Economic Collapse

  SPEAKER: Allen West

  (Tea Partiest) – Lieutenant Colonel Allen West (Ret.) on the possible summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un. Charles Payne.

• Newt Gingrich on midterm elections: Democrats are digging a deeper hole

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox Business) – Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, (R-Ga.), on the impact of the improving U.S. economy on the midterm elections, President Trump’s efforts to lower drug prices, the media and President Trump’s foreign policy.

• Former congressman Allen West speaks at College Republicans event

  SPEAKER: Allen West

  (The Daily Northwestern) – “If we continue to be a nation that was on the path of compromising, appeasing, acquiescing to despots, dictators, theocrats and autocrats, then we put your future and the future of the United States of America at risk.”

• Former Fed official Fischer worried by Iran, international tensions

  SPEAKER: Stanley Fischer

  (Reuters) – Stanley Fischer, the former vice chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, said the Trump administration’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal and other geopolitical developments were cause for concern given the potential for international conflict.

• Why Peter Singer Is So Popular With Both Military Leaders & ‘Grunts’

  SPEAKER: P.W. Singer

  (The San Diego Union Tribune) – He’s a war strategist and a business owner, a bestselling author and an expert on mercenaries and robots. And for much of the past week, he was a major defense-conference headliner invited to share ideas with the region’s top brass as well as grunts on the ground.

• Reluctant Stakeholder: Why China’s Highly Strategic Brand of Revisionism is More Challenging Than Washington Thinks

  SPEAKER: Evan Feigenbaum

  (MacroPolo) – At the end of 2016, as Donald Trump prepared to take office as President, I penned an essay for Foreign Affairs magazine on “China and the World.”

• Bitcoin Is A Bit Late — The ‘Scissors Economy’ Got There First

  SPEAKER: Todd Buchholz

  (Investor’s Business Daily) – The postman rang once and unknowingly delivered the blackmail message. It was a letter from some creepy guy who claimed he had tripped upon my “secret” while working in my neighborhood.

• Influential National Geographic Photographer Campaigns for Protection of Marine Life

  SPEAKER: Paul Nicklen

  (Live Kindly) – National Geographic photographer and co-founder of ocean conservation organization SeaLegacy, Paul Nicklen is campaigning for the protection of marine life against the driftnet fishing industry.

• What Hank Paulson likes about Trump’s trade policy on China

  SPEAKER: Henry M. Paulson, Jr.

  (Yahoo Finance) – Hank Paulson, former US Treasury Secretary during the 2008 financial crisis, finds some bright spots in how the Trump administration is dealing with the rising trade tensions with Beijing.

• Newt Gingrich: We’re in the middle of a cultural civil war

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – On ‘Hannity,’ the former House speaker speaks out about ‘horrific language’ being used by the left and discusses how media cover the Russia investigation.

• How Zuckerberg’s Facebook is like Gutenberg’s printing press

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Washington Post) – When historian Niall Ferguson moved from Harvard to Stanford two years ago, he was struck by Silicon Valley’s indifference to history. 

• Allen West: DC Protest on Guns – Another Case of Ideological Child Abuse

  SPEAKER: Allen West

  (CNS News) – The issue of school safety can be solved, but for the left, that is not their aim. Their goal is to disarm Americans. And horribly so, they are willing to emotionally use and abuse our children to accomplish this.

• A brief history of the Doniverse

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (Boston Globe) – The general theory of relativity describes the force of graft-ity as it acts on Trump’s relatives. Bunkum mechanics, on the other hand, deals with phenomena on extremely small scales, such as the particles known as tweets.

• Anomali Names Ray Mabus, Former Secretary of the Navy, to its Board of Advisors

  SPEAKER: Ray Mabus

  (Digital Limo) – Anomali, the leading provider of threat management and collaboration solutions, announced that former Secretary of the U.S. Navy, Ray Mabus, will be joining the company as its newest advisory board member.

• The Method And The Madness Of Trump’s Tariff Scheme

  SPEAKER: Harry Broadman

  (Forbes) – When President Trump signed an Executive Order on March 11, 2018 that set forth a plan to impose prospectively import tariffs on steel of 25% and on aluminum of 10% for countries exporting those products to the U.S., most of us trade negotiation veterans were startled. Literally. You should be too.

• Jen Psaki: Trump agrees to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un

  SPEAKER: Jen Psaki

  (CNN) – Jen Psaki debates Trump Supporter Rob Astorino on Trump agreeing to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.

• National Geographic Announces 2018 Adventurers of the Year

  SPEAKER: Paul Nicklen

  (WebWire) – Eight trailblazing adventurers recognized for contributions and achievements in adventure sports, nonprofit work and photography

• Who is Brad Parscale?

  SPEAKER: Brad Parscale

  (CNN) – Donald Trump’s ascent to the presidency brought with it a host of new household names. Corey Lewandowski, Hope Hicks, Kellyanne Conway, Steve Bannon — to name just a few.

• Sheila Bair Sees the Seeds of Another Financial Crisis

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (Barron’s) – Sheila Bair has demonstrated that she’s not afraid to be the lone person flagging potential problems. The former head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is best known for her early warnings about the subprime mortgage market, and she’s still spotting problems in the financial system.

• These Wildlife Photographers are Merging Storytelling and Science

  SPEAKER: Paul Nicklen

  (National Geographic) – Cristina Mittermeier and Paul Nicklen are working to create and protect healthy oceans through powerful imagery.