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	CNN Films Debuts UNSEEN ENEMY For World Health Day Presentation UNSEEN ENEMY, about the potential looming crisis of disease pandemics, will debut as a CNN Films broadcast for a World Health Day presentation Friday, April 7 at 9:00pm Eastern on CNN/U.S. The film, which is exclusively presented by Johnson & Johnson, will then replay at 12:00am Eastern. CNN’s chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, MD, is an executive producer and consultant for the film. Learn more
	Why Former Navy Secretary Ray Mabus Is Joining A Venture Capital Firm I spoke with Mabus, who told me he plans to help GV portfolio companies scale their teams, instill cultures, and run large organizations. As SecNav, he led an organization of 900,000 that had an annual budget of $170 billion. He was known for advocating for social change, including fully integrating women in the military and increasing maternity leave. Under Mabus, the Navy also significantly reduced its reliance on fossil fuels. Learn more
	China’s ICBC Appoints Former FDIC Chief Bair As Independent Director Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd (ICBC) has appointed Sheila Bair, the former head of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), as an independent non-executive director. Bair, who was nominated last year, becomes the most high-profile former regulator to join the lender’s board of directors. Bair, chairwoman of the FDIC between 2006 and 2011, could help ICBC bolster its internal oversight as the bank seeks to expand its operations overseas. Learn more
	Former PM Harper At AIPAC: BDS Movements Pose Greatest Threat To Israel Harper was in 2014 the first Canadian prime minister to address the Knesset. He told the AIPAC crowd at D.C.’s Verizon Center that he did not take pro-Israel positions “as a favor to the state of Israel,” but “because I believed them to be in the best interest of my country, Canada.” “What is the difference between our values and Israel? None,” he said. What’s different, Harper added, is while they face similar threats “Israel is much closer to those threats than we are.” Learn more
	Newt Gingrich: Six Ways Congress Can Make Room For Tax Cuts That Will Create More Jobs Job creation is the metric by which every policy must be measured. With that in mind, Reagan accelerated job growth by drastically cutting taxes. During the Contract with America we created jobs by greatly reducing the capital gains tax. So, for the Trump administration, Republicans should stop saying we want to reform the tax system. Reforming will not create jobs on its own. We want to cut taxes and reform the system. Learn more
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