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EFTA01656108 | EFTA01656125 • Secretary of State Blinken delivers remarks at the Overseas Security Advisory Council Annual Briefing in Arlington, Virgini at 9:05 AM. • Secretary of State Blinken delivers remarks at the Resettlement Diplomacy Network virtual ministerial in Washington, D.C. at 4:00 PM. Visitors • No events scheduled. General Events • Brooking Institution: Transitions: Planning and staffing a presidency — Thursday, November 21, 2024. Location: The Brookings Institution, 10:00 AM. Newly elected presidents have 11 weeks to translate their electoral victory into a governing agenda and team. The two priorities go hand in hand, and successful transitions address both challenges at the same time. That includes strategic and operational choices in setting out a legislative and governing agenda, as well as confirming approximately 1,300 executive branch officials and filling judicial vacancies. • Heritage: Nuclear Revolution: Powering the Next Generation — Thursday, November 21, 2024. Location: Online event, 11:00 AM. Please join us for this special event where Jack Spencer will be discussing his new book, Nuclear Revolution: Powering the Next Generation, in which he argues that for nuclear energy to meet America's growing energy demand, we need to think beyond a nuclear renaissance and towards a nuclear revolution; a revolution animated by the American spirit, molded by free enterprise, and delivered by the private sector. • CSIS: Preventing Detecting and Responding to Animal Disease Threats: 20 Years of UN FAO ECTAD — Thursday, November 21, 2024. Location: CSIS, 10:30 AM. Today, up to 75 percent of emerging infectious diseases originate from animal sources, posing outsized risks to livestock health, agricultural production and trade, and human security. From the African swine fever to the highly pathogenic avian influenza, the socioeconomic and health threats posed by transboundary animal diseases are vast and far-reaching. Established in 2004, the UN FAO Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) implements the largest animal health capacity development programming globally, supporting countries in forecasting, preventing, detecting, and responding to high-impact transboundary animal diseases. • CATO Institute: A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist — Thursday, November 21, 2024. Location: CATO Institute, 1:00 PM. Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett has played an integral role in the rise of originalism—the movement to identify, restore, and defend the original meaning of the Constitution. But Barnett's path to becoming an influential professor of constitutional law was not an easy one. Starting from a working-class childhood in Calumet City, Illinois, Barnett's unusual resume has included stints as an ice cream truck driver, newspaper ad salesman, prosecutor, libertarian theorist, contract law professor, and Supreme Court advocate. In his new autobiography, A Life for Liberty, Barnett tells the complete story of his personal and professional journey. • Aspen Institute: Socrates San Francisco — Is technology the new religion? — Thursday, November 21, 2024. Location: The Institute at Salesforce Park, 6:00 PM. As our unified social values fragment and organized religion falls to the lowest levels of participation on record, people are seeking meaning. Belief in biohacking and the singularity now resemble tenets of a new faith. Since before the advent of the printing press and the Gutenberg Bible, technology and religion have had a complex and mutually beneficial relationship. While technology in the past augmented religion, join us as we ponder whether technology has itself become a new religion. • PIIE: Small packages big questions: Valuing the de minimis exemption — Thursday, November 21, 2024. Location: Online event, 9:00 AM. The United States allows international shipments with a fair market value of $800 or less to enter the country duty free. US Customs and Border Protection (CPB) processes about 4 million of these de minimis shipments a day, up from 2.8 million a day last year. Federal lawmakers are considering legislation that would significantly alter or eliminate the de minimis exemption. EFTA01656125
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