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Omaha Steve

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Mon Sep 19, 2022, 02:20 PM Sep 2022

Bill Clinton: 'The world's on fire,' but teamwork can help

Source: AP

By GLENN GAMBOA

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton is calling on governments, businesses, philanthropies and other prominent institutions to draw together and help a world that is “on fire” as he reconvenes the Clinton Global Initiative, the meeting of international leaders, for the first time since 2016.

“Somebody needs to show up and make something good happen,” he said during the conference’s opening public session Monday. “That’s what we’re trying to do.”

Interest in the two-day meeting has been so intense that the Clinton Foundation had to turn away more than 1,000 potential attendees. It is convening a spectrum of luminaries, including Jordan’s Queen Rania Al Abdullah, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and actor and water access activist Matt Damon.

Clinton, president of the United States from 1993 to 2001, said he has been amazed by the massive response.



Former President Bill Clinton speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-entertainment-health-covid-states-02f3eef239490442e81931db94fab0d0

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Bill Clinton: 'The world's on fire,' but teamwork can help (Original Post) Omaha Steve Sep 2022 OP
This is what former presidents do Bayard Sep 2022 #1
yes...this is what Democratic former presidents do.... bahboo Sep 2022 #2
Safe In My Garden by The Mamas and Papas spike jones Sep 2022 #3
Absolutely love the Clintons! SoFloDenny Sep 2022 #4
K&R Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2022 #5

spike jones

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3. Safe In My Garden by The Mamas and Papas
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 06:36 PM
Sep 2022

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When you go out in the street
So many hassles with the heat
No one there can fill your desire
Cops out with the megaphones
Telling people stay inside their home
Man, can't they see the world's on fire

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