soft power into effective smart power strategies.just to summarize, when hillary clinton said in her inaugural hearings before the senate foreign relations committee that smart power meant using all the tools in our tool box, we're going to have to get much better at using all the tools in our tool box than we've been so far. and in the process of encouraging that is why i wrote this book. so that's enough from me. i'd much rather hear from you. over to you. >> thanks very much, joe. appreciate it. and i wonder if i might start with a question before throwing the floor open. twenty with years after the end of the cold war, 20 years after the publication of "bound to lead, "it seems to me in many ways the united states is still trying to define the role of american power in the world. what is, what are we trying to do with american power and american purpose? and given what you've written here, could you outline for us just a few of the tenets that you think should upside line the narrative of america -- underline the narrative of ame

the power they are currently using is not our power. the power that they say it is not our power. the power that they generate does not come to us. nothing related to the current power or the power that is generated has any connections from a business perspective with hetch hetchy. that is not to say this is not a globally good thing to do, but it has no business connection with the hetch hetchy system. supervisor wiener: i'm sure there is unanimity in the room of the importance of solar power, so my question is -- if we allocate $3 million instead of $5 million for next year, and you said that there is $1.4 million currently -- $1.3 million. let's assume $1.2 million by the end of the fiscal year. with that carry forward into the account? that would mean $3,000,000.10 $0.2 million, total of $4.2 million? >> that would be compared to the current year, they would have spent $3.8 million. supervisor wiener: for the folks coming to advocate for the increase, i would appreciate if folks could -- maybe some people could address that issue. in other words, if it is $3 million, plus the

it will transfer the political powers of the dalai lama. the dalai lama escaped to india following the 1959 tibetan uprising against the chinese rule. in 1989, he was awarded the nobel peace prize for his efforts to seek nonviolent means of conflict resolution. in march the dalai lama announced his intention to transfer political power to elected officials. the power to approve laws is transferred to the prime minister. and the cabinet becomes responsible for appointing special representatives to handle dialogue with china. >> we have sent envoys before. we are willing to send some more in the future. if and when the chinese government would like to have ernest conversation with us. >> reporter: the 75-year-old dalai lama wi dalai lama. the transfer of his official powers is seen as an attempt to award a political vacuum after his death. an event that fills many tibetans in exile with a sense of anxiety. nhk world. >>> in the philippines, massive quantities of dead fish have been discovered in a lake south of manila. so far the cause is unk

doubts over nuclear power are growing worldwide. turkey is faced with the difficult task of tackling the increasing demand for energy while easing concerns among its people. nhk world. >>> with that, we wrap up biz news for now. >>> hi there. time now for your weather update. whether across eastern asia, we see clouds build over northeastern china. this will produce some showers and thunderstorms including beijing, and then some clouds also moving into the korean peninsula as well. it looks like it will stay essentially dry in and around south korea. much of japan is going to be enjoying warm sunshine over the next couple of days. the seasonal rain bands is slowly sagging south, and that is dry skies in the okinawa islands as well. looking unsettled for taiwan again, but we look for dry wlvr and philippines will have more showers. we have widespread rain. other areas have isolated thunderstorms. for indochina as well, pockets of heavy showers showing up here in cambodia, central thailand and looking at plenty of rain elsewhere acros

incidents and given the dominant strauss kahn is one of the most powerful men bankers in the world and his alleged victim is just a hotel maid from africa it's likely that this crime would have been swept under the rug too had it not been for a secret weapon that the hotel maid had she belonged to a union and she knew that she could take that brave step forward again strauss kahn because her union would protect her and her job wouldn't be put at risk and that's just what she did and now strauss kahn is headed for prison. so isn't this just another example of unions putting a check on the powerball few leads for more on this i'm joined by democratic strategist erica erica welcome i do fear great to have you with us other women who have come forward since this revolution revolution saying that they had been. stayed silent in the face of similar activities including one who was a french journalist a woman who was french journalist does this show that the immigrant made the new york hotel with a union behind her has more power than a fairly high profile french journalist i think it i think

the plants, local economy depends on nuclear power. a city on the japan coast is one such city. after the fukushima daiichi disaster an incumbent who said the city's nuclear power plant was indispensable won in the mayoral election. >> we'll get back to you in a minute. >>> most of japan's nuclear plants are in remote areas that are not densely populated. central government gives grants and subsidies to the areas that host them. nhk world has more. >> reporter: the crisis at fukushima has worried locals. >> translator: they say the hamaoka plant is stave, but i don't believe it anymore. >> reporter: but the city depends on the plant for more than 40% of its revenue. nuclear money paid for the city's hospital and swimming pool. >> translator: there's no doubt the plant has helped us. we've benefited in terms of jobs, commerce and industry. >> reporter: a number of nuclear reactors stopped operating following the march 11th quake and tsunami. some others have been shut down for regular checkups. nhk asked local and regional governments t

power plant. japanese prime minister said thanks to the international community for its support following the march 11th earthquake and tsunami. he is determined to realize the highest possible level of safety for the nuclear power industry in japan. nhk world has more. >> reporter: the summit is the first meeting of world leaders since the great east japan earthquake. nuclear safety was added to the agenda following the accident at the fukushima power plant. at the beginning of the summit, prime minister kan briefed g 8 leaders to the nuclear crisis. he explained the time table to stabilize the nuclear facility and brings the reactors to call the shut down by january 2012. kan said japan will examine how the crisis occurred and dismiss close the information to the public. he said that he is attaining the highest level of nuclear safety based on the experience. following the nuclear accident in japan, germany made the first issue towards abandoning nuclear power. highlighting the differences in th

of its power. when it finally collapsed, and it collapse before another state, but under into decay. so we have no idea the trajectory of american power is. i think that's quite a long way to go still. the other problem with the term decline confuses two things. relative power and absolute internal decay. in relative power other countries will come closer to the united states. this is the rise of the rest. i don't see absolute decay in the west. people to how do not see this? is going around us. take a look at history. americans go through cycles of believing we are in decline. sputnik and 50s without we are finished. the russians were 10 feet tall. after nixon close the window to the arab oil embargo, we thought that was the end. in the 1980s when ronald reagan had huge budget deficits, there was a widespread belief in decline. that's what i wrote about. my friend at yale wrote a book called the rise and fall of the great powers and said we're going to go way the philip the second this thing. he g

right now hydrogen power and other power counts for 27% of power fly. i talked to an expert on the german institute for research and asked her whether we newable ex -- exports can plug the gap. >> we, yes can double the share by the next ten years and come up to a share of 35%. this is exactly the amount of the nuclear energy producing at the moment. this is feasible but the question remaining what is about the rest because we're still producing a large share of coal power plants. this needs to be renulls. gas will be the better alternative. >> what will be the consequence for german energy companies? >> yeah. they will increase -- there will be an increase of competition for sure because small and medium-size companies will also join the market and they will fill the gap and they will invest in infrastructure and grids and new power plants and this is where the energy companies the big four needs to phase, whether they are able to share the change or where we go at the end. >> you already mentioned coal. with nuclear power plants slated to be switched

power balancers. you know, if we just took putin for right now, there's no question at least on a rhetorical level that had different visions of modernization of what it means for russia, and i would put mr. medvedev kind of more indie -- they are both sort of, keeping the great power balancers meaning pro-west, unlike vladimir putin is more straight up great power balancers, occasionally leaning the other direction. but very sort of responsive to what is happening, we've seen the evolution over the past 10 years. >> we will now take a minute to change name places, name cards, but before we do i know you want to join me in getting a hand. [applause] [applause] >> in the aftermath of the recent earthquake in japan and the tornadoes in u.s., the senate commerce committee held a hearing yesterday on natural disaster preparedness. this hearing focuses on response plans. senator jay rockefeller shared this senate commerce committee hearing. it's an hour and a half. >> i'm going to put my absolutely brillia

the power they are currently using is not our power. the power that they say it is not our power. the power that they generate does not come to us. nothing related to the current power or the power that is generated has any connections from a business perspective with hetch hetchy. that is not to say this is not a globally good thing to do, but it has no business connection with the hetch hetchy system. supervisor wiener: i'm sure there is unanimity in the room of the importance of solar power, so my question is

nuclear power or not nuclear power. but he agreed that heightening the safety of nuclear plants is important. >>> in europe the position on nuclear energy is divided. while germany has taken steps away from nuclear power, france remains optimistic about the potential. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >>> president nicolas sarkozy stressed that france will continue using nuclear power as the best choice even after the incident at the fukushima plant. the plants generate 80% of the country's electricity. though the safety of nuclear power was called into question in hearings in march the french government is making it clear that it will continue using nuclear energy as its national policy. [ speaking in a foreign language ] . >>> in fact, an accident similar to fukushima occurred in france in 1999. in december of that year, the plant in france's cooling system was temporarily shut down after flood water from a river inundated the facility. the accident didn't lead to a major problem thanks to a back-up cooling system. b

it's powered by a bicycle. a person simply uses pedal power to pump water to the purifier. the device was developed six years ago and has been used mainly in southeast asia. this is the first time it's being put to use helping survivors in a disaster zone. >> translator: our purifier can be used in a variety of situations. we want to visit more evacuation centers. >>> the idea for the bicycle-powered water purifier stemmed from the 1995 kobe earthquake. in addition to requests from people in disaster-affected areas, the manufacturer is receiving many inquiries from local authorities throughout japan. to meet the growing demand, the company is aiming to boost production. and now here is a recap of the latest market figures. >>> that's all for now in business news. >>> ever since the fukushima accident, more japanese have been attending screenings of a documentary dealing with issues about nuclear power. the film conveys a message of people working together to bring about change. we spoke with the film's director. >> reporter: nearly 30 years ago, construction of a nuclear pl

tub tubu electric power company has begun preocedures to stop the hamaoka power plant in central japan. they plan to shut down the number four and five reactors as requested by the government due to earthquake concerns. the company started inserts control rods into the number four reactor to stop nuclear fission at 3:30 a.m. on friday. it halted power generation by the reactor later in the morning. operation of the reactor is expected to fully stop at around 3:00 p.m. the power company says it will start the operation to shut down the number five reactor on saturday. the number one and number two reactors at the plant have been previously shut down for decommission, and the number three had been stopped for regular inspection. after the number four and five reactors are stopped, all five reactors of the nuclear plant will be nonoperational. we have more on tubu electric from the biz desk. ai. >> following the government's request to shut down the nuclear power plant, a u.s. credit rating agency has downgraded the power firm's debts. standard & poor's cut the credit rating by one notch.

but nuclear power is safer than the main alternative in india which is coal power stations because coal stations emit larger amounts of carbon dioxide, the main green house gas which is extremelyunsafe not only for india but for rest of the world. >>reporter: india has little choice but to add a lot more nuclear power. it suffers from a peak-hour power deficit of about 12 percent that acts as a brake on the growing economy and causes blackouts in much of the country. 500 million of its people still lack electricity. >>tinsdale: we have to look at not only at what electricity is currently used for but at all energy so oil and heating as well. much of that could and should be running on electricity in the future so that we don't have to burn oil. and to do that we need to get more low carbon energy including nuclear. so i think that nuclear will have a rising proportion of energy in asia and in the rest of the world until we can be 100 per cent renewable. >>reporter: but for global nuclear suppliers, india's recent nuclear liability law remains a sticking point. thelegislation limits the

being able to fight back against men of enormous power too often a who would you believe more frame determines the killed or innocence of powerful men accused of rape which then discourages future women from reporting incidents and given the dominic strauss kahn is one of the most powerful men bankers in the world and his alleged victim is just a hotel maid from africa it's likely that this crime would have been swept under the rug too had it not been for a secret weapon that the hotel maid had she belonged to a union and she knew that she could take that brave step forward against strauss kahn because her union would protect her and her job wouldn't be put at risk and that's just what she did and now strauss kahn is headed for prison. so isn't this just another example unions check of the power of wealthy elites for more on this i'm joined by democratic strategist. erica welcome to ivy here great to have you with us other women have come forward since this revolution revolution saying that they had been. stayed silent in the face of similar activities including one who was a french

countries for the more powerful countries and by the philosophies of those more powerful countries which is liberalize financial systems and high interest loans with a lot of bells and. strings attached four or four countries that they don't play a lot and by liberalized using the word of the european sense meaning. more more corporate control six months ago controlling more financial capital access and less regulations more external investment all of that liberal in a sense of open and loose and regulated and logical right roughly six months ago when the cameron government was elected or the. cameron what's in the in the whatever they're calling it now but when the conservatives came to power in the u.k. . the austerity measures that they put forward there was a big article there's a big guy in the financial times saying if you do this you're going to be laying off hundreds of thousands of government workers there's going to be a ripple effect throughout the economy those people are going to be buying products it's going to press the economy cameron said oh no no no no the you know we'r

there's the equivalent of three nuclear power plants worth of demand response power out there. so there's a lot of power, call it the extra stuff you don't really need, you know, you back off the a. c. a little bit, you back off the lights a little bit, you're still seeing, you're still cool, but not quite where you were before. so there's a lot. >> suzanne: i'm going to think of you the next time i turn on the lights. >>,r time you turn off the lights. >> suzanne: okay, frank sesno of planet forward. >> tom: here's what we're watching for tomorrow: an update on the state of spending when the commerce department releases april's personal income and spending data. mark skousen, editor of "forecasts and strategies," is back as our "market monitor." he has his two favorite stocks in undervalued sectors in the u.s. and europe. and, the higher cost of jet fuel. we'll look at what the upshot is for airlines. >> suzanne: honda predicts its u.s. and canadian plants will be almost back to normal production levels by august. that's sooner the automaker expected, thanks in part to a rebou

general hightower, a great populist, says corporate power overwhelming corporate power is making a mockery of americans. they think they are the top dogs and the arab day -- and we are their water hydrants. but he is right. but we can fight back. the other message of the book, as the late historian says, people making history is a beautiful side. people engaged in education, engaged in challenging officials, he said, real change comes from outside of the system. it comes from people prodding, taking response, prodding the government to do the right thing. most government does not want to do the right thing, that want to perpetuate their power. but people can bring change. martin luther king told lyndon johnson that, lyndon johnson listened as he argued, and lbj said to dr. king, go out there and make it possible for me to do the right thing. that is where real change comes. but the reason we have poets and the reason we both talked to artists and others is we fight back by celebrating what is good in our lives. the creativity of authors, the enthusiastic populism of general hightower, the

power shortages. many firms have begun efforts to try and cope with the expected power shortages this summer. >> reporter: on thursday, leading construction manufacturer komastu announced how it plans to conserve power. >> translator: we are discussing the possibility of giving workers more days off by introducing a four-day workweek. >> reporter: komatsu president noji says the company is considering introducing the shorter workweek at its tokyo headquarters. smaller companies are following suit. about 750 people took part in a hastily-organized seminar on thursday in tokyo. >> translator: air conditioners are often not cleaned. blinds should be properly opened or closed. >> reporter: the organizer of the event emphasized the need to draw up a power conservation plan involving top management, as well as a review of production plans and work hours. >> translator: we have turned down the air conditioners and are using less electricity. we'll do everything we can to get through the hot summer. >> transl

>> well, i think-- always criticize power. >> stephen: always criticize power?ys, even if you agree with it you should criticize power. >> stephen: even if you agree with power you criticize it. >> yeah. >> stephen: i believe you should tody to power because the suits are the ones who pick up the checkness we pay for it we actually sign those chex. you know, i'm the taxpayer so it's like that gives me the right to critique everybody. >> stephen: but if you are a taxpayer wouldn't the ultimate criticism power be not pay your taxes. >> i will be like wesley snipes then. >> stephen: yeah, you would. >> (cheers and applause) >> stephen: you have said you are critical and again i can't read anything on these cards. you are against the war on terror. >> yes can. >> stephen: i assume that given what happened last week, in pakistan you changed your mind? >> no, not necessarily. >> stephen: why, why, because can't -- >> because i don't see any end to it it's not like a war of attrition. >> stephen: we just won. we just won. (laughter) >> we got one guy. >> stephen: exact

tokyo electric power company says it needs to pour water into the reactors. it had confirmed earlier that the fuel rods have melted, and may have burned holes in the number one reactor pressure vessel. radioactive water is likely flowing from the containment vessel into the basement. tepco says it suspects a similar situation is happening in the number two and three reactors. the firm says it's considering pumping water out of the containment vessels and circulating it back into the reactors after cooling it with heat exchangers. it's also thinking of taking water from the basements of the reactor buildings and putting it back into the reactors after removing the radioactive substances. tepco is expected to keep to its original schedule of stabilizing the reactors within six to nine months. the japanese government will announce a plan on tuesday to help evacuees from around the troubled fukushima daiichi plant. it will have the first official schedule for assisting evacuees. the government is expected to allow them to re-enter the 20-kilometer exclusion zone

in france, 3/4 of its power comes from nuclear plants. president sarkozy emphasized it will continue to be a main energy resource. >> translator: while recognizing the need to develop alternative ener energy, many countries believe there is no alternative to nuclear power. >> france is helping japan deal with the aftermath of the fukushima daiichi accident. it will provide technical support to clean up radioactive contamination at the plant. one example is contaminated water. there are 87 tons of it on site at fukushima daiichi. japan will use french technology to decontaminate the radioactive water. >> these big international meeting often attract protesters. are we seeing any protests in deauville so far? >> the main ones are focusing on the safety of nuclear power. the accidents at fukushima daiichi has given a boost to anti-nuclear campaigns around the world. in europe the feeling is different regarding this type of energy. germany and italy have decided to stop promoting nuclear power but as we heard from president sarkozy, france is

it also reads what makes powerful men act like pigs. we put that question to the author of the feature story, executive editor nancy gibbs. >> it is not all men, by any means, but what we have found, all through history is that with opportunity seems to come an inclination to act on it. and the more wealthy and powerful and famous and accomplished men are, the more opportunity they have to misbehave. and what some social scientists have suggested is that the ordinary men who don't have an opportunity develop the muscles of monogamy, of self-restrained and delayed gratification. but if over time you have all this opportunity, all of these women, then those muscles weaken and you end up with men whose success often also makes them feel entitled to take whatever they want and there's -- if it's available, then they are inclined to take it. >> how do you go from being a man in power, being a business person, being confident to what seems like as you have said, entitlement and really just narcissism, is there another way of putting it? >> yo

the state is all about power. the state is the ability to concentrate power in the hierarchy and use it to impose rules over particular territory. in the developing world, and this again is why i think we sometimes take politics for granted. we assume that things will happen. like, long-term, i lived in firefox county for 20 years and the potholes always get to every spring. why did those potholes get feel but not in new guinea? there's a hidden social structure that provides these services and it doesn't party efficiently, at least in which county like firefox -- fairfax. i think that all of the antigovernment activists of which there are many, especially in our society, don't understand that if you want a country that doesn't have a strong government, that's able to enforce rules, you want to move to somalia or afghanistan or less developed country that cannot enforce rules on its own territory. somalia if you want to own not just an assault rifle when an rpg or a shoulder fired antiaircraft weapon, you are free

powering down. germany says it's strapping all of its nuclear power plants over the next decade in the wake of japan's nuclear disaster. accusations of corruption continue to fly in the world of soccer. but the head of the global governing body, fifa, denies the organization is in turmoil. >> we are not in a crisis. we are only in some difficulties. >> and the death toll rises in yemen after government forces open fire and set a camp ablaze in the southern city of taiz. welcome to our viewers watching us on pbs in america and also around the globe. in a major reversal of its policy, the german government mass announced that it plans to shut down all of the country's nuclear power plants by 2022. the move follows a review that was set up in the wake of the fukushima nuclear disaster in japan. germany currently gets 23% of its energy from nuclear fuel. but as our correspondent in berlin, steven evans says, there are still questions over how that gap will be filled. >> ever since fukushima, the german

on the nation's power supply this summer that.raps up this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. stay with us.

power that is actually consumed by our customers. that opt in queue can help us reduce the cost overall to our customers. it will help us establish a track record. we can expand product offerings as appropriate over time. we can have the early customer base the right there with us talking with their co-workers and neighbors about the product and services they receive from clean power sf. they can become advocates for us. those are some of the attributes of a phased program that are beneficial to us. demonstrating the operational experience will be important. that is 75,000 customers in phase one. we will be large program. that is a 30 megawatt program offering. it is about twice the size of -- in megawatts' -- as the program offered by others. it is substantially more than that in terms of customer accounts. on the third rat issue of redesign and targeting, our target has been early 2012. supervisor mirkarimi brought up the flat generation rate proposal that pg&e has before the california public utilities commission. rate changes lik

in england, it is the power by the purpose, not any other formal powers we are talking about today. i will conclude by saying that it seems to me we have had many decades now since world war two, i would say earlier, at least since the korean war that we have had without congressional permission. that have worked out the arrangement. if you work or to overthrow the decades of practice, you ought to have 100% certainty that you are right about the constitution. in my view, there are a lot of arguments that point in the other direction. the last people i think will decide this in our lifetimes is the supreme court of the united states. they have avoided this question like the plague. i am afraid that means it will really get fought out on panels like this. there will not be any permanently winning party. thank you very much. [applause] >> john and i talked earlier that our first contact with his article in 1996 in the california law review. if you look at the people that johnson's thank you for looking at the draft, lou fisher is there. i did not keep my notes from the time. but i wou

because it gives seniors the power. seniors get to choose which among competing private plans did they select from for their drug benefit. and e provider knows that the senior can fire them if they don't perform. if they don't give them competitive prices, good quality service. next year they can fire them and get somebody else. so they compete for the senior's business. that brought premiums down, saved taxpayers, brought 41% down. what we're seeing is replicate that kind of reform for people 54 bean low when they become medicare eligible. this doesn't take effect for ten years. hardly is this radical in my opinion. what's truly radical is status quo. kicking the can down the road, going tens of trillions of dollars deeper in the hole every year we don't fix ts situation, means we record a debt crisis and then awe terty, cutting indiscreme knitly against senior where's you're giving them no time to prepare or adjust and taxing to slow us down, that is the result of the political paralysis if we keep it up, if it happen

colonel gaddafi is still in power. >> we should be turning up the power in libya.ieve the pressure is on the regime. you see it in the fact that the rebels have successfully liberated much of misrata. you see this and other parts of the country. we should be turning up the pressure and we will be looking at all the options. >> the president stressed the limits of what could be achieved given their decision that unlike in iraq, they would not invade. >> gaddafi and his regime need to understand that there will not be a let up in the pressure. once you rule out ground forces, then there are going to be some inherent limitations. ♪ >> from there, he progressed to plummet to become the first ever u.s. president to speak in westminster hall, where monarchs have been tried, posted, or laid to rest. he declared that the time that the country should lead the world and this is not over. >> it would be better if other people's children and grandchildren are more prosperous and more free. from the beaches of normally to the balkans to benghazi. >> the libyan people would be p

at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant but it's been plugged. they found the contaminated water flowing from a pipe into a pit near the number three reactor on wednesday morning. the workers filmed near want intake pipe and found toxic water leaking from the wall of the pit into the ocean. tepco says the water contained 37,000 becquerels of cesium 134 per cubic centimeters or 600,000 times over government limits. they found seawater between the intake and nearby special barrier was 32,000 times above limits for cesium 134. the barrier was supposed to prevent radioactive water from spilling into the sea. the firm managed to stop the leak later in the day after it blocked the pipe and buried the pit in concrete. last month tepco confirmed that radioactive water leaked into the ocean from a cracked pit outside the number two reactor. that leak, too, was stopped. the crisis at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant started on march 11th. a magnitude 9.0 quake and massive tsunami crippled the facility. the earthquake cut the power supply, and the

excessive power what can you say in reply. it's not you it's them who exactly councils and bring them rest on security forces have no instructions from the authorities to use force on the country the national defense council decided to absolutely the use of force on the country or using force and weapons. are you why do you assess the positions of regional players of international organizations and of superpowers towards the current crisis. first of all i would like to thank russia for its constructive stance at the u.n. security council as far as reason players and western countries are concerned they're putting out feelers and doing various options of possible further developments they are trying to determine who is coming next actually they behave in such a way as if everything were decided upon and the power had been transferred to the opposition the opposition has not yet gained power there is a wide range of political forces and the majority is on the side of the general people's congress our opponents reject the idea of

will this mean he'll accrue more powers? have a very powerful execive? is this the best thing? so what turkey doesn't have is a balance of power domestically and this we desperately need to establish. >> rose: speak to erdogan, this prime minister who is this guy? >> well,er swan a brilliant politician. he is the you would mat turkish politician who can play to the street. he has outsmaed every single e of his compitors and wl likely continue to do so as we move toward the june 12 election. he is extraordinarily charismatic and has mastered not just his own party but certainly mastered the turkish political arena and has benefited from the facthat the turkish armed forces whichas previously seen as all powerful has made one misstep after another since the justice and development party came to power. i think what we're seeing in turkey is turkey is in that midpoint of a transition away from that quasi-or semiauthoritarian political syem under this military constitution that, as andrew pointed out, was bequeathed to the turks in 1982. and it's unclear which direction it's going t

of the trouble at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. the company estimates it will lose about 12% of its power supply after the hamaoka shutdown. the firm will ask its counterpart in western japan to supplement its er supplies during the period. tepco is also seeking supplies to fill a gap of 1 million kilowatts of water created by chubu electric's decision. earlier, we spoke with our political commentator on the topic. >> what is the reaction to the prime minister's request to halt the operations at the hamaoka nuclear plant? >> many people say it's understandable considering what happened in fukushima. other people also say kan hasn't done enough to explain how hamaoka is different from other facilities. many of japan's nuclear plants are threatened by earthquakes and tsunami. kan referred to research results which cite the high possibility of a massive quake at hamaoka in the near future. however, the same research results indicated the possibility of a big earthquake and tsunami at fukushima daiichi was low. this proves research res

this is from solar power the u.s. is only producing about two thousand but two nuclear power plants worth of electricity from solar plants so this is you know this is what's happening here what's happening is that these countries of the other countries are eating our lunch and solar power and us is falling way behind be eating our lunch and solar power for example the world's largest solar plants the p.v. power stations they are it would be our names are about on the left hand side big countries canada italy germany italy spain germany germany spain these are the top ten countries for solar power in the in the world i thought we were like you know a big deal in this and we are following terribly badly behind this so it's you know pretty it seems pretty straightforward number one no more crazy wars for oil let's just let's just agree on that no more crazy wars for oil and in fact let's wrap up these wars and number two let's let's look at the lessons that some of these other countries are you are learning in like franc

the dialogue of recent times were tough decision makers in the us have been told that an increased power means an increased threat one that will eventually need to be dealt with by war and the way to avoid this war i believe is going to require and we're going to be able to get away from it in any case some kind of arms race with china china is going to keep building and improving its capabilities each year the pentagon comes out with this report military and security developments involving the people's republic of china the findings often use to intensify military spending we are now looking at a power in the western pacific that can stand up to a stiff if there's a problem in response military spending is now more than the rest of the world combined six times more and china. as a result of u.s. debt has ballooned to more than fourteen trillion dollars much of that debt is owned by china and that it's a time when many of the countries neighborhoods look like this an urban areas like this still for some including the mainstream media the military is often the first priority when it comes

is the corrupting influence of power member lord acton power corrupts. absolute power corrupts absolutely it's like and i don't want to draw that you can l.g. too closely because the christians were all in favor of religious toleration when they were in the minority amongst the pagan roman empire then when they converted king constantine ok now it's a crime not to be a christian so once you get the hands on power then suddenly you believe that you're only benevolent and you can only be exerted for good so reason to live you why design ceding all these civilian lives my gosh i should get a second nobel peace prize for conducting more i mean truly george orwell has now reached its peak of the hackers in describing mr obama and in some sense because obama is a law professor he does teach const you are headed it demonstrates the pervasiveness and the strength of this culture of dominance and empire which overrides even someone as area diet is mr obama in complying and scrupulous regard for the constitution it doesn't matter power trumps everything so how lon