power. to get the conversation started today, i'm pleased to introduce spencer boyer. of thehe director washington office of the brenner center, and he has served in senior roles in the obama administration. he focused on issues at the intersection of national security of civil liberties. spencer will get us started by sharing the brennan center's recent research on emergency powers. so, spencer? [applause] spencer: thank you so much, caroline, for that introduction. on behalf of the brennan center for justice at new york university's school of law, thank you for including me on this timely discussion on presidential emergency powers. of you know, while the got many people talking about this topic over the winter, this piece followed two years of intensive research on the topic by the center. in december, we published the results of that research, which you can find on our website, along with recommendations. a daylong, we hosted symposium along with the institute on various aspects of emerg

he is editor of the black power movement rethinking civil rights and black power which came out from rock lidge in 2006. and author of waiting until the mid naggete hour an american history of black power in america. and that's again 2006. this is a book that many describe as marking the dawn o of the new black narrative history. nuanced deeply researched and brilliantly insightful it will become the new standard interpretation of black political culture in the 1960s. additionally, gerald horn of the university of north carolina chapel hill maintains that in writing this wise and dazzling display of literary excavation, expert joseph has vaulted into the front ranks of interpreters of this nation's most explosive era. 196 o 0s. so tonight professor joseph is going to share with us aspects of that interpretation and we'll talk on, quote, waiting till the midnight hour, the black power movement in american democracy. so please join me in welcoming professor joseph. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. thanks for being here. this is not air conditioned, as we all can see right

is it better to have women in power or better to have man power i just think it sort of defines men and women as opposites which which were not i mean i guess that's the sort of feeds into what that has has gone on but having said that i mean obviously people are looking to see women leaders like america and others has that made germany a better place for example these countries that have them and that is how men and women are both looking i think at whether or not it's a good thing to push for this gender equality and power looking very thoughtful who's not and. i was i was thinking about what you just said about mrs merkel i mean there is this old phrase don't tell show and she is one of the perfect examples for that she tried to not for vogue anybody and at the same time she has achieved a couple of things which the social democrats always called for and never really achieved so interesting only it's one of the factors for success is that she would not address things in a confrontational. debate in the society which is actually a very difficult thing to say because i mean certainly w

can't say that i don't know when it comes to power we mean women being in power you're yeah i mean we just we just agreed that there is something like a global global confrontation between men and women what you want i do i don't see it that way i see it i mean i guess for me it's the younger generation i look at my son for example who speaks about women completely differently than even my husband who is actually i would argue a feminist you know it's it just seems that there's more of a cohesiveness and i don't even think the younger generation esther looks and says you're a girl and i'm a guy i think that's maybe our generation that still says that or you know our generation is still in charge so if you don't answer that is interesting and helpful. to them. i think there is a group which we should we use which we should have a diode which was a image a minority of whites of a white elite especially men who are now losing. power and opportunities and everything but they're still extremely powerful and so the leverage they have also on. women who tried to change the world is quite qui

of powers. so the court has long said if there is any question about the meaning of the statute, let's prefer the meaning that does not create an excessive delegation preference. that canon is available to the courts here but in fact, the supreme court has not actually held -- since 1935 and more problematically, the court in the national security context, not always and especially not in the years after 9/11 but refers to executive judgments on what counts as a national security emergency and we saw this acutely in the trump versus hawaii case recently in which the supreme court upheld the third iteration of the travel ban in part on the ground that the president had cited national security arguments for why he needed to do it. the best, therefore, legal challenge that the current invitation is facing is the underlying such tory authority the president is trying to evoke so he declares an emergency and the particular power he is trying to assert is the statute to build the wall. the statute he

or stay with clean power sf. under either scenario, right now we're not building clean energy in san francisco. since the beginning of this process that i got involved in 15 years ago and others got involved in this, even longer time ago, we've been asking for a city-wide, county-wide, clean energy build-out plan that's spectaculasimilar to the sydneya plan. it's an amazing plan. the only problem was that it was developed before battery storiage became competitive and it relies on bio mass and bio gas and that's not a good panel. so i'll send it with that disclaimer that says energy disclaimer, bio gas, not mass. when we talked, they expressed interest in doing the city-wide master plan. we and lafco have been talking about it and tyrone expressed interest -- i won't commit him to anything -- but expressed interest in lafco leading for the plan. so that is something very important that we would need to get on an agenda soon so that we can get that rolling. especially with all of this pg & e stuff. >> are there an

producing aluminum through electrolysis burns a lot of electricity enough to power a small city. for the local power company this nothing site is therefore the logical place to relieve stress from the network if there is a bottleneck if that happens it's taken off grid. is so his whine as long as our electrolysis cells don't get so cold that they shut down or are about to shut down but we can get by for an hour from now on which. the power company pays for the outage so there are no financial losses that try met aluminum but the electricity can't be turned off completely for more than two hours for the entire production process has to be shut down. many fear that might become more common as nuclear and coal fired plants go offline during germany's energy transition. and into going to if that occurs more often in the future due to conventional power plants going offline then things could get pretty hairy we would need support in the area we wouldn't be able to solve the problem all on our own anymore and. in an attempt to be more independent the smelting plant is also working to d

we need a net power process. thated research into because we know we have got problems with that in the generation of oxygen and the absorption of co2. i could go on. i love talking power plants but we've got to find the right formats of where we are going to get it to keep coal in the mix because the others because our right. of nationaler security and we have to make sure we address it in that fashion and not allow the environmentalists and government regulation to continue to shut down and put pressure on our coal-fired power plants. we've got to get wall street to fund our pr plants again -- power plants again. theou are a member on subcommittee on energy in-house. you are responsible for setting federal energy policy. you mentioned cyber. mix,ere talking about the which as governor bevin mentioned, solar is 30, nuclear is 20, renewable is 17 and rising. what is our federal energy policy? what do you expect the mix to be like going forward? the don't think we have had federally coordinator policy. personally

to try and power traps are searching for land mines in cambodia. millions are still buried across the country the legacy of decades of war. the rats have a powerful sense of smell and they have an ability to learn. here at rat boot camp where they are trained to detect explosives. rats can sense the slightest whiff of t.n.t. . and when they do they're given a treat. but it takes around one year before the rodents are ready. what is good it was actually trained to use many darrick you did. so they go straight to the target straight. to find out. so that's why you know this is faster and cheaper you know so it's easy to to move to carry everything the. food. efficiency. the rats go to work clearing this area of land mines ten of them at a time sniff out the explosives every half hour different rats take over so their concentration doesn't slip for humans one wrong step could mean death the rats though are safe. then you need to be more than. just down the road the rights of free this village of landmines but that's after four decades in which the min

power outages are leaving south africans in the dark with the country grappling a serious energy with a serious energy crisis we're asking should governments in africa keep sole control of key sectors all that story and a whole lot more coming up with monika and business africa that's in one minute set time and i'll see you again tomorrow. if you know i mean in your minutes in going us. most router what i'm focused on him is you know what i'm with what i'm organizing around upwards of three. point zero point zero conceived because as you say acid cannot only save but are going on where they're being funded. we make up over a week watches over half of the under budget by we on the civil service and. the want to shape the continent's future to. be part of enjoying african youngsters as they share their stories their dreams and their challengers. to the citizenship and percent. platform officer in charge. of the. no end in sight for south africans power cuts state utility eskom continues to suffer capacity constraints following the months of cyclon which hit south africa's electricity im

and the only licensed and regulated off ticket to be able to take power. in the public television room in la and golani nothing works without solar power and watching t.v. is the only leisure activity here people feel betrayed by the state owned power company. if i were a sorcerer i'd put a curse on them. it will be years before electricity can help the area to modernize not even gas pumps at the filling station can work because they also need electricity to function. the risk of border gridlock caused by a new deal brags that has led british manufacturers to ramp up stockpiles to the highest level on record many food beverage companies but also clothing chemicals electronics and parts makers we visited iconic bicycle brand brompton in their factory in south london. welding spinning. and fastening on this factory floor in south london workers are assembling brompton psychotic foldable bicycles entirely by hand it's a complex task each bike is made up of over one thousand different parts. these come from belgium these come from from us these come from germa

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so the hetchy water and power program is represents water and power it's at $1.2 billion. you can see that most of the investment is water. 30% is power. this reflects that reclassification of the mountain tunnel project. from the sources side, we have a combination of revenue which is revenue from power bonds and that has increased to use prop a from in-city distribution projects and we have cap-and-trade. here is the presentation of the 10-year plan as it appears in the city-wide 10-year plan. you can see the current 10-year plan versus the past 10-year plan. you can see there's a reduction of $52 million. slide 17. now we're moving off of the 10-year capital plan and into the two-year budget amendment. to the second item. item number 14. this table reflects fiscal year '20 increasing 52 and a half million dollars increasing the total budget to $879 million. the project changes include, i've talked about them earlier, an increase in water diversification projects as described earlier. anwe have $29 million shown her. 10 of that was actually -- one of the things that happ

i think it is in everyone's interest, whether you are a grown up their power or anti-nuclear power, toake sure job.egulator is doing its we saw what happened with the federal aviation administration and the certification of the 737 , there are now concerns that the f.a.a. delegated to much authority for inspections cap boeing itself and other aircraft companies, and that is the trend i'm afraid is happening in the nuclear regulatory commission today. that there is great pressure to delegate authority to reactor owners to inspect their own plans and not even tell the commission in cases about problems that arise or changes they want to make. if you support nuclear power you should be concerned about that. host: we have less than a minute left. california,de, quick question. caller: my question is, one, how many nuclear plants are in many throughout the united states are still in operation? guest: today i think there are .8 reactors at 60 sites in florida, i believe, there are three, but i would actually have to check. turkey point and st. lucie, those are the two stations. turkey point

mcconnell has said this is a power grab. and she is right, power grab for the people. also a power grab from special interests and return of power to the common interests. i'm so excited. the most exciting moment to vote on this bill and it is my honor to introduce my colleague and dear friend, joe neguse -- it is my honor and privilege to honor to introduce the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. [cheers and applause] speaker pelosi: it's my honor to stand in for joe neguse. i thank the freshmen for the message they delivered on the campaign trail, for the determination they have brought to the congress of the united states. we are so excited today as i think you can detect on this cold day on the outside, we will go inside where the political climate will be much warmer for the american people because of the action that we will take today. we are thrilled to be here again on the steps of the capitol, waving our flag. this is outstanding freshmen class in the show of great unity. freshmen made a difference ensuring that the priorities of their communities would be the

this is day to news live from berlin the next confrontation in venezuela as power struggle is on its way opposition leader plans wydow calls for a nationwide march on the capital that's as crippling power outages in the country drag on with reports of patients dying in hospital without access to electricity also coming up concerns grow that north korea could be preparing to launch a new myside all space rocket images from a facility show unusual activity. and up to months playing catch up by an unique reclaim the top spot in the bundesliga after a powerful display against wolves but. i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program will bring you those stories in a moment but we have some breaking news an ethiopian airlines boeing seven three seven traveling from attis out about to nairobi has crashed with death reported is e.o.p. and prime minister ahmed tweeted news of the incident sending condolences to the families of the passengers hundred forty nine passengers and crew members were on board the flight. the plane is believed to be a seven three seven max the latest generation of the

what is happening in venezuela is we have someone in power, nicolas maduro, who does not ca re power,oes not care about the well—being of venezuelans, who care about the well—being of venezuela ns, who does care about the well—being of venezuelans, who does not care about the health and well—being as well. all he cares about is staying in power, maintaining his privileges, and he does not care how the rest of the country does at this time. but in practical terms, how could you expect the declaration of your man, juan guaido, as a rival president, with all of the questions and chaos that that raises, how could you expect that to do anything but the situation even more horrible for ordinary venezuelan people? well, it is very important to understand, stephen, that this crisis started many years ago. most of the regions in venezuela do not have power, do not have electricity many times a week, many times a day. it is caracas for the first time thatis it is caracas for the first time that is feeling the worst of it. juan guaido did not proclaim himself as president, according to article t

, that article 1 power that we have here. there are ways that the president can advance his issues, and has done so. he certainly has the prerogative to ask for a supplemental appropriations. he has asked. he has identified additional funding that is outside the national emergencies designation or declaration, if you will. he's identified additional funding, close to $3 billion from other statutory authorities. these are the authorities under 10u.s.c. 1040-b which is the counterdrug funds that will require a level of reprogramming through the appropriating committees. but that can be done outside of the national emergency. and then the other source of funding is the treasury forfeiture fund through the secretary of the treasury under 31u.s.c. 9705. so i think it is clear that there are -- there are avenues to enhance the funding opportunities for more to address the situation at the border. the concern that many of us have raised is the designation in this third account, designation of a national emergency that would tap into

the corruption of power. power to the government. and all others out there they are already high on power. you can feel it and you can see it. they can taste it and they are not going to stop. and there is no one in the democratic party ready, willing and able to stop them. -- i quote - america's abundance which created public sacrifices to the common good but by the productive genius of free men who pursue their own personal interest and the making of their own private fortunes. she was right. capitalism is a good thing. and i'm proud to call myself a capitalist. he with me right now to react to all this, a racial equality leader. it is good to see you. you're a capitalist right? >> i'm a free marketeer and proud! trish: you know it's crazy? you have to be willing to even define yourself as such right now. in such a way that the left wants to -- they want to basically equate all that has been created and associated with capitalism as something really bad. and i look at venezuela and i have talked to some young people, millennials. t

and this political power. translates into legislation that increases the concentration of wealth so fiscal policy like tax policy a deregulation. rules of corporate governance a whole variety of measures political measures designed to increase the concentration of wealth and power which in turn the yield more political power to do the same thing. and that's what we've been seeing. so we have this kind of vicious cycle in progress. you know actually it is so traditional that it was described by adam smith in seven hundred seventy six he read the famous wealth of nations. he says in england the principal architects of policy are the people on the society in his day merchants and manufacturers. and they make sure that their own interests are very well cared for however greed is the impact on the people of england there are others. now it's not a merger of manufacturers it's financial institutions and multinational corporations the people who adam smith called the masters of mankind and they're following the vile

director of queen power sf and welcome commissioners haine and marr. we, they summarized what we'll e talking about. we give a standard update on our enrollment which i'm going to provide. we have a bit of a group presentation today from various puc staff that support our work. so i'll be joined up here to go over the community engagement plan for our upcoming enrollment, as well as state legislative activities. if i could get the slides, thank you. queen power sf service and the university enrollment effort continue to move along successfully. they are now actively serving 111,000 accounts, city-wide. the program continues to maintain a cumulative opt out rate of 3.25% since the program launched in may of 2016. our super green upgrade rate continues to exceed the opt-out rate at 3.8% of the active customers enrolled. that means that queen powers has more than 4,000 businesses and house holds in san francisco that have elected to receive 100% renewable electricity from queen power and, of course, our staff is very busy preparing for next major auto enr

the power has shifted and today, in purchasing power parity terms, china's economy used to be 10% of the united states in 1980 is larger. nominally, it will be larger in a decade or so. the united states is acting as it is the number one power and will be the number one power for ever, but everyone in the rest of the world is adjusting to a new geopolitical environment and reflectse over huawei the larger shifts happening in the global geopolitical environment. haslinda: it is a psychological war? it is not just about reining in huawei? this is sad, and i say this as a friend of america, america doesn't seem to have a long-term strategy for managing the rise of china. it has specific actions it takes. it tried to block china from launching the asian infrastructure investment bank and failed. now it is trying to block huawei and it is likely to fail because if you give countries a choice and say you force them, are you going to bet on americorps china? they are not going -- bet on america or are you going to bet on china? they are not going to bet. chinese -- if you can get countries

anticipated the power of a should have but it didn't then to speak the power of the reaction to the civilizing effects of the sixty's did not anticipate the strength of the reaction to it. the backlash. joined me every thursday on the alex salmond's show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world the politics spoke this list i'm showbusiness i'll see that. serve them leave you to get up off the ground to serve begins again. temperance on the sounds are kind of fighting into the grown man like wrestling essentially the officer who. threw his own. individual twisted away from the officer holding the toys out of his crib. the obvious or did they kind of lunge for the weapon once missed and then what happened on tree swung at the hands didn't hit him i never saw any contact between the two any kind went back to where they were an officer pulled out his gun and he did it on three. the days if you it has become at that has become at that what you thought is they in the days if you it gives it not think is that one thing is it is leaving days if you it did yes even more figures forty eight odd becau

saline powered versions. that comes out and says the trunk is quite a bit smaller due to the natural gas tanks but that has no effect on interior space . and even when driving in the city this small dual fuel engine is no worse than it's conventionally powered sibling's. death you know says the car's really fun in the city because it's so small and maneuverable and because the steering wheel responds very well to driver employed with electronic power steering intervening when needed and changing gears is smooth with short shifting distances. fuel saving measures including automatic start stop and brake energy recovery are standard features of. that on the screen as sums up by saying if you want to natural gas car then you have to first answer the question of whether you also have a natural gas filling station nearby where she lives in cologne and gone that's no problem she has no complaints about the handling of the city go change tack and thinks it's really funny the only thing you have to get used to is muc

remember your fundamental power is the power of the person. what you want to be do it, it seems to me is by amending this statute, and everybody agrees about this, but you need a clear plain english definition of what constitutes an emergency. what you are saying is we are giving license to the executive to carry on without intervening to cut off the activity by taking action with relationship to finance. what your powers are. you are thinking about process when we do this and we start with the constitution. first and foremost, i think a clear definition, some practical time frame should be attached to that and the rest should be considering how this will actually work in practice and how congress can play a meaningful role, particularly the house which has this ability to resonate to-- revenue bills, how that will work in practice. that should not inhibit a president, for example, with respect to the agencies of exercising war powers or foreign affair powers assuming that there is an emergency. avoiding those kinds of problems that the gulf r

because the power stations were broken to have one of the most. power. has. power have become a norm. let's get an update from polo he's joining us from colombia venezuela border and even though as tourism was saying power cuts are the norm a man who. appears to be whiter and reach than the usual ones are you hearing about when the power will be restored. we haven't been able to hear very much out of it as well at all actually as you heard from our colleagues recently in caracas that power outage began at around five pm local time and it's continued it's. nearing midnight that going to be almost seven hours at this point since up our outage began as we heard from theresa this happened at around rush hour local time and get back to us so there were a lot of traffic problems in the city after the traffic lights stopped working outages as we heard are very common in venezuela but this one as you mentioned seems different it almost seems unprecedented in just in that scale. this is the state owned power company they blamed the power outage on quote sabotage of th

also coming up venezuela is struggling to recover from a huge power outage is a power struggle of a different kind continues the country's opposition leader is demanding the elections the president isn't backing down. and the women who document more of a new exhibition shows the work of female for talks first and the images from the front lines that only they could capture. i'm serious almost got to thank you for joining us algeria has seen the biggest demonstrations against president. protests began two weeks ago the eighty two year old has ruled out geria for the past twenty years and is in poor health but he wants to run for a fifth term and upcoming elections the demonstrations were mostly peaceful but police used tear gas to block the road to the presidential palace and in several other areas of the capital state television says almost two hundred people have been arrested. but this has been a common sight on the streets of algiers for the past two weeks. president up to as he's beautifully just assertion to run for a fifth term has led to protests all over the country. many algerian say

that is on its face an abuse of power. many of these abuses don't qualify as prosecutable crimes, but they're exactly the kind of conduct that the impeachment process was designed to address. you know, after this show on friday night, i had a conversation with elizabeth holtzman, former member of congress who sat on the house judiciary committee when it introduced articles of impeachment against nixon. she said we're all too focused on the president's potential crimes as defined by the u.s. criminal code. but that's not, she said, what impeachment is about. there are crimes nixon committed, she said, that weren't in the articles of impeachment and there were articles of impeachment that probably couldn't have been prosecuted as crimes. the way holtzman and her colleagues looked at it. high crimes and misdemeanors were abuses of power commit from on high, from the lofty perch of the oval office. that's what's now in issue in the case of our current president, donald trump. fudging your assets to avoid taxes, as michael cohe

inside venezuela and on the board this power outage is having a power lies ing impact on the country not fresh challenges that a time when that was already an economic and humanitarian crisis how long do you anticipate this could go on full. we don't know i mean this is that the king bomb for sure but we haven't seen yet that it's likely that will spark. a massive outwards of the population pro going into the streets and trying to topple an equal as modal obviously most been as one and one that outcome but we haven't seen yet that situation where the population forces the hand of the military who is the ultimate arbiter in this standoff between white dog and the regime will be called as modal. it appears that the situation has hit something of a stalemate with. pursuing international support which he certainly does have upon returning to venezuela is still very much in the same position because of course the army which is the most powerful institution in the country continues to back nicolas maduro. yeah the army is the is the one that is going to decide this is a stalemate. we know

is wealth power. we are absolutely at a crossroads right now in the twenty first century in this very year given the socio political forces that are operating on a global scale and of course that leads into the political issue political and equality that stems from wealth inequality you hear a lot about how wealthy people seek to influence elections and that is certainly a very real and serious problem but it's much bigger than that the. studies in the u.s. have shown that the wealthy still have the direction of the country if the rich elites has a policy objective it very often gets what it wants whatever the elite doesn't favor is likely to fall through. even if it's backed by the low income majority. is the same sure in germany. is a political scientist who's investigated this question. given of us we were surprised to find that the situation in germany is skewed in much the same way as described in the us study bundestag lawmakers have consistently geared their decisions to the interests of higher

that i is the imperial power usg a power that only the united states has because of itss controrol over the dolollar-basd international financial system. and they are doing that. doing,r the cubans are it is mostly try to help them. amy: and military intervention? >> the military intervention, i think the trtrump administration wants to convince everyone that option is on the table and everything. i don't think -- i think they would rather have venezuelans killing each other then have the itself.olved in the war but, yes, ifif they have the rit pretext, i think they would go in. nermeen: canan you talk about wt kind of resistance there has been in congress to the trump administration's policies on venenezuela, particular florida demomocrats? >> that is another important thing. i am glad you asked that because there really is a way of ststopping this. the grassroots pressure, for example, you mentioned t the yen vote in ththe senate yesterday,, and that was another historic vote for t the congrgress uses e war powers resolutionn, the firt time in n 45 years the senate hs been using this

in a good game of power and money the competition is. most important natural resource . checking how long we'll be able to play and who will win this thing we believe that renewable energy playing for the role in the future. the geopolitical. story lucky to. live. funny looking happy people as far as the eye can see the german city of cologne is in kind of a fever. the people heading the celebrations are called the tiger triumvirate composed of a prince a peasant and a maid and. over the course of seven weeks they perform at hundreds of carnival events and they call that fun. lol. i. love alice. in an elevator at a hotel in cologne heading down there to model the day be like. exciting nice. as now the kind of all is well underway the triumvirate sleep at a hotel though not much they put in for one hundred appearances at carnival events in less than two months and are often on the go twelve hours a day still despite their grueling schedule the job has its rewards i mean when you go to a seniors herman a ninety year old woman in the front row says i had to reach ninety to

congress and only congress has the power to declare war.even though the president may call for a declaration of war. and, when the united states is involved in international agreement the senate is all important. for example, the signature of our secretary of state to the united nation's charter had to be approved by a two thirds majority of the senate. a clause in the constitution states that treaties are made by the president but only with the advise and consent of the senate. >> from the capitol, down pennsylvania avenue to look at the white house. that is where the president lives. the white house represents the executive branch of the government. before he got through, i could see why uncle jim said the president has the biggest and toughest job in the world. >> yes. bill, the white house is both the home and office of the president. the president is chosen by the people through the electoral college. some of the president's duties are set by the constitution, other established by laws, treaties and public opinion. the president's main

military which does hold a lot of power behind the scenes and the past top officers were replaced if they posed any challenge to beautifully the protest is also not in favor of the opposition because there seem to be part of the same system that's helped the fico stay in power for twenty years business leaders a closely aligned to the people in power to many of the t.v. awarded large contracts government loans for public and private projects and in return the government gets campaign donations and favorable media coverage let's get more on this now we're joined by our correspondent and ron can't he's monitoring events from neighboring to nazir he's live for us in the capital tunis it is the day in iran after the biggest crowds we've seen in these six weeks of protests which will be given those not just those around with the flick of the constitutional council a lot to think about. that's absolutely right and although we're not expecting the kind of numbers we saw on friday hitting the streets today a lot of people a lot of the protest movement the leaders especially are waiting for t

still at the height of his power. he was 78 years old. but still at the height of his power.said, "so you are the young fellow who thinks he is going to write a book about me." we had seven interviews. when i started asking him questions, that was the end of it, and i never saw him again. host: what do you mean "by started asking him questions"? robert: well, the first few interviews were more monologues than interviews. my only previous experience, i had been in investigative reporting for investigative newspaper on long island. i had won a couple of minor, really minor journalistic awards. when you are young and you win -- you winget anything, you think you know everything. i thought i knew about political power. as soon as he started talking, and he would talk sometimes -- if you asked him a question, his answers were monologues, he might go on an hour. he taught me, i know nothing at all compared to him. i didn't even understand how political power at his level worked. then after -- but at the same time, i am going through his his papers, his correspondence with al smith,

it deepens the slump of nuclear power. ask people if you the firstear power, thing somebody would think of is three mile island and what they remember about it. the uncertainty, the fear, the of all that went on during those five days of crisis. mr. stine: how did the crisis and for the public? what made people relax and feel confident that things were under control? mr. walker: it became clear by sunday afternoon that the hydrogen bubble was not an issue. it was not going to cause an explosion or flammability. that was a key issue. it was the source of most of the anxiety on the part of the public. that thats clear issue has been resolved, there are still issues to be dealt with. the white house and the state of pennsylvania were so concerned with other things that were happening at the plant. but the resolution of the bubble issue was the end of the immediate crisis. at least i hope so, because that is what i say in my book. thatalker: you mentioned the worst possible thing that could happen was a meltdown. the people di

concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets which kind of forces the political parties into the pockets of major corporations. the citizens united this was january two thousand and nine i guess that's a very important decisions prim court decision but it has a history and you got to think about the history. of fourteenth amendment has a provision that says no person's rights can be infringed without due process of law. and the intent clearly was to protect freed slaves said ok they've got the protection of the law i don't think it's ever been used for freed slaves if ever marginally almost immediately it was used for businesses corporations their rights can't be infringed without due process of law so they gradually became persons under the law. corporations or state created legal fictions. maybe they're good maybe they're bed but to call them persons it is kind of rages so they get got personal rights back about a century ago and that extended through the twentieth century. a

we're generally not just government but state corporate power if you criticize concentrated power you're against the society you're against the b. that's where it's trading that is used in the united states and it's for another the only democratic society where the concept isn't just ridicule and it's a sign of. elements of the elite culture which are the great mobley. the american dream by many ideals was partly symbolic but partly real so in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's. it was the biggest growth period in. american economic history. gold paint. it was pretty kalak area and growth so the lowest fifth of the population was improving about as much as the upper fifth. and there were some welfare state measures which improve life for much of the population it was for example possible for a. black worker to get a decent job in an auto plant. get a core of children go to school and so on and the same across the board. when the us was. primarily a manufacturing center it had to be concerned with its own consumers here famously henry ford raised the salary of his workers who would

backed opposition of sabotaging the country's power supply washington threatens more sanctions against the government. the u.s. army intelligence whistleblower chelsea manning is back behind bars after refusing to testify to u.s. grand jury in a case against wiki leaks. and the u.s. house of representatives passes a bill to counter the influence of so-called dark money from. the international world news first for you this saturday morning the ongoing power outage in the country. while in venezuela people calmly handled the consequence is electrical sabotage the entourage of donald trump was celebrating and enjoying with guilty perversion the suffering of the venezuelan people a few weeks ago the mature regime blamed for causing a large electric group blackouts we have now received the first video of what caused an ice unprecedented nationwide blackout in venezuela where there is poses bring nothing but darkness. electricity stations across venezuela shut down during the thursday evening rush hour bringing public transport to a standstill the power supply is gradually being restored in

backed opposition of sabotaging the country's power supply as washington friends more sanctions against the. u.s. army intelligence whistleblower chelsea manning is back behind bars after refusing to testify to u.s. grand jury in a case against wiki leaks. the u.s. house of representatives passes a bill to counter the influence of so-called dog money from unknown donors in the election process. hi there live news around the clock this is r.t. international on calling bright mosque over the world news this saturday morning at nine the venezuelan foreign ministry is accusing the united states of orchestrating and celebrating an ongoing power outage in the country. well in venezuela people calmly handled the consequences of the electrical sabotage the entourage of donald trump was celebrating and enjoying with guilty perversion the suffering of the venezuelan people a few weeks ago the majority regimes blame to quarters for causing a large electric grid blackouts we have now received the first video of what caused tonight's unprecedented nationwide blackout in venezuela where there is pose