was the notion that kurt? was such a downer in his last year's and it's something that i wrestled with because his kids often would tell me. no, he don't think of him. just that way because he had so much joy all so and i mean a lot of it comes from the main biography of carvanaga is and so it goes and in that book he's depicted as being pretty unhappy in his last few years and suzanne. i'm curious what your take is on that is is that just the truth of it or or is there more of a nuance to it? i think he i think he was pretty unhappy. he didn't like getting old. he really didn't like getting old. and he didn't have a good marriage. his second marriage was not. it started out with a the kaboom but it didn't didn't go well, so he was unhappy that way. you know, he i think he felt like he'd done his best work much earlier in his life. um but to his incredible credit, i mean the last time i saw him i had lunch with him about six months before he died and he gave me a packet of poems and i'm on the bus on the way h

i don't think kurt was in the war long enough to enjoy it at all.s the battle of the bold it was horrible. i think he had a really unusually bad did have friendship with his buddy o'hare though. >> he talked about it publicly he always said. >> i don't believe them at all.t >> neither did his kids. but suzanne is thinking of you today i was curious, you know him personally and maybe it's too big of a hypothetical, dotu you think this a novel would have been possible if he actually did the soldiering stuff which he never got to do it. >> he did it for a month. i have no idea. of course if he had not had his particular very but not just about war experiences even too simple it's way too simple. if you read his letter home i just did this and i went through the letter, as a prisoner of war they were on their transport truck and then they got to their showers and they are indeed loudest, a bunch of people die again. the russians bomb them again and give them prisoner b of war in germany and then the americans and bomb them, that is there war experience.

>> thank you so much, kurt. i want to thank the atlantic council for hosting this very important conversation. i think it underscores something that president kempe said at the outset. the maritime transportation system here in the united states and across the world feels so much of the world economy. when we think of the cybersecurity challenges that we have encountered, not only here but domestically, and across the world, [inaudible] vulnerable to the threat, and no domain can lack vigilance in building defenses, response capabilities and resilience in light of the ubiquity of the threat. we here in the united states are very focused on the maritime transportation system. we are speaking of more than 25,000 miles of waterways, hundreds and hundreds of ports, thousands of docks. our transportation system in the maritime domain, in the international sphere, fuels more than 5. 4 trillion dollars of economic growth. and if there was one message that i would have to communicate in my opening remarks, it is the cri

>> thank you, kurt. and thank you to those who impose that question. one of the things we are looking at closely is how the coast guard can use its regulatory authorities to drive industry. and we are looking at that because the coast guard has already exercised its authority, as i referenced earlier, to drive the preparation of cybersecurity plans, to direct more than 2300 entities to do so. what we are looking at is how we can use that regulatory authority most ably, most collaboratively to drive industry. and also, the cyber security and infrastructure security agency, has congress support, with grant funds that we can distribute outside not israeli exclusive to the maritime transportation industry. but also, what we are also exploring is how we can take those resources and really drive their cyber hygiene most effectively. i would say that those are the two main lines to go for. >> thank, you mister secretary. madam minister, what are the netherlands doing in the next 1 to 3 years to address this topic? >> well, maybe first of all, i would love to

kurt volker, we appreciate _ is of the essence. kurt volker, we appreciate you _ is of the essence.ate you joining us, i we appreciate you joining us, former us ambassador to nato. a team of international scientists have been exploring a remote chain of islands off the coast of mexico — aiming to discover more about why volcanoes erupt. they also want to research the movement of tectonic plates and the cause of tsunamis. they hope the information could help provide an early warning system. the bbc�*s tim allman reports. they are amongst the most awe— inspiring, the most powerful and the most dangerous natural phenomena on earth. understanding why and when volcanoes erupt could save lives. so scientists have come here to one of the most remote places on earth for possible answers. translation: the question that volcanologists always have is when will the next eruption take place? for that, we need monitoring. this and the reality is that volcanoes are not really monitored because there are very few resources for it. injanuary this year, a huge underwater volcano exploded near the pac

well i got to know the novelist kurt bonnegut well in how i i used to i had kurt was very interesting world war two and i hadn't come to new orleans to speak and i happened to have read his his novels and we got to talk to him about him and his chill was a photographer and she actually took a lot of photos of the magic bus and we would are much students would meet with vonnegan in new york. jill took a lot of photos of kurt and i in new york city together out in cape cod. he was from indianapolis and there's a little museum there last year. i went with solomon rushdie and i did a program together on honoring the writings of kurt vonnegut when i admired about and i written about carbonica. i did a major rolling stone profile of them, but i his imagination is phenomenal and he was a science fiction writer and then he would write these books after books imagining the world. a lot of them are dystopian novels, but i always makes me laugh kurt vonnegut. there's not one of his books that i don't get an out and out chuckle from so i think he was one of our really important writers that's goi

spent about a former ambassador to nato kurt volker.ow how ukraine at work she spent a lot of time there. the politics of the country the politics of the wider region. back to what we were talking about, as any sort of settlement beyond a complete capitulation by russia rate in acknowledgment ukraine's borders and acknowledgment you kind independent and freedom to do what it wants. is there anything short of that, that you think will be acceptable to ukraine? >> i think there are a couple of things zelenskyy has put out there. i think those are reasonable as a potential settlement. but it would require russia to withdraw its forces from ukraine. now what does that mean exactly? crimea i think ukraine's could probably say that they commit not to retake crimea by force. they don't agree to its annexation by russia. they have a long term desired see it reincorporated into ukraine. but they won't take it back by force. that will be one thing. the second will be the god bus. the ukrainians are now in a position where they want to say no more

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he from the novelist convention and the traditional narrative technique so but kurt vonnegut ended his to try to find a way and he didn't just tell a story. he said it is a book about itself being written. and what this is about is he wanted to write a true war story but they were lost so he had to figure out a way to do that and he used the metafiction as a principled way to get into it and to reveal you can't enjoy a story about war. briefly i will say he'd gone to warwo in 1945, took 23 years to write this book. it's very much a story paralleled to his own experiences in world war ii but then there's also all this other stuff where he travels in time and goes on these true flights of fiction that probably are not real in fact my book is about how trauma and he was trying to show this character was deeply affected by the experiences in the war and then goes to other places because he can't deal with the reality of it so that is a baseline of what we are talking about. i want to briefly talk about sudan and of the reason i came up with the idea i think it is just so perfect a long tim

kurt voelker was _ this is the first chapter. kurt voelker was an _ this is the first chapter.apter. kurt voelker was an american envoy to ukraine and i travelled with him to the conflict zone in zelensky was my first few months in power. he said he believed he could do a deal with russians president. i remember even ourfirst meetings remember even our first meetings saying i understand you want this, but putin doesn't want this. this is what he wants to do, he is attacking ukraine on purpose. it is not for lack of some formula, he is doing it because he is trying to we can ukraine. i think he was initially sceptical of that but i think as he tried to talk with putin, tried to do the prisoner exchanges, i think he came to the view that actually putin is fighting a war that he wants to fight.— putin is fighting a war that he wants to fight. later that year the only meeting _ wants to fight. later that year the only meeting between - the only meeting between zelensky and president putin took place in paris. with the leaders of france and germany acting as chaperones. but the talk

so, we have to fight fire with fire. >> kurt, i want to switch gears.ou publish a daily newsletter of at the industry called the morning hangover. but recently, you are at the country music awards, earlier in the week, and what do you think about a white nationalist talking about -- actually, why don't you talk about with that white non-nationalists said? i know of something that definitely bothered you. >> yeah, it just gives the the portrait of what's the republicans traffic and day in a day. there is a white nationalist, i won't even justify him by saying its name, but he put out a tweet saying he didn't like the cmt awards because it was two black and that country music shouldn't be, as he put it, wakanda. first of all, let's be clear here, out of the 20 performances that have been at the cmt awards, three of them were by black performers. that's 15%. the republican propaganda paradigm, 15% is too much black. sounds like someone who would object to black people being designated as three fifth, because that's too much. moreover, the diversity of coun

state my great thanks to kurt volker former ambassador.he probe to hunter biden heat up as the sound the alarm over dealings with foreign oligarchs. miranda devine will join me on that next big. >> a lack of curiosity for but most of the media is repellent and really corrupt. but, i t. >> hunter biden and james a biden served as the perfect vehicle by which the communist chinese government could gain and the roads here in the united states through cfc and its affiliates are. hunter and james and biden were more than happy to go along, of course, for the right price. spend republican senators chuck grassley and ron johnson claim have receipts that connect hunter biden with a firm tied to the chinese government. they also show hunter received a 100,000-dollar wire transfer of the state-controlled chinese energy company cef cipro disc as his laptop material was officially entered into the congressional record on tuesday. dealings compress national security? fox news contributor miranda devine also of the book laptop from hell. thank you for j

kurt cobain grew up in aberdeen. he did not attend evergreen. he had lots of friends who did one of his friends was one of the founders of the riot girl movement folks know about riot girl music in the 90s. i mean, hopefully this is like deeply ingrained in your blood as like even if you hate it like this is where we're three artists with three r three r's that sounds less familiar, but so kathleen hannah was a friend of kurt cobain. she graduated evergreen. she wrote on one of his walls at one point that kurt smells like teen spirit. she meant the deodorant. apparently kurt cobain claims that he didn't know what the dieter was and he thought it was linked to the kinds of conversations. they had about anarchism the kinds of conversations they had about social inequality and about the decadence and oppressiveness of american consumer culture. so it's also really interesting to think about like rock and roll is like ah american freedom and then rock and rollers are like this freedom has me feeling left out matthew. is that where? kurt cobain got t

>> is that where kurt cobain got the title of "smells like teen spirit?" >> yes, it was written on his apartment door by an evergreen grad. >> oh! >> so he turned that into the lyrics of a song. i'll show briefly, i have lots of different articles from the cooper point journal from the 1990s which, there is a whole new thing about the new strategic plan for evergreen, which in this issue, there is a lot of discussion -- one, discussion of alien abductees. so, bruce smith, he had 34 offspring with that alien that he drew. [ inaudible ] >> maybe. maybe one of those offspring is now a student here. i did think that there was lots of -- this critique of evergreen's strategic plan, i found really interesting because of how, like, relevant it seems today that, like, the assumption that just cooperative teaching will spread cultural sensitivity and knowledge can be exploitative, victims are made to be responsible to solving the problems dominant culture. this is intersectional theory that lived in critiques then. anyway, lots of interesting stuff on that. secret

kurt would like to be with you. 4 months after the launch of the satellite by korolev, the von braunatellite rose into space, how long will we have to wait? explorer should be on the way. well, now we just have to wait for the next message from the tracking station in california in an hour 30. until the radio signal arrived at the tracking station in california, the background could not be sure that the explorer went into orbit had to wait 90 minutes. california do you have any news? i think we need to wait a few more minutes. this is exactly what we went into space. more than expected lord, i think you've just made history. yes, yes, yes, yes, trouble, gentlemen. last night, the first american artificial satellite explorer 1 successfully entered the collagen orbit from youth with the meaning of its life. today we answered the call of the soviets and thus opened the gates to space. now, finally, ufon. brown had a companion, but he didn't know who he was fighting with. seem to be, the americans equalized. apparently, the battle for space has begun, a battle that we intend to win. appl

kurt, it's over to you. >> good morning everyone, good afternoon. i am deeply honored to be moderating this conversation between the secretary and you, madam minister. i'd like to start by first inviting you to give a few comments about yourself as well as the context in which you operate when it comes to the maritimetransportation system . secretary mayorkas, can i start with you? >> thank you so much and i want to thank the atlantic council for houston this important conversation. it underscores something president kemp said at the outset . the maritime transportation system here in the united states and across the world feels fuel so much of the world's economy and when we think of the cyber security challenges that we encounter not only here domestically across the world. ... vulnerable to the threat and no domain can lack vigilance in building differences response capabilities and resilience ab in light of the ubiquity of the threat. we here in the united states are very focused on the maritime transportation system. we are speaking of more tha

i went with them to do a program together on honoring the writings of kurt. what i admired -- i had written about him. i did a major profile of him, but his imagination is phenomenal. he was a science fiction writer then he would write these books imagining the world. a lot of them are dispope yan novels, but it always makes me laugh. there's not one of his books i don't get a chuckle from. i think he was one of our very important writers that's going to last for a long time. >> how did that happen to somebody from indianapolis? >> he got drafted in world war ii and he was in drez ton and got captured as a p.o.w. by the nazis. when the british did the fire bombing and flattened the city, they kept him in a meat storage locker, his sto job was to come out with other american gis and put get dead charred bodies into wheelbarrows and the officers pointing guns the him. so he had to put thousands and thousands of corpse that still had the smell. they had been there a couple days, unforgettable smell, and put them in mass graves. so i got to know not only kurt, bu

we are pleased and honored the guests could join us today and let me introduce kurt john, nonresident senior fellow with the initiative and the chief cybersecurity officer to guide us through this conversation. kurt, it's over to you. >> i want to start by first inviting you to give a few comments about yourself as well as the context when it comes to the maritime transportation system. secretary mayorkas, could i start with you? >> i want to thank you and the council for hosting this very important conversation, and i think it underscores something that was said at the very outset. the maritime transportation here in the united states and across the world fuels so much of the world's economy and when we think of the cybersecurity challenges we can counter not only here domestically but across the world -- vulnerable to the threat and no domain can lack vigilance in building defenses, response capabilities and resilience in light of the ubiquity of the threat. we here in the united states are very focused on the maritime transportation system. it's across the globe. mid mid i'm privil

they do not have enough knowledge to understand the depth, scale and impact of all this listen to kurt no one is asking him for direct answers, but he was there. you were the main guy in charge. why there is no answer kurt volker was the us ambassador to ukraine when pina also worked in this embassy. however, the walker is no exception. here with this former ambassador in kiev on cnn, vietnam veteran william taylor did not fail with napalm. we give everything from our warehouses to ukrainians. they are leading our fight. they are fighting the russians primarily for themselves, but because of europe and for us, those who recall the root causes of what is happening in the united states immediately write them down as putin's agents. the bet is made on prolonging the conflict . you don't think that the next stage will be protracted. i mean russia is in crimea and on donbass since 2013, what i mean when i say protracted is that it may not just be a matter of a few more weeks. initially, the russian operation was measured in weeks, the next stage may be measured in months or longer there is

let me go on former ambassador kurt volcker. i hardly know where to begin. the number of pieces of evidence of mass graves continues to grow. at this moment what do you see as putin's strategy? >> well, i think he's trying to salvage something he can portray as a success to justify this tremendous loss of life, loss of military equipment, loss of military personnel, crushing actions on the russian economy. he needs something to show it was worth it. what he's trying to do is carve off this piece of eastern ukraine through mariupol, create this land to crimea and possibly all the way across to moldova but that will be much, much harder. >> if he's able to do that and claim some sort of victory, do you think that gives him an off ramp and then go to the negotiating table? do you think he ever wants to negotiate? >> no, no. and we should not -- we should drop the idea that putin wants an off ramp. putin is doing what he wants to do. he wants to build a new russian empire on he want to take this territory. even if he takes a pause to regroup that doesn't mean he

i think the rest of the sand sculpture community, they thought well, kurt can do it.usted five times since then. but it was pretty impressive. when you're up there on top of that thing, it's a lot of sand. >> wow. i'm curious about what you made here today. because like i said, i've done some sand castles on the beach with my son taj. they never looked like this. tell me about the technique, and can you teach me something that i can take back home and practice with my boy? >> i can teach you a few things. >> all right. ♪♪ >> i use a bucket form right here. this is the form i use. >> ah, and there is no bottom to that bucket. tricky. >> so a bucket form here and a bucket form here. >> the sand compacts, it's like if you're shaking a box of cornflakes, the shake down. the same thing here. with the bucket form, shake it like this. and all those little grains of sand are shaking and settling in. people are always asking me if there is some kind of magic ratio of sand to water. yes. it's too much water and not enough sand. too much water, all the water will drain out and i

and kurt bardella, dnc adviser and former spokesperson for the oversight committee.ou with us. this evening. let me start with you, tara. there is that white group of borders -- they check back and right before they have to. do you think the gop is taking a gamble here by focusing so much on these messaging bills ahead of the midterms that really are not of substance in terms of what the american people need or want. >> well, it's clear that the culture wars are back, and in full force. i feel like i'm reliving the 90s and early 2000s where you had the christian coalition and the culture conservatives, the moral majority coming back out, and really having a lot of influence and the republican party base. but this has gone really incredibly too far to the right. this type of extremist attacks on certain aspects and certain rights in this country that are already affirmed by law. it does run the risk of alienating general election voters, but it shows up the enthusiasm for republicans. this is all about the party base. now, when they need to be careful about and certai

rachel: it helps, kurt. $10 my goodness that's crazy. every little bit. thanks, kurt. joining us with reaction to new jersey mom of two kristin sinclaire. kristin, this story has my blood just boiling. i'm literally in shock about it. so, tell me, this came out in 2020 when we were just all trying to get the schools open, right? >> absolutely. it's very shameful that the groups that put this curriculum together did so while everyone was being told to hide in your house and worry about, you know, the air was filled with covid. and they were intending on changing our children's hearts and minds in 2022 when everything was better. it's very frustrating we have been on top of it my group in the last year. we were ready for this despite for the summer. rachel: here is what the education guidelines say discuss the range of ways people express their gender and how gender role stereotypes may limit behavior three rs, pink, blue and purple. they also say define gender identity and gender role stereotypes. there is just all kinds of stuff in here. i think probably the most shock

kurt, you first. you are part of the dccc. this? how much of a concern is the economy as a whole for the democrats? >> alex, i don't think it is any surprise that overall, obviously, inflation is a concern and top priority for democrats. it should be for all lawmakers of both parties. anytime that the american people are struggling and dealing with a rise in prices and higher gas prices, and day-to-day life is more challenging. this is a concern. i will tell you about this data. i am of the mindset that we could very well be seeing the tipping point here. this is the worst that it is going to be. interestingly enough, we are spending, consumer spending went out. even though inflation is less than last month, spending is going up. consumers are still spending. i think that there is a possibility here where inflation starts to ease quicker over the course of the year than people may have expected. if this happens at the right time, this could be a room for democrats heading into the fall. >> it has to be in the second quarter. t

representative for ukraine negotiations, kurt, i want to start with your thoughts on today with wouldappen perhaps with the antony blinken and lloyd austin? >> well, first off the fact that they are visiting is incredibly important, the u.s. is now leaning into provide ukraine kind of military support that we could've been doing weeks ago but we were finally doing it now. we are in turn allies-ing the idea that ukraine success is an american interest, and we're going to sit down with them and strategize how to make sure ukraine succeeds and give them what's necessary, that's terribly important. second, with the kerfuffle back and forth over leaking details of the visit now doing it in silence, it's a bit unfortunate because it overshadows what is otherwise a very -- >> so, i guess my question to you kurt, is how do you strategize next, so far the biden administration seems to have be providing zelenskyy everything he's asked for, everything from weaponry to going after the oligarchs, including getting by for nato and now having two of the top u.s. officials in his home country. what e

are you agreeable with that, kurt? >> not a problem. >> okay. great. any other questions and thank you, mr. martin for yelling. [laughter] any other questions, commissioners? >> can we -- are we going to -- can we consider the luma sales and this one together since -- >> no, we only call item no. 9. >> okay. all right. >> we could, i could have asked the secretary -- >> no worries, no worries. >> but i did not. >> do you want to make a motion? >> i would move that we approve this item and as presented with the editorial comments included. >> second. >> >> just to clarify that motion. >> yes. >> that we would move, that the retirement board of the county of san francisco approved the proposed guidelines for the multi sector fixed income portfolio to be managed by fidelity, is that the item we're on? >> yes. >> right. okay. we'll make the amendments as proposed by commissioners to document including the language fee before return. >> correct. >> okay. >> so, i guess i'll make that motion since, just to clarify that if that's okay, commissioner alfonso. >

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don't we have another disclosure, kurt. kurt? >> can you hear me or no?>> now we can. >> we can now. >> that's so bizarre. i come into the office for a reason. i understand we have to do these disclosures. i will do those quickly. update on a board approved and i'm confirming you can hear me? all right. we have five in total, three of which are published. two i'll need to do orally. at its board meeting on february 9th, 2022, our board approved investment up to $60 million. that investment closed on february 11th. the commitment is classified as a real estate investment within the real assets portfolio and its first investment with altara. next, the meeting on january 12th, 2022, the retirement board approved in closed session an additional investment of $100 million from san francisco return investors that investment of $100 million closed on february 1st. the investment is classified as a global investment with its first absolute return portfolio. next, at this meeting on february 9th, 2022, the retirement board included an investment up to capital six.

the task of investigators going forward is going to be decide how many and what kind of a scale they kurt on and ultimately, you know, who's responsible at the lower end of the chain and, and of the change of command responsibility. where were the commanders, when the sodas, with carrying out and these kinds of crimes and who both responsibility. and yet, even if there is clear and carefully documented evidence of war crimes and ukraine, can any of the perpetrators ever be brought to justice? i don't, they certainly countless, we know they, the international criminal court has an investigation already opened down. we know they have jurisdiction being ukraine out. we'd know that russia doesn't necessarily cooperate, but you know, very often people don't and yet people end up in a and up in court had happened to slumbered on the loss of itchin. ah, the serbian bosnia vulcans. busy were president, turned over by sheer flora president from sudan is sitting in jail and he has genocide charges pending in the hague, and he may well be transferred. another one of his militia ally is his trial is

training between heaven and earth. im always had meaning and he usually knows exactly what that is dr. kurt kramer, also known as monsieur been then one of the world's most renowned experts on church bells. in 60 minutes on d w. i send it to us. if grades are needed, chico, available over mentioned home, the fortune i'm hold close regime and that we can remember which i left me about almost a valley that the last dragons had called to home for 2 years, dw books on good 0, one thing that used to when the word and another thing to recover things to fix everything. though charlotte was what a shame bell. ruth wasn't able to stop putin in 2020. 0, no firm in moscow, the attitude was we can do this, we can re establish ourselves. ah.