she walks into the bright vegetable garden, chopped water to life from brittle landscape, leans her hoe against goat wire, admires shoots balanced on turned earth, looks up, fulfilleds a leaves sigh, clouds, hands on her hips, her jaw falls open and a bomb drops down her throat. white. the horizon, a black line against brilliant white landscape, pale blue sky above it, empty except for heat devil blur, a raindrop sound hits a wooden post against cloudless light, another, the lamb, his children, wife, then he drenched in bullet rain. blue. the final moment of night passing, exposes limbs, torsos, heads, breasts, humans, cows, goats, curved and knotted heaps, lays blue against bitten grass. final piece, the title is the headline for a newspaper. anti-war activist immoh lates along kennedy's express way near giant flame of the millennium skull up tour 4 days before november 2006 elections and no one pays attention. everything but the heart reduced to ash. thank you. . >> i just want to thank george for bringing to bear some of the numbers, some of the horrific things that are happening in

it makes me realize how brittle in some indian minds the concept of gandhi is. they think of him as a pious man and fearless man that thought them courage. but there is a lot of of the message that is contention that offends some indians. tavis: what is it most about the narrative of his life as we think we know it that is so inaccurate? >> i don't think that the narrative of his life is inaccurate. i see this as augmenting the narrative of his life, supplementing it. the narrative of his life as he told it in his auto biography, and that he was a leader and in the movement of the 20th century. he's all of those things. and he's a man who dreamed of achieving a level of love, as you put it, between hindus and muslims. abolishing untouchability. the idea that the mere presence or contact with another social group could pollute a person. and instilling values of nonviolence. and really focusing on the poorest in the society, and none of these things have exactly happened. it would be a miracle if they had happened. but for gandhi it was a huge disappointment. and

she walks into the bright vegetable garden, chopped water to life from brittle landscape, leans her hoe against goat wire, admires shoots balanced on turned earth, looks up, fulfilleds a leaves sigh, clouds, hands on her hips, her jaw falls open and a bomb drops down her throat. white. the horizon, a black line against brilliant white landscape, pale blue sky above it, empty except for heat devil blur, a raindrop sound hits a wooden post against cloudless light, another, the lamb, his children,

i am looking forward to seeing that project evolves as it includes a brittle pressing for a time of day in the next few months and i am looking forward to finding parking when i need it curbside. i would like to report, on april 15, i join commissioner abel lows and a number of distinguished guests at an event at the balboa park station where we had the pleasure of finally ribbon cutting the west side walkway, which is a product that has been a number of years in the making. the authority had significant funding contributions to the project from prop k. also, over $1 million in lifeline transportation funds. its total project cost of $6.3 billion. the event was a great event, classy. there was even a string quartet and other music. just a great sense of a celebration for this community, who for too long, has been separated from its ability to reach the station without having to walk perilously along the streetcar tracks of the geneva maintenance yard. now that is over and the east side connections are coming. it is interesting to see how long it takes to essentially do a sidewalk projec

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it is a brittle thank. people need help. if you go, babies locked into car seats eight hours a day in front of the tv. coca-cola just to keep them quiet. there are things where people need help, and we should just be more aggressive. you cannot stop because if you help kids at an early age a lot of the benefits paid out. it must be like patrician, every day. schools where teachers are able to connect with kids. the mentoring program. they must go to college where they feel emotionally engaged. if it think about dropping out, there is someone that they care about that they have to tell. they are engaged with the campuses. all through life there must be concentrations of relationships. so i spent a lot more money on that, and i'm afraid in our budgets raise the fact is lobbies with big guns of the k-12 lobby, higher-said, and mostly senior citizens. zero through three is pretty pathetic. >> take us out with your predictions for 2012. >> i could write another book, but it would kill me. i really would not bet against president

the syrian state is very brittle. he impose order on it in the most ruthless draconian way, and people are happy for the peace that he brought. but i don't think it is a sustainable system. and once the martyrs began to arrive, and they are, it will be harder and harder to turn back the clock to where we were in january. the problem the regime faces now is that there is no way to have political compromise, because once you begin to interject accountability into the system, then there has to be accountability. and the regime is accountable for mass murder, not once but several times. in egypt you could make the case that hosni mubarak was a relatively light handed dictator. i wouldn't make it to very many egyptians right now. they would get me off the stage. but in comparison, this was a fairly soft mukhabarat state. it's all comparisons. my guess, and it is just a guess, as we passed the tipping point in syria, but we will see. it may be kicked down the road six months, but i think we are past the point of no return f

. >> after this a-a brittle-- attack.he two suspect fled the scene it was a female driver with a small bill child. most-small male child, both offenders left with the woman driving. the into the backseat when each side of the vehicle. >> isabel: the pavement hit his head and the ball park security cameras cannot show this. he is a medically induced coma. >> marty: baseball fever in the bay area. a's fans showed up early to tell it, celebrate the new season. however, they're less disappointed. the lost to the seattle mariners. reggie kumar has more. >> a home run had oakland a's on their feet. even though the a's lost from the night to the opener fans are still optimistic their plans and team will make it. >> we are going to make it! >> with a great team, we're going to make it this year. when all that our team is good. >> the have the will, they have the feel and we believe in them. >> we have a few more reasons and we want them to get back on track. >> we are oakland fans. >> there is love from the bay. however, from thi

. >> reporter: millions of us follow popular advice, as we age take in extra calcium to ward off brittle new warning may shake up the $27 billion vitamin supplement industry. found calcium supplements have increased heart attacks by more than 20% in postmenopausal women. researchers suspect the extra calcium may rapidly elevate blood calcium levels which could contribute to artery disease. athd add to that, that other reports that too much calcium can lead to kidney stones and many of us are confused. some nutritionists say there's a clear explanation. >> when it comes to taking calcium one dose doesn't fit all. it really depends on your age and your diet. >> reporter: yes, doctors routinely prescribe extra calcium to women over 50 to make up for bone loss due to declining estrogen rates. they need about 1,200 milligrams a day. roughly three glasses of milk. if a woman has a history of heart disease should she just come off of supplements. >> no, i don't think so. i think you balance the benefits and the risk because if your bone density is really low you slip and fall get a hip fracture

the syrian state is very brittle. he impose order on it in the most ruthless draconian way, and people are happy for the peace that he brought. but i don't think it is a sustainable system. and once the martyrs began to arrive, and they are, it will be harder and harder to turn back the clock to where we were in january. the problem the regime faces now is that there is no way to have political compromise, because once you begin to interject accountability into the system, then there has to be accountability. and the regime is accountable for mass murder, not once but several times. in egypt you could make the case that hosni mubarak was a relatively light handed dictator. i wouldn't make it to very many egyptians right now. they would get me off the stage. but in comparison, this was a fairly soft mukhabarat state. it's all comparisons. my guess, and it is just a guess, as we passed the tipping point in syria, but we will see. it may be kicked down the road six months, but i think we are past the point of no return f

it is brittle.nd i have always heard, from the time i am a young guy, that a really successful person cannot run for high political office. i have heard it a hundred times. you cannot run. even people are saying, no, do not run. please, do not run. thank you, baby. i love you, too. but they are saying do not run. please, do not run. they will go and say, oh, gee, you were not nice to these people from china could i made a lot of money, by the way, with people from china. i made a big chunk on the bank of america building in san francisco. we need somebody. i am not blaming. when china, this year, as an example, will make -- let's call it profit from a simple word -- will make on this country this year $300 billion and then this say, these cities, zero, but you do not want free trade and this and that, of course i do not want to trade when somebody is taking away 3 billion -- $300 billion. why should we not make it for a change? [applause] and what china has really done is manipulate their currency.

the unhealthy way is to try to extract additional taxes in a brittle economy at the expense of economic growth. that is why the economic analysis of the budget that is about to be unveiled shows 1 million new jobs being created as a result of that budget and unemployment dropping pretty dramatically to 4%. host: cincinnati, ohio. ronald, you are wrong. caller: thank you for c-span. -- you are on. taxes come from working people, but the trouble is, they do not come from the rich, because they own the products and services. that is over and that gets passed on to the product. also, when you attack jobs, people do not have money, you are not going to get any taxes. the corporate people at the top have been raping us for the past 15 years and they are getting away with it for free. the people at the bottom are suffering and you say we have to get control of the budget. i have not seen you try to fix the taxes. i only see you all extended it, extending it. we cannot handle it much longer. guest: let me offer you one of the dirty little secrets about tax policies. corporation to not pay taxes

it is also a very, very brittle regime at the end of the day. because it's a regime that fundamentally depends on the support of about 13% of the population. and a few other supporters. it is a regime that has worked because it instills fears like any other mukhabarat instill fear. we all know that when it did that in hamma in 1982. once that fear is broken, as it seems to be breaking now, fractures in syrian society are likely to come to the top. this will have enormous effects upon all of the levat, libya, iraq, turkey, and jordan. the biggest loser, if syria dissolves into full scale civil war is iran and hezbollah. the second biggest loser is everyone else as we try to manage what happens there. but let's not cry for the asats. they deeply deserve to be sent to the home for retired dictators. the sooner the better. if egypt is the revolution will show how reform can succeed in a peaceful way, i'm fearful that syria is the revolution that will show even more than libya how it can be done with violence. but at the end of the day, the spring of

we supply weapons to some of the most despotic, brittle dictators or aggressiveaggr nations massed as democracies without blinking. i would like to know how muchull money your industry funnelsoney through lobbyists and our congress? ext d like to comment on how much influence you by. you also spoke about war fighters. the volunteers. uur volunteers are people who vove been deprived by government of the ability to go to school, a gain an education, work in normal everyday american jobs. your industry are among the industries that have exploited american jobs three differents places. now, i would like to compliment your industry for these technological engineering advances that give us cell phones, computers, wonderful us things that we have. >> host: let me jump in. i missed your first point. t what washi it? wt? >> caller: well, the defense industry does not keep americafe safe. we create problems throughout the world.worl we supply despot's with weapons that they use on their own people, to expand their territories. will >> host: we will start there.man do you have any thought?at? >>

the consequences of the greatest precision that we had since the depression and that recession is brittle and shows no mercy whether it's a republican governor state where democratic devin real-estate. you've described your approach, but clearly there are points of contention that you have to deal with as governor. a legislature that is pushing you and you're resisting to raise revenues and public employees who did cooperate but on the other hand they have a represented their members and up for the wages and benefits. maybe give a brief summary how you manage to get from here to there. then a lot of people to talk to your governor walker i don't have that much time. >> i will try to be brief. as you know my guess is my approach is much different than other governors from the country, trying to create jobs and economic opportunity. i mentioned the middle class has been kicked in the teeth over the recession harder than in years and we are trying to raise their income and we do that by going after raising health care and the recidivism in the directors budget and what we have a high recidiv

the syrian state is very brittle. he impose order on it in the most ruthless draconian way, and people are happy for the peace that he brought. but i don't think it is a sustainable system. and once the martyrs began to arrive, and they are, it will be harder and harder to turn back the clock to where we were in january. the problem the regime faces now is that there is no way to have political compromise, because once you begin to interject accountability into the system, then there has to be accountability. and the regime is accountable for mass murder, not once but several times. in egypt you could make the case that hosni mubarak was a relatively light handed dictator. i wouldn't make it to very many egyptians right now. they would get me off the stage. but in comparison, this was a fairly soft mukhabarat state. it's all comparisons. my guess, and it is just a guess, as we passed the tipping point in syria, but we will see. it may be kicked down the road six months, but i think we are past the point of no return f

the consequences of the greatest precision that we had since the depression and that recession is brittle and shows no mercy whether it's a republican governor state where democratic devin real-estate. you've described your approach, but clearly there are points of contention that you have to deal with as governor. a legislature that is pushing you and you're resisting to raise revenues and public employees who did cooperate but on the other hand they have a represented their members and up for the wages and benefits. maybe give a brief summary how you manage to get from here to there. then a lot of people to talk to your governor walker i don't have that much time. >> i will try to be brief. as you know my guess is my approach is much different than other governors from the country, trying to create jobs and economic opportunity. i mentioned the middle class has been kicked in the teeth over the recession harder than in years and we are trying to raise their income and we do that by going after raising health care and the recidivism in the directors budget and what we have a high recidiv

it is also a very, very brittle regime at the end of the day. because it is a regime that fundamentally depends on the support of about 13% of the population. it is a regime that has worked because it instills fear like no other mukhabarat regime ever instill fear. >> we all know when it did that in hamma in 1982. once that fear is broken, as it seems to be breaking now, fractures in syrian society are likely to come to the top. this will have enormous effects upon all of the levat, lebanon, iraq, turkey, and jordan. >> the biggest loser, if syria devolves into full scale civil war, is iran and hezbollah. the second biggest loser is everyone else as we try to manage what happens there. but let's not cry for the asats. they deeply deserve to be sent to the home for retired dictators, the sooner the better. if egypt is the revolution that promises to show how reform can succeed in a peaceful way, i'm fearful that syria is the revolution that will show even more than libya how it can be done with violence. but at the end of the day, the spring of a

the consequences of the greatest precision that we had since the depression and that recession is brittle and shows no mercy whether it's a republican governor state where democratic devin real-estate. you've described your approach, but clearly there are points of contention that you have to deal with as governor. a legislature that is pushing you and you're resisting to raise revenues and public employees who did cooperate but on the other hand they have a represented their members and up for the wages and benefits. maybe give a brief summary how you manage to get from here to there. then a lot of people to talk to your governor walker i don't have that much time. >> i will try to be brief. as you know my guess is my approach is much different than other governors from the country, trying to create jobs and economic opportunity. i mentioned the middle class has been kicked in the teeth over the recession harder than in years and we are trying to raise their income and we do that by going after raising health care and the recidivism in the directors budget and what we have a high recidiv

the system is extremely rigid, it is extremely brittle. a disaster in one place is transmitted throughout the system almost instantaneously. it can easily become a disaster every place. and some of these disasters we could imagine being extremely destructive. one the things we can understand, this is a new phenomenon. the first industrial crashes, that's what they with, the first industrial crashes, we didn't see them until 19 99. it happened after the earthquake knocked out the shipment of components from a town outside of taipei to the rest of the world. within a few day, the factories all around the world shut down. we saw industrial crashes after 9/11, we saw a crash through the sars event, and three or four years ago in japan, there was a smaller earthquake that knocked out one factory. we saw all 12 shutdown. the layman event and shock of september 2008 knocked out both the supply and credit to the system and it also knocked out a lot of demand within the system. and we saw a number of disruptions in the industrial system after that.