in the lead up to the festival, deutsche welle is preparing a new documentary, the beethoven project.t features one of germany's most unusual ensemble orchestras. last year, under the leadership of their artistic director, the orchestra took up the challenge of playing all of beethoven's nine symphonies in just four days. here is an exclusive inside look at the project. ♪ ♪ >> the orchestra and their conductor. musical allies on a mission to create a new beethoven. they want their version of the beethoven symphonies to suit the 21st century. they call it "the beethoven project." >> y another cycle? who needs other cycle? we will always need another cycle of beethoven symphonies. >> in summer 2009, dw tv follow the orchestra for two months. the result was the documentary film "the beethoven project." >> the film can only be as good as its main protagonists. the musicians may not the actors, but that our main characterstogeth with the conductor. having him on board was a great stroke of luck for us because of his interesting and informative interviews. we were able to get very close to

in the lead up to the festival, deutsche welle is preparing a new documentary, the beethoven project.t features one of germany's most unusual ensemble orchestras. last year, under the leadership of their artistic director, the orchestra took up the challenge of playing all of beethoven's nine symphonies in just four days. here is an exclusive inside look at the project. ♪ ♪ >> the orchestra and their conductor. musical allies on a mission to create a new beethoven. they want their version of the beethoven symphonies to suit the 21st century. they call it "the beethoven project." >> y another cycle? who needs another cycle? we will always need another cycle of beethoven symphonies. >> in summer 2009, dw tv follow the orchestra for two months. the result was the documentary film "the beethoven project." >> the film can only be as good as its main protagonists. the musicians may not the actors, but that our main characters, together with the conductor. having him on board was a great stroke of luck for us because of his interesting and informative interviews. we were able to get very clo

well. here's an interesting letter from the deutsche bank in germany written to an american citizen in portland oregon in 1925. he had written to the bank and wanted to know and happen to his deposits of a million marks. well, he got back a letter, they were very kind and gentle with the letter but one sentence in the middle says, the balance on your account has, in fact, been wiped out. goodbye. he knew that but you just wanted to get confirmation. let's talk about money. what is money? money is a medium for exchange. that's all it is. there have been three times of money in all history. there is commodity money which is, of course, what we like and like to see and that is gold or silver, coins or bars, platinum, could be anything at all. so commodity money. then there is fiduciary money, the word fiduciary comes from latin for trust. so fiduciary money is essentially into physically value as substitutes for commodity money. >> [inaudible] >> its value is based on trust and it can be exchanged for commodity money, gold or silver. so gold or silver certificate is a fiduciary money and i can liv

deutsche mark. after the euro, it was brought on the continent, but the problem is that these prices have just, wellincreased. >> germany has the biggest single economy, what happened here is for the rest of the continent's. >> working at this time of year, the german government stepped in to announce money for buying new cars, so there was not so much a decrease in the economy. >> the last couple of years we were quite careful in purchasing goods and stuff, we never knew what would happen. we took it easy. people still like music, not so easy for people to spend money but i realize that people tend to purchase the cheaper products. ♪ >> if you want an example of just how well germany is doing, i can tell you that unemployment there is lower than it was before the recession. jobs are being created. people are grateful for that. of course, that is the good news, the bad news is on wednesday there will be strikes and protests across europe as countries like spain and greece have to put down their budget deficit. we will be reporting on the general strike and following of fans from around the continent

. >>> well weekend 2 of golf's fedex cup continues in massachusetts, where they play the deutsche bankampionship. andres romero in a group of eleven players, awesome four strokes off the lead. rome years round is greatly enhanced when he does this. this is an ace. the top 75 advance into next week's bmw championship. tiger woods is the defending champion of that one. right now he is no. 65 in the standings. woods in seven strokes he back. two players tied for the lead. one of them brandt snedeker, shot a 7 under 64. he is tied at the top with jason day. day in the toll grass around the 18-hole. day is a couple of inches away from an eagle. this tournament wraps up on monday. >>> considered a good sign that raiders head coach tom cable called this year's cuts the most difficult in his team. the most anotherworthy was defensive end richardson. he was never really the same after knee surgery. richardson was the fifth round daft pick out of ohio state in 2007. disc of being the biggest cut in the lead has to go to the cardinal's matt leinart. he was expected to be the quarterback and never

>> well, i was on ed henry's cnn radio talk show and i also met with ted deutsch's chief of staff here in south florida with an idea to create 4 million jobs from the publicect sector in abt six months. and they both were very excited about the idea. i'm wondering if you think that in this climate, would this idea, if it ever you know gets to anyone's attention, if republicans and democrats, do you think they could really bridge what's going on now and be ethical and do what's best for this country? >> do ethics issues make it easier or harder for republicans and democrats to work together? >> i think as a general rule, they make it harder because anyone who's charged, anyone who's investigated takes usually those lawmakers take it as a very personal attack and i think and say look, forget what we're doing on the investigation. weigh need you on this bill. it can be done but i think it's hard and i think you know, a full-blown ethics investigation ratchets up the tension for everyone involved. >> i want to venture over to the senate side. this is a question about john ensign, a blog po

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deutsch is here. good to see you, donny. chris jansing. joe conason of salon.com is here as well. and in washington, a full house.et's start with pat. your reaction to jimmy carter's comment yesterday that he's superior to other past presidents? >> i think it came from the heart. that's what he believes, quite frankly. and it's the type of thing that's gotten jimmy carter in trouble with a lot of people. the perception that really he's unappreciated and that he actually does a better job than these other presidents, but richard nixon wrote ten books or something like that and others do different things. i think it hurts carter and it, frankly, reinforces an impression in a lot of minds that jimmy carter was a very small man in a very big job. >> donny, he did come out with a statement afterwards, treatmeatg to clarify, "what i plenty was, for 27 years, the carter center has provided me with superior opportunities to do good," but the damage was done. >> i'm going to give him a pass, the aoctober ja narn pass. >> but it plays into a narrative about jimmy carter or a truth about jimmy carter. >> that's the problem.

>> well, i was on ed henry's cnn radio lk show and i also met with ted deutsch's chief of staff here in south florid with an idea to create 4 million jobs from the publicect sector in about six months. and they both were very excited about the idea. i'm wondering if you think that in this climate, would this idea, if it ever you know gets to anyone's attention, if republicans and democrats, do you think they culd ally bridge what's going on now and be ethical and do what's best for this country? >> do ethics issues make it easier or harder for republicans and democrats to work together? >> i think as a general rule, they make it harder because anyoneho's charged, anyone who's investigated takes usually those lawmakers take it as a very personal attack and i think and say look, forget what we're doing onhe investigati. weigh need you on this bill. it can be done but i think it's hard and i think you know, a full-blown ethics investigation ratchets up the tension for everyone involved. >> i want to venture over to the senate side. this is a question about john ensign, a blog posting at