were also examples of non european peoples defeating european peoples for example fall is that that. most of the people saw their couture real africa today. african black farmers speaking bantu languages two thousand years ago that wasn't the case just as two thousand years ago everybody in north america was a native american two thousand years ago everybody in africa south of the equator was either a pygmy or belonged to the course on people and then two thousand eight hundred years ago farmers black farmers speaking bantu languages would be crops and livestock and still you weapons move south of the equator and overran pygmies and close on people in all your years superbad to follow me to the point we are today most subject which were left with the band performance so that's one case of steel not guns but steel and the power went by farming there was a similar example in southeast asia of chinese farmers overrunning southeast asia so yes it's happened with people other than europeans the book here is that's my favorite is the most recent collapse our societies choose to fail or suc

my second example is a famous romantic example is the polynesian society on easter island easter the most remote habitable scrap of land in the world and island twenty three hundred miles west of the coast of chile and near absolutely nothing easter island is famous for its dry can pick stone statues when up to eighty tons a record by polynesians and then gradually all of those statues were eventually pulled their own and broken by the descendants of the very polynesians who were wrecked with them it's now clear that east reuland underwent the struggles society underwent a dramatic collapse that's a huge increase in political complexity and also population numbers as a result of the east raw it was inadvertently chopping down all the trees on the iraq war and that's not a wise thing to do if your society have to depend on wood as with easter islanders but lots of societies make mistakes and that happened to the struggle of those so we struggle society collapsed in an epidemic of civil war that was triggered by this ecological inadvertent ecological devastation couldn't you you sugges

for example in that intel example, they're using the advance lights for a syncotron. it's a specialized facility generated by the department of energy for broad use of scientists, and typically, that's open for scientists to use if they're at a university or another national lab at no cost to them, but if there's a for-profit entity that wants to use it in a proprietary way, then they'll pay for, you know, for full cost recovery in order to use the facility. >> so they kind of pay for the license or something? >> they pay for the use. >> they pay for the time and the use and maybe sometimes they'll build some infrastructure around it that then others can use. so, there's typically a relationship like that, but we'll also license out technology from the laboratory. and in that case, the university of california owns the license. >> so, we hear stanford and google, yahoo! surface through student projects, but has there been a example you can share with us, maybe an idea that blossomed into a company itself that was independent that was spun out, in a sense, from your la

i think that is a good example of how this process should be working. a third example, and this is where we have been proactive, quite a bit proactive in terms of the state of the field, is reflected in air quality assessment and ventilation requirements for residential development. now, the federal government and state government have standards for air quality for certain pollutants criteria. however, san francisco has won air quality monitor. we really don't know what to air pollution is at every point in the city. we do know that areas with high levels of traffic have higher concentrations of air pollution. this had been a well-recognized problem without any regulation elsewhere. working with the plan and put -- planning department, we required that all developers to, wherever there is a certain amount of track -- traffic, do a certain amount before the planning project was approved. that developer has to develop a mitigation plan, for example, using ventilation systems, or changing the air intakes, in order to keep the indoor air clean, even if it i

and no disrespect to these examples, i love some of these examples.ter] so how does it play out in our politics? this is where it gets interesting. and, again, when i say the '50s and '60s, i'm talking about the 1980s 'version. so let's look at it presidential election by presidential election. so 1988's presidential election you've got george h.w. bush running against a first generation working class democratic candidate. what is the tactic to defeat the democratic candidate? well, the aristocrat turns himself into a picture of the 1950s. if you read his rnc nominating speech, it's all about how he supposedly grew up in a shotgun house in a middle class -- i mean, this is the grandson of a senator, this is the picture of american aristocracy who turns himself into this, and how does he take down the democrat? flag burning. the image of the supposedly unpatriotic '60s, and he turns him into this. that's what it becomes. how does it go in 1992? so now you've got this out of touch president who doesn't even know what a supermarket scanner is, right? ver

an example of what is possible. don't say it should happen everywhere, but once you see the possibility, then you think about what might happen. >> what has been the best part of writing this book for you? >> i think the action. there are very fine reactions, really both in england and the united states from a number of people involved in parish work. i think someone said, every parish ought to have a copy of it. but that's too much hope, but i just know some pastors have really said that this is a refreshing breeze to know how change has happened in the church. >> certainly i will add it to my library. this is the university of notre dame press publishing a book, the church that can cannot change. as we are doing this interview, it may be more difficult to get ahold of the book, but please stay with it. judge john newnan, a good friend of mosaic. we appreciate you taking time to be here. any final console for our viewers? >> well, the book speaks for itself. >> that's good. a church that can and cannot change. for

has really locked up the monopolistic health care system for example the f.d.a. assigns monopolies to drug companies for molecules that normally would exist in nature for example a staton drugs are based on a molecule that the drug industry actually sort of stole from rights it's called bio piracy and the drug companies do it all the time in the f.d.a. gives them a monopoly so that no one else can sell that molecule in a competing drug or even a natural supplement so in the u.s. we have a monopolistic health care system that's designed to generate profits not public health but is that the same in other countries that's not is that the paradigm there too i mean i don't understand why for example. company can have something cost x. and not in the united states but it would be different in another country you know it's interesting other countries are more open to generic drugs which tend to lower the cost of conventional health care also in other countries they're more open to alternative methods of health treatment or preventing disease but in the u.s. drug compani

for example, social search, does that have a future? minute you hear it, you're going to say yes. you're right. >> so what do -- this seems obvious when you say it. why do companies not do that? >> you got to -- >> people are getting older, it seems obvious, let's get a fleet of cars and offer wllimousine-le service. >> web one was finding things. search. web two was social media. and it's about content sharing. what's web three with certainty? threats's give you a prediction with certainty. it's the 3d immersed experience. in other words, right now all of our browsers are what some a colored piece of paper with a video.some a colored piece of paper with a video. let's make them d. >> we might see more video in terms of chat. >> without glasses with a mobile device all right. all right. starting to come out with games. a game like xbox, why can't i go in rooms, why can't i go in environments as i'm searching for things? >> i have to stop you there. flash foresight is i don't you are book. you had me except for iphone 5. that's just craz

examples of when they lie. >> i have a whole slew of examples. my favorite example of what i call a noble lie is what kennedy told with the cuban missile crisis. he hoped to end that by getting christian of to withdraw the soviet missiles from cuba but the end of the crisis before it can in the word remove those munn from the jupiter missiles. kennedy had no problem and in fact, told pentagon to get them out of turkey before it that he agreed to a deal to take those missiles and he told kristian of and could say nothing and did anyone of the american media suspected ideal to ask if there was a deal, a kennedy would have to live but khrushchev should understand the deal was still on. of course, the media quickly picked up the possibility there was a deal and ast kennedy and his lieutenants about it and they lied. it was smart because kennedy ended the cuban-- cuban missile crisis given the gravity of the situation it was imperative he bring it to an end without the possibility of war. he felt the only way he could do that was to tell a lie. >> hos

all right so lauren just showed us a long list of examples and it begs the question when all of this is being covered what's not being covered now there is some hope with the technology where it is today there is room for alternative forms of media and there's evidence people are watching it and reading it not as many people but there are certainly some need out there and i guess foreign is in los angeles california she is with the young turks and ana thanks so much for coming on the show we're focusing our show today talking about mainstream media in the modern day i know you're a part of the young turks which by many as two minutes is the largest online news show in the world so i guess from the outside looking in what's your take on the fact that you know despite the war in libya still going on despite a need to think and talk much more deeply about the world economies most people who turn on cable news are seeing casey anthony sarah palin's gaffes and michele bachmann's migraines. discouraging it's definitely socialized media there is an audience out there for it because it's ver

utility infrastructure some projects in the healthcare sector and we believe that by example of the year we'll do transactions of around five hundred million dollars but that is by the end of the year in september we're just starting discussions of some of the most interesting and exciting opportunities that we still need to evaluate and work together was going vestment partners to analyze and really figure out so you still fishing but can you name us at least a couple of companies that are already on your hook we can look and actually that's a good thing about private equity industry was before the deal is done it's impossible to talk about the potential targets because a best case increases their valuation expectations and the worst case it just leads to the transaction will be undone because typically we're all in the ones the transaction is finished rolls of paper signed and that's very important to look at have to invest in companies before you came to today to these new friend are you dragging as some of the partners from these companies through that you've actually we're trying to

the money you get i guess now not only in the oil and gas production to the old you give us some examples we believe you know agriculture is really great sector and russia is a great place for agriculture and you know has lots of agricultural businesses that are growing dramatically but at the on the invest it so really that agriculture is going to be very interesting today we understand it's in a circumstance that we should have our own cucumber is not exactly yes that's true and you know agricultural prices increasing dramatically so agribusiness is a very important health care again health care can be much more efficient and can be improved dramatically with proper investments i was proper and know how energy efficiency we all know that we have so much dependent on energy prices and there are all sorts of new energy efficient technologies that produce very significant cost savings so it's not venture projects it's not very risky early start or early stage projects so there's a project where we can see sort of predictable cash flow and such as energy efficiency it will produce good. res

in scanner for example there is still an all traditional for. this isn't the so to say white power movement but it has also always been very marginal and maybe because of that overall we have seen a steady rise of right wing anti immigrant parties especially europe over the last couple of years do you think that the norwegian massacre is part of this trend. yes of course the these guy is a madman and without any doubt so it's very very. dangerous to see that what he did is is a reflection of a trend so actually if you start to study his motivation i'm pretty sure we will find some personal reasons as always and in such cases so it but but of course the problem which he is pointing to exists and this is a victim of situation if this if this is the situation does that mean that we are witnessing a radicalization in a society a radical is asian and european politics and that and that and that there has been a public locals and muslim fundamentalists are ready to go to violence in the streets no i don't think incentives that far already know but wha

had the right wing side and for example statements. now used to be bound by by heads of states of has a garment like i'm going miracle then it came and of course i was the about complete failure of multiculturalism we could not imagine something they had been. two years ago let's turn to some reactions to to to what happened in oslo in russia well here are some some of the reactions from russians from bloggers to journalists who tend to put the blame for the massacre and not always society rather than on the terrorists. some people really decide what they did was construct of human history would be wrong to say. so broke the law supports for the playstation to prevail just human is founders resisting the relation human rights it would take to . get there is a reason to doubt europe and start addressing these issues as a result. how would you comment on this. so to blame on the village and go on a particular individual garment because i am pretty world's going to visit in sweden norway denmark many times and i must say that just in thos

when you depart for justice for example if you invest in china or in india you could do it on your own but probably would be a good idea to get the local partners so you mean that the government is the only real reliable partner in this country well i think government is one of the key and most reliable partners since this country and i think government is making major initiatives to improve investment climate some russia so providing this capital to share risk his investors give them any guarantees but be their partner and core invest along is them is a basic idea behind the fund says q deal with dimitri you have had the russians direct investments spotlight would be back shows we will continue this interview so we take a break so stay with. forty two thousand americans die each year accidents thousand and seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us here part is easy the more devastating it kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year. welcome back to sport and i'm al gree

our brains are great example. starting up a command and control system for itself in the form of this emerging global super organism. people say that that can never be the biggest since a greedy and selfish. well, brains are also greedy and selfish. they take in 20 percent of the energy. they used to percent of the energies. there greedy. they're also incredibly selfish. brains will cut off the supply to almost every other part of the body before they pride themselves. just like us. so we are greedy and selfish. it is interesting that wanted percent of the energy of the planet, humans are currently using something in excess of 20 percent of the total by capacity of the planet. perhaps we should come back into that. but just because we're greedy and selfish doesn't mean we can't form earth's control and command system. the other important thing to realize is any command-and-control system has to be self regulated. what is stopping the brain from taking in more resources? it has to be within the constraints of its b

i'll give you one cringe-making example.here's a sentence that i was dating a couple of girls that i didn't want to see. well, the girls thing really struck me wrong when i was reading it in '93. i thought, my god, you know, that was lame. [laughter] and so i went back and excised a few things. but, i mean, i think, you know, having had a more or less fully-formed consciousness somewhere after that, i would have committed some more errors. >> are there summits, you -- subjects, you mentioned you've written about a lot of subjects, are there subjects that you'd love to tackle, but in a sense you're afraid to go there because it's somehow too charged, too something, you just want to stay clear? maybe other novelists have done the deed already? >> you know, i think by the time you've written about partial birth abortion in israel/palestine, you've done about as bad as you could do. i don't know if i could find anything worse than those even if i tried. a book i thought about doing, and i don't think i'm ever going to do, i was

pakistan is a good example. saudi arabia. >> iran is a much more intense example because we have the religious leaders within the government to have the control but take north africa i think some of the most enlightening kind of intellectual work being done happens in morocco, tune ease -- ton ease ya, algeria and egypt, or will you find it in indonesia or malaysia or in sub sahharan africa. so there is an internal muslim problem that muslims need to address by themselves. it's not going to lp if it is tainted by some european assistce. that's the inside problem but muslims are not paying sufficient attention to that and i doelieve that american muslims can play the role of a talyst. and you know what, when i do my research in india and pakistan, i find people there telling me that you know the way forward is going to be that you people in the west, you muslims living in the west, in north america and europe, you guys might be pave approximating the way. i said really, do you really want us to show you the way,

i'll give you a specific example. it's estimated that we have about $2 trillion worth of infrastructure that needs to be rebuilt. roads, bridges, sewer lines, water mains; our air traffic control system doesn't make sense. we don't have the kind of electric grid that's smart, meaning it doesn't waste a lot of energy in transmission. our broadband system is slower than a lot of other countries. for us to move forward on a major infrastructure initiative where we're putting people to work right now -- including construction workers who were disproportionately unemployed when the housing bubble went bust -- to put them to work rebuilding america at a time when interest rates are very low, contractors are looking for work, and the need is there, that is something that could make a huge, positive impact on the economy overall. and it's an example of making an investment now that ends up having huge payoffs down the road. we haven't gotten the kind of cooperation that i'd like to see on some of those ideas and initiatives.

for whom is a rack a shining example?ike democracy, more open societies, increasing appreciation for democratic institutions and principles. is a racket guaranteed toe a shining example forever? though. is it better than it was in recent years? absolutely. this is on a continuing and got a moment in time. if you look around the middle east with the exception of israel and turkey in you're trying to rank haitians that are next on the progress meter in terms of movement towards the like, you will put iraq moving in the right direction. in light of other challenges ar within iraq, we don't know the answer to that. in this moment of time, it can and has been made in a difficult region with the complex and seemingly insurmountable history. absolutely. >> i want to k a question that john asked you about states that democratically choose leaders who are opposed to american values in the conundrum. i assume that one of the reasons the obama hesitation -- edit illustration hesitated, they thought it could be more anti- american an

during a period of world war two boom an expansion for example and if fifty's fewer than five per cent of american workers needed licenses and today that figure is almost thirty percent and when you compare this to other countries other developed countries regulation is higher you more jobs need license as an example would be britain thirteen percent of their workers need licenses. i wouldn't call licenses regulation let's talk about regulations on. this this practice is in profits all during the fifty's and sixty's we had strict regulations on your lines telecommunications trucking and a whole host of industries where we basically said look you can make profits but you can't make too much profit we try we have scripture its relations on the non-police we unfortunately trust go to solution but most importantly we sat on wall street it was a boring place to work it was not a place where you could go and set up a casino ok but i really learned a lot about it as i really want to talk about i know that those are the regulations that you're going to but i want to talk about because jobs is

their right wing side and for example statements which now used to be done by by heads of states of has a government like angle in america all that it came in the course of was the about complete failure of multiculturalism we could not imagine something where there'd been. two years ago let's turn to some reactions to to to what happened in oslo in russia well here are some some of the reactions from russians from bloggers to journalists who tend to put the blame for the massacre are not always society rather than on the terrorists. some. called ready to cycle what he did runs contrary to human history but it would be wrong to say he. is home grown fuel supplies for europe to play station human is two thousand years in recess in the relations of human rights and public safety. yet there is every reason to doubt that europe will start addressing these issues as a result. how would you comment on this. so to blame on their vision go in particular in their vision government that sound fair because i am pretty world's going to an area i visited sweden norway denmark many times and i must s

for example our reach into the black community . talked about and in fact all that helped george w. bush. get you know i don't talk means. well it certainly is part of michele bachmann. you know michele bachmann has built her career on anti-gay activism and she you know that was her signature issue when she was in the minnesota state house she has a record of actually fairly shocking statements on i'm gay people i mean anyone who's interested should go look up a speech that she gave in two thousand and four to a group called ad watch stands for education watch in which she talks about you know kind of a homosexual conspiracy to infiltrate our culture or to teach homosexuality to small children in schools to recruit. at one point she mentions you know she goes on this litany of all these kind of gay people and in entertainment and what and why this is such a problem and she mentions melissa etheridge and then she mentions that melissa etheridge has breast cancer and that maybe this will be an opportunity to her for her to finally be open to spirituality i guess the implication being

for example -- >> so you wouldn't support it then? modifying your position? >> no. i think the specifics matter. for example, in the savings and loan crisis, we saw interceptions that prevented the regulators from stepping in and preventing greater collapse in that industry, and so it is a difficult balancing, but there are reasons to have protections and independence with the financial regulators because those short-term interventions with the tyranny of small decisions that create huge consequences and again, i would not want, for example, the occ to be subject to inters vention every time they tried to close down a bank. >> neither would we. >> that's what happened in the past. they've got to have the ability to do their jobs if i were to do their job, but my question to you, again, would you support efforts to make them more accountable? if they failed the american people, which most people believe that the financial egging laters failed the american people, the federal reserve, the fdic, the comptroller of the currency and so forth, i believe, from this point h

the two key examples -- and they are just merely examples -- the camp matehr summer program -- the camp mather summer program. and experience for young people involved in the juvenile justice system. we have got to turn their minds around. in august, we are serving over 80 youth. we are getting them out of our community so they can have a greater and perhaps have a vision to see each other and their communities in a different light, by teaching leadership development and giving them job training. another example is the program la tierra. a dpw workforce program. it provides jobs for high risk use. these young people will be working with gardeners' for the summer, acquire and job skills and positive role models. there are about 10 other programs as well, but i wanted to highlight two of the most impactual. furthermore, our companies with twitter and other companies we are trying to bring into the area will have an emphasis on economic self-sufficiency and youth employment as well. we will be working closely with your office as well as each and every one of the supervisors to make sure th

well certainly when you see all these examples it becomes clear that the time is ripe to talk about this they've called on is an emmy award winning news producer and is working now as a communications director for free press an outspoken proponent for media independence of corporate influence i spoke to him earlier and asked him how he sees the media landscape right now take a listen. like you i went to journalism school and like you i'm sure i did it because i had a very strong feeling about the importance of good media good journalism and democracy people need to know what's going on what you don't know can hurt you what you don't know can't kill you we know this to be true and i went to school because i wanted to expose those stories and after a long in at the risk of sounding modest chris successful career i would chose to walk away because i was no longer proud of what i was doing every day i was required to do one thing that would made me embarrassed or ashamed or give me an example of something that made you not proud of i won't name the station but i was working at a local local

financial service sector in the just service sector in other sectors since economy so i'll give you an example when i was a delta when by. in one of the you know small media companies of that time called c g c media which is now one of the largest entertainment empires in russia and the value grew from fifty million when he invested in the business to over three billion right now because russian middle class grew and advertisement trade grew so it was investing in zones kinds of businesses in telecom sector in other sectors that have been successful in russia and that's why the president and the. bank supervisory board decided to pick me for this position you promised profitability of business investments in russia up to you and you twenty percent but how is that possible if the growth of the russian economy is not more than ten percent is it isn't it a contradiction you know we believe that leaders of the russian business and lead in business in russia will grow dramatically and if you look historically at how much value has been created in russia in the billions and billions of dollars of va

the vallejo example is a great one. a guy is sitting in his house. >> let me also throw in, by the way, we contacted the city of vallejo, knowing we would use this example. we heard nothing back from them. they were investigating it some months ago. we contacted them but heard nothing from them. continue on. i'm sorry. >> as i was saying. the encounter is one-sided. it's the police officer demanding the camera be handed over and cell phone, whatever it may be. they really don't have a right to prevent anybody from videotaping, particularly if that person is in his own private property. nor do they have a good argument that is evidence that needs to be obtained forcibly. i think many times if people are witnesses tonight counters with law enforcement, it's more likely that they are going to turn it over themselves directly. i think the b.a.r.t. shooting a couple years back where that video became available. it was part of what got people very upset about the whole situation. so there's a public interest in having these t

it's in tough economic times as witnessed by unemployment numbers the national debt to name a few examples in fact moody's ratings agency today but the u.s. ratings on review for a downgrade as a result of the failed debt ceiling negotiations president obama reportedly walked out of debt talks with republican lawmakers today now under obama's watch as president the economy has gotten worse if you take figures such as unemployment as example seven point six percent was that number when he took office now it's at nine point two percent obama and others argue do economy would have been much worse without the actions he's taken in office but who's to say that's pretty difficult to prove or disprove. so given all of this the current situation of the economy why is the president getting so rich or at least his war chest to be a little more accurate it's way beyond expectations let's look at what he's raised obama's reelection campaign has raised eighty six million dollars in the last three months now this is twenty six million dollars more than his campaign was aiming for at this point and if yo

. >> i will throw out a couple of examples. first of all, the harry potter alliance uses parallels from "harry potter" to inspire fans to be heroes. we work for other things besides harry potter. one of those is a group called "nerd fighters." they are nerds who fight. unlike ordinary people who are made of muscle and bone and flesh and the nerves, nerds are made of the force of boston. -- awesome. awesomenly the force of bosto to beckon fight the world soccer. that is the amount of suck in the world. one of the leaders of this community, john and hank green, they make these amazing youtuber videos. every week. they are brothers, they discarded as a project where they were video blogging to each other. they are really funny and interesting. you can check them out on youtube. vlog brothers. just a quick example. they call their following the nerd fighters. for his birthday there were going to do a big thing. it was going to be a big surprise. they get hundreds of thousands of these every week. they have a strong following. every

for example, i don't know, maybe something about u.s. politics that you ended up excising from the book? was there, you know -- >> you know, there was a lot. the idea was in this book. i could have dealt with the impact of the threat of al qaeda destroying a major western city which is a plot point in the book and how that affected the u.s. political scene. i chose not to do much of that because i really wanted to keep the focus on the story in hand and he paid, well, driving forward. in know, given the current crematory, dishonest, poison -- poisonous, and utterly unhelpful political dialogue we have in this country, you know, i can well imagine that if there is a potential active nuclear terrorism that the finger-pointing and potential scapegoating would pick up right away. i have got to say that even faced with all sorts of national peril, you know, like the deficit, we obviously have to do something about it. the intellectual dishonesty in cells are and quality of our political leaders really is quite special. [laughter] [laughter] >

just a long list of examples lauren gave there and there are certainly more and when you see these examples it becomes clear that the time is really right to talk about this they thought donna is an emmy award winning news producer and is working now as a communications director for free press they pay so much for coming and i know your organization has been really active and outspoken in the need for an actual free press and the need for a press not to be sort of owned by a corporation talk a little bit about that and how you see the media landscape right now. well like you i went in journalism school unlike you i'm sure i did it because i had a very strong feeling about the importance of good media good journalism and it democracy people need to know what's going on what you don't know can hurt you what you don't know can kill you we know this to be true and i went to school because i wanted to expose those stories and after a long in at the risk of sounding modest precess full career at it i would chose to walk away because i was no longer proud of what i was doing every day i was requir

for example you had b.h.l. not only livy and france really pushing this we've got to say the civilians much in a sort of recalling rwanda and what happened in kosovo and in bosnia. and so that was the real the real tension pushed forward the moment and then you backslide into well how are you going to do that do you need to remove gadhafi from power and in a sense you do said there was a real reticence to use the words regime change and change and then all of a sudden it starts sliding back into this well we don't seek regime change but gadhafi must go. and so now the real question is how do you remove a man from power. do you put him in asylum that one of the things is putting him in asylum but within libya but i don't really necessarily know how that's going to work either will i don't think it will work i don't think that if gadhafi is in to do is get out if you do believe him because he himself seems pretty confident that he was he did look worried this couple of weeks but now he seems confident oh yes he's