could be dealt with in science fiction. i realized you know what i was susan was a kind of a metaphysical moon the moon didn't visible of things have seen. just supernatural. by that was a couple hundred record stores and he worked there in the early one nine hundred fifty. five five and so so he had you know his what a panic attack record for vic attack and that's what decided him i have to write full time that got him out of selling records that got him into writing fiction. has been a long road. but science fiction offered me a route by which i could publish the kind of thing that i wanted to write. i was reading martian times would do the no. no that is exactly what i want to write about the invasion of one person's world by another person's work. till began writing his quantities of science fiction stories and he sent them off and he sent them off and he got return return we terme and eventually won souls group i believe that was his first science fiction story that he sold. prove my first tour is a perfect example of

i was never convinced science fiction was a was filling the void literature. in fact in high school i was working on a science fiction story which i saw. so i was in a curious. position i had read science fiction since i was twelve years old and was really addicted to reading just loved it and i also. i was reading what the berkeley little workshop community was reading which would be what proves true to form a joint soil comported two worlds right there which normally did not intersect. while. one filled it was writing his work science fiction was very marginalized shondra people wrote for a penny or two a word phil would've been happy to get two cents a word for a lot of the fiction that he wrote in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's it's written pulp paper which is why they call the pulp science fiction and lurid covers a bug eyed monsters or pam says they were called attacking beautifully scantily clad women and this is where phil found the venue for his thoughts there is for his feelings about the world. we want from our school to a full time job a

position i had returned fiction since. i was twelve years old here is really addicted to reading i just moved here and i also. i was reading what the berkeley little workshop community was reading which would be a good cruise for example and joy so i could point to worlds right there which normally did not intersect. when filled it was writing his work science fiction was a very marginalized shondra people wrote for a penny or two a word phil would've been happy to get two cents a word for a lot of the fiction that he wrote in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's is written of paul paper which is why they call the pulp science fiction and had lured covers of bug eyed monsters or pam says they were called attacking beautifully scantily clad women and this is where phil found the venue for his thoughts there is for his feelings about the world. they're much more screwed to a full time job than records during your sure. working six days were good to get a chance to do much reading i got married when i was nineteen and ar

there was a science-fiction bookstore. when i was nine years old i walked in and there is a writer behind the counter asked me what books i had read and liked. she brought me back to a section and found me a book for a dollar and i took it back home and went back the next week and i started bringing her my manuscripts. when she quit ten years later i got her job. so, i was very lucky to have those mentors as a child. and writers i read who influenced me and have been kind to me sense, bursts steal sterling, bruce is my daughter's godfather. bill gave me this watch, rudy rucker and so many others. >> from texas let's hear from zach. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i wanted to ask if would you be familiar with the anarchist activists and anthropologist, david graber? when you are speaking previously about the social interactions and transactional and how that could be problematic in different ways. i saw parallels between what you are saying and what david graber was saying. are you familiar with any of his work, li

they say what kind of science-fiction? some of it is very huge but most contemporary and mostly it deals with contemporary information,, politics, surveillance, censorship and the question of whether or not technology is going to enable us to be more free or take away those freedoms. >> host: is it hard to translate those modern-day scenes into a science-fiction format? >> guest: i don't think so. the next question and one asks is how can you write science fiction in this era of rapid change? are you not read you'll be left behind by the march of history? i feel like in the 20% if you don't have seven ideas for science-fiction novels a date you were not really trying to te you were quoted back in 2008 you said all science-fiction writers where they admit it or not providing metaphorically about the present. can you expand on that? >> guest: i think at its best science-fiction reaches into the world and does this diagnostic thing. would you go to the doctor and you have a sore throat, she will swab the back of a through f p

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a science fiction author.he has just written so much i just wanted to know if you have some favorites.that's it. thank you. >> guest: sure. i really like the books he wrote with us. the dream prox book i think are of increasing interest now because they depict the future of where something that looks a lot like augmented reality and virtual reality layout and i had a real interest in these parts for a long time. the magic kingdom and for disney imagineering, did a lot of work for them and almost none of which i'm allowed to discuss because of disney's legendary nondisclosure. although i can't say it was one of the writers on something that won an award because it put all the contractors names on it so now i can tell that. and i think that their depiction of themepark stuff is particularly interesting. the first one, dream park is a really good novel. >> host: what was the reaction from disney when he came out with the books and they were featured? >> guest: the employees loved it. i think everyone likes to be

well, it was mostly fiction, but it was based on fact.tories about the people who were bombing, who were secondary characters in the story, and how they came into the building, what their psyche was, how they decided and how they used their faith to make decisions about their extremist measures. so that was factual, but the story about the girl herself was fictional. how important is it, though, for you, to stick to facts when you're making a film that is based on true events? because a lot of filmmakers say it's very important to do that, to not play fast and loose with the facts. i think it depends on the story. if you're making a biography, obviously,it‘s important to be as close to the character as possible. but in this space, the space that i was creating was a fictional character in a real space. so i honoured the space in the reality of it, but the stories that were built on top of that were completely fictional. and your film won five awards at the fifth african movie academy awards. but don't you want a wider audience to know abo

people ask me why. >> you can turn to fiction. in thrillers and crime fiction you have good people and bad people you can't get it in real life. you find it in fiction. >> i read that in publishing traits. this is the home of agatha christie and sherlock holmes. you would think thrillers had always been a part. >> it crime fiction is really big over there. it always has been. i know it happen and i think maybe that's one reason. >> i want to get into how this started. we have a caller. brian is in sioux city, iowa. welcome to the conversation. >> good morning, my questions about amos decker's memory condition. this started because of an injury in football. is the perfect recall only triggered by things that happened after. >> that's a great question. it's different for different people. for amos decker, it can be before the injury occurred to him. we all have memories of things that happen to us from day one, but sometimes they're not good at bringing it back out. what fascinates me is that in 202018 we know very little about how

the way that fiction works all fiction. where the weight has pulled it off. they did not make you privy to the thought of people. they have to be inferred to the actions. not by hearing your thoughts or reading them on a page. and in that regard. there's a really important mismatch between fiction and narrative film. i think a lotot of writers struggle to bridge. at least editorial input. i don't kid myself that someone who has never written that.he they are very insistent on. as a thick and pewter's and my books they are not metaphors they are things. i was the extent that i have the secret sauce. computers and most fiction are just metaphors. even today you can go to the movies and see a computer where that type is all in caps. is an objectively terribly -- terrible computer. i think it reflects a certain lack of confidence in writers and directors and that interestingness of a the computers. what you delve intohi the theoretical limits and capabilities they are superduper interesting and if you are ignorant of those things you might decide that the way to

and but fictional. the iran that would be in that time. >>. >> host: david ignatius, has anyone ever felt outed by a character in one of your books. >> people, somebody joked to me the other day, a former intelligence officer had said on the real harry pappas. he was this character in the book i just described. and i didn't fear anger. i heard him talking about it as if it was a bit of a bragging rights. my first novel, age of innocence were about things that were so sensitive that when it was published, i just didn't know what the consequences would be. i've never done this before. i knew how raw it was, i just made a decision to write it as i can and i didn't know what people thought but initially there was shock. over the years i sometimes write that about the cia, that might be difficult to tell but i had written, made people's hair stand on end. but i never had anybody, i tried to be careful about not taking any characters per se an outing that person keeping their identities far secret and they ar

i was always going to write young adult fiction because i love and read young adult fiction still.have a lot of adults repeatedly making it worse and worse. when i look at the people saving the world, i see 11—year—old naomi walder speaking out against gun violence and how it affects african women. i see children every day saving the world, writing something to empower them to do that even more feels like the best thing i could do to help. that was debula kemoli from bbc whats new, speaking to tomi adeyemi. to watch more of that interview, go to youtube.com/ bbc what‘s new. let‘s return to the situation in india where rescuers are braving torrential rain to reach people stranded in flood waters in the southern state of kerala. nearly 200 people have been killed in the past 10 days. randeep kumar rana is the deputy inspector general of the indian national disaster response force — hejoins me now from new delhi in india. thank you so much forjoining us, i know you are extremely busy, what is the latest situation? good morning. the situation in carol is improving over the evening hour

. >> host: a setting for "the fallen" is fictional but its problems are real. when you tell our audience about the? >> guest: it's a rough bout time much like thousands across this country and thousands cost of the countries. western pennsylvania coal money, steel territory and this is a place where all exist because a guy named john figured out a way to make money. there is coal, a river, i can do textiles. here we have berryville and know any people to work on it, so they came. payton whatever he paid them, headlights, kids and the call went away, the textiles went away and everything when we accept people who live there. they still have to move somehow. i have a lot of challenges in this novel and sometimes those challenges take it up a dark path. in better in philly, costs a small town has a lot of secrets underneath it. when amos starts poking around, bad things happen. >> host: one of those is the opioid, and we are all seeing so much, the travesty of the opioid crisis. what story did you want readers to learn about what the country struggling with? >> gu

you don't exist unless you exist in fiction. they don't pick up history books and say want to learn something today. it's better to talk about it back all of them, john and half the people in the crowded room had migrated to houston. california was like heaven. people told stories how you could eat fruit off the trees. the stories were true for the most part the truth wasn't like the dream. life was still hard and even if you worked every day you still find yourself on the bottom. >> think they were problematic race relations with the police. but also in the sub conscious and unconscious there is a notion for a long time that would be white. it would be with this european culture. something like you are better even if you did not work hard you are better because of what you were, not what you knew if you're very smart if you're chicano or black or asian, people would look down on you and make assumptions about what you could or couldn't two. if you did better than you should be able to do, there is anger and resentment. that was

there was a story that was fiction embedded in it. unlike schindler's list, which we know the story was authentic itself. miller, played by hanks, the leader of the squad, is your teacher, plainspoken, could -- good american young man. again, a little old for the position with his biological age. very fatherly, and he took on this absurd mission head on -- not really that absurd, as you know, general patton went behind enemy lines and lost a lot of guys trying to rescue his son-in-law, so maybe it was not absurd conceptually, but in any event, there is a heavy theme of sacrifice that comes forward. as you begin to move forward to are the climax of the movie, there was the bridge scene, which in a way goes back to that metaphor, and if even used the bunkers, the alamo myth, fight to the last man. the larger theme goes back to talking about the persian wars. there was a great scene where xerxes is looking at 5000 troops coming down and marching for seven days and seven nights, and crossing this epic thing. it was portrayed as the civili

i get the fiction part. i know what you're doing with it but it's just tremendous. don't change it. spielberg insisted. steve said okay if you insist, get hanks out of there. he's too old. spielberg we can't do that. we need the star. he says, okay when he's coming up through the water there where those bars, the guys were up on the shore mud on the bars so the snipers wouldn't get them. we can't change that, you've got to know who the hero is here. so then he says, well, then at least get rid of those guys just wandering around having a conversation in german infested territory and spielberg said i have to have a time for dialogue. we can't cut that out. steven said, i told you, don't change anything. it's great. i understand all of that. and dale was probably involved in all of those conversations. so it was a -- then the post script to that was went ahead and where steve and ambrose did become involved is he volunteered to assist with the promotion. and championing the movie and he went on the road and i should say went on the road but on the plane for three or four weeks around

i was always going to write young—adult fiction love and read young—adult fiction. i also think too that young adults are the people who are going to save us, you know, the world is not doing so hot right now and we have a lot of adults who are repeatedly making it worse and worse and worse. and when i look at the people who are saving the world, i see, you know, this is in the united states, but, like, 11—year—old naomi walder speaking out against gun violence, specifically how it affects african american women. like, i see young children every day literally saving the world. so, to write something that can empower them to do that even more, like, feels like the best i could do to help. that was debula kemoli from bbc whats new, speaking to tomi adeyemi. to watch more of that interview, go to youtube.com/bbcwhatsnew. 16 nurses at a hospital in the us state of arixzona have found out that they're all pregnant at the same time. max gorden, a reporterfrom the local tv station, has the story. it wasn't like they planned it. there wondering what's in the water! and they

reading to others, a swedish author about a hockey team in a small town just a really a really good fiction book that i enjoyed i was also just given a copy of a copy of republican peril making the argument about postwar world war ii global order is falling apart and what you replace that with in a no man's land. then gone girl based on my wife's recommendation we both read it five years ago so i i fo cudecided to read that. >> our guest on the tv her book comes out this fall it is called the library book what happened april 29? >> what happened on that day turned out to be the largest ingle library fire library fire in the history of the united states at los angeles public library downtown branch destroying 4,000 bucks destroying another 700,000 enclosed the library six years. >> why am i just learning about this and 2018? >> this is amazing because when i heard this story i was shocked to think as a person who would read a book about a library book why did i never know about this? i went back to look at the newspapers on that date to see what could have happened that somehow superseded th

and tonight on book tv in prime time, we bring you the first hour of a few of this year's fiction editions of our monthly program indepth. first up it is a novelist. her books include "typical american", mona in the promise land and world in town. >> gish jen you wrote in 2009 that quote i was chosen as a successor, i never got to ask him why. successor to what, though? >> oh, that's an interesting question. what happened was there was a magazine in london, and they were doing this millennial special; right? it was the term of the century. they asked all these people who they thought they were preeminent in their fields to name their successor for the 21st century. right? so for reasons i never understood, i was chosen. here's this incredible man, i had never met him, i didn't know he even knew my name, and yeah, no, we had our picture taken together. but i never got -- i never got to ask him why. >> are you a fan of him? >> of course i am a fan. you know, but i would not have said that he was a major influence on me, except as someone indirectly. indirectly he was an influence on us all.

i think i really like science fiction but i think the worst service that science fiction has done over the last few years is to destruct people from the real dangers of ai and focus them on unrealistic scenarios are there is absolutely no indication that ai and computers are any were on the road to becoming conscious there is a big confusion both in the scientific community but especially in science fiction between intelligence and consciousness people think that out officially intelligence also implies artificial consciousness but there are two completely different things intelligence is the ability to solve problems consciousness is the ability to feel things like pain and pleasure and love and hate now in humans and other mammals like dogs are seen pansies it's true that consciousness and intelligence go together we solve problems by having feelings but computers work in a completely different way over the last decades computers have become extremely intelligent but they are they have no consciousness and this is likely to continue just like you know our airplanes. fly far faster th

next stop a science fiction classic dystopian tale of a society divided by class and technology where machines are made to seem human and humans turned into little more the machines. but troublous was a flop when it was first released now it's recognized as the grandfather of science fiction films a cinematic milestone. the film's a statics and groundbreaking special effects continue to inspire nearly one hundred years later it's our number five. and that gift is for playing the piano a convicted murderer in a woman's prison gets private music lessons her music is in a state from the grim reality of prison life but her aging tutor sees the talented pupil as her best shot at winning a coveted competition. the two women couldn't be more different and the film is an epic struggle between two characters and two phenomenal actresses both at the top of their game the performances are surprised as is the editing. from four minutes to our final three third on our list is a film made by austria by the german story through and through it was germany's entry for the oscars. it's the eve of the f

see, this might get to your fiction/nonfiction. if you see this propaganda for different reasons by different emperors, it might explain a lot of the fiction/nonfiction aspects. >> host: thank you, sir. >> guest: yeah, it's a good question, and the truth is that according to evidence we have a lot of gaps in the record. there's a lot of things we just can't know. but there's a lot of ideas that we can discuss. so, you know, the writings themselves will, you know, talk as if sort of, you know, contemporaneous history. until we get to the dead sea scrolls, we really don't find those writings, specific evidence. those are our earliest evidence for the writings, so we have to extrapolate back about what can we know, what can't we know. so it's complicated. and certainly, different people are going to have different ideas. you have jews that are going to take early dating in the hebrew bible as well as late dating. both of the new testament, early dating, late dating, also the old testament, so it's a very complicated topic. and i think

the former outside attorney for the president, john dowd, is calling that reporting complete fiction.ant to bring in ken dilanian in, nbc intelligence and national security reporter and glenn kershner. >> what dowd is saying is complete fiction is the idea mcgann's testimony and cooperation is farmfharmful to . he's not disputing mcgann had three meetings with the special counsel, and they could have prevented this, or tried at least. the white house could have asserted executive privilege and they chose not to do that in part because of dowd's strategy and ty cobb, their strategy was to cooperate fully in the theory that the president had done nothing wrong. but in the course of that, according to "the new york times," you had don mcgann going and talking in detail to mueller about these episodes where trump was asking him to fire mueller, to fire jeff sessions, to fire rod rosenstein ostensibly to make the russia investigation go away. that looks a lot like obstruction of justice. the story doesn't say mcgann accused donald trump of doing anything improper, but mueller's building a

. >> science fiction author corey doctorow will be on in-depth fiction edition at noon eastern discussing his latest book, walk away. 's other books include down and out in the magic kingdom, little brother, for 14 other novels. interact by phone, twitter or facebook. our special series in-depth fiction edition with author corey doctorow sunday noon to 3:00 pm eastern on booktv on c-span20. we are live this morning at the national press foundation hosting a daylong workshop for journalists on the history of international trade, the trade to visit, impact of tariffs and analyzing trade related job status. live coverage on c-span20 and just getting underway. >> how to make stories resonate with readers, finding data to use and download and how trade coverage over the years has changed. we will start with the director of public citizen's global trade watch talking specifically about nafta and what is coming up in the renegotiations process and we will go to jennifer hellman from georgetown talking about the wto and the brexit process and american manufacturing, talking specifically about the

i also had on my list a lot of mom fiction but not exclusively. madeleine albright recommended a book by the foreign relations. called special providence. the american foreign policy and how it changed the world. and everything recommended is on my list and certainly that one have a lot of respect. and of course it has also been recommended. really interested in that. i respect her a lot in her work. that is part of my nonfiction lists. kind of the scene there. i also had a lighter nonfiction book. about science and a two or of the beautiful basis of science. it's best to be a wonderful book. about the sciences. that is my nonfiction lists. i know it's really ambitious but i also like to read fiction i get really great recommendations for my children who are avid fiction readers and so my daughter recommended that kind of mother which is a fairly new book about a woman. she is married to a british diplomat. it's about parenting and race relations. i'm really looking forward to that. finally exit left. it is a quite timely book. about a couple from

i think i really like science fiction but i think the worst service that science fiction has done over the last few years is to destruct people from the real dangers of ai and focus them on unrealistic scenarios are there is absolutely no indication that ai and computers are any were on the road to becoming conscious there is a big confusion both in the scientific community but especially in science fiction between intelligence and consciousness people think that out officially intelligence also implies artificial consciousness but they're two completely different things intelligence is the ability to solve problems consciousness is the ability to feel things like pain and pleasure and love and hate now in humans and other mammals like dogs or seem pansies it's true that consciousness and intelligence go together we solve problems by having feelings but computers work in a completely different way over the last decades computers have become extremely intelligent but they are they have no consciousness and this is likely to continue . just like you know airplanes fly far faster than bir

i also have fiction but not exclusively. madeleine albright, former secretary of state edmund of a book by walter mead called special providence. the foreign policy and how much he the world. and anything recommended by madeleine albright is on my list and certainly that one have a lot of respect for walter mead as well. and of course madeleine of course madeleine albright spoke has also been recommended. fascism is warning. i respect her and her work. that is part of my nonfiction list on foreign policy and the united states in the world. i also have a light nonfiction book called the canon that i'm ready to read about science and a sort of two or of the basics of science that is a wonderful book about the science. this is my nonfiction list and i know that its ambitious but i also like to read fiction. i get great recommendations from my children who are avid fiction reader is so my daughter recommended that kind of mother that is a fairly new book about a woman i don't know the time. co. yet but she's married to a diploma

but miguels here are to separate the fact from the fiction. so let me hit you with a few facts. the pony express route was roughly 1800 miles. depending on who was taking what shortcut so maybe 1810 miles or 1798, depending on who was riding that night. but as you can see, it goes from st. joseph all the way to -- actually goes to san francisco if you opportunity the steamer that the -- if you count the steamer the service used to get the mail from sacramento, where the headquarters was, downriver to san francisco. most generally it was taken by bet. the ride we're come -- the last rider would come in and the boat would be usually waiting, if he was more or less on time, and the mail bag -- special mail bag would be used and be put on the steamer and it would go downstream. occasionally it had to be ridden down. this is the slightly more detailed map, and one over the things this map shows is that a lot of those routes of the pony express is the same route that was used by pioneers, and it was used by 49ers to get gold. i was used to settle -- actually settle salt lake, and also

you know, i get the fiction part, i know what you're doing with it, but it is just tremendous, don't change anything. spielberg insisted. steve said, okay, if you insist, get hanks out of there, he's too old. spielberg says, well, kweent do th -- we can't do that, we need the star. okay. when he is coming up through the water there with the bars, you know, the guys that went ashore put mud on their bars so the snipers wouldn't get them. spielberg said, we can't change that, gout to know wyou got to the hero is here. he said, well, at least get rid of the guys wandering around having a conversation in german-infested territory. spiel berd sai spielberg said, we got to have time for dialogue, we can't cut anything out. he said, it is great, i told you don't change anything. dale was probably involved in all of those conversations. the post script to that was went ahead where steve and ambrose did become involved is he volunteered to assist with the promotion and championing the movie, and he went on the road. i should say went on the road. went in the plane for three or four weeks arou

/booktv fiction addition of "in depth". novelist, gish jen book includes typical american, mona and the promise land and world in town. cory doctorow books include down and out in the magic kingdom, little brother, and most recently, walk away. and walter mosley, books with devil in a blue dress, phyllis jones and most recently down the river onto the sea. booktv, all this week and prime time. here on c-span2. >> we are joined with a look ahead at the senate. he reports for the hill and alex, senate not taken the usual august recess, not sending senators back home to their states to campaign, the ones running in the midterms. why are they staying in session and what other planning on working on in the week ahead? >> they stayed in session to get more of donald trumps judicial and executive nominees confirmed and also to make more progress on the appropriations bills. when he signed the omnibus spending package early this year the increased federal spending $300 billion is part of a deal to increase federal spending by $300

is a 30 seat you have your children in your fiction?” being?our children in your fiction? i accreted lives. —— the child you never had. you realise that you only have one life to live and you want to try on for size all the other lives, and you want to move into different areas and to live in the man's body for a while. and all the things that writing enables you to do. you mention the french revolution to this epic 800 page novel which was pioneered published, a place of greater safety, although it was previously rejected by publishers, that must be difficult, was it? previously rejected by publishers, that must be difficult, was mm seems that somebody who would write such a book must be someone of tremendous authority, someone we had heard of from oxford or cambridge. and it was just little heard of from oxford or cambridge. and it wasjust little me. i don't think people could get their heads around it. they didn't know what it was. and thankfully, what i did, instead of turning around that the publisher in london with it, ijust said, stop, g

science fiction lovers have landed in the bay area for this four-day convention and bringing with us and them a big economic boost. scott budman joins us at the san jose convention center where worlds are coming together. what world are you? >> reporter: in i >> reporter: they're going to get to meet their favorite sci-fi authors and dress up in costume. [ barking ] >> reporter: they're howling and browsing. dressing up. >> i design these to be for a bit more of a darker, classical kind of fairy. >> reporter: and getting to rub shoulders with their favorite science fiction writers. >> just, you know, i have the same interests. we all do. they're all fantasy and sci-fi. >> reporter: world con has come to san jose this year, bringing town from all over the world. what do you think of silicon valley and all our geekiness here? >> it's great. everybody is so friendly. and i met many interesting people with cool costumes. >> i have been reading science fiction since i was 13, and i am over 60. >> reporter: the veterans knowing that these books and these looks inspire many a young techie.

but talking about things, i have this platform that came with my fiction writing.eading and writing gives me the greatest joy. but then something happens. but i get so angry about injustice and i feel like i need to say something. and right now, i'm trying to read more poetry and i'm also trying not to have the social issues that i care about be the things that propel my fiction writing. i want to write about love and again, even love is political. >> it is indeed. it just leads me on. nigeria and kenya has its injure you of criminalizing homosexuality. there are kenyan things about this issue. this is not an important issue for the people, is it? the idea of gay rights, protection? >> i think it's very important. to criminalize something that isn't criminal is immoral. and so we have gay nigeriians who live in fear, gay nigerians who are threatened, who have violence committed against them. i know one in particular, for example, who says that he is sometimes blackmailed by his driver, his gateman. it must hurt. we need to uphold that. they're not doing anything cr

christopher robin a new film adaptation about winnie the pooh and was not the first time that the fictional teddy bear has run into trouble in china where he's increasingly becoming a symbol of resistance or more we want to bring in our social media editor. she lives it's good to see you who would have thought that we would be talking about winnie the pooh this way i mean what exactly happened why was the new winnie the banned. well read we don't know exactly chinese authorities are not giving us the exact reason there's a lot of speculation online and one reason could be the fact that china has a quota for international films that can be imported into the country every year so maybe this film christopher robin just didn't make the cut but there's another theory is that is actually more popular on the internet people believe that the film has been banned because there are many people online who often compared the appearance of winnie the pooh to that of the chinese president xi jinping and in

governor cuomo: my opponent lives in the world of fiction. i live in the world of the act. -- fact. by subway system is owned new york city. ms. nixon: in is been controlled by the governor since 1965. governor cuomo: could you stop interrupting? as well as you do. the funding over the past 30 years for the subway system has come from new york city for the

money is a fiction. discountries are a fiction. it's useful but not true. now, this theory is complete garbage but i'm not going to talk about that. my only point is if you have one side that believes in facts, and the other side that . e truth is fiction it matters more to them that it matters to us. you can see it with paul ryan in his doomed attempt to reform entitlements. i'm a big paul ryan fan. i think he got burned by the right and people who thought he wasn't conservative enough because he didn't talk harshly. but he had the guts to try to reform entitlements. his basic points is when you started social security, kicked until 5 and people lived they were 63. so you could afford social security because most people weren't getting it and there were a lot more workers supporting it. he said we should move up social security, i don't remember 68 and he had his charts. classic conservetiveism. so they made a video of paul ryan pushing a wheel chair off the cliff. who do you think is going to win? that's how you create culture. i laugh at that because the