he was there at the beginning of the founder's revival. he brought the knowledge and the unimpeachable credentials of the academy and he joined them with a lit rate readable style. it's a pureless combination and i'm very pleased to be here and i greatly enjoyed your book, which i finished yesterday. so but just, and just taking off that introduction, you -- >> i'll take it. i'll take it. >> no, but you talk about the numbers of people who made the founding. and you say that, you know, the most prominent ones that you're going to be discussing are sort of the obvious first string. >> developed on what i call the kass casablanca syndrome. >> the usual suspect. >> the usual suspects. >> so man that has gone through this period but he was a very unusual character and also a man of color and that's james mcgillefrey. >> oh, yeah. >> so tell us all about this guy. he was quite a character. >> yeah, i discovered this guy. like actually, he was more well known in the late 19th century. theodore roosevelt wrote about him at one time and said he wa

he was there at the beginning of the founders revival. he brought the knowledge and the unimpeachable credentials of the academy and he joined them with a literal, readable style. it's a pureless combination. and i'm very pleased to be here. and i greatly enjoyed your book which i finished yesterday. so just taking off that introduction, you -- >> i'll take it. i'll take it. >> no, but you talk about the numbers of people who made the founding. and you say that, you know, the most prominent ones that you're going to be discussing are sort of the obvious first string. >> developed on what i call the casa blanka principblanca princ. >> also you devoted more space and more space than i've ever seen to a man who is mentioned in every book on this period but not really gone into enough. he was a remarkable, very unusual character. he was also a man of color. so tell us all about this guy. he was quite a character. >> i discovered this guy. actually, he was more well known in the late 19th century. theodore roosevelt wrote about him at one poin

after the break ron paul things our nation's founders wanted a weak central government surely he must be wrong right or just will tell us what the constitutional framers really intended all those years ago and what it means for us today with things like obamacare. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions it's going to break through it's already been made who can you trust no one who is you know in view with a global missionary see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. watching the republican debates or g.o.p. t.v. or a ron paul campaign rally you think the biggest threat to america right now is big government clamping down on the so called free market at least that's what those who push for small governments and more corporate power want you to think but the american people seem to think differently new poll by the washington post asked americans which is the bigger problem for the nation over regulation of the free market or an economic system that only favors the very few.

i am one of the founders of foundersne end. this is a space for more entrepreneurs, technology and innovation. supporting it is near and dear to our heart. we are happy to welcome ron and mayor lee here. founders and that is almost one year old. we have had 40 companies come through here to raise over $40 million in venture-capital. without further ado, i want to introduce you to one of our most preeminent angel investors, ron conaway. [applause] >> thank you and welcome. for those of you who do not know me, i am a third-generation san francisco and, for better or for worse. it was a decision my parents made in high school to move to atherton. i ended up staying there until three years ago and have been active in civic activities ever since. it is important to be involved in civic and philanthropic activities. my day job -- and i am still very active in this job -- as an angel investor investing in bay area companies when they are what we call babies. these are start-ups that have two or three people, and sv angels funds those

and i assure you that's shot what the founders -- that's not what the founders believed in. and if you were to fix campaign finance reform and slow the lobbyist revolving door, we could fix so many problems. the conservative lobbyist jack abramoff has just come out with his new book, and in it, of course, he went to prison. he says let me tell you how i bought capitol hill, and don't kid yourselves, i bought capitol hill. and he said best thing i could ever do is i'd walk into a congressman or a senator's office, and i'd find the staffers, and i'd say, you know, when you get tired of doing this stuff, come see me. you know, i'll have a six figure, seven figure job waiting for you. and the minute their eyes lit up, he knew he had 'em l. and he said not only would they say, i'd say jump and they'd say how high, but they'd bring me the hurdles. they'd say, you know, i'm going to -- here's what's going on in the office, don't you want to know about this? don't you want to influence this? and, again, he's a great conservative example. the whole system, the whole system is so corr

say thanks to our central bankers we speak to james turk founder of gold money about how we got here and what to do in light of this should you sell everything you own and buy gold we'll talk about what this means for gold as an investment also the case for a gold standard and we even take a look back at an unlikely advocate formal central banker and currency lover alan greenspan in lighter news you could say out of this world claims since we're on the paranormal will we see u.s. president barack obama's foreign policy go intergalactic in a quest for gold stolen by aliens we'll tell you at least how the white house responded to claims the chief executive has been teleporting to mars let's get to today's capital account. so just what can we expect in two thousand and twelve well co-founder of the largest bond fund in the world bill gross says this is what we can look forward to it's as if the earth now has two moons instead of one and both are growing in size like a cancerous tumor that may threaten the financial times oceans and economic life as we have known it for the past half cen

i assure you that is that what the founders believed in. and if you are to fix campaign financial reform and so the lobbyist revolving door, but it took so many problems because a conservative lobbyist jack egremont came out this new book and he says jack egremont came out this new book and he says jack egremont came out this new book and he says jack egremont came out this new book and he says. and don't kid yourselves. i bought capitol hill. and he said best thing i could ever do as well to the congressman or senator's office and find the top staffers then i would say when you get tired of doing this stuff, come see me. i have a six-figure, seven-figure job waiting for you. and the minute there i slid up, you know we had then. and he said, not only would they say, you know i say jump and they'd say how high, but they bring me the hurdles. they say here is what's going on in the office. don't you want to know about this? joshua to influence this? and again, he's a great conservative example that the whole system -- the whole system is so c

my guest tonight is the founder and former c.e.o. of aol and a leader thered so-called sharing economy. i assume he didn't mindsharing the green room snacks way chicken. please welcome steve case. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: hey, mr. case. thanks so much for coming on. now okay, you're a legend of american modern technology. you were one of the co-founders of aol. you served as chairman & ceo. later became chairman of time warner. aol time warner, excuse me. in 2005 you launched a company called revolution. okay, we'll get to that in a moment. but first let's talk about aol. aol was one of the original introducers of internet to people's lives. >> right. >> stephen: okay. would you like to apologise to all businesses for the lost work hours? of all the people who are [bleep] all day long on the internet instead of doing their job? you realize that you introduced the greatest time waster of all time. >> we tend to think of it as one of the great empowerment tools of all time because you can get information in new ways and get ed

co-founder resigned after 17 years. it is 12 noon here in singapore. >> it is 4:00 a.m. here in london, broadcasting to you on pbs in america and around the world. welcome to newsday. >> dramatic audio recordings are being released in italy that suggest that the captain of the cost of concordia -- the costa concordia refused to return to the ship. he denies any wrongdoing. five more bodies have been discovered in iraq. >> -- in the iraq. >> in the darkness, despair and disoriented, the move in the hundreds down the side of the -- eachch one drovnorth by one dwarfed by the costa concordia. at the same time, this astounding conversation is taking place between the port official and the captain of the ship. [speaking italian] >> here is the captain, the focus of police inquiries. manhandled for court today, he is now under house arrest. many believe it was his actions alone that caused this disaster. his lawyer says not. >> the capt. defended his role of the direction of the ship after the collision, which in the captain's opinion saved hundreds, if not thousands of lives.

citi, the black founders, who are here. every time we have a new member company, it will go on our website. please watch the list grow. our member companies today represent 90% of the tech jobs in san francisco today. need this to say, we represent the tech community. let's talk about the structure of s.f. citi. i am going to be the chairman of the governing board of s.f. citi. the governing board members initially will be representatives from salesforce.com, zynga, and jawbone. there will also be an executive board for other companies to contribute donations to s.f. citi for the day to day operations. everyone in the tech community could not be more excited than our vice chairman of s.f. citi, none of them heather hardy, a folk hero. [applause] >> she is already standing, so we cannot get her to stick out. heather was ceo of techcrunch, the company that announced 90% of these companies -- they announced their existence. techcrunch is the fabric of technology here in san francisco. heather just less rigid left the company a

of more opinions like that in washington helping turn cash into a rash we'll talk to mike maloney founder of gold silver dot com about the power the us is on and mitt romney we saw defend his record on job creation in private equity he played the capitalism card. i know that people are going to say oh you should only practice it this way or that way and think they know better than the private market my view is capitalism or free enterprise works. but is the mitt model giving capitalism a bad name a millionaire with a fifteen percent tax rate the kind of capitalism causing people to equate it with inequality what about the people fighting for capitalism and true chance at the ones not on that stage just trying to work hard and get ahead we'll talk about them also mega upload the f.b.i. shut it down yesterday one of the world's largest file sharing sites alleged copyright violations now the u.s. worked with other jurisdictions to make arrests and oversee raids around the globe one hundred fifty million use this site to upload files mega uploads lawyers say the site was shut down with no not

the internet giant co-founder resigns after 70 years. it is 10:00 in the morning here in singapore. >> it's 2:00 in the morning here in london, broadcasting to viewers on pbs in america and around the world. welcome to "newsday." >> some audio recordings have been released in italy, which suggests that the captain of the costa concordia refused to return to the cruise ship while people were still being rescued. but he denies any wrong doing. another five bodies have been discovered in the wreck. our correspondent matthew price reports. >> in the darkness, scared and disoriented, they moved in the hundreds. down the side of the ship. each one dwarfed by the costa concordia as it lay. past the ship's hull, where the water flooded in. this astonishing conversation took place between the captain and a port official. >> and here is the captain, francesco schettino, the focus of police inquiries. man handled from court today, he's now under house arrest. many here believe it was his actions alone that caused this disaster. his lawyer. >> the c

i think that alexander hamilton had the highest s.a.t.s of anybody at the founders. he's a really brilliant guy. that scared the wits out of jefferson and madison. jefferson writes madison, take him on. no one else can take him on singularly. cut him to pieces. he is a host unto himself. so the brilliance of hamilton's financial program, both the funding of the debt and the assumption of the state debts and the creation of the national bank is a stroke of genius. what needs to be remembered is that up until then the united states is regarded by the financial capitals of the world, especially amsterdam's bank, as a banana republic. we can't pay our debts. we are -- you know, we're totally -- >> we're a failing interest. >> yeah. we're like -- >> forget the principle. >> yeah. yeah. hamilton is single hand deadly creating a new credit system and a new stability. from a purely economic point of view there can be no argument that hamilton's reforms were absolutely correct and brilliant. they were perceived by jefferson and madison as a fundamental threat to the interest

citi, the black founders, who are here.ry time we have a new member company, it will go on our website. please watch the list grow. our member companies today represent 90% of the tech jobs in san francisco today. need this to say, we represent the tech community. let's talk about the structure of s.f. citi. i am going to

well just a short while ago i spoke to barrett brown the founder of project pm he has also worked with anonymous on various operations in the past now i asked him first of all if this was indeed the largest ever attack headed by anonymous here's our interview. it seemed like of the nature there were a number of targets. that were taken down in some instances for quite a while there were a number of lesser assaults on what i have stocked of. defense of the sort of in style go and sort of music industry association as well. i think it's still there actually the talk all right so i know that it was these department of justice that actually announced. we tell you and i guess against mega upload and then you guys went after a u.s. justice department talked to me about why you picked some of the other websites i think i have a hunch that it might have to do with people and then also what can we expect next time i've been keeping my eyes here on on white house but what's what's on the horizon here will be the view us into x. are all the being perpetrated on the inner. and so you can see the e

[applause] [applause] >> we would also like to acknowledge the founder -- not the founder, but the current president, and also commissioner of entertainment for san francisco, who could not join us tonight, but who has been an instrument of the success. [applause] through the years, the filipino american community has become not just a member but, more importantly, a partner to the city of san francisco, fostering ties with a group of ambassadors who served as a bridge of people. tonight, we are 50 years of the san francisco manila sister cities. there's a bridge that connects the thrill of the orient to the city by the bay. it is a bridge of ambassadors, one made of people whose roots and hearts and the pacific ocean. in april 1961, the city of seven cisco formally and stated a committee under the office of the mayor to become the preeminent cultural and economic [inaudible] between san francisco and manila, developing a system that promote closer ties between the cities. this year, the san francisco manila sister city committee represents -- celebrates its 50 year, marking five decades o

and square is the credit card reader created by the founder of twitter. when we think about hardware companies, are you more thinking bethe big iron companies? are there enough of those in silicon valley? >> it's clearly a combination of both. you have to have the infrastructure to run the net, enable this technology. and then everything is going mobile and consumer oriented. the same technology, basically. >> you run a big iron company. let's say i run a startup making some clever device, am i going to get more venture capital time? >> no because the amount of investment that you have to put into enabling that technology is quite high. anywhere between 30 and $100 million in order to get a product that actually works. and so the venture community is looking at that part of the equation saying i can go invest in a software based solution where i put less capital in and get a better return. >> shorter amount of time. let's talk about china because that is the looming thing in this conversation. a lot of younger companies are able to do what they are able t

." >> arrested and questioned, the founder of a company held in france in the midst of an international health scare. >> and uncomfortable moment for australia's prime minister. a disrupted ceremony to mark australia day. >> and a building collapses in rio de janeiro, brazil. several people remain trapped. >> welcome to "bbc world news." i'm david eades. also coming up on the program -- >> well, that's in davevose we'll also be reporting from pakistan where new laws are being formed to fight domestic violence. 3w why are attacks on women so often considered justified? >> hello. the founder of the breast implant company at the center of an international health scare has been arrested and questioned in france. jean-claude max ran p.i.p. which the french health watchdog says was making them out of industrial strength gel. >> this is a picture of jean-claude mass taken in france more than 10 years ago. his company p.i.p. is now defunct and he has been in hiding since late last year. p.i.p.'s problems date back to 2001 when industrial grade silicon normally used to fill mattresses was used t

let's figure out what this all means the founder of gold silver dot com and author mike maloney is going to break it all down for us now before the break we were talking about you believe that this monetary system is headed for a collapse i hope i'm not putting your words in your mouth is that what you think well throughout history all fear that is currency systems collapse and today you know august fifteenth of one thousand nine hundred one we began a grand experiment before that date all currencies on the planet were pegged to the u.s. dollar in the u.s. dollar was pegged to gold so little all currencies were paid to gold through the u.s. dollar nixon severed that and before that it was currencies were a one hundred percent failure rate there is no example in all of history and it's been tried thousands of times doesn't work and then on august fifteenth we decided to try it globally so we can only imagine where that is headed if history repeats itself so let's talk about gold because you're not a gold bug at least you've said you're not a gold bug but you think it's in a well cycle rig

wikileaks founder julian assange is a tv host.getting his own show on a network bankrolledded by the in addition government. it's on the rt muse network starting in march. so this is the guy who likes to, you know, spill secrets and conspiracies. >> i'm sure it was a difficult choice between the kremlin and russian tv and nbc. i'm sure they'll do well. >> there are a few challenges. >> no, you go. >> he's under house arrest in britain. there's a challenge to make this a show from -- >> first of all, it's only ten one half-hour programs. i share an office with tom heartman who does a show on rt so i want to be open about that. we are talking about the kremlin but we have -- we have backed -- we have backed shows b al jazeera and they've become part of the media. >> web was that? >> not we backed it but they're considered part of the legitimate media. how do we know after a period of time -- >> al jazeera -- i mean the russian government is murdering journalists. i don't think al jazeera is in the same category. if you're going -- i

." >> the founders of megaupload website it are in trouble. and the news on the italian cruise ship disaster. four french shoulders -- soldiers have been shot by an afghan in afghanistan. welcome to bbc world news. we have met the most powerful religious leader in northern nigeria and are asking him what it takes to stop the bloodshed between christians and muslims. and the the campaign to stop children working in the dangerous at cotton industry in india. some news coming into us at this hour. the french president nicolas sarkozy and has said that after the death of four french soldiers in afghanistan, french france is suspending its training and operations for afghan troops. four nato soldiers have been killed in eastern afghanistan by an afghan soldier. the french president says it is unacceptable that afghan troops fired at french soldiers. he says that the french foreign minister is now headed to afghanistan. this has been among its the most deadly for french forces in the 10 years they have been serving in afghanistan. the french preside

lillian spoke with wick peed why founder jimmy wales and in the newsroom with the story. >>reporter: wick peedia will blackout the web site for one day. not the first site to announce plans to shut down but the most well known. don't say you haven't been warned. in black and white this is alerting the users that the site will go dark on wednesday. abc 7 spoke to the founder of the community source information site over the phone. >> i have a message to the users of wick peedia that are approximately 25 million a day in america alone. dot homework before midnight. >>reporter: it is shutting down to protest a bill going through congress called s o p a. stop on line pirate act. bill is intended to occur till copyright violation on the internet but those in the industry say it could give court the power to take down a web site that links pirated material posted in a foreign country. >> so this could interfere with free speech ritz of company like google to link to web sites that are accused of copyright violations so even though google may not have done anything wrong simply

are going through congress have been shelved let's was blends together talk to rick full range the founder of the swedish pirate party rick thanks for being on r.t. as i just mentioned there the piracy bills on the whole we witnessed in way the internet campaign where sites like wikipedia went off in protest for twenty four hours it seemed to be effective nonetheless america's still going after file swappers with the same kind of vigorous drug smugglers and. what do you think about that. i mean any legislation must be founded in the public opinion of what's right and wrong when you have a copyright industry that's talking about extraditing a person who has done nothing but linking to t.v. shows extradition that something useful murder and genocide or not people sharing music and television for falls ok but i mean about how you dress it up it is kind of stealing as well isn't it getting movies and music for free surely the government's got to do something was not stealing you know if it weren't stealing we wouldn't need the copyright law in the first place property lords of price but anyway

america are we going to continue to hew to the vision of the founders.ed this country and wrote the declaration of independence, they said the creator had endowed us with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. happinessse purser'of deals with the opportunity associated with this nation. people came here from all over the world seeking freedom electorally but also personally, able to choose their own course in life they came to america. by virtue of their successes, their passion, their energy, their pioneering, they helped lift a nation. they did not megaspore. that made us better off. the president has a different view. he wants an opportunity society. he learns from the welfare societies of europe were government takes and some to give to others. the only people who do well in that situation is those in the government to do the taking very the right course of america is to remain a merit society and opportunity nation. [applause] the right course for america economically, personally, morally is for america to

lillian spoke with wick peed why founder jimmy wales and in the newsroom with the story. >>reporter: wick peedia will blackout the web site for one day. not the first site to announce plans to shut down but the most well known. don't say you haven't been warned. in black and white this is alerting the users that the site will go dark on wednesday. abc 7 spoke to the founder of the community source information site over the phone. >> i have a message to the users of wick peedia that are approximately 25 million a day in america alone. dot homework before midnight. >>reporter: it is shutting down to protest a bill going through congress called s o p a. stop on line pirate act. bill is intended to occur till copyright violation on the internet but those in the industry say it could give court the power to take down a web site that links pirated material posted in a foreign country. >> so this could interfere with free speech ritz of company like google to link to web sites that are accused of copyright violations so even though google may not have done anything wrong simply

one of them, the co-founder of a social media start-up. instagram created an app last year to share pictures on your iphone and so far has over 15 million users including president obama himself. the co-founder mike kreeger was amongst invited guest in the first lady's box. we talked to him via facetime last night. >> you're starting to see folks, everything from celebrities like justin bieber communicating with their fans to barack obama's re-election campaign getting the word out about what he's up to and what he's interesting in promoting for the next four years. >> also in attendance, steve jobs' widow was also in the audience in the first lady's box. >>> 4:37 right now. i want to get a look at the forecast. clear skies? >> not so clear this morning but they will be later on, laura. it is those clouds overhead this morning that are keeping us nice and mile so we like that. 47 degrees in oakland. 47 this morning in san mateo. and 44 degrees in livermore. high pressure in control of our weather pattern. we will see a few clouds make thei

marshal's own personality and his -- the fact is marshal probably was one of the greatest of the founders. he's a little late. but he can can't know it in the way that we can with adams and jefferson because so much of the correspondence has been destroyed. but he took care of his wife poly. i mean, boy, the full story on this guy. and one other thing happened is the legal scholar get ahold of him. there is this conversation about mccullock versus maryland. the human story. think about marshal. marshal was the equivalent of the special forces leader in the american revolution. he had like three companies shot out from under him. i mean he's a hero. a complete hero. and then becomes the greatest chief justice in america, you know, the greatest chief justice in american history. and not -- maybe not quite by accident. but kind of a spur of the moment. >> probably the greatest thing that adam ever did. after the revolution itself, i mean i think adams' greatest moment is '75 and '76. but like in his presidency, that's the greatest thing he did. >> what is the line he says to him? he's the se

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she is a leader and co-founder of the indian people organizing for change and peace walk, and title 7 coordinator at the native american child resource center. she was born and raised in oakland, california. the mother of three children. she currently works as the title seven court nader. -- coordinator. she is assisting and directing an after-school program that includes wraparound services for native students in oakland. she is also the co-founder and a lead organizer for indian people organizing for change, a small native-run organization that works on indigenous people issues, as well as sponsoring an annual peace walk to bring about education and awareness of the desecration of the sacred sites in the greater bay area. in april of this year, corrina, wounded knee decampo, and others, put out a call to warriors to put out a vigil and occupation of vallejo, calif., a secret 15-acre site. the occupation lasted for 109 days and resulted in a cultural easement between the city of vallejo, the greater vallejo recreation district, and two federally recognized drives. this struggle was v

it's swab founder of the world economic forum german born harvard educated in one thousand seventy one he launched what later became known as the world economic forum bring together elites in every arena c.e.o.'s royalty heads of state cabinet members central bankers celebrities authors the forums agenda is meant to talk about some of the world's big problems and solutions to them but it's become better known as one giant networking opportunity for davos men and women how valuable is that well check out what corporate sponsors shell out every year according to david rothkopf book superclass a handful of lead sponsors pay three hundred thousand bucks a year thirty sponsors do one hundred sponsors pay roughly one hundred fifty thousand dollars a year and two thousand sponsors pay thirty thousand a year so all pay this to attend and schmooze with a gathering of what you to use lead singer and global afficionado bonnell calls fact cats in the snow. that was upon us it's the world economic forum's annual flagship event a couple thousand of the world's richest and most powerful people are pa

being fed by the c b of the european taxpayer the mothers work to get it for this mess that the founders of them but the conundrum here is that. great and good european leaders decided that not only would they impose this haircut on the european banks but they will impose upon them. that that haircut should be voluntary so as to of birds the getting of the c.d.'s concerts that are floating around in the marketplace and that's a great point i want to get to those c.d.'s but i want to ask as you're saying basically they're they're playing at what sounds like a p.r. game here and we were back reporting on this when all this was happening when those voluntary haircuts were announced and we were going to one of the voluntary haircut come on who wants to take that what do you think greece should do at this point. it shouldn't be for the long time ago we should have before the two years ago. well but the leave the never and what we should do we should call the bluff of the european union leadership and put an end to this vicious cycle of sucking feuds of lies of. and i think it's because what.

here are those that have benefited from this this type of capitalism so although klaus schwab the founder of the world economic forum has said that capitalism in its current form has no place in the world around us these are the corporations and banks that are represented here many of which have benefited from government bailouts in the case of banks from central bank easy money policies in the case case of many banks and corporations so whether or not these are the right people to be having that conversation to be talking about reform i'm not quite sure you also have to remember that while the official genet agenda yes deals with capitalism the unofficial agenda of davos is very much about making corporate deals and that might in fact the official agenda as you can probably recall some corporations here shell out up to three hundred thousand dollars for a membership to the world economic forum in order to be here they're shelling out that kind of money presumably for more than to talk about capitalism there have been reports in the past every year of the deals that go on the networking o