we have offshore exploration and certainly that's an interesting prospect for greenland politics so we welcome your comments. >> thank you for inviting me to this, and very much welcome on the opportunity to address some of the issues and allow me to take a more elaborate to the approach to some of the issues since i came this long way, all the way yesterday. it's a bit of a temperature shock to come to these latitudes. but i know how conditions can be like. at least it's not august. i'm glad with that. there are substantial changes taking place, and science cannot even keep up with the predictions of the rate of the sea ice, for example. this opens up new possibilities for new shipping routes. more accessible to the natural resources as well as changes in the ocean, which present challenges especially for the group that depends on harvesting the resources of the ocean, the hunters and fishermen. it is very much about adaptation for us to the new conditions as well as utilizing opportunities, which in a broader context is about addressing our political and economic goals. independent o

. >> was the global warming when they were (inaudible) greenland and a cathedral there and i believe the maya moved from the lowlands to the highlands and the anastazi came down to the salt river. >> yeah, a lot of the movement was based on climate. the anastazi were always moving. the whole thing about the disappearing anastazi, you go to where they are living and they disappear all of a sudden. but you follow them and find, oh, 10 years later they are over here and 70 years later they are over here. they are often being driven by these climate changes which on the colorado plateau, very small changes make you go. if you lose one inch of precipitation in one year, you got to get up to the mesas where there's a little more rain and then when the frost comes in too early, you got to get down to the desert. around 1276 or so the water was running out, the seasons were no good, and i think they just looked at their trade routes and said let's follow these and go south. they were always getting pushed around by the environment. . >> okay, thank you, craig, so much. thank you for coming.

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journalists who interview people like killers that the general ask what about the jackson valley to greenland and they and they all want to know will it ever be lifted you know the answer the answer is never i think so well so i ask the question maybe i'll hear something else add. a year i was disappointed because it will be the after. of course so when you and i went there to do one is never. optimistic that we may see that. left within. well today but but since and maybe that's by the end of this year the administration has made it very clear this administration which is the third administration consecutively that is really has pledged to remove jackson vanocur to make efforts necessary to get congress to do that i think that this year it will do so it has publicly said that it supports it and when vice president biden was here in moscow in march he said that he personally would be leaving the administration's efforts in congress to get it lifted. and it's both because that wall is no longer relevant it's an anachronism and i think out of respect for our own legal traditions we should remov

turns of thousands of grief protesting outside the parliament professor of political science here at greenland things holding our country's ever dead. europe and the i.m.f. one greece to tighten its belt more and more so there's no no way greece by itself can get out of the crisis is if you tighten your belt more and more you create a recession and if you create a recession the situation gets worse and worse and it's harder and harder for you to pay back your debts i don't see how this money can restart the economy if people stand less and less i think suggested now there's a real danger that greece will have to back out of the euro in order to be able to do the new its currency to have more tourists to sell more products and all regionally when you the euro was created less than europe was there much against it because you had a strong economy used a strong currency the dean mark germany forming a monetary union with weaker economies and that is a recipe for trouble. and spain may be a step closer to an e.u. bailout after germany of the country's cucumber and caused europe's deadly e-coli out

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it makes investments in upgrades for long-range radar in greenland and the u.s. and canada. we also have money for developmental work in terms of other kinds of interception of ballistic missiles. that i believe that the difference between the ground- based system and the money we are investing in that, plus the money that we are investing in the face adaptive approach, first of all, the latter will give us a defense capabilities several years earlier than would have been the case with europe, and let's be blunt. the third site in europe was not going to happen because the czech government would not approve the radar, because if it was going to happen at all, it would have taken years maugre, and we still would not have the required agreements with the poles. between all of that with the additional work and a half dollars billion we have added puts us into a pretty good system. >> very quickly, while i am not close to it in this job, i've been around this for the last 15 years, and the whole issue of boost phase intercept was a difficult challenge, and someone has broken thr

it makes investments in upgrades to long rage radars in greenland and the u.s. and canada. we also have money for developmental work in terms of other kinds of interception of ballistic missiles that i believe that the balance between the ground-based interceptor system and money we are investing in that, plus the money that we are investing in the phase adaptive approach, first of all the latter will give us a missile defense capability several years earlier than would have been the case with the third site in europe. and let's be blunt. the third site in europe was not going to happen because the czech government wouldn't approve the radar. so it was going to happen at all, it would have taken years longer and we still hadn't negotiated the required agreements with the polls in terms of the -- poles in terms of the interceptor. i think the balanced approach between the g.b.i.'s and the developmental work we have under way, plus the additional half billion dollars we have added to the budget for f.y. 2012 puts us in a good place on missile defense. >> admiral mullen. >> ve

makes investments in upgrades to long-range radars in greenland and the u.s. and canada. we also have money for developmental work in terms of other kinds of intersection of ballistic missiles, but i believe that the balance between the ground-based interceptor system and the money we are investing in that, plus the money that we are investing in the phase adaptive approach -- first of all, it will give us missile defense capabilities several years earlier than would have been the case with the third site in europe. let's be blunt. the third site in europe was not going to happen, because that czech government would not approve the radar. if it was going to happen at all, it would have taken years longer and we still would not have negotiated the required agreements with the polls in terms of the interceptors. the balanced approach and the development work we have underway, plus the additional half a billion dollars we have added to the budget for fiscal year 2012, puts us in a pretty good place on missile defense. >> while i am not exceptionally close to it in this job,