hence, it would not be tried. and they understood, from the beginning, that the path of opening the presidency would be difficult, depending on their ability to realize a silent vote -- voting bloc, suggesting up to 40% of the electorate. they entered the race for highly skeptical of mir hossein mousavi's ability, but they did assume, wrongly, that if he did manage to mobilize a block of voters, he could overcome 5 million to 7 million against the conservative ability to organize performers -- supporters. one former reformer -- once the former

-designated conference points in hats response -- and hence response, because we're talking at the right time about the right issues. thank you for coming today, and i look forward to your questions. >> senator, thank you very much. it is an honor to testify before you. we appreciate the opportunity to share details about responding. i would like to take this opportunity to thank our new administrator for his work in florida and his appreciation of the red cross. we helped individuals respond to emergencies. from single-family house buyers -- fires to others, the red cross workers to provide services to those in need. we provide support. it relies heavily on generous contributions from the public, including donations of time, money, and blood. today i read about preparations for the upcoming season. there is a constant cycle. we regularly participate in activities to build capacity to prepare and exercise, and we will evaluate our capabilities. typically, responding to traders and floods in one part of the country will prepare you for potential demands of the upcoming hurricane season. t

history of the last 20 years, but how my beliefs and ideas and everything changed in the last 20 years, hence the title "last rites." but you see there is a much greater, deeper change there. confessional of an original center, i never write books are a bestseller. sold about 10000 copies. which is pretty good for an average book, you know. since then i have written a lot about. my name may be well-known, that "last rites" i will be glad if it sells one third of that because i have lived through any ideas in this book, there is only one chapter in this book that deals with my return to hungary. only one chapter. you see, the book has several chapters. it starts with a chapter entitled bed 15 minutes. this is bad 15 minutes because this is kind of, it's not so easy to read but i tried to put it as easy as possible. then i have a long chapter about my adopted country, the united states. how do i see what is happening here after 20 years, and i have a shorter chapter about the world behind me. the chapter of united states called the world around me, my adopted country. then there's a short chapt

marshall plan because the arabs would cut off the oil supply to the west in europe would not have oil hence no reconstruction. then the soviets would gain entry into the middle east because they would say we have to come restore order. at that point* communist agents would get an excellent base which to extend subversive activities. the decision for partitioned says it is favorable to soviet objectives and to score a non-communist country. of the soviets would partition iraq, turkey and greece and said that more soviet space throw the world with peace and security of the near east would be over. now for the other domestic repercussion common this to, as my year can and it warned if not abandoned anti-semitism would prosper in the west and we would see a new anti-jewish education that would make it more difficult for jews to assimilate and they would appear "as the alien political factor. they warned the position of the issues would be greatly undermined as it becomes evident to the public is in the supporting a jewish state we were supporting the extreme objectives of political zionism to t

days, i've been traveling through the middle east and europe, working to renew our alliances, and hence, security, and proposed a new partnership between the data states and muslim world. even as i am abroad, and firmly focused on the pressing challenges we face, including the urgent need to reform our health-care system. even as we speak, congress is preparing to introduce an debate health reform legislation that is the product of many months of effort and deliberation. if you are like any of the americans i have met across this country who know all too well the soaring cost of health care make our current course unsustainable, i imagine you'll be watching their progress closely. i'm talking about the families i have met his fiat -- spiraling premiums and out-of-pocket expenses are pushing them into bankruptcy, forcing them to go without checkups or prescriptions, business owners who fear there will be forced to choose between keeping their doors open or covering their workers. americans who rightly worry that the ballooning costs of medicare and medicaid could lead to fiscal catastrop

on us to respond to this but in the sense that the security council resolution was much more comp hence i have that than that. there are new economic restrictions and sanctions and financial restrictions and sanction it's, so i would pursue y'all to pursue some of those angles as well, but there are other components to this other than just the military one. >> geoff? >> it's been pretty widely reported that the president signed off on this new fiber sub command? >> yes. >> can you talk to us about what exactly he did authorize and what it will bring to the fold and when we could start looking for some of this to be standing up ? >> i think this has been reported ad nozz yum! by now. it was the least best-kept secret in washington and recently signed. yesterday. this does offer a sub unified command for the united states under the united states strategic command. so the idea here, though, is that this is not some sort of new and necessarily different authorities that have been granned. this is about trying to figure out how we, within this department, within the united states military ca

and you can see him trying not to be predictable, hence the 2-1 curve ball and that is not his strength. his strene spring training to get ahead and throw take ball out of the strike zone. >> jim: 3-2. >> jim: that is the pitch he is going to have to get from brian knight and we have already seen it from markakis, we have seen and brad knight favors the high fastball. >> jim: here are the numbers, jim. >> jim: yes. 115-point swing and maybe 120 points. >> jim: bard will go. 3-2 with two down, and it is inside, ball four and the inning continues. so three straight hits followed by a walk and the call at third looming larger now for both the nationals and the orioles it would have been bases loaded, one down. >> rob: and willie harris has had a decent year and he is still hitting in the .230s and this is a problem that the nationals young pitchers have faced giving too much credit to the bottom of the order, not challenging them with fastballs, nitpicking, nibbling on the corners. you end up walking the number eight guy. in the american league you can get hammered on that. in the national

to increase profit retention so is and in terms of decisions but to keep profits in the banks and hence strengthen the capital base of the bank's and i think those two issues everybody knew that the spanish banks, their balance sheets, that was it. there were no corpses in the closet, everything was their. and so there was no pity surrounded the banks, everybody was saying in is much worse, but we don't know how much worse. it was planned, it was open and clear. >> i wish we had done that. >> i have two questions, first is when it be fair to say that the efficient market theory is worse than an orthodoxy actually of theology? and secondly, there once was a wonderful build an american economist named robert tipton and he predicted it way ahead of his time that there was a terrible dilemma awaiting the american economy. where were these men preparing us for what came in the last few years? thank you. >> starting with robert, whom i have known very well, he was a very nice guy in the last 10 years of his life he didn't do any of economics, he was just interested in history as a sideline. w

and, hence, in the longer run that is the way, really, to achieve something that implies a significant turn towards democracy. there is a form of -- democracy in iran already which we tend to disregard and if you look at these elections today, that are ongoing, can anyone in the room tell me with confidence, and i certainly cannot answer the question, with confidence, who is going to win? now, if you ask me about russian elections, in 2012, i'll tell you right now who is going to win. [laughter]. >> if that person is alive. and then -- and that is a rather basic difference, isn't it? and so we have presidential elections which are complicated, but, in a sense, democratic. and i wonder how many people know that there is a woman who is a vice president in iran right now. how many know in this country, not in this room, there are more women in iranian universities than men? and a lot of professions, such as law, or medicine, doctors, and lawyers, are very heavily permeated by women, not to mention the nobel prize in literature was also won by a woman recently, she is iranian. this is not

she had 75 co-sponsors, hence the legislation is now before us in the house. mr. speaker, there should be a compendium of knowledge, if you will, styled the greatest stories never told. perhaps therein wb the stories -- would be the stories of the buffalo soldiers. a story of rarely told how they had to fight their way into the military so that they could fight for their country. perhaps contained therein there would be the story of the fill peaian soldiers who died -- philippine soldiers who died on the bataan march. such a collection would not be complete, however, without the story of the wasp. these are the first women to fly military aircraft. they are the women in the air force, the women air force service pilots known as the wasp. it's a story of gender bias, mr. speaker. the notion that flying is a man's work. it's the story of culture bias, the belief that a woman's pce is in the home. it's the story of injustice. the notion that women could apply but never qualify. it's a story of inequalities and inequities. the notion that women could have rank but not

and hence, any notion of a terminal date for the negotiations, sometime next year, i don't think is something that he is likely to entertain very seriously. i think also, the administration realizes to make the negotiations on the nuclear issue move forward, it will be necessary to address several other issues at the same time. that is to say, security issues in the region, first of all, perhaps, implicitly at least, a discussion of iran's role in the region, certainly the question of iran's role in afghanistan, which remains pert inept to our ongoing efforts in afghanistan, and there are economic issues between us and this iranians, we have claims against the iranians, for damages and otherwise, and the iranians have claims against us because of sanctions, and withholding of assets and so forth. so, there is bound to be a set of negotiations, going on, at the same time, and, perhaps, by movement of some of them, movement on other issues, more difficult issues, may be facilitated. i emphasize the word maybe. but, it is going to be a very difficult and complex process. on the issue of the nucl

was a new service provider, the capacity sale of their seats and service to continental airlines and hence the reason they are committing to new work. the same carrier could sign an agreement six months from now and be commuting to memphis and so the pilots often don't move immediately. underlined that there are regulations. the regulations are enforced the require the look back as far as their airline dooby is concerned. there is no reference. the pilot has an obligation, a professional obligation just like everyone else going to work. >> i am less interested in what regulations are enforced rather than how regulations are in for so i would ask this question. mr. o'brien, is it your sense that we have one level of safety as between commuters been trunk carriers these days? >> there certainly is a goal. the ability to attain this goal is still being sought after very diligently. however there is work to be done in this area. >> mr. scovel, your impression? >> mr. chairman i don't believe we do. what level of safety has become code within the aviation industry and among stakeholders to desc