he cowrote herblock with carry katz.or more information visit herblockfoundation.org. >> we're at frostburg state university speaking with thomas a. lewis author of brace for impact. tom, to start off with, what do you see as the major threats to our current way of living? >> well, that's the content of most of the book. it's a long list. what i did was organize it into the threats that i see gathered against our systems that sustain us. i look into food, both the food that we grow and the animals that we raise. i look into water, the supply of water and the treatment of wastewater. and energy. oil and electricity. and each of those categories is of a system that has been increasingly industrialized and is increasingly in peril of failing. mortal stress on all of those systems. and usually people don't look at them all at one time. you get people specializing in electricity. well, one of the things about electricity is that it takes three times as much water to get you the electricity to your home that you use than it do

>> perhaps in that sick stance the local broad katz would have an argument to the commission that they had taken reasonable and diligent measures? >> what reasonable? they just set up the camera and the microphone. >> one thing -- >> core first amendment values to broadcast a zoning thing? >> sure, absolutely. >> what if someone says this zoning plan is messing up my house? >> the commission habit addressed the situation of a broadcaster had no other means to impose an audio delay. but this case illustrates did not >> we are talking about the policy. you keep talking about this case? >> the policy takes acounsel of the quet its. >> isn't the problem -- or the problem at least as i understand it is that the equities themselves of vague so that the broadcasters aren't sure where the line is. >> but yours, i don't think the lines are vague with regard to audio delay at all. networks have deployed an audio declare mechanism for decades. they had one here, but they knew it was uneffective. it didn't work in the 2002 billboard awards, and now they use it in 2003. now they employ more effecti

but even so, or the past two years, laments fmer clinton labor department ecomist larry katz: >> we've lost million jobs. we needed 2.5 milln jobs just to keep up with population growthso we're about 10.5 million jobs in e hole. even if, say, over t next four years, we were generatg jobs at the pace of the sort of lat '90s boounder clinton, we woulbe continuing toave incredibly high unemploynt for the next four or five years. >> rorter: indeed, it would take a bst of new jobs over the ne 4-5 years of 15 million new jobs to get us bk to where we we at the start of the recession. yet december recorded anotr net lo. economic fecaster allen sinai spoke for ma. >> we' get positive job creation in the next mon or two, and we' have a surge in bs when census workers come wo. but beneath that, the underlng growth of jobs in this count looks to me to be ve anemic, anotr kind of jobless recovery like or worse than os we've had befo. >> reporte so, are you imagining a stdy-state for the american economy with unemployment at 8%, 9%, %? >> its probably peakedt about 10%, but we wo see 8% at least un

but even so, over the past two years, laments former clinton labor department economist larry katz: >> we've lost 8 million jobs. we needed 2.5 million jobs just to keep up with population growth, so we're about 10.5 million jobs in the hole. even if, say, over the next four years, we were generating jobs at the pace of the sort of late '90s boom under clinton, we would be continuing to have incredibly high unemployment for the next four or five years. >> reporter: indeed, it would take a burst of new jobs over the next 4-5 years of 15 million new jobs to get us back to where we were at the start of the recession. yet december recorded another net loss. economic forecaster allen sinai spoke for many. >> we'll get positive job creation in the next month or two, and we'll have a surge in jobs when census workers come to work. but beneath that, the underlying growth of jobs in this country looks to me to be very anemic, another kind of jobless recovery like or worse than ones we've had before. >> reporter: so, are you imagining a steady-state for the american economy with unemployment at

katz, and jan kemp for their wisdom of their efforts to address the serious problems related to and onepeaking as a nonclinician here -- related to the loss of self-worth and self-esteem and how such fragility can lead to such acts of self-destruction. of the more than 30,000 suicides in this country each year, fully 20% of them are by veterans. on average 18 veterans commit suicide each day. 5 of those veterans are under our care at va. so losing 5 veterans who are in treatment every month and then not having a shot at the other 13 who for some reason haven't come under our care means that we have a lot of work to do. who's vulnerable? everyone. young and old, outgoing and reserved, male, female, officer, enlisted, me included. warriors suffer emotional wounds just as they suffer physical ones. i'm sort of preaching to the choir here. you all know this. combat actions produce both forms of injury. where you can splint and patch physical wounds as you well know, emotional injuries don't lend themselves to such fixes. but we must continuously develop equivalent accommodations. i don't kn

katz, jan kemp and others who are here for the wisdom of this conference in for their efforts to address the serious problems related to and i'm speaking as a non-commission here, related to the loss of self-worth and self-esteem and how such fragility can lead to acts of self-destruction. of the more than 30,000 suicides in this country each year, fully 20% of them are acts by veterans. that means on average 18 veterans commit suicide each day. five of those veteran are under our care at va. though losing five veterans who are in treatment every month and then not having a shot at the other team, who for some reason haven't come under our care means that we have a lot of work to do. who's vulnerable? everyone here it young and old, outgoing and reserves, male, female, officer, enlisted, me included. warriors suffer emotional wounds just as they suffer physical ones. and sort of preaching to the choir here. you all know this. combat actions produce both forms of entry, where you can splint and patch physical wounds as you well know. emotional injuries don't lend themselves to such extent

dodd, senator dodd asks consent that -- if he were here, i do so in his behalf, that deborah katz, a member of his staff, be grarchltsed floor privileges for the consideration of h.j. resolution 45. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. the senator from new hampshire is recognized. mr. gregg: thank you. i rise to support the amendment offered by senator conrad, which i'm a primary sponsor of, to address what is the second-biggest threat our nation faces. clearly the largest threat our nation faces is the fact that a terrorist that wishes to do us harm might get his or her hands on weapon of mass destruction and use it against us. that is our nation's greatest threat. but after that, the biggest threat to this country is our fiscal situation, and the fact that we are on a path where our nation will go into bankruptcy because we will not be able to pay the debts which we are running up. you dot to believe me on that. this is not exaggeration any longer. this is not hyperbole pour the purpose of political events. this is just the way the numbers work. just the way the nu