because of the communist influence, one would expect that there would be a monument here to lenin. is. but not to this lenin, one of the founders of communism, but to this lennon, one of the founders of the beatles. the people of prague call it "the lennon wall." it's covered with graffiti honoring the singer. >> i think it's neat how the city almost encourages it, 'cause in the united states, graffiti is more of a -- it's kind of looked at as not an art form. but in prague, all over the city, it's accepted as an art, which i think is interesting. >> graffiti has a special place in the hearts of people here. under communism, speaking out against government was forbidden, so graffiti was a form of political protest. when john lennon was killed in 1980, young people again turned to graffiti. to them, lennon stood for peace and artistic freedom. writing on the wall helped them express their sadness over his death as well as their own yearning to be free. although the authorities tried to stop the graffiti, they couldn't. >> under communism, they'd paint it every night to squash the pr

the collection is dedicated to the memorabilia of soviet leader vladimir lenin from small statuettes to portraits. but the museum may be going too far with a life-size display of the leader. even more stunning is this figure appears to breathe. that's creepy. >>> well, a notorious romanian gangster seems to have unusual taste in pets. investigators were surprised to find four lions and two bears at the man's estate after he was arrested on multiple charges including murder and kidnapping. they believe the animals were used to threaten victims. but some neighbors said he was just an animal lover do. you expect the neighbors to tell the truth living northeast the man with lions? >> if you are going to be a gangster, go all in. >> i agree with you, it's a way to intimidate people with lions. >> let's go have a meeting with my lion. >>> time for an early look at the day ahead. general norman schwarzkopf will be laid to rest today at west point. a memorial service for the man known as stormin' norman will be held this afternoon. he drove forces like saddam hussein out. he was 78 when he d

coast to coast and lenin there for the dunks and terps warming up as well. maryland up 12. check that, jake lehman, he's feeling it. count it, lehman a lot of face time. four three-pointers today. and the miss and the move we've been waiting all night to see. lenn finished with twelve, and maryland takes down the demon deacons 86-60. >>> georgetown, hosting st. john's at the verizon center. pick it up first half. hoyas out to a ten-point lead off the missed three. bowen coming in and throwing down. take another look. a bigtime dunk from bowen. hoyas led by 11 at the half. second half georgetown up nine. otto porter doing something he doesn't do that often, the miss. but nate lubick has got his back with the tip-in and led the way with 16 points georgetown wins 68 >>> you're watching "book notes" on c-span. next on "book notes," author paula broadwell discusses "all in," her in depth study of the li

. >>> the top 20 economies are gathering in a place where marx and lenin would never dream of to discuss how economies deal with their economies. ron madison joins us. >> finance minute serious and central bank governors of the group of 20 countries will soon begin their meeting in moscow. shinzo abe's policies to improve japan's economy have drawn quite a lot of attention from the international community but officials from some member countries are raising voices of concern that those policies might fuel a global currency war. we have more from moscow. >> reporter: the g-20 meeting is the first major international economic conference to take place since prime minister abe took office. abe's economic strategy called for grievance tear easing and more government spending. in the past three months, abe's policies have resulted in an almost 30% rise of japanese share prices. and the yen has fallen about 15% against the dollar, boosting japan's exports. the major economic powers have closely watched these developments. some g-20 leaders such as germany's finance minister are worried that jap

. >> tim lenin was raped and accused by his parish priest. he doesn't think mahoney deserves to select the next pope. >> those kind of officials, no matter what institution, should not be part of the process of any decision of the hierarchy. >> despite the outcry, cardinal maloney left for rome saturday. cardinal le vada leaves for tomorrow. >>> a bald eagle, on a joyride, from palo alto to redwood city. the joyride is over tonight. jean elle joins us in palo alto, where the eagle has landed. jean? >> reporter: it has landed safely. the eagle is safe here,al the palo alto junior museum and zoo, after several days of free flying. her trainer tempted her with some food. and she landed tonight in redwood city. >> she took off on saturday afternoon, midway through the flight. she had half of her dinner. and headed north. and kept heading north and heading north. >> reporter: john aiken knows where this bald eagle went over the last three days. because a transmitter in her tail pinpointed her location. and he followed her from palo alto to east pa

they talked in length about marxism and leninism, etc., but as i say, it is all about preserving their power as they continue to grow. they got rid of most of the vestiges of communism all long time ago. in north korea, it is all about preserving the kim dynasty. it really does not have anything to do with what karl marx envisioned as communism. communism when it moved into asia, it diverged into something different than the communists and that appeared in europe. that is an absolutely fascinating split. >> 34 years of reporting with keefe richburg, next sunday at 8:00. >> next, david cameron takes questions from members of the house of commons. after that, ed miliband. and then another chance to see "q&a," with the former director of the nixon library. on the next "washington journal," talking about second terms of u.s. presidents, and the congressional research service representative discusses former presidents of the united states, including pensions and presidential libraries. "washington journal," at 7:00 a.m. on c-span. >> i think the women themselves in many cases were intereste

communism now, they talk in great lengths about leninism and everything, but it is all about preserving the party's power economically as they grow. they threw -- the throughway the vestiges of coming as a long time ago. in north korea, is about preserving the power of the military and the kim dynasty. it has nothing to do with what karl marx envisioned as communism laid-back. if somebody did a fascinating book about communism and how it merged into asia in vietnam and north korea. the cabalism in the eastern european countries, that is a passing split. >> 34 years of reporting and insight from around the world, next sunday at 8:00 on c-span2 n/a." >> next, david cameron takes questions at the house of commons. after that, a house hearing with two military nominees. then the annual state of the indian nation speech by the president of the national congress of american indians. on the next "washington journal," douglas brinkley talks about the second terms of u.s. presidents. wendy ginsburg from the congressional research service discusses the benefits of former presidents of the united

communism now in china, the talk at great lengths at these congresses about marxism, leninism, etc., it is all about preserving the party's power, economically, as the country continues to grow, because they threw away most vestiges of communism months ago. -- years ago. in north korea, it is all about preserving the kim dynasty and the military. it has nothing to do with what karl marx envisioned as coming in some way back. somebody could do a fascinating book on how communism, when it moved into asia, diverged into something in -- something different in vietnam, korea, then something that occurred in european countries. >> keith richburg on 34 years of reporting and insight from around the world. sunday at 8:00 on c-span's "q&a." >> "washington journal" continues. >> we are back with annie lowry, an economic reporter for the new york times. what is the minimum wage currently? guest: it is $7.25 an hour. when you adjust for the cost of living increase in, it is very low. it is currently lower than it has been in decades, even though they did raise it in 2007. host: here is your peac

he said in the 30 years i have been here now lenin is looking at these so i am looking at these papers nobody has ever look back. it took me to 13 states. somebody asked me if i had to go to all 50 states to elect all members of the congress. [laughter] the answer was no. [laughter] i figured i would leave out the hawaii delegation hoping they didn't write anything to bad. so i would read the letters in people did not even microfilm them. that is the worst part of my job. when they see something interesting i type it down and have a note where i got it then they put them into a word file that i presented them off and i cross of the footnote as they use it in the manuscript. you start with a foundation once i had all the correspondence reaching 46 for use that as a foundation in chronological order that is the easiest way to understand. then the correspondence of other people, of the diary of joshua, the newspaper that iran transcriptions of congress, the house journal echoes in rid is supposed to then they try to turn it into a book with historical data points. call folia have done tha

>> afro-leninism!> anger, by the summer of '09, had reached a boiling point. >> radical communists and socialists! >> there was a polarizing quality about barack obama that kind of ca roaring forward >> baby killer! abortion is murder! >> and became much more obvious to people with the rise of the tea party and the battles over health care. >> there is an ugliness with these fringe people who are comparing the president to hitler. >> in that first week of august, the anger was spilling out, and i think members themselves were a bit taken aback by the intensity of that anger. >> ... and the rest of your damn cronies up on the hill! >> there was anger out there and members of congress listened and they were scared. >> (chanting): kill thbill, ll the bill, kill the bill... >> narrator: it had been less than eight months. health care reform had stalled, bipartisanship had collapsed, and there was still trouble with the economy. it was time to turn things around. in early september, he headed for new york,

in the course of the reporting, and covered interesting stuff like what lenin. >> how would you describe him if he were to walk into this room right now? >> if you were to walk in this room right now, you'd want to hang out with him. i would want to hang out with him. the majority of the women would hang out with them. he just has a kind of a movie star charisma any sort of homes around wherever he is. one of the ways he works as an editor is a nearly had that been a lot of times it's politicians who have that and not regular folks, but he is describing how he works in the book. if you were here, to be a crowd of people and everybody would be the following. >> in washington is well-known, but throughout the country people about how editors as they used to. what has changed in changing ben bradlee's throw from when he was editor of the poster in the watergate scandal to today? >> guest: that's a story because what was so unique at the time as they were making judgment calls in a moment with no ability to check. some of the posters are pretty watergate, they're out there hanging on their o

. >> yesterday left wing said i'm left of lenin, she said, but i loved your speech and ideals.n't think that we the people are supposed to be able to address, you know, the leadership. that's not true. we should be able to put our ideals out there, too. we should be able to discuss these things in a rational way without demonizing people and ascribing all kinds of intentions to them just because they don't agree with us. >> brian: i watched your whole speech afterward. i was work during the prayer breakfast. but afterwards, did you have any interaction with the president after the speech or any of his people or anybody upset about how direct you were? >> i had interaction with the president himself. he was very cordial. said he enjoyed my remarks and admired me. a warm handshake. did i hear from some of his people? i heard from some people that the president and the white house was upset, but i haven't heard that from them. and i don't pay a lot of attention to stuff that i hear secondhanded. >> steve: all right. dr. ben carson, neurosurgeon -- >> gretchen: that might be the be

lenin was to making a marxist old chavez him globally relevant in the cooperation of communist ideasd. bin laden was unique visionary combining charisma and ability to communicate and fuse disparate and if these factions of the selassie's jihadi predisposition into something galvanized and therefore a menacing threat to the west and outer regional areas. the unique and acute problem posed by al qaeda was as credible effort and is one substantial progress of call option was brought together largely in most significant ways in the region we are talking about here talibanistan. so i think that's important and a marker as to why this is so important. in the chapter established and assess the five elements of bin laden's al qaeda and made it historically unique and conspicuously severe threat and then go on from there to argue about why that threat has receded and what implication that has for us to better appreciate the dynamics and the regional dynamics that underlie the present and the future and salafi asia. first i argue that the five elements of bin laden's al qaeda was one that it

threw most ideology aside when they became a capitalist haven they talked at great length of marxism-leninismut it is all about preserving the party's power as the country continues to grow because they fear aside the most messages -- vestiges of communism it's all about preserving the power of the military and the kim dynasty. it has nothing to do with karl marx vision. somewhat into a fascinating book when it moved into asia diverged into cambodia, laos, north korea then the number did eastern european countries, it is of fascinating split. [applause] >> dr. jeffrey engel founding director of the presidential history project at southern methodist university, and tell the summer's 2012 he served as the fifth class founding professor at texas a&m university. we are pleased they are here as well. thank you for the support of jeffrey engel and taxes a.m.. when he was here he was the director of programming for the scowcroft instituted and a graduate of cornell, a steady guessing catherine's at oxford to received a ph.d. in american history from university of wisconsin madison and was a postdoct

know, communism now in china, they talk at great length at these party congresses about marxist leninism, etc., but as i said, it's all about preserving the party's power economically as the country continues to grow because they threw aside most vestiges of communism decades ago. in north korea, it's all about preserving the power of the military and the kim dynasty as you have there. and, again, it really has nothing to do with, i think, what karl marx envisioned as communism years back. someone could do a book when it diverged into something different than the communism that appear ad in europe and the eastern european countries. that's an absolutely fascinating split that occurred. >> keith richburg on 34 years of reporting and insights from around the world, sunday at 8 on c-span's "q&a." >> up next, facebook co-founder chris hughes discussing digital journalism and trends in social media. he's now a publisher and editor-in-chief of the new republic. this hourlong event is hosted by harvard's kennedy school on public policy. [inaudible conversations] >> hello, i'm alex jones, and we

condi is now in china, they talked at great lengths about marxism, leninism, but it is all about preserving the power -- the party's power economically as the country grows. they threw aside most vestiges of communism long ago. in north korea, it is all about preserving the power of the military and the kim dynasty. it has nothing to do with what karl marx's vision of communism. somebody could do a fascinating book on how coming this summer, when it moved into asia, diverged into something different in china, north korea, vietnam, then, is an upper -- that. in -- that appeared in europe. >> 34 years of reporting around the world -- with keith richards on c-span's "q&a." >> and now, discussion on campaign finance law following the 2009 s citizens united case. the supreme court ruling allows unlimited spending on political advertising from outside groups. from the cato institute, this is just under three hours. >> we will continue the love fest later. let's get down to business and talk about post-citizens united. the question we have been asked to address is, have elections changed because o

now in china, they talked at great plant at a party congress is about marxism and leninism, but it's all about preserving the party's power economically as the country continues to grow. in north korea, is all about preserving the power of the military and the kim dynasty. it really has nothing to do with what karl marx envisioned as communism way back. someone could do a fascinating book on when communism move into asia it diverged into something different in vietnam, south korea, laos than the communism in eastern europe. >> harvard follow pete christianburg on 34 years of reporting. sunday at 8:00 on c-span. >> of blockaded the principal naval strategy of the northern states, the principal naval strategy of the southern states is commerce raiding. one gun on the pivot. if you are going after merchant ships, one is all you need. if you call a merchant ship, the idea was come along side and put a prize crew on board and take it to a court where it could be adjudicated, sell it at auction, and you got to keep all the money. because privateering depends on profits, the ship owner paid

communism now in china, they talked about marxism, leninism, but it's all about preserving their power economically. they threw aside most benefits of communism in a long time ago. in north korea, it is all about preserving the power of the military and the kim dynasty, as you have. it has nothing to do with what karl marx envisioned as communism. someone could do fascinating books on when communism moved into asia merged into something different in vietnam, cambodia, laos. then the communism in the eastern european countries, it is a fascinating split. >> former correspondent for ", washington "" keith richburg on 40 years of reporting and in sites around the world sunday at 8:00 on "q&a." >> congress is out this week, but today president obama record as a president -- congressional republicans to accept more tax revenue to avoid the looming tax cuts, the sequester, set to hit march 1st. he spoke to people at the white house for about 15 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. good morning, everybody. please have a seat. welcome to the white house. as i said in my state of the union address

they talked at great length about marxist leninism etc. that as i said it's all about preserving the party power economically as the country continues to grow because they threw aside most vestiges of communism a long time ago. and north korea it is all about preserving the power of the military and the kim dynasty as you have. again it has nothing to do with i think what karl marx envisioned as communism way back. someone could do a fascinating book on how communism move into asia and diverged into something different in vietnam, cambodia, north korea, then it appeared in europe and the eastern european countries and said that is a fascinating slid that occurred. >> the now harvard fellow keith richard and 34 years of reporting and insight from around the world sunday at eight on c-span q&a. >>> former federal communications commission share richard wiley spoke recently about how the fcc policies played a role in the future of the internet. he was chairman from 1974 to 1977. in this one hour and 20 minute discussion, he talked about wirel

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the capitalism now in china, the talk at great length at congress as about lynn then -- lenin. they threw aside most messages of communism and longtime appeared in north korea, it is about preserving the power of the military and the kim dynasty. it has nothing to do with what karl marx envisioned as communism way back. somebody could do a fascinating book when it moved into asia, marched into something different than the common doesn't that appeared in europe in the eastern european countries. that is a fascinating split that occurred. >> 34 years of reporting and insights from around the world, sunday at 8:00 p.m. >> a discussion on the state of iran's nuclear program and a framework for talks between the u.s. and iran. thomas pickering, who previewed israelnt obama's trip to next month. this is a 90 minutes. -- this is 90 minutes. >> ok, good morning, and thank you for turning us. at the end of a holiday weekend, are here at this morning to discuss an issue that is in the headlines about daily, but i think will continue to occupy a great deal of attention here in washington