and more than two millennia later, the way he lived still compels us to do our best to build a more justcent world. it's a story dear to my family as christians but it's meaning is one embraced by all people in all countries around the world, regardless of how they pray or whether they pray at all, and that's to love our neighbors as ourselves, to be one another's keepers, to have faith in one another. and in something better around the bend, not just at christmas time but all the time. and finally, this christmas, we count our blessings and we give thanks to the men and women of our military, who helped make those blessings possible. and as we hold our loved once tight, let's remember, the military families whose loved ones are far from home. they are our heros. and they deserve our heartfelt gratitude and our whole-hearted support. [applause] so on behalf of michelle, malia, sasha, mom-in-law, and our reindeer, bo and sunny, i want to wish all of them, and i want to wish all of you a very, very merry christmas and a holiday filled with joy. god bless you, and god bless the united state

entered into treaties with the native nations who have been making treaties amongst each other for millennia. this was a continuation of that for the native peoples, and it was a continuation of treaties that the europeans had, although in europe, mostly the treaties meant an end to the war. here, even though there were in most instances no wars, it meant peace and friendship that you would be allies going forward. you would have this friendship as a continuum. and the treaties really represent that relationship. they're the evidence of that relationship. they're a marker in time. but the relationship and the treaties still exist today as legally enforceable and binding documents. agreements. that both the united states and the native nations honor. but more importantly, it was the relationship that everyone was honoring, and it means peace, friendship forever. the parallel lines go on forever. and the parallel lines represent the nonnative person and the native person. the two sets of nations that must exist in a parallel way and exist through time and through history as distinctive. i don'

this may be true of millennia but not today. today we have people of influence.you see in the clash between ukraine and russia today is i think the most classic modern clash between these emergent people of influence in the square of kiev and this guy with a 119th century of sphere of thinking. >> that's an interesting point. the idea of dividing the world up. this is the new map, redraw it. >> what am i, some part of a flock of chickens that you can hand over to your vice president or son? they don't buy it in cairo and they don't buy it in kiev ooet sdpler the difference today is technology allows them to exert their voices. >> that's right. emergent citizens and the that's something he doesn't understand. she fighting the market, mother nature and moores law all at the same time. he is fighting the market. not a good year for oil. fighting mother nature. bet his future on a natural resource that if we burn it all we will burn up the planet. fighting human nature. people in ukraine are looking at poland, their four times our capital income. we'd like to be more

and for millennia, instruments-- until the present day, really-- instruments were, and remain, often and in some ways, at the forefront of the technology. (narrator) the flute is one of the world's oldest musical instruments. over time, its construction, play-ability, and sound have been determined by the technology available to instrument makers. flute production has been and continues to be a marriage of sorts-- a marriage of artistry and technology. (wassar) the flute is really a very simple instrument. what makes it different from other woodwind instruments, like a recorder, is that instead of blowing down the instrument, you're actually blowing transversely. you're blowing across the embouchure hole just the way you would blow across a soda bottle. [lilting flute music] (greer) in the early 19th century, late 18th century, flutes were very simple. they had one key or two keys, if any, and they were hard to play in tune with themselves or with anyone else in a small orchestra, and consequently, they had a reputation for being whistle-like and not real sonorous or real colorful. t

. >> a millennia ago in a period of 250 years, over 4,000 structures like this were built here. after a conversion to buddhism. he started a new temple every 14 days. over 3,000 pagodas, temples, and monasteries remain today. inside almost every one of them, a buddha figure, each one of them, different. >> and i like how integrated it is with the frieze, postures. >> funny you mention that. people used to live here and the government came along in the '80s and relocated them. it was a mass relocation project. this is tourist bucks here. they relocated the entire population. we're in one of the first mass waves of tourists. european tourists have been coming here in small numbers for a long time but it's the flood gates have opened. they are building hotels like crazy in this area called the tourist triangle. >> what is this here? this is a scarf. >> as myanmar begins the shift to accommodating tourism and the service economy to go with it there will be adjustments. there will be a downside. >> what is that going to mean? how will burmese react to all of the good and evils that c

and these are from the -- >> for millennia, native shamans in the amazon has tapped this jungle pharmacyll types of cures. but in the past decade, thousands of american tourists have flocked here, seeking help from local medicine men including a new wave of gringo he healers like ron. a ten-day retreat at el purguero costs about a thousand dollars and attracts a wide range of seekers from across the globe. a father and daughter from canada, an online entrepreneur, the son of a successful ceo, and a professor from belgium. like stan, these travelers are serious. they want healing for mind, body, and soul. >> so what's the strongest part in the ayahuasca, is it the bark or the whole thing? >> actually, when you harvest the whole plant, best you take the root. the root is the strongest part. >> each one of you, tear it open, and put one in. ♪ >> to produce this powerful potion, this mixture of leaves and vines is combined with water, then simmered for hours over an open flame. in peru, this psychedelic mixture, which locals call "the medicine" is legal, but in the u.s., it's a schedule 1 dr

they've had more millennia to clean up and it's not done as good a job as a prickly. this may be a matter of time and other factors. i think the professor is correct in that and i think that they've done a better job of printing that out not necessarily for the reasons the professor has given. all innocent and have to resort to violence defensively and to deny that their own violence which sometimes is defensive. one has to look at the actuality. the examinations i have seen are a disproportionate amount of extreme left-wing and islam it. there are plenty of others but those are disproportionate. now they claim to be the disproportionate victims and that's why they are responding but if you look at the reality they are the disproportionate commuters of violence and the oprah servers seem to be the greater reality and those that are more aggressive are also more aggressive than others area that seems to be the reality. others may have a different perception but it seems it's important to examine what is real. >> we are talking about religion and at the same time we hav

living in mosul, one of the oldest christian civilizations in the world and for the first time in millenniahere's not a christian in mosul. this is unconscionable. we are watching this happen. how do you follow that up, you got to kill them. the senior university, what you think is the most effective way to combat ideological islam in the long run, as in after isis and dow, and these other groups? >> how many people here have ever read the art of war? more of you should read that. he says to know your enemy, to know yourself, and countless amounts of battles you will always be successful. we don't admit that there is an enemy. we don't have wars, we have overseas combat operations. we don't have terrorist attacks, we have disasters. when we have terrorist attacks in the united states we call it work place violence. when someone stands in front of the united states of america let me be clear, isis is not islamic, a a southern baptist? are they mennonites? if you continue to not understand and identify the ideology of your enemy. the enemy will be successful against you. those are tactics. th

smith taps into the wisdom that is millennia old. i'm jewish and i found a lot of parallels. there are parallels between smith. as i say in my book that money doesn't make you happy that isn't a new idea. the hard part is internalized and turned down by the the consulting opportunity that's lucrative because you realize it isn't a great argument to be putting forward. that is the challenge. when your friend says i fell down. i'm in the hospital. can you make me dinner and he watched the game you wanted to watch with the red sox. that's hard to do. if you do it all the time you are a saint. >> we want to have some time to sign some books upstairs and we also have a final presentation. and i also want to let you know you may have noticed an extra camera. we are being taped by c-span. i will let you know as sure as i know our website. [applause] thank you. a small token of our appreciation on the department university for the wonderful hour. >> thanks for coming, folks. [applause] >> thank you all for joining us tonight. thank you. >> recounts her life in a journalism career in

this ancient species, slaughtered for the horn which, for millennia has been its first line of defensenay, cnn, krueger national park. >> and you will find much more on the fight to save rhinos from extinction on cnn.com. there you'll see the latest statistics and more stories of anti-poaching efforts. >>> heavy and persistent floods in france. we've been looking at that in the last couple hours. ivan cabrera is here. incredible i8 amages coming out. >> it comes on the heels of a storm from the last couple weeks, and this last round has taken a toll. take a look at these cars, the at of force the water needs to be rushing to get these cars piled up like this is incredible. this is happening over the southern coast of france. they've received two months' worth of rain. just look at this, cars piled incredibly here. upwards of 3,000 people have been evacuated along the river there. upwards of five have lost their lives. this is an ongoing situation in france. and the issue and the problem and my concern is that it's going to rain over the same area, because this low is not going to be mo

i think that has been codified over millennia, how one is supposed to treat prisoners of whatever sort, and what one may do which is - includes lethal acts as an act of war. i'm less troubled by using lethal force in certain instances than i am by torture. >> i think you and i agree this is an important national discussion to have. pleasure to have you with us. >> the book again is "the integrator - an education." now for more stories from around the world. >>> we begin in washington d.c. both parties spent thursday fighting internally before the house of representatives passed a spending bill to keep the government running. even though a deal was reached late tuesday amongst senate democrats and house republicans, a vote on the bill had to be delayed because there was not enough support to pass it. conservative republicans had rebelled against speaker boehner, because the bill does not take action to stop john boehner's executive action on immigration. the president and vice president lobbied congressional democrats to vote, the leader nancy pelosi sent them a letter saying they shoul

for the first time in millennia, there's not a christian in mosul. this is unconscionable. we are sitting back and watching this happen. we got to kill them. how do you follow up that? you got to kill them. what do you think would be the most effective way to combat ideological islam in the long run and after isis and these other groups? >> how many people here have read the art of war? more of you should read that. he says to know your enemy, to know yourself, to know the environment and countless battles you will always be successful. we don't admit there is an enemy. we don't have wars anymore, we have overseas combat operations. we don't have terrorist attacks, we have disasters. when we have terrorist attacks, jihadists attacks, we call it work place violence. when someone stands in front of the united states of america and says let me be very clear, isis is not islamic, are they southern baptist? are the mennonites? they are something. if you continue to not understand the ideology than the enemy is going to be successful against you. we did not fight world war ii aga

in fact it is a severe drought one of the worst is over a millennia. there's been rainfall.sing the intense amount of rain we've received from several different waves of moisture coming off the pacific but it's still not enough. remember, it took us years to get into this severe drought and it's going to take us years of constant storms to bring us out of this drought so just because we've received rain doesn't mean that this is cured just yet. just to put it in perspective, 99.7% of california still under drought conditions. we need 11 trillion gallons of water to end this drought. satisfactory at least. this is equivalent to 17 million olympic sized pools, unbelievable, what we do have is rainfall in the forecast which is good news. only going to help and the other part of this story is also the snowpack which is also something we have to consider. especially across the syria nevada mountain range. they're only at 47% of their normal snowpack at the moment and it is so crucial because once summertime comes along we like to see that melt and bring us back fresh water into t

i think if we do this reverently and constantly, that it will appeal, as it has appealed to millenniaf generations. >> most people when they ask do you think you'll get to heaven. most people think they will. are they naive, optimistic, clueless, what? >> well they're certainly optimistic. i mean i try to hedge my bets in that regard. you know, i know that i'm -- i mean, i know me. and if i know me, god knows me a lot better than i know me, and this is going to be a traumatic moment when i'm turned to look at myself as st. augustine once said. that's what the encounter with god is, the look at the truth of who we are. >> my worst nightmare, father is that god is a cnn viewer. but that's another issue. >> that would be mine, too. >> thank you very much. >> to the bishop who says the good father is right. we are losing faith. but for all the wrong reasons. , and i quit smoking with chantix. people who know me, they say 'i never thought you would quit.' but chantix helped me do it. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. it gave me the power to ov

they existed millennia before the founding of the modern sovereign state in 1648. there are three is are very well developed and very old. okay? you do not turn to doctors without borders and ask them for their law. to resolve disputes among competing communities. doctors without borders doesn't have laws. it doesn't marry people. it doesn't have a book of holy scriptures and ideas that people pray to. screeria -- nigeria. -

what all these interdependences, when my frenls and teachers calls healthy interdepenged ease, over millennia. we have become totally interdependent over a decade. decade and a half. so we do not have the habits, the values, the norms for how to live in such an interdependent world. let's go back to your north korea story. i don't like your movie, i will hack your studio. oh, look at all these e-mails that are on the street. here's a good one about so-and-so. so in other words, we're totally interdependent, almost like a natural system, but we have not developed the norms, habits, regulations, behaviors to actually live in the world we've created. an every day you see more examples of this. whether it's in the banking world, or? the art world, or in the world of ethics and philosophy. >> rose: finally i want to talk about the senate report. and because people raise the question about america's values and america's reputation, and america's relevance. >> you know, i came down, when obama-- in 2009 i supported that. i thought it was the right thing to do. i thought, i was very influenced by rea

that's, after all these millennia of changes, the body wants to be healthy. the problem is we put all these obstacles in the way. so, again -- and i think it is true of people -- people would not to be healthy. they might not know that some of their lifestyles and what they do is provoke their illnesses. so i think it is our job to make people more away of that and to help, to provide some assistance, to provide some incentives for them to have a more healthy lifestyle. i say to my friend from connecticut, people will be here, i hope, for the next highway bill. we haven't been able to get one for a long time. i was here for the last one. i had an amendment that i thought was going to pass. it was simply this: that anytime federal funds are involved in communities for streets, roads, highways, bridges, or whatever, that there must be incorporated in the plan provisions for walkways or bike paths along the side. i didn't say you had to build them. i just said, put it in the plans. they're doing that in europe, by the way. every road, every street built has a wa

happened here, this part of the exodus story, this part of moses' story has affected all of us for millenniag on [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: the ten commandments tell us not to kill, not to steal, not to lie. they tell us to worship and love god completely, to honor a day of rest, and to honor our mother and father. they have left an indelible mark on our moral code and our civil law. and in a sense they're an early unifying response to the chaos and cruelty of the world, a declaration that with freedom comes responsibility. >> it's why the statue of liberty, which was modeled on moses, the tablets in her arms, the rays of light on her head, both of which come from the moment when moses comes down mount sinai with the ten commandments. >> reporter: but like many stories in the bible, things weren't so straightforward. >> the story most people know is moses got ten commandments on two tablets on mount sinai. there are a whole lot more than ten commandments. traditionally, 613. >> reporter: many of these laws must have had some meaning during the time of moses. even if they seem

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and more than two millennia later, the way he lived still compels us to do our best to build a more just's a story dear to my family as christians but it's meaning is one embraced by all people in all countries around the world, regardless of how they pray or whether they pray at all, and that's to love our neighbors as ourselves, to be one another's keepers, to have faith in one another. and in something better around the bend, not just at christmas time but all the time. and finally, this christmas, we count our blessings and we give thanks to the men and women of our military, who helped make those blessings possible. and as we hold our loved once tight, let's remember, the military families whose loved ones are far from home. they are our heros. and they deserve our heartfelt gratitude and our whole-hearted support. [applause] so on behalf of michelle, malia, sasha, mom-in-law, and our reindeer, bo and sunny, i want to wish all of them, and i want to wish all of you a very, very merry christmas and a holiday filled with joy. god bless you, and god bless the united states of america!

represent, and the tribes that have depended for their traditions on healthy salmon populations for millennia? there are many questions that run answered about this bill. it is not ready for primetime. it's not good policy and i urge my colleagues to vote know -- no. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from washington is recognize. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i'm very pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from california, a member of the resources committee, mr. lamalfa. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for three minutes. mr. lamalfa: thank you, mr. speaker, thank you, mr. chairman for working on this important topic. i'm a former -- farm for the northern california, and to hear talk of the water wars being reignited, it's been a war, but the people in the valley haven't had the weapons to be in a water war. hundreds of thousands of acre-feet of water have been diverted for other uses other than what's going on in the valley. you see these folks here. powerful, small people, was how legislators looked at us in t

represent, and the tribes that have depended for their traditions on healthy salmon populations for millennia? there are many questions that run answered about this bill. it is not ready for primetime. it's not good policy and i urge my colleagues to vote know -- no. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from washington is recognize. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i'm very pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from california, a member of the resources committee, mr. lamalfa. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for three minutes. mr. lamalfa: thank you, mr. speaker, thank you, mr. chairman for working on this important topic. i'm a former -- farm for the northern california, and to hear talk of the water wars being reignited, it's been a war, but the people in the valley haven't had the weapons to be in a water war. hundreds of thousands of acre-feet of water have been diverted for other uses other than what's going on in the valley. you see these folks here. powerful, small people, was how legislators looked at us in t