one of survival, of triumph, of creativity, and so part of telling the story of black history is to celebrate that ability to exist in a society that is working against you, is attempting to demonize yo and still be abl to triumph over it, still be able to produz original forms of art such as jazz music. that's powerful and that's empowering. it's because of black people's political traditions starting with political activism in the context of slavery. to this day that america actually is a more democratic society than it did 200 yes agond that i also a powerfully inspiring history because were it not for black people for example in the medial aftermath of the civil war the south might have taken another 50 years to have public education. it was because of black political representatives in state congresses in the late 1860s and 1870s that they passed legislation to pass the first public education in the south. that's a major contribution and it demonstrates how important it is in king real democracy and this couryas many minority groups including women have to thank for that tradition of bla

one of the great masses of the man so that as part of it as well. he just didn't want it to get out of that from. but i go through that in the bucket but there is no evidence that he advocated the kind def, not me, the british captains of the then in charge of the navy. i should mention one other thing this reminds me talking about the burning of falmouth. they burned down the whole town except for one tavern release tallman tavern was owned by one of the heroes of the american revolution. she was there, her relatives, her neighbors, they could grab a hold off with water buckets for throwing them filled with water on the flame as they came up and she saved her tavern one of the great heroes of the revolution. [laughter] >> is their anything else? are we done? anything else? thank you pure yet [applause] >> with a significant occasion that happened that week in history. for more history program, check out american history television. we feature 48 hours of people in the sense that help document and the american story. what american history tv on c-sp

we have a decade of expansion of the department of defense budget, and regrettably, most of that money has been whisked over to the side and form places. during that time. we unfortunately invested very little in the future. the wise household and business does near-term things, midterm things, and long-term planning. in the u.s. government spending arena, that equation is usually out of chilled. so you could find every angle on these arguments and find a piece of this is absolutely accurate in the piece that is not accurate. we know that defense spending is going to come down. with certainty. it's started already and it will continue. exactly what the level is, it remains to be seen. it ought to be $333 billion because i don't have a visibility. but i will tell you one thing. there's an awful lot of stuff that is wasted. and it is wasted for 100 reasons. in the process. just the process itself consumes incredible amounts of money. the big thing that i believe, first things first, instead of haggling over the 233 or 243, we need to get the big picture right and get the budget going. th

a variety of test of reading skills. i can show you correlation between reading skills at the end of first grade and 10th grade performance, single, strongest predictors of 10th grade performance. florida has a good assessment system, among the best in this area. so when you're talking about the classification of individual students, and whether a student just on one side of the promotion versus retention line has been reliably identified, that is a different issue. there's air around the cut point, but in general the assessments are good and the concert to discriminate between good readers and for readers. and let me say in response to your previous question, that the discrimination here is the provision of education to minority and disadvantaged kids, that is of low quality and leaves them damaged for life. i think we need to focus on that as the discrimination that we all should be ashamed of and do something about. >> i just want to say a word on assessments. assessments say in first grade, are different than the ass

of. >> this is a very common disorders worldwide, about five percent of the population suffer from depression at one time or another and in the united states it is the major disability in people between 15 and 45 years of age. >> rose: episode 7 of the charlie rose brain series, understood written by the simons foundation, coming up. >> the charlie rose brain series is about the most exciting scientific journey of our time, understanding the brain. it is a series is made possible by a grant from the simons foundation, their mission is to advance the frontiers of research in the basic sciences and mathematics. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. durable funding provided by these funders. >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. rose. >> tonight we will continue our study of the human brain, examining one of the most widesprea

it is a crisis of debts, a crisis of lack of competitiveness in a number of european countries. but what is also important is the question when we created or when this currency union was created, um, there was not really a reliable framework created at the same time. we have committed to bring this about. we know that in a common currency area there has to be more responsibility shared politically. i also underline that in many of these issues we feel we're on the right track, although, obviously, time is pressing, and we are very much aware of this. on the whole, thank you very much, prime minister. it is a very interesting visit for me, a visit with a friend, a visit with friends. so thank you very much for your gracious hospitality. i think it's a very, very good contribution to our, to development of our bilateral relations and, obviously, a visit when i come here, i immediately extend an invitation to the prime minister, you know, an open door for you always. thank you very much. [speaking french] >> translator: when i call your name, if you could, please, raise your hand,

because of the slow movement amount of water. storm still has a threat. the threat is flooding and turning the lights out for much of louisiana south of i-10. >> is it hard to believe it has been seven years and how do you feel about as far as a the leadership and the organization that you've been seeing in the run up to this storm, certainly not to the category of katrina but just the different approach and the lessons from katrina that you heard on the run-up to isaac coming ashore? >> well, i think katrina was a life changing event for everybody in america and all bran branches of government from local to state to federal know that the more that you can collaborate the better off you are. a bunch has happened since then, changes in law and use of the stafford act and deployment of fema before the storms. so we've done a complete 180 from where we were prior to katrina and collaboration in support of state and federal and local and that's helped a lot as well as use of the national guard deploying them early, getting them on lo

we have copies of all of those as well. the reason i brought these out today is not so much to show you this first edition but to show you a later addition. that is extremely rare. 1921 the american government declared it obscene and pornographic. and the book was banned. people still wanted to read it, however, and we actually have a copy of one of the pirated editions. if you notice th

raising the floor of the price of corn. these subsidies to curch farmers to plant in places where they would not normal late response to the market. >> tax payers are paying the price at least twice, once for the subsidies, the ethanol subsidy poses a costs on taxpayers. $9 billion a year in crop insurance expenditures is a significant cost. we're waiting for the bill to become due this year. we heard some pretty big numbers about how much money we might be spending as a result of the drought this year and the coverage we have provided mostly to the farms in this part of the country where the damage is so great. the second way we pay is the damage to water quality, loss of wildlife habitat, boss of all those amenities, hunting and fishing. some of the programs were put in place in the 1980's, the conservation reserve, the wetlands reserve, under a lot of pressure now, and i think we all know there has been a boom to wildlife and the central flyway as a consequence of those programs. that was part of healing the mistakes we

police officers, the entire sort of range of this sort of enforcement spectrum and found many of the same things that other people here have sort of raised. the largest impact on families immediately or parental separation and the effects that that had on tab relationships among family security, child well-being and development. we also saw intensive almost immediate effects on economic well-being. again, the most part a typical effect was a father being detained, arrested him detained, deported, and perhaps a two-parent family becoming a one parent family. especially in many of these communities among his men that have been working before. there are required to go to work almost immediately. and often are also themselves may be authorized or have limited economic a virginities. very severe forms of depression, anxiety, ptsd digses among the kids. so when we went become a year later, on the behavioral checklist, on the food insecurity, many of these things >> so coming into -- coming in with that background into hhs, while my portfolio is on human services broadly and not on this par

i was invited by the president of the university of miami. donna shalala of you w.president at the university of miami and gave the commencement speech to the graduating class yesterday and was an honor especially in 1967i led merrill lynch and went to the university where i was the first african-american basketball player in 1967, so it was kind of a really special weekend for me and it's also special to be back home. [laughter] tomorrow i'm heading to new york. before i get started by one to bring that charles wilson who co-wrote this book with me and acknowledge a couple people that helped with the book. i don't know if you want to do that. [applause] >> one of my friends told me once that you get with your wallet and your heart and your book does the same thing i feel really grateful to will. >> i have respect for instrumental in helping. a very graceful writer that got this project off the ground. don richards who is in the book a board member of growing power. >> don is right here. >> i think devotee knows a don -- everybody knows done triet he's putting in a

i kind of like of name.r one, it was the majority vote of the science team, having been inspired by rad bradbury. landing is actually an event, it's not an object. also, it hearkens back to the time when ships landed on the shores of other new worlds to explore. and this place might, in fact, with its water reference be even more a aprapo. i want to relay to you one of my favorite scenes from the martian chronicles when the humans peer over the rim of one of the martians' canals. there they see reflected in the water martians and themselves. so, as we look forward to one of those days, i would like to now turn it over to pete tisinger who will tell us about our intrepid martian, the rover curiosity. >> thank you, mike. i would like, before i start, to give a small hand of applause to ray bradbury. [ applause ] he was a friend of jpl as well as will of the total space program and several people, including myself, had the honor of meeting him. you are looking here today at a very smiley, ecstatic project manag

of america and that of of course is unfortunately the issue of violence. certainly many of you already know that reducing violence is the top priority for me personally. i will be talking a little bit more about that tomorrow. but as mayor of philadelphia and vice president of u.s. conference of mayors i have a particular focus on the issue of violence in my city and cities all across the united states. i will give you a little bit of the picture of the country. in 2010, there were nearly 13,000 murder victims across the united states of america. on average each day, 16 young people between the ages of 10 and 24 are murdered. 86% of them are male. african-americans account for 50% of the total homicide victims and 85% of those victims are black men. of the offenders committing these murders, 16% are of lack men under the age of 24. it is clear that unfortunately we are watching an entire generation of african-american men falling behind. watching the next generation of our children grow up without fathers, uncles and male positive role models and watching

for example, the name of the war, the war of 1812 is something of a misnomer. indeed it was declared in june of 1812, was spot to the 1812, and in 1815 was a 32 month war. for another example, the biggest single military victory with the battle fought after the war was over, after the treaty of peace was signed. in orders to the united states, the messenger had to climb on the boat, sailed to england, climb on another boat, sailed to new york and another carriage and another carriage after that all the way to washington d.c. that took approximately seven weeks, during which time the british attack andrew jackson and his then at new orleans and all the hickory just plain demolished a couple thousand british soldiers. so it is in some sense hardly surprising that people don't remember this war given the sequence of events. and by the way, the treaty that ended the war was left entirely out of the treaty and andrew jackson. and that is john quincy adams by the ray standing at center. the treaty can be phased out which is status quo antebellum, that is the way thin

that is, of the story of america.ple, seeking to reach the potential, taking risks, starting businesses, and then turning them into fruitful enterprises and creating jobs for others to then go out and do the same. this success story of america itself is the story of janesville. going forward, are we doing what we need to do to keep that dynamic going? are we going to be a culture and economy and country and town of free enterprise, of risk taking, of hard work, of achieving a producing? or are we going to think those great days of our country and town are behind us and have to start managing the decline? with to go down to what i would call more of a western european social welfare state. >> that was wisconsin representative paul ryan, now the gop vice presidential candidate. that clip is from the outtakes of a new film called, "as goes janesville." the film follows the lives of laid-off gm workers to try to reinvent themselves through federally funded job training programs, or by moving to work at other gm factories

it's a result of severe lack of rainfall-- conditions that have spread across even more of the u.s. breadbasket. nearly a quarter of the country istxperiencing extreme or exceptiol t,drough according to this week's droug monitorouit rert, published by the federal government and the university of nebraska. their weekly map shows areas of the worst drought-- marked here in red and burgundy-- ew b2%y from the week before. the drought and drop in corn production will increase food prices at home and abroad. margaret warner takes it from here. >> warner: to better understand this latest news about corn production and the likely impact of the drought on food supplies in the u.s. and around the world, we turn to ron nixon, who has been covering this story for the "new york times." ron, thank you for being with us. first of all, let's just start with how big a blow is this news about corn and soybeans to overall food production? >> good evening, margaret. i think the overall effect is analysts had anticipated that the corn yield would be low, but they were expecting it to be eye bit higher

celebration of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the march of dimes foundation. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule the gentleman from illinois, mr. dold, and gentleman from georgia mr. scott control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois. mr. dold: i ask all members have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and add extraneous materials on this bill. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. dold: i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. dold: i rise in support of h.r. 3147, the march of dimes commemorative coin act. i'm proud to have introduced this bill and worked closely with my friend and colleague from new york, congresswoman nita lowey. this legislation authorizes the minting and issue in 2015 of a commemorative coin honoring the 75th anniversary of the march of dimes and recognizes their landmark accomplishments in maternal and child health. surcharges on the sales of these special coins will fund critical research a

some of the islands off the coast of the. united states military. has come here. the secretary of defense has been here the secretary of state has been here and this is over the past few months so i believe that the united states is trying to strengthen its relationship with vietnam and one of the ways to do that is to clean up the mess that they created fifty one years ago chuck thank you very much indeed for joining us chop a not so from the agent orange action group vietnam war veteran very good to hear your thoughts thank you for being with us thank you michael here. well there's still plenty more ahead for you in the program this hour including the true cost of budget airlines fears in spain that the rise in cheap flight safety standards slip and putting passengers at risk. more pain to this economy to more european companies have been out there we're reducing their exposure to stay we've got our financial i'm doing in a through security service company tonight is all but the thing is customers won't be able to pay back

association of of comfortable c.e.o.'s. and their government counterparts and this is a conference that's not for them this is a conference that is for regular individuals who are trying to navigate. economic conditions that are increasingly challenging and confusing so they're first responders in the sense that. as a group they understand that some things about the way the markets function have changed and they want to be out in front of those changes so that they're not they're not victimized by them yeah a lot has changed that's for sure let's get into all of this first a lot of concern the headlines today coming out of europe and it's a good point people don't know these days how to weigh the mood angela merkel may be in when they're making their investment decisions which is something you have to factor in increasingly arguably meanwhile u.s. treasury yields today eric they fell to an all time record low on all ends of the spectrum the ten year traded below one point four percent the thirty year below two point four ei

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of mind. you and i have a theory of mind. when you and i have a conversation i've got a good idea where you're going in the conversation and you've got a very good of where i'm going in the conversation so we're in some ways predicting each other's actions. an autistic person, not being able to put themselves in your position, can't predict where you're going to go and your thinking and your desires, everything else. and this as you can see is a very serious handicap. as we've often pointed out and you've emphasized in this series of programs, we learn an enormous amount about the normal human brain from studying disorders of brain function. in the ig nose ya selective defect ofness we learn a lot about how to recognize faces and so in autism we're learning an enormous amount about the social brain, how individuals interact with each other. now, the mere discovery of this is a fantastic and interesting story. to begin with, it was not recognized until 1940. until then, all of these children we

the chairman of the tschida chamber of commerce -- china chamber of commerce. and from the china contractors association. and the president of the foreign trade and economic relations commission. and the deputy director general, department of commerce of the inner mongolia, autonomous region. the director of economic and trade office of [unintelligible] province. i would like to mention that locally, we have a city council member from fremont, ms. sue chan and supervisor malia cohen is in the house. thank you for coming. i remember not long ago when vice-president -- the vice- president visited the united states and i traveled to los angeles with our mayor at the time and what an event. and now a few months later, san francisco is probably hosting the seminar with the ministry of commerce. it shows that our golden mountain continues to attract chinese. has never stopped since the 1800's and because san francisco continues to be the city of innovation and full of peril spirit, we will continue to seek an inflow of inbound chinese businessmen and investors. may i

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a fresh wave of student protests in the capital of chile has seen dozens of people arrested hundreds attempted to take control of one of the city's most prestigious high schools demanding education reform authorities have promised to spend to spend more than one billion dollars on education but protesters say that's not enough training is plagued by low quality schooling with promising students unable to afford expensive higher education. and football fans across europe are gearing up for champions league qualifying action tonight let's talk to our very own sports presenter you know neil for more on that hugh net yet there is a new target test lying ahead for spartak moscow a big game tell you why it's not all the glory and prestige there is a lot of money at stake the biggest game probably of the season they need to get into the champions league if they want to buy a few more big players we have got more involved in sports today in our own twenty minutes time plus a lot of watching a busy choose the morning and usually stick with us for that coming up shortly. the group known as an

of. that's what i have in mind with voluntary organizations, social ordering, and less reliance on force and violence and the police. last thing i'll mention. i was in a debate a time ago on these questions, and i did research, and i asked around, and i wanted to find out how many people were killed in any given year by private security guards. how many people are killed by police? who are uniformed agents of the state. the only data that i could find that was reliable, and first off, seems virtually no one in the united states is killedded by a private security guard. they don't have incentive to do that. if you misbehave in a mall, they don't club you down. [laughter] they ask you to leave because you're disrupting it. you don't get beaten down. how many people are killed by the police? well, the department of justice did a very interesting study, and it was police officers murdered by felons and felons justifiably killed by the police. on average, there was 450 per year felons justifia

of a dollar-kind of nonchalantly. "well, this is the kind of stuff that you have happened when race mixes in society." is often referenced after an incident like that. this is the fallout. "what do you expect?" or "whites are typically on the victims of this kind of violence." this turnabout is fair play-type of mentality is also something you hear quite a bit. >> did he say racism, white supremacy, was tolerated, was allowed in the military in places like fort bragg? >> he said it was -- it definitely existed. from his perspective, it was not tolerated nearly enough. his perspective was the military was really kind of structured in a way that was completely opposed to whites and certainly opposed to any idea and regards to white supremacy, neo-nazi. he never talked about feeling the military was a place that was kind of thriving with these types of groups, where these groups were thriving. from his perspective, it was not nearly thriving enough. the things he would talk about is there are not nearly enough white peop

sends checks of tenses of thousands of people who filed flaunt tax returns.i don't see the isr language up there. >> it is not in your amendment as was written and handed in. i have a copy of it in front of me. >> okay. >> what the amendment is now on the screen in front of you as written and submitted. >> if you would like to add a word -- please. >> prior to the granting of any state or federal government entitlement or irs refunds, please. after "entitlements." thank you. so be moved, please. >> the gentle lazy has presented her amendment. is there a second? the amendment has been seconded. is there discussion? mr. kobach. >> i worked with the jentd gentlelady from marylanded. it is good language. some states are breaking federal law and the system has been developmented since the law went into place. it's a good reminder to the states we want you to be verifying the benefits and the federal government. the irs has been getting earned income tax credits to those illegal any the country. >> is there any opposition to the amendment? anyone speak in oppositio

of the struggles of mine workers themselves and the strength of organized labor.eless, it is one of the most deadly industries in the world. the average life expectancy of a mine worker is very low. this is due in large part to dangerous conditions underground where there are many injuries, if not less fatalities, but still many serious injuries. and also because of the spread of hiv/aids throughout the communities which is the extremely poor social conditions under which mineworkers are living. what you would find around a mind like lonmin, enormous shantytowns, which are made of small corrugated shacks and which mine workers are living. and there are no proper services, no water, no electricity, where there is desperate poverty. it is not just the people employed in the minds who are there, but also the desperate were -- workers to of, across south africa. southern africa, drawing to one of the expansion mining industries. it is an explosive situation. >> al jazeera reporting sector remains a major concern for the mine workers to return to work. apparently, inti

of this 30 years of u.s. iranian engagement from the perspective of our military-to-military interaction. so i wonder if we could just start with -- telesort of why you wrote the book and how you wrote it considering that you are a government historian and this book was really done through different methodology. >> guest: the genesis of it started as a dissertation many years ago back in the '90s on reagan's foreign-policy in the persian gulf. one of the catalyst for me as far as an interest in the region itself was my father had been the u.s. central commander from 85 to 88, the u.s. military command for the middle east. obviously that sort of spurred an interest even though i was a young lieutenant at the time in my interest for far different than large geopolitical issues. but after desert storm i went back to graduate school with an interest having served in desert storm with an interest in the police and if you that he got me quite interested in doing, studying the region so i started with a dissertation

of magic. the new u.n. envoy for syria confirmed earlier this week has admitted he has a tough job i hate with the first toss overcoming divisions within the security council the current do you want observer mission mandate for syria expires later on sunday prison asset has made a rare public appearance at a damascus mosque seen performing eat of fatah or pray is his outing comes amid reports quoting opposition officials that british intelligence is aiding rebels to attack regime forces apparently the turks are being used to pass information and moscow's strongly opposing u.s. calls for no fly zone over syria saying it could lead to a catastrophe in this as the rebels claimed responsibility for this week's blast near the hotel where you were observers were stationed archies oksana boyko says the ongoing violence in that country has provided al qaeda with yet another stage for its attacks. blasts and gunfire daily occurrences here in damascus but once the explosion right next to the u.n. have po

more equal than them or r t tell of of. iran's being warned it must negotiate limits on its nuclear program of face the threat of u.s. military action defense secretary leon panetta ultimatum follows a fresh round of sanctions imposed by washington the policy director of the national iranian american council believes there is a restriction is a do nothing but heard ordinary citizens. i think what we have in place is it constitutes economic warfare and it dovetails nicely with the cyber warfare and the covert warfare that we are now engaged in with iran but what they wanted this bill did do was to actually sanction every single financial energy inside of you broad to make it legally impossible to send any goods to iran or for iran to send anything out to the majority of what the bill does is actually impose these restrictions that are blocking medicine from getting into iran that are blocking food and humanitarian products from getting into iran there isolating iranian students who want to study abroad and so when you actual

tens of billions of dollars. the sense that america has lost some kind of pride or some kind of personal autonomy. the fear that the shadow that we live under. are they accomplishing the goals they have of disrupting our society? >> it is a debatable point depending on what perspective you want to take. clearly, there have been significant changes since 9/11 as to how we go about preventing another catastrophe. there is a huge interest in doing that. i think where people disagree, people can always disagree, on how do we best do that. i think the answer is not going back to pre-9/11 days. it is working smarter, more efficiently. what we're doing with the security initiative, those of you with children 12 and under, those of you who know people 75 and older, for those people 75 and older, we did a fair analysis with great help from the bureau. to say, where are terrorists? based on age, we made the decision to do expedited things for children 12 and under. members of the military, they are part of the pre-check pr

part of the duties of office and the relationship of duties of authors -- of office is maintaining thatof the gold standard. someone could look at the main clause and say, what is wrong for behavior by a public officer? it is not upholding what we expect by a particular officer. and the use of the wording tells us that includes things like conduct that falls below the decency standard. it is not limited to that, nor is it limited to of a mandatory duty. it is related to the office -- the duties of office, including these things. >> do you agree that it is eight two-step process that we have to deal with? one is, wasb misconduct? and two, did the mayor acted reasonably in exercising his discretion? >> that goes to the question of whether there is a minimum level of wrongful behavior that we have to have. for example, jaywalking. that is wrongful, but does that mean that an official should be removed? that is a tough question. it is doubtful that the people that wrote the charter intended that. and fundamentally, we have the decision that the board of supervisors has to make, essentially,

of its. synthesis is a synthetic and was headed in purity of dioxin and several types of dioxin this was pretty bad one and as a result of that the spraying and the. taking to the use of it has contaminated. much of the land area although a lot of it is broken down in the areas where there were military bases. people who are coming into daily contact with that land and have have developed diseases which we know because the united states pays us veterans for disease these diseases many of them like diabetes even. parkinson's and so forth some for various cancers. that we know that the u.s. these are these diseases are connected with agent are and aren't exposure what's really going on now though is in the second and third generations we're seeing children born with very horrific birth defects that the doctors and medical personnel there attribute to the exposure of agent orange either by their parents or by their direct exposure to the accident in the environment why has it taken so long for t

attend the funerals of. former military is a lot of the senate. and now we're well into their generation and going into the fourth generation. and people are going to be going to get sick and die as a result of the. explosion. and there's no there's no relief. to the business now with me tree now worrying data coming from the world's second largest economy what's that all about well right now it's about the narrowing trade surplus for china which is the next sports oriented economy therefore it's increasingly worrying that it's slowing down basically faster than expected and that all indicates all this negative that we could be heading for a hard landing which means drastic slowdown of economic growth now indeed the world's economic powerhouse is losing its the chinese report is a price drop in trade plus exports in june just one. said from a year ago well traders anticipated eight percent imports expanded to five percent despite expectations of a seven percent increase now these worries of course the asian markets first of all on friday to slump

we're full of stories of alzheimer's. people have been touched by it, their parents, somebody, their grandparents. we know there's something called age-related memory loss. how can we understand what we want to discover in this conversation? >> as you pointed out, it's very helpful to divide memory loss with age into two categories. what's called age-related memory loss, normal energy or benign senescent forgetfulness and the dementias. benign senescence forgetfulness like your muscles get weaker and stiffer so there's a weakening with age. this is in contrs to dementia which is a progressive much more serious disease. and it's impacts other aspects of memory storage. with normal aging, there's good news. as you're going to hear from david holtsman. >> rose: that's why i did it, see. that's exactly the reason. you once said find ways to challenge your brain. all of those people say i'm working too hard. take that. so this is very good news. in contrast, dementia for which he we have no cure at the moment is as you pointed

commerce of northern care of -- kawai and chamber of commerce of northern california, northern californianese athletic association, national association of american professionals, national federation of independent business, national federation of filipino americans, the filipino chamber of commerce, around of applause for all of our community partners, please. that was a lot. [applause] >> i am so glad he had to do that. our next speaker is u.s. congressmen. he is representing the 15th congressional district of california in the u.s. house of representatives. in congress, he is a member of the powerful house appropriations and budget committee. share of the democratic caucuses, new media working group, house democratic senior went, and the original author of the equity and excellence commission now housed in the u.s. department of education. his district includes silicon valley, the birthplace of technology. mike has dedicated his life to public service and is lauded for his work on education, civil- rights national service, immigration, transportation, the environment, and high-tech iss

and i dont know whether it's because of the weaknesses of mitt romney or because of the strengths of paul ryan, but there is certainly an element of dissatisfaction or lack of excitement about the very top of the ticket that has shined a spotlight on the vice presidential nominee. now, often at these conventions, the vice presidential nominee's speech is sort of an afterthought. that's case here. >> rose: we continue with consideration of foreign policy and other issues with tom friedman, columnist for the "new york times." >> i would argue foreign policy is not an issue in this campaign because barack obama has been i think a pretty good foreign policy president. i think he's really taken foreign policy off the table. >> rose: we conclude this evening with a friend of governor romney and his lawyer, ben ginsberg. >> to know him as an individual, he's tremendously easy to spend time with, interesting, interested in you. i think that has not been the impression people have always gotten through the filter. it's why i think ann's speech last night was so powerful and so important in te

none of that is being accounted before in any of this data. kenny stated that at any point -- can you speak to that at any point? in some ways, the question of inequality transits the very top and the question of inequality within the 99%, if you will, are very different kettle of fish. within the 99%, it is true that it is an increasingly, if you have more schooling, that there is more of a payout and that is driving a lot of the inequality within the 99%. family structure overtime has become more important. when you look at the changes at the very top, insofar as we can tell, most of the research shows it is not so much this -- these demographic changes or these changes in education. it is more about global, markets. there is a bigger finance sector and investing your money well is increasingly important. the people who manage funds for large groups do better than they used to do or the importance of having the best person as your ceo in your industry, that has risen quite a bit over time because of global markets increasing. from what i hav

how many of you called and e-mails and wrote your members of congress? almost all of you. we lost in congress. we won with the american people. and we're winning today. we have to make sure we keep on doing it. thank you for coming out here. today is another day closer to victory. and when we stand in the shadow of the senators, we're sending a message they need to hear. we have allies in this effort. we have a group called concerned women of america. don't you love them? we have traveled the country together. they are great allies. i think i saw jenny at the to fillet -- at the chick-fil-a yesterday. isn't it great to stand for freedom and also eat the best chicken in the world? please welcome our good friend penny. >> thank you. good morning. thank you for coming out. you know, president reagan said to os freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. we did not pass it to our kids in the bloodstream. it must be fought for, protected and handed for them to do the same. one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's childre

kendall, part of the focus of this hearing is to get a better understanding of how the office of the inspector general has operated in the last 3 1/2 years, with an act be inspector general. -- about an acting inspector general. one thing i'd like to discuss is ethics and complaints. the i.g. has conducted a number of ethics investigations of officials in the previous administration, including a former secretary and deputy secretary and i would hope your office is pursuing complaints against officials in the current administration just as aggressively, as i understand it, the department's ethics program provides ethics advice and tracks conflicts of interest in financial discloses for department officials, but your office is the one that handles investigations into whether department officials have violated the ethics laws. this is one area where i could see the importance of a strong working relationship between the department and the i.g. does your office get referrals from the department's office of ethics programs for further investigations? >> we do. >> when a complaint is recei

there is a critique of the west critique of its notions of progress development. a gemini i think that's all quite appropriate but at the same time there are other places in the world where certain kinds of unfreedom as they are as they see it exist where the west is a goal and so we have to get used to this very ambivalent very ambiguous very enigmatic notion but what we can do is just dump the we have to see these complexities but we can only raise that we have we are uncomfortable with it just as we are uncomfortable with liberty where uncomfortable with freedom but we have to see this internal contradictions and i think now the world in a way is dominated and we have to jump right in here we're going to go to a break and after that break we'll continue our discussion on the west stay with r.t. . if you. still . want. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the

of the reader.t is very simple. if we want more people of color, you book more people of color. you want more women, your book more women. kind of like that. it gets mixed up a little bit. in general, we kind of have a core group of people who come every month. their ages and very. we definitely have some folks who are straight. >> the loyal audience has allowed michelle to take more chances with the monthly lineup. established authors bring in an older audience. younker authors bring in their friends from the community who might be bringing in an older author. >> raider has provided a stage for more than 400 writers. it ranges from fiction to academics stories to academic stories this service the underground of queer fell, history, or culture. >> and there are so many different literary circles in san francisco. i have been programming this reading series for nine years. and i still have a huge list on my computer of people i need to carry into this. >> the supportive audience has allowed michele t

first of all, they had to have of a mix of ethnicities. then, as in the case of marseilles v. paris or carola v -- [inaudible] these were places with similar histories but very different outcomes, so there could be a comparison, and we could ask what went right. now, gonna turn it over to karl. >> thank you. um, shareen will also have a chance to correct all the errors that i may make, and we will both be responding in the question period. but when we were discussing our whole project, the very subject we were writing about, multicultural itch, literally -- multiculturalism literally went with viral. its failings were decried in 2011 by the leaders of france, germany and britain and here, for example, is how president sarkozy remarked in a television interview about diversity. if you come to france, he said, you accept -- [inaudible] with the single community which is the national community. and if you don't want to accept that, you're not welcome. we have been too concerned with the identity of the person who is arriving and not enough about the identity of the country that w

um, what -- and you're focusing on kind of the availability of capital, the level of equity you have. where does demand fit into this picture? i mean, currently, you know, a lot of people focus on the debt overhang of the middle class and sort of, you know, the lack of demand as the reason they're not investing, not that hard. if you read the business press, if you kind of talk to, you know, business people i talk to, that's what i hear more than, you know, lack of a capacity to invest. >> guest: yeah. i believe that demand is a symptom, it's not a cause. and that the underlying cause of demand is the amount of equity that people have. so homeowners, particularly the middle class who have almost all their financial investment in their house and now the house is down 30% in value and it's levered up quite heavily, so they've suffered even a higher loss to their equity, i think they dial back their economic activity. in their case, chiefly consumption. and they try to accumulate deferred consumption as a way to increase their equity, and that causes demand to decline. and so i think whe

in terms of the school of business. there was an effort by the chair of the department to integrate especially the college of arts and sciences and they're looking for someone to do that. he is from alabama and work and was in a colleague of dr. king was vice president of the black clergy group in the bay area socially oriented and active. dr. williams was the president to the bishop told dr. williams they're looking for someone to integrate the university of alabama that a fetus to enter somebody and i was chosen. i had two weeks to be there and i stayed there five and a half years. which was quite an experience especially coming from the bay area and the activity in action of the area and how radical people were in the bay area and then to go to alabama. i taught religious studies introductory courses to religious studies and dealt with black religion i taught courses on the list darkness and a course called to religion and social institutions and the university of alabama had a creative three weeks between in the reg

these ministries were in hand saying the soft power of the revolution resists of the soft power of the prodi for reform. powers in egypt but now we were talking about the hard power of all the defense ministry about the interior ministry and those key changes that took place today and took place earlier because you had the head of the military police was fired the head of the security directorate was fired earlier and you had also the head of the central security forces the two hundred three hundred thousand strong soldiers. that has all the soldiers they had of it was also fired recently so you had all these major changes in the hard power institutions of the state and you have new leader is coming to these institutions. i think the. choice is whether they are will accept the powers of the current president or not and i think they're the ones who are appointed are more willing to accept understood your thoughts we're watching it closely as these developments. of your thoughts on the program assure the director of middle east. institute. the universe much. now still to come this hour a

there's a lot of people of color. there's a lot of gay people. and these are people that don't have access to, you know, other kind of funding. they're not likely to get commissioned by, you know, some big cultural institution to make their work. and it does-- it makes it possible for a lot of people who wouldn't have access to art-making to have access to it. we want to talk some more about the battle itself and the path through the courts, but if you answer this question-- why in the world does it make sense for somebody who's working in rockford, illinois, to have some money taken from his paycheck to fund your work? why not keep government out of the arts? well, one of the things is-- this is one of the arguments that people would often say: "you know, if the majority of people in this country "didn't like your work, why should they have to pay for it?" well, of course, the majority of people haven't seen my work. but this really goes to the question-- a couple of key questions about what is the role of minorities and minority expression in a