today, the pendulum is swinging everywhere and, therefore, nowhere. it's swimming to china, to india, to brazil, to turkey. the united states will do just fine in the 21st century but so will a host of developing countries that have been behind the west for many years. and as a consequence the 21st century will not be an american century. it will not be a chinese century, and nations into, in 18th century. it will be no one's world. it would be a world that for the first time in history will be integrated and globalized, smudged together, to use a technical term, but without the guardianship provided by the western anchor. what i'd like to do in the next 15 minutes or so is put some flesh on the bones, tell you i think we are at the cusp of that historical intersection. and then end i say a few things about what we as americans should do about it. that the pendulum is swinging and power diffusing is, in my mind, unstoppable. and i'll just try to out a few facts and figures, and i'm drawing mainly on projections from the world bank, the imf, the intern

what i think has happened in the last 20 years is the pendulum has swung about as far as it can toward the cognitive side of the occasion. i think that has to do with federal policies and a bigger culture shift. getting into the right preschools as early as possible, above all else. tavis: if character matter is, how why have we had such a devil of a time getting a values education curriculum? it was written about many years ago. but why such a difficult uphill battle to get a values education curriculum? >> i went back and looked at another era where people were talking about character in the 1990's. in lots of ways, it really did spread. the problem is, a lot of them are not effective. the conversation got very politicized in the '90s, people on the left thought character education was about indoctrinating kids with conservative ideas. and i think what that meant was that everything got watered down so a lot of the character education programs are just sort of the value of the week, it doesn't really hit home. what is interesting to me, they are just experiments that are coming along

pennsylvania which as you know is a great state named after the great pendulum has gone most supportingarack obama. [crowd cheering] >> jon: the electoral vote. obviously that was a state that mitt romney at the very end made a play for, but the amish don't play that. good news from mitt romney he has won tonight making announcements right now most of the confederacy. he's the winner there. a lot of the electoral votes. michigan, 15 electoral votes it's mitt romney's, one of mitt romney's home states. most presings reporting, we're going to call that for barack obama. [crowd cheering] it's a shame that that car pulled out right by that. we've got an interesting senate race to report. there's a lot of attention on this race in massachusetts. there was a yuk ma young man nad scott brown versus a gentlewoman named elizabeth warren, she has won the senate race. [crowd cheering] oh. going overboard buy his own tea partyers. right now the big state we're looking at is ohio because it's really the only state we've ever been looking at. and florida is, and again we are live so i don't know if t

pennsylvania which as you know is a great state named after the great pendulum has gone most supporting barack obama. [crowd cheering] >> jon: the electoral vote. obviously that was a state that mitt romney at the very end made a play for, but the amish don't play that. good news from mitt romney he has won tonight making announcements right now most of the confederacy. he's the winner there. a lot of the electoral votes. michigan, 15 electoral votes it's mitt romney's, one of mitt romney's home states. most presings reporting, we're going to call that for barack obama. [crowd cheering] it's a shame that that car pulled out right by that. we've got an interesting senate race to report. there's a lot of attention on this race in massachusetts. there was a yuk ma young man nad scott brown versus a gentlewoman named elizabeth warren, she has won the senate race. [crowd cheering] oh. going overboard buy his own tea partyers. right now the big state we're looking at is ohio because it's really the only state we've ever been looking at. and florida is, and again we are live so i don't know if

the economic situation -- i think that is a pendulum. they go this way and that way and we're in a recovery mode now, i would guess. it is tough to read. well the republicans sit down with him? i think they have no other course to go. i am optimistic. tavis: let's go right at it. what the republican party has to do to remain relevant? i suggest to the other day and got internet conversation going. i said that the gop is toast. if they cannot figure out how in the most multicultural, multiracial, and multi-ethnic americans to play to a broader base, but how do they go about doing that? >> it is a different world but to say someone is toast, in 1964, lyndon johnson annihilated barry goldwater. and the theme was the republican party is dead. they have gone too far right, they had four years later, richard nixon who had been defeated in the governorship of california two years prior. nothing is forever. ever say never. nothing is toast. anyone can come back. a guy could come by in a white horse and there could be a new candidate emerging. it

i don't know if the pendulum will ever come to rest right in the middle. we're always dealing with a social movement, as it were, of which medicine is a part. some people believe th the ideof patient self-determination should be extended a step further: the step of saying the patient should not only be able to refuse treatment, but also demand one particular intervention which is the administration of a lethal substance that would in effect end the life-- be used not just to relieve pain, but to achieve a painless death, and i don't see it that way. we work with dying patients all the time, and sometimes we have to surrender to the process of nature that is carrying them off. but that doesn't mean that we have to betray them in that process. and i consider physician-assisted suicide to be a betrayal of patients rather than a support of patients, to the ultimate surrender to the realities of this illness. most of the pressure for active euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide comes from people-- and often in an anecdotal way-- who have experienced a death

. >>> and hail, covering the valley, more on the frost adv e advisory, boy, it is like a pendulum swinging. >>> yes, in about three days we went from hot summer weather right into mid-winter. this is posted from the entire north bay, from santa rosa, and petaluma, frosty morning, slick roads, if you're doing early morning traveling you definitely want to take it account. 43 in sunnyvale, and 39 in gilroy, and widespread 40s in the santa clara valley. remember the pet, bring them inside and protect the plants as numbers will run 15 below average with temperatures on saturday morning. let's get you to the radar, we had all the severe weather. we're tracking the areas of showers. still not done with the rainfall. and here we go, right now some bay area snow. granted it is at mount hamilton right now. but we're tracking the snow, we will let you know how low it gets, dangerous conditions created, cars stuck, even sliding off the roads in some cases. we'll have in five minutes the latest on the snow totals and more on the winter storm warning coming up in ten minutes. >>> and a third person cha

but right now, the pendulum has swung so far that it's very difficult to even conceive starting up your business. and we want that to occuragain. much less allowing for those who e operating businesses to keep the lights on and grow. ou know, you look at the last three years. we have seen a 23% decline in the nuer of business startups. in america, we are a starter country and we want to see it happen again. neil: he was ronald reagan's top money guy. why he says capitalism is in trouble these days and it's the governments fault. by the way, republicans as well. we have david stockman acts. and suzanne somers on lala land going gaga over president obama. but next, ralph nader has had enough. he says that both parties in washington are flailing. d that is why the economy is failing. neil: the economis stumbling. nothing seems to be happening, but ralph nader has got a plan. one day he says he will get companies hiring and fast. getting people spending soon. >> nonfinancial companies are sitting on over a trillion dollars of shareholders cash. the investors cash. a lot of them are noot giv

not exist in a vacuum it's always intentional three speech and so how weird is this where does the pendulum go from one side of the other for the last fifteen years maybe even the last forty years it's released one charge the copyright side but now we're seeing it swing back a little on friday there are a republican. was at the republican study group in the house of representatives not with a report saying yeah let's let's really move that anyone back let's so rescind this some of the more dramatic expansions of copyright law and they for reasons we don't entirely know reputed that their own report and rescinded it deleted it from their web site the next day well hopefully we can get some sort of compromise where there are privacy protections in place before they move forward with their navigable bill which we know probably will happen early next year declan mccullagh correspondent for c i thank you so much for coming on breaking it down thanks very much. so if you like racing so far go to our youtube channel on youtube dot com slash break on the set and subscribe check out our facebook pag

but right now, the pendulum has swung so far that it's very difficult to even conceive starting up your business. and we want that to occur again. much less allowing for those who are operating businesses to keep the lights on and grow. you know, you look at the last three years. we have seen a 23% decline in the number of business startups. in america, we are a starter country and we want to see it happen again. neil: he was ronald reagan's top money guy. why he says capitalism is in trouble these days and it's the governments fault. by the way, republicans as well. we have david stockman acts. and suzanne somers on lala land going gaga over president obama. but next, ralph nader has had enough. he says that both parties in washington are flailing. and that is why the economy is failing. [beep] [indistinct chatter] [kids talking at once] [speaking foreign language] [heart beating] [heartbeat continues] [faint singing] [heartbeat, music playing louder] ♪ i'm feeling better since you know me ♪ ♪ i was a lonely soul, but that's the old me... ♪ announcer: this song was created with heartbe

. >> it seems likely this point that the pendulum has swung too far the other way. that overly tightened lending standards may now be preventing creditworthy borrowers from violent homes. thereby, slowing the revival of housing and keating economic recovery. lou: the good news is that i can do something about that. "the wall street journal" reported the federal housing administration has a $13.5 billion deficit. let me repeat that, $13.5 billion deficit. it is not official, but it is all but certain. oil giant bp and the justice department reaching a settlement over the deepwater horizon disaster in the gawker of the worst offshore oil spill in american history. bp oil agreed to pay $1.5 billion related to the death of 11 workers. three of the employees were also indicted on criminal charges including manslaughter and lying to congress. and raising taxes on the wealthy to prevent the economy from going over that cliff. afl-cio president richard trumka -- it turns out he's not worried about $600 billion in tax increases and spending cuts. in prepared remarks and wash

you could say that clock usually is a pendulum swinging back and forth, right? or vibrations in a crystal lattice, okay? in this particular case, the clock is regularly spaced flashes of light and one can keep track of time by counting up the flashes of light. so far so good? let's see what happens if we apply this to space travel. here's the earth, our cradle, gang. that's our cradle, the cradle of humankind. what do we do with cradles, by the way, even if they're comfortable? - we outgrow. - we outgrow them, that's right. and we see that starting to happen now, don't we? the spaceship's going out. we're talking about space platforms, okay? anyway, this is our cradle right here and here comes our rocket ship, same one, streaming by. and we're gonna say at this point, boom. both times are 12:00 noon. 12:00 on the ship, 12:00 on the earth and the ship continues. now, what the ship is gonna do? it's gonna take a one-hour trip out and it's gonna turn around very quickly. so quickly that the time is negligible in comparison to the hour trip. so ship is going out, tu

like a pendulum or a clock. this metaphor captivated the american mind. the framers are not only good inventors, there were astute learners of human behavior. the enlightment was so powerful, newton was the poster boy. this idea that if the apple fell out of a tree, there was a lot of nature, a universal principle, the human mind of its own force could discover was liberating. this idea swept the world. do you know who became the successor to the mantle of newton? this was not a celebrity-crazed era. checks and balances works the other way around. it indicates the government cannot operate unless the branches interact with each other. there is a certain newtonian metaphor to checks and balances. the framers of the constitution and their fellow countrymen were sons of the enlightenment. it was not just jefferson. many of the framers were fascinated with all sorts of gear is in balance wheels and clocks and pendulums and machines and they could see this newtonian metaphor with checks and balances. two components of the congress must act in concert. congress

might have been the case if she had less power than he, if she was a secretary this is sill still a pendulumt will shape the behavior of both genders, and women in particular that's the framework that they respond in. we can't see gender and power outside of each other. >> jennifer: i hear what you're saying although maybe--i just don't see powerful women--i don't see that being an aphrodisiac for many men. many men are repelled by it, and they run from. whereas many women are attracted to that. don't you think there is a gender difference. >> there is no question--men--heterosexual men are raised to imagine themselves as powerful and in control--not in an always in a negative way but in control of women as possible. and when their desire can be affirmed. but women don't construct themselves in a power of power. that's mostly being an position of being an object. if the study is correct and you're citing it. i haven't read it. >> jennifer: i don't buy it. >> then we have to ask questions. >> jennifer: i don't buy it. my gut is always right. hugo, the new yorker said-- >> look, i think in gen

you could say that clock usually is a pendulum swinging back and forth, right? or vibrations in a crystal lattice, okay? in this particular case, the clock is regularly spaced flashes of light and one can keep track of time by counting up the flashes of light. so far so good? let's see what happens if we apply this to space travel. here's the earth, our cradle, gang. that's our cradle, the cradle of humankind. what do we do with cradles, by the way, even if they're comfortable? - we outgrow. - we outgrow them, that's right. and we see that starting to happen now, don't we? the spaceship's going out. we're talking about space platforms, okay? anyway, this is our cradle right here and here comes our rocket ship, same one, streaming by. and we're gonna say at this point, boom. both times are 12:00 noon. 12:00 on the ship, 12:00 on the earth and the ship continues. now, what the ship is gonna do? it's gonna take a one-hour trip out and it's gonna turn around very quickly. so quickly that the time is negligible in comparison to the hour trip. so ship is going out, tu

to be with voters, educate them on what's going on in the process, because there's going to be a pendulum swing back and forth. >> another bold prediction. we remember you saying that romney was going to win the election. i saw something from you saying that florida would go to romney. >> tom delta carl, a man who actually shows up today. he could've said no. thanks. we will be right back. ,,,, mark a milestone for a popur pet-friendly literacy initiative. it's the tenth anniversary of "paws to rea" the program has ch >> which is on parade. a milestone for a popular pet friendly literacy initiative. it's the tenth anniversary of pasta read. the program has children read aloud to dogs helping the students improve their literacy skills and gain confidence reading in public. >> they actually become self-confident, happy children who often go home and try to replicate the whole program at home. >> more than 7000 7000 and nine -- elementary schoolchildren have participated over the last decade. similar programs have sprung up around the state. >>> here and there you are san jose quarterback tu

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like a pendulum or a clock. this metaphor captivated the american mind. the framers are not only good inventors, there were astute -- they were arrested learner's of human behavior. -- they were rescued learner's of human behavior. -- astute learners of human behavior. the indictment was so powerful -- the indictment was so enlightmenyt wasigh so powerful, newton was the poster boy. this idea that if the apple fell out of a tree, there was a lot of nature, a universal principle, the human mind of its own force could discover was liberating. this idea swept the world. do you know who became the successor to the mantle of newton? this was not a celebrity crazed era. but washington became the most admired person in the world. there is a connection. he was the poster boy for the american revolution. there is a relation between the two. the framers demonstrated that the human mind of its own power can discover and right laws of a decent government. this is the force that separation of powers and checks and balances had in the original constitution. you do have

. >> there are pendulum swings in politics. the republicans are focused and will have the opportunity to make their case again. >> reporter: again, the state chair of the republican party acknowledges that some changes need to be made, namely making the party more diverse. he says the time for outreach is now. reporting live, i'm jodi. >>> how a man ended up in a trash can of all places. a woman who lives on 10th street found the man yesterday morning slouched inside a bin that someone had left in the driveway. she immediately recognized the man as 21-year-old joshua perez, a longtime family friend. he was alive but unresponsive and he later died at the hospital. >> he was a good uncle. he was a good brother to me. he was a good son. he didn't deserve to be put in a trash can. >> police are not calling it a homicide but rather a suspicious dea death. investigators and family believe perez had been out drinking with friends saturday night and are looking into whether alcohol and cold weather played a role in his death. there's a

. >> chris: senator bayh, you know, it's interesting because i was thinking of 2004 as welch pendulumback and forth. after 2004 when bush had issues, and he still won, democrats were disspirited. obviously four years later they came roaring back. what do republicans need to do? >> two elections i'm thinking of, chris, number one, four years ago 2008 when some parts of the democratic party said this is a vote for a new progressive era and left-leaning government. it turns out that wasn't quite the case. our party needs to be modest in the mandate we take away from it. we need togone from progressive center out. then 1988 from the republicans' perspective. democrat just lost two elections in a row to ronald reagan. what did we do? we nominated michael dukakis who is a fine man but a liberal from massachusetts. it took three beatings for to us realize you have to make common cause of moderates. that is the internal struggle the republican have to go through. true to principle on fiscal issues but if they embrace the far right social agenda it drives off the young people and alienate sing

when historians talk about it can use metaphors like pendulum, it was this peculiar sort of rhythm of war that began in the fall of 1940. mussolini had visions of grandeur, he wanted to ride his streets down the roads of cairo and he decided to attack the british doing it. the british attacked back and drove the italians pretty far west into libya, at which point hitler realized that he really needed to bail out, although don't think he was happy about it. so he sent in or when ronald, along with a bunch of others and he effectively drove the british back into egypt. now, when the summer rolled around, things will quiet down and it was terribly hot. the campaigning with its glory would stop. they would advance then into libya in hopes of driving the forces back. ronald turned around and press the british back again. all the latest time, sort of disastrously, into egypt, deeper than they had ever been before. so when the american soldiers arrived, the british allies and the axis forces -- the idea in testing each other, which was about 60 miles west of alexandria, close enough to alexa

so when you're on rope you never want a pendulum and swing them because your rope could cut. >> the ladderss too distant. firefighters are left with one final option. the roof. >> we had a rappelling rack up top that they were using, it's basically a bunch of bars that we weave the rope through. it acts as a frictional device. and once that was all done, which took about 30 minutes, we had placed the firefighter juro into the harness and we lowered him off the side of the building. >> juro carefully descends and reaches the two men clinging to the platform. he determines the worker on the top end can hang on for a little while longer but the other one gives him cause for concern. >> the first victim was actually standing on the scaffolding. he was holding on pretty tight to the building, but he seemed okay. he wasn't like super panicked yet. the guy below him seemed more in a panicked state. i think one of the reasons was that his harness was right around his legs where it should have been, but his whole weight was suspended by that harness which was starting to cut off the blood flow. >> j

. >> eliot: there has been a pendulum swing that's been quick and in '08, we had the rebound of the republican party. 2012 clearly a democratic year. the public is disaffected in votes against the incumbent power. no question about that. having said that, you're right grover norquist is a personification of something that does have broad appeal. having said that, there is a reality and i want you to deal with this. revenue at the federal level dropped as warren buffett wrote about in his op-ed to 15.5% of gdp. when you're spending about 21% in revenues normally at about 18% or 19% that's where a big piece of the deficit comes from. you can't want government revenue to be stuck at 15.5%. that's way down from historical norm. don't you think we have to boost it somehow? >> well, first of all, there were never pieces that came out today disputing these numbers but let's take the numbers for a second. i think the bigger argument here that in terms of what's going on in the republican circles is should the government be spending this kind of money to begin with? should the republicans come to yet a

mortgage credit was certainly an appropriate response to the developments of earlier accesses, the pendulumrs to have swung too far, restraining the pace of recovery in the housing sector. >> i completely agree with chairman bernanke. i think the housing recovery is going on despite problems in the mortgage market. now, he's been very critical about tightening of credit, but that may very well be, at least potentially, a cloud that could open up. >> this combination of low interest rates is probably a combination you won't see for a long time. the only thing i'm wrong on is the interest rates have actually gone lower. but now the feds say their rates will stay low until mid 2015 before starting to go up. it does take that urgency out of my argument that you better buy a house now. >> absolutely. i think that's one of the key issues. and if you look at sort of all of what i call happy housing news, all of the metrics that we're seeing that are favorable generally are influenced by credit being tight. they're basically saying credit hasn't eased for mortgage lending since lehman. listed inven

historian when they talk about it tend use metaphor like seesaw, pendulum, it was a peculiar sort of rhythm of war that began in the fall of 1940, moose lee knee had vision of grand door. he wanted to ride the white stallion down the street of cairo. he decided to make a play for cairo, attack the british going east, the british attacked right back, and drove the italians pretty far west in to libya, at which point hitler realized he needed to power. i don't think he was happy about it. he sent inner win, the famous take commander along with a bunch of [inaudible] and he effectively drove the british back in to egypt. the campaigning would seize and the two sides would give inspect in the fall of 1941, there was advance by the british in to libya in hopes of driving the access forces back. rommel turned around and pushed the british back again, and all the way this time, sort of disastersously deep in to egypt deeper than ever been. when the american soldiers arrived, the british the allies, i should say and the access forces were dug in testing each other in a place called the al ma

. >> chris: it is interesting, because i was thinking of 2004 as we'll, the pendulum swings back ander the 2004, which bush obviously had a lot of issues and, still won, the democrats were disspirited and four years later came roaring back, what do republicans need to do. >> two issues i'm thinking of, number one, four years ago, 2008, when some parts of the democratic party said this was a vote for a new progressive era and more left-leaning government and turned out that that was not quite the case and our party needs to be fairly modest then mandate we take away from this and governor from the center-out, progressive center, one and two, i'm thinking of 1988 from the republicans' perspective. democrats had lost two elections in a row to ronald reagan. and what did we do? nominated michael dukakis, a fine man but a liberal from massachusetts and the internal struggle republicans will go through, they have to be true to their principles, particularly on economic and fiscal issues but when they embrace the far right social agenda it drives off young people and it does alienate single