we have a largely homogeneous society where in the rest of this society, you have the shia era of s bondunni arab dimensions -- you have a power grab for the power in the center. >> is the idea of the government to share some of this power? >> there are two key things that must happen. the power must be shared, but equally important is that it must be -- to have a strong central government means people will fight over it. we need to implement the federalism outlined in the constitution of iraq. get power to the provinces and regions as we have been able to extract power to the north. >> iran and afghanistan must play a role here as well. >> iran has a sufficient -- iran has a significant role in iraq, as does turkey. to a lesser extent, syria. these are countries bordering with iraq and the kurdistan reason -- the kurdistan region. you have to wait in the southern part of the country and there is a lot of regional interests in iraq. some of that interest is benign and some of it is malicious. we need to ensure that the stronger iraq is, the more iraq can limit that malicious intent. >> for a

studio matters that matters but let's not forget that there's this whole web this is whole society of infrastructure and education and mentors you know i've interviewed a bunch of people for a book i'm working on about the people sort of attitudes about wealth and what makes it interesting is when when you need people who are wealthy take a bill gates or warren buffett put who actually i would describe it they see the web of support it's like the matrix they see the matrix of social supports that makes it entirely possible and they are humbled by it and they actually believe that they have an obligation back to the society as a result of it but they would be nowhere and they would be nobody without the firm . well grounded made it possible so it's sort of like how do we balance celebrating the individual recognizing that but also seeing the huge. wealth that we as a society create that makes individual success possible but all of those people who you named are people who started with not fabulous well you know bill gates father was not bad willis lee wealthy he was born to an upper mi

what is your preferred society? what would be the preferred set up? if that's the proximate cause, i think though that this actually is a book that is the logical conclusion that hayek started in 1937, and started writing in 1939, but never finished. he called the project the abuse and decline of reason project. it was his war effort. he worked on it diligently through about the middle of the war and it was to be two volumed. and in the first volume, he was going to trace the spread of two ideas that he thought were bad ideas, socialism and sciencism. they grew up together, taking very different forms in each one the countries. each had its own indigenous form. but the enthuse natch -- enthusiasm for planning. the idea to engineer -- socially engineer society in the same way that engineers design and bill bridges was something that was a dangerous set of ideas that grew up through time. the second volume in the two volume work was to show the results of the movement and this was to be based on sort of ideas that are contained in the road to serfdom. a

therefore, they can be imposed on society only by repressive methods. this helped me to understand the similarity between communist regimes. and how they lived through both of them in hungry, it made me -- and made a great impression on me. this led me to the popular theory of scientific method. popper claimed that scientific theories can never be verified. they can only be falsified. that means that their validity must be regarded as provisional and they must forever remain open to falsification. the main variant of this theory is that it involves all the problems in improving scientific theories beyond any doubt and it establishes the importance. only theories that can be falsified qualify as scientific. while he was admiring the elegance of popper's theory, i was also studying elementary economics. i was struck by a contradiction between the theory of perfect competition, which postulated perfect knowledge with popper's theory that the perfect knowledge is unattainable. to contradict them could be resolved by recognizing that economic theory can't me

reduced to an economic argument you know there's been dynamism on the political front on the civil society front on economic engagement the rise of nor is the rise of the middle class and that all speaks to. more complex picture than one that is reduced to economic ok robert if i can go to you in london where do you. progress or backtracking. growing economies growing independence or occupation as we heard earlier in the program. well i really can't think of any african country that is being occupied by corporations and i've traveled all over the continent and it seems to me that while there are one or two places where nobody's in charge like somalia pretty much everywhere else the governments are in charge like they are in most other countries now many of those governments are very inefficient governments but by and large they've gotten a lot better over the past twenty years and when the dealings between corporations and african governments it's absolutely the african governments who call the shots if you go to somewhere like angola it doesn't matter whether you're an american oil compan

to support democracy and civil society we've already heard on this program the worst is really.some very vicious very vicious dictators who have been overthrown lately so i you know one has to wonder or or understand why african countries will look to china because there are no strings attached or very few strings attached go ahead. well i mean the west baggs democracies but it's not always the top priority and certainly if you're talking in the middle east where you have the issues of oil and you have the issues of israel it tends not to be the top priority quite often stability is preferred china is a dictatorship local trade and back democracy anywhere and you wouldn't really expect them to i think the important point though is that when you have both western companies and chinese companies both western governments and the chinese government competing for influence in africa and that puts power with the african government because they can play the two off against each other and they can say to western firms if you don't offer better deals maybe the chinese will and they can d

what will society be like? asked those questions both of society and what'll happen because of that. but she also went back and researched how did this happen? some of that is what we think about one child policy, but some of it has to do with zero population growth and enthusiasm for population control and is create unintended consequences. >> that book is unnatural selection, right next to the two books about some troubled nations. >> has come and dance in the glory of monsters about the congo by jason stearns. our editorial are caught this book in from a friend of jason -- the wonderful journalist who has written also about africa she said you know, there's nobody in this is much as stearns. you should talk to him. jason stearns had a big pack of manuscripts, books i'd read it and said there is they will both here and we're going and he and jason went to work together to hone the book. my claim for this book is you can't understand anything in the newspaper about the congo if you haven't read this book becau

i wonder if we are more aware now as a society.the 18 on right now and give it to preteens, i would like to believe our society is one silver lining that is a ridiculously radical message. >> i did start to have an inkling of stuff. i was never a big fan of john hughes. there are so many of them. hy aided ferris b 0's day off because being from chicago i felt the idea of that was basically chicago -- this kind of community basically sort of a plaything for wealthy white guy. and despised home alone because i felt it was class warfare. literally it was class warfare and i was identifying with the poor put upon abuse burglars who were trying to provide for themselves. i live there partially. here is this boy doing nothing sunni the giant home which cost $3.5 million, or $7 million worth of special effects that would be required to do this. he has a giant home. to how did his parents deserve this and he tortures for people who are trying to redistribute the wealth. i wanted joe patchy and the other ones to for murder him. it would not

has and i mean the society of global society it's easier to maintain the status quo than to make changes that will essentially harden people's lives for example katrina. new orleans the area work a train it took place should never have been built up to the state that it was i mean people simply should not have been living there because of potential flood. and yet you're not going to find a politician someone go say hey let's pack up an entire city that has years and years of years of history and go so how do we do see him as a world as a global society to be reaching this critical point where we need to take certain decisions otherwise who knows how the ecological situation play out how do we get our political leaders our community leaders to a point where they're willing to look at the difficult sacrifices that need to be taken but it's hard the country argument cuts both ways of a matter of design ordered. was protected by diets but it was poor people if the people of the more wanted were willing to invest in the direct system the way they should have a network where proposals on the t

but in this country, we are demonstrating the society and the refusal of some people within a societyho destroy the society problem, that our own problem. we should rebuild our home to other countries for saudi arabia correct good the government. >> let me allow remarks. >> we are to monitor and be careful with how americans can operate. every poor country is corruptible. it's very easy. you can't tell you poor man not to take a bribe. you know, in egypt, prices go up for you because you have hard currents. people want it. so you can't say this powerful country is not to blame when it comes than with money. so you know, poverty causes these problems, but we need to monitor what happens in the u.s. and in suits that transparency occurs in the arab world from here because with the u.s. has failed in the last 30 years is by doing what's right in terms of human rights and torture. an income of the u.s. sends people to be tortured in the arab world. i mean, who's fault is that? >> it's our fault. our political government is corrupt. how many people are in egyptian prisons in the last 25 ye

can mindfulness literally transform society and does a healthy mind mean a healthy body? >> behl ask -- we'll ask jon kabat-zinn an expert on stressfulness reduction.. if. for such a small word it packs a wallop. if i live to a hundred. if social security isn't enough. if my heart gets broken. if she says yes. we believe if should never hold you back. if should be managed with a plan that builds on what you already have. together we can create a personal safety net, a launching pad, for all those brilliant ifs in the middle of life. you can call on our expertise and get guarantees for the if in life. after all, we're metlife. >> dr. kabat-zinn, welcome. >> thank you. >> nice to be here. i'd like to talk to you about the relationship between meditation and the human brain. and the name occurs in the literature besides your own is that of richard davidson and his experimentations with science, what science has contributed to our knowledge of the subject. you know richard davidson. >> yes, i do. and i have worked with him and we published a paper together on the effects of m

the president said his administration must eradicate such a germ through society. he also hopes to create a committee to study a constitutional reform and possibly granting amnesty to political prisoners. there have been growing anti-government rallies in syria. some 1400 syrians are believed to have died as the government used tanks and helicopters because of the unrest. more than 3,000 have escaped to neighboring turkey. the u.n. security council is working on a joint resolution. >>> the united nations says the number of people forced to flee their homes to escape war or op pregnancy has risen to the highest level in 15 years. they released the latest report on june 20th to coincide with world refugee day. the unhdr report says 43.7 million people were displaced worldwide in 2010. that's an increase of 400,000 from a year earlier. it includes 15.4 million who fled their home countries. it found that afghanistan accounted for the largest number of refugees. 3 million people have fled the country as the taliban continues to gain strength. 1.68 million people escape

the kind of best way to measure the increase in value from new products and services created in a society. so, if we start the clock here at the year 1,000 n the middle of the dark ages and look at what happens over the next 500 years. basically, global gdp just flat lines. there's no change at all. then the trading capitals of europe start to kind of light up and you begin to see this slow but steady growth for the next 300 years. but then stop the clock right here. it's 1800, the dawn of the industrial age, steam power is starting to revolutionize life in britain, united states and britain. look what happens over the next 200 years. you see this just dramatic spike, really a global spike in gdp everywhere around the planet. now, this is an extraordinary change. and you hear people talking about history as being this process that repeats itself sometimes, but when you think about global ddp over this scale you realize the expression doesn't mean anything here because something this dramatic has never happened before over the course of human history. now, why is it happening? it's being d

of citizens to a society of consumers the entertainment problem as it were you you in your book one of the question's that you often ask of knows this over the years is how they reacted to that and i'm curious how you've reacted to this change over the years and for example have you ever looked at the state of the nation or its media and felt despair or are these challenges and changes actually invigorating tedy you see them as it's as you know. a sort of take up or whatever the appropriate metaphor would be. i try to resist. the disease of despair i mean i can understand why so many people feel so many people feel despair at the moment our of our democracy is dysfunctional we no longer have a government of by and for the people representative democracy we have got to talk or sing to talk or see means the rule of the rich for the rich by the rich and that's what we have to talk or see has one purpose which is to protect wealth and that's what we're seeing in the supreme court about week you've written so. eloquently over the years and that's what we're seeing in our democracy i don'

you know, people in the ad said not only, "come here; billie holiday at cafe society.", "have you heard billie holiday sing strange fruit?" so it very quickly became her signature song. you know, it's difficult to compare the show business of 1939 with what we have today, but is there any way to describe billie holiday's place in contemporary entertainment in 1939? who was she like? who would she have been reminiscent of today? well, i think that, you know, billie holiday was so utterly distinctive in so many ways that its very hard to analogize. you know, i think that she was like a popular jazz singer in her time. she was not a household name, but she was very popular in jazz circles. she was already recognized as a great performer. she was quite prominent, but she was never known for doing political stuff. you know, she had never done anything political before in the sense of singing songs with explicitly political lyrics. i mean, my feeling, if you ever heard billie holiday is that she was such a cocky and effervescent and kind of confident woman that for a black wo

inequality we will solve the issue of the equality in this society. i think in some respects, not all of them, some are going to get a handle on that issue i think what we are finding is that the issue of inequality is much more complicated than many people thought it was and that dealing with the decline of the zero and racism which has immeasurably declined is not the same of creating equal opportunity societies. >> you suggest in the book, you break out in generational change that african-americans are still more likely to have been predawn by shady lenders for instance as you see the mortgage crisis now when asked about that and when you talk about the end of anger is there a growing economic divide among african-americans is this people that have succeeded are feeling better about racism or those that haven't succeeded economically feel a lot different? >> you do touch on something he alluded to before >> in answer to that direct question, certainly those who are doing economic and better felt a lot better about their options in life as measured

all of these things are connected to the finance of our society. so we need to really get into the mentor and leadership dynamics with a bank. somebody needs to find out really what's working in our society. and i think this is where these kids are really left out. they feel they are not apart of the inner workings of our society and how it really connected our beliefs and how important they are not scheme of things. it's not just about basketball and football. they need to get with the finances of what goes on here in this society. >> thank you. next question >> yes. i had a quick comment. i wanted to follow up on communities that are outside of the regular realm of crn. we need and crn over there. i wanted to say within the last couple of youths. we have all kinds of youth cultures and we have a huge latino population. most of those kids are young. we have been having our convenes meetings. all of us agree. none of us have the structure. we need to have someone get involved with job opportunity. we need that in the t l. >> that's my comment. >> i

local education society local society fix a society and local. society for produce produce and you know new ideas innovation so on there's a way which russia has to for because to improve and. environment and quality of education and quality of regulation like innovative states where russian use a lot of day money also tend to to flee russia capital out firms according to an estimate may reach fifty billion dollars this year according to to to an analysis what do you see as a fundamental reasons for this i think it's a purely economic reasons i wouldn't like to actually make any. conclusions based on this figure is not entirely wrong about it's a purely economic reasons. at this moment i mean the autumn of previous year. first half of this year we have very specific situation in the economy in russia we have a. lack of clear expectation of businesses. the mystic demand and stability of. the mystic demand that's very significant but there's the same time they have russian companies a whole lot of. resources to invest financial resources and just t

particularly among the poorest sections of syrian society. we also worked on reducing some construction cost for related fees in order to ease the financial burden on citizens to the extent available and what resources allow. we hope it will push the economy forward, increased job opportunities, and compensate the large losses covered by the syrian economy during the currency been. they would increase the suffering of the citizens if we did not face them with rapid procedures that mitigate the pressure at the present and reverse direction later on. this is a group of measures aimed at alleviating the crisis and reducing burdens on syrian citizens. there are other measures taken by the government, but what is important now is for all of us to work in order to restore confidence in the syrian economy. the most dangerous thing we will face is the weakness or collapse of the syrian economy. a large part of the problem is psychological and we should not allow for fear or frustration to defeat us. we should defeat the problem by returning to normal

but in this country, we are demonstrating the society and the refusal of some people within a societyho destroy the society problem, that our own problem. we should rebuild our home to other countriefor saudi arabia coect good the government. >> let me allow remarks. >> we are to monitor and be careful with how americans can operate. every poor country is corruptible. it's very easy. you can't tell you poor man not to take a bribe. you know, in egypt, prices go up for you because you have hard currents. people want it. so you can't say this powerful country is not to blame when it comes than with money. so you know, poverty causes these problems, but weneed to monitor what happens in the u.s. and in suits that transparency occurs in the arab world from here because with the u.s. has failed in the last 30 years is by doing what's right in terms of human rights and torture. an income of the u.ssends people to be tortured in the arab world. i mean, who's fault is that? >> it's our fault. our political govement is corrupt. how many people are in egyptian prisons in the last 25 years? >> v

personal and ok how influential are the supporters of luggage today in the serbian society can the society be split over his arrest yes the society is split but. last week i told you i was. a guest in belgrade back at the presentation of our book in serbian language and i was a guest. in belgrade t.v. . and that was the vaulting or spectator of about the main. the main interesting event from that week and only one. spectator school named the case of realize as a main event people talked about. probably not football not not basketball scandal great cultural crisis etc etc and what. i want to say that. the arrest did not cause a major public outcry in serbia remorse serbia's it didn't surprise yes yes most serbians realize that those of his link. fortunate past their professional lawyers should work with and serbia should look to the future of to find a way on the european union because serbia now has a lot of problems. is not a problem it is the past of the country is if bloody qur'an additional that again if the if these guys are really the. women saying do you mean syria and former yugosl

and just in terms of how difficult it was to make it in american society. and so once i saw this interesting sort of generational breakout in the data, we went back -- i had a small group of researchers. we went back and conducted over 130 follow-up interviews just with people who were in the survey. in addition to, oh, for 100 interviews that were conducted generally for the book. it was different methodology. but he asked what change the country changed in some ways but also we're looking at a different generation to some extent. >> so part of it is generational and part of it you say is the obama election kind of the capstone to the corporate gains that were made. >> there's that. >> one of the things that i had as a backdrop as i began the research for this book were a series of studies. by gullop indicated there was a measurable increase in terms of optimism among african-americans. the most recent large poll was done recently this year and it was a "washington post" harvard poll and it continues to show that african-americans are significantly more op

groups he shares his thoughts about why he feels it's so important to rehabilitate them back into society. mr youve quarter of thank you very much for being with us today. my pleasure of the lead now counterterrorism operation was completed recently in the republic. in which one of the militant leaders was killed how did the operation go and what stage have you reached in his counterterrorism campaign for the steam from commenting on how the operation where our counterterrorism operations around by the security agencies so i do not interfere with them too much we've done a significant amount of work over the past two years and of achieve significant results we can see that now the situation is quite stable and peaceful and their security services are currently working on two types they force the militants to surrender either arresting them or exterminating the ones who put up any resistance or both of those. people lay down their arms and return to society the community has difficulty fully accepting both them and their families what can be done to facilitate reintegration for these peopl

how can we be where we are today because i fear as a society we're about to go over the precipice once again. that was all pream l. let me frame the conversation this way. i had an absolutely spectacular time as attorney general and governor too broof as it may have been, because there's nothing better than being in the arena, hence the name of the tv show i host nowadays. it's wonderful to be there and be in a position to try to affect public policy, think through the tough issues and go from the classroom and say what should we do? you experiment. that's why roosevelt's great quote that you try something and if it fails, doing? different, but at least try something. there were moments that were fun. i mean, one of my favorites and some of you heard the story, i apologize if you have. i find it enjoyable. i was talking one evening, been invited by the wall street analysts to speak at their dinner. as i'll describe in moments, i had a somewhat fraught relationship with wall street at large and with the analysts in particular. i'll describe the wase in a -- case in the moment or two. we

when people lie down there on the new cancer society the community has difficulty fully accepting both they and their families. is to take these people's reintegration of cover up their in the i'll put it this way it wasn't exactly an order it was a very strict imperative i gave to the citizens of all villages sometimes including ali ewart and so harking when i had a meeting with the local authorities i told them to make sure that people call in these families to make sure they get on beta to community events and to make sure that they are except that i'm not pushed away people have the option to turn themselves in office and syria and give their position and if there is insufficient evidence to convict them we give them jobs they haven't struck the bulls people's employers to assign them supervise to both observe them and facilitate their interaction with other people with a new colleagues in order to prevent them from feeling like us or outsiders were women. well there were our challenge recently interviewed the leaders of dagestan and the chechen republic i asked in the same questio

we would have no art in our society. every artist would put down his paintbrush if it were not for joe biden. we would all be i go noramuses. and our kids would be working in a mine for a dmrar a day and the economy would be run by short men with white mustaches running arrest carrying with sacks of money with dollar signs. [laughter] >> now, didn't we all kind of get this? we all got that. that story is superficially plausible. i understand why people believe it. i'm not arguing that people are stupid for believing it. what else would people believe. this is what we're fed all the time. if i were running a flak washington that's what i would you poor souls to think. sure, you got to fork over a lot of money. you may not like it, gosh, think of where you would be. and dog-eat-dog, we should just grin and bear it. but let's suppose for a minute and the sake of argument instead of being educated in government-funded schools, which north americans are, suppose what would happen if people were educated in schools funded by w

this will be a greater contribution to society, to the community. all workers can be helped and have a greater impact on society to create a better community. >> [speaking chinese] >> thank you very much. this is what i have to say today. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good morning. my name is maria perez. i am home care provider in san francisco. one of the executive board members of sciuuhw. i am here today to ask you to protest against the increase of our health insurance premiums. i know to you it may seem like a small portion, but to us, it is a big impact in our financial situation. as our members have mentioned, we have not had an increase, we have no sick days or days off. we provide a service to our seniors and disabled persons with gladness and pride. we also have a country rich in the 3.6% from our pay. we estimated that was $2 million we saved the city. also, the impact it would have on the city because we are already low income. a lot of our members would have to go into the universal health care providers here. san francisco will probab

when people lie down their arms and return to society their community has difficulty accepting both pay and better than anything what. these people's reintegration of. put it this way it wasn't exactly an order it was a very strict comparison very clear to the citizens of all villages and towns including the yurt and so harking when i had a meeting with the local authorities i told them to make sure that people call in these families to make sure they get invited to community events and to make sure that they are accepted not pushed away people have the option to turn themselves in or force in syria hands and give them their position and if there is insufficient evidence to convict them we give them jobs and i've instructed girls people's employers to assign and supervise to both observe them and facility at their interaction with other people with a new colleagues in order to prevent them from feeling like us or outsiders. our channel recently interviewed the leaders of dagestan and the chechen republic and we asked them the same questions what can be done with regard to these people h

people lay down their arms and return to society the community has difficulty fully accepting both them and their families what can be done to facilitate reintegration for these people over a third quarter put it this way it wasn't exactly an order but it was a very strict imperative i give to this is all for legitimatizing. and so hocking when i had a meeting with the local authorities i told them to make sure that people call in these families to make sure they get invited to community events and to make sure that the accepted and not pushed away people have the option to turn themselves in office and syria and give their position and if there is insufficient evidence to convict them we give them jobs and instructables people's employers to assign them supervisors to both observe them and facility at their interaction with other people with their new colleagues in order to prevent them from feeling like us or outsiders. the number of terrorist attacks over the past two years has dwindled to negotiate what makes your approach different from other heads of the north cook asian republics