the most important features of the maintenance of the state. fered sacrifices on certain days as a part of the celebration of the... the founding of the state. one offered sacrifices on the birthday of the emperor. cities very often mounted these enormous celebrations to celebrate the emperors, and all the populace would have been expected to come and join in. >> narrator: at these great public ceremonials, christians were becoming all too often conspicuous by their absence. >> when the christians really do become much more prominent in the social arena of greek and roman cities, the pagans start to take note of their absence from important festival days and their unwillingness to participate in certain aspects of social life. >> judaism had long ago come to a legal agreement with the emperor that they would... jews would not be forced to participate in pagan rituals. and pagan rituals are part of the normal fabric of life in a roman city. jews were exempted from this because romans knew the jews were odd about this kind of thing. >> now, along

what is the real meaning of the death of jesus? how important is the death of jesus? maybe it's the sayings of jesus that are really the important thing and... and not his death and not his resurrection. >> i think we're right to call it the jesus movement here, because if we think of it as christianity-- that is, from the perspective of the kind of movement and institutional religion that it would become a few hundred years later-- we will miss the flavor of those earliest years of the kind of crude and rough beginnings, the... the small enclaves trying to keep the memory alive. >> we're hampered by our vocabulary.? we know that this group will eventually form a gentile community, and they'll be known as christians. but this group didn't think that. this group expected jesus to return and establish the kingdom of god. >> he is a jewish messiah. they are followers of a jewish apocalyptic tradition. they are expecting the coming of the kingdom of god on earth. it's a jewish movement. >> the jewish sect, then, is a group which sees itself as jews, recognizes that there a

the world series, and we are very proud of the giants and some of the players are basically right outside of the job. the budget remains consistent, with the budget, on the construction size. and with the release packages to date. as i said before, a little over 550 craft hours completed and running over 60 percent on the small business or local labor, i am sorry the bay area labor. and here is the break down, san francisco, continues to contribute about 20 percent of that and the other county surrounding the projects. and these are just a list of the trades. this is a body count of actual any craft's people that have worked on the project since the beginning, we are here with the multiple going on and we are steady. and this is the quality of workers and have logged hours to the project in those classifications. >> thank you. >> this concludes my report. >> the next item is public comment >> and now it is a chance for the public to address what is not on the calendar and rick smith would like to address you. >> and if there are any other members that would like to address us, if

and, of course, the rivers of the west. when dupont's fleet captured the port royal bay and then spread out to capture all of the south carolina, georgia and florida sea islands and capture a number of other ports there, brunswick, fernadina, st. augustine and so on, that liberated tens of thousands of slaves. it wasn't the army that did it. >> it's a really good point to make as we are literally at the sesquicentennial of the preliminary e emancipation probm proclamation, plus a couple of weeks, and i can't help just noting that here in new york we're proud that new york state was smart enough to request, preserve the preliminary emancipation proclamation in lincoln's hand and send it this year on a statewide tour as well. chicago didn't do quite as well with the final emancipation proclamation, but i guess they couldn't help it because of that fire. but he did very well saving ours. actually, the emancipation prolo mission -- proclamation was in a fire of its own, rescued from the new york state capital fire of 1911 which

artist, saying that he's the child of the queen and of the king of naranjo. keach: the son of the king was a maya scribe. here was a culture where literacy itself was a symbol of status. archaeologist bill sanders. sanders: the writing system i doubt was understood by more than 10% or 20% of the population. the rest of the population, i am sure understood the meaning of the icons -- the carvings of gods, the representations of the kings and the symbols that they carried on their dress, headdress and so on. when they came here for the great public ceremonies, they would see these things and understand what they meant. keach: but for today's archaeologists, the meaning of these symbols is more elusive. at copan, artist barbara fash directs the reconstruction of a building commemorated after the death of king 18 rabbit. the workers are guided by an ancient pattern on a surviving wall. how do scholars interpret patterns like this which don't contain specific information like dates or words ? if you look at the side of the building that was still in place, and you

the needs of the people of hawaii and the sovereign rights of the hawaii ans and other indigenous people as our friend don young mentioned were priorities of his government. during the 1970's and 1980's, senator inouye played a critical role in making sure that this country understood its behavior towards the japanese americans on the mainland and in hawaii. there was an effort to secure an apology, a recognition of the wrongdoings and also move forward with the idea of republica rations but didn't -- reparations but didn't seem they were making much progress. he said perhaps we need to do a study and a commission to educate and inform the rest of the members of this body to understand what it is what we are fighting for. and so came about the world war ii commission on internment. and to the commission study and their gathering of information across this country and listening to people who were aged to the people who were younger, securing information validating the position of those seeking an apology from this government came the conclusion in the final decision to move forward with a

the closest -- the closeness of the place and the heat of the climate added to the number of the cher -- on the ship that each -- the air became unfit for breeding. -- for breathing. this wretched situation was again aggravated by the ball and chains, and the filth of the necessary tubs into which the children often fell and were often suffocated. the shakes of the women rendered the whole scene almost inconceivable. this is remarkably potent language in describing what it was like to be traffic into a slave ship a couple of centuries ago. now i will read you just briefly from a case a documented two years ago in bangladesh. my name is mustafa. we are very poor, and it is very difficult to find work. many recruiters come to the village. they promised they can arrange work and construction in other countries for very good wages. first, we have to pay a fee of around $5,000 for training and documents. i did not have these funds, so i took a loan, which they said i could repave from my wages once i am working. after some months, we were given documents, and agents arranged travel for us.

that is the gift of grace and the gift of truth. ess the members of this great community of electors. we pray in a special way for the candidates. we pray for those who are leaders not only this state, but also in this nation. we pray that you give them courage to fight the good fight. we pray that you would surround them with your lease. and with your -- with your holy spirit and your strength. that we might reach four, struggle for a better nation that represents peace and a loving community. we commit to you and we received your promise with joy as we say, lord, i am with you always, even until the end of the age. it is in the name of jesus, our christ the lord, that we pray, amen. >> thank you, doctor. you may be seated. we have an number of distinguished guests with us today, including some of my compatriots from the north carolina council of state, including the state auditor, the commissioner of insurance, wayne goodman, and superintendent -- the superintendent. we also have rick cobb, secretary of administration of moses care

the 1840s and 1850s of the period of the highest rate of 4 immigration in the united states in american history. we think it is the late eighteenth century which is the real immigration period and in terms of numbers, most immigrants come to the united states the the 1840s and 50s in percentage of population you have huge numbers of irish people fleeing the potato famine and from germans with a terrible economic situation in germany and other immigrants coming in to the united states and posing a lot of problems, in the northeast especially and assimilation. a lot of immigrants fight on the u.s./mexico war. they don't have economic opportunity. it is not very good soldiers. and the santa true ceo. they're all i ridge men because they carry an irish flag, when they look at the people, the germans too. one thing i didn't talk about is tension between catholicism of mexico and mainstream belief of most americans, a lot of americans go to mexico and convert catholics and redeemed catholicism and immigrants, he always translated german accounts, and the elephant wars a terrible idea. they th

wearing top hats, the hats of the pa trishian class. dickens in the hat of the common man. of course what the caricaturist is pointing towards is the difference in their readership, the difference being dickens' much broader appeal to the reading public. also i found the bowler hits a hint to his american audience as well. dickens was highly aware of how perilous his own life was in terms of the social circumstances that he grew up in. his father was imprisoned for debt. dickens became the sole family bread winner at the age of 12 and said in retrospect i could have been a vagabond or a little thief for all anyone cared of me. it's not impossible to believe that dickens may well have ended up like one of the characters in oler tst. >> twist, are you out of your senses? >> please, sir, i want some more. >> what? dickens as a young man starts to go to the theater more or less every single night. as you can tell from his work, theater is hectic but he is steeped in shakespeare. hamlet is referred to often more than any other play. >> whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer t

the film, then reverend billy on the end of the world. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. people across the united states are expected to join a moment of silence at 9:30 this morning to mark one week since the massacre at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut. last friday morning, adam lanza opened fire at the school, killing 20 children and six adults. a series of back-to-back wakes and funerals are continuing for the victims. those mourned on thursday include catherine hubbard, benjamin wheeler, jesse lewis, and allison wyatt, all aged six, and grace mcdonnell, age 7. the service was held in new york for teacher anne marie murphy, who is believed to have used her body to shield students from a hill of bullets. 30-year old teacher lauren rousseau was also mourned thursday in connecticut. her partner of the year, tony lusardi, spoke to cnn. >> i want the world to know she was a great person who touched the lives of everyone she ever met, eve

of the state of israel was ready to actually keep parts of the city of jerusalem under the sovereigntyof the palestinians and and the jewish parts under the sovereignty of the states of israel and i agreed also that the holy places will not be under the sovereignty of any nation but they will be administered by a group of five nations, the united states of america, saudi arabia, jordan, palestinians and the state of israel in order to keep these places free for the access of everybody believer because they belong to humanity, they belong to religions and it will guarantee the security needs and interest of if state of israel and the palestinians. but this is a dramatic change from what barack was doing and it certainly is different from any other idea that came up through the years so i can say that barak under the influence of president clinton did a great deal but the in the end they messed it up primarily because of the reluctance of yasser arafat to make any agreement. i never believed arafat will make any agreement because he was a terrorist. there is a big difference between him

great lakes, the late howard who was a member of the house of representatives from the state of michigan for many years, he served for the first two years of the obama administration as the special envoy. he passed away, and he was replaced by special envoy ambassador barry. an experienced diplomat who had served as deputy chief of mission in the drc, and had served in a number of other posts. he continues to work on regional great lakes issues, but the decision to stop the try par tide plus was based in a reluctance of the government in the region to carry-on. >> thank you very much, mr. smith. >> thank you. rue wan can is increasingly getting attention as major source of the problem in the region. there's a lot of history here going back and forth across the border of awe toesty committed on both sides. rue began has an interest in maintain security across the border. it's clear that, you know, they continue to deny involvement in m23 despite the fact it's obviously they are deeply involved in that and other aspects of it. i think we are going need as a country to start putting more pr

percent of the terminal stations that would be the end of the line of each line and it does not have a rest room for our operators and i just want to speak briefly on the perspective of the increased workers cost and i sit on the wellness committee as the union representative and what we see is ongoing budgeting medical costs secondary to operators to, you know, first, the stress level of the job is very, very, intense, and second of all, when you get in a situation where you work on some routes that are three hours one way, that would be between 29 sunset to the southeastern portion of the town. the folks don't have a place to use the rest room. we have gone and gone in the last year to try to get the uta to move on this project and one of the things that they continually come back to us is that there is a lack of funding and so the reason that i approached this board today, is to try to put out a general call, not only to the transportation authority but to the board of supervisors in general that this is a health issue for employees of the city and county of san francisco. and it

warda by the end of the year the stabilization fund will reach about nine percent of the g.d.p. that means that we already have a certain safety cushion starting in twenty thirteen i suggest investing part of the fund into the russian equities and the president also mentioned that the much anticipated privatization program of russia's state owned giants should be done all locally meaning that companies like russia's second largest bank d t v the railways monopoly russian of railways and the diamond mining giant all grosser should all hold their i.p.o. those here in russia that's of course a very good news as well for the russian markets as part of his effort to fight corruption which many say is so rampant and russia that it's hurting not only a local businesses but also foreign investments into russia who just suggested that companies should not have offshore bank accounts and that state officials should not be allowed to own the real estate or. braude investing all their savings into the russian economy. can we trust a politician or a state official who talks up a storm but at

nature of how capitalism is changed and the nature of the making of the global capitalism is really meant to finance and industry and become integrated, not unified in single institutions, but mutually interdependent in a way that is very strong. for example, when at the end of the 70's there is the question of interest rates were raised, finances liberalized. the auto industry was really devastated. and we an interview with the president of general motors about a decade ago. general motors globally and we ask them, why did you react? why did you except that given what was doing to you? why were you challenging? and he said, because what they were doing, what finance was doing was absolutely necessary. we had to accept the discipline because it was necessary to break a working-class. cats basically what he said. wrong to control. and you see this right now. you would think that given the kind of deep, deep recession were going through and what it's doing to industries, not just on know, that there would be this major conflict between finance and industry demand

support of the rest of the population of bahrain they have turned to these violent means the protests are gathering momentum and allegations of torture in prisons are leading to serious international pressure being put on. so bahrain's rulers find themselves in a tough position they want dialogue with the dissenters but the question is whether they will be satisfied with what the king has to offer a legacy or shift key r.t. reporting from the kingdom of bahrain. well moving on to syria now moscow claims there is no evidence that the government in damascus will use chemical weapons adding that it believes the biggest threat to the country is have. militants get their hands on the arsenal this comes after a video was released last week of an alleged rebel fighter threatening loyalists with chemical weapons the source of that video has unconfirmed meanwhile activists say forty five people were killed in syria on sunday with battles raging in the capital damascus and in aleppo rebel groups are also uniting under one military command and in the latest western supported e

2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on december 14, 2012, at 11:32 a.m., that the senate passed senate 2045, that the senate passed without amendment h.r. 6116. with best wishes i am, signed sincerely, karen l. haas. the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, i have the honor to transmit a sealed envelope received from the white house on december 14, 2012, at 2:47 p.m., and said to contain a message from the president whereby he transmits the district of columbia's f.y. 2013 budget and financial plan. with best wishes i am, signed sincerely, the karen l. haas, clerk of the house. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will read the message. the clerk: to the congress of the united states, pursuant to my constitutional authority and as contemplated by section 446 of the district of columbia self-governmen

of rights. the idea of economic and social rights is essential supplement to political rights, starting as far back as the french revolution, the right to medical care was something more recent. discussion of this kind of right became common in the 1930s and 40s first of all because medical care itself was becoming more effective and starting to matter much more in everyone's lives. the public knew about medical miracles like vaccinations, penicillin, antiseptic surgery, treatments that could save lives and even extend life. to withhold these miracles came to seem unjust. medical care at this time was also starting to cost more than ever before. the average family could not afford to pay for hospital stay for a major illness or the birth of a child out of their wages. medical care had become not just a matter of life and health, it was becoming something that could cause serious financial hardship. that is what medical care became a matter of economic security as well as health security. in the u.s.

it is relevant to the lives of the american people. as we gather here, we, a country of great family traditions, of family values or of commitment to faith, faith in ourselves, our families and our god, our country, are away from home while people are lighting a menorah candle, a hanukkah candle, while people are trimming trees and the rest of that. ok, we're here to do our job but we we hear from the republican side that they might not be ready to relieve the pain and curiousity of the -- that the american families have about whether we're going to get this done. . whether the markets will have confidence how to grow the economy and create jobs and remove all doubt, remove all doubt in the full faith and credit in the united states of america. every time you come to this floor it's a question, why are we here? we are here to do the people's work. let's sit down. get it done. and move forward. instead of filling the agenda however worthy some of those initiatives may be, instead of not along with passing a middle income tax -- this is a

coalition is the way of the future. there are demographic trends to support that interpretation. mr. obama likes to think of himself as a revolutionary figure on the order of abraham lincoln and franklin delano roosevelt. and there are counter weighing forces. then there are the irresistible economic and financial realities. the u.s. government have bird itself to the hilt. the american economy is no longer growing at the rates of a few decades ago and certainly not at the rates of the 1950's and 1961 our entitlement programs have solved to the public and installed. it is hard to see how any new agenda can be paid for. it is hard to see how those are in place. barack obama may represent an era that is ending rather than one that is beginning. we have found it difficult to imagine a future of people that might undo our present system because we assume the welfare state as we know it is an historical destination. beyond which there lino political possibilities. to much hard work and political reform -- we have arrived at a

is one of the traditions of the court that has changed the most of its 200 years. under the martial court. in fact they like to raise their speeches for the illusion to shakespeare and the bible and roman law and they are equally and addressing the ratings in the courtroom audience who were all dressed up to come here the speeches as for the justices. but the justices haven't been given the written briefs in the cases, and they often haven't thought about the case much before the argument started. so they mostly sat in silence was sen. obviously the argument has changed enormously over time, and the introduction of the briefs in the 1840's changed things as did the waddling down of time and as we all know these advocates only have 30 minutes to get their point across and the justices that are briefed on the case. so, that is an example of looking at the supreme court practice change enormously but i also wanted to show that things haven't changed. there are a lot of traditions. as you know the court is very tradition bound but they stay the same. for the disabled on

of the duties of a citizen. one might say that the ap to gee of american power was the 1969 moon landing, and since then we have been in a decline. this decline is inevitable, nothing lasts forever. this period of diminishing american he generalny, however, may be one of healthy age. we citizens are the owners of of this country and its board of directors, and we may find the strength to reasonably consider the options open to us in this confusing time. one of them is perfect. and this is a sign we must make a moral choice which is to say a choice between two flawed or, indeed, bad alternatives. if we do not choose, the choice will be made for us by those interested at home and aprod and weakening the power of the american electorate. it's not a brave announcement, but it is our country to govern, to defend and to enjoy as long as we choose to set our minds to it. thank you. [applause] >> i think we're going to have a few questions. so there are two people with microphones. raise your hand and, please, wait for t

one, as the mother of the son of god. d the other, some scholars say, as the messiah's favorite apostle. today, the marys are taking on new identities. while traditional devotion to the virgin mary is experiencing a rebound, there is also a new focus on mary of nazareth as a kind of first century feminist, not the icon so familiar to generations. >> that icon highlights the spiritual angle of a person. but know that that icon is rooted in history, and it's the history of a poor woman in a violent situation who suffered violence. and if you realize that, even the most spiritualized icon is going to make you turn toward poor women in violent situations who are oppressed even today. >> at the same time, mary magdalene has become a media star. the linchpin character of a best selling novel that says she wasn't just jesus' apostle, but his wife and the mother of his children. >> "the da vinci code" is appropriately shelved in books labeled fiction. >> have i read it? i mean, i would give it prize one for historical misinformati

the last couple of days, i wanted to look specifically at the kind of policy that our present in the basket of western policy, vis-a-vis iran when it comes to human rights. theaves service has a useful summary page of everything having to do with human rights for every country they have relations with, including iran. and the one thing that jumped to my eye, the great contribution to human rights on that pain washing the indication that european guidelines on human rights on a vast variety of subjects, from women's rights to death penalty and freedom of speech, was also available in farsi. and it kind of struck me how amazing it is -- i'm sure that millions of iranians are rushing to the west side of the european union to read the guidelines of human rights which clearly are having a great impact or thin life. one of the problems we're confronting -- it is a real problem. ali alluded to it. we are confronted with a huge dilemma. the dilemma is the following. want to stop iran from having nuclear weapons and the reason why that if you pursue a policy of support for democracy in iran at

that could be an overstatement of not the misstatement of the positions that the defenders of free use in those cases have taken. i don't believe the position of any other responsible library institution. and i am not in that case. every online use of content for cores support purposes should be free. but those that qualify as transformative should be available but is the same proposition. >> so? >> let me first just say. i have been told never argue points of law with a lawyer. [laughter] but in the minister earns -- layman's terms with the rise of fair use i could not do what i do without fair use. but within that, there is said doctrine called transformative use. that is a camel that is once in the tent destroys what fair use is intended to mean. and the judge had a radical notion of transformative use to copy an entire book.

the hands of propertyowners and give it to barbarians as john quincy adams may say. the bank if there was a deal with clay in 1824, was that ethical bystanders of those days and retrospectively by our standards? >> is certainly what is ethical in those days. he took a lot of flak for it, but the choice in his mind was to turn the country over to a barbarians who couldn't write his name, who had violated the constitution that will turn the word of 1812, con into massacre in the seminal sender and enduring whatever he felt like doing. he did not want to see this man president. >> one point in the book he described a bit of a crouch. teaching to afflict him as a person? >> yes. >> there is some time travel involved. >> all of us are brooches at times. he did not suffer fools, so you would be grouchy. i was grouchy last night when romney said we have fewer ships today than we had in 1917. i was grouchy when obama said some mean. john quincy adams was this fabulously learned man who had studied history. the rea

problem on the photo i.d. or any of these other issues. >> so professor, to follow-up and may be pushed back a little bit on your methodology, i wonder in the current climate where the voter i.d. and the talk of separation is so much in the year if there might not be very substantial number of people and putting in the jurisdiction where you didn't need to show the total ied to stay away and therefore looking at the professional stuff doesn't capture that. >> i think it's possible. i think it is unlikely based upon the data that we have that exists. for instance, the problem is there are surveys of nonvoters that have been done. the problem is finding the causation between the lack of a photo id and not going to cast a ballot because people will say well i didn't vote because i didn't have an idea but i also wasn't registered. so is that a person who isn't voting because they were not registered or voting because they didn't have an id? but even -- even if you give them the menu, like tuna, the weather was bad, they did

but the majority of the. difference is quitting majority acquittal an acquittal most of them had an acquaintance and a very few of those leaders to milly's their case the leaders are reasonable animals and there's usually no way you should have. if if i could please finish what you said sorry i was in a race on this one issue of trying to say that go ahead lauren well you made an incorrect claim at first now you're saying now you're saying in fact these people were indicted tried and acquitted well the fact that someone is acquitted is not an example of the failure of impartial justice in fact in many ways is an example of the success of impartial justice because what that indicates is simply that the prosecutor failed to make his or her case beyond a reasonable doubt and in fact it is the case that you know when you engage in a trial a trial is not a forum for simply venting political grievances it is a form that requires that criminal guilt be proven and that very fast according to its own i think it is usua

the southern states. slavery was legal in all of the british colonies and all of north america at the end of the 18th-century, and gradually northern states, northeast and mid-atlantic states abolished slavery but i realized this was a gradual process that took a long time. that what we discovered as there was leaves a new jersey in the 1860's, and most of the states that abolished slavery between c-17 80 and 1804 which is the period that we customarily look at had to do it again leader in the 19th century because there was so much ambiguity as to what the road from slavery to freedom was. so, thinking about that, i tried to then step back and say if this is the case what does this mean for how we should understand emancipation in the united states and the notion of sectionalism between freedom and slavery that organizes our understanding of american political history. so i've been arguing one of the essays in the look that slavery is national, and the communities of run away slaves should be understood by what we call marroons and people of dissent and what we call the northern states and the slaves and the

the gdp of the country, well in excess of $1 trillion. protecting that and the tax revenues to the federal, state, and local governments that that economy generates is critical. that wealth-creating sector was basically shut down for days and in some cases by weeks by the storm appeared building to the standards in effect the day before the storm would peak in possible but also cost ineffective. rebuilding a system at the hoboken caissons would be impossible to do. last week research suggested their return from mitigation spending, especially with respect to flooding, is a national return of 5 to 1, a 14% return. given that these are long-lived transportation infrastructure assets, the return to the local, state, and federal governments of mitigation spending will be substantial, but will also protect this huge part of the nation's economy. >> senator, at the risk of repeating what has been say, i think, clearly, that mitigation is critical. we cannot just rebuild what was there, not only because it may not be physically impossible, but it

so worried about the state of the planet say that the problem nowadays is that a lot of the items on sale don't have any purpose whatsoever the design to squeeze a lost out to the recipient and then the binge on boxing day so this year feel free to forget to buy a present or two you'll be saving the environment while you're at it. again end up in the water with your friends and family too don't blame us for international news here not in just a couple of minutes time. tucked in between the russian mainland japan and the suckling island is the island of minute on named after a french seafarer who discovered it it is described as the pride of the sakhalin region we'll take a look what's in store for us here. until two thousand and four the island was part of the borders own and was completely restricted too busy to know the speech rest place is open to tourists plants and animals are its top attraction. really has been exploring the deaths of the world seas for several decades but it's here at more your own island where he has finally found what he'd been looking for . the water here i

so this is another example of trying to help the folks at the very top at the expense of the rest of the country. and mr. bachus, it wasn't me that made the 40% comment, talking about dividing america. that was the comment made by the republican candidate for president. with that i yield to the distinguished lady from new york, a member of the appropriations committee, mrs. lowey, congratulate her on becoming the new ranking member. mrs. lowey: and i congratulate you on the wisdom that you share with us. mr. speaker, i rise in strong opposition to the bill. instead of putting forth a serious comprehensive and balanced deficit reduction plan, the republicans are taking a time-out so the house can embark on yet another effort to pass portions of the ryan budget. the same ryan budget that would end compare as we know it, walk away from the caps on discretionary spending agreed to in the budget control act and has no chance of being signed into law. our constituents want us to negotiate, agree to a solution to avoid economic catastrophe. i had concerns of some of the proposals that the pr

in the perspective of the success of the nato enforced u.s.backed no-fly zone in libya, i'd like to ask you the same question that bob asked the two candidates last night which is it snuck by most people. what about a no-fly zone in syria? there's military differences, russian, imported anti-aircraft, so sophisticated things, but the answer that boast romney and obama gave was, no, no military involvement. no-fly zone is a step towards military environment, but not a full military environment. what's your -- way would be your answer to that question? >> well, frankly, i think that the, you know, this is some of the calculation that went into the intervention in libya was if we intervened in syria, we already have done this. that's too flipped, but that's what one -- personally, i, you know, if in that position, i would be in favor of the no-fly zone. i think that -- so would the turks. they are saying, look, you're repeating history over and over here again. >> [inaudible] >> what i think is problematic is offering -- is sending, you know, cer

and the eventuality of the inclusion of you and me. no one cares that what, 40 years ago you and i would not be sitting here talking about the constitution of the united states except to say we were excluded. and now, it's hardly noticed. except you're a sterling professor of law so they probably notice that. [laughter] >> you talked about k. for yourself, my friend. [laughter] >> you know, that is nice of you to say but you know, i really look back and i have to say the same people. i have tried to say it over the years and i think in the city, people have dismissed as well, you are being a pollyanna or something like that, but i still say it's all the people who never gave up and had every reason to. first in that line would be people like my grandparents. not the cynical people that these unlettered people who never ever quit, who got up every day and believe that even if they didn't make it, those who came after them would. it's almost as though they self sacrificed. they were self-sacrificing, offering for these two boys and the ge

the torture first of all the u.s. attorney general announced that so long as you were following d.o.j. legal guidelines then torture was fine and then he said well ok we'll investigate some of the people who have gone beyond the guidelines and even also that he decided there wasn't really enough of a case to answer so no one has been prosecuted for any of the wars in iraq so how likely is it that the americans will one day wake up and say yes yes we will accept i.c.c. jurisdiction over a possible war crimes bill would you like to reply to that. but i just absolutely agree that the united states and every other country ought to be required to part to participate in the i.c.c. going to and to support a activities and i fully agree. if i park received gifts home here it's not proper for us to. support. you know indictments of gadhafi and bashir and the other ones and not at least hold ourselves up to the same standard lawrence what do you think about that. yes well i think i'm kind of somewhere between the two positions i

the fund. one of the reasons why the fund looks significantly worse this year than it did last year, we got criticism last year from outside experts, the gao and the way that we model claims in our actuary. we went back and corrected our actuary to change the way we model and that alone, that change alone subtracted $13 million from the value of the fund. so i'm not going to sit here and say we have been perfect in the way that we looked at the fund or the way we model that. and one of my responsibilities is to continue to make changes to get us an accurate a picture as we possibly can. >> let me ask a question. as we look forward in terms of the health of the fund, and i would assume it would be explicitly in the model about unemployment rates going forward and what unemployment rate are you assuming over the next year or so because it direct lee affected payment. >> absolutely. one of the important changes we made to the model this year, not to get too wonky here, is to go to something called stocha

>> the dawn of danny's life, the country was emerging from a great war, a war that left the rest of the world in ruins, but least america squarely in the center of the revolution for the first time in our history. yet, on the horizon was the greatest economic depression this nation had faced or has faced since. his mother, his mother, the first of her generation in hawaii, his father an Émigre from japan. at a time when there was strong and prejudices still in existence in america, a man who came of age as the secondary burst upon the scene, and that very prejudiced against japanese-americans reached a crescendo. december 7, 1942, as the majority leader alluded to, on the way to mass, or on the way to church with her grandfather listening to your radio about the bombing that was taking place in pearl harbor. first as danny told the story, over several times, he thought it was the most -- he and his father drove, he could see, could see pearl harbor, the bombs bursting. he was then labeled and any alien. he was labeled an enemy alien as his family was. because of his japanese ancest ance

that is the statutory role of the fed ruled bureau of investigation and the intelligence community. we enjoyed excellent cooperation with both of them throughout the report. under relevant statute, secretary clinton asked us to examine whether the attacks were security related and other security systems and procedures were adequate and implemented properly. the impact of the availability of information and intelligence, and whether anything else about the attacks might be relevant to appropriate security management of u.s. diplomatic missions around the world. we were also asked to look at what the u.s. government employee or contractor breached his or her duty. basically we wanted to find the lessons to be learned. better to protect americans from future attacks. to do all that we interviewed more than 100 people. we reviewed thousands of documents and watched hours of video. we spoke with people who were on the scene that night. who were in tripoli. who were in washington. we spoke to military and intelligence officials, including many state department personnel, and to experts who

instead is divided up by the various parts of the day. within each part of the day i sprinkle in vignettes. some of them very serious, some of them, of course, very traditional command a lot of them on all events because i'm always looking for those, too. i'm also going to cover some things that were not going tessie in the upcoming in a garish in january because this time we don't have a change of power. we're not going to have the transition as we see some times. nevertheless, in the morning at inaugurations when a president does leave office, 1961, here is toyed d. eisenhower thinking the staff at the white house. at the same time the income then-president, that year john f. kennedy and his wife, there are leaving the blair house getting ready for the big day. another thing -- another thing that takes place on inauguration morning, and this will happen again coming is a religious service. when i was in washington with my wife a few years ago just half a block from where were saying there was this church, the 1:00 a.m. each church, tradi

home of the head of file she was discovered because of a. sting which she too was disc students such that she waited every day and kept praying and believing that somehow the adoption agency that placed her there would come back and check on her and she would have been able to tell them but nobody ever came much of the fury in moscow over the brutal treatment of adopted russian children has been driven by the leniency american judges of shown towards a number of abusers the adoptive father of two year olds in my jacket who was acquitted after she forgot the boy his car for nine hours the toddler died of heat stroke the parents of russian born with annual craver have been released on bail after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter. the quavers have dodged a murder sentence even though investigators discovered that the child had suffered repeated beatings from his adoptive parents which left him with over eighty bruises and injuries of which twenty were to his head judges have also shown leniency in cases of abuse which did not result in

despite the psychotic affects of some of the use of k2 is troubling. we have to redouble our efforts to prevent more the this harm associated with it. in recent years we have seen an increase in the abuse of the stimulant adderall which had been accompanied by a increase in the risks of that drug. with the availability on college campuses going up, we have to examine how young people are using those drugs. that brings me to my final point. showing them how marijuana use harms the developing brain or empowering them to live free of tobacco and alcohol, the parents, teachers, coaches can really have an incredibly positive effect on young people prevention is the best tool that we have. the national media campaign is called above the influence. we have seen about 2 million young people who have taken up the message of prevention, and they make it their own for their own interpretation of art, poetry, music and the written word. we hope you take a look at. we have been humbled to see energy and creativity of america's youth as they make positive choices in

i think the iranian opposition is a key ally of the us leader of the opposition and the terrorist members of the opposition have close ties with foreign embassies in bahrain we can leak some of the old many documents proving that if this is true than washington sitting comfortably we can quickly switch sides but for now the opposition in bahrain is left to wonder as to why calls to support democracy from some are less worthy of attention than others like see russia ski r.t. reporting from the kingdom of bahrain. oh you stay with us all the way very soon russia's role in solving syria and how to stop war splinters a period between moscow and washington russia's foreign minister talks exclusively to us at r.t. after this break. which is slough near enough and knows that to ride a horse you've got to catch it first. for him it's a daily routine that you're soft as a horse breeder on the island of bohol and at the heart of bike of his life on an isolated farm is about blue sky green grass and his horse is worth it sometimes it gets lonely here but horses have become part of me now i've fallen

the crime of aggression being something adjudicated before the i.c.c. i think aggression is one of those things which again in nuremberg it was the crime of crimes there's something aspirational a very attractive about coming along in saying well without a war you don't get war crimes you know crimes against humanity and these other horrible things but the fact of the matter is it is awfully difficult to arrive at a satisfactory legal definition of aggression and i do worry about using the courts simply as a tool to settle political grievances between nations it george you want to jump in there. this go george you know yes it's very hard to see how. the invasion and destruction of iraq which u.s. government officials i just don't rumsfeld have admitted to cause the death of some one hundred thousand iraqis how that doesn't reach the threshold of gravity to warrant an investigation of this is warranting an investigation as it was no investigation. when moreno ocampo was able to declare of the two m

so the end of the cold war permitted these reforms when they got out of hand at the end of the sovietol in the end of the soviet union in my opinion was caused almost entirely internal forces. these were unleashed by the end of the cold war, beginning with the inf treaty. >> you share that view? >> i do. there's two ways we haven't used throughout this ever so popular at the time with respect to understand that gorbachev was trying to do. he was running -- he was attempting to change in the soviet union internally, engage with all of us. talking about forces out of control, that's a lot of going on at the same time it is in many respects a wonder he held on for as long as he did. >> brick, your tape or do you mentioned the russian made a fundamental mistake when they moved their 20s than -- ss 27. was there any mistake quite >> on the management of this issue, we almost ran into a couple. are we kept it on the road. i have to say because i think about the last 20 years from the 30 years u.s. foreign policy in the last 10 years. i do call it the disciplining impact of working within th

the complexity of this situation for example it's quite clear that when polls were taken the majority of people in britain itself were totally opposed to the iraqi war and yet tony blair prime minister that time took the country into war the same thing would apply in scotland and i think you know particularly here in ireland where we have had a conflict for about thirty forty years which to some degree still continues even this week we have had several riots in belfast with many many policemen injured political offices burned dein the situation is much more complicated than people generally believe europe itself i do not think is democratic because we continually hear for example that in germany the majority of german people are not in favor of germany building like greece so we get politicians constantly overruling the people of arizona if you take for example scotland as a specific example i would suggest there that the people of scotland culturally totally separate from the people of england it's no

on the fiscal cliff, one of the things, of course, in the fiscal cliff, one of the items of concern we had a debate upon on the floor today and the majority leader and i have discussed it again, last week and the week before that, part of the negotiations are with respect to the 98% of americans who fall into the category we seem to have agreement on should not receive a tax increase. there have been increasing number of republicans and democrats who have urged us to take that issue on which we agree in the near term and i again ask my colleague, the majority leader, whether or not there is any possibility that next week we might consider at least that segment -- let me make perhaps a wrinkle of a suggestion to the majority leader if i might, obviously we have a disagreement on that over 250. we could, mr. majority leader, perhaps consider two bills. one for those under 250 or 200, the senate bill essentially, and another bill that you might bring to the floor which would involve extending the tax cuts on those over those limits. so that members, even though there is a disagreement, co

the rest of us not you would think at the time of this. must is the ability just the world is somewhere via the equal access to the media for all political parties not only during electoral campaigns but what you are dreaming in every day but everyday life as well but of course we should all realize that this is not that easy to do the work we had seven party certainly within each of the year now we have forty eight to mauritius and more than two hundred organize some comedians more hearing to register their own party started the same time simply by talking about the government authorities should like you to zero but is to provide equal conditions for everybody to some experts suggest that we should in mixed electoral system by party lists and recognition from the synagogue constituency single seat constituency and i agree we can discuss their of the. if they go where you have some say but i will just have a bit of is that we need to a provide an opportunity to participate in elections to election the blocks to political coalitions but i th

in the northern part of the country. this important display of solidarity would greatly enhance u.s. standing among moderate opposition and will include our ability to undermine what will be considerable challenges in a post assad syria. greater u.s. engage and is essentials to assuring that this conflict ends with the removal of assad and iran and hezbollah are significantly weakened. all of this is clearly within our national security interests. i do not support the use of u.s. forces on the ground in syria i believe the u.s. can and should take more concrete steps to demonstrate support for the transition. we can't predict exactly what a new syrian government will look like, we can encourage moderate actors to take center stage emphasizing the importance of the process of building institutions, electing new leaders, the process of bringing together syrians of different backgrounds to pursue a common goal of peace and representative government. this is a goal worthy of support and i hope the u.s. will demonstrate our co

building and the mass of the building. and many of the units around the corridor with additional light wells and property line windows and light wells created the only type of light and air in the apartments. i happened to live in one of those myself, but by using the argument of property line windows aren't permitted, which under the current code when buildings are built today, that is correct. in those days, those rules didn't exist. so i believe that the examination of how we all of a sudden decide to brush away the quality of life in those units, irrespective of who lives in them, owners, renters, i don't care, it creates a change. we have a rule in this room that secondary conversations, please be kept to a minimum, if you don't mind. i am sorry to saying that, but i'm in the middle of the thought i want an answer and consideration and besides it's light. so i'm having a hard time that we're just brushing that aside saying property line windows, that is just too bad and we're opening the door for a huge amount of large