as well as in china, japan, the united states europe. the middle east. africa. all of them cannot despise their resistance. despite their refusal stop that march of death. despite their resistance. communists repressives. zionists and anarchists. none can evade the march. this one is not coming with hammer and sickles . all wars surrender to. but when comes the cry? when will it really happen as death is peace? when can i truly die. you will never know yet you may have already and this life is your way of paying hommage to the power that loves and you left you with the taste of immortality on your lips. nothing mystical. no cries. power, your way. or buddha in the wings. even lying on your back, you are mocking. this is not a cynical, or pessimist or neonnist poem. join deaths to your life and you will live as if there 1 drum to march to. there is no march at all. you are there. all will be well for all. [applause]. >> >> >> >> >> i would like to tell you my experience -- when i first came here, i was the first philippino librarian. i said why don't we have a re

secretary of state will be her revitalizing america's alliances, and first and foremost, our alliance with europe. a direct result of this investment is the following pieces. i would assert that the united states and europe have never been more strategically aligned. this is not to say that there are not differences between us, but -- just as there are debates within the united states as there are in the european union. but we have developed a common agenda that enables us to join forces to meet the demands of a very challenging world to a degree that i do not think was paralleled not just in recent times in the previous administration, but the one before that or the several that preceded that. this unity of purpose is recognized on both sides of the year -- the atlantic. the german poll that i cited earlier said that 36% of europeans had faith in the president's handling and u.s. leadership in the world, and that is now 75%. and it is consistently in the 80's since president obama took office. this serves as well when we call on others to follow our global leadership, as we often do. let me give you a couple of examples to illustrate what i mean. i mentioned already president obama's h

the west, as a going concern, has really been about partnership between the united states and europe and between the united states and japan and other allies in the pacific, and i do worry that the european union's foreseeable future is perhaps introverted and fragmented. it is not that they will diverge from us on what these rules are, it is that they might not be in the game. that, i think, would leave us in an exposed position, and that is why i think the united states and europe should do what they can to refurbish and revitalize this anchor of liberal values of open markets and democratic institutions. because they are now under threat. rising powers do not share those same commitments, and that is why we need to make sure that our model is both strong and serves as an example for the rest of the world. >> you know, we had a panel in the european affairs subcommittee on the european fiscal crisis. virtually all of the panelists agreed that one of the most important things we could do to support europe in addressing their fiscal crisis, was to address our own at home. i would cert

we can relatively confidently say the united states and europe remain each other's best parkhurst and that when the american president or european leader looks how the public and says pudu one call when there's a problem of the person on the other side of the cleantech. my judgment is that is not going to change anytime soon partly because of the affinity of interest of the values and also there aren't other options and even though there are emerging countries out your waist count on our european allies and to rely on our european allies more than we can count on a cost-cutting. at the same time i think it's clear that we are at the cusp of a major historic transition in the global landscape in which the world that nato represents his losing the primacy it enjoyed the last 200 years and if you look at the share of global product represented by nato and i would include japan

as well as in china, japan, the united states europe. the middle east. africa.

europe are fully equipped and funded. and equally important, careful consideration has to be given how in the future united states and europe will sustain their military interoperability. the wave we fight for, the way united states fights wars is so complex but there is now much more difficult and challenging time consuming to make interoperability with other allied forces. it's not yet clear how interoperability will be sustained as united states further reduce its forces in europe and continued ambiguity on this issue communicates disinterest notches in the regional security concerns of our allies, but also in the roles, potential partners and out of area operations. second, chicago summit should be used to reanimate the vision of the europe hold free and secure as a guiding priority of the alliance. the united states should be leading this effort. a europe as undivided whole and free will be a more stable and secure continent, one better able to address global concerns and partnership of the united states. imagine europe today that did not integrate poland, the baltics, romania, bulgaria into new. with the e.u. have ext

united states has gotten involved in greece and turkey. the mediterranean. the united states has gotten involved in rebuilding western europe. the united states is sending out guys around the world and now we have signed on to the military alliance in central and south america. if you are joseph stalin, who is the great threat? who is trying to take over the world? it's the united states. if you paranoid and suspicious, it's the united states. so if you are joseph stalin, you have to respond. the cold war is like a tennis match. it goes from one court to the other. they do something and we respond and they respond. here is stalin's response. he is going to tighten up control over countries in eastern europe. hungary and czechoslovakia i mentioned because those were two countries that were supposed to have free elections. well, the free elections go out the window. by 1948. the communists have a purge of leadership and the two countries will be puppet regimes of the soviet union and then berlin. it gets complicated now. during world war ii, they are driving and getting into berlin before we do and occupy much of eastern german

>>pam: there were massive it made a protests happening in at least 125 cities in the united states, europe and australia. this is video from los angeles. demonstrators for calling for immigration reform and traffic was shut down in this area. police arrested at least 10 protesters in a nearby demonstration. more protests are planned for los angeles night. , occupy a wall street protesters also took to the streets of new york city for their may day demonstrations. this year the occupy wall street movement theme is a day without the 99%. students were urged to skip school and employees not to go to work. >> may day protests turned violent in seattle. writers are suffer from peaceful protesters which kicked off nearby. >> right now temperatures are quite cool clos >>pam: kiberlee sakamoto is here with a look at you to video showing the moment the least of floyd teargas to get crowds to disperse. >>kimberlee: as police moved into the massive crowd trying to make a few arrests, some of the protestors tried to stop officers at which point police made their move. in the video, you can see a very

the united states has gotten involved in greece and turkey, the mediterranean. the united states has gotten involved in rebuilding western europe. the united states is sending out guys all around the world, and now we have signed on to a military alliance with central and south america. if you're joseph stalin, who is the great threat to the peace, safety, and security of the world? who's trying to take over the world? >> u.s. >> yes, the united states. if you're paranoid, suspicious, it's the united states. and so if you're joseph stalin, you have to respond. the cold war is like a tennis match. it goes from one court to the other. we do something, the soviet union does something. we respond, they respond. here is stalin's response. he's going to tighten up control over countries in eastern europe, hungary and czechoslovakia i've mentioned specifically because those were two countries that were supposed to have free elections after world war ii was over. well, yeah, those free elections sort of go out the window by 1948. the communist, there is a purge of leadership and these two countries are going to basically become puppet

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annual capture the flag contest began about 20 years ago and now draws about 200 teams from the united states, europe, asia and elsewhere. japan is sending a team of eight students from the university of tokyo and three other universities. this marks the first for japanese students, though corporate engineers have taken part in past contests. team members enjoying -- enjoyed a sending off party on tuesday, hosted by the computer security firm that sponsors them. they will join a preliminary round beginning on may 30th in russia. the finals will be held in las vegas in august. >> translator: i want to solve as many quizes as i can and learn a lot. >> translator: i will try and do as well as i can. >> par tis pantds will test their skills in defending data in their computers while attacking those of their opponents within a set time. they will also compete in a quiz to test their knowledge of cyberatta cyberattacks. >>> we'll be back with more news in 30 minutes. i'm gene otani in tokyo. .

to labor unions and went on strike new order to demand that or a war in conditions from the united states. europe comes across a muslim militants illegitimate big day to mark the labor unions fight over the last seventy or eighty years if we all the top awards various political movements and parties on the street name as well as well as the students now this day is so so be. the rest of the now to listen to sing came from the united states by wall street also taking part in this they can see how to sort of. the lead. situation over the last six months of this time on this labor day they're coming back to the largest banks in the united states build up the devastation in the philippines. lose their mistakes and it is europe which is going through the other difficult time financially and politically so we know there will be there was a sit in london a little. brown said those things to get more of a reason or more of a day to celebrate spraying it and then to protest anything. ridiculous because they're bringing us the mood from central moscow now the opposition forces are also out on the streets w

europe causing the united states problems? or the united states causing europe's problems? he news from the united states was not good for the markets in europe, and the big four, u.k., germany, france, and italy all down between 1.5 percent and 2 percent. most closer to 2 percent. some individual companies dropping a lot more. a british home builder was down more than 7.5 percent, and another reason to say ouch, the latest estimates on european growth are not growth but, rather, contraction. an exception was spain and that is important today given the tough week or ten days they have had, the double downgrade from standard & poor's first with the credit rating and then nearly a dozen banks downgraded and the latest unemployment figures from there coming to nearly 25 percent so it was good that spain do show some resilience. not just the united states that has europe worried. but, also, europe itself with big elections this weekend if france and germany. freeway -- french socialist expected it take power which could be a problem for the euro zone. >>neil: charles payne says

>> well, jpmorgan says negative head winds in europe may be strong enough to knockout the tepid recovery in the united statesdo you want to look at that? thank you both for joining us. let's talk about that. how severe might an upset be in the united states because of europe? >> well, there's rumors that they announced that on friday. of course, political party after political party and greece don't seem to be doing a good job at building a coalition. certainly it's a significant headwind for that. >> what do you make of the market action lately where we get this fear factor in the morning and then the rest of the day it comes back? feels like the market wants to go higher, doesn't it? >> the phrase we've been using is rolling brownouts. i don't think one agreement was going to change the game. that said, i think what we are seeing is that a decoupling going on. we noticed about $90 billion of capital were raised in the high yield market in the third quarter. that's about twice the number annualized. the capital markets are easy. we're going to do this dance with europe and at the same time, the earnings sid

important issues that the vice president said at the united states will not recognize -- he said the united states does not recognize influence in europe, and he says the united states maintains that sovereign states have the right to choose their alliances. and despite some initial questioning among some of russia's neighbors, we have not given an inch on any of these principles. indeed our improved relations with russia have not come at the expense of our allies or our values and we continue to speak frankly about our differences. i know some of asked whether the progress with russia we make in the past three years will continue under president putin. all i can say is we're certainly ready to pursue that goal. i would point out that mr. putin was the head of russia's government for all of the past three years when all of these positive things were accomplished. we have to be realistic. we know that achievements going forward will be the result of hard work on both sides, and we will require continued focused on mutual interest. we know their are ongoing issues of disagreement, such as over missile defense in georgia. there are conten

but certainly between the united states and europe. i think this is a -- a very active debate. and -- and based on different philosophies. about what generates -- growth in the short run. >> i want to take the question, use it to make a slightly different point about this. which is one of the things we are not talking about here yet is which president would do a better job at educating the american public about the change in the world that we live in. and the point from your question is this -- i mean, i think we begin to understand that our economy at this stage in history, rises or falls with the global economy. the days in which our own production and our own consumption was sort of, isolated to us some extent from the patterns of the global economy are long gone. china slows down. europe slows down. we slow down. period. end of story. all right. china grows. europe grows. we grow. simple as that. but i don't think that that is -- deeply understood in the american public. and so -- the question then becomes -- which president can do a better job and change the world and what

provide incredible reaffirmation to the transatlantic organ one in which the united states demonstrates real commitment to europe'sregional security interests and our european allies should stand with united states to address global challenges in transatlantic security. toward that end, the u.s. should pursue five priorities at the chicago summit. first and foremost, the president must critically reaffirm europe's centrality to its global strategy. the drifting apart of the two continents has many causes but they include a u.s. transatlantic agenda whose dominant tolerance recently have been a vaguely defined set of guidance from russia and the proposed missile defense architecture and still remains conditional. the decision to further reduce u.s. forces stationed in europe appears in the context of increasingly assertive russian foreign-policy. just last week, russia's chief of the general staff threatened to launch a preemptive strike against proposed missile defense sites in central europe. washington should remove the conditionality that still hangs over u.s. missile defense plans for asia. that conditionality

europe. of course, the united states is the issuer of the reserve currency by definition. you see the u.s. fiscal situation in a way is much more worrisome than that of europe. in europe, you know, budget deficits are being brought under control. in any case, if you look at the euro area as a whole, the debt to gdp ratio is very modest. the gdp -- the debt to gdp ratio is also very modest. in contrast, if we look at the united states, the deficit is pretty sizable and so is the debt to gdp ratio. so the listen is, even if you're in very advanced dmi, you always have to be careful because, you now, crisis now days can strike really anywhere. >> lombardi is an expert on g-20 and g-8 summits, international monetary relations and global currency. his current projects focus on the international financial crisis and ongoing european crisis as well and the world bank. birmingham, alabama, gor dpon on the line for the republicans. you're on "the washington journal." gordon? >> caller: the basis for this whole thing is there's a massive entitlement program in greece, in italy. i mean, nay ear spendi

it's -- it's probably more asia and not less europe and if i could recommend top my friends in the united states the way to present it in the future is -- is more asia, not less europe. what i'd also just like to say is that, i guess libya was good news. libya was good news, because first the europeans really took action. second, of course, there is a lot of, a lot of discussion about, you know, how good were the europeans? well, look at it this way. the europeans could have done it with -- without the united states, just not as easily. not as fast. not as -- not with the losses that we suffered, but it would have been much more difficult. stow was good. it was great the united states stepped in. and, of course, it points to a lot of the shoresages and shortcomings that we have in our capabilities. but there was something, there was another element that you should not, you know -- you should clearly see. some of the partners of nato took greater responsibility than some of the actual members. now, that's an interesting new development. i guess the participation of sweden, which was seamless, whi

activists shia in iraq spreading into saudi know because it is out of vision for what should the united states in europe have. the interest of united states for the interest of the many european countries for the autumn save for the difficult all year for due to mutual interest which many countries are seeing it has more priority than the human rights of the bodies for example disseminate united states which as good as not just for syria sitting on bahrain is that is meant by that a president to defend america the president even though you might i've gone so saying that do not talk about buying decision because biden is improving itself and doing better whether people as emboldened feel if you will what is a one man died because of guess we have daily basis people are dying it is. fueling the really forces this is what i want to go but i've been saying this is what the americans maybe try to buy but that's not enough none of that a vision of the group did i read a cable at the time of these bahraini protests about eight months ago. and this us cable which we have published says that the bahraini governm

europe can drag down the market. long-term, i think it's bullish for the united states. >> if europe decelerates and we see this problem accelerate, we're looking at this debt crisis continue, greece is pushed out, doesn't that impact the u.s.? >> certainly from the point of view of multi-national companies, absolutely. we've tried to focus on more domestic, smaller and made-cap companies that have no exposure around the world. >> that's important. that's where you want to be allocating capital. smaller mid-cap names that are exposed to the u.s. the federal reserve this week which released the minutes from the last week seemed to leave the door open to further stimulus because of europe. >> right. >> once again, they discussed the european problem perhaps impacting the u.s. do you think it's likely that we see qe3, what's your thought on the fed approximate with the ten-year at 170, it's less likely than if the ten-year were at 230, 3, something like that. i think the fed is being handed a different here. europe is doing quantitative easing for the united states. ten year at 170, 180, not because of u.s. problems, beca

of us here in bahrain spreading into saudi no because it is so does our very influential united states in europe have. default the interest of united states for the interest of the many european countries for the autumn save for the different of the all year for their mutual interest which many countries seen it has more priority than the human rights of the bahraini for example disseminate united states which ask a question not the same for syria they are sitting on so what i mean is that is that meant by that a president to defend america in the present that even though you might consul saying that we will not talk about behind decision because behind it is improving itself and it did doing better whether people that as i'm talking to you a few hours ago one man died because of the guess we have daily basis people are dying it is iran fueling the really forces this is what i want a government saying this is what the americans maybe try to buy that but that does not know of none of their division in the group did i read a cable at the time of these bahraini protests about eight months ago. and

war in afghanistan, and our own domestic economic problems, it was good to see europe take a leadership role. united statesid not leave, but europe did. it is not a template, because those situations will be quite rare. my own view is that we have to lead the alliance. some of our members, britain and france, decided that this was vital for them. i would prefer that the united states was with the alliance rather than absent. we played a supporting role. i do not see it as much of a template, but i cannot imagine many situations where the united states would want to separate itself from europe. we need to leave. over and over again in this report, nato needs this message and it is not aimed at the current administration. it is aimed at all of us and our congressional leaders who need to fully fund our military and diplomacy as we go ahead. >> thank you. ambassador, this is a very valuable paper that is already up. at acus.org. if you want to comment on it or meted -- read it more closely, it is a rich discussion. thank you for that. what is most important, and irrespective of what happens over the weekend,

an existential choice or you are the decide that you want to go the whole hog and have the united states of europe of one form or another or you go back to individual currencies the point is that yes there will always be net fiscal transfers but in the united states for example i'm sure a state like west virginia has been a net recipient of federal dollars for almost its entire history but you don't hear people complain about it and by the same token if texas runs a current account surplus with the other forty nine states that's irrelevant because you have a fiscal union and ultimately it's not a consideration which creates huge instability so that's a logical world where you have to go i mean historically when you had monetary without a strong fiscal counterpart as say you did in the united states confederacy during the civil war or you had during the articles of confederation before the u.s. constitution was introduced in seven hundred eighty nine they didn't work so the crisis has forced europeans to make this choice the germans say well we've got to actually introduce these reports before we c

>> i mean that, the united states, whether or not you are at the center, it is clear that the u.s. is not going to bail out europet going to remove assad from power. neither is anyone else. for decades, we had a world where the united states and its allies with our capital and our values -- we were leading through the world's lender of last resort. we were the world's policeman. that world order is gone. we have to adapt to that. >> greta: what happened? i mean, it used to be that we were the world leader. everybody did look for us. we could accomplish those things and get the allies together and collectively do things. what happened? >> a couple of quick things happened. first, in the last 30 years, the underlying balance of power shifted away from the u.s. and its allies. u.s. towards china, developed developing debtor states, towards creditor states. another thing that happened, the united states, a lot of america's population felt like they didn't benefit as much from globalization. they are not getting the jobs. so why they support the policies? how many people want to keep troops in afghanistan or iraq? how