von braun was a very unique person, a very capable person. he -- i think he had a characteristic that a lot of people have that i've been able, through being known and traveling around the world some, we've had the opportunity to meet a lot of people that have done a lot of great things. and it seems to me that most people that have that characteristic have another characteristic. they have an inordinate curiosity of everything around. they're curious about everything. can we invent a better mike? how about a clock, something here. when we went to huntsville, von brunn asked us up to dinner on the hill. i expected when you walked in his little library that here would be all the books on engineering and math and mechanics and all this type of stuff and that would be it. instead of that, when i went in his library for the first time, here were all the books on religion and ethics and philosophy and a few books on math and science and things like that. but his library was mainly filled up by other things. he was a very broad-gauged person. you'd

korea's nuclear issue under the new leader kim jung and to discuss this we're joined live by eric von braun got me he's an expert on north korea from canada so one of the reasons for this breakthrough is the country really that desperate for food aid now or we would assume the first positive effects of the changeover the helman pyongyang. i think it's partly both. countries always short of school. right now probably not as desperately in need as it was a year ago they have just received in january some hundred thousand tons of food from china so this is not the number one priority for this particular action that's happening right now this is been actually in. discussion already last year and just prior to the death of kim jong il the u.s. it was going to make an announcement about a food a process with north korea so this is nothing to do with kim jong un now being in power as you said this was decided before kim jong il's death i don't know the details of what was the agreement earlier in december so there might be a new aspects right now to a disagreement but as i said this has been in di

wizard, who taught us chemistry and verner von braun who taught us physics. main lesson we americans were first in everything, we were going to be the country to conquer space. we would start the conquest by putting little things called satellites in orbit around the earth. yes, that was how it was going to be. then came the terrible day in 1957 when we awoke, americans to find the soviets had done it, there was a satellite, a big one going around the world. it had been launched in communists the people we were taught were not in the game. it mad us sad it undermined us made us think the come you mis were doing something we were trying to do but couldn't. it had to do with booster rockets, thrust, their rockets were bigger, stronger, better than our's. for five years, it went on like this. they sent a man in space, in orbit, and we would send one vanguard rocket up after another, only to watch it topple right there in front of us. barely off the launching pad. then came the first american successes in space, followed by this wonderous day 50 years ago today.

looting von mises institute he's also the author of the left of the right and the state rockwell express his agreement with ron paul's views and the possible fate of the country take a listen. braun is that is the truth teller as usual because we have remembered typically of fascism fascist or just epithets but if that is an actual political philosophy it's an actual economic philosophy from an economic standpoint as ron pointed out it's a combination of big corporations and big government working together against the rest of society to illegitimately profit then you have militarism belligerent nationalism demonization of the other muslims and in the american case today and the welfare state and perpetual war so is america slipping into a fascist state the movie think of fascism as just being an historical philosophy of franco and mussolini and hitler and or theon salazar and roosevelt i would add too by the way they think of us think of it as being from the past but it's not from the past it really sort of says the philosophy that's pretty much taken over the world i mean most countries have a fascist aspect of the myth of this corporatism and we see goldman sachs appointing the