"my favorite warlord" is his first book of poetry. the former united states poet robert pinsky said and i quote it demonstrates the essential quality of poetry, depth of language. the power to get past the first services of words and things were to put it differently he continues the power to hear harmonies beyond the obvious ones, finding new undertones, new undertones of meaning. i like that very at glorious honors include fulbright scholar grant, the poetry society of america george bogen memorial award, the national poetry series selection, and asian-american literary board the san francisco art commission grant. he has had fellowships and residencies and mcdowell colony the resident artist program and the virginia center for creative arts among many others. this past spring he was bowling green state university college of arts and sciences distinguished writer. born in manila in the philippines of course in 1957 he grew up in san francisco and earned his bachelor's degree at san francisco state. his master's degree at miami unive

writings dating back more than five hundred years record that samurai and warlords favored his consent to hot spring here is a painting of the croissants in hot springs from those long ago days. it was reputed for its healing springs all across japan attracting ten thousand visitors for year. many bath houses had already been built various hot spring baths offered few hours for different ailments. the town council with fewer seekers making extended stays today there are more than one hundred and ten hotels just an essential hot springs resort area. attracting three million visitors annually. i do. the e twenty shops selling almost ten months he's cooked in this heat given off by the hot spring waters the eye the day the were on the waters is everything. a unique method is used to cool. it's a technique on the news here you me. and cheering without you. i go. i did here is a ski resort just to find minute drive away from the hot springs. in recent years more and more tourists from china and other countries have been visiting this sucks the best. my baby daddy amends. on site rentals mea

he and other former warlords won immunity for crimes committed in the civil war. three others are also running in the elections as vice presidential candidates. he was also named in the u.s. official account as the mentor, the mastermind of the nine/11 attacks by khalid shaikh mohammed. you have never met colleagues shaikh mohammed? >> i met him. i met osama bin laden. i met bigger than them also. afghans are worried about the lack of jobs, corruption, insecurity. what will happen when foreign troops leave. many of the choices facing them as presidential candidates are stuck in the politics of the past. these men areing great at, defeating the russians, and should be respected for it. others think they should go to jail for war crimes. whos not only the taliban wants control over women in afghanistan. i asked if women should live independent lives as in the west. men,s long as there are those rights are not given to the women. work infor the women to the areas that are proper for them tot we don't allow go to the engineering. them we don't want women at the top of

of the opium trade and the warlords empowered when we first came in there were essentially opium lords those are the same people are still involved with the treaty and suddenly the taliban gets their part big government officials get their work. you know i also reckon back to an article one hundred thousand plus private contractors in there the pentagon was asked what the hell they're doing there and they didn't really have a definitive answer have we figured that out yet what the private contractors are doing on the ground. well in some cases almost nothing i mean if you want to have an opportunity to really perfect your craft skills that's the place to do it because they are. it's it's hilarious how little you know and i'm speaking of all of them and i should say i've dealt with lots and lots of extraordinary rages are equal but it's it's ridiculous out there people just i sat across from one contractor in kandahar one of the missiles and her kind of got eyes and you started to another contractor and he said we've got to keep this we're are going you know we're making so much money y

reproduced in syria where you have you know of the breakup of the country and basically warlordism in various parts of the country and incitement of the syria sectarianism and so forth and you know some of the constitution members of the. national democratic right have prioritized the fight against sectarian violence and yet you have these. groups just today banning music images and of course the zero respect for women's rights and so on so they run iran could have and that's the question then is. iran's presence here could be really quite crucial to these priest talks and yet here we have washington despite the fore in relations with tehran being very negative about tehran's presence there and that what's that going to do for relations not just between tehran and washington but indeed russia because that will cause friction when it. oh of course because the you know state department has been contradictory under one hand we have heard from secretary of state john kerry hinting that he would work i mean iran's participation of the sideline of the conference and yet some other u.s. offi

did live be reproduced in syria where you have you know the breakup of the country and basically warlordismin various parts of the country and incitement of very serious sectarianism and so forth you have these al qaeda affiliated groups banning music images and of course they are zero respect for women's rights and so on so what is the priority of the syrian opposition is a stance is rash and wise and counterproductive given the fact that they have serious impulses. and national integrity and sovereignty. intrusion and the very destructive role of thousands of foreign forces who have zero commitment to the values of free democratic syria as well as the rights of women and so on of course all day long showing the build up to wednesday's syrian peace conference so stay with us to get all the latest developments on this story. after three years of. this in just the one hundred. room or so you can come since come to the other with one mention. war is not do you know. does. british civil servants get the golden boot that being promised coast fotch is for throwing as many failed asylum seekers o

reproduced in syria where you have you know the breakup of the country and basically warlordism in various parts of the country and incitement of the serious sick tearing in them and so forth you have these kid groups banning music images and of course the hours zero respect for women's rights and so on so what is the priority syrian opposition as a stance is raj and wise and counterproductive even defy that they have serious impulses on syria and national integrity and sovereignty in. intrusion and very destructive of thousands of foreign forces zero commitment to devalues a free democratic syria as well as the right so women and so on and of course here on r.t. international will be monitoring the build up to wednesday's syrian peace conference if you can stay with us for the latest developments on this ongoing story. over one hundred. common sense come together with one. war is not. does peace have a chance. at the international is coming to you live from moscow star for the british home office are being offered cash bonuses if indeed they manage to kick more failed asylum seekers out o

where you have you know the breakup of the country and basically warlordism in various parts of the country and incitement of a serious sick tyrian and so forth you have these. groups banning music images and of course the hour zero respect for women's rights and so on so what is the priority syrian opposition as a stance is right and wise and counterproductive given the fact that they have serious impulses on syria and national integrity and sovereignty in light of the intrusion and destructive of all of thousands of foreign forces who have zero commitment to devalues a free democratic syria as well as the rights of women and so on by the two sides met in switzerland air raids or armed clashes continue across syria but even in this chaos there is still hope. visited one maternity unit but the gruesome side of war has to take the backseat. even in this dangerously divided country one place the differences don't matter is this children's hospital in damascus. a tiny relative of a government minister chose a room here whose babies belonging to fighters of the free syrian army. who have patien

their mission is to assassinate a taliban warlord, but things unravel fast. >> i understand.yhey let them reveal their position to a taliban army, touching off a murderousequence of combat. it avoids politics but focuses on these men and their mission. a human face on a conflict far away. a weekend best that, along with american hustle, philomena, and saving mr. banks. the golden globes occur sunday night and that will be the first real indication of what is coming with the oscars. the oscar nominations are a week from today. >> hard to believe it is oscar time already. >> time flies. next, he paid $4000 for two super bowl tickets. now this fan is suing the nfl. we will explain why. >> phantom power and how much it is costing you in our consumer alert. >> it is the power that is used in electronics that are plugged in at home but not turned on. how much you are absent -- actually losing. house, you leave your things like electronics may be turned off, but they are still draining energy and it is costing you. what does $100 mean to you? it is how much you could be spending on

know i'm not even surprised at this news anymore considering how the us has already bribed taliban warlords in iraq insurgents to not kill soldiers and private contractors during the occupations so i guess the real strategy behind the war on terror is that if you can't beat em pay them and then drown them. this year is the one hundredth anniversary of the federal reserve act you think that after of century people would have a better understanding of the history and role of america central banking. system while the federal reserve act was drafted in congress the roots extend back to nine hundred ten with a secret meeting between rhode island senator nelson eldritch a group of wealthy and powerful financial figures the select group of influential men convening for a ten day top secret meeting on jackal island just off the coast of georgia and what resulted was a plan for something called the national reserve association an institution that would handle government debt to remain privately run and one hundred thirteen president woodrow wilson signed the federal reserve act codified in america's

i think that afghanistan is likely to go back into a sort of warlord oriented posture and there's not a lot of the americans can do. i think it's a reason they want to get out, but they are stuck. >> thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> meanwhile, australia mining boom is making a lot of people very, very rich - from train drivers to sex workers. hundreds are hopping on board the gravy train. those on the top are making millions. andrew thomas is now in the third part of wave of fortune down under. >> in the remote parts of australia are the highest paid train drivers. it's lonely work, but for pulling trains for mine support, drivers earn upwards of $180,000 a year. >> 240 k/hr, stopping at 800m, which is not bad. >> the trains are 3 ~km long, the cargo iron ore. >> it's not physically hard. more mentally - fatigue, heat, stress. you don't want to make a mistake. >> we'll formally open the meeting. >> trade unions stopped attempts to bring in cheaper foreign workers, one company is introducing computer-controlled driverless trains. into how often does the home compute

newer tribes were fighting against other tribes and to warlords are trying to figure out who is going to strike the deal. is the same thing, a divided country, and it is the oil and water for an island, the gold. >> talk about the larger forces at play. "we come as friends" is a movie that depicts the pathology of colonialism, basically. it is very complicated and hundreds of or thousands of years old, pathology. should i talk about the movie? >> which is what you do with the movie, these larger forces at play. in fact, let me play a clip from the film talking about these larger forces. the u.s. ambassador to south sudan is speaking at the opening of a new power plant near the kenyan border. at one point, his address is interrupted by protesters. >> the u.s. ambassador to south sudan speaking at the opening of a new power plant near the kenyan border, saying we literally and figuratively are bringing light. hubert sauper? >> well, that is a very known old phrase. i think the ambassador is well-meaning, i'm sure. of movie is about my sense the problem, which is very, very old in human

in our haste and sometimes our ignorance, we allowed a number of nontraditional leaders, warlords in many cases, to gather economic, political, and sometimes military power. we allowed them to get into places, sometimes where they had been before, and what that signal to the afghan population was that, here we go again. we are going back to the bad old days that really are what preceded the taliban. said if we arele just leaving the taliban, we are going to go back to what we hated pre-taliban. we lost confidence among many afghans during the 2001-2004 period. the taliban's opportunity. they came back in and said look at what is happening. you're going back to the bad old days and americans are not going to solve the problem. they started to find fertile ground, not in huge places, but slowly. they were able to grow their political power, and some cases, military. of not seeingake that soon enough and not reacting to it enough when we did. resourced in many ways. the problems were being under resourced and understanding. we did learn the language enough. we didn't take a long-term, c

he would persuaded casey and president reagan to sign a top secret finding to give $10 million to warlordslebanon that he wanted to deal with. so his influence wasn't just in israel. it was in this country. >> and why some people are making the point that when israel buries aerial sharon they may be burying the last strong leader who could actually forge peace between israel and the palestinians. >> this is an interesting point. what's required for that perception is the idea that he was so strong in israel that no one would doubt his will have of israel and his capacity therefore to say to critics, this is the best deal that i can get and this is what is necessary to keep us safe and vital. the contrary per inspect sieve this is a guy who said i refuse to negotiate with the palestinians, i don't think it's worth my time to negotiate with the palestinians at a time when people around the world were looking for some settle. some sort of peace. they saw some of that when he was saying i'm going to give some of gaza back. he antagonized people in the israeli settle. s who felt he betrayed the

our haste and sometimes our ignorance we allowed a number of what i call nontraditional leaders, warlords, in many cases people to gather economic, political and sometimes military power, we allowed them to get into places sometimes where they had been before, and what that signaled to the afghan population is that here we go again, we are going back to a bad old days that really was what preceded the taliban so the afghan people said well we just leaving the taliban period, the danger is we are going to go back to what we hated about that pretaliban period. so i think we lost confidence amongst many afghans during that 2001 to 2004 period. the taliban saw opportunity. they came back in and they said, look what is happening, you are going back to the bad old days and the americans are not going to solve your problems, and they started to find fertile ground, not initially in huge places but slowly. and so they were able to grow up their political power and in some cases military, and so we made mistakes in not seeing that happen early enough, not reacting to it strongly enough when we did

various warlords and thugs and criminals were trying to gain leverage or footholds so that they can control resources, populations, territory. this view sites some examples. syria, where you have an authoritarian, brutal government was willing to do anything to hang on to power. iran is funding terrorist organizations and developing nuclear weapons. this statement may be familiar to some of you. here and at home. it is a statement of president obama. characterization in the interview which was published about a week and a half ago in "the new yorker." it is a rather bleak and distressing view. unfortunately, it does describe a good deal of present realities. it needs two or three supplements. first, it describes the situation in the contemporary middle east -- the chaos, violence, destruction as a shapeless mass. each of the various countries and conflicts and dysfunctions within the region have their own idiosyncratic features. which nowne aspect serves, in my opinion, as an organizing principle. that aspect is what the president began with. conflict.shiite this inter-muslim conflict is ve

association, if you are pakistani islamist i think doku umarov is a leftover it chechen nationalists warlord who doesn't feel much affinity, we don't have a map here but we should also remember the north caucusus is very long, pakistan which is obviously the most hostile and dangerous part of it is a long way from sochi. and what happens in dagestan has no relationship to what happened in sochi itself. what is happening in dagestan i think looks to be very unfortunate. it looks to be vladimir putin again having a very short-term response to the games, lots of reports of rounding up marginal young men, the kind of young men who could be sitting at home doing nothing or if they are rounded up and abused by the police could be going over to the militants, and i think the new head of dagestan was trying to control those people back into the fold but because of the tactical response to the sochi games, people being rounded up, that makes the problem worse. just to some up, this is not going to be unfortunately a moment of great caucusus reconciliation between georgians and russians it is going to