who sounded western union. western union, as the name implies, was a sort of combine a small, telegraph lines that were in the midwest between new york, ohio, and michigan. if there was to be 10, one central figure, was hiram sibley. he really did two things. he was able to convince a number of merchants and capitalist people in what seemed to be failed inventions. the telegraph corporation almost never was making money. he convinces these rochester, new york buddies from the man who helped him when he was a poor boy, he had been helped by these wealthy merchants and they're very skeptical. he convinces them to put a lot of money into the corporation that became known as western union, which he was then -- he would use the capital to buy out the number of companies. the second key insight or key innovation besides a certain amount of capital. like all the capital that is raised, at one point in time -- the other two innovations of sibley's was he figured out a way to get a monopoly in a political economy in whi

so you get western union seeking privacy and western union payment standards in the telegraph should do the same bystanders in the post office. so the government is not necessarily the best guardian of privacy of the citizenry and i think it is a lesson we can take from the history of the 187 days in the 1880s. >> host: desanto borst i read from his invention? >> samuel morris died rich because samuel morse, a business manager hired the good sense to invest in western union and that is what saved sammy morris, even the western union was in effect the great rival. and the irony is even richer because western union saw the value asserted a poster child for the new type apology and they're actually behind the statue from the still standing in central park. one of the first erected to a living american. morris is still alive and by linking him with western union, and they created this historic mythology that's really falls to the history, but it is one that cuts to associate a corporation, which had a rather low regard of the heroic adventurer who had a high regard today. so yes, by inve

comfort for the syrian people as western powers decide the fate of this war torn country what remains to be seen is whether the syrian civil war call for the entire region. to cross-talk serious serious situation i'm joined by brian becker in washington is the national coordinator of the answer coalition in norman we have joshua landis he's director of the center of middle east studies and associate professor of middle eastern studies at the university of oklahoma and in istanbul we crossed the deal how much he's general manager of the news agency all right crosstalk rules in effect gentlemen that means you can jump in anytime you want brian back in washington it's called the civil war now now this war will end with winners and losers who will be well let's start peter by making clear that the united states government the western powers england france the former colonizers of the middle east have actually promoted civil war they promoted civil war because their goal in the case of syria as it was in libya as it was in iraq is to overthrow the existing independent government now is syr

and losers who will be well let's start peter by making clear that the united states government the western powers england france the former colonizers of the middle east have actually promoted civil war they promoted civil war because their goal in the case of syria as it was in libya as it was in iraq is to overthrow the existing independent government now syria unlike libya unlike iraq has a different set of political and social contours clearly the syrian government has amassed popular base the opposition also has a base of mass proportions in the case of syria they are being assisted internationally by russia and by china in the case of the opposition they're being supported by the united states britain france and the client regimes the gulf states saudi arabia qatar turkey and so you see a civil war but it civil war with international dimensions and the international situation will of course have a direct impact on the outcome i believe that there is going to be protracted conflict i think the syrian government is fighting to the finish and their allies russia in this case recognize t

the western alliance responded counterdeployment.nless the soviets agree to negotiate a better solution, namely the elimination of such weapons on both sides, for many months, the soviets refused to bargain in earnestness. as the alliance, in turn, prepared to go forward with its counterdeployment, there were difficult days, days of protests, like those during my 1982 visit to this city. and the soviets later walked away from the table. but, through it all, the alliance held firm. and i invite those who protested then, i invite those who protest today, to mark this fact. because we remain strong, the soviets came back to the table. [ applause ] because we remained strong today, we have within reach the possibility not merely of limiting the growth of arms but of eliminating for the first time an entire class of nuclear weapons from the face of the earth. as i speak, nato ministers are meeting in iceland to review the progress of our proposals for eliminating these weapons. at the talks in geneva, we have, also proposed deep cuts in s

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countries and also some groups affiliated with the with the western intelligence and western intelligence and some of these other countries have been sending weapons and guns to these rebel groups and citing them to continue in this process of destruction of their own country this would take syria nowhere but into a thought of destruction and misery for everybody no one would come out as a winner in this if this continues the way it does. just bravely coffee i mean has signaled he would ask governments with influence to quote twist arms to enforce the peace plan in syria what arm twisting are we likely to see if any. well i'm not sure about this kind of discourse i wouldn't agree with the with the with the terms that are being used i think there is some pressure that needs to be put on. saudi arabia on turkey there's some pressure that needs to be put on some other western forces the united states must be convinced that another war and destruction in the area will also damage its interests in the region i mean we're talking about a. conflict that could spread into neighboring countries th

version of modernity is not the western version of modernity. it's a universal approach and therefore as china rises, as brazil rises and as indonesia rises, they are going to start looking more and more like us, and they will therefore take their place in the order that we have built, even though we are no longer as dominant in a material sense as we used to be. to understand that issue, is that right? are they going to slip into that birth that we assign them in the first question is to ask, who are we and how did we become a send our emergent powers following that same task of modernity meaning when they modernize, when they have a major share of the global gdp, they are going to slip into the order that it is today. i don't think that is going to happen and i want to share with you why i don't think that is going to happen and then offer some thoughts about what to do about it. how do we manage a world in which emerging powers are going to bring to the table their own views about how to organize political, social and conversion a life. my st

in fact, rainy season has started across western japan. the rain is expected to expand central japan and northern japan into tomorrow. as the rain comes in, we're going to see temperatures drop. in tokyo, your high's expected to be only 20 degrees. seven degrees lower than today. behind it, on and off showers will dissipate across the korean peninsula tomorrow. stationary low will continue to produce thunderstorms, gusty winds and hail in northeastern china and southeastern russia into the weekend. down towards the south, yet again, a lot of rain in the southern half of china and much of the indochina peninsula. today the heaviest rain can be found in southern thailand. as much as 160 millimeters of rain has fallen over the past 24 hours. and more rain will be coming down at least for the next couple of days. moving on to the americas, we've got vivid clouds over here producing thundershowers from saskatchewan down towards colorado. we've got tornadoes touched down in colorado and wyoming. as the system pushes on through the east, things w

surprise arab surge for freedom and institutional crisis in western countries and new hope coming from latin america that's the topics of debate in the modern world in the eyes of noam chomsky and terry levy two prominent thinkers and guests on julia songes show airing next. well to the. point is the magic of transforming airplanes into jet trains dirty diesels into green rail dreams double down on profits by building up instead of out in a german swoon place east for the summer knowledge up here on r.g.p. you've got the central. time julian assange. it is fear of wiki leaks web expose the old secrets these documents belong the united states government being attacked by the powerful united states strongly condemn the black people all illegally should. be tamed without charge but that doesn't stop. the day. that can change the world tomorrow. during the last few years. today i speak to two giants of the intellectual if noam chomsky read noun linguist rebel think tara kelley street fighting novelist the military historian i want to find out what these two act towards think where is the w

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president hu jintao says china's culture is being infiltrated by hostile western forces.nd the government has set new limits on china's mass media. first, they issued edicts that xu fan, is a professor at the communications university of china, the count's top training ground for budding tv journalists and hosts. >> ( translated ): the rules are meant to restrict two types of programs: the first is crime programs that show audiences how crimes are committed, how to steal and rob, criminal techniques and scenes of the crime. this is what ordinary people like to watch, but these types of programs are against law and order. second are dramas with contents of immorality, moral and ethical betrayals. >> reporter: what's allowed and what's not is murky. take "china's got talent." in one episode, a poor man who sells duck necks for a living dresses up like a suicidal pig to try to earn money for a karaoke parlor for his wife. in the end, the man's wife comes on stage to sing for the judges and wins their tears and approval. regulators deemed this show has a social value. but the

it is a bustling facility out in the western addition. mission dolores. this say project that just had its first phase ribbon cutting tuesday of this week. it was an asphalt athletic field and we len 0 vated it with synthetic turf. it's a multifaze project. it was -- multiphase project. it was opened on tuesday and the latter half of the project with will be opened this summer. next, muni levy ward. this is in the planning phase and we hope to move forward and not -- be in the construction phase in 201. another field in disrepair in district 11. we'll help that area out significantly. the beach chalet soccer fields, the purpose why we're here today. again this photo shows the existing conditions and the proposed solution on the right. the present condition is grass field. the the soccer fields are currently fenced with an eight-foot link -- chainlink fence around the facility and it's currently closed about half the time during the year and is only used through formal permit and reservation process. next slide. so a little bit more. the soccer field at th

the crucial point of the whole affair now and i think that the onus must be on the western powers to sort of back down here because russia's made it quite clear that it wants that extra dimension they they were kind of libya and they don't want egypt to get in and the only way we can have a peaceful solution to this is if the western powers and countries like qatar saudi arabia rein in the rebels and say to them look stop this and stop supplying them with arms but all fortunately the stakes are so high it can't be because syria is what happens in series of enormous global importance because the west wants this regime to go they want a pro western regime that will come in that will be more pro israel will be anti arabian and that will prepare the way for attack on iran so the stakes are incredibly high here and unfortunately i don't see the west backing down i think unfortunately going to get more more. aggressive behavior from the west more backing the rebels and i'd like to see russia and china come out now and really take a much even firm a line on this and say look stop this there

has the right to take measures we've been hearing from western countries that they're ready to. enforce in this case. our main fears are that it will be. using armed forces it will be ministry operation. or turkey claims it's down jet was unarmed was simply testing out the country's radar system but the head of an independent syrian media outlets his own crew was probably spying on damascus it could be there they were just saying. we know. it was marked and this time it was actually. very that shut it down with a maximum range of five kilometers on lease or what was that i'm doing it i mean there was a way from. our land or our territorial water i don't think the need to alter any legal. situation for putting any more pressure on syria something else was doing courting or trying to spy on the syrian army's movement in that area because of their years out. to be this close to the syrian border and it was actually. some kind of. intelligence one. in just over an hour's time r.t. interviews of top syrian diplomats who defends the country's continued purchase of arms from abroad. sy

can crack of politics in the sense that i've been arguing now for some time that what we have in western politics is neither the extreme left nor the extreme right but an extreme center and this extreme center in compas is both center right and center left we can agree on fundamentals waging wars abroad occupying countries and punishing the poor pushing through austerity measures it doesn't matter which party's in bar either in the united states or in the western world. things are carry on like before does continue to from one regime to the next which affects the functioning of the media which is become more and more narrow so there's very little diversity very few debates constructed within the mainstream media and that is a big characteristic now it's a form i it's a dictatorship of capital which is exercise through this extreme center the arab countries had dictators backed by the west for some time and the speed in scale of those uprisings certainly took everyone by surprise none of us could have predicted it do you think that the lack of predictability in fact is part of why they we

the comments were an official response to a proposal by the western countries at the previous meeting in baghdad last month. the western delegates at that time suggested they would ease some economic sanctions on iran if the country stopped enriching uranium to levels used in weapons. iaea spokespersons told reporters that iran is simply repeating old statements. a high-ranking iranian official said the western countries need to win talks to make progress in the dialogue. they will resume on tuesday. >>> a u.n. conference opens on wednesday in rio de janeiro on how to meet human needs while protecting the planet. the main focus is sustainability development. how to strike a balance between economic growth and preserving the environment. nhk world reports on a town in brazil that has embraced the promise of sustainable agriculture. >>acai trees are wide grown in brazil's amazon basin. this tree is cultivated for its fruit. to revive the rich forest of the amazonbanananananananana in one. acai is one crop grown in a town founded by japanese imt granmig. the crew now ships about $5 milli

no days mining engineers still look for wartime ammunition in the western but . one of the latest findings is a german two hundred ten millimeter artillery shell. is just as dangerous today as it was sixty eight years ago. careful slowly slowly but don't turn it over. most of the show could go off at any moment if it's not handled properly if it does judging by its size it will obliterate everything within a radius of about five hundred meters. on the average day divers pick up three to ten objects relating to the first days of the war. in the nineteenth century the breast fortress was long considered impenetrable they outer walls were two meters thick but in the twentieth century it was in effect a death trap for the seven thousand strong soviet garrison. from the start of the war all of the fortresses gates were continuously under artillery and machine gun fire they were also blocked by attacking enemy troops as a result fewer than half of the men who were here on june twenty second were able to leave the fortress and protect the border. operation barbarossa th

it's periphery and for western multinationals now of course sooner or later try to will begin to move up the technology latter fact in some respects sortie happening try to actually be done to innovate with solar cells that surpass those elsewhere and that will begin to happen elsewhere but it's a long slow process terry terry. both you and i had low life as activists. so when you look at this generation of activists now in the way it is it is just starting to be politically rather radicalized right i think the internet radicalize youth is probably the best way that i would describe them. what what do you want to tell them what experience that you have had through these multiple battles dozens of years can you give to them because it seems to me that there was a moment perhaps during the eighty's and ninety's there was no continuity from this tradition of the saint in the west terry. i try avoid giving advice to younger generations those generations are so different from each other and given the world has changed so much the only universal advice to be given is don't give up you will

foreign policy chief catherine ashton western diplomats are essentially sticking to a proposal that they put forth at last month's negotiations in baghdad that deal would have iran halting richmond's of your radium up to twenty percent that figure is significant because it puts me on the cusp of weapons grade material of course iran insists that his program is for civilian purposes and energy purposes only that deal would also require tehran to ship at least part of its twenty percent enriched stockpile out of the country and also halt operations at its controversial underground enrichment facility also one of the the developments that we've heard that the european union will not stop or postpone the impending oil embargo on a rainy and oil that is set to take place in less than two weeks that of course was one of the negotiating points of the iranians who were hoping that the west would a budge on the israelis have threatened to effectively bomb iran if there is no diplomatic solution to this problem we saw the israeli president yesterday in an interview say that time is running out for

so stormy conditions already affecting western japan.t looks like it will hit late this afternoon or this evening as a typhoon status, then move across japan and reach northern japan and hokkaido tomorrow, as well as thursday. and it could become a remnant low on your thursday. right now, packing winds of 126 kilometers per hour with gusts of 180. strong winds will impact the eastern part of japan. gusts could exceed 160 kilometers per hour and d.c. could hit 120. waves could be a concern, maybe up to 7 to 10 meters along the pacific coast, because it's in a period of spring tide, you want to look out for storm surge. asuch as 400 millimeters precipitation is expected into wednesday morning. and 500 millimeters in tokai. that's enough to create landslides and mudslides on wednesday. the heaviest rain will be found around hokkaido and tohuku. so stormy conditions across the whole of japan over the next few days. even as it leaves japan and things clearing up for most of western japan by thursday, we have another storm to watch out for. ri

western diplomats were expelled, a largely symbolic gesture. meanwhile, attempts to salvage the anon peace plan. but it is looking hopeless -- the anon -- the annan piece by. but it is looking hopeless. rebels had given up on the cease-fire anyway, and it never really existed. bbc news. >> and other news now, thousands of egyptians are protesting against what they see as lenient sentences for the ousted president mubarak and several of his closest aides. mubarak received a life sentence, but not the death penalty many of egyptians demanded. colonel gaddafi's former intelligence chief has gone on trial in libya. he faces a long list of charges, in quoting ordering killings -- including ordering killings last year. he denies the charges. today u.s. officials confirmed top al-qaeda operative abu yahya al-libi was killed. his death is being characterized as a major blow to the organization. for more on this, i was joined by a senior political scientist and author of "hunting in the shadows." thank you for joining us. how significant is this? >> it

the western sections downtown baltimore, western section of town, eastern say from pikes ville, that cell is moving to your area. more activity south of dc. another in northern virginia. with so much going on it's hard to track. eventually i think everyone in the state will be experiencing some kind of rain, thunderstorm activity or severe weather this afternoon orton item. the strongest tornado threat appears to be toward southern pennsylvania and new jersey region where the warm front that came through the area this morning, kept some chilly air for a while but we are now into the more humid air mass. that is toward the north and that is where the risk for these storm is his located. we have a risk of strong thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight as a cold front to the west will approach us with all the moisture around, all the instability. little sunshine south of washington. that's what need to fire up the storms. watching these and tracking the storms as they move through this afternoon and tonight. don't forget our website is constantly being updated. >> thank you very much.

western maryland dropping into the low-50's at this hour. overnight, we will see partly cloudy skies. during the heat to mark, look at those spotty showers. that will change a little bit as we expect high pressure to wipe out most of the shower activity. temperatures ranging in the morning from 51 degrees to 59 degrees. we will get some clouds, a couple of showers, a west agrees and highs tomorrow close to normal, 77 degrees to 82 degrees. the water temperatures are now will look into the low-70's. offshore, high pressure is beginning to develop. the same thing or the lakes. this will encompass the whole mid atlantic. the storms will stay out in the western part of the planes could but some of the warmth out here, these were actual highs today, almost 90 degrees of around bismarck. denver was 91 degrees today.

he'll speak to the country later in the day about restarting a nuclear plant in western japan. all the country's 50 reactors are now offline. noda is expected to tell people about the need for power during a long hot summer. noda will stress that the ohi plant is safe and he'll tell people it's a vital source of energy for powering the japanese economy. first, noda needs the approval of local government leaders to restart two reactors at the plant. the governor of fukui prefecture put forward several conditions when he met on monday with nuclear power policy mip ster goshi hosono. he said a direct explanation from the prime minister would put people at ease. the explanation from noda is the last of nishakawa's conditions. the governor is is expected to give his approval as early as next week. >>> people who rate government bonds are worried that spain can't escape european debt woes. ai uchida joins us now from the business desk. ai, i understand there's been a credit downgrade? >> one of our analysts at one of the agencies thinks spain is barely of investment grade. credit rat

to the western state i don't see any western country in the intervening in syria as they did indeed and yet there is so much attention and focus on syria and particularly on me president bashar assad's handling of the situation so how do you explain that well. that would be expected from the west it's much closer to europe and with traditional relations traditional relations with countries like france. and when such atrocities take place them and they cannot stay quiet is there a connection between what is happening in syria and what is happening in iran where there is a connection or obvious connection because iraq is syria has been and the us sudra dream has been iran's closest ally for over two decades i mean. this is. the main route of iran into lebanon into into the whole region into influencing israel if us of the region falls apart. iran is standing to lose a very strong alley because any government. would take place it would take the government in syria whether it be. western ally and democracy which is not very likely or muslim muslim brothers who are sunnis who are very hostil

affecting south western sections of baltimore county and extreme north western counties of aa county. that warning officially in effect until 6:30 unless they cancel it a little sooner. right on i95 to the vw parkway. that's where the strong stuff is, just south of the beltway. northeast and west of glen burney. northeast of lowell. that cell right there could potentially create very, very damaging winds. let's take a close look inside of it. we look at doppler radar which shows you what's going on inside these particular cells. and the action right through there. exactly what i talked about a minute ago. that's where we're seeing the strongest rotation. if any rotation at all. it's not severe as you can see the colors, we're not looking at reds and greens in opposition. but there's some rotation there. not a whole lot but there's some, i expect it probably lift this warning very shortly. i'm not really seeing a whole lot with that particular cell. but it certainly something we have to watch. still a lot of rain in the area. thunderstorms activity continues. and we'll be watching thes

it was not entirely evident that the western capitalist model at least in western europe was actually going to thrive. and was actually, you know, going to provide better living standards than socialist model. there were a lot of questions about it. i think the fact that those economies recovered and became as dynamic as they did in the '70s and '80s highlighted this gap between the west and east that reagans and others called attention to and were able to exploit and ultimately i think convince a lot of people on the other side that they were better off with a different system. yes. >> did you see or hear or did anybody discuss the connection of his speech in berlin. >> the question is about whether people connected the reagan speech, the kennedy berlin speech. yes. the kennedy speech is -- remains one of the most important moments for germans since the second world war. it was a much different moment. the wall had only recently gone up. it was an incredibly emotional moment. kennedy said that he was actually a little worried that people might try to tear down the wall after he gave

the nato has the right to take measures we've been hearing from western countries that they're ready to use damascus and of course in this case here is our main fears are that it will be. using armed forces it will be military operation. but turkey claims its downs jet was unarmed and was simply testing the country's radar system but the head of an independent syrian media that says our own crew was probably spying on the masses. it could be they were just saying. we know. it was locked and it was actually. shut it down with a maximum range of. what i was. doing if i were going to. some of our land or territory or water i don't think the needle or any legal. issue for putting any more pressure on syria is something else that was doing there perhaps they caught doing or trying to spy on the syrian army's movement in that area because the. area will be this close to the syrian border there are actually. some kind of. televisions one. just over an hour's time r.t. interview the top syrian diplomat who defends the country's continued purchase of arms from abroad. because the nation curre