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But there is one act of defiance yet to come. one that will live on forever. >> so i get wakened up by this sound of tanks coming down the street. as im looking through the camera, i notice its really far away. its a nice composition. theres this nice compression. and some guy walks out. >> from a different floor of the hotel, jan wong is watching the same row of tanks. >> i saw this lone man stepping in front of them. i couldnt believe it. i immediately started crying because i just knew i was ...

And all i could think of is this guy is going to mess up by composition. and i realized that picture was too far away. so i look back at the bed where i add teleconverter. this would double my view. he jumped off the tank so i missed all that sequence. so the picture i have, he is making one final stance on the tank. so i click one, two, three. by the third shot i notice the shutter speed was about a 30th of a second. with an 800 milliliter focal length is basically a nonpicture. it is unfortuna...

Alive. >> i cant believe you are here again. >> there is something saucy about a chick swing aging ing i camaro. >> michael hesser is a veteran freelance photographer who works the circuit. >> thats a real one for the boy zbs i hopped the wall. i grabbed a second camera and it was kind of a scene from there. >> watch another angle as the car flies at him. covering him with sparks and flames. its almost inconceivable how he doesnt get crushed. >> that was close. >> he holds his camera steady unti...

Fight for this country and you give your all for this country and you come back wounded or you come back with challenges, you better hope to hell you live east of the mississippi. because youre treated like a second class citizen west of the mississippi in this system. its outrageous. >> there is another element to the problem. 20 years ago if you look at composition of the house of representatives and the united states senate, youd see a huge percentage of veterans serving. you look at the comp...

Taxpayer money. floridas governor rick scott asks, is it a vital interest of the state to have more anthropologists. technical training could be more valuable than a degree in art history. i can well understand the concerns about liberal arts because i grew up in india in the 1960s and 70s. a technical training was scene to the key to a good career. if you were bright, you studied science. thats what i did. if i got to america college, i saw the immense power of a liberal education. for me, the ...

Conference. i think what we heard is a recognition by the democrats that they must now engage in a very serious way with the republican-led select committee. this is a reflection of the fact that the members of this republican select committee are very serious in nature and are communicating that this will be a broad and vast investigation where they already believe that there are gaps that need to be filled in between the various committees that have already looked at it. so this is a recogniti...

Ive just said. the ball is in his court. its his decision. >> do you need the united states to broker an ultimate deal? >> i think the united states has been indispensable in all the peace negotiations weve had up to now. it doesnt obviate the need for genuine direct contact between the parties, but it can help a lot and i appreciate secretary kerrys unbelievable efforts. they dont always succeed. unfortunately president abbas made sure of that by embracing hamas. but i have to credit john kerry...

Not going all in for the aca but saying enough nice things to get their numbers up. in the end ive said it before. i really think changing the composition of the electorate on election day and making it more like a presidential year electorate rather than an off-year electorate is the only way, really, that democrats can hold these seats. so in the end i think youve got to get your base out. and you do it with high-tech targeting and get out the vote and everything like that. but you also have t...

>> there are those outside of government that want to influence government, and a composition of government itself. another political scientist has written a book called white collar government, where he says, if millionaires had their own political party, they would be 3% of the population, but theyre a majority of the house of representatives, have a filibuster-proof majority in the senate, they are 5-4 majority in the supreme court, and by the way, the man in the white house is also a million...

Functionally an oligarchy at this moment, if its functionally controlled by a wealthy few. and two little data points, total lobbying spending, in 2009, theres a bunch of regulations passed that sends a lot of it underground, so its still probably going up, its just in the weird shadow lobbying economy. outside spending by cycle, not including party committees, that is 2012, $80 million. thats like hockey stick climate, like carbon in the atmosphere quite a few graph. this is the per capita elec...