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The book is called countdown to zeo day stuxnet and the launch of the worlds First Digital weapon. The author, wired magazine reporter kim zetter. Ms. Zetter, what is or what was stuxnet . Guest stuxnet was a virus worm that was used to attack Irans Nuclear plant in at tans, is and so the work was designed to manipulate the computers that control the centrifuges and speed them up and slow them down in order to degrade the level of uranium enrichment and also do some wear and tear on the centrifu...

Greatest tragedies is the fact that neither side gets to win. The Afghan Government is being funded completely by the us and its allies. So the resistance is being funded by foreign countries. The United States appears to be willing to fund the Afghan Government is actually in perpetuity. As they did with warlords and torturers and criminals which is, in short, the next generation of insurgents and taliban. So continuing this is a terrifying thing to think about, about, but it is the case. Neith...

We just didnt start from scratch. We had the model of politicians a similar type of politician to havel, and intellectual writer, and morally as havel was. We had by communist standards a relatively healthy economy in 1989 and found it somewhat easier than the others to make progress. So altogether we did quite well but then there were times during which we did not do so well and that the countries in the region it as well or better. If you look at poland over the last five or six years, that is...

The chair now recognizes the gentleman from South Carolina, mr. Wilson. On sunday both the fbi and the department of Homeland Security issued warnings to American Military personnel within the United States regarding possible threats from isil. Sadly, this comes after Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson announced, quote, that the president would have no credible information that isis is planning to attack the homeland of the United States, he said this in new york city in front of the counci...

Dancing. Here he is with burroughs, the naturalist. Skating with his grandchildren. To plant a garden together they plant a garden together. His first car. That is his wife. He began with an idea that most people thought would not work, but he made it work. The tools he used were common sense, ingenuity, and perseverance. Along with the natural instinct for knowing how to put machines together and make them run. He was born into a world of limited horizons. The farm that might have been his heri...

Center in 2001. This Brooklyn Historical Society Program is about an hour. Welcome, everybody. It is so great to see the room full like this. Im marcia eli, Vice President of programs at the Brooklyn Historical society. And we are really, really excited about tonights program. I just wanted to say very quickly that if you are not familiar with Brooklyn Historical society, it was founded, we were founded 151 years ago. And it was the middle of the civil war. And a group of prominent brooklynites ...

In the waco area for very long. They were itinerant farm laborers, but it was not only Jesse Washington himself, 17 and mentally challenged, who was plowing the fields and working for them, but it was also his parents who lived in a little shack on their property with some other children. I think there was a younger brother, a teenager, and they were all doing some kind of work. She was found at the door to the seed barn with her head bashed in. It looked like she had been hit over the head real...

Minding my own business and teaching a course here in georgetown. Its good to see my students here in the front row. I think that the president asked me to do this with other complex projects and most recently when we did the recovery act in the first two years of the administration. He said to try to coordinate. We have every single federal Agency Working on some element of fighting ebola here at home or overseas. For me, i have been able to climb the learning curve and sylvia burr well at hhs....

So we specialize in only north korea. We do it daytoday, which is in the slow summer days of august can be very, very difficult. You know, we are really struggling sometimes to find leads for stories to do something original and its those times when personally it does get to you and you just wish this could be a bit more of a normal country and access and get in and interview various people and find leads for content. Thats something that troubles me a lot. And its something in the long term if ...

President obama, remains an important and i would argue essential concept to bring people together around. Now, im well aware of everything thats going on right now and the increasing tensions that are existing in the region in israel, in the west bank, to say nothing of the continuing aggressive behavior by hamas coming out of gaza. But i am one who believes that the absence of negotiation leaves a vacuum that gets filled by problems, bad actors, threats, other kinds of behavior that is not goo...