Common it depends on the workplace but in an office or a Research Environment its important to have good Language Skills a fair dose of curiosity some creativity and an ability to absorb information and its relevance in short it helps to be smart but what if your overly intelligent its not always a blessing my colleague christiane puts silly is made up with some gifted young people and their families. Some highly intelligent people do Amazing Things play the piano like a pro as a child skip years at school or solves math problems in the blink of an eye gifted people often score highly on i. Q. Tests most people have an intelligence quotient of around 100. 00 only around 2 percent of the population has an i. Q. Higher than 130. 00. So how does the Education System deal with them. What. Do you see on hand and her brother philip or her sing for a concert. That last performance on a cruise ship was a success. And. We thought it would be a flop and nobody would come and listen in fact a 100
Upon sanctions and the 3rd and and the demand that the United States we remain inside of iraq against the will of the people in government and parliament there that is what makes this all asymmetrical and i think you can draw different conclusions about as the media likes to do who won and who lost go ahead alex and well heres what i mean i think the fundamental difference is that the radios just. Range all of their assets together that that Foreign Policy that diplomats they bring to get their political leaders they build bringing their intelligence operatives message me people also their economic assets such as they are and they set themselves very clear objectives which they dont let themselves be done from and that objective is not clearly defined easy as to trying to get the United States. The middle east out of iraq specifically areas where they can threaten new iraq iran the United States why contrast what we see there is a dysfunctional government which doesnt have any kind of
All Things Considered on this edition of. A post mortem of the recent us around conflict what has changed and what bodes for the future issues the Mainstream Media refused to discuss. Some real news im joined by my guest going is a professor at the Higher School of economics as well as author of the case of western civilization and resurgence of russia we also have Dimitri Bobbitt shes a political analyst and editor in a smi internet media project. Andy in london we Cross Alexander macarius he is a writer on Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com our german crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to alexander in london you know over the past 10 days or so weve heard the term escalation deescalation proportional and one of the things i think that is mr very much is the how the behave the behavior on the side of the leadership and to iran and in washington we term asymmetrical was used all of the time
Last night iran launched Ballistic Missiles at iraqi air bases that housed u. S. Troops and none hurt, nasdaq was higher about an hour before the close so is this market being resilient or are investors being complacent sell sell sell. Why not both. Thats what it needs a combination of these two forces first lets cover complacency. Few days ago the president of the United States ordered the killing of an extremely bad iranian general who has been major architect of state sponsorship in the region. Im not litigating whether that matter what matters most commentators immediately assumed we were headed for war with iran do not pass go do not pass 200 they figured both sides would keep escalating and saw the price of gold soar and same time the stock market ignored it. Even when it became obvious retaliation was imminent iran launched when the market closed more than a dozen air missiles and the overnight futures plummeted. Equal to 500 dow points. Next thing you know the president tweets
With oneeading intellectuals and commentators, his new book is the Second Mountains, how many people read this book yet . Okay . How many are going to read after this is over . Okay. How many people are going to get an autographed copy from david today. Okay so david thanks for doing this. So lets go before we go to this book Second Mountains which i have read, i would like to go a little bit about your background. You grew up in new york . I grew up in the lower side of new york and my parents were somewhat left wing, so the story i tell about my childhood is when i was five, and they took me to it a place where hippies would go to be. Im one of things they did is they would set a garbage can on fire and they with their their wallets in it to just show about how much they little they cared about money and material things. And i saw 5dollar bill in the garbage can and i reached in and grab for a breach in the fire, and grabbed the money and ran away that was my first step to the right.