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Rises in the back of the pavilion. We are here to listen to peniel joseph. I have the pleasure of interviewing and the 11 on the occasion of the 2010 book dark days, bright nights, from black power to barack obama. It was one of those wonderful, and hurried cspan book conversations. I never met him before and i was so impressed not only by intellect but by his ease, he melody and introspection. I left thinking i am going to read all of that dudes books from now on until the end of time. He is th...

Started by washington and continued by jefferson became pa paramount to law. It was a deeply respected practice and very few considered challenging and no one had succeeded. He was going to retire because he said that he was tired and he was broke. And he was both. He had already designed and was then building the first president ial library in america in hyde park new york which has been restored. I urge you to go see that. It is a fabulous experience. He built a retreat called top cottage at h...

I wrote about facts, not what i believe. Of course in the First Administration he gained after he went into training after the assassination recovery inch your 70s, thats no small accomplishment. We do thank you, tom, for this special look, and as he does say, its a very factbased, very interesting focus on a period of the president s life that we dont often see as clearly. We do thank you again for coming to join us, and thank tom. Thank you for having me. [applause] up next, author and think t...

And what were doing when we burn fossil fuels, is that we are taking carbon that was buried under the earth over the course of hundreds of millions of years, and we are transferring it back up into the atmosphere. So were basically running geological history backwards and at a very high speed. Were taking a process that took hundreds of millions of years to run in one direction, and were running it in the other direction in a matter of centuries. And if you were an alien and you came to visit th...

The government of bhutan, i should say the king of bhutan about 30 years ago realized that a process of development, of economic development, was great. It would pull millions of people out of poverty. People wouldnt starve to death, but it wasnt enough for human flourishing. So instead of counting narrowly the amount of money people had per capita, he had the idea of trying to measure the amount of happiness. He started an index called Gross National happiness. Thats wher he started an index ca...

We are here to listen to peniel joseph. I had the pleasure of interviewing peniel on cspan on the occasion of 2010 for dark days bright nights. It was one of those wonderful and under her readers cspan but conversations for i had never met him before and ford is easy and humility i left thinking i will read his books from now until the end of time. Also with the Award Winning from the midnight hour a narrative history of black power in america. Why youre here is to hear stokely a life that is de...

As i discussed yesterday with administration witnesses during her full Committee Hearing i continue to have deep concerns about how the cuban government treats its citizens but its clear the United States policy on cuba over the past several decades has not worked either. I either. Im hopeful president obama is ever to engage real substantive negotiations to a more honest Cultural Exchange economic trade and diplomatic ties with cuba will benefit the United States and more importantly the cuban ...

Theres a shortage of people to do the labs. Is it so coming to eventually. Your beds. The staff, one of the inputs for the total package of defense. The facilities, the isolation centers, a whole bunch of things. In the chart i sent you yesterday, i set out the planned numbers and actual numbers for how were doing to scale. So, if i can draw your attention to the easiest place to start s is people to start, facilities to be in relax and lodgistics and consumers. The dark line shows where we are ...

So more than doubles. The International Panel on Climate Change has actually put more emphasis in this. If youre trying to hit a 550 target and you take ccs off the table, the cost goes up about 50 or really goes up between sort of 30 and 80 for 550. If you want to hit a 450 target the cost triples. Goes up between 200 and 400 . Thats a lot of money, and its just because in some markets coal with ccs is the cheap option. Not everywhere, maybe not in california, maybe not in arizona, but in a who...

Policies toward syria in the fight against the militant group isis. Before heading to his holiday vacation, president obama held a year end News Conference this afternoon saying that sony erred in choosing not to air the including the president talking about the u. S. Response to north korea. Lets talk of the specifics of what we all know. We can confirm that north korea engaged in this attack. It says Something Interesting about north korea that they decided to have the state mount an all out a...