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Going forward. You know, chris, the president S Homeland Security Department did say earlier there was no specific credible threat involving other public venues in the united states. How do they make that determination for certain . What they had in front of them, i think they are referring to based on this incident. I think theres always a generalized threat out there in large public events. Those soft targets weve been talking about. And people need to be aware. I saw a lot of people at that c...

[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone, welcome to Carnegie Endowment for international peace. I think ive known just about everyone in the room one way or another and ill keep the introductions short. I handle the program here and its my opportunity on behalf of carnegie today to host a pair of panels that includes some of the people i admire the most in the field of contemporary china studies. We at carnegie and i think throughout the chinawatching community have had tremendous admir...

[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone, welcome to Carnegie Endowment for international peace. I think ive known just about everyone in the room one way or another and ill keep the introductions short. I handle the program here and its my opportunity on behalf of carnegie today to host a pair of panels that includes some of the people i admire the most in the field of contemporary china studies. We at carnegie and i think throughout the chinawatching community have had tremendous admir...

Stargazers are in for a treat this weekend with the annual draconid meteor shower set to light up our skies. Well find out the best ways to spot them. And sarah has the weather. Good morning. Weve got a lot of cloud this morning but it will tend to break up into the evening, particularly towards the east and Higher Ground and the south, thats where you have the best chance of catching a glimpse of the meteor shower. I will bring you will all the details in 15 minutes. Good morning. First our mai...

Behalf of carnegie today to host a pair of panels that include some of the people i admireof the most in the field of contemporary china studies. Wery at carnegie, and throughout the community have had tremendous admiration for the leadership and the production which is organized by alice muller at the Hoover Institution at stanford university. They have established a tremendous record for hearing the facts as opposed to trends and feelings and moods and things like that. Whenever you want to to...

Behalf of carnegie today to host a pair of panels that includes some of the people i admire the most in the field of contemporary china studies. We at carnegie and i think throughout the chinawatching community have had tremendous admiration for the leadership and the protection of the china leadership monitor, which is organized by professor alice miller at the Hoover Institution at stanford university. They have established a terrific record for hearing the facts as opposed to trends, feelings...

Atlantics Franklin Ford takes a look at influence of Tech Companies like amazon, facebook, google and more on our news, politics and free will and we wrap up our programming 11 pm with andrea peter provides a history of concentration camps that have existed around the world over the past two centuries. That happens tonight on cspan2s book tv. You are watching book tv on cspan2, television for serious readers. Joining usfrom the feet of Fest Convention is author , lee edwards whose most recent bo...

A class on civil war memory and how people in the north and south have interpreted the conflict from immediate post war era to the present day. The class is about one hour and 15 minutes. Professor gallagher here we are for the last class this semester. Were going to move into the aftermath of the war, as you know. We spent all semester looking at various aspects of this conflict, and right from the beginning i alerted you one of the themes in this class was going to be the tension between histo...

Various aspects of this conflicts. Right from the beginning i alerted you one of the themes in this class was going to be the tension between history and memory. We talked about it on the first day of class, have reiterated it as weve gone along. Here we are finally at the end where were going to focus on memory for our last class. Theres no better event in United States history to talk about how powerful testimony pending memories of what happened in the past can be. Theres nothing remotely equ...

Began in napa and quickly spread. It would spread from miles away in a dozen different areas our fires are burning right now from sonoma and napa, calistoga, and santa rosa all because of the fire that broke out and whipped by winds of 40 Miles Per Hour. And this area imparticular in santa rosa are concerned about because this Shopping Mall has a gun shop with lots of ammunition. They dont want that to two up in flames. We have already seen two Mobile Home Parks and gas stations catch fire. And ...