In terms of policy, you know, the fundamental issues were political and economic and they failed to deliver on their promises, on what people were expecting, you know, and this is this is what precipitated the rising i think significance of these religious groups, later on fundamentalist groups and later on extremist groups throughout the region, and the key problem here their rise was not just in terms of their own popularity, you know, within their borders, muslim brotherhood, 11, 12, 30 of the vote but more importantly i think they were able to dictate the parameters of the discussion in terms of the policy issues that were ongoing. You know, rise influence secular groups, nonpolitical groups so much so that they felt the need to bring religion to their own discussion, to their own sort of policies, proposed so to speak. One good example is what is happening in turkey today. Erdogan and akp have come to power in 2002 and hes been i mean, hes a politician and so successful in terms o
Obviously, i could do this privately and i have but i would like to say a public thank you to terry for her support for her advice over the years, including many good topics, suggestions, and if you are here you will know she is responsible for the beach boys, and all sorts of others we have enjoyed over the years thanks to her suggestions. So terry, would you please stand up . [applause] tonights speaker, claire l. Evans, has achieved notable success in two disparate fields, both as a musician and as a writer. In the former career, she is the lead singer and cofounder of the conceptual pop group yacht, and has recently returned from a tour in europe with that group. But it is her second career as an expert in the area of technology that brings her to us tonight. And in that regard, she is the former futures editor of motherboard and a contributor to vice, the guardian, and wired, among other publications. She is, for example, the Founding Editor of terraform, vices sciencefiction chro
Publicly express appreciation to this evening sponsor, Teresa Crawley dds. [applause] dont get carried away. Shell, you know. [laughter] obviously, i could do this privately come and i have, but i would like to say a public thank you to tarry for her sport terry for her support for her advice over the years, including topics. Suggestions, so would you please stand up . Tonight speaker, claire l. Evans, has achieved notable success both as a musician and as a writer. In the former career, she is the lead singer and cofounder of the conceptual pop group yacht and has recently returned from a tour in europe with that group. But it is her second career as an expert in the area of technology that brings her to us tonight. Cannot regard, she is the former future editor of motherboard and a contributor to vice, the guardian, and wired, among other publications. She is, for example, the Founding Editor of terraform, a sciencefiction article. The thing that particularly commends her to our atte
Its become a land of endless wars. Tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and expenditure billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is to kind. Its been an absolute failure if one accepts the basic aim was to foster stability and a better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for a country success or failure of the people who live there. But the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region, and if so, how . In this regard the editors of aid money, Michael Rubin and Brian Katulis, and their cocontributors, have given given us a gift. They identify seven factors that affect stability or not and examine what they mean and the role they play. The pillars that they identify our legitimacy, islam, arab ideology, the militaries, education, economy, and gove
Maria and we kick it off with Global Markets lets taken a look at european indices a selloff there as well. S p 200 down 250 points right now and paris down 165 and dax index in germany lower by 362. The European Union announcing the closing of its borders for 30 days to slow spread of coronavirus. In asia is overnight markets started with early rally on heels of wall street rally but then reverse course to finish in the red. Take a look at these numbers you have all of the major down better than 4 as you can see, the nikkei and japan and shanghai and composite 1. 8 and then theres oil. Oil prices tumbling touches levels not seen since 2003. As price of oil between russia and saudi arabia wages on demand is dropping oil prices right now at 25. 40 a barrel havent seen those numbs in quite some time. Check treasuries and yields right now on tenure treasury rising this morning once again, it is back above 1 . Tenure now sitting at 1. 8 that is up ten and a half basis points. The coronavir