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This is about an hour. [applause] well, thanks so much to everybody for coming out. Let me say a few words about the book and its genesis. I lived in the middle east a lot in the 70s when i was just a kid, and i actually lived for a while off of Tahrir Square, the main drag, the main Center Square of cairo. I saw a round about. And many of the sort of important streets in cairo come down into it, and then you go off to the bridge from it and so forth. Be so its a little bit difficult to avoid that square. Its central to the citys traffic pattern. So having it occupied is rather a hassle for dr...

Something that is slapped together. So its being put together by people right there. I dont get the sense that this is being imported. To the extent that im wrong that this is something more sophisticated my sense is this has happened some time ago. Once the oil is refined you have testified that the assad regime is purchasing some of the oil. Some of it is being smuggled into the southern regions of turkey where you said the price of gasoline is higher than we would expect here. If you are purchasing barrels of oil at 30 or so a barrel you have reason to know this may be illicit oil. Are we d...

Untenable position. 40 years of onesided american diplomacy aimed at achieving regional and International Acceptance for israel, thus peversely produced the very opposite. Increasing International Isolation and a program for the jewish state. We will now cover israels back as the saying goes as the United Nations as its angoing maltreatment and intermittent muggings of its captive arab population complete its international delegitimization and ostracism. Well pay a heavy price for this, political price, globally in the middle east, and very likely an escalating terrorism against americans abro...

I think breaking down those boundaries between different parts of government is very much something that weve seen and its translated into legislative action as well. Asset freezing recall, legislation that many countries have adopted. So a holding measure. E. U. Has done that. Switzerland has done that. Just after arab spring. A list of these persons, freeze their assets now. It is not a judicial freeze in the context of judicial action. It is an administrative freeze giving the countries time to prepare their judicial action. I think that sort of innovative legislation is happening. The civi...

Borneo. There were 162 passengers and crew on board. The airliner disappeared on radar screens from indonesia. Survivors and witnesses at a new years eve stampede in shanghai are demanding an investigation. They want to know whether there were enough security to manage the huge crowds. 36 were killed and 47 injured. The crash happened waterfront district more than 10 o,000 people there each new years eve to celebrate. Police said 500 were on duty. None were in sight during the chaos. The stampede happened on overcrowded steps. City Officials Say theyre trying to find out exactly what went wron...