england had only low-level representation in the united states. it didn't want to recognize the u.s. enough to have an ambassador. it only had a minister. the superior in washington, the minister was sir richard fly-in's who had needed all of his considerable diplomatic skills since 1861 to keep the nation's from over at war. indeed, said sherman. i hope you report me to your government. if british subjects paid for the cotton i know what they purchase it for. they gave them shot and cannon. you will please say to your government from the i've been fighting the english government all the way from the ohio river to vicksburg and then to this point. i've encountered british arms, british munitions of war and british goods of every description at every step, sir. notice, sir was always present in this gentlemanly argument. i've met them, sir, in all shapes and now, sir, i find you claiming all the cotton. the names of any will be taken and be probably the subject of future action. but they're the matter must rest for the present triet good day, and t

i don't like to write in the evening unless i have to do something for england, and then of course england is eight hours from here forward, and, you know, if you're going to get something on someone's desk by 8:00 in the morning you can do it until late at night. but that's the shape of my day. it's not particularly monk-like in seclusion. i spend a lot of time on the telephone with three or four people up in olympia, washington, who also does the editing on the books. our business operations are run right here in petrolia by becky grant and david wheeler, incredibly efficiency of course. counterpunch books, we started thinking we were publishing things in the internet web and wanted to keep on the form. our stuff on the counterpunch site doesn't go away. it's somewhere in the of fast sort of black hole of or in print communications. probably some government archive, god help people who have to go through it. but we thought we wanted to put them in hard covers. we began with a book called the politics of anti-semitism because we had done a bunch of articles about critical israel that he w

salary, because she's a student at cambridge england receives free health care through england's national health service that she says is as good or better than anything in the united states. in addition to free doctor visits, insulin and syringes her care includes regular contact with a dietitian, endocrinologist also free of charge. these medical professionals encouraged valerie to take a more active role in managing her own dietetic disease, and she is in better health now and she has been in years. eventually she hopes to open her own laboratory where she can use her grade education and skills to continue research and mitochondrial biology and develop a cure and treatment for diseases. she worries about whether she will be able to do that if she came back to the united states and here's what she said as long as the same broken in secure health system remains in place i see little incentive to come home to the united states with my talent and experience. we can't afford to lose talented scientists like valerie, who won they might find a cure for a disease like parkinson's. we are the o

this is 30% of the natural gas that we use in new england. we support this and we have licensed a couple of facilities. massachusetts says that we do not need this on land, and we are doing this offshore. this is licensed. they have said that you will have another one. this will be in massachusetts. and this may affect the amount of grenoble's that we need. notwithstanding the fact that natural gas may be half of the carbon that they use as coal, this is not as good as the renewals will be. we are having this forced upon us. they have been pressing that for the last four or five years. this is calling into question some of the federal processes, where even when the states are saying to back away, they continue to say that this is what we are going to have four new england. how do we reconcile this? >> i am not suggesting a one- size-fits-all process. they have the primary responsibility for permitting that states will be given the initial opportunity in this regard, and that opportunity should be given with all the tools necessary to succeed.

when the boat came over and basically was welcomed by the natives of there in new england. and talked how to live on this land. yet the result of that kind this was turned back them with murder and mayhem. the country moves toward. you brought up barry goldwater and want brown points for the civil-rights movement. the white democrats did not want to pass it down south. we wanted to do it.

at that time and he co-founded the unitarian church in england just as a kind of side thing. so, and he had a number of kind of radical religious views that were three controversy what the time. he had a kind of interest approach to history of the church. he believed it was a fascinating conversation of a very devout man who was a christian to the end of his life but believe that his vision of christianity was about the original words of jesus and the original message of jesus that had been kind of compromise by leader scholars overtime introduced all these supernatural distortions as he said to the christian tradition and he wrote a number of books about this including a very influential what about the corruption of christianity which had huge impact on thomas jefferson. and in fact the final kind of tipping point in my own head of deciding to write this book is reading that jefferson had ultimately credited priestley with keeping him a christian and all the challenges in the complicated faith jefferson had when he read priestley's books about the christianity he said this i

the 100 year war left england and france penniless. the simple reason is that it takes an effort to build a school, almost no effort at all to blow it up and same thing is true of anything that you can create. so wars destroy and very often they destroy the countries engaged in them. when america starts a war, when america is involved in a war, we are so strong, so powerful that the only way to end a war is for us to end it. there is only one way to end the war that america's involved in and that's for us to decide as a country, enough is enough, we're done. we spend more on our defense than all other countries combined. and the result of that is that these decisions are made by us, often by the people in this room, often by the president. and it's up to us to decide when enough is enough, when enough people have died, when enough money that has been lost when the price has been too high. i submit that we reached that point in iraq a long time ago. we reached that point in afghanistan a long time ago. in the case of afghanistan, within

new england with a win in houston would take the third position. phil: as you watch this game, broncos able to get back in it. some timely plays on the offensive side but the coverage of the defensive backs of the broncos' defense, that is another huge story here in the second half. jim: orton sets up screen. tripped up, maybe by his own man. moreno gets to his feet to the 49. back in the playoff picture. if denver pulls out the win then the broncos and jets would control their own fate next week. denver hosting kansas city. again a win today and then a win next week the broncos would be in and the jets control their fate now. next week they'll be hosting cincinnati and the jets with a win would get in. if denver loses baltimore moves in there as the controlling their own destiny team, along with the jets. now two yards short of the first, moreno. third down on the way. on the n.f.c. side, if dallas wins tonight then the giants are eliminated. if the cowboys win tonight then we'll know the six teams and some things will have to be settled next week

new england has lost three straight games since 2002. tom brady playing with assorted injuries, a finger, rib, shoulder. matt moore in the first, for the injured jake delhomme. 7-0, panthers. game tied 7-7, brady from watson. in the end zone. brady's only touchdown pass of the game. new england 8-5 now after winning it 20-10. >>> the dolphins trying to keep pace with the pats, vifing the jaguars. first quarter, scoreless game, ricky williams, untouched. 108 yards on the day for williams. 7-0, dolphins. chad henne boot legged, chad henne, touchdown. 14-0, miami. fourth quarter, 14-10, fourth down david gang tackled. >>>

say america, england, or hungry, for example. to talk about freedom fighters all around fighting for the jewish cause. and i've traveled quite a lot. i've been to english and other places. everyone seems to speak about individual struggles in various countries. and it's been a lot of great freedom fighters all across the globe from angola, south africa. going forward, how's it going to be integrated into this book? because kids from this country, great fighters across the globe, not just america, how would go into integrate that? >> is a very interesting question. african-americans tend not to use think of a global struggle. i think our struggle as african-americans is very specifically american, because we are physically cut off from africa. and now we are dealing with an american problem trying to get rights and peace and freedom and access to things that allow us to live and prosper within america. and one of the things happening in africa don't seem to have a drug collection of what we're dealing with. going forward perhaps w

every major city, inact village, small towin the states all dmessiah just as the same in england. everybody does it. >> reporter: erybody does it, because everybody el buys tickets. the messiah is aort of savior of cash-strapped classal music. >> ♪ rejoice! rejoice! ♪ rejoice greatly! >> reporter: in fact, the li between the messiah anmoney goes bk a long ways. it turns out composer geor fridrick handel, which means "market in gman, was not only a musical iz, but an entrepreurial one. >> the domant pattern in the 17th century ahandel got started was you ther worked r the church or you worked for the nobility. >> rorter: harvard's mike herer has written a classic classical music and onomics: "quarternotes and banknos." "opera w the road to independence frothe patronage of court and clerg" he says. >> and the composers competed as freelances to ve their compositions choseto be operas. >> reporter: handel,n royal retainer in ndon, jumped into the game, according m.i.t. musicologist ellen hars. >> his first opera is "rindo," 1711, and itas a huge hit. he probably woulhave gotten a

so shares in the south sea company were in a sense the mortgage-backed securities of georgian england and people mobbed to buy them in london's exchange alley. >> it's not so different from the kind of dodgy debt that people were investing in here in the past five and 10 years, when there was no there there. and this idea that this was the route to becoming rich quickly, and handel was young, he was an eager beaver. he saw all the upper class doing it. >> reporter: isaac newton did it. >> everyone did it. >> reporter: because the securities kept rising in value. like this lord, sharing his winnings with his servants, handel, who left london on business, cashed out. soon after, south sea bubble burst. panic reigned. investors were dropping like stones; they were underwater. >> and handel was not involved in that because he got his money out. >> reporter: in the next few years, the south sea company, backed by the equivalent of our fed, reorganized itself-- jailing the directors, and creating a new bond issue, paying a secure, government- backed 3-5% for now safety- conscious investors

but when the crisis hit, the bank of england was completely in the dark and unable to address affectively what turned into a problem for the british economy. currently that trend in the u.k. is quite the opposite. it is to give the central bank the information it needs to know what is going on in the banking system. senator shelby asked me about the role of monetary policy. i say the role is there, is more unusual, but for financial stability of maintenance it is important the fed have that insight into the banking system. >> on both of those points i say respectfully. at the g-20 more than half of our colleagues separated supervisory and monetary policy. the companies that have weathered the storm well have been countries that have separated both. the british system was a light touch regulation. they did not have deposit insurance very well and they did not have the information. when they set up the system they did not allow the central bank to -- that contributed more to what happened in great britain. that is a legitimate discussion, but i don't think you could say with certainty that

of course england is eight hours for word. we have got to get something done to someone's desk by eight in the morning you can do it until late at night. that is the shape of my day. i spend a lot of time passing on the telephone to three or four people. in olympia, washington. does the editing on the books. >> our business operations are run right here by becky granted. incredible efficiency, of course. we started thinking that we were publishing a newsletter. we wanted to keep in a more current form. our web stuff does not go away. it is all somehow in the vast black hole of internet communications. probably all ending up in government archive. but we felt we wanted to put them in hard cover. we had done a whole bunch of articles about, you know, this idea of israel or an anti-semite which is absolutely nonsense. a very successful book, actually. we do our books in association with a bunch of pretty well organized down in oakland de. a k looks after a lot of the bookshop. looks after the bookshop. we also sell the books on o

it was acquired by kennedy's secretary and his wife near westminster, but england. it is 8 feet high when they arrived from their home in england. here they are 11 feet high. the upper and lower portions were painted in. " from 1948 until 1952, blair house became a president's home. harry truman and his family moved there because the white house was under renovation. in his biography, david wrote about'the presidents temporary quarters. "the house itself was not only nothing very grand but a bit dowdy. but not everybody felt that sway. margaret truman remembers it this way in her biography. "i fell in love with a place at the moment i walked into a. every room, was held little masterpieces of architecture and decoration. almost every piece of furniture was a rare antique from 18th- century america or from france. crystal chandeliers and rugs. magnificent mirrors bedoubled the beauty of the drawing rooms. it was a charming." >> this house has an unbelievable history of great moments in history, moments of queerer wars were discussed and committed to and peace movemen

opportunity for someone in kansas to get ahold of a really arcane, narrow book that resides some place in england within seconds over the web. and the idea that google had in the first place was to make every single book in the world universeally accessible. and they wanted to do that by scanning every book that exists in the world. it's a very ambitious project. they really wanted to create the world's biggest online library, and what i mean by library is online you don't have to actually go some place. it would reside on the web. so it was a very ambitious project, and they started scanning books, and then they realized they ran into a bunch of legal issues, copyright and antitrust. >> host: what was google's original motive? >> guest: it's really along the lines of their whole mission which is for users of the internet to access any information they want, video, books, music now, now music, maps, anything that -- any information that travels over the web. and the project was nothing but very, very ambitious. it was, again, to create, to scan every single book in the world. and i think some peo

all of the pieces of the puzzle come together over new england. if that were to happen here, we would be talking major storm like last week. but still one of those pieces will be on top of us tomorrow morning with some cold air trapped at the surface and that's why we have to talk about icing. first things first. today partly sunny and 39. the wind direction will be more southwesterly and light compared to yesterday. tomorrow morning, this is where we will have some icing problems, sleet or freezing rain. pretty much across northern virginia in to western maryland and over the district. 31 when you wake up. this low comes up the coast and it's going to bring warmer air up to 40s with rain in the afternoon. to the north in new york state and central pennsylvania you will get snow out of this. tomorrow night, new year's eve, we will probably have snow mix in with rain. we're not looking at accumulations but the roads will be wet and many times that happens and it gets problematic around here. on friday, leftover rain or snow showers. 38. the next we

. >> larry: nic, is this a big story in england? >> reporter: it is, larry, because it does appear this is where the young man was radicalized. it has happened at universities here in london before to muslim students. there are radicalizers that radicalize some of the students. when he studied here between 2005 and 2008, mechanical engineering, when he finished that course he asked to go to university in saudi arabia or cairo, egypt. they were worried because he was making contact with suspicious people. at that stage they were already getting worried about his radicalization. there is another point that is interesting and that is the very same summer when his parents were getting worried, that very same summer the u.s. embassy here in london got a multiple entry visa for return visits to go in and out of the united states. there are inconsistencies here, too. >> larry: one thing more quickly with drew griffin who will follow this program live around the clock as we do it at cnn. drew, do you know what he has been officially charged

expense and time in england where your mother was born and grew up in canada and elmira? >> in a tiny town that has since become famous because down the road is where the blackberry comes from. we are now on the map, we think. >> you have a total of 1297 in book form. this last book is up to number 5. of all the books you have done, the four, when you speak, when do people ask you -- which book to people most ask you about? >> that is interesting. "to pinpoint" -- "tipping point"has probably been read by the most people. that is an occasion for much discussion. "outlyers" is a topic that everyone is interested in one way or another. there is always a piece that people want to know more about. it is impossible to say which one has provoked the most responses. >> let's say it is 80 to acknowledge to give a speech, what is the experience like would you contracts a month to stand up for 90 minutes. do you worry about it? >> not really, i don't get nervous. for public speaking. by and a nervous person but years ago i was a competitive runner. i would get in some way never befo

when the boat came over and basically was welcomed by the natives of there in new england. and talked how to live on this land. yet the result of that kind this was turned back them with murder and mayhem. the country moves toward. you brought up barry goldwater and want brown points for the civil-rights movement. the white democrats did not want to pass it down south. we wanted to do it. as a kid in 1964 i remember, eight years old and barry goldwater's speed all the racist haiti can. i hear many conservative, right- wing republicans always want to: barry goldwater, yet you never go back to his change of heart. the same meeting with mr. kkk byrd that we know from west virginia and his thought process. if we get to be one, a few mr.tapscott listen to mr. solomon a little more and get away from the no and try to get a little more to the yes, . can't mr. solomon, a want to applaud you for your intelligence and intentions. host: we will stop you there to let the harvard debate continue. guest: this was your brother, right? if guest: not literally, anyway. guest: where do i sta

broom is made the whole country of england insein. everybody in england wanted to go see broomus, the little baby bear at the london zoo. i told you i would show you what little baby bear sluglike. this is a zoo. this happens to be stripped are but baby polar bears are about the size of a rabbit when they are more. they stay in the den and a nurse for three or four months before they are large enough to come out. this is again the mother brings her cut out. but what happens sometimes in these zoos is that the mother for reasons that we don't quite understand, the mother will abandon the cut. this is an abandoned cub in denver. the denver zoo had to polar bears that were abandoned by their mother in the zoo. they were born in the zoo and then they were left on the ice by the mother. turned around and went back in the den they built for her. so they went in and rescued the bears, and they raise them by hand. they bottle-fed but there's. the bears were called klondike and so. and the same thing happened in denver. everybody went crazy ov

douglas dillon and his wife near westminster, england. the panels were only eight feet high when they arrived from their home in england. here our ceilings were 11 feet high in that room, so the upper portion and lower portion were painted in. >> from 1948 to 1952, blair house became a president's home. harry truman and his family moved there because the white house was under renovation. in his biography on truman, david mccullough wrote about the president's temporary quarters. "the house itself, even with the quick cosmetics applied the year before, was not only nothing very grand, but a bit dowdy. it creeked and groaned, trembled noticeably when streetcars passed by outside. its dark old cellar was full of rats, as was well known by the seet hated ever to go down there. of all the presidents they had known, some of the secret servicemen would later say, only harry truman would have been willing to live in the place." but not everyone felt that way. margaret truman remembered it this way in her biography. "i fell in love with the place

. >> larry: nic, is this a big story in england? >> reporter: it is, larry, because it does appear at this early stage that this is where the young man was radicalize. it has happened at universities here in london before to muslim students. there are radicalizers that radicalize some of the students. we know that because when he studied here between 2005 and 2008, studying mechanical engineering, when he finished that course, his family said he asked to go to university in saudi arabia or cairo, egypt. they were worried because he was making contact with suspicious people. at that stage they were already getting worried about his radicalization. so it is going to cause interest, but, again, there's another point here that's interesting, larry. and that is that that very same summer when his parents were getting worried about the potential for him to be radicalized, that very same summer he got at the u.s. embassy here in london a multiple entry visa for return visits for a number of careers to go in and out of the united states. so

they say america, england or hungary for example. they talk about freedom fighters all around fighting for the course of freedom. i've been to quite similar panels, but everyone seems to talk about individual struggles in various countries. and there's been a lot of great freedom fighters all across the globe from angola, south africa, going forward how are they going to be integrated into this book or the struggle because kids from this country who see the world in a bigger perspective -- [inaudible] champion freedom across the globe, not just in america. how are we going to integrate that? >> it's a very interesting question, african-americans tend not to think die sporeically. i think our struggle as african-americans is very specifically american because we are physically, literally and figuratively cut off from africa, and now we're dealing with an american problem trying to get rights and peace and freedom and access to things that allow us to live and prosper within america. and things that are happening in africa don't seem t

england was the same way. you had to have position of the lord of the manor for fishing, hiking. so what he did was so radical and different was to break from that. was to simply say this land belongs to you and i. it's no more complicated than that. so, you know, i grew up, you know, in spokane, and we had a big irish catholic family and we weren't rich. we didn't have a summer home but we had these public lands. and, you know, as long as we had these public lands i knew we were rich. and so we camped all over western montana. all over northern idaho, all over eastern washington. and, you know, this land was something -- my mother always told me it was part of my birthright as an american citizen and so -- that's what we really owe this president. it's also interesting to think accidents, quirks of history -- what if this fire hadn't happened? the forest service had been killed and they were very close to killing it. don't fool yourself. they had basically defunded this down basically down to nothing. and how low the morale and people were quitting and they felt disrespected and

that is the view of the governor of the bank of england and he says they haven't a credible plan to get the deficit under control. >> government backbenches need simmer down a little. mr. david cameron. >> it's not just back benches, mr. speaker, the children's secretary is up to his old tricks again. you would have thought -- you would have thought he would spend more time in his ultra marginal constituency. but perhaps he agrees with us that the more he meets people, the more likely we are to win it. the fact is, when you look at the prime minister's three central claims, the claim we were better prepared than other countries, that was wrong. our deficit was worse than other countries. the claim that britain was leading the world out of recession we're still in recession and the claim to abolish boom and bust absolute rubbish. isn't it the case his three biggest claims are his three biggest failures? >> mr. speaker, the more he talks, the less he actually says. nothing -- nothing -- nothing about policy. we have helped 200,000 businesses in this country. we have helped half a million

that's what we're going to do because that's exactly what they do in england. they have the national institute of comparative effectiveness and makes an evaluation of what your worth is. and no matter what your history is, no matter what your family situation is, no matter what your income, you can't have it. now, canada's getting around that because they've said, you get the right to buy what you want. their supreme court ruled 2 1/2 years ago. and so what we're seeing is a two-tier system now developing in canada which ultimately will happen in this country worse than what we have today. mr. ensign: if the senator would yield, though, if america does this with our health care system, where were the can made it -- where will the canadians come for health care when they need it? you know, when they get it rationed up there, they usually come to the united states. mr. coburn: they'll go to thailand or india. mr. ensign: i was going to say that. but where will americans go? mr. coburn: i thank the senators for holding this colloquy. make one final point before i

speaker here to does the prime minister agree with ben bernanke, his decision to strip the bank of england civilizing role led to i quote a destructive run and a major problem of the british economy? >> no, mr. speaker. i think anybody can look at the global recession knows that it started -- does that start with the problems of the banking system actually an america. that spread right across the world. and our system is the right way to deal with these problems. because it brings the bank of england the financial services authority and the treasury together to deal with these issues. i noticed that the leader of the opposition change the policy of the shadow chancellor about the future of the banking system only yesterday that i noticed he was also talking yesterday about flatter taxes that he was going to introduce. flatter taxes mean less tax paid by the very wealthy but i think for the conservatives come to give his lectures on economic policy, they should go back to the drawing board at. >> will my right honorable friend give the public a guarantee that he will never let the ban on hu

in 2003 study published in the "new england journal of medicine," found that in 199, americans spent over a thousand dollars per capita on health care administration costs. more than a thousand dollars for every man, woman and child in this nation spent on paperwork and red tape. electronic medical records, which make administration more efficient and improve the quality of care, are still not in use for more patients. finally, mr. president, we cannot wait any longer because the inefficiencies of our system are crushing us and our budgets and even more pointedly because so many lives are at stake. 140,000 americans have lost their lives since 2000 because they lacked health insurance. we cannot afford to walk down this road any longer. we must change direction. this bill will do it in a positive direction. i ask that the balance of my statement be inserted in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. levin: and, again, i thank my good friend from montana and the other leaders who've made it possible for to us get to this point. mr. baucus: mr. president? the presidin

so what we've learned is that -- that -- that the "new england journal of medicine," which is highly respecteahighly respectel journal, suggests that the bundled payments for chronic disease and for electivs and foe summers could reduce health care surgeries for as much as 5% for 2011-2015. but we don't get credit for though savings. they don't talk about it. but common sense tells, because we've seen it, where they've done these bundled payments, you're going to reduce the costs. in addition, even if such savings only applied to half of the spending in the health care sector, the result would be more than $900 billion of savings over the next 10 years. if bundled payments get expanded beyond the post-acute care and even half of the potential savings from bundled payments were realized in the medicare program during the upcoming decade, these savings would translate to an additional .2% of savings per year or reduction in program expenditures, and that would be more than $190 billion between 2010 and 2019. so i just talked about a trillion dollars, a trillion dollars of savings that

because it brings the bank of england the financial services authority and the treasury together to deal with these issues. i noticed that the leader of the opposition change the policy of the shadow chancellor about the future of the banking system only yesterday that i noticed he was also talking yesterday about flatter taxes that he was going to introduce. flatter taxes mean less tax paid by the very wealthy but i think for the conservatives come to give his lectures on economic policy, they should go back to the drawing board at. >> will my right honorable friend give the public a guarantee that he will never let the ban on hunting dog? >> mr. speaker, i'm surprised that one political party wants to fight the next election on withdrawing the ban on fox hunting. .com is the only job creation policy to create a quango to run foxhunting. i believe they're making a terrible mistake and they will pay for it at the election. >> order. >> from london you have been watching prime minister's question time on the british house of commons. aired live every wednesday while parliament is in sessi

and in 2006, in the "new england journal of medicine," suggests in this article that as much as 40% of medical liability lawsuits are without merit. medical liability insurance premiums are threatening the stability of our nation's health care system. these rates are forcing many physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers to move out of high-liability states, limit the scope of their practices and even to close their doors permanently. mr. ensign: this crisis is affecting more and more patients and is threatening access to reliable, quality health care services. i have a good friend in southern nevada who practices obstetrics. in his practice he specializes in high-risk pregnancies. because of the medical liability problems that we have seen in the past several years, his insurance company limits the number of high-risk pregnancies in which he can assist. so you have one of the best doctors practicing obstetrics because of the fear of lawsuits by his insurance company. they limit the number of pregnancies -- high-risk pregnancies in which he can assist in. if you are a woma

these were sent from young people all over england, and we're from all over england. now is time to be heard and it's time to hear answers, not only have we agreed the cost of the university must go down and more significantly the fees of young people not at the university must be considered when holding any review of university tuition fees. at last the most important thing to consider is this, for those that do in the coming to the university, the university fees, the counterpart of the everyday lives whether they need jobs, whether they can afford food, transport or even shelter. you could be the one out of 15,000 denied the university. you could be the one out of 30,000 in debt and i could be the one in three who might not even be able to afford a university and be left thinking it is the only way. it's the only way forward for me to get a good job, a good salary, a good future. now imagine if in ten years' time 15,000 or more are denied. 30,000 or more are in debt. and one -- one in three or more are deprived. imagine if in ten years of time things have not chang

so you learn a lot about england and france and america, all kinds of other places. which is useful, i think. i remember as a kid listening to the radio, listening to the radio on the cbc news, and the thing about the news it 6:00 on the radio and canada is that talk about the rest of the world. in canada, you cannot give a sophisticated account of what happened that day and confine yourself to a country of 18 million. not enough happened in consequence. as a little kid, i grew up hearing about africa and south america in the news every night. all these places. it is very different when you are in a country like america, where you actually can give the news every night and don't -- i am not saying it is a bad thing. america is so complex and sits at the center of so much that happens, you can have sophisticated conversations about this world just about america. it is a matter of where you are. in canada, we were forced to look outward. and that was a really wonderful experience for someone who wanted to go into business and the professionally curious. >> i will not s

when it is over he goes back to england and then a couple years later the cryptographer herb breaks the code of the wartime traffic and put the figure on a bunch of people including klaus convicted of stealing trade secrets in 1950 and thrown into the present system and we assume that is the end. rahm. klaus gets out and 1959 and bridges edo? he moves to east germany. what does he do? he has a summer steady for an important people ahead of the chinese nuclear program he gives the chinese of how well los alamos program worked. the technology moves and wondrous ways. the six nation to go nuclear was israel. that is an interesting story because israel all they decided to have paid program after the suez crisis. two refresh your memory 1956, the brits and french and israelis decide to invade egypt and retake the suez canal. they did not consult the americans before doing this but they invaded and eisenhower's said stop and threatened with economic retaliation so they withdrew. febris already had nuclear-weapons france and israel came to the conclusion we cannot count on the americans to bec

i got into russia, germany, france, england, and america. it became clear to me that nato was an integral part of the german unification process. i have read often that it was an issue of the putin era. there is a huge section in the book on it. i will sketch out a few ideas here. on the question of whether alliances are about controlling allies as well as enemies, there was a separate organization that managed french and british expectations on top of nato. on the question of expanding nato, that comes up very early. there is discussion about moving need to be stored, into east germany and beyond. -- there is discussion about moving nato eastward, into east germany and beyond. i have a running tab of it earliest mention of nato and eastern europe. the state department started writing about it in march of 1990. there were talking about putting a toe in hungary -- they were talking about putting nato in hungary. early on, there is discussion about nato moving into eastern europe. some of this is internal polity -- policy discussion. some of i

happily, both marie and the empress victoria of germany were born in england and god bless them, they wrote their diaries and letters of the mother tongue. s four madame chiang a great deal was an english and when it came to the chinese are keizai was fortunate enough to find a graduate student through a friend of a friendly young woman who lived and shanghai and did not automatically spout party dogma. with our hurt her, i could not have written this book. looking at the back pages of "the last empress" and of consulting quite a number of archives i sought out the best food source reformation was the hoover institute at stanford university. my personal theory is that most right wing governments leave the archives to hoover perk up my experience with hoover goes back to my first book, the last romantics, a biography of queen marie of romania. this was a long time ago. allen and i were living in southern california and he was directing the president's men and i went up north to see the son of the romanian prime minister who was working at hoover at the time. at that point* in my life i

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however, valeri's going to school in england and if you listen to some of the criticisms on the floor here about england, canada and others, other nations that approach health care differently, you might have an impretion in your mind about -- impression in your mind about what that means. valeri because she's a student in cambridge receives free health care that she said is as -- is as good or better as anything that she had in the united states. in addition to free doctor visits, her care includes care from a dietician and indoe krinnologist -- endrocrinologist free of charge. she is -- in better health than she has been in years. she hopes to open her own laboratory where she can continue research. and -- in myochondrial birolling yism she worries if she would be able to do that if she came back to the united states. here's what she said: as long as the same broken, insecure health system remains in place, i see little incentive to come home to the united states with my talents an experience. we can't afford to lose talented scientists like valeri who might find a cure for a diseas

he wrote six political novels about england in the 1870s. wonderful political understanding of how human beings in politics, how human nature influences politics. >> why are you rereading those? >> i just think he's got such a wonderful -- well, first his sentences are great, his paragraphs are great. you say, boy, how did he do this? so i'm always looking to see how he did it. but even more than that i write about how, i try to write about how human beings and presidents and cabinet ministers are affected by being in politics, and he's really doing the same thing in a fictional way. and as i try to learn from him. >> american icons, three original documentaries from c-span now available on dvd. a unique journey through the iconic homes of the three blanches of american government. see the exquisite detail of the supreme court through the eyes of the justices. go beyond the velvet ropes of public tours into those rarely-seen spaces of the white house, america's most famous home. and explore the history and architecture of the capitol. americ

they used to read things allowed in the parliament in new england because they didn't have typewriters of computer. but i think you are going to get a bill. >> larry: ron, are we going get a bill? >> we are not. we will get something but not a real bill. there will be some increase in government involved in medicine. in a sense, there will be a bill. it's going to be very, very minimal. we have been doing it for 35 years, and we have corporatism, the corporations run it. they are being protected with this administration. >> banny frank is ron paul remain with us. ben bernanke is "time's" person of the year. should he be? that's next. "s" stands for straightforward. as in up-front, honest... total transparency. straightforward is the way td ameritrade does business. simple, fair pricing. no hidden account fees. no shenanigans. just gptd value. real help. smart people who are easy to work with. that's what td ameritrade stands for. what does your investment firm stand for? it's time for fresh thinking. it's time for td ameritrade. wlk barney frank and ron paul remain. joining us, a polit

author of more than 90 commentaries and publications ranging from the new york daily news to the new england journal of medicine. she has been on all national network newscasts and every influential cable policy program. while health care is currently before the senate, we are fortunate that karen has broken away from the bauble to provide us with her perspective. no subject is more consuming, norm working pusan. please give karen a warm detroit economic club of welcome. [applause] >> thank you all. thank you. is just terrific to be here, it's great to get out of the bubble. i want to thank john for that very kind introduction and i also want to say something about the students who are here. i was so impressed by your thoughtful questions, your courage in asking bam, and i hope i gave you in that brief time we had to gather some insights into how to think about policy issues but i want to encourage all of you to thinkç about carriers and public policy in washington and we need people like all of you. so thank you so very much for coming here and really working hard. it's great to see such

happily, both marie of romania and germany were born in england, and god bless, they wrote their diaries and letters in their mother tongue. as to madame chang, a great deal of what i needed was also in english. and when it came to material in chinese archive, i was fortunate enough to find a graduate student through the friend of a friend, a young woman who lived in shanghai and did not automatically spout party dogma. without her, i could not have written this book. you will probably notice if you look at the back pages of the last empress, that i ended up consulting quite a number of archives in order to write it. by far, the best source for information, however, was the hoover institute at stanford university. my personal favorite is that most right wing governments leave their archives to hoover. my experience with hoover goes back to my first book, the last romantic, a biography of queen marie of romania. this was a long time ago. alan and i were living in southern california. he was directing all the presidents men, and i went up north to see the sun of the romanian prime minister

-- everett koop and harbor -- every cove and harbor in maine and new england as well. after setting the anchor in a pine-scented cove, after our bodies recovered from the obligatory plunge in the always frigid main water, the time would come frofour hot popcorn d cold beer as we rehashed the day's sail. after dinner, a pipe and a brandy on deck. one time, the magnificent or borealis flashed across the sky and seemed to flash for hours. we were awestruck. finally, softly, from winty, good night, old boy. that was sensational goodnight, walter. it sure was. every year, walter would sell to the chesapeake. this became an annual boys sale. it was manned exclusively by its military pilots. there were tough, dependable gentleman and love to trade stories with the cabin. the problem was that there were too many captains. all of us captain of our own boats. we were all either naval reserve captains, airline captains, or air force captain, captains from santa stern. so we commissioned walter commodore. he was the captain of captains. as you'd guess, walter had no problem adjust