Number 11. This is the cold war and atomic apocalypse. Today we really complete a pivot that we began last week from thinking in terms of religiously framed stories of apocalypse to secular visions of the end of Human History. Politics has followed us throughout this entire course, and it will continue to follow us through the rest of this last week. Of course, content. But now we turn squarely also to the realm of science and technology. Which we can imagine as a world apart from organized religion, although really youll see they overlap substantially and fundamentally in ways that are crucial for understanding the takeaways from this course apocalyptic thought. In our sessions, a couple weeks ago on apocalypse in the european of the enlightenment eras, science took on the guise of natural philosophy, part and parcel of the judeochristian worldview, which weve seen really shaping western culture in the fundamental way. And we saw in the 1800s, especially, but not exclusively through t
Ready to go. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2024] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org. Mr. Thompson meeting will come to order and pleased to welcome our second panel on this topic today regarding the threats of china to american the committee will come to order. Really pleased to welcome our second panel on this topic today regarding the threats of china to american agriculture. Our first witness for the second panel of our hearing today is mr. Josh gackle, the president of the american soybean association. Her second witness for this panel is mr. Nova daly, who brings extensive public and private sector experience, numerous agencies, the senate, and the cfius committee , all involved on National Security matters. Our third and final witness for this panel is a great friend of the committee and of the industry, ambassador kip tom. The former United States ambassadors
To depart and the second Panel Witnesses to take their seats and then we will reconvene. We will reconvene basically as soon as our witnesses get comfortably seated here and ready to go. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2024] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org. Mr. Thompson meeting will come to order and pleased to welcome our second panel on this topic today regarding the threats of china to american agriculture. First witness for the the committee will come to order. I am pleased to welcome our second panel. Our first witness for the second panel of our hearing today is the president of the soybean association. And mr. Daily that brings private sector experience, numerous agencies, the senate and committee all involved on National Security matters. The third and final witness for this panel is a great friend of the committee and of the industry ambassador. The former
We got this weak Gross Domestic Product number, just 1. 6 growth anemic and a surging inflation number connected to the gdp up 3. 7 . Bad combo. Which is why the dow tumbled 375 points s p lost. 46 . Nasdaq dropped. 64 . Ive got to tell you it was much uglier at one point today. The dow was down almost double where it went out. As we heard all day about the Slower Growth and higher inflation and that meant the dreaded term stagflation and that environment is toxic for stocks the house of pain on top of that one of the markets greatest leaders Meta Platforms got crushed today. I mean, just annihilated not because of its earnings which were stellar but because it committed a huge amount of spending most of it directed toward generative Artificial Intelligence whats bad for the meta goose, though, is good for the nvidia and broadcom gander, which is up 29 points and 37 points respectively as theyre going to get a huge chunk of Capital Expenditure budget i still believe in meta, more on th
Lies of the land seeing Rural America for what it is and isnt is your book. The opening line in the book is the lies about Rural America is preposterous on its face. What you mean by that . Steven i mean that we use rural to describe vastly different parts of the country. There is no really good definition of it. Rural america turns out to be a remarkably diverse label to cover all kinds of different areas of the country. The greenbelt in the great plains, areas of northern maine, parts of appalachia which were once cold country, we are talking about vast parts of the American Southwest, they all get labeled rural but they are dramatically different in all kinds of ways. How do you define it for the purpose of your book . Steven i very studiously avoid trying to define it. [laughter] one of the things i found interesting when i jumped into the project was that lots of people have been trying to define the term for a long time and no one has come up with a real answer. I think at the en