Was adapted for his bestselling memoir see no evil and a sleeping with the devil. Hes one of the most accomplished operatives in the history. Hes won the career intelligence medal and speaks eight languages. He spent much of his 21 years with the cia and the middle east and one of his notable assignments of which there are plenty was attempting to assassinate Saddam Hussein. He is currently National Security analyst for cnn and one of the foremost authorities on the middle east. He takes us on a wild adventure through the history of assassination in his latest book the perfect pill. Thinking about who the perfect fit would be to interview bob tonight obviously we needed someone with the appropriate crop of house and experience and deep knowledge of the complex political history and we also needed someone who had been portrayed by the major movie star in the movie based on their work. So, we are deeply honored to have him here to interview bob. Wool is one of the founders of the center
His Casey Research. His book is, apparently, breaking records and cracking all kinds of bestseller lists in numerous categories; International Affairs, public policy, etc. So you heard it here, my friends. Hes an accomplished investment analyst. He has served as chief investment strategist at Casey Research since 2007. His funds are among the Top Performing in the resource sector over the last five years in canada. Hes a regular contributor to the Business News network and has been interviewed by global Media Outlets such as cnbc, bbc, bloomberg and forbes. Marin has traveled to numerous, numerous conflicted and challenging areas including russia, iraq, ukraine, kuwait, mongolia, kosovo and colombia among other resourcerich destinations. Hes a former. Mathematics professor former mathematics professor [audio difficulty] hello . Okay. How are we doing . Not good. Not good. There we are, were back. Okay. So i think that happened because of my own personal history with mathematics, but we
Et cetera. So, you heard it here, my friends. He is an accomplished investment analyst. He has served as chief investment strategist at Casey Research since 2007. His funds are among the top perform thing the resource sector in the last five years canada. He is a regular contributor to the becomes news network and has been interviewed by cnbc, cbc bloomberg and forbes. Marin has traveled to numerous conflicted and challenging areas, including russia, iraq, ukraine, kuwait, mon goala, kosovo and colombia, among other resourcerich destinations. A former mathematics professor and hello . Okay. How are we doing . Not good. There we are. Were back. Okay. So i think that happened because of my own personal history with mathematic well just floss over that march rein is a former mathematics professor and used his skills to create a resource market tool that analyzes and compares investment variables help has been involved in raising over a billion Canadian Dollars in capital for earl stage an
To have Karina Korostelina here. She is an associate professor at the school for conflict analysis and resolution at George Mason University, she is a leading expert on identity based conflicts, conflict resolution and peace building, she has received numerous scholarships and is the author and editor of 13 books including most recently the author of history, education and the formation of social identity toward a culture of peace which came out in 2013. Today we have the provocative topic of political insults, how offenses escalate to conflict and i will turn the floor over to karina. Thank you very much. It is always a pleasure to be here. Thank you for a wonderful welcome and thank you for everyone for coming. I know that you people are out there for holidays or the rest of them enjoying this wonderful weather and thank you for coming for this talk. The topic in which you are interested, the most fun book for me to write so far. Why political insults . I have to say thank you in the
Groups, several different scenarios and we control for different periods of u. S. Residency, how long do people would people have to have been here in order to qualify. So theres about 3. 6 million unauthorized immigrants who dont qualify for daca who fall into one of these parent categories and about 1. 5 million spouses who dont qualify for daca, unauthorized immigrants who are spouses of citizens or bprs. Those categories overlap so theres about 4. 2 Million People who are either a spouse or parent. The numbers go down pretty substantially when you start adding on long residency requirements. So if youre only extending the program to people who have been here 5 or 10 or 15 years. So a few quick comments about this approach. You know, here again longtime residents with u. S. Based families have important equities that are generally recognized by our immigration system so we can certainly make humanitarian and normative arguments about why people like this should have an opportunity t