Cisco systems, from when we were almost 20 years ago, we were the plumbers the people who made the internet work, and people came to cisco to say how do you use the internet to close your books, outsource manufacturing et cetera. Whats exciting today is youre about to see the Second Generation of the internet. Rose we conclude with the great writer Richard Price, new book called the whites. What i intended to do was write an utterly strippeddown totally orthodox genre urban thriller and it was such a different identity for me even though i was dipping into the same pool that i always do but the style is going to be so different. It was just going to be about what happens next, what happens next. But once i started writing, you know i just realized after 41 years of writing, i only know one way to write, and the book kept expanding. Rose a Program Notes sunday night on 60 minutes, a piece with larry david, a piece with seinfeld curb your enthusiasm. Heres an outtake a. Why did you want
Lethal year for global terrorism in the 45 years such data has been compiled. Well that directly contradicts recent statements by president obama and his top diplomats. Do you think the media sometimes overstates the level of alarm people should have about terrorism and this kind of chaos as opposed to longer term problem of Climate Change and epidemic disease . Absolutely. And, you know, i dont plame the media for that. Whats the famous saying about local newscasts, right . If it bleeds it leaks, right . There is actually less threat and less probability of people dying in some sort of violent conflict today than at any time in human history. And with advances of health and with advances of statehood and other kinds of things were living in a very different world. Lieutenant colonel ralph peters will join us weigh in on the mixed messages of terror coming up. The clock is ticking, fewer than 30 hours left until funding for the department of Homeland Security runs out. House Speaker Jo
The incident happened in baltimore, more than half the people there are unemployed. This is an area of town that doesnt have a single grocery store. Theres not a single restaurant in the area. Not even a fast food joint. So you have high unemployment. You have very few opportunities for people and its not surprising that theres a certain hopelessness and despair and frustration that sets in so that when theres an incident like freddie gray, it lights a spark and everything goes off. The question then becomes how do you tamp this down . How do you solve the problems that beset an area like that . How do you give people less or more hope, more opportunity, the chance to get out from under the conditions theyre living insome well, after the riots people thought about it politicians in particular thought about it for about ten seconds, and then immediately came up with their answer, which is that we need to spend more money. That we heard over and over again. We need to invest in our inner
For five straight weeks, gentlemen are yet according to a terrific piece in New York Times far few americans own stocks these days. Given the amazing run, you have to ask yourself, why did people leave the market in droves. Could it be people who dont know they own stocks and just have forgotten about them . Or is it people who stopped listening to all the incredibly smart commentators we hear, read and watch, who have endlessly told us that we should be fearful, that we should be cautious, that we should counter one foot out of the door at all times, or that were in big trouble, because all of our gains had to be wiped away, at some point we just dont know when. As i study the output over the weekend andal day today, i saul the you are negative themes that have kept people out of the this amazing move. It was a pretty horrific, frankly reality check that jibes exactly with what the New York Times piece said about the vanishes u. S. Investors. May i sigh fruitless debate over when the
The white house into the meeting room and he said what is the great strategic approach to communication and robert gates said shut the blank up. [laughter] eric holder has politicized in a way i have never seen before to talk to a current employee this person was talking about one of the of their divisions in this lawyers said they have rationalized and radicalized to embed extremist that does not comport with equal protection above the law that believes the end justifies the means the policy is to intimidate for employees that do not agree even modern democrats have left as they retreated by enemies by administration officials. The leeway to do anything about this is through new leadership you need unethical attorneygeneral and those are chosen only by the president so we have the new attorney general and intel been to bring the standards up as both parties have done nothing will happen to clean up the department they will continue to have the department to advise the president to bre