For the First Time Since 2009, u. S. Oil prices fell blow 50 a barrel, and many market watchers say prices could fall below 30 or 40 before going back up. Thats great news, cheaper to fill up your car or heat your home. Cheap oil has a downside. Stack markets around the world experiences swings, all of this is played out against a nervewracking global back drop. Political conflict is more heated now than at many times since the cold war. The Eurasia Group released a list of top risks. Ian bremer is the president and number four is what he calls the weaponization of finance. Its not Americas Nuclear arsenal or its conventional weapons or boots on the ground that is at the projection of american power. Its surveillance, drones, and importantly, its the dollar. Its the importance of the dollar. Its access to the american markets. Its the ability of American Financial institutions to meet out american policy and squeeze actors they dont like. What is being done against the russians and chi
For the First Time Since 2009 u. S. Oil prices fell blow 50 a barrel and many market watchers say prices could fall below 30 or 40 before going back up. Thats great news cheaper to fill up your car or heat your home. Cheap oil has a downside. Stack markets around the world experiences swings all of this is played out against a nervewracking global back drop. Political conflict is more heated now than at many times since the cold war. The Eurasia Group released a list of top risks. Ian bremer is the president and number four is what he calls the weaponization of finance. Its not Americas Nuclear arsenal or its conventional weapons or boots on the ground that is at the projection of american power. Its Surveillance Drones and importantly, its the dollar. Its the importance of the dollar. Its access to the american markets. Its the ability of American Financial institutions to meet out american policy and squeeze actors they dont like. What is being done against the russians and chinese a
Fitbits and wearable technology. What if that was done for Emergency Medical Services and they can place that on a patient and get vital signs. Just think of the innovation that could happen and you would snowy all of your patients are track their current vital signs and send them to hospitals and track them there and make sure theyre handed off and theres continuity of care and you are able to adjust. Tonight at 8 00 eastern on the communicators on cspan2. Become tv continues, George Michael reports on speculations of extraterrestrial life and ufo sightings. Okay. Good evening. My name is George Michael. Im an associate professor here at westfield state university. Before i begin i want to thank for their help and organizing my lecture this evening, and id like to thank all of you for coming out here this evening. Tonight im going to talk pat book i wrote called preparing for contact. Heres a rough outline my book investigates the prospect of extraterrestrial life from a variety of pe
Subject to international sanctions, to international controls, and to, in the case of kosovo, concerted nato action pursuant to law. Pursuant to statutes that govern that action. This has none of that. Not even the pretense of it. Other than an action a unilateral action by the Russian Parliament would the gentleman and an action by the parliament in crimea. Would the gentleman yield . I would. Thank you, and i agree with everything that gentleman just said. Let me say to my friend, my colleague from california, who really stood with me and others very valiantly throughout the entire kosovo war in 1999, and has been a strong supporter of human rights. But i disagree with him tremendously in trying to say that theres any kind of analogy between what happened in crimea, to what happened in kosovo. I dont believe that every separatist movement claiming some kind of referendum should be allowed to form either an independent country, or to be part of a power grab. What happened in kosovo wa
Forbes, rich, elizabeth, mike, rick and joining us for the first time steve. Good to see you. All right. The tasy Inspector General just last august found 67 million in money missing at the irs that was meant to enforce heah carereform. That was about 15 of the irss budget for Health Care Reform at that time. We know the Health Reform bill is loaded with 46 new taxes and new demands on the irs. The irs aocate says the tax code is designedo entrap. We get it. The irs itself as a steward of taxpayer money has not performed so great when the gao has audited the irs. Nobody knows the irs better than she. She also uncovered this video or brought it to our attention the video of the irs people starring in star trek uniforms, i mean we dont want to spend our tax money for more of this junk, do we . No. But i think thats really getting off the point. We need to be more fair and balanced here. Yes part of this money they are asking for will go the job Congress Gave them which is enforcing the h