Joe or wouldrning every watch and you see some of your successors whether it be h. R. Mcmasters or tom foster dealing with questions and getting hammered by the press and choosing between least bad options that you have a nice big cup of coffee and you say to yourself, i am glad that is not me. In so when youre having one of those cups of coffee i hope you will remember us from the duke sanford Counterterrorism Program our coffee travel mug and my second duty is to ask all of you to think lisa monica for inviting us this evening. [applause] host thank you. Thank you. Announcer sunday night on af terwords, notes on from abroad. There is a big question, why had i never thought this was a form of propaganda . Where was this conflict coming from and what was the job it was doing for individual americans and i think that, you know, one thing i realized that took me a long time to realize in fact was that the very language we use when we talk about a foreign country had been kind of determin
Over the next hour im going to take you on a journey that illustrates how russias confrontation with the west is spreading far beyond ukraine and flash points in donsk have set off a new cold war that sparked tensions ranging from Eastern Europe to the circle and president obama and David Cameron warned of a quote frozen conflict created by russia and Eastern Ukraine, canada Prime Minister has been more blunt telling russian president putin get out of ukraine but the message is clear nato has been butting in on the old spear of influence and moscow will no longer take it and will actively protect russian people and interests abbraked abroad but they have been on edge before the crisis of ukraine and a lot have to do with the energy and far north of the Arctic Circle they are competing for Natural Resources and polar shipping lanes with new urgency and yet what happened in Eastern Ukraine may have fundamentally changed the game. Today a new cold war is brewing. Its 10 00 a. M. On an aut
Over the next hour im going to take you on a journey that illustrates how russias confrontation with the west is spreading far beyond ukraine and flash points in donsk have set off a new cold war that sparked tensions ranging from Eastern Europe to the circle and president obama and David Cameron warned of a quote frozen conflict created by russia and Eastern Ukraine, canada Prime Minister has been more blunt telling russian president putin get out of ukraine but the message is clear nato has been butting in on the old spear of influence and moscow will no longer take it and will actively protect russian people and interests abbraked abroad but they have been on edge before the crisis of ukraine and a lot have to do with the energy and far north of the Arctic Circle they are competing for Natural Resources and polar shipping lanes with new urgency and yet what happened in Eastern Ukraine may have fundamentally changed the game. Today a new cold war is brewing. Its 10 00 a. M. On an aut
Since 1933, we have subsidized farming in america. Is that a good idea . And who benefits . The small farmer big agribusiness or, at the end of the chain, the consumer . The story of the American Farmer is one of the great ironies of the modern era. Incredibly productive, but frequently unprofitable. Its a story that too often ends like this. Perfect competition and inelastic demand can the farmer make a profit . Economic analyst richard gill and i will examine that question on this edition of economics u a. Im david schoumacher. You can see the forces that control a Farmers Economic wellbeing at work here at this farmers market. Taken together it demonstrates a concept that economists call perfect competition. In other words, every farmer who raises, say, tomatoes, is in competition with every other farmer who raises tomatoes. The market determines the price through the interplay of supply and demand. So the farmer is a price taker, not a price maker, and he tries to produce at the lo
General and the and director clapper be put in the record at this point. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Under the previous order, the question occurs on the ayotte amendment number 2255. Mr. Levin ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote the presiding officer on this society, the yeas a 43, the nays are 55. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is agreed is not agreed to. Is not agreed to. Under the previous order, there will be two minutes equally divided prior to a vote on the levinmccain amendment 2175. The senate will be in order. The senate will be in order. The senator from michigan. Mr. Levin madam president the presiding officer the senator from michigan. Mr. Levin this amendment, ways levinmccain the presiding officer the senate will be in order. Please take your conversations outside. The sen