Believes we need to simplify. We cannot have the tax code that has higher rates and more complexity than anywhere else in the world. We have got to address the system that really hurts innovation and High Technology economy. We did not worry about those when we were doing well, but they are getting in the way of progress we have got to go through the process in a simpler and more logical and efficient way. This is the number one thing thousands of Business People said was the biggest barrier to investing in the u. S. We have got to upgrade our infrastructure, but we have got to focus on those that are economically important. We have got to understand the things that are driving up the cost of doing business. We know what those are, but we need a plan for Going Forward we need to create a framework for rapidly developing and the windfall. We have a path to energy independence. That is a bridge to renewable energy. If we can move to dass, we get tremendous benefits if we can move to gas,
Been following with a mix of fascination and shame for the last week and a half. Over the last decade, two trends conspired to reduce our privacy. First, theres technology. Social media allowed us to share every detail of our lives intentionally and unintensely. The photo tagged on facebook, the wayward strike to reply to all button. You get the picture. We now leave a digital trail traced by anyone who buys access to it. This week, the Obama Campaign knew what tv shows the targeted voters watched. Theres the massive explosion of the surveillance in the wake of 9 11. Thanks to the petri at act and continued under the obama administration. The government has more access to info about us than at anytime in history. A small example of what this looks like. Check out this graph of u. S. Government from google. These are requests that dont require warrants and this doesnt include the security related requests not disclosed. For awhile, i thought the combination of these trends, the u bik wi
All this and much more on booktv on cspan2 this weekend. The full schedule is available at booktv. Org. Next on booktv, peter mansoor, joe David Petraeus executive officer from 20072008 talked about the short and longterm impact of the surge in iraq. 20,000 additional troops were sent to the country in 2007 to stabilize it. This is about an hour and a half. Welcome to the new America Foundation. Its with great pleasure that i get to welcome peter mansoor, the author of a stunning new book, content which will be one of the key books about the iraq war. The deep research and, of course, colonel mansoor was there for so much of the key defense as he describes in the book combo the real history but also an element of memoir. Gentlemen star is also professor at ohio state. He was executive officer to general petraeus. He has a ph. D, we are pleased to have you here. And after colonel mansoor cases presentation were going to have produce some responses to it gentlemen stewart says. Lieutenan
Money with where the hive transmissions are happening. We will go over here now. We will not have generation that is free of this . Can you talk about your work on the criminalization . Sure. I promised him a question. Let me get that in. We do a lot of work with this so i am glad it is being brought up. I want to know what you feel is the biggest blind spot in the activism sector . What do you think is the major blindspot . Let me get to that. The senior cdc researcher producedidate thought showed the gates of college age gay men transmission, half of them will have hiv by the time they are 50. And people of color half by the time they are 35. It is hidden because the epidemic overall is static. The hetrosexual transmission has dropped and the maletomale is increasing. The lgbt has abandoned the epidemic for the most part and went on to other opportunities. In terms of the question you were asking about the biggest gap, the criminalization stuff, i think comes from a couple things, an
Not an economic logic. He has to give to receive, you have to surrender something outside yourself to gain strength within yourself. You have to conquer your desire to get praise, success leads to the greatest better which is bright. Failure leads to greater success which is humility and learning. And so do nurture your adam one grid you want to maximize your strength. Work on your adam two interval side of life, you want to confront your weakness. So theres a confrontation between these two beliefs and these two ways of operating. I wanted to talk more about that adam two side which get so underplayed in public life and, frankly, in venues like this one. Adam two starts with a different negotiated different way of belief. It starts with the belief that we are not special, that we are broken, divided creatures that the central theme of our weakness is that were selfcentered, that pride is a central vice, that pride blinds us to the reality of our own divided nature. Humility is a centr