Jewish people. Host terrific. Lets get a response. That is at least in wilmington North Carolina. Guest i didnt realize the grim reaper of the sense of humor was on the lease today. The worst stereotypes about jews is that we speak quickly. I am going to worry significantly more about the president of the United States and a president of the United States who has leaked Israeli National security information democratic partisan republican parties to sign off and that i will worry more about that and less about whether jews talk quickly. Host hollow [inaudible] guest back in 2007 he was already talking about how he wanted to create distance between himself and israel. The fact is the president has been radically antiisrael since he began running for president. There is staffed by people negotiating with hamas whose radically antiisrael. General mayor mick p. Coos said new york city is still around Foreign Policy and United States. He spent his entire life associating antiisrael, antisemi
Enough recognition as a metric for a failure. Maybe that was part of it. Its urged to implement this amazing vision and the slowness of society relative to his own life lock. On the recognition side, i think we should never use the recognition we get as a measure of success, ever. I think its a big mistake. If you do this, you the true innovators are the true recognizers. Recognition itself in my opinion is plainly the wrong metric. As is money. The real question for me is always, how much do you affect peoples lives to the better in the future. In that case, its fair to say that he was probably ahead of his time. He was the first. He invented whole bunch of things to use everyday. All things we share have massively influenced people. It massively influenced people. He put things out that people would pick up. If he was around today, i would say hey, you have a symposium in your honor. Another story occurs to me that your comment brought up one of my sort of weird illnesses that i coll
Years here in our community. [applause] we are very grateful to art software in particular, American Airlines and always shall. Id also like to recognize the friends of the fair, many who are here in our first couple of rows. Thank you so much for your generosity in support. We look forward to your continuing to be a friend for many, many years. Miami Book Fair International and Miami Dade College work handinhand to bring this book fair to us every year. Its a wonderful, this wonderful cultural affair that thousands and thousands of fairgoers are enriched by each and every year so thank you all. Come on and have a seat, please. And as you know, our sessions are being streamed live by cspan. Please help us to keep the fair going for another 30 years and we usually ask you to turn off your cell phones that we are going to ask you to keep them on and actually take them out and make a donation if you are so inclined, a 30dollar donation to recognize that 30 years that the book fair has bee
[applause] a number of you know me from previous years. Its hi pleasure to be here to welcome its my pleasure to be here to welcome you and on behalf of Miamidade College, the college that really puts forth maximum effort in terms of solen b tiers volunteers from all its constituents, students, faculty and staff to make this book fair happen as it does every single year. And for the past 30 years. Id like to thank our sponsors, there are many of them, but in particular o. H. Aryan know and American Airlines for their sport. Id also like to thank our friends, many of whom are seated right here in front. Thank you so much for all of your support this year and for the past years that this fair has been made possible in part because of your generosity. The end of the session, as you know, the authors will be signing their books. Theyll be autographing on this floor on the other side of the elevator so you can proceed to that end, and you will also have an opportunity to ask questions after
New details about how the National Security agency targeted wikileaks and its supporters walk placing the sites founder Julian Assange on the main hunting target list together with al qaeda. We will speak with Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in london where he is and political asylum. Then interrogated at the airport. Who is Edward Snowden . Why have you gone to russia twice in three months . Those are some of the questions jesselyn raddack was forced to answer when she flew into london on sunday. She will join us today. New york times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse in a big defeat for organized labor in the south. Workers at a volkswagen plant in tennessee reject the United Auto Workers after a costly antiunion campaign. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A new report based on topsecret documents from Edward Snowden has revealed how the United States and britain targeted the whistleblowing web