Icon, a National Hero of unimaginable proportion and a legend whose name will live in history long after all here today have. Forgotten. Fate looked down kindly on us when she chose neil to be the first to venture to another world. To have the opportunity to look back from space at the beauty of our own. It could have been another. Ow it wasnt. It wasnt for a reason. No one, no one, but no one could have accepted the responsibility of his remarkable accomplishment with more dignity and more grace than Neil Armstrong. He embodied all that is good and all that is great about america. More from the Memorial Service for Neil Armstrong thanksgiving day on cspan at 10 oom eastern and just before 11 30, a behind the scenes look at life as a teenager in the white house with susan ford baal and Lyndon Johnson rob, and after one, how Scientists Use game skills and theories to solve world problems. A conversation with president obamas biographers after his reelection. Hear from journalists ron su
Increasingly this complex, global, integrated that oldfield or marketplace. Such is the nature of war and risk we have to understand better. Secondly, cyberspace. My good friend, general mike hayden has talked about the coming pearl harbor in cyberspace and i agree with him. Its going to happen and we are willfully bug prepared. The third area i was stressed is the growing demographic shift worldwide. For the first time as of last year more people live in cities and that trend is accelerating. If you like in societies like africa, what does that mean in terms of demographics or resources . These changes will accelerate and we need to be better prepared for the acrosstheboard. Those are three large general chunks we should focus on. Was focused a little tighter for a minute. You have been quoted as saying that there are very likely as many or more spies working against u. S. Interests inside the u. S. During the cold war, which was a head snapping quote when i read it. Who are these peo
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,
Was investing eight hundred Million Pounds, an excellent eight hundred Million Pounds to combat tax avoidance. There was no such investment taking place with 15 cut in the budget. Is the Prime Minister guilty of tax of points for tax evasion . 900 million into specific majors of tax avoidance. All these schemes grew up under years of labour government. They never did a general tax avoidance. They presided over a system where people in the city were paying less taxes than their cleaners and the government has sorted out. Not to be remembered as the Prime Minister introduced regulation of the press, an essential part of a free democracy. Would you agree with me that regulation derives you are pregnant or not pregnant. You either have state regulation or you dont. There is no alternative third way. I would agree with my hon. Friend. Is it a free press . Absolutely vital for free democracy . We should recognize all the press has done and should continue to do to uncover wrongdoing, stand u
And hes that guy. So i dont i mean i just think that america, like everyone else believes or most people belief, is at a crossroads right now. If you go to other countries, especially asia and other stuff, importing all their students to get educated here and exporting all the brain power out right after that, i think its a real problem, you know . But theres nhing i can do about that except try to make great music and great headphones. Next question, please . I really enjoy the conversation you all were having about the Entertainment Industry an the how it relates to the Technology Industry because i come from an industry thats sort of a marriage of both, the video Game Industry. Of. I study at the school of cinematic arts but my specialty is video games. My question, inhe spirit of all that great informati sharing you all obviously do between the music and film stry, where do you think we are . What are the big challenges in trying to work more together than the current state of affa