American dream, american greed, its a very provocative title everything today we are in for a real treat. Were going to try to have a very lively 30 minute discussion and then going to try to leave room for about 10, 15 minutes of obvious questions before we break, and we have a hard stop because of cspan2 today at 10 50. To kick us off, both of your books are so well conveyed and really so captivating, id like to ask each of you to kind of take us off with maybe a two to three minute elevator ride to the top. What are the major points in your books and what do you haver to say about them. Im going to start with bethany. Before i do, shaky ground is the title. Its very timely today come this week unfortunately japan is in the news again, a very severe earthquake. In 2011 i was in tokyo for the big earthquake there which touched off tsunamis in a Nuclear Emergency that they are still trying to deal with. 2008 our Global Financial system melted down. Eight years later bethany says were s
I just want to say to our guests that its a personal privilege for me and for my cofounder, who is floating around here somewhere, to be celebrating the publication of yet another book from the brilliant and prolific Douglas Rushkoff, who seems to have produced yet more works of brilliance every year. I dont know how you do it but fantastic that you keep doing it. As an author myself, i have to say that the publication of a book is a always a really special event. There is something about taking your words and putting them on paper between slightly thicker pieces of paper that make people look at you differently. Youre now an expert. Its more than that. Youve put them together in a way that takes us on a journey with you, reading a book Still Matters in this age of bitesized social media and tweets and likes and so on. And there is, i think, nobody who has traveled in that space since its very early days when he wrote a book called siberia which almost didnt get published because first
Whats really a farish harsh view of islam and take it further and ignore theological practices and norms when they want to, when they went to burn a person alive and thats clearly against the cron. N yet, they do it anyway and they managed to find a way to justify, so yes, they are taking some of the scope core issues and making it even more violent. Host this is a text message from ron in honolulu. Isis has no air force, navy, army battalions,ave why are they an ongoing threat . Why is there no well in the west to destroy them . Guest thats a good question and we talk about these nofly n zones for syria and its isis does not have an airport or navy. They have a lot of it. Equipment and weapons and lots of money, but they dont have these big Weapons Systems and we have not been able to push them out. Its a coalition with 60 Member Nation and what strikes me is the fact that when they take over territory there is no resistance. We have not seen anyig awakening kind of movement of people
Housing. Isa houses with 18 people in two rooms. How can a child do his homework . This is a social and economic crisis that is destroying the next generation. This is a state obligation. It reflects our deep canadian values, and i will tackle the when i become the Prime Minister. It will be an opportunity to tackle the housing problem of our nations. You are all aware and country thought a lot about this, that the biggest Foreign Policy judges aggressive and the unpredictable behavior of russia on the world stage. Mr. Trudeau, if he becomes Prime Minister how will you deal with Vladimir Putin . I think theres a question that we have to recognize that russia has become as you said a destabilizing force around the world. Hes destabilizing Eastern Europe with his unacceptable incursions into ukraine. He is pushing in blocking the achievement of ceasefires and stabilizing and stopping the bombings and war into syria and hes been a provocative agent in the arctic, which requires candidate
It did. It left us very, very drenched. Lets give you a look. We found one woman walking through high water to safety in Fairfax County. Her car getting stuck on woodburn road in Fairfax County. It came down in the district. Our region has been abnormally dry for the last several weeks. This rain will help us make it up. He has more on who and what kind of rain were going to see later today. The good news is we did pick up needed rainfall. The bad news, it came down fast and furious. Theres still high and standing water. Flood warnings until 8 00 in the morning for portions of central and northern loudoun county. Weather headlines, a cloudy and wet start. Watch out for the high water. Theres a chance we may be dealing with more heavy rain from Tropical Storm potentially Hurricane Joaquin by the weekend. More in a couple minutes. Heres the next batch of light rain coming out of central virginia. That will impact the second part of the morning commute and leave us with off and on rain ch