full report says na you ll be shocked, the way they treated our troops. let s see how the markets responded to, a, a collapsing venezuela, b, oil cuts in nigh gather yeah and a new fire breakout near canada s oil patch. yes, we cover it all. varney & company about to begin. and where is the market going to open this morning? probably pretty much flat or lower. remember, we were up 175 points yesterday. now, the situation is getting worse in venezuela. to be facetious, it s a socialist country and they re running out of other people s money and it s a political and a humanitarian country. they have a deal with china to trade oil for loans. look at oil around $47 a barrel, close to 48. it hit 48 yesterday for the first time since november. there s a back drop to the oil story. nigeria s production cut by 40%. a tax on oil facilities to blame. in canada, that wildfire turned back towards oil drilling facilities and that s another anxiety for oil supply and then there s ven
there is kiva and then foundations where individuals can invest into those funds would be invested. those are the two kinds of examples. one is an individual organization that has had a strategy such as kiva and then the other is an investor type of strategy. one thing i would add there is a federally funded program and one of the things you can do match savings for and without federal funding you can raise an additional match to that. a lot of the programs out of the country deal with dollars from individuals to help match the savings. there are also institutionalized groups like angel investors who do look at a wide range of applicants and i have heard that they are rich folks that just hang out on kickstart her but think generous amounts of donations to start ups. one of the questions we had e is which entrepreneurs are going to get funded so there need to be mechanisms to allow the lower income entrepreneurs to take advantage of that. if you care about this issue
very little notice and many of the critics today were the critics of the initial move in the spring of 2006 and therefore worth while to remember how much bipartisan work and work by professional bureaucrats has been involved in erecting the coalition we have today as we contemplate what we need to sustain it and sustain the momentum behind it. let me ask you what you make of the criticism today from democrats in congress, chuck schumer, others, and what do you think are the prospects for up long-term deal? i will start, michelle can help me understand these folks in washington. i am a professor in charlottesville, va.. these things in washington often befuddle me. from the point of view of the israeli and saudi government, the israeli government, why should the israeli government praise the steel? what is why should they say anything good about it at all? i can t think of a reason why even if they think it was a good deal, why should they say so? i don t see anything i
is important how these lone wolfs are incubated, how they are made, much rather than how to perpetrate the act or how to play in the act. the lone wolf terrorist needs to be studied end lone wolf terrorism is hard to see your eyes, to study until the absence of case studies. every attack is a unique and special with a different method and different ideological impact and so on. and it could be used by terrorists and known terrorists. spike bowman, may i ask you a question about dan forsman point of view? one concern is the relevant intelligence and sharing of intelligence in terms of different agencies. how do you say this in light of recent revelation of the nsa struggling terms of the question of the civil liberties concerns that you worked on for so many years? civil liberties, excuse me, civil liberties was always one of the biggest concerns we had at the fbi because the fbi is, unlike nsa or the central intelligence agency, 95% of what the nsa collected are against u
with each other. that was an important insight, and is one thing that we have to make sure we do not rely on english to out there to interpret what is going on because that is not where the action is. it is in the vernacular and it is important to be there. i wanted to talk about security, which i did in here. in afghanistan or around pakistan, and libya and yemen, security is a huge concern for us. in other places while we have these embassies that are much more secure, real public diplomacy takes place outside and disease. i argue people we want to reach do not come into our facilities. that is where the value is, going into their institutions and meeting them out there. i quoted thomas friedman who came to turkey after the bombings in turkey and he looks at our new consulate, and remarked how this was a bad message. it can be or it is a difficult message out become it can become, but as public diplomacy officers, you get out of that environment. that is vital. that is why