Morning. I am jane harman, happy to welcome a lot of experts and smart people and also to give a shout out to the swiss ambassador, a dear friend of ours and interested in history, among other things and i note that we are having swiss day on november 9th. A tradition we have long observed. This event is for our friend bruce bruce hoffman, the very first expert on modern terrorism period. He may have been the very first expert on modern terrorism. He surely was a valuable resource to me when he headed rands office in washington and i was a member of the United States congress. With his bushy beard, at the time, i thought he might be a terrorist and i thought his job at rand might just be cover. Bruce tried to help me create a commission to make recommendations to congress on how to intervene before an individual who is radicalized, having radical views is protected by the First Amendment but how to intervene before a person with radical views turns to violence. Violence is a crime. The
Welcome and a lot of experts and spark people and also to give a shout out to the ambassador martin. And whos a dear friend of ours and interested in history among other things and i note that we are having swift day onnovember 9. Something, a tradition we have longserved. This event is for our friend bruce hoffman. Bruce hoffmanmay have been the first expert on modern terrorism , period. He may have been the very first expert on modern terrorism. He surely was a valuable resource to me when he had rans office in washington and i was a member of the United States congress. Actually, with his bushy beard at the time, i thought he might be a terrorist. And i bought his job at grand might just be cover. Bruce tried to help me create a commission to make recommendations to congress on how to intervene before an individual who is radicalized, having radical views is protected by our First Amendment but how to intervene before a personwith radical views turns to violence. As we all know, vio
Director of the darwin manuscript project at the American Museum of Natural History and he will be joining as soon. A special welcome to the other Staff Members and research from the American Museum of Natural History. We are very pleased you were here. Thank you, thank you. And also to the students and researchers from fordham university. Its a pleasure to have you here. This morning our focus of course is darwin. All of you have a special relationship with this man, and today will focus on his backyard experiments. And doctor james costa will guide us through the story. He is an aspiring scientist and esteemed author of the new book darwins backyard and youve already seen that youre actually able to purchase it here after the presentation and have doctor costa, or jim as we will call him, but a special personal message for you. While people are standing in line to buy that book, we have a first edition, a very rare sample of the darwin materials the library is so lucky to have. And f
90 of our folks are in the sane amount of the top 10 . Top 10 earn 50 of the income and 90 bottom and the other 50 and you can see the directions these lines have gone over a number of years and thats the issue we confront with our economy. Thats what we should all be working on in a bipartisan way to try to address and unfortunately instead of improving the circumstances for people in the bottom 90 the decisions been made because of an economic philosophy that has to do a trickle down economics to give the benefitse to the people doing pretty well not just pretty well, but better than they have done since 1928 and it was stated what a miracle that tax policy was in the early 1920s. May have two additional minutes . Is there objection. In addition, we cant afford to do this. Right now we are collecting in revenue today before this tax cut goes into effect 18 of our Gross Domestic Product in taxes and revenue and spending 21 of our Gross Domestic Product. That leaves us with a deficit i
Into his first term a year into his first term. Whose children are yet to see their fathers homeland, i pine for democracy and have dedicated my life to achieving it in syria. Not so long ago, this wartorn state was the most diverse and forward thinking in the entire middle east. Its people celebrated the nation unique, faith. Mix of we should celebrate any fair and democratic election, even if the winner would thater, to understand syria has become the hotbed of extremism and proxy wars that have raged for many years now, so much so that even the press is beginning to understand. To truly understand what must be done to solve it, we must take a highlevel view and see the practice as accommodation of three levels of trouble. Issuesre internal syrian , those of the wider middle eastern region, and then the cold war impacts growing by the day. These are interlinked. What began on the streets of syria as part of the long forgotten arab spring with peaceloving syrians calling for freedom a