Microphone, please give us your name and where you go to school. If anyone would like to come up. Here is our first inquire. He is adjusting it. Until someone gets the courage up, you mentioned nate silver. He offers the fascinating thesis that it is that talking heads on all the cable channels are the ones who are constantly predicting things that, believe it or not, have the worst prognostication records. He said that the amount of minutes you are on television are inversely proportionate to the accuracy of your predictions. I listen to your show every sunday afternoon. I want to know, i saw on your web site that you went through an independent bookseller. I am wondering about the role of amazon in the book industry and how it is hurting it. Actually, norton bought the book. They wanted it. I was delighted that they did. We were proceeding along very well. It is owned by time warner, and they came in and said by the way, we own all rights to it. We can do what we want with it without
When we talk about organizing a around a singular principal, i dont think the solution is necessarily to consolidate around existing labor movements. It is not necessarily to formulate a third party platform. The solution is to use these tools and use these bodies in order to consolidate power and to use that power to challenge the way in which decisions are made fundamentally. I would like to have time for questions from the audience. Please go to one of the of mikes so it can be sure to hear you. I will alternate between mikes as long as we have people at them. Do you think cooperation does not work in this country because people do not know what it means . Noncooperation, civil disobedience. And if not, why not . In this country. I believe it should work, that is the only way to help in this country, but it does not really work. It works, if you get the numbers. The important thing is about building numbers. And sustaining it. But it certainly works. Worked in the labor movement. Th
Some real poison pills in it. Its good that the senator has stepped back. Its bare and it sends a message, but i dont think the message has to be brought to a vote. I agree and i just wanted to add i know we are on capitol hill and there are many staffers from the Republican Democratic sides. Congress has already played an Important Role. Iran is at the table in large part because of the sanctions booted into play the european union. So the congress has done a very effective job sending the signal and enhancing our leverage that we might look to the history to just recall how america has built with different crises in the past with the president in support. When president jefferson dealt with in the 19th century or Theodore Roosevelt in the japanese war of 1905. Franklin roosevelt in trying to negotiate to pretend before the second cold war these are all examples went on an exceedingly important Vital National security issue the interest of the president to lead. Congress always has th
Saying betrayed in poland, they were betrayed. Ive had conversations with poles since the invasion of crimea. Im convinced that they would accept the missiles again, even though we havent been very reliable in our partnership. Theyre taking a lot of heat. Theyre right there. I mean, russia is next door. And the poles have stood in the middle of invasions going two directions, in the memory of many of the poles yesterday, they have enjoyed a long period of peace, fairly long, considering their history. But the poles would, i believe, would accept the missiles today and we ought to place them there. The czeches, i dont have as good a measure on, but i would be hopeful that we could place a radar there. And start to build up the Missile Defense shield. We did operations on the ground in poland last august. We need to ramp them up again and do more ground operations, more joint military exercises. We need to expand those exercises along that part of the world, working in conjunction with n
Youre doing. This is important for our part of the world, but it is important because all over the country at other sites this is being followed and employees are saying what are the consequences of coming forward and speaking the truth, influential policymakers. I thank you very much for your work. If you as chair senator mccaskill have any questions, softdball questions are especially welcome but i better get back pretty quick to finance committee deliberations, and i just thank you very much. Absolutely. Thanks for coming. Thank you. O dr. Tamosaitis . The retaliation against me started after i raised technical issues that had Nuclear Safety implications. My concerns centered around the buildup of hydrogen gas, which could cause a hydrogen explosion, the buildup of plu tone upat the bottom of the tanks which could cause a criticality and the plugging of pipelines which could render the plant inoperable for years. The issues i raised not only had Nuclear Safety implications, but coul