I forget the second part of your question. I am sure it is profound. Funding. If it is profound. It makes. [applause] gore around. Private donors from the persian in gulf region private wealthy donors better sympathetic to is the jihad and the other way is from the antiquities remember the heartland of the bible where jonah was with a profit daniels to in iraq and syria to have biblical significance. So it is just good Old Fashioned pillaging as they conquered will sold model and what what they took from that conquest where isis kaposis oilfields and they sell that on the black market in the middle east of turkey and syria began the lebanon and their making two or 3 million per day. So lots of different Revenue Streams. You see the tower and the village you make them pay tribute to with it exorbitant taxes so multiple Revenue Streams without a doubt. I cannot say kiwi neff. Faq for coming. To have that intellectual courage of the ushers. Syria. This was held at columbia in new york cit
So lots of different Revenue Streams. You see the tower and the village you make them pay tribute to with it exorbitant taxes so multiple Revenue Streams without a doubt. I cannot say kiwi neff. Faq for coming. To have that intellectual courage of the ushers. And i am so privileged to be his friend. [applause] wed you raised your hand to take the oath of office what were your mom and dad thinking . To rec i knew my mom would be crying but my dad was 82 he showed up without his cave in and i said dad july need to run someone to your hotel . He would straighten up and say i am in the capital. I dont need the came to day. But another was super proud. Syria. This was held at columbia in new york city. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Welcome on this very day to is the book round table with David Phillips. I a professor of science and director of the special sciences programming on behalf of the institute from Columbia University will come to the brooklyn general conversation. The
Stories in fact the economist story was almost word for word my story in the wow Washington Times but they were all afraid to break it. And this fear in western europe about exposing what is really going on, and even since that time, i have been given some grief by some of our old friends who didnt much like the fact that i did this. And to me, its troublesome. This is a little personal because ive been more so theres no question that youre right about that, and the antifracking effort in europe is rim is in sent of reminiscent of receive russian propaganda because its in their interests to prevent it. And that is trumped and this goes to maybe to dougs point and others the reality of russia versus the soviet union. Maybe the difference isnt so great but may end up in the same place. That is that putin and his friends have transformed post cold war russia into a quasimiddle Eastern Trust state which i totally dependent on its ability to sell energy to the west because that how they sup
Well, i think we have ignored it too long already. Its one of the big mistakes we make is assuming its a single block. There are billion 600 Million People in the muslim world, half in four countries, bangladesh, india, snowshower ya, indonesia and pakistan, and life for muslims is very defendant in each country. In the arab world, daytoday life is different in moore morocco than saudi arabia, and even if you assume theres one percent that has very stringent interpretation of islam, thats 16 Million People. A whole country, and not being engaged in the ideological and theological war with them, not dealing with elements that are reconcilable within the islamic world is a tragedy that is going to come to bite us and it may not be as doug said an existential threat, but its a threat where you can see casualties and hundreds of thousands through terrorist activity, and its something we have to worry about a great, great deal. Okay. Were out of time, but ive got a final question for the pa
Economy they could have developed if they had followed the advice of your friends who fled for catoed a an easter eda time. Europe has become willing hostages to russia. The scenario weve all sort of talked about, what happens if the price of oil really falls . My guess is some place in the world a tanker will be sunk or a pipline will be blown up. The price of oil will spike but there will be no russian fingerprints on it. Lets just do a quick couple minutes. Lets focus on because i want to have time for q a here, where you think the next explosion will be at on the globe . Wref talked about ukraine and russia. Herman . Theres an area dealing with china that gives me great concern even though theres been little publicity about it. Its a doctrine of the Chinese Government that no u. S. Sush veilance are a military ship should come within 200 miles of the coast of china, and that, of course, is contrary to freedom of the seas. Weve already had a number of incidences of boat rammings, of