Centurys old mystery may be closer to a solution. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with todays dramatic defeat for Union Workers in the industrials heartland. This was the scene as republicans pushed through right to work bills saying that they dont have to Pay Union Dues in in order to get a job. On lookers chanted, shame on you after the vote. This is a watershed moment because michigan is the same as Countless Union struggles, including this 1932 march where five people died and dozens were injured when unemployed workers were attacked by police and Ford Motor Company security guards. After decades of gains, fewer than 12 of u. S. Workers now belong to unions. In michigan, its fewer than 18 . Cnns poppy harlow is at the state capital in lansing. How did it go . Reporter are an historic day in michigan. A state at the heart of organized labor in this country. One person said, if it can happen in michigan, it can happen everywhere and thats why thousands and thou
Continue those discussions as well. Inwhat was your experience the cloud sector and smart grid sector tell you that will end up looking like . Probably the most maturing right now is the discussions the smart grid, just because it is a little bit older than the cloud side. It was focused on the government adoption side. The smart grid, a smart grid interoperability panel, which is an actual 501 c 3 organization , was put together because the Stakeholder Group felt there was not an existing organization that could facilitate that process. They establish one of their own. This has provided funding for the operation of the organization. We remained working with them routinely today where you now have a living cycle of, ok, here are the changing issues, here the top ones, here are the ones to fix. The top panel does the triage. And in many cases, now works with all of the different standard organizations that are hey,rting that, saying, here are key areas to improve. And making sure the ad
Of staff to mike rogers on the House Intelligence Committee and also spent seven years in various senior positions with the National Security council under the george w. Bush administration. He managed to write a book and have two young sons and set up a very successful new business all in the space, and continue work on the hill at the same time so very impressive. Mike has agreed to speak about the big themes and stories in this book for a half an hour and engaging q a and throw it out to you in for questions. Mike. Thank you. I will go over to the podium if thats okay. I think you can do without that. I want to thank the new America Foundation for having me today especially peter for the invitation and thank you all for coming out in the rain to hear a little thats about my book blinking red and i look forward to q a about other pressing Intelligence Community topics. Blinking red is an attempt to write the authoritative object if history of the most substantial restructuring of the
Judges accountable is important. All good ideas and the one idea that is not feasible unfortunately is too cloned ted frank but he is an american treasure. For those of you out there in a National Television audience how did they get in touch with you ted if they want to send you a case or send you a check wax. Well classaction fairness. Org i think and classaction fairness gmail. Com. Those of you out here if you got a bad notice in the mail where you just think this is a problem and ted needs more than for lawyers to fight all the cases out there give him some help. Lets thank our panel wittman and lester brickman. [applause] those of you in the room who want cle credit sign out and turn in your evaluation form. Thanks. [inaudible conversations] at the Creation Museum believes space upon the bible but we also teach people the difference between believes and what one can observe and experiment with and i believe we are teaching people to think critically and in right terms about scien
Certainly makes you think about it very carefully and watching the film on women and womens right is what is this reconciliation all about. And that is about an afghanistan that works with the rule of law and that supports the rights and responsibilities of all citizens, but particularly women. On the questions of reconciliation im sure they are still high on the administrations agenda but the principles remain very much the same. The second point you asked me to talk about our the elections. Hes done a wonderful job on that. Two things that are important to me. One is what is the outcome here and it is an election that is seen by most afghans as legitimate and a leader as someone they can say here is someone we can support Going Forward into second being appointed ambassador made that the United States has no favorites and has no candidates in this and the election is a matter for the people of afghanistan. They will choose the future leaders. The final point on that is a good questio