Without even satellite channels the internet, facebook whatever, its difficult to close it. Its another area of law. Both underestimated. Street in the back. Thank you. Like institute and we have heard about the existing relationship between greece, cyprus and israel and i was hoping you could speak to this partnership and what it means for us interest and security in the region. Thank you. We have relations with many countries in the region. I would say in the west, these type of, we believe we are on the same platform regarding the challenges. And of course, bearing in mind the potential of the regard we share the economic interest as well. My counterpart has been to israel and cyprus recently and there is a lot to be done regarding interest between all parties. Way in the back. Good morning. During your remark you talked about the mo you and and congress is currently negotiated in light of the challenges and that middle east, what recommendation for congress and helping secure the m
Example, we spoke about the tea party panel last yesterday. I dont know how many people were there for that, but you already see that a lot of those push button issues that fomented that anger within the tea party were issues that are now being coopted by the Establishment Republican Party, you know . Fiscal responsibility, school choice, issues like that. But now were going to see that the major parties are going to start to adopt it and so are the candidates. Theyre going to adapt a portion of that. And its very understandable. People, unemployment is still rather high. Corporations are making a lot of money because they are more productive, but theyre being more productive with fewer people. So theyre not hiring back a lot of the people that were let go during the recession. So on the economics front, how our candidates are going to address these issues is going to have a major impact. You know, im glad you brought up immigration, mary. The Immigration Reform, this is why you have p
Thank you. Mic on . Oh, yes. Sorry for that. I want to get started. We run as tight a ship as we can for world affairs. Welcome to session 2164 of the conference of world affairs, entitled the political crystal ball. How appropriate, given what is coming in the next couple years. Today is tuesday, april 8, and we are in umc 235. Ime is suzi addicks m have the pleasure of moderating this panel today. We will have each of our panelists give some comments, roughly 10 minutes. Them an opportunity, if they wish, to comment on each others comments. Up tonviting you to come the microphones on either side of the dais. We will give preference to students. If i see students in line, do not feel upset if i call them to the microphone ahead of you. That is the focus of the conference. I want to start this morning by reminding all of you to turn off your cell phones, any other elect rick Electronic Devices that you have. We do this out of respect for our panel and each other. We do not want these t
That you have. We do this out of respect for our panel and each other. We do not want these things going off in the middle of our meeting. I am when to start by introducing our four panelists in the order in which they will speak. On this, socided there is no significance to be read into the order in which they will speak. Our first speaker is to my immediate left, david bender. He is well known to many Conference Attendees for his involvement in public issues and political activities. He also has been a broadcaster and an author. One of the things you may not know about david is that his interest in politics goes way, way back. And he, in seventh grade, took a leave of absence to participate in bob kennedy, Robert Kennedys president ial campaign. So [applause] [laughter] it is called truancy. [laughter] i was trying to be diplomatic, here. Leave of absence. Second is mary hughes. Mary is a seasoned political strategist and author, who has focused her efforts on increasing the number o
And he, in seventh grade, took a leave of absence to participate in bob kennedy, Robert Kennedys president ial campaign. So [applause] [laughter] it is called truancy. [laughter] i was trying to be diplomatic, here. Leave of absence. Second is mary hughes. Mary is a seasoned political strategist and author, who has focused her efforts on increasing the number of women in congress and state legislatures, especially california. [applause] fromhould know that 19842008, in the nine bay area counties in california, they sent six women to the house of representatives, 2 to the u. S. Many of us know, celebrated the selection of nancy pelosi as speaker of the house. Mary had a hand in many of those campaigns, and she continues to be involved in working on an urging women to run and win. Escalchi,have daniel od a known voice and face to many who attend the conference. He is a political consultant and campaign strategist. He has worked in many emerging countries and tradition in transitioning co