I tell the story in this journey over the past decade and a half or so but coming almost right up to the present. I think i didnt want to do a quickie book in 2011. I went to being a historian and having perspective and thought well of in my profession. And so even to write something after three years is oaudacious. The first generation was elected into office in 20112012 and a raft of books said this is the islamic winter. Not the arab springs. Lets talk about the people who made the changes. Lets talk about this generation. What are they like and who are they and what have they done. Let me read a little from the book about an internet activist of the early 00s. He setup an internet Discussion Group and magazine which was very lively and was very much disliked by the dictatorship. And he ran this for some years and then his Internet Police finally tracked him down at 5 p. M. On june 4th, 2002 six plane closed police man raided the cafe he worked and took him to his apartment and took
And felt changed many things. For one thing, israel again was never too seen as threat does it did on the eve of the war when the war would make arab armies were mobilized on his porters and the rulers were declaring quite plainly. Tension to eliminate israel want and for all. Israel after that seemed not so vulnerable and strong. But theyre also i think more subtle processes that took place. One was the death appeared. It then. To that moment, the leading figure in the arab world was president nasser of egypt and the leading idea was the idea she was the great exponent of and that was pan arab is on. If you look back, the plo was founded in 1964 at the behest of nasser. And it is not the Palestine Liberation Organization because it was not formed within a thought of creating an independent palestine. The point was simply to liberate palestine from the jews so could it become part of this state that nasser espoused. If you look at the Palestinian National charter, which was adopted in
Hi. Thank you all. Im from the National Bureau of research. Im wondering what the obligations are both on capitol hill and also in terms of permitting process for other Transporter Energy projects . Not specifically natural gas, but coal which is under a lot of debate in the Pacific Northwest at the moment. Do you have any comments or insight on those other Energy Issues . I dont know what, are you talking about export, the export debate . Yeah, i think that most likely would be considered a separate matter. I know this is not necessarily with the spectacle, but certainly with crude, crude exports, and i think the debate there is being handled, it is probably a separate matter. Im not sure the keystone decisions woodway one way or another on that. This fits into the larger context of Energy Infrastructure. It does not raise the crossborder question, but it does raise the larger question of the bureaucratic hurdles that applied to just about any form of Energy Infrastructure. The last p
I said i would like to improve our tax code. I think we should have a tax code that looks like somebody wrote it on purpose and i think we should simplify our tax code flatten it and make it more fair. My opinion its the viewers money. They have earned it and i want them to keep more of it. We can go in a better direction with our tax code that is going to take time. Its going to take a term or two as governor and its going to take a growing economy and a more effective government. Threat you propose 4 million in additional spending. Thats a ridiculous notion. What im saying is we should enforce a Supreme Court which is the voters are clear in their intentions that we pay back these schools were the cuts we took. You want to appeal it. You want to defy the order. You are looking for every opportunity. The question started with you opposed it. They would have been more cuts or schools. Every opportunity we had to make a commitment to education you have been on the other side. I have sat
[applause] good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. And welcome to the Fourth Annual conference and gala presented by the william s. Ugly program at yale. Attributed to winston churchill. He. He said, if you are not a liberal when youre 25, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative by the time you are 35, you have no brain. [laughter] a radical in the 1930s, became a leader. Later on he rejected marxism and moved to the right producing in 1941 the work for which he was best known, the managerial revolution published in 1941. 1941. He also became a red regular contributor to the conservative publication National Review. In 1933 along with sidney hook he had to organize the American Workers fund, supported its merger with the communist league of america to the United States Workers Party. In 1935 the allied with the wing of that party and defended offended no one less than leon trotsky himself. Writing for the partisan review, he was also an important influence on writers, such as Dw