Off russia and china to create a triangular diplomacy where opening to china and a detente with russia as we pulled out of vietnam, preserves the United States influence and power in the world after a retreat from vietnam by doing this tray triangular balance with russia, china, and to me that was a Creative Leap that even the bright people the best and the brightest, the mcgeorge bundies hat not thought spoof that helped preserve ore influence in the world. Host the wise men, six friends and the world they made, Averill Herry man, georgetown ten net, dean acheson, robert love vet john mccloy. Were they the establishment . Guest they were. I wrote that book with a friend evan thomas, because i was knew at Time Magazine. I was covering Ronald Reagan these people handing out leaflets and evan, a friend of mine from college, he had come from a more prep school background. I said evan, whats this establishment thing . Then we decide to demystify is buy writing a book at six people who at t
Lets get right to john live in oakland where the bart talk are happening. Not much encouragement tonight. No. We wish we could tell you whether or not trains rolling again in the morning but that is still being decided and so it appears this 11th hour still being played out at variety of locations. The head of the federal Mediation Service appointed by president obama left with his team for break to meet with parties in the case. Bart board president tom said earlier the Transit Agency would not pwunl on the last final offer of 12 percent raise over 5 years with added Union Contributions for Health Pension benefit. That hasen fawr 88thed the union which say bart is attempting to force a strike through bad faith negotiations. Situation. We need the union to discuss this offer in earnest if they want to counter they want to say we can get to the same savings another way we are all ear on that. Even though we have been talking we feel they have no intention of reaching an agreement. We be
Health advisory one week ago and turns out, as we mentioned, the cause for that foul odor is Hydrogen Sulfide. And its coming from the cnh Sugar Factory refinery. Specifically their Wastewater Treatment plant. Hydrogen sulfide is a chemical compound that is poisonous, corrosive and flammable in high doses. So we are still i just it the community of that we would expect were continue to were going to continue to monitor the community as long as the Health Advisory is in effect. County Health Services report that the current level of Hydrogen Sulfide is about 10 times less. Then what would be needed to declare an Urgent Health risk. But there is enough in the air to cause some side effects. Those symptoms could include a headache, nausea, or rotation, in your eyes, nose or throat contra. Costa county provided air filters to the Middle School High School and library in crockett. They say charcol air filters are the only effective way to clear the home of that bad air. So face masks will n
Killed homer the origins of the west and what happened to history. He is the martin and Ellie Anderson senior fellow at the Hoover Institution focusing on classics and military history. He is also the wayne and marcia buskey distinguished visiting fellow in history at Hillsdale College and he combines the very rare ability to be one of the foremost scholars in his field of classics, but also to be a popular pundant who regularly appears on fox news and rights of weekly column with National Review as well as american greatness. He has received a ba in classics from university of california santa cruz. He was a fellow at the American School of classical studies in athens and received his phd from the university of stanford and his book the dying citizen how progressive elites tribalism and globalization are destroying the idea of america is this years conservative book of the year. Please join me in welcoming, dr. Victor david hansen. Can you hear me . Okay. I might have been. The first
Over the years on a book tv we have talked with author George Gilder about economics and technology, bit coin comment today were going to talk to him about his most recent books it is called gaming ai. Mr. Gilder what is this book about . This book is about the crazy religion that captivated Silicon Valley were somehow their machine can clips human intelligence and then cascaded through the universe produce an ever more brilliant machine leaving us behind on the beach and the guaranteed annual income while larry page and google fly off to nearby planets with elon musk. It may beat with branson aboard now. This allusion that somehow the human mind is a computer and can be excelled and usurped by computers that has captivated many figures in Silicon Valley as a new religion. It is nonsense i show in gaming ai which is not a great title for a critique of Artificial Intelligence, but Artificial Intelligence began by playing in games and then it moves on to be all of the great figures and w