Finally get a common european asylum policy. Because. My conduct of could look at that i cant see often enough that migration is a global issue of enormous importance and one company has for many years to come near the feeling shifting that the e. U. Commission assured me in a Video Conference just hours before the fire that it would present this common solution on september. 6th in september these are good men somebody who swung before leaving. So what next im joined from geneva now by hunt on your veto do you know hes the director general of the uns International Organization for Migration Greece is overwhelmed by the vast number of migrants arriving in general now some countries are stepping in to help us we just heard in our report is that enough its not enough but the great help in these secret stances what happened in more of a catastrophe a humanitarian catastrophe that to be honest was just a catastrophe in waiting because the camp is overwhelmed you have mentioned before 100 h
Theorists. And. A. Welcome to to the point and here are our guests felix whose mine is a freelance journalist who has a focus on the far right and he says the dangers of far right ideologies were ignored too long we shouldnt make that mistake again with care what knowledge its great to have with us yeah hes a sociologist with germanys Konrad Adenauer foundation and he says the belief in conspiracy theories is a mass phenomenon that is part of our society. And also great to welcome trees a look she works as an investigative journalist at online magazine vice and she thinks medias responsibility in framing q. And on is crucial for its containment. So let me start out by asking you you know who knows. About a study that you recently published that shows that fully a 3rd of those surveyed believe the world is being steered by secret forces why whats behind that. Well conspiracy believe in conspiracy theories is quite widespread in societies in general also in germany. So we didnt expect ex
President to learn more about president and order your copy today wherever books and ebooksare sold. Now on book tv like to highlight them programs from our archives political satirist p. J. Orourke. Over the past 20 years hes appeared on tv posted 20 times. First up in 2007 when our monthly call in program in that. He discussed his politics, writing and why uses humor to address political andsocial issues. This picture on the left, is that a real picture mark. Oh yeah. Not only area that was i would guess 71. Not quite positive. Floor your politics in 1971. I think a martian left. That would be the easiest way to sum it up. I was a leftwinger but i didnt make enough sense to actually be a communist or a trotskyite or anything like that. And the transformation of her it was gradual. The place and back i do about this. There is a book coming out from the huber institution. I was a radical leftist, very much in favor of some sort of marxist socialist thing in america. I got a job. I got
I think that a martian left would be the easiest way to sum it up. I was a leftwing but it didnt make enough sense to be. Host when did the transformation occur . Guest i just wrote about this. There is a book coming out from the Hoover Institution that is acting as called why i turned right and its the story of a bunch of us and it is a long story and i will not tell it that i will give the short version. I was a radical leftist 150 a week was a lot of money as far as i was concerned in the Lower East Side and i was very broke. We got paid every two weeks. I was really looking forward to the 300 so was my landlord. I got my first paycheck at 78 or Something Like that. After federal tax and estate tax and the city tax and social security, health care, Retirement Funds i said wait a minute, wait a minute, ive been advocating socialism, communism for years screaming and yelling down the street and we already have it. They just took half my pay. Whats going on here. Im not rockefeller. Th
A game works on parts of government. You kill the postal service, merry the armed forces, screw agriculture subsidies, mary Social Security and healthcare reform tells us. Great tools because in a free and democratic country politics is a stool balanced on a tripod of power, freedom, and responsibility. We live in a free and democratic he. A little less democratic than it was before last night. Also a great tool of political analysis because we are so passionate about our politics and how do passionate affairs end . And a passion, usually coming in a crime of passion sometimes and occasionally they turn into stable, permanent legal arrangements which is to say the endless. This quarrel known as marriage so how do we approach the Political Institutions of our free and democratic country, do we ever grow throw them with violence, do we screw around cheating on them while based cheat on us or do we try to build something lasting and boring but worthy and annoying, marvelously virtuous and