sydney olympics being a theme as the slowest olympic swimmer. i . you re welcome to the program why are we facing so many natural disasters how auctions on the environment contributed to the questions difficult to answer but not for 78 year old south african poet and sculptor. he s using his extraordinary sculptures makes with some spirituality to help protect the environment his artwork made from animal bones is meant to encourage society to fight against actions that damage nature and the environment. this is not unusual and it also has some. yes it s a 78 year old south african sculptor professor and poet peter cantu really created $45.00. he called the exhibition i was really a mess isn t any in the local language translated into english this means return to the sauce for the to sing 7 never seemed more urgent. or we have to prepare ourselves for more kind of pandemics simply because we have disrespected nature we have grounded nature with plastic always sleeps everything
c-span nearly 40 times and over the next five hourswe re going to share some of those programs with you . first up tonight in 1993, mister buckley sat down to discuss a collection of his essays from his book happy days are here again. here he is on c-span s interview program from 1993, book notes. on the cover of your new book it says reflections of a libertarian journalist. do you always call yourself a libertarian western mark. off and on. as i of course do, it s something called the movement was encouraged by me in national review during the late 50s and the idea was to put out to the straight libertarians and conservatives how much they had in common and how effective this symbiosis would be between them. so from time to time i stressed the fact that every now and then that i m a libertarian and in most of what i write there s a certain amount of it that is does not augment or diminish human liberty. did i remember you saying maybe when you ran for mayor of new york
libertarians and conservatives how much they have in common and how effective it would be between them. certainly in most of what i write there s a certain amount that is oriented to diminish human liberty. c-span: do i remember you saying when you ran for mayor of new york that as far as you are concerned they would throw the garbage out the window and let people pick it up rather than have the government do with that? guest: your memory is an exchange i had with james baldwin in which he was defending the littering of the street on the grounds that it was a form of protest against the city and not paying close enough attention. i said look, it isn t very helpful to use that as a means of protesting. it was really rhetorical. c-span: if somebody buys the book what do they get? guest: while, they get the best i can give them in various modes. over the past eight years, they covered the collapse of the soviet union, they covered the death of some very important people, plu
he was f.b.i. director he refused permit the f.b.i. to get involved in torture interrogation techniques of the cia when his f.b.i. director who refused to go along with president george w. bush s illegal surveillance and said i m going to resign so his credibility is very very high which i think makes it very very difficult for the house democrats to say somehow his investigation was compromised but the investigation and the fat report that came out of it doesn t say that the president obstructed justice but it also doesn t exonerate and what could happen now. well i think there is two responses one political one legal you re absolutely right as a pure legal matter for lawyers no it doesn t get him off the hook it s true that the house judiciary committee could say well even if mr lawlor could make up his mind we will and based upon our examination and inferences about corrupt intent we will conclude that mr trump committed obstruction of justice which was an article of impea
where the americans had threatened to send me if i didn t cooperate. to fight for the next three years to get my passport back to be able to travel and this time around my travel been directed by my experience. to go to countries seeking. the role of the british government the american government and in the uk the role in torture. in the first place i went to out of all these places was egypt and tried to make links with those who d been imprisoned and try to find out who had come across the case of libya. documents had been destroyed it was very difficult to find anybody who could link this to that but then i went into to news here. and then into libya crucially and in libya i went to a muslim prison that s where it now shaikh libby turned up dead i walked into his cell where he supposedly committed suicide which was quite evident it s not possible to and yourself there is nothing to attach any ishi to. and that if we take a look at it and kill the deal with the. serious the