Okay. Welcome to the Commonwealth Club. Im the former executive director for the investigative reporting and the current board member and moderator for tonights program. This program is part of the clubs series by the Bernard Foundation and it is my pleasure to introduce todays distinguished speaker senior fellow at the institute at Brown University brothers overthrow hes also an awardwinning correspondent for the boston globe. His new book tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the cias seat medical experiments of the 1950s and 60s. On the original interviewer int, survivors testimonies and documentary research, the book brings to light the massive hunt for the secret of mind control that spans several countries including the work of nazi scientists and led experimentations on Government Employees willing and unwilling, foreign politicians and the children, prisoners, sex workers and anyone else they deem threatening or expendable. Youre about to hear a tale of the most po
Club. Im the former executive director for the investigative reporting and the current board member and moderator for tonights program. This program is part of the clubs series by the Bernard Foundation and it is my pleasure to introduce todays distinguished speaker senior fellow at the institute at Brown University brothers overthrow hes also an awardwinning correspondent for the boston globe. His new book tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the cias seat medical experiments of the 1950s and 60s. On the original interviewer int, survivors testimonies and documentary research, the book brings to light the massive hunt for the secret of mind control that spans several countries including the work of nazi scientists and led experimentations on Government Employees willing and unwilling, foreign politicians and the children, prisoners, sex workers and anyone else they deem threatening or expendable. Youre about to hear a tale of the most powerful unknown americans in the 21
Foundation today or speaker Stephen Kinzer from Brown University it also has a new book poison or in chief. The author of nine books to overthrow with that awardwinning correspondence and to tell astonishing stories of the cia medical experiments of the fifties and sixties. With original interviews and survive her testimony in documentary research for the secret of mind control span several countries including nazi scientists leading to experimentation of Government Employees and foreign politicians prisoners, sex workers and anyone else that is deemed threatening. With the most powerful unknown in the 20th century of the government lies and deceptions. Please welcome Stephen Kinzer. [applause] thank you. This is now my tenth book. I have to say that if i devoted a great deal of my career to figure out whats behind the facade of politics and Public Diplomacy that we see maybe they were surprising or shocking to some people but this is the first time i have been shocked im still in shoc
Nasdaq, it has been a commodity that rally and that is still the case but outside of commodity related stocks we are not seeing the gains he saw earlier in the session. Up considerably, 1. 9 , off their highs of the session, up 2. 25 at one point, industrials and financials up but everything falling back from where it was earlier in the session. More red on the wheel, health care and Consumer Discretionary stocks are down. Oil is coming down off its highs of the day though still up considerably, 6 off a little bit from the highs this session. That is contributing to some extent to becoming off of the highs for overall in stocks. Likely not the whole story. The yen getting relief off the huge rally. Julie a little relief that changing. Point , the yen came came down to unchanged and now it is very little changed, the fiveday rally we had seen in the yen the bounceback is dissipating to some extent for the u. S. Dollar. Gold prices, it has been having a big week. It is positive on the da
Place. The first rounds of finger pointing over the federal website took place. They say full tests of the website should have been carried out months i have not advance but began two weeks before the rollout. They blame government officials for making last minute changes just prior to launching the site. Finally, they say the administration did not allow window shopping on the site, increasing the volume of traffic that caused registration glitches. The experts often took a back seat to the republicans and democrats asking the questions. So you didnt test it prior to october 1 . No,ness. When House Committee members grilled the contractors about the sites technical problems they heard the problems start at the front door. Consumers must pass through this front door. Unfortunately, the eidm created a bottleneck keeping the vast majority of consumers from entering. The contractors were not prepared for the bottleneck that occurred when thousands tried to log on. Since then. Cms, cgi and