I never really thought much about the flu. It seemed like something that came around every year and people get sick and get better again. I never been interested in it at all but a few years ago im a reporter from the New York Times and i wrote an article for the times about a miraculous discovery. There was a guy at Walter Reed Medical Center and he was writing in a technical journal called Science Magazine that he had managed to get some samples from the soldiers who died in 1918 and in that lung tissue were fragments of the virus that had killed them and when i interviewed this man about his work he told me that the influenza pandemic of 1918 and i was stunned. I had never heard of anything like this. It was the worst Infectious Disease epidemic in recorded history. It killed so many people that if Something Like that came by today it would kill more people than the top 10 killers wrapped together, 1. 5 million americans. And i just found out by looking at the cdc papers by the cent
Of epsteins victims about the princes own sexual conduct. He knows exactly what hes done and i hope he comes clean about it. I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady. What did he know about epstein . What did he do on his visits to epsteins many exclusive homes . Why were you staying with a convicted sex offender . Right. Over the next hour, we hear testimony from the heart of the British Royal family about the allegations and what he says happen. Would you be willing to testify or give a statement under oath . Tonight Prince Andrew the epstein scandal. I let the side down, simple as that. Some breaking news right now. Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein has taken his own life while he was behind bars here in new york city. Jeffrey epstein was found dead in his prison cell in august of this year. He was due to be tried in new york on charges of sexual abuse and trafficking of dozens of underage girls. He was facing up to 45 years in prison. Epsteins death robbed his victims ofj
Television Companies Support cspan2 as a public service. Douglas you describe yourself survival of the richest is a humanist who writes about the impact of Digital Technologies but not a w futurist whats the difference between the two . Futurist is usually someone they come to to tell you what is going to happen in the future. I have been right about that a lot. So the call me futurist but im really a present just im more interested looking at describing accurately what is happening right now thats usually an easier way to know whats going to happen in the future. But i dont usually talk about it. Most of futurist see it more like propagandists fighting for the future they want to see or positions their company and the best place or positions them as a consultant in the most needed place. You cap people interested in the future by scaring them about this is going to happen or that is going to happen. But if you are a present test which is really more what i am. Sociologist looking at w
Rushkoff, you describe yourself in your latest book, survival of the richest as a humanist who writes about the impacts of digital technologies, but not a futurist. Whats the difference between the two . Well, a futurist is usually someone they come to to tell you whats going to happen in the future, and ive been right about that a lot so they call me a futurist, but really what i am is a presentist. Im more interested in looking at looking at and describing accurately what it happening right now and thats usually an easier way to know whats going to happen in the future, but i dont usually talk about it. I just most futurists they seem more like propagandists and they want to see their company in the best place or positioning them as a consultant in the most needed place and you get people interested in the future about scaring them, this is going to happen or thats going to happen about you but if youre a presentist, kind after cultural anthropologist or culturist, what is, you end u
I dont want to be like that for so many reasons. Its not good intellectually, its not persuasive, you dont make you dont change minds. Heres a look at some books that are being published this week. Fred siegel, senior fellow at the manhattan institute, presents his thoughts on liberalism in the United States in the revolt against the masses. In the secondary wrap awakening and the battle for pluralism, the Vice President for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace presents a history of political change in the arab world. David kurtzer recounts the relationship between pope pius xi and best three toe mousse lineny. In hundred days the campaign that ended world war i, nick lloyd recounts the allied push to end the stalemate on the western front in the summer of 1818. The executive Foreign Editor of the Daily Telegraph details Winston Churchills military service this afghanistan in the 1890s in churchills first war, Young Winston at war with the afghans. Look for these t