more effort to figure out how can we list fewer americans on the beaght field. peace things are coming down the road. on energy, the breakthrough in hydraulic frackerring and horizontal drill, we take a place like north dakota which went from 800 million barrels of reserve in 2002 to over 24 billion today. and rising. north dakota has a high employment rate we have gone up 50% in the last eight years. and mcdonalds now pays a bonus if you will sign up to work. that actually should be the conservative answer to income and equality. we would like everybody to rise up. we re not in the business of tearing down. we should be in the business of helping every person rise up. and north dakota is a pretty good case study. if the federal government were actually encouraging it. we would be astonished how many additional jobs you would be creating right now. we are this year the largest gas producer in the world by 2015 we ll be the largest oil producer in the world. that s an enormo
married someone she shouldn t have, but in her mind she felt this man she would never be cheated on. she struck in her mind a devil s bargain. she was deeply in love with george, but scraired to cross the line and marry him. the way she did it was she said, well, at least, this means i will never be cheated on. she married one of the most famous lady s men of harlem, and he was cheating on her within months, if not week, and that continued throughout her life. her daughter was killed in vietnam, and two years later, josephine hung herself in their apartment while george was reading in the living room, and many of the women in this book did come to sad ends. do you have a piece to read to us about josephine? yes, i do. with people s permission. okay, one microphone is enough. i think the selection displays how in so many ways her marriage was based on an idea, not a reality. their ideas and fantasies about each other consumed realities of who they were, and that built th
enabling [inaudible] it s minds boggling howment of tens of billions dollars we have wasted in countries like iraq and afghanistan building while elephant projects of no earthly use and actually battling the insurgency. the water treatment plants. i m not sure why we were doing it. i think it s something we call the gratitude theory of counterinsurgency. if you give them cool stuff, they will like. you a. if you give them cool stuff and not in control of the area, the other side claim credit for it. and so if you build stuff inside the city but don t control the city, guess what, they will claim it. but the larger problem is if you don t have security, it doesn t matter how much people like you. they re not going to come over to your side if they get killed for doing it. they re not suicidal. they re not going commit suicide because they love a water treatment plant. so you have to have basic security. and to establish basic security. you have to have men with guns on the str
understandings, different experiences, and somewhat different outcomes, and some absolutely understood that, and the reason they wanted to be voluntary negroes was effort on their part based on fundamental misunderstanding of the phrase, was to dispel the one drop myth, was as ad race radical way of saying that any reliance on blood or biology to determine race is ridiculous. race is a social construction that works politically. some of them were very canny in using it that way. what they didn t understand is that at the time, the phrase voluntary negro with a lot of currency in the day, it felt to the one preferable. those who were volunteering negroes were blacks who looked so white they could have passed for white, but chose not to, and the most famous and celebrated voluntary negro was walter white behooves so white he was almost translucent. you can t get whiter. blond hair, blue eyes. he refused to be identified as white. he encysted on his black identity, which
any of that at all whereas i tend to try to balance might corporate media with independent review will like democracy now and you hear all the time on democracy now about soldiers refusing to deploy. i just wondered if you saw any signs of that? thanks. that s a great question. the short answer somewhat tellingly is i think in my experience at fort hood and among the folks that i knew there, the short answer is basically no. i had one friend who is involved with a relatively oriented veterans advocacy group and certainly there is in this country a really lively antiwar veterans movement made up of a bunch of different organizations doing work that is politically important for those folks and also personally important for a lot of them. one of the things that was really interesting and striking to me in my work was the conventional language that we use and the civilian public being pro-war, being antiwar whether in principle in general or with regard to specific policy decis