that russia s population is fleeing in a real sense. the practices of the state and conditions on economic and social terms are forcing them to eye the exits, and as a result, the pace of exodus from russia of imgrigs from russia, right now, rivals out migration seen a snch ri ago. more than 2 million russians are estimated to have left since putin took power in the last days of 1999. one in five russians today desires to live abackward, and 40% of russians between ages of 18 and 35 on template departure, all right? this is catastrophic because it gives you a window into the thinking of the russian population at large. they are devastating all the more so because they are symptoms of a population that s lost hope in its future and one that no longer trusts that its government is a steward of its needs. now, this does not mean there s not hopeful signs. there have been as of late. you know that over the last eight months, russia a had an uptick in fertility. the demographics f
30 years, may not be from russia s strength, but weakness. that, i think, should inform serious policy thinking about russia and our approach to it. we know that the reset of relations, that the obama administration attempted to ork state with moscow in the last four years is, well, not as healthy as it could be, i would say today; right? the reset has been a failure. we know now that the white house is at least beginning to think about what comes next. what this is intended to do is to give them a little bit of food for thought about where russia is headed because knowing where russia s heading is determinative to figuring out what our policy towards it should be, so, thank you, guys, i ll stop there. [applause] we ll take questions, be kind to wait for the microphone to be passed to you, and state your name and affiliation if you care to as a curtesy to the guest, and i m going to take the prerogative of reading one of the questions we received online, and i ll change it
what would be acceptable in congress in a short period of time with the structure that we have. so the agility that tom talked about is critical. you need organization on the executive branch side, but you also need a fully armed partner on the congressional side, and i don t think we have that. governor thompson? as to the rapidly evolving technology, we all understand that. and what is useful today may not be useful tomorrow and things we can t even imagine now may be coming along. i m sure they will. but what we re looking at is a framework within which government in the private sector can accommodate each other s interests in preventing cyber attacks. does the military of the united states or nsa possess knowledge, experience that can be useful to the private sector, to our banks, to our utilities, all of whom can expect some kind of cyber attack because it s happened before. well, the answer to that is yes. do we have a framework in the united states where the milita
once resuscitated, we were instructed to leave the ship. we did not have the option to stay. my father went to his room with personnel to pack his bags and carnival sent their personnel into my room to gather my belongings. they made us stay on the gangway and after we got off of the water taxi, we had to wait on an ambulance to come and get her. one carnival employee accompanied us but no arrangements were made with customs to expedite us as a medical emergency. we were all processed as tourists, including my comatose mother. the carnival employee gave my father the telephone number for the port authority and left us completely alone in a foreign country to find our own way to transport my mother back to the united states for additional medical treatment. carnival s current contract states that they are not responsible or liable for anything involving the welfare or safety of its passengers. the company makes no assurances that a physician will be available on a cruise. and
spoke at the cato institute of washington. this includes remarks by one paul sun, senator rand paul. it s an hour and 10 minutes. good afternoon. welcome to the cato institute. i m david boaz of the institute of her trying something different you are doing an event after work hours. we ll see how that works out, but hopefully it s good for people who have jobs and can t come to the events we do usually at noon. required to have a very interesting discussion of ron paul s revolution. about 30 years ago there was a book published about the early years of the libertarian movement called it usually begins a timer and unless we found a cato, that most of our interns and students who came to her seminaries had first read the fountainhead. not all of him, but more than anything else. i think you can say over the past six years, it usually begins with ron paul. as we get more people hitting their first taste of libertarian ideas and maybe then they move on to read ayn rand and ca