Find a new way for humanity. America in the early 60s, it was a real good time of prosperity, but it was also kind of a stagnant time in terms of spiritual growth. Things were kind of at a standstill. The baseline culture was materialism, and also the feeling that the culture itself didn t honor the human spirit and didn t honor creativity. The early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement called beat generation. A novel titled on the road became a bestseller. When kerouac s book comes out, it became a revolution, defined a new generation of what being beat means, and it defined it as a spiritual revolution. That if we re living in an age of conformity, if everybody s trying to work for the corporation, that you re losing a sense of self. I was traveling west one time at the junction of the state line of colorado. I saw in the clouds huge and massed above the golden desert of even fall, the great image of god with four fingers pointed straight at me. Come on, boy
cult leader charles manson. he reports on how manson influenced and motivated the members of the consult he called the manson family to murder seven people in august 1969. this was recorded in california in 2013. [ applause ] thanks a lot. when i write nonfiction, i basically start with the single premise that events never happen in a vacuum. anything is the result of many past actions where different people grew up, what they thought, how they mixed together, who they met. there s no one simple answer to anything. so when i do write these books, i try to pick a year in american history. when i wrote about bonnie and clyde, i was really writing about the depression and growing up poor in the dust bowl. when i wrote about the gun fight at the o.k. corral, which was not actually a gun fight and wasn t at the o.k. corral, but the accidental shooting in an empty lot on fremont street didn t have the same sort of ring to it when the first people were going to write this history,
the winter olympics amid some of the world s toughest covid restrictions? it s 9:00am in singapore and eight in the evening in washington where president biden has placed more than 8,000 us based troops on a heightened state of alert, as russia continues to mass soldiers near its border with ukraine. the pentagon spokesman said that if deployed, the troops would be sent to bolster nato s presence in eastern europe. mr biden has been holding talks with key european allies over a common strategy towards russia over ukraine. moscow denies planning to invade. 0ur correspondent gabriel gatehouse sent this report from the ukranian capital kyiv. bell rings this is a country in limbo, waiting for an invasion that looks more likely with every passing day, but may yet never come. to the east, 100,000 russian troops are massed, but the kremlin says talk of an invasion is hysteria. facing them are ukrainian soldiers who hear western leaders sounding the alarm in ever starker tones. and s
arrogant retort from jen psaki from the biden white house should bring comfort to all especially the holidays for those suffering in afghanistan with no hope on the horizon whau take a look. i would reiterate the united states did not put a tracker on american citizens traveling overseas in afghanistan or any country around the world. that would be quite a fox news story. sean: you don t put trackers on peopl what jen said the biden administration has written our fellow americans that they abandon off completely and hesaying to them drop dead. you are on your own. jen psaki doesn t care. she is tired of a questions about the human tragedy caused by her boss and according to a new report the biden administration is making it impossible for even private rescue organizations to remove those threatened with retribution by the taliban for their work with the u.s. that would include american citizens that they left behind thousands of green card holders. even military families
off our power. was that meant to run? i think so. musk has offered twitter $41 billion in cash to take the company private. twitter s board is made at 1:00 p.m. eastern today to carefully review musk s latest takeover bid. twitter is one of the largest social media platforms claiming 330 million monthly active users around the world. musk, has criticized the country for not living up to free speech principles and says that it needs to be transformed. if elon musk requires this, we may just see him do that. okay. do you think he is serious? pete: i do. how crazy is it to be back on the couch. amen. harris: i thought i heard an amen. look at that. pete: it s great to see. i will say, i will give it in amen as well to elon musk. i think he is serious. i think this is a guy who has made a lot of money and has been very successful. loves this country and the freedoms it affords. looks at a space like twitter and says that it used to be a public forum now it s not. the