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wonderful panel that we have. i m just going to be making a personal introduction and very shortly turning it over to my colleague. tom mann who is a senior fellow in governance studies and then of course needs no introduction to all of you but of course julia gillard australia s first prime minister and e.j. dionne. first female prime minister. [laughter] thank you. she really looks great, doesn t she? the first female prime minister. [laughter] and then the e.j. dionne. the laughter covered up your intra-e. j.. senior fellow for government studies. we are going to and note lots of people in the audience but just two people. welcome to ambassador kim beazley who is also the former leader of the labour party and tonya who is currently the deputy of the leader party labour party and shadow foreign minister so welcome to all of you. it s my pleasure to introduce the session the likes of an australian prime minister, first female prime minister. i am now going to be ....
true opportunity and social mobility for the future. the book takes some of the biggest shifts, is happening in our region of the world. the explosive growth economically and asia and the rise of china. it s economic rise and strategic rise. its desire for a larger and more military force. my conclusions are overwhelmingly optimistic ones and i come to those optimistic conclusions informed by my experience as prime minister. it was impossible for our nation, for history to improve its relationship with the u.s. and china at the same time. this is a zero-sum game county could only improve the relationship with one at the cost of the relationship with the other. i set out to prove that that was the right. you could improve both. during my time as prime minister we took a step forward in our alliance with the eu. we know trained u.s. marines in our northern territory. president obama said he wanted a harsh environment for them to train and. or, have i got a harsh environme ....
good morning, everyone. my name is nirra tanden president and ceo of the center for american progress, and i m really honored to be joined by our esteemed commission members for the new report from the inclusive commission a commission convened over a year and a half ago. i m very honored to be joined by our co-chairs, dr. larry summers, former treasury secretary, and ed ball shadow chancellor of the exchequer for the u.k. we convened this commission because we at cap are very focused on the challenges the middle class is facing in the united states, challenges of stagnating wages rising costs. what we recognize these were not just trends that the american public is facing. it s really global trends are faking us and we can learn from other countries. so that is why we ve undertaken this effort. i hope everyone has gotten our report, a very big report. and i m going to now turn it over to larry and ed, and then i will ask questions of our commission members to get the ....
ussr to rush at the beginning. no one knows. there is a lot of love and hate. cubans have one of the highest awareness is of u.s. brands in the world and one of the highest preferences in the world so if u.s. companies launching into cuba comes with less cost than some other marketplace that makes it attractive so and that s because the folks do have, the people of cuba many of them have access. we saw what no one expected with fidel. most people, most of the modeling done in the u.s. government was fidel s speaking, he drops dead worries in his office and people drop dead and people know where they don t know but no one expected a succession and then a transition from brother to brother. i would say don t expect raul dies and it s a switch. it s going to be more of a wave. thank you. bill lane. good morning. bill lane with caterpillar and first of all i want to thank you for a great program and great timing particularly the fact that this is two days away from th ....
it was important to hamilton, for example. jefferson very adamantly disagreed with burke s reading of france. he was a friend of paine s, a close friend during the revolutionary years. he thought that paine s great pamphlet, common sense, was extreme lu important and ought to be extremely important and helped it get distributed. he helped him get a job as the secretary to the committee on foreign relations of the continental congress. and he was a kind of patron of thomas paine s in some ways. when paine came back to america after france jefferson was president. he was wary of being associateed with paine s views on religion so didn t hang out with him very much. but he helped him get established, helped him get a job, and the two knew each other very well. they were friends. sue finish. well, the most superb. well, the most important rule of a bill of rights book fair is that it end on time, so i m afraid we re going to have to skip the remaining two question ....