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Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022
"2022 marked final goodbyes for some influential people. Queen Elizabeth reigned in Britain for 70 years. I decade before you all. With my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and to the service of our great imperial family, to which we all belong. Madeleine Albright was the first woman in a high ranking cabinet position. Mister president, I am deeply honored by your decision to nominate me for Secretary of State. Among the entertainers who died. They call me mister tibbs. Sidney Poitier was the first black actor to win the best actor Oscar. Miner's daughter. Loretta lyn says her country music career was about being herself. I think you should never live in. I mean, I had lived my songs to write them. I'm Ed Donahue
Encyclopedia Womannica
"madeleine albright" Discussed on Encyclopedia Womannica
"When the war ended, Maria's family returned to Prague and Joseph became the check ambassador to Yugoslavia. Maria attended boarding school in Switzerland and started going by the name Madeleine. But this period of peace for the corbel family was short lived. In 1948, the Communist Party seized power in Czechoslovakia. Joseph was once again a political pariah, and once again, the family was forced to flee. Joseph received political asylum in the United States and moved the family to Colorado, where he accepted a teaching job at the university of Denver. With her life having reached a new level of stability, Madeleine excelled in school. She attended wellesley college where she graduated with honors in 1959. That same year, Madeleine married Joseph medal Patterson albright. Joseph came from a publishing dynasty, his grandfather was the founder of the New York Daily News. The marriage came with entry to a new social stratosphere, and the couple had three daughters. While raising her girls, Madeline pursued higher education. She first earned a masters in later a doctorate degree in international affairs from Columbia University. In 1983, Madeleine's husband left her for another woman. The settlement from the divorce left Madeline with millions of dollars and some time on her hands. As a result, she began raising money for democratic politicians, hosting salons in her Washington D.C. home. Madeline loan track expertise in foreign policy to democratic hopefuls like representative Geraldine Ferraro, and governor Michael Dukakis. It was well consulting for dukakis that Madeline met the then Arkansas governor Bill Clinton. Four years later, when Bill Clinton won the presidency, he brought Madeline into the fold. He named her ambassador to the United Nations. In her role as ambassador, Madeleine was a fierce champion of what she called assertive multilateralism. She believed the U.S. had a role to play in global leadership and lobbied, sometimes unsuccessfully, to expand military involvement in regions like the Balkans, Haiti, and Rwanda. She regularly clashed with then chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Colin Powell. In her 2003 memoir, Madeleine reflected on the United States in action in response to the Rwandan genocide. She wrote, my deepest regret for my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes. Madeline placed much of the blame for UN and action in Rwanda at the feet of the UN secretary general boutros boutros ghali. Their conflicting views of leadership came to a head in 1996. When the UN Security Council voted overwhelmingly to a point boot trust to a second term. That is, until Madeline cast a decisive veto of the appointment. And what boutros later called an assault on his integrity, he was driven out of power. Shortly after president Clinton began his second term. He nominated Madeline for the position of Secretary of State. She received a unanimous confirmation in the Senate and became the first woman to hold the position. This also made her fourth in line to the presidency. At the time, Madeleine was the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. During her time as Secretary of State, Madeline advocated for democracy and human rights around the world. She pushed for expanding NATO's membership to include nations in Eastern Europe. She advocated for intervention in Kosovo and for curbing the proliferation of nuclear weapons. She worked to normalize relations with Vietnam and China and to broker peace deals in the Middle East. In the year 2000, Madeline became the first U.S. Secretary of State to travel to North Korea. Following Madeleine's appointment, The Washington Post began to report about her story Jewish heritage. According to Madeline, this was the first she'd ever heard of it. Her parents had never revealed their true ancestry. From this reporting, Madeleine also learned that she lost three grandparents in concentration camps during the Second World War. Madeleine left her post a Secretary of State in 2001. For some, her legacy is mixed. In the 1990s, intense sanctions levied against Iraq reportedly caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children. In an interview on 60 minutes, Madeleine claimed that the price was worth it. Following your time in the federal government, Madeline wrote several bestselling books and opened a collection of consulting and investing firms. She even made a few appearances in the world of entertainment, including a cameo on parks and rec. In 2012, president Obama awarded Madeleine Albright the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The nation's highest civilian honor. On March 23rd, 2022, Madeline albright died of cancer. She was 84 years old. All month, we're highlighting dynamos. For more information, check us out on Facebook and Instagram at will manica podcast. Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister and co creator.
Encyclopedia Womannica
"madeleine albright" Discussed on Encyclopedia Womannica
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Madeleine Albright honored by Biden, other world leaders
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Fresh Air
"madeleine albright" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Pile of boring forms and numbers. But I see a story with nothing. But a stack of receipts I can trace the ups and downs of your lives. And it doesn't all look good. It does not look good. Evelyn might think she knows the story of her life, but she doesn't know the half of it. Through an extremely bizarre series of events, she learns about the existence of all those other universes. Each with its own version of Evelyn. She also learns that she's the only person who can save the whole multiverse from destruction by some powerful force that has taken hold of her daughter, joy. As a story of conflict and reconciliation between an Asian mother and daughter, everything everywhere all at once, would make a nifty double bill with the current Pixar fantasy, turning red. In order to defeat evil, Evelyn must repeatedly jump between her universe and others. Sort of like a video game avatar. And absorb crucial knowledge from those other Evelyn's. All of whom represent different paths she could have taken through life. There's Evelyn the Hong Kong movie star, Evelyn, the Peking opera singer, and Evelyn, the teppanyaki chef. Imagine a very long, unusually surreal choose your own adventure novel, in which all the pages have been torn out and glued back together at random, and you'll have some sense of how this movie plays. All this matrix style interdimensional hopping, plus the nonstop martial arts action and in your face slapstick makes everything everywhere all at once. And often frenetic viewing experience. And I checked out more than once the first time I saw it. But there are playful ideas beneath that busy surface. Notably, all those other Evelyn's seem to be leading more fulfilling lives than Evelyn the unhappy wife mom and laundromat owner. This is very much a movie about regret and disappointment. About the frustration of feeling that life's best opportunities have passed you by. It's no wonder that.
Fresh Air
"madeleine albright" Discussed on Fresh Air
"We remembering Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as Secretary of State. She died Wednesday at age 84. Let's get back to the interview we recorded in 2018 after the publication of her book fascism, in which she warned about authoritarianism in several Eastern European countries and sounded the alarm about the assault on American democracy. Let's talk about Russia. We have evidence now that Russia interfered in the presidential election. We don't know what their plans are for the midterms. If you were Secretary of State, would you see a role for yourself now in dealing with future Russian interference in our democracy? Well, from everything that I have read, I think that it is a dereliction of duty, not to see what the Russians have been doing. And that this really requires a whole of government approach to it, where the president directs the various parts of the government to do what they have to do to figure out what the Russians are up to and how to prevent them from doing more during the midterm election and all the time, frankly. And then also, and a Secretary of State, the other part that would be important is to point out what the Russians are doing in other countries. We know, for instance, what has been happening in Europe, then they have, in fact, undertaken a lot of propaganda and false information throughout Europe, there are even those who think that they were involved in the Brexit vote. So as the Secretary of State, what you try to do is to look at what are the effects of Russia's behavior among our friends and allies who needs help. How do we share intelligence? And what do we do to make sure that our democracies are not undermined? And that's the role of the Secretary of State. You met with Vladimir Putin when you were Secretary of State. What was his position at the time? Well, it was interesting. The first time I met him was when he was still kind of acting president and apec meeting that took place in New Zealand and he was in a stage of his life where he seemed to want to be very ingratiating to everybody. And wanted to kind of pretend or was, in fact, kind of a small figure. Then when I went back to prepare for the summit, the president Clinton had in the summer of 2000. And I have to say, I was very impressed with how smart Putin was. And when he met with president Clinton, he Putin was able to talk without notes as president Clinton was, and also with took notes and really was very smart. I think that he is a smart man. He has played a weak hand very well, and he is a former KGB officer, and we can never forget that..
Fresh Air
"madeleine albright" Discussed on Fresh Air
"And it's very interesting. I actually don't think I wrote this in the book, but before I went up to the UN, I met with Jean kirkpatrick. One of my predecessors and obviously also a woman and a professor. And when Ginger Patrick, we probably disagree a lot on policy, but our lives are not dissimilar because we both taught at Georgetown and what she did was ask me to come in and talk to her or we had lunch and she said she was very funny. She said Madeline get rid of the professor clothes and buy yourself some good clothes because you really do need to look good for this job. So Jean and I agree on those particular issues and it does matter how you look. It matters why. Because I think not so much, I mean, if you're beautiful or not, but if you look confident and you look put together, I think it does play a role in how you present your case. And I tell one story in the book where we had had all night negotiations on a resolution to do with Haiti. And I had done real retail diplomacy gone around and talked to every one of the Security Council members and I looked exhausted and I rumpled my hair and all the makeup was off of my face, but we were going to have time between what I was doing in the final vote, so I went back to my apartment, started all over, put on a blue linen dress that I thought I looked good in, came back, looked a lot better than all my colleagues, who were unshaven, and I think it looked as though I had confidence. We won the vote. I don't think because of my blue dress, but I think it does help to look good. My interview with Madeleine Albright was recorded in 2003. She died Wednesday at the age of 84. After a break will hear the interview were recorded in 2018 during the Trump presidency after the publication of her book fascism, in which she warned about the growing threat of authoritarianism in parts of Eastern Europe, and the threat to democracy in the U.S., I'm Terry gross, and this is fresh air. NPR's state of Ukraine podcast brings you updates on the Russian invasion multiple times a day. We explore the conflicts past present and possible outcomes. So you can know what each new development means for Ukraine and for the world..
Fresh Air
"madeleine albright" Discussed on Fresh Air
"This is fresh air. I'm Terry gross. Today we remember Madeleine Albright, who became the first woman to serve as Secretary of State. She died of cancer Wednesday at the age of 84. She was appointed Secretary of State by president Clinton in 1997 in his second term. In his first term she became the ambassador to the UN. Among the things she's remembered for as advocating the expansion of NATO into the former Soviet bloc countries of Eastern Europe. Some of the other issues and crises she contended with during the Clinton years include the war in the Balkans, the genocide in Rwanda, the terrorist bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa. The suspension of weapons inspections in Iraq, Middle East peace talks on the start of the second intifada, and the impeachment trial of president Clinton. A little later, we'll hear the interview I recorded with her in 2018 during the Trump presidency. After the publication of her book fascism, in which she wrote about the growing threat of fascism in Eastern Europe, and sounded the alarm about the growing threat of authoritarianism in the U.S.. We'll start with our 2003 interview, recorded after the publication of her memoir, madam secretary. She was born in Czechoslovakia, where her father was a diplomat during World War II, the family fled to England just before Germany invaded Czechoslovakia. After the war they returned to their country, only to flee again, this time in 1948, as the communists were taking over. We started the interview by talking about being the first woman to serve as Secretary of State. You write in your memoir I am often asked whether I was condescended to by men as I traveled around the world to Arab countries and other places with highly traditional cultures. I replied no, because when I arrived somewhere, it was in a large plane with the U.S. of a emblazoned on the side. Foreign officials respect that. I had more problems with some of the men in my own government. What are some of the problems you had with some of the men in your own government?.
Forever35
"madeleine albright" Discussed on Forever35
"To them that democracy is not a spectator sport, that they do have to contribute and be a part of things. Which I think they have been, and they need to be known that people my age learn from them. I have the older I get, you know, obviously the younger are my teachers, which is something that Robert Frost said. So I do think that I would be very positive. But I would lay responsibilities on them because they are going to have to live in a totally different world from where we have been. I wanted to ask you about a moment you share in your book in which you discover your maternal grandmother's journals. It's incredibly moving and you then go on to share her writing at the end of the book, which is just such a poignant, I have chills actually talking about it. Now, it's such a poignant way to end to end this book. Could you speak about that a little bit? And what it was like for you to discover her writing, and it was fairly recently that this happened. Well, I'll tell you, I mean, it's part of a longer discovery issue. When I became ambassador to the United Nations, I started getting letters from a lot of people saying that where the facts were all wrong, but saying that they were relatives. And they needed a Visa or money. But they had the villages that my family came from wrong and the age and somebody who wrote said they'd gone to high school with my father in 1915, which would have been impossible since he was born in 1909. So I ignored a lot of the letters. And just as I was being vetted to be Secretary of State, I got a letter from somebody that had all the facts right. And said what had been hinted in some of the other letters that my that I was of Jewish origin. And so what happened was that I then I had just become Secretary of State. And it was very, there was somebody who wrote an article about me and my Jewish background. And so that was actually a revelation to me. And I had known after the war when we came back because I had my parents said, my father was with the government in exile in London. And we came back and for me, I had pictures of myself with my grandmother, but I was two years old, and I certainly didn't remember her. And I kind of don't ever remember asking, but I think later when we talked about other people had grandparents that I didn't have grandparents because they had been old and they had died. So what happened was when we, when I lived in Washington, my father died, my mother came to live here, and she brought a lot of his stuff, and then she died, and all the papers and stuff were transferred to me, and they were in my garage and in my basement, and then I become an official that has to have security. And so the security people moved into my garage and we moved all these papers to a storage unit. So in like 2015, 2016, I was there looking just generally through things, and all of a sudden, in a worn out envelope, I found this journal. And it was written in check, and it was from my grandmother to my mother, who was in London, and it was describing what she was going through in this small town in Czechoslovakia. In terms of her daily life when she wrote, there's one passage where she said all of a sudden we've been divided into Aryans and non Aryans. And various ways that Jews weren't able to go to other parts of the town or go shopping. But most of it was very kind of it starts out with her saying that she wanted to let my mother know what kinds of things were going on at the time where she was. And a lot of it is just, in some ways, I describe it in the book as a message in a bottle. And it really was fascinating. I couldn't believe it, frankly, as I was reading it. In terms of her descriptions of what went on and it ends, the reason I wanted it in the book is because it is a message in a bottle and it is one generation talking to another and sharing not only experiences, but a kind of hope that I think is very important. The part that really blew my mind was that she was not old when she was taken to a concentration camp. She was 54 years old. And so I have spent time trying to put the story together of what happened to a large number of my relatives. And not long ago with my children and grandchildren, we went to this concentration camp and the Czech Republic terezin, where we dedicated a plaque to the 26 members of my family that died in the Holocaust. Wow. That must have been incredibly moving. Well, the whole and finding this diary, this journal. Has been a very concrete sign of things of learning things about one's past, but the message in the bottle part, and the hope, you know, when we see each other, or if we don't, so that you know what I've done, and the part that's hard, is there are a lot of little references to me, I must be a very cute little girl or whatever, but anyway, very, very moving. Well, I love that because you do talk about divine spark and why gratitude is a reason for prayer, you believe. Could you tell us a little bit more about divine spark and also just what gives you hope? Well, I do think that, you know, I kind of kid about this that I was raised to Catholic married and found out I was Jewish. And so I can have my inter religious discussions, but I really do think that it is important to understand what we're supposed to be doing on earth and the divine spark and having a reason for doing things in terms of making sure that others are taken care of and that there is community in understanding what we are supposed to be doing. And having a goal and having a sense that we aren't here just as an accident that our expected to play active roles. Well, that seems like a really nice note to end on. It was such a pleasure getting to talk to you. And your book is hell and other destinations and it is available now and Kate and I both loved it. So everyone should read it..
Forever35
"madeleine albright" Discussed on Forever35
"It was only later that I thought of kind of rhetorical ways of answering it because I was so taken aback that somebody would say that. I do think that we do put an awful lot of emphasis on how people look and looking young when you're way past that. And I think that one of the things, if one can see some good to what is going on now, is I think that people are thinking about their relationships with people, what's really important to them, whether having wrinkles when you're socially distancing doesn't seem to make much difference or dealing with a terrible virus, and I think that I have a very strange thing to say. I was just watching television with a lot of nurses and people who have been on the front lines. And how brave they are. And they, there were a lot of pictures of them without their masks on, and they all have new lines on their face, which is from the masks. And I think it will be a sign of honor that people that have given so much to us, so it was just a thought I had that this was a wrinkle that was very well earned. That's really powerful. You mentioned being on the treadmill, but I'm wondering what some of your other kind of everyday self care routines are practices are. Well, I don't have a lot. I mean, I do fix my face and put some cream on and things. I try very hard to look decent. And one of the routine, frankly, one of the things that had never occurred to me was that I would ever care about my clothes. But when I went to the United Nations, Jean kirkpatrick, who had preceded me there, and we got to be friends, and she said, you have to get rid of your clothes and go buy some new clothes, which was a great suggestion and an excuse. And so I do like to get dressed up. And I like to think about what I'm wearing. And I think that what I miss now is I don't have to do that, but I have decided that I am going to look decent every day and that it does make a difference in terms of how you feel about yourself. And then, of course, I have this whole thing with my pins. And so that gives me some fun and thinking about what I'm going to wear or do. Yeah, your pins have been an incredible topic for your whole professional career. And do you consider that part of your self care practice in terms of making the choice of which pin to wear or what kind of message you want to send with each pin or even just the act, the recurring act of doing it? Well, it has gotten to be that way. So I think the part that I don't know whether you know the whole story, but what really did happen, I do like jewelry. And I get to the United Nations and I was what's known as an instructed ambassador and the problem was that after the Gulf War, the ceasefire was translated into a series of sanctions resolutions, and my instructions were to make sure the sanctions stayed on. And so I said, terrible things about said, I was saying all the time, which he deserved because he'd invaded Kuwait. And all of a sudden there was a poem in the papers in Baghdad, comparing me to many things, but among them an unparalleled serpent. So I had a snake pin, and I wore it when we talked about Iraq. And so then all of a sudden, it kind of got to be fun. And thinking that I would wear pins in order to signal what I thought we were going to do on any given day. So on good days, I wore flowers and butterflies and balloons, and I'm bad days. A lot of carnivorous animals in spiders and things. And so then what happened was that people got very used to seeing me with pins. And now what has happened is when I don't wear a pin, like when I'm exercising, for instance, people say, why aren't you wearing a pin? And so it has gotten to be much more of a game of choosing what I'm going to wear. When. And then I have there's a pin collection of everything which have the foreign policy stories, but that's has been traveling around the United States. So I had to start all over. And so I do have fun in terms of figuring out what I'm going to wear. And it's somewhat embarrassing to think that I actually spend time thinking about what am I going to say today with my pins? I think it's pretty awesome. Honestly, I don't think it's embarrassing at all. I think it's such a fashion is so fun, but there's also so many important messages that can come out of it. I think it's really brilliant. Well, I turned it into a diplomatic tool. I have a lot of funny stories with that. And but the thing that is really funny now is what I loved. Given the extrovert thing, when people come up to me, whether when we used to go to airports and or out in public and say, why are you wearing that pin today? And so it has become kind of a conversation opener, which I appreciate. Do you have one on right at this moment? Well, I have a pin, which is that I've chosen for talking about the book. And that is that it is, since I have done some comparisons to World War II, and my father was on BBC, when I was a little girl, I listened to BBC during the war, and they would start with Beethoven's 5th and which they would go. Which in Morse code is victory. And I have been wearing a V pin throughout the book tour. I was when I was thinking about what I was going to wear before the whole victory thing came up, and the virus, because I don't write about the virus, but since it's now a major subject, I was going to wear a devil pin. That went with the health theme. But the victory against the virus is what I'm doing now. Oh, I love that. You've given dozens of commencement speeches over the years. And this year it looks like most commencements will be canceled or at least very scaled down. And so we were just kind of wondering, what would you like to tell the class of 2020 if you were going to be giving a commencement speech now? Well, first of all, I have to say that I wouldn't say this to them, but I feel badly for them because commencements are fun. And a great and it's something you look forward to. And so this class is never going to forget that they didn't, that they weren't able to have that commencement. But I would say something to them, which is that they better than most generations are prepared to deal with something very new. That they are very competent more than competent in dealing with technology. They know how to, you know, we've made fun of them for being online all the time or not being social or not caring about privacy, but they are ahead of things. And I have loved teaching that I've done recently by Zoom and I was stunned at how creative the students were. I also am one of the hard parts about any commencement speech is how you lay a lot of responsibilities on the graduating class. But in many ways, they are the ones that are going to make the difference in the 21st century. Because of their knowledge and their capabilities. And I would say.
Forever35
"madeleine albright" Discussed on Forever35
"Hey everyone. Hi, it's us. It's Kate and Dory. Yep. Here with a little bit of a special replay episode of our interview with Madeleine Albright. Yeah, we were really sad to hear the news today that she had died and she made such an impact on us when we interviewed her. In April 2020, so just a month into the pandemic, she was so warm and gracious and funny and her fax machine kept going off and it was just, you know, I don't know. It was a real dream come true to get to talk to her. And I just wanted to buckets. I mean, imagine if we had done it, we were originally supposed to do it in person. I would have not made it. Perspired through my clothing. Yeah, she was supposed to come to LA for a book event, and then because of the pandemic, it got moved to online. Anyway, we really enjoyed our interview with her and we just kind of wanted to honor her memory by re airing it. So here it is. Our guest today is Madeleine Albright. You may know her as the former Secretary of State. But she is also a professor author diplomat and business woman. In 1997, she was named the first female Secretary of State and became at that time. The highest ranking woman in the history of U.S. government from 1993 to 1997, doctor albright served as the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations and was a member of the president's cabinet. She is a professor in the practice of diplomacy at the Georgetown university school of foreign service. Doctor albright is chair of all bright stone bridge group, a global strategy firm and chair of albright capital management LLC, an investment advisory firm, focused on emerging markets. She also chairs the national democratic institute, serves as the president of the Truman scholarship foundation and is a member of the U.S. Defense Department's defense policy board, and in 2012, she was chosen by president Obama to receive the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And recognition of her contributions to international peace and democracy. You are definitely the most accomplished guest we've ever had forever 35. Very happy to have you. Thank you very much. Thanks for the nice introduction. Yeah. And by the way, I'm Dory and this is my co host Kate. Hi there. Hello. Hello. Tori, can we start with my first question that I had? We may. Okay, so secretary albright in the preface of your book, I love how you describe what's next as a favorite question to ask yourself and one that you asked as you ended your tenure as Secretary of State. And you also wrote in the first chapter and I should specify your new book is hell and other destinations. And that is the wonderful book I'm referring to. Yes. You said that you intended I'm making the stage of your life after being Secretary of State even more interesting than your last and that you said hell yes to everything. And we'd love to know what advice you have for women who feel like it's too late for them to try something new. They're too scared to take a risk or forge a new path, whether it be personal or professional. Well, I actually think it's never too late. And I frankly trying to prove that. But basically, I do think that women can and should see their life coming in segments. Some of it due to biology and kind of dividing things up and that women can do everything. It just doesn't have to all be at the same time. And I do think that we are very hard on each other and very hard on ourselves. And so I'm trying to show that you, I've had moments like that, but then I decided that I would always be curious and that I would make a difference that is something that I wanted to do and that I would not be afraid to try new things. That kind of reminds me of what you wrote about in your memoirs about the end of your marriage. And in this book, you write something that really struck a chord with both of us, which is the word I began to assume a deeper, richer shape. Can you speak about this experience, especially for listeners who may be experiencing the end of a marriage or relationship? Well, it's interesting because it's something that became very clear all of a sudden that everything that I'd been doing was we. I had gone to college. I got very, you know, one of the things that I talked about in my book and also was that having gone to a women's college and we had a commencement speaker, the Secretary of Defense at the time because his daughter was in our class, and we kind of remember his commencement speech slightly differently in words, but the gist was, your main responsibility is to get married and raise children. And so I waited a long time to get married three days after graduation. And I had been, we, for a long time, because I'd been there was this term in those days pinned by my husband who are my about to be husband as a fraternity pin. And then engaged. And I started the we business a very long time in terms of always thinking of decisions about how we would do things. And what we ate and what we did, and all of a sudden, I was an eye and it was strange because basically it seemed very self centered, but it was important to begin to think of what I needed to do in order to move forward. And be a good mother. So I, all of a sudden, I, I, and it makes a difference. And I think that this probably happens to many women, is to think about what you want to do in terms of your. Vocation or your thoughts or your desires to make a difference or any number of reasons and that we can be eyes and it is something that is not bad to be. It's essential, actually, in many ways. And you do write a lot about friendship in your book, and it's also a topic that comes up on our show. And I guess we're wondering, you've had this one best friend from the time you were in college. I guess two best friends. And how do you maintain those friendships and how do you cut ties with toxic Friends? Well, I'll tell you. I mean, one especially Winnie farren was somebody that it turns out we had even gone to grade school together. And we kind of reacquainted ourselves with each other at wellesley, because we were sitting next to each other in class, and then we have been friends ever since, because of not just.
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"madeleine albright" Discussed on WTOP
"48° in Frederick 54 at metro center At 8 40 we'll flags are lower to half staff today in honor of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright who died of cancer yesterday at the age of 84 on CNN former president Bill Clinton described the friendship between albright and his wife Hillary who also served as Secretary of State They were always till the end of Madeleine's life Close friends almost soulmates and they agreed on not everything but almost everything And they worked together closely They tried to support each other and she was a really brave and steadfast supporter of Hillary When she ran for president both times Madeline albright served under Clinton as Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001 She wasn't just a familiar face on TV the late Madeleine Albright was also considered a treasured regular at a particular Georgetown restaurant As Martin's is for many it was her home away from home William Martin junior owner of Martin's tavern says albright came in a lawn was like a mother to many of his employees He remembers how warm and gracious she was She wasn't like some that can feel like you don't bother me you know I'm untouchable She was not like that at all And he says was willing to talk to anybody about anything they wanted to talk about And that was what was very special about her Martin says he and his staff are now mourning the loss of albright and is looking into some way to forever honor her at the restaurant Mike Morello WTO news A San Francisco man facing charges for his involvement with the January 6th insurrection has been granted asylum in Belarus Police body camera footage showed 49 year old Evan Newman punching capitol police officers and hitting them with a barricade he denies that though in an interview with Belarus state media earlier this week Newman thanked the nation for helping him.
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Madeleine Albright, 1st female US secretary of state, dies
"The first woman to serve as America's top diplomat has died of cancer at eighty four hi I'm Madeleine Albright in nineteen ninety six Bill Clinton tapped her as the nation's first female secretary of state I'm proud of that but it had nothing to do with getting the job Albright spent four years on the job and spent later years outspoken criticizing the bush administration's Iraq invasion there is now a chaotic situation into cheering the group tasked with reforming NATO in order to deal with the unpredictability in the twenty first century in nineteen ninety seven Albright had healed cooperation between Washington and Moscow Russia is not our enemy Russia is our friend her death nearly twenty five years to the day comes as president Biden heads for Europe to further confront Vladimir Putin over Russia's Ukraine invasion Sager made Donnie Washington
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"madeleine albright" Discussed on WTOP
"CBS News special report she was America's first female Secretary of State Today we have learned that the death of Madeline albright her family says she died of cancer She was 84 years old Albright was appointed by Bill Clinton and served from 1997 to 2001 At the State Department this afternoon reaction by spokesman Ned price The impacts that secretary albright's professor albright doctor albright she's known as many titles around here and in Washington and around the world The impact that she has had on this building is felt every single day and just about every single corridor Albright was born in what was then Czechoslovakia she and her family escaped the Nazis first moving to the UK eventually they came to the U.S. before becoming Secretary of State albright also served as U.S. ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright did at the age of 84 CBS News special report I'm Steve futterman It's three 23 Summers in D.C. could mean going for swim in the Potomac river as there is now a push to lift the river swimming ban This year marks the 50th anniversary of the clean water act and many areas across the district have once again become safe for human contact Like the Washington channel 85% pass rate the title basin over 90% pass rate D nyx is the Potomac river keeper with the Potomac river keeper network He says they're trying to get the word out This river is swimming pool We want to return it to swimming We want to lift the swim band and D.C. We want people to start coming back to the river And it's already happening They've started a petition to lift the swim bin but he says it'll be up to the city's leadership to make that happen Now this river is a public trust asset and it belongs to everybody Melissa Howell WTO news Time three 24 It was a 1976 blockbuster that became a 2014 Broadway show Rocky the musical open Saturday of Toby's dinner theater in Colombia Rocky's.
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Black veterans on what Colin Powell meant to them
"Friends and family have remembered Colin Powell at his funeral as not just a trailblazing soldier and diplomat but as an honorable person at Washington national cathedral there were presidents and generals and diplomats all honoring the nation's first black joint chiefs chairman and secretary of state who died last month at eighty four son Michael Powell says there's no point in trying to emulate his dad's resume which is too formidable for mere mortals what people should do is try to emulate the character of a man close friend Madeleine Albright says almost transcended time one of the gentlest and most decent people any of us will ever meet Michael Powell says that's the example that needs to live on I hope we recommit ourselves to being a nation where we are still making
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Watch Live: Colin Powell's funeral held at Washington's National Cathedral
"Former diplomat Colin Powell will be remembered by family and friends at a funeral today at the Washington national cathedral Paul rose from humble beginnings to become the first black chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and later served as the first black secretary of state he'll be eulogized by Madeleine Albright who preceded him as the nation's top diplomat Richard Armitage who was deputy secretary under pol and pol son Michael Powell died two and a half weeks ago of complications of Colbert nineteen at the age of eighty four he had been vaccinated against the corona virus but his family says his immune system had been compromised by multiple myeloma a blood cancer for which he had been undergoing treatment my
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"madeleine albright" Discussed on 70 Over 70
"Other person to you. Well you know. There's always the impostor syndrome but more it was like that there is this character madeline albright and then there's me you know who actually has had a fairly normal life as A mother and somebody who does the dishes occasionally Farm various things in and then. I'm a normal person. And i didn't get to be the madeleine albright. You know until in my late fifties. And then i stopped being that other madeline. Not you know. The character madeline albright. What was the gap between yourself in the character report. I'm not in larger than life and literally not anymore because i keep shrinking and there would be all kinds of things that happened for the madeleine albright character and then there was li. Did you like the madeleine albright character. Mostly gotta ask madam what. What was the part of the character that you didn't like. I guess maybe another way of asking. What i'm trying to ask is like. Did you feel like you could be yourself in that job. Well after a while. I thought i could. You know when i wasn't kind of tongue tied in terms of only following the talking points or thinking. Well that is not the way that we thought this discussion would go. So i have to go a different way and i know what i wanna do and say know but the truth is it goes back to what we were talking about before i love being secretary of state and i loved the idea that i was the first woman secretary of state and refugees so i loved that no matter what i will always be a footnote in american history. And i'm so proud to be an american. Not long ago i was at a and i was supposed to describe myself in six words. And i said worried optimists. Problem-solver grateful american. And they all go together. I love to about naturalization certificates at ceremonies. In the first time i did it was july fourth two thousand at monticello and i figured since i had thomas jefferson job. I could do it. So i'm gave this man his naturalization certificate a walks away and he says can you believe it. I'm a refugee. And i just got my naturalization certificate from the secretary of state and i went to find him and i said. Can you believe that a refugee is secretary state. And that is the kind of thing where i love the character and in some ways. It's not just a character but it's me. That's an incredible moment and i can imagine that that job is just like a stack of incredible moments after incredible moments. And i don't even meaning imposter syndrome way but having this feeling of like. I can't believe this is where i am. I can't believe this is what i get to do. And i wondered reading your memoir and thinking about talking you today. What the lake. Eleven year old girl who came from czechoslovakia and showed up at ellis island. What do you think that eleven year. Old girl with think of Eighty three year. Old madeleine brown. Think that eleven year old girl who had come in on the ss america past the statue of liberty would be thinking. She turned out pretty well. He made a difference and so. I hope that that's what she would think. And that the things that i like to do are the things that i need to do. And that the ones that i need to do. I like doing and so. I hope she'd be proud of. And what else can you ask. What really things you like to do the things you need to do. I think it works. You know and. I really do think the things i'm doing now are the best combination of using what i learned to keep going and doing different things to lake difference through connecting the dots. Connecting the dots. Do you ever think about slowing down. No retirement as far as i'm concerned as a four letter word. Absolutely not wait. What's the four letter. Just think about it. You'd have to blotted out. Do you still feel like you have a twin Sometimes yes in heathrow airport. I was picked on one time to be the person that they decided had to open every thing in the suitcase and on there on the floor taking everything out. And i never did this but i said excuse me. Do you know who i am and the guy said no but we can find a doctor who can help you figure it out. So i couldn't help but laugh but as secretary it didn't often say i was secretary of state you know and so sometimes it would have helped but sometimes it doesn't but i loved it you know and i do think if i'd had my druthers i would have happily stayed forever. This is a pretty meta question. But do you feel like you're Yourself right now in this conversation or you playing the character. Marin myself i am myself. This is what i'm like. You know talkative. I'm glad to hear it being in those rooms in realizing the people on the other side of the table or just people that like it's all more complicated and messier and more human than people who haven't been in. Those rooms might think did that. Help you feel optimistic about the world in about humanity or did it scare you for the most part. it did. Make me feel better about things that there was a way that people work their way through problems. I do think however there were some people that did scare me and give their backgrounds. That the chances of the making a decision that i thought was going in the right direction was not gonna happen so the question is how long were they gonna be around but on the whole i really do think that understanding that there were human beings on the other side made a big difference in terms of how they saw things and then the way that i heard some of them described banks. There's no way to describe to you how much time we spend a group of us during the whole war kossovo and i invented something really knew at that point which will make you laugh. The international telephone conference and so We were talking about what we should do. in kosovo. There was a question about whether there should be a bombing pause over Easter and there was somebody who felt that we should and then truly one of my best friends. Now is the former german for a minister joschka. Fischer he said. Why would we pause to honor one religion while we're killing people of another religion and that was such a deep feeling and then also when we were talking about some of the ethnic cleansing he said that's what the nazis did and there's nobody else who could really said that and so those were the kinds of things people you develop a sense of trust in friendship to understand how people can say things like that.
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"madeleine albright" Discussed on 70 Over 70
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Is this other aspect of your job. As secretary of state that i wanted to ask you about the human side of it for you. Okay you were faced with some choices while in office that feel to me. Basically impossible where there were no good options. I mean i'm thinking about rwanda and kozovo. What was it like for you to be in a situation where you had so much power in control and yet didn't have the power control to solve problems. How do you engage in that kind of situation where there's no good options and rwanda's the best example. And i think what happened was when i got to be ambassador to the un. It was in ninety three and there already were issues that we were dealing with with the war in iraq than problems in bosnia. A number of issues in haiti a number of things that were going on and they were all hard. But i think the thing you need to remember is that even a secretary stating certainly as ambassador. You're not unchargeable decisions decisions. Come up through a system where the president has agreed on something and so there was a question about what we were gonna do about rwanda now the thing that i always say. Is that all the things that came out later. We're not necessarily things. We knew at the time but i do think that we knew that there was a limited amount that we could do given all the things that were happening around. I happen to have sought that we should have done more. But i was an instructed ambassador on things and i could see how people read at the. Un were reacting to the fact that we were prepared. We're not prepared to kind of have a larger mission there. How does that feel terrible. You do sometimes feels at while you have a lot of power. You can't make all the decisions on your own. I mean. I never one of the questions that always out there. Would you resign over. Something and I always think to myself 'cause you can only resign once so nothing ever happened. That i would have resigned over. But it does make you feel kinda deflated and then you have to try to explain why it happened. The way it did and that is hard. I had very serious arguments. For instance. With colin powell. Who was chairman of the joint chiefs. When i was arguing forgetting more troops to do something in bosnia and i did feel deflated here. I was a mere mortal female civilian arguing with the hero of the western world. Who had just won the gulf war. So you know kind of puts you in your place. I think the part that. I'm interested in his leg when you had that fight. You know somewhere in the west wing with colin powell and then went home that night and were brushing your teeth and looked in the mirror. Where were you at well. I felt that. I am somebody for better or worse. That goes over everything you know. Why did i say something. that way. would it have made a difference if i'd said something else and i don't know how useful that is. I mean you can overdo frankly especially on things that you can't undo but you don't miss your human part you know yeah. I was really hoping you'd say it's really good to always just pour over things. Well i can't help it. I do always for over things. But i i. I sometimes think that it may not help situation. When does it stop being the person. When is the thing that happened with me that most people were surprised about including my own family was that i actually have senator humor being able to deploy humor. Certain time is a very useful arm of some kind. I feel like they're not a lot of people who reach that level in politics who are willing to make fun of themselves. Well i do know how to make. Fun of my sniffles. You were saying that you gotta stay connected to the human part and i wanna ask you about that too because in your memoir you wrote about feeling like you had a twin that there was this other madeleine albright that the world knew that was getting invited to give speeches and sitting at the most important tables in the world and that madeleine felt like some.
Altamar - Navigating the High Seas of Global Politics
"madeleine albright" Discussed on Altamar - Navigating the High Seas of Global Politics
"When i was in. The state department was to move canada into the western hemisphere. According to the state department it was in europe and it actually is in the western hemisphere. And i did it. Because we wanted to. 'cause they are in the western hemisphere but also because as a strong democracy. It really showed the kinds of things that we could do together. I do think that there have to be combination of a- plan. And i believe there is by the biden administration already in terms of understanding that many of the countries need economic help. And that's true. The northern triangle specifically in terms of. There's the question about emigrants and or refugees. That are coming that. I believe that people prefer to live in the country where they were born if they aren't afraid and can make a living so there have been actions like that there needs to be more of an understanding about what is the issue in each country and i think there needs to be attention clearly by the united states and by europe but basically the countries themselves there is this tendency as i said the latin americans don't want to be told what to do and we have to be very conscious of that. I spent a large part of my time as secretary of state on plan colombia and it really wasn't attempt to understand what was happening there how we could work together. What the effect was on the neighboring countries issues of human rights drug trafficking. And i think attention has to be paid and it is our responsibility to act in a way that is not condescending and patronizing but understanding there are issues and we are together in this hemisphere and it does affect how things develop in other parts. We have started talking about china. And the truth was that a lot of latin america is on the pacific ocean and they also have relationships with china and asia and there are different ways that we can work together on that as well as on the atlantic coast so. I think that we need to improve our relationships. We've taken a brief trip around the world. Then let's talk for a minute about the future of multi-lateralism whether it's the un or nato or g seven the g twenty and all of the post organization seem to now face hugely different challenges and whether it's climate change or polarization caused by social media and fake news global health. How do we begin to create organizations that will face new challenges of the decade by the way a good segue. I just thought of is we were everywhere except the north pole and the south pole and i have been to the north pole and you can actually see what the effects of climate is. There which needs cooperation needs multi-lateralism and definitely. It's true at the south pole. Also i am known as multilateral madeline and i believe in those kinds of organizations the truth is that americans don't like the word multilateralist too many syllables and it ends ism but it is basically just partnerships and i think fat. I hope that is we went around. The world is clear that the problems that are out there need partnerships to work together on them. We talked about a several of them already and so i think we need to look at that..
Altamar - Navigating the High Seas of Global Politics
"madeleine albright" Discussed on Altamar - Navigating the High Seas of Global Politics
"Of the major people that are involved with that including putin and then really dealing with our friends and allies to have a common front. What is interesting in terms of that. Last point is that the way that sergei lavrov the foreign minister of russia treated barral. The representative of the the main foreign policy person for the eu was really outrageous in every way and while there have been some countries in europe that have talked about having a softer approach to the russians. I think that there's going to be a rediscussion of all of that within the eu. And i think we're going to have difficult relationship. What is interesting however and again to the point that there will be a variety of ways to do things is that the biden administration decided to work on extending the new start treaty with the russians. Which means that. There is an avenue for dialogue and working together on issues to bother both of us back to europe from minute. It seems that europe is trying to find its way in a world of global superpowers. And we've seen over the four years of trump year of trying to regroup with the newfound cohesion. But others say that your faces. Many headwinds right now departed. Britain retiring merckel economies weakened by cova. That were already weakened by refugees. Terrorism massive protests. So they've also done things like sign. A trade agreement with china so in the context of these multiple crises and kind of new alliance is what do you think is the economic and political role of the you just in the future in the near future route. Let me say an abortion european. I just happened to have been raised in the united states kazakh. I'll always make my assessments of the europeans. As honest as i possibly can when i speak with them or about the i have described the relationship from the very beginning in the following way kind of in a family way. Which is that right after. World war two. They were like a sick child that were willing to take any medicine that we had to offer. Then they turned out to be teenagers and they wanted to know what their allowance was and that they weren't gonna do any chores and then we never really developed an adult relationship with them. What happened and i find that. Because of my connections with european leaders at the time the president obama decided to rebalanced to asia. I got a bunch of calls from european leaders. Saying you've forgotten us. You've abandoned this. And i said no. You used to be part of the problem. Now you're part of the solution. We need to work together. And that is what we need to do that. We're very strong. If we work together there have been differences which again have been exacerbated in the last four years i fully agree with the way you described the problems. Europeans are facing. But i think that we need to work with them..
Altamar - Navigating the High Seas of Global Politics
"madeleine albright" Discussed on Altamar - Navigating the High Seas of Global Politics
"Well i that the us will recover. Its place at the table. I think it's very important clearly. Our reputation has been damaged by a lot of the policies of the last four years but president biden has made very clear the importance of us having partners in what we do and so it's not headed the table to tell everybody what you do but to really listen to what they have to say so that we can act together to improve the situation for all of us both domestically and internationally. So yes. but it's going to take work. Let's talk a little bit about the impeachment procedures that took place in the us senate and we do have to ask. You wrote a book a few years ago with an ominous title. Which was fascism a warning. And you explain that. Fascism and i quote you is not an ideology but for holding power at the time when you were asked whether donald trump with as fast as you said no. Because he wasn't violent so now after the events in the capital on january six now think. Donald trump is the fastest in. What will happen to this movement. Now that he's gone and the impact for us democracy. Well i did. Go through the steps of what i thought. Fascism was which is somebody who identifies with one group at the expense of another that then becomes the scapegoat. Somebody who thinks they're above the law. Somebody who thinks that the press is the enemy of the people and that violence is used. And i have resisted calling trump fascist. I have said that. He's the most undemocratic president that the us has ever had. I am now calling him a fascist. Except that i think he'd like it so much so i won't let me let me start taking you on a world tour and perhaps i think it's it's important to begin on with china and in particular you saw that. Xi jinping recently was the keynote at the world economic forum meeting recently and you know with its perspective for growth and increasing global reach the management the virus a new trade agreement with your many experts. Think that this year and indeed maybe the next decade is going to be the decade of china's. Are they right. I think they are right. I think that it certainly going to be everybody. Always attach is rising to them. They clearly are a major power and they are creating a lot of policies and a lot of policies against them by the way. I do think that the us chinese relationship is going to be dominant in so many areas. And i understand that. A president of biden had a conversation was yuji pain and that president biden laid out already. What the issues were that. Were so troubling which had to do with human rights. The things that were happening with hong kong talked about the independence of taiwan person biden did and i think it's going to be a a multifaceted relationship as as we say diplomatically. There clearly is competition as an adversary in terms of the kind of military actions that they're taking in the south and east china sea and the flyovers and the way that they have increased their military capabilities. There also will be competition primarily in the trade area where they'll be questions about intellectual property in various ways that we follow through on trade deals but i also think and i heard that the biden administration wants to find areas where we can cooperate and that would be on climate change on.
Altamar - Navigating the High Seas of Global Politics
"madeleine albright" Discussed on Altamar - Navigating the High Seas of Global Politics
"Peter and i are eager to discuss the state of the world affairs with one of the most influential protagonists on the global stage of international affairs in modern. History you know the show madam secretary well. We have the real deal here with us today. The first female secretary of state madeleine albright will join us later to share her insights and more importantly her views of future only. Let's just take a little step backwards. So much has happened in the past four years but especially in the last year he it seems like almost like a world has been turned upside down feeling. There's like no country no organization. No singular genius was able to bring order to this world which is seems like out of control and so you have the virus and climate destruction for collumnist fragile governments polarisation social unrest social media out of control. I mean we all know the list right. Yeah and our listeners. Know at alta. Peter and i usually look at issues not just from a us perspective but with a wider international lens however these days no one can deny that the most impactful global event is the new us presidential transition and what it represents not just for the us but also for geopolitics as a whole after four years of chaos we're finally seeing a road towards greater order. Steadiness us reengagement with the world has consequences not only for specific countries. And of course. We're all thinking of china. Russia european countries in the middle east and so on but us reengagement potential to reshape international bodies. That look kinda stale like the g. Seven the g. Twenty the un nato eu. So many others new efforts of blossomed most recently in the form of the d. Ten uk initiative to hold a democracy summit to offset china. And the rise of autocrat so whether these new initiatives will flourish his to be seen but the truth is that a robust us foreign policy will shape every conversation every region and every institution and mooney. You know the fact. Is that all of this. Needs an injection of protein. Our adrenalin because the world has changed so significantly in recent years. I mean if you look from cuba to iran or saudi arabia to the uk and brexit israel syria even mexico the realities dynamics. The world has changed so much and the issues of change to in the you know. People say that the coming decade may be china's and that it may be an era of populace strongmen an age of cyber attacks and inflection point for social media a key to deciding climate chains a moment of expansion for transnational drug and terrorism. All of that sounds like a downer. But if you allow me just a moment of optimism it could also welby. The era of a return of democratic countries banding together to resolve world issues. That's true peter so let's dive deeper into this. We are going to welcome a self-described optimist who worries our guest. Today madeleine albright first female u. s. secretary of state. Un ambassador georgetown professor diplomat in businesswoman head of albright stonebridge group seventeen new york times bestselling author who's witnessed most modern international relations from the row. And now she's agreed to share with us. Her unique view of the world secretary albright. Thank you so much for joining us. It's a pleasure to have you with us on all tamar. Glad to be with you terrific. Let's start at home in the past week. We've heard foreign policy speeches from both president biden and secretary of state anthony blinken and they both have promised a re engagement with the world. Do you think that the us can recover. Its place at the head of the table. And what are the some of the key opportunities and challenges that this.
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Muscling up to China and 25 years since Srebrenica
"Tom Switzer, he and welcome to another episode off between the lines now today on the program will be commemorating the twenty fifth anniversary of Europe's worst massacre since the Holocaust in ninety, ninety, five more than eight thousand people died in Shrimp Nitsa. The town was supposed to be a U N protected safe haven in the vicious civil war that tore Yugoslav apart instead the civilians ended up being massacred by Bosnian Serbs. Were lightning fast with their superior weapons. They easily overran the lightly. I'm Bosnian government troops and the token full civilian peacekeepers. The UN's Valley to protect the civilians inspired Washington to launch unilateral action against Serbia and end the civil war. Would things be the same today now? That's later in the program, but first defense. Last week the Morrison. Government launched a defence strategy and force structure review now the move signals a major shift away from the strategy outlined in the last defence white paper. Remember that just four years ago in two thousand sixteen. It plotted out Australia's strategic costs for the next decade. But that White Paper has as we know been rapidly overtaken by Vince covert China or that now the new review has promised two hundred and seventy billion dollars over the next decade to enhance Australia's defence capabilities with renewed focus on areas like Saba and spice capabilities and the possible development of hop sonic weapons will be fitting aircraft with long-range anti-ship missiles, increasing underwater surveillance and boosting fuel ammunitions reserves. Now, underscoring the seriousness of the shift, the Prime Minister even drew comparisons to the nineteen thirties and the lead up to world. War Two that period of the nineteen thirties. Is Been Something I've been revisiting on a very regular basis and when you connect by the economic challenges and the global uncertainty. It can be very haunting, but is the money too much or not enough is going to all the right places, and we'll do enough to safeguard Australia from China's increasing assertiveness and is rapidly growing military capabilities. What's the role of Australia's diplomacy? And all of this will joining me to discuss this at three distinguished guests. By skill is professor of Asia Pacific Security Studies at Macquarie University Holiday Bites. Thank you good to be here Melissa Conley. Tar is a research fellow at the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne. Hi There Melissa could to speak again Tom. And Pay. The Jennings is executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Tom No. Can you talk us through the top of scenarios and potential conflicts that the defense review is preparing us for the scenario that the review is focusing on is one involving a high end conventional conflict, so I've gone to the days of stabilization operations in t more Counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan This document is preparing foresight on onsite conflict. Involving countries that have sophisticated military forces. And, of course, the document doesn't say. I don't think it would be reasonable to expect it to say. That China is the problem. But let me tell you China is the problem that is the now neoplasia competitive that way of thinking about when we think about what's adequate in terms of the topic of military capability we need to have. and to does reflect to change. From past years Tom I recall when I started by defense career, we were thinking much more about the risks presented by Indonesia, and the so called low level in cushions in the northwest. Of course, that's no longer features in anyone's strategic thinking. Really it's about China and the risks that the People's Republic is presenting to all of its neighbors in abroad since in the Indo Pacific region and beyond I cabinet crudely putting it some sites laying the groundwork for fortress Australia US sign. This is preparing us to join a potential use LID. Containment slash war against China for example to protect Taiwan Peter Jennings. I think that is it covers a spectrum of possibilities. One possibility which I think is Epson you were in terms of language of the document is that we might conceivably end up having to face military conflict without being able to rely on the direct combat support of the United States, and that's what leads to discussions around extra stockpiling munitions and fuel insightful. But I think in general terms. Yes, the expectation is that Australia. Through its history has been a country that forms coalitions usually have like minded partners, the share the same types of objectives. And the the plan will design the Defense Force. Really gives us the capacity to do that with Rachel Ellis lecture, example, Japan but also with our traditional ally the United States okay bates skill. You've recently completed a review of China's defense capabilities and its recent military modernization, specifically looking at the implications for Australia Wind you expect the Peo- The People's Liberation Army and its navy. When do you expect them to have the capability to project power as far as Australia annual Pacific knives, well in many respects Tom, they already can I mean they have the long range missile capabilities to do that? Know as a from a standoff position launched from their own from their own homeland against hours. But what I think, the the new strategy is looking at is really the development of capability over the next ten fifteen twenty years, and that's by the Chinese own own acknowledged calendar that they would be able to by that time of mass, a large enough capability, both in terms of its long range strike, you know striking from their own homeland, but also bill to project. Project Power passed the so-called first and second island change and being a position to more directly threatened through those platforms Australian security. So you know we're talking ten or fifteen year window here and I think given the time it does take to try and respond to develop the the deterrent and defense capabilities for Australia. That's that's you know that's in some ways a short window. for Australia to be mobilizing in reaction Melissa Tali. What's the role of a strong diplomacy and all these well I think it needs to be growl. And one of the concerns when we look at the deteriorating strategic environment is we think all that's a defense problem? And so when the prime minister launches the strategic update with those comparisons with the nineteen thirties. It pushes US toward seeing in purely military terms but we don't just want to say things in that security lands, we want to think about all of the parts about national power projection, so that's diplomacy and development as well as defense I think if if people thought about it I think what we invest in all three strongly, but that's not where it is if you look at federal budget fifty. Fifty nine billion to defense and less than seven billion to diplomacy and development together the lowest point with ahead in our history and I think we missing that opportunity. If we don't take US seriously, the way that diplomacy and development can shape things in the world so I was struck. Today was a defendant looking at the latest poll on what are the major concerns that Australians have at the moment of the top threats in the world and the first five, a role nontraditional that drought, environment, disaster, climate change, pandemics, and downtown, global economy, and those places where you know military spending isn't going to help shape that environment. So we need to have an effect on those. We need to be thinking much more about what we can do in the diplomacy and development to mind Peter Jennings. What would you say in to Melissa's observations? Because they reflect a certain mindset that that perhaps we should be focused more on non state actors rather than say China for instance well, I think all of these you know threats that have to be taken seriously. I'm and simply because we're living in the middle of a pandemic for example, doesn't the climate change is gone away in this no longer going to present a problem to us. I guess what I'd say. Is that the you know the five things Melissa listed? That were in the featured in the low e Poland terms of popular concerns. Are also the things which could. In different ways late to the risks of conflict escalating in the Indo Pacific region generally so You know my my view, please while I would like to see spending on diplomacy increased. While I. Say Development Assistance is being something which is effectively the United soft in of Australian power, and the military is the hot end of Australian power. I think. The message against all of these areas is that we have just been underinvesting for decades underinvesting for decades, so we're we're all. High fiving ourselves at just reaching about two percent of gross national product, being spent on defense, but that is compared to what we spending in cold or years, which was sometimes between three and a half percent in four percent of rustic product. So what we have grown used to Tom I would say is. Free written on the United. States code tiles of security for for decades. We've dramatically under. Invested in the things that we need to do to strengthen Australia's position, not just militarily, but also diplomat. A now. We're rather surprised to hear the news that Gosh the bill is a lot more expensive than we really thought. It was only if you've got that confidence in the US. and. In fact, the whole trump stories, the story of the Americans really big being fed up with the rest of the world, thinking that the US can fund the bill for their security, so we're going to have to do more and I think we're going to have to do it against multiplicity of areas not. Justin sought the defense organization. We'll some scholars such as you want and James Current from the University of Sydney. They say that this document sounds a lot like an acknowledgement that the US might not always be there to help us out. By are we starting to plan for more independent Australian defense posture I think it would be a wise move to keep that option open when you think of the capabilities that the Chinese developing in which do have a direct pose a direct threat to Australia or could do so. In many respects, the I think the types of threats that you might not expect an immediate or even timely response on the part of the United States what I'm thinking here. Cyber capabilities is a huge priority for the Chinese. We already know what they see the sort of capability. They can wield against Australia and that's not the sort of thing you can expect a kind of cavalry to. Lead the charge from from Washington to come to Australia's defence slowly long range strike capability on the part of the Chinese capability. They already have in which are going to continue to develop. which could threaten Australia down the road now? These are capabilities that I think that Australia's going to have to develop their own defenses for. They can certainly do that with United States, but again it's not necessarily the sort of threat that we would expect some sort of traditional ally joint response not to make it well. Some of are in listeners will email me and they'll say that if Uncle Sam struggles to police. It's own CDs. Melissa. How on Earth Can Uncle Sam Police? The Asia Pacific region in the face of a rising China. What's your sense about us staying power in the next decade or two in look? It's difficult One of the things that strategic update looks at is more threats to the global rules order, and unfortunately the you know, the US is part of that. the US is not along with the strategies interest on things like global trading system, and a number of international issues like global health where we would say you need to be supporting. A Global Response that said I don't think the strategic update will be read negatively in. Washington, it's my guess. it very clearly couched in terms that I think the US will lock about Australia contributing more and having more self. that could be seen as a statement that we think that the US might not have outback, but can also be seen as something that the US has been for for a long time. I particularly liked a few elements of the update things like making sure that we have. You know material ammunition You know that aren't going to be disrupted. Buckle supply trying having more capability eight industrial cut suffering capability here antiques fuel reserves, which is not as long sane as an issue for us, so I mean those are things that are worth investing in. Regardless of US resolve because as we've seen from COVID, we know that supply chain can be disrupted very quickly and easily, and it's worth having eligibilities. Cepeda Jennings bite skill and Melissa Conley Toilet and Melissa. The Pacific step up last year. That realigned Australia's development budget to deal with some of the strategic challenges posed by China in the Pacific Do you think it goes far enough? The step up was followed recently by strategies new International Development Policy Partnerships for recovery, and that's made it very clear that strategies focus should be on the Pacific and also southeast. Asia including. Indonesia and team August. I think that has a very clear statement about what we want. In the region of being entrusted trusted development partner and influencing those societies that we think positive for four region. Again you're going to. You're going to say you. Hear this from me all the time, but again the problem is that we not really making much invasive lunch, so partnerships for recovery head no new money it talked about the massive challenges that covered as as creating for for the for the Pacific, and for for our region broadly, and the only funding announcement was that we're going to repurpose the money. We would have spent on sending Australian. Volunteers in scholarship holders. And we're GONNA use that so I I suppose I. Feel a little bit with all the areas, not actually include district update in that as well that what we've seen through the foreign policy, White Paper and International Development Policy through to to the defense. Strategic Updike is. We talk about how. how? What a time! These these frosty leaving a contested difficult awful environment that we've now got to leave in and the Dow L. Easy Times over, and then we say, and we're not gonNA. Give any new money so I mean the defense announcement is essentially just that we're going to continue to you know, extrapolate out the money that was planned to be spent in the twenty twenty six, and we're going to extrapolate that out to twenty thirty terabytes skill. Do we risk getting into a bidding war for influence in the Pacific? I don't know if it's a risk. If it is a risk worth worth taking. I mean obviously the Pacific region is so extremely important Australia's future. Both for for defense reasons for regional engagement for diplomatic reasons, developing reasons and the like. so It's quite possible that we're entering in a more competitive phase with China in this. SITES WRIST BYTES I'm talking about more the budgetary concerns he because in the wake of the Corona Virus Crosses. There'll be serious limits on how we can spend on these things scholley. Yes, there is and party left to be be developed for that, but you know when you're talking about your own backyard. I mean I I. I don't think it's the kind of country that can simply. Pretended it's by itself getting back pay to Jennings to the region, generally in the rise of what. Angus Campbell is of the Defence Force he's talked about the rise of political warfare, the idea of grey zone warfare things like cyber attacks, economic coercion influence operations that fall below the traditional threshold of war. He says we need a whole of government response to it. I, you seeing that whole of government approach happening in Campbell, or is this Manley focus on defense and the spy agency so far Peter Jennings. It probably is focused on the national security agency's Tom. That's not too surprising because you'd expect them to sort of pick up on the risks I. But General Campbell is right. It does need to be all government is. There's a whole lot of things happening there that simply cannot and should not be done by defense organizations. and. I think that realization is slowly dawning. Along as both of the speakers have said that actually ladyship comes with cost of infrastructure is going to play that role, but you know, give you a small example of this we. We have lost the ability to broadcast into the South Pacific and Southeast Asia. In a way that we used to very successfully over over decades to give us the capacity to do that. We're probably talking about you know that. He million a year forty million a year, which sounds a lot of defend. It's nothing if you're in the Defense Department. Let me tell you. But you need to be able to do things like that. To be the truth teller in the region to actually tell the region that there are alternatives to Chinese Communist Party authoritarianism I think that's what's needed with responding to this grey zone on threat. Is Actually to be the truth teller. In this part of the will and getting our system in Cambridge used to that reality to understanding what needs to be done. To starting at different type of conversation with our region. With our own people for that matter that that is a sort of a psychological change which I can see happening, but we're not quite yet. There's a bit of work still to be done to get to that point Melissa. Conley Tyler. Is, just responding on that. I agree entirely with what pitcher saying on on broadcasting. It's a small investment, such a an increasing influence. It should be Brian and I hope that did that's being seen. I think having defense voices. I will help a lot in a banks, seriously I'm but just went. When you ask Tom Balaton host government and what's happening there? There are some really good examples, so for example win. This Pacific step pop started an office of the Pacific was established in that apartment and tried and each job. He's to be that coordinating body, and it's bringing together the. The defense, the development and the diplomacy in a way that he's gone to maximize our influence. and I've noticed this a lot more discussion about that that three. How do you bring defense development diplomacy communities together? I'm involved in initiate the Pacific. Four Day and I think a lot of people not talking about what more we can do for that that joined up coordination to make the most about national instruments by skill. You're an expert on China. The elephant in the room of course is China doing need to be careful not to overestimate China's military strength. What about the weaknesses? Exactly right I mean you have to know your enemy's weakness as well as their strengths in the case of China, they are undertaking enormous reforming organization effort. They're pouring billions of dollars into new capabilities, but there's a lot of things we need to recognize I. Mean One is that the Chinese have not fought a shooting war and more than forty years. They are have no. They have zero experience in high end combat against a serious. Adversary, scenario, so that's not to downplay them, but to understand that they've got enormous obstacles to overcome that day. Themselves acknowledge that they themselves. No, they have to overcome, and that's why we had this window that we've been talking about. A fifteen to twenty years. to try and develop capabilities to get in front of the kinds of things that the Chinese want to bring to bear around. Around, twenty thirty or twenty, thirty, five, twenty, forty, paid-up Melissa to be continued. Thanks so much for being on our in. Thank you, tell my pleasure. Thank you, Tom. That was paid jennings. He's executive director of the Australian strategic pulsing suit by skill professor of Asia Pacific Security Studies at Macquarie University and Melissa Commonly Tyler. She's a research fellow at the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne. These between the lines with Tom Switzer. Coming next, we're going to replay a version of a segment from between the lines. I 'cause commemorating the massacre of Bosnian Muslims at shredded Nitsa on the eleventh of July nodding ninety. Five twenty five years ago this week. More than eight thousand people were killed by Serb forces. It was the worst massacre. Europe had seen since the Holocaust. Serve softening up Trevor Nature for the army's final push into the town. Town of course was supposed to be a safe haven protected by the United Nations, but the civilians ended up being sitting ducks as I woke Larry. Hollingsworth Remembers I. Myself Feel Devastated and ashamed I was there with them? When we told them that it was a safe haven I watched. Many of these people walk in with the minimal possessions into shreds, knowing that it was a safe haven, and now they're fleeing out because we've let them down, let them down to the extent that within dies. About Twenty three thousand women and children were deported, and about eight thousand Muslim men and boys left behind where executed and buried in mass graves. Now, reports from the time described, frightening scenes stiffen overawed from medicines on frontier. Speaking he. Loading some of the children and women into buses, but there's no indication as to where it was buses, going with seen some horrifying streaming, going on women and children going into the buses being taken away from their family This was going on with a lot of crying a lot of panicking. The slaughter had been planned carefully and executed with precision. All the wall Dutch. Pace is literally stood by, and did nothing indeed even when the Serb assault on Srebrenica was imminent. in-command is still rejected Kohl's racetracks. Positions. Pope John Paul. The second declared ribbon Nitsa a defeat for civilization as media reports begins to reveal the scale of the unfolding tragedy. The UN says nine hundred thousand people are still unaccounted for. About some became clear as government soldiers emerging from the forest in central Bosnia, told of horrific massacres at the hands of the Serbs one young. People executing them on spot, but this didn't come out of the blue. By the time this massacre took place the civil war that tore the former Yugoslavia. Repot was heading into its fourth year. More than a million people have been displaced, and the world became familiar with a new term ethnic cleansing. So? Who is to blame for these well? Let's start with the United. Nations from ninety two to ninety, five shrivel Nitsa was the world's first union declared civilian syphon. It was supposed to to her aggression. It was supposed to aggression and set the scene for political negotiations to end hostilities between the Bosnian Serbs, and Muslims, but the UN soldiers in the SIPHONS. They were bedeviled by problems. If you declare an area safe haven in the name of the United Nations. Nations if you tell the people if they are safe in the name of the United Nations you have got to put the troops on the ground, and it's no good for politicians say yes, we go for safe havens, but we're not gonNA put the troops meanwhile the Europeans vacillated and equivocated failing miserably to cope with across at its own back door. America was also reluctant to get involved as then President George Bush senior explained in Nani Nani to. I? Something because I learned something from Vietnam. I am not going to commit US forces until I know what the mission is to the military. Tell me that it can be completed until I know how they can come out. You have ancient rivalries that have cropped up as as Yugoslavia's dissolved or getting dissolved, and it isn't going to be solved by sending in the eighty second airborne, and although on the campaign trail that Ye Bill Clinton pledged to reverse the appeasement of that bushes of Belgrade as President Clinton allowed the Balkans to bleed for three more years. French President Jacques Chirac was moved to declare quote, the position of the leader of the free world vacant. Trinite Sur changed all that having done nothing the before during the mass killings in Rwanda Clinton was galvanized into action, and crucially he cut the United Nations out of the Decision Chine on August thirty Washington led a night bombing campaign against the Serbs the NATO action began early this morning. The harsh light of fires and explosions coloring the night sky. Some people watched the bombardment from their houses, but after more than ten thousand deaths here in the last three years, most Sarajevans had given up any hope of outside intervention. Last night it came on a scale which could yet change the course of this war by the end of not ninety five sixty thousand nine hundred troops, including twenty thousand Americans were on the ground in Bosnia. Pace was declared. The BOEKEN's wars ended only because the US finally acted. He's President Clinton in November ninety five my fellow Americans in this new era there are still times when America and America alone can and should make the difference for peace. The terrible war in Bosnia is such a case nowhere. Today is the need for American leadership. More stark are more immediate than in. In Bosnia in the years since the Mexica Europe inaction was heavily criticised, and the US was held up for its global leadership in particular for its unilateral humanitarian intervention. This is when the US secretary. Of State. Madeleine Albright said America was the indispensable nation, and that idea would fade into the justification of the Iraq invasion in two thousand and three as a war of liberation, but he's a question with the US intervene. If the shrivel Nitsa massacre happened today from the standpoint of twenty twenty, we might ask if the era of US unilateral humanitarian intervention is well and truly over. Well, that's it for this week. Show remember if you'd like to hear the episode again or download segments since two thousand fourteen. Just go to ABC. Dot Net dot US slash aren and follow the prompts to between the lines, or you can listen via the ABC. Listen APP, or wherever you get your podcast. You can even subscribe, so you never miss an episode. I'm Tom Switzer continue next week.
Forever35
Why You Should Give Your Toenails a Break From Polish
"Need to bring up something that makes me very uncomfortable and that is feet. I need to talk about feed Dorey. My feet are ravaged. They are I I so I was getting Gel pedicures on my toenails for probably years. Wow Okay I'd get a Joe pedicure. I'd leave it on for like three months. It would grow out ridiculously long and then I would get it redone. And in December. I got a regular pedicure with regular Polish and then since then and then I painted my own nails like at the start of social distancing. So let's say six five or six weeks ago. Okay and finally. I removed the Polish. And what what was left. Beholding was not a pretty sight. My toenails narrowly in very bad shape. Oh No yeah like I think. I need to do some healing work on my toenails. Okay now I don't even know what I am describing like. They have like little white. Like maybe calcium marks or I don't know if it's like Little Dent indentations. There's maybe a slight bit of yellowing. Which makes me worried. Am I have a fungus? I I just. I have literally not looked at my toenails for years and I just recently am like well. I guess I'm going to use this time to heal my toenails. Yeah I mean so. I typically get dark Polish on my toenails. Which like you're not really supposed to do. Yeah we use that. I don't I always do that too but actually not good not toenails. It's not good for your toenails especially given how long I leave the Polish on. What does it do okay I just did? I just did a little googling and okay Yup Yup Yup. It's not a good idea to leave nail Polish continuously on your toes all summer. Your nails are much more permeable than your skin. As a result they can soak up substances such as Nail Polish that are applied to their surface. The dangerous keep your nail Polish on too long. Is that the pigment. In the Nail Polish can soak into the top few layers of the nail and dry out when that happens fungus yeast bacteria mold and mildew can develop underneath the nail plate. Lovely Great News Rate News. I'm taking my Polish off today. This was news team. I have literally never considered what the Polish is doing. I mean I know that sounds so absurd and like I doing a poor job taking care of my nails. I've just never thought about it. Okay so this article. I'm reading from the Cleveland. Clinic has some suggestions. Do you want to hear them? Yes yes yes so turns out the same permeability that created the stain can help to ease it as well and the doctor advises applying vitamin E. oil or coconut oil to the nail and nail bed underneath the nail where it meets the skin and gently rubbing it in when you do not have nail on okay so tonight I begin. Oiling my toes. Okay if you remove your toe. Polish in your toenails are stained you can tell if the stain is from Polish. If you see your natural pink nail color grow out from the cuticle the stains should fade slightly over time and eventually grow out right and they recommend against using now Polish during the grow out period. No I am now fully in grow out nail toenail mode like I am. I'M GONNA use this time to really work
Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
Studio 360 Extra: Aural History: How Studio 360 Got Started
"Invited the rock the World Wrestling Federation champion to speak at the Republican National Convention. Pupil sock it to me. I became an official painter. I don't express political desires in my novels. I just tell story. Hello I'm Chris Anderson and this is studio three six. That's how studio three sixty began. Its first episode on November. Four two thousand just before we elected George W Bush and we all learned what a hanging Chad was my special guest today in Studio. Three sixty is the artist. Barbara Kruger. Who will talk with us about politics and power in movies and music and even in her own art? I make art about the collision of my days and nights with the culture that has constructed and contains me all that and more coming up in studio three sixty from WNYC and PRI public radio international originally produced out of WNYC. Here in New York. The show is all about the cool but complicated and sometimes strange ways that art touches our lives two decades later. That mission hasn't changed. Even if the people making the show have come and gone I'm Jocelyn Gonzalez executive producer of studio three sixty but I was still wet behind the ears associate producer when the show debuted two decades ago. I was away from the show for about ten years before returning to the staff in two thousand seventeen so as the show draws to a close sadly after twenty years I turned to some of my friends from the formative years of studio three sixty for their impressions. Could we create these beautiful stories that represent all sorts of interesting things that are going on in the country in terms of arts and then have Kurt sit with some of that? He was comfortable with and talk about them. That's Julie Bursting who was executive producer of studio three sixty when the show launched and who wrote the studio three sixty book called spark in two thousand eleven and this is Carrie Hillman who was our first senior producer and is now the executive producer at story car. At the time there had been a lot of magazines shows and it was a way for us to sort of do something different and fresh and it was like a a really creative solution to like a lot of really boring magazine. Formatted programming so I was like really game to try to figure it out. We also had two assistant producers. I'm Michelle Seagull. I started at studio three sixty as a assistant producer. In September of two thousand. I stayed through twenty thirteen as a pretty Sir and I'm now the managing producer of Sleet Studios I'm Tall Milad and I started at St Three Sixty as an intern in the year. Two Thousand and I was there until two thousand fifteen When I left I was senior producer of the show for about ten years before that and I now work at Pushkin Industries Heading up development also on staff during the early days of the show was producer and technical director. Steve Nelson Steve's now a programming executive at NPR Johnson. Do you remember what the working title was when we got there? Oh yeah hot ticket right which is first of all a terrible name and doesn't get to any of the big ideas that studio three sixty does as a name but secondly this is sort of in the relatively this was during the post dotcom boom and someone typed in hot ticket dot com into a website and it was an adult site for general audiences for sure. That was the end of hot ticket as a name every week. Studio three sixty we explore. One big idea in-depth. Today we look at the intersections of art and medicine. The idea of studio three sixty or an art show for public radio had been kind of kicking around for a long time. People were on the ground producing pieces. Trying to sort of see what would stick Eventually they brought Julie Burstein and she had this idea of like putting on pieces that sort of built on one another in having an artist or somebody else react to each piece. We started calling it a through line which was just an idea that we would carry through the show and I think the idea of having a theme came from we have to have some structure in order inside it to be able to play. The idea was that Kurt would open the show with a monologue is always delightful to look back and see that exotic bits of civilization. John Ashcroft was a senator his most celebrated crusade a failed crusade for some years. Now one of my hobby horses has been the blurring lines between news politics crime or and entertainment and then he would have a person in the studio with him and then we would present pre recorded pieces to play for this person. I try in my work to speak to the human in US and That human end to bear kind of witness and in enabled react to it. That's really fascinating That makes me think of this. Yes we looked a lot at the degeneration of people's memories and one of the pieces of research we discovered is precisely why I found listening to that piece so fascinating so it would give us an opportunity. Say something that took them off of their typical talking points that gave us an insight into the way they think their personality It also added some depth. I think to the the pieces themselves because you can't do everything in five minutes and so maybe you have to like leave something on the cutting room floor but you can resurrect it a little bit with with the like well-placed Kirk question so I thought it was really cool. I loved gathering stories from really disparate places and putting them next to each other and then talking about them. It was just so much fun. Do you remember a point when you realize it was working? I have to say. I think that first Shakespeare show because it was a whole show bringing Shakespeare up-to-date but we had Neil Gaiman Willie's just grumbling about the fact that he's a crappy writer and the San man the eponymous Lord of the rings who happens to be in this up goes over to will and offices deal are you will shakespeare. I have we met. We have but men forget in waking hours. And you and Steve or maybe it was Steve. That incredible intro He started it with Scharzenegger's hang on not to be not to be tied in the phase of man when in disgrace with fortune and men's on have we hear. Hello I'm curt Anderson and Mrs Studio Three six. It was so hilarious and it was just. It was like okay. We got it this works. I'm Peter Clowney and I was studio three six I Adler and these days I live in Saint Paul and I'm vp of content strategy for stitcher. It's a struggle sometimes to do a show. That has a theme I approach. That idea would caution now if someone wants to do a show that theme like to say like remember. It's got multiple pieces in it. You're going to have the fifth favourite piece about Gardens in this episode. But it's true that like building on the ideas across an hour is like really meaningful. My name is Eric Linski. I started as an intern. In two thousand four became assistant producer and then decided to become a contributing reporter of which I was to studio three sixty through the beginning of two thousand sixteen and I am now the host and creator of the podcast imaginary worlds. Yeah I remember this one episode where they had Madeleine Albright the through line theme was democracy and so she's sitting in the studio with Kurt and then one of the pieces was about American idol. Which was the hottest thing back? Then and they were talking about how people were taking American idol democracy far more seriously than actual presidential elections. Have you ever had a chance to see American idol? Well I actually have and I've been pretty depressed As I am by television generally these days which seems to be going to the lowest common denominator and I. I don't like the word Elitism as we kind of lost me on this last segment of him and it was really funny here. Man Albright come out of that piece. And what do you think of that? She was not too thrilled with the peace to quality that piece but what she was hearing in the piece. I'm Derek John. I was a producer and editor on the show from about two thousand four to two thousand twelve ish and since then I've done a whole bunch of work in the podcast world but I am now currently an executive producer of the how to with Charles Duhig podcasts. At slate when the theme through line shows worked man they were amazing. I mean it was like we had set this high bar and they were so hard to pull up when they clicked and everything fit together. It was truly fantastic radio and it was hard I would say we had some shows that weren't successful and that's actually what led to having to change one. Really terrible through line. Thematic show was fish the fish just literal fish in the sea. Animals really jumped the shark on that one
Rush Limbaugh
The left Is Imploding Over Events With Iran
"So what happened the president kills a well known terrorist who was responsible for the dance hundreds of Americans including uniform military personnel left no stone the left has a break down if everybody is puzzled by this all you have to do is go back to when trump came down the escalator on June fifteenth two thousand sixteen and announces slogan make America great again member how controversial that once you make America great again what's controversial about that what in the world is controversial about America first but it is to the American left and they're really why is the explanation for all of this of course I'm gonna break it down into many many details for your great to be back folks happy to have you with us the telephone number eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two if you want to be on the on the program Twitter in my mind has become useful I was never going in the gang on the other side of the glass are looking perplexed didn't puzzled because it is well known that I think I'm sure and Twitter is inseparable what Twitter is highly useful right now on Twitter is allowing the laugh and today's Democrats and the media to show normal people how freaking insane they are Twitter has become words while it is incredible I wonder how many as I watch this this this why as I watch the left melt down over the death of a genuine one enemy of the people of this country and signed with an enemy nation over their own country in present I wonder how many Americans independence what have you for I am the fantasy this and are shocked and surprised by and I do because you know you never know the the depth that the mainstream media succeeds in achieving in terms of persuading people and I have found over the course you might find it hard to believe folks but I have found over the course of my stellar big broadcast career yeah I've said things about just take your pick I've said something and I've pounded it for ten fifteen years and people have heard it ten fifteen years when they hear it from somebody else what god did you see rush must be right the words everybody needs verification or a lot of people need verification what we've been one of the missions of this program since its inception has been the attempt and the objective to inform everybody ideologically who the left is who liberals are what liberalism here's how it becomes indistinguishable from socialism yeah yeah yeah yeah and now I mean it's unmistakable who these people are and they are the ones making it well known nobody has to tell anybody what the American left is or what the modern day Democrat party is because they are out there informing everybody you see where Iran has announced it will no longer abide by the terms of the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement with a mama the guy like Bill Clinton announcing is no longer going to abide by his marriage vows I mean big deal everybody's shocked whether you're right they never about what in fact they may have a buy because the terms of the deal free them to go ahead and develop nuclear weapons nuclear power and all of this look let me take a stab I'm late to this this issue and stories been around since late last week let me take a stab at explaining this and by the way fox I need to tell you I am so I have some kind of a it's a weird thing I never have this little respiratory called and it has I don't have stuffed nose or throat or any of that I was calling Azam I had as well when I was a kid shortness of breath so if I if I speak a little slower that's why don't be distracted by the trying not to make it distracting why is the left being so blatant in their support for an enemy nation why is the left why is the Democrat party going out of its way to tell everybody that they actually preferred the models in Iran and this dead terrorist awesome so much by the way this guy and I have the inside track on how they did it which I will share with you is the program unfolds I mean the military operation I have the inside track how this was done it is amazing and yet as ironic as it is it's how we may have to really really praise the intelligence community for pulling this off I mean the deep state I you see but this this guy in the revolutionary guard general Qassams stole the money his body is being flown back to Tehran in a cardboard box with his picture on it across three coach seats on a rainy in Ireland the New York Post has the picture he's in a cardboard box course there's not much of a left just his finger with the ring on that that's how he was identified soul but still and they've got his picture on the cardboard box but it was a bad dude folks now why why is the left beside themselves I think and their many reasons for this by the way I am all of them I've discussed before but in in terms of what may be guiding this in a specific sense I think as much is the case with the modern day Democrats it's about protecting the legacy of the Obama administration and Obama himself and the Obama foreign policy to many conservatives and many Republicans Reagan is the president of all time the president president said no matter what kind of assaults are attacks on and they're going to be answered and defend and I think to the left there used to be Clinton I actually now think it's Obama that must be protected above all things must be shielded against all the terms it was the mom administration that ran the crew on trump and it went all the way to the oval office there's no doubt in anybody's mind posted by the way still hasn't sent the articles of impeachment over Josh Paul a senator from Missouri so he's gonna offer a resolution to just dismiss the charges because she won't sandy the articles over and nobody knows when she's going to send them over she's trying to again persuading people to re open the case in the Senate for more witnesses but I think she may be waiting for Durham she may be waiting for the dorm report even if that six months from now and you was the articles being sent to the Senate to blunt whatever bad news might be coming down the pike for the Democrats during could be one thing protectable could be something we don't know about but let me explain this Obama business as as a way of explaining how the left is is imploding on this it is very fashionable actually it's not it's not been fashionable to call them anti American but the reason I asked the question what the world is so controversial about make America great again you realize that phrase sent them into apoplexy make America great again or America first sends them into a nose dive into a tizzy what in the world to do normal decent common citizen Americans what in the world is controversial about that make America great again the answer is very simple there are a lot of people in the Democratic Party don't think America ever has been great do not think America can be great because of our founding don't believe America deserves to be great and in fact thanks America's guilty and they have now become the mainstream of the Democrat party Madeleine Albright Madeleine Albright teaching at Georgetown University one of the things that she teaches students is that the United States is nothing but an accident of timing and events that there's nothing special about the United States that there certainly is nothing exceptional about the United States that it was just an accident they were just happened the confluence of events people fleeing the dictatorship of the king in Great Britain it up any number of other things for forces beyond anybody's control brought these events together in a nation was created by it's just an accident and therefore there's nothing really you think about it there's nothing special about it there's nothing noteworthy about it now Madeleine Albright might you might also remember that when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union imploded that Madeleine Albright was very alarmed that that left the United States is the only superpower in the world and that was not good because you see the concept of America as the good guys does not exist in today's Democrat party in the world wide left do not doubt me on this there is no concept of America as the good guys and that's why make America great again is so offensive to the Americas not the good guys America needs to be cut down in size American needs to be limited America needs to be guarded against so Madeleine Albright's out there teaching young sculls full of March there's nothing special about America it's just a coincidence just an accident and that the United States as a singular super power is a destabilizing element in the world okay that brings us farmers she was secretary state among other things for Bill Clinton she has videos which are common in the modern day laughed and they are common in the American government their common in the American assembly flint that view that America alone as a super powers destabilizing is a view widely held in the civil service throughout the state department it's not an obscure review it's not it's not a minority view took me a long time to learn this long time to believe it long time to understand long time to accept tough thing to accept can't give me you grew up in your own country it takes seven to go to school when you're a young kid you're talking about the founding of the country your aware of how unique and exceptional America's then you then you discovered that people in your own government non biased don't believe it don't think it fact I think just the exact opposite tough thing to believe lot of people don't want to believe it lot of people don't want to accept that our own government there are people who do not believe in the goodness of the United States the concept of America as the good guys but you're looking at it in every bit of this opposition to what trump is non you're seeing it don't if you don't want to believe me do not then I what you're saying did not deny what you're reading they hate the trump did this for a host of reasons they hate the trump succeeded at it in a political sense thank you that trump has done damage to the Obama foreign policy the reason I mention mall mantled right is because Obama was of the same view you know what Obama's policy in Iran was aside from giving them notes but what was the motivation for all bomb I had the same view of the Middle East that he and Madeline Albright and all the rest of them have of the United States the Middle East was destabilized when only Israel was an economic and military power one of the reasons the and there are many it one of the reasons the Obama administration entered into the Iran deal one of the reasons that they engaged Iran one of the reasons that Obama dropped off a hundred and fifty billion dollars in cash on the tarmac in Tehran and don't think that some of it didn't get the Qassams only money a lot of it did by they know who the guy what is the Obama people know who the guy was they were making deals with this guy they know exactly who he was Obama believe that empowering Iran would stabilize the Middle East provide a counterbalance to Israel because once again the Israelis are not seen as the good guys even though they are United States ally and by the way there are many reasons why people like Obama's Susan rice madam Albright all the rest would not see Israel as the good guys there are religious reasons there are geo political reasons strategic reasons racial resent is all kinds of reasons for it but regardless Israel is the problem in the Middle East the United States is the problem in the world at large SO policies must be developed and implemented to blunt the bad guy nature of the United States and the bad guy nature of Israel and so there's Obama
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
White House attacks Lt. Col. Vindman while he testifies in Trump impeachment hearing
"Certainly everyone was moved by Lieutenant. Colonel von Men's close to his is opening statement really invoking his father invoking that we do right here as he said in his testimony and it was really quite scurrilous that while he was chest define line using the White House. Twitter Account the White House's tweeting out a vicious things about Lieutenant Colonel Vin men. He's now under protection of the. US US army he and his family. That's really outrageous. In this day and age. They're treating him as if he is disloyal American when he is in fact a true Patriot a tree it. They talked about whether in fact by being offered to be the Defense Minister for Ukraine he was disloyal to America. I'd I'd remind your viewers that Madeleine Albright when she was secretary of State afterwards was urged by the Czech Republic her native land though she has been an American for a very very long time time now to become president and she liked Vin Vin. Men Thought it was quite amusing and I don't think Republicans believe that Madeleine. Albright is disloyal to America. And neither is Lieutenant Lieutenant Colonel Vin and the other thing in terms of this afternoon that I really want people to understand is the Republicans. Keep saying that Zilenski. The ski never said that he was under pressure. Of course he didn't. He needs the United States he needs Donald Trump. No matter how awful the president is now no matter are how corrupt or how much of a bribe this is. And if he admitted he was under pressure he weakens himself as the president. So we're never going to hear him say that he was pressured Asher. It is a misunderstanding of the bargain. That leaders around the world fuel they have to make with this president because they have air national interests at stake even and if our president does not have our national interest in his mind. Let's let's what Colonel Vin been said in his opening statement about some of the other witnesses who've come forward I wanNA take a moment to recognize. The courage of my colleagues were appeared and are scheduled appear for this committee. I want to say that the character tax on these distinguished and honorable public servants is reprehensible. It is natural to disagree and engage in spirited debate. This has been the custom of Ah of our country since the founding fathers but we are better than personal attacks and John Holliman. The personal attack was coming to him from the White White House from the White House. Twitter account while he was testifying indeed and you know I mean at this point unsurprisingly given the way the president behave last Friday even though the attacks that he in gauged anonymous were seen widely as being as backfiring as undercutting. The Republican cause made Republican congressman as vicious and vitriolic. As they've been made them uncomfortable recognized their strategy was being undercut by the president. And yet here we come around again two days later and the same attacks being launched against Colonel Benjamin I just I don't think we should expect anything other than that now but this is going to be the. It's an appalling a state of affairs that this has become conventional but the president has it has no shame when it comes to who determines to be his targets and I just think we should assume for as long as this process plays out that the president if the president can attack colonel a purple heart. You know he can. He can take anyone and he
Fareed Zakaria GPS
Powell: 'The Republican party has got to get a grip on itself'
"It's a rare pleasure to interview two of America's finest elder states people once but that is exactly the opportunity I had this week when I sat down with Colin Powell and Madeleine Albright both of them of course served as secretary of State Apollo under President George W Bush or bright under Bill Clinton I was invited to them on a stage in new Albany Ohio in front of a group of citizens members the military and first responders let's begin with General Powell talking about all the tumult in American politics today surrounding the whistle blower uh and that phone call between the presidents of America and Ukraine we have this situation in Washington with the preliminary investigation being done by the House of Representatives under Mrs Pelosi and you just gotta ask yourself where does this all go well WanNa go to constitutional way choose following the constitution and the law and she's created an organization within the House of Representatives to look into these things and that's what we ought to do but it's hard to look into it when the other side in the White House is cursing out everybody calling a member of Congress trader calling a guy who wrote this that he's something wrong with him he didn't write it we had a lawyer write it for him or he's a spy spy he's an intelligence officer somewhere in the United States government who sat down and wrote this out he didn't slip into news however he didn't go on television and discuss it he put it into the system like he was supposed to do you think he's a Patriot sure he is any reason he's not true this I used to see some of these things when they came in over the over the transient through the objection means of getting something up and I think he is a Patriot I don't see anything that suggests he's doing anything that is improper and as you know his paper has now come out after all the channels he didn't break free and go talk to the press he let the system handle itself and the paper that he put out has a lot of consistency with some of the things the White House put out so what we need to do is I hope get this investigation is inquiry done as quickly as possible and let's stop screaming at everybody and cursing people coyle calling people traders and calling them spies and using all of these names of degradation when all we're trying to do is find the answers so let's cooperate with each other in this in the Congress and get an answer to it and move on to you think Nancy Pelosi is doing the right thing absolutely and I think it was very interesting thing in listening to her when she talked about this I thought she was very measured and serious talked about the constitution and saw it as a process I think it wasn't easy because I think the nothing is easy in terms of making a decision like that but I she respects the institution I think we both have talked about the importance of the institution and the Constitution there is ah it's set up in a way that Congress has a responsibility here and I think the question is the one you asked what was this phone call about it is possible that a president will make a mistake in talking to some other leader on a issue that is state managed which is is why in fact you have other people on the phone and you can say you might WanNa have worded that differently and have somebody follow up this had nothing to do with state business as far and nobody kind of said anything about it except this man or woman that has been the whistle blower Colin what do you think the Republican Party's responsibility is your lifelong Republican you say that well let me put a different the Republican Party desperately wanted you to be it's presidential candidate ninety ninety six allows you you were very important figuring the Republican Party get I'm actually right I'm not gonNA dogs in the case but as such an important republican do you worry that the party is putting putting party or maybe even and trump before country started saying I had no political affiliation during my first thirty five years in government and the army as a career military officer had no party and it was only when I left and there was attention being given to me about running politics that I said no it's not me and identified myself as a Republican but also made it clear to people I was Republican who's Ronald Reagan's national security adviser I was Republican who work George Herbert Walker Bush and worked for George W Bush I'm a moderate Republican who believes that we should have strong foreign policies wrong defense policy but we have to look for people and we ought to work hard to making sure we're one country one team and so on that basis I call myself okay but in the state of junior you really nothing you can be anything you want any day of the week what do you think do you think that DNC question Republican party has got to get a grip on itself right now Republican leaders and members of the Congress both Senate and the House are holding back because they're defied of what will happen any one of them if they speak out what will they lose a primary I don't know why that's such a disaster but literally the primary and so they they need to get a grip and when they see things that are not right they need to say something about it because our foreign policy is shambles right now title judgment and I see things happening that are hard to understand a couple of weeks ago the president put a circle around Southeast Alabama it saying that it's going to get hit by hurricane we put it on top of the meteorological prediction and the meteorologists said no no no no and in my time and her time one of us would have gone to the presidency was president screwed up so we've got to fix it and we'll put out a correction you know what they did this time they ordered the Commerce Department to go out and back up whatever the president misled this country supposed to run and congress is one of the petitions that should be doing something about this all parts of Congress the media has a role to play we all have enrolled by we've got our number the remember the all of these pieces are part of our government executive branch Congress Supreme Court and the fourth estate we've got to remember what the Constitution started with we the people the president
Between The Lines
Has Trump broken the 'rules-based international order'?
"Today on the show discussion with a renowned expert about the so-called rules based international order. It's been grabbing headlines vs. Now, how often have you heard that term, the rose by store is not perfect. We are rallying the noble nations of the world to build a new liberal order, that prevents war achieves greater prosperity for all. I have never heard. I Chinese leader commit so explicitly to rule based international order. So what do you think it actually means now for many politicians and journalists the world in which we leave the institutions of governance, the rules norms, all that, that's largely inspired by the kind of allegedly but nine global leadership that the United States. Is exercise for decades. And yet, would you believe it? The rules based international order itself has become a popular expression, only in recent times, did effective research, such of the world's newspapers and news wise. And it shows these things that in the three decades from ninety five to twenty fifteen the expression was used on three hundred nineteen occasion. That's three hundred eight times in thirty. That's all, however, get a lot of this in the past four years since Donald Trump announces presidential campaign, the term has been used nearly six thousand times six thousand times in the past four years. And about three hundred and twenty in the previous thirties, extrordinary now to me, the logic is simple. Western journalists scholars politicians policy makers, they all too often refer to this Liberal International order rules. Based international order. Why? Because it's demise is primarily blamed on one Donald Trump from this day forward, it's going to be only America first America first. Now the conventional wisdom goes lock these ball rising tariffs weakening alliances withdrawing the US from international agreements and supping with the devil, from Kim Jong Hoon that Singapore to Ladimir Putin hill, stinky, the US president has lifted void in world leadership. This is the argument as a result, Trump has undermined Feith in the open free, international order of the post Cold War era. But Trump alone really, to blind for the unraveling of the Liberal International auto or was this rules based order. So beloved of the western elites was at bound to file will my guest today has spent a lot of time. Thinking about this issue, John Measham is no stranger to this program. He's professor of political science at the university of Chicago. He's the author most recently of the great delusion liberal, drains and international realities published by ya'll university, Chris. And he's article bound to file the and full of Liberal International order that appears in the current issue of the academic journal, International Security, John joins us today from a studio on campus. The university of Chicago. Get I John welcome to the program. Thank you, Tom. I'm glad to be here now. It seems that this rules base Liberal International order is in trouble is Trump to blind. No, I think it is the conventional wisdom among the foreign policies. Tablet meant here in the United States, and probably in Australia that Trump is responsible for wrecking the Liberal International order. And once he is disposed of in twenty twenty and we get a new president someone like Joe Biden, we'll go back to the old way of doing business in the Liberal International order will survive. I think this is a deeply flawed way of thinking about what's happening with regard to that order that order was in deep trouble before, Trump got elected, just think the Iraq war, the Afghans, STAN war, the fiasco and Libya defeat. Lasko in Syria to Gasco over Ukraine, to two thousand eight financial crisis, the euro zone crisis Brexit, just a name of few of the problems. What Trump did when he ran for president in two thousand sixteen was he pointed out all these failures. He said, the Liberal International order was bankrupt and he got away. Acted and he got elected because many voters, clearly understood that he was correct. So the argument that Trump is responsible for wrecking the Liberal International. Order is dead wrong by what distinguished Trump from a lot of the Republicans and Democrats in two thousand sixteen was he's belief that democracy was not an expo commodity, and you think about it, John thirty years ago. This she had the full of the Berlin Wall, the claps Ivy, communism and the consensus that ease ago, I roll friend Francis, Fukuyama democracy was the wife of the future, what happened. I think that would happened was that we came to find out that not everyone in the world likes democracy, you and I may think it is the best system. But the fact is that they're all sorts of other people world, especially if you go to a place like Russia today, who would prefer an alternative form of political system. And in this case, it soft the -tarian his, so if you're in the business of trying to spread democracy around the world as the United States was in its pursuit of liberal. Gemini, what you discover is an extremely difficult task and it's an especially difficult task. If you use military force to spread democracy. In other words, you try to spread democracy at the end of a sword. And this, of course, is what we tried to do in Afghanistan. And in Iraq, it was with the Bush doctrine was all about, and those ended up being close. Oh failures, you'll critics will say though. Not standing all these setbacks that isn't it inevitable that as human con progresses than the prospects for democratization, and universal peace are enhanced and that, you know it was seeing this right now. There's still talk that China will eventually become a liberal democracy in these protests in Hong Kong that we've witnessed in the past fortnight that shows that eventually, China will buck, and become more liberal, democratic signed thing for Russia. How'd you respond to that? I just don't think it's inevitable. I mean, I want to be very clear, I think democracy is the best political system, and I think it would be a good thing if every country on the planet was liberal democracy. But the idea that that is inevitable as simply wrong. The fact is that Uman beings find it very difficult to agree on questions of what is the best life? What is the best political system, and would Frank Fukuyama and others? Assumed when the Cold War came to a conclusion was that everybody in the world. Wanted to live in a state, that was a liberal democracy. And therefore, with fictive -ly had the winded our back in our endeavour to spread liberal democracy, all across the planet, but that assumption has proven to be wrong. The fact is that the spread of democracy is not inevitable. And by the way, if you go back to two thousand six fast forward to the present what you see is that the number of democracies in the world is decreasing not increase. I think the New York buys freedom house's documented that. It's come down something like ten percent in the last ten or so years. Raw joan. It has. And that is regrettable. But it just points out that this is not inevitable. And again, if you get into the business trying to sprint liberal democracy when it's not an edible. And there are viable, alternatives, you're going to run into a whole his just as a conventional wisdom's are often wrong guy back to that consensus at the end of the Cold War that democracy was the wife of the future. One orthodoxy, that's also Baynes smashed in the last that he is. John is argument that nationalism was a thing of the past on the eve of the European parliamentary elections as Jordan, Claude Juncker. He's a leading European bureaucrat. He was asked about the growing reactions about, you know, against Brussels and the AU and the rise of nationalist movements across Europe. This is from CNN in general with the with the EU elections coming up, the euro skeptical right-wing forces seemed to be very strong in many countries. How does how much does that concern? You why do you think that is what's wrong with the what's your? We'll just. And if that wasn't tone-deaf enough, he added these populous necessarily stupid necessarily his day, I love the country and they don't like the others. Join me Sharma. What do you make of comments? I think it's a remarkably foolish comment. The fact is that virtually every leader of a western democracy is a nationalist just take, Madeleine Albright, who was once secretary of state here in the United States and is viewed as a canonical liberal. She's also a nationalist at heart. She wants famously said that America is the indispensable nation. We stand taller and we see further if you think about her words, she is saying, America is the indispensable, and I underline the word nation. That's at the heart of nationalism virtually every leader, whether it's an Australian or. Japanese or German leader feels that his or her country is something very special in their deeply devoted to that country. That's what nationalism is all about. And what you had in the post Cold War, period up until very recently is a situation where liberalism and nationalism coexisted, but hardly anybody ever talked about nationalism. But once the Liberal International order began to crumble people began to talk more and more about nationalism. And they felt at a lot of those liberal policies in fringed on national policies and on nationalism and ways that they didn't like, and the end result is, you got Brexit and Britain, and you got Trump and the United States and you know what you have in places like Poland and Hungary as well. So in nineteen states clash with multilateral institutions, nationalism, always Trump's liberalism that show alone. My view is that liberalism and Nash. Nationalism can coexist. But when particular liberal policies begin to bump up against nationalism, nationalism will be liberalism, every time because we are all ultimately social animals. We are all alternately very tribal in our nation matters to us greatly. I think virtually every Australian cares greatly about Australian sovereignty just like every American cares about American sovereignty.
Radio Specials
Journalist posts bail, calls for "outrage" over libel arrest
"A journalist in the Philippines is free on bail. After being charged in a libel. Case Maria recipe is co founder of an online news site. That's been critical of the country's president Rodrigo Duterte and his policies. NPR's? Julie McCarthy says press watchdogs believe recipes arrest his aimed at intimidating her colleagues. Philippines. National union of journalists called rescues arrest a shameless act of persecution. Former secretary of State Madeleine Albright said it was condemned by all democratic nations. It's the sixth time that Russia has posted bail in connection with her website rattler, which president do tastes Koren's as a fake news outlet previously. Russia was charged with tax evasion and for violating the law restricting foreign ownership in the media sector in the libel case for which he was arrested. A filipino. Businessmen says rapper wrongly linked him in an article seven years ago to human trafficking and drug smuggling recipe called her arrest and abuse of power and vowed to quote, hold the
1A
An Angry Trump Pushes Back Against His Own ‘Naive’ Intelligence Officials
"And lots of other bad things. Tom Bowman the Intel chiefs made a point in public in front of the Senate, the annual threat assessment to say that Iran is not violating the deal. The president says this is all wrong and basically spent the day at odds with his Intel chase before gathering them around himself for a photo op to show that everything's all. Right. I think all you can say is that it's bizarre. Anybody who watched? It was quite clear what the intelligence folks were saying that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weap-. That North Korea will unlikely give up its nuclear weapons they were quite clear in that prison said it was mischaracterized by the press called it fake news. But anybody watching that could see what they were saying it was quite clear there was no nuance there. They were quite blunt in the contradicted their boss, president United States Corning. Yeah. I mean, it's it's no surprise that the president disagrees with icy on these three things that have gotten the most attention on this the first North Korea the idea that they are no longer a nuclear threat. We've had consistent reporting for months and months and months, they are in fact, continuing to pursue their nuclear program continuing to their ballistic, missile development, and everything they aren't testing on ISIS. The fact that Trump said that is is defeated. Just not true. They're close to their physical caliphate is close to being defeated in Syria. But they're still thousands of fighters that exist and finally on Iran. You know, they are in technical compliance as know hospital said, but there's you know, the icy has been against him on this idea that they are in violation of JCP away for months. Now. So that's not the surprise to have it all packaged in one hearing the way that it was an on camera with the leaders of the intelligence community that was the part that got so much attention that was very jarring. And then of course, you know, we had the next day President Trump gathering as you said in the Oval Office and saying, oh, it was fake news. They all told me it was fake news. And he told everyone that they should read the transcript from the hearing. I would recommend the president read it as well because he would see that. In fact, it was actually reported exactly the way that his icy chiefs. Also, nothing. They said was all that spellbinding. Everybody agrees that everything they said every adult in Washington would agree with what they said. And none of the senators were shocked. They asked questions to issue because they wanted to marry now Courtney who've been to Syria, we talked to the military over there. They'll tell you quite bluntly that ISIS has been defeated. And there are thousands of ISIS fighters running around, and they will likely come back. They're already coming back and places that had been clear like man, bitch and Raka. This is no surprise. Now. Take a listen here to former secretary of State Madeleine Albright. She went on CNN to talk about the president's assessment of the national threat assessment and blows my mind, frankly, and I worked for presidents that actually were interested in knowing what was going on and knew what the role of the intelligence community is and was and so I am stunned by this. And I think it only proves something that troubles me deeply is that this president is. Is someone that doesn't wanna learn? The former secretary of state says she stunned Paul wrote to us on Facebook. Wow, staffers contradicted, the president question Mark exclamation point little sarcasm there from Paul who is not stunned. Emily Tamken some surprise from former staffers, but but Intel chiefs have to manage these relationships now, right? I mean, first of all I think I would agree with Paul on Facebook and say that who at in two thousand nineteen is stunned that the president would contradict his intelligence officials or indeed anybody who tells him something that he didn't wanna hear. Yes. The intelligence chiefs do need to manage relationships. But I think when they were testifying. You know, they weren't necessarily saying anything new or that hasn't already been reported for months with stunning to me is that the president decided to pick a fight over these issues. Right. Like all he had to say on Iran was okay. While you Ron may have been in technical compliance with JCP away.
BBC World Service
Eurozone unemployment falls to decade low of 8.2 percent
"Unemployment across the nineteen country euro zone has fallen to. Its lowest level since the most acute phase of the global financial crisis decade ago the. European Union statistics agency Eurostat says. The unemployment rate in. July with eight point two percent which was unchanged from the previous month's rate the rates now the lowest since November of two thousand eight when unemployment. Was soaring in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of US investment Bank Lehman Others though the overall decline was widespread there are still big, disparities across, the region some countries like Germany are operating, what economist. Term full employment with the jobless rate only three. Point four percent while other countries such as Spain and Italy have double digit unemployment rates
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Roseanne Barr, Secretary and Sean Hannity discussed on 24 Hour News
"That Fox News host, Sean Hannity announced that he would interview Roseanne Barr on Thursday. Roseanne will be making an appearance in Manhattan that same night at stand up New York to perform a live podcast with rabbi shmole ditch the celebrity rabbi already interviewed bar since she was fired from her ABC show. After posting that too controversial, tweet urged people to forgive her security will be beefed up for the occasion with the venue, bring in two bodyguards and bar is a poor to also be bringing her own security. Well this is just I I don't like this because I've long been, waiting to hear from Roseanne but I think that the and I would think that she would be savvy enough that she needs to go outside of her camp or outside of folks that would be either as naturally sympathetic, to her or, be Subscribing to her same ideas and they kind of the same ideology I you just can't listen I'm a conservative guy you cannot go right Hannity for this we will get nothing out of this hard It's. Such a softball Ryan you were a victim Why did I choose what's an. Eastern alerts climate Roseanne You heard. It. Here first David Steve sorry I lost my temper relax CBS drama, Madam secretary secretary announced that former secretary of state Hillary Clinton Colin Powell and Madeleine Albright, will appear. In the season five premiere of Madam secretary series star tea Leoni tweeted she was incredibly honored to have the former real life secretaries on the set while the episode won't air until, October fans have. Some information about the guest stars roles in the episode secretary of state Elizabeth McCord played by Leoni turns to the former secretaries of. State to ask their advice, on, how. To, respond to a delicate. Situation Tuesday's Drake has postponed his Saint Paul show for eleven days to give fans. The show that they quote expect and deserve in a statement on his social media accounts the. Singer confirmed that, his August first show at the XL energy, center is, going to, be pushed back to August twelfth it is now the second stop Drake's Aubrey and the, three migos. Joint tour with rap three amigos which has been thrown into disarray following the arrest of migos member offset on gun and drug charges so Drake said on Twitter in order to deliver, a high standard. Experience that Drake fans expect and deserve the tours made the necessary decision to slightly adjust the beginning of the the three amigos schedule If you weren't going to the show anyway KiKi Do you are you, right TBB Doodoo, sorry I'm adding nothing to this story on TV. Tonight we have the third season finale of colony on USA and on hip hop squares on VH. One we have that as..
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Ireland, Mollie Hunter and Europe discussed on All News, Traffic and Weather
"For free bbc news time five oh nine polls are open now in ireland for a contentious referendum on abortion today voters decide on repealing the irish constitutions eighth amendment which puts heavy restrictions on abortions but his abc's mollie hunter reports the vote comes during a shift in european politics it is still very catholic everyone i spoke with reminds me that the conservative ireland is still very present in the church still has a lot of sway so today's vote could actually move ireland in line with its western neighbor is in europe but but so interesting actually at a moment like this we're actually looking at a western europe that's having this populist movement living away from these liberal values it's actually moving right of center so to have ireland catch up now be pretty extraordinary hillary clinton is coming to boston today she's being awarded a medal from harvard university for her work in leadership and human rights former secretary of state madeleine albright will deliver a personal tribute to clinton and award her the radcliffe metal which the university says honors those who have had a transformative impact on society and while many of you were making the escape up north today from memorial day weekend main may be the place to be this summer for college students looking to make a buck a lot of college students are looking for summer jobs wallet hubs compiled a.