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tv Charlie Rose WHUT July 29, 2011 9:00am-10:00am EDT
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>> rose: welcome to our program. tonight we take a quick look at the ticktock in the debt limition talks in washington. >> when the house takes action today, the united states senate will have no more excuses for inaction. the bill's not perfect. i've never said it was perfect. nobody in my caucus believes it's perfect. but what this bill reflects is a sincere, honest effort to end this crisis in a bipartisan way, to send it to the senate where it can receive action. >> rose: we ctinue this eveng with marvin kalb and his daughter deborah kalb. they have written a book about the legacy of vietnam called "haunting legacy." >> one of the most difficult things about "haunting legacy,"
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charlie, is to try to understand what is it that presidents go through when they make major decisions about war and ace? these are human beingsnd they have fears andin obama's mind, not only the first black president in american hiory and that's on his min too is something that he cannot be careless about. >> we start withresidentord as the war wa ending and we do chapter on each president up president obama and eac president was affected by that war in terms of both his personal life, his experiences, his politics in terms of the campaign and primarily his foreign policy decision making. >> rose: wcontinue this evening with david wise, who's written another book about espionage. it's aboutand american espionage and it's called "tiger trap." >> the chinese spy very
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differently than, for example, the k.g.b., or now the s.b.i., as it's called. the chinese have been at this much longer than we have. they've been at this at least for... >> rose: they've been at everything much longer than we have. >> y. they've been at this at least since 400 b.c. and the art of war, sun soviet ion and so they've been a it for 25 centuries. we've been at it since 1947 c.i.a. was cread. >> rose: the day in washgton, marvin and deborah kalb and david wi when we continu every story needs a hero we canll root for. who beats the odds and cos out on top. but this isn't just a hollywood storyline.
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it's happening every day, all across america. every time a storefront opens. or the midnight oil is burned. or when someone chases a dream, not just a dollar. they are small business owners. so if you wanna root for a real hero, support small business. shop small. ptioning sponsored by rose communications from our stuos inew york city, this is charlie rose. >> ros the debt limitation end game is being played out in washington today, tomorrow, saturday and sunday. the deadne is august 2. the house of representatives and the senate are involved, but not even the parties know exactly
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where the end game will end. earlier th evening, the house of representatives delayed a vote o legislationroposed by speaker john boehner. the plan would cut federal spending by $917 billion over e next decade. it would also provide an immediate debt limit increase of $900 billion. earlier today, speaker boehner pleaded with congress to pass the bill. >> listen, for the sake of jobs, for the sake of our country, i'm asking the representatives in the house in a bipartisan way and asking my colleagues in the senate. let's pass this bill and end this crisis. >> rose: white house perez secretary jay carney said the plan wouldn't make it past the senate. >> the senate will reject the boehner bill but as has been made clear by not just democrats but a number of republicans who reject the boehner bill in the senate. they reject it, okay? so there is no question that this bill is a political act. it has no le beyond its
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current existence in the house. >> rose: senate majorit leader harry reid said the bill was only a short-term fix. >> replicans cannot get the short term band yayladagi they will vote on in the house today. it will not get one democratic vote in the sate. we have five days remaining until a few extremist republicans-- an note, i say a few-- drive o economy off a cliff because theye too radical and inexperienced to coromise. >> ro: eric canr responded to harry reid. >> the way i s it is harry reid has three different options: one is to ffer the economic consequences of default which i hope, whichll of us hope he doesn't choose. two is to bring up the bill that we sent prior, the one that he claims to be opposed to. or to accept the compromise bill that we are sending over today so we can resolve this crisis and get on about the business of
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this country. >> rose: and then democratic house minority leader nancy pelosi weighed in with her ideas. >> i believe the real reason it didn't connect is because the republicans all along have used deficit reduction as anxcuse for the unveling of progress made for the middle-class over the past 50 years. >> rose: so there we are. what will one side do and what will the other side do in? the debate continues. lots of questions like wre is the esident? stay tuned. it has been nearly 40 years since the war in vietnam ended but its legacy remains. many stillseek to understand vietnam and the lessons learned from the conflict. marvin kalb and his daughte borah kalb have co-authored a bookn the war. it is called "haunting legacy." i am pleased to have them at this table. welcome. marvin kalb is an old friend and colleague at cbs and i am pleased to meet deborah.
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thank you for coming. what's the origin of the book? >> the origin of the book probab goes way back to m covering the war, debbie's interest in the war when she was a student. but the book itself was formed in the aftermath of the 2004 election. in that election, we had a swift boat veterans for truth and they were set up in their minds as a way of destroying john kerry. not only destroying him as a presidential candidate but just destroying him. and i got fascinated... >> rose: motivated by politics? >> motivated by a belief that he was phony, that he was treasonous, that the kind of criticism that he made of the vietnam war was something that only a person sympathetic to north vietnawod ever do. and and i began and then with debbie's help began to interview the people who ran the swift boat veterans and admiral
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hoffman who was the leader and i think a rather interesting man. and then we got more deeply into vietnam and i was thinking about doing a book on the swift boat veterans. and then it turned out that very few people have an interest in the swift boat veterans or even vietnam. >> rose: right. >> the following year when debbie gets into the act in a serious way we began to think about her ideas and mine and collaborate d put it into a book which ended up as "haunting legacy." >> rose: have you collaborated before, ever? >> no... >> ever since she was born. (laughter) >> rose: was it inevitable that you would become a journalist, do you think? >> i think so. i mean, i think growing up in a family with my father being a t.v. reporter, my uncle. it was... >> rose: it was in the air. >> it was in the air to go into journalism in some way. i ended up on the print side. >> rose: and so here we are.
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and you call it "the haunting legacy." why "the haunting legacy"? >> it's something that really haunts ever president since the war ended. so we start wit president ford as the war was ending and we do a chapter on each president up to president obama. and each was affected by this war in terms of both his personal life, his experiences, his politics in terms of the campaign and primarily his foreign policy decision making. >> rose: define what you think... not the legacy... or the legacy, the first war that amera had lost. >> the two key points, charlie. it's a very key point. we hadeen so fortunate throughout american history. we had not lost. we won. we won wars. >> rose: george baconave the best advice. >> declare vtory and then go home. right. but when america lost in 1975-- and it's an interesting point to discuss, because there are still
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many people who are going to watch this program and say "we didn't lose in vietnam. the congress pulled the money and therefore we could not have won." okay. there's something very valid and very poignant about that point of view. i just they whether the congress pulled the money, whether the pentagon had the wrong strategy, whether the presidents themselves were wrong in theay which they viewed the cold war and our position in vietnam as part of that cold war. whever it was, we, the united ates of america, lost. and because it was the first war we ever lost and because we we and remain a great power, how does a great power-- a key qution. how does a great power adjustto a major military loss? how does it affect the politics? w does it affect the personalities of these people? >> rose: so if you look for historical precedent, wher do you go and wha disdo you
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discover? not vietnam in america butther historicalrecedents. >> germany in the 20th century beat twice. what do you do? the first time you go into a deep depression leading to hitler. >> rose: right. >> and the second time you are beaten what do you do? you become a democracy and a flourishing one. >> rose: r rebuild from the bottom. >> you rebuild from the bottom. and japan went through the same kind of thing. china. so as great powers lose they also learn a great deal about themselves. >> rose: okay but there's differences here. number one, what i was thinking about-- even though it collapsed for her reasons l-- was the soviet union in afghanistan >> ah, yes. and that is a very important part of "the haunting legacy" because chapter 3 with carter and really right up through with reagan and bush one, vietnam and afghanistan have been sort of intellectually mamarried and why do i say that?
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because zbigniew brzezinski whom you know very well and has undoubtedly many on this program many times, brzezinski when he wasnational security advisor to prident carter, we were very fortunate. we got ahold of hisecret wall streeting memos to carter about what he thought carter ought to do in foreign policy. zbigniew brzezinski actually had in his mind that if we could suck the russians in more deeply into afghanistan we could create what he called heir vietnam." and in his mind, that kind of a loss, soviet troops in humiliation, having to leave afghanistan to go back to the soviet union loaded up with drugs, terrible shape, the equipment absolutely destroyed, they went back and in spig's mind, this could lead to the disintegration of the communist
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power in the soviet union because the red ar is the core the strength, the inner strength it was of the soviet system. you destroy that, you destroy the syem. >> rose: and you destroy the self-esteem. >> and he wanted very much to destroy the soviet union. the other side of that is... that was brilliant. but the other side of that is that what we were using were the people, the mujahadeen, the fighters, the islamic radicals and fanatics who are literally the same people, unfortunately, that we' fighting today in afghistan. >> rose: what was it that bush 43 said about vietnam when he talked about iraq >> wl, bush... president bush george h.w. bush-- lked about buing the ghost of vietnam in the sands of arabia. >> rose: yes. >> that was george h.w. bush. >> ros bush 41. >> yes, we have burned the legacy of etnam... >> in theands of arabia. >> rose: and he meant to say at that time? >> yeah, i mean at the time...
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and bu w 1as the president who you could say he did learn the lessons of vietnam in a lot of ways in the gulf war, the first gulf war. he did not pursue saddam hussein to try to get rid of him. he stopped in terms of getting saddam hussein out of kuwait, he succeeded in that. he sent a massive buildup of troops to do that, about a half million troops when he did not need that many but he wanted to go in, get it done, do it quickly and then pull out and that was that. and at the time, the idea was, well, we're done with vietnam. we've buried vietnam, we are through with it. and, of course, that was not true. >> rose: here's a man who probably had as much foreign policy experience as anye, having been ambassador, having been at the u.n., having been in china, having been vice president, is cognant of th legacy of vietnam. the haunting legacy of vietnam. >> well, remembe, debbie was just pointing out that h strategy was based on the powell
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doctrine. >> rose: right. which is based on the weinberger doctrine. >> the weinberger doctrine which emerged as the experience of vietnam. >> rose: right. >> and what george h.w. bush came up with was this idea that powell was absolutely right. that if you go to war, you go in with overwhelming military force. yochoose the timing and you get out when youant to get out but make sure it's don fast. and then you're out. d this whole idea of going on up into baghdad, he... scowcroft brent scowcroft, his national security advisor, was saying, mr. president, we dent want to go there. we don't want to go there because once again we could get sucked into sometng and eve if scowcroft did not use specifically the word "vietnam," he didn't have to. all of the stuff that was going on at that time screamed out
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"you go there, kid, you're going to get yourself trapped. you're going to put yourself into the kind of mess we were in in vietnam and we mply don't want that again." once president bush finished with the war, almost justifiably you can sort of read his mind at that time that he was saying "vietnam, done." except it wn't. and when you get to clinton, when you get to his son, bush 2, when you get to obama you find that in almost every single major foreign policy decision vietnam sits there sometimes like an uninvited guest. >>ose: okay. how do you think vietnam influenced this president who was, what, 16? >> he was 13 when the war ended. >> rose: okay, 1 >> he couldn't very well have... >> rose: he never felt what it was about and probably was not living in the united states. >> he was 13 when it ended so he was not affected the way the other presidents were as adults.
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>> rose: so how does it affect him today, though? >> it's interesting. because in his campaign he talked about the 60s are done, i'm a post-'60s president and yet in 2008 when he went on a tour to iraq and afghanistan at that point he went with two senators, to colleagues, chuck hagel and jack reid, it was a bipartisan group and on the long flight... >> rose: both have been military officers. >> yeah. and he quizzed them about vietnam because he spoke with both of them and, you know, what was he asking them about? it was vietnam. the whole long flight over to the middle east. >> rose: so what was he asking them. >> he was asking them about... >> rose: because this is the core of the legacy. >> exactly. >> the lessons of the war. what is it... if i become president of the united states, he asked the two senators, what is it about vietnam that i really is to know and learn and make it part of me so that i don't make the same mistakes in afghanistan.
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that was very much on his mind. >> rose: it is that sort of process ao-- you and i were talking about him as a leader-- at made him so attractive as a leader. he was askin questions "what are the lessons here?" >> absolutely. >> rose: and where today h is is a diffentuestion but continue with that. he wanted to know what are the lessons herend how do i avoid whatever the trap of vietnam was? >> right. and as he's been making decisions about afghanistan, he has been... you can see tt vietnam was on h mind when he was making the speech in terms of... >> rose: when he was going through the famous review that took a rather long time. >> exactly. that took a long time because he wanted to be sure he did it right and got all the information, got all the facts, wasn't blindsided by anything. and he referred to vietnam in the speech when he announced what he was going to do. >> rose: what did he say in >> he talked about how this was not like vietnam. and, in fact, in his first meeting with his national security team he said "afghanistan is not vietnam." and he had advisors, for example, in the late richard
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holbrooke who was very, very, very influenced by vietnam. it was during his time as a young foreign service officer. >> rose: first national service advisor with geral jim jones who had experience. >> had been there twice. >> so i think a lot of people around him had been affected by vietnam. >> rose: but the legacy was not to get so involved in a way that would have such a pervasive impact on the country in a way that made it such a losing experience. >> but it's not... that's a very presidential thing. >> rose: it's more? >> it's much more than that. vietnam represents loss w. no democrat-- particularly no democrat with any military experience... when barack obama came in, you could put what he knew about the military into a thimble. he was not a person steeped in the military. so although he has a marvelous
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way of speaking and he has a wonderful self-confidence the fact is he is aware, he's a very smart guy and he reads a lot of history. he knew what happened in 1949 with the loss of china. >> rose: right. well, for a generation people said "who lost china." >> exactly. and he did not want to be the esident whlost another war. so from day one he wanted everybody to understand that this is a war that we-- me, barack obama-- is not going to lose. so what do you do? he triples the size of the arm force in afghanistan did he have to do that? that's a question. >>ose: well, there's an alternative argument which is not do that, not have a surge and, in fact, articulated by joe biden the vice president which said "make it counterterrorism not counterinsurgency." >> absutely. and that kind of an argument just infiltrated the white house. bruce rydell, who wrote his first report on afghanistan told
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us that... terrific, terrific guy and he told us that vietnam walked the halls of the white house. wherever he bumped into somebody he would bump into somebody who would say, hey, is this vietnam? obama himself, charlie, would on occasion, we were told, stop in to the office of one of his senior advisors at the white house, is close the door, sit at the edge of the guy's desk and say "am i doing what lyndon johnson did in the '60s? we cannot do that." >> rose: with afghanistan? >> with afghanistan. am i doingin afghanistan gha what lyndon johnson did in vietnam 40 years before. >> rose: my assumption in the surge in part-- and you assume he thinks it has strategic significance and importance there because you don't want afghanistato be a haven for terrism d at the same time when he was going through this there were only, like, 100 members of al qaeda that there. allknow that. my assumption has always been
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just your point. i think he was influenced by the idea that, look i'm not sure this is going to work but i'm not prepared not to the do it and see what the consequens are. i'm mo prepared to do in the this case because i've described this as a war of choice... i've described this as a war of necessity, not choice, as iq was characterized a aar choice. >> i think you're absolutely on it and what we tried to do literally in chapter 9 of this book is to describe the mind-set of obama when he was handling time and time again questions relating to afghanistan. for example, in the summer of '09, one of the major ways in which they were deciding what to do was to go go back and look at two schools of thought about vietnam. one school of thought was the white house school of thought
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which was this book written by a guy named gordon goldstein and it had to do with more than anything else with mack bundy being aize in we are president kennedy and then johnson. that was a book which pointed out the mistakes of bundy in etnam. and so somebody-- like tom donelan, who's now the national security advisor-- read that book at the recommendation of dick holbrooke, read the book and he said "my god, i don't want to do the exact same thi in afghanistan." he was terrified that the white house and the president would be moving moreeeply into a situation in afghanistan that smelled of vietnam. at the pentagon they had a totally differt view, a book written by sorrel who said it was not that at all. what it had to do with was in congress they cut the funding but the militarywas going to win that war and we could have won it. so you had this conflict and you're absolutely right when you
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said a moment ago that obama recognizing all of this, not wanting to lose, not sure about victory, kind of split the difference and went down the middle. >> rose: didn't lyndon johnson say during the midst of all this-- either someone and maybe to one of the senators-- "i'm not going to be the first president to lose a war"? >> absolutely. >> rose: said that. >> lyndon johnson said that the minute he became president. he turned to o of his closest advisors who happened to be his speech writer at that time an he said to him "remember, i am not gointo be the first president to lose a war." because lyndon johnson was such a smart, intuitive politician. he remembered the harry truman losing china charge by the republicans. obama reads history. he knows what was on lyndon's mind and he knows what was on truman's mind and he does not want to be the kind of person who's going to go down in historas the losing president.
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i mean, one of the most diffict thinks about "haunting legacy," crlie, is to try to understand what is it that presidents go through when they make major decisions about war and peace. these are human beings and they have fears and in obama's mind not only the first black president in american history-- and that's on his mind, too, as something that he cannot be careless about so you can't lose. there's so much of obama that wants simply to win but he faces problems economically, faces problems on the military side and very much like lyndon johnson who went through that whole business in the '06sbout can you have guns and butter? >> rose: did president obama make the wrong decision on afghanistan? >> marvin speaking is? >> rose: yes.
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>> don't think he made the wrong decision but we are getting to a int now where the good stuff that we could derive from continued operations in afghanistan is beginning to dwindle. and i am reminded, charlie, and you were hanging around at that time, too. but in the '70s when the congress began to think about vietnam, they began to think how do iend thisar? d a lot ofeople said "we end the war by cutting the funding." what we're seeing now congress, not just the military stuff but they are planning to save money on the debt, both the republican and democratic plans talk about if youull out of both iraq and afghanistan you may end up saving a trillion dollars over ten years. >> rose: i talked to stanley mcchrystalnd otherswho say the one thing the afghanistan... afghans would constantly say to him-- stanley mcchrystal when he was head of forces there-- is "promise us you're not going to
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leave." because that's what happened in... >> absolutely. >> rose: when was it? when they left after the soviets were defeated. >> absolutely. >> rose: so when you look at obama today and if, in fact, there is a withdrawal and the victory or the situation is nebulous or, in fact, the taliban come back will there be a historical judgment that because of whatever reading of history he made that he will be considered the president that lost afgnistan? >> that's a really good question because the last chapter of the book, chapter 10, is called "good enough." and what they're hoping for is something they can term "good enough." that it will not be termed a loss. that it may not be a full-fledged victory. it m not be something that they can proclaim that everhing is wonrful in afghanistan w. but something they can say is good enough. they can get out at whatever
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point they do that, not having to say they lost. so that is definite play the people that talked to said that they'r hoping for and that's the last chapter of the book. >> rose: someone who had a personal experience with vietnam never wanted to put boots on the ground. >> never. he would do anything... he'd be a great hero bombing from 30,000 feet but don't put boots on the ground. that was his fundamental problem at that time. >> rose: well, and that's also the point of view of barack obama about libya, for example. >> that's right. >> rose: we will never put american troops on the ground there. >> rose: and you don't put american troops on the ground. it's the same... it's the haunting legacy in spades. when obama decided that he was going to do something about libya, we all remember that he said we're going do this, we're going to measure the american effort in days, perhaps weeks. and it ended up being a couple of weeks.
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but now he is saddleed with something very, very large and, again, it goes back to vietnam. what is it that you do about libya? do you simply allow it to go its own way? after you've made a little commitment do you allow the little commitment to be wasted? and if that country goes bad, do you think that the republicans are t going to accuse you of king the wrong call? i mean, john mccain has already sa the president's made the wrong call. is i the kind of agony right now that this president is going through. it's that same guns and butter argument. >> rose: i was going ask you as i was listening to him. do you think a president hilry clinton... >> (laughs) >> rose:... would be any different? >> i think she probably wod have made similar decisions. i mean, the big difference between them... >>. >> rose: she was more hard line than he was and it'said she is even today in the councils of
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government. that she was more allied with bob gates than she was... >> yeah, that was the big difference during the campaign between them and that was what got oba doing soell in iowa was his rly opposition. >> rose: she supported the war even though it was just based on a speech that he'd written. so the last question is what's it going to take so that this is no longer true? >> think that it's going to be with us, charlie, for a very, very long time. and the reason i say that is that as the years go by it isn't that apresident has to think about vietnam, because vietnam has now insinuated itself int the d.n.a. of every presidt. now you think of code words. you think out having a clear exit strategy. >> rose: right. >> of giving clear instructions to the military. what are you really saying?
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you're really saying "i don't want another vietnam," but you don't articulate the word. you live the thought, the very essence of it. and that essence is now deeply embedded in american politics and in american foreig policy. >> rose: many people have written books about vietnam. many of themriends of marvin and friends of mine that we admire greatly. but this is a book about not the war itself but the legacy of the war, which puts in the a different place and worthy of your considerion because it affects policy today. because what happens in the end, it is a personal decision and people who make personal decisions are thinking about all the implications, including their own legacy. >> exactly. >> rose: so my last question to you is what is it like to work with this guy? (laughter) >> it's been a wonderful experience. i'm very lucky to have such a great father that i can wri a book with. >> rose: i agree with that judgment. thank you, it was grea toeet
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you. >> thank you >> thank you, pleasur >> rose: "unting legacy." marvin kalb and deborah kalb. >> rose: did wise is here. he has written a lot of books on spies, sing, and spy agencies. he wrote "the invisible government" in 1964. it is widely credited with altering the perception of the c.i.a. s latest is "tiger trap: america's secret spy war with china." it explores the complicated dynamic at the heart of spy wars between the united states and china. i spoke with david wise and here is that conversation. i've heard people say that china is engaged in more espionage against the united any nation today. >> i think that's true and, you know, while everybody was watching the russians-- and i'vn or 11 books about the russians, "tiger trap" is number 14-- china wa increasing its ability
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to spy on this country. and this is the first book about that. >> rose: tell me about the dth of the penetration. >> well, this began for me when i read a little story about a woman on the west coast named a trena lee young who... >> rose: i read tt story. i was in intrigued, too. >> that was a while a and she wa working for the f.b.i. but somewhere along the line she started working for china. so she was doubled by the chinese. she was alsoleeping with the two top counterintelligee agents on the west coast who were responsible for catching chinese spies. if there's any hero to this story it's leslie wiser. leslie wiser didind the evidence in aldrich ames' trash, a yellow post-it note that allowed them to arrest aldrich ames who was the c.i.a. mole for the k.g.b.. and what happened was that robert mullen, the director of the f.b.i., called in wes wiser,
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who was his ace counterintelligence agent and said there's something bad going nonlos angeles. by this time it had reached the years of headquarters that the two top counterintelligence f.b.i. agents on the west coast... >> rose: were sleeping with the same woman. >> whoas pposed to be an f.b.i. source and she was also working for china. he said "go out there and fin out what's going on." wiser did. he went out with a hand-picked group of agents, opened a separate office in santa monica because one of the two agents involved with a trena he young whose code name was "parlor maid" was retired but he might occasionallyrop by the headquarrs on wilshire in los angeles and so it wouldn't do he saw wiser there. so wiser set up in santa monica which is my favorite part of los angeles anyway, with the beach and everythi. and set up there and he was able to videope j.j. smith, the
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f.b.i. man, and katrina leung in a hotel room and they weren't there to discuss foreign policy. so that kind of broke open the case and then when katrina leung was questioned she said, yes, j.j. smith was take his to their house for their trysts, her husband would make himself scarce because he thought they were working for the f.b.i. and she would see the documents that he brought he should not have brought bu she would see the ones she wanted and she would copy them. >> rose: the other part of this that's fascinating is the significance of the theft of nuclear secrets. >> yes. well, this is a fascinating story that tell for the first time. in 1995 a chinese gentleman walked into a c.i.a. station in southeast asia and he said "i have documents that will be of interest." and then he produced the
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documents. not right away but soon after. one of the documents-- and tre were hundreds ofocuments that he'd gotten out of china-- was a detailed description of with-88 nuclear warhead, which is the united states's most sophiscated advanced warhead that ss on the trident missiles on th trident submines. one trident submarinean take out any country on the face of the earth. so this was an enormous leak of information. and, of course, the c.i.a. said to him "well, how did you get this material out of china?" he said "well, i sent it out by d.h.l." but he told this fantastic story that is so bizarre it might just be true. he said he worked in the nuclear program, he had access to an archive where these secrets were held and he went in one night and he gathered up all these documents, including the document about with-88, the warhead. anhe stuffed them in a duffel
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bag and then he thought "well, how do i get this duffel bag out of the buildin" he thought that through, apparently. so he had an idea. he threw the duffel bag out the window. the duffel bag broke-- this is his story. papers scattered all around. he then panicked and decided to hide and he heard footsteps coming down the hall. and he was very frightened but the footsteps faded away and after a bit he relaxed, felt that he hadn't been discovered and he lit up a cigarette. very bad move. the smoke was rising from behind the desk and, of course, a guard came by and saw the smoke and didn't see the guy and said wait a minute, there must be somebody smoking a cigarette and he took the guy out from his hiding place and the man known as a walk-in in intelligence terms said "well, i was working late and i fell asleep and then i woke up and decided to have a cigarette and relax a little bit." and he said "but i'm leaving now
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and he went out, ran around the building and there was the bufl bag and he gathered up all the papers, and the rest is histo. >> rose: got them out by d.h.l. >> yes. >> rose: what's the extent of what they achieve by all of this? >> well, i think it was very serious in the case of the nuclear warhead. china was very interested in building a small nuclear warhead. with-88 is very small so that it can fit in the nose cone of the missile. and they didn't have that capability at that time. and that gets us into the case of when honk lee who was originally suspected of leaking with-88. he was treated very badly and never produced any evidence that head leaked the w 88. and what happened then was pretty interesting because people don't understand wen ho li was the subject of two previous investigations by the f.b.i.ç one was because he called a
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suspect o worked at the lawrence liver mortar laboratory and he said... heas being wiretapped by the f.b.i. so the f.b.i. heard this phone call. he was suspected of giving secrets to china to deal with the neutron bomb which had been developed and lawrence liver more laboratory where the hydrogen bomb was also developed and so on. so the scientist who turned out to be wen ho li id "i'm calling from los alamosand you' a fellow scientist of chinese background. i want to see whether perhaps i can find out who squealed on you." so the f.b.i. opened an investigation of mr. li at that time. the second investigation of li before he became famous as the world-famous suspect in with-88 was known in intelligence circles as "the hug." now it got that name because in
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1994 a chinese scientist who was their top weapons designer ca to los alamos to give a little lecture and o showed up uninvited but wen ho li. so at the end of the lecture he went up to this man and the man embraced wen ho li like a long-lt friend and gave him a hug. somebody in that audience in los alamos, some other official, had the wit ask himself, well, why is a low-level computer engine wen ho li... >> rose: being hugged by a chinese viz snore >> by the top chinese... well, wen ho li hadn't told that he had met in beijing in a hotel room when the scienti came to his hotel room and was asking him about small warheads. wen ho li says... he said i don't know anything about it, i don't care to discuss it. but he was asked do you use two-point detonation on the w said? a very specific, very secret
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thing. and he forgot to mention that he had been approached by th scientist when he came back and was supposed to report on what had happened in beijing. >> rose: so what's yo judgment about him? >> about wen holy sni >> yeah. >> rose: well, he pleaded guilty to just one count of 59 counts of mishandling classified information. when they couldn't prove he had anything do with with-88, they found that he had downloaded massive amounts of secret material from los alamos on to an open computer and in turn ttin' that on tapes, some couldn't be found by the f.b.i., they're still missing. >> rose: the assumption is that he sent them out? >> well, no one knows. and , you know, i mn the wen ho li case is complicated and it quite possible he came under suspicious because he was ethnic chinese although the jury is o on that, too, because there were other people...
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>> rose: are chinese better at spng on us than we are at spying on them? >> well, that's a very inresting question. our counterintelligence people, even though they were penetrated by china and that was outrageous and terrible, the f.b.i. has had some successes in its counterintelligence efforts. they've arrested quite a few chinese spies in this country and recently there were ten spies in a loosely affiliated network, east coast/west coast. two of them were people who had been recruited by china right out of the pentagon and they were not of chinese background, they were american. and so those ten people were all arrested, all caught and you come back to a question of who's winning this war. i don't know. i don't know. anything anybody knows. we, of course, are tryingo spy
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on china. they have been very active in silicon valley, for example. they've been very active in california in general caus the defense industries are in calirnia and they have recruited people there. they've had some ccesses in that area. the neutron bomb i montied certainly was something they very much wanted to develop to use against soviets if there were a conflict between those do the chinese operate differently than other spy agencies in their methodologys? >> the chinese spy very differently than, for exampl the k.g.b., or nowthe s.b.r., as it's called. the chinese have been at this much longer than we have. they've been at this at least... >> rose: they've been at everything much longer than we have. >> yes. they've been at this at least since 400 b.c. and the art of war, sun tzu. they've been at it since for 24
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centuries, we'v been at it since 1947 and ey are very patient. >> rose: so more moles might have been penetrated? well, i think the way they spy reflects their culture. they're very patient. they gather facts one by one and put them in a mosaic. >> rose: tell me the story about the grain in the sand. >> yes, well, the's a story that is only a story but it's indicative, i think, of how the chinese approachhis spying business. and i first heard the story in the counrintelligence halls of the f.b.i. and it goes like this. if a beach were a target of intelligence interest, the russians would send in a submarine in the dark of night and frogmen... several frogmen would go ashore and they'd grab buckets of sand and bring it back to the submarine, everything would be analyzed in moscow. the americans would send over a satellite which would produce
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reams of data which would be analyzed at langley, virginia, in the c.i.a. headquarters or the n.s.a.. the chinese would send in a thousand tourists. >> rose: (laughs) >> each would be instructed to collect one grain of sand and then when hay got back home to shake out their towels at the end of which time the chinese would know more about that beach than anybody else. >> rose: (laughs) so their target of opportunity is silicon valley for sure. certainly pentagon. >> the defense industry. and petrating the intelligence agency because they penetrated the c.i.a. some years ago in the case of lry wu thai chin who was a top translator for the c.i.a. but he was also working for china for 30 years. and the only rean he was caught is that a defector came out from china who didn't know his name but had some things
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about him that edge able it had f.b.i. to track him down with fascatindetective work, which i talk about in the ok. >> rose: what happened to him? >> he was convicted and commitd suicide in jail. the key to th literally a key, there was a hotel room key and this source inside china who eventually came out and who was working for c.i.a., the source knew that whoever it was who was a mole inside the.i.a. stayed in a certain hotel room in a certain room in a certain hotel and the f.b.i. was able to search larry wu thai chin's luggage and found this key which apparently he felt he should take back, he'd forgot on the turn it in. and being an honest fellow-- at least about keys-- he was going to take it back to beijing and turn it into the defblg. >> rose: the two other subjects, one is about history, one is that the f.b.i. had some evidence about richard nixon and some woman who was a hostess at a bar in hong kong?
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>> yes. >> rose: this is the j. edgar hoover kind of deal. >> it's a very uncertain story. what i clear-- and i found the woman--. >> rose: and she denies it. >> she was a bar hostess. well, hers what she told me. i tracked her down. >> rose: (laughs) you're good! >> and she said that one night she was hostess at this famous bar in the hilton in hong kong and one night nixon said to her "what are you doing after the show" sort of thing and she and a girlfriend went to his hotel room, she says, and there was baby remember bow sew who was nixon's great pal andraveling companion and what mariana lu says, she's the hostess, is that all she did is have a drink there and, you know, a soft drink, she says i don't drink hard liquor, and stayed far while an then left. now the problem is that she also told different stories previous she told me she'd only seen him
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once. she told the "new york times" she'd seen him ever time he went to hong kong. rose: so when you told her that the "new york times" says you saw him many times she said "that's not true?" >> i only saw him in the hotel room the one night with my girlfriend and bibi a bow sew and nixon. however, there were other accounts wch, you know, also said that she was close to nixon. ... and you know i don't come away from that knowing the answer and nixon w certainly not somebody who had a reputation as a laes man, far from it. but j. edgar hoover, of course, loved that kind of gossip. there is a document. >> rose: he loved that kind of information. >> he did. >> rose: it's where his power came from. >> there is an f.b.i. documents which reproduced in the photo section of "tiger trap" in whichs he evidence says that she was a "regur bed mate" of xon every time he came to hong kong.
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>> rose: let me turn to a and current subject, cyber warfare. the chinese are interested in that. >> yes. >> rose: the u.s. is interested in that, cyber command, general keith alexander and all o that. >> right. well, there's no question that the united states is as a highly industrialized society with fracture is vulnerable to hack now china is very active in this record but when i say china, a group of it chinese government... >> rose: do they do it with the chinese government's knowledge? >> there's a problem of what pele who are expert in this subject call "attribution." >> rose: right. >> because it be a gh schoolidcros the street hacking into a computer. it can be someone in ndon--s we know lately-- hacking it can be someone in estonia pretending to be in shanghai. or it can i china.
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having said that... >> rose: this google case and other cases that... >> 4 amerin mpans, defense industry companies apparently have been hacked. >> rose: by chinesesources. >> by chinese sources. now, if you ask me who's doing this, i can on say this: cna has very tight control over the internet. very tight. in fact, they've just put in a new thing within the last day or so saying internet cafes in china have to register everybody so they know who's going online and if the's a word the chinese don't like, it's bounced right off the internet, it's shut down. with that kind of control, it's hard to believe that the hacking from china isn't done with either the tacit encouragement or the actual hacking by china itself. >> rose: non-fiction books by
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mr. wise. the u2 affair, both written with richard b. ross. the american police state, the spy who got away. who >> that was edward lee howard a c.i.a.. >> oh, he went to russia what happened to him? >> he died there. >> rose: was he treated as a hero? >> yes,hey ve him adash i've been in the catch the that. he invited me to lunch catch the that. d head two servants, the k.g.b. provided whim a couple that cooked for him. >> rose: so he'd been a great... >> hwas a benefit to them. he had a drinking problem. >> rose: whs the most spectaculaspy story success against united states? >> wellyou have to look at the last two that i've written about aldrich ames in the c.i.a. and robert hanson. >> rose: right, right. >> in the f.b.i. and i don't know if there are any secrets left after the two of them. >> rose: and most spies get
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uncovered by somebody walking in and saying "i have this document" or... somebody telling on them >> yes, somebod telling on them. it's usually a defector or somebody who wants money who betray it is spies that's the one flaw in being a spy. if you decide to be a spy, charlie, remember there may be somebody on the oth sidwho ows about it. >>ose: don't people suggest that a lot of people were killed because of him? or a number of them? >> certainly in the case of ames something like ten people were killed and others were... >> rose: people who were spying for united states in rsia. >>es, they were russians for the most part who were sources of the c.i.a. a were betrayed by ames who was paid or promised $4.6 million for is information. and seemed to have no regts about it. >> rose: never? >> no. until he was caught. >> rose: then only had
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regrets about being caught. >> exactly. >> rose: mole hunt, what's this? >> well, mole hunt was about the angl in the era and the c.i.a. very destructive period. >> rose: an gelson feared there was amole and in the course of trying to find the mole he virtually destroyed the soviet division of the c.i.a. there was so much suspicion. everybody was a mole. if you're inharge of counterintelligence, i guess it's your job to suspect everyone. >> rose: he was paranoid? >> yes. >> rose: night mover? >> well, that was the story of aldrich ames. that was the f.b.i. code name for the aldrich ames case. >> rose: cassidy's run? >> that was about an interesting man who was a double agent for the f.b.i. he w an army sergeant enlisted to give infoation about nerve gas, which was incorrect, to th. the f.b.i. hoped the russians would go... the scientists woul go down the wrong path with this flawed information. a very dangerous game, but he did it wl. >> and spy?
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>> well, spy it was story of robert hanson. >> ros have you wanted to write about and have you written about the mossad? >> i have written a little bit about the ssad but if you're suggesting another book, noi have not done a book on the mossad. >> rose: but are you intrigued by them? >> oh, yes, of course. the mossad has the reputation of being the best spy service in the world. whether... >> rose: is that ajustified reputation >> i'm not sure it is. but it's like that's t reputation theve had for at least 30 years and ty've had a succeson of people running and it's not just the mossad, there's the shin bet and other intelligence agencies. th have that reputation and they are very good but they've made some mistakes, too.some ofr mistakes. they killed the wrong manat one point. >> rose: they acknowledged that, didn't they? >> they did. >> rose: who was that in terms
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the hunt in black september tonn black september they called a person that was not... >> exactly. so nobody's perfect. tiger trap is this book. america's secret spy war wh china. the "washington post" calls david wise justifiably so america's premier writer on espionage. thank you, my friend. nice to see you. thank you, charlie. captioni sponsoredy rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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WSQ Lead Workplace Communication & Engagement (Preview - Free) - December
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Monday, 17 December 2018 at 09:00 - Thursday, 20 December 2018 at 18:00 (Singapore Standard Time Singapore Time)
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Course Dates: 17 & 20 December 2018
This course is supported by SSG Funding up to 95% and by Skillsfuture Credit.
Be an effective leader and engage both internal and external customers effectively with the essential communication skills. Apply best workplace communications practices and conduct negotiations to achieve win-win outcomes so as to meet organisational goals.
Key Benefits
- Lead workplace communication by evaluating and identifying gaps and barriers in workplace communication
- Develop and communicate plans to implement communication strategies and mechanisms
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- Conduct research on best practices in workplace communication, evaluate their suitability for adoption and establish benchmarks for the organisation
- Evaluate gaps and barriers in workplace communication based on determined benchmarks and establish communication strategies and mechanisms that meet organisational goals and objectives
- Develop communication plan to implement communication strategies and mechanisms
- Use communication strategies to influence organisational culture and motivate employees to commit to the organisation's vision, mission and core values
- Evaluate employees' level of acceptance of organisation's vision, mission and core values and take corrective actions where needed
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the communication strategies and mechanisms, and implementation plan
- Establish the actual causes of conflict or dispute and plan for negotiation
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Karrueche Tran Disses Rihanna: Her Twerk Video is 'Tasteless'
No doubt many people loved Rihanna's sexy twerking video, but not Karrueche! In fact, Chris Brown's current flame thinks Chris' former flame is 'thirsty for attention.' Yikes!
Karrueche Tran is not impressed with Rihanna. The singer appeared to be trying to diss her ex Chris Brown when she appeared in a video on Instagram of her twerking to a Drake song, and Karrueche simply thinks that her love rival RiRi lacks taste and wants attention, a source revealed to Hollywoodlife.com exclusively.
Karrueche Tran Thinks Rihanna's 'Thristy' For Twerking
Karrueche, 25, does not care for Rihanna's sexy twerking because she thinks there was "no reason for all that."
"Karrueche doesn't really talk about Rihanna but she has seen her Twerk video and couldn't believe it," source close to the model EXCLUSIVELY tells HollywoodLife.com. "From her perspective, it wasn't tasteful at all. There was just no reason for all that. I don't know. That girls free to do whatever she wants but it makes her look bad and thirsty doing stuff like that."
Whoa! Karrueche is not the only one who isn't a fan of Rihanna's sexy twerking, as HollywoodLife.com learned that her ex Chris found it embarrassing too.
Chris Brown Does Not Appreciate Rihanna's Twerking
"Yeah, he saw it," a source close to Chris tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively. "All he did was laugh at it, say, 'wow,' and shake his head. "He loves her and has respect for her that's out of this world, but clearly she's desperate for attention."
Meow! Put those claws away Chris.
But did Rihanna even make the twerking video to diss Chris or Drake? A source close to her tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively no: "She's not sending a message to either of those guys."
"She was feeling the song and wanted to drop it a few times," the source adds. "It's just a video of her dancing."
Well we think she dances and twerks just fine! Keep it up RiRi.
What do YOU think HollywoodLifers? Do YOU like RiRi's twerking?
WATCH: Rihanna Disses Chris Brown While Twerking To Drake
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Another $50 off that TV
In writing about Circuit City's liquidation, nine days ago I wrote:
I suspect a 20% discount timed for SuperBowl Sunday (Feb. 1) would clear out most of the inventory.Sure enough, this morning at Circuit City, TVs were 20% off, as were audio equipment, videogames and most of the other high-value items in the store. That's 10% better than last weekend, and 5% better than Monday. Those who want plasma TVs get 25% off.
Although MP3 players are 20%, iPod® brand MP3 players remain 10%, as are all notebook and desktop computers. (Monitors and printers are 20%), while CDs/DVDs are cut to 25%.
Unlike the Mervyn's GOOB, or Good Guys 3 years ago, I haven't spent a penny yet at Circuit City. But it's still interesting to watch what sells and what doesn't, particularly on a liquidation of big ticket items supported by a TV advertising campaign.
I am more likely to spend money at the GOOB for Expo, the mid-market home improvement store owned by Home Depot. The planned liquidation is much smaller (34 stores vs. 500+ for Circuit City) and got almost no press.


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T&T's Emrit ready for Super50
T&T's Emrit ready for Super50
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC)
Captain Rayad Emrit is hoping that with an enhanced side for the Super50, Trinidad and Tobago can win the competition and lift the gloom surrounding their start to the four-day season.
Trinidad and Tobago Red Force languish one from bottom in the six-team standings on 24 points, after a terrible start to the revamped WICB Professional Cricket League.
However, with champion off-spinner Sunil Narine, seamers Ravi Rampaul, Shannon Gabriel and Kevin Cooper, along with leg-spinner Samuel Badree, expected to be available for the Super50 campaign, Emrit is hoping for a turnaround in Red Steel's fortunes.
"The guys are preparing well and there are a lot of senior guys back in the team preparing for this tournament and if they are available obviously they will be into the team," Emrit told the Trinidad Express newspaper.
"The likes of Cooper, Narine, Rampaul, Shannon should be back and Badree is in the squad as well. Hopefully these guys will be fit and they can bring some of their experience to the team."
T&T have endured miserable form in the four-day tournament. They drew with Barbados at home, with rain helping them stave off defeat in the opening round and then easily beat tournament doormat Leeward Islands by six wickets.
However, losses to Jamaica and Guyana Jaguars, both coming at Queen's Park Oval, saw them limp into the Christmas break in bad shape.
"In the four-day tournament, we did not have the results we wanted in the four games we had so far, but the Super50 is different and we are focused on that now," Emrit pointed out.
"It is a limited overs competition and it is the shorter format that the Trinidad and Tobago team seems more comfortable with."
T&T reached the final of the Super50 tournament earlier this year, after finishing second in Group B. However, they went down to Barbados by 17-runs in the championship game, despite being labelled favourites.
Emrit identified inconsistent batting as the root of T&T's problem and said this needed to be improved for the upcoming campaign.
"We had probably our best team in the Regional Super50 this year and we fell short because of our batting again. We keep saying the same thing over and over but hopefully we can get the batting right this time," said the all-rounder.
"Our batters need to put runs on the board in the competition. We come to trials and we score a lot of runs because we are accustomed to the bowlers but we need to go out there on the regional scene and put runs on the board."
The Super50 runs from January 15-25 in Trinidad and the sister island of Tobago.


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On Sep 29, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
On 09/28/2010 07:26 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote:Well, even if you didn't mention it explicitly, it was listed in thelspci dump since the beginning and nobody saw it until now. And one mayalso find it disturbing that a piece of software doesn't work with an addon card on a machine that has free slots to add such cards ! But bootstrapping an OS on non-original hardware modification is always a bit hard.Promise add-on sata controllers do not have proper OpenFirmware support.Therefore, they will never be able to boot an OpenFirmware machine. There are very few add-on SATA controllers with proper OpenFirmware support. Here are four I personally tried out: Sonnet Tempo SATA PCI [1] SeriTek/1V4 [2] SeriTek/1eVE2+2 [3] SeriTek/1S2 [4] Other SeriTek cards explicitly described as "compatible with allPCI-based Power PC Macintosh computers" with "completely self- containedbooting functionality" should probably work equally well. If you find other add-on sata controller(s) able to boot a PowerMac machine, please let me know. M [1] http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_serial_ata.html [2] http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1v4/ [3] http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1ve2plus2/ [4] http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1s2/
OK... If I'm understanding this correctly, it means that NewWorld Mac's can boot either from the on-board ATA or one of these OF- supporting SATA controllers (possibly with some tweaks to ofpath to deal with any peculiarities of the non-Apple controllers) but *not* from most non-OF-aware controllers.
I, for one, can live with that as long as I've got some small ATA drives I can use for the purpose. All I have to put on it is the "apple bootstrap (HFS) partition" and /boot, right? But root and all the rest can be on the big SATAs, right?
It's not "beautiful" or elegant, but it is a reasonable work-around for a problem that we can't fix in the Debian environment.
Or am I missing something? Rick


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But this omission can no longer be tolerated at a time when life expectancy for many American women is decreasing, for the first time in decades. The Women2Women Policy Agenda supports efforts to provide for better health and life outcomes for women in the following policy areas:
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The Women2Women Agenda aims to improve access to healthcare for women and their families. Sadly, Alzheimer's disease and dementia disproportionately affect women; of the more than 5 million Americans diagnosed with Alzheimer's, two-thirds are women. This statistic is more troubling considering that the majority of primary caregivers are women. We need legislation to help improve care and treatment for Alzheimer's and dementia, which will improve the lives of the millions of women who suffer from the disease and the millions more who act as caregivers. The Women2Women Policy Agenda supports policies for greater and more equal women's opportunity in the following areas:
• Ensuring Children's Access to Specialty Care
• Facilitating Family Health Care Flexibility
• Reducing Substance Abuse and Addiction
• Improving Dementia Care and Treatment
• Preventing Cancer Through Safer Sunscreens
• Ensuring the Safety of Personal Care Products
• Allowing Terminal Patients the "Right to Try" Experimental Therapies
Women and Education
As mothers, women want their children to have a good start in life and to face as few barriers to success as possible.
Inadequacies in our public education system, and the lack of high-quality childhood education, pose a threat to our children's futures. So too do the out-of-control increases in college costs and student debt. The Women2Women Policy Agenda supports policies in these areas to make education better, more accessible, and more affordable:
Women and Education
The Women2Women Policy Agenda supports efforts to provide for greater opportunity and social mobility through education. These efforts include the following policy areas:
• Expanding Access to High-Quality Preschool
• Enabling State Pre-K and Head Start Partnerships
• Lifting Obstacles to School Reform
• Bolstering 21st-Century Skills Training
• Improving 529 College Savings Plans
• Enhancing Pell Grant Flexibility
• Encouraging Cost Containment and Innovative Low-Cost Education
• Enabling Student Debt Interest Rate Refinancing
• Increasing Loan Repayment Flexibility
• Facilitating Employer Student Loan Payments on Behalf of Employees
Early Childhood Education
Greater investment in early childhood education and development, along the lines of universal pre-K and programs put in place by several Republican governors.
• Expanding Access to High-Quality Preschool
• Enabling State Pre-K and Head Start Partnerships
• Lifting Obstacles to School Reform
College Education and Student Loans
To make college savings go further, Main Street Member Lynn Jenkins proposed expanded use of 529 college-savings plans that allow families to save while their children grow and then use the funds to pay for college expenses without being taxed.
Opening up Pell Grants to allow students to receive funding for summer courses, as proposed in the Flexible Pell Grant for 21st Century Students Act by Main Street Rep. Elise Stefanik, will give more students the opportunity to finish school faster and on their own schedule. This is important given that more students are receiving degrees while working and not just attending class in the traditional fall and spring semesters.
• Bolstering 21st-Century Skills Training
• Improving 529 College Savings Plans
• Enhancing Pell Grant Flexibility
• Encouraging Cost Containment and Innovative Low-Cost Education
• Enabling Student Debt Interest Rate Refinancing
• Increasing Loan Repayment Flexibility
• Facilitating Employer Student Loan Payments on Behalf of Employees
Women and Politics
The media is full of stories about the difference in voting preferences between women and men. In the 2016 presidential election, this "gender gap" between our two principal political parties reached a new record as the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, won with men by 12 points and lost with women by the same margin.
But another political gender gap is more troubling: Women's underrepresentation in politics and government. Women are a majority of voters, but Congress is 80 percent male. The situation is even more acute for Republicans: GOP Congressmen outnumber GOP Congresswomen by a more than 11-to-1 ratio. And this problem is getting worse over time.
Women and Politics
When women run for political office, they're just as likely as men to win election. But few women throw their hats in the political ring because they need a lot more encouragement than men to become candidates. It's a matter of confidence — or women's lack of it. Numerous studies have shown that men who consider running for office think they're extremely well qualified — even when they're not. But even highly qualified women don't believe they meet the bar to run for office
There's more to women's underrepresentation in politics than that, though. Because there are so few women in politics, potential women candidates lack familiarity with the structure that could shepherd them through primary elections. Women candidates also lack familiarity with fundraising, which is the biggest perceived barrier to running for higher office. Women are less likely than men to ask for money — or to ask for enough money.
The reality is that when it comes to political campaigns, men are still the ones who write the checks. Political observers have seen time and again how a male candidate and a female candidate will receive radically different treatment when they speak to a potential (male) donor. The male candidate will have a friendly chat with the donor about sports, fraternities, and the people and networks they have in common. The female candidate will receive none of the pleasantries, she'll be expected to know twice as much about policy, and she'll walk out with a check that's half the size of the man's.


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Born on June 6th 1868 in England, Robert Falcon Scott, a British Royal Naval Officer and an Antarctic explorer was famous for his two expeditions to the South Pole. He was the third child of his parents in Devon. His family was traditionally in the armed services, and he carried the legacy further.
He had his education at Stubbington House School, Hampshire, and began his naval career in 1881 as naval cadet, after the naval training ship HMS Britannia at Dartmouth.
He had an impressive naval career later, with progressive flow from a cadet to a Sub-Lieutenant in 1888 at Greenwich from Royal Naval College, and promoted to the post of Lieutenant in 1889. He went through the 2-year torpedo training course in 1891 which marked as a significant step in his career.
Originally called as the British National Antarctic Expedition, the Discovery Expedition raised Scott to fame. It was a joint collaboration of the RGS and the Royal Society, initiated by Markham (now Sir Clements and RGS President). But Scott led the team and was promoted to the naval rank of Commander before the expedition took off for Antarctic on 31 July 1901.
The first 2 years were challenging and the major objective was the long march down south along with the quest for the Pole. Scott's team had a bad experience marching to a latitude of 82°17'S, to the Pole covering 460 nautical miles (850 km, 530 miles).
The second year saw a significant improvement in the accomplishments, leading to the discovery of the Polar Plateau. Scott became a popular hero after this, in 1904. He was honored with the title of 'Legion of Honor', and promoted to the Royal Navy rank of Captain. In 1906, he resumed his naval career. He got married to Kathleen Bruce in 1907, and they had only child Peter Markham Scott.
Terra Nova Expedition's main objective was to reach the South Pole first. The RGS or the Royal Society was not involved this time. Scott pioneered the routes and laid down some complex strategies which included the use of dogs, horses, motor sledges and even man-hauling.
Poor analysis of the resources, time mismanagement, frostbite, snow-blindness, hunger and exhaustion, somehow led to the demise of the team members gradually. Scott died on 29 March 1912, and the bodies of all were discovered in the tent later.
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It seems to be a convention that when you are writing about Graham Swift, somewhere in the first paragraph or two you refer to "Waterland, his best book." It would be a great thing to kick over the traces and declare Waterland a mere bagatelle beside Swift's new novel; unfortunately, that is impossible. So, let us have it over with. Swift's third novel was set in the east of England, in the Fens. Its narrator, a history teacher, brooded on his family, his adolescence, on the influences that created him. Stories of his own locality were interwoven with stories of the great world, and the patterns of the past informed every event. Waterland was a book which both reassured and captivated the reader by its exact sense of place and the solidity of its physical world: a moving meditation on the meaning of landscape and history, carefully if not elegantly written, exact and well-arranged; a book both modest and luminous.
After this book's huge critical and popular success, expectations for Swift's fourth novel were extremely high. Out of This World was the story of a war photographer, Harry Beech; his father, an arms manufacturer; his daughter Sophie, damaged and depressed, talking to her analyst in New York. Like much of Swift's work it was concerned with complex and repeating family patterns, the sins of one generation visited on the next. Guilt and selfdoubt furnished the interior landscape. The exterior landscape was a public one: Belsen, Vietnam, the Falklands. It was an austere book, which yielded little to even the most willing and receptive reader; it encapsulated large questions in sharp images, as if they were seen through the war photographer's eye, but its characters seemed types, walking arguments. It moved the critics to respect rather than rapture.
Ten years ago, before Waterland, Graham Swift published a collection of short stories called Learning to Swim. It is interesting to read them at this point and to see how his work has grown from them, how his preoccupations have evolved. They are thoughtful stories, analytical, discursive, with a surplus of introspection over action. They reach out beyond their own confines, as if they were trying to become novels; which indeed they are. Fear—sometimes lifelong—is a theme: fear of water sometimes, of all the treacherous seductive undercurrents of the unconscious mind. The stories are about family bonds, ancestry, dubious paternity, marital infidelity, buried secrets come to light. In Ever After these themes have matured; it seems Swift has been brooding a long while on this novel, much longer than the four years since he last published.
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|30 old pictures of Bradford pubs
30 old pictures of Bradford pubs
|The Bradfordian Pub, Westgate, 1986
|Calico Jacks in Vicar Lane, 1996
|The Cambridge Hotel in 1974
|The Cock and Bottle, on Barkerend Road, pictured in 1986
|The Duchess of Kent, pictured in 1975
|Empress, Tyrell Street, in 1992
|The Lock Stock & Barrel in 1992
|The Lower Globe Inn, 1974
|The Market Tavern at Kirkgate Market, in 1979
|The New Inn, Tyrrel Street, 1961
|Odd Fellows Hall in Thornton Road, which is now demolished, opened in 1837
|Perseverance Pub, Lumb Lane, 1985
|The Talbot Hotel, Kirkgate, in 1979
|The Diplomat, Sunbridge Road, pictured in 1994
|The Flagship, in 1985
|The Fox and Goose, off Canal Road, 1993
|The Goldsborough, on Bolton Road, in 1996
|The Junction, Leeds Road, 1976
|The Lancaster, Westgate, pictured in 1990
|The Mannville Arms, Great Horton Road, 1985
|The Melborn Hotel, Manningham, in 1994
|The Old Crown, Ivegate, 1993
|The Olde Devonshire Arms, Thornton Road, 1992
|The Rams Revenge, Upper Millergate,1986
|The Rawson Hotel, John Street, 1995
|The Ring O Bells, Bolton Road, 1986
|The Smithy, Southgate, in 1988
|The Unicorn Hotel, Ivegate, 1958
|Tickles Music Hall, Westgate, in 1993
|Yate's Wine Lodge, Ivegate, 1972
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Enters her husband's office nude
In the final episode of the first season. She enters Billy's office nude. She's shown from behind and her left butt cheek is clearly seen. Then we see her from the front but her good parts are covered by a desk lamp. I'm not 100% certain if a body double is used but I'm pretty sure she went on talk shows saying it was her. If it is, enjoy it, it might be the only look she'll ever give us. And she's such a babe.
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walking into the office nude is a body boudle she admitted she would never do a nude scene
office entrance
She told everyone on one of the morning talk show s that the nude scene was a double. She has a nice body but, I don't know that its that nice. I love when they tease you with a little bit, it allows the mind to wander.
Edited scenes
Fx, the cable network that now shows reruns of Ally McBeal shows the edited part of the scene. She walks out of the room with Billy and her buttocks are clearly seen. They show it as part of advertisement or "teasers" for the show.
Naked, displaying butt, back, and side of breast (no nipple)
This is a strong 1 star for U.S. TV.
In the episode Courtney (Georgia) enters her husband's (Billy's) office naked to seduce him at work. The initial showing is from directly behind, revealing the left half of her naked back, from calf up to shoulder, cutting off just at the butt crack. The face isn't shown here, so it could be a body double. The next camera angle is reversed (face-on), but there's a desk lamp centered with the lamp pedestal rising up Courtney's torso and the triangular shade covering both breasts. The bottom of the frame shows her hands on her hips. Then a cut back to the rear shot, with just a smidge of the side of her left breast (again, possibly a body double).
In the FX preview for this episode, we see the intervening shot as Georgia pulls Billy by the hand into the conference room to boink on the table. This is a view from the desk, with the lamp shade cutting across Courtney's back just below breast height, showing most of the side of her left breast, just missing (I think) showing the nipple. She's got her head turned to the left and her left arm extended to hold Billy's hand. The left side of her face is in profile, and it's clearly Courtney Thorne-Smith and not a body double. The top 80% of her butt crack is also shown at the same time as her face. In the next few frames we lose sight of the face, but see the entire butt: both cheeks, full length of crack, and the top couple of inches of thigh.
The final nudity for this episode is in the conference room, as Ally opens the door to find Billy on top of Georgia on the table. They're embracing, so their arms and Billy's chest covers everything except a little bit of cleavage.
Courtney shows smooth golden skin throughout, without tan lines.
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She stoops down and we see up her blouse that she has no bra on. Her right 32aaa tit is virtually all nipple and areola.
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Foundation For An Enviable Marriage (2) by Pastor Faith Oyedepo
Topic: Foundation For An Enviable Marriage (2)
Topic: Foundation For An Enviable Marriage (2)
Dear Reader,
You are most welcome to this weekly column! I started a teaching last week, on the foundation for an enviable marriage. I noted that an enviable marriage is the benefit of those who go for understanding in the Word of God.
This week, I will be speaking on Obedience, a pathway to enjoying God's best in marriage.
God always fulfills His own side of the marriage covenant. The man and his wife who are the second party in the marriage covenant are the variables. They must be ready to obey the terms of the agreement as stated in God's Word, so they can reap the rewards that go with obedience.
Disobedience to God is the beginning of a bad marriage. The disobedience of man (and his wife) to the terms of the covenant as stated in God's Word, is usually the cause of many marital sorrows, problems, frustration and eventual divorce.
The reason for many people's divorce situation is their hardness of heart. My husband says, "You need a heart to make a mark", and if I may add, "You need a right heart to make a right mark in your family life." The man and his wife have to fulfill their own part of the covenant, if they must enjoy the best that marriage has to offer.
However, to enjoy fulfillment in the marriage covenant, co-operation between the husband and the wife is a major requirement. Wherever the man does not co-operate with the woman or the woman does not co-operate with the man, fulfillment remains a dream that can never be realized.
The responsibility of the man is to govern the home and cater for the needs of his family (this includes spiritual, physical and material needs) as established in Ephesians 5:23 and 1 Timothy 5:8. The woman's role in the covenant is to submit to her husband as seen in Ephesians 5:22.
In essence, if the man and his wife are to enjoy an enviable marriage, then they must adhere to the terms of the marriage covenant. Many people, even Christians, want to enjoy a good marriage but are not ready to be obedient to the terms of the covenant.
Outside of obedience, the fruit of a successful marriage cannot be obtained. An enviable marriage and family is, therefore, the fruit of obedience. A good and fulfilled marriage is possible, but only those that are ready to obey the terms of the agreement can have access to this unique fruit.
Obedience to God's Word is the secured path to a glorious marriage. Grace for obedience is released to those who are born again. The foundation of an enviable marriage is God. Do you want to enjoy a most successful marriage? If yes, then give your life to Christ. This entails confessing your sins and accepting Jesus as your Lord and Saviour. If you are not born again and you are ready for this new birth experience, please say this prayer: "Dear Lord Jesus, I come to You today as a sinner. Forgive me of my sins. I believe You died and rose on the third day for my sins. I accept You as my Lord and Saviour. Make me a child of God today. Thank You for accepting me into Your Kingdom."
Congratulations! You are now born again! All-round rest and peace are guaranteed you, in Jesus' Name. Call or write, and share your testimonies with me through [email protected]; OR 07026385437 and 08141320204.
For more insight, these books authored by me are available at the Dominion Bookstores in all Living Faith Churches and other leading Christian bookstores: Marriage Covenant, Making Marriage Work, Building A Successful Home and Success in Marriage (Co-Authored).


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