on the bottom and whites are on the top but that only comes around when there is a catastrophe like katrina or flint or a police shooting. but again what about the poor white man? believe that they have scrubbed themselves clean of it but how could they know? they spent no time in his living room in the corner bar so to them he is a louse and a bore into racist to dig any deeper is an exercise of inconvenience and toothache he resides only in appalachia but that is right under their noses from boston. so when these white men are at the hands of law enforcement it is universally agreed upon that they must have deserved it after all the black man is the target by virtue of his skin color what possible defense cut a white man muster? please do not kill white people unless they had it coming. the black media hops on border turns their head away to have little contact with the white lower class their interest more like maintaining their credibility with the community will not belong if they ever did in study show what you should already know. regardless of race people are more violent for they a

like katrina or flint or pay police shooting. but again, what about the poor white man? the liberal white elite who have been raised with advantage but believe they have scrubbed themselves clean of it still tag the poor whites as the privileged ones. but how could they know? how could they know? they spent no time in his living room in the corner bar, the pistol range. to them, he is a louse and a bore a racist and to dig any deeper is simply an exercise in inconvenience. and they seem to think he resides only in appalachia although he lives right under their noses in boston to bakersfield. so when these white men die at the hands of law enforcement, it is universally agreed upon by liberal white media types that they must have deserved it. after all, the black man is a target simply by virtue of his skin color. what possible defense could a white man muster? police do not kill white people with all of their privilege. unless they had it coming. the elite black media hops on board or rather, turned their heads away as they too, have little contact with the white lower c

the work to reform our schools started before katrina. there's a myth out there that all the started when the levees broke, when the water came in and everybody, no. our reforming our poor performing public schools started well before katrina and it wasn't just focus on new orleans although that's where it ended up being most noticed, but it started by a group of citizens, black, white, hispanic, everyone sang look, there's something wrong with our public schools in the cities come in the counties, in the parishes come in the rural areas. let's try to fix it. and governors democrat and republican, this is not a partisan issue in louisiana,, which is sort of said our schools need to be better. we are like the 50th state in the economy. we hate being the last do we get from last to first? it's not easy. let's focus on getting a good to great education. we started, you can go back and research this, all sorts of laws and rules and regulations trying to get us to better public schools. i was part of that. i was with the legislation when i was

you've written about james come use with about the flood and human by katrina, jimmy carter. why alaska? >> guest: i am writing a whole history of u.s. conservation movement in my first fight was called the wilderness warrior and dealt with theodore roosevelt others. this is the second installment and its the whole campaign that begins in 1879 with a cofounder of the sierra club going up and sing those incredible glaciers in the passage of alaska and writing about it and how a whole group of what i call really wilderness warriors have worked to save wild alaska including theodore

. >> doug brink lee you have britain about the flood in -- and katrina and jimmy carter. why alaska? >> right now i'm writing the whole history of u.s. conservation movement and my first volume was called the wilderness warrior and dealt with theodore roosevelt and john pure and it's -- john muir and begins in 1879, john muir, going up and seeing those incredible gray irish the inside passage of alaska and writing about putt and a whole group of what i call wilderness warriores have work to save wild alaska, including theodore roosevelt, and i'm now work on the third violent on the silent spring revolution, and the 1960s. this is not just a history book. end it in 1960, when eisenhower saved the arctic refuge, anwar and that's our nation's greatest wildlife refuge. >> host: this is a story about points. let's begin with president teddy roosevelt. >> guest: he saved the whole grid of modern oklahoma. today we have an alaska maritime national wildlife area, the aleutian chain. their stopped the timbering on the panhandle of alaska and places leak the yukon delta, i and roos

you've written about james come use with about the flood and human by katrina, jimmy carter. why alaska? >> guest: i am writing a whole history of u.s. conservation movement in my first fight was called the wilderness warrior and dealt with theodore roosevelt others. this is the second installment and its the whole campaign that begins in 1879 with a cofounder of the sierra club going up and sing those incredible glaciers in the passage of alaska and writing about it and how a whole group of what i call really wilderness warriors have worked to save wild alaska including theodore roosevelt and charles was synonymous with mount mckinley, denali national park. on and on and now work on the third volume of assignment revolution of the 1950s. this is not just a history book. i ended in 1960 with eisenhower's save the arctic refuge that you about in the news all the time. that's our nation's great wildlife refuge and what this is a story about personalities and let's talk about some of them. let's begin with president teddy roosevelt and his involvement in alaska. >> guest: tr sav

this is far greater than hurricane katrina. we are look at something that would be brought about technological disaster that would be comparable to war. one of the problems with spent fuel is it's sort of unresolved is the fact that the nuclear regulatory commission has been allowing the reactor operators to irradiate the fuel longer by increasing the amount of uranium 235 from about 3 1/2 to almost 5 percent in content. what this does is it builds up a great deal more radioactivity products as well as fissile materials and this stuff is very hot, and the nrc does not have a technical basis to support the safe transport of this material, and it's likely to be trapped at reactor sites until we figure out whether this stuff can be safely moved. what the research is showing that the longer you keep the stuff in a reactor and irradiate, the thinner it becomes, the more likely it corrodes. it becomes very vulnerable to movement and vibrations, and so -- there's no technical basis in terms of information to tell you about the levels

is a national model now that is used to mitigate social capitol loss after disaster it was used in katrina it's about getting people together to shift out of the victim mode into the survivor mode by together for the common good. what are the bigger problems outside yourself and drawing you outside yourself, you actually start healing your own trauma. feeling communities are only part of the democracy crisis and also a fundamental problem with our governance and this is legal battle stretched over the deck kaisdz. people in cordova began to ask what is going on how did corporations get this big -- where they can manipulate the the legal system i thought that was a really good question. so i went to look for answers. in last chapter of not one drop which is a new beginning, and to move into the chapter i discovered that we have to actually go back into time and recall -- that our founders envisioned our governance as three branches. a legislature that makes the law a judiciary branch that interprets the law and an executive branch that enforces the law. and after all of this, are we the peo

was using katrina. it's about getting people together to shift out of the victim mode into the survivor mode by working together for thecommon good . what are the bigger problems outside yourself and in drawing outsideyourself , you actually start healingyour own trauma . healing communities are only part of the democracy crisis. there's also a fundamental problem with our governance . we stumbled onto this problem as our legal battle stretched out over the decades. peopdoba began to ask what is going on? how did corporations get this big where they can manipulate the legal system? i thought that was a good question so i went to look for the answer and now we are moving into our last chapter of "not one drop" which is called a new beginning and to move into this chapter i discovered we have to go back in time and recall our founders envisioned our governance as three branches. a legislature that makes the law, a judiciary that interprets the law and an executive branch enforces the law. and over all thi

at last but not least we have katrina cooper, ambassador cooper served as deputy chief admission of the australian embassy. and it's a position she assumed in october of last year, previously she served as australia's ambassador to mexico with nonresident accreditation too much of central america and before that served at fort moore's b and in chile and as senior legal advisor and in short she's had a distinguished career with the department of foreign affairs and trade which among other responsibilities manages australia's aid and development assistance program so thank you for being here today. let me start if i can with a broad general question, have each one of you comments from the perspective of your own particular agencies and government which is what is the role of development finance into the broader indo-pacific concept? we hear from secretary pompeo and secretary ross about the broader agenda. but i'd like to start by hearing from each of you about your perspective about why the region matters. your organization's activities and how that work ties into the broader indo-pacifi

if you'll recall, after hurricane katrina we saw how discrepancies between wind damage and water damage on the total loss properties often prevented property owners from being made whole. there was a dispute between the flood insurance folks and the wind insurance folks and the property owner was caught in the middle. the coastal act and follow-up coastal implementation act seek to address these discrepancies with better data collection and more accurate post storm assessments. more specifically, we won't know if the national oceanic and atmospheric association to be able to assess the wind and water at affected sites, and with sound data the property owners can receive fair compensation for their losses. some perhaps from the flood insurance coverage and some from the wind insurance coverage, reducing cases of indeterminant losses would ultimately reduce costs to the national flood insurance program and better serve the public. my other reform proposal also seeks to arm us with better data. and i call this legislation the mima act, which stands for municipality empowerment mapping achi