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Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six
CHAPTER 2
SADDLING UP
The Communications Room was on the second floor of the building whose renovations had just been completed. It had the usual number of teletype machines for the various world news services, plus TV sets for CNN, and Sky News, and a few other broadcasts. These were overseen by people the Brits called "minders," who were overseen in turn by a career intelligence officer. The one on this shift was an American from the National Security Agency, an Air Force major who usually dressed in civilian clothes that didn't disguise his nationality or the nature of his training at all.
Major Sam Bennett had acclimated himself to the environment. His wife and son weren't all that keen on the local TV, but they found the climate agreeable, and there were several decent golf courses within easy driving distance. He jogged three miles every morning to let the local collection of snake-eaters know he wasn't a total wimp, and he was looking forward to a little bird-shooting in a few weeks. Otherwise, the duty here was pretty easy. General Clark-that's how everyone seemed to think of him seemed a decent boss. He liked it clean and fast, which was precisely how Bennett liked to deliver it. Not a screamer, either. Bennett had worked for a few of those in his twelve years of uniformed service. And Bill Tawney, the British intelligence team boss, was about the best Bennett had ever seen-quiet, thoughtful, and smart. Bennett had shared a few pints of beer with him over the past weeks, while talking shop in the Hereford Officers' Club.
But duty like this was boring most of the time. He'd worked the basement Watch Center at NSA, a large, low-ceiling room of standard office sheep-pens, with mini-televisions and computer printers that gave the room a constant low buzz of noise that could drive a man crazy on the long nights of keeping track of the whole fucking world. At least the Brits didn't believe in caging all the worker bees. It was easy for him to get up and walk around. The crew was young here. Only Tawney was over fifty, and Bennett liked that, too.
"Major!" a voice called from one of the news printers. `We have a hostage case in Switzerland."
"What service?" Bennett asked on the way over.
"Agence France-Press. It's a bank, a bloody bank," the corporal reported, as Bennett came close enough to read-but couldn't, since he didn't know French. The corporal could and translated on the fly. Bennett lifted a phone and pushed a button.
"Mr. Tawney, we have an incident in Bern, unknown number of criminals have seized the central branch of the Bern Commercial Bank. '1 here are some civilians trapped inside."
"What else, Major?"
"Nothing at the moment. Evidently the police are there."
"Very well, thank you, Major Bennett." Tawney killed the line and pulled open a desk drawer, to find and open a very special book. Ah, yes, he knew that one. Then he dialed the British Embassy in.Geneva. "Mr. Gordon. please," he told the operator.
"Gordon," a voice said a few seconds later.
"Dennis, this is Bill Tawney."
"Bill, haven't heard from you in quite a while. What can I do for you?" the voice asked pleasantly.
"Bern Commercial Bank, main branch. There seems to be a hostage situation there. I want you to evaluate the situation and report back to me."
"What's our interest, Bill?" the man asked.
"We have an… an understanding with the Swiss government. If their police are unable to handle it, we may have to provide some technical assistance. Who in the embassy Bases with the local police?"
"Tony Armitage, used to be Scotland Yard. Good man for financial crimes and such."
"Take him with you," Tawney ordered. "Report back directly to me as soon as you have something." Tawney gave his number.
"Very well." It was a dull afternoon in Geneva anyway. "It will be a few hours."
And it will probably end up as nothing, they both knew. "I'll be here. Thank you, Dennis." With that, Tawney left his office and went upstairs to watch TV.
Behind the Rainbow Headquarters building were four large satellite dishes trained on communications satellites hovering over the equator. A simple check told them which channel of which bird carried Swiss television satellite broadcasts-as with most countries, it was easier to go up and back to a satellite than to use coaxial landlines. Soon they were getting a direct newsfeed from the local station. Only one camera was set up at the moment. It showed the outside of an institutional building the Swiss tended to design banks rather like urban castles, though with a distinctly Germanic flavor to make them appear powerful and forbidding. The voice was that of a reporter talking to his station, not to the public. A linguist stood by to translate.
" `No, I have no idea. The police haven't talked to us yet,' " the translator said in a dull monotone. Then a new voice came on the line. "Cameraman," the translator said. -Sounds like a cameraman-there's something-"-with that the camera zoomed in, catching a shape, a human shape wearing something over his head, a mask of sorts
"What kind of gun is that?" Bennett asked.
"Czech Model 58," Tawney said at once. "So it would seem. Bloody good man on the camera."
" `What did he say?' That was the studio to the reporter," t he translator went on, hardly looking at the picture on the TV screen. " `Don't know, couldn't hear with all the noise out here. He shouted something, didn't hear it.' Oh, good: `How many people?' 'Not sure, the Wachtmeister said over twenty inside, bank customers and employees. Just me and my cameraman here outside, and about fifteen police officers that I can see.' `More on the way, I imagine,' reply from the station." With that the audio line went quiet. The camera switched off, and shuffling on the audio line told them that the cameraman was moving to a different location, which was confirmed when the picture came back a minute later from a very different angle.
"What gives, Bill?" Tawney and Bennett turned to see Clark standing there behind theta. "1 came over to talk to you, but your secretary said you had a developing situation up here."
"We may," the Intelligence section chief replied. "I have the `Six' station in Geneva sending two men over now to evaluate it. We do have that arrangement with the Swiss government, should they decide to invoke it. Bennett, is this going out on commercial TV yet?"
Bennett shook his head. "No, sir. For the moment they're keeping it quiet."
"Good," Tawney thought. "Who's the go-team now, John?"
"Team-2, Chavez and Price. They're just finishing up a little exercise right now. How long before you think we declare an alert?"
"We could start now," Bill answered, even though it was probably nothing more than a bank robbery gone bad. They had those in Switzerland, didn't they?
Clark pulled a mini-radio from his pocket and thumbed it on. "Chavez, this is Clark. You and Price report to communications right now."
"On the way, Six" was the reply.
"I wonder what this is about," Ding observed to his command sergeant major. Eddie Price, he'd learned in the past three weeks, was as good a soldier as he was ever likely to meet: cool, smart, quiet, with plenty of field experience.
"I expect we'll find out, sir," Price responded. Officers felt the need to talk a lot, he knew. Proof of that came at once.
"How long you been in, Eddie?"
"Nearly thirty years, sir. I enlisted as a boy soldier age fifteen, you see. Parachute Regiment," he went on, just to avoid the next question. "Came over to SAS when I was twenty-four, been here ever since."
"Well, Sar Major, I'm glad to have you with me." Chavez said, getting in the car for the drive to the Headquarters Building.
"Thank you, sir," the sergeant major replied. A decent chap, this Chavez, he thought, perhaps even a good commander, though that remained to be seen. He could have asked his own questions, but, no, that wasn't done, was it? Good as he was, Price didn't know much about the American military yet.
You oughta be an officer, Eddie, Ding didn't say. In America this guy would have been ripped from his unit, kicking and screaming or not, and shipped off to OCS, probably with a college degree purchased by the Army along the way. Different culture, different rules, Chavez told himself. Well, it gave him a damned good squad sergeant to back him up. Ten minutes later, he parked in the back lot and walked into the building, following directions up to Communications.
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US: Ebola cases could hit 1.4 million by mid-Jan.
Sep 23, 11:00 AM (ET) [ Tuesday 23 September 2014 Pacific Time USA ]
By MARIA CHENG
LONDON (AP) — New estimates by the World Health Organization and the U.S. health agency are warning that the number of Ebola cases could soar dramatically — the U.S. says up to 1.4 million by mid-January in two nations alone — unless efforts to curb the outbreak are significantly ramped up.
Since the first cases were reported six months ago, the tally of cases in West Africa has reached an estimated 5,800 illnesses and over 2,800 deaths. But the U.N. health agency has warned that tallies of recorded cases and deaths are likely to be gross underestimates of the toll that the killer virus is wreaking on West Africa.
The U.N. health agency said Tuesday that the true death toll for Liberia, the hardest-hit nation in the outbreak, may never be known, since many bodies of Ebola victims in a crowded slum in the capital, Monrovia, have simply been thrown into nearby rivers.
In its new analysis, WHO said Ebola cases are rising exponentially and warned the disease could sicken people for years to come without better control measures. The WHO's calculations are based on reported cases only.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, however, released its own predictions Tuesday for the epidemic's toll, based partly on the assumption that Ebola cases are being underreported. The report says there could be up to 21,000 reported and unreported cases in Liberia and Sierra Leone alone by the end of this month and that cases could balloon to as many as 1.4 million by mid-January.
Experts caution those predictions don't take into account response efforts.
The CDC's numbers seem "somewhat pessimistic" and do not account for infection control efforts already underway, said Dr. Richard Wenzel, a Virginia Commonwealth University scientist who formerly led the International Society for Infectious Diseases.
In recent weeks, health officials worldwide have stepped up efforts to provide aid, but the virus is still spreading. There aren't enough hospital beds, health workers or even soap and water in the hardest-hit West African countries: Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Last week, the U.S. announced it would build more than a dozen medical centers in Liberia and send 3,000 troops to help. Britain and France have also pledged to build treatment centers in Sierra Leone and Guinea and the World Bank and UNICEF have sent more than $1 million worth of supplies to the region.
"We're beginning to see some signs in the response that gives us hope this increase in cases won't happen," said Christopher Dye, WHO's director of strategy and co-author of the study published by the New England Journal of Medicine, who acknowledged the predictions come with a lot of uncertainties.
"This is a bit like weather forecasting. We can do it a few days in advance, but looking a few weeks or months ahead is very difficult."
WHO also calculated the death rate to be about 70 percent among hospitalized patients but noted many Ebola cases were only identified after they died. Dye said there was no proof Ebola was more infectious or deadly than in previous outbreaks.
Outside experts questioned WHO's projections and said Ebola's spread would ultimately be slowed not only by containment measures but by changes in people's behavior.
"It's a big assumption that nothing will change in the current outbreak response," said Dr. Armand Sprecher, an infectious diseases specialist at Doctors Without Borders.
"Ebola outbreaks usually end when people stop touching the sick," he said. "The outbreak is not going to end tomorrow but there are things we can do to reduce the case count."
Local health officials have launched campaigns to educate people about the symptoms of Ebola and not to touch the sick or the dead.
Sprecher was also unconvinced that Ebola could continue causing cases for years. He said diseases that persist for years usually undergo significant changes to become less deadly or transmissible.
Dye and colleagues wrote they expected the numbers of cases and deaths from Ebola to continue rising from hundreds to thousands of cases per week in the coming months — and reach 21,000 by early November. He said it was worrisome that new cases were popping up in areas that hadn't previously reported Ebola, like in parts of Guinea.
Scientists said the response to Ebola in the next few months would be crucial.
"The window for controlling this outbreak is closing," said Adam Kucharski, a research fellow in infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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642 - Remarks at a Meeting of the President's Export Council
September 19, 2013
The President. Everybody, please have a seat. Have a seat. Well, it is good to see all of you. I know that we've got a——
[At this point, Export Council Chairman W. James McNerney, Jr., reached over and turned on the President's microphone].
The President. ——whoops, All right.
Mr. McNerney. There you go.
The President. I know that we've got a few new members, in fact, some folks that were just appointed and immediately got to work. And so we're thrilled to see all of you. And then there are the grizzled veterans of the Export Council—[laughter]—although you don't look grizzled. You guys look great.
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Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six
CHAPTER 32
BLOOD WORK
"You know how to get on?" the physician asked.
Popov figured he'd seen enough Western movies. He stuck his left foot into the stirrups and climbed up, swinging his right leg over and finding the opposite stirrup.
"Good. Now just hold the reins like this and click your tongue, like this." Killgore demonstrated. Popov did the same, and the horse, dumb as she appeared to be, started walking forward. Some of this must be instinctive on his part, the Russian thought. He was doing things-apparently the right things-almost without instruction. Wasn't that remarkable?
"There you go, Dmitriy," the doctor said approvingly. "This is how it's supposed to be, man. A pretty morning, a horse 'tween your legs, and lots of country to cover."
"But no pistol." Popov observed with a chuckle.
Killgore did the same. "Well, no Indians or rustlers here to kill, pal. Come on." Killgore's legs thumped in on his mount, making him move a little faster, and Buttermilk did the same. Popov got his body into a rhythm similar to that of Buttermilk's and kept pace with him.
It was magnificent, Dmitriy Arkadeyevich thought, and now he understood the ethos of all those bad movies he'd seen. There was something fundamental and manly about this, though he lacked a proper hat as well as a six-gun. He reached into his pocket and took out his sunglasses, looked around at the rolling land and somehow felt himself to be a part of it all.
"John, I must thank you. I have never done this before. It is wonderful," he said sincerely.
"It's Nature, man. It's the way things were always supposed to be. Come on, Mystic," he said to his mount, speeding up a little more, looking back to see that Popov could handle the increased pace.
It wasn't easy to synchronize his body movements in pace with the horse, but gradually Popov managed it, and soon pulled up alongside.
"So, this is how Americans settled the West?"
Killgore nodded. "Yep. Once this was covered with buffalo, three or four great herds, as far as the eye could see…
"Hunters did it, did it all in a period of about ten years, using single-shot Sharps buffalo guns mainly. They killed them for the hides to make blankets and stuff, for the meat-sometimes they killed 'em just for the tongues. Slaughtered 'em like Hitler did with the Jews." Killgore shook his head. "One of the greatest crimes America ever committed, Dmitriy, just killed 'em just 'cause they were in the way. But they'll be coming back," he added, wondering how long it would take. Fifty years-he'd have a fair chance of seeing it then. Maybe a hundred years? They'd be letting the wolves and barren-grounds grizzly come back, too, but predators would come back slower. They didn't breed as rapidly as their prey animals. He wanted to see the prairie again as it had once been. So did many other Project members, and some of them wanted to live in tepees, like the Indians had done. But that, he thought, was a little bit extreme-political ideas taking the place of common sense.
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Rainbow Six
CHAPTER 33
THE GAMES BEGIN
Popov awoke for no particular reason he could see, except that yes, another Gulfstream jet had just landed. He imagined that these were the really important ones for this project thing. The junior ones, or those with families, either drove out or flew commercial. The business jet sat there in the lights, the stairs deployed from their bay in the aircraft, and people walked out to the waiting cars that swiftly drove away from the aircraft and toward the hotel building. Popov wondered who it was, but he was too far:sway to recognize faces. He'd probably see them in the cafeteria in the morning. Dmitriy Arkadeyevich got a drink of water from the bathroom and returned to his bed. This facility was filling up rapidly, though he still didn't know why.
Colonel Wilson Gearing was in his hotel room only a few floors above the Rainbow troops. His large bags were in the closet, and his clothing hung. The maids and other staff who serviced his room hadn't touched anything, merely checked the closet and proceeded to make up the beds and scrub the bathroom. They hadn't checked inside the bags-Gearing had telltales on them to make sure of that-inside one of which was a plastic canister with "Chlorine" painted on it. It was outwardly identical with the one on the fogging system at the Olympic stadium it had, in fact, been purchased from the same company that had installed the fogging system, cleaned out and refilled with the nano-capsules. He also had the tools he Needed to swap one out, and had practiced the skill in Kansas, where an identical installation was to be found. I le could close his eyes and see himself doing it, time and again, to keep the downtime for the fogging system to a minimum. He thought about the contents of the container. Never had so much potential death been so tightly contained. Far more so than in a nuclear device, because unlike one of those, the danger here could replicate it, many times instead of merely detonating once. The way the fogging system worked, it would take about thirty minutes for the nanocapsules to get into the entire fogging system. Both computer models and actual mechanical tests proved that the capsules would get everywhere the pipes, and spray out the fogging nozzles, invisible in the gentle, cooling mist. People walking through the tunnels leading to the stadium proper and in the concourse would breathe it in, an average of two hundred or so nano-capsules in four minutes of breathing, and that was well above the calculated mean lethal dose. The capsules would enter through the lungs, be transported into the blood, and there the capsules would dissolve, releasing the Shiva. The engineered virus strands would travel in the bloodstream of the spectators and the athletes, soon find the liver and kidneys, the organs for which they had the greatest affinity, and begin the slow process of multiplication. All this had been established at Binghamton Lab on the 'normal' test subjects. Then it was just a matter of weeks until the Shiva had multiplied enough to do its work. Along the way, people would pass on the Shiva through kisses and sexual contact, through coughs and sneezes. This, to had been proven at the Binghamton Lab. Starting in about four weeks, people would think themselves mildly ill. Some would see their personal physicians, and be diagnosed as flu victims, told to take aspirin, drink fluids, and rest in front of the TV. They would do this, and feel better-because seeing a doctor usually did that to people-for a day or so. But they would not be getting better.
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Obama: No nation has 'free pass' on climate change
Sep 23, 1:48 PM (ET) [ Tuesday 23 September 2014 Pacific Time USA ]
By JOSH LEDERMAN
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In a forceful appeal for international cooperation on limiting carbon pollution, President Barack Obama warned starkly on Tuesday that the globe's climate is changing faster than efforts to address it. "Nobody gets a pass," he declared. "We have to raise our collective ambition."
Speaking at a United Nations summit, Obama said the United States is doing its part and that it will meet its goal to cut carbon pollution 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020. He also announced modest new U.S. commitments to address climate change overseas. The summit aims to galvanize support for a global climate treaty to be finalized next year.
But Obama's strongest comments came as he sought to unify the international conclave behind actions to reduce global warming.
"The alarm bells keep ringing, our citizens keep marching," he said. "We can't pretend we can't hear them. We need to answer the call. We need to cut carbon emission in our countries to prevent worse effects, adapt and work together as global community to tackle this global threat before it is too late."
He said the U.S. and China as the largest polluters have a responsibility to lead. But, Obama added, "No nation can meet this global threat alone."
More than 120 world leaders gathered on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly to organize support for a global climate treaty to be finalized next year in Paris. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the summit's host, asked representatives of nations to come to New York with specific pledges in hand to mitigate climate change, as a way to show they're serious about ambitious emissions reductions in the treaty.
Obama's goals at the summit: to convince other nations that the U.S. is doing its part to curb greenhouse gases, and make the case that other major polluters should step up, too.
"It's very clear to the international community that the president is extending considerable political capital at home in order to implement his climate plan, and that's true," said Nigel Purvis, a U.S. climate negotiator in the administrations of presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. "The hope is that when we take action, others will do so as well."
Some of the tools the U.S. will offer developing nations were developed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey and are intended to help communities use data modeling, forecasting and science to anticipate the effects of climate change and make decisions about the best way to deal with it. Secretary of State John Kerry also announced that the U.S. would contribute $15 million to a World Bank program designed to stimulate funding for projects that reduce methane pollution.
But the commitments were modest compared to what some had hoped the U.S. would put forth to show its commitment. By mid-morning, other nations attending the summit had pledged at least $5 billion to help the world become more sustainable. And the development organization Oxfam argued that the U.S. Agency for International Development already incorporates climate change resiliency in its programs.
The one-day climate summit isn't formally part of the ongoing negotiations toward the climate treaty, which leaders hope will be more muscular than a lackluster agreement reached in Copenhagen in 2009. The idea is that by involving heads of state early, rather than leaving it to negotiators until the very end, prospects will improve for reaching a strong deal.
In another attempt to increase political pressure on leaders to take action, tens of thousands of activists, including prominent actors and former Vice President Al Gore, demonstrated in New York on Sunday.
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Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six
CHAPTER 11
INFRASTRUCTURE
"This will be a catastrophe if Congress lets it go forward. My God, Carol, the caribou, the birds, all the predators. There are polar bears there, and browns, and barren-ground grizzly, and this environment is as delicate as a newborn infant. We can't allow the oil companies to go in there!"
"I know, Kevin," the President's Science Advisor responded, with an emphatic nod
"The damage might never be repaired. The permafrost-there's nothing more delicate on the face of the planet," the president of the Sierra Club said, with further, repetitive emphasis. "We owe it to ourselves, we owe it to our children-we owe it to the planet. This bill has to be killed! I don't care what it takes, this bill must die! You must convince the President to withdraw any semblance of support for it. We cannot allow this environmental rape to take place."
"Kevin, we have to be smart about how we do this. The President sees this as a balance-of-payments issue. Domestic oil doesn't force us to spend our money buying oil from other countries. Worse, he believes the oil companies when they say they drill and transport the oil without doing great environmental damage, and that they can fix what damage they do accidentally. "
"That's horseshit, and you know it, Carol." Kevin Mayflower spat out his contempt for the oil companies. Their goddamned pipeline is a bleeding scar on the face of Alaska, an ugly, jagged steel line crossing the most beautiful land on the face of the earth, an affront to Nature Herself and what for? So that people could drive motor vehicles, which further polluted the planet merely because lazy people didn't want to walk to work or ride bicycles or horses. (Mayflower didn't reflect on the fact that he'd flown to Washington to deliver his plea instead of riding one of his Appaloosa horses across the country, and that his rented car had been parked on West Executive Drive.) Everything the oil companies touched, they ruined, he thought. They made it dirty. They sullied the very earth itself, removing what they thought of as a precious resource here, there, and everywhere, whether it was oil or coal, gashing the earth, or poking holes into it, sometimes spilling their liquid treasure because they didn't know and didn't care about the sanctity of the planet, which belonged to everyone, and which needed proper stewardship. The stewardship, of course, required proper guidance, and that was the job of the Sierra Club and similar groups, to tell the people how important the earth was, and how they must respect and treat it. The good news was that the President's Science Advisor did understand, and that she did workin the White House Compound, and did have access to the President.
"Carol, I want you to walk across the street, go into the Oval Office, and tell him what has to be done."
"Kevin, it's not that easy."
"Why the hell not? He's not that much of a dunce, is he?"
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642 - Remarks at a Meeting of the President's Export Council
September 19, 2013
The President. Everybody, please have a seat. Have a seat. Well, it is good to see all of you. I know that we've got a——
[At this point, Export Council Chairman W. James McNerney, Jr., reached over and turned on the President's microphone].
The President. ——whoops, All right.
Mr. McNerney. There you go.
The President. I know that we've got a few new members, in fact, some folks that were just appointed and immediately got to work. And so we're thrilled to see all of you. And then there are the grizzled veterans of the Export Council—[laughter]—although you don't look grizzled. You guys look great.
Obviously, I want to thank Jim and Ursula at the outset for their outstanding leadership in this entire process. This week marks the fifth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and an incredible financial crisis that devastated not just the financial sector, but the entire economy, and people lost jobs and homes and savings.
And for the last 5 years, we have worked our way back because of the incredible grit and resilience of the American people, because the outstanding dynamism of our business sectors, because of, I think, some timely work on the part of this administration and other agencies to make sure that we were responsive to the immediate needs of the American people, but also looking at how we can start initiating some structural changes that are going to make a difference over the long term and rebuild our economy.
We're not where we need to be yet. But with 7½ million new jobs created in the private sector, with the housing market beginning to recover, with our energy transformation continuing in a way that, I think, many people would not have anticipated 20 years ago, where we're now at a point where domestic production is actually starting to exceed imports—across all these fronts, there are some very positive pieces of news. But I tell you, one of the biggest bright spots in our economy has been exports: the fact that "Made in America" means something and has provided a boost to our domestic economy and has reminded the world just how competitive we are.
This has been a top priority from the start. Part of the reason we set up this Export Council was to make sure that we were in a position to meet our goal of doubling exports during the course of a fairly short period of time. And we now sell more goods overseas than ever before.
Jason, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think our current account deficit and trade deficits have narrowed as significantly as we've seen in a very long time. Now, part of that is because we're importing less foreign oil and increasing domestic production, but a lot of it is because we're selling a lot of great products all around the world. And this Council has done a great job in helping to guide our policies.
We've got large businesses; we've got small businesses; we've got medium-sized businesses. We've got services as well as manufacturers. And your input has been enormously important in this entire process.
Part of what we've seen is a continued transformation in American business to become more competitive and more productive. And I would be remiss to say, since it's in the news quite a bit—to note that one of the reasons our businesses are more competitive is because health care costs have actually stabilized relative to what we had been seeing in previous years. Just an interesting statistic here for folks who may be interested. [Laughter]
Thanks in part to the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare—[laughter]—the cost of health care is now growing at the slowest rate in 50 years. Employer-based health care costs are growing at about one-third of the rate of a decade ago. And just yesterday CMS estimated that health care spending grew at its second slowest rate ever in 2012, will grow at its third slowest rate ever in 2013, grew at its slowest rate in 2011. So the 3 years since Obamacare passed, we've seen the slowest growth in health care costs on record.
Now, I think this is critically important to recognize because one of the huge competitive disadvantages that our businesses have had is that we—American businesses—oftentimes are shouldering health care costs that their competitors are not, because they've had a more efficient, more effective system. And so for us—and when we passed the Affordable Care Act, by the way, there were all kinds of arguments about how all the cost savings weren't very meaningful and weren't going to do a lot and we weren't really bending the cost curve. And well, it turns out actually a lot of what we've done is starting to bear real fruit, and it has an impact on the bottom lines of American businesses as well as the American people.
So if the current trends hold—and all estimates are that, in fact, they will—this is not just a byproduct of or hangover from the recession—we're going to see a continuing slowing of increases in health care costs. That's going to boost our exports.
Now, we can still do more when it comes to exports, and thanks in part to new trade deals that I've signed as well as obviously really great products and services that you've all designed, America now exports more to the rest of the world than ever before. We're on track to export even more this year. Last year, $1 billion in exports supported nearly 50,000 jobs—or 5,000 jobs in the United States. So for every billion dollars that we sell, that's 5,000 new jobs right here in the United States.
And so we're really focused on how do we keep that momentum going. Our new Trade Rep, our new Ambassador, Michael Froman, who many of you have had a chance to work with when he was in the White House, is in the process of trying to complete negotiations around a Trans-Pacific Partnership. You're talking about the largest, most dynamic, fastest growing market in the world.
And because of some incredibly hard work by Michael and the previous Trade Representative, Ron Kirk, we are very far along in trying to get that deal done: raising standards; opening up markets that previously have been closed; getting the kinds of protections, like IPR protections, that are so important to American businesses since we typically are the best innovators; making sure that services are allowed to compete in many of these markets, because we do services better than anybody else and those are markets that oftentimes are the most parochial, most encumbered by regulation and have most frequently been closed.
So we're going to be pushing ahead not only on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but we also have now our transatlantic effort, where we can see if we can enhance what is already robust trade with Europe. It amounts to the largest trading relationship in the world by far, and we think we can do even better. And so we're going to be moving on that front as well.
We're going to need trade promotion authority through Congress. And this is an area where, so far at least, Mitch McConnell says he's for it, and that's good. And so we may be able to get some good bipartisan support to get that done.
But let me just make a couple of closing comments about how important this Export Council has been. One thing that I think a lot of people aren't aware of, at least until they get involved in policymaking around exports, is tourism is an export. When foreign visitors come here and spend money, that is tallied as a U.S. export. And thanks to people like Bob Iger at Walt Disney and others, we have made enormous progress over the last several years in boosting tourism in the United States, making it easier for foreign visitors to get visas, making it easier for them to come here and enjoy the incredible attractions that we have here in the United States. That's making a big difference. A lot of the ideas about how we could do that were generated from, initially, these efforts.
So I use that as an example just to say that this is not a—just a bunch of show horses here, these are some work horses. And I believe it's fair to say—and I think Jim and Ursula will confirm—that if any of you have good ideas about how we can further promote exports, put them on the table. You will find an administration that is ready and willing to put their shoulder behind the wheel to actually get it done.
And I know that our new Secretary of Commerce, Penny Pritzker, who is coming directly from the business world, understands how important it is for us to be able to execute and not just generate a bunch of white papers that get filed off in some dusty file somewhere. We want to make sure that we're moving on all fronts very aggressively.
So with that, I just want to say how much I appreciate all your participation. I want to say a—make a special note to some of the small businesses that have been represented here, because what we've seen is that when small and medium-sized businesses can cut through the redtape and understand how to export, actually they can compete pretty well. And that's an area where we can make some significant progress.
Obviously, big companies like Xerox or Boeing, we want to keep on growing them because small businesses are up and down the supply chain and are—when we sell a bunch of airplanes, a lot of small businesses and medium-sized businesses are benefiting from that as well.
But I am very enthusiastic about this. I think Jim, at least, will confirm that I'm happy to go out and make sales. I'm expecting a gold watch—[laughter]—from Boeing at the end of my Presidency because I know that I'm on the list of top salesmen at Boeing. And that applies to all of you.
And I also notice that we've got some wonderful elected officials here, folks like Governor Fallin. Part of what we want to do is also coordinate State and Federal and local efforts, because right now our competitors—the Germanys, a lot of the European countries—they have a very tight, very aggressive, very well-coordinated effort to make sales around the world. Sometimes, because we're so big and, frankly, we've been such a dominant economy for a long time, that our sales pitches and efforts have been a little more scattered and a little more diffuse.
So one of the functions that this Export Council can serve is as a clearinghouse and a coordinating mechanism to make sure that if Oklahoma is trying to pitch something or help one of their businesses that they are in touch with Federal counterparts and they can do a much more effective job. All right?
So what I think we're going to do now is we're going to clear out the press. I'm going to have a chance to come around and say hello to everybody and say thank you. And then the conversation will continue. All right?
NOTE: The President spoke at 11:14 a.m. in Room 350 of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building. In his remarks, he referred to Ursula M. Burns, Vice Chair, President's Export Council; Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Jason L. Furman; Robert A. Iger, chairman and chief executive officer, Walt Disney Co.; and Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma. He also referred to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).
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Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six
CHAPTER 34
THE GAMES CONTINUE
"Yeah, it's a shame about the Indians."
"Maybe so," Hunnicutt allowed.
"When did you get in?" Maclean asked Waterhouse.
"We drove in today," Mark replied. "The place is about full up now, isn't it?" He didn't like the crowding.
"That it is," Killgore confirmed. He didn't, either. "But it's still nice outside. You ride, Mr. Hunnicutt?"
"How else does a man hunt in the West? I don't use no SUV, man."
"So, you're a hunting guide?"
"Yeah." Hunnicutt nodded. "I used to be a geologist for the oil companies, but I kissed that off along time ago. I got tired of helping to kill the planet, y'know?"
Another tree-worshiping druid, Popov thought. It wasn't especially surprising, though this one struck him as verbose and a little bombastic.
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Now, Something Worse in the Gulf Than War : What if You Do Everything Right and End Up Killing 300 Civilians?
July 05, 1988 TOM CLANCY Tom Clancy is the author of "Red Storm Rising" and the coming "Cardinal of the Kremlin."
I heard of the latest Persian Gulf incident from National Public Radio while driving home from Nashville, Tenn. The collective deaths of even 300 terrorists would give most of us cause for momentary grief at the wastage of human life. The extinction of a similar number of civilian lives, many of them children's lives, is a horror differing from the Holocaust in scale but not in substance. And we all ask ourselves in that moment when our eyes close and breath goes out in a sigh, "What went wrong?"
What went wrong is simply that there is a war under way in and around the Persian Gulf. The world has evolved rules for the conduct of war, and though it may seem that the very concept of rules for the dreadful thing that we call war is lunacy, we have here an example of why they did in fact come about--there are worse things than war.
The U.S. Navy is in the gulf for a reason so simple as to be irrelevant in these modern, sophisticated times. It's called freedom of the seas. That was the first mission of the U.S. Navy after independence. A flag officer named Preble led a small fleet of warships to the Mediterranean to restrain the Barbary pirates from attacking American shipping. Later the U.S. Navy and the Royal Navy exterminated piracy in U.S. waters and ruthlessly enforced a ban on the slave trade. This was done because the collective will of mankind wishes the sea to be free for the passage of all and the pursuit of peaceful trade.
In time of war things are more complicated. It is customary for belligerent nations to deny maritime trade to one another, extending even to ships of non-belligerent nations. In 1914 it came about that merchant ships were subjected to submarine attack without warning, ending the longstanding "Rules of Prize Warfare" that had made the interdiction of trade a fairly civilized process. Western nations were horrified by this development, but soon realized that technology made it inevitable.
In the Iran-Iraq War something new has been added. Iraq has attacked Iranian and otherwise-flagged tankers taking oil out . Both sides, of course, are selling oil, and are using the proceeds to buy weapons used in a war that may have ended a million lives for a few square miles of marshland on their mutual border. As terrible as that is, it isn't new. Neither is the extensive use of chemical weapons, a special horror largely ignored in the rest of the world. What is new are Iranian attacks against tankers of non-belligerent nations trading with other gulf states, and occasionally against those states as well. This is donein the belief that those other states are providing financial support to Iraq as a foil against the Islamic revolution in Iran, which may well be true. While Iran is unwilling to declare war against its neighbors, it seems to want to share with them the misery and costs of that war.
And that is why the U.S. Navy is in the Persian Gulf. The duty of sustaining the principle of freedom of the seas historically falls on the nation with the most powerful navy, and that's us. Unfortunately, we have handled the matter poorly.
We extended our protection only to American-flagged Kuwaiti tankers as if freedom of the seas were a superpower prerogative, even though we have entered wars to prove that it was not. Historians tell us that departure from principle in the name of expediency is always a mistake. For those who don't believe, here is renewed proof. The principle was not observed in full, and the Iranians gave it commensurate respect. Move and countermove have ensued. American sailors have died because we have ordered them to be a "presence" in a war zone. Our ships must live in a war zone, must defend themselves but may not take any decisive action to end the threats. When attacked, they take enough action to punish the attackers, but not those who gave the orders. This in a part of the world where human life is rather a cheaper currency than it is here. And so it goes on.
And so while the Vincennes was fighting yet another small engagement against Iranian gunboats, a new blip appeared on its radar screens. The aircraft was reportedly not in a designated airliner corridor.
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Now, Something Worse in the Gulf Than War : What if You Do Everything Right and End Up Killing 300 Civilians?
July 05, 1988 TOM CLANCY Tom Clancy is the author of "Red Storm Rising" and the coming "Cardinal of the Kremlin."
Put yourself in the captain's place. U.S. ships have been attacked by aircraft in the gulf, at the cost of American lives. You have one battle under way, and now there is a new potential threat. It's heading toward you at 450 knots. Not so long ago, another U.S. Navy cruiser shot it out with air and surface units at the same time. You try to warn the aircraft off. Your radar doesn't tell you what kind of aircraft it is because radar sets don't do that. If it's an airliner, you think, it ought to have its transponder on--but military aircraft can and have used airliner codes on their transponder boxes. Maybe the transponder was broken. Maybe it was switched off. A fighter-bomber can go faster than 450 knots, but that's about the right speed for a bomb or missile attack. You call him on a different frequency to warn him off. He's heading right toward you, and 450 knots means that he's closing the range on your ship at a rate of almost 9 miles per minute. Your lookouts are searching for him with their "big eye" spotting glasses, but they can't see him in the clouds and haze. Who is it? You're still calling him on the radio when it occurs to you that he's closer to you than the plane that put two Exocet missiles into the Stark.
What would you do now? You'd probably remember that the prime duty of a ship's captain is the safety of his ship. The captain of the Vincennes waited long enough that he fired two missiles at a range of nine miles, when those missiles can reach at least five times that distance. Probably you're still hoping to raise him. If you do, you can shut off the guidance radar and the missiles will self-destruct. But he doesn't answer, and the SM2MR missiles performed as designed. Then you find out that it's an airliner. You did everything right, and killed 300 civilians.
It is an overly respected Western tradition that when politicians can't decide what to do, people in uniform are sent to the troublesome spots to do the dying, and the killing. People in uniform don't ask very much of us, despite the fact that we ask a lot of them. What they deserve are clear orders and clear missions, but that doesn't happen very much. Because it didn't happen here, something worse than war did happen.
I wonder if Capt. Will C. Rogers III will have a decent night's sleep anytime soon. You see, he is a victim, too.
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The Final Countdown (1980)
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[after receiving the order to abort the attack on the Japanese Task Force]
Strike Leader: Read you loud and clear. Strike force, this is strike leader. Return to base, mission aborted.
F-14 pilot #1: Mission aborted? But we can see 'em!
F-14 pilot #2: They're gonna let the Japs do it again.
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COCHRANE: I don't know who writes your history books or where you get your information from, but you people got some pretty funny ideas about me.
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Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six
CHAPTER 32
BLOOD WORK
"Was that a good idea?" Brightling asked.
"I think so. Kirk was on the travel list anyway. We can have his coworkers tell anybody who asks that he was called out of town on company business," Henriksen said.
"What if the FBI agents go back to see him?"
"Then he's out of town, and they'll just have to wait," Henriksen answered. "Investigations like this last for months, but there won't be months, will there?"
Brightling nodded. "I suppose. How's Dmitriy doing out there?"
"Dave Dawson says he's doing okay, asking a lot of touristy questions, but that's all. He had his physical from Johnny Killgore, and he's gotten his `B' shot."
"I hope he likes being alive. From what he said, he might turn out to be our kind of people, you know?"
"I'm not so sure about that, but he doesn't know squat. and by the time he finds out, it'll be too late anyway. Wil Gearing is in place, and he says everything's going according to plan, John. Three more weeks, and then it'll all be under way.
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Barack Obama
XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - present
642 - Remarks at a Meeting of the President's Export Council
September 19, 2013
And I know that our new Secretary of Commerce, Penny Pritzker, who is coming directly from the business world, understands how important it is for us to be able to execute and not just generate a bunch of white papers that get filed off in some dusty file somewhere. We want to make sure that we're moving on all fronts very aggressively.
So with that, I just want to say how much I appreciate all your participation. I want to say a—make a special note to some of the small businesses that have been represented here, because what we've seen is that when small and medium-sized businesses can cut through the redtape and understand how to export, actually they can compete pretty well. And that's an area where we can make some significant progress.
Obviously, big companies like Xerox or Boeing, we want to keep on growing them because small businesses are up and down the supply chain and are—when we sell a bunch of airplanes, a lot of small businesses and medium-sized businesses are benefiting from that as well.
But I am very enthusiastic about this. I think Jim, at least, will confirm that I'm happy to go out and make sales. I'm expecting a gold watch—[laughter]—from Boeing at the end of my Presidency because I know that I'm on the list of top salesmen at Boeing.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 26, 2002
President Signs Terrorism Insurance Act
The East Room
9:30 A.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thank you. Good morning and welcome to the White House. Today we're taking action to strengthen America's economy, to build confidence with America's investors, and to create jobs for America's workers. The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act will provide coverage for catastrophic losses from potential terrorist attacks. Should terrorists strike America again, we have a system in place to address financial losses and get our economy back on its feet as quickly as possible.
With this new law, builders and investors can begin construction in real estate projects that have been stalled for too long, and get our hard-hats back to work. (Applause.)
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Barney Caine: [Barney Caine to Adam Stieffel, Chairman, Titan Oil] What do you know about this nation? Don't you ever give a second thought to American citizens? You're the reason their money's worthless. You're the reason old people are eating out of garbage cans, and kids get killed in bullshit wars. You're not in the oil business; you're in the oil SHORTAGE business!
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Paul Obermann, Chief Engineer Berlin Power & Light Co.: At the end of the war they had developed a truly remarkable catalyst. The catalyst lasted for over one million tons of coal.
Barney Caine: Then the formula for that catalyst would still be considered secret?
Paul Obermann, Chief Engineer Berlin Power & Light Co.: Without question. Whoever possessed the formula would need only coal and a basic chemical technology to be self-sufficient in energy.
Barney Caine: Then it would follow that certain interests wouldn't exactly be thrilled with the introduction of mass-produced synthetic fuel made from coal.
Paul Obermann, Chief Engineer Berlin Power & Light Co.: Obviously not. They would no longer enjoy huge profits from the scarcity of natural crude. The entire power structure in the world would shift from the Arabs and OPEC back to the United States. After all, Mr. Caine, America has the largest deposits of coal on this planet. The forces involved are colossal.
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The Formula (1980)
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Barney Caine: What about dinner, Hans?
Hans Lehman, Prefect of Police Berlin: Impossible. Two terrorists escaped from Moabit Prison. You know, you have been fortunate in America so far. You haven't experienced organized terrorism.
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The Formula (1980)
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Barney Caine: You trade lives and human dignity for profit.
Adam Steiffel, Chairman Titan Oil: "Money, not morality, is the principal commerce of civilized nations." Thomas Jefferson, 200 years ago. That is the philosophy that built this nation.
Barney Caine: What do you know about this nation? When did you ever give a second thought to American citizens? You're the reason their money's worthless. You're the reason old people are eating out of garbage cans, and kids get killed in bullshit wars. You're not in the oil business, you're in the oil shortage business. You're an ivory tower hoodlum. A common street killer. I wish to Christ there was some way I could nail you...
Adam Steiffel, Chairman Titan Oil: Well... you're gonna' be nailing the American Dream, Barney. Because it all started in the corner gas station. Remember, you used to take your bike down there and get free air. And daddy said, "Fill them up, Fred." And you go down to grandma's for Christmas dinner. Yeah. Then, when you got your first car, what did you do? You took your girl for a ride. There was Fred smiling by the pump there. He never let you down, because a gallon of gas never broke down. Well, it was oil that nourished the American Dream. We're the great American tit, Barney. And without it... ain't no America.
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Nine to Five (1980)
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USA 19 December 1980
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 5:21 PM
To: 'Chad Trammell'
I had another of those really bad nightmares again last night or this early morning. Unlike the others I woke without the sense of it being very vivid. The terror was tremendous though. I remember that my head hurt after waking up and I think that had some bearing on the sheer terror I felt in the dream. I started to wonder if a person who dies in their sleep has a nightmare similar to what I had. There was nothing really specific about it. I was just in the trailer house where we lived in De Queen, specifically in the year 1976 it seemed later, that was next to the drive-in theatre and the field I remember walking through with corn stalks that were much higher than my head, and there was something terrifying in the dark at the end of the hallway. I never did see anything. I was just terrified there was something there in the dark and it was going to get me. I was going into my room to wash my hands and that made no sense because the mirror I was seeing was the same but there was no sink in that counter in my room. I was so terrified I couldn't turn my back from the door. I noticed the mirror was cracked. I woke up and my head ached mildly and that was similar to in the dream where I was almost in a state of rage because there was something down the hallway in the dark that I couldn't see.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 27 December 2012 excerpt ends]
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The Formula (1980)
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The Formula (1980)
Full Cast & Crew
George C. Scott ... Lt. Barney Caine LAPD
Marlon Brando ... Adam Steiffel, Chairman Titan Oil
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From the best-selling mystery thriller that rips the truth from behind today's headlines
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Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six
CHAPTER 27
TRANSFER AGENTS
"It really is a waste of time," Barbara Archer said at her seat in the conference room. "F4 is dead, just her heart's still beating. We've tried everything. Nothing stops Shiva. Not a damned thing."
"Except the -B vaccine antibodies," Killgore noted.
"Except them," Archer agreed. "But nothing else works, does it?"
There was agreement around the table. They had literally tried every treatment modality known to medicine, including things merely speculated upon at CDC, USAMRIID, and the Pasteur Institute in Paris. They'd even tried every antibiotic in the arsenal from penicillin to Keflex, and two new synthetics under experimentation by Merck and Horizon. The use of the antibiotics had merely been t-crossing and i-dotting, since not one of them helped viral infections, but in desperate times people tried desperate measures, and perhaps something new and unexpected might have happened-but not with Shiva. This new and improved version of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, genetically engineered to be hardier than the naturally produced version that still haunted the Congo River Valley, was as close to 100 percent fatal and 100 percent resistant to treatment as anything known to medical science, and absent a landmark breakthrough in infectious-disease treatment, nothing would help those exposed to it. Many would suffer exposure from the initial release, and the rest would get it from the -A vaccine Steve Berg had developed, and through both modalities, Shiva would sweep across the world like a slow-developing storm. Inside of six months, the people left alive would fall into three categories. First, those who hadn't been exposed in any way. There would be few of them, since every nation on earth would gobble up supplies of the -A vaccine and inject their citizens with it, because the first Shiva victims would horrify human with access to a television. The second group would be those rarest of people whose immune systems were sufficient to protect them from Shiva. The lab had yet to discover any such individuals, but some would inevitably be out there-happily, most of those would probably die from the collapse of social services in the cities and towns of the world, mainly from starvation or from the panicked lawlessness sure to accompany the plague or from the ordinary bacterial diseases that accompanied large numbers of unburied dead
The third group would be the few thousand people in Kansas. Project Lifeboat, as they thought of it. That group would be composed of active Project members just a few hundred of them-and their families, and other selected scientists protected by Berg's -B vaccine. The Kansas facility was large, isolated, and protected by large quantities of weapons, should any unwelcome visitors approach.
Six months, they thought. Twenty-seven weeks. That's what the computer projections told them. Some areas would go faster than others. The models suggested that Africa would go last of all, because they'd be the last to get the -A vaccine distributed, and because of the poor infrastructure for delivering vital services. Europe would go down first, with its socialized medical-care systems and pliant citizens sure to show up for their shots when summoned, then America, then, in due course, the rest of the world.
"The whole world, just like that," Killgore observed, looking out the windows at the New York/New Jersey border area, with its rolling hills and green deciduous trees. The great farms on the plains that ran from Canada to Texas would go fallow, though some would grow wild wheat for centuries to come. The bison would expand rapidly from their enclaves in Yellowstone and private game farms, and with them the wolves and barren-ground grizzly bear, and the birds, and the coyotes and the prairie dogs. Nature would restore Her balance very quickly, the computer models told them; in less than five years, the entire earth would be transformed.
"Yes. John," Barb Archer agreed. "But we're not there yet. What do we do with the test subjects?"
Killgore knew what she'd be suggesting. Archer hated clinical medicine.
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642 - Remarks at a Meeting of the President's Export Council
September 19, 2013
But I tell you, one of the biggest bright spots in our economy has been exports: the fact that "Made in America" means something
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