As Bloomberg's Matthew Winkler recently points out, unemployment is stunningly low. The facts cannot be disputed, the United States has recovered from the pandemic faster than any major economy in the world. But the truth is this unprovoked madness causing self-inflicted wounds took place against a backdrop of astonishing strength. (END VIDEOTAPE) ZAKARIA: But first, here's "My Take." America's debt ceiling crisis once again provoked the usual commentary about how it shows the country is basically dysfunctional. Also, has humanity gotten, well, dumber thanks to the supercomputers in our pockets that can tell us everything we need to know in an instant? I will talk to the author Simon Winchester about the past, present and future of knowledge. But are we now at peak China? The economist Keyu Jin weighs in. And since China opened up its economy in 1978, it has averaged almost 10 percent growth a year. We will get insight from "Puck's" Julia Ioffe and Russian journalist in exile Andrei Soldatov. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ZAKARIA (voice-over): Today on the program, what is happening inside Putin's Russia? Is he losing his grip on power? Is he at odds with his own commanders? And how might his forces fare against the upcoming Ukrainian counteroffensive. I'm Fareed Zakaria coming to you from New York. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN ANCHOR: This is GPS, the GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. Otherwise, don't waste my fucking evening.Interview with Andrei Soldatov and Julia Ioffe about Russia and Ukraine Interview with Keyu Jin about China's Economy China's Surprisingly Slow Economic Recovery The Nature Of Knowledge Navigating The Information Revolution. And if you don't have the good sense and education or, hell, the reporting experience to know better, then just let the guests you invited on speak. The problem is that this was not in the ranting comments section, but was coming from the host of a prime time, national television show. Sound ridiculous? Believe me, it sounds just as insane in reverse. and its government was one sleek, well-functioning monolith, that Obama was omnipotent, and that everyone in the world, including other important (and nuclear!) world leaders, act and must act as Russia demands it should, using Russian foreign policy calculus, and with only Russian interests in mind. My main beef with O'Donnell is not that he wouldn't let me make these 11 points-because, let's face it, that's not what the TV is for-but that he did exactly the same shit Russians did to me when I was in Russia. Can we talk about Lawrence again now? Cool. Not a word of which would cause me to disagree, including the profane ones. That's how this should have been done if the U.S. Two planes landed on the tarmac in Vienna, ten people went one way, four people went the other way, the planes flew off, and that was it. Instead of kicking up a massive, public stink over it, the Kremlin and the White House arranged for their silent transfer to Russia in exchange for four people accused in Russia of spying for the U.S. Remember the spy exchange in the summer of 2010? Ten Russian sleeper agents-which is not what Snowden is-were uncovered by the FBI in the U.S. The Obama administration totally fucked this up.I mean, totally. Which is why I wish you'd let me finish answering your bullshit question, which went like this: In fact, it is how you introduced me: "Previously, she was a Moscow-based correspondent for Foreign Policy and The New Yorker." I'm not going to toot my own horn here, but I was there for three years, I'm a fluent, native speaker of Russian, and, god damn it, I know my shit. I was invited on the show to talk about Obama's (very wise) decision to cancel his Moscow summit with Putin, about which I wrote here. I would like to state for the record that, if this whole New Republic thing doesn't work out, Julia Ioffe is more than welcome to a job in this shebeen along the docks of Blogistan.
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