Ok thats it for us for now were expecting the Russian Foreign minister to take to the podium of the u. N. General assembly in the next half an hour or so and well be right back to bring you that live meantime its putting the hoax in a few moments. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see you then. 3 days of salutations while the impeachment horns are blaring all over your cable news feeds and pedantic punditry this week or watchers its important to remember there was more going on in this world than just us President Donald Trump versus nancy pelosi out im sure if joe biden than reality. That there is more news out there than whats allowed on jake tappers teleprompter every night news that is important thought provoking and even scarier in other words news that affects you in the rest of us just as much as political impeachment games played by millionaires working for billionaires news li
Now on bbc news, brexitcast. Last week you had a giant flask of coffee . Tea 7 yes. That is what i will say it was. And a punnet of raspberries. And now im the raspberry greetings from brussels. I am gazing adoringly at you. Thank you. I am the raspberry. Welcome to brexitcast. Brexitcast from the bbc. No one has got a clue what brexit is. Brexit is. No one has quite understood the full extent of this. We rely on the dover and calais crossing. I met borisjohnson once. The doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters, they are going to get it wrong again. Remainers and leavers, that will end well. Brussels, i would describe as a dogs brexit. We have still not got any raspberries, but it is chris at westminster. Youve got a banana, as well as me. Laura at westminster. Adam in brussels. And doctor ardler in brussels. I like to say doctor when im wearing shoulder pads it has been another big week. Really. I feel cross eyed. My binder has got much thicker. And are we poised to get a new brexit d
A center for study which found that 95 countries now own military drones and Drone Operations are becoming deeply embedded in the Armed Forces Worldwide in ways that are changing Global Security how bad is that you ask well the report estimates that there are at least 21000 at least 21000 and probably more than 30000 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in military Service Worldwide today and while were on the subject of technological terrors that we vastly underestimate and their negative impacts on our lives sovereignty and well being lets talk about the westmoreland family of milwaukee wisconsin who came home one quiet september afternoon to find their smart home was hacked fox 6 news reports that their thermostat had been turned all the way up to 90 degrees a boy speak again speaking to them from a camera in the kitchen and then started playing vulgar music in the 21st century you dont need ghosts to haunt your house just these 2 folks from the ninetys now. Lets go now lets get to the show and
Now carry cargo to the International Space station and of course you have elon musk and jeff bezos with blue origin and elon musk with space x building rockets. Must is maybe more of the celebrity type. Jeff bezos is more of the just working away. Hes got three rockets assigned, the first one is the armstrong which is the suborbital, the second is the glenn that we put people in orbit and the third is armstrong which will be something to carry interplanetary to the moon or elsewhere. This is very exciting. How many of you guys know Robert Bigelow . He is right up here in las vegas, North Las Vegas and i think it was 2001, he invited a group of about 15 or 20 space geeks, me included by the way to las vegas and he said he made 1 billion in his hotels and he said i want spend half of that putting up private space stations and i want to make sure that i dont run afoul of regulators and so forth who screwed things up. So we had to three days talking about how to do that what he came up wit
Explores what it would take to send humans to mars. Im going to start over. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the next session to Research Director of the Heartland Institute and cato and heritage in other places and we are having this discussion july 20, 2019 this is the 50th anniversary of the landing of human beings on the moon. I was like a kid in a candy store. I got to watch the first moon landing from a major space center i sat there and watched the launch and splash down in the control room. This is the flight plan from the first moon landing. Everyone had one of these and i kept mine. I could sell one of these on ebay but im not going to do that. I still have my little badge and you know how strict security is these days but this was a little Plastic Thing and for a High School Kid that was enough to get me into the space flight center. A little bit of things coming around so to speak. I got buzz aldrin to do a first chapter in my book the first human being to