And the lack of Affordable Housing for a living minimum wage gave many people new choice. Thats been a problem with the city knows turn limits on and told me stay away oh miss. The food if there is no answer because you have the required resource the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become the invisible cops. Greetings and salutations here in the United States as we get deeper and deeper into the fight against the cold with 19 we are seeing more and more news stories and expertly crafted publicity campaigns calling attention to the hundreds of thousands of doctors nurses and other medical workers and support staff who are quite literally on the front lines fighting to treat and save the lives of the more than 800000 u. S. Citizens or infected by this virus. They deserve our thanks our praise and our support new York Governor Andrew Cuomo aptly referred to these workers as quote the troops fighting this battle for us. But while the praise and heartfelt thanks are unquesti
Worked directly with the secretary of defense and what the old chinese curse calls Interesting Times michael take us inside the pentagon at a time like this whats the mood there. Well there are still Interesting Times and right now everyones on much greater alert today we just saw this just in the gulf in the persian gulf with the buzzing of u. S. Naval air u. S. Naval ships and so but i also think its a time where countries may start taking advantage because of the focus of the United States on the coronavirus the the breakdown of its of the entire economy and the need to get back to work and and peoples jobs so people are focus inward and meantime other activities are going on were seeing an uptick in syria the israelis have begun intensifying its amins in the in syria against their iranian and as bala targets and were seeing it israel now trying to coax the United States to. Instigate act actions inside of iraq and order to. Get a response from iran and and then we see this action o
Millions of americans are struggling to get their stimulus checks but even if they can get through the i. R. S. Website they could still have banks steal their money join me to talk about this is fair and cousins editor the National Trial where the magazine this this story i again its no surprise right this whole living the whole nature of this legislation was to put money in the hands of people so they could eat so they could pay their rent now we see the threat of banks saying what well the banks are saying hey you have Overdraft Fees from a couple years ago oh youre youre behind on this payment that you know this debt that we hold for you were going to steal your money and the worst part about this is not just the fact that the banks are doing this its that this was intentional this was intentionally put into this piece of legislation because they wrote in a provision congress did as part of the stimulus package here that the federal government cannot seize any of this if you are th
Example, the early 2000s, the park service was not able to fully discuss slavery as the basis for the civil war. So, that took a transition in. He park service a reopening, as the secretary has talked about, so there will be these tensions. And who knows what we can say at this point . But there will always be people who care deeply in the park service who i am sure will continue to tell the full story. Question. My name is zach. I work at president lincolns cottage. Secretary babbitt, thank you very much for that. That theany danger National Monument might be overturned or changed or rescinded or anything like that by the Current Administration or in the future . Thank you. Do you want me to take that . Mr. Babbitt in this current political environment, one hesitates to make any comprehensive pronouncements about this. It seems like anything is possible, unfortunately. , in one sense,t been much direct it at the cultural, and the reason for t is the utah monuments nd staircase, bears.
Thank you for joining us this late on a saturday afternoon. Of the executive director us icomos. Panel, us today on the we will be doing brief introductions. Glenn eskew from Georgia State university who is coordinating the civil rights World Heritage nomination. Rant leggs brent leggs. , and patricia sullivan. First, a little bit about us icomos and why i am listed as session, glennis eskew is the architect of this session. I am here to provide context for the significance of the investments of Energy Taking place. Dates back to 1965. We are one of the 110 or so National Committees of the International Committee of sites. Ts and it is most notable for being the scientificthe u. N. And cultural committee. Im sure you are all roughly familiar with the u. S. Heritage list. Cultural sites, as opposed to national sites, comprise more than 70 of the more than 1000 sites on the World Heritage list. 23 of those are in the u. S. The vast majority of our National Heritage sitess. Stephen morris