Definition the met Atlantic City and contains a blueprint for action by governments by parallelments, which leads me to a fifth initiative and share with you a unanimous resolution that was adopted by the canadian parallelment and in that context as well. Unanimous resolutions are not that easy to get adopted. Just one person when the speaker of the parliament puts the question to them and does anyone object. The resolution was adopted by all nems from all parties and ill smards the resolution because you can use it as a temperature late in other parliaments and in our work with civil society. I know as one wag said, which may be the reason that people dont know what the protocol let alone the resolution. Number one, it condemns the alarming global rise in antisemitism. Two. It calls on the canadian government and the Canadian Parliament to make the combatting of antisemitism in domestic and foreign policy. Abstracted,hree, it it said criticizing israel is not antisemitic and saying so
Tank reports, a lot of leftwing and rightwing knee jerk reaction that simply did not get what i thought was right. So the genesis of this book was not in any way a whistleblower book or etc. , it was really to pack some salience around a very policemen call issue. And that is the origins of polemical issue. Now, before i begin the actual argument in the book, i want to lay out a few disruptive facts from a decade of war. First is using, for example, 2010 numbers, the pentagon spent 366 billion were obligated to contractors. 54 of its budget. Seven times the u. K. s defense budget. Now, when most people think about armed versus up armed contractors, they think about 30 or so are armed. Thats not true. Only about 1015 during the war, the wars plural, were armed. Or were trainers. And this is the element of the contracting world that i am focused on. The vast majority of contractors, you know, cooked chow repaired trucks, werelingists were linguists etc. But i focused on this for me, the
National Defense University and former military mercenary talks about the use of mercenaries in wars around the world today. He says that were headed toward a future that will resemble the middle ages when hiring mercenaries to fight in wars was the norm. Thank you peter. Thank you to the Atlantic Council for hosting this and thank you for making it out today on a less than auspicious weather day. This book is about the return of private military force in International Relations today. And i wrote this not simply as an International Relations scholar, but also as a practitioner. I worked for a company for several years in africa, and i saw while i was working there many press reports many think tank reports, a lot of leftwing and rightwing knee jerk reactions that simply did not get what i thought was right. So the genesis around this book was not in any way a whistleblower book etc. , it was really to pack some salience around a very policemen call issue. Polemical issue. I want to so
He ends up spending most of his time at a base just outside of her size. So it wasnt the hard punishment that perhaps joe thought it might be. She helped him through that and probably is what youre saying. I think she does. I think she does by being the supportive mother that she always was for her children and maybe not able to admit to herself the more Inconvenient Truth about his wife but she does talk free will in her oral history and in her journals about how the boys would misbehave and how they were in courage by the path to come telling the truth. The funny stories. But also telling the truth and then she would say, then my husband would take care of it. She didnt seem to see the conflict between her Victorian Gold of having all the children be responsible, the r. Word was often in her writings and her letters to the. She didnt seem to see the conflict between having joe at the head of the clan to take care of all the misbehaviors. So there were times in glasgow where teddy wou
Case while he laments that his father cant trust that many people on the inside anymore. All of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a tuesday night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 600 of the trump presidency, and on top of the daily threat that the ongoing russia investigation represents for this white house, they are about to be handed an all but certain Natural Disaster along our most vulnerable coastline, a threat to any white house, and this president seems convinced weve never been more ready. We are totally prepared. Were ready. Were as ready as anybody has ever been. It looks to me and it looks to all of a lot of very talented people who do this for a living like this is going to be a storm thats going to be a very large one. Far larger than weve seen in perhaps decades. Its tremendously big and tremendously wet. The president cited what he sees as the huge success of the relief effort in puerto rico following Hurricane Maria there.