Next, a Panel Discussion on the peoples temple. And theder jim Jones Community called jonestown he established in guyana. In 1978 more than 900 americans died in jonestown because of cyanide poisoning and what is called the jonestown massacre. The Panel Includes two former members of the peoples temple. And two authors on books on the subject. The California Historical society hosted this discussion. Its about an hour and a half. I want to welcome you all to the California Historical society. On behalf of my board of trustees, my Incredible Team and staff, our volunteers, all of our members and all of our guests, welcome for a very special in poignant and powerful afternoon. We are deeply honored for our dear partners and friends. I think part of the is overused and i like using polluters colluders. The San Francisco public library, you cannot ask for better friends. This is a special part of the one city, one book extravaganza. Thinking susan goldstein, marcia ander, Christina Reddy a
People will overwhelmingly approve it. I thought it wouldve approved in 2000 or 2008. Im not sure about the palestinians. I have to be honest about that. I hope it would be the case they would support it as well. Asking the impossible conundrum. , i wroteof years ago an oped in the wall street journal. Was about the birth of it was about the book of jonas. Who the story of a profit say if you dond not repent, you will be destroyed. He realizes this is a nowin situation. If he tells them to repent and they do repent, three years later, they will say, why do we have to repent . Nothing happened. Or if he goes and they do not repent, then he is a false prophet. That is the paradox of prophecy. It is a nowin situation. You can house the same question about the maintenance of american hegemony in the middle east. If america had not maintained hegemony over 50 years, it may be nothing wouldve happened to the u. S. If america had let its guard something worse than 9 11 happened, and the parad
Can you comment on that . I would be happy to. Its been our experience whenever federal money has come the date has stepped up to issues and made additional money available as well. In kentucky we have been able to do a lot of the Major Projects through that whole mechanism. But the one thing i would say about 45 on average the money that states have to work to build projects is federal funding and of that 45 it constitutes more of the larger projects that we actually build and so its a critical piece of where we are. The states are doing a lot and we have seen that in a number of states enacting new funding mechanisms and so forth. We applaud the state could have done that and we are certainly encouraging everyone to do what they must find th to find the mt is necessary to invest. But youre right it is a difficult advance with the state budget and so forth but we found a lot of our colleagues that are interested in spending more on transportation. You made a great point about the hars
It is about 2500 marines. It is associated with amphibious shipping. That is what you mostly see on the news, marines operating off of the ships. We have two of those on the water at all times. One in the pacific and one generally in the european, african, and Central Command regions. Very capable force. Runs the gamut from working Security Cooperation issues up to having the capability of executing Forcible Entry or having a play inside a major theater operation. The last one on the left is the special purpose. They do not have a size. They do not have a number associated with them. They can be created in order to meet whatever the Mission Requirement is. In this particular case, our Crisis Response was established with about 550 marines. It was based around an Infantry Company sized force. The command element was taken largely from the 24th. Designed for specific evolutions or missions, hours being Crisis Response. I will get into the details on that in a moment. Next slide. This was
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