Readiness of our u. S. Armed forces. Today we are joined by nearly 1000 who have registered for this very important event. Despite our attention being focused on other things in the lead up to the election there may be no more vital of a topic for our country then this. Americans have had the good fortune of living in unparalleled freedom and prosperity for nearly 250 years and these gifts are maintained by a powerful and ready military that prevents our adversaries from destroying what so many of us as americans have had the opportunity to experience. President Ronald Reagan said that a truly successful military is one that because of its strength and ability and dedication wouldnt be called because no one would dare provoke it. He calls it peace through strength and that is how we won the cold war against the biggest enemy in history. Yet, in a time when those nations are reeling from a deadly disease outbreak, racial unrest and economic upheaval to many citizens and lawmakers argue
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Without a doubt this is what happened in ferguson right it was a full nearly a military response you know local Police Forces around the country have been rewarded with military grade equipment the kinds of equipment you would normally see only in an International War context and there was extreme levels of containment and violence as if people exercising their civil rights to freedom of expression and to gather in public to protest were a threat to the nation rather than the very rights that the nation is designed to protect but thats the logic of what it means to face a state violence when youre a black Community Even if whites and others are participating its when its understood as a racial crime that you begin to see this kind of extreme violent response that said it is my understanding that there are also many instigators involved in minneapolis and perhaps in. Other cities around the country as well and more data on that may come up as the weeks bear out but what that means is th
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A u. S. Warship in the persian gulf accompanied by a bomber plan since washingtons abandonment of the nuclear deal with iran in may 2018 the situation in one of the most volatile regions in the world has been escalating. Iran consequently resumed enrichment of uranium in the process itself violating the multinational treaty. Some fear this could put the country on the threshold to becoming a nuclear arms state. Meanwhile the i. N. F. Treaty between the us and russia banning land based intermediate range Nuclear Missiles has effectively collapsed the Nuclear Powers in adversaries of old are now developing new weapons and new strategies. Are we seeing a return to the times of the cold war is the world at risk of a new global arms race 30 years since the last one ended or has it already begun. To. A Nuclear Bunker under the center of nuremberg built decades ago during the cold war there used to be around 2000 bunkers like this across germany their purpose to provide shelter for at least a