R of the late 20th century seems far removed, today 21stcentury europe strains to accommodate the outcome. The fall of the berlin wall marked the end of the soviet empires iron curtain and reshaped germanys borders. A new unified berlin is emerging the capital of a reunited germany near the center of a european region whose borders expanded with the demise of the iron curtain. Narrator during the cold war that followed world war ii germany existed as two antagonistic countries, east germany and west germany. Berlin, the historic capital of the nation, located deep inside communist east germany was also divided into east and west sectors. For nearly 30 years, this division was marked by a wall built right through the city. The wall went up in 1961. Then in 1989 germany was reunified and the wall was torn down. Man the wall comes down, there is great euphoria. Finally the two cities can be connected again and made one. It is a new symbol of the unification of germany, the syol of unifica
Talking about the entertainment in the street and American Values. While he was in california, president obama told members of the industry there that they play a part in transferring culture and values and giving us a sense of what america is like for the world. We want to know if you agree or disagree with that statement. Here is how you can call in this morning about 25 of you posting on our facebook page. Some of you, especially on the twitter pages, you may remember it was all in california for several days that mr. Obama spoke at the dreamworks studio, talking to members of the Entertainment Industry and talking about the culture and of the Entertainment Industry. The headline again, we are kind of using that question, what he spoke about in the industry, that is the larger question about the Entertainment Industry. You may agree or disagree but here is how you can reach out to us this morning. Feel free to tell us yes or no and feel free to tell us why. At theesident spoke dream
With that being said, my question to you would be what benefits would we be reforming the book and tax code by lowering taxes and tax rates and broadening the tax base on the individual and corporate basis which is revenue neutral as i have indicated . Congressman, when he and other analysts think that sort of tax reform that could you have described could boost Economic Growth. But the metal into the first depends specifically on the tax reform that the congress would consider. And we are standing by to do an Economic Analysis that approaches the tax reform. If you and others on the committee would be interested. If you do these things, im convinced if you put more people than the job market, more taxpayers and more cash flow, it works. We talked a lot about the minimum wage today off and on. My question to be for someone that owns a business, we have raised the minimum wage. How do i pay for that . Congressman cohen as i mentioned in the earlier question we are currently doing the an
Party republicans wanted to get rid of the health care law. The president will name jay johnson as new head of homeland homeland security. If he is confirmed he will replace janet napolitano. Gunmen killed 67 people in Westgate Mall in nairobi. Video captures the first days of the siege. That is it from al Jazeera America, you can get us online at aljazeera. Com. The u. S. Government back to work after a 16day shut down, d. C. Looks for a path forward. Consider this, the government what . How does the Republican Party heal itself . Whats next for obamacare, and are there any rewinners from the whole mess . After wikileaks released a massive amount of information on the web. What has changed. Julian assange is holed up. The author of a new book tells us why cookies to comfortable chairs could cause humans worlds of trouble. Hello. Welcome to consider this. We begin with the debt ceiling. The government open for business thursday after a 16day shutdown, but as Courteney Healey reports th
President obama will nominate jay johnson as the head of the department of homeland security. Hes a top pentagon lawyer as well. During his tenure he supervised the escalation of unmanned drone strikes and worked on the repeal of dont ask dont tell. People in and the unions have been negotiating with transit officials over pay and benefits, buzz those talks fell apart earlier today. Those are the headlines this hour. Ill be back at 11 00 eastern and 8 00 pacific time. Consider this is up next, and you can get the latest on aljazeera. Com. The u. S. Government back to work after a 16day shut down, d. C. Looks for a path forward. Consider this, the government is open for business, so now what . How does the Republican Party heal itself . Whats next for obamacare, and are there any rewinners from the whole mess . After wikileaks released a massive amount of information on the web. What has changed. Julian assange is holed up. The author of a new book tells us why cookies to comfortable ch