To december 26th, 1991 with the collapse of the soviet union. It was a geopolitical standoff. Each one could have destroyed the world through a nuclear war but the cold war do d that. There will be no winners, so this cold war was a state of heightened tension that did not have direct conflict between the soviets and the americans. Vietnam, korea, gulf war, afghan war. Vint hill farms station was functional between World War Two and the 90s. After the cold war, the American Government realized there was no need for this facility because there was no more soviet union. The cold war ended. That as well as, there was an act called base realignment and closure act. In the mid 90s, a lot of military bases were shut down for cost savings, financial reasons, and we didnt need as much facilities to monitor the sol soviet union. It vacant for about ten years. We found it was available. They said yes we would love to talk to you about locating here. Of negotiations we opened up in 2011 at this f
Test. Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac that carter was so good at mastering the symbols of the office and in order to win our support, thats how high he was riding at the time. But as ken pointed out, his election as president marks a transition. We had been electing washington figures president ever since world war ii and with 1976, the fact that he had never been in washington which he reminded us of turned out to be a political virtue. He was from georgia and was going to bring that sense of fresh blood and fresh spirit into washington, d. C. , and that marks a kind of historic turning point at which governor and in the most recent election complete outsider began to become a more appealing political persona for those who are running for president. The other way cartoonists responded is by drawing things about his southern and rural heritage. There was a famous cartoon of a white house limousine outside the whitehouse up on cinder blocks and there was jody powell, who
Spanning as far east as madagascar and a large number is believed to be due to slash and burn practices by farmers has been compounded by shorter rainy seasons why its orange dinahs Data Scientists and drought specialists who focuses on african agricultural trends he says the lack of rain in the past 3 years is having a huge impact the real issue is that the impact of these brush fires is getting worse if you look at a lot of parts of sani abacha parts of the african continent particularly the west african said hello this used to be a regular occurrence during the dry season and when the rains would come around. There would allow for grasslands to grow again but unfortunately we are seeing a very significant increase in variability of rainfall its making the rainy seasons very volatile and less predictable. Still ahead this half hour israel sends tanks and troops to its borders with lebanon and syria after carrying out acts strikes in both countries. And the u. S. Congress you to call
Interest fact Nestle Waters north america doesnt pay a dime to the communities for the water they struck with they do is hire a company with an existing permit to extract the water like 7 springs Water Company and high springs florida and that Company Obtains the permit nestle pays loads of money to upgrade that companys equipment and sucks up millions of gallons of Natural Spring water and bottles it for mass consumption however aside from the 150. 00 application fee nestle doesnt actually pay for the water theyre taking from the community that means as was noted in an editorial from the Orlando Sentinel at a Editorial Board florida doesnt tax the producer for taking water and doesnt tax the consumer for buying it which makes you wonder hock watchers is mesley cares so much about the converse that conservation of the water they make billions of dollars from why are they willing to pay the communities a reasonable and beneficial amount for said water. Well find out why as we start watc
And doesnt tax the consumer for buying it which makes you wonder hock watchers if nestle cares so much about the converse that conservation of the water they make billions of dollars from why arent they willing to pay the communities a reasonable and beneficial amount for said water well find out why as we start watching the hocks. The soldiers you get the banks are real that this was. A large. Part of. Your life but they like you are going to. Sleep. With. This soldiers and. We. Welcome everybody to watch technologic some tab of the wallace and joining me from the dark forest of minnesota is my cohost tired of and thanks for joining ray. Always a pleasure always a pleasure as the as the water pours from the sky here in minnesota we are now talking mess looking in water and once again putting our environment in danger and our water supply and a lovely thank you nestle has always i mean he no months and so just was taken up all the press for being one of the Worst Companies on the empir