And chair, eddie junior. A conversation on the u. S. Military readiness and the Global Threats we face. Defense Program Senior research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S
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Ask yourselves now that nearly all the big tech outfits reported and a day the market rebounded from its lows. S p jumping 1. 19 and the nasdaq surging 1. 69 . All right. It didnt make back everything it lost, but like i said, nobody ever made any money panicking. If you panicked yesterday, always a better time there is a whole network of smart, rigorous Money Managers who believe apple, amazon have become ridiculously expectative. Downright danger to zone they dont welcome the possibility that these could be worth trillions of dollars im not kidding, every day same goes for their compadres netflix and microsoft. There are tons of stocks in this market way too expensive by any traditional valuation metrics. However, that does not include facebook, apple, amazon, maybe alphabet say nothing of microsoft only netflix is one that i think is a bit of an outlier this is 2020, not 2000 that being the dotcom boom with the exception of amazon and netflix, all of these big tech stocks are valued
Environment which was lax when it came to normal, standard procedures associated with covid, wearing a mask, social distancing, trying to take as much outdoors as you can, and working from home. And none of those things were Standard Operating Procedures at the white house. I think that the American Public is getting a look at, when you take risks, you are going to have to pay the piper, and thats whats happening. David before any of this happened, one of the Big Questions in the election coming up just a month from now was, do we trust President Trump more than we trust former Vice President biden to handle this crisis . The president was already behind in most of the polls on that score. We are getting conflicting, sometimes ambiguous or confusing briefings from his doctor at walter reed. There was a lot of working things walking things back. We also saw the president get into his suv, a closed and contained suv, with two secret service agents, to drive past the people inside. He say
San Francisco Police chief bill scott says a special sideshow unit has been for 15 new surveillance cameras will also be installed to help investigators catch sideshow drivers and participants for this to work effectively. Is we have to be able to put the driver behind the wheel. Then we can do something with that case increasing the penalties for participating in the illegal stunt driving events comes after labor day is deadly shooting in the citys excelsior district. Its dangerous for the participants is dangerous for the spectators is dangerous for all the folks who are within range of this particular event in San Francisco Haaziq Madyun kron 4 news. Back to our continuing wildfire coverage now as catastrophic fires continue to burn across california today Governor Newsom announced that 25 people have been killed by wildfires so far this year, the flames have burned more than 3. 4 million acres destroying more than 4,000 structures, roughly 38,000 people still can not return to thei