His way out the door, the donald may drawdown or outright end the u. S. Wars in afghanistan and iraq. That, that hit the washington d. C. Where it hurts the most right between its military Industrial Complex legs. In fact, the hill is now reporting that acting defense secretary, Christopher Miller announced on tuesday that President Trump has ordered the pentagon. The pole 2500 u. S. Troops from afghanistan, iraq by mid january. And that the Defense Department will cut the number of troops in that ghana stand from 452500. The number of forces in iraq from 322505 january 15th, just 5 days before joe biden would get sworn in. Naturally cries of National Security dominated the airwaves in response to this news. Yes, it was an all out political news media blitz to convince you that somehow removing us troops and bringing them home from war are now multigenerational wars. That somehow puts them in more danger than being in a never ending war. But that wasnt the only bad news for the pentago
Reportedly. The facebook. Pages it considers to be state controlled media. But ignores. The government. One minute past 5 pm here in. June the 6th a warm welcome to the program hope we find you well my names you know the new. Major demonstrations over the death of george floyd are expected this weekend in the American Capital police are warning that some of these protests could prove to be the largest ever seen in washington d. C. The countrys biggest race rallies in half a century show little sign of abating but the riots and the rage have now largely turned into more peaceful calls for justice on reform. Lets get into some of the incidents around 50 people were arrested after my police surrounded marchers returning home during curfew hours in Brooklyn New York and friday night police said importantly 1st told the protesters that if they stayed on the sidewalk they would be allowed to pass through officers where theyre seen containing the group thats a methadone us kettling before arr
He captured this video and for a time, two f16 fighter jets had to find the blimp as it travelerred at 16,000 feet and ton manned aircraft start to drift lower. People staal started calling 911. Who wonder what the blimp is used for. Theyre use in iraq and afghanistan for surveillance. The heliumfilled blimp part of a 2. 7 billion project by the pentagon called the joint land attack Cruise Missile defense elevated net senting system or j. A. L. E. N. S. They didnt know whether they should shoot it down and has classified and sensitive material on board. It could be dangerous if it came down in an area populated by lots of people. Were learning the blimp started to deflate and came down on its own. Cbs news david martin said National Guard helicopters had to scramble to secure is crash site and all the technology on board. Its part of a pair and you can bet the other blimp is ground. No one was hurt as far as we know but there will be a huge investigation to how this could have possibly
So this coming april, next april marks the 100 Year Anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake, which was an event that until up to fairly recently, was arguably the worst Natural Disaster in American History. However, what is often overlooked by those unfamiliar with the history of the 1906 earthquake is that the quake itself, measuring somewhere around 8, i believe on the Richter Scale, actually played a lesser role than some may think in the ensuing catastrophe. As dennis will surely explain, fire was the culprit of much of the devastation that came afterwards. And in the wake of recent events, it seems particularly timely to look to the 1906 quake for lessons in dealing with those catastrophes. And their aftermath, particularly the social and psychological consequences. So just to tell you a bit about dennis before we start, he is a former new york city firefighter. Now one of the leading historians on the subject of firefighting, and hes also the editor of fire house magazine. In
This House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing is an hour and a half. We will now call a hearing to order. This is a very important hearing in my opinion. Some of them are not nearly as important as others. This one is extremely important because greg and i, the Ranking Member, we are all concerned about the influence of iran in the entire region, also in the gulf region. So today we are here to discuss the expanding influence in the south caucasus, but were also talking about, i intend to talk about some of the problems in the Persian Gulf Region because thats a vital interest to us. The straits of hormuz, persian gulf, or the swiss canal are blocked in any way they could have devastating impact on the United States because we still get a large part of our energy from the region. I traveled to azerbaijan an armenian in early september. And i also stopped in georgia and met with the president. When i talked to these leaders, iran was one of the things that came up at the very beginnin