It represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that San Francisco is famous for. The wood you see in the board of supervisors chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. Interesting thing about the oak is there isnt anymore in the entire world. The floors in china was cleard and never replanted. If you look up at the seceiling you would believe thats hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. There are no records about how many people worked on this building. The workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. And what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the world today. [roll call] item number two, pledge of allegiance. Item number three, approval of minutes for the june 9, 2020 Port Commission meeting. So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. Sorry, roll call vote. [roll call] thank y
The Government Faces more criticism over the way its handling of the pandemic. Only. Muslims around the world are urged to stick to social distancing guidelines at the start of the fasting month of ramadan. Global leaders have joined the World Health Organization to launch an initiative to speed up work on drugs tests and a vaccine for covert 19 that will be available for everyone but that was unmarked absence in the United States announcing it would not be getting involved the w. H. O. Is yet to reveal further details of the initiative w. H. O. If chief says its important all tools used for fighting the virus are available to everyone. But experience has taught us that even when tools are available they had been not been equally available to all we cannot allow that to happen today doubly sure is proud to be uniting with many partners to launch the axis to call video 19 tools accelerator or the accelerator this is a landmark collaboration to accelerate the Development Production and.
Is secular it does not mean it is bereft of theology or education of belief or conscience but its inclusive of. Other thanks for joining us this is r. T. International. The us house has started debating the donald trump impeachment article sponsor the landmark vote expected later today the president himself has accused the democratic leadership of pressuring Party Members to vote a certain way and there have been plenty of sound bites coming from the house floor already. This is a moment that you will read about in your history books he sought to elevate himself as a dictator a king but we are not him arent monarchy we are the United States of america i want my daughter to be able to tell her children grandma did the right thing because in america no one is above the law now one of the democrat witnesses not one was able to establish that the president committed bribery treason or high crimes and misdemeanors tench taken Office Nearly 3 years ago President Trump has consistently and in
Your cell phones on silent. If you want to post anything on social media please tag politics prose and gw events. I am the partner manager at politics and prose and want to thank all of you for coming out on a vent we are out with George Washington University Joint venture also to bring jim mattis in conversation tonight. First a few other Exciting Events coming up in partnership with gw september 11 we have an event with Malcolm Gladwell it is a live recording of a podcast on npr on september 12 and james comey on september 16 septembe september 24 we will discuss the year of the marquis. We hope to see you at some of them this month. Secretary jim mattis a Pacific Northwest nave it is serving for decades at the marine infantry officer following two years of secretary of defense he returned to the northwest and is now distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution at stanford. Callsign chaos is the account of his career through wide ranging leadership roles in three worst ultimately c
World go around but maybe theres such a thing as the wrong kind of investment. Counting the cost on aljazeera. To. See. The 6945 an american b. 29 bomber dropped the 1st ever atomic bomb over the japanese city of hiroshima. At least 140000 people were killed in the attack. Tens of thousands more died later because of the effects of radiation ever since the end of the 2nd world war theres been an International Consensus and effort to contain the spread of Nuclear Weapons. The Global Community has created several organizations and signed treaties to prevent potential Nuclear Attacks as of today 9 countries have admitted to possessing Nuclear Weapons but only 5 a part of the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation treaty which calls on its signatories to open the doors for inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency the i. A. E. A. Is one of the organizations promoting the peaceful use of Nuclear Technology while a 996 treaty banned all Nuclear Tests for both civilian and military purposes