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United nations. The Doomsday Clock indicating how close the humidity is to at 2. 5ophe has been set midnight, the worst since 1953. Worse than the other time, even at the height of the cold war. Amy more than 120 nations have begun drafting a u. N. Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons but the United States is leading a boycott of the talks. Well find out why. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A federal judge in hawaii dealt another blow on wednesday to President Trumps attempt to ban refugees and travelers from six majoritymuslim countries. District judge Derrick Watson extended a nationwide halt on trumps executive order, which w ....
I wanted to ask you to join in here. I think were also talking about the Asian Community and were talking about whether people feel that they are being hurt and theyre included. You think about the minorities in the country and often times people, you know, start with the Africanamerican Community but largest is now hispanic community. And then you have the Asian Community growing in rapid numbers, especially the Fastest Growing group of immigrants is asian. Whoo about political participation an inclusion . Do people feel like they have a right to participate in this structure . Well, yes. Thats the message we have to carry to the community, to let them know that if they dont participate, their concerns are never going to be heard. Theyre concerned abo ....
Find out where cspan local content vehicles are going next, online at cspan. Org. You are watching American History tv. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] next, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell speaks about the life of fellow kentuckian senator Albin Barkley who was majority leader of the u. S. Senate between 1937 and 1947 and was minority leader from 1947 to 1949. Democrat, Alben Barkley it was 35th Vice President of the United States elected with hair harry ....
In the era after the civil war, america changed radically from a nation of Small Farmers and small producers and small lateacturers, and by the 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, we had concentrations of wealth. We have growing inequality. We have concern about the influence of money and government. He spent the later part of 1890s giving speeches all over wisconsin. If you wanted a speaker for your club or your group, he would give a speech. He went to county fairs. He went to every kind of event that you could imagine. He built a reputation for himself. By 1900, he was ready to run for governor, advocating on behalf of the people. He had two issues. One, the direct primary. No more selecting candidates in convention. Two, stop the interests are , specifically the railroads. For all our events on cspan2 on book tv. The 2015 student cam video competition is underway. It is open to all middle and high school to create a 57 minute documentary on t ....
The pentagon is looking to shrink the army to preworld war ii level. Getting rid of a complete unit of attack jets. Lisa stark, what kind of levels are we talking about . Chuck hagel said this is the first away things will look like after years of war. The smallest since world war ii, particularly land forces. The army up to 570 tow troops in the army the president promised to end the wars in afghanistan and iraq of course and reduces to levels back to 490,000. Defense secretary hagel is talking about more cuts down to 440 to 450,000 in the army. Hes not only talking about changing personnel, it is a change in Weapons Systems and a whole new way of doing business. Here is what the secretary had to say. After iraq and afghanistan we are no longer sizing the military for long sessions. We must retain our edge over technical adversaries. The military must be able to respond quickly to all contingency anies and be able to respond sho ....