Stand in for him, and we will pick up. I will read his statement. Very good. Before we get started i request unanimous consent that a member of the full committee be allowed to join us, mr. Brown, who is behind me, and participate in the questions. And there is a formal unanimous consent that a nonsubcommittee member participate in the hearing after all of the subCommittee Members have had an opportunity to ask questions. Is there objection . There being none the nonsubcommittee member is recognized at an appropriate time for fiveminute questioning. All right. With that, committee will come to order. Ladies and gentlemen, i call the committee to order, the subcommittee of the Armed Services committee. Since february of this year, the subcommittee has been conducting extensive oversight of the Privatized Housing military program. We first heard about the systemic failures in the privatized military Family Housing program from a panel of courageous military spouses, who provided graphic
Participate in the questions. And there is a formal unanimous consent that a nonsubcommittee member participate in the hearing after all of the subCommittee Members have had an opportunity to ask questions. Is there objection . There being none the nonsubcommittee member is recognized at an appropriate time for fiveminute questioning. All right. With that, committee will come to order. Ladies and gentlemen, i call the committee to order, the subcommittee of the Armed Services committee. Since february of this year, the subcommittee has been conducting extensive oversight of the Privatized Housing military program. We first heard about the systemic failures in the privatized military Family Housing program from a panel of courageous military spouses, who provided graphic and disturbing testimony about lead, mold, exposure, rodent infestations, rude and dismissive house management, and ineffective oversight of the program by the services. Then we heard from the assistant military Service
Great decisions is produced by the Foreign Policy association in association with thomson reuters, funding for great decisions is provided by Price Waterhouse coopers llp. dramatic music [radio host] a short time ago, an american airplane dropped one bomb on hiroshima. That bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of tnt. [narrator] the seeds of Nuclear Proliferation were sown when the us attacked hiroshima and nagasaki at the end of world war ii. It was mankinds first exposure to a weapon that would forever alter the calculus of war. The introduction of then called atomic weapons in 1945 had a very Significant Impact on geopolitics. At the time, i think all leaders were aware that this was something qualitatively different, they werent sure what it meant. When one plane can inflict the same level of damage that it previously took thousands of planes and maybe multiple raids by thousands of planes to inflict, i think everyone realized things would be different. The ending of world war ii b
Great decisions is produced by the Foreign Policy association in association with thomson reuters, funding for great decisions is provided by Price Waterhouse coopers llp. dramatic music [radio host] a short time ago, an american airplane dropped one bomb on hiroshima. That bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of tnt. [narrator] the seeds of Nuclear Proliferation were sown when the us attacked hiroshima and nagasaki at the end of world war ii. It was mankinds first exposure to a weapon that would forever alter the calculus of war. The introduction of then called atomic weapons in 1945 had a very Significant Impact on geopolitics. At the time, i think all leaders were aware that this was something qualitatively different, they werent sure what it meant. When one plane can inflict the same level of damage that it previously took thousands of planes and maybe multiple raids by thousands of planes to inflict, i think everyone realized things would be different. The ending of world war ii b
Ys digital activists hold their annual gettogether in a clandestine setting. Sarah welcome to the program. My name is sarah harman. Thank you for joining us. Aid workers in syria have begun evacuating 29 critically ill people from a besieged rebel town in Eastern Ghouta. The evacuations were part of an agreement between the Syrian Government and rebels. The u. N. Has drawn up a list of some 500 people to be evacuated from the damascus suburb. It faces severe shortages of food, fuel and medicine as winter approaches. Reporter for this little girl, its not just the end of a nightmare, its a chance to stay alive. She was one of the first of almost 30 critically ill people evacuated from Eastern Ghouta. For weeks, International Aid organizations have been calling on syrian president Bashar Alassad to allow hundreds of people in desperate need of medical attention to leave the besieged suburb. Tuesday night saw the first of them get into ambulances and leave. Where they are in ghouta there