ExSoldier
Newly retired and moved to
EAST Tennessee (Johnson City). Looking for like minded patriots to become friends with and start enjoying life.
Looking for hunting, fishing and competitive Shooting friends. I m an NRA Certified Firearms Instructor with 30 years experience. Former US Army Infantry Captain. Cold War, no combat time. Politically active in Florida, maybe not so much in my retirement, but could do so with the right cause or candidate.
If you re in
EAST Tennessee, please reach out. Jim
I was ExSoldier on this forum before 1999, but there were problems with log in and my computer and the technology of the site was quickly evolving, so for awhile I lurked and then thanks be very much to Jim Robinson and an upgraded computer, I again became ExSoldier.
23 Apr 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris used a meeting Thursday to argue climate change is a root cause of migration from Central American countries.
“We are looking at extensive storm damage because of extreme climate, we’re looking at drought,” Harris said.
Harris met with foundation leaders on the ongoing migrant crisis as people from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala flood the Southern border through Mexico.
Because of the changing climate, Harris argued, people in the region faced a struggling agriculture industry, food scarcity, food insecurity, and extreme poverty.
“Again, we’re looking at the issue of climate resiliency, and then the concern about the lack of economic opportunity,” she said.
On January 27th, President Biden issued this expansive Executive Order tackling climate change. Here are some excerpts:
The United States will reconvene the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, beginning with the Leaders’ Climate Summit (happening right now). In cooperation with the members of that Forum, as well as with other partners as appropriate, the United States will pursue green recovery efforts, initiatives to advance the clean energy transition, sectoral decarbonization, and alignment of financial flows with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, including with respect to coal financing, nature-based solutions, and solutions to other climate-related challenges.
The United States will immediately begin the process of developing its nationally determined contribution under the Paris Agreement. The process will include analysis and input from relevant executive departments and agencies (agencies), as well as appropriate outreach to domestic stakeholders. The Uni
Twenty years, 2,300 deaths, $1 trillion: what did the US achieve in Afghanistan?
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The jetliners that were flown by al-Qaeda terrorists into the World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001 changed the world forever. Fortress America looked vulnerable, radical Islam was on the march, and a new era of terror was launched.
The immediate result of the attacks was a US declaration of war against terror, backed up by a coalition of other Western countries. Just three days after 9/11, Congress passed the “authorization for use of military force against terrorists,” which was signed into law by President George W. Bush four days later. The law authorized the president to use military force to strike everyone responsible for the terror attacks as well as anyone who gave them shelter.
Readout of the Third National Climate Task Force Meeting whitehouse.gov - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from whitehouse.gov Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.