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What are the chances, particularly now that republicans have given up a tax increase in january and are taking a hard line now, what are the chances of getting a bigger agreement to tackle our deficit . That is a very fair question. I was disappointed in the fact that the supercommittee did not achieve a positive result. In this latest round, the democrats have been trying to get to the negotiating table since march. That is when the house passed the budget and the Senate Democrats passed their budget. The normal courses to begin negotiations. We were blocked by republicans in the house and se...

Former republican senator alan simps simpson. If anybody out there that is rich doesnt think their taxes are going up, the drink is on me. Even with reality from some in his own corner, john boehner is facing mutany. Aircraft erickson tweeted out how can you fire Speaker Boehner. Linking to a letter encouraging readers to pressure their Congress Members to block boehners reelection to the speakership. Boehner is also catching flack for ahs ousting idealogical conservative members from the top gop house committees. Its a slap in the face of all young people who are out there thinking about bein...

Coast. We also did initial overland and overflight assessments in some of the inland areas, as as well, working with our dod rkini colleagues. Our initial assessment was that. L areas were the worst affected so that was the First Priority for focus. At as that situation has started to stabilize, maybe too strong a word but lets say head in the e direction of stabilizing, we iln have also began looking further afield in partnership with government of the philippines fe colleagues to try to reach someo of those inlandll areas. I would emphasize as well that our initial prioritization of the coas...

Absolutely that is a serious concern. And trafficking, and i know t t that that scot can talk more to the trafficking aspect in particular. On the usaid side we have sent a protection adviser on to the adisaster Assistance Response Team to look into exactly this set of issues. We have also been in all of our partnersship so far, ensuring that we do a technical review o those that takes those kinds of issues into account to make sure that nothing that any of our partners are doing could inadvertently be supporting or enailing that. And Going Forward, i think were going to look into more specifi...

And just before dialling the white house to alert the he receives a third call. The whole thing had been a false alarm. Computer error and the point this is that the prospect, was very real the stakes were very high in the cold war. Years later something amazing happened. Images of seen the on berlin wall opening november 9, 1989, and well get to see them again this fall as commemorate the 20th momentous of that occasion. These years over in roughly a decade . How does the cold war end . We go from the National Security advisor getting called middle of the night with suddenly of alarm to the w...