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US defense secretary makes unannounced visit to Baghdad, then Erbil

AP News Radio

00:50 sec | 7 months ago

US defense secretary makes unannounced visit to Baghdad, then Erbil

"Defense secretary Lloyd Austin has visited Iraqi Kurdistan after an unannounced visit to Baghdad. Austin reached the Kurdistan region, where he held talks in erbil, with the region's president natcher van Barzani. In the meeting Barzani discussed U.S. support to the Kurdistan region in the war against ISIS and terrorism, according to Kurdistan media, the Austrian visit comes to stays before the 20th anniversary of the U.S. led invasion that ousted Salam Hussein, Austin had earlier visited the Iraqi capital, where he vowed to continue the fight against the extremists until their defeated, despite their defeat in Iraq in 2017, IS militants and their sleeper cells are still launching attacks in the country, as well as in neighboring Syria. I'm Charles De Ledesma.

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Steve Deace: Greta Thunberg Ranks 'High' Because She Fits the Agenda

The Dan Bongino Show

01:38 min | 7 months ago

Steve Deace: Greta Thunberg Ranks 'High' Because She Fits the Agenda

"It's not about hypocrisy It's about hierarchy We're collectivists We're totalitarians We have the power kiss our asses you don't We're going to tell you something falsifiable on its face with 5 seconds of research and we give exactly zero that you know it Like we just don't care You're so right like the Baghdad bob portion of it is the point Can I make this a personal example for just a moment okay Of course So last night The New York Times Best Seller list comes out Our book rise of the fourth Reich has according to book scan was the number 7 selling nonfiction book hardcover nonfiction book in the country Greta Thunberg is not in the top 20 both of our books were released on the same day Her climate book and rise of the fourth Reich All right we sold a 148% more books in our category than she did We're 500 spots not 5 500 spots higher than her on Amazon Guess which one of us made The New York Times Best Seller list now I'm going to take a stab at it and Jim would you say Jim saying Greta Thunberg and I'm going to agree It's a wild guess Oh good Good crazy I just thought I got that right Just nuts Yeah but it was predictive Credit Thunberg actually has our spot She's number 7 on The New York Times Best Seller list which is where we belong She has our spot even though we sold its objectively provable just log into book scan see how many books got sold We sold a 148% more than hers but she fits the agenda So she gets the spot The lie is the point

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Mall of America Security Asked Man to Remove 'Jesus Saves' Shirt

ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

01:55 min | 9 months ago

Mall of America Security Asked Man to Remove 'Jesus Saves' Shirt

"Ball policy forbids picketing demonstrating soliciting protesting or petitioning on the premises of the mall of America. They need to rename the ball. I mean, if you're not gonna let somebody walk around the ball, wearing a Jesus saves T-shirt or remember back in, I remember back in the 90s, it was all the rage in the Christian churches to have the clever messages in the T-shirt, so it would be like a Budweiser can, but it wouldn't be a Budweiser cannon, it actually said be wiser instead of okay, maybe that's only the baptist church tradition. So anyway, I mean, if they're gonna do that, they may as well just rename that instead of the mall of American, maybe the ball of Fallujah. Or the ball of Baghdad, so anyway, they're given the guide the what for and telling him that he can not wear that shirt in the mall. The man the security guard told the man, I'm giving you a couple of options. You can either take your shirt off and you can go to Macy's and you can do your shopping or you could leave them all. Well, those don't sell life very good options. Anyway, they went back and forth and it turns out that the mall said they finally did allow them in to continue his shopping. But a lot of Christians around the country, this story is sort of gone viral on social media. And a lot of Christians are very offended by this. And they say there's no way this should be happening in America. The guy has a right to free speech to where that shirt. And freedom of religion to practice his faith in the public place. Yes, but I will say that. I mean, the mall of America is not a public place. It's a private mall. People are allowed to go and shop there, but again, I just don't see what's terribly offensive about the T-shirt.

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"baghdad" Discussed on Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

05:38 min | 11 months ago

"baghdad" Discussed on Game of Crimes

"And Thomas slaughter of thousands of innocents and ultimately the destruction of America. It's a race against time. Let me think where you might have got the idea for this book from. I can't imagine. I think it was a trip to Disneyland. But yeah, no. I had the genesis for this story was one day, I was walking back to my hooch from the chow hall. And during that sitting with some other guys, I'd heard that there had been another suicide on the base. And I was aware of an attempted homicide at another fob forward operating base. And I thought, wouldn't it be interesting if a retired detective, such as moi, was brought in to help with a multiple victim homicide investigation like a ten little Indians kind of thing. Agatha Christie kind of mystery. And I brought that idea home with me and quickly decided that that wasn't the idea I wanted to go with that I wanted to make it an international terrorism story. And so that's what it is. Well, did your wife have questions about somebody in your position and nurse Nancy major Nancy? The doctor? Who's this doctor again? Hey everybody, I read the book and I'm telling you right now highly recommend reading this book. It's an easy read. It's a quick read. It will keep you interested. It's a nice plot in there. Thank you. Some surprises that I'm not going to tell you about, but you need to find out about nurse Nancy. Well, doctor. MD. Major doctor nurse name. Major doctor. Well, was major doctor a major problem when you got back home? No, an actual fact. No. It was not. That was obviously that was all fiction. There's a lot that did happen to me that is in the book. Many of those things did happen to me. I did get Saddam's revenge, and I did meet a doctor. And she called it bubble guts, but she was, that was as far as it went. She was a lovely person and very funny and very nice, but that was, so there were a lot of things. There's a lot of the book that was drawn from my own experiences there. But it is a novel. I was just wondering that when your wife read the manuscript, she said, honey, you got some

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"baghdad" Discussed on Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

04:29 min | 11 months ago

"baghdad" Discussed on Game of Crimes

"First of all, what the hell is that? I'm not translated up here as well. That's not up here. But so there is a, but you're working a lot of that though, but it's very unique though, because as you move forward in time, what possessed you to say, hey, there's a lot of bombs going off. There's a lot of shooting going off. A lot of bad things happening over in this place. Oh, it's called a rock. I'd like to go to Iraq. I mean, once you get down on a typical afternoon in LA, not quite the same. It's definitely not quite dangerous in Iraq, isn't it? Yeah. Actually, yeah, the four O 5 freeway is definitely more dangerous than a rock was. An actual fact of the thing was I was nearing my retirement. And I was looking for something to do and I wanted to stay in the game. And I wanted to go to town and see the elephant, basically. I wanted to go to the belly of the beast. And. For me, Middle Eastern terrorism has been something that was or terrorism in general was basically something that was happening a lot of the time in other places. And I kind of wanted to get a sense of what it was really all about up close and personal. And so I applied to this outfit and was accepted. Well, anytime this outfit, all right, let's be, what can you say about this outfit? Because I know one of the ones is called jaito. That was the one of the ones dealing with IED stuff. So were you DoD where you I see where were you at? Well, I was. No, I was embedded. I got to be careful with you. You're a trained interrogator. No, I was embedded with IED defeat intelligence cell in Baghdad with tenth mountain. Yeah. And funny you should mention that too, because that's jaina was the organization. I was talking about the joint IED. And I knew some defeat in that was a huge, I mean, tell us people, you know, just reground us on why that was such an important mission because why was that such an important mission? Well, because I believe I don't know the statistics, but I mean, certainly from the anecdotal evidence that I saw, most all of the casualties were being produced by improvised explosive devices, whether there are HME homemade explosives or repurposed artillery rounds or mines or stuff that came in from other places. All of it. And when you look at when you look at the evolution of vehicles in that war, they start out with soft skinned. 1151 humvees. And you end up with up armored humvees with doors that are 6 inches or three inches thick and glass and all kinds of other stuff. And then and also V hold mine resistant vehicles mraps and germs and all of those things. And all kinds of other stuff countermeasures that they had to prevent these weapons from being detonated remotely. One question for you Gary, you mentioned DFP and we asked that you describe all your acronyms there. And I don't know if you can do my swerves and read the book. It's in the book, actually. No, but an EFP is an explosively formed projectile. And it basically utilizes a copper plate that is cone shaped.

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"baghdad" Discussed on Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

03:33 min | 11 months ago

"baghdad" Discussed on Game of Crimes

"Format. So give us feedback, hop on to Facebook. I'll tell you where all those things, the Twitter, the Instagram, just let us know what you think of the format. In during our break, we actually had some interesting discussions about some things around intelligence and counterintelligence and stuff like that. I mean, there's just some interesting stuff out there. We're swapping books back and forth. And so yeah, there's just some people do stupid shit, which makes your job interesting, right? Especially when you decided that you wanted to go. So let me ask you this. What made you decide or how did the process come about? Because you went to you went to Cal DoJ in 94 and as we were talking, we were sharing names and we have a name in common edman. And so Steve, when I was showing my work down at U.S. DoJ on information intelligence sharing, one of the reps we had from California was from Cal DoJ. And Ed manavi and so Terry gill, tell him Gary, who was Edmund avian to you. Well, Edmund avian, when I first met him, he was a supervisor at B and E in riverside. And he's a character. He's a pretty funny guy. He's a great guy. And after 9 11, the attorney general Bill Locke here decided that California needed its own organic counter terrorism intelligence collection organization and so he tapped Edmund avian to be the chief and Ed tapped me to be the task force commander to stand up the task force in Southern California. I had Monterey to San Diego. So a lot, but he's a great guy. He's a really good guy. And so we were just talking about the small one. I mean, we're sorry. We were talking about it's a small world, right? We're all related by 2° of separation. I may not know somebody, but I know somebody who knows you or et cetera. It's amazing. And it sounds like it was kind of, I don't know, I'd say this, that you patterned it after NYPD, New York PD, but they got agents or police officers stationed all around the world. They've got ulcers in Israel. They've got them in the UK. We even had one of DEA special operations division permanently assigned there. And it's a great tactic. Well, you know what? I mean, when you're a city, the size of New York with New York is a center of gravity for the United States. Los Angeles is also but New York is a center of gravity for the United States in terms of the economy, et cetera. You have to do these things. You have to put, as we all know, intelligence is the key to combating terrorism. And you got to have people out there. You can't just sit around and wait for crumbs to drop from the federal agencies. You've got to get out there and LAPD is also been historically very aggressive in intelligence collection and analysis also. And they have presence outside the borders of the city of Los Angeles as well. They had people in D.C. and at the national counter terrorism center and other places. And I worked with MIP intelligence division a couple of times. And I got shown around the city by one of their detectives, which was great fun.

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"baghdad" Discussed on Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

04:41 min | 11 months ago

"baghdad" Discussed on Game of Crimes

"For small town. Holy slaughter. You know, hey, so we got some good stuff coming in. This first one comes from it's just a headline. Woman cops to beating meat or meat beating at Ohio Walmart. Uh oh. Uh oh. That sounds just the title that sounds pornographic. Victim was struck in face with ten pound tube of beef. This is sounding more like a video shoot that went bad. Ohio woman. And by the way, this happened in south Euclid, Ohio population 21,388. Ohio woman yesterday copped to clobbering a female acquaintance in the face with a ten pound log of ground beef. During a confrontation in the potato chip aisle. And the Walmart. Apparently attacking her with a log of beef. So. According to police, Garner was at a Walmart in south Euclid when she would encountered victim, precious Jackson, who was shopping with her 7 year old daughter, Garner was accompanied by her 5 year old son, Jackson, who had lived downstairs from Garner in a university high duplex, had previously secured a protection order against her ex neighbor will apparently folks, let me tell you, protection orders. That aren't worth the paper they're written on. So cops say that when Garner, the suspect confronted Jackson in the Walmart potato chip file, she threatened to beat up Jackson and her daughter. She then pulled down Jackson's face mask and attempted to spin on her and when that didn't work, she reached into Jackson's cart and removed the $22 meat log. I like the way they call it a meat log. They describe the tube of ground beef as a blunt object. Ten pound one object. Offshore I just had a date go bad. My date tried to assault me with a blunt object. Garner investigators charged struck Jackson a couple of times in the face with a ten pound log of pre packaged ground beef. She was arrested at the scene and a relative to cuff theater son. Jackson, fortunately, was not injured by the meat blows. Let's

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"baghdad" Discussed on Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

01:55 min | 11 months ago

"baghdad" Discussed on Game of Crimes

"We'll just do the Y inversion Mahalo. All right. There you go. It's the medication. Welcome back, hey, everybody. Welcome back to game of crimes. Thank you guys once again for joining in with us. We've got a little bit of a different format this time, but as always, we always start off with Morgan Wright, the host with the most hair. You know, all that good stuff. And here literally with my partner in crime, Steve Murphy, but you know me as Murph. Yes, bam and sir. Yes, thank you guys for joining us. The script calls for a little bit of small talk, which we just did. We're going to get into the housekeeping now, just head on over to apple's Spotify. Hit those 5 stars. You know, the reviews and stuff. We really appreciate that. Really helps us out quite a bit. Also head on over to our game of crimes, podcast dot com, especially for our guests we have coming up. We'll tell you about him in a minute. He's also got a book a fiction book that he wrote based upon loosely based upon his experiences. Between California and Baghdad. So from Beverly Hills to Baghdad, we're going to find out what's going on. We got merch there, you know, and our mailing list also follows on that thing they call social media at game of crimes on Twitter at game of crimes on Facebook and Instagram. But where you got to be where you got to be Murph I'm going to ask you one more time. Where do you got to be? You got to come over and check us out on Patreon. I'm content that you're not going to hear on the regular podcast. Although we might have a little surprise coming up in December, but we have everything from a monthly live stream to a monthly Q&A where you can ask us anything to we just recorded. You can't make this shit up and it went to a dark place this time. I'm not sure if I'm Morgan got all this information. He does all the research. He surprises me with it. And so I can be just nauseous, shocked as well as you, and there are several other things. We do a case review. There's stuff on there that you're just not going to hear anywhere else. You're going to hear more of our personal opinions if you're interested in that. We try to stay focused on our guest here on the regular podcast. So come over, try us out, tell your Friends about us.

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"baghdad" Discussed on The Financial Guys

The Financial Guys

02:43 min | 1 year ago

"baghdad" Discussed on The Financial Guys

"Experienced, to provide a better life that they never experienced. I love this country and if you don't like it, get the hell out. And I'm gonna tell you this right now, that's the difference between the left and the right, the left wants to complain and hate the United States of America. The right wants to love and fix the United States. Us talking politics, not because we hate our country. We love our country. We want it to go back to, you know, you can have an opinion. You can go get reasonable food and beverage for not a $1 million. You can go pump your gas and not spend your whole paycheck, right? We want to go back to shutting your borders down so people can't just walk over and do whatever they want in your country. It's not about hating our country. We love our country and we want it back to where it should be, which is the greatest frigging country in the world, right? But what's scary is that now they're open and honest about their hatred of America and being socialist and running for office. I mean, there are democratic socialists who are New York State senators who run and that party label every single year. And what's dangerous is that it's gone from rhetoric to politics and governance, or they're an office now. And we've seen the kid, consequences of that since Joe Biden's been in office. America, are you better off? And the answer is absolutely not. And it's not even close. That's the worst part. You're not better off and it's not even close. I think we'll wrap it right there today though. That was a lot of good clips. I know, I get so fired up. I get so damn angry. I know. Because again, my personal experience with my family, going through hell to come to America. And these people trash our country. They hate our country. Well, fine. Go live in Venezuela, North Korea, China, or anywhere else you want. Just don't impose that radical socialist ideals and governance on me or our great nation. And write a report and get back to us on how it goes over there when you're there. You can't even do that. I know you can. You're not allowed to do that. Are you sure? All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in this week. Stefan and I will be back next Tuesday. Staphon, before I before I drop off here, you are hosting the radio show the next couple of weekends. That's right. The janitor said no, he couldn't do it, so they asked me. You're back. You and Ryan Norton this week and then you and I the following week. So we look forward to that. If you need us throughout the week, 8 three three fin guys, again, for Mike and the hi Lou. Thanks for joining us..

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"baghdad" Discussed on The Financial Guys

The Financial Guys

05:12 min | 1 year ago

"baghdad" Discussed on The Financial Guys

"It's just going to go away. I don't think they care. Again, you print more money. It's exactly what they've done and Albany, Washington, D.C., the solution is tax the rich, demonize your opponent, raised taxes and hope that a future generation deals with the mess that you're making. That is literally their mindset. They don't care. And we do. Like, we genuinely care about making sure that our kids and grandkids have a better America than what we inherited. Like, we genuinely believe that. They don't give a damn. Folks on the left, especially these radical socialists, they care about power and politics more about people. I guess I look at it. When I say that John Moore speaking about the voter, right? The democratic voter, like you have to understand. And again, like you said, are you that selfish? You don't care about your family and your grandkids and I don't have children yet. I care about what happens to my grandkids. That's like a hundred years away, right? But the point of building a business and getting yourself out there, making money and it's to provide for your family, potentially grandkids, whatever, great grandkids. I guess I look at the liberal voter and I ask the question, do you not think about this stuff? Is your is your financial freedom and your children's financial freedom and your grandchildren? Is that not important to you? Because if you actually think the printing money is a real answer, you're out of your freaking mind, but they're losing their minds and they're doubling down on their playbook. It's a classic democratic playbook at what they do every single time. They are deathly afraid and they're going to lose the House and Senate. So it's the same playbook they've had for generations. They're wrong on issues. They can never argue the merits of issues. What do they do? They try and scare the hell out of people. It's what they do every single election cycle. They'll people with fear or the anger that if you vote Republican, I've heard in a million times, they're going to kill your grandma. They're going to cut social security. There is going to be, you know, riding and looting in the streets. This is congressman Jamal Brown, our next clip. He actually said an actual Civil War could break out if Republicans win in the midterms. It was also emboldened Republicans and the far right and white nationalists across the country to begin to believe that it is their time to not just take power in the house, but the Senate, The White House, and state houses across the country, and we got to understand that this is a group that has been radicalized by the great replacement myth and many other things and have been pushing for violence and pushing for evening Civil War. They're doubling down. They're doubling down. And you know more about this than I do, I think. This great replacement theory that they throw out, they're like, Tucker Carlson's the biggest great replacement there..

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"baghdad" Discussed on The Financial Guys

The Financial Guys

04:28 min | 1 year ago

"baghdad" Discussed on The Financial Guys

"And that's what I saw even as a former media member. The indignation and the righteous anger from her perspective, our White House press secretary to say how dare you ask me that question. Because she was more shocked and media finally asking about the president's health than his actual health. It was, I can't believe you asked me that. You're not allowed to do that because you're on our side. And they view media, the Biden administration, Democrats, they view the media is on their side. They're one of them. And they're flabbergasted that they're being questioned about their policies or the health of the president. I do feel like at times too though, like that's their kind of their shtick. Like, let's just joke about everything and laugh, right? 'cause she kind of did that there just like Kamala does when kama was pressed. She just kind of makes a joke and giggles, right? We've said it for years. Even Biden does it, right? Like you hear Biden with his little chuckles or he'll just start yelling or whispering or like they can't give an honest reaction or an honest. They can't act like an honest person, right? When they talk to the media or anybody, it's like they have to turn into this different weird, it's like nervous energy. I guess that's the best way to say it. Is that what it is? We'll look at AOC. I mean, she was asked on CNN basically the same question like, okay, if Joe Biden runs again, he'll be, you know, a 197 years old. Would you support him in 2024? You mentioned the chuckle. Here it is and listen for yourself. You know, if the president chooses to run again in 2024, I mean, first of all, I'm focused on winning this majority right now. And preserving a majority this year in 2022. So we'll cross that bridge when we get to it, but I think if the president has a vision and that's something certainly we're all willing to entertain and examine when the time comes. She laughed. She did and she also stammered around and I saw an article on my other day was perfect. In 67 words that she used in that whole segment there. It could have been one simple word to save us that whole spiel she just gave us. Yes, I would like the president to run. Yes, simple. Or no. But you know, in her case, there's only one answer for her. But that would be, it would be simple. Yes, or like you said, no. That's it. They have not been able to answer that question yet. And I think the problem, you know, a clip of AOC reminded me there was a member of Congress who had a conversation with very recently. And they said, when AOC won her race, that they were just sitting and it was a Republican just sitting in the House chamber, this individual turned to their left and they noticed that AOC was also.

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"baghdad" Discussed on The Financial Guys

The Financial Guys

05:57 min | 1 year ago

"baghdad" Discussed on The Financial Guys

"You got 14 million in net worth. It's easy for you to say $20 a guess. Let them eat cake. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's good to the point where you can't defend this guy anymore. I don't care who you are. A celebrity, a poor person, a white person, an African American person, a straight person, a gay person. You can't support this guy anymore. It's a typical limousine liberal from ain high where they think that they know best. They can think for us, they know bass. It's no different than, you know, when Richard Nixon won the race for The White House. It's a classic story of all these upper crust limousine liberals in Manhattan the next day shot that Nixon won because they said, you know, I don't know a single person that voted for him. Well, no, because you're in your little liberal bubble and you think that the world thinks the same way that you do. Well, you're wrong. And every American is feeling the pinch and no matter what, they can argue about Donald Trump. The Democrats will have hell to pay in the midterm elections and in the 2024 race for the presidency because the economy has gone to hell in a handbasket. And I think it's, you know, it's not just one or two things anymore, right? It's everything, right? The economy is terrible. I think people are starting to feel like wait a minute, this guy said he was going to unify us. We have shootings every day. We have, you know, issues with police still, right? We have issues at the border. I mean, nothing. Nothing no matter what your beliefs are as going right. But that's why stuff on, they're trying to play the, oh, the abortion argument, right? Oh, guns, right? That's insurrection, right? Like those are the three things. That's all they have. It's the typical playbook though, and it's not going to work this year. It's just not. And that's why I think Republicans, you're going to see a massive red wave. I know the Supreme Court is about to rule on the abortion issue. We've got issues when it comes to gun control, but it's not going to matter. At the end of the day, kitchen table issues will rule the day in a midterm election or a presidential election in 2024. It's how much are you spending on gas? How much are you spending on groceries? How much credit card debt are you racking up? That's why the Democrats lose because they're going to be desperate to talk about January 6th, guns, abortion, fine. I say let them. A lot of conservative Friends are really concerned about wait a minute. This could turn the tide. Nope, no tide is going to be turned. And also, too, the thing about this, we also have a lot of comparisons, even want to compare states, New York State and Florida, especially during COVID. New York State shut everything down, force jabs on certain workers, fired nurses, fired healthcare professionals, shut everything down, and it destroyed our economy. And where did everybody go? For the most part, Florida. Yep, Ron DeSantis kept everything open. I don't believe there's a state tax in Florida. And folks that move from New York to Florida, you automatically increase your net worth 10% because you're not paying that state tax. Yeah, and again, I think Ron DeSantis took COVID and takes a lot of things like a logical human being, right?.

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"baghdad" Discussed on The Financial Guys

The Financial Guys

05:51 min | 1 year ago

"baghdad" Discussed on The Financial Guys

"Left wing members of Congress would give them a free pass. And no matter what, they would still win elections, but it's not happening. I mean, they're even still going back to their old playbook and it's going to be clip number three where they're still blaming the former president. You know, when George Bush left office, for years, everything was George Bush's fault. Everything was George Bush's fault. And there's still no, I could not believe it when I heard this clip and I'm thinking, okay, we got to put it at the top of the show because the nerve of the Biden administration to basically say that this is all Donald Trump's fault. Let's listen in clip number three. We have to remember where this country was more than a year ago when he walked into office. The economy was not in a great place. A schools were closed businesses were closed. We didn't have a comprehensive COVID COVID strategy yeah, I remember where the economy was. Do you? I was going to say, wait a minute though. First off, you did. You did create the strategy for COVID. It was shut everything down. That wasn't Donald Trump's idea of things. His idea was to stop travel from certain locations. His idea was not to show the country. That was you guys. That was your comprehensive strategy. That's what's so funny, and I agree with you. The economy was obviously much, much better than it is right now. And by the way, people forget, coming out of COVID, you know, when I say coming out of COVID, like most of us did, you know, in 2020, but there's a lot to still in it, really. But coming out of that first few months, the economy came back fairly quickly. Believe it or not, like you would think with that, looking at that, I'd be like, oh my God, two years, the economy must have been terrible. It wasn't. It came back in the summer and the fall of 2020. And if you look at sales tax revenue across New York State, it was up significantly when stores started opening again, the economy was moving, which meant a lot more revenue for local governments, local municipalities, because that's usually shared at least an Arctic in the Woods with school districts, the whole 9 yards. But you want to say, okay, remember the economy we inherited. We'll look at it now. Right. Inflation at a 40 year high. Gas prices up 50% in one year. Groceries up 12% in one month. Americans are spending an extra $160 per month on gas. Restaurant price is up 7% milk, up 16%, chicken, up 17% eggs, up 32%. And Mike have I talked about this on the radio Saturday Stefan. Gas two years ago and I know it was a COVID year, say what you want. Fine. Was $2 and 20 something cents. Biden and June of 2020, it was at like $3 and 40 cents. We're now at $5, right? Like, people forget, we're not just comparing Donald Trump comparing to Joe Biden's first year in office. That's the other thing. Inflation up 3% over the last 12 months or 3% plus, right? Consumer debt from when Trump was president June of 2020 compared to now in June of 22, consumer debt up 14 times the amount that Donald Trump at it. It's unbelievable. That's a big deal. Facts are stubborn things. Everyone's an entitled to an opinion you're not entitled to your own set of facts. And I think you can ask any American are you better off now.

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"baghdad" Discussed on The Financial Guys

The Financial Guys

02:17 min | 1 year ago

"baghdad" Discussed on The Financial Guys

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Bill O'Reilly Previews New 'Killing the Killers' Book

Mark Levin

01:48 min | 1 year ago

Bill O'Reilly Previews New 'Killing the Killers' Book

"You got another killer book here In other words another top book And it is a really compelling book killing The Killers the secret war against terrorists And what really pulls men with this book is your sources You have a lot of I mean serious source material in this book Tell us about this Top of the pops this is the best reporting I've ever done somehow I managed to convince national security advisers from Bush the younger all the way through Trump To tell me what happened in the track downs and assassinations of the top terror leaders all over the world So we begin we've been lied and I put you right in the compound at a bottom Pakistan And it's a minute by minute What happened there Then we go to Baghdad one of the most evil heinous individuals ever to walk a planet What he did to Kayla Mueller the 26 year old Arizona humanitarian worker raped and had her murdered and then we go to Soleimani almost as bad as Baghdadi We've got vaporized And the national security advisers trusted me enough to tell me exactly what happened What is in the classified files Now there isn't anything to book that hurts America There's some controversial stuff about coercion interrogation which we would not have found Al Baghdadi without that As you know that it's against the law for Americans to do that to captured suspects to rough them up but we contract it out So there's a lot in this book killing The Killers that Americans have no idea about but all the national security advisers said Mark to me we want the American people to know what is being done in their

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Conflicting Reports Over Missiles Striking U.S. Consulate in Iraq

Mark Levin

00:45 sec | 1 year ago

Conflicting Reports Over Missiles Striking U.S. Consulate in Iraq

"Iran's powerful revolutionary guard said on its website it attacked what it described as an Israeli spy center in herbal Did not elaborate but in a statement said Israel been on the offensive citing the recent strike that killed two members of its guard An Iraqi official in Baghdad initially said several missiles had hit the U.S. consulate in which is new and unoccupied adding that it had been the intended target of the attack Later Locke got far the head of Kurdistan's foreign media office said none of the missiles had struck the U.S. facility but the residential areas around the compound had been hit Now what are we going to do about this What are we going to do about this

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The National Review Was Wrong About Kyle Rittenhouse and Nick Sandmann

The Eric Metaxas Show

01:48 min | 2 years ago

The National Review Was Wrong About Kyle Rittenhouse and Nick Sandmann

"I was talking about how national reviews at the Kyle rittenhouse story wrong. They also got Nick Sandman wrong. Oh yeah. For their top editors, we're sniping at and denouncing Nicklaus salmon within minutes based on a few garbled minutes of CNN footage, which we're as propaganda. I again was one of the few people speaking out within minutes of in defending Nick salmon's right to constitutional free speech at a political rally, which is what the march for life was. Turns out he didn't even speak. He didn't even do anything. He just stood there. Standing while white, while pro life. But David French again was attacking Kyle rittenhouse as basically irresponsible and reckless, you know, young man with a gun had no place being there. And it struck me. David French was fine with 17 year old Americans handling rifles as long as they were in Iraq. As long as they were protecting a foreign country in a misguided war based on lies and propaganda that George W. Bush sold us. David French was all up for that. In fact, even when served as a military attorney in the green zone of Baghdad, which, of course, was safer for an American than living in Baltimore or any other blue city. But David French got his veterans credentials for political purposes by serving as an attorney in the safe little enclave of the green zone. But actual soldiers were taking actual risk with their lives in that war for no reason. Son of mosaic had nothing to do with 9 11. There were no weapons of mass distraction. Antifa has done far more to harm America than Saddam Hussein ever

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"baghdad" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York

Bloomberg Radio New York

01:38 min | 2 years ago

"baghdad" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York

"Getting concerned Michael Barr with world a national headlines Michael Barr Thank you very much Lisa Thank you Danny Former president Barack Obama says nations have to row together to fight climate change The former president takes the stage to deliver remarks to the cop 26 summit on island sustainability talking right now Obama in Glasgow instructed the world to act now on climate change including urging wealthier nations to take on a larger share of the burden An essential element of anything that we're going to do collectively on the climate crisis a recognition that all of us have a part to play all of us have work to do All of us have sacrifices to make Obama says it's important for us to recognize as was true 5 years ago We have not done enough in our islands are threatened more than ever An investigation is underway into the 8 young people who died when fans at a Travis Scott concert in Houston suddenly surged toward the stage They ranged from 14 to 27 years old The first lawsuits have already been filed by those injured Iraqi prime minister Mustafa Al kahimi escaped unharmed from an assassination attempt in Baghdad yesterday A number of the prime minister security the tale were injured in the attack carried out in the so called green zone containing government buildings and the prime minister's residence Former marine pilot colonel Steve tells us why armed drones are a formidable threat It's cheap The drones are easy to find and obviously a place like a rock or the other places where this is being used it's not hard to come up with an explosive or rifles or weapons that you could use.

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Diamondbacks Pound Darvish With 6-Run 3rd, Beat Padres 8–3

AP News Radio

00:31 sec | 2 years ago

Diamondbacks Pound Darvish With 6-Run 3rd, Beat Padres 8–3

"Josh VanMeter homered while the Diamondbacks tag you Darvish for six runs in the third inning of any three rout of the Padres Luke weaver allowed one run and four hits over six innings his first start in three and a half months the Diamondbacks ended a five game losing streak in Baghdad thirteen hits one day after being no hit by Blake Snell for seven innings the meter had three RBIs while could tell more chain paving Smith each contributed three hits and two runs scored the Padres senator two game winning streak at a loss for the thirteenth time in eighteen games since August eleventh I'm Dave Ferrie

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Who Belongs in a War Zone?

Throughline

02:11 min | 2 years ago

Who Belongs in a War Zone?

"Belongs in a war zone. We were sitting in the lobby and It was such a scene. You know you'd see peter jennings and then you'd see christiane amanpour and really cool right. 'cause everybody's just like you know. I belong hair right. Tara sutton freelance. Journalists did not feel like she belonged in baghdad. When she got there in two thousand three at the start of the iraq war and then up popped marla like hi. I'm marla marla ruzicka in jeans and a long afghan style sheepskin best. She looked like a hippie. You know mean and she was skinny and her hair was kind of uncombed. And she's a bedraggled cute but bedraggled and just sort of like floating around like what are you doing here exactly the two women start talking and tara. The freelance journalist says she's they're writing an article about iraqi children in war and goes i was just in afghanistan. And there's a lot of traumatize people there. And i remember like we were laughing. A lot of traumatize people enough denison like not your thoughts were what a ding dong like. Who is this person. I mean the first impression of her was mystifying. Macos quil lawrence admit marla more than a year earlier in afghanistan when she'd inexplicably popped up at the beginning of that war. How did she even get here. I'm in most of us. Took a pretty arduous route. Either people came across land from pakistan or got on some of the early flights that flew into an abandoned airstrip north of the capital. How is she surviving here. Where all of us have trucked in a about little cash to try and get by. She's come here without a place to stay without a driver or a security detailer and she's already couch surfing at this point right. Yeah and she didn't act like the rest of us. She looked like the rest of us. She didn't fit and by the rest of us. He means the four kinds of people that usually show up at the beginning of conflict.

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US Troops in Syria Attacked After Airstrikes on Militias

AP News Radio

00:36 sec | 2 years ago

US Troops in Syria Attacked After Airstrikes on Militias

"A day after the U. S. conducted air strikes near the Iraq Syria border American troops have come under rocket attack president Biden says he ordered yesterday strikes on sites used by Iranian backed militias responsible for recent attacks on the US personal rack the militia groups called for revenge and today the military says U. S. forces in eastern Syria were attacked by multiple rockets an American spokesman in Baghdad says there were no injuries and that troops fired on the rocket launching positions in self defense Sager mag ani Washington

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Arizona Wildfire Destroys Homes in Remote Mining Town

Arizona's Morning News

00:12 sec | 2 years ago

Arizona Wildfire Destroys Homes in Remote Mining Town

"Including 13 homes have been destroyed in a fast moving wildfire burning northwest of the Valley. The spur fire is charge 150 acres in the small mining town of Baghdad. Hundreds of people are evacuated despite

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Dozens of Covid-19 Patients Killed in Baghdad Hospital Fire

America First with Sebastian Gorka

00:15 sec | 2 years ago

Dozens of Covid-19 Patients Killed in Baghdad Hospital Fire

"Iraq's Interior Ministry says any two people died. 110 have been heard in a catastrophic fire that broke out in a Baghdad hospital amongst the dead 28 patients suffering from a Corona virus. Negligence on the part of hospital authorities is being blamed

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Dozens Killed as Huge Fire Sweeps Through Baghdad Hospital

America First with Sebastian Gorka

00:15 sec | 2 years ago

Dozens Killed as Huge Fire Sweeps Through Baghdad Hospital

"Iraq's Interior Ministry says any two people died. 110 have been heard in a catastrophic fire that broke out in a Baghdad hospital amongst the dead 28 patients suffering from a Corona virus. Negligence on the part of hospital authorities is being blamed

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At Least 82 Killed in Massive Baghdad Hospital Fire

BBC World Service

00:16 sec | 2 years ago

At Least 82 Killed in Massive Baghdad Hospital Fire

"Days of Mourning has been declared in Iraq after a fire engulfed a Baghdad hospital treating coronavirus patients killing at least 82 people on injuring dozens more. The fire reportedly caused by an exploding oxygen tank tour through an intensive care ward.

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2 rockets land in Iraqi Saladin Province near air base hosting US troops

WGN Showcase

00:25 sec | 2 years ago

2 rockets land in Iraqi Saladin Province near air base hosting US troops

"Iraqi official says. Two rockets have landed near in Iraqi air base just north of Baghdad that houses US traders. No injuries or damage reported those rockets reportedly hit today outside Balad airbase after mid day. The attack is the first time the base housing U. S troops since an attack last month on a base in western Iraq that houses U. S contractors and coalition troops

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Rockets hit near Iraq base housing US trainers

Bryan Suits

00:19 sec | 2 years ago

Rockets hit near Iraq base housing US trainers

"Rockets have landed near an Iraqi air base just north of Baghdad that houses U. S trainers. No one was hurt, and there were no reports of major damage. Iraqi officials say the rockets landed outside Balad airbase last month at least 10 rockets slammed into a base in western Iraq that houses U. S contractors. Coalition troops. One U. S contractor died

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"baghdad" Discussed on Republic Keeper - with Brian O'Kelly

Republic Keeper - with Brian O'Kelly

06:26 min | 2 years ago

"baghdad" Discussed on Republic Keeper - with Brian O'Kelly

"Her with brian kelly. So welcome back there Republican per family. Thanks for hanging out Last show the week. I think who knows. Maybe i'll do something tomorrow. Maybe sunday depending on. What's going on. I wanna make sure that i can do it better. I felt like this way too disjointed. And that's on me poor planning right and some of those were unexpected of pressure tested so it is better before i left. It is what it is so Kevin mccarthy i promised in the we're gonna talk about the portland Uh courthouse briefly. Here is Kevin mccarthy on the kovin relief bill but also every american should be able to go back to work back to school and back to health the other thing that he's going to do he's going to sign a bill. This going gonna cost every family of four twenty two thousand dollars and the thing. He's not telling you is what's in this bill. Let me just point out three things which are hardworking taxpayers monies. Going for you are now going to provide bonuses up to twenty five thousand dollars to government employees and bureaucrats. If you're not part of the swamp you get nothing. You're now your money's going to pay for illegal immigrants. Healthcare your money also is being sent to san francisco city will. Your money will be spent giving alcohol and marijuana to the homeless. That is what that bill is doing and two thirds of the money for the schools. Don't even come forward to twenty twenty three and there's a trillion dollar still sitting there from the five bills. We've already passed. This is a waste of money. Less than nine percent is going to cove it. This is a payoff to pelosi's political friends. And if she's if they're gonna go around and try to get momentum behind the one point nine trillion they should go to prison because Prisoners are getting some money for this too so that should be great. I wanna talk to grind. But where's that money coming from. Its you're hardworking. Tax payer money every american should know it. You just got a bill for twenty two thousand dollars. And that's what your money's being spent on. So let's talk about one. Should know it until their elected official. Here's what nancy pelosi says because this past and there's no republican support. Sorry transition here. So you know about you guys but if i could get a deal where i could send people bill for twenty two hundred bucks or twenty two thousand dollars and i do send them a check for fourteen hundred bucks if i could send you a check for forty. I wouldn't do it to you but you get the idea. I could send a fourteen hundred dollar checks with twenty two thousand dollars invoices. i'd. I'd do that all day wouldn't you. I mean that's a good deal. If you can get it and ninety one percent of the money is not related to covid relief. Guises amazing san here on this area. This beautiful view. Right this god's creatures awesome and This red truck drives up the road and the guys all by himself in the middle of nowhere. Really norville kind of california and there's no town around her. I got four bars. So we pulled over and sentenced. Do the show here and The guys driving up the hill wearing a mask you remember. The confirmation hearings of merrick garland Our new attorney general and former supreme court nominee barack obama was not confirmed. You've remember the confirmation. Hearing of merrick garland he was asked about the damage to Courthouses was that domestic terrorism and If this works. Let's see if it does. This was his aunts. But also every american able to go to work back to school and back to help the other thing that he's going to do he's going to sign a bill. This for me ask you about Assaults on federal property places washington dc portland for instance seattle do you regard assaults on federal courthouses or other federal properties acts of domestic extremism domestic terrorism. Well senator my own definition of about the same as the statutory definition is Use of violence or threats of violence. an attempt to disrupt democratic processes so attack on a courthouse while in operation Trying to prevent judges from actually deciding cases. That plainly is Domestic extremism domestic terrorism Attack simply on government property at night or any other kind of circumstances is a clear crime serious one and should be punished. I don't mean. I don't know enough about the facts of the example. You're talking about but that's where i draw the line. One one is both are Criminal a one is a core attack on our democratic institutions. And so the hit. The standard articulated by merrick garland was whether or not there are. People inside is what he said. So last night in portland oregon Were just was it says. Violence erupted in portland on thursday night his riders targeted the mark o hatfield courthouse. Federal officers would to quell. The rest includes fire included. Fires and windows smashed there have been regular protests and riots in downtown portland says the may twenty fifth. Death of george floyd Despite frequent recurrent unrest near the federal courthouse tech defense around in the federal court was taken down thursday for the first time so they took down the fence and these guys were right back at it and not only did they attack the courthouse. They plied the private off the side of the building and they set the thing on fire with people inside the building so merry darlan with all due. Respect merg garland. Does that a prosecutable offense. We've got a fire inside the building a fire crew and federal officers now inside trying to put the fire out and these guys are outside throwing more firebombs in and..

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U.S. will defend troops and interests after rocket attack in Iraq, Defense Secretary says

This Week with George Stephanopoulos

05:30 min | 2 years ago

U.S. will defend troops and interests after rocket attack in Iraq, Defense Secretary says

"Understand and respect the reservations that some of you have expressed about having another recently retired general at the head of the department of defense the safety and security of our democracy demands competent civilian control of our armed forces the subordination of military power to the civil. I spent my entire life. Committed to that principle. Retired general. Lloyd austin at his confirmation hearing to become the nation's first black defense secretary now on the job just over six weeks. We sat down to discuss the obstacles facing the military across the middle east the kovin pandemic and extremism within the ranks. But i began by asking him about his transition from army four star general to civilian chief of the armed forces lloyd illustrations years in uniform stretched from the halls of west. Point to the battlefields of iraq. Where i shed a ride out of baghdad with him back in twenty eleven. How does your combat experience your forty one years in uniform guide you now as a civilian leader you certainly come into the position With a great appreciation for the complexities of combat and you also have an appreciation for the impact that combat has not only on the country that you're fighting in but also on the resources of the country set are actually fighting. We wanna lead with diplomacy in every case but if deterrence fails and you must fight you fight to win and so you wanna make sure that that your your troops are properly resource properly trained and focus the right way so that they can not only win but when decisively during his forty one years in the army it was not just combat that tested austin. He broke through many racial barriers. Along the way. I can remember going to a bus station with my mother and looking at the restrooms that were male female in colored. That's kind of how we started. How i started as a child and to rise to To be able to rise to position of secretary of defense in my lifetime is quite incredible. But you have to ask yourself you know why it took so long to have an african american secretary of defense. What we wanna make sure happens going forward is that i am not the last african american secretary of defense that we create those opportunities in our ranks for african americans and hispanics to rise to the very highest ranks in our military and to that end. Battling extremism is high on his agenda. I wanna turn to to january. Sixth more than forty veterans have been arrested from that day. You have asked for one day standdown for everyone to talk about extremism. What are you hearing in terms of extremism in the ranks. I just got an initial brief bag from From our service secretaries on on how they're conducting the stand down they're all going about it in a in a bit of a different way as you would expect great initiative They're all doing great work. They're having some really in depth conversations with their troops on On values on the oath that we took on the importance of unit cohesion. This is not about You know political parties or political political beliefs. This is behavior that can really tear at the fabric of our institution And so we want to make sure that our troops are reminded of of what our values are reminded of the oath that we took coming in and and my belief my strong belief martha is at ninety nine point nine percent of our troops embrace those values and are focused on the right things and are doing the right things each and every day and want him move to iraq. This week we saw a second significant attack with those ten rockets. Do you know who did it. And what kind of responses might we expect. We're still developing the intelligence. They're encouraging the iraqis to move as fast as i can to investigate the incident and they are doing that but you can expect that we will always hold people accountable for their acts. We wanna make sure that Again we understand. Who's responsible for this The message to those that that would carry out such a such an attack. Is that you know. Expect us to do necessary to defend ourselves. We'll strike if that's what we think we need to do. At a time and place of our own choosing we demand the right to protect our troops has iran been given the message that this is not an escalation when we retaliate. iran is Is fully capable of assessing You know the strike and and our activities and draw their own conclusions but what they should draw from. This again is that we're going to defend our troops and are responsible be thoughtful. It will be appropriate. We would hope that they would choose to do the right things

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Pope Francis lands in Baghdad, beginning the first-ever papal trip to Iraq

Clark Howard

00:30 sec | 2 years ago

Pope Francis lands in Baghdad, beginning the first-ever papal trip to Iraq

"Pope Francis arrived in northern Iraq Sunday and let an open Air mass on the last day of the first ever papal visit to the country. With plenty of security surrounding the pontiff. 15 unprecedented security with thousands of troops puts on God the pope mobile deemed unsafe. So Francis instead traveling in the parliament, BMW and it's not just security concerns. Cove in 19 cases have been spiking once again in Iraq. Strict curfews were in place, but they've certainly been ignored by crowds wanting to glimpse a little piece of History in the making

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Pope Francis visits Iraq in historic trip

News, Traffic and Weather

01:47 min | 2 years ago

Pope Francis visits Iraq in historic trip

"Francis is on day two of his historic visit to Iraq. Meeting with the nation's top Shia Muslim cleric and visiting an important religious site. ABC senior foreign correspondent in panel is in Iraq with the details Pope Francis on a historic pilgrimage to the birthplace of Abraham. Father of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. It's the first time any pope's being to Iraq and it's a high risk trip, the country wracked by years of war and sectarian violence that's targeted Christians and other minorities, the country still reeling from the terror of Isis. Earlier this morning, Francis traveled to the holy city of Najaf on Don't almost unthinkable closed door meeting between the head of the Catholic Church on one of the most powerful figures in sheer Islam, Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani. Unprecedented security surrounding the visit the popemobile deemed unsafe Francis instead traveling in an armored BMW, protected by a huge cordant of heavily armed troops, and it's not just security concerns. 119 cases are spiking here, but strict all day curfews ignored by crowds wanting a glimpse of history in the making. On Friday, Francis praying at our Lady of Salvation Cathedral in Baghdad, where Isis suicide bombers killed dozens of worshippers in 2010. Isis drove the Christians from this town and desecrated this ancient church using it as a firing range. Archbishop Amar was the first to re enter the church after Isis was pushed out what he filmed at the time. Is on the left on the right What it looks like today the holy father, who will be the fiercest person who will play After the liberation off rebuilding the church.

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"baghdad" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM

WNYC 93.9 FM

07:50 min | 2 years ago

"baghdad" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM

"So not only is it achievable, it is highly desirable but doesn't go far enough to fulfill the demands of the Paris accords in terms of keeping global warming to within that two degree limit. Yes. If everyone commits to a net zero, I'll buy 2050. That is what they have actually promised under the Paris agreement, however, Because 2050 is 30 years from now, we also in addition to setting that long term target, it will be important to set shorter term targets such as targets for 2025 2030, you said, achievable. In other words, it is capable of being achieved. But do you think it will? I mean, President Biden's talked about Introducing an enforcement mechanism into law by the end of the first term. In other words, by 2025. Is that a bit of a tall order? Given how much opposition there's likely to be? There will be a need for negotiation and for agreements with the Republican Party. What I take comfort from is the attitude that President Biden and Vice President Harris have already demonstrated in there. One in fact, half a day in office, where they have been very, very clear about the fact that they are not going to go about anything with confrontation, but rather with the spirit of collaboration and inclusive. But it goes to the wider issue of enforcement. Doesn't it of of how do you ensure that signatories to the Paris Accord actually live up to what they've promised on comm prove that they have. I mean, one struggles to see The same sort of enforcement mechanism in law from Russia and China. Perhaps enforcement actually is not very effective because the moment first of all, everyone would have to agree to enforcement of those targets. Secondly, any country as we have seen from the United States, any country has the right to withdraw. So how'd you get? How'd you get countries to do what they say they're going to do because it's in their interest. It's in everyone's interest to modernize the electricity sector that in every country is completely outmoded, outdated and antique. And yet there are plenty of people in the U. S would say, especially as we're in the middle of a pandemic, which is causing huge economic damage. Actually our immediate term interest, creating jobs, or at least holding onto jobs, ensuring that people have access to cheap energy. All those things that much more important right now. Totally agree, And that is why it's important to modernize all infrastructure because that is what is going to create jobs. History shows that after a major economic disaster, such as a war what creates jobs much quicker is actually infrastructure building an infrastructure modernization. And that is why this is such a huge opportunity. So it's actually Ah win win. That was Christianity. Ganis, who was executive secretary of the U. N Convention on Climate Change at the time of the Paris Accords, Speaking to me from Costa Rica. We're gonna turn to Iraq to the Iraqi capital Baghdad because there's been a double suicide bombing there is completely studied two people and wounded more than 100. The attack at a busy market is the worst that the city seen in several years. Police and eye witnesses say that there were two blasts in swift succession. At the market in Tyrone Square, which was crowded with people Samir Club is Associated Press is Iraq correspondent and in Baghdad. How common is such an attack? This attack is very rare in Baghdad. The last time this occurred was in January of 2018, and that was shortly after then Prime Minister Haider al Abadi declared victory over the Islamic state Group on guard difficult. Lee was around the same area that the attack occurred. So it's been a while in Baghdad. However, attacks occur regularly in other areas of Iraq. And what are the authorities saying about what happened and he might have been responsible. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet, but Iraqi military officials have told us that they believe it was the work of the Islamic state group. Basically what happened there was two men. One of them created a bit of a scene in the middle of the commercial area that he was pretending to be ill. Crying out loud. That prompted a crowd together around him to see what was going on. And it was then that he detonated the best. Shortly after that another individual came and did the same, which is why we see such high death toll today, right? So really pretty cynical way to try and cause as many casualties as possible on does that does that bear the hallmarks of VIAS, then? Absolutely. We have seen similar attacks perpetrated by I s elsewhere around Iraq. The suicide bombing is something that they have have done. It's very much their style of attack. Especially here, and that distinguishes them from other groups. Militia groups who have perpetrated other kinds of attacks launching rockets, For example, at the US Embassy, It's It's a very different style of attack. What about the timing? Just one day after President Biden's inauguration of people reading something into that thinking that might be significant? There's a lot of speculation that dad and Iraq in general, there's a lot of tension leading up to Biden's inauguration. But that was mostly related to the tensions between the U. S and Iran that has played out in Iraq in the last year. Nothing at all related to the Islamic State group. While there was anticipation of something happening, I don't really think anyone expected something like this to happen. Just one final thought. I mean many people listening. Aziz say they haven't been any major attacks in Baghdad. And so it hasn't been in the in the headlines, and many people thought that Islamic state had largely been routed. I mean, this suggests that they're still very much active and a threat Is that fair? Absolutely. They're still a threat. Like I said, The attack in Baghdad is quite rare. But what we have seen is over the summer, an uptick in attacks and other areas across northern Iraq in particular. This is an area that has been historically very difficult to police. The Iraqi army as well as US led coalition forces have conducted many operations to root out Isis cells there, especially with the Corona virus, and measures that were taken to reduce the presence or the rotation of security forces around this area believe those areas It seems that that militants have taken advantage of this to launch attacks. But in Baghdad, this is definitely a concerning development. That was something I could love, Who's Iraq correspondent for The Associated Press in Baghdad still to come on the program, A caravan of migrants in Central America is being pushed back by police. In Guatemala, But the migrants think they're trying to get through Mexico will be even tougher May cause of Mexico is definitely the hardest part. For example, I've seen people come back here from trying Saying they've been assaulted. They couldn't get past the federal police or immigration officials and to avoid the immigration agents. They end up in the hands off criminal gangs who attacked him. Vote coming up in about 20 minutes time. Top headline from the newsroom this how the U. S infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci is told the World Health Organization meeting that the Biden administration will fully engage with the global struggle against the pandemic..

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"baghdad" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030

WBZ NewsRadio 1030

02:06 min | 2 years ago

"baghdad" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030

"To Baghdad's Green Zone. As Joe Biden's inauguration approaches, the nation's capital is in lock down. The National mall is closed miles of 7 FT. High nonce Kaleb alive fence topped with razor wire surround the area and more than 20,000 armed troops, along with law enforcement from multiple jurisdictions are on duty. The rehearsal for the inauguration was to be held Sunday. It was postponed because of security concerns rescheduled for today. Across the country. Demonstrations at state capitals generally failed to materialize with journalists outnumbering protesters. In most cases, the biggest gatherings involved a few dozen protesters, some carrying guns, but there were no incidents reported. He also says that there is an area calm in Washington, D C as the inauguration approaches. Federal officials, hoping it stays that way. That comes as participants and inauguration rehearsal were evacuated by security officials earlier today, But authorities also say this was all because of a fire several blocks away at a homeless camp. And right now it's not believed to be a threat. There will be a new generation of civil rights lawyers thanks to a huge anonymous donation. CBS's Jim Carcela fills us in the Legal Defense and Education fund is starting a $40 million scholarship program to support A new generation of civil rights lawyers dedicated to pursuing racial justice across the south. The money from a single anonymous donor will put 50 students through law schools around the nation. Those who graduate from the program must commit to eight years of racial justice work in the South, starting with a two year postgraduate fellowship in a civil rights organization, VP Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, making their final official appearance together with a visit to Fort Drum, where they think the 10th Mountain Division and their families for their service. CBS is Amanda Hall has more details from Fort Drum, New York, You dropped about 150 soldiers here, many of whom just returned home from Afghanistan. The vice president, second lady were introduced by Trump loyalist Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who thanked Pence for keeping his promise to come back.

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"baghdad" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM

WNYC 93.9 FM

02:00 min | 2 years ago

"baghdad" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM

"Make it a different genuine like Moment. You know, it is like he just he. He loved his art and he loved who was around him. Take it. Take a listen to this song right here. That's a little bit of fair chance from Thundercats featuring title to sign and Little B. Tell me little bit about that song. Yeah, that song for me. Is he saying goodbye? One of my best friends and It still hurts to hear, you know, but it's It's ah How much I love the guy, you know. Do now. Now, take a listen to this. You say? OK, OK, that's a little of the song King of the hill by Thunder Cat My guest right now, and I got a kind of got a mention this thing because This is a Canadian show written with local Canadian boys here. Baghdad Not good. Those are my boys. I love them. They're good cats, man. Good musicians, great musicianship. And this real real swell guys, man..

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"baghdad" Discussed on NewsRadio KFBK

NewsRadio KFBK

01:57 min | 2 years ago

"baghdad" Discussed on NewsRadio KFBK

"Baghdad marches today, marking a year since the U. S drone strike in the city that killed Iran's top general, You're listening to ABC now here's what's happening around the state on Sacramento's news 93.1 kfbk. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has been tweeting every 10 minutes to highlight the frequency of coronavirus deaths in the area. Throughout New Year's Eve officials were tweeting a different example of a local resident who has died from the virus every 10 minutes. Actor turned evangelist Kirk Cameron is again drawing the ire of public health officials after hosting another large massless gathering. This time it was a New Year's Eve event on the Beach of Point Mugu in Malibu in the social media post, Cameron encouraged hundreds of people to join him to sing and pray for the country by candlelight. A new report says women working in the film industry increased of it in 2020. The celluloid ceiling says the percentage of women working in the top 100 films bumped up from 20% in 19 2021% this past year. I'm royal belong Sacramento traffic checking KFBK traffic in the Sierra 80 westbound at the California and Nevada state line. The roadway is reduced to one lane. You have the ditch Slope stabilization project taking place. You also have long term closures of the fair it on and off ramps throughout the construction. This is a long term project. It's not set to complete until late summer of this year, so expect there to be delays for awhile. Meanwhile, Highway 89 is shut down from 3 95 to 4 at Monitor Pass because of the snow and highway four. Shut down from route 207 to Highway 89 at Evitts Pass all them Jacob News 93.1 kfbk. Now. Sacramento weather How do you start this morning with lows in the mid.

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