Name: What is NATO? | December 4, 2019
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you have the music, you know what time it is up Carla Zeus and get ready to cross the Atlantic because today's show starts in London, United Kingdom.

This is not where you'll find the headquarters of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but it is where you'll find its members meeting on the 70th anniversary of the alliance NATO's been called the strongest military alliance in the world.

Two of its 29 members are the United States and Canada.

The other 27 our European countries and NATO was created after World War Two to help balance out the influence of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 NATO's focus has changed, and its members don't always see eye to eye on its future.

Presidential candidate, Donald Trump called NATO obsolete and is president of the nation that contributes the most money tomato, he's criticized many of its other members for not contributing the minimum amount under NATO's guidelines.

But more recently, President Trump has said NATO serves a great purpose and that it's now getting stronger.

Compare that to what French President Emmanuel Macron recently said about NATO that the organization is experiencing brain death because there's not enough coordination between the US and Europe regarding NATO.

Some other leaders of NATO countries, including Canada and the Netherlands, publicly disagreed with that, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said judgments like it or it necessary.

Even if NATO's members have problems and need to pull together, they'll be discussing ways to do just that over there.

What's its future in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a political and military alliance established in 1949 that seeks to promote stability in the North Atlantic area.

It is the will of the people of the world, our freedom and our led by Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

There are 29 member countries and its age.

NATO doesn't have his own troops but relies on contributions of forces from its member countries.

But NATO's core is Article five, which states an attack on one member is an attack on all NATO allies.

The collective defense principle was to protect Western European nations against the Soviet Union But when the Soviet Union collapsed, NATO's new tasks range from being a bulwark against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan to fighting human trafficking on intercepting refugees in the Mediterranean.

NATO is still extremely active, with some 4000 U.

Troops in Poland and the Baltic states and tens of thousands on 48 hour standby, bolstering NATO's allies and sending a clear message to Russia.

Trivia In area which of these locations is largest Great Barrier Reef, Lake Superior, New Zealand or the else?

With an area of about 135,000 square miles, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest location on this list.

A team of scientists says acoustic enrichment may be able to help revitalize dead coral like what's found in some parts of the Great Barrier Reef.

It's underwater loudspeakers, and the music they play includes the sounds of healthy reefs.

One of the authors of a study recently published in Nature Communications says healthy coral reefs are noisy places.

They include the grunts of fish and the snaps of shrimp.

But dead coral reefs are apparently much quieter without the hustle and bustle of undersea life, so What scientists did was put speakers on dead coral patches of the Great Barrier Reef and play the sounds of healthy reefs.

And, they say that attracted fish about twice as many as areas of dead coral.

Without the sounds, researchers say, the fish could help ecosystems recover and give the coral than chance of new life.

The speakers are a proven solution, at least not at this point.

Scientists can't say for sure if the fish that the noise is attracted actually stuck around.

That could be key to a reefs recovery, and they're hoping to do more research on this.

But they think that the loudspeakers could help.

There are a number of threats to the health of coral reefs.

They range from pollution and low tides, too invasive species and changes in water temperature.

Next on CNN 10 we're going back to the future.

It's easy to understand why a futuristic home like the Futuro got a lot of attention in 1969 the alarm strong and buzz Aldrin had just walked on the moon.

There was a lot of interest in what a space age home of the future might look like.

But a preservation architect in California hasn't only restored one.

He's made it his vacation home high in the San Jacinto Mountains.

Buck Rogers, even the Flash Gordon Siri's not with too much in the alien area, but certainly in the space travel and living on other planets.

This is the 50th year anniversary of the patrol.

At the same time that man landed on the moon, America on, I think the rest of world was fascinated with low cost housing that would provide for the masses that would be prefabricated and be able to be shipped around.

It was also fascinated with the use of plastics, plastics, plastic provided that wonderful AMA knew that was low cost, no maintenance as it was being advertised.

Lightweight, structural, strong and easy to ship.

What the history of the patrol was a little bit short lived, but it started with Maddie Cernan, who is a Finnish architect, being asked to design a mountain cabin.

He then found that this was very popular, although not popular, where the mountain cabin was in Finland.

The people up there, I thought it was an embarrassment on environment, this plastic spaceship.

All around the world, people really became interested in the material, and it took off in the United States currently.

Right now, it's estimated that about close to maybe 50 of these are in existence.

There could be some more than haven't simply been found, but I doubt it.

We think the livability of the fur to know is just incredible.

We opened the front door, and there's not a speck of dust in.

That's because the windows are not operable with the door seals up the hotel, but it's wonderful being a 520 square feet.

Probably one of the forefront is that the whole tiny home movement was advertised for a family of four, but they're always designed to be sort of a mountain Cameron Ski cabin, not so much as a permanent residence.

The Middle East war produced developments all over the world today.

The oil producing countries of the Arab world decided to use their oil is a political weapon.

When the order on barter hit, it had a major impact on the cost of crude oil in which plastics are made from this became known as the Mercedes Benz of prefabricated housing and pretty much then just cartel the manufacturing of any more of the materials.

They just cease to exist coming down the ladder now, being that we're celebrating its 50th anniversary of both of the defense, the hetero being 50 years old and arm storms stepping on the moon, you have to be a custodian of these.

Resource is that just gives you a wonderful sense of place when you're here that you're really in a special place that will never be created.

Well, Godzilla has taken on his share of monsters since he made his film debut in 1954 King Kong destroyer Mothra.

Here we see him taking on Mother Nature and getting completely snowed under in central New York.

A resident, the human kind took this time lapse.

Video is a recent storm blew over, and Godzilla is ultimately coated by what the resident says was a mixture of sleep, snow and freezing rain.

Total accumulation was reportedly more than 10 inches.

 Ah, monstrous amount that mashed the plant eater, burying the lizard in a blizzard the fury in a flurry, the villain in the chill end, the Miss creation, an accumulation of precipitation that shocked the nation and gave a new meaning to the term monster storm off Carla Susan that eats up another edition of CNN. 

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