Previewing Secretary Pompeo's Remarks on Iran at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Questions and Answers
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Egypt: Kingmaker in a new Middle East
As a country facing crises of economy, security and status, Egypt is in need of a rapid return to domestic stability and leadership within the Arab World. Brokering an end to the Israel Palestinian conflict could bring the Egyptians back from the brink, to the forefront of a new Middle East. President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi may be just the man to do it; and ten percent of the Sinai Peninsula may be just the place for him to do so.
Over the past year, together with several retired Israeli security experts, we have written about, and spoken of, the need to shift to a new paradigm to end the Israel Palestinian conflict and to move beyond the status quo. We have called for the establishment of a free, sovereign and independent Palestinian State in Gaza—with the addition of a territorial connection into a section of the northern, coastal area of the Sinai Peninsula.
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Hemp and the Decontamination of Radioactive Soil
Hemp and phytoremediation Hemp science is now advancing in leaps and bounds compared to the stagnation of the previous few decades. One significant area of research that is currently receiving particular attention is phytoremediation, or decontamination of soil—although the fact that hemp decontaminates soil has been known for some time.
Hemp and the Chernobyl Phytoremediation Project
For almost two decades, industrial hemp growing in the environs of the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine has been helping to reduce soil toxicity.
In 1990, just four years after the initial explosion, the Soviet administration of the time requested that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) assess the environmental situation. In the 30km exclusion zone surrounding Chernobyl, high concentrations of various toxic metals including lead, cesium-137, strontium-90 and plutonium were found in the soil, as well as in the tissues of plants and animals.
In response, it was decided that a concerted effort to reduce soil contamination through the use of beneficial plants would be undertaken. This process, known as phytoremediation, was implemented almost immediately.