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On March 12, 2002, the Homeland Security Advisory System, a color-coded terrorism risk advisory scale, was created as the result of a Presidential Directive to provide a "comprehensive and effective means to disseminate information regarding the risk of terrorist acts to Federal, State, and local authorities and to the American people". Many ...
In the event of a disaster outside of a state's operating capacity, the director of said agency will advise the Governor whether or not to proclaim a state of emergency. Declaring a state of emergency, upon Presidential approval, entitles a state to federal assistance. Proclaiming a state of emergency does not guarantee federal assistance.
[5] [6] Depending on the state, they may be variously named as state military, state military force, state guard, state militia, or state military reserve. Every state defense force is also the command authority for the " unorganized militia ", which is defined as every able bodied male between the age of 17 and 45 who is not already serving in ...
Dallas (/ ˈ d æ l ə s / ⓘ) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. [11]
In 2003 Theresa Sparks was the first openly transgender woman ever named "Woman of the Year" by the California State Assembly, [91] and in 2007 she was elected president of the San Francisco Police Commission by a single vote, making her the first openly transgender person ever to be elected president of any San Francisco commission, as well as ...
The Free City of Danzig, a semi-autonomous city-state under League of Nations protection, was predominantly German and had a Nazi government by 1936. [92] On 30 August 1939, Germany gave great Poland an ultimatum demanding control of the city, provoking the Danzig crisis and the invasion of Poland on 1 September.
At the state level, Koch Industries (unsuccessfully) supported efforts in 2010 to roll back emission regulations in California. [ 184 ] [ 185 ] The Koch brothers' Lambe Foundation has donated to the American Energy Alliance, an offshoot of the Institute for Energy Research that promotes oil and gas energy exploration and production and looser ...