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The Ralph Nader Radio Hour interviewed an American doctor, Dr.Feroze Sidhwa, who volunteered as a worker in Nassar hospital in Gaza that has been militarily targeted by the Israeli Defense Forces since the Hamas attack upon Israel on October 7, 2023.
News services throughout the world report that Israel’s response to the heinous attack is extreme and many cite Israeli actions as a crime of genocide. This has been an ongoing attack and assault for three years.
Dr. Sidhwa is featured in a new documentary film "American Doctor" that reveals the healthcare collapse and a mortality analysis of the contemporary state of affairs in Gaza.
His report first focused on the hospitals that exist, though with only a fraction of their past capabilities.
The Israeli bombardment of Gaza has resulted in destruction of the hospital infrastructure and life-saving medical equipment as well as disintegrating secondary civic and public health infrastructure across the area.
But it’s Gavin Newsom who most tangibly threatens California with atomic extinction.
His ultimate “weapons of mass destruction” are the two uninsured, unregulated reactors at Diablo Canyon.
They’re 42 years old.
They’re dangerously embrittled, badly maintained, laden with waste, and surrounded by seismic faults, including the San Andreas, just 40 miles away. They operate at 550 degrees F, violate state and federal water protection acts by super-heating the ocean at Avila Beach, emit radioactive carbon 14 along with innumerable other toxic and radioactive poisons.
They can’t get significant get private liability insurance.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been DOGEd by Elon Musk, shedding some 500 workers, about a quarter of its workforce, which once served as a reservoir for reactor safety expertise. Regular safety inspections have been slashed by half.
Diablo’s site inspector Dr. Michale Peck, who dared to warn it cannot withstand a credible earthquake, is long gone.
Trump’s US Supreme Court says he can fire without cause any NRC expert who might threaten his personal atomic investments.
BANGKOK, Thailand -- China has opened its first foreign air force support center and is training pilots in communist Laos, in the latest thrust south by Beijing's military which is already training the armed forces of other Southeast Asian nations.
The location China chose in Laos was the Central Intelligence Agency's former "secret war" Lima Site 44, an isolated airstrip which helped the U.S. carpet bomb the tiny country during the regional Vietnam War which ended in 1975.
The China-Laos Joint Support and Training Center reportedly does not include a Chinese garrison or exclusive use rights.
To avoid alarming other nations, China's Defense Ministry said: "It is not directed against any third party."
Chinese engineers laid fresh concrete over Lima Site 44's rustic, red dirt airstrip during the past year to create a functioning airport with an expanded, durable runway and parallel taxiway and apron.
The new airport is in Ban Keun town near the thin Nam Ngum River in hilly, sparsely populated terrain 27 miles (44 kms) north of the Lao capital Vientiane.
On October 9, only hours after the announcement of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, a former judge on the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Trump administration imposed its latest sanctions on the global judicial body. According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, “we will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate.”
Is Trump mentally delusional or just a super self-aggrandizer when he tells the public that he is by far the greatest president in US history. Indeed, there are many experts who view him as the worst president ever.
There is no dispute that he is using his position to increase his personal wealth. His sons are helping to increase the family’s wealth through their foreign investment ventures, made easy by their father’s power and influence.
Trump is also corrupting the government through his appointments of cronies and sycophants to important positions in the federal government. He demands absolute loyalty. The hollowing out of thousands of experts at the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense have been well covered by the press.
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Some elected officials worry about Trump’s “mental stability”
COVERT TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN - Any day now Michigan’s Palisades nuclear plant owner Holtec International will be ready to make history. Expected Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approval of an “emergency” license amendment request may allow the company to resume a refueling plan that collapsed August 30. Right now no one knows if Palisades will create enough energy to power the equivalent of 800,000 homes or wind up in the ash can of nuclear industry history.
Holtec’s solution to the nightmare that rudely interrupted the plant restart is the energy story of the year. Another failure could turn little Covert Township, Michigan, into an international media and nuclear energy hot spot. This October surprise could also damage Republican attempts to hold on to Congress during the midterms.