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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.
Hurricane Isaias is coming through the Gulf of Mexico and expected to make landfall as a category 3 storm somewhere near Pensacola, Florida. There are storm warnings in a large cone along the Alabama and Florida coasts. Earlier in the week, New Orleans was part of the prediction as the storm gathered. We filled up our vehicles and other gas tanks, shuttered windows and generally did hurricane-lite preparations, not really believing this was our time. There were the usual discussions about evacuation. Mi companera reported Natchez, Mississippi, one of our shelter points in the past, was already completely booked. I stayed out of the conversation, saying I would go to Arkansas, which I had to walk back silently after being accused of deserting the family. Near the Pearl River and Bayou where I sit, raised nine-feet, I made sure the canoes on the dock were tied down tightly. The water was licking the top of the ladder off the pier, higher than usual as wind pushed more out of the Gulf.
Below is a declaration against US authorizing the use of low-yield nuclear weapons on the battlefield.
The declaration has been initiated by Luigi Mosca as a member of the ‘Abolition des Armes Nucléaires - Maison de Vigilance’ association, and in close cooperation with 'Mouvement de la Paix', both associations being partners of ICAN. It has also been signed by ‘IDN (Initiative pour un Désarmement Nucléaire)’ and 'Pugwash France’.
We welcome you to sign this declaration as organisations/movements or as individuals. Please forward your signature to be added to the declaration to Ulla Klötzer, Women for Peace - Finland: ullaklotzer@yahoo.com
Deadline October 30,2026.
Declaration (October 8, 2026)
US Pentagon Authorizes Use of Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons on the Battlefield!
It was another horrific week in Washington with President Donald Trump actually succeeding in coming out with an apparently improvised comment that equaled or maybe even exceeded his ghastly performance at the United Nations where he speculated over whether he should “annihilate” Iran and drive it back into the Stone Age. It would seem that ninety plus million dead Persians would satisfy Donald’s blood lust when it comes to killing innocent civilians, but the latest musing by our beloved leader had him addressing a campaign rally in Nebraska, where he appeared to be declaring that he might well consider wanting to continue the war against Iran even if the price to pay from the Iranians were to be retaliation consisting of eliminating some of our cities. He said “It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, for keeping our country safe, and it’s going to be over with very soon. Let ’em take out Los Angeles, let ’em take out San Diego.”