The Torch – 12.27.17

Tom Clements; Director of Savannah River Site Watch Savannah River Site Watch is a citizen environmental group aimed at following events at the Savannah River Site where plutonium was produced for nuclear weapons during the Cold War. It’s now the location a major clean up. Clements says that leaked documents show that the government is considering using Savannah River to …

Leid Stories—A Senate Hearing’s Focus: ‘Unstable,’ ‘Volatile’ Trump and His Sole Power Over Nuclear Weapons—11.15.17

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing yesterday that, though understated, was explosive in its import. The hearing’s focus: What measures are in place, or need to be in place, to check President Donald Trump’s sole authority to use nuclear weapons? It’s not accidental that the issue is being raised now. “We are concerned that the president of the …

The Conspiracy Guy – 08.09.17

Conspiracy Guy Show #37: Hysteria over the North Korean nuclear threat appears to be political theater, since US high-tech could take out anything it fired toward North America. Trump neatly avoided an impeachment trap by signing the sanctions bill, while laying the foundation for Constitutional challenge in the Supreme Court. The sanctions are going to move Europe and Iran into …

The Gary Null Show – 03.22.17

Today March 22nd 2017  NATIONAL AG DAY , Gary Null has a jam packed show for you! Gary kicks off the show with the latest in health and healing covering the topic of vitamins, foods, and how to become a better you! In the second half of the program Gary goes to some world issues commentaries by Professor Henry Grioux, Gary …

Deirdre Fulton – Thanks, Trump. Doomsday Clock Now Two and a Half Minutes to Midnight.

The symbolic Doomsday Clock inched closer to midnight on Thursday, and we have President Donald Trump largely to thank for the ominous development. At the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists‘ Science and Security Board moved the hands of the iconic clock 30 seconds closer to “midnight,” or the end of …

Harvey Wasserman – Crumbling Reactors and Other Nightmares of a Trump-Perry Energy Policy

Mr. Burns, Matt Groening Productions, Inc. Published by HarperPerennial. The Simpsons & 1990 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. In the area of energy policy under the presidency of Donald Trump, two concerns loom above all others. One is Trump’s support for nuclear power and fossil fuel energy, at a time when other powerful countries are going renewable. Trump’s economic commitments to nuclear …

KEVIN KAMPS – Radioactive Waste is Good for You, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Rick Perry as Energy Secretary

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry’s blatant conflict of interest involving the Waste Control Specialists, LLC (WCS) radioactive waste dump in Andrews County, west Texas deserves to be seriously addressed during his U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee confirmation hearing as President-elect Trump’s Energy Secretary-nominee. In fact, it adds to the long list of reasons he should not be confirmed, …

Eiichiro Ochiai – Fukushima Radiation Looms. No Nuclear Power Plant On Planet Earth! “The Incompatibility of Radiation with Human Life”

“Why is radiation incompatible with life?  If this tenet is correct, nuclear power (both weapon and electricity-producing) should not be allowed to exist on this earth, as they produce radionuclides as their by-products.  We will look into this issue from a scientific standpoint.” I.  Introduction Science has advanced since the beginning of 20th century, and led to the current atomic …

AI & Biotech: Striking a Technological Balance of Power

November 26, 2016 (Tony Cartalucci – LocalOrg) – During World War 2, nations desperately raced to harness the atom. The United State ultimately won that race, and during their victory lap – being the sole nation to possess nuclear weapons – used them against their enemy Japan – twice. Tens of thousands of lives were extinguished in the blink of an …

UN votes to ban nukes despite UK attempts to ‘thwart’ negotiations

UN General Assembly (UNGA) members have defied the British government by voting to ban nuclear weapons. The UNGA’s First Committee passed an historic resolution last Thursday to begin negotiations for a legally binding nuclear weapons ban treaty next year. The landmark resolution passed 123 to 38 – with 16 countries abstaining – and succeeded despite smaller states accusing nuclear-armed countries …