Steve Liewer
Omaha World-Herald
President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded their summit on Wednesday with an agreement to return their nations ambassadors to their posts in Washington and Moscow and a plan to begin work toward replacing the last remaining treaty between the two countries limiting nuclear weapons.
For months, U.S. Strategic Command chief Adm. Charles Richard has been sounding the alarm about the growing nuclear threat from China.
Now we know why.
In the past month, civilian analysts studying satellite images have found two large fields of apparent nuclear missile silos â at least 230 of them â under construction in remote north-central China.
Amid recent revelations of the Trump administration’s efforts to obtain the communications records of reporters from CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, the new DOJ documents reveal the most complete picture yet assembled of a leak-hunting effort that dwarfs those of previous administrations. In the recently revealed cases, gag orders prevented news executives and tech companies from revealing the secret subpoenas. In May, President Joe Biden announced that he would not permit the seizure of reporters’ records, apparently unaware that his own Justice Department was attempting to do just that and had obtained a gag order against the New York Times. After it was lifted, the Biden White House claimed that it knew nothing about the Times gag order, and the Justice Department soon announced a new policy regarding reporters in leak investigations.
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Scientist Asks A Canadian HAVE WE GONE TOO FAR WITH ATOM TESTS? July 9 1955 NORMAN J. BERRILL Scientist Asks A Canadian HAVE WE GONE TOO FAR WITH ATOM TESTS? NORMAN J. BERRILL July 9 1955
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Scientist Asks A Canadian HAVE WE GONE TOO FAR WITH ATOM TESTS? July 9 1955 NORMAN J. BERRILL
LIVING IN the Atomic Age means living in a world more radioactive than it used to be. This age started with the discovery of radioactive uranium and radium. At first, people who worked with these substances suffered from burns, anaemia and bone cancer. By the end of 1953, according to W. C. Hueper, of the National Cancer Institute of the United States, lung cancer had killed forty to fifty percent of the uranium miners at Joachimsthal in Czechoslovakia and from sevent
China splurges on yet more missile silos 3rd August 2021 - 03:57 GMT | by Gordon Arthur in Christchurch RSS
An overview of the new field of missile silos being built in eastern Xinjiang. (Federation of American Scientists)
Beijing likes to accuse the US of having a ‘Cold War mentality , but China’s current splurge of missile silo building is unprecedented since the Cold War.
On 9 July,
Shephardreported that China was constructing a massive field of missile silos near Yumen in Gansu Province. Analysis of further satellite imagery has revealed that a second similarly sized missile silo facility is being built in eastern Xinjiang.
Alberta government declares COVID-19 pandemic over
With its announcement last week of an end to all public health measures to combat COVID-19, Alberta’s hard-right United Conservative Party (UCP) government has effectively declared the pandemic over. This criminal decision which is now being implemented with only tepid, token opposition from the rest of Canada’s political establishment threatens the lives of tens of thousands of people in Alberta and across the country, as the spread of the more contagious and lethal Delta variant accelerates.
As of August 16, all masking requirements and contact tracing will be abolished in what Alberta Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw has termed the “next phase,” where the public will have to “live with COVID-19.” COVID-19 testing will be available only for severely ill symptomatic people, so as to “help direct patient care decisions.”