Mara Gay: Trump’s Comments On Ventilators For NY Left Me ‘Almost Speechless’ | Craig Melvin | MSNBC

MSNBC

Mar 27, 2020

The New York Times’ Mara Gay was left “almost speechless” when President Trump said he doubted the need for the amount of ventilators requested by New York to combat the coronavirus outbreak. Aired on 3/27/2020.

#Coronavirus (COVID-19): Experts Answer Your Questions

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Streamed live 48 minutes ago

You have sent us your COVID-19 questions. Tonight, they will be answered. Join us at 20.00 CET with psychologist Dr Brock Chisholm, infectious disease physician Dr Isaac Bogoch, and pandemics expert Dr Mark Smolinski.

WATCH LIVE: NewsHour answers your questions on the novel coronavirus relief bill

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Streamed live 89 minutes ago

In an effort to provide some relief in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Senate passed an unprecedented $2 trillion bill on Wednesday that would help with unemployment benefits, payroll, and could even mean cash for some across the U.S. But, what could the relief bill mean for you? PBS NewsHour correspondent Lisa Desjardins and political reporter Dan Bush answer your questions about the legislation and its practical applications.

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Published on Mar 20, 2020

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We’re adjusting to a new reality and we’ll have to find solutions in order to support each other. Creative forces help us, let’s think outside of the box and use innovation to keep our connection and make it work, together. Because if we do it together, we’ll succeed.

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Coronavirus: Italy infection rate stabilises, fear of new wave in the south

FRANCE 24 English

Mar 27, 2020

In Italy’s south, the contagion and deaths could overwhelm a health service which is much less well equipped than in the rich north. FRANCE 24’s Seema Gupta tells us more.

“Total System Failure”: Congress Pushes $2 Trillion Pandemic Bill. Will Dems Allow “Corporate Coup”?

Democracy Now!

Mar 27, 2020

We continue our look at the massive $2 trillion coronavirus relief package — the largest stimulus bill in U.S. history — with author Matt Stoller, who argues the country will be unrecognizable after this pandemic if big corporations walk away with trillions of dollars and no strings attached. Stoller is research director at the American Economic Liberties Project and author of the book “Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy.” His recent column for The Guardian is headlined “The coronavirus relief bill could turn into a corporate coup if we aren’t careful.”

U.S. Is #1 in Pandemic: Rep. Omar Blasts Trump for “Wrong Kind of American Exceptionalism”

Democracy Now!

Mar 27, 2020

As much of the United States is under lockdown, the House votes today on a $2 trillion emergency relief package to address the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. It will generate payments to most Americans and includes protections for workers, but it is also a massive bailout for a number of industries and corporations, and the vote comes as a record 3.28 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits. We speak with Congressmember Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, the first Somali American elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and one of the first Muslim women in Congress, about the bill, Trump’s response to the pandemic, how she has joined calls for student debt relief and to release immigrants and prisoners facing infection, and the challenges African countries face in responding to the coronavirus.

EPA Indefinitely Suspends Enforcement of Environmental Laws

Mar 27, 2020

In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced a sweeping and indefinite suspension of environmental rules, telling companies they will effectively be allowed to regulate themselves during the coronavirus pandemic. Under the new rules, big polluters will no longer be punished for failing to comply with reporting rules and other requirements.

Cynthia Giles, the EPA’s former head of enforcement under President Obama, told The Hill newspaper the move “tells companies across the country that they will not face enforcement even if they emit unlawful air and water pollution in violation of environmental laws, so long as they claim that those failures are in some way ’caused’ by the virus pandemic. And it allows them an out on monitoring too, so we may never know how bad the violating pollution was.”

Nuclear – Linking Coronavirus, Climate Crisis, Sea Level and environmental concerns at NFLA meeting in Suffolk

BANNG

Mar 19, 2020
In the introduction to her talk guest speaker Linda Pentz Gunter said “To put a nuclear plant (power station) on a beach is some sort of level of insanity” referring to sea level rise due to the climate crisis. Linda was one of a stellar cast of speakers at the Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) special forum public meeting held in Saxmundham, Suffolk on Saturday 14th March 2020.

At probably one of the last meetings to go ahead before the recommendations for ‘social distancing’ because of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) the following presentations were made:

Linda Pentz Gunter, Beyond Nuclear International: Nuclear power and systemic harm to animals and nature – the international picture
Simon Barnes, environmentalist: Sizewell C and its impact on local wildlife, a personal view
Ben McFarland, Head of Conservation, Suffolk Wildlife Trust: Sizewell C – threats to protected species and habitats
Rachel Fulcher, Co-ordinator of Friends of the Earth Suffolk: Nature, health and well-being – potential impacts of Sizewell C (also see video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p6q_…)
Pete Wilkinson, Chair of Together Against Sizewell C (TASC), in association with Theberton and Eastbridge Action Group on Sizewell C (TEAGS): What are the other non-environmental risks in developing Sizewell C?

Professor Andrew Blowers, Chair of Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group (BANNG): Sizewell C and Bradwell B and the likely effects of climate change

Paul Collins of Theberton and Eastbridge Action Group on Sizewell (TEAGS) presented a second video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9zLp…
TEAGS are changing their identity to Stop Sizewell C: https://stopsizewellc.org/

There is a summary of the full information, supporting slides and documents on the NFLA website here:
https://www.nuclearpolicy.info/presen…

Filmed by Peter Banks using Canon EOS M50
Music by Peter Banks https://soundcloud.com/peter-memory-b…
Photographs by Peter Banks except Sizewell A: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi…
Edited using iMovie

Suffolk Wildlife Trust: Sizewell C – threats to protected species and habitats Rachel Fulcher, Co-ordinator of Friends of the Earth Suffolk: Nature, health and well-being – potential impacts of Sizewell C (also see video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p6q_…)

Pete Wilkinson, Chair of Together Against Sizewell C (TASC), in association with Theberton and Eastbridge Action Group on Sizewell C (TEAGS): What are the other non-environmental risks in developing Sizewell C? Professor Andrew Blowers, Chair of Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group (BANNG):

Sizewell C and Bradwell B and the likely effects of climate change Paul Collins of Theberton and Eastbridge Action Group on Sizewell (TEAGS) presented a second video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9zLp…
TEAGS are changing their identity to Stop Sizewell C: https://stopsizewellc.org/
There is a summary of the full information, supporting slides and documents on the NFLA website here: https://www.nuclearpolicy.info/presen…

Filmed by Peter Banks using Canon EOS M50 Music by Peter Banks https://soundcloud.com/peter-memory-b…
Photographs by Peter Banks except Sizewell A: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi…
Edited using iMovie

Nuclear lessons from the coronavirus | Beyond Nuclear International

 

No place for atomic power amidst climate chaos and pandemics

By Linda Pentz Gunter

There is nothing like being shut in your own home, alone with your human and animal nearest-and-dearests, to focus the mind on the crises that now swirl outside.

And it is “crises” in the plural, because while all the focus is of course on the novel coronavirus, there is one giant crisis steamrollering toward us that will wreak orders of magnitude more devastation, but somehow does not merit the same kind of emergency action. And that, of course, is climate change.

Reflecting on the coronavirus pandemic from my peaceful office eyrie, with no traffic rolling past my windows and only the now audible city birdsong to distract me, it is clear how we got climate change. It is exactly the same mentality that brought us the covid crisis. Recognize a problem; assume it might just right itself; then assume it might not get as bad as predicted; then realize it’s pretty bad but do too little to stop it; then confront a crisis now impossible to adequately mitigate.

Denial seems to be one of the greatest of human achievements. It’s also why we have nuclear power. It will be too cheap to meter. An accident will never happen. We will solve the radioactive waste problem later.