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Japan's Ishiba: Time for 'Asian Nato' to Counter China and North Korea
Gordon Chang Report | November 1, 2024 | Gordon Chang

“The geopolitical crisis surrounding our country has risen to the point where war could break out at any moment,” Shigeru Ishiba declared in a September 25 article posted on the website of the Hudson Institute, shortly before his election as Japan’s 102nd prime minister.

It looks like war is coming to Asia, and Ishiba, a former defense minister, has a plan, which he proposed in his Hudson piece: the formation of “an Asian version of NATO.”
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California Needs More Than Medical Schools to Solve Doctor Shortage
The Mercury News | Sally Pipes | November 6, 2024

California doesn’t have enough doctors. This year, the state met just 54% of its primary care needs. It would take 881 more physicians to eliminate all the state’s designated primary care shortage areas, where more than 5.8 million Californians currently reside.

California’s leaders are trying to conjure up more physicians. In late September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation to establish a new medical school with public and private funding in Kern County, which spans Bakersfield and the southern Central Valley. The San Joaquin Valley, with just 39 primary care docs per 100,000 population, ranks just ahead of the Inland Empire, with 35 per 100,000, as areas of acute physician shortage.
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Private Firms, States use Tobacco Lawsuit Playbook in Energy Cases
RealClearPolitics | Wayne Winegarden | November 4, 2024

These well-funded lawsuits, and there are now more than 30 of them, are not equivalent to throwing a can of soup at an art masterpiece. The coordinated litigation strategy is nothing less than an attempt to throw a monkey wrench into the industry that makes modern life possible – that heats and cools Americans’ homes and offices, supplies gasoline for transportation and agriculture, and powers the nation’s electric grid.

“In politics, it’s all about who can tell the best story – and the environmental movement tells a compelling story about the costs of climate change,” says Wayne Winegarden… “But the hope that we can run the economy on solar and wind is delusional. We simply don’t have an economy without oil.”
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