Pedro Orta is a highly-decorated former CIA officer. In 18 years in the agency, he won eight Exceptional Performance awards for his work in the Middle East, in Afghanistan, and in the US Office of the Inspector General, working, ironically, on whistleblower issues. On this episode of The Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou speaks with Pedro Orta about how he took on a political issue from inside the CIA, and what he did when he saw evidence the CIA was seeking to undermine a sitting president. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/RT_com

If you’re not a fan of swallowing pills, how about swallowing a robotic doctor instead? A team at Stanford University has developed what it calls a ‘millirobot’ smaller than a fingertip, which is able to enter the human body and have a look around, identifying and treating complex diseases. The team are working on several different robot designs, including one that can ‘crawl’ using the motion generated by magnetic fields, and can fold itself over to get around obstacles. The ‘spinning-enabled wireless amphibious origami millirobot’ (might we suggest a catchier name?) can carry medicine until it reaches the precise location in the body it’s needed in, allowing for super-targeted drug delivery. The project is still in the very early trial stages, not having yet reached animal testing, but you could be looking at the future of medicine. If you can actually see it, of course. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom over censorship, truth over narrative. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Telegram: t.me/rtnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RT_com