Putin's Plan for All-Volunteer Military Not Working Out, Officials SayOh you WILL volunteer. I will show you!
~ Vlad
Questions surround "Tsar" Putin's market closureI love it when they call me Tsar!
~ The Royal Putin
Warning to US About Revisionist RussiaBERLIN — The deep concern among America’s Eastern European allies over improved relations between Russia and the United States spilled into the open on Thursday when 22 prominent figures, including Poland’s Lech Walesa and the Czech Republic’s Vaclav Havel, published an open letter to the Obama administration begging not to be forgotten.
In the letter, the leaders urged President Obama and his top policy makers to remember their interests as they negotiate with Russia and review plans for missile defense bases in Poland and the Czech Republic. Abandoning the missile defense plan or giving Russia too big a role in it could “undermine the credibility of the United States across the whole region,” the letter said.
The letter was published on the Web site of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and was signed by former presidents, like Mr. Walesa and Mr. Havel, as well as other former heads of state, top diplomats and intellectuals from a broad range of countries, including Hungary, Bulgaria and Estonia.
“Our region is one part of the world that Americans have largely stopped worrying about,” the letter said, even though “all is not well either in our region or in the trans-Atlantic relationship.”
East Europeans nervous as US courts RussiaNO MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD FOR YOU!
POTATO!
~ Obamanable Bushman
US STATE DEPT:
The Legacy of START and Related US PoliciesDon't start none, won't be none!
Putin held talks with Alexei Savinov, Head of the Federal Agency for ForestryGlorious Comrade Vladimirski will rescue the forests my friends!
He is very green as well as red!
Putin also held a meeting with Yury Petrov, head of the Federal Agency for State Property ManagementBehold the master of threatening brevity, Vladmirski Czar for Lifeski.
Vladimir Putin: Are there any ways to enhance the efficiency of your work?
Senior official shot dead in Russia's IngushetiaThere will be no substitute story!
Please be advised that the NAZRAN, Russia story reporting a senior official in Russia's Ingushetia region was killed on Friday is wrong. The police source quoted in the original story withdrew the information and said the sports minister was not involved in the shooting. Local government officials said two people were killed when gunmen opened fire on a car owned by the sports ministry, but that neither were administration officials. There will be no substitute story.
There is State Terror in Russia One called the routine threats to activists "state terror" and another accused Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of being partially responsible for Estemirova's murder. "Let's call things what they are, there is state terror in Russia," said Oleg Orlov, the head of Memorial, Estemirova's organization. Orlov, along with many others, accuse 32 year-old Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov and his forces of being behind the murder. Kadyrov is a notoriously brutal leader, a former warlord who is backed by the Kremlin and suspected in the murders of several other rights activists.
Russia passes tax hike to boost pensionsWary EU Girding for Disruptions of Russian Natural GasHA HA HA! Gird up, EUniks.
Vlad's natural gas is big weapon!
Pull my finger!
Say my name!
Is There Enough Caspian Gas, And Political Will, To Make Nabucco A Success?HA HA HA you are just cracking Vlad up!
Medvedev Casts Doubt on Nabucco as Merkel Defends Gas PipelineAHAHAHAHAHA! Like shooting herring in a barrel.
Russian Gas: Black Hats and White Hats in a World of GraySEE?
This year, at the annual meeting on international security in Munich in February, Mrs. Merkel talked about energy without ever mentioning Nabucco.
Congress Examines Nabucco Pipeline and World Energy SupplyLOL, my Oymerikan tovariches!
That damn crazy spleenless Jewess knows who are Vlad's men in Oymerikan Politburo now.
~ Vlad The Most Bad
Gas deals needed for Nabucco, Lugar saysMy man Lugar does glorious good job at the turnspeaky work.
The Oil and Glory Interview: U.S. Eurasian Energy Czar Richard MorningstarOoops!
Son of the Morning Star alert! BTW The boy's name Richard is of Old German origin, its meaning is "powerful leader"....
Richard Morningstar talks much about déjà vu. In the late 1990s, then-President Clinton appointed him as Washington’s first special envoy for the Caspian Sea. Against strong headwinds, he attempted to persuade, cajole and muscle Big Oil into building the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline. A hostile BP, Exxon and other companies declared that they would love to build the line, but that there simply wasn’t enough oil. Russia said it might fire on any installations built in the sea. Time and new turmoil within the oil industry changed BP’s attitude, and the geostrategic pipeline became a fact in 2006.
Today, after a decade teaching law at Harvard and Stanford, Morningstar is back in the same job. The task? To persuade not just companies, but also several countries to build yet another pipeline – a much-troubled natural gas line called Nabucco. He just attended a signing ceremony among five of the proposed transit countries in Ankara. O&G caught up with Morningstar by cellphone as he passed through the Frankfurt Airport on the way back to Washington.
Our Good Friend Konstatin:
Russian Intelligence and Islamic TerrorAmerica is quite a gigantic piece for Islamic terrorists to conquer and Russia will have a lot of time for maneuver. Russia might try to survive at the expense of America. The question is if it can really do it.
Gazprom seals $2.5bn Nigeria dealWhich should explain to discerning abnormal people exactly what is going on and why with
MEND
Transparency is Gazprom's Kryptonite
Russian mining industry showing some signs of recoveryI'm certain!
Israel's Peres to visit Russia in mid-August
Because abnormal people see Hebrew letters every fuckin' where!
Turkmenistan and Germany's RWE sign oil and gas exploration agreement Turkmenistan takes control of industrial facilities
Kazakhstan sues to recover $1.1 bln in BTA Bank assets Kazakh prosecutors have filed lawsuits to recover foreign assets of BTA bank worth 172 billion tenge ($1.1 billion), the General Prosecutor's office said on Friday. Kazakhstan nationalised BTA in February and sacked its chairman Mukhtar Ablyazov accusing him and other managers of fraud. Ablyazov, who has left Kazakhstan, denies any wrongdoing. Iogan Merkel, Deputy Prosecutor General, said his agency had launched a separate probe into BTA's overseas lending, including its activities in Ukraine and Georgia. "The criminal case is being investigated. We cannot say it (the investigation) will be over soon," Merkel told reporters. "... Lawsuits have been filed to recover funds totalling 172 billion tenge."
Kazakhstan central bank grapples with CDS headache Kazakhstan Premier Delays Seoul VisitI dunno but I been told
Kazakh Premier ain't got no Seoul.
Get Your Wedding Dresse from Kazakhstan, Head Loppy DeeUZBEKISTAN:
Prisoners' freedom of religion or belief deniedPrisoners in Uzbekistan continue to be denied their right to freedom of religion or belief – for example to pray visibly, to have religious literature, or to receive visits from religious clergy, Forum 18 News Service has found. These denials of religious freedom affect not only prisoners of conscience of all faiths, jailed or imprisoned in a labour camp for their religious activity, but also prisoners jailed for other reasons.
Prison and labour camp conditions are harsh, and even the communities regarded as the main "traditional" faiths – the state-controlled Muslim Board and the Russian Orthodox Church – appear to have only limited access to prisoners. Other faiths told Forum 18 they have almost no access. Prisoners are often punished for religious activity in jails or labour camps, religious believers and human rights defenders have told Forum 18, however officials insist to Forum 18 that prisoners' religious freedom is respected.
These claims, along with other inaccurate information, are also in Uzbekistan's report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which is due to be considered in Geneva on 27 July.
Uzbekistan and Belarus Reveal Serious Disagreement within the CSTOOn June 14, member countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization signed a document on the establishment of CSTO Rapid Reaction Forces. Due to its economic and military potential, Russia will provide the main and virtually the only viable component of these forces.
This treaty is symbolic as it seals Russia’s political-military aspirations in the CSTO area. Surprisingly, Uzbekistan and one of Russia’s closest allies, Belarus, did not sign the document.
Such developments make the mere existence of the CSTO RRF futile. Uzbekistan possesses the strongest military potential and the greatest strategic importance in Central Asia. Moreover, its decision not to sign the document is critical for considering potential U.S. engagement in the region.
BACKGROUND: The decision to establish the CSTO RRF was taken on February 4, 2009, during the summit of CSTO member countries. It was designed to fight terrorism, extremism, illegal drug trafficking, and provide for effective participation of CSTO members in maintaining regional and international security. Belarusian President Lukashenko was not present at the CSTO Summit on June 14, 2009, and did not sign the document, thus boycotting the event.
This decision was caused by the ban on Belarusian dairy products and meat from the Russian market, a serious blow to the Belarusian economy. Russia, through its Federal Service for the Supervision of Consumer Rights and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) banned the import of almost 500 items of dairy products from Belarus, and then a further 800 because the Belarusian producers had not redrafted documentation in accordance with the requirements of the technical regulations relating to milk. And the republic refused "to discuss collective security issues in circumstances in which its economic security finds itself under threat."
Kyrgyzstan:
Presidential elections - Observers report massive fraud Opposition leaders,members and activists during the election campaign have been intimidated, harassed and assaulted repeatedly which was highly publicized by kyrgyz independent media as well.
Kyrgyz police officer arrested in fatal beating of reporterKyrgyzstan Arrests 18 Suspected Militants ...several of whom are believed to have fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Republican Youth Union opens in KyrgyzstanThe youth are the NATION'S RESOURCE you see.
They are the property of the State.
Aim of the association is active and coordinated participation of young people in civil and political, social and economic, legal and cultural development of the country.
“Youth is the only nation’s resource which will be responsible for older and next generation, consequently, for future of the state in the decades ahead. Various social and economic problems arise in the society under the raging financial crisis. Due to these circumstances young people need to unite to work out and make constructive suggestions on their solving,” the association said.
Russia, ex-Soviet allies to hold security talks in Kyrgyzstan
A controversy over a military presence in Kyrgyzstan between the United States and Russia could become the hot topic at the summit.
Russia to Open New Military Base in KyrgyzstanIn Reversal, Kyrgyzstan Won't Close a US Base Kyrgyzstan sees 3000 seismic activity cases annually
All-of-a-sudden cleanup for the world's Cold War waste In the landlocked country of Kyrgyzstan, there sits one of a few toxic legacies from the cold war: A product of the Soviet Union’s uranium enrichment programme… More than 800 million tons of uranium waste. An estimated 6,500 hectares of land is believed to be have been exposed to radioactive contamination as a result of the waste, which is divided among 92 sites according to a 2006 report by the UNDP.Much of the waste is located near the Kyrgyz village of Mailii-Suu, which was listed by the Blacksmith Institute in 2006 as one of the world’s worst polluted places.
There is also a line of waste buried along the Syr Darya River, which feeds “the most populated and fertile area in Central Asia.”
All it would take is a landslide, earthquake or some major storm and the waste would pour into the river, threatening the health of millions of people in Kyrgyzstan and in the nearby countries of Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Tajikistan military kill gunmen near Afghan border
New commander of Russian military base in Tajikistan appointedIt's an Igor!
By Russian president’s decree of June 30, 2009 Colonel Igor Krasin was appointed commander of the Russian military base in Tajikistan, replacing Major-General Aleksey Zavizyon.
Violence In Western China Harms Trade With Tajikistan 
The Problem of Maladaptive Behavior!
In The Gold Man's Sacks We TrustNYT:
The Joy of SachsThe American economy remains in dire straits, with one worker in six unemployed or underemployed. Yet Goldman Sachs just reported record quarterly profits — and it’s preparing to hand out huge bonuses, comparable to what it was paying before the crisis. What does this contrast tell us? First, it tells us that Goldman is very good at what it does. Unfortunately, what it does is bad for America.
With friends like Goldman Sachs, who needs enemies?I don't know whatever happened to investigative journalism. Wall Street is robbing us blind and literally destroying the economic foundation of this nation. Wherever he is if Osama Bin Laden is watching surely he must be thinking no matter what I do to America I could never hurt them as much as the confluence of our own government and Wall Street. As Robert Reich notes, Goldman's is still wagering its capitol and funding giant bets with our money and after all the damage to us financially our complicit government has done nothing to change that.You would never know any of this because instead of the truth the press gives us the insanity of stories.
Two Giants Emerge From Wall Street Ruins
In all the old myths it seems we are supposed to slay the giants.
Get crackin'.
A new order is emerging on Wall Street after the worst crisis since the Great Depression — one in which just a couple of victors are starting to tower over the handful of financial titans that used to dominate the industry.
A new order! STFU you crazy spleen!
Citigroup and Bank of America surprise analysts with better results Czar Paulson on the not so Hot SeatThey love him, the freakin' thug huggers.
In the witness chair yesterday, Mr. Paulson pretty much pleaded guilty to telling Mr. Lewis that he would be out of a job if he reneged -- with the explanation that the alternative would have been worse, namely a financial meltdown that would have spread around the world and probably cost taxpayers many billions more than did the Merrill-Bank of America merger or the bailout of insurance giant AIG. "By far the biggest advantage to the taxpayers is what didn't happen," Mr. Paulson said. Unsatisfied, several committee members arraigned Mr. Paulson for allegedly bailing out the banks and AIG to benefit his former Wall Street firm, Goldman Sachs.
AIG's European Derivatives May Take Decades to Expire 
Poe-ster boy for madness....
What to do with the FedI got a few suggestions.
The Fed is in trouble. Obama administration proposals for enhancing the Fed’s supervisory and regulatory role and for assigning it new macro-prudential responsibilities and powers - effectively turning it into the nation’s systemic risk regulator - are meeting with strong and vocal opposition.
The criticism is not just coming from the other agencies in the US financial sector regulatory and supervisory spaghetti bowl - agencies that would stand to lose power and influence or could be put out of business completely. The desire for stronger Congressional oversight of the Fed is no longer confined to a few libertarian fruitcakes, conspiracy theorists and old lefties.
It is a mainstream view that the Fed has failed to foresee and prevent the crisis, that it has managed it ineffectively since it started, and that it has allowed itself to be used as a quasi-fiscal instrument of the US Treasury, by-passing Congressional control. Are any or all of these criticisms justified? Let’s ponder a few of them.
ROMANIA:
World Bank Supports Reforms to Mitigate the Economic CrisisThey all keep using this word REFORM. Sadly I do not think it means what you are accustomed to thinking it means, dear readers. Tovarich, you won't believe it, we just bought Romania. Cheap!
The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors Thursday approved a loan to Romania in the amount of Euro 300 million ($423 million equivalent) to help mitigate the global economic crisis and help Romania resume growth and EU convergence...
Venezuelan Bank Purchases of Government Debt Soar
South Korea Pension Fund Plans to Double Assets By Investing in BRICs
Iceland to Request Support from European Central Bank Iceland's path to EU membership could be long and troubled Walter Cronkite Kicks It @ 92In 2004 Cronkite criticized Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry for not confidently embracing the label "liberal," which the newsman equated with being "progressive," "broad-minded," "unprejudiced," and "beneficent".
SNIP
"Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents," said Cronkite in 1996, speaking to his colleagues at the Radio and TV Correspondents Association dinner.
Duke University Fires Frank Lombard WTF took them so long?
Frank Lombard, who was arrested by the FBI in June on child sex abuse charges, was let go by the University Tuesday. Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, confirmed that Lombard is no longer a Duke employee.
Lombard, formerly the associate director for the Health Inequalities Program at the Center for Heath Policy, is charged by the FBI with offering his five-year-old adopted son to an undercover police officer for sex. According to an affidavit, Lombard was arrested after a confidential informant told the FBI about child molestation he had witnessed in an online "videochat" program.
The University originally placed Lombard on unpaid administrative leave following his June 24 arrest. Schoenfeld declined to comment further on the decision to terminate Lombard's employment.
Don't be afraid to see what you see.
~ Ronald Reagan
What, me worry?
A Reckless CongressDemocrats want to ram through one of the greatest raids on private income and business in American history. Say this about the 1,018-page health-care bill that House Democrats unveiled this week and that President Obama heartily endorsed: It finally reveals at least some of the price of the reckless ambitions of our current government. With huge majorities and a President in a rush to outrun the declining popularity of his agenda, Democrats are bidding to impose an unrepealable European-style welfare state in a matter of weeks.
Have any doubt about where Barack Obama stands on abortion rights? You shouldn’t. (NEITHER SHOULD THE POPE -bz) During last year’s presidential campaign, Obama said he would make “preserving a woman’s right to choose under Roe v. Wade a priority as president.”
House spending bill allows DC abortion funding Specter and Lugar to back SotomayorNNNNAAAAAAaaaturally!
Lugar backs S'mayorLugar: Obama's American KGB handler.
And you people still insist you have two parties!
AMA supports ObamaCare: Good politics or treachery?Proposed National Bio- and Agro-Defense FacilityZOONOTIC mah pipples!
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate today released the Record of Decision (ROD) on the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF). Manhattan, Kan., has been selected as the site for a state-of the-art, high-security laboratory facility to study foreign animal and zoonotic (transferable from animal to human) diseases that can impact livestock. This formal ROD follows the publication of the NBAF Final Environmental Impact Statement (NBAF Final EIS) in the Federal Register on Dec. 12, 2008 and officially designates a site upon which to build the NBAF.
Swine flu could kill 65,000 in UK, warns chief medical officerPANIC NOW!
Europe prepares for swine flu pandemicWe said NOW! Are you people deaf?
Because women are aberrant.
The Senate approved the long-sought Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act by a voice vote Thursday night. The measure, however, was approved as an amendment to an annual defense spending bill. While President Barack Obama has long supported the hate crimes legislation, he is adamantly opposing additional funding for the purchase of stealth fighter jets.
White House LGBT press liaison Shin Inouye released a statement Friday, July 17, saying, "The President has long supported the hate crimes bill and gave his personal commitment to Judy Shepard that we will enact an inclusive bill. Unfortunately, the President will have to veto the Defense Authorization bill if it includes wasteful spending for additional F-22s."
Gates:
Future Jet Supporters are Risking Today's TroopsLOL!
RAYTHEON itself is his #2 and he has balls to say this shit?
At a speech today in Chicago, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates lashed out at members of Congress, at the “defense and aerospace industry,” and at the “institutional military itself” for trying to keep ultra-expensive, often-useless weapons programs in the Pentagon budget. It’s just not right, he said, while the country is fighting two wars in which such gear is clearly not required.
ICE Heralds New Era of Cooperation with ATF, DEAFUSION!
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid: Same way they now get "exigent circumstances" warrants from phone companies instead of courts guarantee they will also get them from Microsoft & pals in order to invade your PC's files.
On Monday of this week, Microsoft and ESRI announced the Fusion Core Solution, a solution architecture to strengthen the ability of government agencies to prepare, assess, and respond to threats of national security as well as natural disasters.
SNIP
After looking at the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice guidelines, Microsoft identified three core functions a fusion center needed .
DARPA feeds $155M to Raytheon for military wireless network FEMA head wants Americans to "take responsibility"Fugate answered a number of viewer questions for a segment to be aired this Sunday morning at 10:30 on YOUR SHOW on My20, Comcast Channel 3. The program will also feature your questions being asked to the man in charge of overseeing the $3.7 billion from the President's economic stimulus package coming into Colorado. To send a question for that segment, e-mail us at yourshow@9News.com.
FEMA's Craig Fugate Said Mitigation Language, Roles Must be RedefinedHe who controls language controls thought...
That includes changing building codes and standards, as well as the language used in mitigating hazards.
DHS listens and learns at OgmaLOL!
HAIL OGMA.
Named for a pagan god, even!
I am telling you, this shit just writes itself.
The Department of Homeland Security Office for Interoperability and Compatibility, Office of Emergency Communications, FEMA National Preparedness Directorate and the Center for Homeland Defense and Security recently hosted "The Ogma Workshop: Exploring the Policy and Strategy Implications of Web 2.0 on the Practice of Homeland Security."
According to DHS, it was an "effort to establish what we know thus far about pervasive technology, review established and emerging best practices, and discuss what needs to be done next." Chris Essid, Director of the Office of Emergency Communications at DHS, tells FederalNewsRadio that using social media for public safety is "an exciting prospect. It's an exciting new information stream that our responders can utilize to have better situational awareness."
The Ogma Workshop, according to DHS, was named after the Irish-Celtic god of eloquence and learning. The learning, in this case, is from those on the front lines already using the technologies, says Essid.
DHS To Spend Up To $389 Million On Emergency CommunicationsThe Department of Homeland Security has picked four contractors to support national security communications over the next five years in an effort that could see the department spending up to $389 million. Under the terms of the contract, Booz Allen Hamilton, General Dynamics, SAIC and SRA International will provide scientific, engineering and technical support to the National Communications System, an interagency group that's responsible for some cybersecurity and coordinates national security and emergency preparedness communications.
DHS: Give us info on cybersecurity productsThe Homeland Security Department wants information from companies on technical solutions that could be used to protect the ".gov" cyber domain used by federal civilian agencies, according to recently published notice.
Testimony of Secretary Napolitano before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, "Identification Security" (Oral Testimony) given July 15, 2009 Further, under Pass ID, a requirement for electronic verification of Social Security Number and lawful status remains. Now, the differences: Why is this easier to implement from the state perspective?
First, Pass ID eliminates the blanket requirement to use untested technologies for electronic verification of any and all source documents. States still have to validate documents, but they can pursue different ways to reach that standard.
Second, they are required to electronically verify Social Security and lawful presence through the S-Solve and SAVE [Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements] databases; but, unlike REAL ID, under Pass ID, they are exempted for paying the fee for doing those checks.
Third, there is greater flexibility under Pass ID. in terms of how you re-enroll existing driver’s license holders, because under REAL ID you've got to re-enroll everybody under the age of 50 three years earlier than everybody else. Under Pass ID we give the states flexibility on how to do the re-enrollment so long as everything is complete by 2016—which actually is one year earlier than the final completion date for REAL ID.
Yes because walking your own way is ABNORMAL DAMMIT!
Act like the rest of us, NOW!
Discovered 13 years ago, and officially added to the periodic table just weeks ago, element 112 finally has a name. It will be called "copernicium", with the symbol Cp, in honour of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
Navajos mark 30th anniversary of uranium spillThe leader of the Navajo Nation marked the 30th anniversary of a massive uranium tailings spill by reaffirming the tribe's ban on future uranium mining.Speaking in Navajo and English, President Joe Shirley Jr. addressed about 100 people who made a seven-mile walk to the site of the July 16, 1979 spill and to the land of Navajo ranchers who live near another contaminated site.
What Shirley called "the largest peacetime accidental release of radioactive contaminated materials in the history of the United States" occurred when 94 million gallons of acidic water poured into the north fork of the Rio Puerco after an earthen uranium tailings dam failed. Within days, contaminated tailings liquid was found 50 miles downstream in Arizona.
Shirley said the spill — the same year as the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania — barely registered on the consciousness of the United States but will not be forgotten by the by Navajo and non-Navajo residents "who still worry today about the potential impacts of this tragic accident."
Newfound attention to massive Church Rock uranium contaminationThirty years ago today, an earthen tailings dam near the United Nuclear Corp. Church Rock Uranium mine collapsed, spilling ninety million gallons of liquid radioactive waste and eleven hundred tons of solid mill wastes into the Rio Puerco. The spill contaminated water, land and air at least 50 miles downstream on Navajo Nation land in New Mexico and Arizona.
It is believed that more radiation was released in the spill than in the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania, making the Church Rock spill the largest release of radioactive waste ever in the U.S. — and second only to the Chernobyl meltdown globally. The privately-owned site of the Church Rock spill is a Superfund site — and it is still leaking radioactive waste throughout Indian lands to this day.
Yet few people today have ever heard of it.
Uranium Resources To Buy New Mexico Properties In Cash And StockUranium Resources, Inc. announced an agreement to acquire 113,000 acres of mineral rights in the Crownpoint area of New Mexico from NZ Uranium, LLC. The closing of the transaction is expected to to occur by mid August. Uranium Resources would also acquire Hosta Butte, southeast of Crownpoint, which it had evaluated as an in situ recovery project for NZ Uranium in the past. Uranium Resources plans to commission a third-party engineering study to update the estimates.
Uranium Incident at B&W in Lynchburg Leads to Alert Good luck finding more out about this shit. A total of 11 articles on it exist and they are all basically the same:
Lynchburg, VA - An incident at Babcock and Wilcox Wednesday night caused the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to have safety experts in Atlanta and Maryland to monitor the situation at the Lynchburg plant.
The NRC says the alert- classified as the lowest level of emergency- started around 7:45 p.m. A news release states B & W staff noticed that a saw used to cut fuel components leaked oil that contained an unknown amount of highly enriched uranium into a receptacle.
NRC responds to scare at B&W nuclear plant in Va. NEW YORK, July 17 (Reuters) - The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week responded to a scare at Babcock & Wilcox's nuclear facility in Lynchburg, ...
Extract Says Contacted About Namibian Uranium ProjectHow many Africans, Rednecks or Indians will have to die for this crap?
Never mind, they don't matter, they are all abnormal.
Extract Resources Ltd., an Australian mining company planning a uranium project in Namibia, said it’s studying a wide range of development and funding options after it was contacted regarding the venture.
Feds studying hazards at Texas cement factory townTo hear Sue Pope tell it, tons of toxic pollutants spewing from three nearby cement factories have ruined her immune system, stripped her lung capacity, and probably caused her husband's cancer as well as numerous inexplicable illnesses around town. Talk to state, local or industry officials here and they'll tell you that decades of studies prove the air around the nation's largest concentration of cement plants is just fine.
Both sides hope a sweeping new federal study will finally answer the question that environmentalists, industry leaders, politicians and scientists have argued about for at least 20 years: Just how toxic is this place?
Granite fabricators exposed to more radiation than nuke workersIn June, a nationwide advisory cautioned that granite fabricators can be exposed to more radiation than nuclear power plant workers. The data behind that advisory were presented at the Health Physics Society annual conference this week. Those data show that granite fabricators can be exposed to several hundred times more radiation than allowed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.The granite used to collect the data was Jupurana Bordeaux, removed from a San Carlos home last fall. When Cathy Woods learned that her counter tops qualified as uranium ore, she had her granite removed. Cathy generously allowed us to use that granite for research.
We shipped samples of Cathy’s granite to scientists around the country. Those scientists tested her granite for radiation, radon, and thoron emission. Their data will be presented in papers they publish over the coming months.
We used other sections of Cathy’s granite to measure uranium exposure during fabrication. When we saw the lab reports, we had some concerns. The airborne dust in the work area contained more uranium than OSHA would allow.
Because there are insane killers in our midst!
'Extinct' tiny shrew rediscoveredSurvival of the Unfittest Akbar.
So, why are there still chimpanzees? Richard Dawkins will tell you!
Two earthquakes rock New Zealand, aftershocks continue Magnitude 5.1 VOLCANO ISLANDS JAPAN REGIONPhilippines Volcano Threatens to Erupt
The Supervolcano That's About to Shatter YellowstoneDOE Earmarks $85M for 'Advanced' BiofuelsThe Energy Department will provide up to $85 million to accelerate commercial production of "advanced" biofuels that can be derived from algae and other feedstocks.
Bruno has a gay ole time in the Holy LandBruno is an over-the-top gay Austrian fashionista with a Nazi streak whose goal is to become the biggest Austrian celebrity since Hitler. To do so he travels to America, where he is told he must take on a charitable cause to achieve worldwide fame. So he decides to bring peace to a troubled place he calls "Middle Earth."
There, he nearly sparks a riot in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem when he struts down the street in a sexed-up Hassidic outfit that includes skintight shorts. On the Palestinian side, he tries to convince a West Bank militant to kidnap him, while giving the man condescending fashion tips. Bruno confuses the popular chickpea spread "hummus" with the Islamic militant group "Hamas" when he tries to bring together Israeli and Palestinian personalities to make peace.
Baron Cohen, an observant, Hebrew-speaking Jew with close ties to Israel, has ribbed the region before. In his 2006 movie Borat, his fake Kazakh language was actually Hebrew and his shtick was peppered with Israeli slang. In Bruno he goes a step further, taking aim at the Middle East's most sacred cows.
San Diego Opera Plays NabuccoVlad is very pleased, tovariches!
God had other plans for rock 'n' roll drummerI loved Rat Race Choir.
This guy was the touring drummer for the rock group Mountain. He was a founding member of Rat Race Choir and The John Entwistle Band (where he played alongside Entwistle, bass guitarist for the legendary rock band The Who). Luongo pounds things for a living. He never thought he’d be CEO material.And yet here he is, running the 6-year-old John Entwistle Foundation, working every day to get musical instruments into the hands of poor and sick kids.
“If you want to make God laugh,” Luongo said, “tell him your plans.”
Because everyone knows all musicians are maladjusted longhair militants
Would you pledge your soul as loan collateral?
