Monday, August 12, 2019
The IAEA is highly qualified to begin any assessment in putting together a team for intervention with the Russian accident. The IPCC could carry out the cooperation with global scientists capable of recognizing climate and ecosystem damage from the accident. I would except all safety precautions for these people. Russia will have to accept the advise that comes with their compassion for the Russian people. Hopefully this accident can still be contained.
What a mess. The Russians are out of practice because the missile treaties with the USA worked well.
President Vladimir Putin needs to stop. He needs to stop supporting an idiot as president to the USA. He needs to stop his hacking of the USA's computer systems. Just stop.
Returning to nuclear non-proliferation is a not huge mistake. The Non-Proliferation Treaty needs to take it's natural course back into eliminating nuclear weapons forever and only allowing conventional weapons for any disagreements countries may have.
JUST STOP!
There is one thing everyone knows about nuclear weapons and economics is that when a country embarks on a nuclear weapon strategy it takes wealth from the domestic economy of that country. Russia is existing under sanctions that have impacted it's economy. Putin in retaliation and desperation for his mistaken politics to return the USSR's glory, is attempting to end the USA through intervening in its politics and elections. He got what he wanted with Trump and now the reality of his mistake has come to roost.
Trump eliminated nuclear treaties and Putin out of sheer fear of the power of the USA and the potential for it's weapons has returned to testing supposedly more sophisticate nuclear weapons that act as a "smart bomb." He lost his scientists because of these tests. It is anyone's guess to what the explosion has done to Europe and the Arctic. Europe received radiation from Chernobyl. Depending on the way the winds were blowing, Europe may be getting a dose of this disaster as well. The problem with the wind these days is that it is dominated by vortexes. So, the possibility of a vortex picking up the radiation and incorporating it into it's air mass is very probable. NASA is going to have to check the winds that day and now carry out some imaging to understand where the radiation went.
The region is very near Europe. It is also near Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The nuclear treaties that have been in effect for decades worked. They moved countries away from the defense of nuclear capacity. It moved countries monies into use for economic growth. Those treaties allowed Russia into the G8. Those treaties no matter how obsolete they became provided a strong path to peace.
The problem was Putin''s politics is that he promised too much and was in the process of creating an economic alliance. He was going to prove to the post-Soviet states they made a huge mistake in leaving when the USSR imploded. In promising all that ideology to the Russian people, Putin overreacted to the removal of Yanukovych. He didn't want to appear as a weak president of Russia, so he launched an invasion into Crimea. Crimea wasn't enough for his ideology to maintain it's integrity so he moved into eastern Ukraine.
The treaty involving Ukraine was perfect. He should have believed in it's strength rather than becoming scared of an outcome he did not control. Russia would have been fine and the people of Ukraine would be playing their politics and attempting to engage an economy that had strong relations with Europe as well as Russia.
Putin can't handle the idea his ideology is falling apart and the world is still the same. He relates to strength through weapons. He is a nuclear weapon brinkman. That is how he finds his balance with Russia's place in the world. He believes he can have it all back. He placed Russia on a path to win it's Soviet country back again, including nuclear war that he believes he could contain. He is no different than any other 3rd world leader that has nuclear weapons with the delusion of a preventive measure.
Vladimir Putin needs to be a very brave Russian and realize the world recognizes the fact that Russian people deserve a Russian president. No one wants to change that. No one wants nor can afford a huge war to overtake Russia. Russia has a strong reason to be Russia and that is the global "balance of power."
Vladimir, stop. The world is going to spin tomorrow and Russia will always be Russia. Ukraine will always be Ukraine. The post-Soviet states will always be the same in culture and government as choices of the people. The handful of people that state they are Americans and want horrendous war are in the Executive Branch of the USA government and YOU PUT THEM THERE!
The Russian military and government cannot treat this accident as a mystery. The world can help and quite frankly it has a right to know what is affecting their air and now that it is in the ocean at the top of the world, the currents will bring the contamination to visit all shores of that ocean. Unfortunately, this is summer in the northern hemisphere and the Arctic is missing a lot of ice and the ability to freeze that contamination in blocks of ice that could be contained in some ways is no longer possible.
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Russia needs to turn to the world and demand peace to return prosperity to the country, acceptance of the Russia people into the greater global community and end the self-imposed isolation that was due to Putin's plans of the propagation of war.
This is a global calamity and it has to be treated that way.
August 12, 2019
By Tom McKay
Russian nuclear agency Rosatom (click here) admitted late on Friday that a suspicious cloud of radiation that spread over the Arkhangelsk region was caused by an explosion at one of its facilities, the Guardian reported, involving experiments involving an “isotope power source for a liquid-fuelled rocket engine.”
Rosatom said that the accident, which temporarily sent radiation spiking up to 20 times background radiation levels in the city of Severodvinsk, resulted in five deaths and three injuries in the form of burns. According to the Guardian, the Rosatom statement may indicate that several employees previously named as injured in a ministry of defense statement (which put the toll at two dead, six injured) have died, and the agency did not elaborate on where the workers are being treated.
According to the New York Times, an additional two military personnel are believed dead.
“A bright memory of our comrades will forever live in our hearts,” Rosatom wrote in the statement....
Returning to nuclear non-proliferation is a not huge mistake. The Non-Proliferation Treaty needs to take it's natural course back into eliminating nuclear weapons forever and only allowing conventional weapons for any disagreements countries may have.
JUST STOP!
There is one thing everyone knows about nuclear weapons and economics is that when a country embarks on a nuclear weapon strategy it takes wealth from the domestic economy of that country. Russia is existing under sanctions that have impacted it's economy. Putin in retaliation and desperation for his mistaken politics to return the USSR's glory, is attempting to end the USA through intervening in its politics and elections. He got what he wanted with Trump and now the reality of his mistake has come to roost.
Trump eliminated nuclear treaties and Putin out of sheer fear of the power of the USA and the potential for it's weapons has returned to testing supposedly more sophisticate nuclear weapons that act as a "smart bomb." He lost his scientists because of these tests. It is anyone's guess to what the explosion has done to Europe and the Arctic. Europe received radiation from Chernobyl. Depending on the way the winds were blowing, Europe may be getting a dose of this disaster as well. The problem with the wind these days is that it is dominated by vortexes. So, the possibility of a vortex picking up the radiation and incorporating it into it's air mass is very probable. NASA is going to have to check the winds that day and now carry out some imaging to understand where the radiation went.
The region is very near Europe. It is also near Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The nuclear treaties that have been in effect for decades worked. They moved countries away from the defense of nuclear capacity. It moved countries monies into use for economic growth. Those treaties allowed Russia into the G8. Those treaties no matter how obsolete they became provided a strong path to peace.
The problem was Putin''s politics is that he promised too much and was in the process of creating an economic alliance. He was going to prove to the post-Soviet states they made a huge mistake in leaving when the USSR imploded. In promising all that ideology to the Russian people, Putin overreacted to the removal of Yanukovych. He didn't want to appear as a weak president of Russia, so he launched an invasion into Crimea. Crimea wasn't enough for his ideology to maintain it's integrity so he moved into eastern Ukraine.
The treaty involving Ukraine was perfect. He should have believed in it's strength rather than becoming scared of an outcome he did not control. Russia would have been fine and the people of Ukraine would be playing their politics and attempting to engage an economy that had strong relations with Europe as well as Russia.
Putin can't handle the idea his ideology is falling apart and the world is still the same. He relates to strength through weapons. He is a nuclear weapon brinkman. That is how he finds his balance with Russia's place in the world. He believes he can have it all back. He placed Russia on a path to win it's Soviet country back again, including nuclear war that he believes he could contain. He is no different than any other 3rd world leader that has nuclear weapons with the delusion of a preventive measure.
Vladimir Putin needs to be a very brave Russian and realize the world recognizes the fact that Russian people deserve a Russian president. No one wants to change that. No one wants nor can afford a huge war to overtake Russia. Russia has a strong reason to be Russia and that is the global "balance of power."
Vladimir, stop. The world is going to spin tomorrow and Russia will always be Russia. Ukraine will always be Ukraine. The post-Soviet states will always be the same in culture and government as choices of the people. The handful of people that state they are Americans and want horrendous war are in the Executive Branch of the USA government and YOU PUT THEM THERE!
The Russian military and government cannot treat this accident as a mystery. The world can help and quite frankly it has a right to know what is affecting their air and now that it is in the ocean at the top of the world, the currents will bring the contamination to visit all shores of that ocean. Unfortunately, this is summer in the northern hemisphere and the Arctic is missing a lot of ice and the ability to freeze that contamination in blocks of ice that could be contained in some ways is no longer possible.
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Russia needs to turn to the world and demand peace to return prosperity to the country, acceptance of the Russia people into the greater global community and end the self-imposed isolation that was due to Putin's plans of the propagation of war.
This is a global calamity and it has to be treated that way.
By Tom McKay
Russian nuclear agency Rosatom (click here) admitted late on Friday that a suspicious cloud of radiation that spread over the Arkhangelsk region was caused by an explosion at one of its facilities, the Guardian reported, involving experiments involving an “isotope power source for a liquid-fuelled rocket engine.”
Rosatom said that the accident, which temporarily sent radiation spiking up to 20 times background radiation levels in the city of Severodvinsk, resulted in five deaths and three injuries in the form of burns. According to the Guardian, the Rosatom statement may indicate that several employees previously named as injured in a ministry of defense statement (which put the toll at two dead, six injured) have died, and the agency did not elaborate on where the workers are being treated.
According to the New York Times, an additional two military personnel are believed dead.
“A bright memory of our comrades will forever live in our hearts,” Rosatom wrote in the statement....
Hey, "Moscow" Mitch McConnell, how was the reporting of hate crimes left out of federal reports?
This is really excellent reporting. The lack of information at the federal level impacts policy. I can only speculate that the White Supremacists/Natoinalists/Alt-Right were in the minds of the legislators that overlooked this gross error.
August 12, 2019
By Mallory Simon and Sara Sidner
Charlottesville - It's hard to forget (click here) the searing images of a neo-Nazi driving his car into counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, two years ago today. But if you look at the federal hate crimes report, it's like it never happened at all.
Heather Heyer's murder became a symbol of the hate in America that only seems to be spreading.
From the massacre in El Paso, Texas, by an apparent white supremacist hellbent on killing Mexicans just days ago, to the mass murder of Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue last year. Swastikas sprayed on homes and schools. People abused for the color of their skin or the language they speak. Americans told to "go back to your country." These symbols of everyday hate seem to be a regular occurrence.
But there can only be guesses at how bad things really are and if they are getting worse.
That's because the FBI's national statistics on hate crimes and annual report are deeply flawed. They are based on voluntary reporting from local agencies with differing definitions of hate crimes and can be riddled with errors....
August 12, 2019
By Mallory Simon and Sara Sidner
Charlottesville - It's hard to forget (click here) the searing images of a neo-Nazi driving his car into counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, two years ago today. But if you look at the federal hate crimes report, it's like it never happened at all.
Heather Heyer's murder became a symbol of the hate in America that only seems to be spreading.
From the massacre in El Paso, Texas, by an apparent white supremacist hellbent on killing Mexicans just days ago, to the mass murder of Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue last year. Swastikas sprayed on homes and schools. People abused for the color of their skin or the language they speak. Americans told to "go back to your country." These symbols of everyday hate seem to be a regular occurrence.
But there can only be guesses at how bad things really are and if they are getting worse.
That's because the FBI's national statistics on hate crimes and annual report are deeply flawed. They are based on voluntary reporting from local agencies with differing definitions of hate crimes and can be riddled with errors....
More room for wealthy Chinese Oligarchs and less room for the Northern Triad asylum seekers.
That is what it boils down to, more room for the wealthy immigrant. Eventually, the asylum seekers will have a different status. These people are needy. There is no other way of looking at it. The question is will such attempts to eliminate the needy immigrant be legal? This is a blatant rule that DISCIMINATES along the line of income.
When poor immigrants come to the USA it is completely wrong to push them out of health care insurance. Our health is their health. That is public policy and it is the only one that matters. I do not see any poor immigrant passing up health care provided through Medicaid. To demand differently violates public health policy and endangers other people.
I don't think this will hold up, especially, with those that come defined by asylum.
When poor immigrants come to the USA it is completely wrong to push them out of health care insurance. Our health is their health. That is public policy and it is the only one that matters. I do not see any poor immigrant passing up health care provided through Medicaid. To demand differently violates public health policy and endangers other people.
I don't think this will hold up, especially, with those that come defined by asylum.
I never see a picture where he was smiling and showing his teeth. His mouth is always closed.
This is just a guess, but, Ms. Maxwell was probably a witness against Jeffery Epstein. That may not change, in realizing there may be far more crimes committed than the press knows right now.
I don't doubt the victims will file suit against the estate and rightfully so, but, the prosecutors may still be putting together cases based in discovery of information during their raids.
Once again, my sincerest sympathies to the family.
By Ellen Cranley
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2005.
Epstein's onetime (click here) reported girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell has come back into focus as the woman accused of being his madam and of being instrumental in setting up a network of victims and other employees who found them.
Financier Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges after weeks of investigation revealed how the financier's network of employees facilitated his alleged sex trafficking and his close ties to high-profile figures in politics, business, and British royalty.
Prosecutors alleged in newly unsealed court documents that Epstein used an extensive network of employees and close associates to target and recruit underage girls for sexual relationships.
One of Epstein's alleged employees, the British-born socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, 57, has been the subject of allegations for years that she was Epstein's top accomplice, accused of recruiting victims and abusing them alongside the convicted sex offender....
I don't doubt the victims will file suit against the estate and rightfully so, but, the prosecutors may still be putting together cases based in discovery of information during their raids.
Once again, my sincerest sympathies to the family.
By Ellen CranleyJeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2005.
Epstein's onetime (click here) reported girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell has come back into focus as the woman accused of being his madam and of being instrumental in setting up a network of victims and other employees who found them.
Financier Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges after weeks of investigation revealed how the financier's network of employees facilitated his alleged sex trafficking and his close ties to high-profile figures in politics, business, and British royalty.
Prosecutors alleged in newly unsealed court documents that Epstein used an extensive network of employees and close associates to target and recruit underage girls for sexual relationships.
One of Epstein's alleged employees, the British-born socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, 57, has been the subject of allegations for years that she was Epstein's top accomplice, accused of recruiting victims and abusing them alongside the convicted sex offender....
The Rooster
"Okeydoke"
According to Bolton's plans with Kushner's blessing, Israel has started a war with Iran. I would expect the new USA Defense Secretary to rein that in.
Israel, no different than Russia, is an expansionist power whenever it gets a chance. Up to now, Israel has maintained it's expansionism within the borders of Palestine. It is no longer contained.
The problem with Israel being an expansionist power is best viewed through the Six Day War. Israel does not have great military capacity when it comes to conventional forces. It's Air Force is it's strength. Bulldozers were primarily used with Palestine, but, now outside it's borders, there is no conventional fighting force that can uphold any ground the bombing might take. In order to conduct a full scale war where Israel actually occupies and holds land, it would require the American military. With these bombings, Israel is really outside it's capacity to protect it's borders from retaliation.
July 31, 2019
By Jack Khoury
Israel (click here) has expanded the scope of its anti-Iranian attacks and struck targets in Iraq, the London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported Tuesday.
According to the report, which cites anonymous Western diplomats, Israel struck Iranian warehouses storing arms and missiles at Camp Ashraf, north-east of Baghdad, twice in the past month.
On July 19, the base was struck by an Israeli F-35 fighter jet, the sources added. The base was allegedly attacked again on Sunday....
By attacking Camp Ashraf, it is confronting not just Iran, but, Iraq and the Shi'ites. The Iraqi Shia ran a successful assault against Daesh. I would not underestimate them. I don't really see the Kurds volunteering as an American force so much as backing an Iraqi force. Let's face it, the Americans have assaulted the Kurds because of Turkey and allowed Turkey to do the same.
Any spark of war that starts this inferno will be sorry. Camp Ashraf is an interesting choice by Israel. It has a very turbulent recent history. By recent, I mean the past few decades. The Middle East by nature has a very extensive history.
Isreal is on a fool's errand. Diplomacy would have gotten it further and would have Oman as an ally to any talks. That 'itch' of expansionism will not lead to settlements in Iraq or anywhere else. The IDF needs to be a good neighbor. There was a reason why Russia hemmed Israel in from Syria. I strongly suggest Israel EXPAND it's diplomatic corp as soon as possible.
This overview tells the story of Camp Ashraf (click here) from its outset in 1986 until September 2013, when the last residents were forced to relocate to Camp Liberty.
Since the Iraqi government took control of the camps, 116 MEK (PMOI) members have been murdered and more than 1,300 injured.
The MEK (PMOI) members are “protected persons” under the Fourth Geneva Convention. They have been officially recognized as asylum seekers and people of concern by the UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC), which also publicly declared they are protected persons be international law.
The MEK (PMOI) members are undergoing Refugee Status Determination (RSD). Many have already been recognized while others have yet to finish the process.
In 2004, the US government signed individual agreements with each MEK (PMOI) resident to protect them until their final disposition. The US government has a legal and moral obligation to ensure the MEK (PMOI) residents remain safe. But tragically it has failed to do so.
Despite multiple attacks on the MEK (PMOI) residents by Iraqi forces, there has yet to be a single impartial investigation of the killings and they remain highly vulnerable to additional attacks....
"Good Night, Moon"
11.7 day old moon
89.6 percent lit
August 9, 2019
By Passant Rabie
Young minds (click here) are being called on to contribute to humanity's future space exploration, as NASA calls for proposals from students for the agency's upcoming mission to the moon.
The Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concept - Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition is now open and accepting applications from undergraduate and graduate students to develop innovative concepts for NASA's Artemis program, which aims to land humans on the moon in 2024, as well as the future exploration of Mars.
"This year's RASC-AL competition directly addresses the agency's goals for the Artemis program: returning humans to the moon with the intent to prove concepts for sustainably exploring Mars," Douglas Craig, manager of strategic analysis for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate's Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) division at NASA headquarters in Washington, said in a statement.
The competition spans five themes for aerospace design concepts, including designing a lunar rover to explore the moon's south pole, developing a Mars mission simulation and planning a short crewed mission to the Red Planet's surface....
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