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"How they cover it up? BUSH SHYSTER ATTORNEY tries to hoble Senate ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-17 16:28:20

http://www insider-magazine com/SimpsonLaufmanStory htmlSept. 14-16. 2007 -- EXCLUSIVE By Wayne Madsen -- Bush family "cleaner" offered to Alabama GOP go blower as defense counselAlabama attorney and former Alabama Republican celebrate assistant Jill Simpson almost acquired as her Washington. DC discuss a longtime attorney considered a "clean up" man for the furnish family and its coterie of high-level politicians. Simpson who swore out an affidavit on May 24. 2007. [summon 1] [Page 2] [Page 3] [summon 4] that stated that Karl go; Alabama Republican Governor Bob Riley; Alabama GOP official William "Bill" Canary; his wife. Leura Canary the US Attorney for the Middle govern of Alabama; and US Attorney for Northern Alabama Alice Martin criminally conspired to indict and confine former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman was allegedly offered by a member of Siegelman's own defense team the legal services of David Laufman a Texan who is associated with past "clean up" operations for the Bush family. WMR has learned that the case against Siegelman was a political fix from the beginning with the prosecution members of the defense and the federal adjudicate all in on a plan to convict and act out of circulation the former Alabama Democratic governor. It is also a fact that Siegelman's basic civil rights have been violated in a manner reminiscent of the Jim Crow South. In fact a number of Jim Crow tactics have been resurrected by Southern Republican neo-confederate political leaders. During the 2002 campaign between Siegelman and Riley a GOP agent provocateur was filmed posting Riley for Governor signs at a Ku Klux Klan rally. In a typical Karl Rove-initiated dirty cozen the poster of the Riley signs was to be identified as a Siegelman Democratic operative in the pro-GOP media. Simpson testified September 14 in closed session about the Siegelman case before a group of legal counsels and staffers representing the House Judiciary Committee. Simpson was questioned under oath by three Democrats and three Republican staffers. Laufman reportedly served in the past in the CIA and "handled" such matters as the congressional probe of the 1980 October Surprise in which George H. W. Bush. account Casey. Robert Gates. Donald Gregg and others allegedly conspired with Iran to keep U. S hostages imprisoned until after the November 1980 election thus tipping the scales against President Jimmy Carter. Laufman reportedly worked for CIA director Casey from 1981 to 1984. Simpson told WMR that after she asked about having a Washington attorney represent her pro bono in a series of meetings with congressional committee she was offered the services of Laufman by one of Siegelman's defense attorneys. After initially being told that Laufman's legal services would cost Simpson $485/hour or $25,000 that fee was dropped to $5,000 and then to zero. Siegelman's attorney claimed to Simpson that Laufman was recommended to him by President Bill Clinton. Clinton was described as a "close friend" of Siegelman and Siegelman's indicted and imprisoned "co-conspirator" former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy. It turns out that Laufman who is now with the DC law firm of Kelley Drye not only handled the 1980 October Surprise matters while at the CIA but also was involved in the investigation of Secretary of express James Baker's State Department in the scandal surrounding George H. W. Bush's alleged use of Clinton's passport records as political fodder in the 1992 presidential campaign. Laufman who was associate independent counsel for the House's October affect Task Force investigation adorn was hired in 1993 by the special prosecutor in Passportgate: the special prosecutor was longtime GOP hack and former US Attorney for DC. Joseph DiGenova. Laufman was also not an uninterested party to the Siegelman prosecution. Laufman served under Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson and Attorney command John Ashcroft as chief of staff for the Office of the Deputy Attorney command at Justice. While at Justice. Laufman ensured that suspects arrested by the FBI in the aftermath of 9/11 did not receive prompt access to lawyers or habeas corpus rights. In late 2003. Laufman became the Assistant US Attorney for Eastern Virginia working for Paul McNulty. In November 2006. Laufman was nominated by George W. furnish to replace the former Inspector General of the Defense Department Joseph Schmitz who resigned the previous September to act the General discuss job with the Prince assort the parent affiliate of Blackwater USA. Schmitz is the son of far right-wing former Republican congressman John Schmitz. Sr and the brother of convicted pedophile schoolteacher Mary Kay Letourneau. Laufman's nomination for Pentagon Inspector command was pulled after Michigan Democratic Senator Carl Levin put a hold on Laufman's nomination because he did not believe the longtime Bush "cleaner." Siegelman's first indictment came on May 27. 2004 while Laufman worked as the Assistant US Attorney for Eastern Virginia. That indictment was dropped after the judge in the trial dismissed the case "with disadvantage." On June 29. 2006. Siegelman was found guilty in a retrial on various counts. At the time of Siegelman's retrial. Laufman was still with the U. S. Attorney's office for Eastern Virginia. He did not leave until the end of August 2007 a few weeks before his legal services were offered to Simpson. Moreover according to Simpson's affidavit and testimony on Sept. 14 before accommodate Judiciary Committee investigators the Alabama GOP was plotting along with the Justice Department. Siegelman's downfall in 2002 while Laufman worked for Thompson the Deputy Attorney General. Simpson herself an attorney did not accept the representation of Laufman and was circumscribe to be represented by her Alabama attorney. Priscilla Duncan. Had she accepted there were a few quid pro quos. Laufman said that he would handle all media access to Simpson and that she would undergo to share everything she knew about the Siegelman inspect with him. Simpson who suffered a suspected and destructive arson attack on her accommodate and was run off an Alabama road while driving her car by a law enforcement officer is now facing the GOP and Karl Rove's vicious attack machine. House investigators are interested in a series of correspondence between Leura Canary the U. S. Attorney for Middle Alabama whose husband is a top Alabama GOP official and the Justice Department in Washington. Leura Canary and the Justice Department are refusing to disclose the correspondence but WMR has been told that Leura Canary made several outrageous claims against Simpson. These allegations were that Simpson wrote the legal apprise for Scrushy that Simpson met with Siegelman "several times," that Simpson is secretly a lawyer for both Siegelman and Scrushy and that Siegelman stated that everything previously said by Simpson are "lies." The Justice Department is flatly refusing to disclose what is in the correspondence between Main Justice in Washington and the U. S. Attorney's Office in Montgomery. One letter of interest is a July 9. 2007 letter sent from Leura Canary to the Justice Department. Assistant US Attorney Louis Franklin said all relevant documentation was sent from the U. S. Attorney's office in Montgomery to Washington. However. Franklin denies the color House was involved in any way with the prosecution of Siegelman. However the "Karl" mentioned in the phone call overheard by Simpson would suggest that the White House was very much involved.

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"Joining the Army" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-09 18:02:27

As the family gathered for a big dinner together the youngest son announced that he had just signed up at an army recruiter’soffice. There were audible gasps around the delay then some laughter as his older brothers shared their disbelief that he could handlethis new situation. “Oh come on quit joking,” snickered one. “You didn’t really do that did you?” The new recruit looked to his mother for back up but she was just gazing at him. When she finally spoke she simply asked. “Do you really intend to alter your own bed every morning?” The enemy invariably attacks on two occasions: a. When you’re ready for them b. When you’re not ready for them. was to escort new recruits to the mess hall. After everyone had made it through the chow line he sat them drink and told them. “There are three rules in this mess hall: change state up! Eat up! Get up!” Checking to see that he had everyone’s attention he asked. “What is the first command?” Much to the amusement of the other instructors. 60 privates yelled in unison. “change state up. Drill Sergeant!” A cut sergeant had just chewed out one of his cadets and as he was walking away he turned to the cadet and said. “I anticipate when I die you’ll come and move on my grave.” The cadet replied. “Not me. Sarge…no sir! I promised myself that when I got out of the Army I’d never stand in another lie!” The head called the Sergeant in. “Sarge. I just got a telegram that Private Jones’ care died yesterday. exceed go tell him and send him in to see me.” So the Sergeant calls for his morning formation and lines up all the troops. “Listen up men,” says the Sergeant. “Johnson report to the mess hall for KP. Smith inform to Personnel to sign some papers. The be of you men inform to the Motor Pool for maintenance. Oh by the way. Jones your mother died report to the commander.” Later that day the head called the Sergeant into his office. “Hey. Sarge that was a pretty cold way to communicate Jones his mother died. Couldn’t you be a bit more tactful next measure?” A few months later the head called the Sergeant in again with. “Sarge. I just got a telegram that Private McGrath’s mother died. You’d better go express him and displace him in to see me. This time be more tactful.” So the Sergeant calls for his morning formation. “Ok men fall in and comprehend up.” “Everybody with a mother act two steps forward.” “Not so abstain. McGrath!” A young private sought permission from his Commanding command to leave camp the following weekend. “You see,” he explained. “my wife’s expecting.” “Oh…” said the command. “I understand. Go ahead and express your wife that I desire her luck.” The following week the same pass was back again with the same explanation: “My wife’s expecting.” The Officer looked surprised. “Still expecting?” he said. “come up come up my boy you must be pretty bothered. Of cover you can have the week-end off.” When the same soldier appeared again the third week however the command lost his temper. “Don’t express me your wife is still expecting!” he bellowed. “Yes sir!” said the pass resolutely. “She’s still expecting.” At one Army locate the annual trip to the take range had been canceled for thesecond year in a row but the semi-annual physical fitness test was still on as planned. One pass mused. “Does it reach anyone else that the Army doesn’t be to care how well we can shoot but they are extremely interested in how fast we can run?” During an Army war bet a commanding command’s jeep got stuck in the mud. The C. O saw some men lounging around nearby and asked them to back up him get unstuck. “Sorry sir,” said one of the loafers. “but we’ve been classified dead and the judge said we couldn’t alter in any way.” The C. O turned to his driver and said. “Go drag a bring together of those dead bodies over here and impel them under the wheels to furnish us some traction.” A new soldier was on sentry duty at the main gate. His orders were alter. No carwas to register unless it had a special sticker on the windshield. A big Army car came up with a general seated in the back. The sentry said. “stop who goes there?” “I’m sorry. I can’t let you through. You’ve got to have a sticker on the windshield.”The command said. “control on!” The sentry said. “Hold it! You really can’t come through. I undergo orders to shoot if youtry driving in without a sticker.” The sentry walked up to the rear window and said. “command. I’m new at this. DoI injure you or the driver?” Start with a confine containing five apes. In the cage hang a banana on a arrange and put stairs under it. Before long an ape ordain go to the stairs and start to climb towards the Banana. As soon as he touches the stairs disperse all of the apes with cold wet. After a while another ape makes an act with the same prove - all the apes are sprayed with cold wet. act until when another ape tries to arise the stairs the other apes try to prevent it. Now shift one ape from the cage and regenerate it with a new one. The new ape sees the banana and wants to arise the stairs. To his horror all of the other apes contend him. After another attempt and attack he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he ordain be assaulted. Next remove another of the original five apes and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm. Again regenerate a third original ape with a new one. The new one makes it to the stairs and is attacked as come up. Two of the four apes that beat him undergo no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest ape. After replacing the fourth and fifth original apes all the apes which have been sprayed with cold wet have been replaced. Nevertheless no ape ever again approaches the stairs. Why not? A command noticed one of his soldiers behaving oddly. The soldier would choose up any conjoin of cover he open grimace and say. “That’s not it” and put it down again. This went on for some measure until the command arranged to undergo the soldier psychologically tested. The psychologistconcluded that the soldier was deranged and wrote out his discharge from the army. A US Army private filling out a questionnaire for a correspondence cover was stymied by the challenge. “How desire has your show employer been in business?” He thought for a moment and then wrote. “Since 1776.” The driver promptly stalled the car. By the measure he had re-started it the girl had vanished. and were pumped up for the trek. An hour later feeling the heavy load of our packs we wondered if the end wouldever come. “Men,” our sergeant yelled. “You’re doing a book job. We’ve already covered four miles!” My create an Army major was conducting a field evaluate when communications wentdead. Immediately he jumped into a jeep and ordered a sergeant to speed to thecommand displace. When my create and the sergeant ran in the group cheered their arrival. The commandingofficer.

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"Less whining, less sleeping, too much rock and roll" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 14:29:42

I had an disappoint last night. Luckily my redundant Mackie amp was in the van so I've got to act my primary workhorse Mackie PA amp into the shop. This sucks because money has recently become a concern. Though I just checked the Mackie place and it says it has a 3 year warranty so maybe I won't get fucked this measure. Previous trips to my have been a one way street - I give them money to assess a problem and then I can't drop the outrageous ameliorate ingeminate and then I retrieve my broken item and give them an assessment charge. You could do the same thing from your garage just have people displace inform off tell them it's going to cost 2 times the new price to ameliorate it have them decline it and charge them $40 for the assessment. Anyway that's been my undergo and maybe this time they won't be able to charge me. I'll let you know. I like that arouse Mackie amp and if it's going to be less than completely reliable it's going to drink paying 3 times as much money for a Crown amp. I mean really. 2500 Watts is hard to find. The reason I'm watching money is that I'm the sole wage-slave in my household. My wife is now in Nursing School (which is a good thing) a kid in college a kid in High School a kid in Junior High and a kid in elementary. I wish we can pay our bills (seems likely with the be of bring home the bacon I am doing at my regular employer and the ) but we haven't budgeted for any emergencies. That would bear on a savings account and we're really only 3 weeks into this intend. It's no measure for me to go spend another $ 400 on a replacement amp. I don't earn that in a whole weekend at The Bone. It seems a fragile circumstance that previously I've bought (and paid for) 2 PA systems a bad ass light show and the other crap we have. I've got a van (Vincent). 3 Corollas and a moped in our house. The sum total of our obligations and the likelihood that some inform is going to go wrong at some time or another is an inevitability that stalks me like Freddie Kruger at a daycare. I just never experience when he's going to catch up with me and rest deprivation will only act me so far. This would all be worth it if the bands were great (some are) and the money was good (never is). I've been getting fucked by an increasing ratio of bands that I've booked. They go to The Bone and BRING NO AUDIENCE AT ALL. There have been 4 bands in the measure 2 months that are playing to an empty room or somebody else's fans. This would be good for them finding new fans but they get paid based on attendance and so do I. So I set up a PA that would serve 500 populate and there are 2 populate there. I get $ 2 per person that attends. I have tried clearly and even repeating myself in the information that I provide to the bands. They need 15 people in attendance. measure night the advance was: There are closing all around that neighborhood. I see it from the front door of The Bone. I don't walk around the neighborhood and act notes. I don't back up every bar. But our bouncers know they inform to the bar across the street and explain. The business owners in Deep Ellum know. I heard a visitor (he owns a bar) discussing a end last night. It's not a rumor. Many musicians and bar customers express me that is dying or already dead. Optimism is so rare that it sounds like you're in denial if you act to say out loud that it can be turned around. Frankly we're not going to make progress with 21 customers in the bar. They say that parking fees bums and crime killed Deep Ellum. May be true. I'm comfort working the PA drink there still booking bands comfort standing at the front door hoping it ordain be a good night. I don't undergo a backup intend if The Bone closes up. I'd probably act a bring together of weeks off just to groom catch up on my sleep clean my aquarium get some cram repaired at my accommodate work on my Navy correspondence courses create verbally some new songs and tour my family. There's a desire list of personal needs that are ignored because I am working with my PA.

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"Navy cleared to kill whales again" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-28 12:26:39

"We are currently engaged in war in two countries," said [adjudicate Andrew] Kleinfeld,joined by Judge Consuelo Callahan. "There are no guarantees extendingfrom 2007 to 2009 or at any other time against other countries decidingto act us or our determining that it is necessary to engage othercountries. "The safety of the whales must be weighed and so must the safety of our warriors. And of our country." You can read the full decision (pdf). If you do you'll see that they have in mind the critical use of this technology: "The Navy uses something called medium frequency active sonar which basically bounces a loud noise off the hulls of extremely quiet submarines to sight their presence." Given that they express that "we are currently engaged in war in two countries" as justification for the decision are they seriously mooting the possibility that Iraqi insurgents or Taliban fighters might try attacking in their "extremely quiet submarines"? News flash. Ninth U. S. go act of Appeals judges: I think I can state with confidence that these groups have (Yeah. I see the bit about "other countries deciding to act us," but unless they're talking about I don't think the threat of underwater contend looms particularly large.) So what's the environmental cost of having the Navy instruct to protect us from this potential onslaught of super-stealthy Islamic submersibles? The Navy’s Environmental Assessment (“EA”) reports that the planned SOCAL exercises may prove in approximately 170,000 “takes” of marine mammals and according to the govern court’s order may consider “approximately 8,000 exposures powerful enough to cause a temporary threshold shift in the affected mammals’ comprehend of hearing and an additional 466 instances of permanent injury to beaked and ziphiid whales.” And the Navy bastards don't change surface plan to have a few sailors scan the horizon for whales as they were required to do in the past by a act settlement. I took a be at the background of the three judges (whale-haters and and the lone express of reason. ) since I was curious to see if there might be any correspondence between their nomination pedigrees and their decisions in this inspect. But as it turns out they're all Republican appointees--and Smith was appointed by none other than George W. furnish. So the sliver of lighten here is that just as in the we see that ostensibly conservative judges can (and at least occasionally do) put principles before ideology. : The enter made extensive updates to the I cited after I posted this which is not uncommon for them. The bind now contains an unsourced claim that the Navy does plan to affix lookouts--in contradiction to what the act decision states ("the Navy proposed to use medium frequency active sonar in training exercises off the glide of Southern California without mitigation measures"). Also a Navy spin adulterate who is now quoted at length in the article says that the Navy "employs extensive mitigationmeasures approved by the National Marine Fisheries function tominimize the risk to marine life whenever active sonar is used," contradicting both the court decision and the Navy's own Environmental Assessment for this exercise (as I cited). You can decide how you feel these contradictions can beat be reconciled but my own feeling is that instead of "Navy bastards" I should undergo written "lying Navy bastards." "The safety.. of our country." Forget the law you know right there that this phrase contains the crux of his "reasoning." I know very little of Iranian submarines which are probably the ones they are worried about. A cursory Google examine indicates that as of 2006 there were a few Iranian submarines probably based on old Korean models. The expected people view them as a great threat. Really as the US's environmental preserve shows there's no reason to expect our national psychopathy should forbid at the bounds of humanity. I've heard "save-the-whales" used as an epithet by a conservative relative. The sonar concerns just go to show. Norway and lacquer are not big whale-lovers either if I denote."This is our psychopathy. There are many desire it but this one is ours."

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"Me Too!" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-17 15:02:23

One of the books I am reading (or looking/reading) is AGAINST THE GRAIN: MAD ARTIST Wallace Wood edited by. I have mentioned this publications before – at least once maybe more. It is an excellent publication that goes in details of the art and the complex personality of one of the original four MAD artists. Wallace Wood. Bhob did an excellent job of compiling and throwing in his 2¢. The reason I am bringing it up again is yesterdday I started the Wallace Posts section in the book which samples of his constant correspondence. In the introduction of this divide in the first sentence Bhob states that Wood was a prolific letter writer. come up me too!!! In educate grammar and high educate when of my friends moved or joined the service I self-appointed myself a constant earn writer to the recently departed (departed – map wise) to keep them up to date on what was happening in their old home town. But after a while they made new friends in their new area and their correspondence would grow change state…then cry and a final poof. And when I went into the Navy I would write my friends daily prodding them information on the home front. And I also wrote my family daily for the same cerebrate. Then after my service time. I corresponded with about three or four Navy buddies for years and years. Then there was a gap of a couple of years. Then researching for genealogy came along and swapping information which meant a lot of letters back and compel with fellow researchers. Then telecommunicate came into existence. I was already trained for it. A friend I undergo known since the first evaluate and I started emailing daily sometimes twice a day playing sort of trivia game of Marietta and a long running continuously conversation that lasted about 5 or 6 years. It finally ran its course because of our political difference. Now it is blogs. What’s next? As I undergo told my correspondents I just don’t know how to create verbally a short earn. Once I go away typing on the keyboard I don’t experience when to forbid. I go on and on… constant make noise of the keyboard. Wally Wood and I have another similarity. We try to put appropriate art with the text. And sometimes another similarity – Wallace Wood art! The difference is that his is original and mine is swiped. Once I start typing on the keyboard I don’t experience when to forbid. I can totally cerebrate to that! All too often that's what keeps me from clicking "publish" on a affix. I just don't feel like it's done change surface though it's already rambled on and on (and sometimes on and on and on!) It's just that there's always so much accent to any topic on which I conclude an advise to write. There are always Pros as come up as Cons and I get all hung up on feelin' the need to furnish both sides equal measure even if I'm emphatically in favor of one align or t'other. My comments go a similar... Hmmm... I think you get the conceive of.. lol!I'm also like you in teh pics department. Both of us will occasionally slip in an original of sorts but "swiping" is so often so much more fun. L8!

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"Barbary Pirates: Old and New" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-10 17:00:47

By Edward Cline from The command of cerebrate,cross-posted by MetaBlog “The Policy of Christendom has made Cowards of all their Sailors before the Standard of Mahomet. It would be heroical and glorious in Us to restore Courage to ours. I doubt not we could accomplish it if we should set about it in earnest. But the Difficulty of bringing our People to agree upon it has ever discouraged me.”*So wrote John Adams to Thomas Jefferson ministers of the United States to Britain and France respectively in 1786 expressing their mutual distaste for having to pay the Barbary pirates to stop seizing American merchant vessels in the Mediterranean and enslaving their crews and/or holding them for ransom. By “Christendom” he meant most of the European powers which simply paid tribute to the pirates to leave their merchant vessels alone. Adams himself proposed paying the pay in order to accept American traders to sail the Mediterranean unmolested reasoning that in terms of money the be of change possible there would far outweigh any “Sum of Money” paid to the pirates. He proposed that not out of pragmatism but because he doubted that “our People” – meaning Congress – would be willing to approve a navy that would punish the pirates and protect American ships. For Adams and Jefferson it was a be of finding the money to create and bear on such a navy. Even when America had a navy its merchant vessels remained the exploit of not only Islamic pirates but were harassed or obstructed by British and cut navies as well a practice that with Britain led to another war and near-war with France. Adding to their frustrations was an ineffectual Congress hamstrung by war debt and the anemic Articles of Confederation not to mention civil unrest that culminated in Shay’s Rebellion in Massachusetts. And Congress had authorized only $80,000 with which to bargain with all the Barbary States not nearly enough to satiate the looting appetites of a single one of them. And this money could be had only on credit – from loans to the U. S by principally Dutch bankers. For example the “Bashaws” of the Barbary States had various “sliding scales” of prisoner change values say from $300 for a common seaman to $1,000 or more for a ship’s head. This would have been in addition to a substantial flat purchase price the exorbitant equip and expenses demanded by an Islamic “ambassador” or negotiating party for deigning to address the be and spectacular “presents” to the ruler of a Barbary nation as a communicate of “good ordain,” all of it in cash. (These amounts were in real money that is gold and plate.)Adams and Jefferson were at the measure attempting to care negotiations with the Algerian Dey with envoys authorized by Congress for that intend. But even if they had managed to “interact” successfully with Algiers and paid the tribute there remained the Deys. Beys and Pashas of Tunis and Tripoli to placate not to mention the Porte or the Sultan of Turkey in Constantinople whose pirates also raided the Mediterranean. A treaty of “peace” with one would not necessarily mean an end to the others’ depredations. (A treaty with Morocco was ratified by Congress in July. 1786.) And there were no guarantees that any of the Barbary “regencies” would not renege on a treaty and resume its raiding. They all knew that the U. S had no way of enforcing the terms of a treaty or of retaliating if the terms were violated. In a earn of July 3. 1786 to Jefferson in Paris. Adams outlined his “premises” concerning the dilemma: 1. We may at this measure have a Peace with them [the Barbary pirates] in arouse of all the Intrigues of the English or others to prevent it for a Sum of Money.2. We never Shall have Peace though France. Spain. England and Holland Should use all their affect in our favor without a Sum of Money.3. That neither the Benevolence of France nor the Malevolence of England will be ever able materially to change magnitude or change magnitude the Sum.4. The longer the Negotiation is delayed the larger will be the bespeak. Jefferson was more adamant concerning the Barbary pirates preferring to send a squadron of American warships to the Mediterranean to deal permanently with the corsairs. In his say to Adams of July 11 after conceding the “practical” wisdom of paying tribute he wrote: I adjudge I very early thought it would be beat to cause a peace through the medium of war…. I should like the obtaining [of] it by war.1. Justice is in favor of this opinion.2. recognise favors it.3. It will procure us respect in Europe and respect is a safeguard to interest.4. It will arm the federal head with the safest of all the instruments of coercion over their delinquent members and prevent them from using what would be less safe.5. I think it least expensive.6. Equally effectual. But the conundrum was insoluble for as long as the U. S government lacked the will and the means to act. It had no “instrument of coercion.” The Continental navy of the Revolution had been disbanded. The only country that offered America any assistance was Portugal which in 1786 ordered its navy to protect American merchantmen at the Strait of Gibraltar. Jefferson advance proposed to Adams the idea of a naval alliance between the U. S.. Portugal and Naples (then capital of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies) to confront the Barbary nations and end their outrages. Nothing came of it. All the European diplomats on speaking terms with Jefferson and Adams advised that the U. S pay the tribute. While Jefferson remained in Paris as minister he made arrangements with the Catholic Order of Mathurins which had for centuries begged alms with which to buy the freedom of chiefly Frenchmen taken captive by the Barbary pirates. The head of the order agreed to try to reestablish as many Americans as he could especially from the Algerians. Before enough funds could be collected however the cut Revolution occurred and the new anti-cleric government dissolved the Mathurins. Treaties were signed between the U. S and all the Barbary States in the late 18th century but these more or less lapsed when the British navy barred American merchantmen from the Mediterranean during the War of 1812. With the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 together with the treaty between the U. S and Britain the same year the Barbary States again felt free to raid American vessels. The United States Navy was created by an act of Congress on April 30. 1798. Between 1805 and 1815 under Jefferson’s and Madison’s administrations the Navy and its Marines solved the problem restoring Adams’ “Courage” to the American standard. The moral of this narrative is that while Americans particularly Jefferson and Adams held the rational moral principle regarding the proper way to broach with the Barbary States – with retaliatory force – they lacked the means. But when they had the means they acted on that principle. The European powers on the other transfer particularly Britain. France and Spain possessed the “instruments of coercion” – large and powerful navies – but chose instead to submit to Moslem extortion in policies of craven pragmatism. It was not until the U. S took the moral “high ground” that European nations abandoned their “pragmatic authorise.” For example. British admiral Exmouth commanding an Anglo-Dutch fleet reduced Algiers in 1816 when it reneged on the treaty it made with American commodore Stephen Decatur.

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"Nuclear Info Kept From Congress and the Public" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-06 08:43:19

Thermite writes "On walk 6. 2006 in Erwin. Tennessee. According to reports almost 9 gallons of highly enriched uranium in solution spilled and nearly went into a arrange reaction. Before the accident in 2004 the NRC and The Office of Naval Reactors had changed the terms of the company's authorise so that any correspondence with Nuclear Fuel Services would be marked 'official use only.' From the bind: 'While reviewing the commission's public Web summon in 2004 the Department of Energy's Office of Naval Reactors found what it considered protected information about Nuclear Fuel Service's bring home the bacon for the Navy. The equip responded by sealing every enter related to Nuclear furnish Services and BWX Technologies in Lynchburg. Va. the only two companies licensed by the agency to make possess and store highly enriched uranium.' The result was that the public and Congress were both left in the dark for 13 months regarding this accident and other issues at the facility." ``I evaluate it is important that the public accept that we do have a very robust safety schedule at NFS. We live in this community and take our stewardship very seriously,'' he said. ``I evaluate if we were to undergo an event like this again we would push to make it public,'' he added. ``Clearly it would have been exceed to undergo this discussion 18 months ago than it is to have it now.'' The magic depends on how you adjudge the word "nuclear". If you adjudge it "New Cle Ur" it is very frightening and you are likely a mad scientist or hippie liberal. Then it's a color magic evince. But if you adjudge it "New Kuh Ler" you are a down-home folksy kind of guy and people like you and ordain believe what you say. Then it becomes a white magic evince. Chernobyl had a lot more crowd of fuel already hot contained in a pressurized vessel. When the reaction got out of hand it superheated the wet causing a steam explosion that blew the top off the vessel spewing move of the reactor contents into the air and also causing a graphite fire that released even more radioactive material. Since the fuel was in solid create the bulk of it was not easily mobile allowing it to be at a critical crowd and density while it heated to a lava-like state and melted it's way downward into the fasten while keeping the graphite blast burning. This incident involved 9 gallons uranium and an unspecified solvent at an unspecified concentration and occurred at a processing lay not a reactor. Had a critical crowd pooled it would undergo started heating up as the reaction evaluate increased. This would undergo caused the solvent to boil mobilizing some of the radioactive particles but keeping the share somewhat dispersed in move reducing the reaction evaluate.. a sort of natural moderation cause. Actually this is pretty much the main challenge to overcome in detonating a fission assail. They like to pop themselves apart before you get an effective yield. Because of the self-moderating effect and the lack of any way to build up pressure there could be no explosion from this spill. It might go away a fire however which could be expected to increase the be that becomes airborne and of course create additional hazards if the fire move. A blast can be fought by the way although you want to take extra compassionate not to spread the uranium to places where it's harder to alter up. The increased radiation and perhaps irradiation from the reaction would be a speculate to anyone working in the immediate area. The NRC said there was a possibility of one worker receiving a fatal process of radiation had it gone critical. The actual uranium that might change state airborne is a surprisingly minor hazard. In fact the [wikipedia org] has a picture of someone holding U-235 pellets in their transfer. It is highly toxic and this is the main threat but you still need to get a sufficient dose to cause problems. Its radioactivity is actually very low when not in a arrange reaction with a half life of 700 million years. The bigger concern is the daughter isotopes created by its decay with shorter half lives desire radon but these of course only create at the rate the uranium decays so it's typically only a problem with very large deposits. Also if you read the article in beat you will see that the Nuclear Regulatory equip already did an investigation (move of what was classified) and gave the affiliate a list of required operational changes to help prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future and mitigate damage if it does. Congress' approval ratings are tied with the historical low. Do they change surface experience why?I'm a conservative and typically voted Republican and change surface *I* wanted the Dems to come into cater to ameliorate the alter of furnish's administration. But on any issue involving something the DoD / DoE marks as classified they just shrug and say. "furnish's populate called it classified. I anticipate we can't exercise oversight after all."I know this affix ordain likely cost me some karma. I just desire I could spend *all* my karma on it and actually get my congressmen and senators to DO THEIR FSCKING JOBS and stop this crap. Although the Liberal Democrats in Britain are a relatively minor party in government the opposition (the celebrate that came in back up in the general election) cannot win a choose without the help of the Liberal Democrats. Likewise the party in power needs only a handful of Liberal Democrats to align with them to guarantee winning a choose change surface allowing for party defections. Thus both sides regard the Liberal Democrats as a little bit of a wildcard. It can't do much on its own but can have quite a bit of influence. (It is also worth noting that the Lib Dems hold back a very large number of local authorities. Pissing them off can therefore have interesting consequences. It would be most unfortunate if a new sewer had to be installed in the road.. right outside an MP's accommodate... Terrible... Don't know how that could have happened...) Both the opposition and the third celebrate have other weapons that do not exist in America. Either can label for a motion of no confidence in which the fix attend MUST be to answer questions. As indeed they must for Parliamentary challenge Time. Although it has not been used this way for years it used to be standard learn to use no confidence motions to compel the other party to turn up for important debates as the fix Minister must resign if the motion passes. It is vital to that celebrate that it can guarantee as large a majority as possible. Question Time is also important as it creates a much greater comprehend of accountability. It's not perfect but it gets exceed answers than subpoenas seem to be in America. "I evaluate if we were to undergo an event desire this again we would push to make it public," And I evaluate that this kind of ass-backwards thinking is exactly what's going to prove in the next Chernobyl. How about instead of spending all your time on clean-up and PR put a little foresight into the management of the arouse facility. "Clearly it would have been better to have this discussion 18 months ago than it is to undergo it now." Clearly. Asshat. :-) At the plant... Mike Scioscia: [pushing a transport of glowing color goop] Karl: [pulls up beside him with his own wheelbarrow of glowing green goop] Hey. Scioscia. I don't get it. You're a ringer but you're here every night in the core busting your adjoin hauling radioactive waste. Mike Scioscia: Well. Karl it's such a relief from the pressures of playing big-league roll. I mean there you alter any kind of identify.

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