Minnesota Nuke Plant Admits To 400,000 Gallon Leak Of Radioactive Water
March 17th, 2023
Via: ZeroHedge:
Minnesotans are wondering why state regulators waited months to inform the public that hundreds of thousands of gallons of radioactive water leaked from Xcel Energy’s Monticello nuclear power plant.
Minnesota Department of Health released a statement Thursday about Xcel’s efforts to clean up 400,000 gallons of the water containing tritium that leaked from a water pipe running between two buildings at its plant.
Xcel first reported the leak to the Minnesota Duty Officer and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in November, but the spill was only made public this week.
“The leak was stopped and the company is monitoring the groundwater plume through two dozen wells. An estimated 20% of the tritium has been recovered through extraction wells, and contaminated water continues to be pumped from the groundwater,” the health department wrote.
Local officials said the leak “poses no health and safety risk to the local community or environment” and has not reached the Mississippi River or surrounding aquifers.
CDC Bought Phone Data to Monitor Americans’ Compliance With Lockdowns, Contracts Show
March 17th, 2023Via: Epoch Times:
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) purchased data from tracking companies to monitor compliance with lockdowns, according to contracts with the firms.
The CDC paid one firm $420,000 and another $208,000. That bought access to location data from at least 55 million cellphone users.
The contracts, approved under emergency review due to the COVID-19 pandemic, were aimed at providing the CDC “with the necessary data to continue critical emergency response functions related to evaluating the impact of visits to key points of interest, stay at home orders, closures, re-openings and other public heath communications related to mask mandate, and other merging research areas on community transmission of SARS-CoV-2,” the contracts, obtained by The Epoch Times, state.
The CDC said it would be using the tracking data to “assess home-by-hour behaviors (i.e. curfew analysis) by exploring the percentage of mobile devices at home during specific period of time.” The data could also be integrated with other information “to provide a comprehensive picture of movement/travel of persons during the COVID-19 pandemic to better understand mandatory stay-at-home orders, business closure, school re-openings, and other non-pharmaceutical interventions in states and cities.”
France: Rioters Outside Macron’s House After Forcing Through Retirement Age Increase Without Parliament Vote
March 17th, 2023Via: Daily Mail:
Rioters threatened the home of French president Emmanuel Macron after he bypassed parliament to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.
Thousands took to the streets across France last night to express their fury at the move, setting fires to property and fighting the police.
The demonstrations in Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Nantes were triggered by Macron’s government using a controversial constitutional mechanism to crash a bill through the National Assembly.
The Senate adopted the bill on Thursday morning, but misgivings in the ruling party and reluctance by Right-wing opposition MPs to side with Macron meant the government risked losing a vote in the lower house. It instead chose to use article 49.3 of the constitution.
But the government now faces motions of no confidence as opposition politicians say France is on the edge of a ‘democratic breakdown’.
ICC Judges Issue Arrest Warrant for Putin Over War Crimes in Ukraine
March 17th, 2023Putin: Add it to the list.
Via: Reuters:
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on Friday against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of being responsible for war crimes committed in Ukraine.
Moscow has repeatedly denied accusations that its forces have committed atrocities during its one-year invasion of its neighbour.
In its first warrant for Ukraine, the ICC called for Putin’s arrest on suspicion of unlawful deportation of children and unlawful transfer of people from the territory of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.
The Kremlin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Pentagon Mobilized to Support Tech Startups After Bank Failure
March 16th, 2023Via: Defense One:
In the hours after Silicon Valley Bank collapsed on March 10, Pentagon officials who work directly with startups that develop national-security technologies grew increasingly concerned.
Would startups that had money in the bank need to stop work? If that happened, would there be supply-chain disruptions? Would a company under financial stress put its intellectual property at risk?
Officials prepared different courses of action to get cash to companies, if needed.
“It was a busy weekend, for sure,” Michael Madsen, acting director of the organization that acts as conduit between startups and the military, said Tuesday at a Reagan Institute event in Washington.
No immediate action was needed. The Treasury Department stepped in on Sunday and said depositors with funds at Silicon Valley Bank would have access to their money.
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Had the Biden administration not acted quickly to back up account holder funds at SVB, the United States—and the national-security community in particular—would have faced a major challenge in supporting and growing innovative new technologies, Michael Brown, a venture partner at Shield Capital and former head of the Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit, told Defense One.
MQ-9 Sensor Video Showing Collision With Russian Su-27 Released
March 16th, 2023Via: The Warzone:
The U.S. Department of Defense has released a video showing part of the encounter between a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper and two Russian Su-27 Flanker fighter jets over the Black Sea on March 14 that resulted in the drone being lost. This seems to confirm that one of the Su-27s struck the drone’s propeller, although it remains unclear to what degree that action was deliberate or a misjudgment.
Ohio, White Noise, and the Power of Words Over Things
March 16th, 2023Via: Truthstream Media:
Australia’s Nuclear Submarine Program
March 15th, 2023Madness.
Via: The Diplomat:
From around 2027, U.S. and U.K. nuclear submarines will undertake rotational deployments to Australia.
In the 2030s, subject to U.S. Congressional approval, Australia will purchase three to five Virginia-class subs. The Biden administration and Australia itself are also making new investments in the United States’ submarine-building capacity.
Lastly, beginning from the early 2040s, Australia will build eight entirely new submarines, designed with the United Kingdom but featuring U.S. technology, including a new combat system. The “SSN AUKUS,” as it has been named, will be operated by both Australia and the United Kingdom.
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The bill for the submarines – tentatively put at AU$268 billion to AU$368 billion (US$178-$245 billion) over several decades – will push defense spending well beyond 2 percent of GDP at a time when the national budget is in structural deficit and demands for spending on health and social welfare are high.
Vitamin D Reduced Dementia by 40%
March 15th, 2023Never forget how mainstream/corporate controlled medicine refused to acknowledge the Vitamin D Covid relationship. My guess is that you won’t hear much about this Vitamin D dementia research from them either.
Via: Dr. John Campbell:
FBI, State Department Miss Deadline to Produce COVID Origin Information to House Panel
March 14th, 2023I consider the Wuhan lab leak revelations to be a limited hangout at this point. The goal is to prevent a wide understanding that the whole thing was premeditated.
Via: Epoch Times:
The FBI and U.S. Department of State didn’t provide documents by the deadline in response to a congressional request for information on the origin of the COVID-19 virus, but the agencies are expected to comply, according to the House panel seeking the information.
The information was requested on Feb. 27 by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and by Rep. Brad R. Wenstrup (R-Ohio), chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. The deadline for providing the documents was March 13.
“We have not received documents at this time, but we are in communication with the agencies about the chairman’s request, and we expect compliance,” a spokesperson for the subcommittee told The Epoch Times on March 13.
