Seattle: Cesium Leak at Harborview Medical Center
June 22nd, 2019Via: Capital Hill Seattle Blog:
Quickly, an estimated 2,800 curies of cesium-137 spread into the irradiator, the “chamber,” the loading dock and a 100-feet radius around the loading dock, plus the first three floors and one stair of the R&T building, resulting in “widespread contamination.”
The leak happened at 9.30 PM and was discovered during a regular and procedural wipe-down, meant to see if any material had been released.
A 911 call, from the on-scene Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) coordinator, came in about an hour later, at 10:25 PM. The message: there has been a “radiation leak from a blood irradiator,” a draft report from the Seattle Fire Department notes.
Quickly, the Seattle Fire Department Hazardous Materials Response Team (HAZMAT team) speeds to the scene. When they get there, tape has already been hung to cordon off both entrances to the parking area.
U.S. Government Says It Can Indefinitely Detain Anyone – Even U.S. Citizens
June 21st, 2019Via: The Intercept:
For over 17 years, Moath al-Alwi has been held at Guantánamo Bay without charge. A Yemeni citizen, al-Alwi is one of Guantánamo’s “forever prisoners,” those whom the U.S. government has not charged with a crime but is unwilling to release. On June 10, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in his case, the latest setback in al-Alwi’s long effort to obtain due process rights. Even though the court wouldn’t take al-Alwi up, Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote that it would only be a matter of time before the court had to grapple with the forever prisoners and the scope of the government’s power to hold them.
The Supreme Court rejection — and Breyer’s comments — briefly brought al-Alwi’s case back to national attention. Little noted, however, were the eyebrow-raising assertions that the government has made in this case about its powers to indefinitely detain not just al-Alwi, but anyone — including U.S. citizens.
In a filing with the Supreme Court this April, lawyers for the Justice Department argued that the United States can continue to hold al-Alwi without charging him, an argument that they haven’t made since the era of President George W. Bush. The lawyers also went out of their way to stress that even if he were a U.S. citizen, they would have the power to detain him indefinitely.
“There is no bar to this Nation’s holding one of its own citizens as an enemy combatant,” the filing read. Were al-Alwi a citizen, they argued, he “would pose the same threat of returning to the front during the ongoing conflict.” There were no “constitutional questions” raised by this hypothetical, they maintained.
Thirdphaseofmoon: YouTube Demonetizes UFO Channel with Over 700,000 Subscribers
June 20th, 2019I’ll Tweet, as they request, but I’ve been persona non grata at Google since the mid 2000s. haha
I don’t know what it’s going to take for people who deal with controversial topics to understand that Google platforms are a trap. They are out to screw you.
Via: Thirdphaseofmoon:
Ibteesam Reaz, Staff Physicist at Lockheed Martin on U.S. Navy TicTac UFO Incidents
June 20th, 2019Update: Post Removed from Quora
Thanks to Blacklisted News for Mirroring!
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Via: Quora:
So, these advanced crafts do exist— there is no question about it.
Gold Soars to a Near Five-Year High After Fed Hints at Interest Rate Cuts
June 20th, 2019Via: MarketWatch:
Gold prices shot to levels not seen since 2013 on Thursday, as investors flocked to the metal after the U.S. Federal Reserve left key interest rates unchanged but shifted away from its “patient” stance on monetary policy.
“Central banks everywhere are preparing to cut rates and re-start [quantitative easing], opening up a new front in the global trade war,” said Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault. “In this race to debase, gold stands out as the only currency which policymakers cannot inflate and devalue.”
Iran Shoots Down U.S. Military Drone in Gulf Region
June 20th, 2019Via: Reuters:
Iran has shot down a U.S. drone which the elite Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday was flying over southern Iran, raising fears that a major military confrontation could erupt between Tehran and Washington.
Guards website Sepah News said the “spy” drone was brought down over the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan, which is on the Gulf.
While Iran’s state news agency IRNA carried the same report, identifying the drone as an RQ-4 Global Hawk, a U.S. official said a U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton had been shot down in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz.
Corn Prices at 5-Year High as Flooding Leaves U.S. Plantings Way Behind
June 19th, 2019Via: MarketWatch:
U.S. farmers are millions of acres behind their usual pace of corn planting this spring because of flooding, which may lead to a supply shortage that lifts prices by year end past $5 a bushel to their highest in more than five years.
Corn planted in the 18 states that account for the bulk of U.S. production was at 83% of expected plantings as of the week ended on June 9, significantly below the 99% seen a year earlier, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Some 8.5 million acres in the eastern Corn Belt and 6.5 million acres in the western Corn Belt remain unplanted, according to Peter Meyer, head of grain and oilseed analytics at S&P Global Platts. “By any metric, this is historically the most amount of corn acres left unplanted this late in the season,” he said.
“Amazon Could Equip Drones to Keep Watch Over Your Home”
June 19th, 2019Via: Times:
Amazon’s delivery drones could one day be fitted with an arsenal of cameras and sensors to monitor customers’ homes in between drop-offs.
The retail giant has obtained a patent for a “surveillance as a service” function for the drones, which could be fitted with thermal-imaging cameras, surveying lasers and chemical sensors to detect burglars and fires, among other threats. Amazon intends to use the drones to deliver parcels to its customers and has tested the technology in Britain, with the co-operation of the Civil Aviation Authority.
Cancer-Causing Chemical Found in Widely Used Blood Pressure Drug
June 19th, 2019Via: CNBC:
A pharmacy warned the Food and Drug Administration that it found a chemical believed to cause cancer in a widely used blood pressure medication, according to a filing from the federal agency.
Valisure, an online pharmacy company licensed in 37 states, told the FDA last week that high levels of dimethylformamide were found in valsartan, a drug produced by Swiss drugmaker Novartis and other pharmaceutical companies. The drug is used to treat hypertension in adults. The World Health Organization classifies dimethylformamide, or DMF, as a probable human carcinogen.
Valisure asked that the medication be recalled and requested that the FDA review and significantly lower the acceptable intake of DMF from its current level of 8,800,000 nanograms to less than 1,000 nanograms. The online pharmacy said it found the cancer-causing chemical in valsartan produced by five companies.
DHS to Move Biometric Data on Hundreds of Millions of People to Amazon Cloud
June 19th, 2019Via: Nextgov:
The Homeland Security Department is looking to upgrade the software it uses to analyze biometric data on hundreds of millions of people around the globe, and it plans to store that information in Amazon’s cloud.
The agency’s Office of Biometric Identification Management will replace its legacy biometric analysis platform, called the Automated Biometric Identification System, or IDENT, with a new, more robust system hosted by Amazon Web Services, according to a request for information released Monday.
IDENT essentially serves as an enterprisewide clearinghouse for troves of biometric and biographic data collected by the Transportation Security Administration, Customs and Border Protection, Secret Service and other Homeland Security components. The system links fingerprint, iris and face data to biographic information, allowing officials to quickly identify suspected terrorists, immigration violators, criminals and anyone else included in their databases.
In total, IDENT contains information on more than 250 million people, a Homeland Security spokesperson told Nextgov.
