[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The pristine waters off Cape Cod could become radioactive for as long as a month after a new study found that nuclear waste being dumped from the tony peninsula has a 'high probability' of lingering.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution conducted the study to find out how likely it would be that discharged wastewater from the Pilgrim Nuclear PowerStation in Plymouth, Massachusetts would spread into Cape Cod Bay, whose surrounding communities include multimillion-dollar mansions.
'Our numerical simulations suggest it is unlikely that the bulk of plume waters will leave the Bay in less than a month,' said the study's leader Irina Rypina.
The dumping comes as part of the power station's decommissioning, and the study found that its wastewaters could drift near the shores and coastal waters of Dennis, Wellfleet, and Provincetown.
'If the release were to happen in the spring and summer, a small portion of a plume might leave the bay in less than a month, passing north of Provincetown and then flowing southward along the outer Cape,' the study said.
'We found virtually no out-of-the-Bay transport in winter and fall and slightly larger, but still low, probability of some of the plume exiting the Bay in spring and summer,' Rypina said.
In response to the study, Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, who chairs the Senate's Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety, said that the findings confirm concerns expressed by the residents of the Cape.
According to Markey, residents have been questioning the wisdom of dumping plant wastewater into the Bay 'for years.'
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I'm thinking this is likely a bad idea. Put it someplace where it'll never be heard from again, like at the Boston Repub Party headquarters. Nobody ever goes there.
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As sanity returns, there is a really good solution in Nevada already planned for this!
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We are talking about radioactive releases that are about 5 orders of magnitude less than after the Chernobyl event and 3 orders of magnitude less than after the Fukushima event.
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… Sept. 27 during a child sex trafficking operation, resulting in 6 additional arrests — some of whom were convicted child rapists.
Undercover detectives posed as 14 and 15 year old juveniles online and snatched the pedophile predators when they arranged to meet the detectives who they thought were minors.
Court documents show that a few of the suspects offered up to $300 for sex. At least one suspect offered drugs and was armed with a firearm.
Diaz Rios is the vice principal at TOPS, a K-8 alternative school in the Seattle Public School District. He previously served on the board at Portland Community College in Oregon.
Renton PD detective Meg Braun said at least 300 children are being sex trafficked in King County (Seattle) on any given day.
The agency is going after the predators.
Read the details: https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-vice-principal-among-7-arrested-during-undercover-child-sex-trafficking-operation#google_vignette
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Given the 20+ years of knowing, these perverts seem to have congregated on the West Coast.
The Seattle school board must be dumb as 💩, or has some of their own, not to have not weeded out at hire or promotion these perverts.
[Stars and Stripes] ATLANTA — A foundation suing to have a Confederate officer’s name reinstated to the Army’s Ranger Hall of Fame and memorial at Fort Moore, Ga., will get the chance to make their case to a federal judge on Thursday.
The hearing in Columbus, which is just outside of the Army base, will examine the merits of the National Ranger Memorial Foundation’s lawsuit, which seeks to reinstate the name of Col. John S. Mosby on the installation’s Ranger Memorial and as a member of the Ranger Hall of Fame. The foundation argues in the suit, which was initially filed in September 2023, that Fort Moore officials overreached in removing Mosby’s name from the memorial last year as part of a sweeping, yearslong effort to strip Defense Department assets of names linked to the Confederacy. Barry Todd, the foundation’s president, said base leaders overstepped their authority in removing Mosby’s name.
The Ranger Hall of Fame and the Ranger Memorial, he said Tuesday, are managed and overseen by private entities, including his group, which built and maintains them through private donations. "The memorial was built and paid for by the Ranger community, all through donations," Todd said. "The Army ... in 1992 and 1993 said they would accept it as a conditional gift, on the condition that they don’t have to pay for [it]. So, there’s no taxpayer money at all toward the Ranger memorial." He said the overarching view in the Ranger community is Mosby’s name should remain.
Diane K. Boyd is a wildlife biologist who has devoted decades to studying wolves. She is the author of "A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery."
An Instagram video was posted by BBC Earth with a text that read, "It’s Raja’s world, we’re just living in it."
The traditional road toll system has taken an unexpected turn in Sri Lanka, where vehicles traveling through a certain road have to pay a unique "food tax." The road tolls have gone wild when an elephant has taken the role of a self-appointed toll collector. Fondly known as Raja, the 40-year-old elephant operates on his own terms, bringing a touch of whimsy to the daily commute.
While standing along the Buttala-Kataragama road in Sri Lanka, he swiftly stops the vehicles coming towards him and asks for food. Once the vehicles stop, he uses his trunk to calmly and patiently ask for food from drivers and passengers. When the elephant is offered with the food, only then does he allow travelers to continue their journey. People believe that this tax collection began as a desperate search for food but has now evolved into a full-fledged tradition.
People aware of the ritual prepare for encounters with Raja by stocking up on fruits from roadside stalls. A major linkway, the Buttala-Kataragama road connects Sri Lanka’s west coast with the southeast coast that passes through wild animals/
A user commented on the post writing, "The only corruption that’s acceptable," while another added, "This is where and how l want my tax to be paid." A third one said, "Their area. Their rules!." "GST= Gajraj Service Tax,", another commented on the post.
[FoxWeather] The National Weather Service office in Buffalo said heavy lake-effect snow would bring multiple feet of snow east of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario through Friday morning, and strong winds could lead to near-whiteout conditions. That, forecasters warned, would bring “major impacts to travel and society where the heaviest snow is expected."
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on X that she had declared a state of emergency in several counties, including Jefferson and Erie counties, due to the expected feet of additional snowfall expected through the rest of the week.
In addition, a tandem and empty tractor-trailer ban has been implemented in both directions on the New York State Thruway (Interstate 90) from Exit 53 west to the Pennsylvania state line, as well as for portions of Route 5, U.S. 219, N.Y. Route 400 and Interstate 86.
The snow has been falling fast and furious across portions of Pennsylvania and New York, with several communities already picking up more than 2 feet of snow.
Both Eden and Orchard Park have picked up 30 inches of snow or more, with Hamburg getting close at 28.6 inches.
Orchard Park has also issued a local state of emergency and implemented a driving ban that will be in effect until further notice.
Impacts to travel have also been reported across portions of Pennsylvania, including some commercial travel bans on I-86 between I-90 and the New York state line, as well as the entire length of I-90 from the Ohio state line to the New York state line.
Speed restrictions are also in effect for portions of interstates 80 and 81.
MORE SNOW IS ON THE WAY
The National Weather Service office in Buffalo said heavy lake-effect snow would bring multiple feet of snow east of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario through Friday morning, and strong winds could lead to near-whiteout conditions.
The FOX Forecast Center said cold air from Canada is expected to pour over the still-warm Great Lakes, helping to enhance snowfall for communities along the eastern and southern shores of the lakes through Friday.
The combination of gusty winds and blowing snow is expected to lead to near-blizzard conditions, especially Thursday when winds peak at 25-45 mph.
[RT] A senior US diplomat has rejected Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... n President Nicolás Maduro ...Commie el presidente para la vida of Venezuela, successor to Hugo Chavez. Nick is his country's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy, except that even though his country's sitting on an enormous puddle of oil, he can't manage to get it out of the ground. Unlike Qadaffy and Hugo Chavez, he's not dead yet... 's claim of victory in the July election and urged him to resign and allow a power transition, while threatening further sanctions if he fails to do so.
Francisco Palmieri, who leads the Venezuelan Affairs Unit at the US embassy in Colombia — as Washington has no diplomatic presence in Caracas — made the remarks on Wednesday in an interview with Venezuela's El Nacional newspaper.
Palmieri argued that Maduro, who has led Venezuela since 2013, should recognise his rival Edmundo Gonzalez as the actual winner of the election before January 10, when the presidential inauguration ceremony is due to take place.
According to Venezuelan electoral authorities, Maduro defeated Gonzales in the July 28 presidential ballot. However,
you can observe a lot just by watching... the opposition — along with most Western countries — have claimed the vote was rigged.
''Is it the deadline for Maduro. If he stays, things will only get worse for Venezuela,'' Palmieri told the paper.
''If he does not respect the will of Venezuelans, there will only be further deepening of the economic crisis, less international legitimacy, and the Venezuelan people will be increasingly frustrated in the face of a situation where the country will not be able to improve,'' the US diplomat added.
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I don't see how that is an ultimatum.
The USA didn't say they were going to do something, they just said things would get worse.
Of course this is RT and tows the Putin line, whatever that is on the day they publish.
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Congrats, guys. Now fix your Moslem colonist/Jew hate/totalitarian culture problem, mkay?
[Breitbart] The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) has joined an elite tier of allies Tuesday by successfully firing a Tomahawk Land Attack Cruise Missile for the first time in a test off the American West Coast.
Australia is only the third nation to fire the long range cruise missile after the United States and the United Kingdom.
HMAS Brisbane (DDG-41), the second of three Hobart-class air warfare destroyers in the RAN, fired the Tomahawk missile during its ongoing ‘interchangeability deployment’ to the U.S..
Throughout the deployment Brisbane has operated out of Naval Base San Diego where the ship also completed a four-week maintenance availability with the support of the U.S. Navy.
Australia’s government said in a statement the Tomahawk missile test was a resounding success.
“The Royal Australian Navy has achieved a major milestone in realising an enhanced and lethal surface combatant fleet,” it said.
With an extended range of up to 1,550 miles, the Tomahawk allows maritime platforms to perform long-range precision strikes against land targets.
The missile “significantly” enhances the Australian military’s ability to deter against any potential threat, Canberra noted in the announcement.
Defence Minister Richard Marles said enhancing Australia’s defense capabilities and working with partners would “change the calculus for any potential aggressor.”
The Tomahawk missile test-firing is in line with Australia’s plan, announced earlier this year, to spend $7 billion to expand the navy to 26 major surface combatant ships — up from 11 today.
The naval expansion plan comes as China and other powers in the Asia-Pacific and beyond build up their firepower.
Australia plans to buy more than 200 Tomahawk missiles to arm some of its warships.
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[Breitbart] A federal judge has halted President Joe Biden’s plans to open the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, to illegal aliens enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
In May, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris announced a final rule to open Obamacare rolls to some DACA illegal aliens enrolled in the program. Former President Barack Obama first created the DACA program via executive order, shielding more than a million illegal aliens from deportation through the years.
On Monday, District Judge Daniel Traynor granted a preliminary injunction and stay to ensure that Biden’s agencies cannot implement such plans while the issue makes its way through federal court.
[FoxBusinessNews] The Iowa Republican and Senate 'DOGE' chair aims to 'drain the swamp' through legislation
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is going to be introducing legislation to relocate federal workers from Washington, D.C., to other areas across the U.S. as part of her efforts to fix what she says is a broken government bureaucracy.
The Iowa Republican will introduce the first of those bills, obtained exclusively by FOX Business, on Thursday.
The legislation, dubbed the "Returning SBA to 5 Main Street Act," would move nearly a third or more of the employees at the Small Business Administration's (SBA) Washington, D.C., headquarters (HQ), to duty stations outside the D.C. metro area.
The bill reduces SBA’s HQ office space and "100 percent telework" ability, by moving at least 30 percent of HQ employees into various regions across America and reducing HQ office space by an equal amount. It comes after the SBA stated that even if 100% of SBA employees came in-person to the Washington, D.C., HQ, only 67 percent of SBA’s HQ capacity would be used.
Ernst's new legislation also follows a September Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee hearing on the impact of telework to SBA services, during which a witness from Iowa detailed how they had an extremely difficult time getting in touch with anyone at the agency.
"Ask any small business owner — if your customers can’t reach you, your doors won’t be open very long," Ernst told FOX Business. "The SBA is supposed to serve Main Street, but there might as well be a ‘closed for business’ sign up at the agency because it is nearly impossible to reach anyone with all the bureaucrats permanently out of office."
She added, "I can think of no better way to help the SBA connect with the people it serves than to take some of the employees out of Washington and relocate them across the country."
Ernst is founder and chair of the Senate's "DOGE" caucus, which supports the efforts of the incoming Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency co-led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who have vowed to force teleworking federal employees to return to the office. But the GOP lawmaker has been on the warpath against government workers "abusing" telework for years.
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Last week, Ernst released a report claiming the federal government has a "chronically absent workforce," and called for relocating federal workers out of D.C., implementing a "use it or lose it" approach to government real estate, and tracking individual workers' productivity and tying it to their privilege to telework.
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She trying to get some cred back? Throwing some chaff? What is this?
Good question. They say it is easiest to ride a horse in the direction it is going. Or perhaps we are entering some sort of Milton Friedman Twilight Zone where the wrong people are finding it politically profitable to do the right thing.
Raytheon, an RTX business, has announced that U.S. Army air defense soldiers successfully utilized the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) to guide Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) interceptors in defeating surrogate cruise and ballistic missile threats.
According to a press release, this test marks a significant milestone in the LTAMDS program, demonstrating its readiness for operational deployment.
“LTAMDS continues to successfully pass each hurdle of the U.S. Army’s rigorous testing program, demonstrating its readiness for initial fielding,” said Tom Laliberty, president of Land & Air Defense Systems at Raytheon. “In this latest test, U.S. soldiers operated LTAMDS to successfully detect, track, and support engagement of a complex set of threats.”
The live-fire event is part of the U.S. Army’s operational assessment required before the program advances to full-rate production. During the test, LTAMDS integrated with the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) to provide 360-degree radar coverage. The system passed tracked data to guide PAC-3 interceptors in engaging surrogate short-range ballistic and low-altitude cruise missile targets.
The U.S. Army has revealed that using LTAMDS, the Army detected, tracked, and classified surrogate ballistic and cruise missile threats while operating in a 360-degree surveillance mode.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Breitbart] A federal judge has halted President Joe Biden’s plans to open the Affordable Care Act, known as 
