One more thing before Marc and Matt take over for the week … As many of you know, the US-DPRK agreement to shutter the Yongbyon reactor is being held hostage by a very arcane dispute over the return of $25 million dollars in a North Korean account frozen at the now insolvent Banco Delta Asia. …
41 Illegals Worked on SBX
by | 2007-06-03 | 2 Comments
Hello, my name is Volodya. I am looking for work. A Grandy Jury indicted [the labor recruiting companies hired by] Keppel AmFELS for hiring 41 illegal aliens to work on the SBX platform: The three-year investigation leading to this indictment was initiated in September 2004 with a comprehensive sweep of the day shift employees working …
Hot ISOG Action
by | 2007-06-01 | No Comments
Here and here. Short version: It’s gone. Jeffrey adds: In case you are wondering, what the hell the ISOG is … it is the “Iran Syria Policy Options Group,” which used to be headed by Elizabeth Cheney. The Boston Globe had a pretty decent article on the subject explaining that the ISOG was “modeled after …
Italian Stallions & Plutonium
by | 2007-05-31 | 6 Comments
Oh, you just can’t wait to figure out what the hell that means, can you? I noticed a fun fact about plutonium pits while reading the AAAS report on the Reliable Replacement Warhead: During the Cold War workers at Rocky Flats worked plutonium (“wrought processing”) to make a spherical pit; today, TA-55 casts them in …
