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Continue reading Wired: Pentagon’s Craziest PowerPoint Slide Revealed The Defense Facilities Safety Board receives accident and incident reports from the major Department of Energy Weapons sites. Because many of these events are newsworthy, DCBureua.org is urging our readers to hit the links to these weekly reports to see how the DOE, the National Nuclear Security Administration (the weapons folks) and their contractors are doing in managing the most dangerous substances on earth. The reports are eye opening to say the least. The radioactive events are more frequent than the public relations people at DOE like to admit or our tax-paid contractors acknowledge. So get familiar with this small window into how the DOE operates. As a citizen, you owe it to your country. You can follow the map to view the incidents for each major DOE location. http://www.dnfsb.gov/index.php Continue reading If You Think DOE Is Managing The Nuclear Weapons Complexes Properly, Read On… Following in the United States’ footsteps, the Afghan government moved to bail out a failing bank fearing the entire corrupt system would fail. According to The New York Times, the bankers at Kabul Bank had unorthodox financial dealing that included lending tens of millions of dollars to themselves and government officials. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/world/asia/01kabul.html?hp Continue reading NYT: Troubles at Afghan Bank Jolt Financial System Run on Kabul Bank after the government steps in. Nervous account holders wanted to withdraw their deposits from the country’s largest private bank despite government assurances that their money was safe. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/01/AR2010090101620.html?hpid=topnews Continue reading WaPo: Worried Afghans yank Kabul Bank deposits |
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