Here Comes Carfentanal???

Originally posted on 8/18?

Update: 8/26

Who is with me, lets declare war on Mexico?  

The DEA says it is made in China and Mexico. I think the China junk goes through Mexico, then into the USA. Who is to say the Mexican Cartels are blackmailing the DEA and USA, back off harassing us? A show of power. We got tremendous power you don't realize. We got the power to kill multitudes of heroin users in a specific local and you will never gain the evidence to know we cold bloodily killed the addicts. We just got to jack up the concentration of synthetic heroin in any locale. We got the power to kill thousands in one swipe and overload the police and medical of any city in the USA. A target is sighted on any city in the USA.  

Right, the cartels might call up the DEA in Mexico or tell a snitch to tell the DEA of the blackmail plot. Say advance notice Cincinnati and Ohio are going to have a tremendous spike in heroin deaths. Give advanced notice with a list of cities and towns going to have a tremendous spike of heroin deaths. Talk about the new introduction of carfentanal into the USA? Do you think for one minute the DEA and Obama would openly admit the Mexican Cartels(help from China, Russia Syria)have begun carpet bombing our towns and cities with synthetic heroin in a blackmail plot. Say it was a grand blackmail plot and the media got ahold of the plot, how do you think the USA would respond to this attack on the USA?        

Maybe they are blackmailing for Joaquín 'El Chapo'? We want better treatment and for him to stay in Mexico? We can kill thousands on our call. Maybe, they are angling to get him released?   

***You get it, this thing is escalating by the minute. Honestly, we are putting a lot power into a few hands, with allowing these elicit and increasing powerful substances to enter our country illegally.

Wiki: Carfentanil or carfentanyl (Wildnil) is an analog of the synthetic opioid analgesic fentanyl. It is one of the most potent opioids known and the most potent used commercially. Carfentanil was first synthesized in 1974 by a team of chemists at Janssen Pharmaceutica which included Paul Janssen.^[1] It has a quantitative potency approximately 10,000 times^[2] that of morphine and 100 times that of fentanyl, with activity in humans starting at about 1 microgram. It is marketed under the trade name Wildnil as a general anaesthetic agent for large animals.^[3] Carfentanil is intended for large-animal use only as its extreme potency makes it inappropriate for use in humans. Currently sufentanil, approximately 0.05-0.1 times as potent (500 to 1000 times the efficacy of morphine per weight) than carfentanil, is the maximum strength fentanyl analog for use in humans

These substances are just too irresistible to a large percentage of our population and the massive profits corrupts all of our institutions.  Treatment, the cops, courts and jails are not even putting a dent on it. It just bankrupting everything it touches. The future trajectory of this thing is shocking. The old solution to this problem are just making us feel better, bolstering the establishment politicians, as the substances blot out the sun above all of us.  As America sleeps...

How much more concentrated can they make artificial heroin? What is the most concentrated form of synthetic opioids or similar acting substances known to mankind? Is there more powerful substances on the drawing board? What are the implication for society?     

The illicit institutions are beginning to shift over to highly concentrated and artificial heroin. It's a evolving monster...

China, Russia and the typical producers of heroin are involved. They got a highly organized underground distribution network throughout the USA. This network could be classified as a private institution its so large.

Personally I think this is a new form of foreign terrorism.  

Everything You Should Know About Carfentanil, the Drug Even Deadlier Than Fentanyl
       
By Allison Tierney

Staff Writer
August 10, 2016  

Photo via CBSA's Twitter

This post originally appeared on VICE Canada.

The Canadian Border Services Agency announced that earlier this summer a dangerous drug called carfentanil was seized in a package from China destined for Calgary. A potent synthetic drug more powerful than fentanyl, carfentanil is known for being a large animal tranquilizer and for its alleged use as a chemical weapon by the Russian military.

This is not the first time carfentanil destined for the illicit drug market has been found in North America. In July, health officials in Ohio issued a warning about the drug after a string of mass overdoses where the substance was found in the heroin supply. Over just three days, 25 overdoses were reported in Akron, Ohio—four of which were fatal; and in Columbus, ten overdoses occurred in a nine-hour window, including two fatal ones. A man in Ohio was charged in connection to a death and a number of overdoses following the incidents.

Canada's federal police service claims that as little as less than a grain of salt—20 micrograms—of carfentanil can be fatal. Public health officials are concerned that naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote, might not be as effective for someone overdosing on carfentanil.

In 2002, Russian military gassed Chechen rebels at a Moscow theater during a hostage situation. Scientific analysis of survivors' clothing and urine from the incident suggested there was evidence to support that carfentanil was one of two substances contained in the aerosol that was deployed. Reportedly, 125 died at the time due to a combination of the effects of the aerosol and a lack of medical care.

"It is hard to imagine what the impact could have been if even the smallest amounts of this drug were to have made its way to the street," said George Stephenson of the RCMP in a press release.

A kilo of the drug, which is a white powder, was seized on its way to Calgary in a package that was marked as printer accessories on June 27. According to the CBSA, this was enough carfentanil for "more than 50 million doses." A 24-year-old Calgary man named Joshua Wrenn has been charged with one count of importation of a controlled substance and one count of possession for the purpose of trafficking. Wrenn is scheduled to appear in provincial court on October 19.

However, officials are saying this is the second such seizure of the substance in Canada. According to a member of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians quoted by AP, "just a little bit short of a hazmat suit" is used to handle the drug when it's being prepared as a sedative for animals such as elephants.

"One can imagine that drug traffickers see persisting opportunity in Alberta because the response to the public health emergency here hasn't risen to match the magnitude or severity of our problem," Dr. Hakique Virani, an opioid addictions specialist in Edmonton, told VICE. In 2015, close to 300 people died due to fentanyl in Alberta—an increase of more than 75 percent from the previous year.

"This trend in illicit opioid trafficking is as frightening as it was predictable—we saw the drug trade attempt to decrease import weights while increasing overall supply... Now they've turned their attention to other known fentanyl analogs that produce effects in infinitesimal quantities," Virani said. "So long as there continues to be a large unmet demand for opioids because we aren't treating people with addiction, the illicit market will find ways to meet that demand... In the meantime, people die."

Trump Promises To Quickly Stop Heroin Entering USA

Better build the wall first....

Promises to liberate from the drug cartels!

Expensive Green Electricity Price Is Setting The Price Of All Electricity.

If you are a utility executive worrying about the drastic decline with the price of electricity caused by the fracking miracle, expensive green electricity is a way to support and increase your profits in the realm of deflationary nature gas prices.

All our federal and state subsidies for green energy is designed to boost the price of electricity of us all?

  

Block Island Wind Farm: Windfall for the politically connected

Published August 20. 2016 6:38PM | Updated August 21. 2016 7:23AM

By David Collins  Day staff writer

d.collins@theday.com  DavidCollinsct  

It's hard not to admire the five spanking new windmills off the southeast coast of Block Island, America's first offshore wind farm.

They seem to be getting good reviews on the island, too, where anxiety about how they would look seems to be subsiding.

The windmills, as seen in a series of mesmerizing aerial photos last week from The Day's Sean Elliot, are actually quite beautiful. From the air, the five look like a graceful art installation, statuesque sentinels staggered in a line just off the island's shoreline.

They are a gift to the island, a project that will replace an aging and derelict system of diesel power generators, running off fuel brought by ferry, that now produces the most expensive electricity in the country.

The island will not only see a drastic reduction in electric rates but also will be connected by cable for the first time to the mainland, a $100 million umbilical cord that also will bring high-speed internet.

The greatest beauty of the wind farm, though, may be seen by political observers, who can't help but marvel at the way this economic windfall has gone to the politically connected — millions of dollars in profit collected in little increments from all of Rhode Island's electric users.

The deal making for this at the highest levels of Rhode Island politics has gotten only scant attention in the extensive news coverage of the creation of America's first offshore wind farm.

One outspoken critic was the former attorney general of Rhode Island, Patrick Lynch, who cried foul about the above-market rates guaranteed for the windmill-generated kilowatts, while running for governor, a race he eventually abandoned.

"The 'demonstration project' off Block Island would demonstrate how easy it is to make money off Rhode Island," Lynch once complained.

One of the best explainers about the politics of this money-making clean energy deal appeared in Forbes last spring, under the headline: "Is America's First Offshore Wind Farm A Real Revolution Or Just Another Green Boondoggle?"

The long piece by staff writer Christopher Helman explains how the project got its guaranteed above-market electric rates after intervention by state lawmakers and then-Gov. Donald Carcieri.

Under the deal engineered by Carcieri, Rhode Island's regulated utility, National Grid, will be required to pay 24.4 cents per kilowatt hour for the windmill power — more than twice current market rates.

Sweetening the deal even more, there are price escalators of 3.5 percent a year, so that by the end of the 20-year contract period, National Grid will be paying 50 cents per kilowatt hour from the wind farm.

Forbes calculated that the wind farm eventually would generate some $900 million, and with $100 million in energy tax credits, the investors in the project are looking at a return on investment on the order of 7.5 percent.

"It is a legally guaranteed, risk-free money machine," Forbes noted.

And how did it happen?, Forbes asked.

"Connections," the magazine said, explaining that the farm developer, Deepwater Wind, is run by none other than Jeff Grybowski, former chief of staff to Gov. Carcieri.

Dead Ender Junk Plant Pilgrim On The Way Back Up

The Cape Cod Times. Do you think these guys have to abide to a set of rules, such that they can get free stories from Entergy and the NRC.

Why didn't they ask or why didn't the Cape Cod Times say Entergy declined to answer our question with what component failed? They only thing I can think of with this response was employee sabotage. They want the culprit to brag about it first?

Sheehan said the faulty parts have been replaced.

“The company has shipped the removed parts to the valve vendor for further examination,” Sheehan said. “We will review those results as soon as they are available.”

?

Don't you think its a little arrogant, with Entergy and NRC not explaining what caused the slow MSIV timing before they began the start-up?

It sounds like they changed out the air actuator for the valve?

Junk Plant Watts Bar 2: New Plant Scram On Unreliable Equipment.

Power Reactor	Event Number: 52194
Facility: WATTS BAR Region: 2 State: TN Unit: [ ] [2] [ ] RX Type: [1] W-4-LP,[2] W-4-LP NRC Notified By: DAVID ALLEN HQ OPS Officer: JEFF HERRERA	Notification Date: 08/23/2016 Notification Time: 15:30 [ET] Event Date: 08/23/2016 Event Time: 13:56 [EDT] Last Update Date: 08/23/2016
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: 50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B) - RPS ACTUATION - CRITICAL 50.72(b)(3)(iv)(A) - VALID SPECIF SYS ACTUATION	Person (Organization): ERIC MICHEL (R2DO)

Unit	SCRAM Code	RX CRIT	Initial PWR	Initial RX Mode	Current PWR	Current RX Mode
2	M/R	Y	43	Power Operation	0	Hot Standby

Event Text

MANUAL TRIP DUE TO A LOSS OF MAIN FEEDWATER "On August 23, 2016, at 1356 EDT, Watts Bar Nuclear Plant [WBN] Unit 2 reactor was manually tripped due to a loss of main feedwater. "Concurrent with the reactor trip, the Auxiliary Feedwater system actuated as designed. "All control and shutdown rods fully inserted. All safety systems responded as designed. The unit is currently stable in Mode 3, with decay heat removal via Auxiliary Feedwater and main steam dump systems. Unit 2 is in a normal shutdown electrical alignment. "The cause is currently under investigation. "This is being reported under 10CFR 50.72(b)(3)(iv)(A) and 10CFR 50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B). "There was no effect on WBN Unit 1. "The NRC Senior Resident Inspector has been notified."

Junk Plant Fitzpatrick: Power at 45% For Three days

Power been at 85% since they destroyed one of their giant condensate pumps.

Junk Plant Cook: Steam Lines Vibration Cause Giant Leak

What does that say about their problem detection program before the component fails? I'd be looking for some recent increase of vibration causing a rapid failure.  

 

Bridgman Nuclear Plant Finds Cause Of July Shut Down

By Rebecca Thiele • 8 hours ago

 

Officials at D.C. Cook Nuclear Plant in Bridgman may have found what caused a steam pipe to burst in July. The plant was shut down for a week last month after pressure from a faulty steam pipe wore a hole in the wall of the turbine building. 
Turbines help power the plant - which Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials say ultimately keeps the reactor cool. Tom Taylor is the resident inspector at D.C. Cook for the NRC. He says the supports holding the steam pipe up likely weren’t sturdy enough, causing the steam pipe to vibrate and crack.
“Over time some vibrations might have caused some weakening of some of the joints that then led to the failure,” he says.
D.C. Cook Communications Manager Bill Schalk says the pipe was fixed before the plant came back online, but plant workers hope to have a more permanent solution by the fall.
“When we are shut down in October there’ll be a more comprehensive modification to that so that either there won’t be that vibration or that there’ll be sufficient hardening of that particular area so the vibrations wouldn’t result in any failure of the pipe,” says Schalk….

 

Cover-Up In Hinsdale, NH: Vt Police Agencies Overwhelmed With Heroin Cases and Carfentanil Suspected

But Hinsdale is OK...

With Overdoses Increasing, Vermont Adds New Drug Detectives

Vermont State Police and Sen. Patrick Leahy announced a federal grant will add personnel to the Drug Task Force

The Vermont State Police and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, announced Monday that a federal Justice Department grant funded six new positions on the Vermont State Police Drug Task Force. 

The $1.4-million grant will pay for five detectives and one intelligence analyst, who will focus on disrupting the sale of heroin in Vermont, the commander of the Vermont State Police said.

The expansion increases the number of Task Force investigators from 19 to 24, according to Vermont State Police and Sen. Leahy. 

"In my years in the Senate, and in my years before it as a prosecutor, I've never seen anything like this," Leahy said of the opiate addiction epidemic. "I've never had anything that's torn at me as much as this does."

Vermont Health Commissioner Dr. Harry Chen said Monday on average, emergency services teams in Vermont are now seeing an average of 2.2 or more overdoses a day from heroin or prescription pill abuse. While those overdoses aren't all fatal, that's a big number in a small state, Chen said. 

The addition of powerful painkillers like fentanyl and carfentanil, which is used to sedate elephants and large animals, is adding new dangers to the national heroin epidemic, Chen noted. 

"We are, quite frankly, overwhelmed at the moment on the law enforcement end of things with the amount of heroin that's coming into the state currently," said Col. Matt Birmingham, the commander of the Vermont State Police. "Our investigations are up about 70 percent this past year on heroin alone."

Junk Plant Pilgrim: The "C" MSIV Has At Least Been Broken For Six Months

Originally posted on 8/19, reposted because on new information.

Update 8/21

Today at 11:14 AM

Michael Mulligan <steamshovel2002@yahoo.com>

 To allegation@nrc.gov allegation@nrc.gov

Dear Sir,  

Could you past pass this onto the direct supervisor of the Pilgrim Plant NRC inspectors. It is my opinion the current NRC residents in Pilgrim are doing an exemplary job and are heroic in nature against the tremendous negative forces of Entergy. I give the NRC my permission to pass this e-mail onto Entergy.  

Mike Mulligan  

Hinsdale, NH

 

Dear Sir,

Better yet, could you put my preceding degraded MSIV e-mail on the docket?

 

Thanks,

Mike Mulligan

Hinsdale, NH 

Proposing rust particles degrading MSIVs in safety compressed air indicates they had known this was a widespread problems seen in other components. All safety components supplied by safety related compressed air should have been called inop. That would get them to fix it.

Was the recent MSIV testing part of the normal scheduled testing, or was Entergy suspicious something was wrong with this valve? 

As I told the inspector, this MSIV issue is the exact pattern leading to the SRV failures. How could the NRC let them get away with this?

I ask the inspector to look into the similarities of the C main steam line SRV degradations and C MSIVs timing degradation and air tube crack . 

My god, look at how deeper C SRV degraded and the much shorter time the C SRV was in the plant compared to A? You now need to do a evaluation on all the C SRV leakages from new installation in 2011. Was there some mysterious forces going on in the C SRV causing this guy to degrade faster and deeper.

Main Steam Safety Relief Valves Determined to be Inoperable Following Evaluation

On January 27, 2015, during winter storm Juno,

On March 12, 2015, after further evaluation of system performance of SRV-3A and SRV-3C, along with results of valve internal conditions identified during physical inspection, the valves were determined to have been inoperable for an indeterminate period during the last operating cycle. Specifically, SRV-3C was determined to be inoperable based on its on-demand performance at low reactor pressures, as well as the visual conditions that were identified during the inspection process. SRV-3A was considered inoperable based on it having similar internal indications as SRV-C when it was disassembled and inspected. SRV-3A was installed in May 2011 and SRV-3C was installed in October 2013.

Remember, Dead-Ender plants like Oyster Creek and Pilgrim are exempt from federal regulations.

If this inops all MSIVs retroactively, there is going to be hell to pay???     

Update

The NRC resident told me half the problem are the weaselly rules of the NRC. Didn't have proof it was inop.

Why in the world is the NRC allowing the plant to operate till the weekend.

My theory is abnormal vibrations in the Main Steam Lines...

***This is from the inspector...they are pissed as hell.

They basically got quarterly test cycling of the main steam isolation valve. This is the same valve that failed a year ago. Three quarters ago, this MSIV failed testing. I asked the inspector, well why didn't they shutdown. Pilgrim came back with, we think is a particle in the valve or air system causing the valves testing failure. We cycled the piss out of the valve, we're good now...we think we blew out the particle. A bunch of valve position cycling came within tech specs. I think she said after, one quarter testing showed normal timing, while the other showed within tech specs, but longer than normal times. The latest then failed testing leading to the shutdown.

The NRC is assuming the valve was inop and incapable of working since the first failed test 6 months to 9 months ago. It might never been operable since last shutdown.

 This is a big deal.

Let play this out. Lets say the Entergy explains to the NRC, we are shutting the plant down because we think something is wrong with the C inboard MSIV. The NRC would emediately think this is suspicious. Lets say they pop open the valve finding significant damage imparing long term operability. Then the NRC would come back asking well, what is your evidence the valve was impaired leading to the testing causing the shutdown. They would be looking for a falsification issue.

Now a ginned up failed test a day ago, might get them cover to enter a shutdown and repair of valve, with the prying questions of the NRC...

I questioned her on the SRVs. Are there any leaks and abnormal tailpiece temperature indications. She said there were none. I asked, are they going to yank out the SRVs and do pressure lift testing. She said its not required and she does expect Pilgrim to do this testing. But the NRC is requiring Pilgrim to cycle the SRVs during this cool down or shutdown. The NRC is going to be in the drywell to observe the testing results. The is highly abnormal.

Dead-Ender Oyster Creek-NRC Rules Don't Apply To Them

Dead Ender Oyster Creek has three white findings recently. Two of them has ended with "it beyond not within Exelon’s ability to reasonably foresee and correct" or its a not justifiable old design issues. Basically the violation. don't get put in their report card. The third one is pending...

Do you see a pattern here?

Oyster Creek still running is all you have to know about to explain the USA's great decline...  

Oyster Creek Won’t Receive Extra Scrutiny for ‘White’ Finding

By Daniel Nee

The Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant in Lacey Township. (Courtesy of Exelon)

LACEY – Federal officials, in a quarterly report released recently on the Oyster Creek Generating Station, said they will use their discretion and not further scrutinize the plant following an incident which garnered a minor safety violation, known as a white finding.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued its quarterly report on the plant August 3. In the report, the federal agency detailed the “white” finding – spurred by an incident of “low safety significance,” the agency said – which involved a failed electrical relay for one of the plant’s emergency diesel generators.
Neil Sheehan, spokesman for the NRC, said the white finding was spurred by a routine test of the emergency diesel generator on November 9, 2015.
The faulty relay would have prevented the generator from starting, a condition that existed since it was previously run and shut down on October 26, 2015. Exelon completed repairs and returned the generator to service on November 10, 2015. Oyster Creek’s technical specifications state that if one of the plant’s emergency diesel generators become inoperable during power operation, the reactor may remain in operation for a period not to exceed seven days.
“Although this issue constitutes a violation of NRC requirements, the NRC determined that the relay failure which caused the emergency diesel generator to be inoperable was not within Exelon’s ability to reasonably foresee and correct,” the report said, referring to the plant’s owner. “As a result, the NRC did not identify a performance deficiency associated with this condition. The NRC’s assessment considered Exelon’s maintenance practices, industry operating experience, vendor and industry maintenance and testing recommendations for the failed relay as well as similar components, and Exelon’s corrective actions to prevent recurrence of the issue. “
The inspection report also contains a “green” finding – one of “very low safety significance,” Sheehan said – for a failure involving the incorrect reassembly of a reactor recirculation pump during a planned maintenance outage. This led to an unexpected increase in Reactor Coolant System unidentified leakage and a subsequent manual scram, or shutdown, of the reactor on April 30, 2016.
Oyster Creek, the nation’s oldest active nuclear power plant, is scheduled to shut down permanently in November 2019. Officials are currently looking into future options for the plant site, which constitutes a large share of Lacey Township’s tax base. Options include the potential for the site to have an expanded role as a natural gas plant.

Troops On The Boarder Protecting Us From Massachusett Heroin?

 Wonderful and current reference information on the epidemic

NH1 News Investigates: Taking back NH from the drug crisis

Lawrence and Holyoke Ma is where 90% of the heroin comes from in the Surrounding Hinsdale area.

N.H. candidate’s antidrug plan: Post National Guard on Mass. border

By Joshua Miller Globe Staff  August 19, 2016

American politicians often campaign with promises to send troops to the Mexican border.

Donald Trump has, infamously, called for building “a great wall” and making Mexico pay for it.

But now Jeanie Forrester, a New Hampshire state senator and gubernatorial candidate, has a different kind of idea: troops to protect the Granite State from drug dealers from Massachusetts.

Aiming to fight the scourge of opioid abuse and staunch the flow of heroin, Forrester said she would consider deploying the New Hampshire National Guard to patrol the state’s southern border with Massachusetts, according to the Concord Monitor newspaper.

Mike Dennehy, a senior strategist for the campaign, told the Globe Forrester wasn’t available to chat Friday. He said her original idea was to deploy the New Hampshire Guard, with other states and federal approval, to the Texas-Mexico border.

But he said Forrester wouldn’t hesitate to use the National Guard to support law enforcement in their interdiction efforts with drugs coming in from other states.

Jeanie Forrester, a New Hampshire state senator and gubernatorial candidate.

“The bottom line is that Jeanie takes this issue very seriously and is thinking outside the box,” he said. “The same old politicians coming up with failed ideas that

Yep, same old response from politicians for a unprecedented crisis. NH is the hot bet of heroin nationwide. Did I hear it right, if the NH rate was the same nation wide we would have a death rate of 100,000 a year.

aren’t working won’t cut it, especially in Manchester where they are overwhelmed. The drug issue in New Hampshire is a crisis and needs to be treated like a crisis. And she will be the governor who begins the rollback and end to our present drug crisis.”

But one of Forrester’s top opponents for the GOP nomination for governor brushed aside the idea of sending troops to the border with Massachusetts.

“I don’t think that’s a well thought-out plan,” said Ted Gatsas, the mayor of Manchester, the state’s biggest city. “Putting National Guardsmen on the border — are you going to stop every car coming from Massachusetts? It just doesn’t make sense.”

Gatsas said he’s tough on drug dealers, proposing increasing penalties. But he also supports other approaches, such as instituting a seven-day initial prescription limit on opioids, similar to a law passed this year in Massachusetts.

So what does Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker think of the idea of a neighboring state’s chief executive deploying troops to the common border to protect the Granite State from opioids?

Baker spokesman Brendan C. Moss wouldn’t say. But in a statement Moss noted that Baker recently led a group of almost 50 governors in signing a compact about fighting opioid addiction, “calling for a coordinated approach between states to combat the opioid epidemic, including collaboration with law enforcement to end opioid trafficking.”

A spirited campaign for governor is underway in New Hampshire, which elects its chief executive every two years. Governor Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, is running for US Senate so the gubernatorial race is for an open seat and has drawn several Republican and Democratic candidates.

The primary is Sept. 13.

Joshua Miller can be reached at joshua.miller@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @jm_bos and subscribe to his weekday e-mail update on politics at bostonglobe.com/politicalhappyhour

Legalized All Drugs: Insanity

Honestly, this sounds like a libertarianism. Librarians are government haters and are out to destroy government. They are all around us.

I think pot is relatively harmless. It certainly is a lot safer than booze. I am for legalization. Regulated like booze. I think this would take the pressure off cops and reduce crimes.

In excess of 50% to 75% of the jail population are people who have mental condition. So he says 90% of the jail population is related to drugs. The high functioning mentally ill generally are riddled with addictions of all sorts.

There are methadone programs all over the place. I would agree to a heroin maintenance program if the government ran it. We going to have to feed and house them too? Why not go off welfare to get on the gravy train of heroin. You talking about open heroin stores. They would have to trade giving their identities and DNA to the feds…get it on a government data base. The way this will play out is it would be administrated and the councilors would be barely be trained. All these clinics would be fly-by-night operations. The methadone programs are really expensive to the uninsured. I would agree to if if heroin users on a maintenance program were required to live responsible lives and try to better themselves. I think the cartels response to this would be ever lower prices of heroin and higher concentrations. These guys would be supplementing their government supplied heroin with really cheap on the street heroin.

I would favor a new safe heroin intoxicant that would disrupt the cartels. It would have to be a intoxicant creating a better high than heroin. The people who become addicted to heroin are basically trying to blot out their lives.

Remember prohibition came about because of wide spread abuse of alcohol. There were drunks lying all over the place. We used alcohol at a much higher rate in the beginning of the 20th century than today. I think the anti heroin conservatives would gain a lot more political leverage over this than the liberals.

I think we need to pick a few large heroin producing countries…then crush them as example to everyone else. Remember the apex of terrorism occurs in un-governable heroin areas throughout the world.

Van Wickler speaks out against war on drugs


By Xander Landen Sentinel Staff | Posted: Friday, August 19, 2016 12:00 pm

Richard Van Wickler, the superintendent of the Cheshire County jail, remembers when he first questioned the war on drugs. He was working his first job as a correctional officer in the Merrimack County Department of Corrections in the 1980s, when one day, he was tasked with putting a man accused of homicide and a young contractor accused of marijuana possession in the same holding cell.

“I’m looking at this contractor, who is frightened to death, who is about to be convicted next this person who has just committed homicide. ... It was that moment that I realized that there’s something very odd about these types of laws,” Van Wickler said in an interview with The Sentinel.

Today, Van Wickler’s open about his opinions on U.S. drug laws. He believes all illegal substances should be decriminalized and that no one should be put in jail for possession or use of drugs.

He also believes that without enough government-funded treatment centers and services for drug addicts, the job of rehabilitation has fallen unfairly on the criminal justice system.

Van Wickler spoke about his opinions and advocacy against today’s drug policy at a meeting of the Kiwanis Club at The Pub Restaurant Wednesday.

His comments come as New Hampshire contends with a opioid crisis, and an unprecedented number of people in the state dying of drug overdoses.

Van Wickler also suspects that 90 percent of people currently serving sentences in the Cheshire County jail are doing so for crimes connected to their addictions or drug use. Among inmates who report to be drug users, the majority say they abuse heroin, he said.

Van Wickler told about 20 people at the meeting that since laws targeting drug users became stricter under the Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan administrations, the government’s effort to create a drug-free society — also known as the war on drugs — hasn’t come close to reaching its goal.

According to data he cited at the meeting, one in three Americans today admits to using an illegal drug at some point in his or her lifetime.

“If the solution to create a drug-free society is to find these people, arrest them, incarcerate them and hope that when they’re released, they never use again, it’s not working,” Van Wickler said at the meeting.

If the war on drugs has succeeded in doing anything, he said, it’s putting people in jail. While the U.S. contains only 5 percent of the world’s population, it holds 25 percent of the world’s inmates due, in part, to laws that target drug users, according to Van Wickler.

Ideally, he said, he wants drugs to be legalized, which he claims would dramatically decrease both the number of people in jail and crime rates throughout the country. But he thinks a more realistic first step would be to decriminalize drugs throughout the country.

He’s also a member of an organization called Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), which shares that same view. The group is comprised of 80,000 supporters — including police, prosecutors, judges and corrections officials — who support the decriminalization of drugs not only because of the effects drug laws have on users, but also the effects they have on law enforcement officers.

The group believes legalizing drugs would sharply reduce the amount violence that officers face in the field every day.

“The Drug Enforcement Agency has determined that the majority of gang violence and the reason why gangs exist is over illegal drug marketplace disputes,” Van Wickler said.

He serves as LEAP’s chairman of the board of directors as well as one of LEAP’s speakers, who represents the organization at public events. He said he’s the sole LEAP speaker who’s an active member of law enforcement, as many officers who participate in the organization fear disapproval or judgment from their colleagues.

Van Wickler said he’s never experienced any of that.

“The opposite is true. There’s great admiration. When I speak to law enforcement officers ... most of them agree. It’s not working,” he said.

Van Wickler stressed that although LEAP supports the legalization and decriminalization of drugs, neither he nor the organization are pro drug use. Members just believe the benefits of striking down the current drug laws would far outweigh its costs, he said.

Multiple Kiwanis Club members at the meeting were skeptical of the idea of a society in which drug users could not be punished and drugs could be obtained legally.

Junk Plant Pilgrim Shuting Down Again II

Here is my comment on the hot ocean water down power. Basically I think this is just a excuse to fix the MSIV. I think closing times were degrading...they knew it would be a few weeks at 75% power...so decided to take a look at the MSIV.

Two days ago: I suspect we will see them in repeated shutdowns and down powers for another month or more. It will beat the hell out of the plant. This environment is rich with screw-ups and breaking equipment, it is highly likely they will get a plant trip or other

The last MSIV event happened on Aug 22, 2015. I doubt this is a coincidence. Maybe something to do with summertime duty or temperatures. The main condenser cleaning down powers. the steam line vibrations from this.  

That bad boy.

Pilgrim shutting down for valve repair
Malfunctions in system have forced 2 closures in year.

By Christine Legere

Posted Aug. 18, 2016 at 6:46 PM
Updated at 9:41 AM

PLYMOUTH — Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, already one step from being forced by federal regulators to close down based on poor performance, is now trying to figure out the cause of a malfunctioning valve designed to prevent radioactivity from leaking into the environment during a nuclear accident.

The plant was slowly powering down to full shutdown Thursday so the valve could be fixed. This is the second time in a year that a problem in the valve system has shut down the reactor.

Critics say it is further evidence that parts are wearing out and not being replaced in time at the 44-year-old reactor because owner-operator Entergy Corp. plans to permanently shutter the plant in mid-2019.

“Even with increased federal oversight, repetitive failure of critical safety equipment is yet another serious warning that Pilgrim's ongoing degradation continues to threaten our region,” Diane Turco, co-founder of the watchdog group Cape Downwinders, wrote in an email. “Pilgrim is an accident waiting to happen. Closure should be now, not in 2019.”

Eight “main steam isolation valves” regulate the flow of steam through four large lines that connect the nuclear reactor to the turbine, which spins and produces electricity.

Federal standards require that the valves close at a certain speed to prevent radioactive leaks in an emergency. Operators found during testing Tuesday that the valve at issue was closing too slowly.

This is not the first time the steam isolation valve system has malfunctioned. The plant went into automatic emergency shutdown in August 2015 to prevent a buildup of reactor pressure after a steam isolation valve closed when it should have remained open.

Just weeks after that incident, federal regulators shifted Pilgrim into its so-called Column 4 performance category — as low as a plant can go without being ordered to simply shut down.

Neil Sheehan, spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said the valve problem last summer was “one of the factors that contributed to the plant being moved to Column 4,” since it resulted in an emergency shutdown.

When Pilgrim workers discovered the valve was not closing fast enough to meet standards Tuesday, they closed one of the four steam lines and limited reactor output to 75 percent to prevent a pressure buildup. On Thursday, they were working toward full shutdown.

Sheehan said it was “too soon to tell if wear and tear is the cause of the slow closure time.”

“Entergy is evaluating the cause of the valve slowness and will have to develop a plan to fix the problem,” Sheehan said. “We will be closely following the company’s troubleshooting and repair efforts.”

Mary Lampert, director of Pilgrim Watch, said she could save the NRC the trouble of waiting for a cause to be found.

“Let me help them out,” she wrote in an email. ”The cause is a continuation of Entergy's record of poor maintenance — prioritizing their bottom line over public safety — and NRC allowing them to do so.”

After investigating last summer’s valve problem, Entergy concluded a faulty strut supporting the gas pressure line had allowed the line to drop onto the main steam line. After years of vibration, the gas pressure line ruptured and failed to open the valve.

“The August 2015 problem was, according to Entergy’s report, caused by an action pre-2001 that remained ‘hidden’ for over a decade until it caused the failure,” wrote David Lochbaum, director of the Nuclear Safety Project for the Union of Concerned Scientists, in an email.

The company checked the gas pressure lines on the other seven valves for signs of wear after the rupture.

“Entergy confined its fixes to only the specific thing that failed that time,” Lochbaum wrote. “It’s a good example of the difference between doing it right and doing it Entergy’s way.”

Lochbaum said one need only look at the NRC’s performance standards matrix, which ranks nuclear plants nationwide, to see Entergy is a poor performer in general.

“Only 11 reactors in the entire country are not in Column 1, where the NRC expects them to be,” Lochbaum wrote. “Poor performance has moved 11 reactors out of Column 1, and Entergy owns five of the 11 reactors, including all three of the worst performers.”

Pilgrim, along with Arkansas I and II, all Entergy-owned, are the only reactors in the NRC’s lowest performance column.

— Follow Christine Legere on Twitter: @ChrisLegereCCT.

Heroin, Stealing Merchandise, A Mother And A PerfectThree Year Old baby boy in Keene

They are trying to protect a heroin mother and 3 year old baby. How much money did she cost us so far?

They were trying to protect the mother and child in 2015 by allowing her to plead down from theft. The courts wanted to latch onto her in 2015 and make her go to treatment? Did it work?  

Bet you she is still a active heroin user. Imagine the power of a substance that can strip a baby from a mother? How many heroin babies have been striped from mothers in NH? I live next to a similar perfect boy. There is a high probability Dakota will be dead in a year. 

Has that beautiful little boy been taken away from her yet? Does financially impaired DCYS have that little boy?

Plead down from stealing?

637:3-a Willful Concealment. –
    I. A person is guilty of willful concealment if, without authority, he or she willfully conceals the goods or merchandise of any store while still upon the premises of such store. Goods or merchandise found concealed upon the person shall be prima facie evidence of willful concealment. Notwithstanding RSA 637:11, willful concealment shall be a misdemeanor

A perfect boy born to Dakata in 2013 

2013 : "a boy, Maddox Paul Matthew, to Dakota Keller and David Wood of Drewsville"

 Three people charged during criminal patrol Wednesday

Posted: Thursday, August 18, 2016 12:00 pm

Three people charged during criminal patrol Wednesday By Sentinel Staff SentinelSource.com

Three people were arrested on warrants Wednesday during a stepped-up criminal patrol conducted through a collaboration of area law enforcement agencies.

The patrol was aimed at those involved in heroin sales, according to a news release from Keene police.

Arrested were:

* Glen Goodwin, 24, of Fitzwilliam, charged with a felony count of sale of heroin. Goodwin is accused of selling a quantity of the drug for $200 on July 11 to a person cooperating with the N.H. Drug Task Force. He was released on $10,000 personal recognizance and is scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 1 in Cheshire County Superior Court.

* Jonathan R. Poanessa, 20, of Swanzey, charged with a felony count of sale of cocaine. He is accused of selling cocaine to another person for $100 in May. Poanessa is on probation for a 2014 drug offense and was held without bail, according to police. He will be arraigned at a date to be determined in Cheshire County Superior Court.

* Dakota A. Keller, 25, of Keene, accused of violating her probation after being convicted of willful concealment in March 2015. Police don't say how Keller allegedly violated her probation. She was held for lack of $1,500 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 18 in 8th Circuit Court District Division in Keene.

The patrol was a collaboration among the Keene Police Department, N.H. State Police, the Cheshire County Sheriff's Office and the N.H. Attorney General's Drug Task Force. Anyone with further information on these cases is asked to call Keene police at 357-9820 and ask to speak with Detective Don Lundin or Detective Jen Ramey. Information can also be provided anonymously at www.ci.keene.nh.us/departments/police/anonymous-crime-tips.

Keene Sentinal and Mike Mulligan Develped New Series On Locale Heroin Problems.

I initiated this Keene Sentinel set of articles about heroin in Hinsdale. I talked about Hinsdale's heroin troubles to Mr. Landen... talked about these Hinsdale sorrows reflects all the communities surrounding us.

The Sentinel suggested I disclose to Hinsdale I was working on this story with them. Locale people might want to more talk to me about heroin issue after this. Give me a call or pull me over while I am biking. I will pass on the information to the Sentinel or have Mr. Landen give you a call at home. Or just listen to you. I can take whatever you got.  

I know for a fact the Hinsdale Police chief and Hinsdale selectmen have been recently inundated by phone calls from the news media and request for interviews, inquiring about the troubles of our police department.     

A glimpse into heroin's grip on local communities

Posted: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 12:00 pm

By XANDER LANDEN and CALLIE GINTER Sentinel Staff SentinelSource.com

The opioid epidemic that’s leading to unprecedented numbers of drug deaths in New Hampshire has given rise to grim statistics. But within the facts and figures is a more anecdotal claim that keeps getting repeated.

“Everybody in our state at least knows of someone who has a child or a student or someone they’re connected to who has a drug problem or has overdosed,” said Jennifer Horn, chairwoman of the state Republican Party, in an article published by RealClearPolitics last November.

In August, gubernatorial candidate Colin Van Ostern said much the same thing.

“We all know someone, some of us in our own families, who have fallen into the (devastating) opioid trap, who have fallen into addiction or a substance abuse disorder and we have to work together to overcome it,” said the executive councilor, a Concord Democrat, when he unveiled his strategy to tackle the opioid problem if elected.

But in the heart of a community weathering the crisis, how well does this assumption match reality?

The Sentinel conducted an informal survey to find out.

Of 50 people randomly selected and interviewed over a two-day period on Keene’s Main Street, 38 of them — 76 percent — said they know someone with an opioid addiction personally or through a mutual acquaintance. Twenty-seven said they’re touched by the opioid epidemic at a close range — through a co-worker, teacher, friend or family member — while the other 11 knew of an addict second-hand.

Three, including Anna Sullivan, 25, of Keene, said they’re addicted to or recovering from opioids themselves.

Sullivan’s a recovering heroin addict who said she’s been sober for two months. She said she knows many people addicted to opioids, mostly heroin, and the survey results don’t surprise her. They shouldn’t surprise other locals either, she noted.

“It’s always been around, and it’s always been a problem, and more people are doing it than you think,” she said.

Ray Lindsey, 29, of Surry, runs a coffee stand in Railroad Square. Roughly three weeks ago, he said, he called the police about two separate opioid overdoses he saw in the square on a single day.

Lindsey also has a personal connection to opioid addiction; he said a relative’s in recovery for heroin use, and spent time in jail on drug charges.

The Sentinel’s survey was unscientific and limited by a range of factors. The sample size was small, the respondents pulled from a single geographic area and the data likely influenced by people’s willingness to be candid, in face-to-face conversation, about a difficult, stigmatized subject.

But it offers insight into just how many people are being affected by the crisis, and was conducted at a time when Keene is seeing a spike in opioid overdoses.

From January through May this year, the Keene Fire Department, on average, used the opioid antagonist Narcan just under 12 times per month, to respond to overdoses for an average of approximately six patients. But in June and July, the department has used Narcan at a higher rate.

In June, the department used Narcan 21 times for 12 suspected opioid overdoses, according to a news release from Fire Chief Mark F. Howard. In July, the department responded to seven overdoses and administered Narcan 14 times.

Last Thursday alone, there were as many as five overdoses in Keene on the same day, three of which were confirmed to be linked to opioid use, according to Deputy Fire Chief Jeffrey Chickering. Keene firefighters responded to these overdoses and administered Narcan three times within an eight-and-a-half-hour period, Chickering said.

As of the fire department’s most recently released data, three people in the Elm City had died from opioids so far this year. Statewide, officials project 482 deaths from opioids and other drugs by the end of 2016.

Those interviewed in downtown Keene offered a glimpse not only into opioids’ grip on the city, but also their reach in the surrounding region, through the accounts of people from Alstead, Richmond, Harrisville, Peterborough, Troy, Gilsum and Jaffrey.

Kim Fallon, chief forensic investigator for the state’s chief medical examiner’s office, said that though The Sentinel survey’s sample size was small, the results aren’t surprising.

“It seems accurate. It seems that the problem is so prevalent that everyone knows somebody or knows somebody who knows somebody who is addicted,” she said.

Standing under the marquee of The Colonial Theatre, a retired emergency room doctor from the area who preferred to remain anonymous said his son has been in recovery from heroin for seven years. He said opioid addiction isn’t limited to people of only one class, race or background.

“It’s all walks of life. Children of doctors, children of anybody. No one is immune to this.”

Callie Ginter can be reached at 352-1234, extension 1409 or cginter@keenesentinel.com. Follow her on Twitter @CGinterKS. Xander Landen can be reached at 352-1234, extension 1420 or xlanden@keenesentinel.com. Follow him on Twitter @XLandenKS