Friday, April 13, 2018

Russia's Strategy

Monday April 16

Unbelievable, they made a women the fall guy because his administration is so chaotic and incompetent. I bet you the USA is fearful they might collapse the stock market and the Russian financial system. 
Trump puts the brakes on new Russian sanctions, reversing Haley’s announcement
President Trump on Monday put the brakes on a preliminary plan to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia, walking back a Sunday announcement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley that the Kremlin had swiftly denounced as “international economic raiding.”
Preparations to punish Russia anew for its support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government over an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria caused consternation at the White House. Haley had said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” that sanctions on Russian companies behind the equipment related to Assad’s alleged chemical weapons attack would be announced Monday by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
But Trump conferred with his national security advisers later Sunday and told them he was upset the sanctions were being officially rolled out because he was not yet comfortable executing them, according to several people familiar with the plan...

 I know how to get Putin out of office and bring chaos to his streets. Just drastically drop the global price of petroleum. The drastic rise in price of petroleum recently is just filling their coffers and fueling their military... 
 
Markets all stable so far.

 But-The Russian ruble and shares in some of Russia's biggest companies slid lower on Monday, dragged down by the threat of new U.S. sanctions and lower oil prices.

Volatility on the Russian market has soared since Washington imposed fresh sanctions against Moscow on April 6, targeting major Russian companies and some of the country's most prominent businessmen.

 Hmm, this doesn't make since. If they take out the western worlds financial systems...it will make them poorer than us. They are dependent on us. The price of oil and resources would collapse. It would be suicide...

Then why aren't we isolating Russia from the internet...
Counter-terrorism expert Michael Clarke, who specialises in defence studies, has urged the public to be ready for “cyber warfare” within the next two or three weeks.

He said: ”I suspect Russia will choose not to respond in military terms. But cyber warfare is highly likely.

"It will be an attack on national infrastructure, not just upsetting city firms, but getting inside the transport system, or the health system, or air traffic control. It could affect everyone."
Could we crater their militaries communication system...

Russian stock market, national currency collapse because of US sanctions

Russia » Economics
The index of the Moscow Exchange (formerly known as MICEX) has lost nine percent, the RTS index has fallen by more then ten percent. The decline was the largest for the companies, the top manager of which were affected by the recent sanctions that the US Treasury announced on Friday, April 6. The sanctions also affected metallurgical companies and participants of the financial market.

See more at http://www.pravdareport.com/russia/economics/09-04-2018/140652-sanctions_stock_market-0/

Russian stock market, national currency collapse because of US sanctions

Russia » Economics
The index of the Moscow Exchange (formerly known as MICEX) has lost nine percent, the RTS index has fallen by more then ten percent. The decline was the largest for the companies, the top manager of which were affected by the recent sanctions that the US Treasury announced on Friday, April 6. The sanctions also affected metallurgical companies and participants of the financial market.

See more at http://www.pravdareport.com/russia/economics/09-04-2018/140652-sanctions_stock_market-0/

ussian stock market, national currency collapse because of US sanctions

Russia » Economics
The index of the Moscow Exchange (formerly known as MICEX) has lost nine percent, the RTS index has fallen by more then ten percent. The decline was the largest for the companies, the top manager of which were affected by the recent sanctions that the US Treasury announced on Friday, April 6. The sanctions also affected metallurgical companies and participants of the financial market.

See more at http://www.pravdareport.com/russia/economics/09-04-2018/140652-sanctions_stock_market-0/

ussian stock market, national currency collapse because of US sanctions

Russia » Economics
The index of the Moscow Exchange (formerly known as MICEX) has lost nine percent, the RTS index has fallen by more then ten percent. The decline was the largest for the companies, the top manager of which were affected by the recent sanctions that the US Treasury announced on Friday, April 6. The sanctions also affected metallurgical companies and participants of the financial market.

See more at http://www.pravdareport.com/russia/economics/09-04-2018/140652-sanctions_stock_market-0/

Update April 15

 Hmm, Boston marathon this Monday... 

We all honoring the sailors in the sinking of the submarine Thresher off the NE coast, especially Cape Cod. Well, it was a early design failure. Basically the rendition of "balance of plant equipment" on non safety related in the domestic nuclear plants. They put all there money on nuclear safety, while putting in cheap ass piping holding back seawater pressure. They were brazing seawater pipes and a big leak developed. It was a brand new sub on their first deep submergence test. That certainly was a grab you balls moment.

There was another US fast attack submarine catastrophe. Everything about this tragedy is still top, top, top top secret.

This is huge military scandal across most nations who drive submarine. They sell these submarines to us saying these ships are almost undetectable. It a collusion between are friends and enemies alike. Especially in this high tech era will live in today. The truth is, all submarines can't hide from anyone. They got these computer screens in Moscow and Washington DC where every submarine on the planet got a dot representing their position. They can continuously monitor these subs in real time anywhere on the planet. It seems the Ruskies and us are exactly alike: shipyard jobs, kickback, bribes, paying off politicians and keeping their citizens in the dark.
Most of the militaries' secrecy across the globe is to protect the hubris, arrogance and idioaucracies(idiot-bureaucracies) of their politicians.  
The sailors of the sunk fast attack submarine USS Scorpion get no honor. We are ashamed of them, well, we are ashamed with our military and the actions of our nation. We raised hell with Russia in another part of the ocean during the cold war. They retaliated by sinking one of our best submarines. And effectively we colluded with Russia to keep this secret from everyone in order to prevent a nuclear exchange and protect the politicians in both nations. Did kid your self, our nation will throw your service in the trash if it prevents a nuclear exchange...

This is why soviet retribution might look like sinking another submarine, and your nation won't tell you what happen. They done it in the past...

I think it will be much better for us if we gave the Russians a preventative massive secret military catastrophe, before they gave us a horrific incident. This has always been a secret communication channel between the Russians and us...the movement of military gear across the globe. Yep, we both played these dangerous suicidal submarine games across the globe all during the cold war, just waiting to spark the next global military conflagration. Do both nations have a suicidal pack...             
Syria attack: British submarine 'hunted by Russian subs' in deadly cat and mouse game 
A ROYAL Navy submarine heading towards Syria has been hunted by up to two deadly Russian subs and a number of other vessels in the Mediterranean for days as tensions between the countries ratchet up, it has been revealed.
Our news media have been particular weak on disclosing how both the Russians and us our actively preparing for a global conflagration. We are all too dependent on our governments and their militaries to prepare us and tells us what they are dong... That is why most global conflagration seem to come out of nowhere... 

 Remember Pearl Harbor!!!!  

A time bomb nobody can shut down!!! 
Russia warns of 'consequences' for US-led strike on Syria

Russia's ambassador to the U.S. warned there would be "consequences" for the strike on Syria, and that a "pre-designed scenario" was underway.

My darling baby
This is a warning
Said that I'm leaving
On Monday morning
You'll get no answer
No use in calling, me
Cause I'm leaving on Monday morning

 ***We are in a conflagration already. Huge Iranian weapons depot. Everyone thinks it is Israel. Did tit for tat begin. We are on a pounder keg, the fuse has lit, but we can't get away from the blast. This is how incidents escalates into war. You get it, nobody knows who did it. Was it the Jews, the Americans, the Russians, maybe the Chinese or just a accident...everyone got a motive or agenda to do it. This could spin so fast out of control from everyone. Does the system make big war inevitable  I don't think we can get away from this war...   

The Times of Israel

A large-scale explosion was reported late Saturday at an Iranian weapons depot in Syria, according to Arabic-language media.

The depot, said to be one of the biggest in the country, is located in Mount Azzan near Aleppo and was reportedly being used by Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah and other Iranian militias in Syria.
Honestly, They deserve what they. They guys are tiny compared to us. Think if your were them. Under attack by the USA fro many years. We are blowing up their economy. We would not tolerate our politicians not doing nothing with another nation's hands around our throats. That is what I base my analysis on. The gas attack was a ploy to get a lot of US military around Syria. This is not over yet.
How about another bigger gas (serein)attack Sunday night or Monday morning. How would our stock market respond to that? Who said you go to war with the equipment you have?   
I wouldn't be surprised if another bigger attack happens in another few days. It really cost nothing and Trump gave them prior warning days before. It this a mutual suicide pack between Trump and Putin. 

 So another gas attack, they draw us a lot closer to Syria with sustained attacks. Then somethin big happens in another part of the world. We aren't going touch Russia first. Then Bam, they hit us with something big. 

 Anyway you look at it, I think the Russians think we are destroying their nation. What would we do if we were them? I'd stage a event the Americans would never forget. I wouldn't have my fingerprints on it either. 

 We are exhausting our military and resource's on provoking these guys and hanging around the area for years or decades twitting our thumbs. We need to ignore this  or any provocation or completely crush a group or nation. A quick humongous war that crushes them guys... a kind of war like we had with Germany or Japan. Reset the nation and give the message to everyone. A rest, refresh and rebuild time for the military, then they are ready for the next war. Cycle like this for a decade or more. These guys are going to exhaust us and turn our citizens against their government. Can you imagine our political system with these never ending wars and the hot spots just increase...a gigantic military sitting off the coast of many bad nation, always on a alert status, prematurely wearing out the equipment. What is that going to do to our highly polarized citizens and politics in a decade? It is not sustainable.                
April 10 2018 - 18:04
The Moscow Time: Russian Officials Shrug Off Steep Ruble Fall
The Russian government pledged to minimize the fallout from U.S. sanctions on Tuesday and dismissed steep falls in the ruble and financial markets as short-term volatility, saying Russia needed time to adjust to the new curbs.
The ruble fell sharply for a second day, shedding over 3 percent of its value against the dollar despite rising prices of oil, the country's main export, as investors continued an asset sell-off fuelled by fears that the United States could impose more sanctions and a realization that Russian credit and market risks have substantially increased.
Some rich Russians were dismissive about their losses, with one consoling himself with the thought he had once lost $1 billion in a single day.
"Being on the Russian stock market is like living on a volcano," he said.
The sanctions, announced on Friday, target officials and businesspeople around President Vladimir Putin in an aggressive response to alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
Analysts are struggling to understand how some of the businessmen targeted were chosen, however, adding to swirling uncertainty.
The Russian market is under additional pressure from a proposal by two U.S. congressmen to impose further sanctions on Russia over the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain — allegations Moscow denies.
The financial shock poses a potential political problem for President Vladimir Putin, who was re-elected last month and has promised to raise living standards and invest big in infrastructure, education and health…
April 14 9pm

Trump is a psychopathic liar. Everyone knows he is too. There is no reason he is not massive exaggerating the out come of this event. If this goes south, Putin going make a fool out of him, and we know that...we should have acted to knock out trump way before this. That outcome is going to be really traumatic. We might be in a low level existential shooting war, while we slowly impeach a president. It might be quick. It is going to be so traumatic for us and the rest of the world. The below NYT's excerpt validates my analysis there is no known plume or leak from the bombing.

He knows the people who can't counteract him and news media needs absolute proof its a terrible exaggeration. Do you think congress will act? He has gambled like that all his life and the billions always bailed him. Guessing the outcome of this Trump soulless exaggeration(it is a sure bet), it just not enough to impeach him in a emergency fashion or gin up media articles in time.

Right, it seems we are intentionally heading towards a concrete wall at high speeds, we can imagine the bloody and body parts details, but we are frozen in place with wide open eyes because good Americans are held hostage to following the rules. It there a completive advantage, where one American follows the rules and another breaks every rule or law he thinks he can get away with. My fellow Americans, brace for the crash you are not going to survive. It is a failure to act by everyone.          
April 14 8:30 pm NYT-A Hard Lesson in Syria: Assad Can Still Gas His Own People
So far, officials say, two factors make them wonder whether the facilities were still central to Syria’s program. At this point, there are no known casualties at the sites, which suggests that either no one was there during the evening, or they had been previously abandoned. And there are no reports of chemical agent leakage from the sites, despite attacks by more than 100 sea- and air-launched missiles.
Now, what was that bunker filled with bombs and poisonous gas about in Iraq war II. It was just post Sodom, our military was too busy cleaning up the mess country wide. We put our explosives in the bunker and blew it up. It was a gigantic explosion and thus a gigantic plume afterwards. We contaminated our troops for hundreds of mile around the bunker with nerve agents?     

Why the poisonous gas or liquid dry hole in the Syrian US military operation??? 

 So Mathis says this is a one off and trump says it will be a sustained campaign. It looks like PR pin prick. The Navy only used one ship to fire tomahawks...mostly this seems to be Air Force B-52 operation. Was the Navy too wounded to really get their feet wet. The US Navy was deeply involved in the strike and so far no indication of any failed ship. But it still puts a enormous burden on the Navy resources surrounding Syria in the serous weakened condition.   

 Suspicions

 You know big storage tanks of poisonous gas and tiny amounts of it can be detected? So has anyone detected any trace amount of poisonous gas anywhere in Syria. You would think there would be hundreds of off site Syrians dead in the streets because our gas bombing campaign. It would release enormous quantifies gas and the liquid would be vaporized into the air. It sounds the Russian held to their word...got rid of the gas in Syria?

 Conclusions

The poisonous substance came recently from outside Syria

Didn't trump really need a gigantic distraction from his Russian colluding problem. Maybe now Trump and Putin colluding to distract the American public from Trump's Russian impeachment problem? You know, jack up Trump's popularity in the face of Trump's impeachment. It that why there really is a dry poisonous gas hole in this harmless Syrian pin prick military problem? Boy he really need a distraction.

The soviets are smart as hell. You what would be a really spectacular US nation destabilization plan. The soviets making it appear like Trump and Putin are colluding on preventing trump from getting impeached. I still say the soviets and Iran had a agenda engineering this fake poisonous gas on the Syria poisoning their own people. I don't know what you would call this? A reverse black flag operation here somewhere?    

April 13 update

!!!Russia warn USA of Consequences after the Strike in Syria!!! 
Cold war: The DEFense readiness CONdition (DEFCON)
Why hasn't our nation and military been placed on a DEFCON 1 condition. Precautionary. 
A scenario happening just before the opening of the US stock market early Monday morning. We see a burning aircraft carrier, gigantic cruiser or sunk nuclear submarine on all our tvs just before the opening bell. Nobody has any idea who did it or any proof? I'd close the stock markets for a fews day on a presidential order!!!! 
What triggered the 1987 stock market crash
"Indeed, the panic selling may have been bolstered by the news that the United States Navy destroyed an Iranian offshore oil platform in the central Persian Gulf yesterday, and Iran vowed retaliation." 
The War

 Why did trump begin the war on Friday? He was waiting for our stock markets to shutdown for the weekend. Hopefully the bomb dust will be clear by the opening of our stock markets on Monday morning. Do you really remember what triggered the stock market collapse of 1987? Our markets were really fragile before the collapse. Our networks were flashing to us on our tvs a oil well burning in the Gulf of Arabia within the hours just before the opening of the markets. That is what set off the panic...       

Syria updates

 Big Navy fleet heading to Syria.  Trump wants a sustained air campaign over Syria. The defense people wants 100% proof it was Syria gas... In other words, delay, delay, delay. Meanwhile, Navy is in tough shape. I estimate 50%  to 75% of our ships will show up to degraded...most of these would fail quickly. I worry about them sinking a submarine. Our capital ships are crashing into other ships and are helicopters and aircraft are dropping out of sky like flies because the Navy is or was broke. Our military is in the worst shape since pre WW II. I think Gen Mathis is worried, win or lose....our military will collapse or embarrassed Mathus and Trump to know ends. I think the soviets engineered the gas attack. I think the Russians have been on the road to war with us for years. If this Syrian military campaign didn't happened over this gas attack, the soviets would have figured out a another way to get us on the certain road to war. This is all a US government destabilizing operation. They know how politically fragile our nation is and our military.  

Trump is getting ready to talk to the nation about a sustained Syrian military campaign at any moment. 

 The war begins right now!!!

 We could drastically change tonight. 

Mark my words, this really isn't primarily a soviets military or war campaign against the USA. There intent is to collapse our western financial systems and stock markets...

 Trump is preparing us right now to go to war with Iran!!!!

 I'll bet you right now Israel is on their highest state alert. Why isn't Israel is this coalition?  I'll bet you if Iran blows wind, the Jews will bomb the shit out of them until Syria gives up.       

 They isn't a better friend in the world to the USA than Israel and their Jews... None tighter than us. We are one!!!

 reposted from April 13
   

***Their intent is crash our stock markets and crater our financial system...

 The drums of war: 
'We have no fear': Retired Russian admiral says Russia will sink US ships if need be
Russian President Putin watches the launch of a missile during naval exercises in Russia’s Arctic North on board the nuclear missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky (Peter the Great), Aug. 17, 2005 REUTERS/ITAR-TASS/PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE


·        A former Russian navy admiral upped the ongoing war of words between the US and Russia.


·        Retired Admiral Vladimir Masorin said Russia would sink the USS Donald Cook if it fired on Syria.


·        The Cook is currently in the Mediterranean. 


A former Russian navy admiral upped the ongoing war of words between the US and Russia on Friday by saying the Russian navy would sink the USS Donald Cook, a guided-missile destroyer in the region, if it carries out a strike on Syria.


Here's what retired Admiral Vladimir Masorin told Russian television:


"It is unlikely that we will have to sink the Donald Cook. Yet, a torpedo is a very effective weapon that causes considerable damage to a vessel. Clearly, we are going to deal with a lot of pressure, but war is a dangerous thing for the Americans in the first place. They live in a completely different world over there, but we have no fear, we are fed up with the Americans, they are like a burr in the saddle." 
Similarly, Syria reportedly promised to defend itself if attacked, though it's unclear what that means, as they have little capability to wage war against the US.
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Our Diesel Generators At Nuclear Plants Are Ungoing An Unexspected Severe Attack

Why all the Part 21s on safety related DGs. Like relays And A Pressure Regulator. 


 Refurbished Pressure Regulator Assembly, P/N 1776 506
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Thursday, April 12, 2018

A State Police Whistleblower Tip To The Chairman Ma House Ways and Means Committee

Update April 13
I am convinced my fingerprint scanner problem is under serous investigations with a assortment of Ma agencies and political entities.    
Michael Mulligan <steamshovel2002@yahoo.com>
To:Jeffrey.sanchez@mahouse.gov
‎Apr‎ ‎12 at ‎10‎:‎10‎ ‎AM


Mr.. Sanchez 

I am the guy who gave the Boston Globe the first overtime tip that kicked off the current scandal.

So at the end of March, I got another tip from a state police officer. It concerned a broken fingerprint scanner at the Russell Ma Barrack. I schemed up a way for me to get arrested by state police, to get processed though the Russell barracks. I got arrested for trespassing at the Cobble Mountain reservoir for trespassing by the state police and two days later in court effectively got the charges thrown our of court.   

1) The Russell fingerprint scanner is horribly defective. The Springfield barracks scanner has the same problem. Out of about 60 scans of my fingers, only one finger print was properly scanned into the machine. I watched multitudes of computer warning windows pop-ups right before my eyes saying "caution the scan didn't capture the proper quality print". I watched a state police new hire get trained on how to use the "override" button.    

2)  A group of troopers refused to take fingerprints as protest, trying to get attention of upper management. I have no idea how many arrestees didn't get fingerprints. I heard, the troopers who staged this whistleblowers protest scheme finally got caught by upper management. They got a severe tongue lashing and some other kind of administrative actions, but the fingerprint scanner never got fixed. I suspect somebody is covering up for senior managers with this kind of discipline. The intimidation of troopers to raise problems to upper management is more of a issue to me than the defective scanner.   
3) These are computer and digitalized systems. You could easily get the scope of this problem by getting the state police to tell you how many times state wide, the fingerprint scanner's "override" push button has been used. A graph of the "override" button used and time. You could break it down to individual barracks level.

 4) My experience tells me this a contract, purchase, and vender fraud and corruption problem. They are trade kickbacks or favors for poor quality state police equipment. I suspect this is the tip of the iceberg. It is everywhere within the state police purchasing, contracting and vendor system. God only knows if this is everywhere within government.

5) I requested the state police revert to the ink and paper fingerprint method for all defective scanners state wide. I also requested the state police preserve all camera and voice recording during my arrest processing in the Russell barracks. I would like a copy of it.  

I never have any confidentiality or anonymity needs. But I will protect the whistleblower who contacted me. Would you pass this on to all the committee members and anyone else you see fit. I have made complaints to the state police themselves, hours with the IG and Internal Affairs. I just don't trust any of these guys. I will only think the system is dealing this with integrity if I see the fingerprint scanner issues in a major newspaper.

You or your investigators can call me anytime.

Sincerely,       

Mike Mulligan 
Hinsdale, NH 

Home: 16033368320
Cell: 16032094206 

PS-I got everything documented on my blog beginning at the middle of March.It is all is a bit wordy, but it helps me think.


  



March 25, 2018

Your Honor Respectfully,

I basically I made a AIRE like police complaint to the “MSP Citizen Response Report (POV)” in early 20017. It was a mass collection of police cruisers sitting in the breakdown lane  on I 91 abutting the Holyoke Mall. I am thinking eight or more police cruisers sitting in the breakdown lane on both sides. The area was dark and curvy. It was really a bad and unsafety area to be having this kind of thing. They had their flasher blinding us and not a civilian car to be seen with the police cruisers.
I thought it was a police quota type of deal. Maybe an overtime abuse type of thing. Later, I realize the state police were staging a fleet of police cruisers on I 91 nefarious purposes. They were looking into our cars without ethical probable cause. In mass quantities. I have an assortment of other issues on this to justify my position.

One of them being science. You do these mass state police stunts, then you measure the accident suppression results. I doubt the state police has any evidence this works at all over history. You and I know, the only way you can control the accident rate on an interstate like I91, is to drastically reduce the speed limit or redesign the road. Then enforce the speed limits. Everything else is for show or it inflate the image of the state police. This AIRE type thing was to make the state police feel better, not make the public safer.
Here is my bog posting on my early thinking. It kind of a scratch or note pad to help me think…a contemporaneous log book thing. I am a whistleblower…I have seen and reported a lot of corruption over the last few decades. To tell you the truth, everyone calls me nuts and hates my guts.
Massachusetts State Police In illegal Alien or Terrorism Alert On I-91?
https://steamshovel2002.blogspot.com/2017/02/massachusetts-state-police-in-illegal.html
Recently because of the state police corruption all around, I resubmitted that early 2017 complaint. I didn’t think the POV recorded my complaint and I called it a coverup. Last week I spoke to state inspector general and the Ma state police internal affairs (for about an hour) over this 2017 complaint. I emailed my coverup complaint to this very same agency. Towards the end of the week, is when the digital electronic fingerprint reader problem came to my attention (fell in my lap). I’ll bet you my fingerprint machine issue is a good one for the Ma IG.
 
A important broken tool like this for the troopers, it can devastatingly effect the moral of a group. If my bosses don’t care about my working environment, why should I. My aim to make a better working environment for the bottom level troopers. They have a very dangerous job. I just want best quality tools money can buy for the Ma troopers. This is how they serve the peoples of Massachusetts most efficiently and effectively. 
“Donald, (Me to Donald)

Just watch this. I am going to clean up state police bureaucracy. One the largest state police contractual kickback and corruption cases in the state history. I'd stood in front of a electronic state police fingerprint reader for about an hour yesterday. Remember, I have only ten fingers. I was in the Russell Barracks. They attempted to read my fingerprints some 60 times yesterday. They got maybe one high quality readable print into their system out of this mess. The rest were poor quality and unreadable. Extremely poor quality prints were stuffed into the state system through an override button. I’d seen the multitudes of caution windows right before my eyes   The machine was only successful and recorded readable and high quality fingerprints in less than 1% of the time. That is definitely not a 1% error rate??? 

I know the Springfield Barracks has the same problem. I suspect this is going throughout the state. I know multitudes of troopers protested about this shity component by not checking in or putting fingerprints into the system. The just didn't take any fingerprints during in-processing, which is strictly against police policy and ethics. The key phrase to ask, how many times state wide has the fingerprint reader override buttons been used in the last year?
I know senior management intimidated the lower lever troopers into not complaining...to protect the high level fraudulent contracting and the state police senior leadership... Basically the two troopers right in front of my eyes were knowingly, like a machine themselves…were cramming the unreadable fingerprints into the state police system though the override button. What is the extent cause and condition with this widespread lemon device? How long has this been going on. How many unreadable fingerprints are in the system. You could let a really bad guy through the grasp of the Ma state police or any police department in the nation. What does the state police use fingerprints for?
 
I got this all recorded. It is in their system. I am sure the new digital fingerprints machine records everything. The arrest processing area is all video cam'd up and bugged. Sometimes bad criminals say the most incriminating things in this processing area.”

Sincerely,

Mike Mulligan
Hinsdale, NH
cell phone-16032094206

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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Relationship Between FitzPatrick's and Pilgrim's Junk SRVs

NRC INFORMATION NOTICE 2018-02: TESTING AND OPERATIONS-INDUCED DEGRADATION OF 3-STAGE TARGET ROCK SAFETY RELIEF VALVES

 This is the most current description with Fitz's SRV problems. Oh hell, Fitz removed other experimental 3 stage valves. 
The licensee for Fitzpatrick removed two of its three Model 0867F 3-stage Target Rock SRVs in June and July of 2016.  One of these valves exhibited degradation similar to that seen at Pilgrim and Hatch, although the fretting wear in the main cylinder was not as severe.  The third 3-stage SRV was replaced in January 2017 and did not exhibit any degradation similar to Pilgrim and Hatch. All three 3-stage SRVs were replaced with 2-stage Target Rock SRVs. 
***The Fitzpatrick SRVs are identical to Pilgrims whether a 2 stage or 3 stage safety relief valves. Effectively the Fitzpatrick is now in the exact position as a Pilgrim was in 2011. They realize their 2 stage  valves are unreliable and prone to corrosion in delicate parts. They are planning to update the unreliable 2 stage to the 3 stage model. You get it, these plants first had 3 stage valves installed in them. The 3 stage became known as unreliable and leakage prone. The new efficient design became the 2 stage design. Post 2015 Pilgrim blizzard, Entergy decided the 3 stage was too dangerous to put back into the plant. Pilgrim has 2 stage valves in them now. I am going assume anyone reading my blog is stupid.  Yet Fitzpatrick is heading now for the experimental 3 stage that failed in Pilgrim, are too dangerous to be put back into their plant.

They are all nuts!!!

Its all a charade.
Licensee Event Report 2018-003-00, Target Rock Relief Valve Pilot Assembly Failed As-Found Lift Test, a Condition Prohibited by Plant Technical Specifications

CAUSE OF THE EVENT

The cause of the as-found initial lift pressure exceeding the TS tolerance limit for the pilot valve was determined To be corrosion bonding. The relief valve (SN· 1025) set point was below 1189.6 psig during subsequent lifts, which is within the allowable range. The performance exhibited by SN 1025 is consistent with corrosion bonding between the Stellite 21 disc and Stellite 6 seat. The corrosion bonding is a time dependent process that develops to varying levels of severity. The installed pilot valve assemblies have Stellite 68 discs with a platinum coating applied using the IBAD process. The objective of the change to the Stellite 68 platinum coated discs was to minimize corrosion bonding.
Come on, satellite 21, Stellite 6, Stellite 68 and platinum, all add on exotic materials chasing this mysterious  corrosion. One licensee says its because the materials on the disk and seat don’t have a oxidation coating them. They are installed as bright and shiny metals. These guys are all over the place. There is a agenda under it all. No manufacturer of valves will build these valves. There replacement.    
Remember in 2011 these guys installed the 3 stage SRVs. These new valves promptly began leaking within one month of first heatup. The unreliable valves dogged the plant until two valves were discovered non operable during a 2015 blizzard, scram and all lost of all offsite power. This event caused the plant to be declared the worst plant in the nation.
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Fitzpatrick SRV Setpoint Testing: All But One Failed Testing Including The Experimental Valve

Reposted from 4/9

***The experimental 3 stage valve that failed testing, this exact designed valve is scheduled to replace the 2 stage valves next outage!!!!

Basically a total of ten Valves. Nine the 2 stage and one valve a experimental  3 stage valve.

Eight of the 2 stage valves failed their testing. These guys are notorious with failing their pressure setpoint testing. They are preparing to replace their 2 stage valve with the experimental 3 stage valve'

The only experimental 3 stage valve failed its setpoint testing.

They got to get rid of these dangerous valve across the industry. But nobody will supply these kinds of valves to the industry.


Background The ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code requires the reactor pressure vessel be protected from overpressure during upset conditions by self-actuated safety valves. As part of the nuclear pressure relief system, the size and number of SIRVs are selected such that peak pressure in the Reactor Coolant Pressure Boundary (RCPB) will not exceed the ASME Code limits.

The James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant (JAF) used ten (10) two-stage and one (1) three-stage Target Rock Safety/Relief Valves (S/RV) [EIIS Identifier: SB] for emergency pressure relief during operating Cycle 22. These valves are located on the main steam lines between the reactor vessel, and the first isolation valve within the drywell. Each S/RV discharges steam through a discharge line to a point below the minimum water level in the suppression pool.

The pilots that are removed are sent to a vendor facility for testing, refurbishment, and certification. The test results for pilot assemblies removed in 2017, during Refueling Outage 22, identified ten (10) S/RV pilot assemblies that were out of allowable tolerance. Nine (9) of the pilots (all two-stage) lifted at greater than the allowable setpoint range, and one (three-stage) lifted at less than the allowable setpoint range.

In order to address the concerns with corrosion bonding, JAF will commence replacement of two-stage with three-stage Target Rock S/RVs in the next Refueling Outage (RO). Industry experience has shown that the three stage S/RVs are less susceptible to corrosion bonding. The design of the three-stage S/RVs produces a greater mechanical force on opening, resulting in a greater likelihood of overcoming any potential effects of corrosion bonding that might occur.

Event Description

As-Found testing was performed on all eleven main S/RV pilot assemblies removed in 2017, during R022. The testing was conducted by NWS Technologies. The TS setpoint for each S/RV is 1145 +1- 34.3. During the initial lift test, ten of the eleven pilot assemblies failed to open within the allowable range (1110.7 to 1179.3). Nine of the ten two-stage and the three-stage S/RV pilot failed high and low outside the allowable range, respectively. As-Found failed test results are tabulated below.
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Palo Verde 1, 2 and 3: Why All The Shutdowns And Reduced Power Levels?

Ok, so when did this begin. This is a attack on the stock price of APS... Better yet, he is smart. He is attacking the financing of the single ideology with the utility sector. Then we have backlash from the Trump era.

Can anyone see the implications if he wins...
Billionaire Energy Speculator Tom Steyer Bankrolls Arizona Initiative That Would Close America’s Single Largest Source Of Clean Energy – OpEd
Tom Steyer, a billionaire energy speculator, is bank-rolling an Arizona ballot initiative that would prematurely close the state’s sole nuclear plant — which is also America’s largest single source of clean energy — and replace it with fossil fuels.
If Steyer’s ballot initiative succeeds, Palo Verde will close in 2024 instead of in 2044, according to its operator, Arizona Public Service (APS).
Steyer’s ballot proposal, which will be voted on this November, would require 50 percent of Arizona’s electricity to come from renewable sources like solar and wind — an increase from 13 percent today (over half of which is from hydro-electric dams).
The initiative excludes nuclear from the clean energy mandate even though the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finds nuclear produces one-quarter of the emissions of solar.
If it passes, the initiative would only increase the share of the state’s electricity from clean energy sources by four percent. In 2017, Arizona generated 46 percent of its electricity from clean energy source — 79 percent of which came from Palo Verde.
In order to accommodate such a large increase in intermittent energy from solar and wind, APS would need to close Palo Verde and replace it with natural gas, APS says.
If Palo Verde is replaced entirely by natural gas, carbon emissions in Arizona would increase by the equivalent of adding 2.8 million cars to the road.
Steyer’s wealth derives heavily from his investments in fossil fuels and renewables. A colleague of Steyer’s told The New York Times in 2014 that Steyer’s firm was “like an anchor in the Indonesian coal industry… By drawing money to an overlooked sector, they helped expand the coal industry there.”

Hmm, energy mandates becoming popular and recent big decline in their stock price. Is Arizona going blue...

***Are there financial pressures affecting this gigantic nuclear plant? These guys capacity factor have been  jumping around a lot. I remember back in the early 2000s when management was stricken with a severe self inflected mental illness. Basically they believed in one of these fly by night management books...they slashed management and instituted massive budget cuts. The employees were totally disillusioned. This is the first recorded decline of a nuclear facility caused by a errant ideology.  After much delay, the NRC finally kicked some ass and brought the facility back under adult control.

Basically, faster, cheaper better...slash the so called useless levels of management to the bone...

Then the diesel generator issues today and back in the 2000s. In this facility, the DGs seemed to be the weak link with broad-based resource problems.
 Wiki:

Safety concerns

In an Arizona Republic article dated February 22, 2007, it was announced that the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) had decided to place Palo Verde into Category 4, making it one of the most closely monitored nuclear power plants in the United States. The decision was made after the INPO discovered that electrical relays in a diesel generator did not function during tests in July and September 2006.

The finding came as the "final straw" for INPO, after Palo Verde had several citations over safety concerns and violations over the preceding years, starting with the finding of a 'dry pipe' in the plant's emergency core-cooling system in 2004.[14]

During a March 24, 2009, public meeting, the NRC announced that it cleared the Confirmatory Action Letter (CAL) and has returned Palo Verde to Column 1 on the NRC Action Matrix. The commission's letter stated that "The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined that the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station has made sufficient performance improvement that it can reduce its level of inspection oversight." "Performance at Palo Verde has improved substantially and we are adjusting our oversight accordingly. 
These gigantic facilities decline unseen by outsiders until component degradations and poor judgement begin to be seen by outsiders. So then the NRC and management gets their panties in a bunch... It maybe take mouths or even years before they get the facility under control. Even as the facility is flooded  with new resources, equipment problems and judgment show a terrible decline.
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