We Can Now See the Massachusetts's Shadow Government or Deep State In the State Police Scandal

You want my opinion with what is going on here? The Ma politicians are bribing the top echelon of the state police with massively excessive and unnecessary overtime. It is the symbiosis of corruption between the Ma politicians and state police. It is relationship corruption... Who is in over all charge of the 

Wiki-In the United States the term "deep state" is used by politicians and the media to describe influential decision-making bodies believed to be within government who are relatively permanent and whose policies and long-term plans are unaffected by changing administrations. The term is often used in a critical sense, vis-à-vis, the general electorate to refer to the lack of influence popular democracy has on these institutions and the decisions they make as a shadow government.[1][2] The term was originally coined in a somewhat pejorative sense to refer to similar relatively invisible state apparatus in Turkey and post-Soviet Russia.[

The term "deep state" was defined in 2014 by Mike Lofgren, a former Republican U.S. congressional aide, as "a hybrid association of elements of government and parts of top-level finance and industry that is effectively able to govern the United States without reference to the consent of the governed as expressed through the formal political process.

system and she must have unimaginable and unconstrained political power and outside organizational advantage. It advantages the upper class in Ma and disadvantages everyone else. And we are still looking for Serpico though? 

The small town Massachusetts's version of a shadow government or deep state. Believe me, these guys are apolitical...above politics. They control the politicians at the highest levels and everything else. It is the only thing that fits with this state police scandal and the response of the politicians. I bet you I am damn close...

I am not a Republican and the Democrats have irrevocably broken my heart. I am certainty not a independent. I don't even know what political faction in the USA I belong too. 

I am just a simple vagabond. I am not so naïve to know we just might need a deep state with out chaotic and dysfunctional political system. We do need a centralized force to keep our nation cohesive. We'd be just another *hithole nation without a centralized national control force.

How Much Of This Shit Is Going On All Around Us?

Collectively the good people know this stuff is going on all around us. I guess they are satisfied with the life they got or just keep going on based on survival. Another good excuse leading to irreparable damage to the planet, is I knowingly tolerate corruption in order to feed my family.This is going to continue on till infinity until the good people get fed up with the shallow lives they live. You know, what constitutes living a better life. Is it more money and shallow associations all through your life?

The increasing disorder of the world is caused by opacity. Many gain unjust advantage from it.   

Widow seeks "truth" amid patient deaths at renowned heart transplant program

Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston has temporarily closed its world-renowned heart transplant program following an investigation by the Houston Chronicle and ProPublica that revealed the departure of several top doctors and an unusual number of patient deaths in recent years.

"You know, everybody said it was the best, the best place to go," Judy Kveton told CBS News' Mark Strassmann. Her husband, David, had one last chance at life: a heart transplant at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center. She claims the surgeon told her the operation in 2017 went well, but the 64-year-old needed six more surgeries over the next week and never woke up. She said that was before more bad news.

"He said, 'But you know we're going to have to take this heart out and put an artificial heart in'… And I said, 'Why?' And he said, 'Well this heart just isn't acting right,'" Judy recalled.

Essentially, he was back to square one. That night, David had a stroke. His wife says she waited half a day before a neurologist would talk to her.

"He confirmed he was brain dead. And we turned the machines off," Judy said.

The surgeon was Dr. Jeffrey Morgan, the program's surgical director. He didn't respond to CBS News' request for comment, but he defended himself to Pro Publica, saying he did tell the Kveton family that David was "critically ill." Morgan was hired in 2016 to fix the program. St. Luke's one-year survival rate in the year-and-a-half prior was 84.2 percent, below the national average of more than ninety percent. The hospital made changes and said its survival rate jumped to about 94 percent by 2017 before plummeting again this year.

Dr. Tariq Ahmad is an assistant professor of cardiology at the Yale School of Medicine. He explained how to evaluate heart transplant programs.

"Heart transplantion is a very high stakes game," Ahmad said. "Transplant programs have a one-year survival of more than 90 percent. There may be slight variations around this, but that should be the outcomes of a transplant program."

St. Luke's performed nine heart transplants in 2018 and, according to CEO Doug Lawson, they've had three deaths so far.

"So that's not an acceptable percentage to you?" Strassmann asked. "Not at all," Lawson replied.

He suspended the program on June 1 for a two-week review after two transplant patients died in May.

"We're gonna look at the total body of work. We're gonna look at the individual members of the team," Lawson said. "The question that we always ask ourselves is what could we do better?"
But some St. Luke's doctors were so outraged, they left, including Deborah Meyers, the former medical director of the St. Luke's Heart Failure Program. In a scathing letter to the hospital president, Meyers called the program a "debacle" and blamed self-inflicted wounds: "greed, careerism, corporate takeovers, appalling administrative oversight and failure of leadership." Lawson called her letter "disappointing."

"We have an equal number of professionals who are very committed to this program and feel very strongly that we're providing great care," Lawson said.

Judy Kveton got an anonymous letter two months after her husband died, she believes from someone inside St. Luke's. It blamed administrators and chronic program issues for her husband's death.

"People deserve the truth. They need the truth. Yes, it's hard to cope with the truth but that's better than finding out everything was a lie," Judy said.

Privacy laws prevent the hospital from discussing specifics of the Kveton case but Lawson says transparency is another focus of the ongoing review. To the idea that people are walking away from his hospital feeling like they hadn't been told the truth, Lawson replied, "Communicating transparently with our patients is a core value for us. Anything less than that is not acceptable."

The hospital's review of the transplant program should be released late Thursday. Recommendations could range from making adjustments and restarting the program to a major overhaul that continues its suspension. Either way, Judy Kveton said, "I just want the deaths to stop."

What Is This?

Is it a temporary screwup or a permanent change? I am going with it is a temporary misfire for now.

Power Reactor Status Report for June 12, 2018

UNEVALUATED INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE FACILITY

On this page:

• Region 1 Reactors
• Region 2 Reactors
• Region 3 Reactors
• Region 4 Reactors

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Notes:

• Reactor status data collected between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m. each day.
• All times are based on eastern time.
• Additional plant status information is made available on the web page after 28 days.

 

First Time NRC's Commissioners Up To Full Strength Since 2014

First Time NRC's Commissioner Up To Full Strength Since 2014. More of the same!!! Nome of these guys have actually held a worked in a position in a nuclear plant. 

Senate confirms Caputo, Wright, and Baran to serve as US NRC commissioners

Washington (Platts)--24 May 2018 643 pm EDT/2243 GMT

The US Senate confirmed Thursday, by unanimous consent, the appointments of Annie Caputo and David Wright to serve

Dave is a corrupt South Carolina politician and no nuclear power deep experience.  Annie is owned by Exelon, basically only worked for politicians as a coffee girl. They are pathetically weak on the dirty inside work at a real nuclear plant.    

five-year terms on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and confirmed Commissioner Jeff Baran for a second five-year term.

Caputo and Wright will join Baran, Chairman Kristine Svinicki, and Commissioner Stephen Burns on the five-member commission, which now has no vacancies for the first time since then-Chairman Allison Macfarlane resigned in December 2014 to take an academic position at George Washington University.

The Senate confirmation avoids the commission losing its quorum June 30, when Baran's current term expires.

President Donald Trump nominated Caputo and Wright to the commission in May 2017 and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works approved their nominations in July. But a vote by the full Senate on the nominations was delayed by months, in part because Senate Democrats wanted to ensure Baran was also nominated for another term and that the three nominees were voted on as a single package. Trump nominated Baran in September.

Under the Atomic Energy Act, there can be no more than three NRC commissioners from any single political party, and they serve staggered five-year terms. Svinicki, Caputo and Wright are Republicans. Baran is a Democrat and Commissioner Stephen Burns is an independent. Burns' term ends June 30, 2019. Svinicki's term ends June 30, 2022.

Caputo, a nuclear engineer, is majority senior policy adviser for nuclear issues for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that oversees NRC. Before joining committee staff, Caputo worked as a staffer for the House of Representatives' Energy & Commerce Committee and, prior to that, she was congressional affairs manager for Exelon.

Wright is the owner of Wright Directions LLC, a strategic consulting and communications business. From March 2004

Lucky he is not in jail over the Summer nuclear fiasco? He hails from one of the most corrupt system and state oversight organizations.  

until June 2013, he served as a commissioner on the South Carolina Public Service Commission and was the PSC's chairman from July 2012 to June 2013. Wright also us former president of the Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. Wright was president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners in 2011-2012. --Steven Dolley, steven.dolley@spglobal.com

Westinghouse Asked Summer To Withhold Documents To Protect The Vogtle New Build

All I can say, when is the army of FBI ants going to show up a Vogtle? You got to know, the southern company is shitting their pants over the possibility.

I thought the NRC was treating my vogtle complaint extremely strangely over Summer's non qualified engineers and fraudulent safety parts installed at Summer NRC complaint, which is identical to the as yet disclosed Vogtle non qualified engineers and installed fraudulent safety parts. I told them Summer's problem are identical to the non disclosed Vogtle problems. A honest dummy could put it together!!!      

"SCE&G misled lawmakers about critical nuclear report, state agency says"

"The Regulatory Staff filings support concerns by lawmakers that SCE&G was not truthful with elected officials."

SCE&G executives misled S.C. legislators about why a report was commissioned to investigate troubles at the failing V.C. Summer nuclear expansion project, state regulators say.

In sworn testimony to lawmakers last fall, Kevin Marsh, then chief executive of SCE&G and its parent company SCANA, told legislators the Bechtel Corp. was hired to complete a study on problems at the ill-fated project to help prepare for a possible lawsuit against Westinghouse, the project's lead contractor.

Because the report — kept secret until after the V.C. Summer project collapsed — was part of an anticipated lawsuit, it could remain confidential from regulators, legislators and the public, utility officials told legislators last fall.

However, in filings late Wednesday with the S.C. Public Service Commission, regulators at the state Office of Regulatory Staff said the Bechtel report was put together to assess what was going wrong with the construction of two new nuclear reactors northwest of Columbia, not to support a lawsuit.

"There are substantial circumstances, and previously secret communications and documents that show the owners did not hire Bechtel" in anticipation of a lawsuit against Westinghouse, Regulatory Staff said in Wednesday's filing.

Matthew Richardson, an attorney for Regulatory Staff, said in a written statement, “Documents we have discovered indicate SCE&G has been more interested in protecting its profits than the customers.''

The Regulatory Staff filings support concerns by lawmakers that SCE&G was not truthful with elected officials as they held public hearings into the failure of the massive nuclear project.

The Regulatory Staff filings are part of the agency's effort to obtain thousands of pages of SCE&G records that it says could justify cutting power bills for 700,000-plus SCE&G customers, who still are paying for the failed nuclear project. Among those records are documents related to the Bechtel report. Wednesday's filings ask the PSC to force release of SCE&G records.

“One of my biggest concerns all along was that the utilities, SCE&G and Santee Cooper, were not being completely straightforward with us,’’ said state Sen. Shane Massey, R-Edgefield. “They were misleading us.’’

More: More secrecy at SCE&G? Utility won't give up V.C. Summer records, state agency says

State Rep. Peter McCoy, R-Charleston, said the Regulatory Staff findings reinforce concerns "that they did not want (information) getting out under any circumstances.''

Instead, SCE&G was scrambling to protect "their bottom dollar,' said McCoy, who — like Massey — was on a legislative committee that investigated the nuclear debacle.

SCE&G spokesman Eric Boomhower disputed criticism leveled at his company by the ORS.

"When the full story of Bechtel report is made public, it will be clear that the assertions by ORS are invalid and misleading,'' Boomhower said in an email Wednesday night. "Because of serious legal and regulatory limitations, we are not at liberty to debate these issues in the public arena at this time. We look forward to the time when the complete story will be available to everyone. ​''

In Wednesday's filings, Regulatory Staff cited a memo from the chief executive at SCE&G's junior partner in the V.C. Summer project, the state-owned Santee Cooper utility, saying the Bechtel report "never" was "intended to position (V.C. Summer's) owners for litigation."

The agency also cited another memo from Santee Cooper saying suing Westinghouse, V.C. Summer's lead contractor, would not accomplish much. That was because SCE&G and Santee Cooper had agreed they could recover no more than $150 million in a lawsuit unless they could prove fraud. When abandoned last July, the decade-long V.C. Summer expansion project already had cost far more — roughly $9 billion.

More: FBI agents flock to VC Summer site as part of probe into SC's failed nuclear project

Documents released Wednesday by Regulatory Staff indicate the Bechtel report was kept confidential at the insistence of Westinghouse. Westinghouse wanted protection from legal liability at another nuclear construction project that it was in charge of, the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion effort in Georgia, records show.