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#MorningMonarchy: May 31, 2016
Floppy nukes, professional trolls and phone jamming + this day in history w/”The Karnival Kid” and our song of the day by Capyac on your Morning Monarchy for May 31, 2016.
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Is America’s Food Safety System at Risk for a Terrorist Attack?
According to the Government Accountability Office, the United States’ food supply isn’t prepared for a major disaster.
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Last of US’s Most Powerful Nuclear Bombs Dismantled In Texas
The last of a powerful class of nuclear weapons introduced into the U.S. arsenal at the height of the Cold War in 1962 was being dismantled on Tuesday at a nuclear weapons storage facility outside Amarillo, Texas.
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Banned In US, Horse Slaughter Just Moves Across Borders
The closing of the country’s last meat processing plant that slaughtered horses for human consumption was hailed as a victory for equine welfare. But five years later just as many American horses are destined for dinner plates to satisfy the still robust appetites for their meat in Europe and Asia.
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fbi lab reports on anthrax attacks suggest another miscue
from mcclatchy: Buried in FBI laboratory reports about the anthrax mail attacks that killed five people in 2001 is data suggesting that a chemical may have been added to try to heighten the powder’s potency, a move that some experts say exceeded the expertise of the presumed killer… The apparent failure of the FBI to…
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govt paid off $62m in student loans for federal employees
or more specifically: doj, dod, sec & state dept employees from allgov: Wouldn’t it be nice if your employer paid your student loans for you? That’s what the federal government has been doing the past eight years for a select group of government employees. A report from the Office of Personnel Management shows 36 agencies…
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Defcon 3/9: Einstein, CyberShield & Serious Defects
Obama’s cybersecurity initiative puts NSA in driver’s seat // Fmr DNI calls for ‘re-engineering’ the internet // Time’s running out – Einstein’s coming: Cybershield disclosed by White House // Uncle Cyber Scam wants you // Cyberczar Schmidt says ‘there is no cyberwar’
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investigators easily smuggled bomb materials into govt buildings
but no one could have planted bombs in the wtc without being detected, could they?from washington’s blog: As Raw Story notes: A Government Accountability Office investigator smuggled live bomb components into a federal building in just 27 seconds, then assembled a bomb in a restroom and ventured throughout the building without being detected, a leaked…
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los alamos: nuke violations & classified info breaches
from danger room: There have been so many security and safety meltdowns at Los Alamos over the last five years, it’s hard to keep ’em all straight (well, at least the ones that don’t involved meth labs). But now, the investigators at the Government Accountability Office have put a half-decade of scandals into a single…
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Auditors: Billions Squandered In Iraq
from ap/yahoo: About $10 billion has been squandered by the U.S. government on Iraq reconstruction aid because of contractor overcharges and unsupported expenses, and federal investigators warned Thursday that significantly more taxpayer money is at risk. The three top auditors overseeing work in Iraq told a House committee their review of $57 billion in Iraq…