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WASHINGTON — A container of radioactive equipment turned up at a
\n shipping facility in Chelsea this week, prompting a Massachusetts congressman
\n to call for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to keep better track of
\n materials that terrorists could use to launch a ”dirty bomb" attack.<\/p>\n
The container held devices that use the radioactive element americium
\n to probe oil wells. It had been imported from Russia by Halliburton Energy
\n Services and was bound for Houston, but was shipped from Newark to Boston
\n by mistake.<\/p>\n
The Halliburton Co. shipment of radioactive material went missing in
\n October but the company didn’t alert government authorities until this
\n week,
\n Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n
Wasn’t it just a couple of weeks ago that the entire law enforcement Do The Orwellian transformation of American society rolls on. The from the WASHINGTON — A container of radioactive equipment turned up at a shipping facility in Chelsea this week, prompting a Massachusetts congressman to call for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to keep better track of materials that terrorists could use to launch … Continue reading
\n establishment of Massachusetts, backed by the shadowy squads of WMD SQUAT
\n teams with everything from bomb-sniffing dogs to mobile radiation detectors
\n and secret satellite imagery were scouring the area for evidence of a reported
\n "Dirty bomb"<\/a> squadron? And this stuff was sitting in a
\n warehouse in Chelsea, between the bodegas and taquerias, and they didn’t
\n have a clue?<\/em><\/p>\n
\n stories like this make anyone else feel that the homeland is less than
\n completely secure? Is this part of a government-sponsored psychological
\n campaign to keep Americans on the edge of their seats, deeply rooted
\n in semi-conscious
\n terror, or merely more evidence of potentially deadly incompetence?
\n Does the insidious involvement of Haliburton, emerging as a sort of
\n corporate KGB, argue in favor of either of these possibilities, or
\n of both simultaneously?<\/em><\/p>\n
\n Department of Homeland Security has us feeling profoundly insecure. The
\n War Against Terrorism has us personally terrified. The ingenuous imbecility
\n of the "intelligence" community has lured us into a vicious war to establish
\n peace and democracy. Go figure. Go Patriots.<\/em><\/p>\n
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