[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The Supreme Court dismissed tribal objections to a Navajo inmate's scheduled execution, declining to block the convicted murderer's punishment.On Wednesday, the high court issued their decision declining to stop 38-year-old Lezmond Mitchell's execution without any noted objections from justices. Mitchell was found guilty of stabbing an elderly woman to death before killing her 9-year-old granddaughter by slitting her throat.
"The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied," the document reads.
Jared Touchin, a front man for the Navajo Nation office of the president and vice president, sought clemency from the Trump administration, asking for Mitchell to be given a life sentence instead of the death penalty . "The Navajo Nation is respectfully requesting a commutation of the death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... and the imposition of a life sentence for Mr. Mitchell," Touchin said. "This request honors our religious and traditional beliefs, the Navajo Nation’s long-standing position on the death penalty for Native Americans."
Mitchell is scheduled to be executed Wednesday evening at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Last year, Attorney General William Barr ordered the federal government to resume executions, beginning with five men convicted of murdering or raping children and the elderly. They are the first federal punishments of death carried out since 2003.
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That obummer federal judge in DC tried to stop this one too. That was strike three, but then again, this ain't baseball.
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And #5 is also outta here, child kidnapper / rapist / murder Keith Nelson declared dead shortly after 4:30 pm local time in Terre Haute. Judge Tanya was overturned yet again.
Two in one week. Probably as close as they will ever come to what crime writer Joe Gores referred to as "a double header."
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^ Posted that for tomorrow
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[Guardian] A South African conservationist has been killed by lions he hand-reared. West Mathewson, 69, was walking two white lionesses on Wednesday when one of the animals attacked and killed him without warning, his family said on Thursday.
The incident took place on the premises of the family-owned Lion Tree Top Lodge, in South Africa’s northern Limpopo province.
Known as "Uncle West", Mathewson had raised the lions since they were cubs and was used to interacting with them.
Mathewson’s wife Gill, 65, was driving behind her husband when the lion attacked. "She tried her best to rescue her husband, but was unable to do so," family attorney Marina Botha said in a statement.
[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... said on Thursday the Kremlin had set up a police force to support Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko at his request, although it would not be deployed unless unrest there spun out of control.The remarks were the strongest signal yet that Russia is prepared to use force if needed in Belarus, where mass demonstrations have taken place since an Aug. 9 election that the opposition says was rigged to prolong Lukashenko’s 26-year rule.
"We have of course certain obligations towards Belarus, and the question Lukashenko raised was whether we would provide the necessary help," Putin told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
"I told him Russia would fulfill all its obligations. Alexander Grigorivich (Lukashenko) asked me to create a reserve police force and I have done that. But we agreed this would not be used unless the situation got out of control."
The Belarusian opposition Coordination Council said Moscow’s move to set up such force violated international law.
Poland, a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... member, and neighbour, also demanded Russia jettison any plans to intervene. Poland "urges Russia to immediately withdraw from plans of military intervention in Belarus, under (the) false excuse of ’restoring control’ — a hostile act, in breach of international law and human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. of Belarusian people, who should be free to decide their own fate," Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in a tweet.
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I'll just bet he is...and Biden will denounce Trump for staying out of it.
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A more or less honorable way out, whereas we have RBG, Stretch, Sleepy Joe, and a congressman who thinks an island in the Pacific will topple over into the ocean.
[SCMP] Weapon one of two sent over disputed waters a day after American spy plane reportedly nears Chinese naval drill, source says.
PLA flexes muscle in response to continued US testing of Beijing’s bottom lines, analyst says.
China launched two missiles, including an “aircraft-carrier killer”, into the South China Sea on Wednesday morning, a source close to the Chinese military said, sending a clear warning to the United States.
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They were able to hit a sea! Imagine the power of missiles able to hit things on the sea. I'm sure in 50 to 100 years they might be able to hit an island in the sea. Maybe
China is waiting til Biden wins is defeated
[gCaptain] The United States on Wednesday blacklisted 24 Chinese companies and targeted individuals it said were part of construction and military actions in the South China Sea, its first such sanctions move against Beijing over the disputed strategic waterway.
The U.S. Commerce Department said the two dozen companies played a “role in helping the Chinese military construct and militarize the internationally condemned artificial islands in the South China Sea.”
Separately, the State Department said it would impose visa restrictions on Chinese individuals “responsible for, or complicit in,” such action and those linked to China’s “use of coercion against Southeast Asian claimants to inhibit their access to offshore resources.”
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[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] A nuclear energy venture founded by Bill Gates said Thursday it hopes to build small advanced nuclear power stations that can store electricity to supplement grids increasingly supplied by intermittent sources like solar and wind power.
The effort is part of the billionaire philanthropist’s push to help fight climate change and is targeted at helping utilities slash their emissions of planet-warming gases without undermining grid reliability.
TerraPower LLC, which Gates founded 14 years ago, and its partner GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, plan to commercialize stations called Natrium in the United States later this decade, TerraPower’s President and Chief Executive Chris Levesque said.
The project has not previously been reported.
Levesque said the companies are seeking additional funding from private partners and the U.S. Energy Department, and that the project has the support of PacifiCorp, owned by billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, along with Energy Northwest and Duke Energy.
If successful, the plan is to build the plants in the United States and abroad, Levesque said.
By 2050 "we would see hundreds of these reactors around the world, solving multiple different energy needs," Levesque said.
The 345-megawatt plants would be cooled by liquid sodium and cost about $1 billion each.
Because Liquid Sodium worked so well in the long entombed Hallam Nuclear Plant south of Lincoln NE. Wikipedia on the failed Hallam Plant - BTW to deal with the waste atoms for peace planned to require heating furnaces in NE to have waste nuclear fuel pods in them instead of natural gas or coal. Paper on the massive effort to remove the radioactive sodium from Hallam Another purpose of the Hallam plant was to sterilize food, milk, cheese and the like so it didn't require refrigeration! Seriously! BTW the USSR discovered that turned milk blue!
Nuclear power is a top source of virtually emissions-free electricity, but many plants are shutting in the United States because of high costs and competition from solar and wind. Critics of advanced nuclear have also warned that smaller nuclear is even more expensive than conventional.
The new plants, however, are designed to complement a renewable power because they will store the reactor power in tanks of molten salt during days when the grid is well supplied. Nuclear power could be used later when solar and wind power are low due to weather conditions. It's called "night"
Bloody engineers — always using technical words the rest of us don’t know!
Molten salt power storage has been used at thermal solar plants in the past, but leaks have plagued some of the projects.
Levesque said the Natrium design would provide more consistent temperatures than a solar plant, resulting in less wear and tear.
Hallam: Operation and shutdown
Initial criticality was achieved in January 1962, followed by wet criticality six months later. Difficulties that arose during operation and required plant shutdown and correction included leaking control rod thimbles, seizure of secondary sodium pumps, leaking steam generator instrumentation and pipe flanges, difficulty of adjusting fuel channel flow orifices, and failure of primary and secondary sodium throttle valves.
The most serious issue was the ruptures of moderator elements. Seven elements ruptured in February, 1964. The ruptures and subsequent absorption of sodium into the graphite reduced the thermal neutron flux in the core and caused a reduction in local power. The moderator elements swelled as well, reducing coolant and process space. Examination disclosed that failure was caused by low ductility stress-rupture leading to a one inch long crack about three inches below the top of each element.
Chauncey Starr, the president of Atomics International, testified that they had identified and claimed to have fixed the issue with the moderator can. He proposed a repair operation involving attaching snorkels to each moderator can into the cover gas space, which would cost $1.8M and require 6-9 months[6]. Nonetheless, the AEC under Milton Shaw decided to terminate their contract with the utility. Consumers in turn chose to not purchase the plant, and it was instead decommissioned with the nuclear components sealed in concrete.
The plant's single 75 MWe reactor operated from 1963 to September 27, 1964.[2] Decommissioning was completed in 1969.[7]
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I guess South African pebble bed is too South African for Bill?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
[Guardian] A South African conservationist has been killed by lions he hand-reared. West Mathewson, 69, was walking two white lionesses on Wednesday when one of the animals attacked and killed him without warning, his family said on Thursday.
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
