WIPP NUCLEAR SITE GUILTY OF CONTINUED SAFETY VIOLATIONS

MAP, Initial Plutonium release from the WIPP radioactive waste facility.
Areas in green were affected by wind currents during the first few days.

Critical failures of leadership at every level. 

IS ANOTHER "ACCIDENT" LOOMING?

REPORTED BY THE ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL OCTOBER 22, 2015:
A Department of Energy oversight team found an overall “negative trend” in the operation of a southeast New Mexico nuclear waste repository following two serious accidents, but plant managers say progress has been made since the review concluded.

In a memo distributed to employees and obtained by the Journal, DOE’s Office of Enterprise Assessments analyzed operations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant over a year through May — a period in which WIPP has been trying to recover from an underground fire and subsequent, unrelated radiation release.

“During this period, strong and unrealistic schedule pressures on the workforce contributed to poor safety performance, and incidents during that time are indicators of the potential for a future serious safety incident,” the memo said.

In addition to the effect of schedule pressures on safety, the memo flagged “a backlog of hundreds of preventative maintenance items” and the use of “extensive overtime” that could force workers to work “past the point of safety.”

NO ONE WANTS THE BLAME

New Mexico's congressional delegation said in a joint statement "a series of critical failures of leadership at every level led to the very serious accident and release that put numerous New Mexicans at risk, shuttered WIPP for over a year and (has) already cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. This report makes clear that the DOE and its contractors failed to keep faith with the people of New Mexico."

LOS ALAMOS NUCLEAR LABORATORY (LANL) director Charles McMillan wrote in a letter to staff that "the report points out serious deficiencies in our processes and procedures... 

We now know from the investigations that if LANL had followed certain basic steps, this event would not have happened. 

Also, if we had complied with our hazardous waste permit, we would have avoided the serious legal and credibility issues we now face... Quite simply, we failed to execute sufficient regulatory and technical reviews in our management of the legacy (transuranic waste) nitrate-salt waste stream." 

THE LEAKING BARRELS OF WASTE AT WIPP CAME FROM LOS ALAMOS, IF YOU RECALL.
THEY HAD BEEN IMPROPERLY PACKAGED AND SHIPPED AND IMPROPERLY STORED WITHOUT BEING CHECKED, OR SO IT SEEMS.

(Sources: Albuquerque Journal, Santa Fe New Mexican, AP Wire News)

Los Alamos: A Whistleblower's Diary 

What happened to those who tried to blow the whistle at Los Alamos?
Nothing good.
A "must-read" for anyone concerned with what really goes on to protect nclear facilities and those who run them from public scrutiny.

WIPP and That Barrel From LANL: What Really Happened
A six-month investigation by the Santa Fe New Mexican 

"In the summer of 2012, Gov. Susana Martinez visited the hilltop facilities of Los Alamos National Laboratory to commemorate a milestone. 

The lab, under an agreement with the state, had just shipped its 1,000th truckload of Cold War-era nuclear waste from the grounds of Los Alamos to a salt cavern deep under the Southern New Mexico desert. 

"The achievement meant the lab was well on its way to meeting a June 30, 2014, deadline imposed by Martinez to remove radioactive gloves, machinery and other equipment left over from decades of nuclear weapons research. 

"For Los Alamos National Security LLC, the private consortium that operates the lab, the stakes were high. 

Meeting the deadline would help it secure an extension of its $2.2 billion annual contract from the U.S. Department of Energy. 

"But the following summer, workers packaging the waste came across a batch that was extraordinarily acidic, making it unsafe for shipping. 

The lab's guidelines called for work to shut down while the batch underwent a rigid set of reviews to determine how to treat it, a time-consuming process that jeopardized the lab's goal of meeting the deadline, and securing an extension on its $2.2 billion annual contract from the DoE. 

"Instead, the lab and its various contractors took shortcuts in treating the acidic nuclear waste, adding neutralizer and a wheat-based organic kitty litter to absorb excess liquid. The combination turned the waste into a potential bomb that one lab chemist later characterized as akin to plastic explosives, according to a six-month investigation by The New Mexican. 

"The lab then shipped a 55-gallon drum of the volatile material 330 miles to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the nation's only underground repository for nuclear waste, southeast of Carlsbad. Documents accompanying the drum, which were supposed to include a detailed description of its contents, were deeply flawed. 

They made no mention of the acidity or the neutralizer, and they mischaracterized the kitty litter as a clay-based material not the more combustible organic variety that most chemists would have recognized as hazardous if mixed with waste laden with nitrate salts, according to interviews and a review of thousands of pages of documents and internal emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request..." 

[Get more details: "LANL officials downplayed waste's dangers even after leak"s]

HERE IS A PART OF THIS ONGOING SAGA THAT MANY MAY NOT BE AWARE OF...

USING AND THEREFORE HAVING TO FIND STORAGE FOR MOX FUEL AT NUCLEAR SITES SHOULD BE TERMINATED, ACCORDING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (DOE).

 BUT CONGRESS WON'T ALLOW THE DOE TOP PULL THE PLUG, NOT EVEN AT ONE OF THE WORST SITES IN THE U.S., THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 

CONGRESSMEN SEE SUCH SITES AS MONEY-MAKERS, OR AS SOME SAY, "PORK BARREL OPPORTUNITIES" FOR INCOME FOR THEIR STATES, SO EVEN IF SUCH WASTE MAY BE ESCAPING AND CAUSING ILLNESS OR POTENTIALLY EVEN DEATH FOR PEOPLE NEARBY, CONGRESS HAD RATHER MAKE A FEW MILLION BUCKS FOR THEIR CAMPAIGN FINANCIERS, FOR "BIG NUKE", THAN ATTEND TO THE HEALTH OF AVERAGE CITIZENS, OR SAVE TAXPAYERS BILLIONS.

CONGRESS HAS ALWAYS SEEN THE REST OF US AS GULLIBLE ENOUGH TO JUST KEEP PAYING THE BILL FOR THE BILLS THEY PASS, NO MATTER HOW LUDICROUS OR EVEN CRIMINAL THOSE CONGRESSIONAL "BILLS" ARE.

From the union of concerned scientists

"South Carolina taxpayers [WILL] pony-up nearly $1 billion a year for the next 30 years—the amount that nearly all parties agree is the minimum needed to successfully complete the project. Yet even if Congress were to provide full funding today there is no guarantee the money flow would be sustained over decades, given all that could go wrong along the way.

This is why the Department of Energy (DOE), which is the program’s sponsor and strongest advocate for more than a decade, now wants to pull the plug, if only Congress would let it do so.
DOE’s preferred approach is to “downblend” the excess plutonium by mixing it with an inert material known as “stardust”and package it as waste for disposal in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico. 

As confirmed by the “red team” tasked by DOE Secretary Moniz to take a fresh look at the various options for plutonium disposition, the downblending process is far simpler than MOX, would require much less new capital investment, and has already been used to dispose of several metric tons of excess plutonium.

The red team report estimates that the approach would cost about half as much as the MOX program and would have much less technical risk. This assessment takes into account the fact that WIPP is currently not accepting waste because of the accident that it experienced in February 2014 but is projected to begin operating again by the end of 2016.

There is no question that the February 2014 WIPP accident cast doubt over the safety of DOE’s operations at the site. But one also has to consider the alternatives. 

If DOE is unable to safely operate what is essentially a fancy hole in the ground [WIPP] for burying nuclear waste, then how can we reasonably expect it to safely oversee the far more complex and hazardous MOX program?

The High Bridge report failed to mention that all nonessential environmental management operations were currently suspended at the Savannah River Site, SC, following a September 3rd near-criticality accident at the HB-Line, a facility being used to produce plutonium oxide for use as feedstock in the MOX plant."The Recovery Plan That Isn't
"Don Hancock, director of the nuclear waste safety program at the Southwest Research and Information Center, said,

 'Thirty-five years ago, DOE was saying WIPP was going to be open by the mid-'80s. Then 25 years ago, in the late '80s, they were saying WIPP was going to be open in the early '90s, and it didn't open until 1999. They weren't realistically looking at what it was going to take to open WIPP then, and now they're not being realistic about when it will reopen. It will take a lot longer than that, and it's going to cost a lot more than they're saying.' 

"Without knowing the cause of the leak, the extent of the contamination in the WIPP caverns or whether more breached drums may be lurking in the cavern, Hancock said the Energy Department's recovery plan could be premature. 'Nowhere in the report does it say the fire and radiation leak that happened this year will never happen again', said Hancock, who favors an independent technical investigation and public study to develop a path forward at WIPP that is disconnected from the Energy Department and its contractor operating WIPP, Nuclear Waste Partnership. 

"'They're saying, 'Trust us with the safety standards. We'll define what's safe or not.' That's not acceptable,' he said. 'We don't trust them. They've shown themselves not to be trustworthy.' Hancock described the cost estimate outlined in the plan as 'dishonest' because it neglects to mention the more than $150 million in operating expenses at WIPP for the fiscal year ahead, when even the most optimistic estimates envision WIPP will remain mothballed. 

"Hancock said the Energy Department's goal of partially reopening WIPP within the next 18 months would be virtually impossible if the department were to follow standard regulatory protocol for the waste dump, which includes public comment on the proposed changes.

 
"'It's not a recovery plan, it's a shut-out-the-public plan,' Hancock said. 'That's not going to happen. The public is not going to be shut out of this process. It's a nonstarter.'" 

HANCOCK'S FULL REPORT CAN BE DOWNLOADED AS A PDF <HERE>. 

REWARD FAILURE

WIPP Contractor Received $1.9 Million Bonus 5 Days After Fire! 

"Just five days after an underground truck fire closed the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the Energy Department awarded the contractor that operates the nuclear repository $1.9 million for 'excellent' performance during the past year. 

"One radiation leak and two sharply worded accident investigation reports later slamming the same contractor for long-running safety and maintenance problems, that award now looks to some like insult atop injury. 

How could there have been such a disconnect between the Department of Energy's own assessment of its contractor's performance and what independent investigators would find soon after? 

The answer isn't clear and neither are the consequences to the DOE's local field office, headquarters or to operating contractor Nuclear Waste Partnership leaving some observers asking why there haven't been more repercussions for documented failings throughout the system..."

- Albuquerque Journal, July 20, 2014

WHEN I READ ALL THIS, ALL I CAN THINK OF IS "THE BROTHERHOOD OF LIARS AND CHEATS"... AND OUR CONGRESS JUST MAY BE THEIR KING.

THE DOE FOUGHT THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO OVER THEW MEGA-MILLION DOLLARS IN FINES, OVER EXPIRED PERMITS, SAFETY VIOLATIONS, EVERYTHING, AND THE DOE WON.

WHO LOST?

THE RESIDENTS AFFECTED BY THE FAILURES AT WIPP AND LOS ALAMOS...THE ONES WHO WILL WIND UP PAYING FOR THE DOE'S MISTAKES AND NEGLIGENCE... FINANCIALLY AND IN EVERY OTHER WAY, AVERAGE CITIZENS LOST.

AGAIN.

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SEE ALSO:

~ For a virtual Arsenal of Information on nuclear news and updates, always visit this site <here>. 

-  Nuclear Waste Documents

- Patrick Malone, SF New Mexican: Federal report: LANL Violated Environmental Requirements 

- DOE Inspector General LANL Report: view/download 

THE TRUE DESCENT OF MAN

WITH THANKS TO COYOTE PRIME, FROM WHOSE GOODLY BLOG I NIPPED THIS.

FIND ANOTHER WEBSITE DEDICATED TO THIS BY TWAIN <HERE>. 

I HAD FORGOTTEN TWAIN WAS SO ENLIGHTENED.

Mark Twain, “On The Damned Human Race”

“I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so-called), and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that the theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

In proceeding toward this unpleasant conclusion I have not guessed or speculated or conjectured, but have used what is commonly called the scientific method. That is to say, I have subjected every postulate that presented itself to the crucial test of actual experiment, and have adopted it or rejected it according to the result. Thus I verified and established each step of my course in its turn before advancing to the next. These experiments were made in the London Zoological Gardens, and covered many months of painstaking and fatiguing work.

Some of my experiments were quite curious. In the course of my reading I had come across a case where, many years ago, some hunters on our Great Plains organized a buffalo hunt for the entertainment of an English earl. They had charming sport. They killed seventy-two of those great animals; and ate part of one of them and left the seventy-one to rot. In order to determine the difference between an anaconda and an earl (if any) I caused seven young calves to be turned into the anaconda’s cage. The grateful reptile immediately crushed one of them and swallowed it, then lay back satisfied. It showed no further interest in the calves, and no disposition to harm them. I tried this experiment with other anacondas; always with the same result. The fact stood proven that the difference between an earl and an anaconda is that the earl is cruel and the anaconda isn’t; and that the earl wantonly destroys what he has no use for, but the anaconda doesn’t. This seemed to suggest that the anaconda was not descended from the earl. It also seemed to suggest that the earl was descended from the anaconda, and had lost a good deal in the transition.

I was aware that many men who have accumulated more millions of money than they can ever use have shown a rabid hunger for more, and have not scrupled to cheat the ignorant and the helpless out of their poor servings in order to partially appease that appetite. I furnished a hundred different kinds of wild and tame animals the opportunity to accumulate vast stores of food, but none of them would do it. The squirrels and bees and certain birds made accumulations, but stopped when they had gathered a winter’s supply, and could not be persuaded to add to it either honestly or by chicane. In order to bolster up a tottering reputation the ant pretended to store up supplies, but I was not deceived. I know the ant. These experiments convinced me that there is this difference between man and the higher animals: he is avaricious and miserly; they are not. In the course of my experiments I convinced myself that among the animals man is the only one that harbors insults and injuries, broods over them, waits till a chance offers, then takes revenge. The passion of revenge is unknown to the higher animals.

Roosters keep harems, but it is by consent of their concubines; therefore no wrong is done. Men keep harems but it is by brute force, privileged by atrocious laws which the other sex were allowed no hand in making. In this matter man occupies a far lower place than the rooster. Cats are loose in their morals, but not consciously so. Man, in his descent from the cat, has brought the cats looseness with him but has left the unconsciousness behind (the saving grace which excuses the cat). The cat is innocent, man is not.

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity (these are strictly confined to man); he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing; they are not ashamed. Man, with his soiled mind, covers himself. He will not even enter a drawing room with his breast and back naked, so alive are he and his mates to indecent suggestion. Man is The Animal that Laughs. But so does the monkey, as Mr. Darwin pointed out; and so does the Australian bird that is called the laughing jackass. No! Man is the Animal that Blushes. He is the only one that does it or has occasion to.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. It is a trait that is not known to the higher animals. The cat plays with the frightened mouse; but she has this excuse, that she does not know that the mouse is suffering. The cat is moderate (unhumanly moderate: she only scares the mouse, she does not hurt it; she doesn’t dig out its eyes, or tear off its skin, or drive splinters under its nails) man-fashion; when she is done playing with it she makes a sudden meal of it and puts it out of its trouble. Man is the Cruel Animal. He is alone in that distinction.

The higher animals engage in individual fights, but never in organized masses. 

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. 

He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and with calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out, as the Hessians did in our Revolution, and as the boyish Prince Napoleon did in the Zulu war, and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.

Man is the only animal that robs his helpless fellow of his country, takes possession of it and drives him out of it or destroys him.

 Man has done this in all the ages. There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle after cycle, by force and bloodshed.

Man is the only Slave. 

And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day he is always some man’s slave for wages and does that man’s work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.

Man is the only Patriot. 

He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people’s countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns, he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man, with his mouth.

Man is the Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion, several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself, and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight. 

He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven. He was at it in the time of the Caesars, he was at it in Mahomet’s time, he was at it in the time of the Inquisition, he was at it in France a couple of centuries, he was at it in England in Mary’s day, he has been at it ever since he first saw the light, he is at it today in Crete (as per the telegrams quoted above) he will be at it somewhere else tomorrow. The higher animals have no religion. 

And we are told that they are going to be left out, in the Hereafter. 

I wonder why? 

It seems questionable taste.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. 

Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal. Note his history, as sketched above. It seems plain to me that whatever he is he is not a reasoning animal. His record is the fantastic record of a maniac. I consider that the strongest count against his intelligence is the fact that with that record back of him he blandly sets himself up as the head animal of the lot: whereas by his own standards he is the bottom one. In truth, man is incurably foolish.

One is obliged to concede that in true loftiness of character, Man cannot claim to approach even the meanest of the Higher Animals. 

It is plain that he is constitutionally incapable of approaching that altitude; that he is constitutionally afflicted with a Defect which must make such approach forever impossible, for it is manifest that this defect is permanent in him, indestructible, ineradicable. I find this Defect to be the Moral Sense. He is the only animal that has it. It is the secret of his degradation. It is the quality which enables him to do wrong. It has no other office. It is incapable of performing any other function. It could never have been intended to perform any other. Without it, man could do no wrong. He would rise at once to the level of the Higher Animals.

Since the Moral Sense has but the one office, the one capacity (to enable man to do wrong) it is plainly without value to him. 

It is as valueless to him as is disease. In fact, it manifestly is a disease. 

Rabies is bad, but it is not so bad as this disease. Rabies enables a man to do a thing, which he could not do when in a healthy state: kill his neighbor with a poisonous bite) one is the better man for having rabies: 

The Moral Sense enables a man to do wrong. It enables him to do wrong in a thousand ways. Rabies is an innocent disease, compared to the Moral Sense. No one, then, can be the better man for having the Moral Sense. What now, do we find the Primal Curse to have been? Plainly what it was in the beginning: the infliction upon man of the Moral Sense; the ability to distinguish good from evil; and with it, necessarily, the ability to do evil; for there can be no evil act without the presence of consciousness of it in the doer of it.

And so I find that we have descended and degenerated, from some far ancestor (some microscopic atom wandering at its pleasure between the mighty horizons of a drop of water perchance) insect by insect, animal by animal, reptile by reptile, down the long highway of smirch-less innocence, till we have reached the bottom stage of development (namable as the Human Being). 

Below us, nothing.”

AH, TWAIN!

CAN IT BE?
MAN IS THE LOWER OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, PERHAPS THE LOWEST?

PERHAPS IN ONE REAL WAY...HUMANS, OF ALL ANIMALS, ARE THE ONLY ONES I KNOW WHO UTTERLY REFUSE, IN MOST INSTANCES, TO BE OBEDIENT TO NATURAL LAW, TO ADHERE TO THEIR DESIGNED PURPOSE.

A mere mole is a mere mole, a turnip is a turnip, grass does not struggle to become a tree.

MAN?

All we have to do is watch and see how "odd-man-out" mankind is from those from whom he has decided to tell himself he is descended from....
DESCENDED...

THERE'S THE RUB...DESCENT...LOWERING DESCENT.

A theory I have recently been exploring is that man has, over the long haul, LOST intelligence, NOT SO MUCH AS IN LOST IQ points, but is dumber, less intelligent in "common sense/survivability" than ancient man.

How many of us could survive a full week in some far-flung wilderness, relying only on our own abilities?

Several well-known geneticist have said we are losing intelligence, again though, not IQ points, but just basic intelligence.

The Huffington Post, as well as Live Science and others have done articles on that very thing.

15 minutes of watching any "political debate" SHOULD convince the most skeptical that we're more than a bit "dumbed-down".
it's depressing to watch how much so as the "front-runners" don't seem to have viable synapses firing in their cranial cavities ANYWHERE.

In November 2012, Stanford University School of Medicine researcher Gerald Crabtree published two papers in the journal Trends in Genetics suggesting that humanity's intelligence peaked between 2,000 and 6,000 years ago.

Crabtree based this assertion on genetics. About 2,000 to 5,000 genes control human intelligence, he estimated. At the rate at which genetic mutations accumulate, Crabtree calculated that within the last 3,000 years, all of humanity has sustained at least two mutations harmful to these intellect-determining genes (and will sustain a couple more in another 3,000 years). 

Not every mutation will cause harm — genes come in pairs, and some weaknesses caused by mutation can be covered for by the healthy half of the pair, Crabtree wrote; but the calculation suggests that intelligence is more fragile than it seems.

Furthermore, he argued, intelligence isn't as evolutionarily important to humans today as it was when the species was hunter-gatherers. "

WELL, ALL THAT ASIDE, TWAIN'S CYNICAL TAKE ON THE HUMAN RACE HAD TO HAVE SPRANG FROM SOMETHING.
WHAT IRKED HIM MOST?

LOOKS LIKE MAYBE IT WAS THAT OLD "MAN'S INHUMANITY TO EVERYTHING INCLUDING OTHER MEN".

DARE WE DENY THAT?

I CAN'T.

I DON'T.

AT THE LEAST, PERHAPS TWAIN'S PROVOCATIVE AND 'COLORFUL' LANGUAGE MIGHT GIVE ONE PAUSE FOR THOUGHT.

THOUGHT...
ALMOST, I TYPED THE DEFINITION OF THOUGHT, BUT DECIDED AGAINST IT.

UNIVERSAL I.D. MANDATORY BY 2030 SAYS U.N.

A UNIVERSAL BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION "MANAGEMENT SYSTEM" IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY BY 2030, ACCORDING TO THE U.N. AND IT HAS CHOSEN A COMPANY TO PROVIDE THOSE FOR ALL OF US.

THEY ARE CALLING IT "ID4D", ' Identification for Development '.

THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES (UNHCR) MOVED IN MAY OF THIS YEAR TO SELECT A COMPANY CALLED "ACCENTURE" TO GATHER DATA TO TRACK CURRENT REFUGEES ACROSS THE GLOBE.

The UNHCR will use Accenture’s Biometric Identity Management System (BIMS) for the endeavor. 

BIMS can be used to collect facial, iris, and fingerprint biometric data, and will also be used to provide many refugees with their only form of official documentation. 

The system will work in conjunction with Accenture’s Unique Identity Service Platform (UISP) to send this information back to a central database in Geneva, allowing UNHCR offices all over the world to effectively coordinate with the central UNHCR authority in tracking refugees.

Starting with a pilot project in the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi, the program has blossomed over the last couple of years to provide services in refugee camps in Thailand and Chad, with over 220,000 people identified in the two countries so far. It’s an ambitious project, but Accenture has experience with large-scale biometric system initiatives, having helped the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Biometric Identity Management with a major border control project, for example. This latest endeavor will see the company’s technology used in important humanitarian efforts – and in fact it seems to have already helped hundreds of thousands."

NO, IT "HELPS" TRACK HUMANS, WHICH ONLY "HELPS" THOSE WHO WANT TO TRACK HUMANS.

AS OF JULY, 2015,  IT IS NOW MOVING ON TO EUROPE AND A FEW FORMS OF TRACKING THERE.

"The eu-LISA projects involve the maintenance of biometric systems, application development, data storage and network improvements, and the provision of IT services to eu-LISA clients globally. As leader of the consortium, Accenture will take on overall management responsibilities at all three locations."

U.N. Agenda 2030 calls for ‘universal ID' for ALL people.
"Target 16.9 under the goal of "Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions" reads as follows: "By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration."
THAT CAN BE FOUND BY CLICKING ON "GOAL 16, PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS" ON THE SITE LINKED ABOVE.

THE WORLD BANK IS ALSO PROMOTING A UNIVERSAL I.D. FOR ALL!

"IN SEPTEMBER, 2015, in a new report issued in collaboration with Accenture, the World Bank is calling on governments to work together to implement standardized, cost-effective identity management solutions.

A report synopsis notes that about 1.8 billion adults around the world currently lack any kind of official documentation. That can exclude those individuals from access to essential services, and can also cause serious difficulties when it comes to trans-border identification.

[Then comes the final admission by the World Bank that the new biometric IDs are not just for refugees.]

"Moreover, the nature of the deployments has required an economically feasible solution, and has demonstrated that reliable, biometric ID cards can affordably be used on a large scale.

It offers hope for the UN's Sustainable Development Goal of getting legal ID into the hands of everyone in the world by the year 2030 with its Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative."

That problem is one that Accenture has been tackling in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which has been issuing Accenture-developed biometric identity cards to populations of displaced persons in refugee camps in Thailand, South Sudan, and elsewhere. "

ELSEWHERE?
OBVIOUSLY NOT IN GERMANY, WHERE THOUSANDS OF SYRIAN REFUGEES HAVE "GONE MISSING".

'DIE WELT' BEGAN REPORTING ON THE GERMAN REFUGEE CRISIS IN AUGUST, 2015.

"Local politician Angelika Jahns criticized the current situation in Germany. "We need to know who is staying in Lower Saxony," she told Die Welt. She said the refugees should be registered as soon as they arrive in Lower Saxony, but they are not forced to do so by the German national government.

A large portion of Germany's missing refugees had not been registered, nor had they applied for asylum, which is a recipe for chaos. The local authorities point out that they have no authority to hold people.
Several hundred migrants have disappeared each week since the beginning of September without signing in, Ingo Decker, the spokesman of the Potsdam Ministry of the Interior, told Die Welt.
It is a serious problem for the authorities that many thousands of people are on their way on their own in the federal territory, Decker said."

"A report from German news outlet Faz.net headlined "Refugees disappearing from lodging," says around 700 refugees disappeared from emergency accommodations in Lower Saxony. Voices calling for a direct registration by the governmental agencies are getting louder.
National authorities required cities and towns in the region to accommodate 4,000 on short notice and now can't account for all of them."

WHEREVER THESE REFUGEES WIND UP, THE STORY WILL BE THE SAME..DISAPPEARANCES WILL ABOUND, BUT STILL, IS A UNIVERSAL I.D. GOING TO STOP THAT?

IS THIS DISAPPEARING REFUGEES SCENARIO SIMPLY A FRONT FOR TAGGING ALL OF US?
CALL ME WHATEVER, BUT I DON'T LIKE TAGS.

WILL REFUGEES WILLINGLY SUBMIT TO BIOMETRIC I.D.?
WHY WOULD THEY?
WOULD ANYONE, REALLY?

SINCE AMERICA, LIKE ALL OTHER NATIONS OF THE U.N., SIGNED THE AGREEMENT FOR SUSTAINABILITY, THE "COVENANT 2015", WE MUST ABIDE BY THE RULES OR "GOALS", SO, YES, AMERICA, YOU WILL NEED TO LINE UP FOR YOUR UNIVERSAL I.D. BY 2030.

AFTER ALL, OUR NEW OWNERS NEED TO KEEP TRACK OF US, SINCE THE "GREAT PLAN" IS TO RELOCATE SEVERAL THOUSAND OF US FROM WHERE WE ARE NOW.

UNIVERSAL I.D.,JUST A SMALL PART OF THAT "SUSTAINABILITY AGENDA"...TAKES THE STRESS OFF SOME AREAS IN AMERICA ALREADY 'OVERSTRESSED BY HUMAN POPULATION".
REMEMBER HOW LOUDLY AMERICANS PROTESTED A "NATIONAL I.D." HERE A FEW YEARS BACK?
SO MANY VOICED OPPOSITION TO IT THAT THE PRESS STOPPED MENTIONING SUCH A THING.

WELL, THAT DIDN'T STOP OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FROM HIRING THE SAME COMPANY BACK IN 2013 TO THROW TOGETHER SOME OF THOSE VERY I.D.s!

Accenture Awarded $30 Million Contract By Homeland Security, Expands Service For US Office of Biometric Identity Management

Posted on September 10, 2013
"According to Rocky Thurston, leader of AFS’ Homeland Security initiatives, “OBIM enhances the security of U.S. citizens and visitors and facilitates legitimate travel and trade. This program has become a model of innovation, collaboration and high performance for DHS and the federal government.”

I SUPPOSE SUCH PROTESTS WILL BE USELESS NOW THAT THE UNITED NATIONS HAS MANDATED, i.e. DEMANDED, THAT ALL OF US GET ONE, RIGHT?

AFTER ALL, OUR PROTESTS CERTAINLY DID NOT STOP HOMELAND SECURITY, AS THE ABOVE ARTICLE SHOWS.

LIKE IT OR NOT, AMERICA, IT'S TIME FOR THE "ROPING AND BRANDING"... ALL LIVESTOCK MUST BE CLEARLY MARKED SO OUR NEW GLOBAL GOVERNMENT CAN DECIDE WHAT TO DO WITH US ALL.

CAN'T HAVE ANYONE ESCAPING THAT GOOD OLD GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE!

THE ID4D CHIPS ARE ALREADY GOING INTO AMERICAN VEHICLES.

SIMILAR CHIPS ARE ALREADY EMBEDDED ON LICENSE PLATES, DRIVER'S LICENSES, EVEN ON ARTICLES OF CLOTHING, ELECTRONICS, AND SOME FOODS WE BUY, CREDIT CARDS, BANK CARDS, GROCERY STORE SHOPPING CARDS, PRE-PAID GIFT CARDS... MORE PLACES AND IN MORE WAYS THAN WE CAN COUNT.
I'VE WRITTEN EXTENSIVELY ON ALL THAT BEFORE.

WE ALL KNOW, CAN LOOK AND SEE, WHAT WE HAVE GIVEN UP SINCE 9/11.

WHAT LITTLE WE HAD LEFT SURELY WON'T BE MISSED, RIGHT?

AS THE U.N. AND WORLD BANK ALSO STEERS US TOWARD A CASHLESS SOCIETY, EMBEDDED CHIPS UNDER THE SKIN WILL BE THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE.

WHO CAN LOSE AN EMBEDDED I.D. CHIP, RIGHT?

OR THE HUMAN IT'S IMPLANTED IN?

WILL RESISTANCE BE FUTILE?

HOW MANY WOULD RESIST THE U.N.?

AFTER ALL, WE HAVEN'T RESISTED THIS NEW GLOBAL GOVERNANCE/SUSTAINABILITY AGENDA.

MARCH, 2016, BEGINS THE 'ROLL-OUT' FOR THAT.

AND, OH, BTW, GOOGLE HAS JUST BEGUN A PROJECT THAT WILL GATHER EVERY TIDBIT YOU WRITE IN ALL ONLINE EMAILS, FOLDERS, FILES, ETC...

IT SURPASSES ALL OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA FOR DATA MINING, WHICH IS WORSE THAN YOU MAY IMAGINE.

HOW DOES THAT SONG GO....
"TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, THE PARTY'S OVER..." ?

ONLY IF WE ALLOW IT TO BE.

FOOD AS MEDICINE. NOBEL PRIZE FOR NATURAL MEDICINE.

"The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been jointly awarded to three doctors whose work has fundamentally changed the treatment of parasitic diseases around the globe.

What is perhaps most notable is that their discoveries are derived from natural products, once again showing that nature can be a powerful source of medicine. The majority of new drugs (70 percent) introduced in the US are derived from natural products, primarily plants.

The fact that the Nobel Prize was awarded to the discovery of natural-based medicines isn't exactly shocking, but it's important to recognize the healing potential found in nature. "

ALONG THIS LINE, THIS YEAR'S MOST AMAZING DISCOVERY JUST MAY BE THE ABILITY OF SOME PLANTS, FOOD PLANTS, IN STOPPING THE PROLIFERATION OF CANCER'S STEM CELLS IN THE HUMAN BODY.

THE ABSTRACT CAN BE FOUND AT 'PUBMED' <HERE>.  

Abstract

"The cancer stem cell model suggests that tumor initiation is governed by a small subset of distinct cells with stem-like character termed cancer stem cells (CSCs). CSCs possess properties of self-renewal and intrinsic survival mechanisms that contribute to resistance of tumors to most chemotherapeutic drugs.

The failure to eradicate CSCs during the course of therapy is postulated to be the driving force for tumor recurrence and metastasis.
Recent studies have focused on understanding the unique phenotypic properties of CSCs from various tumor types, as well as the signaling pathways that underlie self-renewal and drug resistance.

Natural products (NPs) such as those derived from botanicals and food sources may modulate vital signaling pathways involved in the maintenance of CSC phenotype. "

FOR THOSE LIKE MYSELF WHO HAVE BATTLED CANCER AND WON, THIS IS INCREDIBLE NEWS!

WHAT WE EAT CAN HELP US SAFEGUARD OUR HEALTH?
SIGN ME UP!

[DISCLAIMER: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment, but is merely published here for educational and informative purposes.
What this author chooses to do or says about this report should in no way influence anyone else. we each make our own informed decisions, as is our right.]


"A new study published in the journal Anticancer Research titled, "Natural Products That Target Cancer Stem Cells," has made our job much easier of identifying this special category of cancer killers by reviewing the extant literature on the topic and listing the top 25 substances in this category.
These are JUST the top 25 of the foods and herbs which kill the cancer stem cells at the root cause of cancer malignancy.  
They are listed here below, along with some of their commonly recognizable dietary sources:

[Links appear in green as the source of the article is from the sayer ji website....with the Tea Room's deep appreciation.

Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) - Green Tea

6-Gingerol - Ginger

β-Carotene - Carrot, Leafy Greens

Baicalein - Chinese Skullcap

Curcumin - Turmeric

Cyclopamine - Corn Lilly 
[PLEASE TAKE NOTE, IMPORTANT! We do not suggest consuming this plant; this simply illustrates natural components exist that kill cancer stem cells]

Delphinidin - Blueberry, raspberrry

Flavonoids (Genistein) - Soy, red clover, coffee

Gossypol - Cottonseed   [PLEASE TAKE NOTE, IMPORTANT! We do not suggest consuming this plant; this simply illustrates natural components exist that kill cancer stem cells]

Guggulsterone - Commiphora (myrrh tree)

Isothiocyanates - Cruciferous vegetables

Linalool - Mint

Lycopene - Grapefruit, tomato

Parthenolide - Feverfew

Perillyl alcohol - Mint, cherry, lavender

Piperine - Black pepper

Placycodon saponin - Playycodon grandifloruim

Psoralidin - Psoralea corylilyfolia

Quercetin - Capers, onion

Resveratrol - Grapes, plums, berries

Salinomycin - Streptomyces albus

Silibinin - Milk Thistle

Ursolic acid - Thyme, basil, oregano

Vitamin D3 - Fish, egg yolk, beef, cod liver oil

Withaferin A - Withania somnifera (ashwaganda)

The ability to selectively target cancer cells, and cancer stem cells in particular, while leaving intact the non-tumor cells in tissue is extremely important. 

MORE DATA ON OTHER FOODS SUCH AS THOSE ABOVE CAN BE FOUND ON MR. JI'S WEBSITE <HERE>, EACH ONE IMPECCABLY DOCUMENTED.

THE INFORMATION AND STUDIES PRESENTED ARE SELDOMLY "IN THE NEWS", BUT SHOULD BE, FOR THE GOOD OF ALL WHO MAY EVER BATTLE CANCERS.

FURTHER INFO CAN ALSO BE FOUND AT THE WEBSITE "EAT AND BEAT CANCER".

YET ANOTHER STUDY ALSO FOUND THE ABILITY OF SOME NATURAL COMPOUNDS TO RETARD AND/OR PREVENT CANCER'S GROWTH.

Natural Compounds' Activity against Cancer Stem-Like or Fast-Cycling Melanoma Cells

"Methods   

We analyzed 120 compounds from The Natural Products Set II to identify compounds active against melanoma populations grown in an anchorage-independent manner and enriched with cells exerting self-renewing capacity. Cell viability, cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, gene expression, clonogenic survival and label-retention were analyzed.

Findings   

Several compounds efficiently eradicated cells with clonogenic capacity and nanaomycin A, streptonigrin and toyocamycin were effective at 0.1 µM. "

AND ANOTHER...CERVICAL CANCER:

Date:

May 5, 2015

Source:

South Dakota State University

Summary:

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, and perhaps a serving of broccoli or watercress
can help keep cancer at bay. A compound and an enzyme that occur naturally in
cruciferous vegetables--cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli and Brussels sprouts--
may help prevent recurrence and spread of some cancers, according to researchers.

When they treated human cervical cancer stem cells with phenethyl isothiocyanate
(PEITC) in a Petri dish, about 75 percent died within 24 hours using a 20-micromolar concentration of the compound.

Promising Results

When Dey and her team treated human cervical cancer stem cells with PEITC in a Petri dish, about 75 percent died within 24 hours using a 20-micromolar concentration of the compound.

In other experiments, Dey and her team have found that lower concentrations of PEITC are still very effective. 

Working with SDSU veterinary pathologist David Knudsen, Dey and her team found that 10-micromolar concentrations of PEITC can dramatically prevent the spread of cancer in mouse lung tissue.

When chemotherapy is used to treat cancer, the tumor dies, but the cancer stem cell survives. “These cells are frequently resistant to conventional therapies,” Dey explained.

Although cancer stem cells make up only 5 percent of the tumor, they can cause serious problems if not killed.

As noted in a Stanford Medicine paper: “Many new anti-cancer therapies are evaluated based on their ability to shrink tumors, but if the therapies are not killing the cancer stem cells, the tumor will soon grow back (often with a vexing resistance to the previously used therapy). An analogy would be a weeding technique that is evaluated based on how low it can chop the weed stalks—but no matter how low the weeks are cut, if the roots aren’t taken out, the weeds will just grow back.”

“These tiny cells are very difficult to detect in a tumor,” Dey said, mentioning that scientists for a long time did not know they existed. “It’s like finding a needle in a haystack.”

ACTUALLY, FOR SOME OF US, IT'S LIKE FINDING THE "HOLY GRAIL", THE UNLOCKING OF A GREAT MYSTERY...RENEWED HOPE!

AS MORE RESEARCHERS DETERMINE THE SAME OR SIMILAR RESULTS, ONE CANNOT HELP BUT BE EXCITED ABOUT WHAT MAY YET BE FOUND.

• A study published in the Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology found that “ginger may be a promising candidate for the treatment of breast carcinomas.”

FOOD AS MEDICINE...OUR ANCESTORS TOLD US SO, AND NOW, AT LAST, WE ARE BEGINNING TO LISTEN!




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ADDENDUM:

PRIOR TO THESE LATEST STUDIES, ANOTHER 10 FOODS WERE FOUND TO HAVE CANCER-FIGHTING PROPERTIES.

SOME IN THIS LIST ARE REPEATS OF THE NEW FINDINGS, BUT A FEW ARE NOT.
SEE THAT LIST FROM 2012  <HERE>.

FLUORIDE: A NEUROTOXIN & ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR

THE ABOVE WARNING IS MANDATORY FOR ANY AREA THAT CONTAINS THE TYPE FLUORIDE THAT IS ADDED TO 95% OF AMERICA'S DRINKING WATER.

"FATAL IF INGESTED"

THE SAME TYPE WARNING IS ON TOOTHPASTE ABOUT ANOTHER FORM OF FLUORIDE, SODIUM FLUORIDE.

ANOTHER MANDATORY WARNING LABEL FOR GOOD OLD SODIUM FLUORIDE.

THINK OF THIS WHEN KIDS ARE TOLD TO BRUSH THEIR TEETH...

IF YOU OR I PUT A NEUROTOXIN OR AN ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR INTO ANYONE'S DRINK OR FOOD OR EVEN SWIMMING POOL WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND AGREEMENT, WE COULD FACE A LONG PRISON TERM, COULD BE ACCUSED OF AND POSSIBLY CONVICTED OF ATTEMPTED MURDER.

ASK YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT HEADS, OR AN ATTORNEY.

NEUROTOXINS AND ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS WERE ONCE WEAPONS OF BIOLOGICAL WARFARE.

WHAT ARE TWO OF THEIR NAMES?

FLUORIDE 

AND CHLORINE.

~ Fluorosilicic acid  (H2SiF6)  is commonly used for water fluoridation.  

This form of fluoride is a toxic liquid by-product, acquired by scrubbing the chimney stacks of phosphate fertilizer manufacture. 

Other names for it are hexafluorosilicic, hexafluosilicic, hydrofluosilicic, and silicofluoric acid. 

The CDC approximates that 95% of our water is fluoridated with fluorosilicic acid.
(http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/fact_sheets/engineering/wfadditives.htm#1)

95 PERCENT OF OUR DRINKING WATER CONTAINS A NEUROTOXIC WASTE PRODUCT.

Scientific investigations have revealed that fluoride is an endocrine disrupting chemical, and a developmental neurotoxin that impacts short-term and working memory, and lowers IQ in children.

It has been implicated as a contributing factor in the rising rates of both attention-deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) and thyroid disease.

Indeed, fluoride was used in Europe to reduce thyroid activity in hyperthyroid patients as late as the 1970s, and reduced thyroid function is associated with fluoride intakes as low as 0.05 to 0.1 mg fluoride per kilogram body weight per day (mg/kg/day).5

For over 50 Years, Fluoride Levels Were Too High, Government Admits

NEWSWEEK REPORTED THIS IN APRIL, 2015, AS DID THE GUARDIAN, UK.

Children, ESPECIALLY INFANTS, are particularly at risk for adverse effects of overexposure, and in April 2015, the US government admitted that the "optimal" level of fluoride recommended since 1962 had in fact been too high.

A VERY SHORT, VERY EDUCATIONAL FILM ABOUT THE DANGERS POSED BY SUCH OVERDOSING AND INDISCRIMINATE USE OF FLUORIDE WILL BE WELL WORTH YOUR TIME TO BOTH VIEW AND SHARE, PLEASE.

Infants Are Severely and Routinely Overdosed on Fluoride

According to the recent Iowa Study, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the CDC, infants and young children are being massively overdosed on fluoride. This study, which is the largest US study conducted measuring the amount of fluoride children ingest, concluded that:

100 percent of infants receiving infant formula mixed with fluoridated tap water get more than the allegedly safe dose of fluoride. 
Some formula-fed infants receive 100 times the safe level on a daily basis.

30 percent of 1-year-olds exceed the recommended safe dose.

47 percent of 2- to 3-olds exceed the safe dose.

Most Water Authorities Use Toxic Waste Product, Not Pharmaceutical Grade Fluoride

As stated, fluoride is a drug, and research into the health effects of fluoride is based on pharmaceutical grade fluoride. 

However, a majority of water authorities do not even use pharmaceutical grade fluoride; they use hydrofluosilicic acid, or hexafluorosilicic acid — toxic waste products of the phosphate fertilizer industry, which are frequently contaminated with heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury, cadmium, lead, and other toxins.

This is a key point that many fluoride proponents fail to address when arguing for its use.

Indeed, holding elected officials accountable for procuring proof that the specific fluoridation chemical used actually fulfills fluoride's health and safety claims and complies with all regulations, laws, and risk assessments required for safe drinking water, has been a successful strategy for halting water fluoridation in a number of areas around the US.

While the idea of hiding toxic industrial waste in drinking water would sound like a questionable idea at best to most people, it was welcomed by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

 In a 1983 letter, Rebecca Hanmer, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water, wrote:

"... In regard to the use of fluosilicic acid as a source of fluoride for fluoridation, this Agency regards such use as an ideal environmental solution to a long-standing problem.

By recovering by-product fluosilicic acid from fertilizer manufacturing, water and air pollution are minimized, and water utilities have a low-cost source of fluoride available to them..."

I COULD NOT BELIEVE THE CALLOUSNESS OF THAT STATEMENT WHEN I READ IT.
GIVE OUR CHILDREN, OUR INFANTS FERTILIZER BY-PRODUCT TO SAVE BIG AGRICULTURE MONEY?
THAT IS SIMPLY CRIMINAL!

Data and Science Do Not Support Water Fluoridation

Ninety-seven percent of Western European countries do not fluoridate their water, and data collected by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that non-fluoridating countries have seen the exact same reduction in dental cavities as the US,16 where a majority of water is still fluoridated. If fluoride were in fact the cause of this decline, non-fluoridating countries should not show the same trend.

Clearly, declining rates of dental decay are not in and of themselves proof that water fluoridation actually works.

 It's also worth noting that well over 99 percent of the fluoride added to drinking water never even touches a tooth; it simply runs down the drain, contaminating and polluting the environment.

BUT TOXIC FLUORIDES DO TOUCH US EVERY DAY.

~ Sulfuryl Fluoride is applied as a gas fumigant to kill insects and rodents. 

Using sulfuryl fluoride around food products was not allowed due to its toxicity. 

In 2004 , however, the EPA reversed this policy (following long lobbying efforts by the manufacturer) and allowed its use on food.  
This opened the doors for food processing companies nationwide to fumigate their facilities with sulfuryl fluoride, leaving high levels of fluoride in and on foods and even food packaging.  

There have been no labeling requirements for foods treated with sulfuryl fluoride, meaning that consumers have had no way of knowing which foods contain this   toxin. 

THAT'S LIKE NOT LABELLING RAT POISON IN OUR FOODS!
THAT IS, AFTER ALL, WHAT IT IS...SULFURYL FLUORIDE IS A RAT POISON.

NOW THAT WE KNOW THESE THINGS, NOW THAT WE HAVE THIS KNOWLEDGE, WHO AMONG US WOULD KNOWINGLY SUBJECT INNOCENT YOUNG CHILDREN TO SUCH THINGS?

OUR "PROTECTION AGENCIES" DO, OUR CONGRESS DOES, OUR 'LEADERS', ALL WHO BOW AND SCRAPE TO MEGA-CORPORATIONS DO.

BUT WE DON'T HAVE TO DO SO...NOT NOW THAT WE KNOW!

SOMEONE, MANY 'SOMEONES', SHOULD BE PROSECUTED FOR DOING THIS TO AMERICANS, TO ANYONE!

The above is the warning that comes with the fluoride product USED IN 95% OF OUR DRINKING WATER.

 This is also the same product that the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH), AMONG ALL OTHER STATES, says is “safe”. 

Are we going to believe the ADH and other state health departments who use the cheap way to fluoridate , or are we going to believe the warning that comes on the fluoride product packaging?


CONGRESS WAS WELL AND FULLY WARNED ABOUT THIS IN 1982! 

AND NOW WE KNOW.

IT MUST BE STOPPED!





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FURTHER READING AND SOURCES NOT CITED ABOVE:

~ Nuremberg Trials: Big Pharma's Crimes Against Humanity ...

~  Fluoridating Water Supplies Keeps Us Dumb, Docile, and Sick

~ WARNING! POISON!

~  A Users Guide To Understanding Fallacy, Fraud, & Failure