Bush, Republicans created chaos? Oct 13, 2007
I do know Salmon Pak had it, and I know men who have busted into storage facilities with Vx, destroyed munitions with unidentified gasses, found mobile bio labs. Question for you, which I'm sure, with all of your education you can easily answer. (New Iberia, LA)
War on the Horizon? Sep 28, 2007
Jane s Defence Weekly reports that Syria manufactures several hundred tons of chemical warfare agents like VX and Sarin annually. Syria is buying sophisticated Russian weapons. (Human Events Online)
Women's Soccer Hosts Robert Morris & Green Bay Sep 25, 2007
Women's Soccer Hosts Robert Morris Bay :: Vikings Start Fourth Horizon League Season On Sunday. Women's Soccer ~ Official Athletic Site of the Cleveland State University. (Csuvikings.com)
Pre-strike Syrian Chem Blast Sep 22, 2007
The September 26 edition of the weekly says that fuel caught fire in a missile production laboratory, and dispersed chemical agents [including VX and sarin nerve agents and mustard blister agent] across the storage facility and outside. . (Newsmax)
HealthShares(TM) Announces Quarterly Rebalancing of HealthShares(TM) Indexes Sep 18, 2007
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Protesters show up in force near Cheney home Sep 18, 2007
CitizenKane wrote on Sep 16, 2007 11:32 AM:" Factoid, President Bush and his other administration buddies have frequently and crassly claimed in public a connection between Saddam, Iraq, Middle Eastern terrorists -- including al-Qaeda -- and the September 11 attacks. None so blatant, perhaps, as Bush including the specific assertion of such a link in a letter to Congress at the start of the war. Or, an October 2002 speech he made in Cincinati before the war and Congress vote to approve it.... (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Green ships for blue seas Sep 14, 2007
Green ships for blue highways - CNN.com. Green ships for blue highways. (CNN -- International)
Vermont wins big in car emissions case Sep 14, 2007
Last month I acquired an engine and transmission from a 92 Civic VX HB that had been boardsided at the driver door by a high bumper vehicle (probably a truck) ... The purpose of the engine and transmission is to build a 55 mpg CIVIC based on the VX drive train. (BurlingtonFreePress.com)
Agent Orange payment inadequate, critics say Sep 14, 2007
Veterans Affairs Minister Greg Thompson makes the announcement at a press conference in Fredericton, N.B. Sept. 12, 2007. Defence Minister Peter MacKay speaks at a news conference in Fredericton, N.B. on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007. (CTV.ca)
Chemical Agents Found Near U.N. HQ Aug 31, 2007
Get more info on everything from ricin to smallpox to VX gas. RELATED STORIES & LINKS. (CBS News)
Perry Urged To Block Shipments Of Deadly Nerve Agent Aug 24, 2007
(August 23, 2007)--Some environmental activists and lawmakers Thursday urged Gov. Rick Perry to block shipments of waste from the deadly nerve agent VX to Port Arthur. The chemical product is being transferred for incineration. (KWTX.com, TX)
Disposal of county property discussed Aug 23, 2007
Emergency Management Director Joe Whitaker addressed the commissioners Monday, bringing to light an issue which has surfaced with the imposing close-out of CSEPP. The VX chemical agent has been 63% destroyed as of this week and soon CSEPP operations will be phased out. That means all the CSEPP equipment must be reassigned to other county offices or used in an ongoing emergency management operation. (Attica Fountain County Neighbor, IN)
Asia markets drop on deepening credit worries Aug 15, 2007
Reuters Published: August 14, 2007. HONG KONG: Worries about a global credit squeeze deepened on Wednesday, pushing Japan's Nikkei to five-month lows and others in the region to a two-month trough, while the yen extended gains as investors shunned risky trades. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Rocking for the River Aug 9, 2007
The group can celebrate a recent success, however: preventing the U.S. Army from dumping the waste of VX gas, one of the deadliest nerve agents ever produced, into the Delaware River. Based in Bristol, Pa. (South Brunswick Post, NJ)
See the front page of today's print edition Aug 9, 2007
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Firefighters, policemen receive training Aug 1, 2007
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Nature's weapon against nerve agents Jul 30, 2007
The study will be carried out by Israeli firm Braintact, and follows earlier unpublished work with rats which showed the enzyme successfully protected the animals against neurological problems caused by exposure to paraoxon, a model compound for nerve agents such as sarin, soman and VX.. GOTs ability to protect against neurological damage, the company claims, is down to the fact it can bind to, and chemically inactivate, a chemical called glutamate, also found in the blood and brain. (EurekAlert!)
NASA Astronaut Health Care System Review Committee Report (PDF) Jul 29, 2007
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Report recommends off-site disposal of secondary waste Jul 27, 2007
The chemical neutralization facility does not generate brine solutions or salts; instead it generates VX hydrolysate, a water-based liquid resulting from the chemical breakdown of the VX nerve agent. Excluding the hydrolysate and wastes that can be eliminated on-site, CMA estimates that there will be more than 10 million pounds of secondary wastes at the completion of the chemical weapons destruction operations. (EurekAlert!)
Nerve gas antidote made by goats Jul 24, 2007
Scientists have genetically modified goats to make a drug in their milk that protects against deadly nerve agents such as sarin and VX.. These poisons are known collectively as organophosphates - a group of chemicals that also includes some insecticides used in farming. (BBC News -- Science)
ABCNEWS: White House, FBI Agents Race to Disrupt 'Summer of '07' Threat... Jul 12, 2007
The Blotter: White House, FBI Agents Race to Disrupt 'Summer of '07' Threat. TOP BLOTTER CATEGORIES. (The Drudge Report)
Politics: The summer fun edition Jul 12, 2007
BUSH: "The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas.". TWAIN: "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.". (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
U.N. Closes Down Iraq Weapons Monitoring Jun 30, 2007
In the 1990s, U.N. inspectors uncovered significant undeclared banned weapons programs, including a biological warfare program that Saddam sought to conceal, the chemical nerve agent VX and other advanced chemical weapons capabilities, and the indigenous production of long-range ballistic missile engines. Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency helped unravel the true extent of Iraq's clandestine nuclear program, which never succeeded in producing a working weapon. (Newsday -- World)
Could iPhone's data rate be a fly in the ointment? Jun 29, 2007
" Since signing on with Verizon Wireless in May of 2005 I have had to replace five LG VX series cell..." " In recent years odds making, basically betting on future events, has become a popular method of forecasting with a higher..." or. The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills These are the skills you need to rethink on your way up the IT food chain, or training you should consider avoiding if you're looking for a career in computers. (Computerworld)
Emotional and Behavioral Effects, Including Addictive Potential, of Video Games Jun 28, 2007
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Smooth cruiser Jun 22, 2007
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Army suspends VX waste transfers to Texas Jun 20, 2007
The lawsuit claims the 900-mile truck shipments of the VX nerve agent waste from the Newport Chemical Depot through eight states pose an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health and the environment and violate state and federal laws ... In April, the Army signed a $49 million contract with Veolia Environmental Services to incinerate about 2 million gallons of the chemical waste, which is called VX hydrolysate and is stored at the Newport depot, about 30 miles north of Terre Haute... (KHOU.com, TX)
Explainer: Where Do Hollywood Babies Come From?click to play audio Jun 19, 2007
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Letter: Congress 'should stop this illegal madness' May 31, 2007
George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, 2002-09-12 Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent ... " Shortly after the embassy bombings, Mr. Clinton ordered air strikes on al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and on the Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan. To justify the Sudanese plant as a target, Clinton aides said it was involved in the production of deadly VX nerve gas. Officials... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
More of this story May 24, 2007
PBCDF will dispose of VX nerve agent-filled rockets in its next campaign, scheduled to begin in the fall ... Following elimination of the VX rockets, VX-filled landmines and then HD/HT mustard blister agent-filled bulk containers will be destroyed. (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR)
Chemical weapons disposal done safely, officials say May 23, 2007
Mark Greer, site project manager, said the next batch of weapons slated for destruction are VX-filled rockets, followed by VX-filled land mines and finally HD-HT bulk containers. VX is a nerve agent, while HD and HT are blister agents ... Disposal of the VX rockets is to begin this fall. (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR)
HHS building financing gets green light May 22, 2007
The water will help support VX Aerospace, which announced May 7 it will build an airplane and composite parts manufacturing facility at the airport. Scheduled a public hearing for June 4 to discuss planning initiatives for environmentally sensitive areas along Wilson Creek. (Lenoir News Topic, NC)
Explainer: Is Benedict's Trip to Brazil Really a Pilgrimage?click to play audio May 11, 2007
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Texan fights city, Army over waste May 1, 2007
But when a company won a $49 million contract to incinerate chemical waste from the destruction of the deadly nerve agent VX, Hilton Kelley and others said enough was enough ... 8 million gallons of VX hydrolysate over the next three years ... VX hydrolysate is caustic waste water created when VX is destroyed by mixing it with sodium hydroxide and water. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Port Arthur, Texas, residents protest plans to burn nerve gas waste agent May 1, 2007
But when a company won a $49 million contract to incinerate chemical waste from the destruction of the deadly nerve agent VX, Hilton Kelley and others said enough was enough. "It's disgusting to know that all across America, when you mention Port Arthur, Texas, that it's considered the toxic dump site of North America. It's disgusting to know people are turning their backs on little children and old people and letting them stew in toxic waste," said Kelley, 46, a community activist. (Daily Iowan, IA)
Sulzer Drops Its $2.2 Billion Offer for U.K.'s Bodycote International Apr 29, 2007
ABB Ltd. (ABBN VX), the world's biggest builder of electricity networks, climbed 20 centimes, or 0. 8 percent, to 24. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Schlumberger Announces First-Quarter 2007 Results Apr 20, 2007
Multiphase Vx(*) technology--part of the PhaseWatcher system--enables continuous production monitoring to optimize well performance, resulting in greater production efficiency. In BP's Florena field in the Colombian Piedmonte Llanero region, PowerDrive vorteX(*) rotary-steerable technology drilled 5,658 ft in a single run in 262 hours. (Canada Newswire)
Activist: Army 'surreptitiously' reached VX deal Apr 13, 2007
April 12, 2007, 7:41 PM EDT INDIANAPOLIS -- Activists opposed to the military's plan to ship chemical waste from the destruction of Indiana's deadly VX nerve agent stockpile to Texas for incineration accused the Army on Thursday of "surreptitiously" approving that deal ... Under the contract announced this week, Veolia Environmental Services, a division of Paris-based Veolia Environnement, would ship a caustic wastewater called VX hydrolysate nearly 1,000 miles from western Indiana's Newport... (Newsday -- State)
Explainer: Can You Hear Without Ears?click to play audio Mar 23, 2007
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Chemical weapons group advises public Mar 22, 2007
Once the GB rockets are disposed of, the VX rockets will go next. But the most impressive figure from the report, Moraga said, is that, in the last two years, the risk to the community from ongoing storage has been reduced by 60 percent. (DeWitt Era-Enterprise, AR)
Last of deadly VX rockets incinerated Mar 11, 2007
Last of deadly VX rockets are destroyed ... - A chemical weapons incinerator destroyed the last of nearly 36,000 rockets carrying the deadly nerve agent VX, part of a huge munitions stockpile that dated back to the Cold War ... The rockets were considered the most hazardous part of the stockpile because they were loaded with explosive propellant and VX, which can kill a person within minutes. (MSNBC -- Terrorism)
Explainer: Was Britney's Hair Full of Drugs?click to play audio Feb 26, 2007
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Explainer: How Do You Cheat at NASCAR?click to play audio Feb 15, 2007
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Explainer: Did Boston's Bomb Scare Really Cost $1 Million?click to play audio Feb 9, 2007
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Will you ever afford a Sydney home? Jan 23, 2007
Posted by: VX at January 23, 2007 12:39 PM. Just work hard and complain less, everywhere are the same and you dont have any choices. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
First Data revs up technology, sponsorship for Champ Car race Jan 12, 2007
Prepaid Visa cards also can be purchased at the event, where more than 200 VeriFone Vx 610 wireless payment systems will be deployed ... Point-of-sale systems such as VeriFone's Vx 610 enable vendors to use wireless wide-area networking and wireless local-area networking to send card transactions. (Phoenix Business Journal, AZ)
Explainer: Do Boxers Drink Raw Eggs?click to play audio Jan 2, 2007
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