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A former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory worker was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to pay $40,000 for stealing more than 40 tons of copper from his employers over a three-year period. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/24/feds-man-stole-43000-pounds-of-copper-over-three-years/amp/

Los Alamos has a new crackpot fusion device! https://www.newsweek.com/plasma-guns-fired-nuclear-fusion-1465550

Trump just gave away New Mexico to Mexico! and said that he is going to build a wall in Colorado!!! Mexico has nukes now! This changes everything. I know you have no idea that New Mexico is part of the United States but please it is not 1912 anymore.

Safety underpins LANL operator’s commitment to NM https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.abqjournal.com/1380768/safety-underpins-lanl-operators-commitment-to-nm-ex-nothing-is-more-important-than-the-safety-of-our-workforce-neighbors-and-the-environment.html/amp

"Energy Secretary Rick Perry tells Trump he plans to resign, sources say" https://www.foxnews.com/politics/energy-secretary-perry-tells-trump-plans-resign

"State Department official testifies White House wanted Rick Perry, 'amigos' to run Ukraine policy" https://www.google.com/amp/s/theweek.com/speedreads-amp/872078/state-department-official-testifies-white-house-wanted-rick-perry-amigos-run-ukraine-policy

LAW OFFICES OF A. P. X. BOTHWELL October 12, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FEDERAL COURTS MUST SAFEGUARD WHISTLEBLOWER'S RIGHTS, SAN FRANCISCO LAWYER SAYS IN NUCLEAR WEAPONS LAB CASE  (San Francisco, Oct. 12, 2019) -- Atty. Tony Bothwell today told the U.S. District Court  for the Northern District of California that "the government must be required to protect  whistleblowers [who] have the courage to disclose practices that harm workers, the public and the nation." Defending a nuclear weapons lab engineer against the Department of Energy, Bothwell added, "It is the proper role of the court to overturn decisions of the  Executive Branch that otherwise obscure the truth, chill the workforce, and disserve the law" The San Francisco attorney represents Anthony Rivera, who was fired by Lawrence  Livermore National Security LLC in 2013 after he disclosed "serious safety violations"  in the lab's High Explosives Test Facility and ...

Rick Perry Subpoenaed In House’s Trump Impeachment Probe https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5d9f9226e4b06ddfc5165763

Warren Proposes Reinstating Superfund Site Corporate Taxes "U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), seeking her party’s nomination for president, on Wednesday proposed reinstating corporate taxes to pay for cleanup of Superfund sites contaminated by hazardous wastes." https://www.exchangemonitor.com/warren-proposes-reinstating-superfund-site-taxes/

Senate Appropriations Panel Wants DOE Data on Livermore Excess Facilities "The Senate Appropriations Committee wants a report from the U.S. Energy Department on what it will take to decommission excess facilities at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California over the next 10 years." https://www.exchangemonitor.com/senate-appropriations-panel-looks-data-livermore-excess-facilities/?printmode=1

Trump told House Republicans that he made Ukraine call because of Perry: Report "According to Axios, President Trump told House Republicans that he was urged by Energy Secretary Rick Perry to make his July 25 phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky...Trump told fellow party members "not a lot of people know this but, I didn't even want to make the call," a source who was on the call told the news outlet...The only reason I made the call was because Rick asked me to. Something about an LNG [liquified natural gas] plant," Trump added" https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/464518-trump-told-house-republicans-that-he-made-ukraine-call-because-of

Fentanyl? Really LANL? https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2019/10/f67/DOE-OIG-19-54.pdf

Energy Secretary Rick Perry eyeing exit in November "Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette is expected to replace Perry...Brouillette has been filling in for Perry at Cabinet meetings for the past few months, one source added. Many of Perry’s former DOE staff members — including chief of staff Brian McCormack and special assistant Luke Wallwork — have all left DOE in recent weeks, a source said." https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/03/rick-perry-expected-to-resign-000189

Energy Secretary Advisory Board Briefed on ‘Staggering’ NNSA Hiring Goals "The No. 2 official at the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on Wednesday briefed members of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board on the “staggering goal” of swelling the nuclear-weapon steward’s workforce by about 20,000 heads over the…" https://www.exchangemonitor.com/bookless-briefs-advisory-board-staggering-nnsa-hiring-goals/