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layoffs! NIF cut 49 loose with more to go: ULM has been secretly cutting employees loose around the lab. EBAS are next.
A high ranking nif employee is headed out the gate.
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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"Oh, there's an event that just took place far more exciting than this saga. I'm just waiting to see how many days they can keep it under wraps before TVC, POGO or some news network gets wind. Soon afterwards I'd expect the AG and IG will be investigating all those involved from the top down and I'll assure you the "one" is not going down alone. As the wheels turn."
How about some real scoop. Just the fact Danno.
Escorted out by security on Friday.
Though apparently he's back on site. DOE investigation into
something having to do with his family business dealings (already mentioned above). The words "10 day investigation," "criminal prosecution" and "possible jailtime" seem to come to my mind. But much of this is still at the "unconfirmed" level of certainty.
It made me think of the following film adaptations:
"Elevator Defecation Part Deux," except this time, it's Ed Moses getting caught in the act on camera. Go Ed! Stick it to man!
"Collateral Damage" to innocent employees assigned to NIF who are now in a position of being out of work, which leads to...
"Missing Inventory Early Severance" or missing stuff due to spiteful employees taking early severance as a form of "screw you."
and closing out with
"NIF completion celebration party" complete with awards, music, catering, followed by plans to commence immediate dismantlement and pillaging (or more politely, "reuse") of useful equipment for other programs.
This really makes me think of the kind of "gotcha" this will be for famous journalists such as Friedman who was led along with the NIF and LIFE con job that Tomas and Ed pulled on them, NNSA, and the community.
Also all the politicians who came to the NIF event in which the lab had to pay for pre-event NIF landscaping by taxing all of the programs, even work-for-other programs that had nothing to do with NIF. Looks and smells like misappropriations of funds.
August 1, 2012 4:40 PM
He was escorted off-site Fri, and "working at home" monday & Tuesay. FBI came in Monday with search warrent and imponded his desktop computer.
Theres evidence that he used lab fund for his wifes business.
How does this ULM think they can get away with this stuff???????
August 1, 2012 5:56 PM
The smell and taste of money makes "folks" do crazy things. "Follow the money baby, follow the money!" .... Charlie McMillan
August 1, 2012 6:27 AM
In a word... Yes. Haven't you learned anything by observing carefully since the for-profit LLCs took over the management contract of the NNSA labs?
In addition, Moses supposedly asked somebody to move out of his chair in a conference room. But this is not confirmed yet.
Good try and great diversionary tactics in hopes to make people believe there's absolutely no truth in anything that gets posted on the blog but you as many before you will be proven wrong once again and forever. You should try writing a book but then that would take some originality.
But didn't Parney just tell NNSA we don't need no stinkin oversight committee we have managers at all levels who are very competent and trustworthy. My bet is we’re going to have more big dogs breathing down our backs now than ever before. Life is going to get much harder at LLNL from this day forwards.
August 4th, 2012 @ 9:42 AM here's my first and final comment. There's are to many things to do when retired than to worry about the past.
One comment I’ll make and my money’s on the fact that everyone whoever worked or works for LANL and LLNL will agree. Bechtel, I mean Rechtel, has lived up to their motto and now reputation of _search and destroy_. Never in my now finished career at LLNL have I ever seen a blog or complaints with so many facts of corruption and mismanagement of this magnitude advertised about these facilities, all of which sooner or later is printed in newspapers, journals and magazines as being facts. There was a time when very few people knew of the national labs existence but now they’re well known throughout society but not for their major accomplishments . If LLNS and LANS have done nothing else in the past four to five years they’re proven themselves of being worthy of the National Anal award. It seems that Diane Feinstein was correct during the transition when she said, _show me where this is a cost savings_ and again Diane Feinstein is correct when she said _I think it’s time to stop dumping money in this black hole and use it where it’ll be most beneficial_.
August 4, 2012 11:28 AM
This totally will burst my bubble if this was a gotcha. Even the newer "Wall Street" movie had themes based on NIF that made it seem so realistic. Now I'll have to mentally downgrade that movie to fiction? Oh the disappointment.
August 7, 2012 8:14 AM
Look forward to much DNA testing.
The truth must hurt but look where he is. At the top making ~$500K a year with perks. This $500K should soon be coming out of the TCP-1 pension plan for the remainder of his life. No wonder next year employee contributions are scheduled to be 7% and LLNS portion will be 24% or about $162M verses $82 . How will those funds be acquired. Could it again be SOP for LLNS. ( Bodies = $$), $162,000,000 / $300,000 ='s 540 low paid blue collar workers out the gate !
August 12, 2012 3:16 PM