Spacewalkers Safe After Toxic Ammonia Leak Encounter

 The ammonia, which is used as a space station coolant, can be highly toxic if flakes of the substance are accidentally carried into the space station. Fortunately, tried and tested decontamination procedures worked like a charm and the spacewalkers, nor the rest of the crew,were in any danger. The same procedure will be used today before the astronauts return to the interior.

NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren and Scott Kelly were 2 hours into a planned 6.5 hour spacewalk to carry out maintenance work on the station’s coolant system. Three years ago, the space station crew were faced with carrying out an emergency spacewalk to stop an ammonia leak. An immediate jury-rigging solution was put in place, and eventually new pump was installed. However, the jury rigging had remained in place to this day, so one of Friday’s spacewalking tasks was to remove the quick leak fix.

http://news.discovery.com/space/spacewalkers-safe-after-toxic-ammonia-leak-encounter-151106.htm

FROM PROTESTING VIETNAM TO DEMANDING “SAFE SPACES” – WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICA’S COLLEGE KIDS?

 Of course, many of you will accurately state that not much about the imperial state has actually changed since those days of protest, and that in fact, the out of control abuse of power both abroad and at home has gotten far worse in the subsequent decades. I will concede this point, but want to add a caveat. Certain things really did change, particularly with regard to racial discrimination in these United States. Not to say things are perfect, but to discount the significant gains achieved in this regard would be unfair.

http://www.infowars.com/from-protesting-vietnam-to-demanding-safe-spaces-what-happened-to-americas-college-kids/

U.S. Shoots Down Idea of Syria Safe Zone

Days after the U.S. and Turkey announced a breakthrough deal to fight together against the Islamic State, U.S. officials are insisting that — contrary to reports — there are definitely no U.S. plans for a “safe zone” inside Syria. In fact, there really is no “zone,” and there is no plan to keep the area “safe.”

This confusion is a microcosm of the disorganized U.S. approach to the Islamic State threat since last summer. Each incremental escalation into which the U.S. gets dragged in Syria seems poorly thought out and even more poorly explained. Until the Barack Obama administration can reconcile the different objectives among the members of its anti-Islamic-State coalition, the various partners will continue to work at cross-purposes. In this case, for the U.S., the Islamic State is the one and only priority; for Turkey, the imperative is protecting civilians from Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime and eventually forcing its exit.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-07-28/u-s-shoots-down-idea-of-syria-safe-zone

U.S. SHOOTS DOWN IDEA OF SYRIA SAFE ZONE

Days after the U.S. and Turkey announced a breakthrough deal to fight together against the Islamic State, U.S. officials are insisting that — contrary to reports — there are definitely no U.S. plans for a “safe zone” inside Syria. In fact, there really is no “zone,” and there is no plan to keep the area “safe.”

http://www.infowars.com/u-s-shoots-down-idea-of-syria-safe-zone/