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More Nord Stream ‘Bombshells’ to Come – Seymour Hersh

The legendary reporter slammed the mainstream media for ignoring his story, which pinned the act of sabotage on the US

— February 15, 2023

A Swedish Coast Guard photo shows escaping gas following the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea, September 27, 2022 © AP / Coast Guard of Sweden

Journalist Seymour Hersh has promised to reveal more incriminating information linking the US to the demolition of the Nord Stream gas pipelines. President Joe Biden ordered the lines destroyed to prevent Germany from resuming the purchase of cheap Russian gas, he claimed.

In a post to his Substack page on Wednesday, Hersh slammed the mainstream media – singling out the New York Times and Washington Post – for refusing to “run a word” on the pipeline story, and for ignoring Russia and China’s calls for an international investigation.

Both papers, he said, published his exposés on the US military’s war crimes in Vietnam, but are now seemingly uninterested in “national security or matters of war and peace.”

Nord Stream 1 and 2, which connected Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea, were damaged in a series of underwater explosions last September. Hersh, a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, released a report last week blaming the US for the attack and detailing how the Biden administration and the CIA planned the operation. The White House dismissed the allegation as “utterly false and complete fiction.”

German Statesman Slams EU Leaders' Spinelessness, Demands NATO's Dismemberment, Closure of US Bases! Oskar Lafontaine, who has worked under Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schroder, and served as President of the Bundesrat, Minister President of Saarland, Minister of Finance, and Leader of Die Linke and the SPD, blasted the current crop of German and European leaders for going along with policies which have brought Berlin to the brink of disaster. (November 28, 2022)

“Of course, I also mean the conflict in Ukraine, which began with the Maidan putsch in Kiev in 2014. Since then, the US and its Western vassals have been arming Ukraine and systematically preparing it for confrontation with Russia. Ukraine thus became a de facto, if not de jure, member of NATO. This backstory has been studiously ignored by Western politicians and the mainstream media,” Lafontaine told Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten in an interview published Sunday. (November 28, 2022)

“It was a hostile act against the Federal Republic, and not only against us, and once again makes clear that we must free ourselves from American tutelage,” Lafontaine stressed. The politician pressed his country’s leaders to force the removal of all US military bases and nuclear weapons from German soil, and called for the creation of a European security architecture with France, separate from NATO, which he called an “obsolete” alliance that acts as a “tool to enforce the US’s claim to remain the sole power in the world.” (November 28, 2022)

“To use a hackneyed expression: We are experiencing the birth pangs of the transitional phase from a unipolar to a multipolar world order. And the question arises whether we will have a place of our own in this new world order, or be drawn into Washington’s conflicts with Moscow and Beijing as American vassals,” the politician emphasized. (November 28, 2022)

“On the other hand, they have not succeeded in ‘ruining Russia’, as [German Foreign Minister Annalena] Baerbock put it…overthrowing [Vladimir] Putin and installing a puppet government in Moscow to get better access to Russian raw materials, as was the case in [Boris] Yeltsin’s time,” Lafontaine said. (November 28, 2022)

The article backed up Moscow’s repeated assertions that the US carried out the strike in order to prevent rapprochement between Russia and Germany, while making Berlin dependent on more expensive American liquefied natural gas.

Germany halted certification of Nord Stream 2 in the days before Russian troops entered Ukraine, and EU sanctions throttled the flow of gas through Nord Stream 1 since late summer by impeding vital repairs. However, Hersh told Germany’s Berliner Zeitung newspaper on Tuesday that the Biden administration feared Berlin would lift these sanctions and resume gas transit as temperatures dropped over the winter.

“The President of the United States would rather see Germany freeze than [see] Germany possibly stop supporting Ukraine,” he asserted.

“There may be more to learn about Joe Biden’s decision to prevent the German government from having second thoughts about the lack of cheap gas this winter,” Hersh wrote on Wednesday. “Stay tuned,” he said. “We are only on first base…”

Nord Stream Blast Story was ‘Not Hard to Find’ – Author

Media outlets like the NYT and WaPo “don’t seem to have anyone inside” among their sources, Seymour Hersh claims

Seymour Hersh © Bernard Weil/Toronto Star via Getty Images

Legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claimed on Saturday that his latest bombshell report, which suggests the CIA was responsible for the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines in September, was not a hard story to find. It was obvious that there was more to the issue than was being reported by most media outlets, Hersh said.

In his first interview since he published the story on Substack last Wednesday, the Pulitzer-prize winning journalist was asked by Radio War Nerd to comment on his source for the story, who still remains anonymous.

Hersh refused to expose any details about who he spoke to and noted that it was his job to protect his sources and take the heat when a story went live. But those within the media who criticize him for using anonymous sources should “understand the business a little better,” the journalist suggested.

“The problem is, it’s all been cheapened. Because now the New York Times and the Washington Post think an unnamed source can be a press guy, a press secretary, that whispers something to them on the side. I don’t know, they don’t seem to have anyone inside,” Hersh said.

He also noted that major news outlets are failing to report a lot of things about the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev. “The war I know about is not the war you’re reading about,” Hersh observed.

“It’s amazing to me how they fall in line, my colleagues,” he added, lamenting that many outlets such as the NYT, WP, CNN and MSN have become a front for the White House and the Biden administration.

As for the Nord Stream expose, Hersh insisted it was “not a hard story to find” and that it was obvious that some NATO country was involved, especially after top US officials, including President Joe Biden, issued clear threats that the Russian-German project would be stopped “one way or another” if Moscow chose to send troops to Ukraine back in February 2022.

Hersh also pointed out that the entire international pipeline industry knew “who did what” and that this was a reality that “nobody thinks about.” “But I did, so there you are,” he concluded.

The White House, as well as officials from the CIA and State Department, have all vehemently dismissed Hersh’s report since it was published. Moscow, meanwhile, has called for an open international investigation into the attack, saying it was “impossible to leave this without finding the perpetrators and punishing them.”

US openly Admits It Blew up Nord Stream – Russian FM

The pipelines were sabotaged because Washington saw Russian-German cooperation as a threat, Sergey Lavrov has claimed

Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Russia

US officials are basically admitting that they were behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, which was perpetrated to prevent rapprochement between Moscow and Berlin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

“The US decided that we [Russia] have been cooperating too well with Germany over the past 20 or 30 years; or rather, the Germans cooperated with us too well,” he said in an interview published on the Foreign Ministry’s website on Sunday.

The “powerful alliance” based on Russian energy resources and German technology “began to threaten the monopoly position of many American corporations,” Lavrov explained.

So, Washington decided to destroy this alliance between Moscow and Berlin, and did it “literally” by attacking the pipelines, which were built to deliver Russian gas to Europe through Germany, he added.

“American officials are basically admitting that the explosions that occurred at Nord Stream 1 and 2 were their doing. They even speak about it with joy,” the foreign minister stated.

Lavrov was likely referring to a confession made by US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland during a Senate hearing in late January. “I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now... a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea,” she said at that time.

Denis Alipov © Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of India. Western diplomacy is immature and incapable of dialogue — Russian ambassador to India

'The epicenter of world politics and economic development has shifted eastwards, towards a more equal and balanced dispensation of power'

“The vileness of Western politicians is well known,” Lavrov continued, suggesting that “the plan, which is now being implemented through ‘inciting’ Ukraine against Russia and waging a war by the entire West against Russia by means of Ukraine, is to a large extent aimed at preventing a new rapprochement between Germany and Russia.”

The comments by Russia’s top diplomat come just days after iconic American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh released a bombshell report blaming Washington for sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines last year.

According to an informed source who talked to Hersh, explosives were planted at the pipelines in the Baltic Sea back in June 2022 by US Navy divers under the guise of a NATO exercise. They were detonated in late September, rendering the key European energy infrastructure inoperable.

US National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson denied the report by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, calling it “utterly false and complete fiction.” No one among high-ranking American officials has even commented on the accusations made by Hersh.

For months, the Russian authorities have been pointing to the fact that the only side to benefit from the destruction of Nord Stream was the US, which has seen supplies of its more expensive liquefied natural gas to Europe increase massively since the explosions.

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hjmarseille · 6 years ago

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Audience in a demolition class: first row left to right—Sgt. Jock Lindsay, Sgt Ken Seymour (Br., Team Jacob), and Capt. Hugo Hood (Br.); second row center—Capt. Giles Mounoury (“Bourriot” of Team Desmond); third row—Capt. Godfrey Marchant on the left (Br., Team Aubrey), Sgt. Ivor Hooker fourth from left (Br., Team Aubrey), and Capt. Philip Donoven; fourth row—Sgt. Neville Wood on the left (Br.), and Sgt. Alan de Ville fourth from left (Br., Team Arnold)

Photo and caption featured in Jedburgh Team Operations in Support of the 12th Army Group, August 1944 by S. J. Lewis

#demolition class #Jock Lindsay #Ken Seymour #Team Jacob #Hugo Hood #Giles Mounoury #Team Desmond #Godfrey Marchant #Team Aubrey #Ivor Hooker #Philip Donoven #Neville Wood #Alan de Ville #Team Arnold #Jedburgh

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londiniumlundene · 5 years ago

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Euston’s Lost Tunnels

What we now know as the Northern Line was born out of the amalgamation of the City & South London Railway (C&SLR) and the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR). In 1903, the two companies were granted permission to build underground railways passing in the area near Euston. The owners of Euston, the London & North Western Railway, stipulated that each underground railway must have a separate station buildings. The C&SLR built theirs to the east of Euston, on Seymour Street (now demolished); the CCE&HR built theirs to the west, on Melton Street (scheduled for demolition as part of HS2 works).

The C&SLR and CCE&HR agreed to build a tunnel to connect their platforms, to save passengers from going above ground if changing lines. However, as the lines were run by different companies, a new ticket was required when changing – so a ticket office was installed part way along the linking tunnel (reputedly the only example of this on the entire underground network); there was also a joint ticket hall under the mainline station with direct routes to each line. When the underground lines were unified in 1914, the individual station buildings closed, leaving the ticket hall under the mainline station as the only entrance and exit.

By the 1960s, the lines had long since been operating through Euston as the Northern Line – though as separate branches (still a source of confusion to unwary travellers today). It was the construction of the Victoria Line that finally closed the linking tunnel between the two branches in 1962, with new tunnels and ticket hall being built to cope with increased passenger numbers.

The London Transport Museum operates tours of the disused CCE&HR station and linking tunnel, along with a walk into the ventilation system above the Victoria line platforms. Though converted for service use, the old tunnels were never stripped or cleaned before the modern equipment was put in place; as such, they are something of a time capsule, with walls covered in advertisements from the 1960s, most still remarkably readable over 50 years later.

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Coburg & Seymour

#halifax #west end #demolition #Coburg&Seymour

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notwiselybuttoowell · 2 years ago

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The destruction of global forests slowed in 2021 but the vital climate goal of ending deforestation by 2030 will still be missed without urgent action, according to an assessment.

The area razed in 2021 fell by 6.3% after progress in some countries, notably Indonesia. But almost 7m hectares were lost and the destruction of the most carbon- and biodiversity-rich tropical rainforests fell by only 3%. The CO2 emissions resulting from the lost trees were equivalent to the emissions of the entire European Union plus Japan.

Global heating could not be limited to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels without ending deforestation, experts said. At the UN’s Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow last year, 145 countries pledged to end the felling of forests by the end of the decade. The demolition and degradation of forests causes about 10% of global carbon emissions.

However, based on current trends, the Glasgow leaders’ declaration would be as “hollow” as the pledge made by countries in 2014 to end deforestation by 2020, the assessment’s authors said.

There was little clarity or transparency of the measures being taken to end deforestation and only 1% of the required funding was being provided, they said, and most importantly a lack of political will.

Erin Matson at Climate Focus, a policy group and one of the coalition of organisations that conducted the assessment, said: “The [Glasgow declaration] was a big moment, the first time such a target had been embraced at the leaders level by so many countries, covering 90% of global forests.

“But we are not on track. There has been some modest improvement, but even this could just be temporary. Many countries are putting their progress at risk by phasing out or rolling back protections. For example, Indonesia did not renew its palm oil moratorium after it expired in September 2021 and a recently adopted law on job creation poses a serious threat to natural forests.”

The largest area of destroyed forest in 2021 was in Brazil, where deforestation has risen under president Jair Bolsonaro, having fallen under his predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The election contest between the two men, on 30 October, has been described by scientists as likely to determine the fate of the Amazon. “The stakes are high,” Matson said.

David Gibbs, a research associate at the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Global Forest Watch, said: “We are quickly moving toward another round of hollow commitments and vanished forests.”

Fran Price, at the World Wildlife Fund, said: “There is no pathway to meeting the 1.5C target or reversing biodiversity loss without halting deforestation and conversion. It is time for bold leadership and daring solutions.”

Four of the top five countries with the largest areas of deforestation – Brazil, Bolivia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Paraguay – increased the destruction in 2021.

However, “exceptional progress” in some countries showed the 2030 goal was still possible, the authors said. Indonesia, the only country to cut deforestation in each of the past five years, and its neighbour Malaysia, reduced forest destruction by about 25% in 2021. As a result, tropical Asia is the only region on track for zero deforestation by 2030.

A drive to end the razing of forests for cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast and Ghana helped deforestation fall by 47% and 13% respectively, while new national parks and measures to fight illegal logging led to a 28% fall in Gabon. Tropical Latin America, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Guatemala also reported cuts in deforestation in 2021.

“We have the data and we know what interventions work – the missing element is the political will to actually undertake those actions,” said Frances Seymour at WRI.

The measures include government bans combined with effective enforcement, collaborations with the beef, soy, timber and other commodity companies whose products are most linked to deforestation, international trade measures and the strengthening of the land rights of Indigenous and other local people.

Countries backing the Glasgow declaration pledged to quadruple annual funding to tackle deforestation but no information was yet available on how these pledges would be met, the authors said.

Only a quarter of the biggest global companies in the agriculture sector have announced strong policies to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains and just 20% of these are close to meeting their commitments.

The new forest declaration assessment used data on permanent tree cover loss around the world to create a baseline from 2018-20. To get to zero deforestation by 2030 requires a fall of 10% a year, meaning the current slowing of deforestation is insufficient.

Forest cover has increased in some countries since 2000 but less than the area lost. New forests could not offset the huge carbon storage and biodiversity of existing natural forests, the authors said.

Protecting intact forests had even more climate benefits than just the CO2 stored, said Seymour, thanks to their role in producing cloud cover that cools the planet. “If we take the non-carbon processes into account, they amplify the cooling effect of ending tropical forest loss by about 50%,” she said.

Michael Wolosin, at Conservation International, said: “That 50% cooling bonus should be included by forest countries in their accounting to gain the recognition and finance they deserve for the services their forests are providing to the world.”

#deforestation #plantations #ranching #climate change #agriculture #trees

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awesomepygophilia · 3 years ago

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Futurama

There are a few butt related instances in Futurama that come to mind. I don't promise that this list is comprehensive, but if anyone points out additional scenes I will add them:

Season 7 episode 21: Fry's head is stuck in a jar, and he is freed when Leela accidentally sits on his head. This is the most direct butt-to-head contact in the whole series.

Season 4 episode 9: Fry shows his bare butt and rubs it against a window.

Season 2 episode 2: Leela fights the Amazonian women to no effect, and one of them sits on her.

Season 2 episode 5: Leela and Amy are nude with Fry in the steam room. The top of the two women's butts are visible.

Season 3 Episode 49: I won't list out all of Bender's butt references, but this one in particular has Bender's note on a building "Bender lives large and kicks butt" to be demolished into "Bender licks butt". This is notable in that butt references usually talk about kissing butt or brown nosing- a reference to licking butt is less common in my experience.

Season 4 episode 7: Leela and Amy wrestle in tight clothing. Just before Bender comes in Leela is very nearly sitting on Amy's face.

Season 9 episode 5: There is a reference to a romance between "face mutant" and "butt mutant".

Season 6 episode 1: Amy is nude and covered in pink goo. The professor slaps her on the butt.

Season 1 episode 3: Bender mentions that one woman has a huge ass.

Season 1 episode 6: Fry play's Sir Mixalot's "I Like Big Butts" song, which Leela calls classical music.

Season 6 episode 3: There is a plot point involving a mutant on Leela's butt. There is one scene that is a closeup of her butt.

Bender's Game: The shower scene while discussing the demolition derby shows the top of Leela and Amy's butt cracks.

Bender's Big Score: Hermes hangs up the phone with his butt. Also a major plot point involves a tattoo on Fry's butt.

Fry's dog is named Seymour Asses.

In the first episode, when Fry first sees Leela, she is facing away from him so that her one eye is a surprise. This emphasizes her butt in their first meeting.

There are various scenes of swimsuits and other revealing cloth, and one with Amy taking off her pants facing away from the camera, but these seem less 'butt emphasis' and more 'butt visible' to me. There is also some nudity, such as the professor's, that I didn't track down.

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darthdodo · 4 years ago

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Ecco perché gli Italiani, gli Spagnoli, e i Greci coi Turchi sono complici e sono trafficanti nel Mediterraneo e sul Mar Nero, coprono i vertici della trasformazione della NATO finora tutti British Army nella BREXIT, e dal 2009 senza supervisori per volere di William il Coglione.. in un favore che domani li farà meno invidiosi, forse.. dei giocattoli dell’industria pesante Francese, Inglese & Tedesca sicché sono solo penisole felici del sole e villeggiature per troie che non hanno familiarità con le testate o le minacce delle MINE TERRESTRI NUCLEARI nella nuova guerra che i DRONI porteranno verso i MAIN BATTLE TANK della NATO.. ordigni al Cobalto proprio come la bomba detonata in Yemen nel 2015 e fabbricati con gli asset Anglo-Kazaki faranno da apripista a le nuove forme della guerra non convenzionale per testare la sopravvivenza di quegli uomini e equipaggi che nella normalità ancora credono e a questi mostri e cancri viventi nelle Main Board Defense Interforce in quei di Bruxelles sperano o avrebbero sparato una volta per loro.

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Componenti interni della configurazione MADM. Da sinistra a destra: contenitore di imballaggio,

testata W45,

unità decodificatore di codice, unità di cottura.

Le munizioni per demolizione atomica (ADM), colloquialmente note come mine terrestri nucleari, sono piccoli ordigni esplosivi nucleari. Le ADM sono state sviluppate sia per scopi militari che civili. Come armi, furono progettate per essere esplose nell'area di battaglia in avanti, al fine di bloccare o incanalare le forze nemiche. Non militarmente, sono stati progettati per la demolizione, l'estrazione mineraria o il movimento terra. Tuttavia, a parte i test, non sono mai stati utilizzati per nessuno dei due scopi.

Contenuto

1Usi militari

2Usi civili

3ADM degli Stati Uniti d'America

4Vedi anche

5Riferimenti

6Collegamenti esterni

3.1Tadm

3.2Sadm

3.3MADM

3.4Controversia russa con le ADM

3.5Trasmissione in prima linea sulle armi nucleari della valigia

3.6Armi nucleari per valigie e bin Laden

3.7Le bombe da valigia riguardano post-9/11

3.8La valigia nukes polemica cronologia

Usi militari[modifica]

Sparò allo

zio dell'Operazione Buster-Jangle

, aveva una resa di 1,2 chilotoni,

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fu fatto detonare 5,2 m (17 piedi) sotto il livello del suolo.

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La resa è approssimativamente la stessa della resa massima della SADM

equipaggiata con W54.

L'esplosione ha provocato una nube che è salita a 11.500 piedi e ha depositato ricadute a nord e nord-nordest.

Il cratere risultante

era largo 260 piedi e profondo 53 piedi.

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Invece di essere consegnati al bersaglio da missili, razzi o proiettili d'artiglieria, le ADM dovevano essere posizionate dai soldati. A causa delle loro dimensioni relativamente piccole e del peso leggero, le ADM potevano essere posizionate da ingegneri militari o squadre delle forze speciali, quindi fatte esplodere al comando o dal timer per creare enormi ostacoli. Distruggendo le caratteristiche chiave del terreno o i punti di strozzatura come ponti, dighe, passi di montagna e tunnel, le ADM potrebbero servire a creare ostacoli fisici e radiologici al movimento delle forze nemiche e quindi incanalarle in zone di uccisione preparate. [5][6]

Secondo i resoconti ufficiali, gli Stati Uniti dispiegò adome all'estero in Italia e Germania Ovest (Fulda Gap) durante la Guerra Fredda. [7][8]I tipi più moderni (SADM e MADM) sono stati dispiegati in Corea del Sud. [10]SeymourHersh siriferiva al dispiegamento di ADM lungo le alture del Golan da parte di Israele nei primi anni'80.

Usi civili[modifica]

Le ADM non sono mai state utilizzate commercialmente anche se piccoli dispositivi simili, spesso modificati per ridurre la resa di fissione e massimizzare la fusione, sono stati profondamente sepolti per appiccare incendi di gas come parte del programma di test sovietico. [chiarimento necessario]

L'Unione Sovietica ha testato l'uso di dispositivi nucleari per l'estrazione mineraria e il gas naturale (stimolando il flusso di gas in modo simile al fracking)in diverse occasioni a partire dalla metà degli anni '60, come parte del programma Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy. Test per scopi simili sono stati effettuati negli Stati Uniti nell'ambito dell'operazione Plowshare, ma a causa della contaminazione radioattiva causata dai test, non è stato fatto alcun uso commerciale diretto della tecnologia, sebbene abbiano avuto successo nella nucleosintesi e sondando la composizione della crosta profonda terrestre da parte di Vibroseis che ha aiutato la prospezione delle società minerarie. [14][15][16]

ADM degli Stati Uniti[edit]

Contenitore di trasporto H-912 per Mk-54 SADM

Negli anni '50 e '60, gli Stati Uniti svilupparono diversi tipi di dispositivi nucleari leggeri. Il principale era il W54,un cilindro di 40 per 60 cm (circa 16 per 24 pollici) che pesava 23 kg (50 libbre). Era sparato da un timer meccanico e aveva una resa variabile equivalente a tra 10 tonnellate e 1 kt di TNT. Una versione a resa non variabile field del dispositivo nucleare W54 (chiamata testata "Mk-54 Davy Crockett" per il round M-388 Crockett) fu usata nel Davy Crockett Weapon System.

W7/ADM-B (c. 1954–67)

Tipo di cannone T4 ADM (1957-63)

W30/Tactical Atomic Demolition Munition (1961-66)

W31/ADM (1960-65)

W45/Munizioni per demolizione atomica media (1964-84)

W54/Munizioni speciali per demolizione atomica (1965-89)

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La Mk 30 Mod 1 Tactical Atomic Demolition Munition (TADM) era una bomba atomica portatile, costituita da una testata Mk 30 installata in una custodia X-113. L'X-113 aveva un diametro di 26 pollici (66 cm) e un lungo 70 pollici (178 cm) e sembrava un tubo di culvert ondulato. L'intero sistema pesava 840 libbre (381 kg). La produzione del TADM iniziò nel 1961 e tutti furono rimossi dalle scorte nel 1966. Un test dell'effetto armi del TADM fu fatto nel colpo di Johnny Boy del 1962 ("Johnnie Boy"[17]) della serie Dominic II (che è più precisamente indicato come Operazione Sunbeam),la resa di Johnny Boy/Johnnie Boy era di circa .5 kt.[18] Un precedente test ADM che ha portato a una resa comparabile, è stato girato in prova "Danny Boy" dell'Operazione Nougat,producendo anche una resa di circa 0,5 chilotoni. [19]

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Gli scienziati guardano una miniera nucleare MADM. Involucro cutaway con testata all'interno, decodificatore di codice / unità di cottura è a sinistra.

La Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) era una famiglia di armi nucleari portatili in campo dall'esercito statunitense negli anni '60, ma mai utilizzate in combattimento. L'esercito statunitense pianificò di usare le armi in Europa in caso di invasione sovietica. Gli ingegneri dell'esercito degli Stati Uniti avrebbero usato l'arma per irradiare, distruggere e negare le vie chiave di comunicazione attraverso terreni limitati come il Fulda Gap. Le truppe furono addestrate a paracadutarsi nell'Europa occidentale occupata dai sovietici con la SADM e distruggere centrali elettriche, ponti e dighe.

L'arma è stata progettata per consentire a una persona di paracadutarsi da qualsiasi tipo di aereo che trasporta il pacchetto di armi e posizionarlo in un porto o in un'altra posizione strategica a cui si poteva accedere dal mare. Un altro paracadutista senza un pacchetto di armi seguirebbe il primo a fornire supporto se necessario.

La squadra di due persone avrebbe messo il pacchetto di armi nel luogo di destinazione, impostato il timer e nuotato nell'oceano dove sarebbero stati recuperati da un sottomarino o da un'imbarcazione per l'acqua di superficie ad alta velocità.

MADM[

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La Medium Atomic Demolition Munition (MADM) era un'arma nucleare tattica sviluppata dagli Stati Uniti durante la Guerra Fredda. Sono stati progettati per essere utilizzati come mine terrestri nucleari e per altri scopi tattici, con una resa esplosiva relativamente bassa da una testata W45, tra 1 e 15 chilotoni. Ogni MADM pesava circa 181 kg in totale. Sono stati prodotti tra il 1965 e il 1986. [20]

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All'indomani del crollo dell'Unione Sovietica, gli Stati Uniti e la Russia svilupparono una profonda cooperazione volta ad assicurare la sicurezza dell'arsenale nucleare russo. Mentre furono prese una serie di misure per consolidare e migliorare la sicurezza delle armi nucleari strategiche della Russia, in particolare nell'ambito del programma cooperativo di riduzione delle minacce, rimase la preoccupazione per la sicurezza dell'arsenale tattico russo di armi nucleari. In particolare, sorse un serio dibattito sullo status delle note come "armi nucleari da valigia", piccoli dispositivi nucleari dell'era sovietica. Il termine valigia nucleare è generalmente usato per descrivere qualsiasi tipo di piccolo dispositivo nucleare portatile, anche se vi è un serio dibattito sulla validità del termine stesso. Nella peggiore delle ipotesi, una bomba atomica sarebbe abbastanza piccola da essere trasportata a mano in una grande popolazione o centro di leadership (centro di Manhattan o Capitol Hill,per esempio) non rilevata e poi fatta esplodere. Sebbene, per la maggior parte degli account, la resa di un tale dispositivo sia probabilmente molto inferiore a dieci chilotoni, i suoi effetti combinati possono avere il potenziale per uccidere decine di migliaia, se non di più. C'è molta confusione su quanti di questi dispositivi valigia esistono o se esistono. Secondo alcuni resoconti, l'Unione Sovietica costruì centinaia di questi dispositivi, di cui diverse dozzine mancavano. Sulla base di altri rapporti, le armi nucleari per valigie non sono mai state costruite in gran numero o non sono mai state dispiegate.

Non ci sono informazioni open source definitive sul numero, la posizione, la sicurezza o lo stato di queste bombe nucleari per valigie. Nessuna bomba valigie sovietica o nessuno dei suoi presunti componenti è mai stato trovato, tanto meno usato, nei tre decenni successivi al crollo dell'URSS. A dicembre 2018, è probabile che non funzionerebbero o sfrutterebbero nella peggiore delle ipotesi la mancanza della necessaria manutenzione specializzata comune a tutte le armi nucleari, se mai esistessero.

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Il 23 febbraio 1999, il programma investigativo della PBS Frontline ha pubblicato uno speciale sulla sicurezza nucleare russa che includeva una serie di interviste con molte delle persone che hanno parlato pubblicamente durante il dibattito del 1997 sulle armi nucleari da valigia. Alexei Yablokov apparve e riaffermiamo la sua posizione secondo cui un certo numero di piccole cariche atomiche erano state costruite, fino a parlare del loro peso ("trenta chili, quaranta chili"). Yablokov accusò il governo russo di ingannare l'opinione pubblica sulla situazione, sottolineando le incongruenze nelle smentite da parte dell'FSB, MINATOM, e le informazioni che erano pubblicamente disponibili su Internet ("... se sto guardando una [foto] di un'arma americana, devo essere sicuro che abbiamo un'analogia ..."). Nello stesso programma, il deputato Curt Weldon ha raccontato un incontro che ha tenuto nel dicembre 1997 con il ministro della Difesa Igor Sergeyev. Durante questo incontro, Weldon chiese specificamente a Sergeyev dei piccoli dispositivi ADM. Secondo Weldon, la risposta di Sergeev fu: "Sì, li abbiamo costruisciti, stiamo distruggendoli, ed entro il 2000 avremo distrutto tutti i nostri piccoli dispositivi di demolizione atomica". Weldon ha poi espresso fiducia nella dichiarazione di Sergeev, ma ha anche espresso preoccupazione per il fatto che il governo russo abbia o meno tenuto conto di tutti i suoi dispositivi nucleari. In prima linea c'erano anche diversi esperti e funzionari americani e russi che presentavano opinioni diverse sull'argomento. Il generale Vladimir Dvorkin, ex ufficiale delle Forze missilistiche strategiche e successivamente direttore del Quarto Istituto centrale di ricerca di Mosca, ha ammesso che "alcuni piccoli dispositivi esistevano negli Stati Uniti e in Russia" ma che qualcosa di così piccolo avrebbe una durata di conservazione molto limitata e avrebbe avuto poco valore deterrente. Dvorkin ha scontato la validità delle dichiarazioni[non sequitur] di Lebed,dicendo "... Lebed è probabilmente la persona meno informata per quanto riguarda questo argomento ... un esperto di folklore militare. Anche l'ex comandante delle forze nucleari statunitensi, il generale in pensione Eugene Habiger, è apparso in Prima Linea e ha espresso dubbi sulle dimensioni di tali dispositivi, definendo il termine valigia "un po 'ottimista". Inoltre, Habiger ha parlato dei sistemi istituiti dai russi per rintracciare le loro armi nucleari, dicendo "Se i russi fossero così mortalmente seri sulla responsabilità delle armi nucleari che ho visto e con cui sono stato coinvolto, posso solo supporre che abbiano le stesse preoccupazioni per le armi più piccole. "

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Alla fine del 1999, la preoccupazione si era allargata dai ribelli ceceni armati di nucleare per includere preoccupazioni sulla rete di Al-Qaeda di Osama bin Laden. Sebbene infondate, alcuni rapporti suggerirono che bin Laden era già riuscito ad acquisire armi dall'arsenale nucleare russo. Nell'agosto 1999, Voice of America trasferì una storia sulla minaccia posta da bin Laden. In esso, Yossef Bodansky, un analista, autore e capo della Task Force del Congresso sul terrorismo e la guerra non convenzionale, affermò di aver imparato,attraverso fonti in Russia e Medio Oriente, che bin Laden aveva "alcune delle bombe ex sovietiche 'valigia' acquistate attraverso i ceceni".Due mesi dopo, il 5 ottobre, il quotidiano di Mosca Komsomolskaya Pravda pubblicò un'intervista in cui Bodansky, citando "varie fonti di intelligence", affermò che bin Laden aveva acquisito, attraverso il Kazakistan, "da diverse venti testate nucleari tattiche". Bodansky affermò anche che bin Laden aveva tentato di comprare "valigie nucleari" in Kazakistan. Nello stesso articolo, il direttore dell'Agenzia per l'energia atomica della Repubblica del Kazakistan ha dichiarato che tutte le armi nucleari sono state rimosse "molto tempo fa" dal Kazakistan e che i dispositivi nucleari per valigie non sono mai stati costruiti in territorio kazako. Il capo del controspionaggio del Comitato kazako per la sicurezza nazionale ha detto a Komsomolskaya Pravda che tutte le armi nucleari sono state rimosse dal Kazakistan nel 1995 in conformità con il trattato START I e ha negato le notizie secondo cui bin Laden aveva tentato di acquistare armi nucleari lì. [23] Le affermazioni di Bodansky sono rovinosamente nuove il 25 ottobre 1999 quando the Jerusalem Report ha pubblicato un articolo su bin Laden e dispositivi nucleari per valigie. In questo rapporto, la pretesa di Bodansky di "poche o venti" armi fu ripetuta. Inoltre, Bodansky affermò che bin Laden aveva acquistato le armi usando "30 milioni di dollari in contanti e due tonnellate di eroina afghana". [24] Sono disponibili pochissime informazioni a backup delle affermazioni di Bodansky e rimangono in dubbio.

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In seguito agli attacchi terroristici dell'11 settembre contro gli Stati Uniti, una nuova attenzione si è concentrata sul desiderio di al-Qaeda di armi di distruzione di massa, ma con maggiore urgenza che in passato. Una seria preoccupazione era che i terroristi di al-Qāʿida potessero tentare di ottenere testate russe o materiali nucleari utilizzabili con armi. Le dichiarazioni dell'ex colonnello del GRU Stanislav Lunevdel 1998 sono state resuscitate in seguito agli attacchi. Durante un'apparizione sulla CBS,Lunev riaffermiamo la sua affermazione che le bombe-valigia esistevano, fino a sostenere che bin Laden aveva ottenuto molti dei dispositivi dall'ex Unione Sovietica. Nello stesso segmento, Michael O'Hanlon della Brookings Institution ha scartato le affermazioni di Lunev: "La nostra opinione è che questa non sia una grande preoccupazione. Se questi dispositivi fossero mai esistiti, erano sotto il controllo dello stato sovietico e non erano disponibili per i terroristi. Il 20 dicembre 2001 l'UPI ha riferito che l'FBI aveva intensificato le indagini sull'accesso terroristico alle scorte nucleari russe. Il rappresentante Weldon,ancora una volta in prima linea nel dibattito, ha dichiarato: "Penso che [bin Laden] abbia una [sic] piccole munizioni per demolizione atomica, che sono state costruite dai sovietici nella guerra fredda? Probabilmente dubbioso. [26]

Il 17 gennaio 2002, il ministro russo dell'Energia Atomica, Aleksandr Rumyantsev, disse a Interfax che sarebbe stato impossibile per i terroristi costruire un'arma nucleare portatile, citando la mancanza di "potenziale e materiali necessari". Il rapporto Interfax ha poi dichiarato che "le principali potenze nucleari hanno un efficace sistema di controllo sulle cariche nucleari in miniatura, che pesano un totale di diverse dozzine di chilogrammi". Secondo Rumyantsev "tutti questi [dispositivi nucleari in miniatura] sono registrati ... è tecnicamente impossibile per tali accuse trovare la loro strada nelle mani dei terroristi. [27]

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I media russi dell'aprile 1995 affermano che i ribelli ceceni hanno "un certo numero" di piccoli dispositivi nucleari (munizioni per demolizione atomica o ADM)

Nel gennaio 1996 il Monterey Institute of International Studies riferisce che il KGB aveva un certo numero di piccoli dispositivi nucleari negli anni '70 e '80.

Settembre 1996 Lebed forma una commissione per rivedere la sicurezza dell'arsenale nucleare russo.

17 ottobre 1996 Eltsin licenzia Lebed. Maggio 1997 Lebed dice alla delegazione del Congresso degli Stati Uniti che mancano 84 delle 132 bombe "delle dimensioni di una valigia".

7 settembre 1997 60 Minutes in onda Lebed intervista in cui afferma che più di 100 bombe valigie mancano su un totale di 250. Il primo ministro russo definisce le accuse "assurde", il segretario alla stampa di Eltsin attribuisce commenti alle aspirazioni politiche di Lebed.

10 settembre 1997 MINATOM: "Tali armi non esistono". GRU: le armi nucleari per valigie non sono mai state prodotte.

13 settembre 1997 Capo della Commissione Investigativa: Nessuna unità russa ha ADM; tali dispositivi sono conservati in modo appropriato.

22 settembre 1997 Alexei Yablokov, ex consulente ambientale e sanitario di Eltsin, afferma, in una lettera a Novaya Gazeta, di aver incontrato i progettisti delle armi nucleari della valigia e che sono state costruite per il KGB.

25 settembre 1997 Il tenente generale Igor Valynkin, incaricato di proteggere le armi nucleari della Russia, afferma che le DMM sono troppo costose da costruire e mantenere; impossibile per il KGB avere i propri dispositivi nucleari. L'ex capo del KGB: "Il KGB non ha avuto uso di armi nucleari". Consigliere russo per la sicurezza nazionale: "Nessuna registrazione di tali dispositivi".

27 settembre 1997 MINATOM: le armi nucleari per valigie "non sono mai esistite e non esistono". Servizio federale di sicurezza: nessuna informazione sul KGB in possesso di tali dispositivi.

Dicembre 1997 Il ministro della Difesa russo dice al rappresentante Weldon: "Sì, li abbiamo costruito... saranno distrutti entro il 2000.

4 agosto 1998 L'ex colonnello del GRU Lunev afferma che i dispositivi nucleari portatili sono stati costruiti per le forze delle operazioni speciali sovietiche e che potrebbero essere stati nascosti negli Stati Uniti.

3 ottobre 1998 Yablokov, nella testimonianza del Congresso degli Stati Uniti, afferma che il KGB era l'utente principale per scopi "terroristici", ma potrebbe non esistere più. Lebed, sulla NBC, afferma che potrebbero esserci fino a 500 dispositivi o solo 100.

Agosto 1999 L'analista del terrorismo Yossef Bodansky afferma che bin Laden ha "diversi" dispositivi nucleari per valigie.

5 novembre 2001 Lunev afferma che bin Laden ha ottenuto diversi dispositivi per valigie.

17 gennaio 2002 Ministro russo dell'energia atomica: "tutti questi [dispositivi nucleari in miniatura] sono registrati ... è tecnicamente impossibile per loro trovare la loro strada nelle mani dei terroristi.

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Over one hundred artists write on Trump and Jerusalem

Image: Ahmad Gharabli / AFP The Guardian reports (10th December) President Macron’s comment that recent US moves on the status of Jerusalem are a threat to peace. They are much more than that.

In recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Donald Trump seeks to achieve through a declaration what Israel has been trying to do for fifty years through force of arms: to erase Palestinians, as a political and cultural presence, from the life of their own city.

The Palestinian people of Jerusalem are already subject to municipal discrimination at every level, and a creeping process of ethnic cleansing. In addition to the continuing policy of house demolitions, in the last fifteen years, at least thirty-five Palestinian public institutions and NGOs in occupied East Jerusalem have been permanently or temporarily closed by the occupying forces. Cultural institutions have been a particular target.

At the same time Israeli authorities and entrepreneurs have spent millions in clearing Palestinian neighbourhoods to create ‘heritage’ projects that promote a myth of mono-ethnic urban identity, said to stretch back 3000 years.

We reject Trump’s collusion with such racist manipulation, and his disregard for international law. We deplore his readiness to crown the Israeli military conquest of East Jerusalem and his indifference to Palestinian rights.

As artists and as citizens, we challenge the ignorance and inhumanity of these policies, and celebrate the resilience of Palestinians living under occupation.

Khalid Abdalla, actor Tunde Adebimpe, musician Peter Ahrends, architect Hanan Al-Shaykh, writer Tayo Aluko, actor, playwright Frankie Armstrong, musician Jonathan Arndell, architect Conrad Atkinson, visual artist Rory Attwell, musician, producer Phyllida Barlow, visual artist Roy Battersby, film director Sarah Beddington, visual artist Yves Berger, painter Nicholas Blincoe, writer Nick Broomfield, film director David Calder, actor Julie Christie, actor Caryl Churchill, playwright Norma Cohen, actor, writer Joseph Coward, writer, singer Molly Crabapple, writer, artist Darren Cullen, artist Michael Cunningham, writer Selma Dabbagh, writer William Dalrymple, writer, historian Michael Darlow, director Angela Davis, writer Dror Dayan, filmmaker April de Angelis, playwright Andy de la Tour, actor Ivor Dembina, comedian Shane Dempsey, theatre director Olof Dreijer, musician Zillah Eisenstein, author Sally El Hosaini, screenwriter, director Brian Eno, musician Eve Ensler, playwright Samir Eskanda, musician Jodie Evans, author, producer Marcia Farquhar, artist Jem Finer, artist Annie Firbank, actor Peter Gabriel, musician Tom Gilroy, actor, director Orlando Gough, composer Stephanos Gouvianakis, DJ Trevor Griffiths, playwright Douglas Hart, musician, director Mona Hatoum, visual artist Rachel Holmes, writer Ian Ilavsky, label co-founder Aki Kaurismaki, film director John Keane, visual artist Peter Kennard, artist AL Kennedy, writer Nancy Kricorian, writer Hari Kunzru, writer Paul Laverty, screenwriter James Lecesne, actor Mike Leigh, writer, director Tom Leonard, poet Les Levidow, violinist Ken Loach, film director Carmen Lobue, actor Liz Lochhead, poet, playwright Billy Lunn, musician Charlotte Marionneau, musician Kika Markham, actor Francesca Martinez, comedian, actor Massive Attack, band Ahmed Masoud, writer, director Hisham Matar, writer Emel Mathlouthi, musician Mark Matousek, writer Julian Maynard Smith, artist, director JD Meatyard, musician Pauline Melville, writer, actor China Miéville, writer Simon Milner, musician Thurston Moore, musician Tom Morello, musician Jenny Morgan, filmmaker Rosalind Nashashibi, artist Harry Newman, actor Christopher Norris, philosopher, writer Andrew O'Hagan, writer Eugene O'Hare, actor Kate Parker, producer Maxine Peake, actor Miranda Pennell, filmmaker Tonya Pinkins, actor Vijay Prashad, writer John Robb, musician, writer Michael Rosen, poet Mark Ruffalo, actor Kareem Samara, musician Lias Saoudi, musician Ian Saville, magician James Schamus, screenwriter, producer, director Nick Seymour, musician Nabil Shaban, actor, writer Khaldoun Shami, filmmaker Yasmin Shariff, architect Farhana Sheikh, writer Sheikh, band Kevin Shields, musician Gillian Slovo, writer John Smith, visual artist Ahdaf Soueif, writer Juliet Stevenson, actor Tilda Swinton, actor Yanis Varoufakis, author Naomi Wallace, playwright Marina Warner, writer Roger Waters, musician Hilary Westlake, theatre director Vivienne Westwood, designer whenyoung, band Don Wilkie, label co-founder Susan Wooldridge, actor, writer Robert Wyatt, musician

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/11/artists-attack-trump-over-jerusalem-move

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Over one hundred artists write on Trump and Jerusalem

The Guardian reports (10th December) President Macron’s comment that recent US moves on the status of Jerusalem are a threat to peace. They are much more than that.

As artists and as citizens, we challenge the ignorance and inhumanity of these policies, and celebrate the resilience of Palestinians living under occupation.

Khalid Abdalla, actor Mustafa İlhan, photographer, journalist Tunde Adebimpe, musician Peter Ahrends, architect Hanan Al-Shaykh, writer Tayo Aluko, actor, playwright Frankie Armstrong, musician Jonathan Arndell, architect Conrad Atkinson, visual artist Phyllida Barlow, visual artist Roy Battersby, film director Sarah Beddington, visual artist Yves Berger, painter Nicholas Blincoe, writer Nick Broomfield, film director David Calder, actor Julie Christie, actor Caryl Churchill, playwright Norma Cohen, actor, writer Joseph Coward, writer, singer Molly Crabapple, writer, artist Darren Cullen, artist Michael Cunningham, writer Selma Dabbagh, writer William Dalrymple, writer, historian Michael Darlow, director Angela Davis, writer Dror Dayan, filmmaker April de Angelis, playwright Andy de la Tour, actor Ivor Dembina, comedian Shane Dempsey, theatre director Olof Dreijer, musician Zillah Eisenstein, author Sally El Hosaini, screenwriter, director Brian Eno, musician Eve Ensler, playwright Samir Eskanda, musician Jodie Evans, author, producer Annie Firbank, actor Peter Gabriel, musician Tom Gilroy, actor, director Orlando Gough, composer Stephanos Gouvianakis, DJ Douglas Hart, musician, director Mona Hatoum, visual artist Rachel Holmes, writer Ian Ilavsky, label co-founder Aki Kaurismaki, film director John Keane, visual artist Peter Kennard, artist AL Kennedy, writer Nancy Kricorian, writer Hari Kunzru, writer Paul Laverty, screenwriter James Lecesne, actor Mike Leigh, writer, director Tom Leonard, poet Les Levidow, violinist Ken Loach, film director Carmen Lobue, actor Liz Lochhead, poet, playwright Billy Lunn, musician Charlotte Marionneau, musician Kika Markham, actor Francesca Martinez, comedian, actor Massive Attack, band Ahmed Masoud, writer, director Hisham Matar, writer Emel Mathlouthi, musician Mark Matousek, writer Julian Maynard Smith, artist, director JD Meatyard, musician Pauline Melville, writer, actor Simon Milner, musician Thurston Moore, musician Tom Morello, musician Jenny Morgan, filmmaker Rosalind Nashashibi, artist Harry Newman, actor Christopher Norris, philosopher, writer Andrew O'Hagan, writer Eugene O'Hare, actor Kate Parker, producer Maxine Peake, actor Miranda Pennell, filmmaker Tonya Pinkins, actor Vijay Prashad, writer John Robb, musician, writer Michael Rosen, poet Mark Ruffalo, actor Kareem Samara, musician Lias Saoudi, musician Ian Saville, magician James Schamus, screenwriter, producer, director Nick Seymour, musician Nabil Shaban, actor, writer Khaldoun Shami, filmmaker Yasmin Shariff, architect Farhana Sheikh, writer Sheikh, band Kevin Shields, musician Gillian Slovo, writer John Smith, visual artist Ahdaf Soueif, writer Juliet Stevenson, actor Tilda Swinton, actor Yanis Varoufakis, author Naomi Wallace, playwright Marina Warner, writer Roger Waters, musician Hilary Westlake, theatre director Vivienne Westwood, designer whenyoung, band Don Wilkie, label co-founder Susan Wooldridge, actor, writer Robert Wyatt, musician

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Tobias by Ilunibi

The one drawback of Dead Coyote keeping himself clean-ish was that his social circle collapsed in on itself like a dying star. The regulars I’d grown up with were pretty sour that Dead Coyote kicked them to the curb after his first relapse, when he realized that their mere presence made him regress back to his old, self-destructive self. People who’d demonized him when he was a known dealer were incapable of wrapping their minds around the fact that he could turn over a new leaf, and very few were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. That’s not even to start in on the folks who wanted him to “go back to Mexico” when they realized that he was approved for disability because of all the emotional backlash of overcoming his addiction, accusing him of stealing their hard-earned money when he “probably doesn’t have a green card.”

He chose to find humor in it, or tried. Still, you could tell that he was jonesing for something a bit more substantial than a hit of heroin, and it got worse when I went to college.

His girlfriend was dead. His princess was an hour away. His family wasn’t really on speaking terms with him. The most companionship he usually had, surprisingly enough, was my mother, who’d stop by from time to time just to make sure that he was eating. After all, he was the surrogate father to a daughter she hadn’t got a chance to raise. Even if she still had nagging thoughts in the back of her mind that he was a dirty junkie with impure thoughts about her little girl, nine years of committed babysitting had secretly won her over.

Me? I worried. Even at the age of eighteen, and even having seen Dead Coyote in less-than-flattering situations, I still had this very childish, idealized view of him in my head. He wasn’t perfect, but I always thought of him as strong and unshakable and unbreakable. He’d overcome demons and hexes and curses and heroin, and did things no sane man would do without batting an eye, succeeding more often than not.

But that’s not really Dead Coyote. Dead Coyote is a perpetually exhausted, well-meaning man who made bad choices when he was my age because he lost all hope that he could do better. Dead Coyote has impulse control problems and anger issues and spends a lot of his time depressed and worried. He’s a human being who puffs himself up because he’s never been given the option of being weak, but he’s actually scared of a lot of things he stands up against. And he is hurt that he was essentially abandoned by everyone he ever knew, right down to Cheryl overdosing in her apartment.

My sixth sense tingled every time I talked to him on the phone. He began to sound more hopeless and listless, and I was terrified that he’d either wind up back with a needle in his arm or I would one day get a call from mom that they found him with a bullet in his head. Life without DC in it just seemed impossible and hollow, and I spent a lot of time crying over the thought.

Fortunately, it seemed the stars aligned just right enough for a single, solitary person to show up in his life. Or rather, reappear. He called me, confused, the weekend before finals week and told me that he’d heard from an old friend he hadn’t spoken to in years.

“Tobias,” he muttered, flabbergasted. “Of all the fuckin’ people, princess, it was Tobias.”

Now, Tobias was Dead Coyote’s best friend before he moved away from home. I’d heard a lot about him but never met the man because, well, Maryland was a pretty good distance away and I was under the impression that he was about as broke as either of us. Travel wasn’t really an option. But I did know that he taught him a lot about magic, he was the person responsible for the nickname “Dead Coyote,” and that he was eerily good at predicting things. Apparently, their old crew gave him the alias “Seer” because of it, and some people outright stopped talking to him because of how accurate he wound up being, accusing him of being the harbinger of everything he foresaw.

Not that he was psychic, no. When I suggested that on the ride home from campus for a summer of black magic and beer, Dead Coyote just laughed at me and shook his head. Psychics, he said, aren’t real, but spirits are. Tobias was just very, very good at reading omens and signs and was dedicated enough that he built up quite the rapport with a particular demon by the name of Vine.

Vine is, essentially, an oracle who takes the form of a circus lion. You think I’m joking, but what else do you think of when you imagine a big cat on horseback? Silly as that may sound, he supposedly knows all things past, present, and future, and doubles as a one-spirit demolition crew when riled. Allegedly. I can’t think of a time I’ve ever heard of a building toppling and immediately wanted to pin it on an archaic demon, but the capability is recorded in the old grimoires and just the thought of somebody being good enough at what they do to build up a working relationship with that was both terrifying and impressive.

The first few weeks of summer break, I was treated to quite a few stories of the good old days, Dead Coyote making it perfectly obvious that hearing from somebody who wasn’t me or my mother had made his goddamn life. The part of me that would have been jealous had pretty much died, because more than anything I was just happy to hear him happy. His one complaint was that he wished they could actually meet up. Phone calls are nice, but they’re nothing compared to sharing shitty beer in person and loudly complaining about said shitty beer.

“Maybe we could visit,” I suggested. He liked the idea and we tried to figure out the logistics of it in a drunken, emotional haze that eventually turned into an in-depth discussion about Beast Wars. Still, the seeds had been planted and we almost had a pretty good rough draft in place for our first ever unorthodox family vacation.

But, we never got to act on it.

A few days after our discussion, I woke up to the sound of somebody knocking, loudly, on the door. It was the kind of knock that instantly makes your heart leap into your throat: heavy, hard, and relentless. Not knuckle knocking, but side of the fist, open-this-goddamn-door-right-fucking-now knocking. It startled me so much that I took a spill off of the couch and waited in the floor, hopeful that I’d hear Dead Coyote shuffling around upstairs. That was obviously expecting too much. The man could sleep through the apocalypse.

My first thought was that it was somebody from the housing authority. They had a tendency to be assholes and I was bad at keeping track of the pest control regimen or the quarterly inspections. Maybe it was a very aggressive postman with yet another official letter from yet another person to whom Dead Coyote owed money. I crept toward the door, peeked out the peephole, and didn’t even have a chance to say anything before a voice boomed back at me.

“Where’s Angelo?”

I blinked. Nobody called Dead Coyote by his real name, not even the people at the complex’s offices. I actually forgot he had a real name.

I stood in silence on the other side of the door, holding my breath and trying to make sense of what was going on. I couldn’t even see anyone on the other side of the door. The opposite end of the peephole was covered, like whoever was on the other side had leaned in close trying to see their way in.

“Know you’re there. Know you’re not Angelo. Where is he?”

As deep and terrifying as the voice was, it wasn’t angry. I decided to take that as a good sign. Realizing that Dead Coyote wasn’t waking up and that I was now an adult who had to handle scary adult things myself, even if it was potentially a home invasion, I made the not-so-wise decision to open the door a crack. I only undid three of the locks, though, leaving the chain in place.

Hair a mess, glasses crooked, and still in my pajamas, I glanced through the gap between the door and the jamb and stared wide-eyed at the man on the other side. He had dreadlocks for days, half-tied back and half tied down with a bandana. He looked like a cross between a fortune teller and Medusa.

“You’re Seymour?”

I stared at him blankly and tried to close the door. He stopped it with his foot. I suddenly had a lot of regrets.

“Tobias. Where’s Angelo?”

And so, I met Tobias.

Tobias was strange. He was the human equivalent of a Clydesdale horse with dark skin, bright blue eyes, and a withering expression that just seemed to be his default. I also couldn’t peg what he was supposed to be for the life of me, beyond human. You could look at Dead Coyote and tell he was Hispanic, or look at me and tell I was Celtic as fuck, but Tobias just was.

Uncomfortable as it was, we sat and made small talk as we waited for Dead Coyote to drag himself up from his hangover and ooze down the stairs. He was polite enough, if a bit blunt and quiet, though it seemed less out of a sense of awkwardness than the fact he had too much on his mind. Halfway through our on-and-off conversation, he reached into his pocket and fished out a deck of playing cards, shuffling them and cutting them as though it was a nervous tic. His eyes never left the floor.

By the time Dead Coyote finally decided to join us, Tobias had cleared off the coffee table and laid out a chaotic spread of cards that began as a game of solitaire and turned into something like a tarot spread. The only thing that interrupted him was seeing his old friend, the two exploding into a series of excited yelps and overly manly hugs. According to Dead Coyote, Tobias hadn’t changed a bit. According to Tobias, though, Dead Coyote looked like he’d been crushed in a dumpster sometime between the ages of nineteen and thirty.

“How did you find me?” Dead Coyote finally asked as they cracked open a couple of morning brews and I sat awkwardly on the sideline. Tobias shrugged.

“Not a lot of people with the last name ‘Sepulveda.’”

“And why come all this way, man?”

Tobias gestured at his cards. I had no idea what the hell any of it meant, but Dead Coyote looked at the weird arrangement like an art connoisseur sizing up a painting. With each card he glanced over, the more concerned his expression became. Before I could ask what was going on, Tobias began to speak. It was as though he knew what I was going to ask.

He said he’d come because his readings and rituals were beginning to become more and more focused on Dead Coyote, seemingly out of nowhere. When he slammed into an actual coyote with his car and killed it--an apparent rarity in his parts--he took it as a sign from Vine and tracked down his old friend through a mixture of good old fashioned asking around and even more old fashioned divination. A few calls didn’t ease his worries, so he’d chucked a fair chunk of change for a one-way Greyhound ticket and had come to figure out what in the hell was going on.

“Knew you were bad when you left, but you didn’t set off the alarms. Now you do. Worried me.”

Despite the somber tone, I honestly didn’t have a damn clue what was going on. The only thing I knew was that almost every card in Tobias’ reading for Dead Coyote was a spade. When Tobias finally left, albeit reluctantly, he gave us a single warning to watch ourselves. Something was very, very wrong. His gaze lingered on me a bit longer than I would have liked and I shrank away as he disappeared out the door.

“I don’t get it,” I said, once the apartment was quiet and we had settled on the couch. Dead Coyote inhaled deeply and immediately fished for his cigarettes.

“He does cartomancy, princess. If it were anyone else, I’d think it was bullshit, but it’s Seer, so… you know.”

Cartomancy, he said, was like tarot but using a deck of regular old playing cards. It’s more direct and less interpretive, and the cards all had set meanings that made them more believable and less sketchy than the vague readings tarot spat out. Typically, Dead Coyote laughs at anyone who takes that sort of thing seriously, but Tobias had used cards for as long as he’d known him to tease out concrete answers from the powers that be. It was one of the many ways he interpreted signs and omens, because it was honest, quick, and handy. There was no specific store to buy them in or any hocus-pocus “relationship” you had to have with the deck. If you needed them, you just picked some up from the dollar store and got to work.

And spades? They’re bad. Very bad. I hadn’t gathered heads or tails of the reading Tobias had laid out on the table while Dead Coyote was asleep, but it predicted everything from debilitating depression to disruption in the apartment to death. I didn’t have a goddamn clue how one person could get all of that out of a game of solitaire, but Dead Coyote was shaken to the core of his being. It bothered me to see that sort of uncharacteristic weakness, to see him reacting with anything other than anger or apathy. The only thing that seemed to bring him back down to earth was reminding him that Tobias wouldn’t have come and told him if he didn’t think something could be done.

Honestly, I needed to hear it, too. Seeing him freaked out did nothing to help me calm down, and the fear was so overwhelming that my brain could only process it as anger. That night, I laid on the couch and stared at the ceiling and wondered aloud to myself just what in the fuck was going on and who the fuck Tobias thought he was. The prediction of “death” loomed over me like a storm cloud and I tried to think of all the ways something could happen to Dead Coyote and what I could do to stop it, if anything. It became a borderline obsession, this nagging fear, a paranoia more powerful than when I just wondered if his loneliness would drive him to self destruction.

The next few days were a blur; I couldn’t bring myself to pay attention to anything, especially when Tobias would stop by to do his wellness checks. He was a distraction, an unlikeable distraction whose “man of few words” act was beginning to grate on my last nerve. Even though Dead Coyote would light up and temporarily forget what fate had willed for him whenever he stopped by, I couldn’t find it in my heart to like the guy. When I looked at him, all I could think about was where the hell he’d been when Dead Coyote needed him most, why it took so long for him to realize his friend was in trouble, and whether or not they could even still be considered friends after not seeing each other for years and years.

I could stomach it for about a week. It was a week of watching Tobias pull spades repeatedly, knit his brows together, and pull them again. It was a week of watching him do nothing to try to figure out where it was coming from. Seven entire days of looking up from whatever I was doing to see him glaring at me like somehow this was all my fault. All I could think of was how desperate I was to prove Tobias wrong and how offended I was that--if he was correct--he was doing nothing but the same thing over and over, like an idiot, to try to “fix” things.

I had had enough.

Dead Coyote had gone to bed, drunk. I tried, but I couldn’t. Yet again, I lay on the couch and conversed with the ceiling until I felt this urge throughout my entire body to get up, a horrible and uncomfortable twinge in my legs and arms that compelled me to move. I stood, I paced, but I was still so fucking restless. And angry. And fed-up.

And scared.

Being a dumb eighteen-year-old is both magical and puzzling, because to this day I have no idea why the hell I decided to go steal Dead Coyote’s phone out of his room. He was snoring on his mattress, shirtless and tangled into a drunken mess of limbs, and for all intents and purposes he was dead to the world. I snatched it off the charger, snuck back down to the kitchen, and sat at the table in the corner staring at his contact list debating whether or not I should call his little friend. You know, just give him a little ring and demand he tell me what needed to be done to reverse fate and who in the screaming hell he thought he was bringing that kind of negativity into our apartment.

I wanted to tell him fortune telling was bullshit and that I didn’t believe he was as powerful as Dead Coyote had told me. I wanted to face down that giant of a man and threaten to kick his ass up one side and back down the other. I pressed the button, let it ring twice, then disconnected with a furious growl. Phone calls and voicemails didn’t seem like they would send a powerful enough message. I needed to tell him to fuck off in person.

I knew where he was, too. He was at an Econolodge just a few blocks away on the edge of the complex, holed up with a dirt-cheap weekly rate that I hoped he wouldn’t have to use for another week. It was dark and it was in a bad neighborhood, but I’d lived in that neighborhood my entire life and I’d wandered around at later hours. Granted, I usually wasn’t by myself, but I was a dumb college kid with renewed belief that I was invulnerable, just like when I was a kid. Old enough to have the confidence, young enough to be stupid.

I quickly threw on a bra and jeans, slipped on my shoes, and slipped outside.

For as much as I talk about growing up in the projects, I don’t think I’ve ever given you a good idea of what it looks like. During the day, it’s almost nice aside from the bars on the windows and the grass growing through the cracks in the sidewalk, the only real eyesore being the fact that people clutter up the stoops to their apartment with more bikes and junkyard trash than any one family would have a use for. At night, though, it’s like a scene from some kind of movie: dark with flickering street lights, and dogs barking on chains attached to the window bars, kicked out of the house now that the housing authority office was closed and their owners didn’t have to hide their undocumented pets. It’s unnerving with somebody, let alone by yourself, and had I not been propelled by a combination of sheer idiocy, desperation, and anger, common sense might have kicked in and told me to go back home.

But, it didn’t. I soldiered on, hands rammed in my pockets and glasses sliding down my nose, hair a mess and mouth held in such a powerful scowl that my entire face hurt. Hell, it hurt behind my eyes and the entire back of my head felt like it was being crushed. I’d never had a rage migraine before, and I hope I never have one again.

I could see the lights of the Econolodge sign when things took a sharp turn south.

You see, it had been years since Joseph Shepherd, the charming man who tried to molest me as a kid, had graced the neighborhood with his presence. Being a dick who chases his girlfriend with battery acid is overlookable, I suppose, but touching a little girl is not. Mean as he was, the neighbors just couldn’t tolerate him popping his face up in their territory any longer, and after his release he was treated to a few choice ass-kickings. Dumb as he was and as vicious as he played at, after a couple of years it finally sank in that it was only a matter of time before something more than his tires got slashed and he skipped town.

His place had been taken, oddly enough, by a kid I grew up with.

Adam Emmert was almost my friend once, though that “almost” should be bolded and underlined for effect. I was a lonely child and he had seemed lonely, too, though I was too young to realize that he wasn’t a young, neglected kid like I had been. No, there was something deeply wrong with Adam in much the same way there had been something wrong with Joseph. Trade in throwing grade schoolers in front of a bus with threatening kids with broken glass and poisoning the neighborhood dogs for fun, and it seemed as though our lovely complex actually upgraded in terms of their local villain. And he only got worse as he got older, when he realized how much he hated anyone who wasn’t white.

I knew to avoid him, everyone did. I was not, however, expecting him to be sitting outside on the sidewalk with a crew of fellow miscreants at two in the goddamn morning. To be honest, I didn’t even really register who it was at first, stomping by with my eyes focused on the no-tell motel where Tobias was hiding, waving their cigarette smoke out of my face as I passed. No, it didn’t even occur to me who the ringleader of the group was until I heard his voice, unusually loud and echoing in the abandoned streets.

“It’s Seymour!”

It was almost a singsong. I stopped, turned, and short circuited. He stood up from the curb, grinning with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, looking at me from underneath the brim of his trucker cap. He was the epitome of white trash, and had a dangerous gleam in his eye.

“Who?” a dazed girl asked.

“That fuckin’ wetback’s whore.”

I didn’t answer because I suddenly lost the ability to do so. All I could think of was, in the previous week, I had developed quite the knack for being an idiot. I should have never been out alone at night.

“She fucks that greasy fuck? Jesus.”

I realized I had forgotten my phone and Dead Coyote’s phone in the kitchen.

“Oh, yeah. But why are you out now, Seymour? Side job? Meetin’ up with a John, eh? Guess crazy money doesn’t keep your little fuckbuddy on his feet very well, huh?”

What was in his waistband? What did he reach for? It was shining. Was it a knife? I thought of Joseph’s friend, the alley, the threat of being stabbed. I always thought a knife would be worse than a gun, but I was having second thoughts realizing that what he was holding was most definitely not a cheap folding knife.

“Maybe she needs a real man,” one of his toadies offered.

My brain was white noise, television static.

“She’ll have to pay first. What do you say, Seymour? Wanna walk crooked for the next few days?”

Amid their laughter, I found enough clarity to run, dead in the opposite direction of my apartment. I bolted for the Econolodge, faster than I think I have ever run in my life. A gunshot cracked through the night and I swore I could feel something whizz past me as I stumbled over my feet and landed on my palms. The asphalt scraped away the skin but I ignored it and sprinted, bleeding and crying, all the way to the lobby office of that shitheap motel.

Blood and dirt smeared the glass as I forced the door closed and twisted the lock. I’d lost my glasses somewhere between point A and point B, so finding my way to the desk was an adventure in and of itself. The attendant was nowhere to be seen (not that I could see), so I slammed on the bell until he came ambling out like a tired old dog, his voice shaking when I finally coaxed him to speak. That is, if you can call screaming hysterically that somebody was trying to shoot me “coaxing.”

“Tobias!” I yelped. “I need to speak to Tobias!”

“What’s the last name, ma’am?”

I could tell from his tone he really wanted to help me, but there were rules. So many damn rules. I didn’t have a surname or a room number, and my demands were so quick-fire and desperate that calling the cops seems to have been the last thing on his mind. I was my own worst enemy, a distraction from real help, scaring a poor middle-aged hotel clerk so badly that he seemed to believe that finding my “friend” was the only way to solve the problem.

He was about to offer to call him, refusing to give me the room number, when I heard a tapping on the glass. Somebody tried the locked door. I couldn’t see worth a damn to figure out who it was and every part of me was convinced it was Adam. Even when the clerk let out a sigh of relief, every nerve in my body buzzed with adrenaline.

“Oh, thank god.”

It was Tobias. With my glasses, no less. Apparently, I had lost them just out on the sidewalk.

Even if I had come with the intent of laying into him with all the fury of a particularly whiny hurricane, in that one moment, I could have kissed him. That all went away when, after he handed me my glasses, he didn’t even bother to ask what happened or if I needed help. He looked at my bloody hands, reached into the pocket of his jeans, and pulled out that same goddamn deck of cards he’d been carrying the whole time he’d been visiting. Instead of a spread, he drew just one and stared at it, intently and with mounting worry. I stole a peek and saw the ace of spades staring back at me.

He didn’t say a word, not to me, not to the desk attendant. He just hurriedly crammed his cards back into his pocket, turned tail, and ran back in the direction of Dead Coyote’s home.

I followed, like the idiot I had proven to be. Panic was the primary motivator, Dead Coyote’s voice ringing in my head. He’d said that spades were bad, very bad, and if the whole suite was awful wouldn’t the ace card be worst of all? I thought of Adam and his cronies, and it sank in that after I hit the Econolodge they never showed up at the lobby. I had spent a good five to ten minutes shrieking like a banshee about how somebody was trying to kill me. They had more than enough time to catch up.

So where did they go?

Even though I am built for strength, not speed, I did a pretty decent job of keeping up with Tobias for a while. I noticed that Adam wasn’t where he had been and my mind came to a screeching halt when I realized that that wasn’t exactly a good thing. Had I locked the door to the apartment when I left?

I hadn’t. For the love of fuck, I hadn’t.

Despite being a straight shot from the Econolodge to Dead Coyote’s apartment, I couldn’t really see far enough ahead to see if my fears were founded. My vision was blurred, people’s stoops were stacked high with bullshit, and there were more than enough overflowing garbage cans dotting the sidewalk. Eventually, I even lost Tobias in the maze of trash, panting and lagging behind like an old race horse. Even fear couldn’t keep me going forever, I guess.

I only stopped running, though, when I heard a gunshot. Then a scream. It was too high-pitched to be Tobias or Dead Coyote, though, and I thanked my lucky stars for that. Still, when home was finally in sight I didn’t expect to see a gigantic mass of dreadlocks and hate sitting on top of the neighborhood psychopath beneath the bottom step of our stoop. Nor did I expect to see Adam’s less-than-loyal cronies scatter past me like roaches.

Yet, there he was: Tobias, in all his glory, pinning Adam down to the sidewalk with his sheer weight. Adam squalled and lights began to turn on one by one, heads poking out of windows, people stepping out onto the street. I walked up behind Tobias, wheezing and gasping, waiting for him to make some kind of idle threat to Adam, but he just sat there in almost infuriating silence, eyes boring holes into Adam’s skull.

Then I heard Dead Coyote. I glanced up to see his head dangling out of the window, his hair a mess and his eyes squinting against the street lamps. Right as one of the neighbors demanded to know what was going on, Tobias calmly looked up at his good friend and huffed in exasperation.

“Call the police. Asshole was trying to break in.”

Calling the police made Tobias a sort of pariah, just as it had done to Dead Coyote briefly all those years ago. Not that he cared. It was the only way to make sure the threat was gone for a good, long while and he had a sneaking suspicion that they may have been what he was seeing in the cards and omens and dreams. And it was something that I had inadvertently triggered, he warned me, by leaving Dead Coyote alone and alerting the neighborhood ne’er-do-well to the fact.

He told me I was really dumb. Dead Coyote glared at him, but honestly? I agreed.

“Dunno what they’d steal,” Dead Coyote groaned, hiding from the living room lights as Tobias sauntered in, sat down on my couch, and began to lay out his cards. “Not like I got shit.”

“Car. Television. Five dollars in your wallet,” Tobias answered, making a gun with his fingers and pointing it at Dead Coyote. “Also, you’re brown with an accent. Enough for him, I think.”

I watched, transfixed as he spread the cards in the same chaotic pattern as before. I was still shaken, I was nauseous, and a part of me still wanted to kick Tobias in the throat, but as I saw the cards being drawn, my emotions began to settle.

Not a spade in sight. One red card after another, which he kindly explained out loud when he noticed me gawking, palms still bleeding and tears in my eyes. Success and unexpected good fortune and health and support from friends and family. All of it was really wishy-washy, but it brought a smile to my face.

“King of Clubs and Queen of Diamonds. Huh.”

“What does that mean?” I asked, Dead Coyote yawning on the floor as Tobias quickly shuffled his cards back together.

“Mm. Nothing bad. Not just Angelo’s reading, I guess.”

I won’t lie and say Tobias and I got along immediately. I also won’t lie and say that his residency didn’t end up being pretty permanent. However, in that one night, I realized why it was that Dead Coyote respected him so much, and I fell asleep wondering just how good of a connection one had to have with a demon to get that skilled at what they do. Tobias is kind of a jerk, but he’s also fairly amazing.

Even if, in the deepest parts of my heart, I still think cartomancy is full of shit.

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jaigeddes · 5 years ago

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14 firms named for Government projects over £80m

Fourteen firms have won framework places to deliver major Government projects valued at over £80m.

The Government’s Crown Commercial Service has revealed the latest tranche of contractors to gain places on its record-breaking £8bn construction works framework for the next seven years.

The prized Lot 5 winners are: Balfour Beatty, BAM, Bouygues, Bowmer & Kirkland, Galliford Try Building, Interserve Construction, ISG, Kier, Laing O’Rourke, Mace, Skanska, Tarmac Trading and Wates.

Winning contractors were also revealed for construction works lots: (project values £30-£80m) in England & Wales; (£10m-£30m) in the south of England; and (£3m-£10m) in the north of England.

CCS framework line-up – so far

General construction works (projects valued £30m-£80m) – Total value £4bn

Scotland: BAM Construction; Bowmer & Kirkland; Galliford Try; Interserve Construction; Graham Construction; Kier; McLaughlin & Harvey; Morgan Sindall; Robertson Construction; Sir Robert McAlpine; Tarmac Trading

England & Wales: Balfour Beatty; BAM Construction; Bouygues; Galliford Try Building; Interserve; ISG; John Graham Construction; Kier; Laing O’Rourke; McLaughlin & Harvey; Skanska; Tarmac Trading; Wates; Willmott Dixon

Northern Ireland: BAM; Graham; McLaughlin & Harvey; Tarmac Trading

General construction works (£10m – £30m) – Total £4bn

Wales: BAM Construction; Bouygues; Galliford Try, Interserve, ISG, Kier, Laing O’Rourke; Midas; Morgan Sindall; Tarmac Trading; Vinci, Willmott Dixon

Scotland: BAM Construction; Bowmer & Kirkland; Galliford Try; Heron; Interserve; ISG; Kier; McLaughlin & Harvey; Morgan Sindall; Robertson Construction; Tarmac Trading;

Northern Ireland: BAM Construction; Felix O’Hare; HJ Martin; Heron Bros

South of England: Balfour Beatty; BAM; Bouygues; Galliford Try Building; Graham; Interserve Construction; ISG Construction; John Sisk; Kier; Laing O’Rourke; McLaughlin & Harvey; Midas; R G Carter; Skanska; Speller Metcalfe; Tarmac Trading; VolkerFitzpatrick; Wates; Willmott Dixon

North of England: TBA

General Construction works (£3m – £10m) – Total value £4bn

Wales: BAM Construction; ENGIE; Interserve; ISG; J N Bentley; Kier; Knights Brown; Morgan Sindall; Tarmac Trading; Vinci, Wates; Willmott Dixon

Scotland: Bowmer & Kirkland; Galliford Try Buiding; George Sharkey & Sons; Henry Brothers; Heron Bros; Interserve; ISG; Graham Construction; Kier; McLaughlin & Harvey; Morgan Sindall; Robertson; Wates

Northern Ireland: CTS Projects; Dawson-Wam; Felix O’Hare; H&J Martin Construction; Henry Brothers; Heron Bros; Graham Construction; McLaughlin & Harvey; Tarmac Trading

North of England: Conlon; Galliford Try Building; G F Tomlinson; Henry Boot; Heron Bros; Interserve; ISG; Jeakins Weir; Kier; McLaughlin & Harvey; Speller Metcalfe; Styles & Wood; Wates; Willmott Dixon

South of England: TBM

Minor building works (up to £3m) – Total value £3.5bn

England North: Amey Defence Services; Esh; FES Support Services; Flangans Building; F Parkinson; Hargreaves Contracting; JCA Engineering; J Tomlinson; Kier Services; Krol Corlett; Mears; Morris & Spottiswood; MPH Construction; Nationwide Rail, NMCN; Oliveti Construction; Rosslee Construction; Seddon; Stenell; Walter Carefoot & Sons

England South: Amey Defence Services; Ashe; Borras; Colmar Construction (Poole); Conamar Building Services; Etec Contract Services; Beard; FES Support Services; Glenman Corporation; H A Marks; JCA Engineering; Kier Services; Logan Construction (SE); MD Building Services; Mears; Michael Brady; Mulalley & Co; NFC Homes; Pentaco Construction; Standage & Co; Stepnell;

Wales: Amey Defence Services; Kier Services; MPH Construction; Nationwide Rail

Scotland: Amey Defence Services; Central Building Contractors; CHAP Group (Aberdeen); Clark Contracts; FES Support Services; GHI Contracts; Kier Services; Maxi Construction; McLaughlin Construction; Morris & Spottiswood

Northern Ireland: Amey Defence Services; Connolly & Fee; G F Wilson; P K Murphy

Minor civil engineering works (up to £3m) – Total value £1.5bn

North England: Yates; Colas; Dyer & Butler; Eric Wright Construction; Fitzgerald Construction; Jackson Civil Engineering; Kier Integrated Services; PBS Construction (North England); Seymour Civil Engineering; The Casey Group

South England: Associated Asphalt Contracting; BCM Construction; Colas; Dyer & Butler; FM Conway; Jackson Civil Engineering; JT Macley & Co; Kier Integrated Services; Midren Construction; Rynebridge; TS Civil Engineering

Wales: BCM Construction; Dyer & Butler; Kier Integrated Services;

Scotland: Covanburn Contracts; Cubby Construction; Luddon Construction; MacAsphalt; R J McLeod

Northern Ireland: Whitemountain Quarries

Residential – Total value £2.25bn

England North: Bardsley Construction; ENGIE; Esh; Galliford Try; Interserve; Morgan Sindall; NMCN; Speller Metcalfe; The Casey Group; United Living (North); Vinci; Wates; Willmott Dixon

Wales: ENGIE; Mi-Space (UK); Morgan Sindall; Wates

Scotland: Bancon; CCG (Scotland); CHAP Group (Aberdeen); ENGIE; Graham Construction; Morgan Sindall

Northern Ireland: Connolly & Fee; CTS Projects; EHA Group; PK Murphy

England South: TBA

High rise residential – Total value £2.25bn

England North: Bardsley Construction; Bowmer & Kirkland; Esh; Galliford Try; Interserve; John Sisk; Kier; Morgan Sindall; Russells; Wates; Willmott Dixon

England South: Bouygues; Bowmer & Kirkland; Galliford Try; Interserve; John Sisk; Kier; Laing O’Rourke; McLaren Construction; Morgan Sindall; Rydon; Wates; Willmott Dixon

Wales: Morgan Sindall

Scotland: Graham Construction, Kier; Morgan Sindall

Northern Ireland: None

Construction management – Total value £250m

AECOM; Amey Defence Service; Bechtel; Costain; F3Group; Interserve; Kellogg Brown & Root; Kier; Lendlease; Mace; Pick Everard; Sir Robert McAlpine

Airside Works – Total value £750m

BAM Construction; Kier Construction; Lagan Construction; McLaughlin & Harvey; VolkerFitzpatrick

Maritime works – Total value £1.5bn

Costain; Graham Construction; Kier Construction; McLaughlin & Harvey; VolkerStevin

Demolition & Decommissioning – Total value £3bn

AECOM; Amey Defence Services; Connell Brothers; Dem-Master Demolition; Demolition Services; DSM Demolition

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ebenalconstruct · 5 years ago

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14 firms named for Government projects over £80m

Fourteen firms have won framework places to deliver major Government projects valued at over £80m.

The Government’s Crown Commercial Service has revealed the latest tranche of contractors to gain places on its recording-breaking £8bn construction works framework for the next seven years.

The prized Lot 5 winners are: Balfour Beatty; BAM; Bouygues; Bowmer & Kirkland; Galliford Try Building; Interserve Construction; ISG; Kier; Laing O’Rourke; Mace; Skanska; Tarmac Trading; Wates.

Winning contractors were also revealed for construction works lots: (project values £30-£80m) in England & Wales; (£10m-£30m) in the south of England; and (£3m-£10m) in the north of England.

CCS framework line-up – so far

General construction works (projects valued £30m-£80m) – Total value £4bn

Northern Ireland: BAM; Graham; McLaughlin & Harvey; Tarmac Trading

General construction works (£10m – £30m) – Total £4bn

Wales: BAM Construction; Bouygues; Galliford Try, Interserve, ISG, Kier, Laing O’Rourke; Midas; Morgan Sindall; Tarmac Trading; Vinci, Willmott Dixon

Scotland: BAM Construction; Bowmer & Kirkland; Galliford Try; Heron; Interserve; ISG; Kier; McLaughlin & Harvey; Morgan Sindall; Robertson Construction; Tarmac Trading;

Northern Ireland: BAM Construction; Felix O’Hare; HJ Martin; Heron Bros

North of England: TBA

General Construction works (£3m – £10m) – Total value £4bn

Wales: BAM Construction; ENGIE; Interserve; ISG; J N Bentley; Kier; Knights Brown; Morgan Sindall; Tarmac Trading; Vinci, Wates; Willmott Dixon

Northern Ireland: CTS Projects; Dawson-Wam; Felix O’Hare; H&J Martin Construction; Henry Brothers; Heron Bros; Graham Construction; McLaughlin & Harvey; Tarmac Trading

South of England: TBM

Minor building works (up to £3m) – Total value £3.5bn

Wales: Amey Defence Services; Kier Services; MPH Construction; Nationwide Rail

Northern Ireland: Amey Defence Services; Connolly & Fee; G F Wilson; P K Murphy

Minor civil engineering works (up to £3m) – Total value £1.5bn

Wales: BCM Construction; Dyer & Butler; Kier Integrated Services;

Scotland: Covanburn Contracts; Cubby Construction; Luddon Construction; MacAsphalt; R J McLeod

Northern Ireland: Whitemountain Quarries

Residential – Total value £2.25bn

England North: Bardsley Construction; ENGIE; Esh; Galliford Try; Interserve; Morgan Sindall; NMCN; Speller Metcalfe; The Casey Group; United Living (North); Vinci; Wates; Willmott Dixon

Wales: ENGIE; Mi-Space (UK); Morgan Sindall; Wates

Scotland: Bancon; CCG (Scotland); CHAP Group (Aberdeen); ENGIE; Graham Construction; Morgan Sindall

Northern Ireland: Connolly & Fee; CTS Projects; EHA Group; PK Murphy

England South: TBA

High rise residential – Total value £2.25bn

England North: Bardsley Construction; Bowmer & Kirkland; Esh; Galliford Try; Interserve; John Sisk; Kier; Morgan Sindall; Russells; Wates; Willmott Dixon

England South: Bouygues; Bowmer & Kirkland; Galliford Try; Interserve; John Sisk; Kier; Laing O’Rourke; McLaren Construction; Morgan Sindall; Rydon; Wates; Willmott Dixon

Wales: Morgan Sindall

Scotland: Graham Construction, Kier; Morgan Sindall

Northern Ireland: None

Construction management – Total value £250m

AECOM; Amey Defence Service; Bechtel; Costain; F3Group; Interserve; Kellogg Brown & Root; Kier; Lendlease; Mace; Pick Everard; Sir Robert McAlpine

Airside Works – Total value £750m

BAM Construction; Kier Construction; Lagan Construction; McLaughlin & Harvey; VolkerFitzpatrick

Maritime works – Total value £1.5bn

Costain; Graham Construction; Kier Construction; McLaughlin & Harvey; VolkerStevin

Demolition & Decommissioning – Total value £3bn

AECOM; Amey Defence Services; Connell Brothers; Dem-Master Demolition; Demolition Services; DSM Demolition

from https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2020/01/02/14-winners-named-for-government-projects-over-80m/

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