Photo, left:  A CubeSat (U-class spacecraft[) is a type of miniaturized satellite for space research that is made up of multiples of 10×10×11.35 cm cubic units. CubeSats have a mass of no more than 1.33 kilograms per unit, and often use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components for their electronics and structure. CubeSats are most commonly put in orbit by deployers on the International Space Station, or launched as secondary payloads on a launch vehicle.
Beginning in 1999, California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and Stanford University developed the CubeSat specifications to promote and develop the skills necessary for the design, manufacture, and testing of small satellites intended for low Earth orbit (LEO) that perform a number of scientific research functions and explore new space technologies. Academia accounted for the majority of CubeSat launches until 2013, when over half of launches were for non-academic purposes, and by 2014 most newly deployed CubeSats were for commercial or amateur projects. CubeSats have been built by large and small companies alike, while other projects have been the subject of Kickstarter campaigns.
Uses typically involve experiments which can be miniaturized or serve purposes such as Earth observation or amateur radio. Many CubeSats are used to demonstrate spacecraft technologies that are targeted for use in small satellites or that present questionable feasibility and are unlikely to justify the cost of a larger satellite. Scientific experiments with questionable underlying theory may also find themselves aboard CubeSats as their low cost could justify riskier experiments. Biological research payloads have been flown on several missions, with more planned. Several missions to the Moon and Mars are planned to use CubeSats.
Some CubeSats became the first national satellites of their countries, being launched by universities, state, or private companies.
 
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board & host of Opinion Journal on WSJ Video. Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents.
 
Hour One
Thursday  26 May 2016 / Hour 1, Block A:     Francis Rose, NationalDefenseWeek.com (WMAL) and francisrose.com, and now Channel 7 in Washington; and Channel 8 daily: "Government matters";  in re: Fed Dept of Education is sending out “guidance letters” nationally: demanding that schools punish people who’ve been accused of sexual harassment before any legal action has occurred.  “The administrative state.”
McDonald of VA in trouble – “TSA wait time is like that at Disney World–and Disney doesn't keep track of wait times; why shd that metric measure us?”  Great – what’s the outcome of VA treatment?  A superficial comparison is an insult to veterans who've risked their life to protect us. Washington’s streets are littered with papers . . .   Jason Chavets considering impeachment.
Koskinen in firefight, open season on Executive Branch . . .  Now about that thousand-mile war along the US-Mexico border: will it be finished in this century?
VA Chief Sticks with Tone-Deaf Disney Comment amid Calls for Resignation  In 2014, Robert McDonald, former CEO of Procter & Gamble, was tapped to head the Department of Veterans Affairs after a series of Obama administration and independent investigations revealed widespread fraud and incompetence throughout the agency’s medical network that may have contributed to the deaths of veterans.
Roughly two years after one the worst scandals of the Obama presidency, which prompted then VA chief Eric Shinseki to resign in disgrace, McDonald could be on his way out as well.  . . .  http://www.militarytimes.com/story/veterans/2016/05/25/va-mistake-4200-veterans-listed-dead/84902740/
Francis Rose over Washington!     joining WJLA Channel 7 / NewsChannel 8;  will be the new host of the Government Matters program, currently Sunday mornings at 10:30 on Channel 7. also expanding it to Monday through Friday, as well. Government Matters will air at 8pm and 11pm Monday through Friday on NewsChannel 8. The show will debut June 8.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/05/24/democrats-to-fend-off-gop-attacks-at-rare-hearing-on-impeaching-irs-chief/
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/05/24/VA-Chief-Sticks-Tone-Deaf-Disney-Comment-Amid-Calls-Resignation
Thursday  26 May 2016 / Hour 1, Block B:  Edward Hayes, Esq, criminal defense attorney, in re:  dirty cops in New York – it looks bad; it is bad.  And it’s connected to Mayor DeBlasio. And  Bill Bratton, Police Commissioner: he’s a calm and collected, and focused, person. This is a lot harder than just enforcing the law in New york; these two guys are telling everything they know, nobody wants to go to jail so is spilling all the beans to the feds. Does this go back a few mayors? No. So it’s under De Blasio?  The overlap is the ultra-Orthodox community – the give free plane flights, trips to Las Vegas (incl prostitutes); selling gun permits.   http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/bill-bratton-expects-nypd-criminal-indictments-ongoing-probe-article-1.2643036
Thursday  26 May 2016 / Hour 1, Block C: Charles Pellegrino, adventurer-scientist and author, To Hell and Back, Last Train to Hiroshima; in re:   The Enola Gay flight to Hiroshima was uneventful. Tibbets [the pilot] invents a way to put his plane as far away from the blast as possible; the dive succeeds, and he’s nine miles away when the blast occurs (if the plane flies at 400 mph, the bomb will move at that speed, so instantly as the bomb leaves make a sharp 90-degree turn.  The hypocenter (the spot directly beneath where the bomb detonated) : the flash was witnessed from the plane: and within a tenth of a second, the entire city turned into smoke. It took the same time for the blast to reach the plane. On a nearby hill, a scientist saw the shockwave spreading across the sky He ducked, was lifted off the ground. He observed five seconds between the flash and the bang. 
Through the family of Tsutomu Yamaguchi (the most famed shock cocooned double atomic bomb survivor - within the fringe of Ground Zero both times), a couple of short passages have been requested in Japan, via the Yamaguchi family, from me and James Cameron. 
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- Degloving: the blast and wind hit you; pulls skin and muscles off the body, almost like a glove.
- Shock cocooned — the shock moves down and around objects.
- Immed after the blast, feel the fillings in one’s teeth: felt and tasted the fillings partly melting. Cauterizes a microscopic hole through your body unless it hits something solid like a tooth filling.
- Black rain: isotopes created by the bombs—Pn, and briefly every element that’s ever existed in the galaxy, some for half a second;  people in the path of that cloud, when things were most radioactive, in the first half-hour, got lethal or nearly-lethal radiation doses.
- Ant-walkers: people who were so in shock they followed anyone in front of them in single file, unaware of where they were or were going. They leaked fluids from their body and soon died.
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To us, it may be unrealistic to be pushing for the elimination of nuclear weapons: the fault that needs to be corrected, first, is humanity's vengeance-driven behavior, our way of thinking. Only after that change, can the possible reduction and maybe even the elimination of nuclear weapons, have a chance of occurring.
James Cameron, Charles Pellegrino:   In Hiroshima there is a "tree of hope"—which survived the first atomic bomb and will continue to grow until the day humans banish nuclear weapons from the Earth. One day the tree will become a memory, either because human civilization has changed our way of thinking and eliminated nuclear weapons, and the tree becomes just another tree - - or because nuclear weapons have eliminated us, and there is no one left to water it.
James Cameron:   Yamaguchi-san felt the blast of nuclear fire twice, and believed that he became one of the handful of double atom-bomb survivors for a reason, so that he could spread a message of hope and forgiveness. He became a more highly evolved human. If he could forgive, having borne witness to the unimaginable, not once but twice, then couldn't anyone anywhere forgive the wrongs, real or imagined, that drive human warfare?
My only concern about the latter is that the use of "forgiveness" as Yamaguchi meant it, could be taken out of context by the attack dogs who see the visit itself as a president making some kind of apology - when in fact it should be taken as a reminder, in this period of nuclear proliferation, of what atomic bombs really do. 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-hiroshima-obama-will-offer-a-chance-for-reconciliation-that-is-fraught-on-all-sides/2016/05/26/6f215140-230f-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html
Thursday  26 May 2016 / Hour 1, Block D:  Charles Pellegrino, adventurer-scientist and author; in re: Pres Truman’s grandson is accompanying res Obama on his visit to Hiroshima today.   Pres Truman knew that as the US approached closer and closer to central Japan, the death toll went up He ordered the printing of 3,000  purple hearts and expected horrendous numbers of dead Americans and even more dead Japanese.  Truman desperately wanted to end the war.  After Hiroshima (5 August 1945) and then Nagasaki (9 August 1945), five days elapsed while the Allies dropped vast numbers of leaflets imploring the citizens to surrender. The emperor wanted to but was held captive by his generals in a palace coup. Only after more firebombing did the Japanese nation surrender.  What will PM Abe say?  Perhaps, we have to start this conversation of how horrible the H-bomb really is. MK: Doesn't it matter who has the bomb? We worry less about India or France; a lot about North Korea. JB: The last double-survivor: you were with him when he passed. There were survivors of the first and also the second blast who lived till 2010.  The last double-survivor lived till 2014. 
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In past years, there’s been public speculation from foreign policy analysts, and some behind-the-scenes talk among U.S. and Japanese diplomats, that a presidential visit to Hiroshima would be packaged with a reciprocal, prime ministerial visit to Pearl Harbor. Under that scenario, the Japanese side would atone for the surprise attack on the U.S. naval base there in 1941 that brought the United States into the Pacific fight.
In recent weeks, however, the Abe administration made clear to U.S. officials that it would not entertain the idea of tying two trips together. The White House agreed, intent on avoiding the impression that the two were equivalent acts.
“We draw no linkages to our decision to go to Hiroshima,” said Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to Obama. The president “is making this decision because he believes that it’s important to acknowledge history; it’s important to look squarely at history; it’s important to have a dialogue about history. . . . We’ve encouraged all leaders in Asia to try to look at these difficult historical issues in a manner that promotes dialogue and understanding and, ultimately, reconciliation.”
 
Hour Two
Thursday  26 May 2016 / Hour 2, Block A:  Ted Deutch (FL-21), in re:  Democratic platform. Ploughshares. Sanctions. Malcolm was asked by the NYT about appointment to the Dem convention – provocative and aggressive appts. Mainly, people apptd to the platform committee whose views run counter to traditional Dem views, incl Cornel West and Jim Zogby, both of whom favor the extinction of Israel.  These appts to the Dem Natl Convention: well-known anti-Israeli voices whom you can wind up and will say crude things. There are 15 members of the drafting c’ee; one-third apptd by Sen Sanders.  “Unshakeable commitment to Israel” – plus some countervailing voices. Regrettable to have members who favor the BDS group, an effort to delegitimize Israel. This is not happening against a blank slate; also, Secy Clinton will have the majority of appts of these members and the party expects her to exercise leadership.  / Ploughshares boasts that it's created the media [hype] to support the Iran deal – which has been shown plainly to be a fraud, esp in light of Soleimani’s statements.  Ploughshares gets funded from other foundations; Congress has begun to look at funding for NIAC and Ploughshares, among many.  Recall Ben Rhodes’s disgraceful interview. “This deal or no deal at all” – not true. A well-orchestrated campaign, a huge amount of money spent to press forward voices that advocate that position.  Where’d the dollars come from, and where’d they go?  Accusations were hurled against Ted Deutch – false, defamatory, and known to the speakers as being fraudulent.  “The signature foreign-policy success of the Obama Administration is built on falsehoods.“
Congressman Ted Deutch, 49, represents Florida's 21st district, home to communities throughout western Palm Beach County and Broward County in sunny South Florida. Now serving his fourth term in the 114th Congress, he is a member of the House Judiciary Committee, the House Ethics Committee, and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on which he serves as Ranking Democrat on the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee.
http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-24/the-secret-history-of-the-iran-deal-echo-chamber
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/middle-east/israel/partys-over-for-pro-israel-democrats-platform/
http://www.hudson.org/research/12519-ploughshares-and-the-iran-deal-echo-chamber
Thursday  26 May 2016 / Hour 2, Block B:  Brooke Goldstein, Esq; director of the Lawfare Project; in re: UC Irvine, BDS Initiatives.  Kuwait Airways (state-owned), part of Arab League boycott vs Israel refused to fly Israelis nationals or Jews.  US courts pointed out that this was in violation of the Port Authority lease. Rather than comply, Kuwait dropped its flights in the US; Brooke went to Europe; same result!  / Irvine:  also CUNY and other campuses – endemic harassment and anti-Jewish behavior. Ten Jewish and non-Jewish students gathered to watch a film; fifty screaming students connected to Holy land Foundation came racing in, screaming “f--- the Jews; f— Israel; the Palestinian land will be cleansed of Jews”  Mob outside banging n doors and windows screaming genocidal chants.  Jewish fraternities under violent threat. Police requested police help to escort Jewish students safely out of the room.  When Michael Oren spoke the local DA said that the Holy land students were in violation of the US Constitution. 
Brooke Goldstein is a New York City-based human rights attorney, author, and award-winning filmmaker. She serves as director of The Lawfare Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about and facilitating a response to the abuse of Western legal systems and human rights law. Brooke is also the founder and director of the Children’s Rights Institute (CRI), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to track, spotlight, and legally combat violations of children’s basic human rights around the world. CRI has a special focus on the state-sponsored indoctrination and recruitment of children to become suicide-homicide bombers, child soldiers, and human shields.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/20/calif-students-disrupt-pro-israel-event-attended-b/
http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/05/26/campus-watchdog-uc-irvine-chancellor-in-hot-seat-must-take-immediate-action-against-antisemitism/
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Fk-Israel-long-live-the-Intifada-angry-mob-screams-at-Jewish-UC-student-454644
Thursday  26 May 2016 / Hour 2, Block C:  Simon Henderson, Washington Institute; in re:  Saudi shakeup. Counterterrorism.  The Deputy Crown Prince, bin Salman (son of the king), Will be in Washington soon (Will kick out Naif and also not let in Mohammed?)  His platform currently is to change the economy; published Vision 2030, with more details to emerge in June. Has the second-largest oil reserve on Earth; but Salman intends to take the kingdom away from oil.   The new oil minister is an oil profl, has been with Saudi ARAMCO for years and is respected in the industry, Fir he last year-plus has been bringing order to the chaotic Ministry of Health; has dropped that and taken over Oil. Price drooped to $30bBbl, now up to about $50. His task is to keep a relatively high price. Wish Iran not to benefit from price increases.  When the king dies, will bypass Prince bin Naif?  The old oil minister was sacked viciously at age eighty; unnecessary rudeness; uncivilized. Fear that this will continue within the royal family.   Will Salmon lighten up Wahhabism?   First, it's not inherently violent; depends on interpretation.  Problem for Saudi royal family is that it’s long been a coalition w the senior clerics, who gave the king legitimacy and the king returned the favor by giving clerics control over social programs.  Salman’s plans cannot move on under this regimen.  No one’s talking about democracy, but the nature of he autocracy, the social contract, looks as though it’ll change.  / About the gift of the two islands from Egypt to Saudis: plays very well in Saudi, but a lead balloon in Egypt, The citizenry there is shocked and mightily displeased- returned too  quickly and to cheaply  / Yemeni civil war:  bin Salman is the architect of that war, began in March 2015 when bin Salman was then the new Minister of Defense. Initially, rebels in control of capital; a  year on, still are. The fellow whom Saudis want to see as leader had to flee in fear of his life, since returned to the southern city of Aden, probably now fled back to Riyadh. This war is going nowhere, is expensive, and causing many deaths. 
Simon Henderson is the Baker Fellow and director of the Gulf and Energy Policy Program at The Washington Institute, specializing in energy matters and the conservative Arab states of the Persian Gulf. A former journalist with Financial Times, Mr. Henderson has also worked as a consultant advising corporations and governments on the Persian Gulf. He became an associate of the Institute in 1999 and joined the staff in 2006. He started his career with the British Broadcasting Corporation before joining the Financial Times. His experience includes serving as a foreign correspondent in Pakistan in 1977-78, and reported from Iran during the 1979 Islamic revolution and seizure of the U.S. embassy.
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/testimony/HendersonTestimony20160524-v2.pdf   ; http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/saudi-kings-son-drastically-reshapes-government
Thursday  26 May 2016 / Hour 2, Block D:  
Fabrice Balanche, Université de Lyon 2 - Lumière; in re: Syria/Russia . . .   food shortages? No, there’s food in Latakia.   In Latakia, children and women waiting to buy bread at public bakeries, have to wait at least two hours.  Food is very very expensive.  Black marketeering and high prices.  In Tartus a building boom – population has doubled with refugees, but people also who want to emigrate to Germany via Lebanon and Turkey; sell everything to pay the coyote.  Deir al Zour: a battle ‘twixt the army and Da’ish
Fabrice Balanche, an associate professor and research director at the University of Lyon 2, is a visiting fellow at The Washington Institute. Balanche, who also directs the Research Group on the Mediterranean and the Middle East (GREMMO), has spent ten years in Lebanon and Syria, his main areas of study, since first engaging in fieldwork in the region in 1990. Today, he is frequently called upon as an expert consultant on Middle East development issues and the Syrian crisis.
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/france-refuses-to-see-islamism-as-a-cultural-problem  
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-islamic-state-is-targeting-syrias-alawite-heartland-and-russia
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-battle-for-deir-al-zour-a-u.s.-russian-bridge-against-the-islamic-state
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russia-says-it-is-suspending-attacks-against-syrias-al-qaeda-franchise/2016/05/25/afd236b0-a40a-475e-af5c-030ee541a77f_story.html
http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/2016/05/25/syrian-opposition-chief-wants-germany-in-peace-negotiations/
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/iran-hezbollah-avoid-blaming-israel-terrorist-commanders-16346
 
Hour Three
Thursday  26 May 2016 / Hour 3, Block A:  Malcolm Hoenlein, in re: Sinai – so many bad actors wed need a scorecard. Start with ISIS in Sinai; Hamas is both working with ISIS and in conflict with it. Provided weapons; when Iran cut them off, invited ISIS in to Gaza for training. Aligned with Islamic Jihad. Worked with ISIS in attack is Egypt. Also in Sinai are Iran, and Bedu smugglers (arms and drugs) and a bunch of others.  Situation is very difficult Canadian general in change re of MFO (multinational forces) – US echoes: too dangerous to stay, violence escalated becoming intolerable.  Spills over into Egypt –  70 attacks a month in northern Sinai. US gives additional aid – 760 mil vehicles can withstand IEDs.  Hoping to avoid the Iraq/Syria/Libya situation  Public executions stage. Iran just gave $70 mil to Islamic Jihad.  In Gaza. 95% of the cent donated for rebuilding goes into tunnels for death, kidnapping, smuggling.   / Israel’s northern border; mysterious watchtowers under construction to watch Israel – seems ot be the Lebanese army doing this to monitor Israeli army bases and kibbutzim; get info to trade.  Tension – extends along he border with the Golan.  Jockeying for power, esp al Q/al Nusra. And Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade – so busy fighting amongst themselves they aren't currently attacking Israel   / Iran:  a decision anent a succession struggle: Ayatollah Jannati, 90 years old, elected head of the Council of Experts, the body that’ll choose he next Supreme Leader. Jannati favors suicide bombers and lots of state-sponsored murder.  Although the Obama Adm argued that Rouhani, et al., were “moderate,” all now acknowledge that they certainly are not. 
Thursday  26 May 2016 / Hour 3, Block B: Neri Zilber, Washington Institute, in re: Israeli politics. Liberman, Yaalon, et al., in a succession struggle? Not really – Netanyahu confirmed his hold on power for a year or three.  Bringing Liberman into the ruling coalition and making him defense minister was a controversial move.  . . .  Till recently  a tricky coalition; Bibi had to manoeuver, decided to pull the trigger on expanding the coalition. A so lets him pass the Natural Gas Framework Deal, which he wants; also a multiyear budget in the fall.  (By law, failure to pass a budget requires a new elcti0n.) Liberman’s association with Putin? Yaalon much respected internationally, while Liberman entering has no comparable experience and is verbally [wild].   Putin: Liberman has a special relationship with Russia, but knows that [he’ll be watched a lot]; thus  his connections will help Israel in m Moscow but not propel Israel toward Moscow. A million Russian Israelis.   Important in connecti0n with Russia in Syria. However, have professionals in Tel Aviv and Moscow to deal with deconfliction over Syria.  Lapid (head of another faction of the party in the Knesset, had 13 seats, now projected to get 20): Herzog, head of Labor Party, loses. 
Neri Zilber, a journalist and researcher on Middle East politics and culture, is also an adjunct Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where he was recently a visiting scholar (2014-2015). His research focussed on the Middle East peace process, with particular emphasis on Palestinian economics and state-building.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/israel/2016-05-23/netanyahus-coalition-games ; http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/03/hezbollah-claims-a-nuclear-option-in-tense-standoff-with-israel.html ; http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/21/israel-s-secret-weapon-against-terror.html
Thursday  26 May 2016 / Hour 3, Block C: Dan Henninger, WSJ editorial; in re: http://www.wsj.com/articles/were-all-in-disney-world-1464218841?tesla=y
Thursday  26 May 2016 / Hour 3, Block D: Howard Root,  co-founder, Vascular Solutions, in re:  No Justice for Business    A small Minnesota company fights a bad prosecution—and wins. But where’s the redress?   April 15, 2016
When governments try to criminalize honest businesses, the good guys lose even when they win. Take the ordeal of Vascular Solutions, a Minnesota-based medical-devices company that recently won in court but is wondering how to undo the damage to its business and reputation.
The tale began in 2014 when a disgruntled former employee filed a whistleblower’s complaint with the U.S. Attorney’s office in San Antonio. After a review by the DOJ’s Civil Division, the company was accused of marketing a kit the FDA had authorized to treat one type of varicose veins to treat another type of varicose veins the FDA had not authorized. Rather than let the case drag out, Vascular Solutions agreed to settle the civil suit for $520,000, while denying any wrongdoing.
That should have ended it. But then the DOJ’s Criminal Division took over. In November 2014, a San Antonio grand jury indicted the company on several counts related to the alleged promotion of a varicose vein kit for off-label uses. The lead prosecutors in this criminal case were Timothy Finley, a trial attorney from the Consumer Protection Branch in the Civil Division, and Walter Paulissen, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas.
The company wasn’t spreading false information—off-label uses often work as therapies—but this didn’t matter to the feds. The FDA has taken the position that companies cannot share information about products for uses it hasn’t authorized. But as federal Judge Royce Lamberth rightly pointed out in his instruction to the jury, it is “not a crime for a device company or its representative to give doctors wholly truthful and non-misleading information about the unapproved use of a device.”
We count that as a victory for common sense and the First Amendment, given that the case will now force the FDA to reconsider the way it deals with how companies market their products. Still, the greater villain here is the Justice Department.
Justice pursued the Eliot Spitzer model of prosecution, named for the New York Attorney General who built a reputation as the “sheriff of Wall Street” largely by forcing companies into fines and settlements without ever going to trial. Threaten a CEO with trumped up criminal charges, then watch the company settle to avoid the expense and reputational damage of a long legal defense.
Unfortunately for Justice, Vascular Solutions CEO Howard Root refused to play this game. He hired a team of former DOJ lawyers, headed by John Richter, a former U.S. Attorney who was also an acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division.
In addition to rebutting the charges against Vascular Solutions, Mr. Richter also filed court papers accusing prosecutors of abuses. These included sharing secret grand jury testimony from some witnesses to get company employees to change their stories, interviewing witnesses outside the grand jury without their counsel present, and telling witnesses whose testimony did not fit the prosecutors’ narrative to “fix” their testimony or they would be fired from their jobs, banned from the health-care industry for life, or prosecuted.
DOJ says “we respect the jury’s verdict,” and notes the trial judge declined to dismiss the case on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct. That’s not reassuring. For though the judge said he found no such misconduct, he held no evidentiary hearing and in the trial the defense made the prosecutors’ behavior part of its case. The acquittal on all counts suggests there are grounds for a closer look.
Mr. Richter says he did not make these accusations lightly, and business needs better avenues of redress from overreaching prosecutors. It cost Vascular Solutions $25 million to clear its good name—no small amount for a firm that reported $147 million in revenues for 2015.
There are any number of ways to proceed from here, but one idea would be for the Attorney General to transfer internal discipline cases from the Office of Professional Responsibility to the Office of Inspector General. Congress might also take a page out of civil law and provide a way for a defendant who prevails in criminal cases to recoup legal fees from the government. If Congress starts noticing a pattern of such cases, it can also show its displeasure through the budget process.
It’s a good day when an honest company succeeds against attempts to criminalize an honest business. Even sweeter would be if Congress and DOJ used the occasion to institute reforms to ensure accountability for prosecutions that never should have happened.  http://www.forbes.com/sites/legalnewsline/2016/05/02/it-took-one-company-25m-to-fend-off-justice-departments-criminal-charges/print/
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Hour Four
Thursday  26 May 2016 / Hour 4, Block A:. Robert Zimmerman, behind the black, in re:  Planetary Resources, Inc.   Planned to use a telescope and a small-sat (cube sat) to establish themselves; got $21 mill in investment capital to build another sat; hope to bld a ten-sat constellation for good imagery of the Earth – natural and other resources. Will make asteroid mining easier in the future.  / Bigelow: an inflatable space station [to be used in concert with ISS].  Launched by Dragon capsule.   Began expansion today, but it dis so only in width, not in length, so stopped it. Will have to see what’s going wrong. /Antares (blt by Orbital ATK – a merger of ATK – solid rocket boosters for the shuttle — and . .  .]  Initially used refurbished Soviet-era engines may have led to a failure; now using new Russian engines.  Iridium was going to provide global telephone; eventually got it launched but cell phones offered better & cheaper service, Bankrupt, revived, and now making money, Using technology in sats to create an alternative to GPS.  (1 of 2)
Thursday  26 May 2016 / Hour 4, Block B: Robert Zimmerman, behind the black (2 of 2) 
Thursday  26 May 2016 / Hour 4, Block C:  Hotel Mars, episode n.  Gary Oleson, TASC Co, in re: http://www.smallsat.org
Thursday  26 May 2016 / Hour 4, Block D:  Lou Ann Hammond, Driving the Nation, in re: www.drivingthenation.com/wwcoty-awards-volvo-xc-90-car-of-the-year/ ; http://www.drivingthenation.com/a-sneak-peak-into-volvos-future-cars-from-sweden/ ; just in case you didn't see these  ; 
Volvo xc 90 is the first PHEV in the US, not globally - in China BYD Tang SUV PHEV is number one.  http://insideevs.com/nearly-20000-plug-in-electric-cars-sold-in-china-in-april/
 
 
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