Iowa Senators take objection to new chemical security regulations affects on Iowa farmers. They miss the fact that large propane tanks are a potential terrorist target depending on where they are located. Some simple measures will get most farmers, who are not terrorist targets, through the requirements of the new DHS regulations.

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Why did these law-abiding citizens turn a blind eye towards the murder and mayhem that they had witnessed daily in the enclosure literally on their doorstep?

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Recently published DHS rules require chemical facilities to submit various types of information to DHS for the purposes of protecting high-risk chemical facilities from terrorist attack. That information contains sensitive Chemical-Terrorism Vulnerability Information (CVI) that must be protected against unauthorized release. Properly marking CVI documents is an integral part of that protection.

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Whatever the persecution Germans faced historically what Dietmar Doering was telling me came into mind as to how the Germanic tribes under the command of Arminius (Hermann) by one stroke against the Roman Forces in Germania and the subsequent Germanic tribes invasion into the Roman Empire changed the trend of the world. If the Romans had succeeded to integrate the Germanic people, maybe the continuing Roman rule would have merged the European peoples into a permanent nation of Roman citizens.

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When our discussion turned on the rehabilitation of post-war Europe, a German university student referred to one person who left a lasting legacy. It was none other than Herbert Hoover, an American of German ancestry and was the 31st President of the United States of America (1929-1933). He had taken bold initiatives which saved the lives of millions of Germans and other Europeans in the Second World War that ravaged Europe.

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