2008/12/07

Chemtrails on 11/27 in Gainesville, Fl

Chemtrails on 11/27 in Gainesville, Fl

 
 

In Spain 500 Ant-iWar and 9/11 Truth Activists March Together

Last week there was an anti war rally with about 500 people, our 911
truth group was present with megaphone and lots of signs.
 
 
HWS

Progressive breakfast club headlines 12/7/08 12356

 

Progressive breakfast club headlines 12/7/08
 
WILL NEXT STATE DEPARTMENT BE A "TEAM OF RIVALS" OR "HILLARY LAND?"  Apparently it will be the latter as Clinton accepted the nomination on condition of being able to select her own staff and advisers.  So far she has tapped personal loyalists for her "kitchen cabinet" and officials from the Bill Clinton adminstration for under-Secretary positions. (For an old H. Clinton imagery, she may be baking cookies with friends in Foggy Bottom.) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5299035.ece
 
"I'M THE SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS, NOT THE SENATOR FROM KOGELO.  Barack Obama's statement during a 2006 visit to Africa.  It symbolizes the dilemma of Africans who believe and/or hope that the presence in the White House of a man with immediate African roots will promote African interests in U.S. foreign policy.  The problem, says Kenyan poet Mukama Wa Ngugi, is that Obama will have to be responsive to U.S. political pressures, and may disappoint Africans on such matters as support of AIDS eradication, U.S. imperialism in Somalia and the development of an African military command.  It comes down, he says, to whether Africans will be able to pressure Obama to be responsive to their expectations. (Again, the idea of power from the grassroots; or should we say veldt-roots?)  http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/19869
 
BREAKING U.S. SANCTION AGAINST TECHNOLOGY EXPORTS TO IRAN WITHOUT BREAKING U.S. LAWS.  A number of multi-national corporations like the oil tool manufacturer Schlumberger are able to carry on operations in Iran which critics say involve risk in technology transfers that could be used by Iran to develop nuclear weapons.  Lawyers for these firms say, apparently correctly, that they are operating in conformity with."all applicable (U.S.) laws and regulations."  A Boston Globe special report.  http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2008/12/07/oil_firm_sidesteps_sanctions_on_iran/?
page=1
 
"THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN MACON COUNTY SUCKS."  So says the mother of the 1994 victim of a brutal murder, referring to the judicial system that convicted a possibly innocent man and then kept him in an Illinois prison suffering from multiple sclerosis and medical neglect, after previous Governor George Ryan commuted death sentences for all Illinois prisoners before he left office.  Having been extradited from California with a promise to execute him if found guilty, there is now pressure to return the near-comatose man to CA to face another capital charge. http://www.alternet.org/rights/110045/should_a_terminally_ill_prisoner_have_to_die_behind_bars/?page
 
"FLORIDA IS A SUPER-PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS STATE. WE'RE VERY CONSERVATIVE THAT WAY" (ORLANDO CITY LAWYER). Indeed!  Her statement is proven in the saga of a "rabble-rousing" preservationist in a long-running campaign to stop a Lake Leola Park development project that threatens to demolish a neighborhood of 1920s-built homes.  She is allowed by city officials to "jump through the hoops" of a protest that she is not legally allowed (under "conservative" property rights laws) to make because she is not a resident of the neighborhood.  As City Council takes action on the matter, city lawyers tell the Council it must affirm the developer's building contract or be sued for breach of contract.  http://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/story.asp?id=12796
 
These headlines and following additional stories posted on website today.  To read them, click http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ scroll below headlines and click on any article you want to read.
 
ooo  La Scala Opera opens, expecting a season of miseries.
ooo  Hollywood lights come down (the sea turtles you know.)
ooo  Why do "Hispanic-themed" speciality license plates in Florida?
ooo  Parts of Gainesville FL become mosh pit after Gator win.
ooo  And more.
 
Quote of the day:
 
 "''At some point in our lifetime', said George Clooney, 'gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.' To the opponents of Proposition 8, this kind of analogy is a rallying cry; but as white Hollywood has recently discovered, to the blacks who voted for the measure, it's galling. Comparing the infringement on civil rights that gays are experiencing to that suffered by black Americans is to begin a game of 'top my oppression' that you're not going to win." New York Times op-ed columnists, commenting on the overwhelming support of Proposition 8, banning gay marriage, in California. The columnists see this situation is representing a serious tear in the "big tent" under which different liberal constituencies are attempting to co-exist.

2008/12/06

Progressive breakfast club headlines 12/6/08 12456

 

Progressive breakfast club headlines 12/6/08
 
WITH NO SOFA TO LIE ON IN IRAQ, ALL REMAINING MEMBERS OF COALITION OF WILLING EXCEPT U.S. AND U.K. WILL LEAVE IRAQ BY END OF THIS MONTH.  The U.S. has already negotiated, as the U.K. expects to do, a Status of Forces Agreement allowing U.S. military presence in Iraq after end of this year.  Others, if they haven't already given up their Iraqi adventures, must do so now.  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/world/middleeast/06iraq.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
 
STARVATION ON THE ISLE OF CRETE.  15 Arab migrants, part of the large pool of undocumented immigrants attracted by the unofficial economy of the island, are on hunger strike to protest the lack of realistic opportunity for migrants to obtain Greek citizenship status, with high fees and long waiting periods for naturalization proceedings (Is this a harbinger for "immigration reform" in the U.S. with a supposedly enlightened "path to citizenship" offered to the undocumented?)  http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45006
 
A BAILOUT FOR CHRYSLER? IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN THIS WAY.  Unlike Ford and GM which are publicly traded corporations, Chrysler is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Cerebrus Corporation, a huge conglomerate of corporate holdings in the auto industy and elsewhere. With Cerebrus supposedly having profits from its other holdings to subsidize any losses in Chrysler, it was assumed that Chrysler had its own "private equity" solution to its problems.  Still, using its substantial government "connections" such employment of former VP Dan Quayle and former Treasury Secretary John Snow, Chrysler shows up along with "other two" in pleas for a government bailout.  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/business/06chrysler.html?th&emc=th
 
POST-PARTUM DEPRESSION IN WOMEN: DRUG INDUSTRY CREATES THE NEED AND FILLS THE DEMAND.  Evelyn Pringle describes efforts such as the current "Mothers Act" proposed in Congress to enhance greatly the country's system of pre-partum "screening" of pregnant women to identify those at risk of post-partum depression.  Much like the industry pushed psycho-tropic drugs with harmful side-effects for "at risk" children, it now promotes a medical program for pregnant women that may result in larger profits for the industry and greater risks for women.  http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/mothers-act-promotes-pregnancy-as-new-cottage-industry/
 
A LITMUS TEST FOR PROGRESSIVISM IN OBAMA'S CABINET? LOOK FOR HIS APPOINTMENT OF SECRETARY OF INTERIOR.  With the Bush administration's wilderness policy going out in a flame of ignonimy, Robert Lovata says Obama needs a true progressive in this position to balance the otherwise-centrist cabinet. Lovata finds such a person in Congressman Raul Grijalva from Arizona, now being "considered" for the post; he has a sterling record of opposition to the environmental atrocities of the Bush years. It's time for progressive to "hope" again; it still may be that Obama will appoint a "blue dog Democrat" like Mike Thompson of California.  http://www.alternet.org/environment/110530/?page=1 FOR ANOTHER VIEW ON THOMPSON, SEE: http://www.willitsnews.com/ci_11049849?source=most_viewed
 
NON-PROFIT SOCIAL SERVICES GROUPS IN TAMPA MAY BE "TOO SMALL TO SUCCEED."  As Congress prepares to bailout "too big to fail" corporations with mega-billion dollar bailouts, non-profits in Tampa go begging before Hillsborough County officials and learn that in the poor economy, there is no money available to help them to, for example, create even modest increases in numbers of beds available for the mentally ill.  http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/dec/04/era-bailouts-local-nonprofit-groups-are-denied-fun/
 
These headlines and following additional stories posted on website today.  To read them, click http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ scroll below headlines and click on any article you want to read.
 
ooo  Vancouver winter Olympic Games in financial stress.
ooo  Kid shoots bear (er woman), WA considering minimum hunting age.
ooo  Getting harder for sterling high school students to get into UF.
ooo  No "abatement" of eyesores in Tampa.
ooo  And more.
 
Quote of the day:
 
"Some Obama supporters are wringing their hands over the selection of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.  Hillary was, after all, a consistent supporter of the disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and much more.  But Barack Obama's selection of Reaganite and Bush family operative Robert Gates to continue as Secretary of War speaks volumes about the new administration's willingness to continue pulling the same wool over the public eyes as Democratic and Republican administrations past have done.  Is this the "change" tens of millions voted for?" Bruce Dixon, in Black Agenda Report on Gates' record. http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=911&Itemid=1

Fw: [9-11-NeXuS-2] Vans packed with explosives were confirmed at the World Trade Center


 

 

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Reports of vans packed with explosives were confirmed at the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001 as well as sub level explosions, among many other explosions. Vans were also discovered around the area, one had been exploded, one had been stopped for having a picture on the side of it with a plane flying into the World Trade Center, one had been stopped and found with explosives in it, and many others. The FBI actually had confirmed that a device was found in the complex and the building had begun to evacuate. It was this evidence that made the Federal Agency to speculate that a van packed with explosives was parked in the garage which was detonated to help weaken the structure.

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Audio Transmissions of Police Radios Now Made Public From September 11th Listen to audio below


At 5 min and 17 sec listen to the recording as a traffic stop is initiated on a van with a mural of planes crashing into and exploding in the World Trade Center.This traffic stop was on Sept. 11 the morning of 9-11
 

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    No Terror Attacks Since When?

    No Attacks Since When?

    In her column for the Wall Street Journal, the insufferably pompous Charles Emerson Winchester of the D.C. punditocracy, Peggy Noonan contributed to a massive hoax which I've nicknamed the 'No Attacks' Mythology:

    This is an argument that's been around for a while but is newly re-emerging as the final argument for Mr. Bush: the one big thing he had to do after 9/11, the single thing he absolutely had to do, was keep it from happening again. And so far he has.

    Now, of course she's right. "It" hasn't happened again. Fact: no additional hijacked airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center towers since September 11. Why? Because those buildings were already attacked and destroyed, killing thousands of Americans after President Bush and his staff repeatedly ignored warnings from a variety of counter-terrorism and national security experts.

    Noonan continued:

    We have not been attacked since 9/11. Someone -- someones -- did something right.

    Someones?

    This is all part of a huge lie, and the lie is rapidly becoming reality thanks to various Bush apologists and dead-enders.

    Perhaps it's been reignited in conjunction with the Bush "legacy project" -- an effort organized by Karl Rove to somehow fabricate a positive legacy for this awful president. If there remains any justice in this nation, let history show that the only thing this administration was actually good at was fabricating its own version of reality. They've failed at everything else and then made up stuff to obfuscate those failures. So here. I'll be magnanimous and make Rove's gig really easy by offering a suggestion: the "legacy project" is the Bush legacy. In other words, it's very likely that President Bush will be remembered for things like, you know, the "legacy project."

    Nevertheless, yes, Ms. Noonan, we have been attacked on American soil since September 11 despite the Bush administration's invasions, its torturing, its illegal wiretapping and its crimes against the Constitution.

    The anthrax attacks and the DC Snipers to name two. But since we don't yet know the identity of the anthrax attacker(s) -- they haven't, after all, been captured and brought to justice by the mighty Bush administration -- let's focus exclusively on terrorists John Allen Muhammed and Lee Boyd Malvo. More Americans were, in fact, killed by the DC Snipers (16 killed) than were killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing (6 killed). Additionally, there were nearly as many people killed by the DC Snipers as were killed in the al-Qaeda bombing of the USS Cole (17 killed).

    Are the DC Sniper shootings somehow less dazzling and, therefore, do they not count as actual terrorist attacks on American soil? If that's the case then there were, in fact, zero attacks during the Clinton administration. Wow, President Clinton was really excellent at keeping us safe. So much for Democrats being weak on national security, eh?

    Elsewhere, during the Bush years, there have been literally tens of thousands of terrorist attacks involving American casualties and deaths. In the 'No Attacks' Mythology chapter of my book, I debunked similar Noonanish claims, including one by Lynne Cheney who appeared on The Daily Show in October, 2007 and similarly suggested that there weren't any attacks since September 11.

    You know I think when the history books are written, we will look back on this period of time, and we will say on 9/11 we really thought within six months we would be attacked again. Even six weeks. It's been more than six years and that is not an accident.

    When Jon Stewart challenged Mrs. Cheney by mentioning the bombings in Madrid and London, Cheney replied by suggesting that those attacks weren't against "American interests." Okay, then, let's ignore the fact that Spain and Great Britain are allies of the United States and talk about actual American interests. Specifically, Iraq and Afghanistan. In my book, I wrote:

    A non-profit think tank called the Memorial Institute for Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) has been maintaining an online Terrorism Knowledge Base since the middle 1990s. In it, they report that between September 11, 2001 and March 2008, there have been 9,675 terrorist attacks in Iraq, accumulating 46,271 injuries and 26,161 deaths. In Afghanistan--that other American interest--there have been 1,069 terrorist attacks in which 2,323 people were injured and 1,809 people were killed.

    No attacks, Ms. Noonan? I only wish that were true.

    BobCesca.com

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    2008/12/05

    Do Chemtrails make Sheeple out of People?

    Do Chemtrails Make Sheeple out of People?

    Are the neurological effects of Chemtrails central to the frustration of Anti-war and 9/11 Truth groups when they meet the vast abyss of public apathy?

    This remarkable German/EU production easily distinguishes "contrails" from CHEMTRAILS for those who are not quite convinced.
     
    Simply take note of the man-made ports and hardware on the aircraft from which the Barium enriched CHEMTRAILS are spewed into the skies.
     

    Dennis Kucinich Names Chemtrails As 'Exotic Weapon'


    Rep. Kucinich's HR 2977 Names Chemtrails As An 'Exotic Weapon'

    By Lorie Kramer
    seektress@ev1.net
    1-10-2


    After years of denial from government, military, and environmental agencies, the reality of the controversial issue regarding the covert programs known as Chemtrails has been acknowledged.
     
    On October 2, 2001 Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Ohio introduced H. R. 2977 during the 1st Session of the 107th Congress of the United States. The "Space Preservation Act of 2001" seeks to "preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benfit of all humankind by permanently prohibiting the basing of weapons in space by the United States, and to require the President to take action and implement a world treaty banning space-based weapons."
     
    In the bill Chemtrails are listed as an "exotic weapons system". Ironically in Section 7 - Definitions. The complete text of the bill may be found at Clifford Carnicom's website, "Chemtrail Crimes and Coverup Documented".
     
    The bill also addresses such things as particle beams, electromagnetic radiation, plasma, or extremely low frequency (ELF) or ultra low frequency (ULF) energy radiation, and mind-control as weapons. All of these areas have been researched and pondered by those investigating chemtrails and working to gain accountability for those programs.
     
    They can't have it both ways. Water vapor is not a weapon.
     
    This is a call to all those of conscience. This is a time when action is needed. It is time. The lies have gone on long enough. We can tell the Air Force and the Navy and the other agencies involved in this criminal activity, "No, You may NOT own the Weather ...Period!" We may not have another chance.
     
    On behalf of the members of Chemtrail Tracking USA, Clifford Carnicom's Board, Chemtrail Central and the many other groups and individuals working diligently to get accountability, we urge your listeners to respond. Contact government and media, demand answers. If not now, when?
     
    We know what we see. We did not consent. We want it stopped.
     
    To see text of HR 2977:
    http://www.carnicom.com/hr2977.htm




    Rep Kucinich Rewrites HR 2977 - 'Chemtrails' Disappear

    By Lorie Kramer
    seektress@ev1.net
    1-27-2

    The "Space Preservation Act of 2001" originally introduced in the House by Rep. Dennis Kucinich as HR 2977 has been re-written.
     
    The new, revised bill, HR 3616, "Space Preservation Act of 2002" was introduced January 23, 2002.
     
    Re-writing bills is a common enough practice as a bill goes through the legislative process. However, the differences between HR 2977 and HR 3616 are more than just a few tweaks here or there.
     
    By its conspicuous appearance in 2977, the term 'chemtrails' received a form of credibiity within the official government process never seen before...producing the hope that one courageous Representative had finally had the fortitude to take the issue of chemtrails to a level of Congressional scrutiny long overdue.
     
    Even though chemtrails are sprayed/deployed in the 2-6 mile high range, and not the 60 mile altitude stated in 2977, the simple fact of their inclusion in Kucinich's 2977 list of weapons systems was deemed a major breakthrough by tens of thousands of citizens and researchers across the country who have been monitoring and investigating the spraying going on in the skies of America for the past three years.
     
    In Rep. Kucinich's revised new (some woud say 'emasculated') Bill, HR 3616, there is no longer any mentio whatever of:
     
    * chemtrails,
    * particle beams
    * electromagnetic radiation
    * plasmas
    * extremely low frequency (ELF) or ultra low frequency (ULF) energy radiation
    * or mind-control technologies
     
    as weapons systems covered in the measure.
     
    In fact, 'Exotic Weapons' - as boldly-stated in HR 2977 - are not even mentioned in HR 3616. So, what happened here? Did someone have a 'friendly chat' with Rep. Kucinich? Did the Congressman inhale a bit too much aluminum during his morning job? Did he look up one day and find himself standing under a big 'X' and feel his knees get a little wobbly?
     
    As stated in Kucinich's first version of his "Space Preservation Act of 2001" -
     
    "The term 'exotic weapons systems' includes weapons designed to damage space or natural ecosystems (such as the ionosphere and upper atmosphere) or climate, weather, and tectonic systems with the purpose of inducing damage or destruction upon a target population or region on earth or in space."
     
    Apparently Rep. Kucinich is no longer concerned about the effects of the testing and use of exotic weapons systems on natural ecosystems and living organisms on the planet.
     
    Although chemtrails are no longer stated as a weapons system, or even mentioned in HR3616, the question of the components of the RFMP / VTRPE warfare system is raised.
     
    HR 3616 states -
     
    "To preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind by prohibiting the basing of weapons in space and the use of weapons to destroy or damage objects in space that are in orbit, and for other purposes."
     
    The intent of this passage remains fuzzy. Example: Are Imaging satellites used with the RFMP / VTRPE system broadly defined as part of a weapons system ?
     
    HR 3616 further states -
     
    "The terms 'space-based weapon' and 'space-based system' mean a device capable of damaging or destroying an object or person by directing a source of energy against that object or person."
     
    The word "directing" is clearly the key. Strictly speaking, the RFMP system does, by imaging, provide information to direct a source of energy against that particular object or person
     
    HR3616 also says -
     
    "4) civil, commercial, or defense activities (including communications, navigation, surveillance, reconnaissance, early warning, or remote sensing) that are not related to space-based weapons or systems."
     
    They could say the RFMP is not a weapon - it does not "fire a bullet," but it is part of a weapons system. There are clearly serious issues of definition in Kucinich's new Bill. It is conceivable that the RFMP / VTRPE weapons system may fall in the area covered by HR3616.
     
    It remains a mystery as to how the word 'chemtrails' appeared in HR 2977 to begin with. Investigation into that point is ongoing. Who actually is authoring the text of these bills? Why such an emphasis on "exotic weapons" in HR 2977 but then nothing mentioned about them in HR 3616?
     
    My call to Rep. Kucinich's Washington office last week was brief. I was told there had been "quite a few" calls regarding HR 2977. I was then told my questions should be directed to the person on the congressman's staff who handled that bill. I was then transfered to that person and received...big surprise...their voice mail service. I left a message with my contact information. No reply has been received to date. I will place a follow-up call again this week. We suggest others do the same.
     
    Even though the term 'chemtrails' has been removed from the revised bill, efforts to continue to educate and alert others about the chemtrail issue go on. Many thanks to those who have taken the time to contact their Congressional Representatives, keep it up.
     
    We still know what we see. We still didn't consent. We still want it stopped.
     
    Lorie Kramer Chem Trail Tracking USA
     
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    Space Preservation Act of 2002
    (Introduced in the House)
    HR 3616 IH
    107th CONGRESS
    2nd Session
    H.R. 3616
     



     
    To preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind by prohibiting the basing of weapons in space and the use of weapons to destroy or damage objects in space that are in orbit, and for other purposes.
     
    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
    January 23, 2002
     
    Mr. KUCINICH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
     
    A BILL
     
    To preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind by prohibiting the basing of weapons in space and the use of weapons to destroy or damage objects in space that are in orbit, and for other purposes.
     
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
     
    SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
     
    This Act may be cited as the 'Space Preservation Act of 2002'.
     
    SEC. 2. REAFFIRMATION OF POLICY ON THE PRESERVATION OF PEACE IN SPACE.
     
    Congress reaffirms the policy expressed in section 102(a) of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (42 U.S.C. 2451(a)), stating that it `is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.'.
     
    SEC. 3. BAN ON BASING OF WEAPONS IN SPACE AND THE USE OF WEAPONS AGAINST OBJECTS IN SPACE IN ORBIT.
     
    The President shall-- (1) implement a ban on space-based weapons of the United States and the use of weapons of the United States to destroy or damage objects in space that are in orbit; and (2) immediately order the termination of research and development, testing, manufacturing, production, and deployment of all space-based weapons of the United States.
     
    SEC. 4. INTERNATIONAL TREATY BANNING SPACE-BASED WEAPONS AND THE USE OF WEAPONS AGAINST OBJECTS IN SPACE IN ORBIT.
     
    The President shall direct the United States representatives to the United Nations and other international organizations to immediately work toward negotiating, adopting, and implementing an international treaty banning space-based weapons and the use of weapons to destroy or damage objects in space that are in orbit.
     
    SEC. 5. REPORT.
     
    The President shall submit to Congress not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 6 months thereafter, a report on--
    (1) the implementation of the ban on space-based weapons and the use of weapons to destroy or damage objects in space that are in orbit required by section 3; and
    (2) progress toward negotiating, adopting, and implementing the treaty described in section 4.
     
    SEC. 6. SPACE-BASED NONWEAPONS ACTIVITIES.
     
    Nothing in this Act may be construed as prohibiting the use of funds for--
    (1) space exploration;
    (2) space research and development;
    (3) testing, manufacturing, or production that is not related to space-based weapons or systems; or
    (4) civil, commercial, or defense activities (including communications, navigation, surveillance, reconnaissance, early warning, or remote sensing) that are not related to space-based weapons or systems.
     
    SEC. 7. DEFINITIONS.
     
    In this Act:
    (1) The term 'space' means all space extending upward from an altitude greater than 60 kilometers above the surface of the earth and any celestial body in such space.
    (2) The terms `space-based weapon' and `space-based system' mean a device capable of damaging or destroying an object or person (whether in outer space, in the atmosphere, or on earth) by--
     
    (A) firing one or more projectiles to collide with that object or person;
    (B) detonating one or more explosive devices in close proximity to that object or person;
    (C) directing a source of energy against that object or person; or
    (D) any other undeveloped means.  
    Source: http://www.rense.com/
     
     
     

    KBR gives troops drinking water laced with corpse juice

     
    "...he saw a wild dog running around the base with a human arm in its mouth that KBR had dumped into the pit." 


     
    KBR Sued for Giving Soldiers Ice with 'Traces of Body Fluids and Putrefied Remains'
    Posted by Jason Rosenbaum, The Seminal at 4:04 PM on December 4, 2008.

    The scandals for this war profiteer just keep coming. 

    The scandals for KBR just keep coming.  The former Halliburton subsidiary responsible for the sexual assault of Jamie Leigh Jones and the accidental electrocution of a U.S. soldier is now subject of a class-action lawsuit for exposing employees to "unsafe water, food, and hazardous fumes" at the largest U.S. installation in Iraq.

    According to the Army Times, Joshua Eller, a former technician with the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, said that while he was stationed at Balad Air Force Base in 2006, he experienced skin lesions that spread and became worse, along with debilitating blisters on his feet, vomiting, cramping, diarrhea, and severe abdominal pain.

    As former KBR Water Purification Specialist Ben Carter described in this clip from Iraq for Sale and in his Congressional testimony, KBR failed to provide adequate water safety, resulting in toxic drinking and bathing water. 
     
    This war profiteer also failed to manage a medical incinerator properly, instead disposing medical waste and human remains in an open air burn pit.  Eller claims that at one point, he saw a wild dog running around the base with a human arm in its mouth that KBR had dumped into the pit.  And the grizzly kicker, the suit accuses KBR of using mortuary trucks that "still had traces of body fluids and putrefied remains in them when they were loaded with ice" later served to U.S. troops.
     
    VIDEO and More
     
     
     
     
     

    2008/12/04

    Progressive breakfast club headlines 12/4/08 12345

     

    Progressive breakfast club headlines 12/4/08
     
    ARE U.S. TROOPS COMING HOME FROM IRAQ?  Don't hold your breath to be exhaled on inauguration day, 2009.  Campaign promises to "end the war in Iraq" are now being re-calibrated as the next administration moves toward "reality" and Obama is reminding Americans that he only promised to remove "combat forces" in 16 months and indicated that a "residual force" might have to be left behind until such time as "ground commanders" indicate they are no longer needed, including the possibility of (by mutual agreement with Iraq) leaving these forces there beyond the 2011 "deadline" for withdrawal set by SOFA.  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/us/politics/04military.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
     
    IF MUMBAI WAS "INDIA'S 9/11," WILL INDIA LEARN FROM U.S. MISTAKES ON RESPONSE TO THE ATROCITY?  Juan Cole hopes so, as he recalls how the U.S. demonized Muslims as a people and failed to recognize the "assymetical" character of modern terrorism with their foolishness about "state-sponsored" terrorism that led to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.  The rise of "communal violence" against Muslims and Indians and the persistent demands by India on the government of Pakistan to restrain such terrorists are not good indications that India is, in fact, learning from U.S. mistakes in dealing with terrorism.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21370.htm
     
    "THE VICTIMS OF MUMBAI WILL BE MOURNED BY AMERICANS, AS THEY SHOULD BE. THE VICTIMS OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN ARE NOT.  Margaret Kimberley describes a weakness in American thinking about terrorism: our inability to recognize that such acts have their causes and that among those causes are the "grievances" of people who are the victims of warfare, the "ultimate act of terror." http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=913&Itemid=1 
     
    WILL NAFTA DIE ON JULY 20, 2009?  Unlikely as that may seem, it is a firm campaign promise made by both President-elect Obama and Secretary of State-designee Clinton in the heat of their primary election battle earlier this year in Ohio.  In response to persistent questioning by the late Tim Russert, both candidates made firm commitments to exercise the "opt out" provision of NAFTA, allowing the U.S. to abrogate the treaty on 6 month notification to Mexico and Canada.  Though an Obama aide told a Canadian contact that the Senator was not serious about his anti-NAFTA statements that were just "campaign rhetoric," Al Giordano has the tape to prove that both Obama and Clinton made that promise and he is waiting til 7/20/09 to see whether the two officials make good on that promise after they are sworn in on 1/20/09.  http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/welcome-secretary-clinton-obamas-promises-be-kept
     
    HEY JOE PLUMBER: LOOK WHO'S "SPREADING THE WEALTH" NOW.  During the late campaign, John McCain accused Barack Obama of advocating "socialism" by virtue of his plans for income re-distribution with adjustments in tax rates for different income brackets.  The GOP Secretary of the Treasury, says economist Dean Baker, is engaged with taxpayer "bailout" money in a massive program of re-distribution of wealth, but it is re-distribution into the hands of shareholders of "failed" businesses to guarantee income that they would otherwise have lost as a result of those failures.  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/02-6
     
    "I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS. THIS IS UGLY."  Orange County FL School Superintendent John Edward's reaction to the budget crisis in the school system.  Among the many options "on the table" for dealing with the crisis is the idea floated of closing as many as 8 elementary schools, a plan which meets vigorous opposition from community parents' groups, who were also upset with last year's Board decision for an earlier school opening date, a decision that the Board has rescinded for next school year. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/education/orl-schclosings0408dec04,0,3012630.story
     
    These headlines and following additional stories posted on website today.  To read them, click http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ scroll below headlines and click on any article you want to read.
     
    ooo  Does Iraq torture its detainees?
    ooo  Bye, bye, Omaha Royals.  Hi, Omaha ___s.
    ooo  Are blue tarps in south Texas future?
    ooo  Waycross FL: Is this a yard sale; or an every weekend flea market?
    ooo  Now OK to feed the homeless at W Palm Beach public places.
    ooo  And more.
     
    Why is Susan Rice (Obama's nominee for UN ambassador) "bad news for Africa?"  Check out Glen Ford's article at http://sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/?p=107

     
     
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    "If 2008 was, in the NRA's own words, "arguably the most important year in its history," then the election results suggest that the gun group is arguably the most overhyped and impotent special-interest lobby in the country. The NRA even got its chamber cleaned in its home state of Virginia."  Freelance journalist Alexander Zaitchik, noting the defeat of gun rights advocates at every level from the presidency to candidates for local offices, in a kind of "wicked witch is dead" dance over the supposed demise of political influence of the National Rifle Association.  http://www.alternet.org/rights/109841/?page=1