- And, of course, arming enemies through intent, surreptitious
actions, or outright stupidity, ineptitude or malfeasance that would
come under the category of government waste and stupidity and treason.
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- We have all heard the stories about Rumsfeld & Company
selling biological and chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein and they then
wanted him hung for using them at our insistence. No sense belaboring
that point or speaking of the recently dead.
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- I am sort of like many of the Iraqis. I want all of
Saddam's collaborators, including those that are US citizens, tried and
hung too or locked away for the rest of their days.
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- Note that they hung all three of the people in Baghdad
due to the Shiite uprising that happened after George H W Bush urged it
after Desert Storm and then turned his back on the Shiites. They did
not try to prosecute Saddam for the alleged gassing of the Kurds since
even our own DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency] testified before Congress
that the Kurds were killed in an artillery and mortar exchange between
Iraq and Iran and they died due to cyanide gas weapons used by Iran and
not used by Iraq. That is one of those untidy little details our government
does not want you to know or remember since it does not fit their Official
Lies.
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- A recent news item peaked my interest because it is yet
another example of stupid policies in the past causing all sort of lucrative
opportunities now for the DC insiders. They propose billions of dollars
worth of opportunities for them while no solution is offered for the American
unemployment problems.
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- I do not dream up this crap folks, they do in Washington,
DC. They are literally like cats in a litter box trying to cover up the
cat crap.
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- Read and then I pick up below this article.
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- Jet With Anti-Missile System Leaves LAX
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- Jan 16, 11:06 PM (ET)
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- By JOHN ANTCZAK
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- LOS ANGELES (AP) - An MD-10 cargo jet equipped with Northrop
Grumman's Guardian anti-missile system took off fromLos Angeles International
Airport on a commercial flight Tuesday, the company said.
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- The FedEx flight marked the start of operational testing
and evaluation of the laser system designed to defend against shoulder-
fired anti-aircraft missiles during takeoffs and landings.
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- Adapted from military technology, Guardian is designed
to detect a missile launch and then direct a laser to the seeker system
on the head of the missile and disrupt its guidance signals. The laser
is not visible and is eye-safe, the company said.
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- "For the first time, we will be able to collect
valuable logistics data while operating Guardian on aircraft in routine
commercial service," said Robert L. DelBoca, vice president and general
manager of Northrop Grumman's Defensive Systems Division.
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- During the current test phase, which concludes in March
2008, nine MD-10s equipped with the Guardian system will be in commercial
service. Katie Lamb-Heinz of Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems said
all those aircraft will be freighters. The ultimate goal is to defend
passenger airliners.
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- The testing is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security's Counter-Man Portable Air Defense Systems program. BAE Systems
has also been working for the government on a similar airliner defense
system and has successfully tested it.
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- John Pike, a defense analyst at GlobalSecurity.org, an
Alexandria, Va., think tank, suggested that development of the system
was the lesser of issues for the airline industry.
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- "I think the problem is making the numbers work
in the sense of figuring out who's going to pay for it," he said.
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- More than capital costs, airlines are likely to be most
concerned about the costs of maintenance and aircraft downtime, he said.
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- "They've gotten these airliners now (so) that they
are just remarkably maintenance-free. They've also gotten these airlines
to the point that they've got razor thin margins," he said.
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- Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., viewed the plane Monday
and said she was encouraged.
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- "This program is very promising because it's already
met the operational testing. Now it's a question of how does it actually
work in terms of stresses on the system while the airplane is in operation
for several hours," said Boxer, a longtime proponent of equipping
planes with anti-missile technology.
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- Boxer said her first priority is to equip the Civil Reserve
Air Fleet, more than 1,000 commercial airplanes operated by airlines
that contract with the Pentagon to make military flights during emergencies.
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- No passenger plane has ever been downed by a shoulder-fired
missile outside of a combat zone. But terrorists linked with al-Qaida
are believed to have fired two SA-7 missiles that narrowly missed an
Israeli passenger jet after it took off from Mombasa,Kenya, in November
2002.
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- The first commercial flight with the Guardian system
followed 16 months of tests on an MD-11, an MD-10 and a Boeing 747 using
simulated launches of shoulder-fired missiles.
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- The Guardian system appears as a pod with eye-like features
attached to the belly of the FedEx MD-10, a freight version of what was
originally the three-engine widebody DC-10 airliner.
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- DHS gave Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems $45 million
each in 2004 to adapt military defense systems to civilian airliners,
requiring improvements because military systems need too much maintenance
and mistakenly fire too often.
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- A government report obtained by The Associated Press
last summer said that both the Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems prototypes
still don't meet the reliability standards set by the DHS, and it could
be 20 years before every U.S. passenger airplane has such a system.
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- Billions of dollars would have to be spent to protect
all 6,800 commercial U.S. airliners.
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- The report said testing showed that the systems can be
installed on commercial aircraft without impairing safety; at least one
company can supply 1,000 systems at a cost of $1 million each; and operation
and maintenance will cost $365 per flight, above the $300- per-flight goal.
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- Northrop Grumman said Tuesday that during the 16-month
flight test program a ground-based "electronic missile surrogate"
was used to simulate launches and each time Guardian functioned as designed,
automatically detecting the simulated launch and mock missile.
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- "Had the threats been real, an invisible laser beam
safe to humans would have disrupted the missile guidance system and protected
the aircraft," the company statement said.
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- Associated Press Writer Erica Werner in Washington, D.C.,
contributed to this report.
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- I can tell you that they have been designing and lobbying
for this "owner option" on jet airplanes since 9-11. It is
a mega- contract folks and you need to wake up as to how they set this
type of stuff up to line their pockets. Even with this "wonderful
solution" there are many ways around it that some tech savvy 12
year old could figure out.
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- We would not have to worry about shoulder-fired missiles
if our idiot government had not provided so many of them to theAfghanistan
freedom fighters in the Afghan Russian War from 1980 1988.
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- Also, we would not have to worry about shoulder-fired
missiles if our idiot government was not currently selling them as "US
Military Surplus" and just about anyone can pick up war making weapons
to use against us. You or I could just go down and fill up a truck with
shoulder-mounted missiles to shoot airplanes out of the sky like ducks.
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- Occasionally it pays to ask just what type of morons
do we have in charge in Washington, DC?
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- You have to read this article to truly appreciate the
rampant incompetence of our government and especially those folks over
at the Pentagon where they prove daily that military intelligence is
truly an oxymoron and the Central Intelligence Agency is a contradiction
in terms. Do not even get me started on the Department of Homeland Security
and what a total farce that is and that the sale of these shoulder-fired
missiles just keeps right on going unabated.
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- http://dwb.fresnobee.com/24hour/front/story/3473975p-12705356c.html
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- "The GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, found
it alarmingly easy to acquire sensitive surplus. Last year, its agents
bought $1.1 million worth - including rocket launchers, body armor and
surveillance antennas - by driving onto a base and posing as defense
contractors.
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- "They helped us load our van," Kutz said. Investigators
used a fake identity to access a surplus Web site operated by a Pentagon
contractor and bought still more, including a dozen microcircuits used
on F-14 fighters.
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- The undercover buyers received phone calls from the Defense
Department asking why they had no Social Security number or credit history,
but they deflected the questions by presenting a phony utility bill and
claiming to be an identity theft victim.
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- The Pentagon's public surplus sales took in $57 million
in fiscal 2005. The agency also moves extra supplies around within the
government and gives surplus military gear such as weapons, armored personnel
carriers and aircraft to state and local law enforcement.
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- Investigators have found the Pentagon's inventory and
sales controls rife with errors. They say sales are closely watched by
friends and foes of the United States."
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- I had discussions with Federal Express security people
about two years ago and learned that their 9-11 induced insurance costs
due to "threat of terrorism" had risen by over 300% following
the attacks on the WTC and Pentagon. We showed them a way to cut those
costs considerably. Whether they do it or not is up to them. We are
certainly going to show the solution to their competitors.
- Corporate America is dead from the neck up and so are
the folks in Washington, DC.
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- Mark my words, as soon as news about this gets around
a jet will be hit with a shoulder-fired missile and then all jets will
have to have the new technology to defend the Sheeple from a boogeyman
paid by the US government or the UK or Israel. Another massive expenditure
that is not needed other than someone wants that money in their pockets.
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- Mr. Barry Chamish in Israel has found out about and photographed
a new US base we are building in Israel of all places. http:// rense.com/general66/excl.htm
Reportedly $125 million built by the Corps of Engineers.
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- I for one would like to know who got that cushy new contract
and what the purpose of that base is, since it has something to do withMiddle
East policy that affects all of us.
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- A group of our soldiers, including Iraq War veterans
of this current Bush fiasco, are mounting as resistance to the latest
Bush Surge. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl- acongiraq17jan17,0,4272858.story
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- Our soldiers know firsthand they have been sent to be
maimed or die for Bush lies and nothing is lower than that in a commander-in-chief.
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- As the story related, US Senate Majority Leader Reid
indicates that they might actually grow a spine over in the DNC ranks
and block this surge.
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- This is about America, it is not about a fake history
to record the disservice of George W. Bush as president.
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- CNN International is airing an interesting piece. The
US military is paying "condolence payments" to Iraqis for those
civilian casualties that should not have happened. Were just gunned down
by our troops or bombed into an early death. They report that the average
condolence payment is $2,500 US dollars, so I guess we can draw from that
figure that Bush considers an Iraqi life worth $2,500.
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- When the police and military in the US view you as worth
only $2,500 maybe you will wake up.
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- That retired USAF colonel sent me a link and I thoroughly
enjoyed reading it. Allow me to introduce to you Joe Bageant, America's
most eloquent red neck and I happen to agree with every word he said.
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- http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2006/11/pissing_in_the__1.html
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- Barrack Obama for President? What a joke!
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- Hillary Clinton for President? A bigger joke than Barrack
Obama and her sleazy husband.
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- Condoleezza Rice for president? Why? So we can get
waves at the camera and no solutions in sight?
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- Rudy Giuliani? Give me a break, he was part of 9-11.
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- McCain? What is the point? So he can sell us out for
4 years at the highest office in the land?
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- Can 300,000,000 people not find a single human being
to run for President of the United States of America?
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- Maybe there is hope in America, Home of the Sheeple and
Land of the Mushrooms.
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- I say Joe Bageant for President.
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- Did you know our government is involved in blackmail?
Read below, appended to this email at the request of one of the members.
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- Best regards,
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- Karl
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- http://www.arizonafreepress.com/
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- http://www.govcov.com/guestarticles_karlschwarz.html
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