"Shake, rattle, and roll on out: Hughes forced test site relocation over tremors" by Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times | July 12, 2009
CENTRAL NEVADA TEST AREA - .... Just why the federal government detonated a bomb here is even more puzzling given that the sprawling Nevada Test Site, about 100 miles to the south, was already set up for nuclear testing.
Philip Coyle, the former test director of the Nevada Test Site, has rarely spoken about the issue, but he does know the answer. It involves a peculiar effort by the federal government to placate one of the wealthiest men in the world. In the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in an all-out nuclear arms race to see who could build and then detonate the biggest weapons - almost a nuclear war by proxy. But in this fight, each side bombed itself.
Every time a big hydrogen bomb was detonated on the Nevada Test Site, the tremors would shake the penthouse suite atop the Desert Inn in Las Vegas about 75 miles away and the frayed nerves of its sole resident, multibillionaire Howard Hughes.
"Hughes fronted for CIA covert operations"
See: Howard Hughes : Biography
At the peak of testing, a bomb was going off about every three days.
No wonder the guy was anxious and nervous!
And what did all that do to the environment or the planet?
Before there was a national environmental movement, Hughes became the most unlikely - and no doubt most powerful - opponent of nuclear weapons testing during the Cold War.
At the time, Hughes not only controlled the Las Vegas Strip and part of the nation’s oil drilling industry, but also one of the nation’s largest defense contractors, Los Angeles-based Hughes Aircraft Co. Hughes wrote a rambling letter to President Lyndon B. Johnson, asking him to stop nuclear testing.
It's amazing how sanitized this "news" report is, huh?
And he dispatched aides with envelopes, each containing tens of thousands of dollars in cash, for many of the candidates for the presidency in 1968, according to the authoritative Hughes biography, “Empire.’’
It was long assumed that Hughes’s efforts were ignored. But Coyle said in a recent interview that the Atomic Energy Commission was under so much heat from Hughes, as well as other hotel owners, that the agency ordered the Faultless project to test whether moving big detonations farther away would reduce ground shaking on the Strip. It did not.
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Missing history
WASHINGTON - Missing external hard drive with copies of sensitive records from the Clinton administration....
Because the equipment also may include classified information, Senator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, calls it a major national security breach. Grassley, who has demanded an accounting of all missing items, said the loss of historical documents “robs our nation of its history and is completely unacceptable.’’
The Archives’ stewardship of the nation’s records has been questioned before. In a well-publicized incident, President Bill Clinton’s national security adviser, Sandy Berger, took documents from the Archives in the fall of 2003 while preparing, along with other ex-Clinton administration officials, for testimony to the Sept. 11 commission. In September 2005, Berger was sentenced to two years of probation, 100 hours of community service, a $50,000 fine, and loss of his security clearance for three years.
So WHAT WAS SANDY COVERING UP, 'eh?
Some records have been missing for decades.... In 1962, military representatives checked out the target maps for the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The maps have been missing ever since.
Related:
"John F. Kennedy's brain is still missing from the National Archives"
Somehow the MSM overlooked that.
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Colors
"Ridge felt a push to politicize alert levels; Tensions detailed in his new book" by Globe Staff And Wire Reports | August 21, 2009
WASHINGTON - The first Homeland Security secretary, Tom Ridge, says in a new book that he was pressured by other members of President George W. Bush’s Cabinet to raise the nation’s terror alert level just before the 2004 presidential election....
Is that really news? WE KNEW THAT WHEN it was HAPPENING!
Ridge’s account could fuel the claims of Bush critics, who have long said that his White House used terror threats to distract the public from the unpopular Iraq war and to boost support during an election year.
But Bush’s former homeland security adviser, Frances Townsend, said yesterday that politics never played a role in determining alert levels. She noted that in the weeks leading up to the election two videotapes were released by al Qaeda, including one by terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, that she said contained “very graphic’’ and threatening messages....
Then SHE is a REAL LIAR!!!!
Related: Osama bin Laden a dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government
Yeah, releasing videotapes was he?
PFFFFFFFFFFTTTTT!
--more --""US poised to reevaluate its use of multicolored terror alert system" by Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press | July 14, 2009
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration will announce today that it will review the nation’s multicolored terrorism alert system that was created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a senior administration official said yesterday....
Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut said he would support a review. Lieberman, chairman of the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Congress in 2007 required Homeland Security to improve the system and “provide greater specificity in its threat advisories and warnings,’’ and include countermeasures as part of the program....
Yup, gotta get clearance through gatekeeper Joe!
Currently, the alert level is at orange for the aviation sector, and yellow for the rest of the country....--more--"
"On Afghan war, pick a side" by Joan Vennochi, Globe Columnist | October 29, 2009
In 2002, Senator Edward M. Kennedy proudly voted against authorizing the Iraq invasion.
Yeah, he was a real peacenik.
Senator John Kerry, contemplating a run for president, voted for it - and then equivocated about it afterward. Beyond the political cost to Kerry’s presidential campaign, his overly nuanced position also helped enable a war....
She acts as if the lying MSM had nothing to do with it!
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Oh, right, she works for them.
Final fart poots:
Admitted Nazi hit man on trial for 1944 Dutch killings
We have REAL HOLOCAUSTS being perpetrated RIGHT NOW, USraeli MSM!!!
I DON'T CARE ABOUT 60+ YEARS AGO on this issue!!
Former sex slaves ask Japan for apology
Again.... (sigh). The agenda-pushing BG sure likes to keep WORLD WAR FRESH in your mind, huh?
Also related: 10 Million Dead in Congo
Now THAT is a HOLOCAUST!
The Hungry Holocaust
Same there.
The Forgotten Holocaust
Woah!! 35 MILLION!!!!! That dumps the generally-accepted but false 6 million total for you-know-who right into the slow sympathy lane, doesn't it?
Hemingway’s papers come to JFK Library
Pffft!
If they are going to cover JFK and Cuba they can start with all the nefarious connections surrounding his murder.
Of course, we know why the Zionist AmeriKan MSM will not be looking there.
