Comments on: Democrats versus the Satellites–Democrats Win!!

By: Jkat

Jkat — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:56:06 +0000

second para of quote .. after [snip] the target date for NOA operation…

should read NAO .. no ??

By: acquarius74

acquarius74 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:27:52 +0000

Yep, I live about 35 miles from a huge Army base. It’s the Pentagon Channel on one “arm” of our local PBS station, runs 24/7. Glorification of wars, past and present.

While searching for that military spy rocket story I found this; care to comment?

By: DeadLast

DeadLast — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:24:35 +0000

Finally, someone in the Obama Administration refusing to continue the Bush/Cheney Clusterf**k. I hope Obama himself follows suit. I like the guy, but jeez, I really hope he starts leading soon.

By: behindthefall

behindthefall — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:33:36 +0000

More on TacSat-3. (Editing functions not working — temporarily, I hope.) Here’s the URL:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wa.....csat3.html

An ambitious system. One that would have to calibrated by ”ground truth” tests, it sounds. Are they going to limit those tests to tanks parked under trees on domestic mil. bases? Or could they be expected to try it out on urban environments, suburban sprawl, mountain cabins, etc. as well? Rather difficult to walk over to a Taliban hideout and say, ”Excuse me, but did you bring 20 mules over that dusty path last night?”

By: Jesterfox

Jesterfox — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:43:04 +0000

PBS has a DOD/Pentagon channel? I can understand having some programs about what the DOD/Pentagon are doing, but a whole frigg’n channel?

By: acquarius74

acquarius74 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:25:02 +0000

Rayne, this sounds like the program I saw on the DOD/Pentagon channel of PBS last night. This USA online article dated May 1, 2009 states that the rocket “is to be launched Tuesday” from a VA launchpad. Built by Raytheon, doncha know. Most peculiar article…states it will send back info after orbiting for a year, yet will be useful for our troops in Afghanistan…sounds like they’re planning on a long, long war there.

By: acquarius74

acquarius74 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:20:13 +0000

Very peculiar timing, eh fatster? Is this supposed to distract us from our right to know what’s crucial in our own time now? Maybe if the new Nixon info had been released 34 years ago there could have been and should have been prosecutions then that would have deterred the Nixonian take-over by BushCo.

The elite keepers of all wisdom surely don’t give us useless eaters credit for having much sense, do they?

By: fatster

fatster — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:12:37 +0000

O/T Wonder how much longer we’ll have to wait for the torture report?

June 23, 2009, 9:05 AM

New Nixon Tapes and Files Released
By CHARLIE SAVAGE

“The National Archives is making public about 125 hours of tape and about 30,000 pages of documents from former President Richard M. Nixon’s administration at 9 a.m. on Tuesday.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.....=thecaucus

By: pmorlan

pmorlan — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:09:58 +0000

I bet this program will rear it’s ugly head again in the future once they come up with another ~~excuse~~ reason to use it.

By: acquarius74

acquarius74 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:55:59 +0000

Grim, Rayne, grim. I’ll see if a Google search turns up anything on a DOD eye in the sky recently launched.