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What Does It Mean ? What does this all mean for the Ground Crew ? |
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I will NEVER take their chip OR be their slave, I just sticking around to see what happens next
![]() I AM NOT going out, like grampa, in his sleep! I AM going out KICKING AND SCREAMING,like the other passengers in his car ![]() ![]() Last edited by lehomonuka; 10-02-2008 at 10:01 PM. |
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This may be totally besides the point, but why do they have coat hooks in a prison cell?
Several years ago they removed all the hooks on the stall doors in public bathrooms, but I suppose in prison you are encouraged to hang yourself? I don't get it. Might be a small detail to get 'hung up' on, but it doesn't make sense. (NONE of this makes sense, however...) |
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uh um nevermind
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I'm from Alaska and I've never seen or heard anything matching the descriptions of these places mentioned. I would think that my senses would have been alerted to these installations. The people in Alaska are pretty in tune with anything thats not on the road system, because that would be about 99 percent of the state and there are more pilots per capita than any other state. That said. There is no way in heck that a 2 million person facility exists under the guise of a mental health hospital. That it unbelievable, sorry to say. If someone could prove these statements besides just listing locations would be nice.
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then, add this to stew:
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/0...eland_090708w/ Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1 3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer Posted : Monday Sep 8, 2008 6:15:06 EDT The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys. Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — at home. Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks. It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed hell in Mississippi and Louisiana, several active-duty units were pulled from various posts and mobilized to those areas. But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities. After 1st BCT finishes its dwell-time mission, expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one. “Right now, the response force requirement will be an enduring mission. How the [Defense Department] chooses to source that and whether or not they continue to assign them to NorthCom, that could change in the future,” said Army Col. Louis Vogler, chief of NorthCom future operations. “Now, the plan is to assign a force every year.” The command is at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., but the soldiers with 1st BCT, who returned in April after 15 months in Iraq, will operate out of their home post at Fort Stewart, Ga., where they’ll be able to go to school, spend time with their families and train for their new homeland mission as well as the counterinsurgency mission in the war zones. Stop-loss will not be in effect, so soldiers will be able to leave the Army or move to new assignments during the mission, and the operational tempo will be variable. Don’t look for any extra time off, though. The at-home mission does not take the place of scheduled combat-zone deployments and will take place during the so-called dwell time a unit gets to reset and regenerate after a deployment. The 1st of the 3rd is still scheduled to deploy to either Iraq or Afghanistan in early 2010, which means the soldiers will have been home a minimum of 20 months by the time they ship out. In the meantime, they’ll learn new skills, use some of the ones they acquired in the war zone and more than likely will not be shot at while doing any of it. They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack. Training for homeland scenarios has already begun at Fort Stewart and includes specialty tasks such as knowing how to use the “jaws of life” to extract a person from a mangled vehicle; extra medical training for a CBRNE incident; and working with U.S. Forestry Service experts on how to go in with chainsaws and cut and clear trees to clear a road or area. The 1st BCT’s soldiers also will learn how to use “the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded,” 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them. “It’s a new modular package of nonlethal capabilities that they’re fielding. They’ve been using pieces of it in Iraq, but this is the first time that these modules were consolidated and this package fielded, and because of this mission we’re undertaking we were the first to get it.” The package includes equipment to stand up a hasty road block; spike strips for slowing, stopping or controlling traffic; shields and batons; and, beanbag bullets. “I was the first guy in the brigade to get Tasered,” said Cloutier, describing the experience as “your worst muscle cramp ever — times 10 throughout your whole body. “I’m not a small guy, I weigh 230 pounds ... it put me on my knees in seconds.” The brigade will not change its name, but the force will be known for the next year as a CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force, or CCMRF (pronounced “sea-smurf”). “I can’t think of a more noble mission than this,” said Cloutier, who took command in July. “We’ve been all over the world during this time of conflict, but now our mission is to take care of citizens at home ... and depending on where an event occurred, you’re going home to take care of your home town, your loved ones.” While soldiers’ combat training is applicable, he said, some nuances don’t apply. “If we go in, we’re going in to help American citizens on American soil, to save lives, provide critical life support, help clear debris, restore normalcy and support whatever local agencies need us to do, so it’s kind of a different role,” said Cloutier, who, as the division operations officer on the last rotation, learned of the homeland mission a few months ago while they were still in Iraq. Some brigade elements will be on call around the clock, during which time they’ll do their regular marksmanship, gunnery and other deployment training. That’s because the unit will continue to train and reset for the next deployment, even as it serves in its CCMRF mission. Should personnel be needed at an earthquake in California, for example, all or part of the brigade could be scrambled there, depending on the extent of the need and the specialties involved. Other branches included The active Army’s new dwell-time mission is part of a NorthCom and DOD response package. Active-duty soldiers will be part of a force that includes elements from other military branches and dedicated National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Teams. A final mission rehearsal exercise is scheduled for mid-September at Fort Stewart and will be run by Joint Task Force Civil Support, a unit based out of Fort Monroe, Va., that will coordinate and evaluate the interservice event. In addition to 1st BCT, other Army units will take part in the two-week training exercise, including elements of the 1st Medical Brigade out of Fort Hood, Texas, and the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade from Fort Bragg, N.C. There also will be Air Force engineer and medical units, the Marine Corps Chemical, Biological Initial Reaction Force, a Navy weather team and members of the Defense Logistics Agency and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. One of the things Vogler said they’ll be looking at is communications capabilities between the services. “It is a concern, and we’re trying to check that and one of the ways we do that is by having these sorts of exercises. Leading up to this, we are going to rehearse and set up some of the communications systems to make sure we have interoperability,” he said. “I don’t know what America’s overall plan is — I just know that 24 hours a day, seven days a week, there are soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines that are standing by to come and help if they’re called,” Cloutier said. “It makes me feel good as an American to know that my country has dedicated a force to come in and help the people at home" |
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Street Medics Illegally Detained and Harassed by FEMA in Hurricane Relief Campaign
"...[The agent] spoke for well over 30 minutes about how no one needed our help and our training was worthless. He stepped outside and locked us in the room with the paramedic supervisor. She informed us that FEMA credentials would be required to enter any area hit hard by the Hurricane and that no one needed help–quite contrary to reports coming from undocumented workers fleeing FEMA and the rest of the federal government. ...Moments later a State Trooper and Galveston Police vehicle arrived. Three officers were on scene. The trooper approached, demanded to see IDs and credentials and informed us we were being detained and potentially arrested because we did not work for FEMA. While he ran our IDs another officer began to document our vehicle. The officers were abrasive, rude and...": Read the full article and other linked to this story at this link: http://colorado.indymedia.org/node/1202 Regards and Blessings, Soul Sequence |
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I've been all over Mather AFB in California. There is nothing like a concentration camp there, no bob wire, nothing. It is no longer an AFB but now is a business park.
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If that's temp. housing i prefer to live outside.
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I am with you there. I did note that Idaho is kind of lacking. I also noted there are NONE in Montana which is one state that stood up too the Fed's over the chipping of the D.L..... However I have my own idea. I think that due to the "dollar crash" that one thing that "could happen" is the big boys show that they will seal the boarders. Even with all these "prizon cells" they are going to be VERY hard pressed to get all of the people who are not suppose to be in the U.S. rounded up and in a cell. As in there are not yet enough cells for those folks who are here now working in the open.
So liking it out side is something I like as well... One other note... I saw a poem that was so good I think this is a very good place to post it. Thanks to the word arrangement of Carrie Hart. Everywhere you turn, the voices cry out with fear. Fear of the economy collapsing. Fear of other people, both those who live beside you, and those who live in other countries. Fear and more fear. It is a very big business indeed, the job of keeping everyone held within a state of fear. But this fear is not truth. This fear is not reality. This fear is not who you are and what is true and real in your essence, your being. It is a construct of mind and emotion. It is a veil of illusion drawn across the truth of your being. And so, let us pierce that veil. Let us draw back the curtains of fear and see the truth as it shines underneath. Let us see the reality of who you are, underneath all of the fictions built by fear. When you are afraid or worried, full of stress and anxiety or even just dissatisfied, with that low level of anxiety running through you, just dip down into this moment, the one right now. And then feel yourself deeply; feel your body with a deep presence. For just a moment, watch your breath as it comes in and invigorates your body, filling it with life, then rises up to your mind and cleanses it, cleanses it with every breath. Watch your breath as it removes the fear and doubt and releases it out into the cosmos. Feel your body tingling with life. Feel your mind clearing. Right now, right here, in this moment, all is well. All is well and you can feel a deep calm within you, and even under that, a joy, a deep joy in being who you are and in living this life, just as it is. You, just as you are, here and now, are exactly right. This is how it is meant to be right now, and the action that you take in this moment, from this place of peace and joy deeply centered within, will always be the best possible action, for yourself and for the unfolding of purpose for you and the others involved in your life, and even those you may never meet. It is all a part of the flow that lies above and below, around and through, all that lives, in the great oneness and connection that is. And when you tap into this, something you can easily do by simply taking a breath, you will find yourself in the seat of power, power vast and wise, power centered in what is and is meant to be for all, for the whole, for the one that is you and that is me and that is all. Come here, come down here to this place of just being, just breathing, feeling your body tingling with life, feeling your mind clam and serene. Come here as often as you can, no matter what your circumstances are. Come here for each decision. Learn to stay here and to interact with the world at the same time, feeling your body tingle with life and your center calm even as you sit and talk to another person, even as you give your sales pitch for the new contract, as you apply for a job, as you fill out the loan application, as you welcome a customer into your business or a guest into your home. Go to this place that is above and beyond fear. It is here for you, right now. The more you come here, the easier it is to reach this place quickly and easily, the easier it is to stay here while you converse with another. And while you are here, listen and observe. Be deeply one with others. Become aware of what is being said to you. Become aware of what others are seeking. Become deeply one with both yourself and the others around you, in a state of connection. This is the seat of true power. This is the place where you will know exactly the right thing to say in any moment, to meet your own needs and as well as those around you. Here, there is no doubt. Here, there is no fear. Here, you understand and feel deeply the oneness that you are, the flow of purpose that is, the strands of love that weave through every relationship, in every moment. Here is the beauty and the power and only two words to be said: I am. Carrie Hart |
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so, where are these pictures. seeing is believing (maybe)
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