[cia-drugs] Air Force Signs on to Darpa's All-Seeing Blimp
Air Force Signs on to Darpa's All-Seeing Blimp By Nathan Hodge March 12, 2009 For years, the idea of super-sized blimp that could see a whole city at once seemed like something only Darpa, the military's far-out research arm, could love. Now, unexpectedly, the Air Force has signed on to the concept, as well. Built around a giant, flexible antenna, the all-seeing airship -- dubbed ISIS, short for Integrated Sensor Is Structure -- would provide a God's-eye view of the battlefield in real time. In theory, it could spot a cruise missile hundreds of miles away, or track a group of insurgents on the ground. Darpa spokeswoman Jan Walker confirmed to Danger Room that the Air Force recently signed a memorandum of agreement with the agency on ISIS. It's a fairly big deal: Most ideas that originate within Darpa do not have a long life unless a service picks up on it. It's significant for another reason: Tony Tether, who recently stepped down as chief of Darpa after almost eight years on the job, was a big fan of ISIS. This ensures that development of the concept will continue in some form after Tether's departure. Noah has tracked ISIS since its inception; click here to read his dispatch from the 2004 DarpaTech conference describing the initial feasibility study for the super-blimp. [IMAGE: Raytheon via MSNBC] http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/03/air-force-signs.html http://www.noonehastodietomorrow.com:80//index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=922Itemid=33 Pentagon’s airship plans are up in the air Near-space initiatives encounter some congressional resistance Raytheon The Integrated Sensor Is Structure initiative calls for developing prototype airships like the one shown in this artist's conception. The craft could hover at an altitude near the edge of space and track ground and aerial targets for up to a year at a time. By Jeremy Singer Space News staff writer Several companies have begun design work on a prototype airship that could hover at an altitude near space where it would be able to track ground and aerial targets for up to a year at a time. Whether the program, known as Integrated Sensor Is Structure, or ISIS, moves beyond the design stage anytime soon, however, will depend on the final version of the 2007 defense budget. The U.S. House of Representatives funded the full $16.3 million request for the effort in its version of the 2007 Defense Appropriations Act, which passed the House in June. The Senate Appropriations Committee, however, has recommended denying the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s entire $16.3 million budget request for the program in 2007. The bill is currently awaiting a vote on the Senate floor. The House and Senate will address the issue when they meet to resolve differences between their bills later this year. Jenny Manley, a spokeswoman for the Senate Appropriations Committee, did not respond to a request for comment on the committee’s proposed cut to the ISIS program. Jan Walker, a spokeswoman for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, said that program officials declined to comment on the ISIS effort at this time. Contracts awarded The Air Force Research Laboratory of Rome, N.Y., has awarded several contracts to industry to begin work on various aspects of the ISIS program. The lab awarded a two-year, $10.3 million contract to Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors of Akron, Ohio, in June to begin work on the airship platform. The lab awarded two contracts earlier this year to Northrop Grumman Corp. for the ISIS effort. Northrop Grumman Space Technology of Redondo Beach, Calif., will develop a transmit-and-receive module for the radar sensor that is expected to be lightweight and extremely power-efficient under a $6.8 million contract awarded in April. Northrop Grumman’s Electronic Systems sector, which is based in Linthicum, Md., is developing an antenna that can handle radar as well as transmit data simultaneously under an $8 million contract. Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems of El Segundo, Calif., also is working on a design for the antenna under an $8 million contract. If the program does go forward, the airship will feature a radar sensor of “unprecedented proportions,” according to a Pentagon document. Tracking sensor DARPA’s 2007 budget justification materials, which are posted on the agency’s Web site, describe ISIS as a sensor capable of conducting surveillance and tracking hundreds of time-critical targets in both urban and rural environments. The sensor is being designed to track airborne targets at a range of 375 miles (600 kilometers), and ground targets at a range of 188 miles (300 kilometers) while distributing that information to U.S. forces through hundreds of covert wideband communications links, according to the budget justification materials. The agency wants the sensor to detect and track targets including aircraft, cruise missiles, tanks and
[cia-drugs] Are Antidepressants, Bone Drugs, and Statins Causing Heart Failure?
ARE ANTIDEPRESSANTS, BONE DRUGS, AND STATINS CAUSING HEART FAILURE? By Byron J. Richards, CCN March 12, 2009 Researchers have documented an alarming link between the use of antidepressants and the development of serious heart disease. The link was discovered by following 63,449 women as part of the Nurses’ Health Study. The results show a “specific relationship between antidepressant use and sudden cardiac death.” The specific conclusion of the study states, “In this cohort of women without baseline coronary heart disease, depressive symptoms were associated with fatal coronary heart disease, and a measure of clinical depression including antidepressant use was specifically associated with sudden cardiac death.” This antidepressant news followed another recent and rather stunning finding, that antidepressants cause significant bone loss. The commonly used SSRI antidepressants double the risk for fractures in anyone over the age of 50 who uses them regularly. The mechanism involved is that too much serotonin from the drugs directly interferes with the formation of new bone. On top of this disturbing news, it has become quite clear that the majority of negative studies about popular antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Effexor were never published, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, as reported in the New York Times. 37 studies the FDA considered positive were published, whereas only 3 negative studies were published. 33 studies the FDA considered negative or questionable were either not published (22) or published with spin to look positive when they were not (11). This made antidepressant studies appear 96% positive in the literature, when in fact the studies were only 51% positive. In the Western medical model of treating symptoms as they arise, without identifying the cause, women on antidepressants losing bone mass will simply be put on the bisphosphonate drugs. This is another drug con job, as these drugs actually disturb the health of bone and at best keep old bone in place while blunting the formation of new and healthy bone. Two dimensional pictures can appear to show more bone density with their use, which is nothing but smoke and mirrors, as the bone is actually swollen and malformed (like a swollen ankle). The FDA has warned that these drugs can cause serious bone pain. Bone drugs are actually linked to rotting jaw bone, increased risk of fracture with long-term use, and a poor bone-healing response if you happen to fracture a bone while taking them. To make matters even worse, going on bone drugs also increases a person’s risk for atrial fibrillation, which can also cause sudden cardiac death. A report in the Archives of Internal Medicine offers conclusive proof that users of Fosamax are at an 86% increased risk for developing heart-related damage in the form of atrial fibrillation. The FDA, looking at the same data, has stonewalled the issue, allowing Big Pharma to go on injuring without proper notification of risks for the public. Adding to the list of suspect cardiovascular drugs are the widely prescribed statins. These drugs are now proven to disturb how your cells make energy, meaning they are directly making aging worse. Also, energy is required to make your brain function normally and have a good and positive mood. It is amazing that a society is so brainwashed by their pill-pushing physicians that 20 billion dollars worth of fatigue-producing and nerve-deteriorating drugs will be gullibly swallowed this year. The side effects of statins are so bad, especially in older people, that a new study demonstrates their risks in people 70 or over far outweigh their benefits even if the person has heart disease. This is a real double-edged sword. Statins cause depression by directly interfering with normal nerve transmission, a problem that gets worse with extended use and higher doses, the primary way these drugs are used. On top of that, the anti-energy effects of statins can weaken the heart muscle, setting the stage for cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure. Partly, this is because statins directly interfere with the production of Q10, an important nutrient your heart must have to work properly so as to make energy. Partly, it is because statins are directly toxic to muscle and injure muscle in more than 15% of users, and your heart is a muscle. Thus, men and especially women can find themselves on a potentially devastating cocktail of drugs, any of which by themselves increase the risk for heart failure and taken together are really likely to boost risk. The drugs are so bad for health that they create the symptoms that imply the need for more drugs! It is a vicious cycle that is hard to break. In fact, when combinations of cardiovascular and diabetes drugs are used to aggressively treat type II diabetic patients the results are abysmal, resulting in an increase in deaths.
[cia-drugs] Austria smashes child porn ring
Austria smashes child porn ring 3/13/09 Austrian police say they have broken an internet child porn ring that spanned 170 countries and involved nearly 1,000 people, including teachers and doctors. Police say they have charged nearly 190 men in Austria and confiscated 14,000 computers, drives and disks. The images showed naked children aged nine to 12 from the US and Paraguay. It is one of the biggest crackdowns on indecent images of children in Austria, and was assisted by police in Croatia, where the site was registered. Police identified a total of 935 suspects as part of an international investigation, code-named Operation Sledgehammer. So far, 189 Austrians have been charged with downloading and dealing in child pornography and another 97 are under investigation, the police said. _http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7941935.stm_ (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7941935.stm)
[cia-drugs] Re: America's Africa Ambitions
Most African nations explicitly refused to host Africom bases for Africa Command, because they believed that they were more threatened by CIA bribery and assassination of political leadership rather than protected from external enemies. Why voluntarily submit for occupation by war criminals who bribe and assassinate leaders and political organizations? Calling Africom a single base in Djibouti saves face for latin-american death-squadder kidnapper torturers, assassins of previous African leaders who were determined by the people, backers of Israeli apartheid, and exporters of FEMA Katrina and DC public schools. Yankee Go Home and fix New Orleans and DC! -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, norgesen norge...@... wrote: AMERICA'S AFRICA AMBITIONS By Chris Hughes 03-12-2009 AMERICAN military chiefs have secretly set up a defence base called AfriCom to broaden the war against terror in Africa. Oops, I mean help centralise and facilitate the broadening of the US aid programme throughout the African continent. Well I say they have secretly set up a defence base called AfriCom- it's not really a secret. It's just that nobody sort of mentioned it. The multi-million pound complex in the republic of Djibouti and is along the lines of CentCom, which in 2003 headed up the US-led invasion of Iraq from the desert Gulf State of Qatar. Whilst we're on the subject, I wonder when a base ceases to be a defence base and becomes an attack base? At best American wants to centralise its aid programmes in Djibouti so it can more efficiently dish out basic aid to satellite countries like --- er Somalia? But I've been speaking to various sources in the intelligence world, one of whom told me: The world should be under no illusions about what American is doing here. Under the guise of spreading aid to the continent of Africa, the US Department of Defense is militarising the aid programme. On the one hand they will pump billions into redevelopment programmes but they are also spreading their military power. Al-Qaeda networks across North Africa are a huge target and the CIA is hugely involved in taking on the group. It will take some time before we see any aggressive action because of a shortage of special forces troops. But it will happen and it will be controlled by AfriCom. The Djibouti expansion was approved last year as America enjoyed the results of the US surge in Iraq, quelling the insurgency. But a huge expansion in US troop numbers in Afghanistan in the next few months has blighted the AfriCom project. US defence chiefs are currently installing more than 2,000 American soldiers there, including marines and American army staff. AmerIcan Special forces operatives from Delta Force and the Navy Seals - trained along the lines of British SAS and SBS are particularly overstretched. They are needed in AfriCom because they are experts in counter-insurgency and keeping the locals under control. AfriCom was first designed as a military establishment in October last year months before President Obama was inaugurated. It has secretly taken up responsibility for an area currently soaked up by three main global regions overlooked by US military power. They are European Command - EuCom - Central Command - CentCom and Pacific Command, known as PacCom. Military sources tell me that . . . it is primarily a military base. All of the other areas of responsibility - AOR - are bristling with ground to air weaponry, US soldiers and military jets. So there is no doubt that America is spreading its military might into Africa. The expansion also comes at a time when China is developing economic expansion across Africa exploiting its mineral deposits. Must be a coincidence. http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/observation-post/2009/03/americas-africa-ambitions.html http://www.noonehastodietomorrow.com//index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=924Itemid=114
[cia-drugs] Re: Air Force Signs on to Darpa's All-Seeing Blimp
Al Haig's internet blimp Sky Station International DARPANET CTUICU http://www.google.com/search?q=al+haig+internet+blimp http://www.google.com/search?q=al+haig+sky+station+international --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, norgesen norge...@... wrote: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/message/46761 Air Force Signs on to Darpa's All-Seeing Blimp By Nathan Hodge March 12, 2009 For years, the idea of super-sized blimp that could see a whole city at once seemed like something only Darpa, the military's far-out research arm, could love. Now, unexpectedly, the Air Force has signed on to the concept, as well. Built around a giant, flexible antenna, the all-seeing airship -- dubbed ISIS, short for Integrated Sensor Is Structure -- would provide a God's-eye view of the battlefield in real time. In theory, it could spot a cruise missile hundreds of miles away, or track a group of insurgents on the ground. Darpa spokeswoman Jan Walker confirmed to Danger Room that the Air Force recently signed a memorandum of agreement with the agency on ISIS. It's a fairly big deal: Most ideas that originate within Darpa do not have a long life unless a service picks up on it. It's significant for another reason: Tony Tether, who recently stepped down as chief of Darpa after almost eight years on the job, was a big fan of ISIS. This ensures that development of the concept will continue in some form after Tether's departure. Noah has tracked ISIS since its inception; click here to read his dispatch from the 2004 DarpaTech conference describing the initial feasibility study for the super-blimp. [IMAGE: Raytheon via MSNBC] http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/03/air-force-signs.html http://www.noonehastodietomorrow.com:80//index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=922Itemid=33 Pentagon's airship plans are up in the air Near-space initiatives encounter some congressional resistance Raytheon The Integrated Sensor Is Structure initiative calls for developing prototype airships like the one shown in this artist's conception. The craft could hover at an altitude near the edge of space and track ground and aerial targets for up to a year at a time. By Jeremy Singer Space News staff writer Several companies have begun design work on a prototype airship that could hover at an altitude near space where it would be able to track ground and aerial targets for up to a year at a time. Whether the program, known as Integrated Sensor Is Structure, or ISIS, moves beyond the design stage anytime soon, however, will depend on the final version of the 2007 defense budget. The U.S. House of Representatives funded the full $16.3 million request for the effort in its version of the 2007 Defense Appropriations Act, which passed the House in June. The Senate Appropriations Committee, however, has recommended denying the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's entire $16.3 million budget request for the program in 2007. The bill is currently awaiting a vote on the Senate floor. The House and Senate will address the issue when they meet to resolve differences between their bills later this year. Jenny Manley, a spokeswoman for the Senate Appropriations Committee, did not respond to a request for comment on the committee's proposed cut to the ISIS program. Jan Walker, a spokeswoman for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, said that program officials declined to comment on the ISIS effort at this time. Contracts awarded The Air Force Research Laboratory of Rome, N.Y., has awarded several contracts to industry to begin work on various aspects of the ISIS program. The lab awarded a two-year, $10.3 million contract to Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors of Akron, Ohio, in June to begin work on the airship platform. The lab awarded two contracts earlier this year to Northrop Grumman Corp. for the ISIS effort. Northrop Grumman Space Technology of Redondo Beach, Calif., will develop a transmit-and-receive module for the radar sensor that is expected to be lightweight and extremely power-efficient under a $6.8 million contract awarded in April. Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems sector, which is based in Linthicum, Md., is developing an antenna that can handle radar as well as transmit data simultaneously under an $8 million contract. Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems of El Segundo, Calif., also is working on a design for the antenna under an $8 million contract. If the program does go forward, the airship will feature a radar sensor of unprecedented proportions, according to a Pentagon document. Tracking sensor DARPA's 2007 budget justification materials, which are posted on the agency's Web site, describe ISIS as a sensor capable of conducting surveillance and tracking hundreds of time-critical targets in both urban and rural environments. The sensor is
[cia-drugs] Re: Are Antidepressants, Bone Drugs, and Statins Causing Heart Failure?
Thanks. As far as bone loss, the simplest thing to do about bone loss is to do some type of weight lifting, which stresses bone ends to send a message to strengthen bone. Next comes dietary calcium, and I would throw in an interesting point that raw milk contains enzymes for assimilating calcium and handling milk fat, but pasteurization destroys the enzymes. In high school I was trying to find answers fitting the problems I saw, and I matched a pattern I was seeing by a saying that things are the opposite of their labels. I was years away from figuring out why, but follow the money, and find the truth quickly. Our regulatory agencies are only means of creating king's charter monopolies. It's disgusting, and we actually have the nerve to export our mess. -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, norgesen norge...@... wrote: ARE ANTIDEPRESSANTS, BONE DRUGS, AND STATINS CAUSING HEART FAILURE? By Byron J. Richards, CCN March 12, 2009 Researchers have documented an alarming link between the use of antidepressants and the development of serious heart disease. The link was discovered by following 63,449 women as part of the Nurses' Health Study. The results show a specific relationship between antidepressant use and sudden cardiac death. The specific conclusion of the study states, In this cohort of women without baseline coronary heart disease, depressive symptoms were associated with fatal coronary heart disease, and a measure of clinical depression including antidepressant use was specifically associated with sudden cardiac death. This antidepressant news followed another recent and rather stunning finding, that antidepressants cause significant bone loss. The commonly used SSRI antidepressants double the risk for fractures in anyone over the age of 50 who uses them regularly. The mechanism involved is that too much serotonin from the drugs directly interferes with the formation of new bone. On top of this disturbing news, it has become quite clear that the majority of negative studies about popular antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Effexor were never published, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, as reported in the New York Times. 37 studies the FDA considered positive were published, whereas only 3 negative studies were published. 33 studies the FDA considered negative or questionable were either not published (22) or published with spin to look positive when they were not (11). This made antidepressant studies appear 96% positive in the literature, when in fact the studies were only 51% positive. In the Western medical model of treating symptoms as they arise, without identifying the cause, women on antidepressants losing bone mass will simply be put on the bisphosphonate drugs. This is another drug con job, as these drugs actually disturb the health of bone and at best keep old bone in place while blunting the formation of new and healthy bone. Two dimensional pictures can appear to show more bone density with their use, which is nothing but smoke and mirrors, as the bone is actually swollen and malformed (like a swollen ankle). The FDA has warned that these drugs can cause serious bone pain. Bone drugs are actually linked to rotting jaw bone, increased risk of fracture with long-term use, and a poor bone-healing response if you happen to fracture a bone while taking them. To make matters even worse, going on bone drugs also increases a person's risk for atrial fibrillation, which can also cause sudden cardiac death. A report in the Archives of Internal Medicine offers conclusive proof that users of Fosamax are at an 86% increased risk for developing heart-related damage in the form of atrial fibrillation. The FDA, looking at the same data, has stonewalled the issue, allowing Big Pharma to go on injuring without proper notification of risks for the public. Adding to the list of suspect cardiovascular drugs are the widely prescribed statins. These drugs are now proven to disturb how your cells make energy, meaning they are directly making aging worse. Also, energy is required to make your brain function normally and have a good and positive mood. It is amazing that a society is so brainwashed by their pill-pushing physicians that 20 billion dollars worth of fatigue-producing and nerve-deteriorating drugs will be gullibly swallowed this year. The side effects of statins are so bad, especially in older people, that a new study demonstrates their risks in people 70 or over far outweigh their benefits even if the person has heart disease. This is a real double-edged sword. Statins cause depression by directly interfering with normal nerve transmission, a problem that gets worse with extended use and higher doses, the primary way these drugs are used. On top of that, the anti-energy effects of statins can weaken the heart muscle,
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: America's Africa Ambitions
(following letter sent just prior to violence in Kenya. Following letter also AFRICOM rejected by all African nations EXCEPT Liberia. You know Liberia, the nation where a recent president, Taylor, was the only person to ever escape from the Plymouth County, MA jail, drug dealer.) General William E. Ward Vice Admiral Robert T. Moeller Ambassador Mary Carlin Yates AFRICOM Dear Ambassador Yates, General Ward and Admiral Moeller, Permission to speak frankly as you three are in deep doo doo. You learned nothing from Lebanon? The militia was part of a female social organization the power of which surprised both the CIA and Mossad. The greater war for Africa looms. First we had the stupidity of Admiral Timothy J. Keating with his almost nuke terrorist exercise in Charleston, S.C. I posted letter to him on Internet prior (over 14,000 readers first week) and the exercise that would have given too much away called off. See http://www.midcoast.com/~michael1/webnukeletter.htm But you go into deeper shit. Coastal meetings have taken place that starts the process of Africa working together as one country . It will: but not in that fashion. That is the outside. As Mao understood prior to his long march the interior is far more important. You continue to play sides against each other. It did not work in many groups / religions Lebanon and it will not work in Africa. Africa will collect from the inside. It will not be ordered. No, (at least visible), central command. Who will you be fighting then? Terrorists? Are a group of guys who shoot soldiers in the back when there is no declared war terrorists? Of course they are. It happened. They met later in a barn frightened that the government would come after them and hang them for treason. But a rider pulls up and informs them that a revolution is afoot. Ethan Allen names his group the Green Mountain Boys and continues. You did right when you set up a CIA listening post in Gulu (Christian Science Monitor). But you didnt listen. You wish to prosecute Joseph Kony. He was caught between the old Black Jewish sects of Ethiopia, Christians and Muslims. The Lords Revolution Army was: One God, Ten Commandments or we shoot you. Seems nonsensical until you realize that it is a common denominator that you dare not go past. So even if UN captures and hangs him after peace declared, so what? It was not that specific philosophy but the general concept that spread to Lebanon. As it will now spread (from inside out) in Africa. That seed is sown: the ground fertile. Admiral Moeller, You learned nothing from General Van Riper? First you overlook the sinking of the H.M.S Sheffield because only other navies (secretly our friends) could do such. And you held that view even after surprise Soviet naval maneuvers of 1984. Missiles better than that French missile can now be hid in the sand on the seabed. Woods Hole Oceanagraphic Hydrods can only detect metal to 3 meters. You even used platoons of dolphins off the Gunsten Hall. But you had to keep bringing in animal trainers because of dolphin boredom. You sent down divers over every point you saw a trawler stop in the Golf. Think that is enough? Attack on Cole and whatever was in Aqaba was inept compared to what is coming. John Lehman made a big point about loosing surface ships as sometimes necessary citing Midway. How many do you think you could afford to loose in this day and age, sir? You nixed the Land Attack DD 21 in favor of Littorals. All four are out of San Diego because of Malacca. Before you tried to protect that 1200 miles of shoreline with rubber boats and fifty caliber. Think this is better? You can bury effective missiles in the sand with launchers made from nothing but liquid vinyl and sawdust. About anything else you would need can be picked up at Toys-R-Us. Those Littorals are now only targets. General Ward, Sir, there is one thing you will never do here. You will never be able to define the battlefield. A non-military for intel? More shades of Rummy, sir? What is being shown as prime target? If Algeria example, it will be the UN. Of course. See play at link above. Ambassador Yates, Ahmadinejad states recently that he is holding another unspecified card re: nukes. What do you imagine this is? See also play at link above. Hedley Donovan was the best at naval intelligence in WW II. (Song from South Pacific, Happy Talk was tribute.) Once in Hawaii he had only a short time to locate Jap fleet. He puts out simple directive to spies on every island. They had to go down to the local bar and report the talk as either happy or serious, nothing in-between. With just this he located fleet at Leyte Gulf. In the same sense if you want to see what is connecting in Africa watch for those army Toyota pick-ups that have the most females with the soldiers (as Lebanon). But that wont even do. They will
