What happens to fliers who are leaving on trips from the Spokane Airport?
Here's an example of what is happening in San Diego, and in other areas of the country. The 4th Amendment protects US and all humans against unreasonable search and seizure.
Woman complains of sexual molestation after fronting TSA opt-out protest
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com May 27, 2013
Monday, May 27, 2013
Monday, May 25, 2013 Memorial Day : Chemtrail Planes Are Flying over the Four Lakes Area
Shortly after vintage planes flew over the Four Lakes Area, there were some planes leaving chemical trails. As citizens, we have the right to know what chemical is in these trails, and a way to stop them if they are not beneficial to US.
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Monday, May 25, 2013 Memorial Day : Vintage Planes Are Flying over the Four Lakes Area
Monday, May 25, 2013 Memorial Day
Vintage Planes Are Flying over the Four Lakes Area.
First, there was a formation of four planes, then one plane separated, and the three planes continued flying. Have a fun, happy, and safe day!
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Vintage Planes Are Flying over the Four Lakes Area.
First, there was a formation of four planes, then one plane separated, and the three planes continued flying. Have a fun, happy, and safe day!
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Sunday, May 26, 2013
"Is The Radiation Really from Fukushima?" By The Truther Girls
The Truther Girls ask critical thinking question about the radiation stories from media and government servants, just 8 days after the March 11, 2011 disaster in Japan.
"Is The Radiation Really from Fukushima?" By The Truther Girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0_0e23nAnk May 19, 2013.
"Is The Radiation Really from Fukushima?" By The Truther Girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0_0e23nAnk May 19, 2013.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Love Life, Love Your Kids : Stop Monsanto : Glyphosate in Roundup Stops Natural Detoxificaion in Humans
Putting Roundup on your yard can kill more than weeds.
Read about the devastating results apparent from this chemical:
"In a new peer reviewed study, this sinister chemical, glyphosate, has been proven to inhibit the human cell’s ability to detoxify altogether. Glyphosate, found in Monsanto’s Roundup, is being deemed by publishers of the new study “one of the most dangerous chemicals” being unleashed into the environment today."
http://www.prisonplanet.com/new-study-reveals-how-glyphosate-in-monsantos-roundup-inhibits-natural-detoxification-in-human-cells.html
Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases
http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416
Read about the devastating results apparent from this chemical:
"In a new peer reviewed study, this sinister chemical, glyphosate, has been proven to inhibit the human cell’s ability to detoxify altogether. Glyphosate, found in Monsanto’s Roundup, is being deemed by publishers of the new study “one of the most dangerous chemicals” being unleashed into the environment today."
http://www.prisonplanet.com/new-study-reveals-how-glyphosate-in-monsantos-roundup-inhibits-natural-detoxification-in-human-cells.html
Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases
http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416
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Friday, May 24, 2013
Wolf Delisting Penned Up for Present : Feds Decide Not to Delist Wolves
From Center for Biological Diversity news release via list serve:
"Amazing news! The Obama administration has yanked its plan to strip federal protection from all wolves in the United States outside the Southwest.
The decision is a response to the enormous public outcry -- including emails, letters and calls by 75,000 Center for Biological Diversity supporters -- against the Department of the Interior's plan to abandon wolf recovery in California, the Northwest, the southern Rocky Mountains and the Northeast. The few wolves left in these areas would be killed without federal protection.
But the surprise, last-minute decision is not final and could be reversed at any moment... We need your help now more than ever to stop it for good.
Please help put the final nail in the coffin of this wolf-killing plan by donating to our Wolf Defense Fund today. A dedicated Center member will match all donations made by May 31, making your gift worth twice as much to endangered wolves.
The wolf abandonment plan was complete and ready for publication when government lawyers suddenly announced to the judge in one of the Center's wolf protection lawsuits that, due to an "unexpected delay," it would not be issued. But they haven't said why the decision was pulled, how long it will be delayed or even who made the decision. It is still very tenuous.
The next few weeks are absolutely critical for wolves. We need to mobilize as many people as possible, as fast as possible to convince the new Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, to do the right thing. With your help, we can raise 100,000 voices asking her to permanently dump the wolf-killing plan championed by her predecessor, Ken Salazar, and to instead expand protection for wolves in California, the Northwest, the southern Rocky Mountains and the Northeast.
This is the best, and probably the last, chance we'll have to reverse the terrible wolf killing and recovery abandonment we've all witnessed with horror the past few years.
Please give as generously as you can to our Wolf Defense Fund today then forward this appeal to a friend... to all your friends. Now is the time to get everyone working together for wolves.
Thanks so much for helping to win one final chance for wolves.
For the wild,"
"Amazing news! The Obama administration has yanked its plan to strip federal protection from all wolves in the United States outside the Southwest.
The decision is a response to the enormous public outcry -- including emails, letters and calls by 75,000 Center for Biological Diversity supporters -- against the Department of the Interior's plan to abandon wolf recovery in California, the Northwest, the southern Rocky Mountains and the Northeast. The few wolves left in these areas would be killed without federal protection.
But the surprise, last-minute decision is not final and could be reversed at any moment... We need your help now more than ever to stop it for good.
Please help put the final nail in the coffin of this wolf-killing plan by donating to our Wolf Defense Fund today. A dedicated Center member will match all donations made by May 31, making your gift worth twice as much to endangered wolves.
The wolf abandonment plan was complete and ready for publication when government lawyers suddenly announced to the judge in one of the Center's wolf protection lawsuits that, due to an "unexpected delay," it would not be issued. But they haven't said why the decision was pulled, how long it will be delayed or even who made the decision. It is still very tenuous.
The next few weeks are absolutely critical for wolves. We need to mobilize as many people as possible, as fast as possible to convince the new Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, to do the right thing. With your help, we can raise 100,000 voices asking her to permanently dump the wolf-killing plan championed by her predecessor, Ken Salazar, and to instead expand protection for wolves in California, the Northwest, the southern Rocky Mountains and the Northeast.
This is the best, and probably the last, chance we'll have to reverse the terrible wolf killing and recovery abandonment we've all witnessed with horror the past few years.
Please give as generously as you can to our Wolf Defense Fund today then forward this appeal to a friend... to all your friends. Now is the time to get everyone working together for wolves.
Thanks so much for helping to win one final chance for wolves.
For the wild,"
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Washington State West Side Major Bridge Collapse on I-5, Meanwhile Feds Have Funds for War and Bullets, Not for Safe Bridges for US
One of the many US and Washington State bridges deemed unsafe by engineers collapsed on Thursday, May 23, 2013, on the much-traveled I-5 corridor between Seattle and the Canadian border, over the Skagit River in the Mount Vernon area.
"Governor Inslee Estimates Repair Cost at $15 Million; Official Say Detour Route Already Crowded." By Jack Broom and Steve Miletich. May 24, 2013. The Seattle Times.
"Backups of 40 minutes to an hour can be expected today in the detour route around the collapsed Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River — and could grow worse over the weekend — state transportation officials said."
http://seattletimes.com/html/home/index.html
Editorial by Editor of Washington State Spokane Area:
The effect of this bridge crumbling from a truck is the same as if blown up.
The same thing happened in Oklahoma, where school children were crushed to death during a tornado instead of having a simple shelter where they could wait out the storm.
The stark question is this: Why are kids being kept in schools in tornado zones without schools being build with simple shelters? Because it's too much money to build a shelter. Why are people driving on bridges rated "functionally obsolete? If this bridge had been replaced in a timely manner with a new design without the overhead supports, but underbridge supports, then no one would have ended up in the water, and everyone's Memorial Day weekend travel plans in this area would be simpler and quicker. Why are obsolete bridges kept for people to risk their lives on? Because it's too much money to build safe bridges.
However, servants in our government using our tax money to make killing toys is not too much money.
Drone Makers and Their Friends In Washington [DC].
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/jul/05/drone-makers-friends-washington/
SAN DIEGO —" ...the drone caucus? Officially, it’s the Unmanned Systems Caucus. Primarily, the caucus advocates for drones — those pilot-less planes infamous for their role targeting insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They’re used as a spy tool in Iran, a drug-fighting tool in Mexico and an anti-smuggling tool along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Predator Drone Strikes: 50 Civilians Are Killed For Every 1 Terrorist, and the CIA Only Wants to Up Drone Warfare
"...multiple independent reports confirm that Obama is severely downplaying the wreckage that these drone strikes inflict...the CIA is deliberately targeting those who show up after the sight of an attack, rescuers, and mourners at funerals as a part of a "double-tap" strategy eerily reminiscient of methods used by terrorist groups like Hamas."
http://www.policymic.com/articles/16949/predator-drone-strikes-50-civilians-are-killed-for-every-1-terrorist-and-the-cia-only-wants-to-up-drone-warfare
http://www.infowars.com/big-sis-ignores-congressmans-demand-for-briefing-on-bullet-buys/
It's past time to bring our troops home from useless and deadly undeclared wars around the globe. Bring our troops home, and create jobs for building and planting in Our Country. With our servants in Washington D.C. and others spending precious money and time on millions of bullets, guns, tanks, drones, etc., and no money on our bridges and children, our lives and the lives of our kids are literally collateral damage and small blips on the war machine radar manned by psychopaths who enjoy watching people suffer.
We the People have a Right and a Duty to Tell OUR Public Servants How to Spend Our Tax Dollars. We must not let them tell US how they are spending it.
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
"The bridge carries about 67,000 cars a day, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation.
It was built 1955, according to KOMO, and was listed by the Federal Highway Administration as "functionally obsolete."
That category is for bridges that may have narrow lanes or shoulders, or spans that don't provide enough vertical clearance to let tall trucks pass, according to Washington's DOT."
http://www.kxly.com/news/washington-bridge-collapse/-/101270/20286368/-/gm8wbfz/-/index.html
Like a Hollywood Movie: Driver Survives I-5 Bridge Collapse into Washington River.
By Alister Jamieson and Bill Dedman. NBC News.
"The bridge was of a "fracture critical" design, as are 18,000 bridges nationwide, meaning it could collapse if even one part failed.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/24/18465755-like-a-hollywood-movie-driver-survives-i-5-bridge-collapse-into-wash-river?lite
Like a Hollywood Movie: Driver Survives I-5 Bridge Collapse into Washington River.
By Alister Jamieson and Bill Dedman. NBC News.
"The bridge was of a "fracture critical" design, as are 18,000 bridges nationwide, meaning it could collapse if even one part failed.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/24/18465755-like-a-hollywood-movie-driver-survives-i-5-bridge-collapse-into-wash-river?lite
"Backups of 40 minutes to an hour can be expected today in the detour route around the collapsed Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River — and could grow worse over the weekend — state transportation officials said."
http://seattletimes.com/html/home/index.html
Editorial by Editor of Washington State Spokane Area:
The effect of this bridge crumbling from a truck is the same as if blown up.
The same thing happened in Oklahoma, where school children were crushed to death during a tornado instead of having a simple shelter where they could wait out the storm.
The stark question is this: Why are kids being kept in schools in tornado zones without schools being build with simple shelters? Because it's too much money to build a shelter. Why are people driving on bridges rated "functionally obsolete? If this bridge had been replaced in a timely manner with a new design without the overhead supports, but underbridge supports, then no one would have ended up in the water, and everyone's Memorial Day weekend travel plans in this area would be simpler and quicker. Why are obsolete bridges kept for people to risk their lives on? Because it's too much money to build safe bridges.
However, servants in our government using our tax money to make killing toys is not too much money.
Drone Makers and Their Friends In Washington [DC].
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/jul/05/drone-makers-friends-washington/
SAN DIEGO —" ...the drone caucus? Officially, it’s the Unmanned Systems Caucus. Primarily, the caucus advocates for drones — those pilot-less planes infamous for their role targeting insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They’re used as a spy tool in Iran, a drug-fighting tool in Mexico and an anti-smuggling tool along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Predator Drone Strikes: 50 Civilians Are Killed For Every 1 Terrorist, and the CIA Only Wants to Up Drone Warfare
"...multiple independent reports confirm that Obama is severely downplaying the wreckage that these drone strikes inflict...the CIA is deliberately targeting those who show up after the sight of an attack, rescuers, and mourners at funerals as a part of a "double-tap" strategy eerily reminiscient of methods used by terrorist groups like Hamas."
http://www.policymic.com/articles/16949/predator-drone-strikes-50-civilians-are-killed-for-every-1-terrorist-and-the-cia-only-wants-to-up-drone-warfare
http://www.infowars.com/big-sis-ignores-congressmans-demand-for-briefing-on-bullet-buys/
It's past time to bring our troops home from useless and deadly undeclared wars around the globe. Bring our troops home, and create jobs for building and planting in Our Country. With our servants in Washington D.C. and others spending precious money and time on millions of bullets, guns, tanks, drones, etc., and no money on our bridges and children, our lives and the lives of our kids are literally collateral damage and small blips on the war machine radar manned by psychopaths who enjoy watching people suffer.
We the People have a Right and a Duty to Tell OUR Public Servants How to Spend Our Tax Dollars. We must not let them tell US how they are spending it.
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
Updates on Power Past Coal Efforts Week of May 20, 2013
TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress you want all impacts of #coalexport studied. Sign the petition today! bit.ly/18193pP
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Here is the news release that just went out on the new push today on the Army Corps to do an area-wide EIS of the three coal export proposals in WA and OR, with 11 groups submitting a formal petition to the Army Corps (there have been many calling for the Army Corps to do an area-wide EIS for over a year, but no formal petition yet filed until today).
As you can see in the release, and I emphasized in my note to reporters, it’s worth noting the hundreds of businesses, health professionals, elected officials, citizens and municipalities that have joined in this call for a full and thorough review (as outlined below), clearly conveying this is not a jobs vs. environment issue, but one of communities (from the Northwest all the way to China) incredibly concerned over impacts from coal export from the Pacific Northwest on their health, environments and livelihoods.
Thanks to everyone who was willing to be quoted below and who helped get this organized and out the door. Big props to Kristen at Earthjustice for getting the letter together!
--Kimberly
Immediate Release: 5/22/13
Contacts:
Kimberly Larson, 206-388-8674
Krista Collard, 614-622-9109
Groups Petition Army Corps to Undertake Area-Wide Environmental Impact Statement on All Proposed Coal Export Terminals in WA and OR
Elected Officials, Municipalities, Health Officials, Businesses, and Residents from Montana to China
Join Call for Full Assessment of Impacts
On Wednesday, Northwest-based community groups, health professionals, environmental organizations, a grassroots conservation and family agriculture group, and a clean-energy nonprofit filed a formal petition with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers asking it to evaluate the cumulative and related impacts of all proposed coal export terminals in Oregon and Washington. There are currently three active coal export proposals in Washington and Oregon at Cherry Point, WA (north of Bellingham), Longview, WA, and Boardman, OR that would export a total 100 million metric tons per year if all built. Formally submitted by Earthjustice, the petitioners ask the Army Corps to conduct a single, comprehensive, area-wide environmental impact statement (“EIS”) under its National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) authority.
“The threats from these coal export proposals connect communities across the region and cannot be overlooked,” stated Cesia Kearns, Senior Campaign Representative for Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign and Acting Director for Power Past Coal coalition of which Sierra Club is a member. “We have been calling for an area-wide EIS for over a year; it’s time for the Army Corps to stop sitting on its hands.”
Climate Solutions, Columbia Riverkeeper, Friends of the Columbia Gorge, Greenpeace, National Wildlife Federation, Northern Plains Resource Council, Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, RE Sources, Sierra Club, Washington Environmental Council, and Western Organization of Resource Councils submitted the petition. The groups call on the Army Corps to consider those environmental and health impacts of the various coal export terminal proposals that are cumulative, related, and/or similar. Over 500 businesses, 160 elected officials, including both Governors Kitzhaber and Inslee and ten members of Congress, three dozen municipalities, over 100 organizations, and over a dozen newspapers, including the region’s largest The Seattle Times, have called for a full and thorough review of the proposed terminals. At least 35,000 citizens wrote to the Army Corps calling for an area-wide EIS.
“Spokane, WA is hundreds of miles away from the proposed terminals yet we are ground zero for coal trains,” said Ben Stuckart, Spokane, WA City Council President. “If all of the proposed coal terminals were built, Spokane could see 40 mile-and-a-half long coal trains – empty and full -- rolling through town every day. Our air quality would suffer, traffic for commuters and truckers would get worse, and taxpayers could wind up paying millions of dollars for new infrastructure. We can’t just draw a circle around the proposed terminals and study the on-site effects. We need to look at impacts and costs to communities all along the rail-line and also consider the bigger picture like how burning all that coal would worsen climate change.”
In the fall of 2012, the Army Corps, WA Dept. of Ecology, and Whatcom County Council conducted EIS scoping hearings in Washington for the proposed Cherry Point coal export terminal. However, they did not hold any hearings in Montana or Idaho despite rail-line communities in those states being threatened with significant increases in coal-train traffic if the terminal was built. The petition to the Corps asks for the area-wide EIS to include impacts from increased mining in Wyoming and Montana, particularly on public lands; increased rail traffic throughout Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon; and the effect of coal export on domestic energy security and pricing. The petition also asks for hearings to be held around the region.
“These ports, if approved, would have tremendous impact on the Helena, MT community. Coal mined in the Powder River Basin, primarily Wyoming, would travel through Helena on the way to these ports and would dramatically increase the volume of coal train traffic in our community,” said Mary Ann Mackay, Helena, MT resident. “This additional train traffic would further stress our aging infrastructure and increase air pollution from diesel fumes and coal dust. A comprehensive review of these impacts is the only way that we can ensure that our community can plan adequately for resolving the impacts from the increase in coal train traffic and ensure that Helena citizens would not be left footing the bill for necessary upgrades.”
Over 600 health professionals have either come out against or raised deep concern and caution over the proposed terminals, calling attention to the threat of increased coal train traffic that would result in more congestion, health impacts, and more mercury, diesel, and carbon pollution. Many have officially called for an area-wide Environmental Impact Statement and comprehensive Health Impact Assessment.
"Coal is the dirtiest and most dangerous fossil fuel. The production, transport, and combustion of coal is harmful to its workers and to everyone else along the line, from the mines, to the trains, to the barges, to the ports and beyond," stated Dr. Susan Katz of Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility. "The Army Corps of Engineers must ensure that the right questions are asked before serious harm is done to the health of our families and our environment."
Other issues that groups ask the Army Corps to consider in an area-wide EIS include: traffic, pollution, safety, health, and congestion issues along the rail line between Powder River Basin area coal mines and the Pacific Northwest terminal sites.
“I live and farm along an ‘alternate’ rail line that would likely experience direct and indirect impacts if coal export is permitted from the Pacific Northwest,” said Nicole Brown, owner of Moondance Farm in Acme, WA. “Since these impacts are removed in distance and time from the proposed terminals, an area-wide EIS should be required to ensure fair treatment of all potentially impacted communities.”
The groups also want the Army Corps to look at the effects of significantly increased barge and cargo ship operations on the Columbia River and in Puget Sound and combined vessel traffic impacts and oil spill risks in the transpacific navigational routes including the Gulf of Alaska and Unimak Pass.
“The town of Longview would see the impacts from all the proposed coal exports projects: a terminal in our community, another one across the river, plus all the coal trains traveling through up to Cherry Point. The Corps must evaluate all of the proposals together, not with blinders on,” said Gayle Kiser, a local resident that supports the groups’ formal petition and the President of Landowners and Citizens for a Safe Community.
Courts have agreed that a single EIS is required for multiple discreet actions under some circumstances, for example, when the projects have common timing, geography, and/or impacts. The Army Corps has not yet required a site-specific EIS at the Port of Morrow terminal at Boardman, and permit approvals there may go forward after an even more truncated environmental analysis.
“Given the magnitude of the coal export proposals, over 100 million tons per year and the impact to the Columbia Gorge, it is imperative that the Army Corps conduct an area-wide Environmental Impact Statement. Cities and towns in the Columbia Gorge are concerned about many aspects of these proposals, including coal pollution, degraded quality of life, increased fire danger, and emergency response to coal derailments. This is the best way for these concerns to be addressed,” stated Kate McBride, City Council Member, Hood River, OR.
The groups also called on the Corps to consider effects on global consumption of coal due to the effect of the operation of export terminals on international market prices, and resulting increased greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution impacts from coal combustion in China, including mercury and other contaminant deposition in Pacific Northwest waters.
"If America plans to subsidize coal exports, it would have a real impact on China. It is important that the Army Corps conduct a study that accounts for all of the impacts of Northwest coal exports--and that includes us," said Hao Xin, Executive Director, Green Zhejiang, Hangzhou Eco-Culture Association, Green More, Xiacheng Dist., Hangzhou, China.
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POWER PAST COAL is an ever-growing alliance of health, environmental, businesses, clean-energy, faith and community groups working to stop coal export off the West Coast. VisitPowerPastCoal.org
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Video from Nuked Radio Anniversary of 2011 Fukushima Disaster, posted by Rad Chick April, and by DutchSince May 12, 2013
Video shows results of radiation in plants and animals. The 30 minute presentation shows "cocks comb" effects in plants. The video comes with a warning of graphic images of animals, and no human images. The video title is "Nuked Radio Special: 2 Year Anniversary of the Fukushima Disaster with Leuren Moret.
http://www.youtube.com/ichicax4
Via:
sincedutch | May 12, 2013 at 11:33 am | Categories: Radiation / Fallout / Nuclear | URL: http://wp.me/p1RaVC-2an
Chernobyl's Children.
This is an unnerving video to watch. People are trying the help these children whose lives are forever traumatized due to a nuclear facility. The best way to prevent more of these unnecessary tragedies is to end nuclear power.
If we can risk nuclear war, we can risk disarmament.
If we can risk ruining kids' lives, we can risk living without nuclear power.
Nuclear power and radiation are NEVER safe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfSHWrQl0NY
http://www.youtube.com/ichicax4
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sincedutch | May 12, 2013 at 11:33 am | Categories: Radiation / Fallout / Nuclear | URL: http://wp.me/p1RaVC-2an
Chernobyl's Children.
This is an unnerving video to watch. People are trying the help these children whose lives are forever traumatized due to a nuclear facility. The best way to prevent more of these unnecessary tragedies is to end nuclear power.
If we can risk nuclear war, we can risk disarmament.
If we can risk ruining kids' lives, we can risk living without nuclear power.
Nuclear power and radiation are NEVER safe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfSHWrQl0NY
Friday, May 10, 2013
City of Spokane Announces Construction Projects in Spring 2013
City of Spokane utility bills included a leaflet with links to construction projects. Two images of road construction illustrates the prose. The 2013 plans include 32 projects for a $47 million cost. The website Spokanecity.org, near the bottom of the page, provides information and a map.
The City of Spokane provides the equation of $1 million = 25 jobs, thus creating 1175, "nearly 1,200."
The city asks that we help by "continuing to patronize those businesses located along construction sites."
http://www.spokaneengineering.org/construction-projects
The City of Spokane provides the equation of $1 million = 25 jobs, thus creating 1175, "nearly 1,200."
The city asks that we help by "continuing to patronize those businesses located along construction sites."
http://www.spokaneengineering.org/construction-projects
Monday, May 6, 2013
Round-Up Pesticide Kills More Than Weeds: Round-Up Tied to Autism, Alzheimers, Parkinsons
Round-Up Pesticide Kills More Than Weeds: Round-Up Tied to Autism, Alzheimers, Parkinsons
http://www.prisonplanet.com/study-links-monstantos-roundup-to-autism-parkinsons-and-alzheimers.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/study-links-monstantos-roundup-to-autism-parkinsons-and-alzheimers.html
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Sunday, May 05, 2013 Update US Airmen from Spokane, Washington Killed in Crash , Chon-Aryk, Kyrgzstan
Sunday, May 05, 2013 Update US Airmen from Spokane, Washington, Killed in Crash , Chon-Aryk, Kyrgzstan
"At least two young children lost parents Friday when a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker crashed in Kyrgyzstan. Fairchild’s Facebook site notes that Pinckney had a 7-month-old son, Gabriel. Mackey leaves behind a wife and 2-year-old daughter named Payton, Bakersfield media are reporting."
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/may/05/fairchild-airmen-who-died-crash-friday-identified/
"KHQ.COM - The Department of Defense has identified the three crew members of a KC-135 killed in a crash May 3, near Chon-Aryk, Kyrgyzstan."
http://www.khq.com/story/22165013/fairchild-airmen-killed-in-kc-135-crash-identified
"At least two young children lost parents Friday when a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker crashed in Kyrgyzstan. Fairchild’s Facebook site notes that Pinckney had a 7-month-old son, Gabriel. Mackey leaves behind a wife and 2-year-old daughter named Payton, Bakersfield media are reporting."
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/may/05/fairchild-airmen-who-died-crash-friday-identified/
"KHQ.COM - The Department of Defense has identified the three crew members of a KC-135 killed in a crash May 3, near Chon-Aryk, Kyrgyzstan."
http://www.khq.com/story/22165013/fairchild-airmen-killed-in-kc-135-crash-identified
Fairchild Airmen killed in Kyrgyzstan crash identified
Author: Colleen O'Brien, Reporter / Weekend Anchor, colleeno@kxly.com
"They died May 3rd during a refueling mission aboard a KC-135 aircraft...assigned to the 93rd Air Refueling Squadron at Fairchild Air Force Base.
- Capt. Mark T. Voss, 27, of Colorado Springs, Colo.,
- Capt. Victoria A. Pinckney, 27, of Palmdale, Calif., and
- Tech Sgt. Herman Mackey III, 30, of Bakersfield, Calif."
"The KC-135 plane crashed Friday afternoon about 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of the air base that the U.S. operates in Kyrgyzstan to support military operations in Afghanistan."
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