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Quote of the Week: "For many, it often seems to happen just after dozing
off
at night, or before dawn when it's not quite time to get up. What starts
at
a low rumble quickly becomes a deafening roar as a plane going in or out
of
Logan Air****t flies overhead." story this week
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Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter
#395.........................................................................September
25, 2006 Past newsletters can be accessed at:
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The PASSUR air****t
flight
tracking system at many major U.S. air****ts
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Political Heat For FAA Airspace Redesign Plan!!!"
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As Bill Sees It: (Editorial) More Politicians Are Opposing The FAA
Airspace
Redesign Scheme!!! As more communities delve into the muck of the
purposely
obscure Airspace Redesign scheme for the FAA's Eastern District they are
demanding that their elected leaders stop the implementation of it. In
many
cases communities had to hire professionals to interpret the highly
technical language with weird maps (see one on the right that doesn't even
show geographic or even air****t boundaries!!!) that the FAA used to hide
their real community impacts. I don't know what even politicians can do to
stop the FAA criminals; they seem to be a law unto themselves.
FAA Refuses To Let City Close Their Own Air****t!!! To get an idea of the
arrogance of this corrupt, powerful agency you just have to read a story
this week where the FAA tells a community of Bakersfield, California that
they will not be allowed to close their own air****t!!! This obviously an
agency that has too much power and control over our lives. Those who have
dealt with the FAA know they have absolutely no concern for the health
impacts of aviation on Americans and classify those who dare to complain
about these impacts as "whiners."
U.S. Blasted Al Qaeda Suspects With High Levels Of Noise!!! According to
a
New York Times news story the CIA interrogated a Al Quaeda suspect who "
was
stripped ****d by his CIA interrogators, held in an icy-cold room and
subjected to earsplitting music." I am not surprised that the federal
government uses noise torture to get information from Al Qaeda in their
secret CIA prisons, they have been using noise torture against their
fellow
Americans for years.
New York: Noise Complaints Increase At Westchester Air****t: RYE BROOK --
Noise complaints at Westchester County Air****t reached higher levels this
summer than any period last year. The air****t's noise monitoring office
received 206 complaints from 55 households in July and 149 complaints from
48 households in August. The only month to come close to those totals last
year was June, which accounted for about 150 complaints. In an interview
after the air****t's monthly advisory board meeting Wednesday night, the
head
of the Northwest Greenwich Association said bordering areas such as hers
have noticed the increase. "We're getting clobbered," said Ingrid
McMenamin,
president of the homeowners association. "It's a matter of is the tower
allowing them to do that or are the pilots taking this upon themselves to
do
it?" John Inserra, the air****t's noise abatement officer, said his office
is
investigating the association's concerns. He blamed the overall increase
in
complaints on higher flight volumes at the air****t, which were up about
two
percent for both July and August.
http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/local/scn-gt-a1air****tsep22,0,4302614.story?coll=green-news-local-headlines
FAA's Airspace Redesign Plan Getting More Political Heat: Add one more
voice
to those howling over the Federal Aviation Administration's decision to
redesign the flight patterns surrounding Philadelphia International
Air****t.
But this one carries a little more clout, for a couple of reasons. For one
thing, it cost $50,000. That's how much Delaware County Council paid
Williams Aviation Consultants, of Arizona, to review the FAA's plan to
redesign airspace surrounding the air****t. That plan would re-route air
traffic, increasing the number of flights going over heavily populated
areas
of Delaware County. It also raised the tempers of local residents and
officials, outraged that the FAA was backing a plan that would have a
significant effect on the quality of life of so many good citizens of
Delaware County. This week County Council unveiled the results of the
Williams' re****t. Guess what? They got what they paid for. George
Williams,
a former air traffic controller and himself a former FAA official, savaged
the redesign plan, questioning the results the FAA based its plan on as
vague, and even suggesting facts may have been manipulated to reach those
conclusions.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17232609&BRD=1675&PAG=461&dept_id=18168&rfi=6
Connecticut: Three Year Noise Study Leads To Responsibility Confusion:
RIDGEFIELD -- A three-year study of noise abatement at Danbury Municipal
Air****t says pilots, the air traffic control tower, and air****t management
are responsible for controlling the noise levels that have irritated
Ridgebury residents for years -- not the city of Danbury. First Selectman
Rudy Marconi is unhappy with the study results released last week,
claiming
the city of Danbury and its Air****t Commission are let off the hook for
responsibility for procedural oversight. "Our concern is that even if you
look at the whole two pages of recommendations for noise abatement in the
study, none of it involves the city of Danbury or the Air****t Commission,"
Marconi said. "It raises the question of who is overseeing this."
http://www.newstimeslive.com/news/story.php?id=1015430
City Tries To Close Their Air****t - FAA Says "No!!!" One gets the feeling
that ever since the March 2003 "emergency" closure of Meigs Field by
Chicago
mayor Richard Daley, the FAA is a bit sensitive to other cities taking it
upon themselves to decide whether an air****t is necessary or not. Take
Bakersfield, CA as an example. Wi****ng to redevelop the land currently
occupied by Bakersfield Municipal Air****t (L45) for "mixed use" purposes,
city leaders asked the FAA to release it from its obligations to the
air****t. Bakersfield claimed the air****t was underused, unsafe, and too
expensive for the city to maintain. The mayor also told the FAA that other
air****ts could accommodate L45's 30,000 annual takeoffs and landings and
its
100 based aircraft. The FAA's response? An emphatic "no."
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=8e7380ac-42c3-4317-b547-6280fea127fb
http://www.turnto23.com/news/9906672/detail.html
Boston, Massachusetts: Increased Flights Bring Increasing Complaints: For
many, it often seems to happen just after dozing off at night, or before
dawn when it's not quite time to get up. What starts at a low rumble
quickly
becomes a deafening roar as a plane going in or out of Logan Air****t flies
overhead. And the noise, thundering down from above at windowpane-rattling
levels, is annoying increasing numbers of residents around the city.
``It's
definitely gotten worse. It's been very frustrating for us," says John
Stewart , a member of the Community Advisory Committee, a panel of
representatives from nearby neighborhoods and towns that has been fighting
Logan noise issues since 1978. The number of complaints to a noise hotline
run by the Massachusetts ****t Authority, which oversees Logan
International,
is up. From January through July, the hotline logged 2,036 calls, compared
with 1,695 for all of 2005. In the same period, complaints from Cambridge
more than doubled, from fewer than 100 last year to more than 200.
Complaints were also up markedly in South Boston as well as in nearby
communities traditionally plagued by jet noise, such as Everett and
Nahant.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/09/17/the_sound_and_the_fury/
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Aviation News Stories This Week
Torture Is Torture
Bush's 'Program' Disgraces All Americans
By Eugene Robinson Tuesday, September 19, 2006; Page A21
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/18/AR2006091800995.html
I wish I could turn to cheerier matters, but I just can't get past this
torture issue -- the fact that George W. Bush, the president of the United
States of America, persists in demanding that Congress give him the right
to
torture anyone he considers a "high-value" terrorist suspect. The
president
of the United States. Interrogation by torture. This just can't be
happening.
It's past time to stop mincing words. The Decider, or maybe we should now
call him the Inquisitor, sticks to anodyne euphemisms. He speaks of
"alternative" questioning techniques, and his umbrella term for the whole
shop of horrors is "the program." Of course, he won't fully detail the
methods that were used in the secret CIA prisons -- and who knows where
else? -- but various sources have said they have included not just the
infamous "waterboarding," which the administration apparently will
reluctantly forswear, but also sleep deprivation, exposure to cold,
bombardment with ear-splitting noise and other assaults that cause not
just
mental duress but physical agony. That is torture, and to call it anything
else is a lie.
Shock and Awe in Lebanon » Early Warning In visiting Israel and Lebanon,
what struck me about the bombing was that you could see the destruction
and
completely misread what it meant.
* Froomkin: Torture Is All in the Subtext
* Mallaby: Smarter International Aid
* PostGlobal: Discuss the Pope's Comments
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It is not possible for our elected representatives to hold any sort of
honorable "debate" over torture. Bush says he is waging a "struggle for
civilization," but civilized nations do not debate slavery or genocide,
and
they don't debate torture, either. This spectacle insults and dishonors
every American.
There is one ray of encouragement: the crystal-clear evidence that the men
and women of our armed forces want no part of torturing anybody. The
members
of the Republican resistance -- Sens. John Warner of Virginia, John McCain
of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina -- have impeccable
Pentagon
connections and are not operating in a vacuum. Bush admitted in his news
conference Friday that he had spoken to "the professionals" and that they
would not carry out "the program" unless Congress specifically told them
to.
In sup****t of its torture bill, all the White House could manage to
squeeze
out of five top Pentagon lawyers was a four-sentence letter of
non-objection
that had all the enthusiasm of a hostage tape.
Colin Powell's strongly worded rejection of torture should have
embarrassed
and chastened the White House, but this is a president who refuses to
listen
to critics of his "war on terrorism" -- even critics who helped design and
lead it.
There should be no need to spell out the practical reasons against
torture,
but, for the record, they are legion. As Powell and others have argued, if
the United States unilaterally reinterprets Common Article 3 of the Geneva
Conventions to permit torture, potential adversaries in future conflicts
will feel justified in doing the same thing. Does the president want some
captured pilot to be subjected to the tortures applied in the CIA prisons?
And, as has been pointed out by experts, torture works -- far too well.
Torture victims will tell what they know, and when their knowledge is
exhausted they will tell their torturers what they want to hear, even if
they have to invent conspiracies. The president says that torturing
al-Qaeda
kingpins foiled serious plots against America, but how do we know those
plots were real? How can we be sure that some of the detainees at
Guantanamo
aren't shopkeepers or taxi drivers who were snatched because Khalid Sheik
Mohammed ran out of real terrorists to implicate and began naming
acquaintances so he wouldn't get waterboarded again?
But we shouldn't have to talk about the practicalities of torture, because
the real question is moral: What kind of nation are we? What kind of
people
are we?
Bush's view of the world is based on the idea of American exceptionalism:
that this country is unique, that its ideas and values are not just worthy
or admirable but superior to any others. This attitude annoys the rest of
the world to no end -- a lot of other countries think they're pretty
special, too -- but accept for the moment that the American system is in
fact the best of all systems and that the great experiment begun by the
Founding Fathers was a signal event in the history of mankind. Accept, if
you will, Bush's view that the United States is steadfastly blessed by a
loving God.
What do you imagine God might think about torture, Mr. President?
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