Last week, the desert around
Indian Springs, Nevada received a surprise visit from a contingent of Code Pink
and Veterans for Peace drone resisters who show up in the desert way northwest of Las Vegas twice a
year.
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| photo credit: Michael Kerr |
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| photo: Michael Kerr |
Already before dawn, we are
out on the highway with our banners and our winter gear against the night
temperatures. We stay there way past sun-up, until the last contingent of
mostly single drivers coming all the way from Las Vegas, more than 46 miles
away, get past the main gate.
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| photo credit: Michael Kerr |
The same thousands of cars
take over two hours to exit the gate at quitting time (when we are back on the
highway in summer gear to make sure they see our signs).
This October saw the arrests
of ten of our contingent, five men and five women—whom Las Vegas “muni” (municipal
police) hauled off in handcuffs to the Clark
County jail to teach them a lesson about staying in lock step. This year
the jail has a new “enhancement:” a full body scanner, an enrich-Michael-Chertoff
device, with which three of the women arrestees refused to comply. Their
“intransigence” resulted in an additional five or so hours of confinement in a
separate cell so as to insure they would not “contaminate” (the cop’s word) any
of the poor, disproportionately black souls who make up the population of Clark
County jail.
Your Tax Dollars At Work
Do the “pilots” sitting on
the base in their trailers with their joy sticks pulling up likely civilian
victims to kill on their computer screens get arrested for murder? Don’t be
silly. Drones make good money for the corporations (and stockholders) that manufacture
them. They just need the poverty draft to make sure they’ve got enough people willing
to operate their machinery. But although it was not part of the original plan, drone
pilots succumb to PTSD and as they drop out, the air force is having more and
more trouble replacing them.
Global climate collapse?
Think nothing of it. Creech
AFB is part of the fossil industry machine: adding pollution from thousands of
cars to the highway every single day but weekends. And that’s just the local
effort.
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| photo credit: Michael Kerr |
Greta tells us we have no
time to waste. But will the military
apparatus take note? Will it care? Will it turn around with so many people in
its employ requiring the “good” if temporary, life of cars, a house, a wife or
significant other, 2.3 children, 1.8 dogs, and razzle dazzle entertainment in
vacuous Las Vegas, cultural emblem of the United States?
Sign to end support for the
Saudi-led war in Yemen in the NDAA now at
Proposed Swedish
constitutional amendment would enshrine rights of Nature.
‘Money is not speech and
corporations are not people’: Sanders unveils plan to get corporate $$ out of
politics.
Beverly Hills City Council
discusses potential health hazards of 5G wireless networks.
Erin Brokovich firm join
citizens 5G lawsuit brought by People’s Initiative Foundation.
How to resist: The EPA fired
some air pollution scientists who meet anyway.
Eight countries join INSTEX,
ending U.S. dollar domination.
GEO Group (immigrant
incarceration and family separation) runs out of banks as 100% of banking partners
say ‘No’ to private prison sector.
Huge victory: California’s
Gov. Newsom signs the Public Banking Act into law.
Victory as noDAPL depositions
unsealed, wiping clean the charges against Chase Iron Eyes of Standing Rock.
GM backs down on cutting off
healthcare for its striking workers.
Raging granny locks herself
to equipment at Mountain Valley Pipeline Site.
Judge blocks the
administration from circumventing Flores Agreement & prolonging the
detention of migrant children.
Wait.
ReplyDeleteI didnt see that
on my nightly news.
...and I know Y.
God bless you.