Rosalind Peterson: Worldwide and Domestic Drone Programs…

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Agriculture Defense Coalition
Redwood Valley

The United States has embarked on Worldwide and Domestic Drone Programs.  Unmanned Drones are being used in foreign countries and in the United States.  They carry surveillance cameras, recording equipment, bombs, and other weapon systems.

In recent years the U.S. government has decided to allow the use drones within the borders of the United States.  The following government reports, newspaper articles, and other information is provided for your information regarding the expansion and use of unmanned drones worldwide and in the United States.

Many unmanned aerial vehicles now under production vary in size from those as small as your fingertip to as large as full-scale airplanes capable of carrying missiles and bombs.  And model radio control small airplanes, cars, and helicopters can be purchased at your local toy stores or hobby shops.  The elementary technology has been in existence for more than fifty years.  It has only been in more recent times that more sophisticated technology, computers, cameras, listening devices, fuels, lighter and stronger contstruction materials, and other inventions have contributed to new uses for unmanned vehicles (drones).

Unmanned Drones are plagued by crashes, malfunctions, use of defective parts from foreign countries like China, accidents (including hitting other aircraft), loss of control, lost drones, and other problems.  Military drones are being tested over land areas in the United States while carrying weapons systems, missiles, bombs, and while using experimental and dangerous fuels, like hydrogen, or powered by nuclear power as is proposed by the U.S. government. The potential for accidents has already been clearly demonstrated in news and government reports

Why In The World Are They Spraying?

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Thanks to ROSALIND PETERSON
California Skywatch
Redwood Valley

People around the world are noticing that our planet’s weather is dramatically changing. They are also beginning to notice the long lingering trails left behind airplanes that have lead millions to accept the reality of chemtrail/geoengineering programs. Could there be a connection between the trails and our severe weather? While there are many agendas associated with these damaging programs, evidence is now abundant which proves that geoengineering can be used to control weather. In this documentary you will learn how the aerosols being sprayed into our sky are used in conjunction with other technologies to control our weather. While geoengineers maintain that their models are only for the mitigation of global warming, it is now clear that they can be used as a way to consolidate an enormous amount of both monetary and political power into the hands of a few by the leverage that weather control gives certain corporations over the Earth’s natural systems. This, of course, is being done at the expense of every living thing on the planet.
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Rosalind Peterson: Take Action Today on World Oceans Day 6/8/12…

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/wod_photos11.html

Welcome to NOAA’s online resource for World Oceans Day—our planet’s biggest celebration of the ocean, held every June 8^th.   The mission of World Ocean’s Day is to inspire action to protect our world’s ocean.  World Ocean Day is June 8. Help us celebrate the beauty, mystery, and importance of the ocean.

The Agriculture Defense Coalition and California Skywatch are requesting everyone to take action on Friday, June 8, 2012, to protect 11.7 Million Marine Mammals in the Atlantic, Pacific, and the Gulf of Mexico from U.S. Navy Warfare Testing using Sonar, Bomb Blasts, and New Weapons testing for the next five years. 

The U.S. Navy refuses to protect our National Marine Sanctuaries, Marine Reserves, biologically sensitive areas, breeding and feeding habitats in many ocean areas from this type of testing.

We are asking that you take three actions today:

1) Contact your U.S. Senators and U.S. Congressmen and let them know that you want to protect these vital ocean areas from U.S. Navy testing and experiments. 

Rosalind Peterson: Call To Action — Navy Warfare Testing Threatens Marine Mammals and Habitats

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Agriculture Defense Coalition 5/1/12
Redwood Valley

U.S. NAVY’S TWELVE 5-YEAR WARFARE TESTING PROGRAMS & THE INCREASING & ONGOING THREAT TO THE GULF OF MEXICO, ATLANTIC & PACIFIC OCEANS

HELP SAVE OUR MARINE MAMMALS & THEIR OCEAN HABITAT TODAY!

A CALL TO TAKE ACTION

USA TODAY revealed bad news for our oceans when they published a news story titled:  “Navy Plans Could Affect More Marine Mammals” on August 5, 2010 [1].  According to USA Today news article, backed up by federal documents from the U.S. Navy and NOAA:   “…The Navy plans to increase ocean warfare exercises, conduct more sonar tests and expand coastal training…activities that could injure hundreds of thousands of marine mammals or disturb their habitats…”

What do your Elected Officials Know

In a letter to NOAA, dated June 19, 2009, several U.S. Senators, including U.S. Senator Feinstein and U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman, stated:  “…In many regions, the Navy plans to increase the number of its exercises or expand the areas in which they may occur, and virtually every coastal state will be affected. Some exercises may occur in the nation’s most biologically sensitive marine habitats, including National Marine Sanctuaries and breeding habitat for the endangered North Atlantic right whale. In all, the Navy anticipates more than 2.3 million takes (significant disruptions in marine mammal foraging, breeding, and other essential behaviors) per year, or 11.7 million takes over the course of a five-year permit…” [2]

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

The NOAA Definition of “Take”:  “Defined under the MMPA (Marine Mammal Protection Act), as “harass, hunt, capture, kill or collect, or attempt to harass, hunt, capture, kill or collect.”  Defined under the ESA (Endangered Species Act) as “to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct…”[3]

Rosalind Peterson: Urgent! Take Action! Protect Our Marine Mammals, National Marine Sanctuaries, Recreation & Fishing Industries…

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

I have sent the attached and/or same letter to our Senators and U.S. Congressman Thompson today. We need to send out as many letters as possible to all of our elected officials at every level of government. Please feel free to use this one or make any changes you deem necessary to make your wishes known. Toll Free Number for all elected officials in Washington, D.C. (1866) 220-0044

The closest event is in Fort Bragg, CA for us….see the links below for more information.

Right now we need a lot of pressure placed on our elected officials and others today.

March 6, 2012

RE:

• U.S. Navy Open House Information Sessions under NEPA
• U.S. Navy NEPA Violations
• Formal Request for a U.S. Navy Formal Presentation & Q&A Period With Proper NEPA Notice
• Protect Our Marine Mammals, National Marine Sanctuaries, Recreation & Fishing Industries

Dear                                                    :

On Saturday, March 3, 2012, I received a postcard from the U.S. Navy inviting the public to participate in the National Environmental Policy Act Process.  However, the U.S. Navy is only holding Open House Information Sessions in easily accessible places in California, Oregon, Washington (State), and Alaska.

We believe, for the following reasons, that the U.S. Navy is not following NEPA requirements:

Rosalind Peterson: Mendocino County Billboard Pollution…

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Agriculture Defense Coalition

It is time for Mendocino County to take stock of the ever-increasing number and size of ugly billboards that are destroying the wonderful views here in Mendocino County.

If tourism is to increase we need to have a decrease in the number and size of unsightly billboards rather than increasing numbers. Thus, the County billboard ordinance, rules, and regulations should be upgraded in order to attract tourism here and also to enhance the beauty of Mendocino County.

Action Items:

1. All current billboards should be inspected to make sure that the size of the billboards in our county have not been increasing with additions in the last 10 years. Any billboards that have increased in width, height or length should be brought back into compliance by fines levied by the County Planning Department. It appears that extensions on the sides, tops, and width of older billboards have been changed without approval by the Mendocino County Planning Department. (Note the height extension on the billboard in this photograph on U.S. 101.)

2. All billboards that have ugly backsides should be removed or upgraded.

Rosalind Peterson: How to opt-out of PG&E SmartMeters…

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Re: PG&E SmartMeter Opt-Out

[The PG&E Opt-Out is based on a California Public Utilities Commission Decision on February 1, 2012. See my notes below... -RP]

What are the costs to opt-out of the SmartMeter™ Program?
There is an initial $75 setup charge and a $10 monthly meter-reading charge. For income-qualified customers (those enrolled in our CARE or FERA programs), the initial setup charge is $10, and the monthly meter-reading charge is $5.

Why do I have to pay a charge to opt-out of SmartMeter™?
Generally, the opt-out costs include an initial setup charge, which pays for the technology changes necessary to offer two meter-reading systems plus the initial visit, which is to install a new analog meter, or test the existing analog meter. The monthly service charge provides for a meter reader to read the meter on a monthly basis as well as other costs associated with the maintenance of separate meter programs.

Will PG&E refuse to provide me an analog meter if I don’t pay?
No. We will process your opt-out request and install your analog meter, but you still will be responsible for these charges.

Do I have to pay a setup charge and monthly charge for each of my meters?
No, the setup charge is per residence, not per meter. If you have both a gas meter and an electric meter at your property, only one setup charge and one monthly charge will be added to your energy statement. However, if you would like to opt-out for other residences on your account, there is a setup charge and a monthly charge for each additional household.

Once I opt-out, when can I expect to receive my analog meter?
We’re working as quickly as possible to assist all of our customers with their opt-out preferences. We do not have

Rosalind Peterson: Good News! Groups sue over Navy sonar use off Northwest coast…

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SEATTLE (AP) — Conservationists and Native American tribes are suing over the Navy’s expanded use of sonar in training exercises off the Washington, Oregon and California coasts, saying the noise can harass and kill whales and other marine life.

In a lawsuit being filed Thursday by the environmental law firmEarthjustice, the Natural Resources Defense Council and other groups against the National Marine Fisheries Service claims the service was wrong to approve the Navy’s plan for the expanded training.

They said the regulators should have considered the effects repeated sonar use can have on those species over many years and also required certain restrictions on where the Navy could conduct sonar and other loud activities to protect orcas, humpbacks and other whales, as well as seals, sea lions and dolphins.

Instead, the Navy is required to look around and see if sea mammals are present before they conduct the training.

Kristen Boyles, a Seattle-based attorney with Earthjustice, said it’s the job of the fisheries service to balance the needs of the Navy with measures to protect marine life.

“Nobody’s saying they shouldn’t train,” she said. “But it can’t be possible that it’s no-holds-barred, that there’s no place where this can’t happen.”

In 2010, the fisheries service approved the Navy’s five-year plan for operations in the Northwest Training Range Complex, an area roughly the size of California, about 126,000 nautical square miles, that stretches from the waters off Mendocino County in California to the Canadian border. The Navy has conducted exercises in the training range for 60 years, but in recent years proposed increased weapons testing and submarine training.

The groups want the permit granted to the Navy to be invalidated. They are asking the court to order the fisheries service to study the long-term effects of sonar on marine mammals, in accordance with the Endangered Species Act and other laws.

Regulators determined that while sonar use by navies has been associated with the deaths of whales around the world, including the beaching of 37 whales on North Carolina’s Outer Banks in 2005, there was little chance of that happening in the Northwest. The short duration of the sonar use, typically 90 minutes

Rosalind Peterson: Protest mail delivery delay in Mendocino County

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

[More unacceptable, union-busting, privatizing tricks from the dark side... -DS]

December 2, 2011
The Honorable Congressman Mike Thompson
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.

RE:  U.S. Postal Service – Mendocino County, CA – Mail Delivery Delay – Public Comment Deadline:  December 5, 2011 – See Public Comment Address + Telephone number below.

Dear Congressman Thompson:

The U.S. Postal Service wants to close our North Bay Processing and Distribution Mail Facility and send all of our mail to Oakland to be processed.  Those that have a ZIP CODE that starts with 954 or 940 will be negatively impacted by this decision.

If this closure is allowed to happen all of our mail will be delayed by at least one day.  It should be noted that our Ukiah Post Office is in danger of closing and that this North Bay Processing and Distributing Closure will further degrade

Rosalind Peterson: Oppose Section 101 (Social Security) of the American Jobs Act Today [Local]

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

Imagine giving large corporations a tax break which undermines our Social Security System. Write to your elected officials and oppose giving our corporations another tax break at the expense of our Social Security Program.

Full Text of the American Jobs Act
http://www.whitehouse.gov/jobsact/read-the-bill#SEC227

SECTION 101 - Reduces substantially the amount paid by businesses and employees into the Social Security system. This will have the impact of giving business the ability to reduce paying their share of employees Social Security benefits and also reduces the amount employees pay toward this program. When employees go to get their benefits in the near future they will find that they have underpaid and may not eligible for full benefits Social Security benefits in the future.

Toll Free # for all of our elected officials:

Rosalind Peterson: Fukushima Disaster 2011 — U.S. Receiving steady flow of radiation fallout [Updated]

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

[“U.S. is receiving a steady flow of radiation from Fukushima” — Media paying little attention to radiation in food, as if problem only involves Japan -DS]

[Update: Revealed — British government's scheme with Nuke companies to play down Fukushima]

[Rosalind Peterson has put together a comprehensive chronology of Japan disaster events on her website at Agriculture Defense Coalition. -DS]

Rosalind Peterson…

The Japan section is alphabetized and also in chronological order of events. I hope that you will find this information of value to you. There are maps, videos, documents, articles and other information on these two sections:

http://www.agriculturedefensecoalition.org/?q=content/japan-disaster-2011

http://www.agriculturedefensecoalition.org/nuclear-issues

Each day brings additional bad news from Japan which is now rarely reported by the United States News Media.

Rosalind Peterson: Take Action! Social Security Alert!

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

There are currently seventeen [8], bills pending in either the U.S. House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate that are related to changes in Social Security [1-2].  This staggering number of Social Security bills, now being considered in various committees, where amendments will be added or the bills changed, shows how determined many elected officials are in either privatizing or killing two of the most beneficial programs to protect the public ever created (with the exception of the U.S. EPA and our Clear Air and Water Act Laws).

President Obama and members of the U.S. House and Senate have placed Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block in ongoing debt ceiling negotiations.  In these secret negotiations, far away from public enlightenment or debate, deals are being cooked-up to undermine, cut or privatize these important and highly beneficial programs.

The income cap, for example, in Social Security should be increased so that the rich pay their fair tax share of these costs.  Instead more payroll tax holidays are planned allowing the rich to escalate their riches by paying less in taxes.

What Government Dare Verify This Photographic Proof Reactor Core Exploded At Unit 3 Spewing Deadly Plutonium World-Wide? (Updated)

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
CaliforniaSkyWatch
Redwood Valley

Hi-Res Photographic Proof Reactor Core Exploded At Unit 3 [Many Images]

…and here: http://tinyurl.com/627o5n7

[Update] Maybe not… http://www.fairewinds.com/content/gundersen-postulates-unit-3-explosion-may-have-been-prompt-criticality-fuel-pool
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Rosalind Peterson: Red Alert! Press Conference on Fukushima with Helen Caldicott

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley
~

[Karma happens... killing ourselves slowly... -DS]

Fukushima Forecast: Series of radiation clouds to hit US West Coast beginning April 24 

Video here

AREAS WHOSE FOOD PRODUCTS MAY NOW CARRY RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT

The Entirety of the Northern Hemisphere around the world is affected by fallout, as well as the Pacific Ocean.

Most Serious: Japan, Pacific Ocean, and Pacific Rim States

Most Contaminated food areas of North America (based on fallout wind spread patterns charted by European scientific research agencies) in order of likely intensity of contamination, starting with the most contaminated:

Entire Pacific Coast (note that much of the produce in North America comes from this region, especially California)

Northern U.S. States close to Canada, and Canadian areas close to the U.S. (including Toronto etc.)
Eastern States

Central States of the U.S., and Far Northern areas of Canada

SAFEST AREAS OF ORIGIN FOR FOOD PRODUCTS

UC Berkeley Food Chain Sampling Results

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Thanks to Rosalind Peterson
Redwood Valley

Radionuclides, once deposited by rainwater or air onto the ground, will find their way through the ecosystem. We are already tracking its path from rainwater to creek runoff to tap water, but we would also like to monitor how much these isotopes that make their way into our food. For example, how much gets taken up by the grass and eventually winds up in our milk?

We have been collecting produce that is as local as possible to test for the radioactive isotopes. We might expect different kinds of plants to take up different quantities of cesium and iodine, so we are trying to measure as many different plants and fruits as we are able to. So far, we have measured spinach, strawberries, cilantro, grass, and mushrooms. We have also measured local topsoil.

In the tables below, we are providing two numbers for each of the isotopes. The first is a standard concentration unit of Becquerel per kilogram (Bq/kg) which is the number of particles decaying per second in each kilogram of the sample. The number in parentheses after the activity is the number of kilograms that one would need to consume to equal the radiation exposure of a single round trip flight from San Francisco to Washington D.C. (0.05 mSv). For more information on how this equivalent dose is calculated, the details are here: How Effective Dose is Calculated

The experimental setup used for the food testing is the same setup used for the Rainwater Collection Experiment.

Results here
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Rosalind Peterson: Nuclear Information Links (Updated)

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All is well…

From ROSALIND PETERSON
Agriculture Defense Coalition
Redwood Valley

[See more links from Rosalind below article. -DS]

[Update: Radioactivity in Sea up 7.5 Million Times]

FALLOUT

EPA Plans to Reduce Cleanup of Nuclear Fallout Now

“No rest for the wicked!” Says EPA Employee With a Smile

From Michael Kane

(Special to CollapseNet)

© Copyright 2011 CollapseNetwork, Inc.   (Please Distribute Widely)

[Long time readers will remember Michael Kane from his years of writing for From The Wilderness where he proved himself a fearless investigative journalist. Michael also contributed a chapter to my book “Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. It’s nice to see him in the field again. – MCR] In the wake

Frankenfish spook Northwest lawmakers

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[We should ask Congressman Thompson, Senator's Boxer & Feinstein to support Senator Murray on this important issue. Washington, D.C. U.S. Congress toll free  (1866) 220-0044. ~Rosalind Peterson]

From McClatchy Newspapers
Thanks to Rosalind Peterson
Redwood Valley

Fearing for the wild salmon industry in the Northwest, Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state wants to stop the Food and Drug Administration from making a quick decision on whether to approve genetically modified Atlantic salmon for human consumption.

Republican Rep. Don Young of Alaska says that Congress can’t allow “these alien fish to infect our stocks.”

Murray and Young are part of a growing bipartisan coalition on Capitol Hill that’s out to stop a Massachusetts biotechnology company from winning federal approval to sell its fast-growing fish, which critics are calling “Frankenfish.”

“I’m very concerned this is being rushed through with massive potential for negative ramifications,” Murray said.

Take Action! Rally and Public Meeting with the U.S. Navy in Ft. Bragg Today Thursday 12/16/10 4-7pm

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

Military Testing Off the Mendocino Coast and Other Areas – Coming Soon Unless We Stop Them…

Watch Sherri Glaser’s video and be sure and come to the meeting Thursday; I understand the meeting made national news last night (ABC). 

The U.S. Navy wants to conduct military testing in our Ocean Sanctuary here on the Pacific North West Coast! (Northern California, Oregon & Washington). The Navy admits that their sonar tests and explosions may harm as many as 2.5 million sea creatures per year over the next 5 years in the Atlantic, Pacific & Gulf of Mexico. We’re talking about the death of whales, dolphins, seals, fish and countless other life forms right off of our Mendocino Coast, Northern California, Oregon & Washington in the NWTRC (Northwest Training Range Complex).

***Please watch the video and PLEASE come to the public meeting with the U.S. Navy on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010 from 5-7pm, Pentecost Hall, 822 Stewart St., Fort Bragg, CA. There will be a Rally at 4:00 P.M.  before this meeting.

Please share this message with your friends and neighbors!   To Read the Navy Final E.I.S. or their Record of Decision go to http://www.nwtrangecomplexeis.com/Documents.aspx and read the Record of Decision which means that new weapons will be tested in this area as well.

Thank you.

On November 10, 2010, NOAA approved the “taking” (harming) of marine mammals in Northern California by issuing a permit to the U.S. Navy

Take Action! US Navy Public Meetings in Mendocino County. Ukiah Meeting Today 12/9/10 1-3 pm

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

NOAA PUBLIC MEETING IN UKIAH

SAVE 11.7 MILLION MARINE MAMMALS

NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2010     1-3 P.M.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS CHAMBERS, 501 LOW GAP ROAD, UKIAH, CA 95482

U.S. CONGRESSMAN MIKE THOMPSON HAS GRACIOUSLY INVITED DR. JANE LUBCHENCO, NOAA ADMINISTRATOR, TO UKIAH TO SPEAK ABOUT MARINE SPACIAL PLANNING & TO ANSWER QUESTIONS FROM THE PUBLIC WITH REGARD TO THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT ISSUES IMPACTING NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.

On November 10, 2010, NOAA approved the “taking” (harming) of marine mammals in Northern California by issuing a permit to the U.S. Navy (NWTRC-Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho).  In addition, NOAA gave the U.S. Navy a Letter of Authorization which allows them to begin 5-Year Warfare testing and exercises without protecting any National Marine Sanctuaries, fish, breeding habitats, biologically sensitive areas or marine reserves.

Many residents in Northern California are requesting that NOAA rescind the permit and the Letter of Authorization to the Navy until public workshops can be held in Northern California, where our marine biologists and other scientists, along with the EPA, can participate in order to protect our biologically sensitive areas, our fish, and our marine mammals.  The fishing and tourism industry

Take Action! Protect Our Pacific Ocean Environment: Board of Supervisors Tuesday 10/19/10

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

Action Item On Agenda

The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors is working to protect Northern California coastal areas from the 5-Year U.S. Navy NWTRC Warfare Testing that may negatively impact the fishing and tourism industry, fish, birds, and public health. The Marin County Supervisors have joined Mendocino County in this effort and will be holding their meeting in Marin County this week. (Testing includes sonar, missile exercises, bomb blasts, toxic chemicals + More)

U.S. Navy NWTRC Testing Area Encompasses: Northern California, Oregon, Washington & Idaho

The Public is Invited to Attend the Mendocino County Board of Supervisor’s Meeting and express their views on this critical issue.

*The Final Filing Date for the U.S. Navy Public Comments is October 24, 2010.

Interested parties may submit comments via the project website at www.NWTRangeComplexEIS.com or by U.S. mail to:

Naval Facilities Engineering Command Northwest
1101 Tautog Circle, Suite 203
Silverdale, WA 98315-1101
Attn: Mrs. Kimberly Kler – NWTRC EIS

Rosalind Peterson: Update! Congressman Mike Thompson got the Navy to extend the Final FEIS Public Comment Deadline to October 24, 2010 Three Cheers!

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

Toll Free Number (1866) 220-0044

Senator Barbara Boxer
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Congressman Mike Thompson, California
Congresswomen Lynn Woolsey

Three items:

1) Extend the U.S. Navy Final Environmental NWTRC public comment period. (Northwest Training Range Complex)

2) Ask for U.S. Congressional Hearings

3) Make any personal comments about the destruction of marine mammal sanctuaries and reserves or your own comments.
~

October 12, 2010

The Honorable Congressman Mike Thompson

I understand that you are working to obtain an extension of the final Navy Public Comment period.  We appreciate your efforts on our behalf.

Rosalind Peterson: Take Action! What You Can Do By October 11, 2010 About The U.S. Navy’s New Threat To Northern California And Gulf Of Mexico Marine Life

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIAL TODAY! ASK FOR U.S. CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS TO PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH, OUR MARINE MAMMALS & OUR OCEANS.

U.S. NAVY 5-YEAR WARFARE TESTING PROGRAMS A NEW THREAT TO THE PACIFIC, GULF OF MEXICO & ATLANTIC MARINE MAMMALS

U.S. CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS NEEDED TODAY TO PROTECT ALL OCEAN WILDLIFE & HUMAN HEALTH!

USA TODAY broke this news when they published a news story titled: “Navy Plans Could Affect More Marine Mammals” on August 5, 2010 [1]. According to USA Today news article, backed up by federal documents from the U.S. Navy and NOAA: “…The Navy plans to increase ocean warfare exercises, conduct more sonar tests and expand coastal training…

Rosalind Peterson: New report out on Geoengineering

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

http://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Geoengineering.pdf

U.S. Congressional Research Service
Geoengineering Governance and Technology
CRS Report Released on:  August 16, 2010
Prepared for Members of the U.S. Congress

Please see this website for more information:
http://agriculturedefensecoalition.org/

See Sections:
http://agriculturedefensecoalition.org/?q=geoengineering
http://agriculturedefensecoalition.org/?q=sunlight
Note Health Effects from Lack of Sunlight + Increasing Cloud Cover

The funding for Geoengineering projects is expected from the U.S. House Bill 2454 Passed in 2009 and the companion Climate/Energy Bill that may pass in 2010 or early January 2011, before this current session of congress ends.  Draft copy available on Senator Kerry’s Website. See Section:
http://agriculturedefensecoalition.org/?q=cap-and-trade

Please note that there have been three U.S. House of Representatives Hearings on Geoengineering.  The first was on November 5, 2009, the second and third hearings were in February and March 2010. A U.S. House Science & Technology Committee Geoengineering Final Report is due out in September 2010.

It should be noted that the hearings did not include scientists from fields (like marine biology, EPA, U.S.D.A., Forest Service, etc.,) or anyone who would question or oppose these issues-some concerns were raised. 

Rosalind Peterson: Defending Our Agriculture

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

In 2006, an organization called the Agriculture Defense Coalition was founded in order to bring many current issues and legislation to public attention. It has taken two years of hard work to create this website and categorize the data you will find on a wide variety of subjects.

The Agriculture Defense Coalition is dedicated to protecting agriculture, our water supplies, trees, and pollinators from a wide variety of experimental weather modification and atmospheric testing programs and experiments.

These experimental programs will cause a decline in agriculture crop production, exacerbate declines in tree health, and add toxic chemicals to our water supplies and soils. The results of many of these experiments will be long-lasting and will affect trees, birds, mammals, fish, watersheds, pollinators, crop production, rivers and streams.

In the United States anyone may modify or mitigate your weather or climate without your consent. Any government agency, the military, state, county, city, private corporation, weather modification company or individual can modify your weather at any time. No public notification is required other than to report these programs to the United States Interior Department, NOAA. However, it has been learned that many programs are not reported to NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration).

Rosalind Peterson: Caltrans Widening of U.S. 101 in Richardson Park Threatens California Redwoods

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

Article here.

The idea is to straighten the road out and widen the shoulders in an effort to accommodate the largest big rig trucks, which currently do not use the roadway. Many business leaders and politicians in Eureka have expressed support for the project on grounds that it would help commerce.

We can all take action against this proposal and call the following elected officials:

Congressman Mike Thompson (1-866) 220-0044 (Toll Free Washington Office) The Redwood Trees are in his district.

Senators Barbara Boxer & Dianne Feinstein (1-866) 220-0044 (Toll Free Washington, D.C. Office)

And we can contact the office of the Governor of California:
(916) 445-2841 And let him know that his legacy should not be the destruction of the Redwood in
Richardson State Park, etc.

We also need to contact our elected State Representatives in Sacramento-Local Offices don’t always deliver Messages to Sacramento Offices:

California Assemblyman Wes Chesbro (916) 391-2001

Senator Pat Wiggins (916) 445-3373

Also CALTRANS deserves some telephone calls as well from those that oppose this action:
(707) 445-6600 Eureka Office
District CALTRANS Director: (707) 445-6445

Our Mendocino County Supervisors should also speak out as Richardson State Park is a Tourist Attraction and we should support keeping this area as a tourist attraction not a fast road track for speeding and polluting trucks. Many enjoy the highway and don’t drive at 65 MPH preferring to enjoy the beauty of this area. Please contact your local Supervisor and ask for a resolution to protect Richardson State Park Redwood Trees.<!–

HWY 101 Widening Jeopardizes Richardson State Park Redwood Trees

A coalition of environmental groups and individuals filed a lawsuit this week in San Francisco challenging a plan by the California Department of Transportation to widen a highway through an ancient redwood grove.

Rosalind Peterson: Take Action! Stop the Cap and Trade Ponzi Bill

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

Senators Kerry, Lieberman & Graham are pushing hard to introduce and pass a Climate, Energy, Jobs bill which includes a Cap & Trade Ponzi Scheme (PRI) Pollution Reduction Investment and a carbon tax.

The backroom negotiations are now underway and the banks and Wall Street are drooling over the prospect of the taxpayers being charged in order to enrich their coffers one more time…this is why the banks have been written into this new U.S. Senate Bill.

The U.S. monetary printing press is gearing up to print free offsets and offsets that can be given free to some polluters (others will be required to purchase them), in order to offset their pollution.  Thus, corporate polluters will be engaged in buying and selling the right to pollute.

It is no surprise then the corporations and venture capitalists are looking for carbon offsets around the world to purchase for a pittance in order to offset tons of pollution which they will continue to emit – unregulated for at least seven to the next ten years… Senator Kerry’s new bill will then only required a 10% to 17% reduction by 2017or 2020, of 2005 Emission Levels.  It is a great deal…the new Ponzi Scheme that is going to allow polluters to enrich themselves at taxpayer expense.

The American public will be taxed at all levels, hurting the poor and the working poor, along with the middle class while the banks and Wall Street enrich themselves.  And the polluters get off free with their offsets from every imaginable source.   Some of the carbon taxes will go to a private corporation set up under the United Nations… President Obama and Secretary Clinton have agreed to fund this corporation at $100 Billion per year.  The lie about all of this is that the carbon taxes will be returned to the people… no such luck… by the time one reads the bill one will understand that there will be nothing left at the end except a mere pittance.

Action Center! Stop U.S. Navy Warfare Testing Plans

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Agriculture Defense Coalition
Redwood Valley

[This is a huge effort taken on by Rosalind to save our ocean, marine mammals, and fisheries! Petitions available at Mulligan Books. -DS]

I have put up every single piece of information I have on the U.S. Navy Warfare Testing Plans plus a couple of U.S. Air Force Documents here.  I hope that you will find this information of interest.

Also please note that I have an oceans section as well and will be updating this by Monday with all new ocean information that I have at this time.
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See also The Biology of the Blue Whale – Slide lecture Thursday, April 15, 7pm, Ukiah Civic Center. See Events at PeregrineAudubon.org.
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Action Center: Demonstrations at Geo-Engineering Scientists Conference in San Diego

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

Geo-Engineering (Wikipedia) is the artificial modification of Earth’s climate systems. Geo-Engineering projects range from DECLASSIFIED experimentation (like iron particles being dumped into the oceans to attract algae, which sequesters carbon and, theoretically, slows global warming) to HIGHLY CLASSIFIED experimentation like AEROSOL SPRAYING (chemical spraying). The two most quickly advancing Geo-Engineering philosophies are carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM).

ALL Activists, Demonstrators Meet at (at closest public property- to be announced) San Diego Convention Center at 7:30 AM on Saturday, February 20th. Scientists and others will be meeting for their conference entitled “Can Geoengineering save us from Global Warming”. Bring signs, flyers and media connections. Groups are now co-ordinating from several nearby states. News has been that reports of this are spreading far and wide. Keep it LEGAL, keep it safe, STAY ON PUBLIC PROPERTY. When you arrive, others will be able to help guide you.

You can obtain the information by going to www.geoengineeringwatch.org
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Feeding The World By Cleaning The Air

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

NASA Funded Study November 23, 2009: “Feeding the world by cleaning the air…study ties heavy regional haze to reductions in crop production.” http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=20806

“A new study suggests that cleaning up the air may help to feed the world. Published in the November 23, 2009, issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study found that heavy regional haze in… important agricultural areas may be cutting food production there by as much as one-third. Covering a million square kilometers or more, the haze scatters and absorbs solar radiation, reducing the amount of sunlight reaching key rice and winter wheat crops. That decreases plant growth and food production…”

“For crops that are irrigated and fertilized, there is often a direct correlation between how much is grown and how much sunlight reaches those crops,” said Dr. William L. Chameides, professor in the School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. “In China there is a significant amount of haze that reduces the sunlight reaching the surface by at least five percent, and perhaps as much as 30 percent. The optimal yields of crops in China are likely reduced by the same percentage.”

“…Extensive studies by agricultural researchers have documented the relationship between crop production and the sunlight received…

Copenhagen Accord Notes

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

1) The United States is committed to implement qualified economy-wide emissions targets for 2020 to be submitted to the United Nations by January 31, 2010.

2) The U.S. Senate will be under the gun to pass their Cap & Trade, Energy & Jobs bill (S1733 or another similar bill) prior to January 31, 2010 to be in compliance with this Accord.

3) The current bill before the U.S. Senate will not reduce any pollution emissions until 2017 and then only a 17% reduction of 2005 identified greenhouse gas emissions (water vapor, a greenhouse gas, is excluded from this legislation). Thus, no action is planned by the Copenhagen Accord or the United States in reducing any greenhouse gases until 2017 or 2020.

4) The EPA, without any passage of legislation and under authority from a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, is now on track to immediately begin to reduce all pollution from every greenhouse gas source. Without interference from Congress or the White House compliance with the Accord will begin in 2010, and could put the United States in the lead in taking immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. The EPA model could set and example for the entire world and the United States would be immediately demonstrating its commitment to protecting the environment.

5) The Accord is weak in that no implementation of greenhouse gas reductions is to take place until 2020.

6) The Accord will use various approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions “…including opportunities to use markets, to enhance the cost-effectiveness of, and to promote mitigation actions…” This means that (S1733) a Cap & Trade System will be used in lieu of actual immediate reductions to allow polluters to “Buy & Sell the “Right to Pollute” between 2010 and 2017 or 2020. No pollution reduction will take place until either of these target dates.

Mendocino County: Why are you filling our lungs with pollution?

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Lake Mendocino Dec 6, 2009

From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

December 8, 2009

Mendocino County Board of Supervisors
501 Low Gap Road
Ukiah, California 95482

RE:  Air Pollution – Agriculture Burning, Backyard Burning, Forest Lands

Dear Chairman Pinches & Members of the Board of Supervisors:

The Mendocino County Air Pollution Control District has failed for years in giving timely warnings when the air quality in various parts of Mendocino County, CA, is dangerous to public health, especially in the Ukiah Valley. Since November 23, 2008, agriculture and backyard burning peaked again and the Mendocino County Air Pollution Control District did not notify the public in the Ukiah Valley that they should take precautions due to poor air quality.

Take Action! United States Navy to Conduct Massive Atmospheric Experimental Tests Starting As Early As September 15, 2009

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

An article in Space.com (1) titled, “NASA Rocket to Create Clouds Tuesday” by Clara Moskowits, Staff Writer – September 14, 2009, was unexpectedly forwarded to me today.

According to the article: “…A rocket experiment set to launch Tuesday aims to create artificial clouds at the outermost layers of Earth’s atmosphere. The project, called the Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE)…”This is really essentially at the boundary of space,” said Wayne Scales, a scientist at Virginia Tech who will…study the physics of the artificial dust cloud as it’s released…CARE is slated to launch Tuesday between 7:30 and 7:57 p.m. EDT (2330 and 2357 GMT) from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia….”

“…CARE will release its (aluminum oxide) (4), dust particles a bit higher than that, then let them settle back down to a lower altitude.”What the CARE experiment hopes to do is to create an artificial dust layer,” Professor Scales told SPACE.com. “Hopefully it’s a creation in a controlled sense, which will allow scientists to study different aspects of it, the turbulence generated on the inside, the distribution of dust particles and such.” CARE is a project of the Naval Research Laboratory and the Department of Defense Space Test Program. The spacecraft will launch aboard a NASA four-stage Black Brant XII suborbital sounding rocket…Researchers will track the CARE dust cloud for days or even months to study its behavior and development over time…If CARE cannot launch Tuesday, the team can try again between Sept. 16 and Sept. 20, 2009…”

The U.S. Navy, NASA, and the U.S. Defense Department have made a decision to conduct one or more atmospheric tests, in order to create an aluminum oxide dust cloud without the permission, and for the most part, the knowledge of the citizens of the United States. These aluminum oxide particles may eventually return to earth polluting our air, water and soils. The tests may damage the various atmospheric boundaries that protect life on earth – no one has any idea what damage this dust cloud and the testing on this dust cloud may do to our climate, agriculture, human health or the amount of infrared and UV radiation reaching the Earth.

It is time to contact elected officials today and protest this action which may begin as early as today, September 15, 2009. The Navy is already conducting warfare testing in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico and has more ranges in the planning and permit stages. Senator Dianne Feinstein and Senator Barbara Boxer noted in a June 19, 2009. Letter to Dr. Jane Lubchenco, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce:

Take Action! on Navy War Games: Marine Mammals and Other Sea Life to be Decimated by the Millions from Sea to Shining Sea

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

August 18, 2009 Ukiah Valley, Mendocino, North California

Update on June 5th Report: 5-Year U.S. Navy Warfare Testing Programs Located in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf of Mexico

The United States Navy will be decimating millions of marine mammals and other aquatic life, each year, for the next five years, under their Warfare Testing Range Complex Expansions in the Atlantic, Pacific, and the Gulf of Mexico. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS under NOAA), has already approved the “taking” of marine mammals in more than a dozen Navy Range Warfare Testing Complexes (6), and is preparing to issue another permit for 11.7 millions marine mammals (32 Separate Species), to be decimated along the Northern, California, Oregon and Washington areas of the Pacific Ocean (7).

U.S. Department of Commerce – NOAA (NMFS) Definition: “TAKE” Defined under the MMPA as “harass, hunt, capture, kill or collect, or attempt to harass, hunt, capture, kill or collect.” Defined under the ESA as “to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct.” Definition: Incidental Taking: An unintentional, but not unexpected taking (12).

The total number of marine mammals that will be decimated in the Atlantic, Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico for the next five years is unknown. The NMFS approvals will have a devastating impact upon the marine mammal populations worldwide and this last Navy permit, which is expected to be issued in February 2010, for the “taking” of more than 11.7 million marine mammals in the Pacific will be the final nail in the coffin for any healthy populations of sea life to survive.

Contrails and Man-Made Clouds Change Climate, Harming Agriculture

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

July 27, 2009 Ukiah Valley, Mendocino, North California

It is sometimes difficult to separate out fact from fiction and beliefs. It is even more difficult when United States citizens live under a government which classifies as “secret” more and more information with each passing day. In addition, many government agencies, scientists, and researchers decide that certain information should not be given to the public because they know that the public would say “NO,” to many of their experiments or actions.

Thus, unraveling exactly why jet contrails began to abnormally persist and turn into white haze and man-made clouds, since the late 1980s, has been difficult…requiring hours of research into government documents, university studies, and following every lead to find answers to these questions. What we do know and can prove has broad implications for human health, agriculture crop production, the health of the earth’s pollinators, lack of photosynthesis (direct sunlight needed for all trees and plants to grow and produce crops), and climate change. The following is a brief history of persistent jet contrails and man-made clouds:

1 – Jet engine produced contrails now may persist and turn into white haze and man-made clouds. This change began to be noticed across the United States, in the late 1980s, when reports began to be published regarding the unusual persistence of contrails, captured in pictures and videos that began to reflect their presence. Increasingly, as time passed, more and more reports and questions regarding the number and type of jets leaving persistent jet contrails surfaced. (5)

2 – Thousands of pictures and videos were placed on the Internet and in local newspapers, with questions about the different types

Good News from Rosalind Peterson

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley
Caifornia Sky Watch

June 13, 2009 Ukiah, Mendocino County, North California

Please let everyone know that the delegation from Connecticut and California (Rosalind & Meredith Smith), spent this past week lobbying the U.S. Congress to defeat the U.S. Navy plan to harm marine mammals, other aquatic life and animals, along with negative impacts on human health, air and water.

We all arrived in Washington, D.C. armed with petitions from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California and also from other states in the United States.  We hand delivered petitions to California Senators Boxer and Feinstein, and Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon.  In addition, Meredith Smith is staying in Washington, D.C., this coming week  to lobby against the Navy.

Meredith arranged to meet at 4:00 P.M. with California Congressman Mike Thompson on Thursday, June 11th, to discuss what plans could be worked out to have Congressman Thompson work with us on congressional hearings into the Navy program.  Meredith presented Congressman Thompson with a second binder containing all the petitions that we have gathered since we gave Thompson’s aide, Heidi Dickerson, the first binder containing all of the original signatures gathered prior to the time that KTVU filmed the event in Fort Bragg, CA last month.

Meredith was also going to let Congressman Thompson know about the binder presented to Heidi Dickerson last month since he did not seem to know that the public had presented his office with this binder full of petitions from all over California.

Today and during her stay in Washington, DC next week Meredith will be meeting with additional members of Congress and will be hand delivering our petitions to the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. Her efforts on behalf of the citizens of Mendocino County are to be highly commended.  When she returns she will be reporting on the success of her efforts in Washington, D.C.

While the delegation was in Washington, D.C. this week we brought color brochures, packets, and information about the Navy Warfare expansion to every member of the U.S. Senate.  In addition, we visited the offices of over 300 U.S. Congressmen with regard to this issue.  There were many that did not know about this Navy plan and

Take Action! Navy To Sacrifice 2.3 Million Marine Mammals Per Year For 5 Years Of War Games Off Our Mendocino Coast

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From ROSALIND PETERSON
Redwood Valley

June 5, 2009 Ukiah, Mendocino County, North California

SAVE OUR FISHING & WHALE WATCHING INDUSTRIES, our marine habitat, and protect the public from highly toxic chemicals.

A wide variety of marine mammals (whales, dolphins, porpoises, manatees, seals, walrus, and otters) have already died due to Navy Warfare Testing of Weapons currently underway in the Hawaiian Islands, the Mariana Islands, the Pacific Ocean off the coastline of Oregon, Washington, Southern California, the Gulf of Mexico, and other areas where testing is now conducted in both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

The Navy now proposes to expand its NWT Range Complex warfare testing range to encompass more land areas of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California and the Pacific Ocean.

Many chemicals, like depleted uranium, used in this program are toxic to humans, marine mammals, all wildlife, and birds.

The Navy has violated NEPA laws by not informing the majority of the citizens of the United States about this program.

The Navy admits that there are severe declines in some marine mammal populations, and they will “take”, harm, maim or kill approximately 2.3 million marine mammals per year over five years.

The Navy will disrupt the fishing and whaling tourist industry near some of their weapons test areas in the Pacific Ocean even though there are sensitive marine areas in the Pacific Ocean which need to be preserved and protected.

Airborne sky obscurants like toxic fog oils, red phosphorus, white phosphorus, Aluminum Coated Fiberglass & Flares,