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NASA Giving Away Secrets To Foreign Nationals and Discount Airport Fees to Google?
Posted by 16 May 2012
Congressional Judicial Committee ranking member, Senator Chuck Grassley wants NASA to answer up about whether or not the Google Corporation (yup, the Search Engine people): “…leases space at the federal airfield at a rate below market value to house its corporate airplanes and whether the company has purchased jet fuel from the government at a discounted price, allegedly well below the market price due to tax treatment…” And he wants to know about information from Whistleblowers that allege: “Specifically… that in recent years [NASA Ames Reseach Center] Director [Simon P.]Worden allowed foreign nationals to access this facility. These foreign nationals...
Is The Pentagon Prepping Us For Poor Defense?
Posted by 14 May 2012
  Karen Parrish at American Forces Press Service reports that the Department of Defense Budget Request reflects the Pentagon’s tough Choices.  She writes: “As Congress marks up the military budget, the nation’s defense leaders said today they stand ready to work with lawmakers to maintain the balance they built into their budget proposal.” While that sounds fair, the snipping sound you might have heard in the background are the nation’s defenses falling prey, not to the agression of a determined enemy, but the quiet cuts of budgetary clippers.  The Parrish report provides these clips: From Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta:...
Does the Secretary of Defense Want To Surrender Our Sovereignty To The UN?
Posted by 11 May 2012
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  While Senator Jim Demint circulates a letter opposing the Law of the Sea Treaty, Obama Administration Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta,  was urging the Law of the Sea Convention forum attendees in Washington D.C. to support the treaty. Jim Garamone of the American Forces Press Service reports the Secretary said: “First, as the world’s preeminent maritime power, and the country with one of the largest coastlines and extended continental shelf, we have more to gain from accession to the convention than any other country…Right now, the United States has no seat at the table and is unable to help...
House Votes to Halt Funding for Obama Admin’s Mandatory Ocean Zoning
Posted by 10 May 2012
In a bold Constitutional challenge to pressure the Obama Administration and force it to be accountable for programs it has mandated by attempting to bypass Congress, the House of Representatives has passed by a vote of 246 to 174, an amendment to halt funding for the implementation of an Obama Executive order for Ocean Zoning and National Ocean Policy. According to a statement by the House Natural Resources Committee Chairman, Washington State Congressman, Doc Hastings: “The National Ocean Policy creates a new layer of federal bureaucracy that has the potential to make major changes to the way inland, ocean and...
Sea Treaty Is International Redistribution of Wealth and Curtails Freedom of Navigation?
Posted by 10 May 2012
“Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is urging his Senate colleagues to join him in opposing the Law of the Sea Treaty. So far he’s gathered 24 signatures on the letter he’s circulating.”  So says Fred Lucas at CNSNews.com: “By its current terms, the Law of the Sea Convention encompasses economic and technology interests in the deep sea, redistribution of wealth from developed to undeveloped nations, freedom of navigation in the deep sea and exclusive economic zones which may impact maritime security, and environmental regulation over virtually all sources of pollution,” says the letter obtained by CNSNews.com…Those who sign the letter agree...
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