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Chain Stores, Picket Fences and Tanks

American-style sprawl is adversely affecting the outposts of our global empire

By Adam Doster

Much ink has been spilled over the ills of American suburbanization—homogeneity, car-dependency, systematic segregation and abolishment of public space. More and more people are questioning the value of communities once seen as the centerpiece of the American Dream. But anti-sprawl critiques are usually limited to places like Levittown or Laguna Beach. Could they be applied to U.S. military bases as… return to article

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    Dr Morgan Reynolds, the former Chief Economist of the US Dept of Labor, is suing private contractors alleging they defrauded the government by supplying bogus analyses for the official 9/11 NIST Report of an aluminum airplane with a plastic nosecone gliding into a steel/concrete building.

    Dr Reynolds is represented by attorney Jerry Leaphart, and is demanding a Trial By Jury.

    The US District Court, Southern New York, recently unsealed the case and Mr Leaphart is now notifying the Defendants.

    See Dr Reynolds site for info and the Court Document PDF:
    http://nomoregames.net/index.php?page=911&subpage1=federal_case

    Dr Judy Wood, a former Professor of Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University, recently filed an appeal with the government for their refusal to retract their report on the World Trade Center destruction. Dr Wood (and Dr Reynolds) have compiled much evidence demonstrating that the WTC was destroyed with directed energy weapons. She has been in contact with government officials and is getting results. See Dr Wood’s site for evidence of directed energy weapons and PDFs of official Request for Corrections filed with the government:
    http://drjudywood.com

    Dr Wood is also represented by Jerry Leaphart.

    It’s every American’s duty to remove corrupt elements in the government.
    Please help by distributing the above material to your local media.

    United States Posted by CB_Brooklyn on Sep 18, 2007 at 5:48 AM

    “WTC was destroyed with directed energy weapons.”

    Damn, i thought it was destroyed by Martians. . . Ha ha ha!!!

    Oh wait, no ti was the Jews! Ha ha ha!!!

    Or could it have been the Islamic crazies who flew airplanes (!!!) into it? As hard as it is to believe that people could stoop to such evil, the videos are very very compelling. . . .

    United States Posted by wolf on Sep 19, 2007 at 12:26 PM

    But history suggests that, one way or another, all people eventually die. Instead of trying to rein in their excesses, people need to work toward hastening that happy, inevitable outcome.

    Just a minor change that makes just as little sense as the original.

    Must be really easy to be a contributor to ITT, given they abysmally low standards.

    United States Posted by wolf on Sep 19, 2007 at 12:29 PM

    Hey, I might agree that “hastening that happy, inevitable outcome” was poorly written, but it still makes sense if you overlook the poor wording.  The part I think is poorly worded is that it implies that a catastrophic collapse with lots of death would be okay, which I disagree with-- but some empires collapse catastrophically (the Mayans, the Aztecs) and some collapse quietly to the benefit of the home population (Britain).  I for one would be very much in favor of it collapsing like the British Empire-- that is to say, turning back to spending its money on maintaining its domestic, democratic social and economic environment instead of military conquests.

    United States Posted by davelwhite on Sep 21, 2007 at 8:09 AM
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