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Congressional Record: March 20, 2001 (Senate)

Page S2571-S2572

Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I rise today to discuss a serious and

effective use of new technologies in our military operations. While I

will focus on a specific directed energy technology, the Joint Non-

Lethal Weapons Program Office is involved in many other research areas

that provide innovative solutions to our military men and women in

their daily missions.

  Recently, the Marines unveiled a device known as Active Denial

Technology, ADT. This is a non-lethal weapons system based on a

microwave source. This device, mounted on a humvee or other mobile

platform, could serve as a riot control method in our peacekeeping

operations or in other situations involving civilians. This project and

technology was kept classified until very recently.

  The Pentagon noted that further testing, both on humans and,

evidently, goats will be done to ensure that it truly is a non-lethal

method of crowd control or a means to disperse potentially hostile

mobs. The notion that the Pentagon is using ``microwaves'' on humans,

and especially on animals, has inflamed some human and animal rights

groups. Among others it has simply sparked fear that a new weapon

exists that will fry people.

  This is not the case.. The technology does not cause injury due to the low energy levels

used. ADT does cause heat-induced pain that is nearly identical to

briefly touching a lightbulb that has been on for a while. However,

unlike a hot lightbulb, the energy propagated at this level does not

cause rapid burning. Within a few seconds the pain induced by this

energy beam is intended to cause the subject to run away rather than to

continue to experience pain..

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HR 2977 IH

107th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 2977

To preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind by permanently prohibiting the basing of weapons in space by the United States, and to require the President to take action to adopt and implement a world treaty banning space-based weapons.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

October 2, 2001

Mr. KUCINICH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

This Act may be cited as the `Space Preservation Act of 2001'. (did it pass?)

Congress reaffirms the policy expressed in section 102(a) of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (42 U.S.C. 2451(a)), stating that it `is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.'.

(2) immediately order the permanent termination of research and development, testing, manufacturing, production, and deployment of all space-based weapons of the United States and their components.

(III) directing a source of energy (including molecular or atomic energy, subatomic particle beams, electromagnetic radiation, plasma, or extremely low frequency (ELF) or ultra low frequency (ULF) energy radiation) against that object; or

(IV) any other unacknowledged or as yet undeveloped means.

(ii) Inflicting death or injury on, or damaging or destroying, a person (or the biological life, bodily health, mental health, or physical and economic well-being of a person)--

(I) through the use of any of the means described in clause (i) or subparagraph (B);

(II) through the use of land-based, sea-based, or space-based systems using radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of information war, mood management, or mind control of such persons or populations; or

(III) by expelling chemical or biological agents in the vicinity of a person.

(B) Such terms include exotic weapons systems such as--

(i) electronic, psychotronic, or information weapons;

(ii) chemtrails;

(iii) high altitude ultra low frequency weapons systems;

(iv) plasma, electromagnetic, sonic, or ultrasonic weapons;

(v) laser weapons systems;

(vi) strategic, theater, tactical, or extraterrestrial weapons; and

(vii) chemical, biological, environmental, climate, or tectonic weapons.

(C) The term `exotic weapons systems' includes weapons designed to damage space or natural ecosystems (such as the ionosphere and upper atmosphere) or climate, weather, and tectonic systems with the purpose of inducing damage or destruction upon a target population or region on earth or in space.

Space Preservation Act of 2002

HR 3616 IH

107th CONGRESS

2d Session

H. R. 3616

Congressional Record: January 30, 2003 (Senate)

Page S1809-S1810

 TRANSMITTING PRESIDENTIAL DETERMINATION NO. 2002-30, RELATIVE TO THE

      AIR FORCE'S OPERATING LOCATION NEAR GROOM LAKE, NEVADA--PM 7

  The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the following message

from the President of the United States, together with accompanying

papers; which was referred to the Committee on Environment and Public

Works:

To the Congress of the United States:

  Consistent with section 6001(a) of the Resource Conservation and

Recovery Act (RCRA) (the ``Act''), as amended, 42 U.S.C. 6961(a),

notification is hereby given that on September 13, 2002, I issued

Presidential Determination 2002-30 (copy enclosed) and thereby

exercised the authority to grant certain exemptions under section

6001(a) of the Act.

  Presidential Determination 2002-30 exempted the United States Air

Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from any Federal,

State, interstate, or local hazardous or solid waste laws that might

require the disclosure

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of classified information concerning that operating location to

unauthorized persons. Information concerning activities at the

operating location near Groom Lake has been properly determined to be

classified, and its disclosure would be harmful to national security.

Continued protection of this information is, therefore, in the

paramount interest of the United States.

  The determination was not intended to imply that, in the absence of a

Presidential exemption, RCRA or any other provision of law permits or

requires the disclosure of classified information to unauthorized

persons. The determination also was not intended to limit the

applicability or enforcement of any requirement of law applicable to

the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake except those

provisions, if any, that might require the disclosure of classified

information.

                                                      George W. Bush,

The White House, January 29, 2003.

                          ____________________

Congressional Record: May 9, 2006 (House)

Page H2302-H2304

                   THE BIG CHILL IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to speak out of

turn.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the gentleman from

Washington (Mr. McDermott) is recognized for 5 minutes.

  There was no objection.

  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, it is awfully cold in Washington, D.C.

these days, and the arrival of spring is not going to change the frigid

temperature beginning to grip the Nation's Capital.

  No matter how much we stand in the bright sunlight, Washington, D.C.

is fast becoming a cold, cold place under this President and

administration.

  The Big Chill is on and it is becoming an ice age for the ``People's-

Right-to-Know.''

  The New York Times and The Washington Post recently won Pulitzer

Prizes for breaking through the administration's secrecy to inform the

American people about secret prisons and secret wiretapping.

  In response, the administration wants journalism stopped. It just

gets in the way of the administration telling people only what they

want them to know.

  Maintaining this veil of secrecy is so important that the

administration directed the Attorney General to see if he might invoke

the 1917 Espionage Act as a way to make the first amendment disappear.

By controlling what you know, they hope to control what you think.

  It is the solution to their Iraq dilemma. You don't have to mislead

the people, as the President did, if the people simply don't know

anything at all. That is what this assault on free speech is all about.

  I seek permission to enter into the Record an editorial promoted by

the Washington Times by Nat Hentoff entitled ``Chilling Free Speech.''

  The President and his administration are doing everything possible to

impose censorship. They know that secrecy is the fastest, most

effective way to silence dissent.

  If the American people know what they are doing, the American people

could make them accountable for what they are doing. But there is no

accountability for their actions, so they hide them under a blanket of

secrecy.

  The President cried ``shameful'' that the Pulitzer Prize-winning

journalism had reunited the American people with the truth about secret

prisons and secret wiretapping ordered by the President and his

administration.

  In other words, the truth made it out into the open, and that was not

part of their plan. The only way to account for it was to attack those

responsible for telling us. It is the centerpiece of the

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Republican playbook. Attack anyone who disagrees. I know those tactics

firsthand.

  But the cracks are beginning to show in the Republican wall of silent

acquiescence.

                              {time}  1945

  A rubber stamp is still being used in this Congress by the

Republicans, but many of my colleagues, my Republican colleagues, know

that their mandatory vote at the discretion of the President is not in

the best interest of the American people, and the people are beginning

to listen to other voices, when they can hear them above the clatter of

the Republican noise machine. Here is the proof.

  David Wise in the Los Angeles Times recently wrote an article

entitled, ``Secrecy's Shadow Falls on Washington.'' I ask permission to

enter this article in the Record. To help the American people

understand how pervasive secrecy in the administration is, let me read

a short excerpt from Mr. Wise's article, quote, ``The National Archives

and Records Administration have been embarrassed by the revelation that

at least 55,000 documents formerly available to researchers have been

withdrawn and reclassified under secret agreements with the military

and the CIA. The deals were so secretive that the documents simply

disappeared from the shelves.'' That is the end of the quote.

  At least temporarily the head of the National Archives has suspended

the disappearance of American history. It doesn't mean the threat has

passed; it just means someone is fighting to keep America free. We have

two choices, the free flow of information or the outright control of

information. America is strong because of the protections within the

free flow of information. It is guaranteed by the first amendment.

  But the President and his majority want to tell you what to think

through the outright control of the information. Geoffrey Stone, author

and law professor at the University of Chicago wrote an article in the

New York Times the other day called, ``Scared of Scoops.'' Again, I ask

to enter it in the Record.

  As the writer points out, the administration's primary tactic is

intimidation. When in doubt, they try to make you afraid. When

unpopular, they try to make you afraid. When they are losing their hold

on power because of their record, they tend to make you afraid. The

only reason you know this President has no energy policy for America is

because he can't hide the price of gasoline at the pumps. He would make

it a secret if he could.

  Don't be surprised if the President tries to classify the price of

gasoline as a national security matter. That is his method of

accountability to the American people. None. In a Nation where free

speech is the last defense against absolute power, they don't want you

to know because the more you know, the worse they look.

JP Morgan IT professional, Indira Singh, a heroic 9/11 whistleblower who was fired, harrassed, and physically threatened for exposing the Saudi/terrorist-linked origins of one of the government's most pervasive software systems: ptech.

Wall Street whistleblower Indira Singh has had her professional life ripped away from her because of keeping the promise she made to some 3,000 victim's who died at Ground Zero on 9/11. She made that promise at Ground Zero on 9/11 as a civilian EMT. Indira was supposed to be on the 106th floor of the World Trade Center that morning, but she was late.