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  • From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
  • To: Permaculture ibiblio <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>, openpermaculture <permaculture@openpermaculture.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Coming to a neighborhood near you?
  • Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:09:46 -0400

The Defense Department is considering conducting a weapons test near Bedford, IN (about 15 miles from our new home) next year to bolster the U.S.'s nuclear weapons program. The test would release a mushroom-shaped dust cloud 10,000 feet into the atmosphere and release an explosive yield equivalent to 593 tons of TNT--100 times the size of the Oklahoma City bombing. This explosion of 700 tons of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil will create a cloud of toxins and pollutants over southern Indiana contaminating air and groundwater.

This test simulates a nuclear weapon -- clearly meant for offensive use in a strike on Iran. Such a strike would shock the world and incite terrorism.
It would be criminal under international law.

Originally planned for the Nevada test site, but stopped there by determined activists, Divine Strake is now under consideration for a quarry near
Mitchell, or for White Sands, New Mexico. It must not happen anywhere. We will not allow our community to be used in this way.

http://ga3.org/campaign/divinestrake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Strake

http://indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096413084

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Keith Johnson
Permaculture Activist Magazine
PO Box 5516
Bloomington, IN 47408
(812) 335-0383
http://www.permacultureactivist.net
also Patterns for Abundance Design & Consulting




  • [permaculture] Coming to a neighborhood near you?, Keith Johnson, 08/27/2006

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