Shoshone fight "Divine Strake"

[JuniperLea]

http://www.nativetimes.com/index.asp?action=displayarticle&article_id=7783

Western Shoshone winning converts
GOP Senator, shareholders offer support in crusades against Pentagon, mining company


Sam Lewin 4/25/2006

A Western tribe currently engaged in battles with two powerful opponents- the largest gold producer in the world and the Pentagon- - is now receiving moral and legal support from shareholders in the company involved in the former controversy and a Republican Senator concerned about the latter’s plan for a huge explosion.

The Western Shoshone tribe, which claims millions of acres in land spanning portions of four states, has already sued to prevent “Divine Strake,” a massive non-nuclear blast that the tribe worries could kick up radioactive matter still remaining in the region following a series of nuclear tests conducted over a forty-year period.

The tribe’s lawsuit, filed in federal court, names as defendants officials with the Defense Department, National Nuclear Security Administration and Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Blast planners have countered that their research shows there is no danger of nuclear fallout. Senator Orrin Hatch is not so sure. The Utah Republican has sent a letter to the federal government seeking to confirm that the test is safe. "The more I look into this, the more upset I become," Hatch said.

[RufusEarl]

1. Well he finally got upset about something!

[rodeodance]

2. Randi Rodes on Lou Dobbs asked for all camera/media to be at site

on the day of the planned testing.

[JuniperLea]

3. I've heard her mention it on the radio too

Good idea. Independent monitoring of harmful gases and radiation wouldn't be a bad idea either.

[wakeme2008]

4. Bringing a Geiger Counter is more important IMHO.

:(

[jpak]

5. And a seismometer

I would not be surprised if ChimpCo uses this as cover to test a low-yield nuclear device....

[JuniperLea]

10. That was my first thought... n/t

[tocqueville]

6. bringing masses of people into the detonation area is the most important

it amazes me that nobody has proposed that yet. Or do you have to be Mexican to take to the streets ?

[file83]

7. What's so "Divine" about a friggin' bomb anyway?

Bible thumbing war mongering psychopaths.

[JuniperLea]

8. I hate that too

I hope there is a God and I hope he/she sends a lightening bolt down...

[Bobbieo]

9. Shoshones and the Divine Strake

I have been pushing this subject for the past week on my Native Unity blog thanks to Ursula one of our DUers. Getting quite a bit of response, too.

[Rocknrule]

17. Because nothing shows the love of God

like a massive explosion melting your skin off and blowing your children to smithereens right before your eyes
:sarcasm:

[file83]

19. Love = Power, and God's got a whole lotta love in a nuke.

[Az_lefty]

26. bush's perverted theology...

:puke:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

11. Found this website with pretty extensive info on "Divine Strake"....

<http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/ops/divine-strake.htm>

QUOTE:

The DIVINE STRAKE full scale test is planned to be a large-yield, buried burst detonated at the Nevada Test Site. Divine Strake would appear to be associated with the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator RNEP, or possibly the B61-11 Earth-Penetrating Weapon, a fact that is obscured in most press coverage. Divine Strake is a high-explosive (HE) test sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). The test is a detonation of a 700 ton buried heavy AN/FO charge above a tunnel structure. The main purpose of the test is to study ground shock effects on deeply buried tunnel structures. Of secondary interest is the airblast produced by a buried charge and its modification as it propagates over the local terrain. Scheduled for the summer of 2006, as of 01 April 2006 the test was planned for 02 June 2006.

DIVINE STRAKE is one of several "DIVINE" efforts under the Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat (HDBTD) program. DIVINE WARHAWK consists of deep underground operational tunnel facility defeat demonstrations using advanced weapons at the White Sands Missile Range. DIVINE HELCAT was a 2004 reconstitution exercise to determine reconstitution time for the C3I tunnel facility at Nevada Test Site (NTS). Also in 2004 planning began for DIVINE HATES, which is a WMD production and storage tunnel complex functional defeat effort.

No comment at all about the possibility of soil containing radioactive elements from the nuke testing of four decades ago being blasted into the atmosphere and drifting downwind.

[PublicWrath]

12. "Divine Hates"? These people are sick. n/t

[SlavesandBulldozers]

23. yeah that got me too.

Divine Hates. wow.

[enlightenment]

15. "Buried?" Funny choice of words for an

open air explosion. They're digging a hole 30' x 36', dropping in the slurry, 300 lbs of C4 and igniting the whole mess.

The pre-approval doc even calls it an "open-air" blast.

grumble.

[AnnieBW]

13. Temple of Sekhmet

There's a Temple of Sekhmet that's near the blast zone, too. It could very well be destroyed, or at least seriously damaged, by the blast. "Divine Strake" indeed.

http://www.sekhmettemple.com/

[JuniperLea]

14. That is too precious to risk!

That's so sad... regardless of how one believes oneself, spiritual sites should be protected.

One more evil thing to add to the ever-growing, cumbersome list of deadly deeds done by this despot!

[DemonFighterLives]

16. I wish dubby would take his terrorist bombs and shove them

where the sun don't shine.
:freak:

[Rocknrule]

18. He'd probably get sexually aroused by doing that

[truthisfreedom]

20. i hate that name, divine strake. wtf does it mean?

divine: Having the nature of or being a deity.
Of, relating to, emanating from, or being the expression of a deity: sought divine guidance through meditation.
Being in the service or worship of a deity; sacred.
Superhuman; godlike.
Supremely good or beautiful; magnificent: a divine performance of the concerto.
Extremely pleasant; delightful: had a divine time at the ball.
Heavenly; perfect.

strake: A single continuous line of planking or metal plating extending on a vessel's hull from stem to stern.

??? planking or metal plating extending from stem to stern?

i think someone wanted to call it divine strike and they were over-ruled, turning it into jibberish (it was a typo, sir.)

[nicknameless]

21. If it's true that dimson is down to only four states giving him

a 50% or higher rating, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2589221
this blast will reduce that group by one.

Utah's "Down-winders" will probably bring about a revolt in that state. They've had it with being a testing ground.

[JuniperLea]

25. I think and hope you are right!

Whodathunk? The Idiot in Chief is a uniter after all!

[nicknameless]

28. "A uniter after all!"

Yes! Kind of thoughtful of him to provide us with a common enemy. ;)

[salin]

22. Glad to see Hatch upset... but I would bet that in the end

he will roll over for his GOP masters (they want this test - precursor to more weapons to be made = more $$). I would guess that only a huge media bad PR blitz or the courts (thank you Western Shoshone tribe) can stop it from happening.

[glitch]

24. K & R nt

[ismnotwasm]

27. Hatch is upset?

A day late and a dollar short. Asshole.
Here's a link to the Western Shoshone Defense Project:
http://www.wsdp.org

I loathe this administration.