BETHPAGE, N.Y., Aug 5, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded $795 million in contracts by the U.S. Navy for the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Program.
Under a sole source, firm-fixed price $761 million contract, prime contractor Northrop Grumman will manufacture and deliver five low-rate initial production (LRIP), Lot 3, E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft to the U.S. Navy. Also under this contract, are long lead materials for five LRIP, Lot 4, E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes.
Northrop Grumman also received a $34 million modification to a previously awarded contract for the procurement of one additional E-2D Advanced Hawkeye LRIP, Lot 2, aircraft.
"These contracts are a significant milestone for the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Program and the U.S. Navy," said Jim Culmo, vice president, Airborne Early Warning and Battle Management Command and Control, Northrop Grumman. "The innovation Northrop Grumman applied to the design and development of the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye leverages experience gained from providing uncompromised airborne early warning and battle management command and control for more than 50 years. This affirms that the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye is the right platform providing the right capability at the right time," Culmo said.
...because, let's face it, after watching these McCain/Palin Reichsparteitagsgelände clips, this is pretty dead-on as a reflection of the warped mentality.
She's spoken highly about this group (as has her running mate and party), so I'm just sayin'.
Were our Founding Fathers terrorists? by Dark Acolyte
We view these as acts of heroism. Today they would be viewed as acts of terrorism
1765 - In July, the Sons of Liberty, an underground organization opposed to the Stamp Act, is formed in a number of colonial towns. Its members use violence and intimidation to eventually force all of the British stamp agents to resign and also stop many American merchants from ordering British trade goods.
1765 - August 26, a mob in Boston attacks the home of Thomas Hutchinson, Chief Justice of Massachusetts, as Hutchinson and his family narrowly escape.
1765 - On November 1, most daily business and legal transactions in the colonies cease as the Stamp Act goes into effect with nearly all of the colonists refusing to use the stamps. In New York City, violence breaks out as a mob burns the royal governor in effigy, harasses British troops, theN loots houses.
September 2, 2008, 10:32 pm Alaska Party Official Says Palin Was Not a Member By The New York Times
The chairwoman of an Alaskan political party that advocates a vote on the state’s secession from the union said Tuesday that she had been mistaken when she said Gov. Sarah Palin was a member of the group.
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On Tuesday night, (Lynette) Clark said that her initial statement was incorrect and had been based on erroneous information provided by another member of the party whom she declined to identify. The McCain campaign also disputed the Times report, saying that Ms. Palin had been registered consistently as a Republican.
Now wait a goddamned minute! In this video, it's HER OWN HUBBY DEXTER who's innocently giving the lowdown on Palin. IS THIS the "(other) member of the party whom she declined to identify."????
{Chris Driscoll/The American Chronicle, 2/12/2008)
As a life-long activist in the labor, peace and social-justice movements, I´ve watched with amazement, wonder, and exhilaration as the American people gave us the most surprising primary races in decades; and that was just the first month! We have eight months to go and undoubtedly many surprises yet to come. The race among major party candidates has provided more highs and lows than a calliope on rocket fuel. However, we´ve already entered a new phase of the election cycle: the Republicans are putting aside their differences in order to unify around a strongly pro-war position. The Democrats have coalesced on a neck-and-neck race between two "triangulating" Iraq war funders whose differences are more about race, gender and style than substance. And the progressive left has, as usual, fallen into lockstep behind one or another corporate-owned Democrat like some enabling abused spouse. Honest progressives will admit that neither Sen. Hillary Clinton nor Sen. Barack Obama offer us—at this point—a seriously better chance of ending the war on Iraq and turning out attention—and tax dollars—toward desperate domestic needs than Sen. John McCain does.
Sen. Obama on his official campaign website says he will "immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months." The last I heard, removing "combat brigades" could leave as many as 80,000 American troops in Iraq, not to mention the thousands of American mercenaries from companies like CACI, Titan and Blackwater, and a flood of American commercial vultures who have been just as destructive to that war-torn country as the troops and mercenaries have been. Sen. Clinton´s deceitful plan to continue the war and keep U.S. forces in Iraq in perpetuity is not any better than Obama´s. Neither Sens. Clinton nor Obama have agreed even to pledge to get the U.S. military out of Iraq by the end of their first term in 2013! And history is brutally clear on one important point: while Democrats in the last century have often promised to studiously avoid war while campaigning for president, they have never followed through once in office. President Lyndon B. Johnson, for a typical example, campaigned by casting Barry Goldwater as the guy who would turn Vietnam into an all-out war zone, but it was Johnson himself who did that as president. And this "talk peace, wage war" strategy goes way back with the Democratic presidential candidates: Woodrow Wilson in his 1916 campaign for re-election stumped on the slogans, "he kept us out of war," and "peace with honor." Yet by April 1917, the United States had entered the war that even Wilson himself later admitted was a fight between international commercial interests over who was to control lucrative international markets. Are the Democratic Party leaders of today any different; any better; any more courageous and committed to creating a world without war, even if corporate profits suffer as a result? Most Americans know at some gut level that for Democratic Party politicians commercial concerns always trump moral concerns or the concerns of the hard-working people. We´ve seen it far too often to deny it, even when we wish it were not so. Both Sens. Clinton and Obama are following a campaign model in regard to the War on Iraq that is most reminiscent of President Richard M. Nixon when in his 1968 campaign he promised to get us out of the Vietnam War in 6 months. That was even quicker than Sen. Obama´s 18 month promise. But after Nixon was elected, there were "complications," just as we can expect there will be "complications" for Sens. Clinton or Obama. When you know in advance that these "complications" will develop unless we are successful at building a powerful and large enough anti-war juggernaut, you can understand why some prefer the brutal honesty of a Sen. John McCain, who is at least truthful about his intentions.
From the perspective of the labor, peace and social justice movements, we are now left with little-to-no maneuvering room within the Democratic Party, the party progressive movements traditionally have looked to since the 1930s for allies and alliances. With the withdrawal of Dennis Kucinich, Bill Richardson and John Edwards, there is little chance that the pro-people, anti-war position will have any leverage at the Democratic Party nominating convention, not inside the convention hall in any case. The demonstrations outside the hall will probably remind us of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
Corporate America has already won the election. With Sens. Clinton, Obama and McCain, their interests are hedged three ways while the rest of us lose on all counts. The presidential campaign will be at the center of the public discourse from now till November 4. We are left with only one reasonable alternative if we hope to force our issues into this year´s national public debate: support the independent peace and justice candidate with the biggest megaphone, Ralph Nader!
1. AIRPLANE - June Cleaver talking jive 2. GO WEST - Stan and Ollie dancing to "At The Ball, That's All" 3. BLAZING SADDLES - "The French Mistake" 4. SILVER STREAK - To slip past cops in the train station, Gene Wilder has to pass for Black. 5. ANIMAL CRACKERS - Captain Spaulding (Groucho) dictates a letter to his assistant (Zeppo). 6. JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT - Ali McGraw attacks Alan King and beats him senseless with a handbag in the middle of Berdorf Goodman 7. WHAT'S UP DOC - The car chase 8. MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL - "The Tale of Sir Lancelot" i.e. "Make sure the prince DOESN'T leave the room..." 9. THE BLUES BROTHERS - The church scene 10. THE GREAT DICTATOR - Adenoid Hynkel bouncing the globe like a beach ball.
LOS ANGELES - Fox plans to broadcast an interview with O.J. Simpson in which the former football star discusses "how he would have committed" the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend, for which he was acquitted, the network said.
The two-part interview, titled "O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened," will air Nov. 27 and Nov. 29, the TV network said.
Simpson has agreed to an "unrestricted" interview with book publisher Judith Regan, Fox said.
"O.J. Simpson, in his own words, tells for the first time how he would have committed the murders if he were the one responsible for the crimes," the network said in a statement. "In the two-part event, Simpson describes how he would have carried out the murders he has vehemently denied committing for over a decade."
The Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, as I've said many times before, literally burned the Declaration of Independence and the American "inalienable right to life … when created", not gestated! All men are created equal, not gestated so, and American equality does not mean doing unto gestating infants what we would not want done unto our own gestating infancy.
In order to protect this immolation of our virtual birth certificate and in order to not encourage a Pro-Life resistance, the intellectual supremacists of the Progressive Liberal conglomerate, who have always controlled the mainstream press, made sure that the subject of abortion be kept out of the mainstream communications, off the front pages, out of film and television scripts and a subject rarely broached even on cable television.
I describe that as the "hooding of the American Eagle."
Hooded Eagles don't fly. As it is, the American Eagle sits restlessly in its blinded state, but necessarily obedient upon the Falconers' shoulders, those platforms of influence you see when you examine the increasingly vast power of the American Intelligentsia that has ruled the American Government from 1988 to the upcoming Presidential election in 2008, in an imperialistic coalition of the federalist and global aims of the Democratic Party and the always expected Wall Street Greed of the Republican Party. Twenty years of living under increasingly intellectual supremacism.
