Concerns about Nuclear Test Blast scheduled June 2, '06, 45 mi. from Indian Springs, Nevad

F-ing savage war-making bastards do this IN OUR NAME!

What did this disgusting weapon cost YOU and I?

How many people could that money feed, shelter, heal?

Make's me want to vomit.

I would shed no tears if it bounced like a
basketball, and landed squarely on Washington DC.

Sometimes I think that absolutely nothing short of
complete destruction of our capital city would clean up the
years and years of intrenched greed, corruption and war-mongering.
What else would wake up the sheeple of these not-so-United States?

We'd start with a clean slate. But then, where would we go?

During early May, due to the influx of comments and a temporary injunction, the June 2nd Divine Strake test was rescheduled to June 23rd.

It is important to note that because it has been rescheduled does not guarantee it will occur. All across this nation, people should be making their voices heard at all levels of the government. There is still a possibility for it to be banned totally.

It requires ACTION NOW.

I am still puzzled why none of the many Divine Strake articles or combination of them all have not been used as a Global Indymedia Feature. This proposed test does affect the entire planet, especially for future use in nuclear targeting by the US.

As noted previously in other newswire posts, here are a few websites to view regularly for updated news.

 http://shundahai.org/

 http://www.wsdp.org/

Divine Strake was a propaganda ploy directed towards the Iranian government. Its "postponement" can be viewed as a success in so far as the U.S. has recently announced that it will participate in talks with Iran, along with Russia, China and the EU over Iran's nuclear energy program. There never was any plan to actually explode a device with the chemical-equivalent of a small tactical nuke. And, the idea that it was going to be a combination chemical/nuclear device is incorrect. The controversy discussed in the NPR story revolved around whether the test's primary purpose was a nuclear blast simulation or not. "Concerned Mom" misunderstood what she heard. Here is the link to the NPR program to which she referred.

 link to www.npr.org

I have had Devine Strake as a Yahoo news search since first hearing about the test coming June 2. Now I'm being told by Yahoo that it doesn't exist, so I searched nuclear testing June 2 and voila...I found you people. But I still don't know. Has the test been postponed to June 23rd or was it just a bluff to get Iran to the table? Another question, why aren't we hearing anything about this from our "free" press??

type in - Divine Strake - not Devine Strake
you'll find what you need, and if you are in Portland, Carrie Dann-Western Shoshone Elder and Louise Benally-Navajo/Dine', Big Mountain, Arizona will be speaking on June 11th
 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/340079.shtml


also - here is a short report

Last week, the federal government postponed the "mushroom cloud" test. Officials argued the blast could be considered a threat to the environment -- and raised concerns the cloud would disperse radioactive material from the desert floor.

Sunday, officials celebrated their victory at the test site. 41 national and international organizations joined together this afternoon to celebrate victory, for the not so divine "strake" experiment.

"I'm glad of the postponement, but i would like to see a cancellation, then we'd really be happy," says Peggy Maze Johnson of the environmental group Citizen's Alert.

The concerns centered around three critical issues: one is the environmental health risk to potential downwinders in Utah, Idaho, and Montana. Officials with the Divine Strake Coalition say people in those states are still being affected by previous blasts.

Another concern, and perhaps the most notable, is the blast would be in direct conflict with the "Treaty of Ruby Valley." That's a treaty the U.S. entered into in good faith with the Western Shoshone tribe in 1964.

The National Nuclear Security Administration says the stoppage is merely to address concerns of the public.

Reno attorney Robert Hager represents the plantiffs in a lawsuit filed to stop the non-nuclear blast. Hager says the Native Americans he represents are the real winners.

"It's great news for down-winders and the Native Americans I represent. The down-winders are happy because the carcinogens with radioactivity put in the atmosphere won't happen, and the Native Americans are happy because mother earth is their religion.

As of right now, the open-air explosive detonation is postponed indefinitely. The NNSA says after addressing questions -- it will then decide what course of action to take next.

 link to www.krnv.com

to Eric Blair - this test was not just a propaganda ploy. It was a silenced media story until natives, activists and lawmakers started raising their voices. "Indefinite postponement" does not equate to "CANCELLATION" and until that word is used, it is vital to continue to educate others about this test and to continue resistance.

"Other detonations have included an underground detonation of 1,410 tons in the U12n tunnel at NTS in 1993. In addition, Seven 120-ton detonations were carried out at Misers Bluff at Planet Ranch in Arizona in 1978. Finally, in 2002, an 18 tons explosion was set off at the Nevada Test Site.

Experience obtained from these detonations were used to develop the plans for Divine Strake scheduled for June 2, 2006, at the U16B tunnel complex at the Nevada Test Site."

 http://www.nukestrat.com/us/stratcom/gs-divinestrake.htm

As this excerpt shows, there was no pressing need for the Divine Strake test, since data from the results of many other tests, both publicly known and not known, had already been obtained. The fact that there may have been preparatory activity at the Nevada site merely goes to show the lengths to which the government went to make it seem as though the test was really going to take place. This Divine Strake test was, in fact, a simulation of a simulation.

Contrary to what you claim, "It was a silenced media story until natives, activists and lawmakers started raising their voices," the U.S. government was counting on high visibility for this "test" so that the Iranian government would learn about it without any misunderstanding. You have to ask yourself how locals got wind of the "test" in the first place. We're talking about a very secure government facility - the Nevada Test Range - and it seems naive to think that "natives, activists and lawmakers" somehow learned of the test independent of a little help from the government itself.

reagerding the bomb "bouncing back like a basketball..." a lot of cool radical folks live in DC... maybe the non-nuclear destruction of the white house should be prefered...

Not to diminish the seriousness or repulsiveness of the would-be "test", it is not to be nuclear. Someone might have already pointed that out, but i want to make the correction clear.

You pathetic ignorant sheep,
Personally i believe it is none of your friggin business what Uncle Sam does in his efforts to develop
weapons that can serve and protect the United States , Im so sick of the swarms of Tree hugging granola crunching liberal maggots that are dragging the USA into their IMORAL weak thinking.