Thursday, June 20th, 2013 Washington, DC Journalist Otto Kreisher reports, “In his first major initiative as chairman of the crucial subcommittee Sen. Dick Durbin noted that the F-35 “has had more than its share of problems” and served as “a text book example” of the Pentagon’s procurement woes. Durbin challenged the witnesses to tell him […]
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 Montpelier, VT South Burlington Attorney, Jimmy Leas, states, “the much higher crash rate expectation for the F-35, if more clearly presented, obviously militates against a site like Burlington — with 1,400 homes in the crash zones — accepting the F-35 in the first basing round when anticipate crash risk is at […]
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 Burlington VT Journalist, John Briggs, reports that the revised Environmental Impact Statement released on May 30th, 2013 contains more errors. The Air Force said that an updated “public comment response matrix and alphabetized list of public commenters” were not included in the updated print and CD versions of the reportreleased in May. […]
Saturday, June 15th, 2013 Burlington VT In Seven Days popular column entitled, ‘This Week’s Scoreboard Winners and Losers” journalist Paul Heintz notes under the “Losers” column reports “Air Force number crunchers — Honest mistake or not, now’s a bad time for the the Air Force to bungle the numbers of how many people sent supportive comments about basing the […]
Friday, June 14th, 2013 Burlington VT WPTZ-TV, our local NBC affiliate, is reporting that opponents request for scoring sheets comparing Burlington to 205 other basing sites around the country were denied under a Frredom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Opponents subsequently received the 205 scoring sheets but upon arrival all information was whited out. And […]
Thursday, 13th, 2013 South Burlington, VT VTDigger journalist, John Herrick reports: Nicholas Germanos, a civilian project manager at Langley AFB in Virginia who worked on the environmental impact statement, said that signatures attached to petitions, pro or con, submitted during the public comment period are not used to calculate public support for the project. Mr. Germanos, […]
Thursday, June 13th, 2013 South Burlington, VT On his recent visit to Burlington VT, Warplane Designer , Pierre Sprey, speaks out against the F-35. Click here to see this short excerpt of what will be a full length film soon to be released called the F-35 Movie. Please call me (Chris Hurd) at 802.238.5256 so […]
Thursday, June 13th, 2013 Burlington VT The ‘six minute’ myth One of the most troubling examples of misinformation, repeated over and over by supporters of the F-35 basing, including Gov. Shumlin, is that it’s only “six minutes a day, four days a week.” This false and misleading statement is then used to demonstrate the impact […]
Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 Burlington VT News Outlets across Vermont are reporting that the United States Air Force now acknowledges that opponents to the basing of the F-35’s in Vermont out number supporters of the warplanes. BFP journalist John Briggs reports that the Air Force’s revised and updated Environmental Impact Statement just released (May 31st, […]
Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 Burlington VT The Center for Media & Democracy (Channel 17) recorded the recent public gathering at The Unitarian Universalist Church on May 30th, 2013 in Burlington Vermont entitled, “F-35: A Citizens’ Hearing” Click to watch the program here. Please call me (Chris Hurd) at 802.238.5256 so I can get your name, […]