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 Winooski VT Please watch this film excerpt of Richard Joseph’s findings of the adverse health and sound level impacts of F-35 Warplanes being based in Burlington Vermont upon her citizens. Please call me (Chris Hurd) at 802.238.5256 so I can get your name, email address and phone number so we can […]
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 Washington DC It’s time to pull the pork from the Pentagon and we should start by defunding the F-35 joint strike fighter program. With a price tag of $1.5 trillion, the F-35 is the most expensive fighter jet ever built and is the single most expensive item in the 2013 Pentagon […]
Thursday, June 13th, 2013 Burlington VT Burlington Free Press journalist, John Briggs, reports on local clergy have written to Vermont political leaders urging them to hold a “civil dialogue” with residents about basing the new F-35 warplane at the Burlington Airport. The journalist further reports that opposition to the warplane has moved into federal court. […]
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 […]
Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 Burlington VT The Burlington Free Press “asked the Vermont political leaders who have supported the plane to explain the economic benefits, the source of their information about the importance of the new plane to the Vermont Air National Guard and to speak about their understanding of the capabilities of the plane. They were […]
Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 Burlington VT In Seven Days popular column entitled, “The Scoreboard: This Week’s Winners and Losers” journalist Paul Heintz notes under the “Losers” column F-35 supporters — “We punted on this one in last week’s Scoreboard, but we’re now ready to place the pro-plane folks in the loser column. No matter how they spin it, […]