good news in amarillo texas

[seabeyond]

where all i thought voted for bush. gore got like 3000 in 2000 from what i heard

dry cleaners, three women, all said voting against bush. one late 40's said she had never voted in life and is going to register to vote against bush

in grocery store, cashier agreed economy is a mess and administration lying.

this was fun. i am going to speak out more and more. might really e surprised here.

[displacedtexan]

1. Aren't the cores for our nukes stored there?

Isn't that a big time military area?

Great news!

[anarchy1999]

3. PanTex

Web-posted Monday, January 5, 2004
Pantex to shift focus


By Jim McBride
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TALK AMARILLO
"it was a shame that that people had to work the holidays. everybody seems to pity the poor employees at albertsons.well let us not forget the police that had to patrol the streets to keep your homes safe....or the firefighters that stood guard in case some drunk idiot set their christmas tree,or turkey fryer ablaze.or even the toot n' totum employees that made sure you had cold beer for the games." - From tjaybob43







The Pantex Plant dismantled more than 11,000 nuclear weapons during the last decade, but its focus now will shift to modernizing warheads and bombs in the U.S. stockpile, according to an article in this month's Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
A January segment of the Bulletin, famous for its nuclear clock highlighting the dangers posed by nuclear weapons, focuses on the Pantex Plant.

The Bulletin's Nuclear Notebook is produced by Robert S. Norris and Hans M. Kristensen of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a group that has criticized U.S. nuclear weapons policies.

"We estimate that from 1945 to 1990, the United States produced at several sites approximately 70,000 nuclear weapons of approximately 70 types for more than 120 weapons systems," the article says.

The article estimates that in 1959 and 1960, the United States churned out 28 warheads each work day.

"By 1967, the stockpile reached a historic high with approximately 32,000 warheads of 30 different types, from sub-kiloton land mines (atomic munitions) to multi-megaton strategic bombs," the article states.


http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/010504/new_pantexfocus.shtml

[anarchy1999]

4. First Weapons Check Off To A Good Start and more.....

Report on Aug 1-3 Weapons Check at Peace Farm
First Weapons Check Off To A Good Start
by Stefan Wray
August 12, 2003

Twenty people from Texas, New Mexico, and California gathered at the Peace Farm near Amarillo, Texas, from August 1 to 3, for a weekend workshop called Weapons Check. Workshop participants toured the perimeter of the Pantex Plant, joined in discussions about nuclear and conventional weapons, and left with ideas about creating a Southern Military Watchdog Network.

The conclusion of the weekend: Let's do this again.

The Military Documentation Project and Peace Action Texas, along with the Peace Farm, organized the weekend's activities, which will be used as a model for similar events in other Texas cities. Plans are already being developed for Weapons Check II and Weapons Check III in San Antonio and Dallas.


http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:CqtLDm-8LwMJ:www.iconmedia.org/articles/weaponscheck1.html+the+peace+farm,+amarillo&hl=en&start=4&ie=UTF-8



DID YOU KNOW?
(by Robin Mills)
1. The Tooth Fairy Project

Strontium 90 mimics calcium. Plants can not tell the difference due to their similiarities. Large quantities of radioactive strontium 90 were spread over our planet by nuclear weapons testing in the 1940's and 1950's. Plants have been bioaccumulating (concentrating) this strontium 90 and then we eat those plants. Our bodies are also fooled by strontium 90. In a breakthrough study done in 1958 by Barry Commoner and others, it was shown that the teeth of every baby in the country had some level of strontium 90 accumulation.

When this information was released, it caused such a stir that it is sometimes cited as the real reason for the above ground test ban treaty. Strontium 90 is a radioactive fission product produced by either nuclear weapons or nuclear bombs. Before the first fissioning in the 1940's, strontium 90 did not exist on our planet. It is a totally man made element with a half life of 28 years. This relatively middle range half life is part of the reason strontium 90 is so dangerous, along with its similiarity to calcium.

Even very small quantities of strontium 90, when incorporated into a persons teeth and bones, would be doing great damage internally. Women also accumulate large quantities of calcium in their breast milk. If strontium 90 is bioaccumulating in womens breasts, it could account for the rise in breast cancer. The only reasonable course of action is to oppose any further production of this dangerous element.


2. The Peace Farm


The Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas is a large federal facility where the United States assembles all of its nuclear weapons. This 3000 acre site is 3600 feet above sea level on the billiard table flat high plains. Average annual rainfall of about 15 inches makes the area a semi-arid grassland that produces crops mostly through irrigation from the Ogallala aquifer.

Since the end of the cold war, instead of assembling nuclear weapons, the facility has been dismantling about 1500 nuclear weapons per year. At the core of each of these dismantled nuclear weapons is the trigger, a hollow sphere of plutonium commonly called a pit. These pits weigh ten to fifteen pounds, so the approximately 15,000 pits currently stored at Pantex equals near to 50 tons of plutonium.

Across the street from Pantex is the 20 acre Peace Farm. The Peace Farm is a watchdog group that formed in 1982. The current director of the Peace Farm is Mavis Belisle, a veteran peace activist originally from the Dallas area. The big issues now for the Peace Farm are safe storage of the plutonium, making sure the weapons are safely dismantled and the ongoing contamination of the Ogallala aquifer.

The Peace Farm helps put out a monthly newsletter, the Nuclear Examiner. It is a membership organization


http://prop1.org/ice/toothfairy.htm

[anarchy1999]

2. one day at a time, one person a day.............

That is our motto and what we live by. Anytime you need any support just give a ring.

www.dallaspeacecenter.org - check out all the links to other organizations.

There are really lots of us "peace people" in Texas.