Dunn House Parking To Remain Open!
(Downtown Taos 4 PM) This afternoon, according to Town of Taos Manager, Daniel Miera, he was able to negotiate a last-minute deal with property owner Anne Brenner to keep the Dunn House Parking lot open. Miera said mail went to the wrong town department and he was unaware of the crisis until he read Taos Friction. He said he wanted to reassure merchants that the Town and Brenner had agreed in principle and would sign a new lease, when Brenner returned from her trip to China.
“All’s well that ends well,” said Flavio. “I feel bad for Lou, though. He thought he had his old job back. ” Earlier today, a news leak suggested the Bent St. area parking lot might close down and local merchants panicked. Flavio heard about the growing crisis while sweeping up outside a local shop.
Litigants focus on TMS Administrators and Catholic Icons
Now that St. Jude has come under fire by TMS administrators and Tony the Ant has taken up ex AD James Branch’s case, expect the local school district to bleed red. When Tony fires off a tort claim, he follows up with laser like preparation and incisive arguments. Cuddy & McCarthy better look to their bedpans.
Meanwhile, the district is apparently trying to settle a claim with an allegedly abused lunchroom worker. We hear she has been offered a job but finds the working environment hostile. The district is as desperate to settle this one, as the powers that be are neurotic about nutrition.
And the strange procedural mishaps applied to the beloved Ms. Singleton have created another potential race case with ageism thrown in due to the humiliating conditions. One must ask why the longtime Home Ec instructor has been banned from school property, including, allegedly, forbidden from attending sporting events on school property. Apparently, she has been sent off into the gulag of administrative leave for an expensive psych eval–like some Gitmo detainee—while a substitute is paid to take her place. The district bungles and the atmosphere of the jungle pervades this Darwinian house of horror.
Theresa Singleton
(BTW: Our elected and appointed officials might each consider an introspective session with a shrink.)
According to three audits, the CRABBIES can’t count, do inventory, or figure out the software-hardware interface. (This year, 2010, marks the beginning of the second decade in the 21st Century.) Key administrators admit in public that they “don’t know” why students can’t read but continue to matriculate. If you don’t know what you’re doing, shouldn’t you resign? Due to onerous regulations imposed by the legislature, the elected TMS board is helpless to right the ship.
Now, more parents of Special Ed kids are also considering their litigious options—filing with the Office of Civil Rights. So the battle to deliver education and due process to employees at the district is moving from CRAB Hall to the courts.
(See Tony the Ant above.)
The union itself offers little leadership to the district while it whines about this 1 percent or that benefit in an economy where everyone suffers. Why don’t teachers volunteer to teach an extra hour and hold themselves to higher educational standards of accountability? When it comes to delivering the goods–reading, writing, and arithmetic–even the high school teachers whisper about the failure of their elementary school colleagues. You can’t keep blaming the parents or society.
Each day of resistance by administrators at CRAB Hall means the community is another step closer to chaos, crime, and the evolution of charter schools. No wonder the County is building a great big jail. The acts of El Weston and the Crab Hall Gang begin to look a lot like déjà vu all over again (as Yogi Berra might say). Fancy contracts with outside training agents are no substitute for hard work.
"The Enforcer"
Tony the Ant is coming and he carries a hammer in his hand.
(Editor’s Note: Ms. Singleton sued TMS Super Leonela Serna and TMS in the 80′s as I remember because the former fired the 14-year instructor at THS . Singleton then went to work at Arbys for $3.75 an hour until she won her case and was reinstated. Now, the James Branch case is focussed on Serna’s daughter Madelyn Marmol. According to Friction sources, the gestation of the Branch-Marmol conflict concerned her hito’s status as basketball player on Branch’s team. St. Jude was an excuse, not a cause. Ironically, Marmol graduated from the University of Notre Dame. Pray for us, St. Jude.)
Microwave Irradiation
By Jane Odin
We’re focused on the microwave grid, the frequencies it will support and possible consequences of 24/7 exposure. The grid is expanding with 21 cities already under the canopy. And by year’s end, Sprint/Clearwater promise Boston, LA, Miami. NYC, Washington and San Francisco will be under the net. So far New Mexico is totally free of 4G, but as mentioned in previous articles, Santa Fe is underway with the full co-operation of the city fathers. Already 4 applications have been made to upgrade all antenna sites from 2G to 4G.
Taos could be next. So we will remain focused on various aspects of this earth shattering force for the purpose of understanding reasons for keeping the DAS grid out of New Mexico. The ramifications of living under a buzzing haze of 40GHZ microwave frequency are practically endless. Meanwhile it’s easier to keep it out of here than dismantle it in the future when the truth is revealed. What ‘truth’ you ask? Nausea and various maladies come to mind along with paranoia of living inside a frequency cage that can be manipulated into a paralyzing weapon.
One can run in circles reading contradictory information regarding the hazards of non-ionizing radiation. Most info in favor of irradiation comes from the government or the biz. The International Commission on Non-ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) in conjunction with World Health Organization (WHO) gives a general OK up to 300 GHZ. They base this on thermal effects alone: they don’t want to cook folks. This criteria ignores endless clinical and epidemiological studies and flies in the face of evidence to the contrary enumerated in the US Army document “Bioeffects of Selected Nonlethal Weapons.”
I have no degrees in physics, just a lifetime interest that encouraged massive amounts of reading within the category of “the new physics.” I cannot transpose the various units of frequency measurements into measurements relevant to 40GHZ + and etc. But I can read and become very alert when the government publishes a document (Bioeffects) containing statements as follows.
“There is a growing perception that microwave irradiation and exposure to low frequency fields can be involved in a wide range of biological interactions. Some investigators are even beginning to describe similarities between microwave irradiation and drugs regarding their effects on biological systems.”
“A variety of innovative uses of EM energy for human applications are being explored. The non-lethal application would embody a highly sophisticated microwave assembly that can be used to project microwaves in order to provide a controlled heating of persons. This controlled heating will raise the core temperature of the individuals to predetermined level to mimic a high fever with the intent of gaining a psychological/capability edge on the enemy, while not inflicting deadly force.” freedomfchs.com/usarmyrptonmicrowavefx.pdf
The “Bioeffects” document was written in ’98 and released under the Freedom of Information Act in ’06. Imagine the so- called advancements in microwave technologies in the past 14 years? It seems plausible they can now regulate frequency rates of most microwave systems remotely which could transform a DAS system into an experimental containment arena. Possibilities boggle the mind.
They have done it before with nuclear energy – what’s to stop them from doing it again, in the name of security or whatever?
The Santa Fe Alliance for Public health and Safety will meet again this Thursday 9/2 from 6:30 – 8:00 at Isis Medicine, 401 Botulph Lane, two blocks south of St. Michaels. They will have a table at Railyard Park on Labor Day from noon – 3. The group is also arranging September viewings of the documentary film “Full Signal” in September, which shows “suspected health effects of EMFs validated through biological studies, medical research, epidemiologically-documented real-life situations, and individuals’ lives.”
For those interested in the truth of the matter the “Full Signal” film shows: “images of rats’ brains before exposure to cell-phone radiation (whole and healthy) and after (riddled with holes); laboratory research on the deterioration of the blood-brain barrier during a two-minute phone call. There are pictures of irreparable rips in DNA, evidence of neurological, coronary, and immunological diseases whose increases in incidence parallel the spread of EMR-emitting technologies.”
To read more incredible findings presented in this documentary go to: http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/591/63/. It would be great if someone could arrange for a showing of this film in Taos.
Appealing cell tower or antenna approvals halts construction until a public hearing is held. The Santa Fe Alliance is drafting a model appeal useable for every application. The deadline for submitting the first appeal is the week of 9/6. Contact Arthur at 505 471 0129.
A Tribute to Alfred Hobbs
The following tribute to Alfred Hobbs by Carl Fritz was read at the Anglada Memorial service for the longtime “Elder of the Tribe.”
Alfred, my brother, my friend:
Alfred Hobbs
Onward you go if onward there is: No fear, only enthusiasm and curiosity. I am grateful that you stopped here in Barra for a moment to say goodbye.
You amazed me: Setting off for the headwaters of the Amazon with as many physical limitations as you were dealing with? I would have questioned the wisdom of going downtown. But you, you wanted the wild places, the real jungle, the mighty river. All the way. Tip to toe. Down to the ocean and across. You wanted Africa: those connections from long ago. To see the, smell them, hear the music, feel the rhythms.
You were an amazing man, Mr. Alfred Scales Hobbs.
Who wants to risk dangerous roads in the most volatile geography of the Middle East? Yemen for gods sake! You did. But I understand and I love you for it. You were our own Marco Polo. And we thank you for it.
I thank you for times long ago when we sat and polished off a bottle of scotch, solving the problems of the world. I thank you for making me laugh as no once else has ever done. I thank you for the stray dogs and homeless hippies like me that you put up until we could get it together.
To say that you were an elder in our tribe is not nearly enough to give you proper honor and credit. At times you were a fair witness and we consulted you for opinion or judgment. At times you were father or grandpa. You settled disputes or gave direction. And sometimes you were our trickster. You advocated, you protested, you moderated, you counseled.
And occasionally, like the man of La Mancha, you attacked windmills with no hope of winning. But you survived it all. Then, of course, you created your famous “butta” to support our need to bray at the moon. I thank you for that and the pint of it you once gifted me. My friends thank you for it also. Somebody’s dog who still eats rocks thanks you for it.
Alfred, you even survived that terrible accident last year with injuries that would have killed a lesser man. Survived, maybe, to do the one last, heroic trip of your life.
You have always put me in mind of the King of Ithaca, Husband of Penelope, Father of Telemachus and creator of the Trojan horse trick. His words gave me the name I’ve secretly called you by in my mind:
“What shall I say first? What shall I keep until the end? The gods have tried me in a thousand ways. But first my name: let that be known to you, and if I pull away from pitiless death, friendship will bind us, though my land lies far. I am Laertes’ son, Odysseus.”
So now, Alfred, I can say to you: “Goodbye Grandpa, goodbye Friend, goodbye Brother. Goodbye Odysseus, your travels are done. Bien hecho. Now you can rest.”
Carl Fritz
Postscript:
Editor’s Note: St. Jude, pray for Alfred Hobbs and our CRAB People. Pray for El Weston and La Rosa; Pray for our students and the poor lunch-room worker; Pray for Mary Ann McCann; Pray for Ms. Singleton and Alfred Cordova; Pray for the TMS Board. Pray for the BB coach who prayed to you. Pray for Jeff Carr, pobrecito. (For mis amigos, remember, St. Jude is the patron saint of lost causes.)
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