Johanna Faust, a mixed race Jew, prefers to publish pseudonymously. She is committed: first, to preventing war, ecological disaster, and nuclear apocalypse; last to not only fighting for personal privacy & the freedom of information, but, by representing herself as a soldier in that fight, to exhorting others to do the same. She is a poet, always. All these efforts find representation here: "ah, Mephistophelis" is so named after the last line of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, whose heretical success flouted the censor for a time. 













































































































































          

        

          

        










Oh, It Was The John P. Wheeler III Who Was Involved In The Barksdale-Minot Incident Who Was Found In A Landfill!














So Wayne Madsen  hips me to this tip on John Wheeler III, whose name I didn't recognize:





John Wheeler III, special assistant to Air Force Secretary during the 2007 B-52 nuke incident at Minot, found dead in Delaware landfill. Homicide concluded. Last seen on Amtrak from DC on Dec. 28. Dealing with neocons can be hazardous to one's health. Not the first suspicious Air Force death as reported by WMR.
A bit more digging, so you have somewhere to start, brings me to Sodahead's rather levelheaded opinion :







What the "news" is not telling you is -



 
Wheeler was the assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force in  the George W. Bush Administration. It was the Secretary of the Air Force  who discovered that Richard Cheney had set up an alternative chain of  command to the nuclear weapons wing of the AF. In the process, six  minutemen missiles [sic] armed with nuclear warheads were secretly transported  from Minot AFB to Barksdale AFB [see note -- ed]. The later is the chief staging base  for the Middle East war. The alarm system for the weapons was  deactivated for the transport, something that not even the base  commander could authorize. The orders had to have come from above. Many  point to Cheney. Before the warheads could be flown via B-52 to the  Iraq/Iran theater, the Secretary of the Air Force ordered the stand-down  of all B-52 flights. When he discovered the alternative chain of  command to Cheney, he fired all military personnel who were involved.  Cheney was said to have been livid. The Secretary ordered an  investigation of what the AF press release called an oversight, and 70  enlisted men and 5 officers were removed from the Minot nuclear system. 



At  the same time, people involved began to die mysteriously. Wheeler is  only the latest casualty.


N.B.:The missiles were Advance Cruise Missiles, or ACM's, NOT minutemen.  For an interesting 'explanation' see the Army Times writeup .  Interesting of course that its the Army times....  Rest of the Sodahead piece, including background info, here .




For a detailed history of the Barksdale-Minot incident, go here (of course) for my repost of Chuck Simpson's excellent exegesis.



















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