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Lawrence E Richards 352-585-5466 7272 Landsdale St. Brooksville, FL. 34601 law_richards@yahoo.com
Mar. 01, 08
Satellites used in Home surveillance
No citizen is entirely without danger of being harmed by the U S Governments’ Space Satellite programs using high frequency energy, lasers. Similar to the surveillance used during the Viet Nam War, these units are able to penetrate just about anything, characterizing human bodies as they walk though their homes. There are very few places within a home that cannot be spied upon, depending on where the systems are directed–bathroom, kitchens, bedrooms, throughout the home, spying and doing their dastardly thing. Mobil ground units operating in an equivalent way are able to penetrate walls of buildings doing surveillance and harming Citizens. Much like satellites, ground units assault using multifrequency energies, lasers, directed by coordinators, causing damage to joint and nerve tissue of any part of a heat generating body. Seldom, if ever, individuals who are harmed realize what’s happening to them. Doctors will treat the inflection as a common ailment. The suffering may go on for years without the government ever stopping it, in some cases causing death. Fortunately, the incoming satellite and ground energies can be detected and identified, by using an effective barrier partitions. It's a trail and error in most cases, a matter of using barriers, checking to see if the pain continues. The End
H.Res.1304 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6052) to promote increased public transportation use, to promote increased use of alternative fuels in providing public transportation, and for other purposes.
Voted on by House
Jun 27, 2008
H.Res.1191 Expressing support for designation of May as "National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month".
Introduced
May 13, 2008
H.Res.1174 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5818) to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make loans to States to acquire foreclosed housing and to make grants to States for related costs.
The votes below were taken by roll call, a voting procedure that records a vote from every Senator or Representative on the bill under consideration. This Member of Congress may have voted on other bills by the process known as "voice vote", but these votes are not recorded.
The information below is an initial analysis of voting trends for this Member of Congress, calculated by cross-referencing all of this member's votes from the current 110th Congress (Jan. 2007 - Jan. 2009). The results are intended to offer some helpful context for the place that this Member of Congress occupies in the Congressional landscape. In the next steps of site development, OpenCongress will incorporate more detailed analyses of voting trends to give you a comprehensive snapshot of every Member of Congress.
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The data below comes from OpenSecrets.org, the website of the non-profit, non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics, a group that tracks money in politics. You can create a "My OpenCongress" account to track this Member easily on your profile and share this info with friends.
Select Election Cycle:
Top Funding Industry:
Labor
Top Contributor:
Van Scoyoc Assoc ($5,350)
Industry
Donation
% of total
Labor
$41,500
24.5 %
Finance/Insur/RealEst
$27,850
16.4 %
Lawyers & Lobbyists
$26,753
15.8 %
Misc Business
$17,250
10.2 %
Health
$14,450
8.5 %
Other
$12,250
7.2 %
Defense
$8,000
4.7 %
Construction
$5,000
2.9 %
Transportation
$4,500
2.7 %
Agribusiness
$4,250
2.5 %
Ideology/Single-Issue
$3,000
1.8 %
Communic/Electronics
$2,750
1.6 %
Energy/Nat Resource
$2,000
1.2 %
Total:
$169,553
Top Funding Industry:
Lawyers & Lobbyists
Top Contributor:
National Beer Wholesalers Assn ($20,000)
Industry
Donation
% of total
Lawyers & Lobbyists
$181,337
22.3 %
Other
$143,489
17.6 %
Finance/Insur/RealEst
$109,100
13.4 %
Labor
$104,500
12.8 %
Ideology/Single-Issue
$72,435
8.9 %
Misc Business
$69,900
8.6 %
Health
$60,450
7.4 %
Communic/Electronics
$24,150
3.0 %
Agribusiness
$17,100
2.1 %
Construction
$13,400
1.6 %
Transportation
$10,750
1.3 %
Energy/Nat Resource
$8,050
1.0 %
Total:
$814,661
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Lawrence E Richards 352-585-5466
7272 Landsdale St.
Brooksville, FL. 34601
law_richards@yahoo.com
Mar. 01, 08
Satellites used in Home surveillance
No citizen is entirely without danger of being harmed by the U S Governments’
Space Satellite programs using high frequency energy, lasers. Similar to the
surveillance used during the Viet Nam War, these units are able to penetrate just about
anything, characterizing human bodies as they walk though their homes. There are
very few places within a home that cannot be spied upon, depending on where the
systems are directed–bathroom, kitchens, bedrooms, throughout the home, spying and
doing their dastardly thing.
Mobil ground units operating in an equivalent way are able to penetrate walls of
buildings doing surveillance and harming Citizens. Much like satellites, ground units
assault using multifrequency energies, lasers, directed by coordinators, causing
damage to joint and nerve tissue of any part of a heat generating body. Seldom, if ever,
individuals who are harmed realize what’s happening to them. Doctors will treat the
inflection as a common ailment. The suffering may go on for years without the
government ever stopping it, in some cases causing death.
Fortunately, the incoming satellite and ground energies can be detected and
identified, by using an effective barrier partitions. It's a trail and error in most cases, a
matter of using barriers, checking to see if the pain continues. The End
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