Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Phoenix Program


Related Topics

In the News (Sat 5 Jul 08)

  
  Phoenix Mars Mission - Home
The Phoenix Mars Mission, launched in August 2007, is the first in NASA's "Scout Program." Scouts are designed to be highly innovative and relatively low-cost complements to major missions being planned as part of the agency's Mars Exploration Program.
The Phoenix Mission is led by Principal Investigator Peter H. Smith of The University of Arizona, supported by a science team of CO-Is,
International contributions for Phoenix are provided by the Canadian Space Agency, the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland), the University of Copenhagen, and the Max Planck Institute in Germany.
phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu   (323 words)

  
  Phoenix Program - Demopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Phoenix Program, known as Ke Hoach Phung Hoang (a word related to fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix) in Vietnamese, was a covert intelligence operation undertaken by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in close collaboration with South Vietnamese intelligence during the Vietnam War.
The Phoenix program was dangerous, for it was being used against political opponents of the regime, whether they were Viet Cong or not.
The Phoenix Program was an assassination campaign and has received much criticism as an example of human rights atrocities committed by the CIA and the organizations it supports.
demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/Phoenix_Program   (601 words)

  
 Vietnam - Phoenix Program
Its crime was ineffectiveness, indiscriminateness, and, in some areas at least, the violation of the local norms to the extent that it appeared to the villagers to be a threat to them in the peaceful performance of their daily business.
The GVN was guilty of both misfeasance and malfeasance in executing the program." (p.
To Brown, FILS 12.3, The Phoenix Program is a "compendium of disinformation, selective testimony, and outright fabrication in which facts are routinely bent to conform to the author's theories....
intellit.muskingum.edu /vietnam_folder/vietnamphoenix.html   (1047 words)

  
 CIA and Operation Phoenix in Vietnam
Phoenix to increase identification VC infrastructure and passing info to military, police, and other elements who were to induce defections, capture them, or attack them in their strongholds.
Phoenix Program, resources control program, checkpoints, identification card program, paramilitary police called the police field force a 100 man mobile company at least one assigned to each province.
"Phoenix demonstrated that the U.S. Government through the CIA will create, impose, and conduct an operation in another country without a semblance of a mandate from a given people or their representatives as long as the operation is considered in interest of U.S. governmental objectives." Counterspy Winter 78 27-8.
www.serendipity.li /cia/operation_phoenix.htm   (4912 words)

  
 Mars Exploration: Missions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Phoenix mission is the first chosen for NASA's Scout program, an initiative for smaller, lower-cost, competed spacecraft.
Named for the resilient mythological bird, Phoenix uses a lander that was intended for use by 2001's Mars Surveyor lander prior to its cancellation.
NASA has selected the University of Arizona "Phoenix" mission for launch in 2007 as what is hoped will be the first in a new line of smaller competed "Scout" missions in the agency's Mars Exploration Program.
marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov /missions/future/phoenix.html   (489 words)

  
 Phoenix Program
The Phoenix Project of the Maryland State Department of Education is relocating its facility from South Chapel Gate Lane to a more appropriate warehouse site in East Baltimore.
Phoenix will accept computers with a minimum standard of Pentium III and will donate computers to school systems, individual schools, and other education related organizations.
The mission of The Phoenix Project is to provide working computers to public schools and community organizations that are educating Maryland's children, youth, and adults.
www.marylandpublicschools.org /MSDE/programs/phoenixproj   (271 words)

  
 Wilderness Therapy for Teens & Families in Crisis, Treatment for teens 13-17, Asheville North Carolina
The program utilizes an outdoor setting to remove distractions, accelerating the process of understanding the issues that are driving negative behaviors.
Phoenix is an appropriate option when your child's behavior cannot be managed, they are unresponsive to attempts to change that behavior, and their choices put them at risk.
Unlike other programs, Phoenix believes that working with the entire family is critical to a successful outcome for the teenager.
www.phoenixoutdoor.com   (447 words)

  
 Phoenix Mars Lander - Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Phoenix Mars Mission, scheduled for launch in August 2007, is the first in NASA's "Scout Program." Scouts are designed to be highly innovative and relatively low-cost complements to major missions being planned as part of the agency's Mars Exploration Program.
Phoenix is specifically designed to measure volatiles (especially water) and complex organic molecules in the arctic plains of Mars, where the Mars Odyssey orbiter has discovered evidence of ice-rich soil very near the surface.
Phoenix is a fixed lander, using a robotic arm to dig to the ice layer and analyze samples with a suite of sophisticated on-deck scientific instruments.
phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu /overview   (227 words)

  
 Collier County Public Schools Alternative School Programs
The Phoenix Program is an alternative school program that seeks to provide educational opportunities for students that have been recommended for expulsion from the Collier County Public Schools(CCPS).
The number of students that fail to complete the program or are removed from the program and their expulsion forwarded to the School Board will be determined.
An orientation to the program is provided for all parents and students prior to their admission.
collier.k12.fl.us /alt/phoenix.htm   (869 words)

  
 Phoenix Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Phoenix Program began in 1998 and is located at the Cold Spring location of Northern Kentucky Cooperative for Educational Services.
The intent of the program is to assist school districts by providing self-contained classrooms within an alternative school setting (if the student's IEP warrants such a placement).
The Program is truly a collaborative effort among the participating school districts.
www.nkces.org /phoenix_program.htm   (179 words)

  
 Phoenix Program - Secure Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The purpose of the Phoenix Program is to provide curriculum and professional support to those British Columbian families who choose to educate their children at home.
The Phoenix program passed an external audit by a team appointed by the BC Ministry of Education in April 2004.
The Phoenix Program Principal (250) 442 0211 ext.
www.phoenixprogram.com /overview.htm   (1396 words)

  
 Phoenix Programs, Inc.
Phoenix Programs offers a wide range of treatment options for addictions on an inpatient and outpatient basis.
This is an intensive, 50 hour program that requires 6-9 hours of weekly education and counseling over a 6-9 week period.
Project Bridge is a program that helps men who are homeless make a successful transition from a residential treatment facility to the community.
www.phoenixprogramsinc.org /services/main.htm   (414 words)

  
 Phoenix Program (Phung Hoang), Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Phoenix Program - Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Underground Movements - Counterinsurgency--Vietnam.
Phoenix Program - Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Underground Movements--Vietnam--Di An (District) - Counterinsurgency--Vietnam--Di An (District) - Di An (Vietnam: District)--History.
The Phoenix program: [a shattering account of the most ambitious and closely-guarded operation of the Vietnam War]..
users.skynet.be /terrorism/html/vietnam_phoenix.htm   (377 words)

  
 NASA - Phoenix: The Search for Water
Originally part of the 2001 Mars Surveyor Program, the spacecraft that was built and tested to fly with the Mars Polar Lander mission was stored after the loss of the Surveyor.
Now a component of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, Phoenix is a relatively low-cost project, and is the first Mars "Scout" mission to study the planet's ice cap.
The immediate goals of the Phoenix mission are to study the geologic history of water, and to search for evidence that Mars may have sustained life.
www.nasa.gov /missions/solarsystem/phoenix_water.html   (469 words)

  
 Phoenix Youth -Phoenix Prevention Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Prevention Program provides public education on issues relevant to keeping youth healthy, as well as early intervention for youth and their families.
This committed group of young people has been involved with the Prevention Program from its inception and continues to be a driving force in its development, acting as youth advisors to the work we do in schools and the community.
Clinical Therapists provide therapeutic services for junior and senior high school youth between the ages of 12 and 19 (and their families), who are struggling with a range of concerns including: family/peer relationship conflict; discrimination; self-harm; coping with anger; grief and loss; self-esteem; body image; and other psychosocial stressors.
www.phoenixyouth.ca /programs.asp?page=28   (330 words)

  
 The Phoenix Program, My Lai and the "Tiger Cages"
Phoenix Coordinator Ramsdell then provided Kotouc with a fllist of VCI suspects in My Lai, along with the ludicrous notion that all "sympathizers" would be gone from the hamlet by early morning, leaving 450 hard-core VC guerillas behind.
Phoenix made it as easy to shoot a Vietnamese child as it was to shoot a sparrow in a tree.
As Ed Murphy said, "Phoenix was far worse than the things attributed to it." Indeed, the range of transgressions generated by Phoenix was all-encompassing but was most evident in its post-apprehension aspect.
www.intellnet.org /resources/american_terrorism/MyLaiPhoenix.html   (5163 words)

  
 Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
"The Phoenix Program "Phung Huang"in Vietnamese, was a covert intelligence operation and assassination program undertaken by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in close collaboration with South Vietnamese intelligence during the Vietnam War.
While the Phoenix operations were originated by the CIA, they were eventually turned over to the U.S. Army and Republic of Vietnam military, and later as part of the "Vietnamization" program they were transitioned to a Republic of Vietnam military program with just a handful of U.S. military advisors assisting.
The vision of the site is to serve as a hub for those who were involved in the Phoenix Program and for those who are seeking the "truth'.
phoenixprogram.org /index.html   (288 words)

  
 Phoenix Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The phoenix was a fabled bird in Greek mythology.
The Phoenix Program strives to give students a chance to start over and to allow their education to be reborn.
The Phoenix Program has a director/teacher who manages the program and teaches in two academic areas.
vitaschools.learningnetworks.com /shs/phoenix/phoenix.html   (281 words)

  
 Douglas Valentine - Articles & Poems
The Phoenix concept also includes "selective" terror, which was perfected by the Vietnamese Communists and involved the murder and mutilation of minor French colonial officials and their Vietnamese suppletifs.
Administrative detention, the fourth foundation stone of the Phoenix Program, is the extra-legal nail upon which the Homeland Security apparatus and war on terror hang.
It was used by the CIA in Vietnam through the Phoenix Program against anyone sympathizing with the Communists, or failing to actively support the puppet régime.
www.douglasvalentine.com /article_security.html   (4866 words)

  
 Writing.Com: The Phoenix Program
The objective of the Phoenix Program was gathering intelligence on and neutralizing the Viet Cong Infrastructure (VCI) in South Vietnam.
The Phoenix Program was one of a number of rural pacification programs, designed to gain the hearts and minds of the rural South Vietnamese peasant population by eliminating communist control.
Colby mentioned that Phoenix was a public program, not a secret assassination operation, and to support this, he cites the fact that the Vietnamese Prime Minister launched the program publicly and explained its goals to the people.
www.writing.com /main/view_item/item_id/583086   (4489 words)

  
 Phoenix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
While in the program, students get to create and build real-world hands-on projects, explore career opportunities and participate in job shadowing, during their senior year.
Students, participating in the Phoenix Program, can earn *college credit (dual credit) while still in high school and use that credit in a 2 or 4 year college or university program.
The Phoenix Program is a joint education venture of the San Antonio Independent School District and St. Philip's College.
www.accd.edu /spc/spcmain/swc/project_phoenix.htm   (432 words)

  
 Bob Kerrey, The CIA and War Crimes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
But the American establishment and media denied it then, and continue to deny it until today, because Phoenix was a genocidal program -- and the CIA officials, members of the media who were complicit through their silence, and the red-blooded American boys who carried it out, are all war criminals.
Phoenix, alas, also was fiendishly effective and became a template for future CIA operations.
is the author of The Phoenix Program, the only comprehensive account of the CIA's torture and assassination operation in Vietnam, as well as TDY a chilling novel about the CIA and the drug trade.
www.counterpunch.org /valentine.html   (3887 words)

  
 The Memory Hole > Documents from the Phoenix Program
While researching the Phoenix Program for my book on the subject, I conducted over a hundred interviews and collected boxes full of documents from individuals, as well as from the State Department and Department of Defense.
The process began in July 1966 with the Roles and Missions Study, which concluded that military operations alone would not win the Vietnam War, and that a second "Pacification" war was needed 1) to destroy the Viet Cong Infrastructure and 2) win the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese through political propaganda and psychological warfare.
His published works to date include The Hotel Tacloban, a highly praised account of life and death in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, and The Phoenix Program, which Professor Alfred W. McCoy describes as "the definitive account" of the CIA's most secret and deadly covert operation of the Vietnam War.
www.thememoryhole.org /phoenix   (1235 words)

  
 The Phoenix School, Decatur, GA: non-profit, parent-governed childcare
The school is focused on the well-being of the child, and the importance of family.
We use experienced substitutes to fill in during vacations or illnesses.The Phoenix program is headed by Director Beverly White, who has nearly 20 years of experience in the preschool environment.
Because Phoenix is a certified non-profit corporation (503c), decisions are made in the best interests of the children rather than to generate profit for the owners.
www.thephoenixschool.com /different.html   (430 words)

  
 Wilderness Therapy Program for Troubled Teens and Families in Crisis
Phoenix Outdoor combines adventures in naturally healing wilderness settings with behavior management therapy, drug and alcohol treatment and individual and group psychotherapy for adolescents.
Communication with Phoenix is comprehensive including scheduled weekly updates with the professional therapist who is working with the teenager and access to a secure web portal containing frequent written updates on the teenager's progress, treatment plan, health, and well-being.
The Phoenix Outdoor base camp is located in the temperate climate of western North Carolina near Asheville and is licensed by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services as a therapeutic camp.
www.phoenix-portal.com /index.htm   (631 words)

  
 Phoenix New Market Tax Credits - PCDIC
Phoenix has an exciting new program that will help our community grow in areas that have not seen as much economic growth as in past years – Phoenix New Markets Program.
Participants in Phoenix’s program must conduct business and provide services in an eligible census tract that meets community impact standards.
In order to be considered for the program, Phoenix created an independent non-profit corporation, Phoenix Community Development and Investment Corporation (PCDIC), to become a certified Community Development Entity (CDE).
www.phoenixnewmarkets.org /home.html   (440 words)

  
 University of Phoenix Online
The course provides students with the opportunity to integrate and apply learning from their professional programs of study in a comprehensive manner.
Explain the value of the general education component of the professional degree program.
Demonstrate the ability to apply University of Phoenix program content within a professional context.
online.phoenix.edu /Degree_Programs.asp?program=BS_Management&course=/Programs/Undergraduate/BS_Management/GEN480.htm   (318 words)

  
 Wilderness Therapy for Teens & Families in Crisis, Treatment for teens 13-17, Asheville North Carolina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Phoenix Outdoor assigns a Parent Coordinator to answer questions about the program, handle routine questions such as billing and getting medications to your child and offer support throughout the program.
The Guide sets expectations for parents about how their students will react to being at Phoenix, what they can expect to experience as parents, and how they will need to communicate with family and friends.
If you would like to contact one or more of these families for private conversations, Phoenix Outdoor will be happy to facilitate this connection.
www.phoenixoutdoor.com /faq_family_program.htm   (451 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.