Afgelopen dinsdag is in Duitsland de opening van het ‘space command center’ door defensie minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (AKK). Het centrum ligt in de gemeente Uedem, vlakbij de Nederlandse grens, zo berichtte WDR 5 die dag. Hierbij werd gesteld dat het niet de bedoeling is dat Duitsland ook raketjes de ruimte in stuurt met militairen, maar men houdt vanaf de grond de belangrijke satellieten, ruimteschroot en meteoren in de gaten….. De NAVO naam van het centrum is ‘Combined Air Operations Centres at Uedem’ (CAOC Uedem). (in Duitsland heeft men dit centrum de naam Weltraumkommando der Budeswehr gegeven…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!)
AKK bij opening van COAC Uedem, foto DPA
Je begrijpt waarschijnlijk al wat men onder belangrijke satellieten verstaat: militaire en gps satellieten (al zijn die laatste van het VS ministerie van defensie uh oorlogsvoering) Niet voor niets ook dat er werd gesteld dat het commando centrum onderdeel is van terreurorganisatie NAVO……
In het programma onderdeel werd verder meteen nog even naar agressie van bepaalde landen gewezen en dat het daarom van belang is dat men de ‘goede satellieten’ (lees: westerse satellieten) in de gaten houdt…. Op zeker dat men met bepaalde landen China en Rusland bedoelde, terwijl de werkelijke agressors op onze aarde de VS en haar NAVO-partners zijn, die alleen deze eeuw al verantwoordelijk zijn voor de moord op meer dan 5 miljoen mensen…..
5 miljoen mensen vermoord in illegale oorlogen, geheime militaire acties (waarin men verdachten vermoord), waarnaast de VS verantwoordelijk is voor het vermoorden van vele duizenden mensen middels drones, mensen die werden verdacht van terreur, waarbij meer dan 90% van de slachtoffers niet eens werden verdacht (‘bijkomende schade’ of: ‘collateral damage’)…. Het vermoorden van mensen die verdacht worden is niets anders dan vreselijke terreur!! Verder is de VS verantwoordelijk voor een groot aantal doden die zijn gevallen bij door de VS gestookte opstanden (waarbij de VS opstandelingen bewapent) en door de VS georganiseerde en geregisseerde staatsgrepen….. Vervolgens is de VS verantwoordelijk voor tienduizenden doden door de illegale sancties die deze vereniging van terreurstaten loslaat op meerdere landen die niet gehoorzaam aan haar hand lopen, zo zijn er in Venezuela intussen al meer dan 100.000 mensen omgekomen door die illegale sancties, sancties die niet worden gesteund door een VN resolutie (waaronder ook voedsel en medicijnen vallen, bewijzen te over, ook al ontkent de VS dat deze zaken nooit onder sancties vallen…..)
CAOC Uedem, foto DPA
De bedoeling van sancties is het volk in zo’n land ontevreden te maken zodat ze de straat opgaan en een wisseling van regime eisen, zoals nu in Cuba gebeurt, waar het aantal deelnemers minimaal is, gezien de totale bevolking…… Joe Biden beloofde voordat hij de verkiezingen van 2019 won dat hij de sancties die Trump Cuba oplegde teniet zou doen, echter ook dat was één van zijn vele loze beloften, ofwel verkiezingsleugens…….
Deze stap van Duitsland en de eerdere stappen van de VS, dat een speciaal luchtmachtonderdeel heeft samengesteld voor ‘bewaking’ van de ruimte: United States Space Force (USSF) tegen agressie van derden en voor het veiligstellen van het ‘VS belang’ ook in de ruimte militair overwicht te krijgen en te houden, is een grote aanzet tot het bewapenen van de ruimte….. Uiteraard gaan China en Rusland niet rustig afwachten totdat de VS actief satellieten van deze landen onklaar maakt dan wel aan flarden schiet, zij zijn gedwongen om dezelfde stappen te nemen, zeker gezien de bewezen enorme agressie of zeg maar gerust terreur van de VS…….. Kortom een nieuwe wapenwedloop krijgt steeds meer vorm, met dank aan het agressieve westen……
Te zot
voor woorden: CounterPunch (CP) komt met een artikel waarin bekend
wordt gemaakt dat de Mars Perseverance Rover, het nieuwste karretje op Mars,
plutonium heeft als energievoorziening…… De NASA stelt dat de
kans dat het fout gaat met deze energievoorziening, de meest
dodelijke van alle radioactieve stoffen, als een kans is van 1 op 960……. Gezien kansberekeningen voor rampen geeft dit cijfer aan dat de kans
groot is dat het misgaat en dan moet vooral niet vergeten worden dat
de NASA er het grootste belang bij heeft deze kansberekening naar het publiek toe zo hoog mogelijk
te houden (om onrust te voorkomen), anders gezegd: de kans dat er iet mis kan gaan moet nog
een heel stuk onder dat getal van 960 worden gezocht……
Karl
Grossman, de schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel stelt dat
de gokkers in Las Vegas heel blij zouden zijn, als hun kans om
iets te winnen 1 op 960 zou zijn. Bij loterijen is de kans
berekening op winst een oneindig aantal groter dan 1 op 960 en toch
zijn er mensen die deze winnen aldus Grossman, echter dat is m.i. een
manke vergelijking, immers de loterijen zijn er juist op gericht dat
de hoofdprijs wordt gewonnen, terwijl de NASA het karretje niet naar
Mars heeft gestuurd om te verongelukken tijdens het transport of tijdens werkzaamheden op die planeet…..
Naast
het feit dat het in feite schandalig is dat we vanaf de aarde
levensgevaarlijke zaken naar andere planeten transporteren of het heelal in sturen,
moet er juist rekening worden gehouden met wat er mis kan gaan op aarde, zo kan een lancering uitlopen op een catastrofe als de raket
ontploft na lancering……. Als dit misgaat zonder radioactieve stoffen
aan boord is e.e.a. nog te overzien, echter zou de raket zijn
ontploft die de huidige Mars Rover vervoerde, was de zaak wel
bijzonder gevaarlijk en ingewikkeld geworden, ga maar na wat
plutonium alleen al aanricht als een mens daarmee onbeschermd in
aanraking komt……. Het voorgaande geldt uiteraard ook voor de
natuur waar dergelijke levensgevaarlijke radioactieve stoffen terecht zouden zijn
gekomen……
In het artikel van CP worden een paar gevallen in herinnering gebracht waar het inderdaad fout ging met door kernenergie aangedreven satellieten enz.
Het is
dan ook zaak dat men stopt met dergelijke gevaarlijke experimenten,
als men niet anders kan dan atoomenergie inzetten voor een
ruimteproject, zou daar ten allen tijde een verbod over uit moeten
worden gesproken, zoek maar naar alternatieven als zonne-energie en
als die niet toereikend zijn, wacht dan maar een paar jaar tot de
technologie zover is ontwikkeld dat men zonder kernenergie hetzelfde
kan bereiken!!!
With all the media hoopla last week
about the Perseverance rover, going almost totally unreported was
that its energy source is plutonium—considered the most lethal of
all radioactive substances—and nowhere in media that NASA
projected 1-in-960 odds of the plutonium being released in an
accident on the mission.
“A ‘1-in-960 chance’ of a
deadly plutonium release is a real concern—gamblers in Las Vegas
would be happy with those odds,” says Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of
the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space (GNAWNPS).
Indeed, big-money lotteries have
odds far higher than 1-in-960 and routinely people win those
lotteries.
Further, NASA’s Supplementary
Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the $3.7 billion mission
acknowledges that an “alternative” power source for Perseverance
could have been solar energy. Solar energy using photovoltaic panels
has been the power source for a succession of Mars rovers.
For an accident releasing plutonium
on the Perseverance launch—and 1 in 100 rockets undergo major
malfunctions on launch mostly by blowing up—NASA in its SEIS
described these impacts for the area around the Cape Kennedy under a
heading “Impacts of Radiological Releases on the Environment.”
It states: “In addition to the
potential human health consequences of launch accidents that could
result in a release of plutonium dioxide, environmental impacts could
also include contamination of natural vegetation, wetlands,
agricultural land, cultural, archaeological and historic sites, urban
areas, inland water, and the ocean, as well was impacts on wildlife.”
It adds: “In addition to the
potential direct costs of radiological surveys, monitoring, and
potential cleanup following an accident, there are potential
secondary societal costs associated with the decontamination and
mitigation activities due to launch area accidents. Those costs may
include: temporary or longer term relocation of residents; temporary
or longer term loss of employment; destruction or quarantine of
agricultural products, including citrus crops; land use restrictions;
restrictions or bans on commercial fishing; and public health effects
and medical care.”
NASA was compelled to make
disclosures about the odds of an accident releasing plutonium,
alternatives to using nuclear power on the Perseverance and
consequences of a plutonium release under the National Environmental
Policy Act.
Its SEIS can be viewed online at
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/files/mep/Mars2020_Final_EIS.pdf
Meanwhile, the U.S. is now
producing large amounts of Plutonium-238, the plutonium isotope used
for space missions. The U.S. stopped producing Plutonium-238 in 1988,
and it began obtaining it from Russia, in recent years no longer
happening. A series of NASA space shots using Plutonium-238 are
planned for coming years.
Plutonium-238 is 280
times more radioactive than Plutonium-239, the plutonium isotope
used in atomic bombs and as a “trigger” in hydrogen bombs.
There are 10.6 pounds of
Plutonium-238 on Perseverance.
We might have dodged a plutonium
bullet on the Perseverance mission. The Atlas V rocket carrying it
was launched without blowing up. And the rocket didn’t fall back
from orbit with Perseverance and its Plutonium-238 disintegrating on
re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere and plutonium dispersed.
But with NASA planning more space
missions involving nuclear power including developing nuclear-powered
rockets for trips to Mars and launching rockets carrying nuclear
reactors for placement on the Moon and Mars, space-based nuclear
Russian roulette is at hand.
The acknowledgement that “an
accident resulting in the release of plutonium dioxide from the MMRTG
[Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator] occurs with a
probability of 1 in 960” is made repeatedly in the SEIS.
The amount of electricity produced
by the MMRTG on Perseverance is miniscule—some 100 watts, similar
to a light bulb.
A solar alternative to the use of
plutonium on the mission is addressed at the start of the SEIS in a
“Description and Comparison of Alternatives” section.
First is “Alternative 1” which
proposes that the rover use a plutonium-fueled MMRTG “to
continually provide heat and electric power to the rover’s battery
so that the rover could operate and conduct scientific work on the
planet’s surface.”
That is followed by “Alternative
2” which states: “Under this alternative, NASA would discontinue
preparations for the Proposed Action (Alternative 1) and implement a
different power system for the Mars rover. The rover would use solar
power to operate instead of a MMRTG.”
The worst U.S. accident involving
the use of nuclear power in space came in 1964 when the U.S.
satellite Transit 5BN-3, powered by a SNAP-9A plutonium-fueled
radioisotope thermoelectric generator, failed to achieve orbit and
fell from the sky. It broke apart as it burned up in the atmosphere.
That accident was long linked to a spike in global lung cancer rates
where the plutonium was spread by Dr. John Gofman, an M.D. and Ph.
D., a professor of medical physics at the University of California at
Berkeley. NASA, after the SNAP-9A (SNAP for Systems Nuclear Auxiliary
Power) accident became a pioneer in developing solar photovoltaic
power. All U.S. satellites now are energized by solar power, as is
the International Space Station.
The worst accident involving
nuclear power in space in the Soviet/Russian space program occurred
in 1978 when the Cosmos 954 satellite with a nuclear reactor aboard
fell from orbit and spread radioactive debris over a 373-mile swath
from Great Slave Lake to Baker Lake in Canada. There were 110 pounds
of highly-enriched uranium fuel on Cosmos 954.
I first began writing widely about
the use of nuclear power in space 35 years ago when I broke the story
in The Nation magazine
about how the next mission of the ill-fated shuttle Challenger was to
loft the Ulysses space probe fueled with 24.2 pounds of Plutonium-238
(to conduct orbits around the sun).
If the Challenger had blown up on
that mission, scheduled for May 1986, instead of blowing up on
January 28, 1986, and the plutonium released, it would not have been
six astronauts and teacher-in-space Chris McAuliffe dying but many
more people.
The absence in media reporting on
the Perseverance Mars rover of the dangers involving the nuclear
material on it and the chances of that plutonium being dispersed is
not new.
In The
Wrong Stuff I include a
section on “The Space Con Job.”
I quote extensively from an article
published in the Columbia
Journalism Review after
the Challenger accident by William Boot, its former editor, titled
“NASA and the Spellbound Press.” He wrote: “Dazzled by the
space agency’s image of technological brilliance, space reporters
spared NASA thorough scrutiny that might have improved chances of
averting tragedy—through hard-hitting investigations drawing
Congress’s wandering attention to the issue of shuttle safety.”
He found “gullibility” in the
press. “The press,” he wrote, has been “infatuated by
man-in-space adventures.” He related that “U.S. journalists have
long had a love affair with the space program.” He said “many
space reporters appeared to regard themselves as participants, along
with NASA, in a great cosmic quest. Transcripts of NASA press
confernces reveal that it was not unusual for reporters to use the
first person plural. (‘When are we going to launch?)”
Also, in The
Wrong Stuff I wrote about
an address on “Science and the Media” by the New
York Times space reporter
John Noble Wilford in 1990 at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In it
he declared: “I am particularly intrigued by science and
scientists… My favorite subject is planetary science.” After his
talk, I interviewed him and he acknowledged that “there’s still a
lot of space reporters who are groupies.” Still, he went on, “some
of the things that NASA does are so great, so marvelous, so it’s
easy to forget to be critical.”
On NBC’s Today show, the attitude of the
reporters was as celebratory on the morning of the landing as the
label of the video aired showing “Jubilation at NASA Control.”
Never was there a mention of nuclear power or plutonium or the
acknowledged risks of an accident and dispersal of plutonium.
“I am disheartened that the media
shows little inclination to mention the words ‘plutonium’ or
‘probabilities of accidental release’ in their so-called
reporting of the Mars rover arrival. You have to question who they
work for,” says Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network.
“We daily hear the excited
anticipation of the nuclear industry as stories reveal the growing
plans for hosts of launches of nuclear devices—more rovers on Mars,
mining colonies on the moon, even nuclear reactors to power rockets
bound for Mars. The nuclear industry is rolling the dice while people
on Earth have their fingers crossed in the hope technology does not
fail—as it often does,” said Gagnon, of the Maine-based
international organization that since its formation in 1992 has been
challenging the use of nuclear power and the deployment of weapons in
space. The U.S. has favored nuclear power as an energy source for
space-based weapons.
Further, said Gagnon, “the media,
while ignoring the Mars rover plutonium story, is also guilty of not
reporting about the years of toxic contamination at the Department of
Energy nuclear labs where these space nuclear devices are produced.
The Idaho Nuclear Laboratory and Los Alamos Nuclear lab in New Mexico
have long track records of worker and environmental contamination
during this dirty space nuke fabrication process.”
Declared Gagnon: “The public will
need to do more than cross our fingers in hopes that nothing goes
wrong. We need to speak out loudly so Congress, NASA and the DoE
hear that we do not support the nuclearization of the heavens. Go
solar or better yet—stay home and use our tax dollars to take care
of the legions of people without jobs, health care, food, or heat.
Mars can wait.”
Ongelofelijk
hoe de VS denkt alles en iedereen te kunnen manipuleren en dan op de
kop staat als andere landen zich niet houden aan haar
hersenspinsels……. Afgelopen week ‘lanceerde Iran een satelliet’
naar 465 kilometer hoogte en zoals te verwachten de VS stond op de
kop, immers de VS heeft zich de ruimte toegeëigend met haar Space
Force (USSF), overigens een actie van de psychopathische Trump administratie, die recht ingaat tegen daarover gesloten verdragen……
Oorlogsmisdadiger
en topploert Pompeo, minister van buitenlandse zaken voor de VS, had
het gore lof volledig uit z’n psychopathische kop te gaan over de
lancering van die Iraanse satelliet. De schoft stelt plompverloren
dat Iran zich met die lancering niet houdt aan de Iraanse nucleaire
deal, ofwel de P5+1 nuceaire deal……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Pompeo had zelfs de
moeite genomen om het artikel in dat verdrag te zoeken waarin stond
dat Iran dit soort acties niet mocht ondernomen…..
Pompeo was ‘even vergeten’ dat Trump de
Iran-nucleaire deal heeft verscheurt, de VS heeft teruggetrokken uit die deal en Iran illegaal zware sancties heeft opgelegd……. Door die sancties is het land extra hard getroffen door het Coronavirus, nadat er vóór de Coronacrisis al veel ouderen, chronisch zieken en kinderen zijn overleden door tekorten aan medicijnen en medische apparatuur, juist vanwege de illegale VS sancties, ondanks dat heeft Iran veel meer succes met het bestrijden van het virus dan de VS, waar men nog steeds achter de feiten aanloopt… (zo meer daarover)
Iran is volgens Pompeo en de rest van de Trump administratie een groot verspreider van terreur, ook al een meer dan belachelijke beschuldiging, daar de VS verreweg de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde is, een land dat alleen deze eeuw al ruim meer dan 2,5 miljoen mensen heeft vermoord: -in illegale oorlogen, -in geheime militaire missies o.l.v. de CIA, -middels drones, waarbij meer dan 90% van de slachtoffers niet eens werd verdacht, dus veelal vrouwen en kinderen, -door opstanden georganiseerd door de CIA en tot slot -in staatsgrepen uitgevoerd in landen die de VS niet welgevallig zijn…… Aan dat soort grootschalige en barbaarse terreur kan Iran bij wijze van spreken nog niet in duizend jaar tippen…….
Dat was
het nog niet beste bezoeker: Pompeo beschuldigt Iran er ook nog eens
van het Coronavirus niet serieus te nemen en in te zetten op de
lancering van een satelliet…… De enorme schoft vergat voor het
gemak te melden, dat door de sancties van de VS er in Iran een groot
tekort is ontstaan aan medische middelen, medicijnen en medische apparatuur en er zoals gezegd al voor de Coronacrisis een groot aantal doden was te betreuren in Iran (in feite alweer een massamoord op het conto van de VS….)….
Nogmaals: als er één land is dat wat betreft het Coronavirus volkomen achter de
feiten aanloopt (waar Nederland heel dicht in de buurt komt) is het
de VS wel, meer dan 50.000 Crononadoden, honderden miljarden dollars voor: -het bedrijfsleven, -de
aandeelhouders en -de welgestelden, terwijl massa’s mensen werkloos zijn geworden, niet
verzekerd zijn en geen geld hebben om bijvoorbeeld een chemokuur te
betalen, waardoor in ‘het land van de ongekende mogelijkheden’ mensen
overlijden daar ze simpelweg te arm zijn om medicatie en therapie te betalen……
Het
volgende artikel werd geschreven door Finian Cunningham, waarin hij
verder op deze zaak ingaat, eerder gepubliceerd op Sputnik en
door mij overgenomen van Information Clearing House (onder het
artikel kan je klikken voor een ‘Dutch’ vertaling, dat neemt enige tijd in beslag):
Iran
Launches US Fury
By
Finian Cunningham
April 24, 2020
“Information
Clearing House”
–No
wonder the US reacted with fury this week when Iran launched a
satellite 465 kilometers into space. In baseball terms, the Iranians
just hit the US ball out of the park.
Mike Pompeo, America’s
top diplomat, is demanding more sanctions against Iran over what
he claimed was a violation of UN resolutions outlawing Iranian
military missiles in space. He called on the “Iranian regime”
to prioritise resources in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and to
end its campaign of global terror”.
You have to hand it to
Pompeo for his total lack of awareness of America’s own absurdity.
Pompeo cited UN
Resolution 2231 which pertains to the 2015 international nuclear
accord with Iran – the same accord that the Trump administration
dumped in May 2018. So, Washington wants Iran to abide by resolutions
relating to a treaty that is non-existent, as far as the US is
concerned.
Pompeo points to the
involvement of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the
launch as somehow indicative of malign intent ignoring the fact that
military and space technology are historically deeply entwined. None
more so than in the US space ventures, which originated from Nazi V2
rocket science.
A first military satellite named Noor is launched into orbit by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, in Semnan, Iran April 22, 2020
The US lecturing to
Iran about a military satellite comes only weeks after President
Trump has ordered the establishment of a new Space Force which opens
up weaponization of space – in contravention of an
international treaty forbidding such development.
Pompeo’s call on Iran
to “prioritise resources” to meet the “demands of the
Iranian people” (an oblique reference to the COVID-19 crisis) is
made while the US leads the world in the number of infections and
deaths from the disease.
The abject fiasco of
Washington not being able to better contain the pandemic is a result
of chronically underfunded health services in the US. This is while
the US sends warships to the Persian Gulf – 10,000 kilometers from
its shores – to carry out naval maneuvers threatening Iranian
security and the security of the wider region. Just
who is waging a global terror campaign?
Pompeo’s piffle about
“prioritising resources” comes from a regime in Washington
that spends more than $750 billion on the military every year. That’s
nearly 57 times the estimated
$13 billion that Iran spends. And, by the way, five times more
than China, and more than 10 times Russia’s military budget.
[De psychopathische massamoordenaar Mike Pompeo, die als Trump, Obama en Clinton (de vrouwelijke variant) vervolgd zou moeten worden door het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC), dit voor oorlogsmisdaden en misdaden tegen de menselijkheid] Photo: Reuters
American citizens’
demand for better healthcare could be easily met if its monstrously
profligate military
expenditure was redirected. The failure of the US public health
system is made all the more apparent by the current COVID-19 crisis.
The US pandemic
death toll is this week heading above 50,000 compared with Iran’s
figure of 5,300. Considering the respective population numbers of 330
and 80 million that suggests Iran is doing a much better job at
containing the virus. On a per-capita basis, according to publicly
available data, Iran’s mortality rate is less than half that of the
US.
This is while the US
has sanctioned Iran to the hilt. American sanctions – arguably
illegal under international law – have hit Iran’s ability to import
medical supplies to cope with COVID-19 and other fatal diseases, yet
Iran through its own resources is evidently managing the crisis much
better than the US.
What’s really
motivating Washington’s ire is that its criminal and barbaric
sanctions policy is shown – spectacularly – to be an abysmal
flop. Even with so many resources at its disposal, the US has failed
to thwart the Iranian nation.
A
handout picture provided by the Iranian Presidency on April 15, 2020
shows Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wearing a face
mask during a cabinet session in the capital Tehran
This is why Pompeo is
blustering now about appealing to other nations to impose more
international sanctions. The US sanctions alone and its campaign of
bullying and terrorism have failed, and it is desperately trying to
dragoon others to join its heartless policy – under the guise of UN
resolutions.
Washington’s
presumed global empire is all washed up. Its disgraceful dereliction
towards American public health is abundantly clear. Its bullying of
China, Russia, Venezuela, and others is futile. Its navy is impotent
from COVID-19 sick sailors aboard billion-dollar warships. And Iran,
hammered by US sanctions, is able to make a landmark satellite
achievement while beating the US in terms of managing a pandemic. No
wonder the Americans are livid.
Finian
Cunningham has written extensively on international affairs, with
articles published in several languages. He is a Master’s graduate
in Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor for the
Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a
career in newspaper journalism. He is also a musician and songwriter.
For nearly 20 years, he worked as an editor and writer in major news
media organisations, including The Mirror, Irish Times and
Independent. – “Source“
Voor meer berichten over Pompeo, P5+1 nucleaire deal, Iran, Venezuela, US Space Force en/of het Coronavirus, klik op het betrffende label, direct onder dit bericht.
Op Moon of Alabama afgelopen januari een artikel over alle zaken ‘die Trump
op verzoek van Putin heeft geregeld’. Uiteraard is dit sarcastisch
bedoeld, immers Trump doet niet wat in het belang is van Rusland,
integendeel!!
De
schrijver van het artikel op Moon of Alabama, iemand die zich Erelis
noemt, gaat toevallig ook in op een claim die deze week weer opdook:
de contacten van de Trump administratie met buitenlandse regeringen,
zonder daar een rapport van te maken, volgens de WaPo is dit niet
eerder gebeurd in de bloedige geschiedenis van de VS, echter dat is
een dikke vette leugen, zoals je zal lezen.
Putin
Asks And Trump Delivers – A List Of All The Good Things Trump Did For
Russia
The Washington
Post’s Greg Miller reported
Sunday that President Donald Trump’s confiscation of the
translator’s notes from a one-on-one conversation with Russian
President Vladimir Putin in 2017 was “unusual.” This is
incorrect. It was unprecedented. There
is nothing like it in the annals of presidential history.
Not
really. Other U.S. leaders held long private meetings with their
counterparts without notes being taken.
When
Richard Nixon met Leonid Brezhnev he did not even bring his own
interpreter:
Nixon
would meet Brezhnev alone, the only other person in attendance being
Viktor Sukhodrev, the Soviet interpreter. “Our first meeting in
the Oval Office was private, except for Viktor Sukhodrev, who, as in
1972, acted as translator.” Nixon on Brezhnev’s 1973 visit. RN,
p.878 . Therefore, the only “notes” that would exist would
be those of the Soviet interpreter. Not sure he would have time to
make notes and translate and, even if he did so, whether those notes
would be housed in any US archive.
Nixon’s
White House office was bugged. There are probably tape recordings of
the talks. There might also be recordings of the Trump-Putin talks.
Mr.
Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev began their second day of talks with a
private meeting that had been scheduled to last 15 minutes but ran
for nearly 70 minutes, with
only interpreters present.
They met in a small room in
the Soviet Mission,
with the Soviet leader seated in a small armchair and Mr. Reagan on a
sofa.
In
the afternoon, they meet alone for a little over 20 minutes and then
again for 90 minutes. All told, the
two leaders have spent 4 hours and 51 minutes alone,
except for interpreters, over the two days here.
That
the FBI agents involved in the decision were avid haters of Russia
and of Trump has surely nothing to do with it. That the opening of a
counter-intelligence investigation gave them the legal ability under
Obama’s EO12333 to use NSA signal intelligence against Trump is
surely irrelevant.
What
the FBI people really were concerned about is Trump’s public record
of favoring Russia at each and every corner.
Trump
obviously wants better diplomatic relations with Russia. He is
reluctant to counter its military might. He is doing his best to make
it richer. Just consider the headlines below. With all those good
things Trump did for Putin, intense suspicions of Russian influence
over him is surely justified.
When
one adds up all those actions one can only find that Trump cares more
about Russia, than about the U.S. and its NATO allies. Only with
Trump being under Putin’s influence, knowingly or unwittingly, could
he end up doing Russia so many favors.
Not.
—
(Thanks
to Erelis in comments for
additions to the list.)
Posted
by: Erelis on January 15, 2019 at 02:12 PM | Permalink
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Het label NS2 direct onder dit bericht staat voor Nord Stream 2, de pijpleiding die Rusland en Duitsland aanleggen in de Oostzee om zo gas uit Rusland te leveren aan Duitsland. De VS eist van Duitsland te stoppen met dit project zodat haar zwaar gesubsidieerde schaliegas na bewerking tot LNG kan worden geleverd aan Duitsland en andere EU lidstaten……. De subsidie voor de schaliegaswinning zit niet alleen in aftrekposten voor de belasting, of het goedkoop ter beschikking stellen van grondgebied voor de vele boringen die daarvoor nodig zijn, maar ook door de vergunning om zwaar chemisch vervuild water dat nodig is voor de schaliegaswinning, te mogen lozen op open water, dus rivieren of rechtstreeks in zee…… Bovendien is grondgebied waar deze schaliegaswinning plaatsvond is voor een paar decennia niet meer te bewonen, waar natuur was, is deze verdwenen voor zwaar vervuilde grond, grondwater en (zoals gezegd) open water als rivieren………
Zie ook over de enorme berg aan Russiagate leugens de berichten onder de volgende links:
Jason
Ditz plaatste op ANTIWAR een artikel over de wil van Trump een
raketafweersysteem in de ruimte te construeren. Eerder kondigde Trump
al aan (waarschijnlijk nadat hij een marathon van Star War films had
gezien) dat de VS een militair ruimteleger zal opzetten……
Overigens bepaald niet de eerste keer dat men in de VS sprak over een VS raketafweersysteem
in de ruimte: ook de knettergekke president en B-acteur Reagan wilde in de 80er jaren van de vorige eeuw een raketafweersysteem in de ruimte, een plan dat destijds sarcastisch Star Wars werd genoemd……
Verder
hebben zowel Trump als zijn adviseur Bolton aangekondigd dat de VS
uit het INF verdrag zal stappen, met de claim dat Rusland zich niet
aan dit verdrag houdt, terwijl het juist de VS is die met een
‘raketschild’ in Polen en Roemenië de boel verder op scherp
heeft gesteld…… Dat raketschild zou gericht zijn tegen raketten uit
Iran, terwijl dat land bepaald niet bekend staat als land dat overal
en nergens illegale oorlogen begint, zoals de VS dat met hulp van andere NAVO partners pleegt te
doen…..
De
raketten van het raketschild in Polen en Roemenië kunnen in een mum
van tijd van kernkoppen worden voorzien en daarmee als aanvalsraketten
worden ingezet…… Met dat schild heeft de VS dan ook het Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces-verdrag
(INF-verdrag) al lang en breed geschonden, immers de raketten van het
raketschild staan op strategische afstand van doelen als Moskou in
Rusland, een afstand die binnen het INF-verdrag als verboden is
gekenmerkt, ofwel raketten die doelen op een afstand van 500 tot
5.500 kilometer kunnen raken……
Het
voorgaande terwijl zoals gezegd de VS het gore lef heeft te stellen dat Rusland
het INF-verdrag schendt…..
Geen
sterk stuk van Ditz, daar hij een aantal zaken is vergeten. Waar hij een
punt heeft is zijn stelling dat de VS duidelijk van zins is om
Rusland vergeldingscapaciteit uit te schakelen, ofwel dat Rusland
bij een nucleaire aanval van de VS plus haar NAVO partners GB en
Frankrijk, geen raketten als vergelding kan lanceren…… Het
voorgaande zal leiden tot een nieuwe wapenrace en deze is zeker niet
in het belang van het volk in de VS, Rusland en de rest van
Europa……
Met een ruimte raketafweersysteem breekt de VS de al zeer fragiele stabiliteit in de wereld verder af, terwijl Trump, Bolton en andere top-oorlogsmisdadigers in de VS, keer op keer schermen met de leugen dat de VS de stabiliteit in de wereld bewaart en bewaakt…….. Hoe verzint men het en dat in een land dat de ene illegale oorlog na de andere begint??!!! De VS houdt zich verder bezig met economische oorlogsvoering en het opzetten van opstanden die tot een staatsgreep moeten leiden……. Ook vermoordt de VS een enorm aantal verdachten (ofwel illegale executies zonder een fatsoenlijke rechtszaak) middels drones, waarbij meer dan 90% van de slachtoffers niet eens werd verdacht, dus veelal vrouwen en kinderen…… Alsof al deze zaken stabilisatie bevorderend zijn……
Eén ding is zeker: mocht WOIII uitbreken is deze één op één ‘te danken aan’ de grootste terreurentiteit op de wereld, t.w. de VS (en haar oorlogshond de NAVO)…….
‘Star
Wars’ Returns: US Military to Develop Space-Based Missile Defense
System
(ANTIWAR.COM) — In
what looks to be a highly ambitious and even more highly cost
prohibitive scheme, President Trump has announced his intention to
greatly expand US missile defense systems, with
a major focus on putting them in space.
During
his announcement Thursday at the Pentagon, Trump set out his goals,
saying that he wants “to ensure that we can detect and destroy any
missile launched against the United States – anywhere, anytime,
anyplace.”
The
Pentagon has had space-based interceptors on its wish list for some
time, but between that and drones with lasers on them, they were far
short of the sort of total, planet-wide coverage that President Trump
is talking about.
A
space-centric missile defense system must inevitably draw comparisons
to the Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly called Star Wars, of
the 1980s, a controversial and hugely expensive program that also
sought space-based interceptors.
The
timing of President Trump’s announcement will likely raise eyebrows
on a few fronts, as it comes just a day after the US announced its
intentions to withdraw from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF)
Treaty with Russia, and just a day before North Korean officials are
to arrive to meet with the secretary of state.
Especially
with respect to Russia, US buildups of missile defense systems have
been met with major suspicion that the US is trying to eliminate
Russia’s deterrent capability, a concern which often leads to
Russian threats of a new arms race. With a treaty having just
collapsed, that’s an even bigger concern this time.
This
also likely is tied to President Trump’s long-standing fondness for
militarizing space, and his attempts to create a Space Force. During
his speech, Trump declared space to be a “new warfighting domain.”
De luchtmacht van de VS ondergaat momenteel de grootste uitbreiding sinds het eind van de Koude Oorlog. Jakob Reimann, de schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel, zegt dat het niet duidelijk is waarom de VS dit nu doet…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Gezien de agressie van de VS tegen China en Rusland, lijkt het me wel meer dan duidelijk: de VS wil oorlogvoeren met zowel Rusland als China!!
Eerder gaf een VS generaal al aan dat de VS doende is zich voor te bereiden op een meerfrontenoorlog, waar Rusland en China zeker twee van de doelwitten zijn…… Men gelooft in de VS stellig dat een kernoorlog is te overleven, bovendien zo zal men denken zullen er vooral veel arme VS burgers omkomen, is meteen het werklozen probleem en de diepe armoede* opgelost, twee vliegen in 1 klap, hoewel dat zijn er met Rusland en China al 4 en hoogstwaarschijnlijk zullen ook Iran en Noord-Korea worden aangevallen, kijk ‘dat tikt aan……’
Bovendien is een oorlog goed voor de industrie in de VS, althans dat denkt men dom genoeg, immers een kernoorlog kent alleen verliezers, waar de grote onderlaag letterlijk de hardste klappen zal krijgen, zoals gezegd ook in de VS, als men daar wordt aangevallen met kernwapens……
Lees het verontrustende artikel van Reimann, eerder gepubliceerd op Foreign Policy in Focus en zie ook het artikel dat ik eergisteren publiceerde over de VS agressie en haar wil een meerfrontenoorlog te beginnen**:
US Air Force Preparing for War Against Russia and China
The Air Force is undergoing its biggest expansion since the end of the Cold War, and the reasons are clear.
(FPIF Op-ed) — In September, at the Air Force Association’s annual Space & Cyber Conference, Heather Wilson — Donald Trump’s Secretary of the U.S. Air Force — presented the Trump administration’s new roadmap for the U.S. Air Force: the historic expansion of the already, by far, largest air force in the world.
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Wilson identified the perceived context of the new expansionist developments right at the start of her 30-minute speech — Russia conducted its largest military exercise on “Russian soil in four decades,” she said, and China sent its first operational aircraft carrier into the Pacific and has “militarized” the South China Sea — and thus exposed at the same time the old dilemma of global security policy: The one’s defense looks quite like offense to the other, and vice versa.
The Largest Expansion Since the End of the Cold War
Secretary Wilson explained that the U.S. Air Force will expand its current operational squadrons — which she martially called “the clenched fist of American resolve” — from 312 to 386 between 2025 and 2030. That’s an increase of 25 percent — the largest expansion ever since the end of the Cold War.
A squadron consists of 12 to 24 aircraft. Wilson’s expansion thus corresponds to well over 1,000 new bombers, fighter jets, and drones, as well as reconnaissance and refueling aircraft. Approximately $25 billion will be added to the annual Air Force budget, and no less than 40,000 additional staff will be needed. That amounts to the Trump administration reversing recent trends, as the Air Force has “drastically downsized in past years,” Military.com reports.
Foreign Policy received exclusive insight into the composition of these 74 new squadrons. The largest percentage increase among the various squadrons is attributed to the bomber squadrons: aircraft that can be equipped with nuclear weapons and, above all, aim at the destruction of stationary targets such as buildings or other massive infrastructure — but not mobile combat units — which is largely interpreted as a shift in strategic focus towards wars against nations, not terrorist groups.
There is also a massive increase in the number of refueling aircraft, which are currently deployed in support of the Saudi-Emirati war against the civilian population of Yemen — an air war, waged across the endless deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, that would be virtually impossible without U.S. air-refueling.
Another central theme in Wilson‘s speech was the creation of a Space Force as the sixth branch of the military. Donald Trump initially understood that project as a joke, but then quickly recognized it as a catchy slogan that was well received by his base. In March, he finally included the Space Force(USSF)into the national security strategy.
“Space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air, and sea”, Trump stated, although his White House, the U.S. Air Force, and Secretary of Defense James Mattis have vehemently opposed this move in the past. “We can no longer view space as a function, it is a war-fighting mission,” Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told a crowd of applauding military staff in her speech in National Harbor, Maryland. The military, Wilson promised, is working to “put a war fighter’s focus on space operation.”
New Fighter Jets at Russia’s Borders
In recent years, NATO has carried out its largest troop deployment on its eastern flank — right at the Russian border — since the fading of the Cold War in the 1980s. At the insistence of German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen, a new NATO headquarters is being set up in Germany for the purpose of coordinating the movement of these troops. And with the establishment of the “Military Schengen” area, the rapid and unbureaucratic deployment of troops across Europe’s borders should be guaranteed.
In the wake of this escalating militarization of the European continent, the U.S. Air Force massively increased its presence at Russia’s doorstep too.
In all NATO countries in Eastern Europe, the U.S. Air Force is investing multimillion-dollar sums in the expansion of its air bases: with more than $50 million pouring into a base in Hungary, more than $60 million allocated to the modernization of two air force bases in Romania, and two bases in Slovakia that will be upgraded with more than $ 100 million, besides various base upgrades in other countries in the region.
The majority of these funds are dedicated to explicitly war-related investments such as new hangars for fighter jets or facilities to store weapons and fuel. In addition to hundreds of soldiers, the U.S. Air Force also recently sent several dozens of new fighter jets to Romania alone, including twelve A-10 Thunderbolts, better known as “Warthogs,” that are armed with radioactive uranium munitions. Reaper combat drones have been stationed in Poland for months, and soon they will likely launch from Romania too.
Both the excessive deployment of air forces in Eastern Europe and the establishment of Trump’s Space Force — as well as the historic, long-term upgrade of the U.S. Air Force as a whole — reflect a tendency to slowly abandon the infamous “War on Terror” doctrine of the past 17 years.
The relevance of the countless petty wars against al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and ISIS & Co. is slowly dwindling. Neither is North Korea, Iran, or Syria the prime target of this strategic realignment.
The historic upgrade of the U.S. Air Force, military experts agree, reflects a shift in focus in the military doctrine of the U.S. empire towards great power wars in the 21st century: wars against Russia or China.
No Hegemon Besides Me
It is one of the fundamental motives of strategic geopolitics that the present empire, in order to maintain its global power, must prevent the rise of other regional hegemons at any cost — especially in the three geostrategic core regions of East Asia, the Persian Gulf, and Europe.
This is the primary reason why the U.S. went to war against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan — and transformed the latter into a military colony that still exists today and whose own army is still under Washington’s command. It’s why NATO functions as a U.S. tool for military control of Europe’s armies and the alliance ceaselessly moves eastward to Russia’s borders, why Saddam was overthrown and Iraq obliterated, why Saudi Arabia’s military was brought into vital dependency on the U.S., why the war against Iran is currently being prepared, and why the U.S. empire has deployed 240,000 troops in 172 countries around the world.
A rising China, as an empire in its infancy, however, is of a completely different caliber than the other wannabe-hegemons. Washington’s policy of containment may have a certain time-delaying effect, but ultimately it is irrelevant: China will become the regional hegemon in East Asia in the not-too-distant future, and eventually overtake the U.S. as the world’s primary superpower on the planet in the decades to come.
The 21st century is the Chinese one.
This transition can either go ahead peacefully — or with a big bang, potentially in the form of World War III. Secretary of the U.S. Air Force Heather Wilson once again made it clear in her recent keynote speech which scenario Washington is working towards.
* In de VS zijn 60 miljoen mensen afhankelijk van voedselbonnen, waar velen van hen zelfs geen huis hebben, terwijl hun vader/moederland met honderden miljarden per jaar oorlog voert op plekken waar het niets te zoeken heeft…….
Vervolgens berichten over de grote NAVO oefeningen in Noorwegen en Oekraïne, een verlengde van de militaire oefening van de VS en Japan, een meer dan duidelijke voorbereiding op oorlog tegen Rusland en China, te beginnen door de VS en haar oorlogshond en terreurorganisatie de NAVO:
Neil
deGrasse Tyson is de astrofisicus die vaak te zien is in programma’s
over het buitenaardse en is een goede verteller, kan niet anders
zeggen. Helaas heeft deze wetenschapper een heel vuil randje, zo is
hij voorstander van Trump’s militarisering van ‘de aardse ruimte’ en mocht
het de VS lukken hier de dominante factor te worden, kunnen we pas
echt onze borst natmaken.
Als
de VS inderdaad de aardse ruimte kan domineren, domineert het ook het
leven op aarde, iets waar deze grootste terreurentiteit op aarde nu al ‘goed’ in
is………
Lees
het volgende artikel van T.J. Coles, overgenomen van CounterPunch en
je haar zal rechtovereind gaan staan :
The
idea for this article came from one of those annoying “Recommended
for you” thumbnails on YouTube. The title was: “Neil deGrasse
Tyson: Trump’s Space Force (USSF) Is Not a Crazy Idea.” Having written
about and researched space weapons for over a decade, I was intrigued
as to why a seemingly intelligent man (Tyson) would want to help
promote an agenda that will literally imperil us all, namely the
weaponization of space: the end-game of which is global domination in
the interests of economic neoliberalism. So I clicked. Tyson was
talking to host Stephen Colbert about the wonders of space
militarization (by the US, of course, not its enemies).
It
turns out that Tyson is promoting a new, co-authored book, Accessory
to War: the Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the
Military(W.W.
Norton, released, tastelessly, on 11 September), which is all about
the history of science militarization. The book is a disgraceful
attempt to use history as an excuse to justify the continuation and
expansion of taxpayer-funded R&D into hi-technology via military
budgets. By now, the hi-tech sector dominates the top US
corporations: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. Much of
the innovations used by these companies were initiated in the
military.
Tyson
is doing the rounds on national media, including Colbert and CBS
This Morning, to
promote the book and more broadly continued public expenditure on the
Pentagon. After a little digging, I found that America’s favourite
astrophysicist is a glorified salesman for the
military-industrial-complex.
TYSON’S
MILITARY-SCIENCE BACKGROUND
Having
graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, Tyson went on to
earn a PhD in astrophysics from Columbia University in 1991. From
1996, Tyson has been Frederick P. Rose director of the Hayden
Planetarium at
the American Museum of Natural History.
Pretty
soon, the George W. Bush administration was calling on Tyson’s
talents for all things space-related. Under President Bill Clinton,
the Space Command (later Air Force Space Command [USAFSC]) announced plans to
dominate the entire world by force, “Full
Spectrum Dominance” as
the successors continue to call it. In 2001, under Bush, the Rumsfeld
Space Commission, sought
ways to expand the weaponization of space to reinforce US-led
corporate globalization and the architecture — satellites, GPS, the
internet, etc. — that supports it. In the same year, Tyson became a
formal employee of the Bush administration. One of his biographical
webpages states:
“In
2001, Tyson was appointed by President Bush to serve on a 12-member
commission that studied the Future of the US Aerospace Industry. The
final report was published in 2002 and contained recommendations (for
Congress and for the major agencies of the government) that would
promote a thriving future of transportation, space exploration, and
national security.”
The
Final Report of the Commission on the Future of the United
StatesAerospace Industry, on
which Tyson worked, makes for an interesting read. It starts from an
elite-nationalistic viewpoint, namely that of maintaining US
supremacy in innovation before, discussing in Appendix G:
“Astronautical research and development, including resources,
personnel, equipment, and facilities; Outer space exploration and
control.” “Control,” no less. Controlling space is a core part
of “Full Spectrum Dominance.” Tyson’s biography
also states that
in 2004, he:
“was
once again appointed by President Bush to serve on a 9-member
commission on the Implementation of the United States Space
Exploration Policy, dubbed the ‘Moon, Mars, and Beyond’
commission. This group navigated a path by which the new space vision
can become a successful part of the American agenda.”
“Of
particular importance to the space exploration vision is a strong
partnership between NASA and the Department of Defense, where
research, technical assistance, and operational assets are often
shared. The Commission believes that the role of the existing
Partnership Council – wherein NASA, the Air Force, and National
Reconnaissance Office (NRO) coordinate mutual work and interests – should
also focus actively on supporting the new vision.”
The
report says the US should “DARPA-ize” (my phrase) NASA. DARPA is
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency which uses taxpayer
money to innovate the hi-technology which now dominates the top-ten
list of US corporations. DARPA famously brought us the internet, for
instance. The report says:
“we
suggest that the Administration and Congress create within NASA an
organization drawing upon lessons learned from the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA is a highly successful
organization that is chartered to fund high-risk/high return basic
research in support of national defense priorities.”
R&D
SALESMAN
The
high-risk is paid for by the taxpayer who then buy back the given
product on the consumer market. For example: touch-screen technology
now used by Apple, for instance, came out of technology developed
for the Air Force.
Disturbingly,
the report recommends that NASA integrate a contract system like the
US Missile “Defense” program, which is so essential to the
overall goal of “Full Spectrum Dominance” (on his recent CBS
piece, Tyson doesn’t challenge the erroneous assumption that
the system is for “defense”), The report says:
“In the case of U.S. Missile Defense, for example, the integrator
is responsible for the overall system of systems architecture, and
for integrating the space, air, land, and sea elements of the
architecture.”
The
goal of a successful propaganda system is to sell science designed
and applied for military use (itself serving the dual-functions of
ensuring US global corporate supremacy and innovation in the hi-tech
economy) to the public as “cool” and fun. Enter Tyson. Since
working for the federal government on these schemes, he has hosted the
PBS-NOVA series, Origins; worked on The Pluto Files documentary;
appeared on ScienceNOW; and has hosted StarTalk (funded in part by
the taxpayer-funded National Science Foundation [NSF]), which features
comedians who attract laypeople to science.
Tyson
joined the US military’s 15-member Defense Innovation Board (DIB),
launched in 2016. The board advises the Defense Secretary on numerous
issues. DIB continues the all-American tradition of ripping off
taxpayers by using their money to invest in hi-tech innovation under
the cover of a “defense” budget. DIB says:
“Some
of the foremost topics the DIB is exploring include artificial
intelligence, machine learning, workforce capacity, organizational
structure, hiring and retention strategies, acquisition reform,
electronic and drone warfare, software capabilities, and IT
infrastructure.”
FLEECING
THE PUBLIC
So,
with this background, it’s not surprising that Tyson would appear
on national television and talk up the Defense Department. But it’s
crucial for any successful propaganda campaign that his record with
the federal government be suppressed, minimized or justified. Hence,
the failure (refusal?) of host Stephen Colbert to mention any of this
to the casual viewer. The show gives the impression that Tyson is
just a fun and intelligent man with no vested interests. In fact,
Tyson lies and tells both Colbert and CBS: “I have no dog in this
fight” in relation to Trump’s (read: the Pentagon’s) creation
of a “Space Force.”
As
noted, Tyson has been a government advisor and at the time of
appearing on the shows was a member of a DoD board. In addition, we
all have a “dog in the fight” of space weaponization because
fragile and complex space systems could result in catastrophic
failures, including miscommunications which can escalate into
near-terminal catastrophe, as has happened many times in the past in
relation to nuclear weapons (see, for instance, Daniel Ellsberg’s
chilling book, The
DoomsdayMachine).
Adding a space dimension to fraught and dangerous geopolitical
situations only adds to the risk.
Last
month, US Defense Secretary and war criminal, James “it’s
fun to shoot some people” Mattis,
told reporters that the Pentagon was advocating for a separate US
Space Command in response to the Defense Policy Bill’s plan to
integrate space systems under the Strategic Command (which also
oversees nuclear strategy). Mattis was initially against this,
says Space
News, but
has changed his mind in light of Trump’s (read: the Pentagon’s)
insistence on having a “Space Force”.
With
the new “Space Force” (as yet a nickname) potentially going
ahead, the friendly faces of US imperialism are rolled out to justify
expanding the militarization of space. Luckily, Tyson has a new book
on the same topic to promote. In addition, Trump’s undeserved
reputation as a moron (see my book President
Trump, Inc.)
required the media presence of a respected professional (i.e., Tyson)
to promote the “Space Force.”
AN
AMORAL BOOK
In Accessory
to War,
the authors write:
“A
vibrant economy … depends on at least one of the following: the
profit motive, war on the ground, or war in space … Must war
and profit be what drive both civilization on Earth and the
investigation of other worlds? History … makes it hard to answer no
… Star charts, calendars, chronometers, telescopes, maps,
compasses, rockets, satellites, drones–these war not inspirational
civilian endeavors. Dominance was their goal; increase of knowledge
was incidental.
… The
first few years after 9/11 were a fine time to be mercenary, a
military engineering firm, or a giant aerospace company.”
Recall
that Tyson worked to promote the aeroindustry. Tyson acknowledges
that “the space research my colleagues and I conduct plugs firmly
and fundamentally into the nation’s military might.” At a
conference involving military brass, Tyson was directly exposed via
live-feed to the realities of blowing women and children apart with
hi-tech weapons in Iraq in 2003 from high-ground platforms. He
writes, self-pityingly:
“Blinking
back tears and fighting to keep my composure, I thought about leaving
the conference. I began to choreograph my resignation from the board
of the Space Foundation. But at the same time I felt I couldn’t
just walk out of the sanctum of war…
[W]ithout
the power sought by its participants … and without the tandem
investments in technology fostered by that quest for power,
there would be no astronomy, no astrophysics, no astronauts, no
exploration of the solar system, and barely any comprehension of the
cosmos.”
That’s
alright then. Tyson told CBS This Morning that he found a
psychological trick to avoid feeling responsible, namely to blame
everyone else: “I had to re-direct the causes and effects of this
violence, and say, ‘No. It’s us, the electorate’ ” — they
voted Bush in late-2000 (yeah, right). “If you have access to
weaponry that can achieve a geopolitical goal that is noble then, I’m
not there to stand in judgement of it,” he also told CBS.
MEANWHILE,
IN THE REAL WORLD…
Tyson
is careful to avoid mentioning that both China and Russia have
repeatedly advocated for signing a peace treaty with the US, both
for space and cyber
warfare—
not because Russia and China are “good guys,” but because as much
weaker military powers it is in their interests to constrain US
military actions and not provoke the superpower by engaging in the
same, unless the US does it first. In fact, on the Colbert show,
Tyson even mentions the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 and ridicules it
as an equivalent of singing “Cumbayá.”
Meanwhile,
groups are actively thinking up ways to transform military spending
into peaceful R&D for a green- and other hi-tech economy.
A report by
the German-based institute IFSH notes that military R&D is not an
inevitability. Following the end of the Cold War, military R&D
declined. But, “[e]ven in the US, civilian spending is now
substantially larger than military spending.” Why, then, place
emphasis on military R&D, as Tyson does? In most countries,
says the author, “There has been a major shift towards military use
of technologies driven by civilian r&d, particularly in
electronics.”
In
terms of practical alternatives, Campaign Against the Arms
Trade notes that
skills shortages in the UK (the same applies to the US) means that
renewable energy sectors would be glad to employ people previously
skilled in the arms industry. Doing so lacks political will only. In
addition, the Campaign Against Climate Change reckons that
the UK could become a carbon neutral economy, employing one million
people, for £19bn a year, which is about half the current military
budget. This would also involve the kind of technological innovations
currently privileged by the military sector.
The
US transformed itself into a war economy during WWII and has remained
that ever since. But, with enough public pressure, it can be
transformed into a peace- and renewables economy. Don’t let
intellectuals fool you into thinking there are no alternatives to war
— and in this case, potentially terminal war.
Trump wil de ruimte (verder) militariseren en zoals alles wat het beest roept en waardoor hij ‘is gevormd’, is ook dat het gevolg van tv en films kijken.
Vandaar het volgende (zie ook de video!) de afbeeldingen zijn gecensureerd zo zag ik op 17 juli 2021…..:
