They're Lying to Us About Space

[donsu]

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/01/con04019.html


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In an article entitled "U.S. 'Negation' policy in space raises concerns abroad" (EE Times, 5/22/03), Loring Wirbel wrote the following:

...The nation's largest intelligence agency by budget and in control of all U.S. spy satellites, NRO is talking openly with the U.S. Air Force Space Command about actively denying the use of space for intelligence purposes to any other nation at any time—not just adversaries, but even longtime allies, according to NRO director Peter Teets.

At the National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs in early April, Teets proposed that U.S. resources from military, civilian and commercial satellites be combined to provide "persistence in total situational awareness, for the benefit of this nation's war fighters." If allies don't like the new paradigm of space dominance, said Air Force secretary James Roche, they'll just have to learn to accept it. The allies, he told the symposium, will have "no veto power."

Beginning next year, NRO will be in charge of the new Offensive Counter-Space program, which will come up with plans to specifically deny the use of near-Earth space to other nations, said Teets.

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Meanwhile, Maj. Gen. Judd Blaisdell, director of the Air Force Space Operations Office, said recently, "We are so dominant in space that I pity a country that would come up against us..."
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SEE the bushgang owns the biggest gun and we are all F-----.

[citizen snips]

1. Does not surprise me.

Bush will probably lie about the cost.

[Bozola]

2. Kinda funny...

How do you think, some years back, the Intelligence agencies got around the law ending their survillence at the borders of the US?

They has "friendly" Intelligence organizations spy on the US, who were promptly "spied" (leaked more like) on by the US.

[Faygo Kid]

3. Offensive weapons in space: Neocon objective

There is no doubt that this space initiative goes beyond exploration (a cover), beyond a defensive missile system ("Star Wars"), and even beyond denying other nations the use of near-Earth space. I have no doubt that the objective is the implementation of offensive space-based weaponry by the United States that the neocons can use to assure their goal of world domination by their elites. Sounds crazy, even tinfoil, like the Bond enemy Spectre, but it makes all the sense in the world given what they have done to date and given their penchant for aggressive, "preemptive" war. What would be more bloodless, and require less inconvenient casualties, than an offensive space based weapons system? Since when did Bush and his cronies ever show any imagination for exploration for its own sake? Wake up, folks.