I've been working on space warfare issues since 1983. At that time I lived in Orlando, Florida (one hour from the space center) and it was easy to pay attention when Ronald Reagan announced Star Wars - SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative). It's never been about defense.
The US space program was essentially created by the former Nazi rocket scientists brought over to the US after Hitler was defeated. Much of the heavy lifting to defeat Hitler was done by the Soviet Union which lost 27 million people during the Nazi invasion.
Cut away to 1997 and the US Space Command document entitled 'Vision for 2020' maintained that America would 'control space, dominant space, and deny other nations the use of space'. The US would be the 'Master of Space'.
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The idea that the US must dominate space is arrogant, stupid, dangerous and highly destabilizing to world peace. Admittedly it is a major opportunity for maximum profits for the aerospace industry and the Trump/Pence 'space force' proposal is largely being driven by that factor. They've long said at the Pentagon that Star Wars would be the largest industrial project in human history.
So we've now reached this crisis moment where the expansion of warfare into space is being dramatically promoted and there must be an immediate counter-reaction by the peace loving people around the world.
One opportunity we have is the October 6-13 Keep Space for Peace Week that the Global Network annually organizes as a way to increase education and action around this important issue. We urge local groups and concerned citizens to help put together protests and educational meetings during that week. Find our space week poster here.
We have a good selection of space videos and documentary films available on the Global Network web site which can be used during space week. Find them here.
The aerospace industry is targeting human needs programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid for dramatic cutbacks in order to move those funds into the proposed space force. We cannot let them get away with that.
Help us say - space force - NO! Human needs and deal with climate change - YES!
Bruce
Goebbels and Goering had a saying they were destined to "own the World and Space"
ReplyDeleteMaybe if they add another 10 trillion bux with daily compound interest to the already 10 trillion which we can't possibly pay... of course that can only become possible if the rest of the world both forgave us all the existent debt and voluntary give us of resources of the entire world, that combining the fact we owe so much and the resources our MIC pulled out of the same nations at gun and bomb point can't be reproduced. The term "shot his wad" refers to somebody with a muzzle loader had put a charge in the gun,put in the cotton and accidentally put enough pressure on the powder that it explodes and he not only loses the powder (of course) and the wad, ramrod and probably some fingers
We already did that,