Global Network Annual Meeting Webinar Video

Our recent 33rd annual meeting of the Global Network went very well. We had good attendance from all over the world.

 

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Presentations by GN board convenor Dr. Dave Webb from Leeds, England and Asia-Pacific activist K. J. Noh were well received and they took questions after their talks.

 

Dave offered startling observations about the growing militarization of space and the massive financial costs of Trump's 'Golden Dome' scheme being offered as an 'iron clad' protection of the US and Canada. In addition there is growing efforts to entice NATO to jump into the program in order to get European nations to help pay the monumental costs now estimated to bring the aerospace industry several trillion dollars in profits.

 

On top of that the American Physical Society (APS) reports that ensuring protection from just one ‘enemy’ ICBM launch site would require more than 1,000 interceptors in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Protection from ten ICBMs might demand over 30,000 interceptors, depending on missile types. For comparison, there are currently about 12,000 active satellites in orbit around Earth, most in SpaceX’s Starlink network.

 

Obviously the cost of such a boondoggle will have to come from the taxpayers thus ensuring the absolute destruction of education, social progress, environmental care, and more.

 

K. J.  began his talk by reviewing the horrible results of the pre-WW2 invasion of China by imperial Japan. Tens of millions of Chinese died at the hands of Japan. Many of Tokyo's war leaders were brought into the post-war operations of the US. K. J. carefully reviewed the current US strategy to prepare for war with China (as early as 2027) by ramping up base enhancements all across the region. (Japan, Guam, Okinawa, Philippines, Taiwan, Australia and more.) In South Korea (where US bases are also expanding) the US holds war games aimed at North Korea more than 200 days each year. In any war with China all these US bases would become certain targets.

 

Beale AFB in California

Thus we must build a global mobilization against this insanity. On October 4-11 we are holding our annual Keep Space for Peace Week and urge our supporters to hold educational and/or protest events all over Mother Earth as a way to help alert the public to these outrageous plans. We must show how space military operations are key drivers of the US-NATO war machine.

 

Please be sure to let us know what you plan to do so we can share that information with others. 

 

Good resources: For years we've been developing short videos about all sorts of space related topics and these videos are stored on our YouTube catalog found here.

 

Please send us photos/videos of your events so we can put them in upcoming editions of our newsletter Space Alert and on social media.

 

Thanks very much and keep paddling.

 

Bruce K. Gagnon

GN Coordinator

 

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'Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.'
~ Henry David Thoreau