Chinese Successfully Shoot Down Weather Satellite

Elaine Meinel Supkis

As I predicted and expected, the Chinese have been developing systems to neutralize our aggressive Star Wars military program. Way back when I was lobbying for the USA to finally sign the Space Peace Treaty the UN was sponsoring, I was told that we would be able to uniltarerally rule the earth if we could neutralize Russian and Chinese intercontinental ballistic missiles. I said back then, this was a stupid idea doomed to failure.

&hearts The Chinese, using lasers, tagged one of our spy satellites last October---now they have demonstrated the ability to destroy any satellite they wish.

The United States, Australia and Canada have criticised China over a weapons test it is said to have carried out in space last week.

The Americans say the Chinese sent up a ballistic missile to destroy an ageing weather satellite.

Earlier, a report in the American Aviation Week magazine said that US spy agencies had concluded that China conducted a successful test of a satellite-killing weapon on January 11.

This is HUUUUGE news. Very, very, very big news. Don't expect to see a peep about this in the mainstream. Everyone is agog about the two kidnapped boys and the popularity of 'American Idol' and wondering if Britanney Spears is going to fall asleep at a party!

But trust me, this news is gigantic.

For half of my long life, I have fought the concept of the Star Wars program. A total waste of precious funds, a madcap idea I demolished over and over and over again, so much so, googling information for this story brought up many of my past articles and none were from when I was published years ago by the NYT or WP or other papers.

I was busy pushing for space telescopes, funding research for interstellar flight and other neat things back in the early seventies and on. I also supported the Peaceful Uses of Space UN stuff.

This news is most interesting on many levels. First, they chose a standard Magic Number day: 1/11/7. A fine day. Add the numbers and you get '19'. Well, this could be coincidence or it could be the Chinese doing the 'auspicious day' thing they have a long history of enjoying.

This event was a direct shot across the prow of our sinking USSA Titanic: it clearly shows our arrogant belief we can spy on the Chinese, pry into their private, sovereign affairs, ignore their diplomatic gestures, insult their President when he tries to have a simple social visit, seduce Taiwan into arming itself so it can menace China, etc, etc. All our belligerence, our refusal to cooperate on even simple matters like disarming North Korea (China doesn't want nukes on their borders!) etc, etc. Bush and the neo cons threw garbage at China and laughed and tormented the Chinese and sneered at them and made demands when meeting them.

And we did this thinking we had them in a hammer-lock thanks to our domination of space. The entire space program is now military. Bush and his useful idiot, Griffin, are dumping all the good NASA programs and concentrating on building a miltiary base on the moon and then using that to dominate the L-orbits around the earth.

We figure we can then knock out any satellites put up by the Russians or Chinese. Back in the seventies, I warned Americans not to underestimate the Russians or even the Chinese. The Chinese invented many things including paper money and fireworks and the very earliest rockets (1500 AD!). They are quite capable of inventing things. And Russia beat us at many points in the race to space!

Up until the conquest of the moon, they were usually ahead of us. Most Americans are unaware of this long string of victories the Russians racked up against us.

When the very expensive and useless Star Wars program was announced by Reagan, we already had a long, five year fight within the space colonization/exploration community about the merits and weaknesses of such a program.

I was one of the big pushers of the demerits of Star Wars.

&hearts Back 30 years ago, outraged Chinese and Russian diplomats demanded the USA not militarize space but the USA sneered at them and continued onwards.

Strong and almost unanimous opposition to weaponization of space has been expressed in the United Nations Conference on Disarmament. China and Russia have drafted text for a treaty to ban space weapons. The United States, however, has refused to enter negotiations on such a treaty.

Note in today's article the hysteria of the USA and their Axis of Evil partners, mostly remnants of the British Empire (who we revolted against, isn't history a hoot?). We are striving very hard to pretend this Axis which is invading many countries, is selflessly disarming dangerous despots, not on yet another conquest of natives jag.

&hearts I wanted the USA to sign the treaties the UN was pushing to prevent Star Wars and other military uses of space:

Article II
Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.

Article III
States Parties to the Treaty shall carry on activities in the exploration and use of outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, in accordance with international law, including the Charter of the United Nations, in the interest of maintaining international peace and security and promoting international co-operation and understanding.

Article IV of the Outer Space Treaty prohibits placing in orbit around the earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). It also prohibits the testing and the deployment of any kind of weapon on the moon or other celestial bodies.

The USA decided it was better to be an outlaw nation and to conquer space and use it as our forward base for dominating the earth. Make no mistake, the very scientists and thinkers within the space exploration movement were very aware that if we could neutralize Russian ballistic missiles, we could menace them with impunity and worse, ATTACK UNILATERALLY.

If we could perfect Star Wars, the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction would bend and break and we could wage onesided nuclear war. This fact was carefully hidden from public view and all my attempts at getting it out was thwarted (secrecy and all that).

I even went so far as to suggest various systems that could wreck the Star Wars systems but no one listened to me or the scientists who also figured out the obvious. Simply using decoys could ruin the whole concept. We can't build more rockets if they build more decoys that are cheaper. And I noted back then, all systems that could defeat our Star Wars stuff was terribly cheap! And our system, very expensive!

The logic of the cost/benefit ratios was obvious: there was no way we could succeed and keep out of bankruptcy.

&hearts Thanks to William Safire and the NYT, Ronnie Reagan endorsed this madcap, doomed scheme:

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression -- to preserve freedom and peace.

Since the dawn of the atomic age, we've sought to reduce the risk of war by maintaining a strong deterrent and by seeking genuine arms control. "Deterrence" means simply this: making sure any adversary who thinks about attacking the United States, or our allies, or our vital interest, concludes that the risks to him outweigh any potential gains. Once he understands that, he won't attack. We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.

This strategy of deterrence has not changed. It still works. But what it takes to maintain deterrence has changed. It took one kind of military force to deter an attack when, we had far more nuclear weapons than any other power; it takes another kind now that the Soviets, for example, have enough accurate and powerful nuclear weapons to destroy virtually all of our missiles on the ground. Now, this is not to say that the Soviet Union is planning to make war on us. Nor do I believe a war is inevitable -- quite the contrary. But what must be recognized is that our security is based on being prepared to meet all threats.

There was a time when we depended on coastal forts and artillery batteries, because, with the weaponry of that day, any attack would have had to come by sea. Well, this is a different world, and our defenses must be based on recognition and awareness of the weaponry possessed by other nations in the nuclear age.

We can't afford to believe that we will never be threatened. There have been two world wars in my lifetime. We didn't start them and, indeed, did everything we could to avoid being drawn into them. But we were ill-prepared for both. Had we been better prepared, peace might have been preserved.

For 20 years the Soviet Union has been accumulating enormous military might. They didn't stop when their forces exceeded all requirements of a legitimate defensive capability. And they haven't stopped now. During the past decade and a half, the Soviets have built up a massive arsenal of new strategic nuclear weapons -- weapons that can strike directly at the United States.

As an example, the United States introduced its last new intercontinental ballistic missile, the Minute Man III, in 1969, and we're now dismantling our even older Titan missiles. But what has the Soviet Union done in these intervening years? Well, since 1969 the Soviet Union has built five new classes of ICBM's, and upgraded these eight times. As a result, their missiles are much more powerful and accurate than they were several years ago, and they continue to develop more, while ours are increasingly obsolete. (...)

There was a time when we were able to offset superior Soviet numbers with higher quality, but today they are building weapons as sophisticated and modern as our own.

As the Soviets have increased their military power, they've been emboldened to extend that power. They're spreading their military influence in ways that can directly challenge our vital interests and those of our allies. (...)

Some people may still ask: Would the Soviets ever use their formidable military power? Well, again, can we afford to believe they won't? There is Afghanistan. And in Poland, the Soviets denied the will of the people and in so doing demonstrated to the world how their military power could also be used to intimidate.

...The Soviet Union is acquiring what can only be considered an offensive military force. They have continued to build far more intercontinental ballistic missiles than they could possible need simply to deter an attack. Their conventional forces are trained and equipped not so much to defend against an attack as they are to permit sudden, surprise offensives of their own.

Our NATO allies have assumed a great defense burden, including the military draft in most countries. We're working with them and our other friends around the world to do more. Our defensive strategy means we need military forces that can move very quickly, forces that are trained and ready to respond to any emergency.

Every item in our defense program -- our ships, our tanks, our planes, our funds for training and spare parts -- is intended for one all-important purpose: to keep the peace. Unfortunately, a decade of neglecting our military forces has called into question our ability to do that.

What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?

I know this is a formidable, technical task, one that may not be accomplished before the end of the century. Yet, current technology has attained a level of sophistication where it's reasonable for us to begin this effort. It will take years, probably decades of efforts on many fronts. There will be failures and setbacks, just as there will be successes and breakthroughs. And as we proceed, we must remain constant in preserving the nuclear deterrent and maintaining a solid capability for flexible response. But isn't it worth every investment necessary to free the world from the threat of nuclear war? We know it is.

In the meantime, we will continue to pursue real reductions in nuclear arms, negotiating from a position of strength that can be ensured only by modernizing our strategic forces. At the same time, we must take steps to reduce the risk of a conventional military conflict escalating to nuclear war by improving our non-nuclear capabilities.

These are exerpts of his very long speech. Throughout, he kept claiming we were doing this in self-defence. THIS WAS A LIE. The military guys assured us secretly that the brief time the window of opportunity existed whereby we could destroy their missiles in their silos and them figuring out and building dummies, etc, we would attack Russia.

I was totally grossed out by this. Luckily for all humanity, Russia went bankrupt.

I will note here how Reagan had to pretend he was for DISARMING NUCLEAR MISSILES! Today, with no opponents except for barely armed peasants, we are arming ourselves in a mad arms race we launched and fed. We let the world know via the neo cons "New World Order" garbage, we intend this to be "The American Century" and we plan to rule the earth no matter what and we plan to build miliitary platforms in space and destroy anyone who dares to challenge us.

We threw down the gauntlet. Bush dared the Russians and the Chinese to "Bring it on!" And they are. Oh, are they ever.

There is no need for nuclear war. We don't need to nuke Iran to bring disarmament. We don't need to have nuclear bombs circling the earth, ready to destroy other nation's satellites. We don't need a bunch of occultist satanists praying to the Devil that is Death leading us into the stupid Star Wars nightmare. Didn't anyone learn the lessons of that movie series? Huh?

We can't be Darth Vader.

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[blues]

This is all so very strange. I lived on this sort-of commune that had it's own stupid 'ruling class'! I did not fit into any category, was neither ruled, nor did rule. Fast-forward 20 years, one of these ruling class heroes turns up at my cousin's forth of July party. He works in Framingham Massachusetts as a 'star wars' programmer!

Oh for the living, toking God! Nothing was more obvious than the fact that there is no such thing as a 'Star Wars' program! One does not use abstract, untestable, fickle technology to 'knock out' nuclear-tipped rockets. Of course, this did in no way deter this hippie-class hero associate of mine from taking money for writing 'Star Wars' programs! He probably works for Microsoft® these days!

[M.K.]

Did/do you know Jay Keyworth who was Reagan's Science Adviser? He had a lot to do with "selling" the star wars program, too. He graduated from Yale, but is not listed in the Skull and Bones roster that I found. He would have fit right in.

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

It is with no small satisfaction for me that yet again, I was right.

One Chinese rocket scientist lived with me for two years. I know A LOT about their programs. Further: Bush Sr knows I know this stuff and so do others. They can't admit this in public: BUSH SENIOR SET THIS WHOLE THING UP WHEN HE WAS OUR AMBASSADOR TO CHINA!

And so history moves on: our attempt at ruling space is collapsing just like our rule in the Middle East is collapsing. Hubis.

[blues]

It is with no small satisfaction for me that yet again, I was right.

Just so you'll know: #1 rule of shamenism: take no satisfaction in anything. Ever. Satisfaction is the opiate of the mislead.

[DeVaul]

I just read the article on Yahoo. It is hilarious from a hypocritical, double standard point of view. I had no idea we had claimed all of space for ourselves.

Here is one hilarious line: "...it is a mystery as to why the Chinese did this at this time...."

Yes, showing that you can destroy the entire "front line" of America's worldwide military power structure is definitely a "mystery", if you happen to be mentally retarded.

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

Heh, Yup.

Just like us complaining about Iran having NUKES for crying out loud! Or interfering with Iraq!

Naked we are (channelling Yoda here).

[DeVaul]

I just saw the announcement of this on the evening news: replete with the most lies crammed into five minutes in the history of mankind -- all said with straight faces -- by several people -- to millions of viewers.

I am happy to hear that you cannot do this, Smith, although I have heard that those who can make money hand-over-fist. I can only guess at the salaries of the reporters who brought us this twisted story.

Apparently it is the Chinese who are militarizing space, and we must now embark on a new arms race to stop them. Great.

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

Yup. Ass backwards as always.

Putting the horse before the cart is endemic. When China celebrated their African diplomacy, the entire west screamed themselves hoarse, accusing China of destroying Africa. My article was virtually the only one to tell the truth and it was reprinted in China. They were grateful for one person seeing what was going on.

It never ceases to amaze me how Americans beat the war drums and then scream at people to stop fighting or menacing others. It is our personal insanity.

[Rodney Reid]

Hey Elaine,

Ugh... China/Russia vs. US/Europe/Israel is the new 'cold war'.

With this capability, I'm sure the Chinese could bring the world to it's knees in a couple easy steps -- a fraction of the 24 GPS satellites going poof could really throw a damper on our 21st century first world.

Hope it doesn't happen personally, I really wish the world would get more sane instead of less, but that isn't happening.

And people take out 30 year mortgages in the environment that's being set up right now.

Crazy stupid.

PS: I read the recent numerology article and wanted to comment on -- No, I don't think you're insane in the lease, but I don't post when you put up those articles because I confess I don't understand the magic-number paradigm yet - sevens and elevens, I got that though.

...Rodney

"my mind is all sixes and sevens!" - Chuang Tzu

[Rodney Reid]

er, lease == least

(post-post spelling correction as always)

[Rodney Reid]

Hi devaul,

My wife when we first met had delusions of living in a commune.

It's just a microcosm of the world, except you get to know the people extracting your hard work for their gain more personally.

Would rather have those people longer than an arm distance away.

[Rodney Reid]

heh

never fails, every message --- replace devaul with blues in my last post.