Posted on 04/16/2010 6:44:49 PM PDT by Nachum
Competitiveness: The president spent Tax Day reassuring Florida voters that money will keep flowing to NASA. But in space as well as on Earth, we'll be an unexceptional nation. In space, no one can hear you scheme.
President Obama's speech at the Kennedy Space Center will never be confused with President Kennedy's clarion call in 1961 to send an American to the moon within a decade. Rather it was an admission that we will now boldly go where no one wants to go.
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Ping.
He means to kill one of the few Government programs that has actually succeeded.
Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs
February 29, 2008 :: News
MissileThreat.com
A video has surfaced of Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talking on his plans for strategic issues such as nuclear weapons and missile defense.
The full text from the video, as released, reads as follows:
Thanks so much for the Caucus4Priorities, for the great work you've been doing. As president, I will end misguided defense policies and stand with Caucus4Priorities in fighting special interests in Washington.
First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.[i.e. not win it]
Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.
I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.
I will not weaponize space.
I will slow our development of future combat systems.
And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.
Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert [they are NOT on "hair-trigger alert" now -etl], and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.
You know where I stand. I've fought for open, ethical and accountable government my entire public life. I don't switch positions or make promises that can't be kept. I don't posture on defense policy and I don't take money from federal lobbyists for powerful defense contractors. As president, my sole priority for defense spending will be protecting the American people. Thanks so much.
Article: Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs:
http://missilethreat.com/archives/id.7086/detail.asp
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"I will not weaponize space"
"I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems"
2008 Pentagon Report (March 2008):
China's Growing Military Space Power
By Leonard David
Special Correspondent, SPACE.com
March 6, 2008
GOLDEN, Colorado — A just-released Pentagon report spotlights a growing U.S. military concern that China is developing a multi- dimensional program to limit or prevent the use of space-based assets by its potential adversaries during times of crisis or conflict.
Furthermore, last year's successful test by China of a direct-ascent, anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon to destroy its own defunct weather satellite, the report adds, underscores that country's expansion from the land, air, and sea dimensions of the traditional battlefield into the space and cyber-space domains.
Although China's commercial space program has utility for non- military research, that capability demonstrates space launch and control know-how that have direct military application. Even the Chang'e 1 — the Chinese lunar probe now circling the Moon — is flagged in the report as showcasing China's ability "to conduct complicated space maneuvers — a capability which has broad implications for military counterspace operations."
To read the entire publication [29.67MB/pdf], see U.S. Dept of Defense:
http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/China_Military_Report_08.pdf
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From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
What other Government operation is so transparent that they perform their operations on live television?Congress does not always debate on C-Span, , but every NASA launch is covered on NASATV
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?param=public
Ruse...The perfect description. Flawlessly presented by the perfect liar.
Ping.
He wants to replace everything with a regimented gray sameness for the masses ruled over by an elite inner party of Marxists and subordinate to other more worthy countries and world bodies.
What a dolt.
In the 1960s,I assume people believed their lives would change for the better.
Not so much these days.Maybe something can replace what technology has failed to provide.
President Kennedy saw an America that could do anything.President Obama sees an America that does nothing and says it did
“The Chicago way meets “how can we fool ‘em today “
Yep.
But BO is only a master of the first half of the equation. He has the ‘Chicago Way’ down to an art form.
But the ‘how can we fool ‘em today’. . . well, not so much. Clinton was the master at that game, and people went along because they really, really wanted to believe what Clinton was saying. That’s not true of Obama. People have already started to distrust the guy and he doesn’t have the easy, breezy, life-of-the-party spirit of Clinton to keep people on his side.
Read,"Windmills."
The Japanese, with backing by Bill Gates, are developing a whole new generation of nuclear power reactors, smaller, cheaper, and safe, which can be distributed widely and which will need refueling only once a century.
That's what the Japanese are doing. We're building windmills.
You know I think the deep cut in the nuke arsenal might be a good thing -— after we get rid of Hussein & Co, we can make nice shiny modern ones and test them in the appropriate venues...
No, no! He wants to recreate the fond memories of his youth... he just adores driving through dusty villages populated by starving people so he can see the wisdom reflected in their eyes... (Dreams of My Father).
Not gray -— brown and tan.
“Maybe something can replace what technology has failed to provide.”
Maybe something can replace what the political elite has taken away.
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