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From Current Magazine: A Newfoundland Alternative Pigs
in Space Military watchdogs are warning Canadians about the current and planned weaponization of our upper atmosphere. Scientists such as Dr. Rosalie Bertell, winner of the MacBride Peace Prize and former head of the Chernobyl and Bhopal Medical Commissions; Dr. Alfred Lambremont Webre of the Vancouver-based Institute for Cooperation in Space; and journalist Jeffrey Simpson of the Globe and Mail describe this frightening issue, and the scientists propose some peaceful solutions. Dr. Webre, who recently addressed Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Bill Graham, at a public consultation, said “...the abrogation of the ABM Treaty (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 U.SS.R.) by unilateral action of the Bush administration on June 13, 2002 is leading to the imminent weaponization of space.” Calling this a destabilizing threat to all of humanity, Webre said the U.S. government’s “Space Command Vision for 2020” includes: “integrating spaceforces into war-fighting capabilities, space-based global strike capacity, and space-based strike weapons.” According to Dr. Rosalie Bertell in her must-read book, “Planet Earth, the Latest Weapon of War”, the U.S. paved the way to weaponizing space with plans to expand a High Frequency Active Auroral Research Programme [HAARP]. This ionospheric heater and probe project brings the military closer to making death rays from the electrically charged part of the ionosphere, weapons that can destroy particular places on earth from space. High and extra low frequency electromagnetic waves are already being used for missile detection devices, and more of these electronic warning posts are planned by the U.S. administration, who want Canada to continue to be part of the programme. We already co-operate with that country’s unpopular warlords on high altitude high frequency radar, with three sites already in Canada – including one in Goose Bay. More sites are planned. High altitude satellite spying has also already reached sci-fi status, as “Planet Earth” explains. Satellites in the Echelon “dictionary” sorting programme now tape phone conversations and electronic messages after trigger words activate the satellites’ recording mechanisms. Canada then trades intercepted information to the other participating countries. With this undetectable intrusion from space, no judge’s warrant is necessary to tap any phone calls, email or faxes. This satellite spying has already stripped all of us who live in Canada, the U.S., U.K., New Zealand and Australia of our former privacy rights. The U.S., the U.K. and the Soviets have conducted nuclear atmospheric testing and experiments since 1946. Bertell’s book describes Project Argus, which exploded nuclear fission bombs in “the biggest scientific experiment ever undertaken.” She tells us: “These nuclear explosions created new magnetic radiation belts and injected sufficient electrons and other energetic particles into the ionosphere to cause world wide effects.” We’ve also all been exposed to half a century of military non- nuclear atmospheric testing and attempts at weather control. Dr. Bertell tells us: “Canada was a partner in this research right from its inception. As early as 1962, it launched satellites into the ionosphere and began stimulating the plasma, apparently just to see what would happen.” This weather manipulation included the release of toxic and highly reactive chemicals, such as barium and lithium, just above the ozone layer from a U.S. military satellite in 1990. Her book describes another U.S. military experiment in 1961, when 350,000 million small copper needles were strewn over the upper atmosphere, an important protective layer for the earth, in an attempt to make them go into orbit and enhance communications systems. Bertell quoted independent researchers who said the extreme weather from that incident may have destroyed part of Chile’s coast and caused a huge Alaskan earthquake. According to Jeffrey Simpson of the Globe and Mail, “The U.S. has already militarized space. Satellites are an indispensable part of the U.S. military machine, as the conquest of Iraq again demonstrated.” Simpson points to Donald Rumsfeld, now U.S. Defence Secretary, as former chair of a commission that proposed the U.S. dominate space with weapons. Says Simpson: “A missile defence system must depend on satellites for surveillance and communications. [...] This means producing weapons in space that can protect satellites and attack any threat to them.” Simpson warns that the Canadian government will ask to participate in order to retain “a marginal voice” and for “a few contracts for Canadian firms”. He calls this attitude: “repugnant in the extreme.” Instead of weaponizing space, Bertell would like the United Nations to develop an international peace keeping police force. The U.S. is blocking this idea, saying their administration will not pay back its huge debt to the U.N. if such a force is formed. Dr. Webre’s proposed solution includes a Space Preservation Treaty, which would contain four elements: “a permanent ban on space-based weapons, a permanent ban on the use of weapons to destroy or damage objects in space that are in orbit, a permanent termination of research, development, testing, manufacturing, production and deployment of all space-based weapons, and the establishment of an international outer space peacekeeping agency capable of monitoring and enforcing the above bans.” For more information about space weapons, read Planet Earth The Latest Weapon of War, and check out the International Institute of Concern for Public Health at www.iicph.org/index.shtml or the Institute for Cooperation in Space at www.peaceinspace.com Entire contents are ©2003 Current Communications Inc. and/or by their contributors. _____ |
