[Green-Activist] on "BUSH OPENS OUTER SPACE TO COMBAT" - by KarlGrossman

Wed Nov 1 17:08:56 EST 2006

Dear Anne,

At the age of 32, (1976), i came to the conclusion humans were too stupid to 
live.  I came to this conclusion after realizing the early green movements 
were systematically being infiltrated and controlled by people with agendas 
which were not green.  (I won't elaborate on these agendas.  They vary and 
anyone genuinely working for the environment knows only too well what i'm 
talking about.)  Plus the average person couldn't really give a stuff.  I've 
had people end up agreeing with me and say, " I won't be here to see it", 
like that was all that mattered.  A lot of those who said it are here 
though.

So i copped out of mainstream environmental activism but continued on my 
own, or with the help of people i knew were genuine.  However, back in 1976 
i predicted that exactly what is happening today would occur.  I used to 
tell my friends that when global warming became obvious and the powers that 
be could no longer deny it was happening, they'd run around like chooks with 
their heads cut off, doing all the wrong things and the planet would still 
end up "plucked".

I mean, global warming is only an effect, as is species extinction, 
salinity, tree depletion, erosion and any other environmental problem u can 
name.  The cause of all of them stems from the egotistical belief that 
everything must be for the benefit of humanity.

Humanity is the vilest vermin ever to infest anything and i really am 
disgusted that i am a member of the human race.  Even faced with extinction 
the vermin will not face the fact that they ARE the problem.  Human 
overpopulation is the single cause of all the planets environmental woes.

Actually it's the cause of most of our social problems too.  But i'll bet u 
that i'll get replies to this e-mail from people pretending to be greenies 
telling me i'm wrong.  Population isn't a problem.  We should be trying to 
get us to breed more as the propaganda machine has been pushing lately!  We 
should be opening our already overcrowded country to more immigration. 
Never mind that we already running out of water, we'll just take more and 
bugger the wild life.  Maybe i won't now that i added that.  We'll see.

frank brown

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anne Goddard" <anne at globalclimatechangeaction.org>
To: <green-activist at lists.altnews.com.au>; <GreenLocalNews at yahoogroups.com>; 
<GreenLeft_Discussion at yahoogroups.com>; <editorial at news-mail.com.au>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 11:11 PM
Subject: [Green-Activist] on "BUSH OPENS OUTER SPACE TO COMBAT" - by 
KarlGrossman

> Opening a doorway in space to the suns power... to safely dispose of our
> stockpiled and festering nuclear waste that we currently and precariously
> hold, on our planet ...
> would be a wiser use of such
> -war mongering,
> -suffer profiteering,
> -peoples taxes depleting,
> -energy wasting,
> -massive CO2 emitting,
> -ozone depleting,
> -homicidal,
> energy...
>
> and the energy expended on such folly is "for the benefit of humanity"?
>
> I ask, in who's mind?
>
> Anne
> ------------------------
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "benny zable" <bennyzable at hotmail.com>
> To: <kagtrip at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 10:10 PM
> Subject: BUSH OPENS OUTER SPACE TO COMBAT - by Karl Grossman
>
>
> Sorry folks
> Some more bad news from the USA
>
> From: Global Network [mailto:globalnet at mindspring.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 9:24 AM
> To: Global Network Against Weapons
> Subject: Bush Opens Outer Space To Combat
>
> BUSH OPENS OUTER SPACE TO COMBAT - by Karl Grossman
>
> It was issued quietly: 5 p.m. on the Friday before the long Columbus Day
> weekend, a release seemingly designed to get little notice. But what it
> involved deserves major attention: a new U.S. National Space Policy that
> could set the stage for the heavens being turned into a battleground.
>
> For decades, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 has shaped how nations 
> approach
> space. Developed by the United States, United Kingdom and Soviet Union and
> now ratified essentially by all the world's countries the landmark 
> agreement
> sets space aside for peaceful purposes.
>
> But the United States became uncomfortable with the treaty in the 1980s
> during President Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" program. That discomfort was
> marked in the 1990s by U.S. opposition to efforts (still ongoing) led by
> Canada and including Russia and China to ban all weapons in space; the
> treaty only bans weapons of mass destruction.
>
> There were bellicose declarations in the 1990s, too, from the U.S. Space
> Command speaking of "dominating the space dimension of military operations
> to protest U.S. interests and investment."
>
> Moreover, as George W. Bush took office, a commission chaired by his 
> defense
> secretary-to-be, Donald Rumsfeld, spoke of how "in the coming period the
> U.S. will conduct operations to, from, in, and through space to support 
> its
> national interests."
>
> Then the Bush administration began revising the U.S. National Space Policy
> as issued by President Bill Clinton. A front-page, lead article in "The 
> New
> York Times" last year reported that the U.S. Air Force was "seeking
> President Bush's approval of a national-security directive that could move
> the United States closer to fielding offensive and defense space weapons."
> It told of how one "Air Force space program, nicknamed Rods from God, aims
> to hurl cylinders of tungsten, titanium or uranium from the edge of space 
> to
> destroy targets on the ground striking at speeds of about 7,200 miles an
> hour with the force of a small nuclear weapon."
>
> The new policy does not explicitly declare the United States will now move
> ahead with such space weapons  but it opens the door.
>
> "Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air
> power and sea power," it asserts in its introduction. Under "National
> Security Space Guidelines," it says, "United States national security is
> critically dependent upon space capabilities, and this dependence will
> grow." So the United States will "develop and deploy space capabilities 
> that
> sustain U.S. advantage."
>
> Also, the 10-page policy says the United States "will oppose the 
> development
> of new legal regimes or other restrictions that seek to prohibit or limit
> U.S. access to or use of space."
>
> Further, the policy authorizes the use of nuclear power overhead to 
> "enhance
> space exploration or operational capabilities.The use of space nuclear 
> power
> systems shall be consistent with U.S. national and homeland security, and
> foreign policy interests."
>
> Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear
> Power in Space, speaks of the document's "very provocative language.This 
> is
> the kind of talk that will create a new arms race in space, clearly just
> what the military-industrial complex wants."  And, he says, "Bush's new
> space policy enshrines the rejection of an international treaty to ban
> weapons in space."
>
> The vision of the Outer Space Treaty to set aside space as a global 
> commons
> and to prevent the armed conflict that has marked human history on Earth
> from extending into the heavens would be altered by the new U.S. policy.
>
> The United States sees its potential military supremacy in space and seeks
> to take advantage of this. But that's similar to the U.S. attitude in 1945
> when we had the atomic bomb and no one else did. It will not take long if
> space is opened up to war for other nations, notably Russia and China, to
> meet the United States in kind. We still have an opportunity now to adhere
> to and strengthen the Outer Space Treaty and, with verification, continue 
> to
> keep space for peaceful purposes.
>
> Or we can turn the heavens into a war zone and a place for nuclear 
> activity.
> We are at a crossroads. The policy must not be slipped through quietly. 
> The
> people of the United States must have a voice and there should be wide
> public discussion on this fateful decision.
>
>
>
> Karl Grossman, journalism professor at the State University of New
> York/College at Old Westbury, wrote and narrated the award-winning TV
> documentary: "Weapons in Space: The Nuclearization and Weaponization of 
> the
> Heavens" (www.envirovideo.com) - A photo of Karl Grossman is available 
> CLIC
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