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Small time space weapons activist spied upon
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:03:54 -0500
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Small time space weapons activist spied upon Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:57:26 -0500 From: Peter Jones <peter () redesignresearch com> Reply-To: peter () redesignresearch com Organization: Redesign Research To: dave () farber net Dave - For IP if its fits to print: From Future Brief (people may be interested in subscribing to their brief, 3-item per day email at: http://www.futurebrief.com/newsletter/index.asp "For more than a year, Bruce Gagnon strongly suspected he and his family were being spied on, but he didn't have any evidence, and he didn't know who might be behind it. An Air Force veteran, Gagnon is one of the most prominent activists in the world concerned with space weapons. He directs the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space from a small office in Maine. Still, he was caught off guard when the American Civil Liberties Union called and told him it had uncovered court documents revealing that NASA and the U.S. Air Force were secretly monitoring him. 'We're a small organization with meager resources,' said Gagnon. 'They feel threatened by us? That tells us something.'" Learn more in Wired News. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70303-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 "The Bush administration, as the Clinton administration before it, continues to push forward President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative -- or "Star Wars" -- a wide-ranging space weapons program first proposed in the mid-1980s. Since the '80s, the military has spent an estimated $120 billion trying to develop weapons that could destroy incoming nuclear, biological or chemical warheads targeting American cities. Yet in the 20 years since Reagan called for this multilayered "space shield," the military is still light-years away from deploying any directed-energy weapons or anti-satellite mines. Despite the lack of tangible progress, the Bush administration increased the Star Wars budget by 20 percent for 2007, with the total allocation reaching $10.7 billion, an increase of nearly $6 billion since 1999. Gagnon is convinced this master plan for space defense is nothing but a fantastic Trojan horse. "This massively costly program under way today is not really about defense," he said. "The true purpose of this arms program is to control and dominate space. And whoever controls space will control the Earth." Peter H. Jones, Ph.D. http://redesignresearch.com ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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