Donald Trump is calling for a renewal of Ronald Reagan’s 1980’s vision of SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative), popularly called Star Wars. The program is a massive boondoggle in the works. Early estimates are that Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ shield would cost from $500 billion to trillions of dollars. The recipients of this largess would be weapons corporations like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, L3Harris and Space X.
Major cutbacks in social and environmental programs will be required to help fund this insanity.
Golden Dome would spur a new space weapons arms race that will destabilize our planet and beyond.
In the video Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the Moon, warns a war in space would create massive bits of space junk which would leave a mine field surrounding the Earth making it virtually impossible to launch anything into the heavens. Mitchell calls space a fragile environment that must be protected.
Trump is requesting $25 billion from Congress as a down payment in 2025 for his ‘beautiful Golden Dome’. Experts are confidently reporting that the new version of the Star Wars system will not be able to protect the North American continent from hypersonic missiles and drone swarms.
Ensuring protection from just one ‘enemy’ ICBM would require more than 1,000 interceptors in orbit, an American Physical Society report finds. Protection from 10 could demand over 30,000 interceptors, depending on missile type and other assumptions. For comparison, there are about 12,000 active satellites in orbit around Earth, most in SpaceX’s Starlink network.
Bruce Gagnon talks about how the U.S. intends to use space technology to control the Earth on behalf of western corporate capitalism. He reminds the viewer that the U.S. and Israel have for many years blocked negotiations for a treaty banning all weapons in space at the United Nations, long introduced by China and Russia.
The heavily illustrated video is produced by Andy Paul Smith who worked with Bruce in 2003 to make the popular space documentary called Arsenal of Hypocrisy.
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