Let's Play Hardball Senator! Mel Martinez and Nukes in Space
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Let's Play Hardball Senator! Mel Martinez and Nukes in Space
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LET'S PLAY HARDBALL SENATOR!
by Bruce K. Gagnon
This man is Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL). I've known him for a long
time. We coached our sons baseball team together back in the early
1990's in Orlando. I got hit in a car crash once and he was my
lawyer. He went on to become Orange County Commissioner and then
George W. Bush appointed him to his cabinet. From there Martinez
went on to win the Florida senate seat in 2004. Many experts have
reported that the Republicans did much electoral manipulations to
win that year in Florida. Today Mel is the chair of the Republican
National Committee. His main job is to recruit Hispanics for the
Republican Party.
Martinez has just announced that he will be taking the lead to
ensure that NASA's Moon base missions will stay a top priority in
Congress.
That means that Martinez and I will get to play hardball once again
as the Global Network has long been working to bring the light of
truth to NASA's Moon program.
The Moon base the U.S. wants to establish is really about two basic
things.
One is the establishment of mining colonies on the Moon to extract
helium-3, a precious resource that could be used for fusion power
here on Earth.
Scientists have long been saying that the profits from helium-3
extraction will make the money made from oil exploration on Earth
look like nothing in comparison. But in order to make the Moon
mining program possible, new launch capabilities must be developed
to lift the heavy payloads necessary to build the Moon bases and
return the mined resources back to Earth. This is where the nuclear
rocket comes in. Nuclear reactors for rocket engines, NASA says,
would give rockets greater lift capability and speed up transit
time to the Moon and Mars. (NASA is working to create mining colonies
on Mars as well. The Halliburton Corporation is today building a
drilling mechanism for Mars.)
Nuclear powered mining colonies are also on the drawing board. So
a host of nuclear launches would take place from the Kennedy Space
Center in Florida. It is important to remember that space technology
can, and does, fail on occasion. We should also remember that the
Department of Energy (DoE) nuclear production cycle has a long and
dirty track record at the labs across the U.S.
When the nuclear powered generations were fabricated at Los Alamos
Labs in New Mexico, from 1994-1996 for the Cassini mission, over
244 cases of worker contamination were reported to the DoE.
The Army has had plans since the early 1950's to set up military
bases on the Moon. Scientists have long known that there exists an
Earth-Moon gravity well.
Whoever sits at the top of the well, with bases on the moon, will
be able to literally control who can get on and off the planet
Earth. So military bases on the Moon play a key role in the space
"control and domination" program outlined in the U.S. Space Command's
1997 document called Vision for 2020.
It's hardly a coincidence that the NASA goal for establishing manned
bases on the Moon is set for 2020.
The aerospace industry is an expensive game. Virtually every space
technology project underway today is overwhelmingly over budget.
The International Space Station, originally set to cost $10 billion,
now costs out at over $100 billion. The aerospace industry publication,
Space News, years ago editorialized that they know they must come
up with a funding source for their expensive space programs. They
have they reported. They said they are sending their lobbyists to
Washington to defund the "entitlement programs." Officially the
entitlement programs are Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, and
what is left of the welfare program after Bill Clinton got through
with it.
The space industry has declared war on the poor and the working
class. Which will it be folks? Social progress or bases on the Moon?
Let's play ball Mel!
Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652 Brunswick, ME 04011 (207) 443-9502
http://www.space4peace.org
glob...@mindspring.com
http://space4peace.blogspot.com (Our blog)
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