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Rumsfeld Commission
Mon Aug 25 15:54:50 2003
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Karl Grossman U.S. MILITARY MOVES TO "CONTROL SPACE" AND BE "ENFORCEMENT ARM FOR THE GLOBAL ECONOMY"
http://www.envirovideo.com/karltechglobe.html
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The new administration is pushing hard and fast to make space a new arena of war. Last month's report by the Rumsfeld "Space Commission" calls for U.S. "power projection in, from and through space." It seeks U.S. "superior space capabilities." It says the U.S. president should "have the option to deploy weapons in space." It emphasizes that it is "possible to project power through and from space in response to events anywhere in the world. Unlike weapons from aircraft, land forces or ships, space missions initiated from earth or space could be carried out with little transit, information or weather delay. Having this capability would give the U.S. a much stronger deterrent and, in a conflict, an extraordinary military advantage." It proposes the U.S. Space Command become the nucleus of a U.S. Space Corps, to be like the Marine Corps and possibly "transition" to a fully separate Space Force or "Space Department" - on par with the Army, Navy and Air Force - several years hence.

As the man whose legislation got the Rumsfeld "Space Commission" established, Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire, said in an interview just taped with him to be part of my forthcoming "Star Wars Returns" video documentary, involved is the new "manifest destiny" of the U.S. "It is our manifest destiny," said Senator Smith. "You know we went from the East Coast to the West Coast of the United States of America settling the continent and they call that manifest destiny and the next continent if you will, the next frontier, is space and it goes on forever." Now it's U.S. cosmic "manifest destiny."

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Rumsfeld Commission Warns Against "Space Pearl Harbor" by Jean-Michel Stoullig Washington (AFP) Jan. 11, 2001
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/bmdo-01b.html

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Space Pearl Harbor
http://www.heatherwokusch.com/columns/column09.html

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"Donald Rumsfeld and the War in Space" http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/deutsche/ansprach.pdf

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Rumsfeld I and II (commission members)
http://elitewatch.netfirms.com/rumsfeld_commission.html

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Trappings of Empire: The Escalating Costs of Space Control http://www.peacevision.org.uk/papers/wirbel.html

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"Report of the Commission to Assess U.S. National Security Space Management and Organization", January 11, 2001, chaired by Donald Rumsfeld. http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/space20010111.html

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White House Turns Down Shuttle Budget Boost Request By Larry Wheeler FLORIDA TODAY posted: 09:15 am ET
23 August 2003
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/nasa_budget_030823.html

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It won't fly, but it can bite (8/22/03) The Pentagon secretly admits that a missile shield isn't feasible, but that doesn't diminish NMD's power to back us into a corner, says MP JOHN GODFREY http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030822.comissile22/BNStory/National/

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Unilateralism goes to space (5/22/03)
http://www.eetimes.com/issue/mn/OEG20030519S0030

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Space Ghosts
http://www.makethemaccountable.com/floyd/030207_SpaceGhosts.htm

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The Shocking Menace of Satellite Surveillance By JOHN FLEMING http://www.cndyorks.gn.apc.org/yspace/articles/surveillance.htm