 We will have testimony now and Frank will introduce our next speaker. All right, thanks Rachel. Thank you, Carly. Bruce Gagnon is the coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. He's been working on space issues since 1982. He's the Vietnam War era veteran and he's a member of Veteran for Peace and he's a great guy. Bruce Gagnon. Thank you, Frank. Great to be with everyone. I want to thank Chris for his words about Ronald Reagan. It reminds me of a story that in the early 80s I was living in Orlando, Florida and Reagan came to make his famous Russia evil people speech at a big hotel and I organized a protest outside of that speech. In that particular speech, Reagan said that Russia was the epitome of evil in the world and it reminds me of what Biden said just in the last few days that Vladimir Putin had no soul. And so it really I think underscores dramatically how things haven't changed that much if any at all in regard to the U.S. demonization of Russia. I want to start talking about space, taking us back to World War II at the time of the end of the war when the U.S. military created a secret program called Operation Paperclip and smuggled 1500 top Nazi operatives, Hitler's generals and scientists and all different kinds of people, intelligence people to the U.S. and then throughout the military industrial complex these Nazis were ceded and a hundred of these people were Burner von Braun and the rocket team that created the B-1 and B-2 rockets that Hitler used to terrorize the cities of London and Paris and Brussels near the end of World War II. One of these people that came along with von Braun was Major General Walter Dornberger who was Hitler's liaison to the rocket team so his job was to make sure that von Braun had everything he needed and he reported back to Hitler on the progress of this rocket operation. And so when they came to the U.S. they brought 100 copies of the B-2 rocket to Huntsville, Alabama to the Army's Redstone Arsenal to begin working on creating the U.S. space program and Major General Walter Dornberger Hitler's liaison became vice president of Bell Aerospace in New York. In the 1950s Dornberger testified before the Congress of the United States where he said gentlemen I didn't come to this country to lose the Third World War I lost two already and he went on to lay out his vision for the future with orbiting battle stations in space that would be used to determine who could get on and off the planet earth. I call it the Nazi prophecy. Well in the late 1990s the U.S. space command created this document called Vision for 2020 and in here they talked about how the United States would control space dominate space and deny other nations access to space when necessary. And in fact at the space command headquarters in Colorado Springs Peterson Air Force base above their doorway the logo master of space is emblazoned there something that they were as a patch on their uniform as well. So this is the I would say Nazi prophecy that's come to fruition in the current moment. Earlier Alice Slater mentioned the ABM treaty the anti ballistic missile treaty that George W. Bush pulled out of in 2002. This kept the mutually assured destruction mad sort of in a kind of weird way it mad created some stability because neither side had a real advantage over the other. There was this rough equivalency between nuclear forces. The ABM treaty blocked this idea of having a shield to be used after you launched a first strike attack on another country. But after the U.S. withdrawal of the ABM treaty during the Bush administration and then following during the Obama administration the missile defense systems went on steroids being tested and deployed and circling both Russia and China. And it was during that period during especially during the Obama administration where Russia and China kept repeatedly saying very publicly that we really rid of our nuclear retaliatory capability because of the withdrawal from the ABM treaty. And now the deployments of these missile defense forces which are the shield to be used after a U.S. first strike attack. It's important to remember that Russia and China have a long ago renounced first strike while the U.S. refuses to do so saying that we have to keep all options on the table. Today the United States has created a missile defense launch facility in Romania and they're building one in Poland right now. They will be able to launch these interceptors the shield after U.S. first strike attack. And at the same time these launch platforms have the capability to fire first strike attack Tomahawk cruise missiles which are nuclear capable and they would be able to reach Moscow in 10 minutes time from Romania and Poland. You've read nothing about this in American media I wonder why. But if Russia was to try to do something like this or China was to try to do something like this by putting similar capabilities in Mexico or Canada the United States would go ballistic. At the end of the Soviet Union at the time of its collapse in 1991 George Herbert Walker Bush, Daddy Bush was president and his secretary of state Jim Baker promised Gorbachev that NATO would not expand one inch towards the Russian borders and this was the agreement that was necessary to get Russia to agree to a unified Germany both east and west Germany coming back together again. But then when Clinton became president he violated that promise and began a major NATO expansion program that today is on steroids and the U.S. and NATO are pressing right up against literally the Russian border now trying to get into Belarus trying to get into Ukraine trying to get into Georgia as well. In fact NATO is going global as an alliance they're now setting up partnerships with countries particularly in the Asia Pacific and in Latin America and the idea is that NATO wants to replace the United Nations as the foremost international organization. Why? It's because at the at the UN Security Council both Russia and China have the ability to veto resolutions brought by the U.S. and NATO to declare war on particular countries and so by creating an alternative alliance which would be this expanded international NATO the United States would then be able to say we have the backing of the world to go in and do these particular invasions in XYZ country. Recently you all know that during the Trump administration Space Force was created. It's important to remember that at the time of this vote in the Congress to authorize to create the law to create Space Force the Democrats controlled the House of Representatives and could have blocked could have killed Space Force right then and there but the only thing the Democrats asked for was to instead call it the Space Corps rather than Space Force making the name just a little more benign a little nicer sounding but that wasn't even passed and so today we've got to ask what is the mission what is the job of the Space Force and I would say it's two fundamental things one is to give corporate capitalism control of the planet earth we know that with all space technology that exists today and the ground stations around the world that enable and beam on the satellites from orbiting the military satellites they beam the messages the signals in real times what second time the Pentagon is able to see everything on the earth they're able to hear everything on the earth by intercepting all phone facts and email communications and ultimately target everything on the earth so this document vision for 2020 talks about if we have control and domination of space we will be able to win all the wars on planet earth so that's one job of the Space Force is to put that in motion is to create the technologies to make it possible but secondly there's another job and that is to control what's called the earth moon gravity well think of a wishing well imagine someone is down inside the bottom of a well and you're at the top you have the advantage because of gravity you can determine really whether they get out of that well or not well it's the same way getting off the planet earth there is an earth moon gravity well and one of the things that Major General Walter Dornberger was talking about that former Nazi when he talked to the congress in the 1950s when he said we need to have orbiting battle stations he was talking about placing them at the top of the earth moon gravity well so that the united states would be able to control which countries could go on and off the planet earth so today as the united states during the obama administration passed a new law saying that american individuals american corporations can make land claims can claim ownership of various planetary bodies which would violate the un's outer space treaty and the and the moon treaty that say the the planetary bodies are the province of all humankind so that now it's getting possible with technology development to be able to go out and mine the sky and so we're seeing this privatization now of launch elan musk jeff bezos all kinds of other private launch companies now getting contracts from the us to launch military satellites and and this whole 5g explosion they want to put tens of thousands of satellites into space orbiting the planet so every single human being on the planet 24 7 would have a 5g satellite over their head enabling them to use these 5g systems that the pentagon is saying are going to be instrumental in in helping them develop major new weapons systems because of the speed of 5g so 5g is really a military operation but anyway this idea of mining the sky now is becoming quite popular and so i think this is one of the drivers then of this goal to control the pathway on and off the planet to determine which country which corporation which individuals can go out and mine the heavens and at the same time the nuclear industry views space as a new market they want to have nuclear powered mining colonies on the moon and mars and other planetary bodies and they want to have nuclear reactors on board rockets cutting in half the amount of time it takes to get to mars recently i found out about a rand corporation study you remember the rand corporation that where our friend daniel elsberg was working during the vietnam war helping to write the government's secret history of the vietnam war he bravely smuggled out the the this pentagon papers to the new york times and other newspapers around the country broke the story open well that was the rand corporation but today they have a new study calling for the breakup or the balkanization of russia into smaller constituent countries so that the oil corporations the fossil fuel resource extraction corporations would have a better job of controlling the arctic region because of climate crisis and the melting of the arctic ice it's now going to be possible to drill baby drill in the arctic and these western corporations look at a map and they see that russia has the largest land border of any country on the planet with the arctic and so this must be changed thus this rand corporation study and thus these current moves by us and nato to have war games up in the nordic region right along the russian border and finland and norway sweden and danmark all these particular parts of the world now are having these war games and the us is storing equipment in norway military hardware after these war games are over they're stored at a weapons hub in norway and also one in poland as the war games are held in in that part of eastern europe near the russian border they're storing these weapons systems in poland for eventual use so it's very clear to me that one of the major reasons for this constant demonization of russia is to prepare the american people and the people throughout the west for this breakup this balkanization of russia so that the weapons corporations can take control so that the oil corporations resource extraction corporations can take control of the planet so that wall street will benefit from this unipolar control of the planet right now with russia and china and iran and venezuela and brazil and many other countries around the world rising becoming competitors to the us global unipolar empire the united states is desperate and freaking out and desperate people do desperate things and so i think the us is as much a danger to the world as it's ever been as it tries now to hang on to its place as this unipolar power this unipolar empire of the world and so i uh want to really underscore and really thank norman solomon for his words speaking directly to the peace movement here today saying stop buying this russia demonization this china demonization can't you see what the real agenda is don't believe it don't follow it and speak out against it uh and uh thank you all very much for listening good luck to everybody thank you