Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Asian Space Programs

China Launches "Non-toxic, Pollution-Free" Rocket
Engine Three Times More Powerful than its Long March Engines
(How far is a Long March for a rocket?)

Kazakhstan's First Satellite to Link Remote Regions of Central Asia

Japanese Satellite to Serve Air Traffic and Meteorological Communities
(Also see: "Japan to Allow Military in Space" posted July 10)

India:
Test Launch of New Missile Fails
Bid to Become Launch Hub

2 comments:

Jenna Orkin said...

Shorebreak has left a new comment on your post "Asian Space Programs":

I don't know where to post this, so I'm posting it here.

I've found a link to a Dateline report that raises the issue "is the CIA responsible for distributing drugs?"

The piece starts out with the famous footage of Mike standing up in Los Angeles and claiming that he has evidence linking the CIA to drug smuggling. I was shocked at first that a show like Dateline would air that piece. Then, the piece abribtly shifts, and claims that it was reporter Gary Webb who made the accusations, and it flips to an interview with Webb, who is sporting a moustache like Mike's and sandy brown hair, grown out longer.

What the hell is going on here?

Here's a link to the footage. You only need to watch the first little bit to see the deception where they attribute Mike's comments to Webb, and then they follow up by white washing the whole event.

http://freepressinternational.com/FPI/nfblog/nbc-news-report-about-drugs-and-the-cia

FTW Admin adds:

thanks, Shorebreak. this link has a piece called 'crack the cia" with the footage of mike that you mention. but webb's not on it.

Chris Shaw, Australia said...

Further to CIA and drugs, we watched Prof Alfred McCoy a couple of weeks ago in Australia.

Transcript:
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2006/s1662218.htm

WinVideo:
http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200606/r90598_269857.asx

He said that Guantanamo was a node in the CIA network, so I Googled him, only to find that he is pretty well on the same wavelength as Mike.

Suddenly it made sense. Given that rendition flights would have to be the greatest and silliest waste of resources in the "intelligence" universe, what else could they be but a covert conveyance for drugs? So many governments have coyly admitted to the passage of these flights, unexamined and unquestioned. They cite "security" reasons for their lack of duty.

Although I have watched your videos times without number Mike, I think it was my puritanical attitude towards heavy drugs that discouraged me from understanding what a wonderful currency they are.

What magic coinage, so valuable and compact. Unlike gold, drugs are consumed and re-grown - and are redeemable currency in any country. Yes, it all makes sense.

How I wish I had kicked up a hue and cry when reportage of rendition flights briefly surfaced in the mainstream news. Ah well, next time - or just make it happen somehow.

I did write to Lateline, asking them for a return bout with Prof McCoy.

Cheers all.... Chris