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Movie Guide
Astronauts Charles Brubaker, John Walker and
Peter Willis (James Brolin, O.J. Simpson and Sam Waterston are hailed as
heroes when they become the first men to be rocketed to Mars. Actually the
space travellers are as phony as their mission controller Dr. James
Kelloway (Hal Holbrook); to avert a failure that might cost the space
program its funding, the Mars-bound vessel has been sent up without a
crew, while the helmeted astronauts sit on a movie soundstage, pretending
to be in outer space for the benefit of the TV cameras. Unfortunately the
Mars ship crashes on arrival, making the astronaut trio thoroughly
expendable. Investigative reporter Elliot Gould, who's smelled a rat all
along, races against time to prevent NASA from "terminating" the hapless
astronauts in order to cover up the conspiracy. Not to be taken seriously
for a minute, Capricorn One is a roller-coaster ride of a film, building
to an outrageous but exciting conclusion. Hal Erickson
Capricorn One tells the tale of a group of astronauts who are coerced into faking their Mars mission when a malfunction is discovered in their space capsule. Fearing that another public disappointment would permanently damage their funding and reputation, NASA sends an unmanned ship to Mars, while the intended crew films a mock landing from a sound stage in the Texas desert. Things get ugly when the unmanned ship burns up on re-entry and it becomes apparent to the astronauts that the only way for NASA to keep up the act is to kill them.
Classical Conspiracies
So I was in the video store the other day looking for an old action movie I may have missed that was available on DVD (because who wants to watch action on video when you could watch it on DVD?) A nice gentleman suggested a movie whose name I knew, but I'd never seen, Capricorn One.
It's a classic conspiracy movie. The government fakes a Mars landing, having the astronauts (Future Mr. Streisand James Brolin, future Law and Order detective Sam Waterston and future double murderer O.J. Simpson) act it out in a studio. But, when the decoy capsule burns up reentering the atmosphere, the astronauts are now thought to be dead by the entire world. That's NASA's story and they're sticking to it, but the "dead" astronauts aren't so eager to go along.
Since this was the 70s, it isn't wall-to-wall action like it might be now. But the sci-fi conspiracy subplot is entertaining enough until the action gets going, and when it does it's good, silly fun. We've got an awesome runaway car scene. Reporter Elliott (former Mr. Streisand) Gould's brakes are cut since he knows too much, but he keeps the car going a good minute and a half driving through traffic, sidewalks, making donuts and more. Somehow the bad guys disengaged his emergency brake, his transmission so he couldn't shift to Park and his ignition so he couldn't even turn the car off!
There's a great escape scene when the astronauts realize the government is going to kill them to destroy the evidence. There's some extended desert pursuit including rock climbing. Not fast paced, but good suspense. Brolin gets into a nifty little fight with a rattlesnake in a desert cave. Then the final confrontation between a crop duster and government helicopters closes the show.
There are great one-liners too. When Brolin announces to his partners that they are dead, Waterston says, "Sh*t, I was such a terrific guy." The crop duster pilot jacks up his rate for Gould in an amusing bit of unfair bargaining. The moments of humor pad out the exposition scenes just like they should.
Government conspiracies have been part of some of the all time action great. Remember how the "company" screwed Ripley in the Alien movies? How about Cyberdine hiding the evidence in Terminator 2? If you like those kinds of movies, Capricorn One is a good little diversion in the same vein as the greats.
In space, no one can hear you overact - The mission was a sham. The murders were real.. .
Moments before the launch of Capricorn One, the first manned mission to mars, the three would be Martian tourist (James Brolin, Sam Waterston, O.J. Simpson) are pulled from the capsule resulting in the craft taking off and flying the journey to the red planet solo. They are told that there was a major problem with one of the ships problems that was found months earlier and that had they left, they would have died. The mission was not scrubbed because of the dangerous political position NASA was in, a blow like this to the program might have resulted in loss of all funding for manned space flight, so the heads of NASA have decided to fake the rest of the mission. If the astronauts refuse to cooperate at this point in time, not only will they strike a huge blow in the nation's morale, but as insurance, the people behind the cover-up assure them that their families will be killed. The rest of the plot unfolds as you would probably expect. There is a snoopy reporter (Elliott Gould) with a nose for wild stories that are never true who of course stumbles onto the conspiracy. Complications arise for the dark government forces when the capsule is destroyed on re-entry. They had planned on just placing the astronauts back in the capsule before the recovery ship shows up, but now since the public thinks that the astronauts are dead, it becomes necessary to get rid of them for real. So Gould races to prove his theory and the astronauts flee the hidden army base they have been staying at in the desert (where else are hidden army bases located?) and the government is chasing them all. Now two really redeeming items that this movie has going for it is Telly Savalas and those black helicopters from Conspiracy Theory. Telly Savalas you say? Yes, Telly Savalas. He plays Albain the owner/operator of a crop dusting company located out in the stretch of desert the astronauts are out in. Gould hires him to fly around to look for them. Also looking for them are two evil black military super helicopters (you can't tell they are super by looking at them, you just have to know) who give the 2nd the 3rd best performances (after Telly of course) in the movie. There is an airplane vs. evil helicopter chase sequence that is stupendous.
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Reviewed by Christopher Dalton, Louisville, Kentucky
I first saw the movie on NBC's Sunday Night at the movies, and it made me a fan of James Brolin for life. The movie tells the story of NASA's first mission to Mars, and how much NASA's future is riding on this major project. If the mission is a failure, then Congress will cut back funding on the manned space program. When the three astronauts are about ready to launch, they are immediately pulled out from the Apollo space capsule and are flown to an abandoned Air Force base in Texas. There, they are told by the cheif flight director of the project, that due to a faulty life support system, the mission would put the astronauts in peril. In order to assure the future of NASA and future space flights, they are told to fake the Mars landing on a very convincing soundstage. If they do not cooperate, their families will be killed. The astronauts have no choice nut to participate in the elaborate hoax. At the same time, one of the NASA technicians discovers that the transmissions from the space craft are not coming from the spacecraft. The technician tells a reporter friend of his, and the reporter begins to investigate. When the mission comes to n end, the capsule suddenly burns up in the Earth's atmosphere, due to a faulty heatshield, the three astronauts, knowing their lives are in jeopardy, escape from their captors into the Texas desert, hoping to expose the sensational fraud. From that point on, it becomes a game of cat and mouse for the astronauts and the NBC news reporter trying to solve the mystery and blow the whistle on the governmental conspirators involved.
Definately one of the best thrillers of the post Watergate '70's, and in some ways, much like the film Hanger 18 and The X-Files television series and movies. Not only is it entertaining, and has a very solid plot, it is also a movie that referes heavily back to the old conspiracy theory of a faked Moon landing. James Brolin, as always, shines as the lead astronaut who desperately tries to reach civilization and expose the conspiracy for what it is. Elloit Gould did a good job as the reporter, yet I think either Harrison Ford or Roy Thinnes could have done a better job. Karen Black was good as the other television news reporter, yet, I also think that former James Bond girl Lois Chilles would have been a better choice.
Genre(s): political thriller [not Sci-Fi?]
Rating: MPAA PG
Distributor(s): Warner Bros (USA)
CAST
Hal Holbrook - Dr James Kelloway, NASA flight director
O J Simpson
- Navy Commander John Walker
Sam Waterston - Air Force Lieutenant
Peter Willis
Lee Bryant - Sharon Willis
Robert Walden - Elliot
Whitter
Barbara Bosson - Alva Leaock
James Brolin [Mr. Barbara
Streisand] - Charles Brubaker
Brenda Vaccaro - Kay Brubaker
Karen
Black - Judy Drinkwater
Hank Stohl - General Enders
Milton Selzer
- Dr Burroughs [from NASA's "I Dream of Genie"?]
Denise Nicholas -
Betty Walker
Seanna Marre - Sandy Brubaker
Elliott Gould [former
Mr. Streisand] - Robert Caulfield [nosy reporter who solves the mystery]
Norman Bartold - President
James Karen - Vice President Price
Chris Hyams - Charles Brubaker Jr
John Hiscock - Reporter
Colin Dangaard - Reporter
Telly Savalas - Albain [crop duster to
the rescue from FBI assassins]
Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck in cameo
roles
Written and Directed by Peter Hyams
BBC NEWS
[Posted 8 October 2001] "In particular...the entertainment industry can offer [the Army] expertise in understanding plot and character, as well as advice on scenario training." - (BBC, 8 October 2001) TENC Note: The following is a report from BBC about secret meetings between US military intelligence and Hollywood movie makers, including the screenwriter of terrorist-thriller 'Die Hard,' a movie which features terrorists who plot to blow up a skyscraper. The US military is seeking advice on how to develop the plot, the characters, and the sense of suspense in future terrorist attacks. [START of REPORT] Monday, 8 October, 2001, 12:36 GMT 13:36 UK American intelligence specialists are reported to have "secretly" sought advice on handling terrorist attacks from Hollywood film-makers. According to the trade paper Variety, a discussion group between movie and military representatives was held at the University of Southern California last week. The group is said to have been set up by the US Army to discuss future terrorist activity in the wake of the attacks of 11 September. Among those reported to have been involved were Die Hard screenwriter Steven E De Souza and Joseph Zito, director of Delta Force One and Missing in Action. Other, more conventional, feature makers were also said to have been present, including Randal Kleiser, who made Grease. Expertise
Such a scenario - where the army turns to the creators of film fantasy for advice about real-life disaster - would seem an unusual, not to say unlikely, reversal of roles. Variety dismissed the notion that such a scenario - where the army turns to the creators of film fantasy for advice about real-life disaster - was unusual, not to say unlikely, reversal of roles. The paper argues that there is much the masters of screen suspense can offer the US Army in the way of tactical advice. In particular, says Variety, the entertainment industry can offer expertise in understanding plot and character, as well as advice on scenario training. The US Army is also behind the university's Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT). The ICT calls upon the resources and talents of the entertainment industry and computer scientists to help with virtual reality scenario simulation. Variety reported that the ICT's creative director James Korris confirmed that the meetings between the film-makers and the US Army were taking place. However, the paper added that Mr Korris had refused to give details as to what specific recommendations had been made to the US government. [END of REPORT] |
New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/19PENT.html?pagewanted=print February 19, 2002 Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment "Abroad" with "new" 'Office of Strategic Influence'By JAMES DAO and ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 — The Pentagon is developing plans to provide news items, possibly even false ones, to media organizations as part of a new effort to influence public sentiment and policy makers in both friendly and unfriendly countries, military officials said. The plans, which have not received final approval from the Bush administration, have stirred opposition among some Pentagon officials who say they might undermine the credibility of information that is openly distributed by the Defense Department's public affairs officers. The military has long engaged in information warfare against hostile nations — for instance, by dropping leaflets and broadcasting messages into Afghanistan when it was still under Taliban rule. But it recently created the Office of Strategic Influence, which is proposing to broaden that mission into allied nations in the Middle East, Asia and even Western Europe. The office would assume a role traditionally led by civilian agencies, mainly the State Department. The small but well-financed Pentagon office, which was established shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was a response to concerns in the administration that the United States was losing public support overseas for its war on terrorism, particularly in Islamic countries. As part of the effort to counter the pronouncements of their employees the Taliban, Osama bin Laden and their supporters, the State Department has already hired a former advertising executive to run its public diplomacy office, and the White House has created a public information "war room" to coordinate the administration's daily message domestically and abroad. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, while broadly supportive of the new office, has not approved its specific proposals and has asked the Pentagon's top lawyer, William J. Haynes, to review them, senior Pentagon officials said. Little information is available about the Office of Strategic Influence, and even many senior Pentagon officials and Congressional military aides say they know almost nothing about its purpose and plans. Its multimillion dollar budget, drawn from a $10 billion emergency supplement to the Pentagon budget authorized by Congress in October, has not been disclosed. Headed by Brig. Gen. Simon P. Worden of the Air Force, the new office has begun circulating classified proposals calling for aggressive campaigns that use not only the foreign media and the Internet, but also covert operations. The new office "rolls up all the instruments within D.O.D. to influence audiences," its assistant for operations, Thomas A. Timmes, a former Army colonel and psychological operations officer, said at a recent conference, referring to the Department of Defense. "D.O.D. has not traditionally done these things." One of the office's proposals calls for planting news items with media organizations through outside concerns that might not have obvious ties to the Pentagon, officials familiar with the proposal said. General Worden envisions a broad mission ranging from "black" campaigns that use disinformation and other covert activities to "white" public affairs that rely on truthful news releases, Pentagon officials said. "It goes from the blackest of black programs to the whitest of white," a senior Pentagon official said. Another proposal involves sending journalists, civic leaders and foreign leaders e-mail messages that promote American views or attack unfriendly governments, officials said. Asked if such e-mail would be identified as coming from the American military, a senior Pentagon official said that "the return address will probably be a dot-com, not a dot- mil," a reference to the military's Internet designation. To help the new office, the Pentagon has hired the Rendon Group, a Washington-based international consulting firm run by John W. Rendon Jr., a former campaign aide to President Jimmy Carter. The firm, which is being paid about $100,000 a month, has done extensive work for the Central Intelligence Agency, the Kuwaiti royal family and the Iraqi National Congress, the opposition group seeking to oust President Saddam Hussein. Officials at the Rendon Group say terms of their contract forbid them to talk about their Pentagon work. But the firm is well known for running propaganda campaigns in Arab countries, including one denouncing atrocities by Iraq during its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The firm has been hired as the Bush administration appears to have united around the goal of ousting Mr. Hussein. "Saddam Hussein has a charm offensive going on, and we haven't done anything to counteract it," a senior military official said. Proponents say the new Pentagon office will bring much-needed coordination to the military's efforts to influence views of the United States overseas, particularly as Washington broadens the war on terrorism beyond Afghanistan. But the new office has also stirred a sharp debate in the Pentagon, where several senior officials have questioned whether its mission is too broad and possibly even illegal. Those critics say they are disturbed that a single office is authorized to use not only covert operations like computer network attacks, psychological activities and deception, but also the instruments and staff of the military's globe- spanning public affairs apparatus. Mingling the more surreptitious activities with the work of traditional public affairs would undermine the Pentagon's credibility with the media, the public and governments around the world, critics argue. "This breaks down the boundaries almost completely," a senior Pentagon official said. Moreover, critics say, disinformation planted in foreign media organizations, like Reuters or Agence France-Presse, could end up being published or broadcast by American news organizations. The Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency are barred by law from propaganda activities in the United States. In the mid-1970's, it was disclosed that some C.I.A. programs to plant false information in the foreign press had resulted in articles published by American news organizations. Critics of the new Pentagon office also argue that governments allied with the United States are likely to object strongly to any attempts by the American military to influence media within their borders. "Everybody understands using information operations to go after nonfriendlies," another senior Pentagon official said. "When people get uncomfortable is when people use the same tools and tactics on friendlies." Victoria Clarke, the assistant secretary of defense for public information, declined to discuss details of the new office. But she acknowledged that its mission was being carefully reviewed by the Pentagon. "Clearly the U.S. needs to be as effective as possible in all our communications," she said. "What we're trying to do now is make clear the distinction and appropriateness of who does what." General Worden, an astrophysicist who has specialized in space operations in his 27-year Air Force career, did not respond to several requests for an interview. General Worden has close ties to his new boss, Douglas J. Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy, that date back to the Reagan administration, military officials said. The general's staff of about 15 people reports to the office of the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, which is under Mr. Feith. The Office for Strategic Influence also coordinates its work with the White House's new counterterrorism office, run by Wayne A. Downing, a retired general who was head of the Special Operations command, which oversees the military's covert information operations. Many administration officials worried that the United States was losing support in the Islamic world after American warplanes began bombing Afghanistan in October. Those concerns spurred the creation of the Office of Strategic Influence. In an interview in November, Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, explained the Pentagon's desire to broaden its efforts to influence foreign audiences, saying: "Perhaps the most challenging piece of this is putting together what we call a strategic influence campaign quickly and with the right emphasis. That's everything from psychological operations to the public affairs piece to coordinating partners in this effort with us." One of the military units assigned to carry out the policies of the Office of Strategic Influence is the Army's Psychological Operations Command. The command was involved in dropping millions of fliers and broadcasting scores of radio programs into Afghanistan encouraging Taliban and Al Qaeda soldiers to surrender. In the 1980's, Army "psyop" units, as they are known, broadcast radio and television programs into Nicaragua intended to undermine the Sandinista government. In the 1990's, they tried to encourage American public support for American peacekeeping missions in the Balkans. The Office of Strategic Influence will also oversee private companies that will be hired to help develop information programs and evaluate their effectiveness using the same techniques as American political campaigns, including scientific polling and focus groups, officials said. "O.S.I. still thinks the way to go is start a Defense Department Voice of America," a senior military official said. "When I get their briefings, it's scary."
"Not only do the PsyOps people want to spread handpicked
'information' and keep other news quiet, the army also wants to control
the Internet, to wage electronic warfare against disobedient media, and to
control commercial satellites." FAIR ACTION ALERT: WHY WERE 1,400 GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA EXPERTS WORKING ON "NEWS" AT CNN?March 27, 2000 Reports in the Dutch newspaper Trouw (2/21/00, 2/25/00) and France's Intelligence Newsletter (2/17/00) have revealed that several officers from the US Army's 4th Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) Group at Ft. Bragg worked in the news division at CNN's Atlanta headquarters last year, starting in the final days of the Kosovo War. In the U.S. media, so far only Alexander Cockburn, columnist for The
Nation and co-editor of the newsletter CounterPunch, has picked up on the
story. Cockburn's column on the subject is available at: Counterpuch's article included information from The Emperor's New
Clothes (a translation of the French investigative article): The story is disturbing. In the 1980s, officers from the 4th Army PSYOPS group staffed the National Security Council's Office of Public Diplomacy (OPD), a shadowy government propaganda agency that planted stories in the U.S. media supporting the Reagan Administration's Central America policies. A senior US official described OPD as a "vast psychological warfare operation of the kind the military conducts to influence a population in enemy territory." (Miami Herald, 7/19/87) An investigation by the congressional General Accounting Office found that OPD had engaged in "prohibited, covert propaganda activities," and the office was soon shut down as a result of the Iran-Contra investigations. But the 4th PSYOPS group still operates. CNN has always maintained a close relationship with the Pentagon. Getting access to top military officials is a necessity for a network that stakes its reputation on being first on the ground during wars and other military operations. What makes the CNN story especially troubling is the fact that the network allowed the Army's covert propagandists to work in its headquarters, where they learned the ins and outs of CNN's operations. Even if the PSYOPS officers working in the newsroom did not influence news reporting, did the network allow the military to conduct an intelligence-gathering mission against CNN itself? For instance, one PSYOPS officer worked in CNN's satellite division. According to Intelligence Newsletter, rear admiral Thomas Steffens, a psychological warfare expert in the Special Operations Command, recently told a PSYOPS conference that the military needed to find ways to "gain control" over commercial news satellites to help bring down an "informational cone of silence" over regions where special operations were taking place. An unofficial strategy paper published by the U.S. Naval War College in 1996 and written by an Army officer ("Military Operations in the CNN World: Using the Media as a Force Multiplier") urged military commanders to find ways to "leverage the vast resources of the fourth estate" for the purposes of "communicating the [mission's] objective and endstate, boosting friendly morale, executing more effective psychological operations, playing a major role in deception of the enemy, and enhancing intelligence collection." ACTION: Please write to CNN and ask why the network allowed government propaganda specialists to work in their news division. As always, please remember that letters are taken more seriously if they maintain a professional tone. Please cc-copies of your correspondence to fair@fair.org. CONTACT: "In particular...the entertainment industry can offer [the Army]
expertise in understanding plot and character, as well as advice on
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Governmental DevianceIncludes alleged transcript censored after the explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger that recorded the astronauts not dying immediately and their comments while free-falling from 100,000 feet into the ocean. Along with the official post-crash investigative reports, it doesn't paint a pretty picture of NASA's competence in outer space (but mega competence at turning huge profits for its wealthy contractors). http://www.oocities.org/prohibition_us/govdeviance.html Disinfo backfires on Space.com by John Lee
Visit Pirate News' Newswire to read an archive of daily revelations, admissions and confessions from NASA and space-heads that pre-existing technology is not capable of transporting live humans to The Moon, then returning then alive and healthy back to The Earth. There's too many of these confessions to post them all here. When you read with a critical mind, and connect multiple dots, the scam becomes murkily clear that NASA Nazis are still running this Moon/moon scam. And now they want to steal trillions of dollars to send humans to Mars/mars - never mind that they can't or won't even send robots to The Mars. The main profit center of NASA scams is looting of trillions of dollars from NASA's CAFR "pension funds". CAFR stands for "Comprehensive Annual Financial Report", which reveals the massive profitability of NASA - profitability that is fraudulently concealed by NASA's annual "Budget Report". So NASA keeps two sets of books, in order to defraud the sheeple, er, taxpayers. This is the same scam that Mafia gangsters go to prison for, after getting caught using union "pension funds" as their personal checking account. The CAFR scam was "legalized" by Gangster Government in the 1950s, when the CAFR Report was split from the Budget Report, for all city, county, state and federal "municipal corporations" and their satellite muni corporations like utilities and universities. $70-TRILLION is looted from CAFRs EVERY YEAR in USA today. The elite gangstas brag that they always use OPM - "Other People's Money" - which comes from looting government pension funds. For example, George Bush Jr. stole $3.5-trillion from Pentagon CAFR pension funds in just 3 years since 2001. If humans ever visit Moon or Mars, then the realities of space radiation MUST be addressed, and looting of government accounts MUST be stopped. Gangster Government has no intention of allowing this to happen. At least not without a fight. That's what my webpages are about. Media collaborators and illiterate sheeple are a powerful tool of Gangsta Gov't and NASA Nazis.
"LONDON, UK - Recent articles on SpaceDaily such as 'Where's my flying car?' and 'The Lure of Mars' reveal a common trait between two identifiable camps of the 'Children of Apollo'. With the turn of the century, that Apollo generation finds itself in a mid-life crisis. They are looking around for the toys that they had been promised, and are asking where they are. The two identifiable camps in this generation are those looking for a return to the Moon on a commercial basis, and those seeking a government-sponsored human exploration of Mars. The reason for the non-existence of the moon bases and flying cars, and all the other complaints of this generation is largely due to that generation being a little late in taking on the responsibility to make those things happen. At considerable expense, and as a spin-off from political aims, NASA proved with the Apollo programme that you can get to the Moon. NASA itself has for years claimed no further interest in the Moon, without declaring any interest in places other than LEO (Low Earth Orbit). Requirements of Reality: At the moment, all we know for sure is that NASA does not want to go back to the Moon. The argument about whether to return to the Moon or go to Mars is a mirage. NASA does not want to go back to the Moon and commercial moonbase plans would be destroyed by such action. No-one is asking NASA to go to the Moon." NASA Chief Admits NASA Is A Mistake
"Chief Michael Griffin has told the editorial board at USA Today that the space shuttle, the international space station and nearly the entire U.S. manned space program for the past three decades were mistakes. Griffin said NASA lost its way in the 1970s when it ended the Apollo program. The space shuttle program has cost the lives of 14 astronauts and about $150 billon, Griffin said. Griffin also said it is now commonly accepted that the space shuttle was not on the right path and NASA is now trying to change the path while doing as little damage as they can. Griffin's comments are likely to be met with a lot of agreement on the Space Coast. NASA has been flying the shuttle since 1981 and it has never lived up to its promise. It is far more expensive, far less capable and far less safe that it was expected to be, Billow reported. "The shuttle is inherently flawed. It does not have an escape system for its crew, and we all know that since human perfectionism is unattainable, sooner or later, there will be another shuttle accident. I want to retire it before that flight can occur," Griffin told members of Congress on May 12. Last week, NASA unveiled the shuttle's replacement. The new system will depend on space shuttle systems but the shuttle itself is scheduled to go away in 2010. Part of the shuttle workforce will go away with it. The new moon rockets and spacecraft are inherently safer, similar to the Apollo system and will have something the space shuttle lacks -- an escape system that only works for the first 30 seconds of the launch, just like Apollo." "NASA says it will take $104 billion and 13 years to build the amazingly 1960s-like hardware. Let’s see, that’s a target of 2018 -- 49 years after the first Moon landing. So half a century after America was able to land people on the Moon, we’ll be able to do it again. Imagine if you had declared in 1952, 49 years after Kitty Hawk, that for a mere $104 billion, you could build a wooden flyer that would remain in the air for 12 seconds," Easterbrook proclaimed. "Isn’t this Moon announcement awfully similar?" |
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Serial-killing Colonel Buzz Aldrin goes beserk and copyrights NASA moon stage photos
"U.S. astronaut Buzz Aldrin is alleging that an education software publisher is violating his right of publicity by the unauthorized use, on product packaging, of a famous lunar photo of the Apollo 11 astronaut, according to a complaint filed October 31 in the California Superior Court for Los Angeles. This is not the first time an astronaut has sued to protect his right of publicity in lunar photographs. In 2002, the widow of Apollo XV astronaut Col. James Irwin sued the Fisher Pen Company of Nevada for using, in connection with promoting Fisher's "space pen," a famous lunar photograph of Irwin saluting the American flag. Though Fisher argued that no publicity rights were implicated because Irwin was not recognizable in his spacesuit, it nevertheless settled with Irwin's widow for an undisclosed sum. In another lawsuit, a toy company made unauthorized use of Irwin's and Aldrin's moon photos on product packaging for lunar action figure playsets. The court in Conrad v. Action Prod. Inc., citing evidence that the photos are so widely circulated, [held] "one who views the photograph[s]" could "reasonably determine" that the astronauts pictured were Aldrin and Conrad. "The court finds that if things such as an altered photograph of Lothar Motschenbacher's race car are 'readily identifiable,' then the world-famous pictures of Buzz Aldrin and Jim Irwin are also 'readily identifiable,'" wrote district court judge David O. Carter. The case eventually settled. . . . Robert C. O'Brien of Friedemann O'Brien Goldberg & Zarian LLP of Los Angeles represents Dr. Buzz Aldrin."
"Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin offered a spirited defense Wednesday as to why he decked a pushy filmmaker who wanted him to swear on a Bible that he really did go to the moon -- self defense. 'The man had him up agains a wall and was not letting him pass. All Buzz was doing was trying to get away from him. On the videotape of the incident, you can hear Buzz asking for police to be called,' his lawyer Robert O'Brien, told Reuters in an interview. O'Brien added that the 72-year old Aldrin 'was forced to protect himself' from independent Nashville filmmaker Bart Sibrel, a much younger and bigger man, who was stopping the astronaut and his daughter from leaving.... The police added that witnesses have come forward stating that they saw Sibrel aggressively poke Aldrin with a Bible and that Sibrel had lured Aldrin to the hotel under false pretenses so that he could interview him."
"The Los Angeles County district attorney's office will not file charges against Apollo ll astronaut Buzz Aldrin for hitting a man who has long insisted that the moon landings are a hoax....'Based on the totality of the circumstances,' [Deputy Dist. Attorney Elizabeth Ratinoff] added, 'it is unlikely a jury would find Adrin guilty'.... The 72-year old Aldrin's attorney, Robert O'Brien said, 'We welcome this decision and appreciate the prompt and professional manner in which the Beverly Hills Police Department and the Los Angeles district attorney's office handled this matter. We expect that in the future, Mr. Sibrel will refrain from harassing Dr. Aldrin and his fellow Apollo astronauts." "This is clearly just an elaborate and diabolical hoax to gain sympathy, and to make us believe that he ’won the moral high ground.’ It’s ludicrous to believe that Buzz Aldrin actually punched Bart Sibrel in the jaw on Tuesday. Why, you might as well believe that he walked on the Moon…" "Apparently there are two things you just don't do. Never tell a professional wrestler that you think wrestling is fake and never ask an astronaut to swear on a bible that he didn't fake the moon landing. Anyway you cut it, whether wrestling is fake or not, that closet homosexual in the fluorescent spandex tights is still 6 foot 8 inches and 425 pounds. Fake or not, 425 pounds coming down on you from the top rope, even if his knees land on the mat first, the chances of being knocked unconscious and then suffocating beneath one of his titties is extremely probable. Now there is another given. You can now add prodding an astronaut with a bible and challenging him to swear on it that the whole moon landing wasn't a fake to the list of things you can't do. Evidently Buzz Alderin punched some shmuck named Bart Sibrel and ran away after Bart told him he thought the whole moon landing was some fake ass b-movie bullshit and challenged him to swear on a bible that he actually landed on the moon."
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"It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus insure
secrecy. He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false
reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total
ignorance." "We've got to understand airpower—its strengths, its
weaknesses, and its potential—if we are to fully capitalize on it to
at tack an adversary's strategy and to compel him to do our
will." "Some of my packmules have experienced three campaigns, but
they still don't know anything about waging war." "There are no innocent civilians..., so it doesn't bother me
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The Joint Chiefs of Staff have considered the attatched memorandum for the chief of Operations, Cuba Project, which responds to a request by that office for brief but precise description of pretexts which would provide justification for US military intervention in Cuba. Such a plan would enable a logical buildup of incidents to be combined with other seemingly unrelated events to camoflage the ultimate objective and create the necessary impression of Cuban rashness and irresponsibility on a large scale, directed at other countries in addition to the United States. |
A series of well-coordinated incidents will be planned to take place to give genuine appearance of being done by hostile Cuban forces. We could blow up a drone (unmannded) vessel anywhere in the Cuban waters. Casualty lists in US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation. We could develop a Communist Cuba terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Flordia cities and even in Washington. The terror campaign could be pointed at Cuban refugees seeking haven in the United States. We could sink a boatload of Cubans enroute to Florida (real or simulated). We could foster attempts on lives of Cubans in the United States even to the extent of wounding in instances to be widely publicized. Exploding a few bombs in carefully chosen spots. The arrest of Cuban agents and the release of prepared documents substantiating cuban involvement. Use of MIG-type aircraft by US pilots
could provide additional provocation. Harassment of civil air,
attacks on surface shipping, and destruction of US
military drone aircraft by MIG type planes would be
useful. An F-86 properly painted would convince air passengers
that they saw a Cuban MIG, especially if the pilot of the
transport were to announce that fact.
Hijacking attampts against US civil air and surface
craft should be encouraged.
It is possible to create an incident which would
demonstrate convincingly that a Cuban aircraft has attacked
and shot down a chartered civilian airliner from the United
States.
An aircraft at Eglin AFB (Florida) would be painted
and numbered as an exact duplicate for a civil registered
aircraft belonging to a CIA proprietary organization in the
Miami area. At a designated time the duplicate would be
subsituted for the actual civil aircraft and the
passengers, all boarded under carefully prepared aliases.
The actual registered aircraft would be converted to a
drone.
Who needs pilots? Two NASA Dryden research
aircraft are showing they can save fuel and reduce drag by
flying like birds do - in formation. Autonomous
Formation Flight (AFF) missions flown by F/A-18 aircraft
have shown in about 40 research flights substantial fuel
savings of up to 20 percent for the trailing aircraft, high
accuracy during autopilot-controlled formation flight. The
two main risks identified early in the project were the
potential for a mid-air collision when the planes are flown
as close as 20 feet apart at high speeds. The second risk is
the possibility of overstressing the aircraft structure
should the research autopilot command large deflections of
the control surfaces. The control room also plays a critical
role in safety by monitoring a number of factors such as the
trailing aircraft's airspeed or severe oscillations.
Electronics monitor the "heart beat" from all the autopilot
computers 20 times a second. The Formation Flight
Information System (FFIS) is an advanced GPS system capable
of computing the relative distance and velocity between two
moving aircraft to an accuracy of 1 foot. Dryden had many
partners in the AFF research. Langley Research Center,
Hampton, Va., assisted in quantifying fuel savings and
emissions reductions, UCLA's Autonomous Technology
Instrumentation Lab developed sensor software and prototype
sensor hardware. Boeing St. Louis researchers worked on
flight control computer software development. And the
Formation Flight Control System autopilot box was developed
by UCLA and repackaged by The Boeing Company to fly on the
research F/A-18s. Behind the daunting appearance, thick
clouds of smoke, flashing lights and thunderous voice of the
Wizard
of Oz was a person hidden by a curtain in a control room
who coordinated the effects. And one of the people behind
the "curtain" of the flight research control room is Mae
Yook Wong, a member of Dryden's Test Information Engineers
(TIE) Group within the Western Aeronautical Test Range
(WATR) - photo by NASA Dryden
Flight Research Center - May 31,
2001 Take off times of the drone aircraft and the
actual aircraft will be scheduled to allow a rondevous. From
the rondevous point the passenger-carrying aircraft will
descend to minimum altitude and go directly to an auxiliary
airfield at Eglin AFB where arrangements will have been made
to evacuate the passengers and return the aircraft to its
original status. Meanwhile the drone aircraft will continue
to fly the filed flight plan. The drone will be
transmitting on the international distress frequency "MAY DAY"
message stating it is under attack by Cuban MIG aircraft. The
transmission will be interrupted by the destruction of
aircraft which will be triggered by radio signal. This will
allow IACO radio stations to tell the US what has happened to
the aircraft instead of the US trying to "sell" the incident.
It is possible to create an incident that will make it
appear that Communist Cuban MIGs have destroyed a USAF
aircraft over international waters in an unprovoked attack.
On one such flight, a pre-briefed pilot would fly Tail-end
Charlie. While near the cuban island this pilot would
broadcast that he had been jumped by MIGs and was going down.
This pilot would then fly at extremely low altitude and land
at a secure base, an Eglin auxiliary. The aircraft would be
met by the proper people, quickly stored and given a new tail
number. The pilot who performed the mission under an alias
would resume his proper identity. The pilot and aircraft would
then have disappeared.
A submarine or small craft would distribute F-101 parts,
parachute, etc. The pilots retuning to Homestead would have a
true story as far as they knew. Search ships and aircraft
could be dispatched and parts of aircraft found. It is understood that the Department of State is also preparing suggested courses of action to develope justification for US military intervention in Cuba. |
By David Ruppe
ABC News.com
May 1, 2001
In the early 1960s, America's top
military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent
people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create
public support for a war against Cuba. Code named
Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the
possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of
Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up
a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S.
cities. The plans were developed as ways to trick the
American public and the international community into
supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist
Fidel Castro.
America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S.
military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in
Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S.
newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national
indignation." Details of the plans are described in Body of Secrets (Doubleday), a new book by investigative reporter James Bamford about the history of America's largest spy agency, the National Security Agency. The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were presented to President Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert McNamara, in March 1962. But they apparently were rejected by the civilian leadership and have gone undisclosed for nearly 40 years. "These were Joint Chiefs of Staff documents. The reason these were held secret for so long is the Joint Chiefs never wanted to give these up because they were so embarrassing," James Bamford told ABCNEWS.com. "The whole point of a democracy is to
have leaders responding to the public will, and here this is
the complete reverse, the military trying to trick the
American people into a war that they want but that nobody else
wants."
The documents show "the Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and
approved plans for what may be the most corrupt plan ever
created by the U.S. government," writes Bamford.
The Joint
Chiefs even proposed using the potential death of astronaut
John Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into
orbit as a false pretext for war with Cuba, the documents
show. Should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, they wrote,
"the objective is to provide irrevocable proof … that the
fault lies with the Communists et al
Cuba. |
