NASA has yet to retract it's false claims based upon a falsified bacteria from that polluted lake in the California desert, of likely hood for new life forms made during that big televised public press conference.
They still don't provide an accurate gray scale for correcting all of the images from Mars that they release filtered in red or simply black and white. There is no way to know one way or another what is or is not on Mars from any of the data which NASA continually obfuscates.
Science is not a matter of innocent until proven guilty.
Science is based upon testable theories independently validated or discredited by peer duplication of experiments. However there is a necessary element of legal and journalistic standards needed to confirm the veracity of the evidence to be evaluated; the images.
Without independent eye witnesses to say that what the pictures are of are actually there, then all we have is the word of NASA which has deliberately undermined it's own credibility, so that nobody can be sure of what is true. This keeps the information proprietary perhaps for the veneer of national security, but it's most likely that Russia and China have spies at NASA with access to the unadulterated raw data.
America's enemies know the truth. Only the American tax payer is denied benefit of their contributions.
Then why isn't China or Russia more space faring?
ReplyDeleteIf this was to be true both of them would have been more in front.
Look at the space race. Just look at it. They knew about the capability of Russia, so US went to the moon in a decade. We would see the same with Mars. I can guarantee you that human would be on Mars today if just a gram was true.
The truth is that NASA hides the fact that there is nothing to hide, and pays Richard C Hoagland to make all the false claims, so that the tax payers will support more funding for NASA. When the people demand a big, expensive, long term project to develop a mission to Mars, and NASA goes there and finds nothing, then at least NASA wasn't the one that overtly lied.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, the DoD using the X-37B conducts all the secret military missions that the Space Shuttle used to handle.
ReplyDelete>>America's enemies know the truth.<<
ReplyDeletePure speculation. You cannot possibly know that.
Pattacakes,
ReplyDeleteWhether I am in positon to know that or not, you are in no position to know if I know or don't know.
I think you do not know.
ReplyDeleteThink whatever you want. It's what the tax payers think about NASA that matters more than what anybody thinks about me, or you, or Pattacakes or other nobodies such as us or Richard C Hoagland. NASA screws over all of the citizens of the United States of America.
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ReplyDeleteUNMASKING SPIES, THEN AND NOW
by J. R. Nyquist
Victor Cherkashin, the KGB colonel who nurtured moles like Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, has published a memoir with the title Spy Handler. It is worth reading if only to see how a successful spymaster colors and updates his work 15 years later. Striking a disillusioned pose for the sake of foreign consumption, Cherkashin�s memoir differs from that of an authentically disillusioned mole-hunter like Britain�s Peter Wright (whose 1987 book was banned in England). Wright�s book was painfully honest, exposing the author to legal proceedings. Spy Handler is not as forthcoming, and therefore avoids scandalous revelations as well as legal difficulties. As Cherkashin explains in his preface, �I don�t intend this chronicle to be published in Russia, where intelligence professionals are now generally seen more as suspicious �spies� than dedicated officers serving the interests of their country.� That is a curious remark, given the fact that Russia�s �elected� president was once a �suspicious spy.�
It is also odd that a KGB officer should write a memoir that is specifically addressed to an American audience. For anyone familiar with the emotionally charged and unresolved issues of Cold War history, it is impossible to miss the fact that this book is deceptively crafted in its frankness, careful in its revelations, with a studied regard for its intended readership. Admittedly, the book presents authentic feelings and facts. At the same time, however, Cherkashin subtly mocks the notion that the Soviet Union was evil, that its objectives were contrary to the happiness of mankind, that its leaders were gangsters and its official ideology a form of madness. Cherkashin claims that he �tried to avoid falling into the trap of polemics.� Apparently he did not try hard enough, since he portrays the Soviet Union as �mismanaged� instead of malignant.
As with the memoir of KGB Gen. Oleg Kalugin (The First Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence), the bureaucratic villain of the piece is the KGB�s head of foreign intelligence, Vladimir Kryuchkov (who later became KGB chairman). Of course, Cherkashin admits that a �wave of joy� washed over him when Kryuchkov�s motley eight-man crew declared a state of emergency in August 1991, taking power on the pretext that Gorbachev had fallen ill. The August coup, says Cherkashin, was not really a coup. �It was a last attempt to keep the Soviet Union together despite Gorbachev�s moves to dismantle it.�
Cherkashin laments the fall of communism. �The Soviet Union had to change,� he admits. �Thank God at least the mobs didn�t tear down the famous statue of Karl Marx near the Bolshoi Theater.� He thereby hints that something has been salvaged. All is not lost. It is not the same despair we find in Peter Wright�s memoir. Cherkashin is not forsaken in the �wilderness of mirrors.� He is not presenting �the final morsel� in his country�s long postwar �feast of decline.� He is not embittered like the broken-down Britsh spycatcher, descended to Tasmania, stewed in the suspicion that his boss at MI5, Sir Roger Hollis, was a Soviet agent (a claim supported by William West, who presented his findings in a book titled Spymaster: The Betrayal of MI5.) Wright�s memoir sought to shatter the complacency of the West�s cold warriors. Cherkashin�s memoir flatters and reassures that complacency. Cherkashin�s memoir adopts the disinformation line of his colleague, KGB Gen. Leonid Shebarshin, who once complained that the CIA had beaten the KGB during the Cold War � that the KGB was unable to penetrate the CIA or FBI. We now know that the KGB not only penetrated the CIA and FBI, but the penetrations lasted for many years and involved the total neutralization of the CIA�s spy network in Russia.
ReplyDeleteThe question of who won the �war of the moles� is no longer up for debate. We know who won. The KGB defeated the CIA just as it defeated Britain�s MI6 (by way of Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt). The West refuses to come to terms with these revelations, always sidestepping the issue of lax security and poor counterintelligence. Cherkashin is perfectly aware of the West�s aversion to tight security. He cunningly flatters its many conceits. For example, he writes that �the level of mistrust� at KGB headquarters in the 1980s �only made it easier for the CIA to recruit our men.� In other words, wariness, distrustfulness, readiness to fire suspected double agents is somehow a hindrance to intelligence security. Consider, as well, Cherkashin�s version of the CIA�s failings: �CIA paranoia about double agents reached its peak in the 1950s and 1960s under counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton, who was convinced that the agency had been penetrated by Soviet spies.�
Reciting a longstanding indictment against Angleton, Cherkashin says that Angleton �all but destroyed the agency�s ability to recruit and handle agents.� Cherkashin then attacks a controversial KGB defector by stating that Angleton�s �natural suspicions were reinforced when a KGB defector called Anatoly Golitsyn told Angleton in 1961 that every Soviet defector after him would be a double agent.�
To tell the other side of the story, Angleton and Golitsyn believed the Soviet Union was preparing a massive deception to disarm and overtake the West. This deception would only work if KGB moles within the CIA could provide the �feedback� necessary to maintain the deception�s credibility. �Deception begins and ends with intelligence,� Angleton explained in a 1985 interview with Edward Jay Epstein (see page 106 of Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and CIA). The process for deception was described by Angleton as �a loop� consisting of two lines of communication: (1) The KGB passes false information to the CIA through agents of influence, diplomats and journalists; (2) the mole within the CIA reports on how this false information is received. This allows the KGB to adjust its disinformation for CIA consumption. According to Epstein�s account: �This feedback � was essential to building up the adversary�s � commitment to the sources in the disinformation part of the loop. Without it, the deceiver is working in the dark.�
In 1985 Angleton and Golitsyn believed the Soviet Union was preparing a false democratization. Golitsyn wrote an entire book on this subject in 1984, titled New Lies for Old. Angleton was fully aware of the Russian practice of infiltrating dissident groups in order to hijack them for strategic purposes. This is how the Soviets would introduce false democracy and false reforms into Eastern Europe.
ReplyDeleteBy slandering Golitsyn and Angleton, Cherkashin perpetuates a set of myths about the Cold War. These myths divert from the fact that the collapse of the Soviet Union was not a straightforward happening. Just as Angleton feared, the CIA was penetrated and Aldrich Ames was not the only penetration. Cherkashin�s book is tailor-made to sweep these strategic realities under the rug. He is writing for the benefit of American intelligence officials who oppose a strict security regime within their own ranks, who despise Golitsyn and Angleton, and refuse to consider the possibility that Moscow has been duping them in a big way.
The penetration of the West by the KGB is a fact of history. The West never penetrated Russia in the same way, and this must be taken into account when we look at Eastern Europe today (especially in the context of Angleton�s idea of a disinformation �feedback loop�). KGB Col. Cherkashin is advancing Russia�s disinformation strategy. His book does not scandalize us, as Peter Wright�s revelations once did. Cherkashin�s book anesthetizes as it soothes the furrowed brows of CIA officers and managers confronting the grim specter of internal reform.
Cherkashin�s book hides the fact that the Cold War continues. Describing Russia�s intelligence problems as �deep-seated,� Cherkashin tells us what we want to hear. He says that �intelligence work is less politically important than it may seem.�
This nonsense promises to animate many dupes.
� 2005 Jeffrey R. Nyquist
http://www.financialsensearchive.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2005/0106.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827902.100-curb-your-enthusiasm-for-aliens-nasa.html
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ReplyDeleteUS-China spy scandal highlights troubled past
15:45 12 February 2008 by New Scientist Space and Reuters
A former Boeing engineer was arrested on Monday on charges of stealing trade secrets for China related to several US aerospace programmes, including the space shuttle, the US Justice Department said.
It also announced a separate case in which a US Defense Department official and two others were arrested on Monday on espionage charges involving the passing of classified US government documents to China.
Previous spy cases involving China and the US include:
• 1999 - Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the first US nuclear bombs were developed in the 1940s, comes under fire over security after US prosecutors charge scientist Wen Ho Lee with 59 counts of illegally downloading nuclear weapons data onto portable tapes and non-secure computers. Lee was never charged with espionage, despite early allegations of Chinese snooping on Los Alamos, and the case against him collapsed in 2000, when all but one charge against him was dropped and a federal judge apologised for keeping him in solitary confinement for nine months.
• March 2000 - China has intensified its spying operations in the US over the past decade, collecting military and economic secrets and seeking to exert influence over policy decisions in Washington, according to a report by two US intelligence services.
• October 2000 - The Pentagon is hiring 450 counterintelligence specialists to protect defense secrets after learning that China obtains classified US missile technology, the Washington Post reports, quoting senior defence officials.
• November 2000 - China dismisses allegations in a book by a Washington Times reporter about Chinese spying on US nuclear secrets as "sheer fabrication" and accuses the author of still living in the Cold War-era. The book, The China Threat by Bill Gertz, alleges Beijing had 37 spies ferreting out US nuclear secrets in the mid-1990s and includes extensive excerpts from a US intelligence report.
• January 2002 - Loral Space & Communications Ltd., under investigation since 1997 for allegedly leaking sensitive missile technology to China, says it reaches a settlement with the US government that could let it resume long-delayed satellite exports to China. Loral said it had agreed to pay a civil fine of $14 million to the State Department over seven years without admitting or denying the government's charges.
• November 2007 - China hits back at a US congressional panel report, calling its claims of trade manipulation and high-tech espionage by Beijing "insulting" and "misleading". The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission's report said China presented an array of threats to Washington, including "currency manipulation," computer espionage, and murky military modernisation plans.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13313-uschina-spy-scandal-highlights-troubled-past.html