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Canadian Ex-Minister Calls For Serious ET Study
Nom du Keyboard writes "A former Canadian Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister wants Canada to hold public hearings on Exopolitics - relations with Extraterrestrials - to avoid the possibility of intergalactic war. Unfortunately he also proposes starting a 'Decade of Contact', which seems to mean spending a whole lot of public money on UFO education. Is he on the right track here, that we can't afford to ignore the rest of the Universe any longer?" From the article: "The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning ... The Bush administration has finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide."
I think 40 million is a little on the conservative side .
I am thinking it is more than that, corporate provided health care is at a
all new low and the 35,000 just cut at GM , and the 20,000+ to be cut at Delphi
as the "first" domino effect of it are joining those ranks .
The DOT COM BUST alone put I don't know how many ppl out of work, but
I am pretty sure it is a huge number .
Also in the US alone illegal immigrants is now over 35 million .
When GM shutters 9 plants, ppl are not buying cars from them, and ppl
in general are finding times a bit thin unless they are top of the tier .
The lowly worker serfs are left to pick up the scraps .
If they cant ship the jobs overseas they will ship ppl here from overseas
under the absolutely wonderful unlimited L1 visa program .
I am beginning to think it is just a race to the bottom, and we have no
idea how low the bottom is if we cannot compete with countries that have
few to near zero workers rights .
So I am pretty sure ur 40 million is quite conservative .
Ex-MislTech
google "32 trillion offshore needs IRS attention"
By the time the moonbase is built it will be more like 20 years .
I think we could send robots to the moon to dig tunnels and setup power panels
to extract oxygen from the lunar soil/rock, but it is STILL gonna be decades
before the seething bureaucracy can go from first square to last square .
Bush and his family will be a distant memory, Ppl are not going to elect
another republican according to the polls so your gonna get Billary or Skerry.
We are hitching rides to ISS right now due to the shuttle problems .
I do not take the US seriously when it comes to anything anymore,
and I was born and raised here, and live here now 40 yrs on .
I served in the military, and one word comes to mind, "FUBAR" .
I worked on Missile Guidance Radar for a Experimental weapons test platform SM2-ER.
Another word comes to mind "sad", they loaded a missile with the vertical launch
bit set for a Aegis class cruiser , they damn thing did a hard turn in front
of the ship and damn near hit the masthead where I was standing wearing a gas mask
as a observer . I nearly crapped my pants .
The turnover rate on my ship was over 70% it was so bad .
Power tripping senoir military, Dear john letters, drunken madness at every port,
we had a few suicides and a few suspected shark feedings of ppl that were not liked .
When at sea hard steamin we were 12 on 12 off 7 days a week with heavy seas as often as calms ones .
For a lot ppl the military is not there first choice, it is their last choice .
We were the 2nd most underway ship on the east coast in the late 80's, and
our Mustang Capt was bucking for Admiral . So we'd go float every chance he got .
Advice to ppl, join the military if you FULLY understand what your getting into,
talk to a lot of former military before you take the plunge .
Advice for ppl join the navy, careful who you piss off, 1,000 miles from land at night
you too can be shark food .
Ex-MislTech
google "32 trillion offshore needs IRS attention"