Peoples' Republic of China asks for new Space Treaty

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Thursday March 29, 2007 18:23

by an t-uasal foghlaí

The Peoples' Republic of China have today through their ambassador to the UN at Geneva and their state news agency Xinhua called for a new treaty to stop the militarisation of space arguing (quite correctly) the current international law and treaties are not adecquate to the challenges & criminal potential of state and non-state agencies.

The chinese know what they're talking about. They proved it by destroying one of their own satelites earlier this month.

I can't tell you anymore at the moment than you'll learn by reading these links. If you know anything more about the militarisation of space - now is your opportunity to add data in the comments.

The move by Chinese ambassador Tang Guoqiang follows a joint declaration by Vladamir Putin and Chinese big wig Hu Jintao last Monday which also called for international action on this obviously important subject.

For their part the US appear resistant to any alteration to their commonly perceived "domination" of space - and the Brits.............well anyway.

I may update more later if no-one else links to the legislation and rounds up the background history.
Ireland doesn't at the moment have any weapons systems in geo-stationary orbit or deep space. I just thought I'd let you know that in case you were putting on your coat right now to charge down to Leinster House or Knock airport. Don't worry! launching space craft is still a difficult and very detectable business, the Eire state is not launching & nor are the splendid new government of wee Ulster. There are no orange aliens. But there is a problem - up there! where no one can hear you scream or for that matter see an explosion. It's not like in the movies - you only get visual laser bolts or photon torpedoes with atmosphere. -

There is no smoking gun in a vacuum.

link
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=china-urges-ban-...uters

ah geron! here's some Chinese background on their own space program and the Monday summit with Putin. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/12/content_51...6.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/29/content_59...9.htm Though of course they do make mistakes. At the moment they report that the French (whose state stretches from saint pierre et miquelon to ESA launch pad to bikini atoll) have become the first state to publish their own UFO files. Which is rot. The first was Brazil. Great files they are too. But UFO's aren't there to stop silly planet Earthers messing with space. No. That's why we have jedi & timelords & bind brilliant science students with oaths at an early stage in their career before they get moved off to some secret facility down a mine.
Normally you wouldn't read about this stuff, just hear about it afterwards - like when you were told the lunar base had been liquadated in early February. It was up to you if you believed it or not. But this time - it is news. I'm not sure what you can do about it - but I reckon knowing about it - is enough for now.
If you fell you have to do something - Write a letter to your TD demanding that both Eire and Ulster throw their weight behind the civilised nations of this planet in ensuring that space remains demilitarised! it's up to you if you sign it space cadet or not but you do that - you're qualified. olé!
fair play to you.

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Got nae to do wi the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae.

by mac roswell

Thu Sep 20, 2007 18:10

Having written this article long ago with the intention of following it should the stage of high orbit weapon use (best exemplified as mazer or other attacks on satelite systems) become newsworthy & following the likely technological development of the space powers in said research, being convinced that such a demonstration would come first from the Peoples' republic of China -------

I feel it's being abused by whomever thought to start a discussion thread on an article in today's Irish times [ http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/frontpage/2007/0920/11....html ] even though I did respond and already leave a comment. But of the few UFO hotstops in Europe, Ireland is right up there with the Canary and Azores archipelagos and of course Scotland where they speak Scots and fowkrepublic o cheenae is the scots for PRC. http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Interestingly, those 4 places are also in the lead when it comes to Marian apparitions. Significantly for a site which has featured Northren Ireland (Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann [a wrangous neologism niver uised bi native speakers onywhaur at onytime.) Glasgow Rangers, China & Japan as weekly feature articles, offers us nothing on the Blessed Virgin Mary or much in the way of space. We do have this on NASA - the agency responsible for the public ooter-space program o the Unitit States o Americae. It is responsible for lang-term civeelian an meelitar aerospace resairch & pollutin the Yird.

Our neighbours are it appears very interested in Maurs (Mars) http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurs & have set about naming it but by their abscences you will know them - there is no scots wikipedia article on the Muin. http://sco.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Muin&act...=edit

Willie's In charge

by Ballinspittle/Ballyporeen

Thu Sep 20, 2007 16:21

The Department of Defence's release comes under Willie o Dea, who is most interesting,
Last seen aboard a naval vessel, posing with two jimmy bond look-a-like's playing
with splat guns. He did not hold a weapon this time. The 1947 files to date are released
today and someone within the civil services got paid to collate them.
Mass hysteria sightings are interesting too, including Fatima, Ballinspittle (virgins doing things)
and how the Church can transmogrify phenomena into a reason to kill communists.
For info on Fatima :- Try 'The Great Sign' - of course it was written under duress and comes
under 'imprimatur'- meaning phenomena that has been co-opted by the church to
relay splendid messages of earthly salvation , if we all pray for the conversion of Russia-
Our moving stautes precceeded the arrival of Ronnie Reagan- (understandably)

Great no? - eggies, cigars - but no black triangle stealth USAF "test" craft????

by fu hee hee manchu

Thu Sep 20, 2007 15:53

Very odd this list of UFO's. & it has nothing to with X-files that's hee hee scoffing journalism. The only state which has opened its files is Brazil. the former USSR allowed for much of its files to be read or sold and resulted in wonderful disinformation. The French, UK and US have only ever released small parts of information - but the UK who manned a telephone hotline in the ministry of defence for more than three decades (!) did decide to give up on it........once the stealth bomber stopped being top secret.

If we collectively put our memories together we will surely recall quite a few incidents of mass sightings on both west east coasts which went from "front page news" complete with pit-pat explanations as USAF craft crashing or UK RAF crafts in trouble - to complete retractions a few days later. Thus was the disappearing USAF bomber story which splashed across the Evening Press - anyone remember that? Most recently we've had the wondrous big bang without flash in Rush. So............ there is a general concensus in ufology and skeptics alike that the majority of sightings can be explained as - weather phenomona, refracted images of planets (often Venus) or satelites (especially when they re-enter orbit and break up like meteorites - remember skylab and mir) & long before you get to discs you have a plentitude of black triangles. We now know that the black triangles are varying types of the stealth bomber. But back in the peak part of this new "report" that bomber was a "top secret". We know it was flown from the USA to the UK on many occassions and just as the westerners a century ago marvelled at Lindhberg's yoke, the oldest amongst us wondered at those triangles. Yet not a mention of them now.

Anyway - the director general of NASA Mr Griffen (notto be confused with Mr GRiffen of the popular cartoon "family guy") has declared his belief that China will get to the Moon before the USA.....sorry "get back to the Moon"..........maybe they'll take a telescope with them this time and look at stars.

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=new...space

Ireland has opened the 'X' files

by ufology

Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:18

http://www.ireland.com

The files from the Department of Defence date back to 1947. Is there no UFO bit in
indymedia? Apparenlty eggy shaped craft and weird light dominate the files.

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