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One Giant Leap Backwards As Obama Pulls Plug On Moon Return

Posted by Jon King on Feb 02, 2010

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A sceptical look at the real reason behind Obama’s cosmic U-turn…

One Giant Leap Backwards As Obama Pulls Plug On Moon Return

By Jon King

Just when all eyes were on the skies, waiting for Uncle Sam to demonstrate once and for all that his all-American Apollo boys really did land on the moon forty years ago, President Barack Obama has announced that NASA’s plans to relaunch astronauts to the moon have been cancelled.

America’s coffers are empty. We can no longer afford to finance NASA’s space ambitions. From now on the space program must be financed by private companies.

So said the shiny new president as he unveiled his budget for the coming year.

But what were the real reasons behind Obama’s shock cosmic U-turn?

Despite his claim that the moon program was “over-budget, behind schedule and lacking in innovation”, I can’t help but suspect an ulterior motive in the president’s sudden decision to once again scupper America’s chances of returning to the moon.

After all, assuming they went there in the first place, surely the impetus would be for them to return as planned, if only to save face: if only to put the conspiracy theories to bed, once and for all—bring back a piece of Apollo 11, a snapshot of Neil Armstrong’s footprint: prove to the world they’ve been there before, like the text book says, and that in spite of the odds they can do it again.

Wouldn’t it…?

Not according to President Obama, who in pulling the plug on NASA’s funding effectively opined that the moon is simply no longer worth the effort. Or the money.

Instead, he said, the vast sums of money allocated to the space program would be better spent on the war in Afghanistan. He then reaffirmed his intention to hand responsibility for the planet’s space exploits over to the corporate sector.

Reworded, this sounds even scarier than on first hearing. Privatizing trains, buses and planes is one thing. But snatching the future of space exploration from the hands of the people and placing it squarely in the hands of the criminals who run the arms and oil industries is an irreversible mistake. And in my view, a highly dangerous one.

Big Oil, Big Arma, Big Bankster—the cream of the corporate elite in control of the planet’s space program while a significant increase in bombs and bullets rains down on innocent Afghans. So much for the president of hope and change.

But there could be an even more alarming underbelly to this development.

Far from being the president of hope and change his PR would have us believe, I suspect Barack Obama, like any other president, is a man of guile and cunning. I suspect he knows full well what he is doing in releasing extra funds to the treasury coffers.

Because not only will his decision undermine even further the democratic process to which he is accountable, decaffeinating to even greater severity the American Government’s ability to govern America.

Not only will his decision hand more power and control to the corporate czars who control him, and the White House, and thus further advance corporate ambitions for global governance.

Frighteningly, it will also free up more money to fund America’s as yet unfulfilled military exploits worldwide.

And with Iran next on the list, Obama’s announcement on man’s return to the moon may yet prove ‘one giant leap’ backwards in man’s sojourn on earth.

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