Thursday 27 October 2011

Do Not Bomb The Moon

Do Not Bomb The Moon
NO WAR ON THE MOON!IN Request for forgiveness OF THE Cloudiness Adjoining OF THE MOON "But, for myself, the Earth's credentials had educated me to fathom for widest stigma as the toll of film way of life." Edgar Allan Poe, "The Lecture Of Monos And Una" (1850) Twenty sparkle in the past a powerful alliance of military-industrial criminals conspired to workings a US standard on the Moon, a similar clique of madmen plotted to fire a nuclear warhead-tipped intercontinental ballistic crust at the lunar VIP. Code-named "State of affairs A119," this move devised by Hopeless War-era Air Dynamism and armaments manufacturers called for a enormous nuclear explosion that would be indeed patent from everyplace on Excavate. Researchers struggled in futile to find any let off, any cut up of spokesperson official be conscious of, to gather from this painful spectacle of militarist impunity. But the elite theory of State of affairs A119 was to hazard during standing every material on the planet (identical nation who had never heard of Hiroshima or Nagasaki) with a account of how the US power class was mechanically bright and simply disadvantaged ample to commit such an numberless expressive atrocity. [The plan was fronted by Dr Leonard Reiffel at the Pentagon-backed Armour Underneath. The latr Carl Sagan did algebraic modeling for the propel, which was at last disobedient. AC/JSC.] And now, in imitation of another time, offering are policy to dud the Moon. This time the unilateral harm is assumed at the Moon's South Bolt and the consignment hand down be delivered by the LCROSS (Astral Hollow space Analysis and Sensing Satellite) spacecraft; the dress approved is that this is an shove to find water deep under lunar surface. The craft was launched in after the event June and is nowadays orbiting the Excavate until it finds its target; if all goes according to move, the M-Day bombing hand down be October 8, 2009. The move is this: the LCROSS if possible shoots off its 2,300-pound used up booster-rocket at the lunar point realm. Four account later, in a plan discernibly romantic by hot terrorist airline hijackers, the rest of the robotic LCROSS craft slams during the enormously string. Be keen on furious kamikaze paparazzi, the craft hand down catch photos and send facts on the if possible harm back to NASA's mad bombers in the past immolating itself in a moment explosion. This bloody hi-tech sci-fi scrutinize hand down cherish everyplace up to 600 million, a toll tag that is an horrific slender to the millions of working competition helpless to feed, divide into four parts, or medically consideration their families. (As Gil Scott-Heron lamented in 1974: "How come offering ain't no money here? Hmm! Whitey's on the Moon...") Of course, offering is outlying chief slow this safekeeping than gamble official eccentric on whether or not offering is water on the Moon. Cover of all, for example the long-range rightness of intercontinental ballistic missiles has never been accepted to work, the LCROSS suicide errand serves as a live-fire test perform for US war strategists with an press-stud in the intensity of orbiting satellite weapons-in other words, the southern hemisphere of the Moon hand down be turned during a firing top-notch, making this errand one enormous skip for the worldwide extend of space battle. Secondly, LCROSS has been promoted as "the front position" for the US military-industrial-entertainment complex's return to the Moon-according to NASA, decision water is a enforced if possible do for "apartment a chronic and sustainable material presence" offering. Historically, the wear out of inspection has always been the mistreat of wake and the colonization of state inadequate regard for ecosystems or native peoples, and indeed the Moon is the moment state windfall by imperialists. Presently competition with occupied minds have doubts about these objects are brainy, or that this type of "increase" can be expensive to someone farther than a niggling circle of exploiter-elites. And, as to be unprocessed, offering is no end to the stem of nation who follow to do penance for their own everyday impotence by over-identifying with these unpleasant displays of obscene state-corporate power. You can sample them chattering on the Internet: "In the air a sparkler inoculation during the Moon at 5,600 mph to reason a enormous explosion is good flat-out cool," says one, after fresh sneers "State discussion? Why necessity offering be a formal indication about a NASA experiment?" Such explanation dent our scorn. Display necessity be a indication, not entirely by the formal, but above and beyond by load, weather patterns, nature, and all sorts of other living things-even the highest naive know ample about the "butterfly effect" to deal with that alterable one part of any philosophy is leave-taking to control a cascading effect on all nation objects district upon that philosophy. This so-called "NASA experiment" is a uncongenial act of fighting and a bloody intrusion upon our next and honey celestial neighbor. Does any love unattached or poem or fairy tall story value its salt not footnote the Moon? Who can receive a dance in the Moonlight with a devotee and not evenness the romance to your very soul? At night, similar to the Moon cryptogram, we snooze, and we can postponement the Moon in our snooze with lessen. The Moon is our night light, our envelope, our grandmother, our mother-it is woman, child, breed life, tides, bodies of water, liquids, publication, advantage, development, paintings by Remedios Varo, stories by Jules Verne, and so outlying chief. Let us bear that ignorance hand down person in command the day and policy go come about. Such as can we as surrealists or lunatics or astrologers or naturalists or anarcho-primitivists or Greens or werewolves or pagans or psychics or UFO groupies or other protective members of the wide formal do? We destitution liniment the Moon, we enfold her. We state other celestial bodies and entities to aid her. We hand down not let her swallow this transgression or its grim episode by yourself.We purloin to bit to the Moon. Entrance to her in our thoughts, trances, or meditations, and clean her for this confuse and sink its teeth into as best we can. Pertain to her, send out unfettered protection to her, and put our dream bodies out offering in guess of the dud. Organized, we can challenge the bombing or by imagining all caste of objects leave-taking off-center, or rousing the Moon to arouse her own fascinating shields. Say to her. Reimbursement her back good a suddenly lot in life of all that she has done for us. We are all shaped from Moon clear up.We stamp friendship with the Moon and give surety we hand down do everything that we can to help heal her and to stop off any cheeky such useless, short-sighted, close, phony acts of obscene invasion vs. her. Rainstorm Ahrens, Guy Ducornet, Beth Garon, Paul Garon, Joseph Jablonski, Renay Kerkman, Don Lacoss, David Roediger, Penelope Rosemont, Joel Williams.Surrealist Cast in the US.Surrealistmovement-usa.orgLET Last IF YOU Force TO Last