WELCOME TO THE TECHNOCRACY

      Most of this week has been spent in fruitless endeavors to point out to the True Believers that the Incoming Government really has no intention of slowing down---let alone stopping---the march of the Globalist Oligarchy towards the Great Reset. At this point, I think that there's nothing that the Republicans could do that convince anybody that they're not on a righteous crusade to save us all from ourselves and make the world safe for American Exceptionalism. 

   At the beginning of the 21st Century, we went through the same thing with George Bush II. Things that never would have been tolerated for a moment if Al Gore had been elected were hand-waved away; the same as the New Right apes everything that Biden and Obama did and gets a free pass from the Controlled Opposition.

   During this week, the Republicans completed the hostile takeover of NASA by appointing billionaire Musk-crony Jared Isaacman to run what's left of our once-great Aerospace Program. Like Musk, Isaacman is a major government contractor through Draken International, which trains Air Force pilots under a contract with the Pentagon, operating the largest private fleet of fighter jets (apparently the US Air Force has been privatized already). Draken already gets fat government subsidies and controls large parts of American and NATO airbases; so much for any swamp-draining in that sector.

   Speaking of science, David O. Sacks, one of the shadiest of Silicon Valley Tech Lords was appointed as Top Science Advisor.

      Like many other appointees, Sacks is involved heavily in the Florida Swamp and has a multitude of WEF connections. It also does seem rather paradoxical that a political movement that claims to be so populist has this strange obsession with creating new 'czars' at every turn. Bush Sr. started the trend by giving us a Drug Czar (we all see how well that worked out, although the position is still there); but it appears that the Bush Legacy has come back with a vengeance. 

    Last but not least, the Small Business Administration got a billionaire leader this week too. Kelly Loeffler, whose husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, is the CEO of the Intercontinental Exchange, which, in turn, owns the New York Stock Exchange. This power couple made significant profits during the Scamdemic; but as head of the SBA, we can rest assured that small businesses will be a top priority for the new government. 

   So far, the new government has appointed at least 19 billionaires to key positions, not including the four newly-elected Republican Senators who likewise have at least a ten-figure net worth.

   

    Now, of course, if Kamala Harris had won and began packing the Government with Corporate Robber Barons and committed globalist Techno-Fascists, there would be no end of outrage streaming out the Controlled Opposition. Instead, though, there has been nothing but universal praise and acclamation to the point where a flaming homosexual who works for George Soros is hailed as a based and Red-Pilled choice for Treasury Secretary.

   How does this Cognitive Dissonance come about? The recent discussions I've had online with the True Believers has one thing clear: most have a very black/white, either/or approach to issues. As Bush Jr. famously summed up the thinking: "You're either for us or you're against us." Democrats are bad, therefore Republicans must be good. Communism is evil, therefore Crony Capitalism must be righteous. The Mainstream Media lies, therefore the 'Conservative' outlets must be telling the truth. Atheist Materialism is bad, therefore Christian Nationalism must be good. So on and so forth.

    This kind of fallacious reasoning has been sown deliberately in our culture as part of the Strategy of Tension. Whether the perceived threat comes from the 'Left' or the 'Right' is a matter of indifference to the ruling class: the only important thing is that people demand an authoritarian government. That's one reason why there has been so little pushback from the Democrats this year compared to 2016 and 2020. If Kamala had won, the Republicans likewise would have thrown up the sponge and capitulated. All that the Oligarchy cares about is moving the Great Reset forward; and they are certainly poised to accelerate in the coming years. 

LOST IN SPACE

        In the midst of all of the finger-pointing and hypocrisy coming out of the Uniparty's electoral spectacles, most Americans probably have forgotten (if they ever knew about it in the first place), that two American astronauts have been stranded now for two months on the International Space Station. Certainly no candidates have been talking about it, and the Media has largely ignored the story, but it has caused some discussion in the foreign press, particularly on social media. 

      NASA, which a few decades ago was one of the most respected government agencies, was among the many raffled off during the Bush/Clinton/Obama Era to private corporations. The Neocons argued that Space Exploration was a waste of taxpayer money and that Wall Street could run the space program for profit better. To his credit, former Vice-President Mike Pence did lead a spirited effort to change all of this, but Americans decided that having a panic attack over a flu outbreak necessitated a regime change; so we're back to business as usual. 

     Privatization (so-called) had about the effect one would have predicted: billionaires spending money on vanity projects while other countries---once decades behind us in space exploration---have caught up with us and surpassed us in many fields. The current problem began earlier this year when China announced the success of its Chang'e Lunar Probes and launched the highly advanced Chang'e-6. Politicians up for re-election began to panic and demanded that the US prove its Alpha Superiority by putting people in space again. Boeing, one of the de facto Corporate owners of NASA rushed a project to put astronauts (chosen to represent diversity of course) into space. Everybody hoped that this publicity stunt would bear fruit in the opinion polls, but unfortunately Boeing's space shuttle broke down and there's no way to get the team back---unless we ask China or Russia to do it for us. In an Election Year, that's off the table. Wall Street considers astronauts as expendable as they do politicians.

      All of this is shameful enough; but what has caused the recent controversy is the news that Elon Musk---another of NASA's de facto co-owners is assembling yet another vanity project for some his billionaire friends while our astronauts stay stranded. 

    "The mission, slated for launch on August 26, comes at a time when two astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have been stranded for months due to a malfunction in Boeing's spacecraft." China's media noted, "According to the US space news portal space.com, American billionaire Jared Isaacman will command the Polaris Dawn mission. The mission, announced in 2022, will test new spacesuits for SpaceX during a planned two-hour spacewalk during the five-day mission, according to the space.com. Polaris Dawn will complete several orbits before raising its maximum altitude to about 1,400 kilometers - higher than any human has flown since the final Apollo mission in 1972."

     Anybody who considers this objectively would see the obvious problem here: turning our Space Program over to Wall Street Oligarchs has been a disaster. But we hardly can hope for objectivity when these same Oligarchs control entire media sectors and companies like Boeing are stuffing huge sums of lobbying cash to one party and people like Musk are funnelling millions to the other. "Against such backdrop, Chinese space watchers on Wednesday criticized that US space industry saying that it has become overly driven by capital interests, neglecting fundamental astronaut safety," again stating the obvious. 

     I don't know what is going to happen to these two astronauts: they'll probably have to wait until November at least before anybody does anything. It's not fashionable in this market-driven age to claim that there really are some programs that the Government needs to run; but I also suspect that had a similar situation happenened in the mid-20th Century it wouldn't have met with this level of public and political apathy.

    Meanwhile, though, the nation will go on focusing on flame wars or scapegoating China simply for doing what we should be doing. While the Elites go on aggrandizing themselves at the expense of the nation, the only Space Program that Americans today care about is what kinds of drugs can take them into orbit. 

FRUSTRATED DEEP STATE LASHES OUT OVER SPACE DEAL

        While the American Political Class is busy trying to pretend that Elections are relevant by putting each other's party operatives on trial, other countries are doing constructive things. This morning, for the Russian congress passed a treaty, which was signed by President Putin, establishing a joint project with China to build a research station on the moon. The move follows China's successful Chang'e-6 Lunar Probe Mission which returned to earth with lunar geological samples last week. 

       "The Moon station meets Russia’s interests because it will contribute to strengthening Russia’s strategic partnership with China and will provide for the consolidation of Russia’s leading role in the exploration of outer space, including in the exploration and use of the Moon,” Putin said. Russia produces some of the world's best scientists and engineers, mostly because their educational system actually is focused on leading the young to become productive members of society---unlike our exceptional system where educators seem to have other priorities. In fact---also unlike the US---Russian educators are being recruited globally to help developing countries build better school systems. 

     The proposed lunar station is expected to become operational within the next decade and include manned missions. The American Space Program has been all but dead for decades; most space exploration has been farmed out to Corporate robber barons and there has been little investment in American schools and universities to promote so-called 'hard sciences.' President Trump did try to address the problem, but Orange Man Bad and now other countries are filling the vacuum left by American negligence. 

      As China began announcing its lunar project, NASA and the Corporate gangsters who actually run our space program have been trying desperately to launch a moon probe, too, but the results have been less than spectacular. Boeing, which has had issues with aircraft safety including allegations of silencing whistleblowers and shady defense contract dealings, was put in charge of the latest US attempt at putting a manned mission into space despite some serious questions about the craft's viability. In 2022, Russian Space Agency Director Dmitri Rogozin ruled out the possibility of sending Russian cosmonauts on board. “It flew for the first time with trouble. The second time it couldn’t fly at all. The delay of the launch has been going on for over two years now. Now, they will try to launch it. But we will definitely not put any of our cosmonauts [on board], we cannot risk their lives,” Rogozin said.

    Frustrated beyond measure at these developments, the Biden/Harris Junta flew into a rage and began slapping further sanctions on Chinese firms. Their cover-story was that these sanctions were aimed at military technology, but the timing between the sanctions and Russia's space treaty is probably the more likely reason. At any rate, Deep State foaming will have little effect on the joint space program.

  "The achievements of China's ongoing Chang'e-6 moon probe mission thus far have evidently become a source of anxiety for the US amid the Western media's fabricated hot saga of the US-China space race. The anxiety and sour grapes mentality are quite evident on the US side," Li Haidong, a professor at the China Foreign Affairs University, told the Global Times. "The US wants to create a scenario of mutual confrontation rather than cooperation, which has led to the so-called space race the US desires. However, at present, the conditions for such a race do not exist because China and other countries are not willing to participate. If only the US is invested in it, it can't be called a race. In the end, it becomes a one-sided effort by the US."

   Li is correct. The US' loss of leadership in Space Technology is entirely of our own making; and, no, our decline in this sector didn't just start under Biden. In 2017, Trump had to re-open the National Space Council which had been abolished by the Clinton Co-Presidency in 1993. From 1993 onward, the US Space Program was wholly neglected with Neocons joining in the chorus that space exploration wasn't cost-effective and funding plowed into projects like domestic espionage and global military adventurism. Sadly, other than some tough-guy bleating and posturing from both wings of the Uniparty, there's no real motivation for the US stay relevant in the New Frontiers of Space. 

     

CULTS IN SPACE

    China apparently has launched a new initiative to combat the influence of the dangerous religious cult, Falun Gong. The cult's followers in the United States are claiming that the Chinese Government has been PSA's through social media and other outlets to warn citizens to beware of their activities. The Falun Gong originated in China, but their self-proclaimed 'messiah' now lives in a compound in New York. The Chinese recognize the danger of cults: here the Falun Gong, the Moonies, the Dalai Lama, etc. are patronized and used in the media as China Experts. Falun Gong and the Moonies even have their own media outlets: The Epoch Times and the Washington Times respectively. Newsweek is also heavily Moonie-influenced. 

    There was a time in America when Conservative leaders also recognized the danger of cults---and certainly didn't promote them as today's Conservatives do. The Reagan Administration actually turned the FBI loose on those rats and the Reverend Moon, several Scientologists, Satanists, and Megachurch leaders wound up in jail. But then, we got the kinder, gentler Neocon Administration of Bush Sr. who let most of them out and even recognized a few as legitimate religions. It was a good investment for the Neocons, because cults have been a substantial revenue and propaganda force for them ever since.

    

    China also has other, more practical interests in the heavens and interests in a different kind of moon. Their Aerospace program is planning a manned mission to the moon by next year, and they have been developing biodomes for potential space colonization. Years ago, they joined Russia as the only developed country with a manned space station and making progress in many other areas.

    This being an Election Year in the US, the Republicans in Congress have desperately been seeking any issue they can possibly find to distract attention from their hopeless incompetence. Some apparently have just recently noticed that the US hasn't done much of anything relating to space exploration in decades and other countries are now filling the void. Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas---one of the most paranoid of anti-China 'hawks'---screeched from the Floor on Wednesday that “It’s no secret that China has a goal to surpass the United States by 2045 as global leaders in space! We can’t allow this to happen!” 

    NASA, much like the Pentagon, has during the last few decades become more committed to Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion programs than anything relating to its original purpose. Also, much like the Pentagon, most of its budget has been outsourced to shady Government contractors to the point where we don't even manufacture rocket engines in the US for the most part and have to import the critical minerals necessary for components anyway. Like most of the Hot Air coming out of Congress, Lucas is doing nothing more than engaging in wishful thinking: imagining that somehow the Aerospace infrastructure that we abandoned years ago will re-appear magically complete with skilled workers, engineers, domestic supply-chains and materials---and it won't cost the taxpayers anything to do it.

    The Trump Administration did try to address the problem by funding long-term, sensible goals like we did in the 1950s. But Orange Man Bad: Americans chose instead the excitement of panicking over a flu epidemic and some mean tweets. NASA recently tried to cobble together a lunar program after the so-called China Threat started making headlines and the program is stalled after their probe blew up on the launch pad. 

   For their part, the Chinese deny that they are pursuing any sort of Cold War-style 'Space Race,' and this is probably true. I think that it is really more a case of how nature abhors a vacuum. China has the means and the skill to build a first-rate Aerospace program and they are doing it. 

   The American program in contrast suffered from the same problems that most of our infrastructure has since the 1990s. Our political and academic classes smugly proclaimed "the end of history" and the "New American Century" and assumed that nobody else could touch our superiority in Space. We stopped investing in the program and turned it over to chowderheads like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos who couldn't wait to turn Outer Space into a money-making venture for Wall Street. Such engineers as we had in our universities were funded by Big Tech to develop things like space-shuttle limos for future versions of Las Vegas and Disneyland on Mars. China, meanwhile was investing in Space Technology to learn and develop new technologies that might have some practical value on Earth. 

    The politicians in Congress are flapping their arms over America losing its dominance in Space. This is also hyperbole. Our Space program was successful because we did then---what China is doing now---partnering with allied Space programs. Ours then mostly came from Europe and Japan. Those networks of cooperation are gone now too; thanks again mostly to Beltway bullying and hubris. Without any help from NASA, Japan landed it's first lunar probe yesterday, and India succeeded in doing so last year. Our Media has been guffawing over various mechanical problems these other countries have experienced and snort that we're still the only country which has made successful moon landings. Sure, in 1972 that might have been a cause for celebration, but today's NASA certainly has nothing to brag about. 

   Once again, we are confronted in America with a problem entirely of our own making. Blaming China is not going to help us improve, and the hegemonic attitude of our Political Class is only going to make things worse. The Universe isn't part of some kind of turf war that rival gangs fight over, though that's the position our politicians take toward every problem. As one Chinese analyst aptly said: "the US has become so narrow-minded that it not only undermines confidence in its ability to achieve greater success in space exploration but also raises concerns that it may hinder the progress of other aspiring space explorers. NASA employees are scientists...If even they become infected with Washington's pathological and vulgar atmosphere, it would be extremely disappointing."

   The problem is that American scientists, like most of the rest of our society, became infected with the Beltway/Wall Street pathological and vulgar atmosphere a long time ago. If that doesn't change, the next generation will see China reaping the benefits of space technology, while the best that Americans can hope for is watching Celebrity Big Brother on pay-per-view filmed live from a Space Station.