impossible to agree to the terms of the i.m.f. so go either adjust the their loans or they'll start to see some defaults and some pushback on how to change their structure really interesting perspective great speaking with you about that i was richard asco giving a different perspective and what you're seeing here that i.m.f. meeting writer and senior fellow at the campaign for a future is america's future rather. that's where you are now for more on the stories we covered go to r.t. dot com slash usa or check out our you tube page you tube clip dot com our to america and lauren lyster i'll see you at five. every space is a moment of our national security there is no substance and there is no. military moments in space. bombs on target time bell minimum.

unless we are able to deliver through space. better. from. the film her mad cow or her. and we must. be. several hundred. years of investment in the peaceful uses of space. this incredible investment from the united states and from the european union to canada other countries like this this is completely in jeopardy if we start putting weapons in outer space.

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the cold war launched the space race that would capture our knowledge and asian and feed our dreams of cosmic exploration for decades to come. but crossing the fun tear the understeer in the space but also revolutionize life on earth. out of sight hundreds of kilometers above our heads a fragile network or satellites manages are interconnected society. of the one thousand satellites in orbit today almost half belong to the united states not only making the united states the most advanced space nation but also the nation's most dependent on its assets in space space is the backbone of our

national security there is no substitute and there is no alternative to military dominance in space and this conviction should drive our course for the next fifty years. the us air force academy in colorado springs where the military space elite of tomorrow has trained seizure and. people in rome you better understand for augustus that they can eat entire earth during previous. roads in fruit pirates no longer threatens ships on the high seas it's why it was so good during this time . that the period required. it was still referred to you yes the heights room which means the roman peace. another theory that says a fire. is cold the pox amerikana. or the amir

a complete. you're referring to the period in which the mirror image. where the world has. come and. now days it seems the past summer is threat. most of us only feel we were. me to. walk out here morning in civil wars. the lord will take you live the shadow will lead you. so it's is nice to know them as they can in the hills lose my little. bit of the. mood.

when instead of first class called saw america at the air force academy i graduate in forty four days and i just want to do my part to make sure that everyone here can enjoy the freedoms. pax americana is a political view which simply says that because america is currently the sole superpower it has not only the ability but the response ability ensure the far future to maintain while peace. right. america now has the chance to establish an american empire pax americana that will

last for many many decades and one of the ways to do this is to establish a strong american control of space china carried out its first anti-satellite weapons test on a cold weather satellite about five hundred miles according to u.s. government officials after three misses trying to succeeded in shooting. weather satellites the test may be part of china's efforts to establish a military presence in space does this mean the spy satellites the united states depends on could be shot down. left behind a trail of garbage circling in orbit now after the satellite. critical of. what they're up to. the test of a chinese anti-satellite weapons in january two thousand and seven alarmed many

observers of both the vulnerability of america's satellites. the united states and particularly its intelligence services worry about an attack on the united states that is not nuclear weapons chemical that is not biological but is technological. a surprise attack against its satellites is a catastrophic. scenario study by the u.s. forces by knocking out fifty u.s. military satellites chinese could literally cripple the u.s. . they could prevent the military from being able to communicate with its forces they could blind the u.s. intelligence community which uses electro optics satellites. military force movements around the world and they could also cripple the guidance systems that are used on persuasion guided munitions.

in many sense it could be a kind of an electronic pearl harbor. without space the u.s. would be unable to conduct any type of military operation in an effective way. the civilian space industry generates more than two hundred fifty billion dollars every year the destruction of even a single orbiting satellite could put at risk the economy daily lives and millions of citizens. if you look at space lots of times you think about. most people. every day. when you open yourself to make.

money out of the. satellite t.v. and live news from around the world. system. traffic control and even in your own. weather forecasting faster monitoring satellite. our entire life depends on satellites they're sensual but we're not consciously trying to leave you so. there's a tremendous premium on the united states being able to provide all the people from attacking our assets in space and to ensure that we can continue to exercise for use of them and if necessary also to be able to deny others use of somewhere assets for their own purposes. the world has changed as

more in the more countries develop a presence in outer space possibility of a space battle the longer science fiction. forces use a leash and the us air force feaster. cicely's forces in the earth designs keeping watch over our interests higher for graham. the press room head of the department of astronauts who is your force. we've been continually teaching the fundamentals of astronautics torture gets in every kid for this graduated from the air force academy almost forty thousand now have taken at least one course in order for this area right here what's that all thousand and superimposed on this of course we have

a hero. elliptic orbit military strategy it shows that if you want to control the battlefield eed to be the first and seizing the high ground the most advanced frontier with what would be land sea air and space and personnel controls it has the advantage so made sure that nobody can deny our enemies space is a huge advantage. military forces have always relied upon high ground technology to gain advantage of. general and civil war in the united states. troops in the army especially in the union army used hot air balloons to get above the trees from sea for the enemy was and of course the first airplanes to be used in world war one were centrally precautions pretty clear were designed to fly open book and she really only one. space then has been

called the ultimate high ground and the advantage to the state that can seize and maintain the high ground is the same as holding the high ground throughout history whether there was a hill a mountain or in the latter half of the twentieth century the air or space. implies the use of force weapons from space to crown is treasuring the protection of america's satellites in the face of potential threats is the responsibility of the us air force the united states is going to become the world's policeman does that title resonate with you do you have any reaction to that do you think is accurate if it were accurate how would it play out if you look at the first roles of the united states navy when it was established was a combat piracy let's look. if you look at. potential commerce in space law enforcement and things like that are going to be. an important mission was more and

more countries start using space for security purposes and military purposes sooner or later they're going to collide and sooner or later the space we come another reason for will fit for good or bad and the same kind of ethics that we have puts military force in the other environments will apply space and gobs the stretch any analogy to the breaking point but the space the analogy i think is one of the more useful. as the dutch control the season the seventeen hundreds as the british tended to police and control the seas from the eighteen hundreds in one thousand nine hundred and as the united states has done in the twentieth century and will do in the twenty first century and that is to ensure that commerce is on fedor pirates and others should they be out there are taken out of that. we can do the same thing for space we can do so in a way that is good for everyone and is good for ourselves it is policing the

heavens for the good of all the spelling of your house was made to. feel object when the united states navy deploys hundreds of heavily armed warships in every one of the world's oceans no one accuses us of contributing to the weaponization of the sea because they know that the presence of our weapons ensures free transit for all who pursue their peaceful interests us systems based in space could similarly control the commons for the good of all the us air force has been charged with the mission. of ensuring space access and space access in times of conflict. can the united states air force in this nation without weapons. i fellow americans tonight we're launching an effort which holds the promise of

change in the course of human history i ask for your prayers. and your support. thank you good night when i joined the staff of the committee on armed services in the u.s. house of representatives back in one thousand nine hundred five my first assignment was to investigate and oversee the strategic defense initiative this was president ronald reagan's star wars program this new national strategy represents a break from the dangerous. sure destruction at the height of the cold war. also known as star wars was a program conceived to destroy an enemy missiles by relying on orbiting systems u.s. interceptors are fired as level one depends goes into action. at

the time the prevailing view was that this was going to work but the technology was almost in hand and that this was going to change everything i remember the briefing i got from my staff director who said not just anti-missile systems but all major weapon systems were going to move to space that space was the new high ground even then we talked about in that way where we're all major military operations we're going to be by the end of that century it was a debate of stellar proportions the nation's number one star gazer first was the pentagon's chief of star wars it cannot protect the population of the united states it can be when the soviets overwhelmed outfoxed underflow i for one am not willing and able to just accept the idea that it can't work because they are never going off the drawing board the project was too far ahead of its time and the anti bill is big missile treaty prevented the testing of a successful development of s.d.i.

. bombs on target real time management that's horrible. in that's what we are able to deliver through space air land and sea. the capability of all those to come together we started the storm we've done that in each conflict since and we get better and better and better. though planning to harm the heavens was put under wraps the use of military satellites for global communications and getting weapons to their targets was relied on more than ever. since the first gulf war the military presence in space has only continued to grow becoming the keystone of all operations during the air campaign on baghdad in march two thousand and three seventy one percent of all weapons launched against the iraqi capital were guided by satellites. at the

beginning of the twenty first century star wars resurfaced under a new name missile defense. that allows to build a missile prepared to carry different threats today's world to move forward on ballistic missile defense cooperation must develop and we must employ affect the missile defenses. track interest out of when president ford took off it here and here's how you're able to surround it and think of how or why it donald rumsfeld yeah i think that dick cheney. really really had to. lie but i think it really stood out to say this second westerveld i've been told that the. good morning. i'm just to clear the meeting of my national security council. we were viewed what i had discussed with my friend president vladimir putin the course

of many many meetings. and there is a need for america. to move beyond the one thousand seventy two. anti-ballistic missile treaty. when george w. bush became president immediately he gave six months notice to russia that we are pulling out united states is pulling out of the a.b.m. treaty anti-ballistic missile treaty that limited the united states's ability to test and deploy anti-satellite weapons so-called missile defense systems and other space technology at the pentagon today a warning that space will become the next big battleground to meet the challenge defense secretary donald rumsfeld is making space a top pentagon priority putting a four star general at the head of a new air force space command to take charge of all military space activity including any new anti missile defense pay careful attention to protecting

promoting our interest in space pentagon officials say it's the first step toward eventually putting weapons in the straits. the united states is the leader of the search and development of space weapons. secret and hidden in the black budgets of the pentagon these covert programs cost many billion dollars a. month technology's benefit from this financing. starfire has been used primarily in the past to do research on satellite tracking also they've done a lot of work in astronomy with the range finding of stars he use the laser to be able to help tell you where the star is and how far away it is in the budget documents from the air force there's also been mention of the use of starfire for anti cell at weapons activities. the air force told congress that it had no intentions of using starfire for anything related to the selling weapons

however they are doing it just. to make the laser beam very skinny. and make it stay very stable as it goes up and then to target that on a salad. if you're tracking it sally you don't need a very skinny laser beam in fact what kind of a wide would cause you gave me a tree catch it illegal right. so. many of us here concerned that this kind of a test is actually an anti-satellite weapons test in the skies. in april of two thousand and five the air force launched an experimental satellite its name was the tax s s lever. theoretically this

experimental microsatellite has the ability to disrupt other nations' satellites. as it's done so you know. put it through some press sheep ok but in reality. we don't know. if. one of the things i think people need to know is that most technology that's used in space can be used either for weapons purposes or it can be used for totally benign good purposes lasers for tracking good idea more precise tracking small microsatellites that can go around the big sell it take pictures good idea as it helps you figure out what went wrong with your satellite and that's hard to do right now good idea that same little micro sallade that's going around the big cell it could be set up to go around another person sell it and run into it until.

the technology doesn't know whether it's a weapon or whether it's you know a benign use. the question is going to come down to the intent of the people who are building the systems. the anti-missile shield is regarded by some critics as being the visible face of the american space weapons program. i'll just hold it i agree and it's available. to the military wardens dissident nations launched melissa can silence on american cities. possible impact of san francisco solutions but in reality who is capable of pulling off such an attack against the usa the interesting thing is that the threat is actually shrinking not increasing the ballistic missile threat is declining there are far fewer ballistic missiles in the world now than they were

fifteen years ago there were fewer countries with ballistic missile programs there were fewer hostile countries to the united states with ballistic missile programs. when you stop when you look at it it really comes down to work to a handful of states who programs we worry about north korea and iran basically and they own. we have medium range missiles that is they can reach the united states. from ronald reagan on words every president has the third funding for missile defense under different guises various funds costing at least two hundred billion dollars. are u.s. taxpayers getting what they pay for. it's a con it's a con and useful defense is the greatest fraud in the department of france and believe me it's had a lot of competitors i really i really believe this i've. missile

defense is the longest running fraud in the in the history of the u.s. department of defense. if ballistic strikes are so improbable why seek to repel them such cost and from space. what if missile defense is a disguised friend vision beyond simply destroying missile. there's going to be an inherent in the satellite capability with any ballistic missile defense system regardless of whether it's located in space or elsewhere. and i think that that's effectively on oh boy the full. list of missile in some senses is more difficult than targeting a satellite and therefore targeting a satellite is almost always ok filippi that's associated with a missile defense system. in february two thousand and eight the united

states destroyed a disabled satellite of its own using missile defense interceptors. in the us demonstrated that these interceptors also called kildea cols can obliterate any satellites in low earth orbit missile defense is a trojan horse that has nothing to do with defense whatsoever it's all about projecting power it's about off and i've been to the bases in colorado springs that i've personally seen over the door where it says master of space. and i read the documents vision for twenty twenty and a whole array of other military space command documents that have said for years just us will control space that we will dominate space we will deny other countries access to space we five percent of the world's population and the united states are going to deny other countries access to space i mean absolutely provocative i would

tell you that we are so. dominant in space lives a. pretty a country that there would come up against just. the synergy with air land and sea forces and in our ability to control the battle space and seize the high ground is devastated. question is the same us guardian chose to build on her team of five find that they know nothing less than yet another legal intervention approved by the un now in the ivory coast a former leader is one seated at the expense of hundreds of civilian.