Posted by RS Bailey on January 12, 2012 - 12:51pm
A few of you certainly know by now that I do like to suss out a good conspiracy now and again. With that in mind I decided to browse the web and see what might be happening in the world of clandestine studies. A fact of interest that caught my eye was the Dec. 23 failed launch of a Russian Soyuz-2.1b heavy launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Spaceport, in northern Russia. According to the BBC, the payload was simply a “communications satellite,” but nasawatch.com called it a “Meridian military communications satellite for the Russian armed forces.” A Google search of Plesetsk reveals it is a “closed city” in Northern Russia. The majority of the inhabitants are military servicemen. Sound like a secret military base? Hmmm?
This was the first failure of the Soyuz 2.1b. Only a few days before one shot off from Baikonur Kosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying Russian, American and Dutch astronauts to the International Space Station. Five days after another launched from the European Space Center in French Guiana putting six Galileo communications satellites into orbit for a European Consortium.
It reminded me of a rash of failed launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in the 1980s. It seems they just couldn’t get anything to fly into outer space. Several years later the failed launches were revealed as a ploy to hide spy satellites so “the enemy”, then the nefarious Soviet Union, wouldn’t know where they were or what they were looking at.
“Why would the Russians be intent on hiding a spy satellite?” I asked myself. Well it’s certainly no secret they have major misgivings about the Eastern European missile defense system we want to build in places like Hungary and Poland in order to protect NATO from an Iranian missile attack. Iran is certainly in the news these days. Maybe its time to add apples and oranges and come up with a bowl of mixed fruit.
Iran is ranting and raving about shutting down the trade route through the Gulf of Hormuz where one-sixth of the entire world’s oil traverses. Meanwhile, somebody is murdering the top people in Iran’s missile and nuclear programs, as well as blowing up missile development facilities. The Iranians are accusing the US, the British, and the Israelis. Is someone beating the drums of war or does it just seem like it?
I took a more detailed look at recent events there. On Nov. 12 an Iranian missile base suffered a mysterious explosion just "as Iran had achieved a major milestone in the development of a new missile." A few weeks ago the Iranians launched what they claimed was an “undetectable” ICBM from a ship in the Gulf of Hormuz. Ooops, looks like the Iranians might have long range stealth missiles.
Before that the Iranians “shot down” an American remote controlled spy drone that we claim was patrolling over Afghanistan. Then the Iranians displayed the drone reasonably intact, obviously not shot down. It turned out to be a super secret “PQ-170” stealth drone.
“What’s going on here?” I asked myself. The Iranians say they enlisted the services of a computer hacker, with a GPS device, who intercepted the drone and landed it safely in Iran. A neat trick, one our military has made it clear couldn’t happen, even if our fleet of drones is suffering from some sort of demon computer virus infection. Something’s amiss. This has all the earmarks of a giveaway.
Why on earth would we give the Iranians “secret” drone technology? I didn’t have to think very much about it. While it isn’t spoken of much anymore, it is a fact that when it comes to the Sh’ite government of Iran, there is no love lost with their neighbors, the Sunni Al Qaeda and their Afghani bully boys, the Taliban. Add to that, that we want to be out of Afghanistan by 2014. And that Al Qaeda, having expanded their influence in Pakistan, is far from done. The US is faced with the question of how to keep Al Qaeda and the Taliban in check.
We’ve proven that our spy and attack drones are effective in knocking off the leaders of both Al Qaeda and the Taliban. If we give the Iranians the tech, they could kick the hell out of the Taliban and Al Qaeda for us. Does this have any relation to the Taliban opening an office in Qatar to participate in talks with the US?
Not a bad plan, if it is one. It seems everyone and his brother has stealth drones in development these days. Pretty soon South American drug cartels will probably be buying them on the black market. After all, they’ve already got submarines. And if we didn’t give the Iranians the technology, the Chinese would probably just trade them some of the fleet they have in development for a few million barrels of oil.
And let us not forget the sudden, under-reported Iranian call for the Nuclear Powers to return to the negotiating table in regard to its nuclear program. What’s up, Doc? It reminded me of the Metternichian two track style of negotiation that Henry Kissinger initiated against North Viet Nam in the 70s, talking peace in Paris while relentlessly bombing Hanoi. It was a controversial approach but it got him the Nobel Peace Prize.
And there are the fringe benefits. The U.S. has just closed an arms deal with the United Arab Emirates for $3.48 billion. They get 96 sophisticated missiles and a missile defense system as part of “other technology”. Are we spreading the drones around? The Pentagon says the deal will help secure a “stable” Persian Gulf. The Obama Administration also announced a deal to sell Saudi Arabia $30 billion in F-15SA fighter jets. This could be good for business.
And where is our Navy in the midst of all this? They’re busy in the Gulf of Hormuz committing humanitarian acts by saving Iranian ships in distress. Could that be a nice cover for secret meetings?
But what about Russia and that lost spy satellite? What are they up to? Let’s not forget that the Russians have the right of intervention when it comes to Iran under the Russo-Persian Treaty of Friendship of 1921 “If a third party should attempt to carry out a policy of usurpation …” Seems to me if I had that right, I’d like to keep a judicious and possibly concealed eye on events.
Please pass that bowl of mixed fruit. Add some figs and dates while you’re at it.
Check the links:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-12/iran-to-reverse-engineer-us-drone/...
http://news.yahoo.com/iran-proposes-nuclear-talks-world-powers-125418112...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/31/us-iran-drill-missile-idUSTRE7...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/taliban-says-it-will-op...
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2011/12/russian-soyuz-l.html http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/story/2011-12-21/russian-soyu...
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Arianespace_Completes_2012_With_Soyu...
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/11/29/satellite-image-shows-extensivel...
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_bolsters_UAEs_missile_defense_in_majo...
This was the first failure of the Soyuz 2.1b. Only a few days before one shot off from Baikonur Kosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying Russian, American and Dutch astronauts to the International Space Station. Five days after another launched from the European Space Center in French Guiana putting six Galileo communications satellites into orbit for a European Consortium.
It reminded me of a rash of failed launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in the 1980s. It seems they just couldn’t get anything to fly into outer space. Several years later the failed launches were revealed as a ploy to hide spy satellites so “the enemy”, then the nefarious Soviet Union, wouldn’t know where they were or what they were looking at.
“Why would the Russians be intent on hiding a spy satellite?” I asked myself. Well it’s certainly no secret they have major misgivings about the Eastern European missile defense system we want to build in places like Hungary and Poland in order to protect NATO from an Iranian missile attack. Iran is certainly in the news these days. Maybe its time to add apples and oranges and come up with a bowl of mixed fruit.
Iran is ranting and raving about shutting down the trade route through the Gulf of Hormuz where one-sixth of the entire world’s oil traverses. Meanwhile, somebody is murdering the top people in Iran’s missile and nuclear programs, as well as blowing up missile development facilities. The Iranians are accusing the US, the British, and the Israelis. Is someone beating the drums of war or does it just seem like it?
I took a more detailed look at recent events there. On Nov. 12 an Iranian missile base suffered a mysterious explosion just "as Iran had achieved a major milestone in the development of a new missile." A few weeks ago the Iranians launched what they claimed was an “undetectable” ICBM from a ship in the Gulf of Hormuz. Ooops, looks like the Iranians might have long range stealth missiles.
Before that the Iranians “shot down” an American remote controlled spy drone that we claim was patrolling over Afghanistan. Then the Iranians displayed the drone reasonably intact, obviously not shot down. It turned out to be a super secret “PQ-170” stealth drone.
“What’s going on here?” I asked myself. The Iranians say they enlisted the services of a computer hacker, with a GPS device, who intercepted the drone and landed it safely in Iran. A neat trick, one our military has made it clear couldn’t happen, even if our fleet of drones is suffering from some sort of demon computer virus infection. Something’s amiss. This has all the earmarks of a giveaway.
Why on earth would we give the Iranians “secret” drone technology? I didn’t have to think very much about it. While it isn’t spoken of much anymore, it is a fact that when it comes to the Sh’ite government of Iran, there is no love lost with their neighbors, the Sunni Al Qaeda and their Afghani bully boys, the Taliban. Add to that, that we want to be out of Afghanistan by 2014. And that Al Qaeda, having expanded their influence in Pakistan, is far from done. The US is faced with the question of how to keep Al Qaeda and the Taliban in check.
We’ve proven that our spy and attack drones are effective in knocking off the leaders of both Al Qaeda and the Taliban. If we give the Iranians the tech, they could kick the hell out of the Taliban and Al Qaeda for us. Does this have any relation to the Taliban opening an office in Qatar to participate in talks with the US?
Not a bad plan, if it is one. It seems everyone and his brother has stealth drones in development these days. Pretty soon South American drug cartels will probably be buying them on the black market. After all, they’ve already got submarines. And if we didn’t give the Iranians the technology, the Chinese would probably just trade them some of the fleet they have in development for a few million barrels of oil.
And let us not forget the sudden, under-reported Iranian call for the Nuclear Powers to return to the negotiating table in regard to its nuclear program. What’s up, Doc? It reminded me of the Metternichian two track style of negotiation that Henry Kissinger initiated against North Viet Nam in the 70s, talking peace in Paris while relentlessly bombing Hanoi. It was a controversial approach but it got him the Nobel Peace Prize.
And there are the fringe benefits. The U.S. has just closed an arms deal with the United Arab Emirates for $3.48 billion. They get 96 sophisticated missiles and a missile defense system as part of “other technology”. Are we spreading the drones around? The Pentagon says the deal will help secure a “stable” Persian Gulf. The Obama Administration also announced a deal to sell Saudi Arabia $30 billion in F-15SA fighter jets. This could be good for business.
And where is our Navy in the midst of all this? They’re busy in the Gulf of Hormuz committing humanitarian acts by saving Iranian ships in distress. Could that be a nice cover for secret meetings?
But what about Russia and that lost spy satellite? What are they up to? Let’s not forget that the Russians have the right of intervention when it comes to Iran under the Russo-Persian Treaty of Friendship of 1921 “If a third party should attempt to carry out a policy of usurpation …” Seems to me if I had that right, I’d like to keep a judicious and possibly concealed eye on events.
Please pass that bowl of mixed fruit. Add some figs and dates while you’re at it.
Check the links:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-12/iran-to-reverse-engineer-us-drone/...
http://news.yahoo.com/iran-proposes-nuclear-talks-world-powers-125418112...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/31/us-iran-drill-missile-idUSTRE7...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/taliban-says-it-will-op...
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2011/12/russian-soyuz-l.html http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/story/2011-12-21/russian-soyu...
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Arianespace_Completes_2012_With_Soyu...
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/11/29/satellite-image-shows-extensivel...
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_bolsters_UAEs_missile_defense_in_majo...
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