i work for the global network against weapons and nuclear power and space that was created twenty years ago to prevent the nuclearization in the weaponization of space and i can report to you that we're still a and that the situation is actually getting worse before it's getting any better but first i want to tell you a bit of about myself i grew up in a military family my father was in the air force and as a young boy we moved around the world to various communities and in one nine hundred sixty eight we were living in the panhandle of florida northwest florida so conservative there they call it lower alabama and i had my first organizing experience at the age of sixteen working on the nixon campaign when he was running for president and i did such a good job in that campaign they asked me to sit at the head table at a fish fry fundraiser they had that evening along with their keynote speaker a man that you probably will recognize his name former senator strom thurmond from south carolina so that's how i got started in politics and from there it went downhill in one nine hundred seventy one i myself tried to join the air force i wanted to be a career man like my dad but i flunked my induction physical because of an old high school football injury so when most people were trying to stay out of the military because of the vietnam war i tried to get in and after my training i was sent to a base in california that was an airlift base for the war in vietnam and g i s would come from all over america to get on the plane to go to vietnam and when the planes would return they would bring the body bags of the dead soldiers of back home and i would see them on the flight line virtually every day well when i checked into the barracks on my first day there they look down this list and they said to me oh my god i'm sorry i'm sorry we only have one room left get your bags follow me the man said and we walked down this long dark hallway and he kept saying to me really we'll get you out of there as soon as possible and i thought it would be a little room closet with  and i'd spend a night or two there but he opened the door and we walked in and there on the wall were anti war posters filling the entire room small room with two beds in it and as it turned out this was the room of the leading g i resistance movement organizer in the barracks and they were trying to keep him isolated because they didn't want him to infect anyone but they rent out a rooms and then they forgot about me and so there i was and at night there would be a knock on the door and white guys would come in with chairs and sit in a circle talking about the war in vietnam and i'm sitting in the corner this young republican for nixon that i was thinking my god these must be communists and then another night there was a knock on the door and black guys came in with chairs and sat in a circle they were black panthers from the cities talking about racism in the military and racism in america and i'm sitting in the corner thinking my god these are communists and then they started smoking marijuana i had heard of marijuana before it's true but you know i grew up on these military bases behind the barbed wire fences i was a boy scout very patriotic and so i want to promise you all that i swear to god in the immortal words of bill clinton i never ever inhaled never did but but we've learned a lot over the years about the effects of secondhand smoke on innocent people and so i believe i'm indeed a victim of second hand smoke because that smoke from marijuana you know obviously got into my brain had some effect on me because within a few months my chair came into their circle and i began participating in their discussions and i began reading their publications their g i and newsletters that would go into the door at night and in all the barracks and so after six months i decided that i was a conscientious objector and so i asked to be released from the military and their first question to me was all really what's your family history you come from a traditional pieced church the quakers the mennonites the church of the brethren and i said no actually i was a young republican for nixon from a military family and so they turned me down i did three and a half years of what i call hard time because after i figured out what was going on in vietnam it was excruciating really difficult for me to be in the military but when i got out i went back to florida where my family had retired and i was going to the university of florida just ready to graduate and i got recruited by the united farm workers union to become an organizer of fruit pickers in florida and so i quit college never to finish to become a professional organizer and i've been doing it ever since in the early eighty's i went to work for the florida coalition for peace and justice and because of our proximity to the space center you can imagine we began to focus on star wars on moving the arms race into space but tonight  and i want to talk to you about the military industrial complex corporate criminal syndicate but to do that i have to tell you one more story from my youth when i was about fifteen i decided that i wanted to be an f b i agent so that i could fight organized crime and so i sent away for a correspondence course f b i correspondence course because being the good boy scout that i was i knew the motto be prepared so i figured i'd get a head start on everybody else and i learned about fingerprints that everyone has a distinct fingerprint and they also sent along a book of i definitions and i remember one of those definitions to this day and old modus operandi every criminal has an m o they have a way of repeating the same behavior over and over again so that's what i want to talk to you about and to do that we have to go back to the civil war the time in america when the weapons corporations were making a lot of money  centrally both sides during that war but as the civil war ground to an end the weapons corporation saw a drying up of their profits as you can imagine but of course there were still the indian wars going on out still on the run even though most of the lakota people had been brought onto the reservation and even out here in washington state where i spoke the other day and walla walla that's where chief joseph i learned was born so even an eight hundred seventy seven chief joseph joseph was trying to escape the pursuing military as he tried to take his people into canada but even at this point crazy  horse and sitting bull were brought on to the reservation in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven gold had been discovered in the black hills the army had been sent in to clear a pathway so the miners and settlers could move into the area they were killing game the people were starving the army had created new high powered rifles that they were using on the trains to shoot buffalo from trains leaving them to rot along the plains floor everything that the people needed to survive was being destroyed and so against their better judgment crazy horse and sitting bull too came on to the reservation and the deal was that they had to give up their horses and their guns virtually their entire way of life but that the government would take care of them as long as the grass grew green and these weapons corporations were given the contracts to supply the people but of course they began skimming ripping off the indian people and they were providing blankets that were so thin that by the end of winter they had holes in it and the people were freezing to death the bacon was rancid the flour had bugs in it so even after they were promised that they would be in there would be taken care of the people were freezing and starving to death on the reservation but even this was not enough money for these greedy corporations and so they set out to create a new public relations campaign and they brought together artists who did renderings of crazy horse back on the warpath killing innocent civilians raping white women killing children and they had phony articles fabricated and placed along with these renderings in all the major newspapers across the country and of course the american people were outraged we thought you brought these savages on to the reservations they said and they demanded congress do something about it and of course congress immediately swung into action and appropriated more money to fight the indian wars out west even though crazy horse was sitting in his teepee on the reservation with not a horse or a gun to his name fast forward to nineteen seventy three when i'm in the air force and i'm going to the base exchange one day during my lunch hour and i go to the book rack and i see this big thick book they're called the pentagon papers our government's own secret history about how they fabricated the pretext to sell the american people to support the war in vietnam thank goodness for that brave former marine captain in the marines who had been in vietnam by the name of daniel ellsberg who was at this time working at the rand corporation helping to write this seven thousand page history secret history of how the government lied us into the vietnam war but his conscience was bothering on and so he smuggled the papers out at night and would take them to a local copy shop where he would make copies and expected any moment that very ambitious young f b i agent by the name of bruce gatlin when come busting through the door and arrest him and take him to prison and he would never succeed in getting these pentagon papers to the american people but succeed he did thank god and we learned that story and then fast forward to two thousand and three shock and awe the lies about weapons of mass destruction in iraq and then come to the present day where we hear about iran iran is going to attack israel iran might even attack the united states with nuclear weapons when in fact secretary of war that former liberal democrat congressman from california leon panetta admitted on national television a month ago that iran has no nuclear weapons today nor did they have nuclear missiles capable of hitting the united states of america fabrication over and over again while i live in bath maine where today they're building navy aegis warships aegis destroyers that are being outfitted with so called missile defense systems that are being used surround russia and china today when bush was president he had one version of missile defense that he was going to deploy in poland and the czech republic but when obama came into office he announced that he was not going to deploy bush's version of missile defense and some people cheered in fact some people even called me and said bruce why aren't you cheering and i said watch the  hand and soon there after obama announced that he was deploying a different version of missile defense in poland and romania ground based launchers he was going to deploy missile defense radars in turkey and also put them in georgia on russia's southern border at the same time obama today is deploying these navy aegis destroyers with these missile defense systems on  the black sea the baltic sea and the mediterranean sea beginning in ink and then circumvent of russia at the same time nato is expanding eastward violating promises that were made by the united states at the time of the collapse of the former soviet union at that time u s secretary of state jim baker promised mikael gorbachev that nato would not expand one centimeter east d into the old soviet bloc but of course when bill clinton became president he began to by late that promise began expanding nato eastward surrounding russian of course russia is freaking out obama when he became president you know he went to prague in the czech republic where he said he wanted to reset relations with russia and he wanted to get rid of nuclear weapons and it's true that he did indeed begin negotiations with russia and they came to a conclusion on a very modest nuclear weapons reduction treaty called neustar now russia is saying they're going to have to pull out of that treaty because nato and the united states are surrounding them nato is now even establishing bases on russia's border in lot b a with the wanita and estonia why why would the united states want to restart the cold war with russia why would we do that well the only conclusion i can come to is because russia has the world's largest supply of natural gas today and significant supplies of oil and don't we know by now that the primary job of the pentagon is to serve as the resource service for corporate globalization at the same time the obama administration is surrounding china with these missile defense systems now putting ground base launchers in taiwan in japan in south korea in just a few weeks ago announced that they would go into okinawa these navy aegis warships with missile defense systems on board are also going into japan south korea australia guam and obama is negotiating with singapore the philippines and other countries in the region to move these warships into their countries beginning this encircled ment of china but that's not enough on top of that the u s is now twisting the arm of the south korean government demanding that they build a navy base on little jades you island just south of the korean peninsula j jew that sits three hundred miles from the coast of china and on the south side of the a four hundred fifty year old fishing village named kang john where about twelve hundred people live where they've worshiped their relationship to nature for four hundred  fifty years and worship the passing of their relatives during this time the samsung corporation is now tearing this place apart the sacred rocky coast called kang john is being blown up by the samsung corporation that's right the same samsung corporation that makes your televisions and phones they have a construction division that is the lead contractor on this project you  esko has recognized various environmental jewels on j g a while and in fact if the south korean government had called this area an absolute preservation area i think that's pretty clear language absolute preservation area but now all of that is being washed away as this navy base is being built and on to this rocky coast groome be the sacred rocky coast it's being blasted today by samsung cement will be poor and reef and warps and docks will be built to port these u s navy aegis destroyers and aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines and just off shore our endangered soft coral reefs that will be destroyed as the seabed is dredge to deep in it to make it possible for these warships to come into port there but we were invited by the village leaders to hold our twentieth anniversary meeting there last february each year we go to a different country around the world to shine a light on what's happening in regard to these space technology issues and so we went there and on the first day we were taken to a museum nearby called for dot three four dot three stands for april third hundred forty eight when a massacre buchanan began the killed more than thirty thousand residents on jeju island you know that the japanese fascists imperialists controlled jade's you brutally occupy it excuse me korea for many years more than forty years korea was occupied by these japanese fascists but after the end of world war two after the japanese were defeated the united states took over korea and in charge who did the us military put they put the former collaborators with the japanese occupiers in charge and the people of korea as you can imagine revolted in opposition to this situation and the us military sent in and directed and facilitated a put down of the people in korea and this of course led to the eventual civil war the korean war as we know it that today is still not officially over there's never been a treaty signed there's been a truce but the korean war remains so more than thirty thousand people killed at the hands of these collaborating right wing fascists within korea directed by the united states military  few years ago as a way to try to heal the wounds of the south korean government name change you the peace island and the peace island today as a navy base being built there for the united states of america  g you know obama recently announced just a couple months ago a pivot of u s foreign and military policy into the asian pacific region this is a part of long range plan that's been under development for some time in two thousand and one the washington post reported in an article entitled for the pentagon asia moving to the forefront that the us was going to double its military presence in the asia pacific region and as a result you can imagine the pentagon will need more bases and more ports of call for its hugely expanding military in the asia pacific obama followed this announcement of the pivot by going to australia where he negotiated a deal to send two thousand five hundred u s marines to darwin on the north coast of australia had you heard that australia was in danger of being invaded by anyone and so we had to send in the us marines to protect them no of course not this is not about the fence whatsoever it's about o ince as it turns out china imports sixty percent of their oil on ships and they use this waterway as a near their country called the yellow sea and just again off the korean peninsula j jew island sits essentially at the gateway or as i like to say the front gate of the yellow sea and that the united states military has determined that we're not going to be able to compete with china economically in the future but if we control their access to resources we will hold the keys to their economic engine a very provocative and dangerous and expensive strategy indeed in fact for the last several years the u s space command the military command in charge of giving the pentagon control and domination of space because all warfare on the earth today is what they call net centric all warfare on the earth today is coordinated and directed by military satellites when we launched the shock and awe in beijing over iraq in two thousand and three in the initial attack seventy percent of the weapons that were used were directed to their targets by military space satellites today the drones that are flying over afghanistan and pakistan are hooked up to the satellites and back in the united states the pilots are sitting at bases like creech air force base outside of las vegas where they're looking at their computer screens in real time split second time hook to the satellite and to the cameras onboard these drones in the pilot sit there with their joys ticks looking at the screen is it tali bon is that al qaeda is it a wedding is it a funeral and then they can hit the button and in just again real time split second time the signal flies through space to the satellite to the drone where they then fire their health fire missile hitting civilians on the ground killing more innocent people this is how space technology coordinates all warfare on the earth today well anyway that each year the space command annually war games a first strike attack on china said in the year tw sixteen they call it the red team vs the blue team china today has twenty nuclear missiles capable of hitting the west coast of the united states and in this computer  wargame the united states tries to take out those twenty chinese nuclear missiles the first weapon they use is the successor to the shuttle you've heard the shuttle is being retired and in its place is being developed the military space plane that would fly down from orbit drop a devastating attack both either conventional or nuclear weapons bunker busters that go under the ground try to take out china's underground missile silos and then they follow on with other weapon systems in that first strike attack but in the computer wargame china is able to fire a few of its nuclear missiles and there are a talent or a strike and it is then that these so called missile defense systems what we call missile often systems are used their job to take out the remaining retaliatory capability giving the us a successful first strike attack and so after the first strike sword lunges into the heart of china or russia the missile defense shield is used to take out their remaining retaliatory capability and so of course this is why russia is saying we're going to have to withdraw from the new start treaty because why do we want to reduce our numbers of nuclear weapons when you're surrounding us with missile off fence systems and china is saying that we're going to have to make our nuclear weapons survivable and that's why they're buying submarines from russia so they can take their nuclear weapons and put them under the ocean where they can't be so easily taken out in  first strike attack we'll just prior to the two thousand and eight election and very dear friend of mine in maine an old man by the name of hershel sternly said to me bruce have you ever heard of the crown family in chicago and i said no he said go home and google it crown c r o w n and so i did and what i learned was that at the time of the election the crown family was the majority stockholders in general dynamics corporation that owns bath iron works where i live in maine that today is building these navy aegis destroyers with these so called missile defense systems on board and as it turned out the crown family collectively gave obama five hundred thousand dollars for his two thousand and eight run for president in fact they also raise money for him within the military industrial complex across the country and so after the election was over and after obama had won aviation week and space technology magazine reported that obama received more campaign donations from the military industrial complex then the right wing war hawk john mccain did in that presidential election the crown family is also a jewish family and raise money for obama nationally within the jewish community so remember what i said early on soon after obama became president he announced that bush's version of missile defense that was supposed to go into poland and the czech republic would not be deployed and instead he moved forward with a different version that benefited the general dynamics corp the version that bush wanted to deploy was a boeing lockheed martin version of missile defense the cost of the standard what they call d t g fifty aegis destroyer previously has been one point five billion dollars each a lot of money but a new version is now for the first time being built at bath iron works in fact the navy didn't want to ship because it's so expensive that they said it was going to harm their ship building budget but obama said no you have to build it and just a few weeks ago associated press reported that this new high tech version of aegis destroyers will cost somewhere between four and seven billion dollars per ship and obama clearly is rewarding the general dynamics corporation for helping to make him president of the united states of america well you know the pentagon's been saying for years that under corporate globalization of the world economy every country will have a different role and they say we're not going to make things that american and more we're not going to have jobs in america anymore because it's cheaper to go overseas right we're not going to make clothes and shoes and electronics and refrigerators and even many cars cheaper for the corporations to go overseas and maximize profits internationally our job they said at the pentagon under corporate globalization will be a security export and so it's no coincidence that two years ago i heard that at sears you know sears department stores a working class people store right it's not a rich people store i heard they'd come out with a new line of young boy's clothes and so a friend and i went to this nearby town to the sears store and in we walked in there indeed in the little boy section were a new line of little boys military uniforms and camouflage clothes and the message to working class kids across america today is this is all your going to be and so that's it's no coincidence that today in america the number one industrial export product is what weapons and when weapons are your number one industrial export product what is your global marketing strategy for that product line the more a war the better and there we are security export our future under corporate globalization but we see this manifesting itself around the world particularly these days on the african continent i was watching c span a couple years ago and i saw this general but they said it was in charge of all the fifty state national guard units and he had this big map of the african continent and he said we're now assigning each of our fifty state national guards to develop a relationship a basing relationship he said with each of the distinct african countries why of course to take out terrorists but terrorists you know today are defined as anyone that stands in opposition to the interests of corporate globalization as they attempt to extract declining resources around the world oil natural gas water or minerals under the african soil that are needed to build laptops and cell phones this is what it's all about today resource extraction service and so it's no coincidence that the pentagon has created a relatively new command called africa com or africa command whose job it is to go into africa and secure it to the interests of corporate globalization little little ipad bases they call them quick intervention area jumping off bases all over the african continen giving us control and domination all coordinated and directed with space technology some people say bruce didn't we invade libya to protect the people there didn't we invade libya because khadafi was a bad guy and i say no we invaded libya because libya has the largest supply of oil on the african continent that's why we invaded libya the united states and nato together but let me just reassure you all let me reassure you i know you're getting nervous and upset there is an achilles heel for every plan for global domination there's an achilles heel and what is that achilles heel it's called money the pentagon has long bragged that star wars moving the arms race into space will be the largest industrial project in the history of the planet earth and some time ago a few years ago in one of the industry publications called space news they had an editorial where they addressed this very issue they said look we have to be responsible corporate citizens we've got to come up with a dedicated funding source to pay for all of our plans and we have and we're now sending our lobbyist to washington to secure that funding source and they said it is called the entitlement programs that officially in america our social security medicare medicaid and what's left of the welfare program after bill clinton got finished with it these are the programs that the military industrial complex has targeted for defunding in order to pay for endless war on behalf of corporate globalization and so it's no coincidence then we now hear the democrats joining with the republicans saying that well you know we're going to have to raise the retirement age on social security because of this fiscal crisis we're going to have to make some modest reductions and medicare and medicaid medicaid because of this austerity situation that we're going to have to reduce people's a monthly allotment on food stamps because of this terrible fiscal crisis we're in but of course you know that the republicans and democrats are totally united when it comes to giving money to wall street or to the military industrial complex you know that in your own community when you see democrats slavish only on their knees doing the bidding for boeing corporation and other weapons corporations you know that for a fact in our communities increasingly become addicted to military spending because it's the only game in town anymore oh so how are we ever going to end war war and this addiction to violence that we have in america as long as our communities are addicted are changed like like a slave chained to this military industrial complex let me give you two illustrations colorado springs where the air force space command is headquartered fort carson army base is now expanding into southern colorado wants to take cattle ranchers lands because of their new high tech weapons systems they need bigger training areas and now these right wing conservative patriotic cattle ranchers in southern colorado are organizing to fight the united states army and also also across colorado springs are a slew of these weapons contractors who service the space command in the army and fifty percent of the local economy is connected to the pentagon today huntsville alabama where the army space command is located where nasa's redstone arsenal is located and again a slew of these weapons contractors are located servicing these military machines they call it the pentagon of the south where seventy five percent of the local economy is connected to the pentagon spending how will we ever get out from behind this eight ball well the peace movement is always saying no no war no rack no blood for oil no war  iran of course we have to say that sometimes but what is our yes what is our alternative transformative vision to help us get out from behind this eight ball what is our unifying vision across our progressive community that benefits labor unions that benefits the environmental community who says they want to end climate change when we have the pentagon as the biggest polluter in the world has the largest carbon boot print on the planet what is our unifying vision who's going to create jobs in america so that we can get out from behind this military industrial complex who's going to create jobs where will the investment come from when the corporations are moving overseas like rats off a sinking ship who's going to bust back here at home where's that money going to come from to create a solar society and for health care and education well thank god for the university of massachusetts at amherst economics department who in december two thousand and eleven published a definitive study on this question called the u employment effects of military and domestic spending priorities and they said yes it's true if you take one billion dollars and you invested in military production it's true you create eight thousand six hundred jobs absolutely we acknowledge that they said but if you take that same billion dollars and you put it into home whether ization something we need where i live in maine because we have the oldest housing stock in america i live in an intentional community fifteen room house built in the late seventeen hundreds it's leaking we had an energy audit and they discovered that we had the equivalent of a four foot hole that we were using to generously heat the entire neighborhood where we lived and so we had our home weatherized it was very expensive but state and federal weather ization programs are being cut today and so for many poor people this is an impossibility but they said in this study that if we took that billion dollars and didn't put it in the military production we twelve thousand jobs doing home whether a zation for every billion dollars or four we put it into health care we create twelve thousand three hundred jobs or if we put it in education we'd create nineteen thousand one hundred jobs per billion dollars or if we put it into my favorite building a national rail system getting us out of our gas guzzling cars helping in a very small way solve for our real problem today which is climate change preventing the need to go to war endlessly for oil we would create nineteen thousand six hundred and seventy five jobs per billion dollars now let me check with you i've been taking a poll all along the way i want to see how you differ from the people from san diego north ok i'd like to see a show of hands those of you in favor of taking a billion of your tax dollars and putting it into military production creating eighty six hundred jobs please raise your hand those of you in favor of taking a billion dollars of your hard earned tax money and putting it into building a national rail system connecting every corner of the country creating nine hundred thousand six hundred seventy five jobs per billion dollars please raise your hand all right there you go you you're you're just like everybody else then why in god's name tell me please are we not making a collective demand across the progressive community calling for the conversion of the military industrial complex that would benefit labor unions by giving more jobs benefit the environmental community by helping in a small way even solve for climate change and in our wars for oil why in god's name are we not joining hands across the progressive community working together and making this demand where you know there was once another time in america where we had an intractable dark evil economic system that people thought would never and and at the time most politicians and many religious leaders and most newspaper editors supported this dark evil economic system and here we are today shackled and chained like slaves to this dark evil economic system we call the military industrial complex and how do we become free human beings again we should remember the words of the great abolitionist frederick douglas who told us power concedes nothing without a demand it never did and it never will so again friends what is our collective demand today our progressive movements i think suffer from what i call the business model of organizing our strategy is singularly focused very much guarding our own particular interests our own particular issue not working well with others guarding o resources our volunteers our media contacts the business model of organizing everyone for themself dog eat dog competition well the way out for us is collaboration  cooperation and joining hands across the bottom of the pyramid the ninety nine percent joining hands with each other realizing that the base of the pyramid is stronger than the top of the pyramid where the  or the one percent reside physics tells us that that the base is stronger than the top the base is what holds up the oligarchies so if we begin to connect the dots between the issues and share our and take articulation and build support for a unifying national demand to convert the military industrial complex to save social progress from destruction to help save the mother earth that is under attack today that is taking a pounding today by the us pentagon war machine and its nato allies are mother earth this thrashing about wildly as her body is in toxic shock in the future generations are pleading with us they're pleading with us to take a trip to the wizard of oz and get more courage and more determination to stand up to this dark evil economic system that has a our hearts and our souls chain chain like slaves to endless war let me leave you with one question and i ask you to think about it and i ask you to talk to others about this question maybe even ask others what they think what is the number one job today of a human being on this planet earth what is our job as a human being what's the difference between you and a tech thank you all very much the strategy to deal with this collapse is two basic things number one is to recognize that you people here in america really no longer needed as workers because china where there's unlimited market so basically your support for this populations and so the goal now is to reduce you americans into a neo feudalism where we get rid of public education we get rid of health care we get rid of social security and on down the line and to extract those resources that would go into social progress and put them into paying for this ever still expanding military empire second strategy is to trilateral lies is to globalize the empire to turn nato into a global military alliance and to get the quote unquote allied countries to help pay for this expanding nato on steroids the united nations passed two treaties called the moon treaty and the outer space treaty the moon treaty says no individual no corporation no country can claim ownership of the moon the outer space treaty says that no one can claim ownership of any of the planetary bodies that they're the province of all humankind  the outer space treaty also says that there can be no weapons of mass destruction in space the pentagon says well we're not by a lead in the outer space treaty because we're not building weapons of mass destruction in space we're building weapons of selective destruction in space and therefore they fall outside of the language of the treaty and so in recent years for about the past twenty years russia and china have any only been going to the united nations general assembly introducing a resolution called perilous prevention of an arms race in outer space calling for a new treaty and expanded treaty with more updated definitions that would ban all weapons in space and the united states and israel have been blocking that treaty development for the last twenty years through both democrat and republican administrations this whole idea of mining the sky has been around for a long time when the former nazi rocket scientists were brought to the us to create the u s space program verner von braun and his rocket team that built the v one and b two rockets for hitler were brought to the us to create the space program major general walter dorn berger who was hitler's primary officer in charge of that whole operation came to the u s after the war under operation paperclip he became vice president of bell aerospace became a leader in the whole development of thinking for weapons in space in fact in one nine hundred fifty three dorn berger testified before the congress of the united states saying gentlemen i didn't come to this country to lose the third world war i lost two already and he told the congress that we need to have orbiting battle stations in space that would allow the united states to control the earth below but also the pathway on and off the planet earth so when the day came that it was possible to go out in mind the sky that we would be able to control who could go out and who couldn't and so it's interesting that in one nine hundred eighty nine the congress commissioned a study it was in titled  military space forces the next fifty years it was signed by john glenn at that time a senator former astronaut other politicians in this study said that the united states with orbiting battle stations at the top of what they call the earth moon gravity well would be able to control who could go out in my in the sky and that we would be able to quote hijack rival shipments if anyone else tried to go out and mine the sky but they were not authorized so one of the jobs of the u s space command is to build a military highway between the earth in the planetary bodies so that the united states will control which corporations can go and make profit mining the sky and the nuclear industry views space as a new market they want to put nuclear powered mining colonies on the moon in the mark and mars and on asteroids and have nuclear rockets with nuclear reactors for engines because they need bigger lift capability in order to carry various mining devices and resources back and forth and everything else so this is why we oppose both the nuclearization and the weaponization of space no i don't think our answer's going to come from electing the right president or electing the right senator or congress person because i think that the multinational corporations have locked down congress they've literally drowned our democracy in this country as they're doing again around the world this isn't just happening to us and so i think one answer is that we have to move into more active resistance nonviolent resistance against the military industrial complex again we have to call for the conversion of the military industrial complex because there are clear winners and losers as the pentagon budget expands in this country and so we have to bring the the quote unquote losers together which are increasingly becoming more and more of the people when i was in santa monica just two weeks ago at the very moment i was there students marched on the board of trustees at santa monica community college because they were getting ready to pass a three hundred percent to wish an increase and one hundred of these students were tear gassed several were taken to the hospital and these students understand that there is a war against education in this country and that it is then in their interest to stand up and to resist this nonviolently this must be done and so increasingly we see more and more people we're going to see more and more elderly people suffering as cutbacks in medicare and medicaid and in social security gets harder and harder for working class people to get because the age limit is extended we're going to see widening numbers of people that are on the outside looking in and we've got to bring those people together in order to help deal with this and we also have to globalize our movement we have to understand that the fight on jade to ireland is as important as the fight against social security cutbacks here and that by linking our arms around the world and helping to defeat key strategic basing arrangements that the u s is trying to establish in places like j g is an important issue for all of us if we can defeat the us plans to build this base to help surround china in order to control china we will help de mobilized this aggressive military machine so we have to begin to again connect these dots between all these issues and fundamentally take down the corporate powers in this country we have to without a doubt understand that the corporations are ruling the roost in america today thank you all very much