THE NEW WORLD DISORDER http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_lobaido_news/20000615_xnlob_spy_ satell.shtml Spy satellites on demand Strategic information available to enemies with click of mouse By Anthony LoBaido Thursday, June 15, 2000 © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com Thanks to a group of transnational amateur astronomers -- particularly heavens-above.com, a private satellite- tracking program on the World Wide Web -- any person on earth can type the name of a city or town, come up with an exact latitude and longitude, and learn exactly when Western satellites will be overhead ready to snap pictures. Pictures of license plates. Pictures that show how a North Korean intelligence agent parts his hair. Azimuth, star charts, satellite apogees -- it's all there waiting at heavens-above.com. An experiment with Libya WorldNetDaily recently played some secret war games with heavens-above.com. Clicking on the website for The Center for Non-Proliferation Studies, WND found that Libya has a chemical weapons plant at Tarhunah. http://cns.miis.edu/research/wmdme/libya.htm So WorldNetDaily went to the geographical page of heavens-above.com, which reads: "Welcome to our new location database! We have drastically increased the number of places and include almost every town and village for each country listed (approximately 1 million worldwide). Please select your country from the list, then click the button to go onto the next page where you can select your town. We will be adding new countries regularly, so please be patient if you don't see yours listed here. The data in this database was put together (and enhanced by us) from the following two sources: the U.S. Geological Survey for the U.S.A. (and dependencies) and The National Imaging and Mapping Agency for all other countries." WND clicked on Libya, then simply typed in Tarhunah. The latitude and longitude immediately appeared. Tarhunah is at 32.433 degrees latitude and 13.633 longitude. It is even possible to double-check a location, since heavens-above.com gives the exact distance between Tarhunah and seven surrounding towns and cities and their exact latitude and longitude. Mazraat Squil (1.6 km), Ash Sharsharah (4.0 km), Mazraat Saquil (7.3 km), Muhayyah (8.0 km), Mazraat Kataraylla (8.7 km), Mazraat Titanu (8.7 km) and Al Khadra' (12.7 km) are all listed. After zeroing in on Tarhunah, a comprehensive list of 29 satellites appears on the screen. U.S, Western and Russian satellites are all neatly listed. One can learn when each satellite was launched, what its capabilities are, and, most important -- when it will be flying overhead. An example: Aureoloe 3 Rocket. Identification USSPACECOM Catalog Number 12849. International designation Code 1981-094-B. Orbit 400 x 1.845 km, 82.5 degrees. Intrinsic brightness, maximum brightness and launch date are also listed. Still not sure of how to locate the satellite? There are labeled charts displayed on-screen showing where the path of the satellite will run across the heavens : http://heavens-above.com/allsats.asp?lat=32.433&lng=13.633&alt=0&loc= Tarhunah&TZ=UCTm2&Mag=4.5 WorldNetDaily performed the same exercise from the Rajistan desert in western India (home of India's nuclear tests), Baghdad, North Korea and many other hostile nations. As one might expect, the publication of this information, which can be accessed by dictators like Iraq's Saddam Hussein or North Korea's Kim Jong-il, has many in the U.S. intelligence community in an uproar. "The fact that you can know readily where U.S. satellites are at any time means that if you're India or North Korea, it's that much easier to hide what you're doing. What these people fail to realize is that there are bad guys out there," said one senior intelligence official who wants to see some of the satellite trackers prosecuted. "Why give more help to our enemies overseas through these satellite-tracking websites?" said one congressional staffer who asked that her name not be used in this report. "But the anger of the U.S. intelligence community is a good sign." Adds the congressional staffer: "The New York Post ran a story about how Saddam has moved his weapons of mass destruction out of Iraq into the Sudan. So, the ongoing inspections of Iraq by the U.N. are really a dog and pony show. And with these websites available to Saddam and his allies, we may never track down his weapons of mass destruction." In an exclusive interview with this reporter in 1998, Arizona Sen. John McCain said, "We know the Russians are selling sensitive satellite images of U.S. military installations in South Korea to the North Koreans. Everything is for sale over in Russia." SatSpy.com Another website providing a virtual window into the heavens is SatSpy.com (http://www.satspy.com/howto.htm). According to the website, "SatSpy is a computer program that opens the way to the world of satellite viewing. Practitioners of this exciting hobby watch orbiting satellites using nothing more than their eyes and perhaps a pair of binoculars. SatSpy lets you do your own pass predictions, something that just a few years ago could only be done by the most powerful government computers. "SatSpy was designed and built by Dave Cappellucci who is also the webmaster for this site. Dave has an 18-year background in space and astrodynamics software development. He was employed by Loral Command and Control Systems (formerly Ford Aerospace) where he participated in the development of the Space Defense Operations Center (SPADOC) for the U.S. Air Force Space Command. SPADOC is the source for almost all of the element sets used for visual satellite predictions. His responsibilities as the team leader on the 'Orbits and Conversions' and, later, the 'Breakup, Lost and Decay' team included the design and implementation of many of the major software programs used by the U.S. Air Force to track and identify orbiting satellites. He was also the principal engineer and later the program manager for the development of the Space Force Engagement Model. This was a comprehensive simulation of all aspects of space warfare including surveillance, command and control, weapons and communications. "SatSpy was developed by Dave out of his desire to be able to identify the satellites he could see in the evenings from the back deck of his house in Colorado Springs. The origins of the program go back to 1985 when Dave bought his first personal computer (an IBM PC/XT) and began developing astrodynamics software for fun. The actual start of SatSpy was in mid-1993 with the first successful predictions occurring in the late summer. Since then, Dave has used SatSpy to observe well over 300 different satellites with over 500 separate observations. If you care to learn more about Dave's background, his resume can be found online." A long history betrayed The U.S. satellite program found its genesis in the Nazi technology brought to the U.S. by Wernher van Braun under "Operation Paper Clip." In January 1946, the RAND Corporation, a subgroup of Douglas Aircraft, authored a study entitled, "Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship." This study sought to analyze the possible commercial and military applications of satellites. After the Soviets exploded the H-bomb in 1953, the Eisenhower administration stepped up the effort to monitor the Russians' atomic ambitions. By 1957, the Gaither Commission was set up to study the status of America's civil defense in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack and the ability of that Strategic Air Command to survive and respond to a Soviet nuclear strike on U.S. soil. By the end of 1957, the U.S. military-industrial complex had set up a worldwide network of simple radio tracking stations called "Minitrack" and hundreds of civilian volunteers for its "Moonwatch" program. These volunteers, mostly amateur astronomers, were to take visual sightings of orbiting objects and telephone in their observations to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass. Of course, that was a different era. Today, amateur astronomers in America and the West are, however inadvertently, assisting America's enemies with websites that publish the position of U.S. and Western spycams. Other satellite issues are equally troubling. For example, it is known that the Milstar, the main U.S. battlefield coordinating satellite, was knocked out for three hours in a Y2K glitch. Without the Milstar, the U.S. military is essentially blind on the battlefield. Much of the satellite data used to fight the Gulf War was coordinated through the Australia-based facilities at Pine Gap. During the Gulf War, Air Force satellites provided vital intra- and inter-theater communications for U.S. Central Command, while Global Positioning Satellites conveyed precise positional information directly to attacking Air Force and Navy aircraft, as well as to Army and Marine Corps artillery crews, allowing pinpoint accuracy in munitions delivery. U.S. ground forces used GPS satellite data to navigate easily the nearly featureless desert landscape -- even at night. Weather satellites provided vital data on sand storms, surface winds and other conditions that affected U.S. troops and air operations. Early warning satellites provided the essential first warning of Iraqi Scud missile attacks on Coalition bases and Saudi and Israeli cities. This vital "heads up" assisted Army Patriot missile batteries in engaging many incoming Scuds. It was truly the first space war. After studying the use of space warfare during Desert Storm, the Australian Defence Forces commenced a study to "investigate the integrity of GPS equipment in use by Defense." This was announced by the Australian defense minister in August 1999. The study is aimed at overcoming various simple methods of jamming the GPS signals and to develop such schemes for use against Australia's enemies. So while the Aussies are busy testing the Global Positioning Satellites for a possible war, the Clinton administration announced in early May of this year that it has ordered the Department of Defense to stop degrading the signals from its 24-satellite GPS network. Maintaining the GPS network costs over half a billion dollars per year to the U.S. taxpayer. The errors built into the GPS system were put there to prevent hostile nations from utilizing America's GPS system to guide their own military adventures as well as to launch and guide missiles against U.S. targets. As reported by WorldNetDaily, the loss of strategic U.S. islands stretching to the four corners of the world will have a great strategic effect on U.S. satellite-tracking stations. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_lobaido_news/20000611_xnlob_un_s eeks_t.shtml With the U.N. trying to strip the U.S. and UK of their foreign possessions, the capabilities of the U.S. to fight the next space war may be dealt a huge blow. "Space war is a reality we need to confront," said the congressional staffer. "We know China and Russia are working on lasers that can blind our satellites. By publicly broadcasting their location, we make their job easy -- point and shoot. "Not only do you have sites like heavens-above.com divulging the location of our spy satellites, but also commercial satellites which offer one-meter imagery for anyone who can afford the cost. Rules against doing business with rogue states and known terrorists still apply. However, they could establish a front company in order to acquire images of their enemies. For example, a state like Pakistan could watch for Indian weakness in Kashmir. "Currently, only American and Israeli companies sell one-meter imagery, but soon Russia, France and India will enter the market. Foreign militaries have been using the U.S. taxpayer-funded GPS system to plan their military campaigns. A Russian newspaper last month reported the Russian Defense Ministry was forced to buy U.S. GPS equipment for military action in Chechnya. How would the American people feel if they knew a system they funded was guiding the devastating fuel-air bombs that indiscriminately kill civilians?" Anthony C. 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