Two recent events clearly show how the "Son of Star Wars" program is centered around the HAARP transmitter in Alaska, and how that trillion-dollar program is not only fraudulent but also out-of-date and now obsolete. This would leave the U.S. with no self-defense capability and with a bankrupt economy.

     In the last several days news reports show there is now an ongoing public wrangling between the Republicans in the Bush Administration and Democratic congressional leaders over the need to build an "emergency Star-Wars" missile defense system at the Fort Greely site in central Alaska by the year 2004.

     The detractors say the missiles would violate the old 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Also it would be in a bad location, since the test firing of missiles from Fort Greely would mean the rocket boosters would fall on populated areas, while a much better location would be on Kodiak Island, 500 miles away, where the missiles would be fired over the ocean.

     The Democrats also contend the money for the system would be misspent since no evidence shows the system would be able to distinguish between a real warhead and a group of dummy warheads all fired at the same time. Thus they feel the system would be of little defensive value if the "kill missiles" end up shooting down dummies while the real warheads have an excellent chance of getting through.

     The Bush Administration, many Republicans and the Pentagon policy planners counter these arguments by saying there is a need to build and test the missile system now even before its final effectiveness is proven. This is necessary to determine the rocket fuel degradation caused by the extreme cold arctic environment and to develop the radar systems needed to operate and aim the missiles and to rehearse training and maintenance procedures. So the obvious question then is: why build it in Alaska in the first place?

     What the news reports fail to point out is that neither argument has any relevance to the current "Son of Star Wars" missile defense program. The reason for building five "emergency" missile silos at Fort Greely and not on Kodiak Island is clearly because Fort Greely is right next door to the HAARP facility at Gakona, Alaska. Thus showing the real "Son of Star Wars" missile defense system is the HAARP facility itself and not the five missiles at nearby Fort Greely.

     This is also shown by the fact that the Fort Greely site cannot be used as a "kill missile" defense system against incoming enemy missiles from Russia or rogue nations such as Iraq. Looking at a globe or a map projection centered on the North Pole, the orbital or great circle distance from western Russia or Iraq to targets in the U.S. is half the distance from Fort Greely to anywhere along that orbital path. This means incoming missiles from Russia or Iraq would have already reached their targets in New York or Washington long before the Fort Greely "kill missile" got halfway to its target. That does not sound like any kind of missile defense shield.

     THE GREAT WALL IN SPACE

     Further, also looking at a globe or polar projection map, it is easily seen that any missile coming from anywhere in China toward the U.S. must pass directly over or near Alaska. Thus the obvious purpose of placing the five missiles in the frigid forests of Fort Greely and the location of nearby HAARP is clearly to provide a "Great Wall in Space" to defend against missiles only from China, and not from Russia or any rogue nations, as is the publicly stated purpose. Once again the public and Congress are being mislead as to the purpose of both the HAARP facility and the missile sites at nearby Fort Greely.

     The original design for the HAARP transmitter in Gakona, Alaska and the congressional funding of the facility in 1991 was to provide a worldwide missile defense shield by producing a layer of high speed particles in the magnetosphere far above the atmosphere but which would act as a high-energy radiation cloud capable of destroying any missiles which fly through that cloud in outer space.

     But actually this was impractical for two reasons. First the energy required to build the earth-circling radiation cloud would be equivalent to nearly all of the oil output of the nearby Alaska Pipeline or the nearby natural gas facilities, and second, the permanent radiation cloud would destroy any and all of the many commercial civilian, military and scientific satellites now in polar orbit which pass through the magnetosphere where it almost touches the atmosphere in the auroral zones at both poles.

     Further, the radiation cloud would also destroy any manned or unmanned spacecraft leaving the earth for the moon or other planets, which must also pass through the Earth's magnetosphere. Nonetheless, despite its impracticality, the HAARP facility was built and is now in full operation. But it is now used in a far different manner.

     Instead of producing a radiation cloud which girdles the whole earth, current research methods show the HAARP transmitter can send shortwave radio beams straight up to the region of the electrified particles above the Earth's atmosphere, in the ionosphere, where it intersects the magnetosphere in the zone of the auroras.

     At that point, by slightly shifting the angle of the shortwave radio beam, a radiation cloud from the ionosphere can be "focused" along the Earth's magnetic field lines in a narrow region of outer space reaching from the North Pole to the South Pole. And that radiation cloud can be aimed "along certain magnetic field lines," as is stated in several of the most recently published HAARP research articles. This means the intense radiation cloud could be "focused" at incoming missiles, and thus you can see how the HAARP transmitter can easily be used as an efficient and rapidly deployed "missile defense" shield.

     Since the high speed particles in the radiation cloud move at nearly the speed of light, the "Great Wall in Space" can be set up in a matter of seconds, or in fact, several radiation cloud walls could be produced in a matter of minutes. This technology does not need a precise radar-aiming device, as does the so-called "kill missile" defense system. Simply knowing there are "incoming" missiles, and knowing where they are coming from, and then setting up a radiation wall in space will destroy any and all incoming missiles as they pass through the protective "Great Wall in Space."

     Many have asked, if that is true, then what is the purpose of the five missiles at Fort Greely, and wouldn't they also be destroyed by the HAARP radiation cloud? Since HAARP would be the primary missile shield weapon, it would be a target and is vulnerable to enemy missile attack from nearby submarines or aircraft. To prevent this, a "local" anti-missile system is built at Fort Greely to defend the HAARP facility from local Scud missile attack, using almost standard off-the-shelf Patriot-type anti-missile technology. And that is most probably the reason for the "emergency" construction of the missile silos at Fort Greely by the year 2004; for the protection of the HAARP antennas and transmitters, and not for the defense of the nation.

     Since the nearby incoming enemy Scud-type missiles would not be high enough to be affected by the HAARP radiation cloud, the missiles from Fort Greely would be able to hit their targets and not be affected by the radiation shield coming from HAARP. Thus the two systems, at HAARP and at Fort Greely, would work nicely together to produce a "hardened" missile defense weapon system which can withstand enemy attack. Knowing this should make us all sleep better at night, except for one problem: the Pentagon has once again shot itself in the foot.

     THE 3-D MAGINOT LINE

     The other high-impact news event which just occurred was reported by defense specialist writer Bill Gertz in the Washington Times. Just two weeks ago, the Russians secretly test-flew a prototype SS-25 ICBM missile, which behaved in a very strange way. All previous ICBM nuclear missiles are blasted off from Earth, enter a near-earth orbit in outer space and then within less than 25 minutes can drop out of orbit, reenter the atmosphere and hit any target on the Earth's surface. The Russian SS-25 blasts off as usual, but just before leaving the atmosphere it turns parallel to the Earth's surface and flies like a cruise missile or jet bomber airplane at a height of about 25 miles and a speed of Mach 5. Why is that important?

     At that speed and altitude, if the SS-25 is painted black and covered with stealthy radar-absorptive material like a US-made B-2 stealth bomber, it can neither be tracked nor intercepted by any Patriot-type anti-missile system. Also the SS-25, by never leaving the atmosphere, and by using a new scramjet technology to fly at supersonic speeds at the very top of the atmosphere, is completely unaffected by any HAARP anti-missile radiation cloud, which only works in the vacuum of outer space.

     The design of the Russian SS-25 scramjet was made specifically to counter the newly developed HAARP radiation cloud shield technology, and not any new Air Force "Son of Star Wars" kill missiles, which would be ineffective against a stealthy SS-25 anyway. Thus the trillion-dollar proposed anti-missile defense shield centered around Fort Greely and HAARP has already just been made obsolete.

     Did the policy and strategy boys at the Pentagon know this was about to happen? Or were they asleep at the switch? Certainly Congress had no clue, or did they? As I pointed out in the book, Black Gold Hot Gold, this very event has long been in the planning. Unlike the U.S. and the rest of the world, which are now struggling with weakening economies and rising unemployment, China alone is rolling along at an astounding 8% annual economic growth rate. China has the wealth and fortitude to purchase a whole fleet of Russian-made SS-25's. That should keep the policy planners at the Pentagon staying up all night just worrying about when that might occur. Probably before the 2004, "emergency" construction is completed at Fort Greely.

     The "Son of Star Wars" program is clearly looking a lot like a 3-dimensional Maginot Line. Despite the proposed expenditure of trillions of dollars for a missile defense system, the Russians have already discovered the "Ardennes Forest," which allows the enemy to simply run around the expensive defense line unopposed. The current Star Wars debates are a mere smoke screen designed to beguile the public and leave the U.S. defenseless, open to attack and with a bankrupt economy. Are there people in Congress who knew about this? You bet. Are there people in Congress who have, in fact, "bought stock" in the Chinese economy and would benefit greatly from a war with China in which the U.S. loses? You bet. Would I call that treason? You bet.

     Just thought you might wanna know. Have a nice day.