by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:
As the world is watching the newest war between Israel and Iran, there are a number of stories that have fallen right off the radar, and I want to talk about these this week. Right at the top of the “off-the-radar” list this week is the story of the US Secretary of the Army mentioning his quiet chat with a soldier who had been, or is, or is being assigned to, a post…
…on the Moon. In fact, so many of you sent me some version of this story that it clearly is on your minds, and judging from all the “what do you make of this” comments on the accompanying emails, you want to know what I think of it. So, a thank you to all of you who took the time to share the story and draw my attention to it. I am going to use the following version of the story which, again, many of you sent, as the basis for my remarks and high octane speculations:
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Army Secretary Says He Spoke “Yesterday” To A U.S. Soldier “Who Is On The Moon”
And here’s the crux interpretum of the story:
U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told “FOX and Friends” on Wednesday morning that the U.S. has astronauts currently “on the Moon.” His comment was brief, unexplained, and not remarked upon by FOX News host Brian Kilmeade. He could have meant to say that there is an Army Colonel/NASA astronaut currently on the International Space Station, but he 100% said “on the Moon.”
Answering a question about the parade scheduled for Saturday to mark the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, Secretary Daniel Driscoll said the following: “Young Americans get to see all the amazing thing the Army has done, whether it is helping with floods in North Carolina or wildfires in California. We talked to an astronaut yesterday who is on the Moon, who is a soldier. Including actually going to war and fighting to defend freedom.”
As one commenter on this little foot-in-mouth episode observes, he probably meant to say “on the international space station,” and simply misspoke under the pressure of the interview. I know that sounds odd and perhaps even implausible, but anyone who does a lot of interviews will tell you that it is very easy to do. I’ve done so myself on many occasions. So there we have explanation number (1): it was simply a case of misspeaking.
But then there are the other possibilities. Possibility number (2) is that he intentionally “misspoke” and was sending a message to anyone playing the high stakes geo- and exo-politics game (that would be Russia, China, India, Japan, and Europe, in case you’re wondering), but that the message is false. The message in the “oops, I misspoke” is really, “oops, I just let a huge national security secret out of the bag that we have soldiers on the Moon, which means we have a Moon base.” But the message is one thing, and the truth of it quite another. In other words, he acted like he was making a mistake, and was intentionally misspeaking in order to lead people to the wrong conclusion, and hence, as those people are wondering whether or not he was telling the truth, it interferes with their ability to formulate an accurate strategic calculation of the USA’s capabilities and intentions.
Which leads us to possibility number (3), that Mr. Driscoll inadvertently spoke the truth, and that there really are soldiers stationed on the Moon. It’s not the first time that someone in power has alluded to such possibilities. Recall that former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Catherine Austin Fitts has remarked publicly, on more than one occasion, that while serving in Washington she was asked if she’d like to meet “an alien”. It didn’t stop there. President Reagan himself, in his memoirs, mentioned that in his initial presidential briefing, he was informed that the country had a space-lift capability of about 300 personnel, an amount far exceeding the capability of the space shuttle fleet at that time. Let unanswered in Mr. Reagan’s memoirs was the question of where they might be “spacelifted” to, but the Moon is right next door, so to speak, and such a claim might explain why “we didn’t go back.” Mr. Driscoll’s comment suggests that we never stopped going, we just pretended to, and have been doing so covertly for some time. Indeed, there were plans for atomic-powered Moon bases going back to the late 1950s, and one can find many of these on line. (Here’s one of them: 1959 Project Horizon). What’s intriguing to notice in this regard is the timing of Mr. Driscoll’s remarks. He is, after all, Secretary of the Army, and the Army’s 250th birthday is what the big parade was all about. What better time to “appear to let something slip out” than now? Then there were all those strange announcements from a few years ago; Germany, for example, was talking opening about building a 5G network on the Moon, bringing the internet to…well, to whomever would be (or was , or is) there…
But to my mind, one of the strongest things arguing for the plausibility of Mr. Driscoll’s remarks is perhaps the one no one wants to talk about: commerce, and its protection. Everyone in “the space club” has been talking about Lunar bases for as long as there have been space programs, and China, of course, recently joined all the chatter with ambitious announcements about its own plans for a Moon base, and Russia chimed right in and said “we’ll help!” They’ve made no secret of wanting to mine the Moon, and some people have proposed hauling asteroids back to the Moon for mining and processing. All this planned commerce means that the space lanes are going to have to be protected, and protection implies the militarization of space, like it or not.
