"Sisters and brothers of India, my scientists friends, for the last few hours the entire nation was awake. We were awake in solidarity. In solidarity with our scientists who had embarked on one of the most ambitious missions of our space programs. "We came very close, but we will need to cover more ground in the times to come. Every Indian is filled with a spirit of pride as well as confidence. We are proud of our space program and scientists, their hard work and determination. [They] ensure a better life, not only for our citizens, but also for other nations.”
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking to the Chandrayaan-2 team at Mission Control of the India Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the nation. September 6, 2019
While the U.S. media and political class largely ignore great developments in the world outside of the U.S., we shall not. On September 6 the entire nation of India was awake and watching as the attempt by the India Space Research Organization (ISRO)to place a lander and a rover on the South Pole of the Moon began its final descent. Only in the last moment did communication with the lander fail, and as spotted later by the Indian orbiter that had launched it, the lander was apparently not in an upright position. Attempts are still being made to re-establish communication with the lander.
Did the India project fail? Certainly not, and the statement from the ISRO makes that clear:
“Sept. 7 (EIRNS)– ISRO emphasized in its latest update today that “90% to 95% of the mission objectives have been accomplished and will continue to contribute to lunar science, notwithstanding the loss of communication with the lander.” The orbiter is performing well, and has sufficient fuel to function for far longer than its original projected life of one year. That update forecast almost seven years, but a few hours later, Dr. Sivan told Indian TV Doordarshan that its life could go as long as 7.5 years, because its fuel has been used economically.”
Nothing great accomplished by mankind is ever accomplished fully in the first efforts, and the space program of any nation has demonstrated that again and again.
In fact, the video from LaRouche PAC on September 8, makes that more than clear.
India’s Chandrayaan 2 Mission: A Triumph for Mankind
https://larouchepac.com/20190908/indias-chandrayaan-2-mission-triumph-mankind
Dennis Speed and Megan Beets develop the incredible potential lying before mankind if international cooperation accelerates to make breakthroughs in space exploration, as opposed to the utter destruction if a ‘Green New Deal’ is adopted.
Below is a commemoration of the anniversary today, September 12, of the 1962 speech of President John Kennedy at Rice University that gave a kick to the Apollo Project. A video of that speech is also linked there.
The Rest of This Week’s Report
Drought is growing with its most intense regions being in Texas, the Southwest, and Washington State. Three maps from the U.S. Drought Monitor provide the picture.
Central Oregon has also been dry, and actual shortages of water and dried up reservoirs are forcing the fallowing of farm land.
Ideology and arrogance sometimes is just too blatant. That is what we see with Senate Bill 100, enacted in 2018, that requires that California’s public utilities to switch entirely to renewable energy by 2045. Which mandates that until 2030, hydropower generated at dozens of existing large-scale facilities won’t count as renewable. That story is next.
In last week’s report it was noted that the number and acreage burned so far this year from California wildfires was more than a 90 percent decline from last year at this time. Later that day, September 5, after that report had been published, a fire broke out in the Plumas National Forest, near the Nevada border. That fire is now the largest in the state so far this year at over 50,000 acres.
Also included under the section on wildfires is a “disaster-style” warning of how southern California may be hit with more than a million acre fire because of global warming. Those who get their kicks from disaster scenarios will get excited by this article.
Two more items follow in that section: One on how clearing and thinning of the forests definitely does not stop fires most of the time and then an item on prison fire fighters.
Two examples of the breakdown of critical infrastructure are next. The subsidence in the Central Valley has rendered the Friant-Kern Canal 60% crippled in its ability to deliver water. It is expensive to fix such damage, and the State Assembly has punted on it. Two items report on that. Second, is the report on a critical navigation lock at the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River, which has shut down because of cracked concrete, meaning huge barges that transport millions of tons of wheat, wood and other goods from the inland Pacific Northwest to the Pacific Ocean for export are at a standstill.
The Feature this week is titled: “Is a Dark Age Now Upon Us?” Dealing with homelessness, disease outbreaks and now the three years in a row decline in life expectancy in the United States. This has everything to do with the state of the economy, but also with so-called social policy. That later is exemplified by the drug legalization insanity of the past few decades, and the shutting down of mental hospitals
