Don't know about others, but had not myself been consciously following the news on the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 (apparently also named China Southern Airlines Flight 748) - destined for China's capital, IIRC - but have started hearing a lot of shady things about the matter and then all of a sudden heard very vocal US denials about "Diego Garcia" having anything to do with it.
Diego Garcia, as it turns out, is a US military base - a US governmental torture I mean interrogation camp (one of many known ones) - in some small landmass in the Indian Ocean, which the Brits had handed over to the Americans for use. The Brits themselves had stolen the place from the natives and illegally de-populated the area.** (But then, "Diego Garcia" sounds a suitably christianised space. And you know the purpose of christianisation is to make sheep compliant to their masters. The converted sheep in Tiruvanantapuram can look forward to the same treatment on arrival of the US base there - it's what the purpose of all conversion of 3rd world/"ethnic" types is for, after all: to willingly roll over on demand, for jeebus and all.)
** As seen in
a. answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070608113445AAxIlxI
b. answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120127023415AAKHrB4
Why I do not see many Brits worried about self-determination of the inhabitants of Diego Garcia Island?
[color="#FF0000"]The point of this post: some news items on the missing Malaysian Flight MH370 -[/color]
1. reuters.com/article/2014/03/14/us-malaysia-airlines-radar-exclusive-idUSBREA2D0DG20140314
2. sg.news.yahoo.com/us-military-south-asian-airports-mh370-pilot-simulator-020501547.html
3. au.ibtimes.com/articles/548589/20140417/mh370-conspiracy-missing.htm
While Barrett sounds to me like a convert to islamania, the final observation that "this plane would simply turn, fly off in the wrong direction, be spotted over the Maldives Islands heading for Diego Garcia and just disappear" does contain verifiable facts which are specifically relevant.
A lot of suspicions have been aired, and there's also been a lot of apparent disinformation (when official mouthpieces say directly conflicting stuff - IIRC, US denied any radar readings that the plane had flown south at all - it points to disinformation by at least one party.)
Many countries - China, Malaysia, even Iran - suspect foul play by the US and that it was after citizens of their own who were onboard. The suspicions regarding some Chinese persons who were onboard were particularly intriguing, but anyone interested would already know else can google.
Foul play certainly can't be ruled out: AmeriKKKa is famous for brutal violence all while pretending to be the good guy. That last seems to be a uniquely AmeriKKKan feature: no one has developed hypocrisy to their extent. (E.g. last seen in AmeriKKKa's vindictive pursuit of Snowden for revealing that US and western governments were spying on everybody. Snowden becomes a "traitor" for following basic ethics in the public's interest, yet erstwhile Soviets who walked over were not called traitors but euphemistically dubbed "defectors" for defecting to the "good/right" AmriKKKan side.)
[color="#0000FF"]Another thing to web search on is for: Blackwater Ukraine[/color]
The artists formerly known as Blackwater, now called Academi (and tomorrow called "your friendly neighbourhood teletubbies" for all I know) - are those berserk US mercenaries working on US govt behest (yet often also affording some degree of deniability to said AmriKKKan govt). And they're supposed to have been sighted meddling in Ukraine.
AmriKKKans deny this - but then, it's what soldiers of fortune are for after all: deniability - and say that it 'must surely be' a false flag op by the Russians. Russians and Ukrainians claim that AmriKKKan govt mercenaries are pretending to be Russians and Ukrainians to create skirmishes/to set them against each other. And as Russians and Ukrainians are not such obvious incorrigible liars as AmriKKKans are, the latter seems far more likely.
4. news.asiaone.com/news/asia/missing-mh370-china-surprises-flight-search-satellite-photos-say-analysts
(Singapore news)
At least the US isn't the only one with adept satellites capable of spying in high detail.
US has made itself into the sole superpower and is deliberately sabotaging Russia and China from getting anywhere in any matter. IMO it's better for the rest of the world if there are 2 or more superpowers at any one time to keep each other in check. AmeriKKKan tyranny takes a very high toll on the grazing herbivore masses, after all.
Of course multiple superpowers means more likelihood of (world) wars, but one superpower means global oppression, with an increasing power-differential between the sole superpower/tyrant and the masses, with decreased chances of ever throwing the yoke off.
AmeriKKKa is no better to India than China certainly. US long-distance meddling and genocide in India is not negligible (AmeriKKKan govt didn't just consciously fund NE christoterrorist "separatism" but also funds jihad in India from both Indian islamania and Pakistan/BD) and regularly kills - in magical "accidents" - or otherwise incapacitates any Indian scientists working on noteworthy matters, as frequently documented in the Rajeev2004 blog.
- rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-kill-off-nuclear-program-by.html
- There was also Kerala Hindoo Narayanan working on liquid propulsion (?) who was character-assassinated by AmriKKKans and CIA's handpicked native useful idiots, who ludicrously tarred him with being an oxymoronic "Nationalist Hindoo spy for islamaniac Pakistan":
rediff.com/news/interview/wronged-isro-scientist-india-will-be-safe-in-modis-hands/20140226.htm
via rajeev2004.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/quick-notes-peak-car-era-indus-drought.html
[Can also compare with current Chinese suspicions on why AmriKKKan govt may have been after certain specific Chinese persons onboard the Malaysian flight.]
AmriKKKa has issues with any other nation 1. developing anything nuclear and 2. developing any space technology and 3. developing its own hardware, OS, network, and search engines from the ground up (utterly independent of AmriKKKan products, which are open to compromise so that US can spy on and sabotage them). Wish India would do 3, for its own security.
It may be unrelated but:
IIRC, Krushchev (sp?) a Russian of the Soviet era in charge of the Russian space programme back during the day of the Venera missions stated that erstwhile US president Kennedy had offered twice to team up with the Russians for joint space missions. The first time, Kruschev was unwilling, afraid that military security may get sacrificed, and refused. But the second time Kennedy proposed it, Krushchev was planning to accept it/or indicated that he accepted it. But then Krushchev noted that Kennedy got assassinated soon after (and he himself would get replaced/moved into another department in the USSR). [BTP] May not be why Kennedy got assassinated, but still: the powers that be in the US (and I'm not talking about the transitory presidents) have been very, very insistent on being unchallenged in space. US is so greedy about this, at times it seems to want to have a monopoly here too.
Diego Garcia, as it turns out, is a US military base - a US governmental torture I mean interrogation camp (one of many known ones) - in some small landmass in the Indian Ocean, which the Brits had handed over to the Americans for use. The Brits themselves had stolen the place from the natives and illegally de-populated the area.** (But then, "Diego Garcia" sounds a suitably christianised space. And you know the purpose of christianisation is to make sheep compliant to their masters. The converted sheep in Tiruvanantapuram can look forward to the same treatment on arrival of the US base there - it's what the purpose of all conversion of 3rd world/"ethnic" types is for, after all: to willingly roll over on demand, for jeebus and all.)
** As seen in
a. answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070608113445AAxIlxI
Quote:Why did the US steal Diego Garcia from poor islanders?
Diego Garcia, the main island of the Chagos group in the Indian Ocean. It was once a phenomenon of natural beauty and peace ââ¬â a paradise. Today is one of America's biggest military bases in the world. There are more than 2,000 troops, 2 bomber runways, 30 warships, and a satellite spy station
Update : "kill them all, take their land and then go there for vacation"
Best Answer Asker's Choice
David M answered 7 years ago
It was a gift from the British to the U.S.A. One of many reasons why people around the world hate us and Europe and we wonder why.
Edit: Those of you who answered already are wrong . Read this excerpt: The displaced inhabitants and their advocates have claimed that their right of occupation was violated by the British Foreign Office, accused of orchestrating the depopulation so that the island could be used as a U.S. military base. The British government has generally denied any wrongdoing, and disputes the emigrants' right to be repatriated. However, Englandââ¬â¢s own most powerful source of justice, the British High Court, has declared the Chagos people were victims of a crime on humanity and should be allowed to return home. This ruling has not been honored, so the islanders continue to lead a difficult life of poverty.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation_of_Diego_Garcia
b. answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120127023415AAKHrB4
Why I do not see many Brits worried about self-determination of the inhabitants of Diego Garcia Island?
Quote:Also to further this ugly stain, the UK proposed that the BIOT become a "marine reserve" with the aim of preventing the former inhabitants from returning to their lands.
[color="#FF0000"]The point of this post: some news items on the missing Malaysian Flight MH370 -[/color]
1. reuters.com/article/2014/03/14/us-malaysia-airlines-radar-exclusive-idUSBREA2D0DG20140314
Quote:Exclusive: Radar data suggests missing Malaysia plane deliberately flown way off course - sources
By Niluksi Koswanage and Siva Govindasamy
KUALA LUMPUR Fri Mar 14, 2014 6:01am EDT
[photo caption:] The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Kidd and USS Pinckney are seen en transit in the Pacific Ocean in this U.S. Navy picture taken May 18, 2011. Kidd and Pinkney have been searching for the missing Malaysian airliner and are being re-deployed to the Strait of Malacca of Malaysia's west coast as new search areas are opened in the Indian Ocean, according to officials on March 13, 2014.
Credit: Reuters/US Navy/Seaman Apprentice Carla Ocampo/Handout
(Reuters) - Military radar data suggests a Malaysia Airlines jetliner missing for nearly a week was deliberately flown hundreds of miles off course, heightening suspicions of foul play among investigators, sources told Reuters on Friday.
Analysis of the Malaysia data suggests the plane, with 239 people on board, diverted from its intended northeast route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and flew west instead, using airline flight corridors normally employed for routes to the Middle East and Europe, said sources familiar with investigations into the Boeing 777's disappearance.
Two sources said an unidentified aircraft that investigators believe was Flight MH370 was following a route between navigational waypoints when it was last plotted on military radar off the country's northwest coast.
This indicates that it was either being flown by the pilots or someone with knowledge of those waypoints, the sources said.
[color="#800080"](See next news item below, from Yahoo Singapore: "US military base, South Asian airports in MH370 pilotââ¬â¢s simulator, says paper")[/color]
The last plot on the military radar's tracking suggested the plane was flying toward India's Andaman Islands, a chain of isles between the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal, they said.
Waypoints are geographic locations, worked out by calculating longitude and latitude, that help pilots navigate along established air corridors.
A third source familiar with the investigation said inquiries were focusing increasingly on the theory that someone who knew how to fly a plane deliberately diverted the flight.
POSSIBLE SABOTAGE OR HIJACK
"What we can say is we are looking at sabotage, with hijack still on the cards," said that source, a senior Malaysian police official.
All three sources declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak to the media and due to the sensitivity of the investigation.
Officials at Malaysia's Ministry of Transport, the official point of contact for information on the investigation, did not return calls seeking comment.
Malaysian police have previously said they were investigating whether any passengers or crew had personal or psychological problems that might shed light on the mystery, along with the possibility of a hijacking, sabotage or mechanical failure.
As a result of the new evidence, the sources said, multinational search efforts were being stepped up in the Andaman Sea and also the Indian Ocean.
LAST SIGHTING
In one of the most baffling mysteries in modern aviation, no trace of the plane nor any sign of wreckage has been found despite a search by the navies and military aircraft of more than a dozen countries.
The last sighting of the aircraft on civilian radar screens came shortly before 1:30 a.m. Malaysian time last Saturday (1730 GMT Friday), less than an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur, as the plane flew northeast across the mouth of the Gulf of Thailand. That put the plane on Malaysia's east coast.
Malaysia's air force chief said on Wednesday an aircraft that could have been the missing plane was plotted on military radar at 2:15 a.m., 200 miles northwest of Penang Island off Malaysia's west coast.
This position marks the limit of Malaysia's military radar in that part of the country, a fourth source familiar with the investigation told Reuters.
When asked about the range of military radar at a news conference on Thursday, Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said it was "a sensitive issue" that he was not going to reveal.
"Even if it doesn't extend beyond that, we can get the co-operation of the neighboring countries," he said.
The fact that the aircraft - if it was MH370 - had lost contact with air traffic control and was invisible to civilian radar suggested someone on board had turned off its communication systems, the first two sources said.
They also gave new details on the direction in which the unidentified aircraft was heading - following aviation corridors identified on maps used by pilots as N571 and P628. These routes are taken by commercial planes flying from Southeast Asia to the Middle East or Europe and can be found in public documents issued by regional aviation authorities.
In a far more detailed description of the military radar plotting than has been publicly revealed, the first two sources said the last confirmed position of MH370 was at 35,000 feet about 90 miles off the east coast of Malaysia, heading towards Vietnam, near a navigational waypoint called "Igari". The time was 1:21 a.m..
The military track suggests it then turned sharply westwards, heading towards a waypoint called "Vampi", northeast of Indonesia's Aceh province and a navigational point used for planes following route N571 to the Middle East.
From there, the plot indicates the plane flew towards a waypoint called "Gival", south of the Thai island of Phuket, and was last plotted heading northwest towards another waypoint called "Igrex", on route P628 that would take it over the Andaman Islands and which carriers use to fly towards Europe.
The time was then 2:15 a.m. That is the same time given by the air force chief on Wednesday, who gave no information on that plane's possible direction.
The sources said Malaysia was requesting raw radar data from neighbours Thailand, Indonesia and India, which has a naval base in the Andaman Islands.
(Additional reporting by Christine Chan in Singapore. Writing by Alex Richardson: Editing by Dean Yates)
2. sg.news.yahoo.com/us-military-south-asian-airports-mh370-pilot-simulator-020501547.html
Quote:[color="#0000FF"]US military base[/color], South Asian airports in MH370 pilotââ¬â¢s simulator, says paper
The Malaysian Insider ââ¬â Tue, Mar 18, 2014
[color="#0000FF"]Investigations into the flight simulator taken from the missing pilot's home showed a software for five practice runways, including one belonging to the United States, Berita Harian reported today.[/color]
"Among the software we checked so far is the Male International Airport in Maldives, three airports in India and Sri Lanka, [color="#0000FF"]and one belonging to the US military base in Diego Garcia[/color]. All have a runway length of 1,000 metres," a source told the Malay daily.
Police seized the flight simulator from pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah's house last Saturday before reassembling it at the federal police headquarters in Bukit Aman, where experts were conducting checks.
After 10 days of searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, investigators have now conducting extensive background checks on the 239 people on board the plane, including the pilots, crew and passengers.
[color="#0000FF"]The US previously rejected claims that the plane could have landed at their base on the atoll in the central Indian Ocean, which is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory.[/color]
The source said investigations were being conducted by the police together with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to obtain any clues in the search for MH370.
Investigators are looking into the possibility that the plane could have landed at an airport where control might have been lax, or that it landed on sea, hills or an open space.
Police have opened investigation papers on March 8 into the crew and passengers as well as the ground staff who may have come into contact with the aircraft.
They searched the homes of Zaharie and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid shortly after Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced on Saturday that the plane had been deliberately diverted off course.
[color="#0000FF"]Although he stopped short of calling it a hijacking, Najib said the fact that MH370 had turned back and headed towards the west was in line with the deliberate actions of someone on the plane.[/color]
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said investigations would cover all angles.
Putrajaya also appealed to the public not to make any assumptions based on police investigations.
The search and rescue mission for MH370 has entered a new phase with its areas being expanded to the Northern Corridor, covering Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan until the north of Thailand and to the Southern Corridor ââ¬â from Indonesia toward the south of the Indian Ocean.
MH370, which was carrying 239 passengers and crew members, vanished from the radar about an hour into after taking off from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport en route to Beijing. ââ¬â March 18, 2014.
3. au.ibtimes.com/articles/548589/20140417/mh370-conspiracy-missing.htm
Quote:MH370 Linked to U.S.-UK Conspiracy; Does Australia Participate in the Grand Plot?
By Athena Yenko | April 17, 2014 4:20 PM EST
Theories on the missing MH370 not only sparked conspiracies and cover-ups involving the Malaysian government. In a larger context, the MH370 brought into spotlight a grand intertwined plot involving the biggest and most powerful governments - the U.S. and the UK.
For years, the British government had denied claims of its permission granted for the U.S. to use Diego Garcia for CIA "activities" dubbed as "rendition" program.
But a controversial theory claimed the MH370 was taken in secrecy and being held in the place as part of a false flag attack likened to the 9/11 bombing.
As a result, the spotlight was now shifted to Diego Garcia as where CIA was allegedly running a black jail for Al-Qaeda suspects. This claim was reportedly backed-up by leaked 500-page documents from the U.S. Senate investigation on CIA's alleged kidnap and torture activities following 9/11.
[...] [color="#800080"]<paras on US' governmental torture facility in Diego Garcia. But then, US is well-*known* to have many.>[/color]
With this old issue surrounding Diego Garcia resurfacing, conspiracists insisted MH370 is one part of a grand plot which full detail and objective remains unknown.
With Australia leading the search for the missing plane, what is its involvement in the grand picture? Conspiracists claimed Australia's participation was to mislead the attention away from Diego Garcia.
Ever since Australia led the search, Prime Minister Tony Abbott had come up of announcements of promising leads that bright orange objects afloat Indian Ocean and pings. But each time search operatives came back, it had no positive results.
Dr. Kevin Barrett, an Arabist-Islamologist, one of America's best-known critics of the War on Terror, highlighted a dubious aspect with how Australia is handling the search.
Barrett is also the co-founder of the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Alliance, and author of the books Truth Jihad: My Epic Struggle Against the 9/11 Big Lie (2007) and Questioning the War on Terror: A Primer for Obama Voters (2009).
"This aircraft cannot be just lost. It cannot have just disappeared. This makes no sense. The CIA base in Alice Springs Australia knows precisely what happened to that plane. And it is interesting the Malaysian government has asked them and they are not getting any response. There is obviously a cover-up," Barret said during an interview with Iran's Press TV channel.
"It is simply unthinkable that this plane would simply turn, fly off in the wrong direction, be spotted over the Maldives Islands heading for Diego Garcia and just disappear. It is something very strange that has happened to this plane."
While Barrett sounds to me like a convert to islamania, the final observation that "this plane would simply turn, fly off in the wrong direction, be spotted over the Maldives Islands heading for Diego Garcia and just disappear" does contain verifiable facts which are specifically relevant.
A lot of suspicions have been aired, and there's also been a lot of apparent disinformation (when official mouthpieces say directly conflicting stuff - IIRC, US denied any radar readings that the plane had flown south at all - it points to disinformation by at least one party.)
Many countries - China, Malaysia, even Iran - suspect foul play by the US and that it was after citizens of their own who were onboard. The suspicions regarding some Chinese persons who were onboard were particularly intriguing, but anyone interested would already know else can google.
Foul play certainly can't be ruled out: AmeriKKKa is famous for brutal violence all while pretending to be the good guy. That last seems to be a uniquely AmeriKKKan feature: no one has developed hypocrisy to their extent. (E.g. last seen in AmeriKKKa's vindictive pursuit of Snowden for revealing that US and western governments were spying on everybody. Snowden becomes a "traitor" for following basic ethics in the public's interest, yet erstwhile Soviets who walked over were not called traitors but euphemistically dubbed "defectors" for defecting to the "good/right" AmriKKKan side.)
[color="#0000FF"]Another thing to web search on is for: Blackwater Ukraine[/color]
The artists formerly known as Blackwater, now called Academi (and tomorrow called "your friendly neighbourhood teletubbies" for all I know) - are those berserk US mercenaries working on US govt behest (yet often also affording some degree of deniability to said AmriKKKan govt). And they're supposed to have been sighted meddling in Ukraine.
AmriKKKans deny this - but then, it's what soldiers of fortune are for after all: deniability - and say that it 'must surely be' a false flag op by the Russians. Russians and Ukrainians claim that AmriKKKan govt mercenaries are pretending to be Russians and Ukrainians to create skirmishes/to set them against each other. And as Russians and Ukrainians are not such obvious incorrigible liars as AmriKKKans are, the latter seems far more likely.
4. news.asiaone.com/news/asia/missing-mh370-china-surprises-flight-search-satellite-photos-say-analysts
(Singapore news)
Quote:Missing MH370: China surprises with flight search satellite photos, say analysts
AFP
Thursday, Mar 13, 2014
BEIJING - Beijing was unusually open in revealing its satellite capabilities when it released photographs of possible debris from a missing airplane, despite taking four days to make the images public, analysts said on Thursday.
RELATED STORIES
Special: The mystery of MH370
China's State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) published three pictures late Wednesday of what it said were suspected large floating objects in the South China Sea.
The images were taken on Sunday, it said, raising questions as to why it took several days for them to emerge, and whether - and if so, when - they had been passed to the Malaysian authorities co-ordinating the search.
China's space programme is military-run and normally shrouded in secrecy.
Malaysian and Vietnamese flights in the area of the photographs failed to spot anything, officials said.
[color="#0000FF"]But Morris Jones, an independent space analyst based in Australia, said Beijing's disclosure of the pictures was surprisingly open. "Satellite imagery is a strategic tool that has military applications, and nations are usually very cautious in revealing how much these satellites can do and how much they can see," he told AFP.
"I am surprised that the Chinese have openly released this image because we don't normally see images of this quality." According to SASTIND, the objects were approximately 13 by 18 metres, 14 by 19 metres and 24 by 22 metres in size.
The actual images "were probably of a much higher quality than the images they released to the media", Jones said.
Authorities released them "to provide enough information to show something, but the image is degraded to hide the true capabilities of the actual satellite." While China's abilities in space remain decades behind the US, it has made rapid technological leaps and aims to launch an independent space station by 2020, eventually sending a man to the moon.[/color]
It has deployed 10 satellites in the search for MH370, Premier Li Keqiang said Thursday.
At least the US isn't the only one with adept satellites capable of spying in high detail.
US has made itself into the sole superpower and is deliberately sabotaging Russia and China from getting anywhere in any matter. IMO it's better for the rest of the world if there are 2 or more superpowers at any one time to keep each other in check. AmeriKKKan tyranny takes a very high toll on the grazing herbivore masses, after all.
Of course multiple superpowers means more likelihood of (world) wars, but one superpower means global oppression, with an increasing power-differential between the sole superpower/tyrant and the masses, with decreased chances of ever throwing the yoke off.
AmeriKKKa is no better to India than China certainly. US long-distance meddling and genocide in India is not negligible (AmeriKKKan govt didn't just consciously fund NE christoterrorist "separatism" but also funds jihad in India from both Indian islamania and Pakistan/BD) and regularly kills - in magical "accidents" - or otherwise incapacitates any Indian scientists working on noteworthy matters, as frequently documented in the Rajeev2004 blog.
- rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-kill-off-nuclear-program-by.html
Quote:Thursday, December 01, 2011How to kill off a nuclear program by bumping off the scientists: remember homi bhabha?Also rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-day-homi-bhabha-was-killed-very.html
dec 1st, 2011 CE
a strategic assassination or two does wonders.
[color="#800080"]<Radha Rajan collated examples of many Indian, Russian, Iranian nuclear scientists all magically made 'accidentally' dead - often in plane crashes - to AmriKKKa's great convenience>[/color]
- There was also Kerala Hindoo Narayanan working on liquid propulsion (?) who was character-assassinated by AmriKKKans and CIA's handpicked native useful idiots, who ludicrously tarred him with being an oxymoronic "Nationalist Hindoo spy for islamaniac Pakistan":
rediff.com/news/interview/wronged-isro-scientist-india-will-be-safe-in-modis-hands/20140226.htm
via rajeev2004.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/quick-notes-peak-car-era-indus-drought.html
[Can also compare with current Chinese suspicions on why AmriKKKan govt may have been after certain specific Chinese persons onboard the Malaysian flight.]
AmriKKKa has issues with any other nation 1. developing anything nuclear and 2. developing any space technology and 3. developing its own hardware, OS, network, and search engines from the ground up (utterly independent of AmriKKKan products, which are open to compromise so that US can spy on and sabotage them). Wish India would do 3, for its own security.
It may be unrelated but:
IIRC, Krushchev (sp?) a Russian of the Soviet era in charge of the Russian space programme back during the day of the Venera missions stated that erstwhile US president Kennedy had offered twice to team up with the Russians for joint space missions. The first time, Kruschev was unwilling, afraid that military security may get sacrificed, and refused. But the second time Kennedy proposed it, Krushchev was planning to accept it/or indicated that he accepted it. But then Krushchev noted that Kennedy got assassinated soon after (and he himself would get replaced/moved into another department in the USSR). [BTP] May not be why Kennedy got assassinated, but still: the powers that be in the US (and I'm not talking about the transitory presidents) have been very, very insistent on being unchallenged in space. US is so greedy about this, at times it seems to want to have a monopoly here too.