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Earl Great Article and I would like to add this to the mix by an Press TV-Iran publication 2/20/13 testimony from an US Senator.
Glad you in the rhythm again!
Press TV Article:
A US senator says assassination drone strikes have killed around 4,700 people, including civilians, a number that exceeds some independent estimates of the toll.
"We've killed 4,700," said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a staunch supporter of drone use, AFP reported on Wednesday.
"Sometimes you hit innocent people, and I hate that, but we're at war, and we've taken out some very senior members of al-Qaeda," Graham added.
Graham defended President Barack Obama's use of drones to carry out assassinations overseas, saying "It's a weapon that needs to be used."
"It's a tactical weapon. A drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle that is now armed," the senator noted.
US officials refuse to publicly discuss any details of the covert program and the death toll from drone strikes remains a mystery.
A report by the Washington-based New America Foundation has said that there have been 350 US drone strikes since 2004, most of them during President Obama's terms in office. The foundation has put the death toll between 1,963 and 3,293, with 261 to 305 civilians killed.
According to the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, between 2,627 and 3,457 people have been killed by US drones in Pakistan since 2004, including between 475 and nearly 900 civilians.
Graham, however, did not make it clear weather the figure was the US government's own estimate of casualties from drone strikes.
The use of assassination drones overseas under the administration of Obama has caused a national debate.
Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has also called for the formation of a third group to check on the president’s ability to conduct drone strikes.
"I think this idea of being able to execute, in effect, an American citizen, no matter how awful, having some third party -- informing the Congress or the intelligence committees or something like that...some check on the ability of the president to do this has merit, as we look to the longer term future," Gates said.
On February 14, Obama promised to be more forthcoming with the American public on his administration's campaign of drone strikes.
"What I think is absolutely true is it's not sufficient for citizens to just take my word for it that we're doing the right thing," Obama said in an online video question-and-answer session sponsored by Google.
He vowed to work with Congress to craft a "mechanism" to be more open about how the drone war is conducted.
Washington uses assassination drones in several countries, claiming that they target “terrorists.” According to witnesses, however, the attacks have mostly led to massive civilian casualties.
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Thursday, February 21st 2013 at 2:38PM
Yaiqab Saint
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Thanks for your comment Saint. A new era of war technology.
Thursday, February 21st 2013 at 3:13PM
Earl Brown
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so, what can Black Americans do about this?
Thursday, February 21st 2013 at 3:16PM
Harry Watley
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@Earl
You are welcome!!!!!!
I hope they use this against the criminal gangs and drug dealers.
Actually the electromagnetic pulse weapons would be better and cleaner.
No residue left... just dust........
Thursday, February 21st 2013 at 5:08PM
Yaiqab Saint
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@ Earl
You had me thinking about this on the train commute back to Long Island.
Actually I truly prefer the 'electromagnetic' or particle laser beam weapons to fight domestic terrorists of all varieties. Okay let's take this scenario for example: "You have a one male that takes a hostage captive. Then the FBI special forces are called in and snake a micro-camera through the ventiliation system of the building structure to view the "criminal" and captive. Once visual intelligence has been established then the strategic plan goes into place. The FBI special force negotiators contact the criminal domestic terrorist and negotiate an escape vehicle for him/her upon released of the captive. Usually during the negotiations the criminal will talk at a distant from the captive of course away from windows.
Now this is when a "plasma particle electromagnetic/laser weapon" comes in handy.
It has the ability to transverse walls, steel, windows, etc.
Once the domestic terrorist is within range of the kinetic weapon the decision would be made to either fry his nueral-electric system in the brain, ie, sympathic, or parasympathic autonomic nervous system or target his electrical system in the heart. The weapon matrix targeting system would be highly accurate.
Now let's say the decision was made to target the electrical system in the heart.
Here is the pathophysiology of the electrical signal process in the heart chambers
1. The S-A node (Sinal-Atria) is the natural pacemaker that creates an electrical signal.
2. The electrical signal follows natural electrical pathways through both atria (right/left). The movement of electricity causes the atria to contract, which helps push blood into the ventricles.
3. The electrical signal (electrical bridge). There the signal pauses to give the venticles time to fill with blood.
4. The electrical signal spreads through the {His-Purkinje System}. The movement of electricity causes the ventricles to contract and push blood out to your lungs and body.
Thus the particle weapon attacks the number two process in the SA-node (Sinal-Atria) region of the Atrium and causes a violent tachycardia and lights out for the criminal.
No need to be concerned about the pathophysiology process of 3 & 4.
No collateral damage to the hostage and minimum or no damage to property.
Drones with missile projectiles may fly off course and cause collateral damage.
I would like to hear your pros and cons on this emerging technology to fight crime.
Thursday, February 21st 2013 at 8:49PM
Yaiqab Saint
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goodDay, Great Friend
the pc has released the genie.............
Thursday, February 21st 2013 at 8:56PM
powell robert
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@Earl
Here is another article to back up your statement: "coming to a neighborhood near you"...
Article: Brennan Refuses to Rule Out Drone Assassinations Within the US
Global Research, February 19, 2013
In written responses to questions submitted by the Senate Intelligence Committee, John Brennan, the Obama administration’s nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), refused to rule out drone assassinations of American citizens on US soil. The committee on Friday released a declassified version of Brennan’s responses.
Brennan, currently President Obama’s chief counterterrorism adviser, is the architect and director of the program of drone missile assassinations that is run out of the White House with the personal participation of Obama. Asked squarely, “Could the Administration carry out drone strikes inside the United States?” Brennan replied, “This Administration has not carried out drone strikes inside the United States and has no intention of doing so.”
This is what is known as a non-responsive answer. It is reasonable to assume that if the answer was “no,” Brennan would simply have written, “no.” Instead, in order to avoid a giving straightforward “yes,” he answered a different question than the one that was asked.
Brennan’s answers to the written questions make clear that there was nothing accidental about his refusal to rule out drone assassinations within the United States at his February 7 confirmation hearing before the Senate committee. It was, rather, an expression of a deliberate policy adopted by the Obama White House and the military/intelligence agencies.
When asked at the hearing whether he believed that the Obama administration could carry out drone assassinations on US soil, Brennan responded that he was determined to “optimize transparency on these issues, but at the same time, optimize secrecy and the protection of our national security.” He thus completely evaded the question, and no member of the committee, Democrat or Republican, pursued the matter further.
The very real threat of presidential assassinations of US citizens and others within the United States starkly raises the specter of police-military dictatorship. Behind the legalistic double-talk of the administration’s white paper on drone killings of Americans, made public two weeks ago, the US government is claiming unlimited powers to assassinate anyone, anywhere in the world.
By asserting the power to order the killing of alleged terrorists—secretly and without judicial or congressional oversight—and acting on this asserted power to kill thousands of people, including at least three American citizens—the Obama administration has effectively abrogated the US Constitution’s Bill of Rights and the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee that no person shall be “deprived of life … without due process of law.”
The lack of significant protest from any section of the political or media establishment underscores the disintegration of American democracy and the absence of any constituency for the defense of democratic rights within the US ruling class. Just how rapidly the American bourgeoisie is breaking with its own previous legal norms is demonstrated by the absence of serious opposition to Brennan’s confirmation. Four years ago, Obama had to scuttle plans to name Brennan, then a top CIA official, to head the agency, due to protests over his role in and public defense of the Bush administration’s use of torture.
Now the Senate is poised to confirm Brennan’s nomination. The major newspapers either ignored the transcript of his written responses to the intelligence committee or carried perfunctory reports buried in their inside pages. The major organ of American liberalism, the New York Times, which has editorialized in support of Brennan’s confirmation, did not bother even to report his refusal to rule out drone assassinations within the US.
On the same day that the Senate committee released Brennan’s written responses, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued 1,428 domestic drone permits since 2007, a figure far higher than previous estimates. The newspaper wrote, “The FAA this week solicited proposals to create six sites across the country to test drones, a crucial step before widespread government and commercial use is approved.”
Under Department of Homeland Security grants, many local police departments have already acquired drones and implemented their own drone spying programs. The use of drones within the US for manhunts, such as the recent dragnet by Los Angeles police in pursuit of rogue officer Christopher Dorner, is by now a reality. The hundreds of drones already buzzing overhead “can carry high-resolution video cameras, infrared sensors, license plate readers, listening devices and other high-tech gear,” the Los Angeles Times reported.
Since 9/11, the foundations of a police state in the US have been systematically laid. Under the cover of the so-called “war on terror,” the extrajudicial “wartime” powers of the president have been massively expanded. With Obama, this process has been intensified. The illegal drone assassination program has been expanded, along with renditions and domestic spying. Laws have been enacted sanctioning the military detention, without charges or trial, of US citizens.
As the World Socialist Web Site has warned from the outset, the police state measures enacted since September 11, 2001 have nothing to do with protecting American citizens from terrorism. They are, on the contrary, designed to be used against the growth of working class opposition to social inequality and ever worsening living and working conditions.
Especially since the financial crash of 2008 that set off the greatest crisis of American and world capitalism since the Great Depression, the ruling classes in all of the major imperialist countries have turned to brutal austerity policies to place the burden of the failure of their system on the working class. With no policies to offer for alleviating the suffering of the people, and facing growing popular resistance, they are all turning to state violence and the criminalization of working class struggle.
In the United States, the center of the world crisis, the ruling class has likewise responded to the economic decline of American capitalism with militarism abroad and austerity and increasing repression at home.
It would be politically naïve not to assume that the US military/intelligence apparatus is drawing up lists of political opponents to be eliminated, “disappeared” or imprisoned in the event of major social convulsions, just as Washington’s client dictatorships in Latin America, Indonesia and elsewhere have done in the past.
The American working class must make its own preparations for the mass struggles that lie ahead. At the center of these preparations, and the only basis for the defense of democratic rights, is the adoption of a socialist and revolutionary perspective whose aim is to break the grip of the corporate-financial ruling elite and replace its repressive state with a workers state.
Thursday, February 21st 2013 at 8:56PM
Yaiqab Saint
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@Robert
And your thoughts??
Thursday, February 21st 2013 at 9:03PM
Yaiqab Saint
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sorry earl, i normally dont comment off subject, but if you allow me a thought for the youngFamily man NOW being Illegally hounded by the negroid BIA -- legion of cartoons
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the history of euroExploration, Exploitation is a History of Deceive, disrupt and divide the Family of Adaam(as)
and the disruption2013 has met the pc,
it makes anyone, small, big, etc. deceptive, disruptive and divisive....
Sûrat Al‘Ankabût
(The Spider) XXIV
In the Name of Allâah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
1. Alif-Lâm-Mîm.
2. Do people think that they will be left alone because they say: "We believe," and will not be tested.
3. We indeed tested those who were before them. Allâah will certainly make known the truth of those who are true, and will certainly make known the falsehood of those who are liars, as Allâah knows all before putting them to test.
4. Or do those who do evil deeds think that they can hide from Us and escape Our punishment? Evil is that which they judge!
5. Whoever hopes for the Meeting with Allâah, then Allâah’s Time is surely coming and He is the All-Hearer, the All-Knower.
6. Who ever strives, he strives only for himself. Allâah stands not in need of any of AlÂlamîn (mankind, jinn, and all that exists).
Thursday, February 21st 2013 at 9:37PM
powell robert
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Thank you Robert. Saint your information has be noted. We have entered an era of the all intrusive State. It appears to me, these weapons will be used against American citizens. However, for every action there is an reaction. Saint, what technology can we the "people" use to nullified this prevasive technology?
Friday, February 22nd 2013 at 1:09PM
Earl Brown
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@Earl Brown
Good question you poised to nullify this technology???
In my opinion the oversight by the government would not be pervasive if the majority of the people were independent and spiritually righteous.
Aint no cop or federal agent kicking down my door trying to stress me out.... because Saint is productive, I take care of my family, I don't break federal, state, and local laws.
Most Americans are dependent on the US government and once they restrict your freedom.... all of sudden they start crying??????
This is how it works.... if you depend on someone then expect that person will in the future call a favor or expect to control you.
Those disagreeables or unrighteous people who commit crime and live in poorer communities is due to bad choices and unrighteous behavior for the most part.
So everyone needs to learn that you must save yourself......
Friday, February 22nd 2013 at 5:18PM
Yaiqab Saint
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