Monthly Archives: February 2013

Raisons d’État: Justifying Assassination and Murder of American Citizens

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“From Niccolo Machiavelli and Cardinal Richelieu to George W. Bush and Barack Obama, survival of the state has been the highest priority of political authority. Any means necessary regardless of morality or legality is sanctioned for reasons of state (raisons d’État). In statecraft, the ends justify the means.  I suspect that many of these craven individuals (of both parties) will soon be marching in lock-step unison in shouting their support of an earlier assassination of an American citizen by the top tier of the National Security establishment fifty years ago who was seen as a traitor to his nation during the height of the Cold War.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/132257.html

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Obama’s Drone War Could Legally Kill Americans But Not Anywhere

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“Obama is stretching the terms ‘imminent threat’ beyond recognition to justify dubious unilateral presidential action, now targeting regional al Qaeda affiliates in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia—all of which had no role in the 9/11 strikes and which focus their attacks mainly against local governments. This expanded war is congressionally unauthorized, and so it is illegal and unconstitutional to kill anyone in these countries—Americans or foreign peoples.  There is now talk about setting up a secret court to approve adding Americans to the terrorist kill list, much like the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court does for spying on Americans.”

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3553

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Upstate New York bids to become federal drone testing site

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“A coalition of upstate New York universities and defense contractors has submitted a bid to become a federally designated testing and research site for the integration of unmanned aircraft systems, or UAS, into domestic airspace.  Drones are expected to be used for everything from search and rescue, to crop dusting, to newsgathering. One of the key issues the FAA will have to assess is the ability of drones to communicate with air traffic controllers, manned aircraft and other drones.  The massive growth of drone use is expected to create an economic boom in the U.S.”

http://www.innovationtrail.org/post/upstate-new-york-bids-become-federal-drone-testing-site

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“Klaatu, Barada, Bar Code”: Bar Codes Visible from Outer Space

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“What are these all about?  We are told that they were camera calibrating devices. American spy planes in the 1950s and 1960s flew overhead, taking photos. But to take a good photo, a camera needs precise measurements for focusing. These bar codes provided the masters.  Anyway, that’s the official line.  In half a century, none of this leaked out. It makes you wonder. How many things have never leaked out? How many don’t leak out today, and won’t for 50 years?”

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2013/02/20/klaatu-barada-bar-code-bar-codes-visible-from-outer-space/

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At least six tanks leaking at military nuclear waste dump in Washington state

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“The Hanford nuclear site in the southwest of the US state was used to produce plutonium for the bomb that brought an end to World War II.  Output grew after 1945 to meet the challenges of the Cold War, but the last reactor closed down in 1987. Its website says:’“Weapons production processes left solid and liquid wastes that posed a risk to the local environment.’  The ecological threat extends to the Columbia River, it added, noting that in 1989 US federal and Washington state authorities agreed a deal to clean up the Hanford Site.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/22/at-least-six-tanks-leaking-at-nuclear-waste-site-in-washington-state/

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Activists launch campaign against ‘autonomous weapons’: Killer robots must be stopped

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“A new global campaign to persuade nations to ban “killer robots” before they reach the production stage is to be launched in the UK by a group of academics, pressure groups and Nobel peace prize laureates.  The Stop the Killer Robots campaign will be launched in April at the House of Commons and includes many of the groups that successfully campaigned to have international action taken against cluster bombs and landmines. They hope to get a similar global treaty against autonomous weapons.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/24/activists-launch-campaign-against-autonomous-weapons-killer-robots-must-be-stopped/

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Washington Hypocrisy Skyrockets, Credibility Plummets

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“Obama supports a UN treaty on what a US official terms ‘illicit arms trafficking and proliferation’. At the same time, the US and ally Saudi Arabia are sending heavier arms into Syria. These shipments and their past interference in Syria violate the UN charter to which they solemnly pledged to adhere. The US is not alone in these and other violations in Syria and other countries.  If Washington routinely violates its own Constitution, it is to be expected that it can and will violate any agreement it makes. Hypocrites cannot lead on any issues, not when they have no credibility. They can exercise power, but they cannot lead.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/132822.html

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Defense industry consultants advise Arab nations on crowd control products

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“Defence experts who say many lives could have been saved during Arab uprisings if states used proper crowd control measures sought to tap into a growing market at an Abu Dhabi arms fair.  Anti-riot vehicles with sophisticated acoustic repellents have boldly taken their place alongside the likes of Eurofighter’s Typhoon warplane and the bristling firepower of rocket launchers at the arms industry’s biennial quest for petrodollars in the Gulf emirate.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/22/experts-urge-arab-nations-to-train-in-crowd-control/

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Opponents vote to shoot Egypt’s president Morsi into space

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“Opponents of Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi are voting to send him where no Islamist leader has gone before: outer space.  Morsi on Saturday was leading the field in Egypt in an online contest sponsored by deodorant makers Axe to send a lucky few on a shuttle operated by space tourism company Space Expedition Corp.  Egypt’s opposition movement April 6 entered Morsi into the competition.  ‘With God’s help, and under His care, Morsi will soon be launched to the moon,’ the group said on its Facebook page, along with a picture of the president in a spacesuit.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/23/opponents-vote-to-shoot-egypts-morsi-into-space/

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Afghan president: U.S. special forces creating ‘insecurity and instability’

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“Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded Sunday the withdrawal of US special forces from Wardak within two weeks, accusing them of fuelling ‘insecurity and instability’ in the volatile province neighbouring the capital Kabul.  ‘In today’s national security council meeting… President Karzai ordered the ministry of defence to kick out the US special forces from Wardak province within two weeks,’ said presidential spokesman Aimal Faizi.  ‘The US special forces and illegal armed groups created by them are causing insecurity, instability, and harass local people in this province,’ he told a press conference.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/24/afghan-president-u-s-special-forces-creating-insecurity-and-instability/

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