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Previously: The Drone Hoax Continues Phil Murphy is the lowest lace-curtain Irish scum. He will just say anything for Jews. The Jews could put a green hat on him and he would get up on the table and dance like a nigger. New York Post: Phil Mur
Dissociated Press Conspiracy theorists have been proven right once again, as Representative Jeff Van Drew’s claim that an Iranian mothership was behind a rash of drone sightings has been confirmed by the CIA, FBI, NASA, Project Blue Beam, Project Jim Beam, and other government agencies. Official confirmations of the Iranian space vessel’s identity followed the... Read More
Previously: Chuck Schumer Calls on Homeland Security to Use Better Tech to Identify Drones John Kirby Now Says New Jersey Drones are Stars It’s still not clear what the purpose of the drone hoax is, actually. Chuck Schumer has to go out and say he’s against it, but as we’ve said repeatedly, there is simply... Read More
Previously: Insecure Jew Security Official Says Drones are Drones Chuck Schumer Calls on Homeland Security to Use Better Tech to Identify Drones Oh, so now they’re stars? This whole thing is moronic. It’s like a parody of government gaslighting. New York Post: White House spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Monday that the drones zipping... Read More
This drone hoax is the worst hoax I’ve ever seen. The federal government is saying “we don’t know what they are (but we know they’re not a threat).” They’re literally just drones. I know what they are. Everyone with any basic sense looking at them knows what they are. The government has to be the... Read More
Have the Iranians released a second mothership over Oregon? Or is this one aliens for real this time? New York Post: When pressed for more details, the pilot says it looks like “an aircraft strobe” — then says another one showed up. The pilot says the lights are “zipping towards us and back out towards... Read More
“Space Moslems” We didn’t think Iran was a threat. Then they released the mothership to deliver the motherlode to innocents in New Jersey. New York Post: A New Jersey congressman claimed Wednesday that the mystery drones over the Garden State are from Iran, and they’re being launched by a mothership parked off the East Coast.... Read More
Related: Axios: Pentagon “Shocked” by Houthi Weapons and Capabilities North Korea is funny, because these people are totally blockaded and sanctioned into oblivion but they have ultra-high IQs so they just roll with it and keep building weapons. They can sell these weapons to others. RT: I wish I was from an isolated and totally... Read More
Houthis are now killing Jews in Tel Aviv. These are very primitive people. I don’t know that the people are primitive, I don’t mean that in a derogatory way, but I mean to say they’ve been getting the shit bombed out of them by Saudi (using US weapons, of course) since 2015, and the country... Read More
Since last November the regime of Vladimir Zelensky (lead image, left) in Kiev has been advertising the products of a company called Piranha-Tech for newly developed electronic warfare (EW) technologies which the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu (right) is now supplying the Ukraine for operations against Russia. According to a Russian military blogger report published... Read More
In the United States, giving aid and comfort to the enemy is a serious offense, but America’s armed drone program, while it kills a lot of bad guys, also helps generate new recruits to replace them. In early May 2023, the Pentagon announced a drone attack killed a “senior al-Qaeda leader” in Syria. On 18... Read More
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US and Israel will prevent the sale of Iranian drones to Russia
In spite of an overwhelming flood of disinformation coming from the Western mainstream media and governments, there continue to be obviously widely divergent views on the current war between Ukraine and Russia. The official and media supported narrative is that Moscow attacked its neighbor in violation of “rule based” principles of international relations, whereby an... Read More
The Ukraine people are moving into the robot age, vowing to attack Russia with suicide drones. AP: Yeah, thanks for that, Elon. Ukraine has purchased drones like the Fly Eye, a small unmanned aerial vehicle used for intelligence, battlefield surveillance and reconnaissance. “And the next stage, now that we are more or less equipped with... Read More
Predators and the “Neutralization” of 69 People in Iraq and Syria
On October 7th, at an “undisclosed location” somewhere in “Southwest Asia,” men wearing different types of camouflage and dun-colored boots gathered before a black backdrop adorned with Arabic script. They were attending a ceremony that mixed solemnity with celebration, the commemoration of a year of combat that left scores of their enemies slain. One of... Read More
How Israeli High-Tech Firms Will Up-Armor the U.S.-Mexican Border
It was October 2012. Roei Elkabetz, a brigadier general for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), was explaining his country’s border policing strategies. In his PowerPoint presentation, a photo of the enclosure wall that isolates the Gaza Strip from Israel clicked onscreen. “We have learned lots from Gaza,” he told the audience. “It’s a great laboratory.”... Read More
Predator drones, tested out in this country’s distant war zones, have played an increasingly prominent role in the up-armoring of the U.S.-Mexican border. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) launched its first Predator in 2004, but only really ramped up drone use in March 2013. There have been approximately 10,000 Predator flights along that border since.... Read More
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Drone-Killing the Fifth Amendment
You can't get more serious about protecting the people from their government than the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, specifically in its most critical clause: "No person shall be... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." In 2011, the White House ordered the drone-killing of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki without trial.... Read More
What a world we’re in. Thanks to smartphones, iPads, and the like, everyone is now a photographer, but it turns out that, in the public landscape, there’s ever less to photograph. So here are a few tips for living more comfortably in a photographically redacted version of our post-9/11 world. Even if you’re a professional... Read More
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Speaking Truth From the Robotic Heavens
Enemies, innocent victims, and soldiers have always made up the three faces of war. With war growing more distant, with drones capable of performing on the battlefield while their “pilots” remain thousands of miles away, two of those faces have, however, faded into the background in recent years. Today, we are left with just the... Read More
Earlier this month, CIA-operated drones killed as many as 55 people in Yemen in several separate strikes. Although it was claimed that those killed were “militants,” according to press reports at least three civilians were killed and at least five others wounded. That makes at least 92 US drone attacks against Yemen during the Obama... Read More
The collapse of available bases could push the U.S. to revamp its failed counterterrorism strategy
The Obama administration is facing complete collapse of its counterterrorism strategy in South Asia as it fails to ratify a new status of forces agreement with Afghanistan. Yet many intelligence insiders consider the failure to be a good thing. The administration erred in constructing its capability to counter the terrorist threat largely around the use... Read More
Imagine this: a president and his top officials as self-professed assassins -- and proud of it, even attempting to gain political capital from it. It’s not that American presidents have never been associated with assassination attempts before. At a National Security Council meeting, Dwight D. Eisenhower personally ordered the CIA to “eliminate” Congolese Prime Minister... Read More
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How to Build a Post-Constitutional America One Death at a Time
Terrorism (ter-ror-ism; see also terror) n. 1. When a foreign organization kills an American for political reasons. Justice (jus-tice) n. 1. When the United States Government uses a drone to kill an American for political reasons. How's that morning coffee treating you? Nice and warming? Mmmm. While you're savoring your cup o' joe, imagine the... Read More
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How Does the Global War on Terror Ever End?
[This epilogue to Scahill’s bestselling book, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, is posted with the kind permission of its publisher, Nation Books.] On January 21, 2013, Barack Obama was inaugurated for his second term as president of the United States. Just as he had promised when he began his first campaign for president... Read More
The CIA's insurance plan for Karzai and Maliki---and what it means for Syria
Media reports of CIA preparations to use drones to target al-Qaeda-linked rebels in Syria, should the post-Assad situation warrant such an intervention, are only party correct. The plan to use drones under certain circumstances is in reality part of the much larger CIA program in Iraq that parallels the program being set up in Afghanistan.... Read More
Last week, Senators threatened to put a “hold” on the nomination of John Brennan to be CIA director over his refusal to answer questions about the use of drones to kill Americans on US soil. That the president’s nominee to head the agency that has used drones to kill perhaps thousands overseas could not deny... Read More
A report on the post-Petraeus CIA and jihadist "refugees" in Turkey.
There was considerable pushback at the Central Intelligence Agency following the resignation of David Petraeus. Former military officers are generally disliked at CIA, but Petraeus made all the right moves by arriving at Langley without a staff and with a professed willingness to learn. Then he went ahead and pulled together a team that favored... Read More
Dance of the Drones
Drones or their equivalent have long attracted political and military leaders dreaming of the surgical removal of their enemies. In 1812, the governor of Moscow, Count Rostopchin, devised a plan to get a hot-air balloon to hover over the French lines at Borodino and drop an explosive device on Napoleon. The source for this is... Read More
Kelley’s article on counting the collateral damage arising from the drone wars starting me thinking about the latest “success” being reported in Washington, the killing of alleged al-Qaeda number two Abu Yahya al-Libi. A series of drone strikes took place on Saturday through Monday, June 2nd through the 4th, part and parcel of eight strikes... Read More
Assassination Campaigns Do Not Win Wars, and They Create as Many Enemies as They Destroy
As the US and its allies ponder what to do about Syria, one suggestion advanced by the protagonists of armed intervention is to use unmanned drones to attack Syrian government targets. The proposal is a measure of the extraordinary success of the White House, CIA and Defense Department in selling the drone as a wonder... Read More
There is a new normal in warfare developing as drone technology becomes more widespread. The downing of a CIA drone is the most recent episode in the secret war against Iran and it is to be presumed that American drones are also flying out of Turkish bases to monitor developments in Syria. In the past,... Read More
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Analyzing the History of a Controversial Movement
The evidence is clear — but often ignored