Updated: 04/06/2013 11:46 AM Created: 04/03/2013 9:04 PM KSTP.com
Unmanned aircraft, commonly referred to as "drones," are being used to hunt terrorists around the world and back up US military forces on the battlefield.
And soon smaller versions could be in the skies over Minnesota.
The state is competing against 36 other states to host one of a half dozen test sites for drones. KSTP
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12:12 PM, May 19, 2013 CAMP RIPLEY, MINN. — The Minnesota National Guard has officially launched its new $3.9 million Unmanned Aircraft Operations Facility at Camp Ripley. Military Times
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Interestingly, holder defended actions of drone strikes saying; based on generations-old legal principles & Supreme Court decisions...United States citizenship alone does not make such individuals immune from being target. Kind of arbitrary definition!
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I would imagine that there are those among us who feel that things along these lines will magically get better. Disabuse yourselves of that notion. This country is headed downhill, and fast. Where we end up will make Hitler's Germany look like a church social.
We live in a country whose government willfully ignores lethal corporate control of every conceivable watchdog agency, promotes a for-profit police state, and has a populace that is easily duped by a distracting media operated by the same corporate control. Anyone that thinks the halcyon days of the twentieth century will somehow make a miraculous return is dreaming.
We are reaping the rewards from decades of slavery, genocide, greedy commercialism and murderous militarism. This is our legacy - a paranoid government that will stop at nothing to justify its embrace of the absolute worst in Human ambitions.
How's that for sunshine, lollipops and rainbows?
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Interestingly, Holder defended actions of drone strikes saying
Holder? He can't even be trusted to investigate himself. And he already KNOWS what he did.
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Ok, so the drone facility at Camp Ripley is different from the one the Department of Employment and Economic Development is talking about in the KSTP article right? So we already have 1, and we might get another one?
This part of the KSTP article:
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The state is competing against 36 other states to host one of a half dozen test sites for drones.
Who are they competing for? Who is looking for states to host drone test sites?
The two viewer comments for the KSTP article were quite interesting.
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I would imagine that there are those among us who feel that things along these lines will magically get better. Disabuse yourselves of that notion. This country is headed downhill, and fast. Where we end up will make Hitler's Germany look like a church social.
We live in a country whose government willfully ignores lethal corporate control of every conceivable watchdog agency, promotes a for-profit police state, and has a populace that is easily duped by a distracting media operated by the same corporate control. Anyone that thinks the halcyon days of the twentieth century will somehow make a miraculous return is dreaming.
We are reaping the rewards from decades of slavery, genocide, greedy commercialism and murderous militarism. This is our legacy - a paranoid government that will stop at nothing to justify its embrace of the absolute worst in Human ambitions.
How's that for sunshine, lollipops and rainbows?
Your right! Former Obama adviser Axelrod said it best on MSNBC while attempting to defend Obama regarding his knowledge of the IRS scandal... it's impossible for him to have known..government is too big!!! There ya have it...!!!
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Posted on: May 28 2013,2:42 am
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Interestingly, holder defended actions of drone strikes saying; based on generations-old legal principles & Supreme Court decisions...United States citizenship alone does not make such individuals immune from being target. Kind of arbitrary definition!
It's the job of an attorney to use "legal principles & Supreme Court decisions". What part of that is arbitrary in your mind?
Most conservatives didn't breath a word of criticism for drone strikes until January '09. Personally, I'd like to see the targeted killings of citizens end for good, as well as the entire war on terror. But let's do it regardless of whether there's an "R" or a "D" next to the name of the POTUS.
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I'm in no way sticking up for Bush, I didn't think I'd ever dislike any president more than him, but the things coming about during Obama, and the more I've been finding out about the last several administrations... It appears they are all the same person. Maybe the kooks who talk about "shadow government" are right.
Under Bush there far far fewer drone strikes. - Whether that's because they were able to keep them secret better or they just did fewer I don't know. Human rights groups have been the main ones screaming about drone strikes. That's because they kill so many innocent people, and according to most investigations on the subject, it's just a tiny fraction of the drone kills that are not innocent.
Does it really matter who was worse? Bush or Obama? Republican or Democrat? Honestly, I don't see a difference. I've been hearing people for years saying they are voting for "the lesser of two evils". I didn't realize just how accurate the word "evils" was. Our leaders are crap, and they are dangerous, not just to people in other countries, but to us. - They have been dangerous to other countries and to us for a very long time. Thanks to the internet, that fact is becoming more well known.
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Thanks to the internet, that fact is becoming more well known.
That's because if it's on the internet it's true.
Bonjour!
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Thanks to the internet, that fact is becoming more well known.
That's because if it's on the internet it's true.
Bonjour!
You must be forgetting about all the declassified documents we now have access to thanks to the internet. All the archived Congressional investigations, testimonies. - There's absolutely no need to just "believe" anything said on the internet. Unless you think the government documents are false?
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