Droning On, the Growth Industry 3
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May 6, 2014 at 4:51 pm
Hmmm, good message. But doesn’t know much about national security issues. All the stuff he says you can’t find anywhere on Africa has actually been in the public. The Pentagon has had a horny about central Africa since around 2005, I think, even moreso after the French Foreign Legion was sent to Timbuktu last year. I think there was even a medical report recently that went into post-traumatic shock injuries and depression caused by drone action in places like Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia where it’s been going on for a long time. Been covered in news, magazines, ahem, listed at GlobalSecurity. Latest squib I noticed was Lockheed Martin issuing a business report looking toward the Ukraine situation to cause growth in the sales of its anywhere deployable air defense missile system. You can guess to whom it wishes to sell it.
May 6, 2014 at 6:51 pm
A valid comment, but I don’t think it’s a “fatal defect,” as we used to say on the railroad (a “fatal defect” being an error in a disciplinary proceeding that could result in its being overturned).
In a way, it’s almost part of the message. The information is out there–after all, he found it and you live and breathe it professionally–but it’s not going to turn up on the mumble-B-mumble network’s nightly news; you have to look for it. Most persons are too busy just stayin’ alive to pay that kind of attention to news which, though it may not be obscure, is obscured by omission.
And, besides, here’s this great new cat video! It’s soooooo cute!
May 7, 2014 at 11:58 am
America as a fascist state in decline was always going to fail in its own unique way. Third world country with the biggest world security infrastructure in global history and a tech sector that’s the world leader in programming convenience apps for consumer electronics. And where some of the servants who still have work practice free speech, journalism, entertainment, describing reality but which can achieve nothing.