US will “absolutely” continue drone war on Iran
RT | 14 December, 2011
Even with the loss of not one, but two multi-million-dollar drones in recent weeks, the head of the US Defense Department says that America will “absolutely” continue stealth jets missions over Iran.
Despite these losses, the US Department of Defense is showing no signs of retreat, even if Tehran has insisted that they are well on their well to decoding the top-secret technologies under the hood of the recovered Sentinel. Speaking to Fox News this week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that stealth missions into Iran will continue “absolutely,” despite ongoing opposition from overseas.
The first in a new fleet of drones departing air bases to patrol the international skies is the Avenger, a state-of-the-art stealth craft that serves as an updated edition to the arsenal of Predators and Reapers currently in America’s repertoire. With the ability to elude radar detection and bomb enemy targets with the help of internal weapons bays on each wing, the Pentagon will be sending the first new Avenger over to Afghanistan.
Given that the Taliban’s technology does not necessitate America to put in its skies an aircraft with the technologies as advanced as the Avenger, the decision to deploy the United States’ newest toy over Afghanistan is raising questions about the exact intentions of the craft.
America recently put a Sentinel drone over the skies of Afghanistan — or at least said they did — as part of a reconnaissance mission. The US lost contact with the craft, however, only later to deny its existence, eventually prompting the government of Iran to release footage of the craft they recovered after it was seen over its own skies. The US would later say that the drone must have wavered outside of its intended [path] and into Iranian territory by mistake, though officials out of Tehran said the craft was intercepted around 140 miles from their border with Afghanistan.
Less than two weeks after Iran managed to hijack the craft and bring it down unscathed, the United States lost a second drone, as RT reported on Tuesday this week. Both attacks befell advanced machinery that are valued in the tens-of-millions of dollars apiece.
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Revisionist History Books Banned by Amazon
By Michael Hoffman • Unz Review • August 25, 2018
On August 13, 2018 Amazon banned Judaism’s Strange Gods: Revised and Expanded, which was published in 2011 and sold by Amazon for the past seven years. Along with the much larger study, Judaism Discovered, (sold by Amazon since 2008), it has had an international impact both as a softcover volume as well as a digital book circulating on the Amazon Kindle.
Sales to India, Japan and the Middle East were rapidly growing. The digital Kindle format is particularly important for the free circulation of books because it bypasses borders and customs and hurdles over the prohibitive cost of shipping which the US Postal Service imposed on mail to overseas destinations several years ago (eliminating economical surface mail).
Amazon has also banned The Great Holocaust Trial: The Landmark Battle for the Right to Doubt the West’s Most Sacred Relic (sold by Amazon since 2010).
These volumes maintain a high standard of scholarly excellence, had a majority of favorable reviews by Amazon customers, are free of hatred and bigotry and have sold thousands of copies on Amazon. Out of the blue we were told that suddenly “Amazon KDP” discovered that the books are in violation of Amazon’s “content guidelines.” Asking for documentation of the charge results in no response. It is enough that the accusation has been tendered. The accused are guilty until proved innocent, although how proof of innocence is presented is anyone’s guess. There is no appeals process. This is what is known as “Tech Tyranny.”
There is a nationwide purge underway that amounts to a new McCarthyism — blacklisting and banning politically incorrect speech and history books under the rubric of “hate speech” accusations, initiated in part by two Zionist thought police organizations, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). It’s a flimsy pretext for censoring controversial scholarly books that can’t be refuted.
In addition to our books being hate-free, we note that there are hundreds of hate-filled Zionist and rabbinic books brimming with ferocious bigotry for Palestinians, Germans and goyim in general, which are sold by Amazon. … continue
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It seems to me that the US-led gang of imperialist are stupid and self-destructive. Unfortunately, they are not the only victims of their crimes against humanity.
I hope the Russians can do as well if Obama launches missiles armed with nuclear warheads across Russia’s borders/airspace.
Considering how mercenary the military is today, “professionals” – not patriots making sacrifices for their country, and I am sure people within the US military-industrial complex, can be bought just like politicians are.
So, in reality, the US could be blocked and blasted in a WW3 scenario. For those who believe the 9/11 cover-story, should also be able to believe the US could be utterly destroyed do to incompetence alone!
Every nuclear power plant in the US is targeted as if it were a ammunition dump; for it is considering Fukushima, and then over a 100 dotting the US. All nuclear power plants should be shut down, taken down, buried and new should have been built in the first place!
I worked to end the US wars of aggression in Indochina, Central America, and now the Middle East. Eastern Europe this endgame high-ground and black queen (Obama) will be checkmated by the Red Knight (Putin) and all of the dreams of David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and Zbigkniew Brzezinski will be lost on his Grand Chessboard conspiracy,
Remember this too, Vietnam won, Nicaragua won, and so will the true chessmen are the Russians. Remember Napoleon and Hitler? They destroyed their military by invading Russia. So, that will not be tried, ICBMs will be the Marines of WW3. And that looks to be this year, so time spent on ballgames and the republican primaries is tantamount to committing omnicide.
My drone can kick your drone’s ass! A press of a button will press the issue and we will never know who started it, or who is left alive on the planet, unless those weapon systems are never used but defensively. And the US is the only that has used them as terror weapon on Japan to scare the then, USSR.
Israel keeps making threats to level the capitols of Europe if they can not have things the insane way they demand in furtherance of their genocidal imperialist plans based on religious bullshit, being cynically used for atheist the masquerade with piety at the Wailing Wall, as does the babbling bigots with bibles.
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And I used to think that the “globalist agenda” was an over done bugaboo. Now we have a regime in Washington that insists on being able to operate drones across the globe and assassinate people at will.
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Yes, drones reining via terror and caves as comfort zones for the mask mouthing propaganda from teleprompters things they did not write, edit, or necessarily understand.
Actors, stage managed, and are in fact, drones themselves droning on and on, drunk on the catchall cop-out, “yes we can” and that is power-politics properly known as totalitarianism. Don’t let vapid elections fool you, that is all they are for anyway!
Booing is in order, an order! Where is Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, an honest man speaking salaciously, seriously, and very strongly?
I think they are posted and posting on the internet, by the hundreds. We have a references resources, anyone who can read, can educate themselves better than schools and colleges, for teachers are meeklings, and boys think they become men by playing ball games, and conforming to style, and avoiding substance, other than drugs.
Our answer has to be; “NO YOU CAN’T”
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