Yep. NSA is more oriented towards military operations, think John Casey in Chuck, that character is NSA, along with DIA and national Geospatial Mapping Agency (part of DoD and National Reconnaissance Office.
Rules yes. But not lawyers and laws about what is acceptable as a weapon and not.
For example the combat shotgun has been repeatedly criticized since the 1890s - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_shotgun#History - usually by nations that didn't deploy them in combat (Ottoman Empire, Germany, United Kingdom).
1. We don't know that the governments of Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen have not given consent. Since Afghanistan and Iraq are puppets of the US at this juncture, like the Republic of Vietnam was in 1968, I think its safe to assume they've given consent. Pakistan's government obviously has to have given consent or they would have just shot the damned UAVs down.
2. "Non-state actors" is our definition of the people who are eating Hellfires, they would say that they are fighters for the World Islamic Front for Combat Against the Jews and Crusaders and that they declared war in 1998.
Seriously. The people being targeted by this as combatants in war zones or lawless "tribal areas".
The US DoD and CIA put aircraft up in orbit there, they get intelligence over weeks from these aircraft and finally after multi-step and multi-agency protocols they get the green light to drop a JDAM or fire a Hellfire at someone. Its not a "summary execution", the people being targeted have ample opportunity to quit the area, quit being a hostile and if they are hell bent on taking this course of action, get some damned air defense and shoot down a UAV or two. They've been shot down in the past.
Sure, they won't arrest overseas, they'll get a foreign government to take them into custody and then hand them over, but it remains that the FBI runs around the world arresting folks.
No, they shouldn't have been arrested, which was my point. They were US citizens, some of whom denounced their citizenship and took up arms. They were treated like combatants. There were summary executions, battles, raiding, destruction of property.
Besides, the use of UAVs with weapons is not a summary execution. UAVs can and have been shot down, it isn't the fault of the US government and military if the people we are attacking don't have any air defense systems.
The US didn't formally declare a state of war in Korea, Vietnam, the Plains Indian Wars, the Southwest Indian Wars and that didn't stop the bombardment, detainment and killing of enemy combatants and leaders.
Since the article states that the attacks have been carried out in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen, I think that apprehending them with minimal risk isn't going to be an option.
Should US citizens who traveled back to Germany in the 1930s, who then joined the German military and fought against the US in the European and Mediterranean Theatre of Operations not been shoot at or bombed?
Should the FBI and US Military Police, maybe the US Marshall's Service, have run around with a warrant trying to arrest them?
Its a US Constitutional Amendment and US Federal Law to have the right to own and bear arms.
The ACLU's stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States."
"The Scalia majority invokes much historical material to support its finding that the right to keep and bear arms belongs to individuals; more precisely, Scalia asserts in the Court's opinion that the "people" to whom the Second Amendment right is accorded are the same "people" who enjoy First and Fourth Amendment protection."
And it was Waco TX, and they weren't going to overthrow the Government, they were just nut jobs with a lot of guns that the Clinton White House and DoJ wanted to make an example out of.
No. We didn't arrest Confederate combatants in the American Civil War, nor did they set out to arrest Plains and Southwest Indian combatants who left the Reservations and treaty lands during the Indian Wars.
"The US "militia" provided for in the Constitution and protected in the Bill of Rights is very much the same thing: a standing army. Except now the US has a regular army -- one of the largest in the world, btw -- therefore making the militia redundant for the time being."
"The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are— (1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and (2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
2. In District of Columbia vs. Heller, the majority US Supreme Court ruling established - "The Scalia majority invokes much historical material to support its finding that the right to keep and bear arms belongs to individuals; more precisely, Scalia asserts in the Court's opinion that the "people" to whom the Second Amendment right is accorded are the same "people" who enjoy First and Fourth Amendment protection: "'The Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary as distinguished from technical meaning.'"
So, US Federal Law establishes that every male from 17 to 45 is a member of the unorganized militia and the US Constitution established that every adult has the right to keep and bear arms.
As for keeping a pistol under a pillow, I don't do that. I keep it on the nightstand where its easier to reach.
Well, we don't even know how much of the rare earth minerals are in the US. Vast parts of the United States are either under surveyed or not surveyed at all.
I'm up in Alaska and there is a huge fight over expanding mines and new mines.
For fossil fuels, the cheapest to extract and to refine is rock oil, so that is what is being used up right now. Synthetic fuels, like what the Nazis and South Africa developed are also viable, along with natural gas to diesel, coal to diesel, biofuels, shale oil, etc.
Just because they aren't in use right now doesn't mean they won't be economical with scale, it just means there hasn't been a reason to move to them.
SkyTran isn't ideal, its a pipe dream. None are built so we don't know how they will really work.
The 40 billion is for a short route. LA to Las Vegas.
San Diego to the new airport, 10 billion.
So if the going rate in 2010 dollars for Los Angeles to Las Vegas is 40 billion, figure 60 billion for LA to Phoenix. Las Vegas to Denver would be 100-150 billion. Denver to KC would be 60-80 (cheaper because it's flat).
Just to expand Acela between Eugene and Vancouver BC is going to be a half billion dollars. Tampa to Orlando is 1.2 billion.
As for fossil fuels jacking the price of air travel, that is true, but turbines are flexible, other fuels like bio mixtures, diesel and even diesel from coal dust are future options. There are literally hundreds of years of coal dust for fuel sitting around.
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Yep. NSA is more oriented towards military operations, think John Casey in Chuck, that character is NSA, along with DIA and national Geospatial Mapping Agency (part of DoD and National Reconnaissance Office.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._intelligence_community#Organization
The CIA has been doing its own thing for decades and is very much an outsider when it comes to dealing with NSA, FBI, etc.
Not Catholic, so not that familiar with Devil's Advocate.
Good posts, I was extra outraged because I have a migraine today.
Comparing stormfront to Breitbart? Really?
Look at the byline of the linked story
"By SHARON THEIMER
Associated Press Writer"
You won't see that over at Stormfront because Stormfront is a fraking White Supremacist BBoard.
Rules yes. But not lawyers and laws about what is acceptable as a weapon and not.
For example the combat shotgun has been repeatedly criticized since the 1890s - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_shotgun#History - usually by nations that didn't deploy them in combat (Ottoman Empire, Germany, United Kingdom).
Or I'm saying that war sucks and the idea that it can legislated and legally codified has no basis in history.
To get Wired more traffic.
No, I understand it perfectly well.
1. We don't know that the governments of Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen have not given consent. Since Afghanistan and Iraq are puppets of the US at this juncture, like the Republic of Vietnam was in 1968, I think its safe to assume they've given consent. Pakistan's government obviously has to have given consent or they would have just shot the damned UAVs down.
2. "Non-state actors" is our definition of the people who are eating Hellfires, they would say that they are fighters for the World Islamic Front for Combat Against the Jews and Crusaders and that they declared war in 1998.
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm
Seriously. The people being targeted by this as combatants in war zones or lawless "tribal areas".
The US DoD and CIA put aircraft up in orbit there, they get intelligence over weeks from these aircraft and finally after multi-step and multi-agency protocols they get the green light to drop a JDAM or fire a Hellfire at someone. Its not a "summary execution", the people being targeted have ample opportunity to quit the area, quit being a hostile and if they are hell bent on taking this course of action, get some damned air defense and shoot down a UAV or two. They've been shot down in the past.
Really? Then why does the FBI deploy overseas?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fbi
"More than 50 international offices called "legal attachés" are in U.S. embassies worldwide."
http://www.fbi.gov/libref/factsfigure/counterterrorism.htm
"The FBI quickly deployed over 100 Agents from the Counterterrorism Division, the Laboratory, and various field offices to Aden."
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/28/nation/na-fbi28
Sure, they won't arrest overseas, they'll get a foreign government to take them into custody and then hand them over, but it remains that the FBI runs around the world arresting folks.
No, they shouldn't have been arrested, which was my point. They were US citizens, some of whom denounced their citizenship and took up arms. They were treated like combatants. There were summary executions, battles, raiding, destruction of property.
Besides, the use of UAVs with weapons is not a summary execution. UAVs can and have been shot down, it isn't the fault of the US government and military if the people we are attacking don't have any air defense systems.
The US didn't formally declare a state of war in Korea, Vietnam, the Plains Indian Wars, the Southwest Indian Wars and that didn't stop the bombardment, detainment and killing of enemy combatants and leaders.
Since the article states that the attacks have been carried out in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen, I think that apprehending them with minimal risk isn't going to be an option.
Should US citizens who traveled back to Germany in the 1930s, who then joined the German military and fought against the US in the European and Mediterranean Theatre of Operations not been shoot at or bombed?
Should the FBI and US Military Police, maybe the US Marshall's Service, have run around with a warrant trying to arrest them?
Its a US Constitutional Amendment and US Federal Law to have the right to own and bear arms.
The ACLU's stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States."
http://www.aclu.org/about-aclu-0
"The Scalia majority invokes much historical material to support its finding that the right to keep and bear arms belongs to individuals; more precisely, Scalia asserts in the Court's opinion that the "people" to whom the Second Amendment right is accorded are the same "people" who enjoy First and Fourth Amendment protection."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
And it was Waco TX, and they weren't going to overthrow the Government, they were just nut jobs with a lot of guns that the Clinton White House and DoJ wanted to make an example out of.
No. We didn't arrest Confederate combatants in the American Civil War, nor did they set out to arrest Plains and Southwest Indian combatants who left the Reservations and treaty lands during the Indian Wars.
The DoD won't give up an operational details that they've not already given to the press.
That video was made by the United States government?
"The US "militia" provided for in the Constitution and protected in the Bill of Rights is very much the same thing: a standing army. Except now the US has a regular army -- one of the largest in the world, btw -- therefore making the militia redundant for the time being."
No, that is incorrect from a number of points.
1. Congress passed a law - http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/10/311.shtml
"The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
2. In District of Columbia vs. Heller, the majority US Supreme Court ruling established - "The Scalia majority invokes much historical material to support its finding that the right to keep and bear arms belongs to individuals; more precisely, Scalia asserts in the Court's opinion that the "people" to whom the Second Amendment right is accorded are the same "people" who enjoy First and Fourth Amendment protection: "'The Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary as distinguished from technical meaning.'"
So, US Federal Law establishes that every male from 17 to 45 is a member of the unorganized militia and the US Constitution established that every adult has the right to keep and bear arms.
As for keeping a pistol under a pillow, I don't do that. I keep it on the nightstand where its easier to reach.
Pebble Mine is the big fight here right now, probably the second biggest single copper deposit of its type on the planet.
The main anti-mining group just had to pay 100,000 in "settlement" for funneling money into the anti-mining initiative.
In the next 50-100 years?
http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/rare_earths/mcs-2010-raree.pdf
Consumption in the US
7,410
Reserves in the US
13,000,000
1754 years worth
Chinese mining
120,000
Chinese reserves
36,000,000
300 years worth.
Well, we don't even know how much of the rare earth minerals are in the US. Vast parts of the United States are either under surveyed or not surveyed at all.
I'm up in Alaska and there is a huge fight over expanding mines and new mines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_Mine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dog_mine
http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/rare_earths/mcs-2010-raree.pdf
"In 2009, rare earths were not mined in the United States."
Yet this will apply to "Big Corporations" and hit them just as hard or harder than it will "Private Citizen".
So since they just "buy" the branches, tell me who owns the Judges on the 11th Circuit?
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2009/full_list/
Nor have the cars, the rails or all of it put together.
Where oh where are there autonomous cars driving around on a regular basis?
For fossil fuels, the cheapest to extract and to refine is rock oil, so that is what is being used up right now. Synthetic fuels, like what the Nazis and South Africa developed are also viable, along with natural gas to diesel, coal to diesel, biofuels, shale oil, etc.
Just because they aren't in use right now doesn't mean they won't be economical with scale, it just means there hasn't been a reason to move to them.
SkyTran isn't ideal, its a pipe dream. None are built so we don't know how they will really work.
The 40 billion is for a short route. LA to Las Vegas.
San Diego to the new airport, 10 billion.
So if the going rate in 2010 dollars for Los Angeles to Las Vegas is 40 billion, figure 60 billion for LA to Phoenix. Las Vegas to Denver would be 100-150 billion. Denver to KC would be 60-80 (cheaper because it's flat).
Just to expand Acela between Eugene and Vancouver BC is going to be a half billion dollars. Tampa to Orlando is 1.2 billion.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/ARRA_High_Speed_Rail_Grants_Details.jpg
As for fossil fuels jacking the price of air travel, that is true, but turbines are flexible, other fuels like bio mixtures, diesel and even diesel from coal dust are future options. There are literally hundreds of years of coal dust for fuel sitting around.