Pakistan gets more money from the US, than any other single source.
The other significant funding of social and religious elements in Pakistan comes from staunch ally, Saudi Arabia.
BTW: There were NO Yemenis, Pakistanis or even Afghans REMOTELY connected with the occurrences on 9/11/00. In fact, all documentation leads entirely to involvement by Saudis. Alone.
Only the most blinkered of observers would not conjecture that the presence of ill-defined "al qaeda" groups in these three countries is the likely outcome of US/UK military invasions of their countries.
So. This comment you deride is "Flamebait" because it cites independent analysis by someone who has actually interviewed primary sources IN YEMEN.
This is opposed to the "factual" position that you maintain is presented by the unvalidated, assertions presented unilaterally by state/administration sources.
US Drone Strike statistic based on months of research by a team of journalists of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism:
Total reported killed: 2,433 - 3,093
Civilians reported killed: 467 - 815
Children reported killed: 178
Total reported injured: 1,163 -1,268
Strikes under the Bush Administration: 52
Strikes under the Obama Administration: 267
Total strikes: 319
On 14 July 2009, Daniel L. Byman of the Brookings Institution stated that although accurate data on the results of drone strikes is difficult to obtain, it seemed that ten civilians had died in the drone attacks for every militant killed. He suggested that drone strikes may kill "10 or so civilians" for every militant killed, which would represent a civilian to combatant casualty ratio of 10:1. Byman argues that civilian killings constitute a humanitarian tragedy and create dangerous political problems, including damage to the legitimacy of the Pakistani government and alienation of the Pakistani populace from America. He suggested that the real answer to halting al-Qaeda's activity in Pakistan will be long-term support of Pakistan's counterinsurgency efforts.
-- Or you can believe the CIA, who are PAID NOT TO LIE!
It is a matter of record and fact: The US kills more innocent civilians in Yemen - or anywhere else, for that matter - than do any alleged 'al-qaeda' affiliates.
Jeremy Scahill, National Security reporter for The Nation:
"Saleh essentially made an agreement with the Obama administration to get an increase in his counterterrorism funding in return for allowing the United States to conduct various operations of its own, unilaterally. And so, effectively, counterterrorism funding for his regime became like crack cocaine. Yemen is the poorest country in the Arab world. His government was extremely corrupt. This was their cash cow, claiming that they were fighting terrorism.
And so what you've seen over the past 10, 12 years of history between the United States and Yemen is Ali Abdullah Saleh, when it was convenient for him, allowing the al-Qaida threat to flare up, looking the other way when 23 al-Qaida people broke out of the prison that they were supposed to be held in, actually allowing weapons to be smuggled into al-Qaida areas so that they would attack a police station, and then coming back to the United States and saying, oh, we really need more funding to go and fight these terrorists."
" the United States has sort of outsourced its intelligence operations in Yemen to Saudi Arabia and Yemen's security forces. And we've seen repeatedly over the past 10 years the Saudis and the Yemenis manipulate events regarding al-Qaida within Yemen to try to curry favor with the United States or to get more funding.
And so I just would sort of reserve commentary, as a reporter who's covered Yemen extensively and been there, on going too far down the line of guessing who this agent was, who he was working for, and what he actually did, because I've seen it too many times where someone's getting played, or someone's getting spun."
"Colleagues of mine who are in the south of Yemen right now and are on really the front lines of this drone war, my friend Iona Craig, who's a great reporter for the Times of London, was just saying to me that she met civilians who were severely burned from the drone strikes and that one civilian that she talked to said there were 26 people killed in the strike that he survived and was severely burned in."
"the U.S. bombed this village and killed 46 people, and we know the names of all of the people that were killed. I went there myself. I interviewed a woman who lost her entire family. An old man, 17 of those 46 people that were killed were members of his family. There were five pregnant women among the dead."
Elizabeth Moon, author of an extensive corpus of Science Fiction, opines for the BBC: "If I were empress of the Universe I would insist on every individual having a unique ID permanently attached -- a barcode if you will; an implanted chip to provide an easy, fast inexpensive way to identify individuals. It would be imprinted on everyone at birth. Point the scanner at someone and there it is.... In war soldiers could easily differentiate legitimate targets in a population from non combatants... Anonymity would be impossible as would mistaken identity making it easier to place responsibility accurately, not only in war but also in non-combat situations far from the war." http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120522-barcode-everyone-at-birth
Nuclear technology is untrustworthy in any scenario where business profit motive is superior an interest to diligence in safety and public welfare.
More so than any other deployed technology, it is completely unforgiving of accidents. The implications of even minor errors in logistics or technical management are frequently catastrophic - on the scale of generations.
The history of private operators, seeking to extract greater profit at the expense of reduced service and oversight, is at complete odds with the interest of safely managing this technology.
Low-bidders, who then use their undue lobby pressure in Government to reduce the burden of public-interest oversight, are not trustworthy with ordinary power generation and mineral extraction.
Governments are not trustworthy, when they are the captive marionettes of private interests that prefer privilege and short-term interest of finance and industry elite, to the general needs of their peoples.
Zoho blows everything Yahoo has done out of the water. Never heard of it? It's business oriented - and has NO ADS embedded in its presentation. It's IMAP access from the word go - and you can map your DNS to it with an MX and TXT record - so you get AJAX web-mail with integrated calendar and business tools, without looking like lovebags00027.
Yahoo blew their Zimbra acquisition. "Social Integration" destroyed the experience for me - as it did for Hottmail. GMail? Don't start me on that!
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It's asking for the world's best stage magician to create real hovering women.
"If you REALLY fool me, it will be true!"
Nonsense.
Mental State!=Computational State
Searle.
Chinese room.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TryOC83PH1g
Thank you. You are beautiful for saying this. Another Jesus! :-)
"They" are not in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Yemen or Indonesia.
"em all" are Saudi Arabia. A client of the US and Israel.
Who is, I suspect, no longer anonymous to the FBI...
Citations, please.
Pakistan gets more money from the US, than any other single source.
The other significant funding of social and religious elements in Pakistan comes from staunch ally, Saudi Arabia.
BTW: There were NO Yemenis, Pakistanis or even Afghans REMOTELY connected with the occurrences on 9/11/00. In fact, all documentation leads entirely to involvement by Saudis. Alone.
Only the most blinkered of observers would not conjecture that the presence of ill-defined "al qaeda" groups in these three countries is the likely outcome of US/UK military invasions of their countries.
So.
This comment you deride is "Flamebait" because it cites independent analysis by someone who has actually interviewed primary sources IN YEMEN.
This is opposed to the "factual" position that you maintain is presented by the unvalidated, assertions presented unilaterally by state/administration sources.
Why are you so pro big government?
In Pakistan alone - a country with which we are supposedly not at war - the US toll on civilians is outstanding in its atrocity:
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan, citing the Bureau of Investigative Journalism:
US Drone Strike statistic based on months of research by a team of journalists of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism:
Total reported killed: 2,433 - 3,093
Civilians reported killed: 467 - 815
Children reported killed: 178
Total reported injured: 1,163 -1,268
Strikes under the Bush Administration: 52
Strikes under the Obama Administration: 267
Total strikes: 319
On 14 July 2009, Daniel L. Byman of the Brookings Institution stated that although accurate data on the results of drone strikes is difficult to obtain, it seemed that ten civilians had died in the drone attacks for every militant killed. He suggested that drone strikes may kill "10 or so civilians" for every militant killed, which would represent a civilian to combatant casualty ratio of 10:1. Byman argues that civilian killings constitute a humanitarian tragedy and create dangerous political problems, including damage to the legitimacy of the Pakistani government and alienation of the Pakistani populace from America. He suggested that the real answer to halting al-Qaeda's activity in Pakistan will be long-term support of Pakistan's counterinsurgency efforts.
-- Or you can believe the CIA, who are PAID NOT TO LIE!
Citation, please.
Getting this back? HAH! Put that toothpaste back in the tube, Yahoo!
They also included the letter "A" from Adobe in the source. This is a bitch.
Exhibit A: http://37prime.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Yahoo-Axis.jpg
Exhibit B: http://www.mobilemarketingwatch.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Adobe-Shakes-Up-Digital-Publishing-With-Embellished-Platform.png
It is a matter of record and fact: The US kills more innocent civilians in Yemen - or anywhere else, for that matter - than do any alleged 'al-qaeda' affiliates.
Jeremy Scahill, National Security reporter for The Nation:
"Saleh essentially made an agreement with the Obama administration to get an increase in his counterterrorism funding in return for allowing the United States to conduct various operations of its own, unilaterally. And so, effectively, counterterrorism funding for his regime became like crack cocaine. Yemen is the poorest country in the Arab world. His government was extremely corrupt. This was their cash cow, claiming that they were fighting terrorism.
And so what you've seen over the past 10, 12 years of history between the United States and Yemen is Ali Abdullah Saleh, when it was convenient for him, allowing the al-Qaida threat to flare up, looking the other way when 23 al-Qaida people broke out of the prison that they were supposed to be held in, actually allowing weapons to be smuggled into al-Qaida areas so that they would attack a police station, and then coming back to the United States and saying, oh, we really need more funding to go and fight these terrorists."
" the United States has sort of outsourced its intelligence operations in Yemen to Saudi Arabia and Yemen's security forces. And we've seen repeatedly over the past 10 years the Saudis and the Yemenis manipulate events regarding al-Qaida within Yemen to try to curry favor with the United States or to get more funding.
And so I just would sort of reserve commentary, as a reporter who's covered Yemen extensively and been there, on going too far down the line of guessing who this agent was, who he was working for, and what he actually did, because I've seen it too many times where someone's getting played, or someone's getting spun."
"Colleagues of mine who are in the south of Yemen right now and are on really the front lines of this drone war, my friend Iona Craig, who's a great reporter for the Times of London, was just saying to me that she met civilians who were severely burned from the drone strikes and that one civilian that she talked to said there were 26 people killed in the strike that he survived and was severely burned in."
"the U.S. bombed this village and killed 46 people, and we know the names of all of the people that were killed. I went there myself. I interviewed a woman who lost her entire family. An old man, 17 of those 46 people that were killed were members of his family. There were five pregnant women among the dead."
http://www.npr.org/2012/05/17/152854335/why-the-u-s-is-aggressively-targeting-yemen
Heh,
I submitted this on Mon or Tues, too. :-)
I like her LJ...
Elizabeth Moon, author of an extensive corpus of Science Fiction, opines for the BBC: "If I were empress of the Universe I would insist on every individual having a unique ID permanently attached -- a barcode if you will; an implanted chip to provide an easy, fast inexpensive way to identify individuals. It would be imprinted on everyone at birth. Point the scanner at someone and there it is. ... In war soldiers could easily differentiate legitimate targets in a population from non combatants... Anonymity would be impossible as would mistaken identity making it easier to place responsibility accurately, not only in war but also in non-combat situations far from the war."
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120522-barcode-everyone-at-birth
Nuclear technology is untrustworthy in any scenario where business profit motive is superior an interest to diligence in safety and public welfare.
More so than any other deployed technology, it is completely unforgiving of accidents. The implications of even minor errors in logistics or technical management are frequently catastrophic - on the scale of generations.
The history of private operators, seeking to extract greater profit at the expense of reduced service and oversight, is at complete odds with the interest of safely managing this technology.
Low-bidders, who then use their undue lobby pressure in Government to reduce the burden of public-interest oversight, are not trustworthy with ordinary power generation and mineral extraction.
Governments are not trustworthy, when they are the captive marionettes of private interests that prefer privilege and short-term interest of finance and industry elite, to the general needs of their peoples.
Zoho blows everything Yahoo has done out of the water. Never heard of it? It's business oriented - and has NO ADS embedded in its presentation. It's IMAP access from the word go - and you can map your DNS to it with an MX and TXT record - so you get AJAX web-mail with integrated calendar and business tools, without looking like lovebags00027.
Yahoo blew their Zimbra acquisition. "Social Integration" destroyed the experience for me - as it did for Hottmail. GMail? Don't start me on that!
Look. We all have our days...
They want back the letter "A" that Yahoo! took from their yard.
It's pretty easily identified: no legs and a little off center.
Nuclear energy is clean, and too cheap to meter.
In other news, the gulf seafood is fine! Eyeless shrimp are actually easier to peel!
Signed,
The Vested Defenders of Absolute Truth
Mostly, they invent ways to stay embedded on a customer site.
IBM? Worried Apple is listening?
What self-aggrandizing delusion, bordering on a satirical idea!
If I were Apple, knowing the source of a conversation from IBM? I'd purge the recording...
And nobody came...
Facebook committed suicide. The billionaires got a little fatter on a few rubes.
Just had a posthumous rectal orgasm!
Please don't post a serious response to my humorous twaddle.
You don't want to appear like a sufferer from ASCIIbergers syndrome...
Not everyone is a Google shill - like you and the swarm of "anons" on this.
Actually, I believe interracial sex should be the law. I don't support same-race marriage, on this basis.