How do we write the story so that no one can deny Reality?
Or is this just another example of fake news?
The National Security Council directorate at the White House responsible for planning the US's preparedness for future pandemics had been established by the previous White House administration in 2014 after the outbreak of Ebola.
Found this in one of Ralph Nader's books. It is a call to action. We need to hold our elected officials' collective feet to the fire. Organize meetings within the communities. Agree on the agenda and specific questions to be addressed. Set up a place and time. Publish, post and share. Call, write, twitter and feed it to the media outlets. Accountability, not evasion. It is the democratic way.
Accountability. Everything depends on that one concept. Without accountability, laws and regulations are useless. It's really that simple.
This is an article that I wrote back in 2012 that in light of The Intercept's recent articles seems worth revisiting.
It's 2020, and unless Mr. Obama has successfully declared himself President-for-life, somebody else is President. Perhaps this time the lesser evil has lost. Thanks to the groundwork laid by President Obama and the boys at DARPA, the new president has the sort of technology that dystopian fiction is based upon.
In 2020 the president has at his disposal the drone technology to surveil anyone, anywhere on earth. The technology has the visual resolution to see disturbed dirt from a mile high in the sky and track footprints, to identify individuals using biometric data, even to "see" through walls and ceilings. Drones will also be outfitted with the means to collect electronic communications, phone calls, texts, gps location data, etc., creating a tool that can track individuals in the physical realm as well as their "footprints" in cyberspace to deliver the information needed for lethal actions
In 2020 the Earth will be surrounded by a triple canopy of drones at various heights to surveil us and deliver sudden death and destruction from above, wherever on earth or space the president desires:
At the lowest tier of this emerging U.S. aerospace shield, within striking distance of Earth in the lower stratosphere, the Pentagon is building an armada of 99 Global Hawk drones equipped with high-resolution cameras capable of surveilling all terrain within a 100-mile radius, electronic sensors to intercept communications, efficient engines for continuous 24-hour flights, and eventually Triple Terminator missiles to destroy targets below.
This evening's music features one man band, Elmon Mickle who recorded as T-Model Slim and Driftin' Slim.
Back in 2013, in the aftermath of his murder of Americans Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16 year old son, when Mr. Obama was trying to justify his arrogated powers to incinerate people with his fleet of flying death robots, he made certain assertions about the process by which he and his merry minions selected victims [bolding mine]:
First, there must be a legal basis for using lethal force, whether it is against a senior operational leader of a terrorist organization or the forces that organization is using or intends to use to conduct terrorist attacks.
Second, the United States will use lethal force only against a target that poses a continuing, imminent threat to U.S. persons. It is simply not the case that
all terrorists pose a continuing, imminent threat to U.S. persons; if a terrorist does not pose such a threat, the United States will not use lethal force.Third, the following criteria must be met before
lethal action may be taken:1) Near certainty that the terrorist target is present;
2) Near certainty that non - combatants will not be injured or killed;
3) An assessment that capture is not feasible at the time of the operation;
4) An assessment that the relevant governmental authorities in the country where action is contemplated cannot or will not effectively address the threat to U.S.
persons; and5)An assessment that no other reasonable alternatives exist to effectively address the threat to U.S. persons.
