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Directed-Energy Weapons Herald a “Sci-Fi Arms Race”

The Diplomat | True to Newton’s Third Law on Motion, weapons development is a constant battle of adaptation with one side unveiling new technology only for the other to respond with countermeasures.

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Oregon Senator Wyden Asks Presumptive CIA Director Brennan About Targeted...

The Atlantic | "How much evidence does the President need to determine that a particular American can be lawfully killed?" writes Senator Ron Wyden in a letter to John Brennan, Obama's choice to lead...

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Shadowhawk Drones Get Grounded in Montgomery County, For Now

MuckRock | The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) near Houston, TX has owned its Shadowhawk UAV since October 2011. Like other law enforcement drones across the country, MCSO’s was funded by...

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Striking While the Irony is Hot: Afghan Government, Taliban May Soon Acquire...

Wired | Yesterday, when Afghan president Hamid Karzai boasted that the U.S. was about to give him his own fleet of drones, you may have been tempted to see the mercurial leader with his hand on the...

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Obama Administration Drone-strike “Playbook” Rendered Meaningless By...

Inter Press Service | As Barack Obama renews his lease on the White House for another four years, his administration is debating how best to respond to a growing internal and public controversy over...

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Germany Will Soon Purchase Armed Drones for Its Military

Deutsche Welle | The German government has said that it favors the purchase of armed drones to support Bundeswehr troops in missions abroad. Although the idea is controversial, a decision is expected...

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Manifest Destiny in Africa: AFRICOM Goes West To Build Drone Base in Niger

Eric Schmitt New York Times January 30, 2013   Traces of Reality:  News of AFRICOM’s imminent and conveniently-located drone base in Niger goes public at the same time as Donald Yamamoto, an official...

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The Drone Boom: More Colleges Offering Drone Piloting Programs, War Inc. is...

NBC News January 31, 2013   Randal Franzen was 53, unemployed and nearly broke when his brother, a tool designer at Boeing, mentioned that pilots for remotely piloted aircraft – more commonly known as...

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Democrats, Republicans Begin Building a Coalition Against Domestic Drones

Dustin Hurst Watchdog.org January 31, 2013   IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — Drones are wildly popular on the battlefield. Now they can claim victory elsewhere. The use of drones within U.S. borders — in car...

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Drones “of All Sizes and Shapes” to Watch Over US Highways

Jeremy Hsu Livescience.com (via Yahoo News) February 4, 2013   Drones could help human workers safeguard the 4 million miles of U.S. highways crisscrossing the country. The flying robots could inspect...

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Portable Tiny Helicopter Drones Enter the Battlefield

Sky News UK February 6, 2013   British troops are using a nano drone just 10cm long and weighing 16 grams on the front line in Afghanistan to provide vital information on the ground. They are the first...

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Texas State Representative Gooden Introduces Bill Banning Drone Surveillance...

Texas Tribune | A drone, no bigger than a toy airplane, hovered north of the Texas Capitol, floating over the heads of lawmakers momentarily distracted from their morning meetings. Several of them...

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Drone Strikes Test Legal Grounds for War on Terror

ProPublica | In his second inaugural address, President Barack Obama declared that “a decade of war is now ending.” White House press secretary Jay Carney later said there was “no question” that the...

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Brennan’s Saudi Drone Base: Censorship, Assassinations, More Terrorists

Moon of Alabama February 8, 2013   The administration’s counterterrorism policies are leading to media censorship, refutation of basic rights and to more terrorism. The man responsible for these...

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Ex-LAPD Alleged Cop Killer Dorner Now a Domestic Drone Target

Mike Parker Daily Express February 10, 2013   They believe burly, heavily-armed Christopher Dorner is holed-up in the wilderness of California’s snow-capped San Bernardino mountains 80 miles east of...

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USAF Reaches Staffing Bottleneck in Drone Program, But CIA Drone Strikes...

Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press (via Huffington Post) February 12, 2013   LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. — The Pentagon for the first time is considering scaling back the massive buildup of drones it...

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Marcy Wheeler: Leaked DOJ Memo Ordains White House as Judge, Jury, and...

YouTube | Marcy Wheeler: Leaked DOJ Memo Ordains White House as Judge, Jury, and Executioner of Americans Without Having To Prove Anything

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Forget Unlocking Trophies and Achievements in Videogames: Pentagon Creates...

RT News February 14, 2013   Soon receiving military honors might be as easy as adjusting a joystick. The Pentagon is reportedly planning on awarding the pilots of remotely controlled drones. According...

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Killing Due Process: Obama’s Secret Assassination Court

Andrew P. Napolitano Washington Times February 14, 2013   President Barack Obama willingly admits he dispatched CIA agents to kill an American and his teenage son and the son’s American friend while...

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GAO Reveals DOD’s Drones Comprise the Majority of Those Flying Over America

Zero Hedge | At this point everyone in the world knows what a drone is: some have been bombarded by one, others, thousands of miles away, have done the bombardment, and everyone else is split whether...

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