Drones - para que servem?

O Drone é um Veículo aéreo não tripulado.

Para além de servir para matar pessoas, serve para um novo negócio de fotografia, filmes, etc. E também para poder provocar desastres aéreos. Quem compra um drone não necessita de estar registado, pelo que é quase impossível detetar os inconscientes que os lançam a mais dos 120 metros autorizados. No último mês, houve vários a 900 metros ou mais que, graças aos pilotos, não conseguiram atingir os aviões da TAP, por exemplo.

Não sou contra a tecnologia. Pelo contrário. Mas espero que a legislação e a inspeção não seja o costume: casa roubada, trancas à porta.

"Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister." - Glenn Greenwald

IN 2010, President Obama directed the CIA to assassinate an American citizen in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, despite the fact that he had never been charged with (let alone convicted of) any crime, and the agency successfully carried out that order a year later with a September, 2011 drone strike. While that assassination created widespread debate – the once-again-beloved ACLU sued Obama to restrain him from the assassination on the ground of due process and then, when that suit was dismissed, sued Obama again after the killing was carried out – another drone-killing carried out shortly thereafter was perhaps even more significant yet generated relatively little attention.

"America dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. What a bloody end to Obama's reign" - Medea Benjamin

According to new figures, the US dropped nearly three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day. Dare we think how Donald Trump will continue this legacy?

"Whistleblowing Is Not Just Leaking" - Edward Snowden

’VE BEEN WAITING 40 years for someone like you.” Those were the first words Daniel Ellsberg spoke to me when we met last year. Dan and I felt an immediate kinship; we both knew what it meant to risk so much — and to be irrevocably changed — by revealing secret truths.

The Drone Papers

"Documents on 2012 Drone Strike Detail How Terrorists Are Targeted"

Early in 2012, worried that suicide bombers might pass through airline security undetected, American counterterrorism officials ordered a drone strike in Yemen to kill a doctor they believed was working with Al Qaeda to surgically implant explosives in operatives, according to British intelligence documents.

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  Um artigo de Nick Turse no The Nation

It looked like a scene out of a Hollywood movie. In the inky darkness, men in full combat gear, armed with automatic weapons and wearing night-vision goggles, grabbed hold of a thick, woven cable hanging from a MH-47 Chinook helicopter. Then, in a flash, each “fast-roped” down onto a ship below. Afterward, “Mike,” a Navy SEAL who would not give his last name, bragged to an Army public affairs sergeant that, when they were on their game, the SEALs could put 15 men on a ship this way in 30 seconds or less.

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Um artigo de Clive Stafford Smith, fundador da Reprieve

We are sleepwalking into the Drone Age, unaware of the consequences

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Americans may feel more distant from war than at any time since World War II began. Certainly, a smaller percentage of us -- less than 1% -- serves in the military in this all-volunteer era of ours and, on the face of it, Washington’s constant warring in distant lands seems barely to touch the lives of most Americans. And yet the militarization of the United States and the strengthening of the National Security Complex continues to accelerate. The Pentagon is, by now, a world unto itself, with a staggering budget at a moment when no other power or combination of powers comes near to challenging this country’s might.