... The election of
President Bush Jr., opened the executive branch to police state
ideologues and civilian warlords, many linked to the state of Israel ,
who were determined to destroy secular Arab nationalist and Muslim
adversaries in the Middle East . The steady growth of the global police
state had been ‘too slow’ for them. The newly ascendant warlords and
the proponents of the global police state wanted to take advantage of
their golden opportunity to make US/Israeli supremacy in the Middle East
irreversible and unquestioned via the application of overwhelming force
(‘shock and awe’).
Their primary political problem in expanding global military power
was the lack of a fully dominant domestic police state capable of
demobilizing American public opinion largely opposed to any new wars.
‘Disaster ideologues’ like Phillip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice
understood the need for a new ‘ Pearl Harbor ’ to occur and threaten
domestic security and thereby terrify the public into war. They lamented
the fact that no credible regimes were left in the Middle East to cast
as the ‘armed aggressor’ and as a threat to US national security. Such
an enemy was vital to the launching of new wars. And new wars were
necessary to justify the scale and scope of the new global spy apparatus
and emergency police state edicts the warlords and neoconservatives had
in mind. Absent a credible ‘state-based adversary’, the militarists
settled for an act of terror (or the appearance of one) to ‘shock and
awe’ the US public into accepting its project for imperial wars, the
imposition of a domestic police state and the establishment of a vast
global spy apparatus.
The September 11, 2001 explosions at the World Trade Center in New
York City and the plane crash into a wing (mostly vacant for repairs) of
the Pentagon in Washington , DC were the triggers for a vast political
and bureaucratic transformation of the US imperial state. The entire
state apparatus became a police state operation. All constitutional
guarantees were suspended. The neo-conservatives seized power, the
civilian warlords ruled. A huge body of police state legislation
suddenly appeared, as if from nowhere, the ‘Patriot Act’. The Zionists
in office set the objectives and influenced military policies to focus
on Israel ’s regional interests and the destruction of Israel ’s Arab
adversaries who had opposed its annexation of Palestine . War was
declared against Afghanistan without any evidence that the ruling
Taliban was involved or aware of the September 11 attack of the US .
Despite massive civilian and even some military dissent, the civilian
warlords and Zionist officials blatantly fabricated a series of pretexts
to justify an unprovoked war against the secular nationalist regime in
Iraq , the most advanced of all Arab countries. Europe was divided over
the war. Countries in Asia and Latin America joined Germany and France
in refusing to support the invasion. The United Kingdom , under a
‘Labor’ government, eagerly joined forces with the US hoping to regain
some of its former colonial holdings in the Gulf.
At home, hundreds of billions of tax dollars were diverted from
social programs to fund a vast army of police state operatives. The
ideologues of war and the legal eagles for torture and the police state
shifted into high gear. Those who opposed the wars were identified,
monitored and the details of their lives were ‘filed away’ in a vast
database. Soon millions came to be labeled as ‘persons of interest’ if
they were connected in any way to anyone who was ‘suspect’, i.e. opposed
to the ‘Global War on Terror’. Eventually even more tenuous links were
made to everyone…family members, classmates and employers.
... As under capitalism, the
growth of the spy state triggers crisis. With the inevitable rise of
opposition, whistleblowers come forward to denounce the surveillance
state. At its peak, spy-state over-reach leads to exposure, public
scandals and threats from allies, competitors and adversaries. The rise
of cyber-imperialism raises the specter of cyber-anti-imperialism. New
conceptions of inter-state relations and global configurations are
debated and considered. World public opinion increasingly rejects the
‘necessity’ of police states. Popular disgust and reason exposes the
evil logic of the spy-state based on empire and promotes a plural world
of peaceful rival countries, functioning under co-operative policies – systems without empire, without spymasters and spies.
Empire and Cyber Imperialism: The Logic behind the Global Spy Structure By Prof. James Petras GLOBAL RESEARCH 11/16/13<<
Despite their stated concern for humanity and desire to foster global economic opportunity, drones and robots are already eliminating many jobs, including military personnel and affiliated tech work.
Autonomous intercommunicating systems
are being developed by the U.S. and now apparently the Chinese with the
capability for unilateral threat assessment and war theater decision
making. It is often cited that robotic warfare lessens the dangers to
humans, but at some level it becomes an outright replacement, such as
DARPA's amazingly human PETMAN and other warbots. Next generation drones have the stated goal of reducing or eliminating the human element altogether as the promotional video from General Atomics below highlights for 2017.
The Washington Times, U.S. intelligence warily watches for threats to U.S. now that 87 nations possess drones, By Guy Taylor, Sunday, November 10, 2013
A Predator drone flying over Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan is part of a U.S. program setting a global precedent. Defense industry and other sources say China and Iran are among other nations thought to be hard at work to arm unmanned aerial vehicles.
... The age of the drone is here, and U.S. intelligence agencies are warily monitoring their proliferation around the globe.
China uses them to spy on Japan near disputed islands in Asia. Turkey uses them to eyeball Kurdish activity in northern Iraq. Bolivia uses them to spot coca fields in the Andes. Iran reportedly has given them to Syria to monitor opposition rebels.
The U.S., Britain and Israel are the only nations to have fired missiles from remote-controlled drones, but the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles has become so prevalent that U.S. intelligence sources and private analysts say it is merely a matter of time before other countries use the technology.
“People in Washington like to talk about this as if the supposed American monopoly on drones might end one day. Well, the monopoly ended years ago,” said Peter W. Singer, who heads the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/10/skys-the-limit-for-wide-wild-world-of-drones/?page=1#ixzz2kUcZTae2
The Israeli Firsters are now last in the eyes of the world. The Earth people always decide TIME FOR BALANCE, when the critical mass criminally insane of our species gets too far gone in the department of unreal.
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