Thu Sep 6, 2012, 06:04 PM
Pentagon Aims To Allow Drone Sales To 66 Countries
Source: Common Dreams
Common Dreams
Published on Thursday, September 6, 2012 
A Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft at the Farnborough International Airshow in Hampshire, southern England, on July 22, 2010. (Ben Stansall / AFP - Getty Images, file) Under new Defense Department guidelines, the Pentagon is currently making plans to loosen restrictions on the sale of military drone technology by US corporations to countries around the world. The new guidelines include at least at least 66 eligible countries, which have not yet been named. Military technology corporation Northrop Grumman praised the Obama administration for the shift in policy on Wednesday, saying the move will boost arms exports. "It's slow, it's painful, but we're doing the right things to move in that direction," Northrop Grumman Corp chief executive Wes Bush told Reuters. Northrop Grumman has long lobbied to loosen restrictions on such exports including Grumman's "Global Hawk" surveillance planes. Read more: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/06-2  - This is exactly how Skynet got started.......
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Author | Time | Post |
 Pentagon Aims To Allow Drone Sales To 66 Countries (Original post) |
DeSwiss | Sep 2012 | OP |
| msongs | Sep 2012 | #1 | |
| DeSwiss | Sep 2012 | #5 | |
| cosmicone | Sep 2012 | #2 | |
| Vinnie From Indy | Sep 2012 | #3 | |
| DeSwiss | Sep 2012 | #6 | |
| KG | Sep 2012 | #4 | |
| DeSwiss | Sep 2012 | #8 | |
| Kolesar | Sep 2012 | #7 | |
| DeSwiss | Sep 2012 | #9 | |
| 99th_Monkey | Sep 2012 | #10 | |
| DeSwiss | Sep 2012 | #13 | |
| Solly Mack | Sep 2012 | #11 | |
| DeSwiss | Sep 2012 | #14 | |
| dixiegrrrrl | Sep 2012 | #23 | |
| Fuddnik | Sep 2012 | #12 | |
| DeSwiss | Sep 2012 | #15 | |
| slackmaster | Sep 2012 | #16 | |
| DeSwiss | Sep 2012 | #19 | |
| CRH | Sep 2012 | #17 | |
| DeSwiss | Sep 2012 | #20 | |
| secondvariety | Sep 2012 | #18 | |
| DeSwiss | Sep 2012 | #21 | |
| davidthegnome | Sep 2012 | #22 |
Response to DeSwiss (Original post)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 06:11 PM
msongs (30,801 posts)
1. then we will need our $$military$$ to attack those countries because....they have drones. nt
Response to msongs (Reply #1)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 06:29 PM
5. There is definitely a precedent for that. :-/ n/t
Response to DeSwiss (Original post)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 06:12 PM
cosmicone (3,427 posts)
2. I hope one of them is not Pakistan
Response to Vinnie From Indy (Reply #3)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 06:31 PM
6. Yep, now these countries can ''accidentally'' kill their own citizens.
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Response to DeSwiss (Original post)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 06:24 PM
4. maybe if the US had a peace prize winning leader he would stop this. oh wait...
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Response to DeSwiss (Original post)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 06:39 PM
Kolesar (29,512 posts)
7. It is *destabilizing* because countries are more likely to use unmanned strike aircraft
Response to Kolesar (Reply #7)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 06:53 PM
9. But of course.....
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...we'll only let the ''good countries'' have them.
- As we've always done.......
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Response to DeSwiss (Original post)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 06:53 PM
99th_Monkey (7,372 posts)
10. This is insanity!!!!!!!!! ~nt
Response to DeSwiss (Original post)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 06:53 PM
Solly Mack (49,798 posts)
11. Isn't that special!
Response to Solly Mack (Reply #11)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 07:46 PM
14. Well we can be sure......
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...that that bastion of freedom, liberty and democracy -- Saudia Arabia -- is on the list to get some. That sill leaves 130 countries who didn't make the cut. But we probably won't shut the door on them completely. They can reapply when and if their credit scores have improved.
- Or, they can just get a knock-off model from Iran.......
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Response to Solly Mack (Reply #11)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 07:03 AM
dixiegrrrrl (31,410 posts)
23. I think Canada and Mexico and Texas should have them.
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Response to DeSwiss (Original post)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 07:00 PM
12. No surprise there. Our top export is....
Response to slackmaster (Reply #16)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 08:55 PM
19. In the case of Texas, we'll need a note signed by two psychiatrists.....
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...attesting to the stable mental health of those with oversight responsibility.
- So in a word: No.
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Response to DeSwiss (Original post)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 08:11 PM
CRH (1,217 posts)
17. twenty first century crowd controll, ... n/t
Response to CRH (Reply #17)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 08:56 PM
20. ''...twenty first century country control (fixed), - n/t
Response to secondvariety (Reply #18)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 08:57 PM
21. They're afraid of us.....
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...and I'm afraid you're right.
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