Military drone aircraft used on US citizens...

The government recently issued 300 Federal Aviation Permits for low level flying drones to be used by law enforcement officers to find missing persons and people hiding in deep underbrush. The infrared see-in-the-dark technology allows them to be used night or day. 

    

            Law enforcement is also lobbying for radar transponders and clearance in populated areas to avoid collisions with low flying aircraft.

            The same technology used to take out Al-Qaida is now being used by local law enforcement officers on American Citizens. Sheriff Deputies are deploying them from the trunk of their cars. This has raised considerable controversy and privacy questions.

US to supply ‘Shadow’ drones to Pakistan: Defense officials

[Ed. Note: India is very nervous about this. India has Drones in the air now, provided by Israel. One of the first Drones India purchased was a Harrop Suicide Drone (see below for video). They have more advanced Drones in the air also. The US supplying Pakistan with the Shadow Drone is the first step to either being supplied with more advanced systems, or Pakistan altering the Shadow Drone to carry weapons. Here's what is in the planning stages by the US Military for the Shadow Drone, make it a Killer Drone, read below.]

New DOD Effort Arms Low-Flying Unmanned Aircraft With Precision Weapons
The Defense Department is planning a new pilot program to arm low-flying unmanned aircraft with precision weapons, a move to emulate strike capabilities of higher-flying Predator UAVs that Pentagon officials believe could point toward an entire class of small, unmanned systems capable of killing targets they locate. U.S. Special Operations Command will launch in fiscal year 2009 a technology demonstration effort to equip Shadow unmanned aerial vehicles with laser-guided munitions, according to Pentagon officials. . .“We’re going to weaponize Shadow for SOCOM,” John Wilcox, director of the joint concept technology demonstrations office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Advanced Systems and Concepts shop, disclosed. “We’re also going to look at weaponizing a couple more small UAVs.” With one-to-five-pound weapons, these tiny killers could take out high-value targets — “or hold a target at risk until bigger and better operational platforms with more ordnance get onto the battlefield.” 

GOD trade Big Money {GOLD OIL AND DRUGS}

War on drugs revealed as total hoax - US military admits to guarding, assisting lucrative opium trade in Afghanistan--also known as the GOD TRADE. {GOLD, OIL AND DRUGS}

Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:22:47 -0600

Nothing changed since Vietnam. Drug farms in Nicaragua, Mexico and Central America not enough. The world is not enough…

http://www.naturalnews.com/034289_Afghanistan_opium_trade.html

War on drugs revealed as total hoax - US military admits to guarding, assisting lucrative opium trade in Afghanistan

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews)

Afghanistan is, by far, the largest grower and exporter of opium in the world today, cultivating a 92 percent market share of the global opium trade. But what may shock many is the fact that the US military has been specifically tasked with guarding Afghan poppy fields, from which opium is derived, in order to protect this multibillion dollar industry that enriches Wall Street, the CIA, MI6, and various other groups that profit big time from this illicit drug trade scheme.

Prior to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Afghanistan was hardly even a world player in growing poppy, which is used to produce both illegal heroin and pharmaceutical-grade morphine. In fact, the Taliban had been actively destroying poppy fields as part of an effort to rid the country of this harmful plant, as was reported by thePittsburgh

Post-Gazetteon February 16, 2001, in a piece entitledNation's opium production virtually wiped out(http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...).

But after 9/11, the US military-industrial complex quickly invaded Afghanistan and began facilitating the reinstatement of the country's poppy industry. According to the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP), opium cultivation increased by 657 percent in 2002 after the US military invaded the country under the direction of then-President George W. Bush (http://www.infowars.com/fox-news-ma...).

CIA responsible for reinstating opium industry in Afghanistan after 9/11 More recently, The New York Times (NYT) reported that the brother of current Afghan President Hamid Karzai had actually been on the payroll of the CIA for at least eight years prior to this information going public in 2009. Ahmed Wali Karzai was a crucial player in reinstating the country's opium drug trade, known as Golden Crescent, and the CIA had been financing the endeavor behind the scenes. (http://www.infowars.com/ny-times-af...).

"The Golden Crescent drug trade, (also known as the GOD trade: Gold Oil and Drugs) launched by the CIA in the early 1980s, continues to be protected by US intelligence, in liaison with NATO occupation forces and the British military," wrote Prof. Michel Chossudovsky in a 2007 report, before it was revealed that Ahmed Wali Karzai was on the CIA payroll. "The proceeds of this lucrative multibillion dollar contraband are deposited in Western banks. Almost the totality of revenues accrue to corporate interests and criminal syndicates outside Afghanistan" (http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/A...).

But the mainstream media has been peddling a different story to the American public. FOX News, for instance, aired a propaganda piece back in 2010 claiming that military personnel are having to protect the Afghan poppy fields, rather than destroy them, in order to keep the locals happy and to avoid a potential "security risk" -- and FOX News reporter Geraldo Rivera can be heard blatantly lying about poppy farmers being financially supported by the Taliban, rather than the CIA and other foreign interests.

You can watch that clip here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-b...

So while tens of thousands of Americans continue to be harmed or killed every year by overdoses from drugs originating from this illicit opium trade, and while cultivation of innocuous crops like marijuana and hemp remains illegal in the US, the American military is actively guarding the very poppy fields in Afghanistan that fuel the global drug trade.

Something is terribly wrong with this picture.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-b...

http://www.InfoWars.com

S. 1867 and HR 1540

Last Action:	Dec 1, 2011: See also H.R. 1540.
Other Titles:	-- Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012
Related:	See the Related Legislation page for other bills related to this one and a list of subject terms that have been applied to this bill. Sometimes the text of one bill or resolution is incorporated into another, and in those cases the original bill or resolution, as it would appear here, would seem to be abandoned.
Votes:	Dec 1, 2011: This bill passed in the Senate by roll call vote. The totals were 93 Ayes, 7 Nays. Vote Details.

Number: Senate Vote #218 in 2011 [primary source: senate.gov] Date: Dec 1, 2011 8:02PM Result: Bill Passed Bill: S. 1867: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012

Vote [Sort] State [Sort] Representative [Sort by Name] [Sort by Party] Alabama Yea AL Sessions, Jefferson [R] Yea AL Shelby, Richard [R] Alaska Yea AK Begich, Mark [D] Yea AK Murkowski, Lisa [R] Arizona Yea AZ Kyl, Jon [R] Yea AZ McCain, John [R] Arkansas Yea AR Boozman, John [R] Yea AR Pryor, Mark [D] California Yea CA Boxer, Barbara [D] Yea CA Feinstein, Dianne [D] Colorado Yea CO Bennet, Michael [D] Yea CO Udall, Mark [D] Connecticut Yea CT Blumenthal, Richard [D] Yea CT Lieberman, Joseph [I] Delaware Yea DE Carper, Thomas [D] Yea DE Coons, Chris [D] Florida Yea FL Nelson, Bill [D] Yea FL Rubio, Marco [R] Georgia Yea GA Chambliss, Saxby [R] Yea GA Isakson, John [R] Hawaii Yea HI Akaka, Daniel [D] Yea HI Inouye, Daniel [D] Idaho Yea ID Crapo, Michael [R] Yea ID Risch, James [R] Illinois Yea IL Durbin, Richard [D] Yea IL Kirk, Mark [R] Indiana Yea IN Coats, Daniel [R] Yea IN Lugar, Richard [R] Iowa Yea IA Grassley, Charles [R] Nay IA Harkin, Thomas [D] Kansas Yea KS Moran, Jerry [R] Yea KS Roberts, Pat [R] Kentucky Yea KY McConnell, Mitch [R] Nay KY Paul, Rand [R] Louisiana Yea LA Landrieu, Mary [D] Yea LA Vitter, David [R] Maine Yea ME Collins, Susan [R] Yea ME Snowe, Olympia [R] Maryland Yea MD Cardin, Benjamin [D] Yea MD Mikulski, Barbara [D] Massachusetts Yea MA Brown, Scott [R] Yea MA Kerry, John [D] Michigan Yea MI Levin, Carl [D] Yea MI Stabenow, Debbie Ann [D] Minnesota Yea MN Franken, Al [D] Yea MN Klobuchar, Amy [D] Mississippi Yea MS Cochran, Thad [R] Yea MS Wicker, Roger [R] Missouri Yea MO Blunt, Roy [R] Yea MO McCaskill, Claire [D] Montana Yea MT Baucus, Max [D] Yea MT Tester, Jon [D] Nebraska Yea NE Johanns, Mike [R] Yea NE Nelson, Ben [D] Nevada Yea NV Heller, Dean [R] Yea NV Reid, Harry [D] New Hampshire Yea NH Ayotte, Kelly [R] Yea NH Shaheen, Jeanne [D] New Jersey Yea NJ Lautenberg, Frank [D] Yea NJ Menendez, Robert [D] New Mexico Yea NM Bingaman, Jeff [D] Yea NM Udall, Tom [D] New York Yea NY Gillibrand, Kirsten [D] Yea NY Schumer, Charles [D] North Carolina Yea NC Burr, Richard [R] Yea NC Hagan, Kay [D] North Dakota Yea ND Conrad, Kent [D] Yea ND Hoeven, John [R] Ohio Yea OH Brown, Sherrod [D] Yea OH Portman, Robert [R] Oklahoma Nay OK Coburn, Thomas [R] Yea OK Inhofe, James [R] Oregon Nay OR Merkley, Jeff [D] Nay OR Wyden, Ron [D] Pennsylvania Yea PA Casey, Robert [D] Yea PA Toomey, Patrick [R] Rhode Island Yea RI Reed, John [D] Yea RI Whitehouse, Sheldon [D] South Carolina Yea SC DeMint, Jim [R] Yea SC Graham, Lindsey [R] South Dakota Yea SD Johnson, Tim [D] Yea SD Thune, John [R] Tennessee Yea TN Alexander, Lamar [R] Yea TN Corker, Bob [R] Texas Yea TX Cornyn, John [R] Yea TX Hutchison, Kay [R] Utah Yea UT Hatch, Orrin [R] Nay UT Lee, Mike [R] Vermont Yea VT Leahy, Patrick [D] Nay VT Sanders, Bernard [I] Virginia Yea VA Warner, Mark [D] Yea VA Webb, Jim [D] Washington Yea WA Cantwell, Maria [D] Yea WA Murray, Patty [D] West Virginia Yea WV Manchin, Joe [D] Yea WV Rockefeller, John [D] Wisconsin Yea WI Johnson, Ron [R] Yea WI Kohl, Herbert [D] Wyoming Yea WY Barrasso, John [R] Yea WY Enzi, Michael [R]

Congressional Research Service Summary

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11/15/2011--Introduced.

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Defense (DOD) for FY2012. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for: (1) procurement, including aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement; (2) research, development, test, and evaluation; (3) operation and maintenance; (4) active and reserve military personnel; (5) Working Capital Funds; (6) the National Defense Sealift Fund; (7) the Defense Health Program; (8) chemical agents and munitions destruction; (9) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities; (10) the Defense Inspector General; (11) the Armed Forces Retirement Home; (12) overseas contingency operations; (13) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Security Investment Program; (14) Guard and reserve forces facilities; (15) base closure and realignment activities; and (16) the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Sets forth provisions or requirements concerning: (1) military personnel policy, including education and training, military justice, and sexual assault prevention and response; (2) military pay and allowances; (3) military health care; (4) acquisition policy and management, including major defense acquisition programs; (5) DOD organization and management, including space, intelligence, and cybersecurity matters; (6) financial matters, including counter-drug activities and detainee matters; (7) civilian personnel matters; (8) matters relating to foreign nations, including assistance and training; (9) cooperative threat reduction; and (10) matters relating to military construction and military family housing. Revises and adds new offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) relating to rape, sexual assault, and other sexual misconduct. Provides procedures for the judicial review of decisions concerning the correction of military personnel records. Consolidates and revises DOD travel and transportation authorities. Establishes: (1) the Joint Urgent Operational Needs Fund, and (2) the Global Security Contingency Fund. Requires a DOD plan to acquire capabilities to detect previously unknown cyber attacks. Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 - Authorizes appropriations for FY2012 for military construction for the Armed Forces and defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for DOE national security programs. Authorizes the obligation and expenditure of amounts specified in funding tables for a DOD project, program, or activity authorized under this Act.