Video & Text Fwd: CBS TV PROPAGANDA PIECE ON UAV'S

* Video & Text informed at Bruce Gagnon's blog
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
CBS TV PROPAGANDA PIECE ON UAV'S



'Here is the CBS TV's "60 Minutes" story on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle's (UAV). It is not a critical piece of journalism but is simply a piece of war promotional propaganda.

These systems (called Predator and Reaper) are the ones killing so many civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan today. The reason the Pentagon gave "access" to 60 Minutes to do this story is because of the growing numbers of innocent people they are killing. This propaganda piece is to reassure the American people. Designed to show us that the Pentagon is careful to ensure the sanctity of life.

These "stand-off" weapons, controlled from satellites, are flown by soldiers using remote controlled joy-sticks while sitting inside Creech Air Force Base near Las Vegas, Nevada. It's war from space on the cheap.

These space directed systems for modern warfare will be the theme of our Keep Space for Peace Week this coming October 3-10. See our new poster here. You can order the poster for $3 each or five for $12.'


* Related Site (Site informed by Bev Hannon and Frank Cordaro on May 13, 2009

Bev Hannon on May 11, 2009

America's New Air Force
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/08/60minutes/main5001439.shtml

Increasingly, the U.S. military is relying on un-manned, often armed
aircraft to track and destroy the enemy - sometimes controlled from
bases thousands of miles away from the battlefront. Lara Logan
reports.

Watch it now: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5004882n