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Secret Rocket Balls Target WMD Bunkers | Danger Room from Wired.com

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Nov 4th was a good day to buy guns; Record gun sales in CO after Obama victory

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UK soldiers jailed for selling weapons to criminals

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Nuclear disarmament: the big picture

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30 Countries May Be Violating Darfur Arms Embargo

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Curbing Social Protest in America: Microwave “Non-lethal” Weapons to be used for “Crowd Control”

by Tom Burghardt
Global Research, October 14, 2008
Antifascist Calling…

Just in Time for the Capitalist Meltdown: Army, Justice Department to Field ‘Pain Ray’.

Back in July I reported that Raytheon (No. 4 on Washington Technology’s “Top 100 List of Prime Defense Contractors,” with $5,170,829,645 in revenue) was developing a microwave “non-lethal” weapons (NLW) system for the U.S. Army.

At a cost of $25 million, five truck-mounted NLWs will soon be shipped off to Iraq for heavy-lifting in Iraqi cities for use against militant oil workers and citizens should U.S. energy multinationals finally get their greedy little hands on that nation’s oil wealth. A slimmed-down version of the Active Denial System (ADS) is sought for deployment in the “homeland. According to Aviation Week,

Raytheon is kicking off a U.S. Army program to mount Joint Silent Guardian non-lethal, directed energy weapons–with a range of more than 250 meters–on Ford 550 commercial trucks for crowd control.

The high power microwave (HPM) device heats water in a person’s outer layers of skin to the point of pain. Tests have shown that the effects can reach through cracks in and around concrete walls and even through the glass of automobiles, company officials say. (David A. Fulghum, “High Power Microwave Nearly Operational,” Aviation Week, October 9, 2008)

Aviation Week also reports “the program is expected to be awarded by year’s end. A year after the contract is signed, the combination vehicle/weapons will start be fielded at the rate of one per month.”

With the American automative industry in a death-spiral as a result of capital’s historic credit crunch, what better means to “rescue” the industry than buying a fleet of Ford 550’s for “crowd control.”

Particularly handy for deployment in American cities should “rioters” object to a stolen presidential election or the state moves to terminate what little is left of the social “safety net” (in the interest of kick-starting the “recovery,” of course) Silent Guardian is a product whose time has come!

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by Tom Burghardt Global Research, October 14, 2008 Antifascist Calling… Just in Time for the Capitalist Meltdown:... more