Drones Over America

From:  Slate 

COMMENT - Senator Rand Paul warned Americans of the danger in which they stand with the wave of death, now being visited on people of other nations, being drawn back to the United States as a means of eliminating dissenting elements in America. The article ignores the real issues, instead focusing on polling and the opinions expressed by people who can be chosen as uninformed for the purpose of raising non-issues.  

America is engaged in illegal wars around the world.  These actions violate the Geneva Convention and were undertaken during the Bush Administration as a means of extending and solidifying an American hegemony globally.  

The policies are being continued by the Obama Administration, in direct contradiction of his promises, to continue the same agenda.  

Let's agree most Americans are uninformed, both Right and Left.  Now, what are we going to do about the human rights violations both abroad and within our own borders?  

I suggest we compile a list of those who are accountable, in accordance with  the Geneva Accords, and then inform them of their legal vulnerabilities.  

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We’ve seen what drones can do in Pakistan. So we’re not exactly thrilled about being watched by them at home.

By William Saletan|Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at 7:18 AM

Sen. Rand Paul warned of drone strikes on U.S. citizens as he filibustered John Brennan's nomination to be CIA director Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images

This article arises from Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University. On Tuesday, May 7, at 9:15 a.m., Future Tense will host an event in Washington, D.C., on the use of drones in the United States. For more information and to watch the webcast live, visit the New America Foundation’s website.

Drones are coming home. For many years, we’ve used them to hunt and kill enemies in faraway places: Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia. Now we’re deploying them in the United States, not to kill but to help with civilian missions such as land surveys, livestock monitoring, and search and rescue. But psychologically, the transition is hard. Like soldiers coming home from a war, we’ve become so accustomed to the mentality of combat that we’re having trouble adjusting to the idea of remotely piloted aircraft as a peaceful technology.

In recent months, drones have moved from the shadows of our national security debate to center stage. They dominated the fight over John Brennan’s nomination to be CIA director. Because of drones, protesters disrupted his hearing, and senators blocked his confirmation. But you don’t have to be a news junkie to feel the surge of alarm. Last year, in The Bourne Legacy, Hollywood brought us the specter of drone warfare against an American citizen, perpetrated not by a foreign enemy, but by our own scheming government.

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The constant drone (if you’ll pardon that old-fashioned use of the term) of military chatter about remotely piloted vehicles has skewed our thinking about them. We see them as weapons. So we don’t like it when the discussion turns to using them in our own country. Among young people, drone has become a verb, synonymous with targeted killing. As the T-shirt puts it: “Don’t Drone Me, Bro.”

Polls reflect a consistent pattern: The more American the target, the less comfortable we are with deploying drones. In a February Fox News survey, the percentage of Americans who approved of drones declined precipitously as the suggested applications turned from foreign terrorist suspects overseas to U.S. citizens on American soil.

In the first week of March, Sen. Rand Paul transfixed the Senate with his paranoid filibuster about U.S. military drones annihilating ordinary Americans sitting in a café. The scenario was preposterous—it would be much easier for a corrupt U.S. president to kill you in a café using operatives on the ground—but it seems to have affected public opinion. By late March, when Gallup asked the same questions Fox News had asked, the percentage of respondents who favored the use of drones to hit suspected U.S. citizen terrorists on American soil had plunged from 45 to 13. Andy Borowitz, the political humorist, captured our feelings in a fake poll report showing that 97 percent of Americans strongly agreed with the statement, “I personally do not want to be killed by a drone.”

Within the U.S. population, you can see potential divisions over drones, driven by the same worry about who controls the technology and who might be targeted. When Fox News asked about the “United States” using drones to kill a suspected U.S. citizen terrorist on American soil, there wasn’t much difference based on race or party affiliation. But when the same survey asked about “the president of the United States, on his own” making the decision, big gaps opened up. Whites and Republicans sharply opposed the idea, while nonwhites and Democrats were more closely divided. Presumably, that’s because Democrats and nonwhites are more likely to identify with President Obama and trust him.

As the discussion pivots from military to civilian applications, some of these differences persist. A poll taken last year by Monmouth University found that within the U.S. population, there wasn’t much difference between racial and ethnic groups over the use of drones to track runaway criminals (which we overwhelmingly support) or to issue speeding tickets (which we overwhelmingly oppose). But when the poll asked about using drones to control illegal immigration on the border, again, a big gap opened up. Whites support that idea by a margin of 50 percentage points. Among Hispanics and blacks, the margin of support is much lower: 25 and 10 points, respectively.

Why the difference? Some of it may be that if you’re a racial or ethnic minority, it’s easier to imagine yourself as the target of a spy drone hunting illegal immigrants. And polls do suggest that the more easily you can picture yourself as a target, the more you worry about drones. Earlier this year, for instance, a Reason-Rupe survey found that while 32 percent of Americans worry “a lot” about U.S. drones hunting suspected citizen-terrorists, 40 percent worry “a lot” that their local police department might use spy drones to invade their privacy. The latter scenario feels more personally plausible.  MORE

The advantage of technologized warfare is also its most worrying: The perception of decreased risk to the aggressor

From: Salon

COMMENT - All too many ordinary Americans are also ready to accept  the use of drones as a way to increase the safety of those they love who may otherwise be in the line of fire.  A friend of mine expressed this sentiment, to my shock last summer as her voice vibrated with her fear for a beloved nephew - who had chosen to return to  Afghanistan several times.  At the time, he was back on leave.  Two months later he was dead doing the work he had chosen. 

Those living there do not have a choice.  

Beyond the choices of individuals remains the stark fact there is no just war in question here.  We are not 'defending' ourselves from aggression, we are simply defending the profits of corporations who, we must now recognize, have hijacked our government and are manipulating us emotionally through the use of our love of  country.  

We, those funding this war, are being bled dry for the profit of these same corporations, Green Hills Software among them.  There is no honor, no glory, no courage here, only deceit, and a growing hunger for more.  

Confronting those who are guilty because of their refusal to see is essential to our survival.  Some will understand, others will quit their jobs because they cannot take the truth.  But every time we speak we dim the cacophony of lies which enable them to act. 

By David Sirota

The advantage of technologized warfare is also its most worrying: The perception of decreased risk to the aggressor 

A ground-based cockpit during a training mission flown from Syracuse, New York. (Credit: AP/Tsgt Ricky Best)

In the brave new world of technologized warfare, every week seems to bring a new sci-fi-movie-worthy revelation about America’s ongoing drone operations. This past week was no exception. From the lawyer who first outlined White House policy on drone attacks, we learned that the government is likely using such attacks instead of capturing alleged terrorists, all to avoid the thorny legal issues that come with prisoner detainment. From the United Nations, we learned that the world may be closer to seeing its first self-directed Terminator-style killing machines — technically called “Lethal Autonomous Robots” — than many may have previously thought.These kind of stories will continue for one big, if unstated, reason: robotic warfare seems to hold the promise of making many things easier, cheaper and less risky, at least for the countries that operate the drones. But the operative word is “seems,” for drones involve a problematic illusion that distorts our perception of the risks we face.
Before examining that illusion, let’s first review why drone technology seems so appealing to policymakers:

• Low cost: Because drones — unlike human soldiers — don’t need stuff like healthcare, food and pensions, they allow the Pentagon to cut its budget while also maintaining strike capabilities. Similarly, drones’ long-range surveillance capabilities mean the Pentagon may eventually feel it doesn’t need as many forward-deployed bases.

• Brutal efficiency: As mentioned above, drones make it easier for the government to simply execute terrorism suspects rather than deal with complicated stuff like due process.

• Violence at a distance: Drones have allowed the United States to kill thousands of foreigners — many of them civilians — without having to fear that American pilots will be killed or that American ground troops will be in harm’s way.

This latter characteristic explains the genie-out-of-the-bottle quandary in trying to curtail the drone war. In short, once a technology purporting to simplify and reduce risk hits a market, it is difficult to constrain that technology because its seemingly beneficial attributes prove irresistible.
The trouble with drones, of course, is that those positive attributes are also their most problematic. Indeed, the perceived risk reduction and simplicity of drone strikes ends up removing a critical deterrent to unnecessary violence, namely, the perceived possibility of casualties for the aggressor. Though nobody would — or should — hope for any kind of casualties, the fact remains that without that deterrent, drone-armed nations run the risk of seeing robot-administered violence as the best — if not the only — problem-solving option.
A little-noticed study from the British government’s Ministry of Defence explained how this works in practice. The report quotes Robert E. Lee saying, “It is well that war is so terrible – otherwise we would grow too fond of it.” It then asked: “If we remove the risk of loss from the decision-makers’ calculations when considering crisis management options, do we make the use of armed force more attractive? Will decision-makers resort to war as a policy option far sooner than previously?”
British government actions suggest the answer is “yes.” As the report notes, the United Kingdom’s decision to wage war in Pakistan and Yemen came about precisely because Britain possessed drones and could therefore prevent British casualties.
“The use of force is totally a function of the existence of an unmanned capability,” the report concluded. “It is unlikely a similar scale of force would be used if this capability were not available.”
The same principles apply to the United States’ military actions. Throughout history, the one proven check on the unbridled militarism has not been Congress, the Constitution, foreign casualties or unsustainable Pentagon budgets; it has been the perception of life-and-death risk to the wider citizenry. When conscription ended in 1973, that perceived risk for most Americans was reduced and, not coincidentally, we’ve seen our government feel freer to engage in longer and more risky military adventures than ever, and without fear of widespread opposition.
Now with drone warfare, the same government perceives that violence comes with even less immediate life-and-death risk for our country, and consequently our technologized violence is expanding. Indeed, according to the New York Times, the U.S. government feels so uninhibited that it has moved beyond targeted killing to “drone attacks based on patterns of activity” — attacks aimed at locations without actually “know(ing) the identity of the targets.” Among the general population, it’s much the same dynamic: With drones seeming to make war less risky, there hasn’t just been little opposition to the drone war; polls actually show strong support for continuing the robot onslaught, even as we learn about its deplorable civilian casualties.
But in those casualties exist the pernicious lie of drone technology, the lie that suggests drone warfare is ultimately a consequence-free endeavor for the drone-wielding nation.
With mounting evidence that America’s massacre of foreign civilians is creating more terrorists than it is neutralizing, and with terrorists citing our drone operations as motivations for their plots against us, there are consequences; they are just different than what we’re accustomed to. They aren’t, say, traditional counter-volleys on a declared battlefield. Instead, they are more like the Boston bombing, aka asymmetrical terrorist attacks against nearly impossible-to-protect soft targets.
Even if you are a coldhearted boor who proudly claims not to care about dead children in faraway places, self-interest should help you understand the problem. It’s simple: Drones are deceiving us into believing we face no consequences to violence, even though the principles of blowback are every bit as powerful as they ever have been. Put another way, machines are tricking us into believing that actions no longer generate reactions when, alas, they still do.  MORE

 

I Confronted a Drone Pilot

From:  Activist Post 

COMMENT - At a wedding this writer confronts a drone pilot about blowing up people attending weddings.  The drone pilot, the best man at the wedding, was upset, after all, he was told he was doing the right thing.  What do you want to bet the people at the weddings he hit were upset, too?  Take that to Nuremberg.  

 National interest has no rights.  No nation has rights, only people have rights.  Government does not grant rights.  They are natural, inherent, and granted only by God. 

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By Aaron Dykes

Who flies the drones America uses to take out military targets in foreign locales all over the globe? I had the chance to talk to an Air Force drone pilot operating out of Whiteman Air Force Base, and astonishingly, he admitted to me that he took part in strikes on wedding parties in Middle East & Asian countries said to harbor terrorists.
I confronted him with some of the troubling news that has emerged about the secret White House kill list and the apparent readiness to destroy the lives of innocent bystanders in pursuit of a target – women, children and elderly villagers who are all considered nothing more than “collateral damage.” Clearly, he didn’t want to hear it.
                                                                                 
Did he, too, find these people dispensable? Did he share the cold rationale of our leaders that it is “worth it” to kill these civilians to target an enemy? I tried to find out when I saw him during a wedding I attended, all while I was deeply aware of the unsettling irony that the celebration we were attending was seen differently than the weddings, funerals and other gatherings that U.S. airstrikes have unofficially declared to be venues of war.
Horrifyingly, the use of airstrikes to kill rescue workers in a “double tap” when they come for the bodies of drone victims has been repeatedly documented, as well.

  

Perpetual wars spilling across many borders is now a foregone conclusion. The public pays it little mind. Drones take this even further, targeting individuals determined to be combatants – without a declaration of war against their country and without formal charges, allegations or complaints against those individuals.
Due process is effectively dead. The White House, the Pentagon, and the pilots who operate their predator drones have become judge, jury and executioner while the public isn’t even told who is on their kill list, or why.
Drones are coming home to roost, too. Estimates are that U.S. skies will see some 30,000 drones within the coming decade, and surveillance is not their only purpose. While they may not be equipped with missiles to target suspects, the use of tasers and other less-lethal weaponry for law enforcement and border security functions has already been proposed.
How far will things go? And how far removed will their operators be from the situation? Will they retain the judgement to know when things have gone too far? Or will the lives they hover over become mere blips on a screen?
Aaron Dykes is a co-founder of TruthstreamMedia.com where this article first appeared. As a writer, researcher and video producer who has worked on numerous documentaries and investigative reports, he uses history as a guide to decode current events, uncover obscure agendas and contrast them with the dignity afforded individuals as recognized in documents like the Bill of
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Navy Plans to Launch Carrier UAV Next Tuesday

From: USNI News - USNI News is the U.S. Naval Institute’s online news and analysis portal.

COMMENT - Once someone starts a fad, everyone has to join in.  Of course, with so many exciting announcements coming one after another, each guaranteeing a flood of profits to the company located at 30 W. Sola in Santa Barbara, we wanted to know the mood which today permeated the Green Hills campus in the wake of the announcements for increased use of drone technology in the military.

Unable to make contact with anyone via the phone or Internet we sent a photographer down to Green Hills who stationed himself to ask for reactions as members of the Dream Management Team exited the building for lunch, coffee, of the like.  

We were unable to catch Dan, as he ran too fast, and of course, Craig is settling into his life at a slightly southern location in Laguna Beach, rumor having it he has run off with either one or both of the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, who are to act as his French Maid and Chauffeur, as he continues his life of open debauchery.  

We did manage to catch this reaction from John B. Douglas, III, however.  Presumably, John, also known as Jack, is also busy preparing for his June 7th Pre-Trial date in Taunton, MA, for  a single count of open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior.  POLICE REPORT

By: USNI News Editor Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Northrop Grumman’s X-47B is loaded Monday onboard the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) for a planned May, 14 2013 catapult launch. US Navy Photo

Next week the Navy will launch its experimental fixed winged unmanned aerial vehicle on its first flight from an aircraft carrier, Naval Air System Command officials told USNI News on Tuesday.

Northrop Grumman’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Aircraft Carrier Demonstration (UCAS-D) is planned to be launched from the deck of the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) on May, 14, several sources told USNI News. Read More →

Small is more: SWAP for soldier systems and unmanned vehicles dominates today's technology

From:  Military & AeroSpace Electronics 

COMMENT -  The face of thrifty fascism, as a direction for killing, owes much to Green Hills Software, Inc.

Green Hills Software and Curtiss-Wright Controls Bring Secure ...

www.ghs.com/news/20111107_milcom11_curtiss_wright.html‎

Nov 7, 2011 – Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded ... Unprecedented Levels of Consolidation, Reducing SWaP and Cost ...

Google -  "SWAP"   green hills Software, yields about 321,000 results of which this was the first. 

It does rather make you wonder what a journal for  conning Americans into working for the Military Industrial Establishment would look like, doesn't it? 

By John Keller

THE MIL & AERO BLOG, 7 May 2013. People tell me they're getting sick of the term SWAP , which as we know all too well is short for size, weight, and power. The idea, of course, is little SWAP, not big SWAP -- for most things these days, that is.
The desire for big things in small packages is front-and-center in the aerospace and defense electronics industry because of a growing and wide variety of applications involving unmanned vehicles , soldier systems , and the like.
Evidence of the growing focus on SWAP is almost everywhere we look. Last week at the SPIE Defense Security + Sensing electro-optics show in Baltimore, for example, tiny size, light weight, and low power consumption were common themes.
SWAP-driven electro-optics products ranging from hyperspectral cameras, infrared sensors, and tiny inertial measurement units were on prominent display, with the smallest sensor packages with the most capability possible.

Related stories -- Small size, light weight for unmanned vehicle applications dominate technology at SPIE -- DARPA eyes sensors, communications, and data processing technology for the infantry squad -- Army reaches out to industry for transponder technology to separate friend from foe.

One product from SBG Systems in Rueil-Malmaison, France, unveiled the Ekinox INS MEMS-based inertial navigation system (INS) that combines INS based on micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology, with a miniaturized global positioning system (GPS) receiver for on-board navigation on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), ground robots, and other small systems.
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Drone Strikes Are Winning War in Yemen -- for Al-Qaeda

From:  Bloomberg

COMMENT -  While drones are making great piles of money for such drone contractors as Green Hills Software and their Dream Team Management, the 'impact' of the technology is the best recruiting tool al-Qaeda (translate this as 'data-base) ever had.  

Dan (Drone Boy) O'Dowd stands guard over his money.

And article from The Guardian, "What is the origin of the name al-Qaida?," published Friday 23 August 2002, says, "The Arabic word qaida - ordinarily meaning "base" or "foundation" - is also used for "groundwork" and "basis". It is employed in the sense of a military or naval base, and for chemical formulae and geometry: the base of a pyramid, for example. Lane, the best Arab-English lexicon, gives these senses: foundation, basis of a house; the supporting columns or poles of a structure; the lower parts of clouds extending across a horizon; a universal or general rule or canon. With the coming of the computer age, it has gained the further meaning of "database": qaida ma'lumat (information base).Qaida itself comes from the root verb q-'-d : to sit down, remain, stay, abide. Many people appear to think al-Qaida's name emerged from some idea of a physical base - a command centre from where Bin Laden and other leaders could direct operations. "We've got to get back to al-Qaida on that one," it's possible to imagine a foot soldier saying. Bin Laden himself has spoken, post-September 11, of being in "a very safe place". There have also been stories that his father had a vernal estate called al-Qaida in Yemen or Saudi Arabia. Could there be a sense in which the name of the organisation represents a notion of the eternal home in the consciousness of its fugitive leader?
On the surface, the most improbable explanation of the name is that Bin Laden was somehow inspired by a Russian-born writer who lived most of his life in the US and was once the world's most prolific sci-fi novelist (born in 1920 in Smolensk, Asimov died in New York in 1992). But the deeper you dig, the more plausible it seems that al-Qaida's founders may have borrowed some rhetoric from Foundation and its successors (it became a series) and possibly from other science fiction material."

Science fiction was a battle ground for decades between the work of Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein, the conflict centering on the centrist, monolithic views of Asimov and the individualist, freedom-oriented vision of Heinlein.  

 Since al-Qaeda is known to have begun as a CIA-funded extension of the business plan for corporate domination, also known as Greedville, this makes perfect sense and also predicts the ultimate demise of the organization and its originators, in parallel with the outcome in the world of Science Fiction.  

By the Editors May 5, 2013 6:07 PM ET

Photo: Bloomberg; Illustration by Bloomberg View

 

It was a contradiction that perfectly captured the essence of the U.S. drone war against Islamic terrorists: Just as we learned that strikes in Yemen had resumed after a three-month hiatus, a Yemeni journalist gave heart- rending congressional testimony about an attack that killed five in his village of Wessab.

“The drone strike and its impact tore my heart, much as the tragic bombings in Boston last week tore your hearts and also mine,” Farea al-Muslimi told a Senate judiciary subcommittee on human rights last month. “The drone strikes are the face of America to many Yemenis.”

There are good reasons the U.S. has made Yemen a central front against jihadis: It was where the plot was hatched to blow up a U.S. jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009 and the base for the propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S. citizen killed in a drone strike in 2011.

Unfortunately, the effort’s destabilizing effect has given that divided nation, long the poorest in the Arab world, the additional distinction of being the most likely to collapse. That would be both a tragedy for its citizens and a golden opportunity for al-Qaeda to establish a haven similar to Afghanistan in the 1990s.

So, what can the wealthy Persian Gulf states, the U.S. and its allies do to keep Yemen from failing?

For starters, they should rethink the National Dialogue Conference that began in March in Sana, Yemen’s capital. The goal was to avert outright secession by Yemen’s south, which was the independent, socialist People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen before unification in 1990. The conference was foisted on the Yemenis by neighboring Saudi Arabia -- to whom the U.S. has outsourced the job of holding Yemen together -- and excluded too many parties from both south and north.

A poor stepchild to the favored north under the dictatorship of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the south would be ill- advised to secede. Given old tribal and regional grudges, the most likely result would be dissolution into a lawless and ungovernable mini-Afghanistan. The region would do better negotiating for increased autonomy and a fairer distribution of the country’s annual $7.6 billion in oil revenue. Given that 80 percent of oil reserves are in the south, they have a strong bargaining position.

The Saudis could do far more to facilitate a deal. In an effort to lower their own unemployment, they have enacted stricter caps on Yemeni guest workers, and have initiated a wave of deportations of foreign workers lacking proper papers. This puts a huge dent in the $4 billion or so that Yemeni workers remit to their families each year, without which Yemen’s economy would collapse.

Saudi Arabia has also made good on only about half of its $3.2 billion commitment to Yemen’s political transition, made in the feel-good days of the Arab Spring. Other Gulf Cooperation Council members, including Qatar and Kuwait, have been even more grudging.

Donor states claim, rightly, that corruption and political incompetence in Yemen threaten proper use of such funds. But political change will be slow and fitful; well-meaning donors should get off the high horse and either support the new government or find ways to funnel money to more deserving initiatives. 

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Green Hills Software Announces Multicore TimeMachine Trace Tools for MIPS and Renesas Microcontrollers

From:  Bloomberg

COMMENT -  And we here at Craig Franklin & Green Hills Software, continue to trace the trajectory of digitized 'news' across the Internet, this documenting a form of advertising which made Dan (Drone Boy) O'Dowd, with his wife, Amy Chang O'Dowd, billionaires, extending their material success far beyond their wildest dreams, or deserving.  

While we celebrate the success of individuals whose hard work, innovation, and ingenuity, provides tools for increasing the good will between individuals and nations it is not possible to view the money piled up by the O'Dowd war contracting in this way.  

How can you compare someone whose work adds to the life and well being of people to those who profit from the destruction of peace, human life, and the Earth? 

'Blow Back,' the term used to describe the impact on those people who have experienced the harsh reality of death and violence delivered by the U. S. war machine, is the term used, both by the CIA and those in government when discussing the reaction to seeing your cities, your neighborhoods, and those you love blown up before your eyes.  

If this happened in America I like to think we would take action.  Yet when innocent civilians attempt to protect themselves, and those they love, in countries where Greedville is extracting financial gain by stealing their natural resources, or pounding them with munitions sold to the U. S. war machine under cover of 'national security,' we view them as 'terrorists.'  

Back in the U. S. the people, for instance the O'Dowds, Dan and Amy, who live lives of unbridled opulence in   Montecito, California, minutes from the national Headquarters of Green Hills Software, Inc., are part of a conduit for death which ends in the bloodied remains of small children and women, their lives ended abruptly at times when they believed themselves safe in their homes.  

All conduits can be reduced to their component parts.  This one begins with the greed of corporations which see government as the medium for allowing them to enrich themselves through the manipulation of the emotions of Americans.  Ordinary Americans want to believe our country is justified in making war.  But this happens only by focusing on a mythic heroism which cannot be supported by fact.  

As Lt. General Smedley Butler said, "War is a Racket."  Butler saw the final option, what John Perkins, author of, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman," said was reserved by corporations when enmeshing other nations is debt to multinationals fail.  Option two kicks in when is not possible to coerce compliance from national leaders who prove themselves unwilling to see their people destroyed by debt.  The two men were masters of Option One, The Hitman, and option three, War.  Perkins calls option two, "sending in the jackals," assassins to take out leaders who stand up for their people. 

Dan and Amy, occupying a minor role, supply the software to optimize death.  Of course, they are not alone in this at Green Hills Software, but they do benefit the most. 

Others who benefit, and certainly understand the game, include Craig Franklin, Dave Kleidermacher, and Dave Chandler.  More on them, later. 

What kind of symbols should we use to mark each life ended by Green Hills Software?

How about these?  One for a little boy, another for a baby girl, for children who will not grow up to realize the potential for life granted them by God. 

All normal people love their children.  The demonization of foreigners by public relations firms, funded by those same corporations, is unhuman, and without conscience.     

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Green Hills Software Announces Multicore TimeMachine Trace Tools for MIPS and Renesas Microcontrollers 

Extends Award-Winning Tool Suite With Multicore Debug and Analysis Capabilities 

SANTA BARBARA, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 04/16/13 -- Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced broad multicore enhancements to their industry-leading trace-based debugger, TimeMachine(TM) tool suite.

Multicore TimeMachine support brings unprecedented visibility into the complex interactions of software running on multicore MIPS and Renesas RH850 and V850 processors, resulting in faster time-to-market and higher reliability for multicore-based firmware products. For SoC designers, multicore TimeMachine is a powerful tool to assist with pre-tape-out chip verification, reducing risk, time-to-market, and time to accelerate silicon sales. TimeMachine advanced scripting capabilities allow for automated testing on virtual platforms.

"Imagination is delighted that our long-time partner Green Hills is making its multicore TimeMachine tools available for MIPS CPUs. Multicore and multi-threaded MIPS cores provide high-performance, efficient processing across a wide range of embedded and consumer products. With multicore TimeMachine, developers creating software for these processors have a new level of visibility and control, with the ability to debug, optimize, and test code in powerful new ways," said Tony King-Smith, EVP of marketing, Imagination Technologies, which recently acquired MIPS Technologies, Inc., and with it the industry-standard MIPS microprocessor architecture.

For software developers, multicore TimeMachine enables developers to visualize, replay, and debug their software's execution backward in time across multiple cores within an SoC. The TimeMachine suite enables firmware engineers to quickly find bugs and inefficiencies in multicore systems. As part of the Green Hills Software MULTI(R) IDE (integrated development environment), this capability enables multicore bugs to be easily and quickly eliminated. Without the trace-based visibility of TimeMachine, the complex interactions between multiple heterogeneous cores are difficult to see, resulting in long turn-around times on software defects.

The TimeMachine debugger allows the user to synchronously step forward and backward on all cores, to set software and hardware breakpoints and to run forwards or backwards, so all cores synchronously stop upon hitting the breakpoint. As a result the user can see what all cores are doing before and upon hitting those breakpoints. Developers can optimize their program through profiling information derived non-intrusively from gigabytes of trace data. Beyond debugging, confidence for completeness in testing can be obtained from code coverage data also derived non-intrusively from the trace data.

"For the past decade, TimeMachine has been the premier tool in the embedded industry for tracking down the most difficult bugs -- those intermittent and hard to reproduce problems that so often cause software to be late or buggy. Those difficult bugs have only become more complicated over the years as software is running across multiple cores on extremely complex devices. Multicore TimeMachine allows the execution of all cores on the SoC to be replayed repeatedly, and for the first time giving developers the control and visibility required to efficiently solve the most difficult problems," commented Tim Reed, vice president of Advanced Products, Green Hills Software.

About TimeMachine The TimeMachine debugger provides developers the ability to run and step an application back in time after a failure occurs, allowing easy identification of its root cause. This avoids the tedious and open-ended process of trial-and-error debugging required by previous generations of debuggers. The TimeMachine suite also includes a number of visualization tools, such as the PathAnalyzer, which bring to light complex system execution flow, making it easier to locate and mitigate performance bottlenecks.

About SuperTrace Probe The SuperTrace(TM) probe supports trace ports running at speeds beyond 300 MHz, collecting enormous amounts of trace data while the CPU executes at full speed. TimeMachine then analyzes the trace data to reconstruct the code execution steps that the processor followed. The SuperTrace probe provides both a means of controlling the processor's trace logic and a channel for capturing trace data while the processor is running. In addition to the trace features, the SuperTrace probe also includes all the run-control features of the Green Hills probe.

Availability The SuperTrace Probe and multicore enhancements are available today for ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, and Renesas processors.

About Green Hills Software Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is the largest independent vendor of embedded development solutions. In 2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY(R)-178B RTOS was the first and only operating system to be certified by NIAP (National Information Assurance Partnership comprised of NSA & NIST) to EAL 6+, High Robustness, the highest level of security ever achieved for any software product. Our open architecture integrated development solutions address deeply embedded, absolute security and high-reliability applications for the military/avionics, medical, industrial, automotive, networking, consumer and other markets that demand industry-certified solutions. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software at www.ghs.com.

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Green Hills Software Upgrades TimeMachine Trace Tools

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COMMENT - a search of the site, Avionics Intelligence  for "TimeMachine Trace Tools" yielded results for: TimeMachine Trace Tools .  The article below is about this technology, which, it says, "will now have increased visibility into complex software running on multicore. The result is improved time-to-market and reliability of multicore-based firmware products."  

Firmwear is, " is a software program or set of instructions programmed on a hardware device. It provides the necessary instructions for how the device communicates with the other computer hardware."  It seems as if this is a component part of the array of links which allow the 'device' to carry out its commands. 

One of the entries which came up was:

Green Hills Software ’s Integrity Security Services unit launches Autonomous Vehicle Open Platform, securing UAV control systems and UAV payloads

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… Howard WASHINGTON, 19 Aug. 2011. Green Hills Software ’s Integrity Security Services ..... autonomous systems applications. Green Hills Software ’s Integrity-178B simultaneously ..... executive officer and founder of Green Hills Software . “Our ISS AV Open Platform provides …

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Many families in Afghanistan wish the same was true of them and those they love.  Isn't the little icon they use cute and harmless looking?  

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By Calvin Azuri

TMCnet Contributor

Green Hills Software recently announced that its suite of TimeMachine Trace Tools now includes broad multicore enhancements. With Multicore TimeMachine support, MIPS and Renesas RH850 and V850 processors will now have increased visibility into complex software running on multicore. The result is improved time-to-market and reliability of multicore-based firmware products.

For SoC designers, multicore TimeMachine will enhance the pre-tape-out chip verification, bring down risk, improve time-to-market, and speed-up silicon sales. With advanced scripting options, TimeMachine will also be able to support automated testing over virtual platforms.
Tony King-Smith, executive vice president of marketing, Imagination Technologies (News - Alert) said, "Imagination is delighted that our long-time partner Green Hills is making its multicore TimeMachine tools available for MIPS CPUs. Multicore and multi-threaded MIPS cores provide high-performance, efficient processing across a wide range of embedded and consumer products. With multicore TimeMachine, developers creating software for these processors have a new level of visibility and control, with the ability to debug, optimize, and test code in powerful new ways.” MORE