Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on October 21, 2022
😲 Another Form of Indirect Technology Transfer?
Iran’s military on Friday is boasting that it has seized a pair of unmanned US vessels in the Red Sea at a moment tensions with Washington are at boiling point over arms transfers between Tehran and Moscow.
Iran’s Navy Chief, Admiral Shahram Irani issued a statement describing that the sea drones posed safety issues to area maritime navigation, as quoted in semi-official Tasnim news agency. According to the Iranian navy statement, “Where maritime safety was threatened by the unjustified forces in the region, Iran’s Army Naval Forces were able to seize 2 American unmanned vessels.”
“The US should know it must comply with international laws if it is shipping somewhere,” the admiral added. “The Islamic Republic of Iran, with its powerful presence in the region, will deal decisively with any move that endangers the security and safety of shipping, he stressed.”
Little is as yet confirmed of the incident, which an initial statement from the US Navy calling the Iranian claims “not true”. However, it appears something did happen, given other international monitors say they are tracking an incident unfolding.
According to Bloomberg, “The British Navy’s UKMTO said it is aware of reports of an incident in the vicinity of Ash Shihr, Yemen, according to a post on its website.”
Both the US and Israel have of late stepped a joint naval presence in the Red Sea region, citing both threats from Iran and Yemeni Houthi rebels, which are backed by Tehran have at various times attacked Saudi Arabia.
“Why this, all of a sudden, is now a big violation of 2231 when you didn’t call it out as such before? There was nothing done in terms of action on the drones being used in Ethiopia, in Syria… No action on Ethiopia.”
But now, they call it out as ‘a big violation of 2231’ because these Iranian drones are being used in ‘their beloved’ Ukraine.
By the way, Tehran got these drone technology ‘inadvertently’ from the US (remember the US drones ‘lost’ flying over Iranian airspace in 2011 & 2019?). In April 2012 (Re-election year of Barack Hussein Obama – and the drone + the billion dollars Obama & Biden given to Iran as a present ), Iran claimed it had copied technology ( reverse-engineering) from a US drone brought down in December 2011 on its eastern borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Israel has also ‘inadvertently’ contributed to Iran’s drone technology. When the Shahed-129 was unveiled in 2012, some noted similarities to the US MQ-1 Predator. It is a large drone able to carry eight missiles. However, analysts believe that its design can be traced back to a crashed Israeli Hermes 450 drone — two were apparently lost over Iran in the 1990s.
Furthermore, Iran gets more drones from China.
👉 The Ukraine war shows us:
😈 United by their Illuminist-Luciferian-Masonic-Satanist agendas The following Edomite-Ishmaelite entities and bodies are helping the genocidal fascist Oromo regime of evil Abby Ahmed Ali:
☆ The United Nations
☆ The World Bank
☆ The International Monetary Fund
☆ The European Union
☆ The African Union
☆ The United States, Canada & Cuba
☆ Russia
☆ Ukraine
☆ China
☆ Israel
☆ Arab States
☆ Southern Ethiopians
☆ Amharas
☆ Eritrea
☆ Djibouti
☆ Kenya
☆ Sudan
☆ Somalia
☆ Egypt
☆ Iran
☆ Pakistan
☆ India
☆ Azerbaijan
☆ Amnesty International
☆ Human Rights Watch
☆ World Food Program (2020 Nobel Peace Laureate)
☆ The Nobel Prize Committee
☆ The Atheists and Animists
☆ The Muslims
☆ The Protestants
☆ The Sodomites
☆ TPLF
💭 Even those nations that are one another enemies, like: ‘Israel vs Iran’, ‘Russia + China vs Ukraine + The West’, ‘Egypt + Sudan vs Iran + Turkey’, ‘India vs Pakistan’ have now become friends – as they are all united in the anti-Christian, anti-Zionist-Ethiopia-Conspiracy. This has never ever happened before it is a very curios phenomenon – a strange unique appearance in world history.
✞ With the Zionist Tigray-Ethiopians are:
❖ The Almighty Egziabher God & His Saints
❖ St. Mary of Zion
❖ The Ark of The Covenant
💭 Due to the leftist and atheistic nature of the TPLF, because of its tiresome, imported and Satan-influenced ideological games of: „Unitarianism vs Multiculturalism“, the Supernatural Force that always stood/stands with the Northern Ethiopian Christians is blocked – and These Celestial Powers are not yet being ‘activated’. Even the the above Edomite and Ishmaelite entities and bodies who in the beginning tried to help them have gradually abandoned them.
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on October 3, 2022
💭 Yemen Warns Oil Companies to Leave Saudi Arabia, UAE as Truce Ends
Yemeni resistance forces warned that oil companies operating in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates could be targeted as long as Riyadh and Abu Dhabi fail to commit to a proper ceasefire.
Tweeting on Sunday, the Armed Forces’ spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said Yemeni troops were providing the oil companies with a window of opportunity to leave the Saudi and Emirati soils “fast.”
The Saudi kingdom and its allies, most notably the United Arab Emirates, have been waging a war against Yemen since March 2015, trying, in vain, to restore Yemen’s power to its former Riyadh-friendly officials. The military campaign, which has been enjoying unstinting arms, logistical, and political support from the United States, has killed hundreds of thousands of people, and turned the entire Yemen into the scene of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
A temporary United Nations-mediated ceasefire took effect between the warring sides in April and has been renewed twice ever since. The truce, however, expired on Sunday amid the invading coalition’s constant violations of the agreement and its refusal to properly lift a siege that it has been enforcing against Yemen simultaneously with the war.
“The warning,” Saree said, “stands as long as the countries that make up the invading American-Saudi coalition refuse to adhere to a ceasefire that allows the Yemeni people to exploit their oil wealth….”
Also on Sunday, Hans Grundberg, the United Nations’ special envoy for Yemen, confirmed failure of efforts aimed at extending the truce.
“The UN special envoy regrets that an agreement has not been reached today, as an extended and expanded truce would provide additional critical benefits to the population,” a statement said.
“I urge [the warring parties] to fulfill their obligation to the Yemeni people to pursue every avenue for peace,” the Swedish diplomat was quoted as saying.
💭 Tiffany Haddish Gives Her Support to Will Smith After He Slaps Chris Rock
Actress Tiffany Haddish – who is of Eritrean/Tigrayan-Ethiopian descent – has offered what may be the most bizarre reaction to Will Smith’s physical assault on Chris Rock at the Oscars on Sunday, calling it the “most beautiful thing” she’s ever seen.
In a post-Oscars interview at the Governors Ball, Tiffany Haddish praised Will Smith for defending his wife against Chris Rock’s joke.
“When I saw a black man stand up for his wife. That meant so much to me,” Haddish told People. “As a woman, who has been unprotected, for someone to say like, ‘Keep my wife’s name out your mouth, leave my wife alone,’ that’s what your husband is supposed to do, right? Protect you. And that meant the world to me.
She added: “And maybe the world might not like how it went down, but for me, it was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen because it made me believe that there are still men out there that love and care about their women, their wives.”
Will Smith stunned Oscar viewers on Sunday when he stormed the stage at the Dolby Theatre and struck Chris Rock in the face. Rock, who was presenting the award for documentary feature, had just told a joke about Smith’s wife, saying her bald head would make her a good fit for “G.I. Jane 2.”
After Smith took his seat, he appeared to mouth the words: “Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth!”
The altercation had Oscar viewers wondering if the moment was real or a staged event that ABC and the Oscars concocted to juice social media engagement and its flagging viewership.
Smith apologized later in the evening when he won the Oscar for his performance in King Richard.
“I want to apologize to the Academy, I want to apologize to all my fellow nominees,” he said during his tearful acceptance speech, without elaborating.
💭 Evil Isaias Afewerki’s Useful Idiot Tiffany Haddish Cries after Stuck in Antichrist Turkey | Sign of The Times
💭 The Secrets Behind Will Smith Smacking Chris Rock | Jada Jada Jeddah
💭 ዊል ስሚዝ ክሪስ ሮክን ከመምታት በስተጀርባ ያለው ምስጢር
🔥 Will Smith smacks Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars
💭 Jump on the bandwagon to look good – virtue signaling hypocrites. There’s a Christian genocide in Tigray, Ethiopia – No one cares about it except The Almighty God Egziabher.
☆ Crow (Oromo) Making Two Cats ( Tigray an & Ahmara) Fight
ቍራው ወንድማማቾችን የሚያባለበት ዘመን ላይ ነን። ለቍራው ወዮለት!
💭 Scientists Investigate Why Crows Are So Playful
New experiments reveal a complex link between crow play and tool use. Indirect learning
What this suggests, say the researchers in a recent paper for Royal Society Open Science, is that the link between play and tool use is indirect. The two are clearly related, because the birds who played with tools were much better at using those tools in a food-finding task. But there was also huge variability between the birds, suggesting that they were not all getting the same thing out of play.
🛑 Missile Attack on Jeddah in The Middle of The F1 Saudi Arabian GP
My Note: Saudi Arabia – September 2018 – on Ethiopia’s New 2011 Year’s week
In the presence of their cruel Saudi babysitters, the two evil traitors, Abiy Ahmed Ali of Ethiopia & Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea signed a genocide pact against Christians of Northern Ethiopia.
‘Two weeks ago, Babylon Saudi Arabia executed 81 prisoners. This weekend, F1 hypocrites who just told us – “This is probably the safest place you can be in Saudi Arabia at the moment. That is why we are racing.” — will open Aladin’s rose water bottles in one of the most violent and inhumane nations of the planet. If true, a speedy recovery to Vettel – but I’ve got this feeling that he is not interested in racing either in Bahrain or in Saudi Arabia. It’s a disgrace that F1 is present in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Azerbaijan. Frankly speaking Sochi is safer and more humane than Jeddah and Saudi Arabia at the moment – yet concerning Sochi and Russia everyone was faster than Lewis Hamilton to grab the moral high ground. You’ll know if someone is on his high horse, because he will behave as though he’s superior to everyone around him, almost like a haughty king riding his horse past his lowly subjects.
💭 Ethiopia Detained, Abused Tigray ans Deported From Saudi: HRW
💭 Boris Johnson Going From ‘Dictator to Dictator’ Visiting Mass Murderer Saudi Arabia & Selling Chelsea to Them
💭 Yemen’s Houthi rebels say they hit several areas inside the Kingdom on Friday.
One was near the Formula One circuit in Jeddah, where the Saudi Arabia Grand Prix will be held on Sunday.
The Saudi coalition has launched air strikes in Sanaa and Hodeidah in retaliation against attacks on its oil facilities.
👉 Courtesy: Al Jazeera
💭 My Note: Saudi Arabia – September 2018 – on Ethiopia’s New 2011 Year’s week
💭 In the presence of their cruel Saudi babysitters, the two evil traitors, Abiy Ahmed Ali of Ethiopia & Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea signed a genocide pact against Christians of Northern Ethiopia.
😈 The Harlot of Babylon 😈
Who can better fit this description than Saudi Arabia (Mecca) because the Muslim god Allah originated as LiL from Sumer, again the Middle East, that later became iL and then it was exported from Babylon by Nabounidus in the 6th century BC to Saudi Arabia, where the Arabs started worshiping Allah long befor Muhammad was born. The god is known by different names in different regions, the root of which is LiL, enLiL, Sin, iL and Bel. “The Controller of the Nigh,” had the crescent moon as his emblem, which became the primary religious symbol of Islam and many other false religions. In Arabia he was also known as hu-bal or ha-baal. In 637 AD, a new era began when the ‘Saudi Arabians conquered Mesopotamia whereby “Babylon” then became part of the Arab-Islamic Empire. The worship of the moon god “Sin„ was widespread and common during the time of Abraham. In the Bible, Abraham was asked to leave Ur of the Chaldeans, where the moon god Sin was worshiped and told to migrate to Canaan and worship Yahweh, The True God, instead.
❖❖❖ [Jeremiah 51:24–25] ❖❖❖
“And I will repay Babylon And all the inhabitants of Chaldea For all the evil they have done In Zion in your sight,” says the Lord. “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, Who destroys all the earth,” says the Lord. “And I will stretch out My hand against you, Roll you down from the rocks, And make you a burnt mountain.
A mountain is an allegoric kingdom, God’s wrath is not going to burn just one mountain in Iraq, or else there would be little point in that wrath burning an empty mountain. He is going to destroy the whole Islamic kingdom with Muslim people living in it; we do need to think about this.
👏 A blessing in disguise for Ethiopian Zionists: Saudi Arabia is about to deport 300,000 Ethiopian migrants from its evil kingdom.
❖❖❖ [Jeremiah 51:6] ❖❖❖
“Flee from Babylon! Run for your lives! Do not be destroyed because of her sins. It is time for the Lord’s vengeance; he will repay her what she deserves.
“And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.”
My Note: Saudi Arabia – September 2018 – on Ethiopia’s New 2011 Year’s week
In the presence of their cruel Saudi babysitters, the two evil traitors, Abiy Ahmed Ali of Ethiopia & Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea signed a genocide pact against Christians of Northern Ethiopia.
💭 Boris Johnson Going From ‘Dictator to Dictator’ Visiting Mass Murderer Saudi Arabia & Selling Chelsea to Them
‘Two weeks ago, Babylon Saudi Arabia executed 81 prisoners. This weekend, F1 hypocrites who just told us – “This is probably the safest place you can be in Saudi Arabia at the moment. That is why we are racing.” — will open Aladin’s rose water bottles in one of the most violent and inhumane nations of the planet. If true, a speedy recovery to Vettel – but I’ve got this feeling that he is not interested in racing either in Bahrain or in Saudi Arabia. It’s a disgrace that F1 is present in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Azerbaijan. Frankly speaking Sochi is safer and more humane than Jeddah and Saudi Arabia at the moment – yet concerning Sochi and Russia everyone was faster than Lewis Hamilton to grab the moral high ground. You’ll know if someone is on his high horse, because he will behave as though he’s superior to everyone around him, almost like a haughty king riding his horse past his lowly subjects.
💭 Ethiopia Detained, Abused Tigray ans Deported From Saudi: HRW
💭 Fireball Consumes Oil Facility as Houthis Launch Terror Campaign ‘Deep’ in Saudi Arabia
Formula 1 teams and drivers have been told that the Saudi Arabian GP is continuing as planned following a fire at an oil depot close to the circuit, which Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim was an attack by the group.
A large and very expressive black smoke cloud could be seen from the F1 track towards the end of first practice, and Max Verstappen reported on team radio that he could smell “burning” from the cockpit of his Red Bull car.
Practice continued as normal, though there was a 15-minute delay to the start of second practice as drivers and team principals met with F1 president Stefano Domenicali and the FIA’s Mohammed Ben Sulayem.
A fiery explosion lit up the skyline over the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah on Friday morning, clearly visible from the F1 racing track where the Saudi Arabia Grand Prix is set to take place Sunday.
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen issued a statement claiming they have launched a series of attacks “deep” into Saudi territory.
The fireball appeared to erupt from the North Jeddah Bulk Plant, which stores nearly a quarter of Saudi Arabia’s stockpile of fuel for ground and air vehicles, as well as the fuel supply for a crucial water desalination plant near Jeddah. The fuel storage facility was one of the primary targets in a wave of Houthi terrorist attacks last weekend but sustained only minor damage, according to Saudi officials.
Saudi state television on Friday reported attacks on water tanks in the town of Dharan and an electrical substation close to the Yemeni border.
The Houthi-controlled al-Masirah satellite news channel in Yemen said on Friday that “more details” would soon be released about the purported attacks on Saudi Arabian civilian targets but did not explicitly claim responsibility for the Jeddah explosion.
The Houthis were classified as a foreign terrorist organization by the Trump administration, but the designation was rescinded by President Joe Biden soon after he took office. The Saudi government warned this week that continued Houthi attacks on their oil infrastructure could hinder their ability to supply oil during the worldwide fuel crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Update, 1:15 p.m. EST: Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea claimed responsibility for a “missile” attack on Jeddah, plus drone attacks on the Saudi refineries at Ras Tanura and Rabigh. Sarea said the Houthis also attacked targets in the Saudi capital city of Riyadh.
Update, 1:20 p.m. EST: Saudi state media quoted a spokesman for the military coalition against the Yemen insurgency who said a ballistic missile and ten bomb-laden drones were intercepted on Friday. The Houthi weapons were aimed at several different cities. The coalition said relatively minor damage was inflicted on several targets, plus collateral damage to civilian vehicles and residences, but none of it was severe, and there was no loss of life.
💭 Iran-Backed Houthis Attack Saudi Oil Facilities, Slowing Refinery Output amid Global Crisis
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen, delisted as terrorists by President Joe Biden as one of his first acts in office, launched a massive terrorist strike on Saudi oil facilities and water desalination plants on Sunday.
Saudi officials said the Houthi attack targeted two petroleum distribution terminals, a natural gas plant, and an oil refinery. The targets were spread between several cities, including the Saudi capital of Riyadh and the major Red Sea port of Jeddah.
The Saudi military coalition said the Houthi attack involved cruise missiles made in Iran. The coalition said its air defenses intercepted many of the Houthi weapons, but Saudi state media carried photos and videos of fires and explosive damage from the missiles that made it through.
The coalition also charged the Houthis with launching at least 106 explosive-laden boats in an effort to compromise freedom of navigation in the Red Sea. The coalition said it was able to destroy most of these bomb boats, “protecting shipping lines and global trade.”
One of the Houthi missile strikes started a “limited fire” in a tank at the Jeddah distribution plant for Saudi Aramco, the national oil company. The fire was brought under control without loss of life
Another strike damaged a natural gas plant and refinery in the city of Yasref. The Saudi Energy Ministry said on Sunday the assault on Yasref “has led to a temporary reduction in the refinery’s production, which will be compensated for from the inventory.”
Aramco officials said the attacks did not cause enough damage to seriously disrupt gas and petroleum supplies, but the state-run Saudi news agency SPA on Monday quoted a Foreign Ministry source that said the Saudis would not be held responsible for disruptions to the already-stressed world oil market caused by Houthi attacks.
The Foreign Ministry source warned that continued drone and missile attacks “will affect the kingdom’s production capacity and its ability to fulfill its obligations, which undoubtedly threatens the security and stability of energy supplies to global markets.”
The Houthi attack – a major escalation of the insurgency’s conflict with Saudi Arabia, and one of the heaviest salvos it has launched against Saudi targets since the beginning of the Yemeni civil war – came after several days of intense diplomacy in Oman, where U.N. special envoy Hans Grundberg met with Houthi negotiators to discuss “a possible truce during the holy month of Ramadan.” Ramadan begins on April 2 this year.
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan condemned the Houthi strikes on Sunday as “terrorist attacks” and complained about the insurgency constantly using such violent actions to sabotage peace negotiations.
“These attacks reportedly targeted water treatment facilities as well as oil and natural gas infrastructure. The Houthis launch these terrorist attacks with enabling by Iran, which supplies them with missile and UAV components, training, and expertise. This is done in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions prohibiting the import of weapons into Yemen,” Sullivan said.
“Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni Government have endorsed multiple U.N. calls for ceasefires and de-escalation over the last year. The Houthis have rejected these calls, responding instead with new offensives in Yemen and terrorist acts, such as those launched against Saudi Arabia last night,” he complained.
The Houthis were listed as terrorists by the Trump administration, but this designation was rescinded in the early days of the Biden administration, which has frequently complained about Houthi terrorism over the ensuing year.
The Biden administration has stubbornly resisted calls to relist the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization, including advice from some White House officials. Resistance to reclassifying the Houthis as terrorists ostensbily flows from human rights advocates who fear the enraged insurgents would interfere with the delivery of humanitarian aid, but some critical observers believe the Biden administration is also worried about disrupting its nuclear deal negotiations with the Houthis’ patrons in Iran.
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on March 16, 2022
The Mind Boggling Hypocrisy of The West
These days, multiple warning signs of potential genocide against the Tigray people of Ethiopia are present, no Russian military operation in the invasion of Ukraine goes by without a torrent of denunciations from Western governments and the corporate media in the most strident of terms, portraying Putin as the new Hitler and the Russian military as a modern version of the hordes of Genghis Khan. But when a US ally and major supplier of oil to the West aids the fascist Oromo regime of Ethiopia to massacre Tigrayan Christians, puts Ethiopian migrants in concentrations camps in Saudi Arabia, carries out a barbaric massacre in Yemen, Western governments do not make even the mildest protest.
Neither the US nor the British government have issued any statement on the execution of 81 prisoners Saturday in Saudi Arabia, which was widely condemned by human rights and Saudi exile groups. Even when the issue was raised Monday at the regular State Department press briefing, spokesman Ned Price would say nothing more than “we are continuing to raise CONCERNS about fair trial guarantees,” although he said he “can’t speak to the timing of that, but we have raised these CONCERNS”
In plain English, this means that the administration has said nothing about the executions to the Saudi monarchy and its murderous ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who, together with his brothers, is allowed to make £2.7bn offer for London’s Chelsea Football Club. Wow!
💭 Australian Police use SONIC WEAPONS against men, women and children protesters in Canberra.
A Crime Against Humanity!
1st, they allowed Arabs, Turks & Iranians to use drones to massacre ancient Christians & Jews of Ethiopia + Yemen – Now They’re using supersonic weapons on their own folks.
Using supersonic weapons on civilians is no doubt a crime against humanity. The Police are wearing ear plugs. So they know what they are doing.When the time comes I hope Australians hold those responsible for these crimes accountable and justice done.
👉 A very sad and worrisome trend: Governments in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, USA and Canada are all quickly becoming like a dystopia.
They can break up protests with loud, piercing sound, but Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) can also cause permanent hearing damage. Australian law enforcement agencies are now investing in the technology, but sound and law experts say their potential use is extremely concerning.
Australia’s police forces are buying up devices capable of causing long-term hearing damage from a distance.
The controversial Long Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD, has been used to disperse crowds in protest situations in the US.
The secrecy of the state around the tools, the weapons that it has and is capable of using on its population is something to be really, really concerned about.
Its use at a Pittsburgh G20 protest in 2009 left University of Missouri English professor Karen Piper with permanent hearing damage.
‘We had seen these machines there [that] looked like an armoured vehicle with a satellite dish on top,’ says Piper, who had been observing the protest from a distance.
‘Then this machine emits this long piercing noise. It’s a very high frequency, it really hurts your ears.
‘I started to not feel well immediately after that. I felt dizzy and nauseous and disoriented.’
Piper’s hearing continued to suffer in the following days and months. Tests eventually revealed the effects caused by her exposure to the LRAD were permanent.
‘It’s actually nerve damage, and those nerves will never recover,’ she says.
LRADs continue to be used by American authorities, including during protests over police brutality in 2014.
The Law Report contacted all of Australia’s police forces and found more than half now own LRADs.
Victorian, West Australian, South Australian and Queensland police, as well as the Australian Federal Police, admitted to purchasing the device, while New South Wales and Northern Territory police would not comment.
Melbourne University sound and law expert James Parker says potential use of the LRAD in Australia is deeply troubling.
‘The secrecy of the state around the tools, the weapons that it has and is capable of using on its population is something to be really, really concerned about,’ says Parker.
‘It expands the nature of police/state/military authority in a certain kind of way. It makes sound itself part of the arsenal that police and military and state institutions have.
‘I think there’s a question about whether or not we want sound to be used in this way at all.’
The LRAD is marketed as a communication device, and was first used at sea by the US Navy and commercial shipping companies to ward off pirates.
Later, the device was deployed by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan to clear buildings.
‘They could play the LRAD’s alert function at high volume, people wouldn’t be able to stand it, they would run out and the snipers could pick them off,’ says Parker.
Parker says LRADs have since been marketed ‘quite aggressively’ to military and police forces around the world.
None of Australia’s state police forces would provide The Law Report with guidelines for LRAD use, though some said they would only be used for communication, such as in siege situations.
Yet Parker says the nature of the technology and its ability to cause harm to bystanders means it should be the subject of much broader debate.
‘Police and military have been able to hurt people for a long time—they have batons, they have guns—[but] the LRAD is indiscriminate,’ he says.
‘Whoever happens to be in the way of the soundwave is equally likely to be affected, no matter who you are, no matter why you are there. At least a baton should in principle be aimed at somebody, while the LRAD is aimed at everybody.
‘Whether or not my hearing is damaged at a protest because the police use the LRAD, I think there’s something malevolent about the fact that I’m just being compelled through sound to act in a certain way. I’m being treated as a brute biological entity.’
In Karen Piper’s case, she successfully settled for damages of $72,000 against the City of Pittsburgh, and has since pushed for clearer guidelines around the use of LRADs.
But she says no amount of money is worth the loss of her hearing.
‘You can’t put value on a human organ like that. I have to live for the rest of my life knowing that my hearing is already bad and will get worse as I age.
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on February 6, 2022
💭 After US, Now France To Deploy Rafale Jets To Protect UAE Airspace From Missile Attacks By Houthis.
👉 Courtesy: CRUX
All these oil, and wealth, yet still depends on other countries to defend itself?
On the other hand, the United States through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) rewarded Oromo perpetrators of the #ChristianGenocide in Tigray with 10.2 billion Birr (about 514,000 USD). Human rights abusers and their facilitators and enablers benefit. This way, accountability for those committing and enabling gross human rights abuses remains elusive, as a general matter. Mind boggling, isn’t it!?
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