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Title: Apple Censors Drone War
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Published: Nov 9, 2012
Author: staff
Post Date: 2012-11-09 05:03:47 by Tatarewicz
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Apple Inc., which has received over $9 million in Pentagon contracts in recent years, has rejected from its App Store, and therefore from all iPhones, a simple informative application. Drones+ is an application that shows no depictions of the carnage of war and reveals no secret information. It simply adds a location to a map every time a drone strike is reported in the media and added to a database maintained by the U.K.'s Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Apple has rejected the app as "objectionable and crude." Drone wars continue because the U.S. public is unaware what is being done in our name with our money. We are interested in knowing where our government is using drones and has killed people, not in celebrating that killing. The people in Pakistan and Afghanistan and elsewhere living under the drones can't ignore what's being done to them. Neither should we, as it's done with our money and in our names. A recent study by Stanford and NYU found that drones traumatize innocent populations, who have no way of knowing how to protect themselves from drone strikes. Further, only 2% of victims of these strikes are high-level targets. The drones kill civilian men, women, and children, are being used to target rescuers, schools and funerals, and create significant anti-U.S. hostility -- exactly as the Pakistani and Afghan governments have said they do. Ask Apple to stop hiding the simplest of facts. Please forward this email widely to like-minded friends. -- The RootsAction.org team P.S. Our small staff is supported by contributions from people like you; your donations are greatly appreciated. P.P.S. RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, and many others. Background: Wired: Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes Stanford/NYU: Living Under Drones Donate button
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It may be not so much the State but rather the Jews who have substantial control of finance and industry in America and by mucking it up as much as it is we have millions of unemployed. About the only income alternative may of these millions, especially young, see is the military which the Israeli lobby then has politicians it elected launch wars against Israel's enemies.
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