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Post by avordvet on Jun 5, 2012 4:38:25 GMT -5
Sent on... If they aren't watching you now, they soon will be... I warned about this rapid expansion potential well over a year ago, and look at where we are now,. With absolutely ZERO response from the American people when the Military started to offer drone services to CIVILIAN Law Enforcement, they have accelerated the civilian surveillance operations. You must get active and start the push-back to give you some time, some breathing room to... Strengthen your family, strengthen your circle of support, strengthen your community. Resist The Age Of Drones: Military May Be Using Drones In US To Help PoliceCritics fear invasion of privacy 18,000 Police Departments to be offered UAVsJune 4, 2012 7:43 AM The Air Force guidelines permit using drones domestically to assist law enforcement in "investigating or preventing clandestine intelligence activities by foreign powers, international narcotics activities , or international terrorist activities." More vague is language that also allows military cooperation with local law enforcement for the purposes of "preventing, detecting, or investigating other violations of law." losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/06/04/the-age-of-drones-military-may-be-using-drones-in-us-to-help-police/EPA Using Drones to Spy on Cattle Ranchers in Nebraska and Iowa Kurt Nimmo, Infowars.com, June 4, 2012 "Courts, including the Supreme Court, have found similar types of flights to be legal (for example to take aerial photographs of a chemical manufacturing facility) and EPA would use such flights in appropriate instances to protect people and the environment from violations of the Clean Water Act," the agency said in response to the letter.www.infowars.com/epa-using-drones-to-spy-on-cattle-ranchers-in-nebraska-and-iowa/Massive experimental drone takes to skies above Edwards AFB (Video)June 4, 2012, 12:49 p.m. A massive experimental drone designed by Boeing Co. engineers to fly for up to four days at a time completed its first test flight above the Mojave Desert at Edwards Air Force Base.
The drone, called Phantom Eye, and its hydrogen-fueled propulsion system have the potential to vastly expand the reach of military spy craft. The longest that reconnaissance planes can stay in the air now is about 30 hours.www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-boeing-spy-drone-phantom-20120604,0,3627487.story Groups Concerned Over Arming Of Domestic DronesMay 23, 2012 1:18 PM WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – With the use of domestic drones increasing, concern has not just come up over privacy issues, but also over the potential use of lethal force by the unmanned aircraft.washington.cbslocal.com/2012/05/23/groups-concerned-over-arming-of-domestic-drones/ The Growing Menace of Domestic Drones A look inside the drone industry reveals the dangers and the reasons for their rapid U.S. expansionBy Glenn Greenwald www.salon.com/2011/12/12/the_growing_menace_of_domestic_drones/Exclusive: PowerPoint Shows Drone Industry’s Lobbying Plan To Expand Over Domestic, Law Enforcement MarketsBy Lee Fang posted Feb 15th 2012 at 10:15AM Drones are mainly associated with the Predator airships that patrol the Afghanistan sky. But thanks to a bipartisan vote last week, the public can expect 30,000 domestic drones flying over the United States in the next eight years.www.republicreport.org/2012/drone-powerpoint-lobby-plan/
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Post by avordvet on Jun 5, 2012 6:02:11 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Jun 11, 2012 16:56:18 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Jun 15, 2012 3:49:46 GMT -5
Pentagon Lists 110 Potential Drone Bases in U.S.June 14th, 2012 by Steven Aftergood The Department of Defense has identified 110 sites in the United States that could serve as bases for military unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones. A new report to Congress lists each of the 110 sites "and the UAS likely to fly at that location." See "Report to Congress on Future Unmanned Aircraft Systems Training, Operations, and Sustainability," Department of Defense, April 2012 (pp. 9-12). The newly disclosed DoD report was first reported by InsideDefense.com. The actual or potential drone bases are located in 39 of the 50 states, from Fort McClellan in Alabama to Camp Guernsey in Wyoming, as well as Guam and Puerto Rico. www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/06/us_drone_bases.html
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Post by avordvet on Jun 19, 2012 15:45:31 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Jul 2, 2012 15:56:38 GMT -5
Drone industry releases ethics codeBy Ben Wolfgang The drone industry on Monday unveiled its first-ever "code of conduct" policy, designed to protect the privacy of those on the ground and ensure the sector adheres to safety standards as the popularity and usage of unmanned aerial vehicles continue to grow.www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/2/drone-industry-releases-ethics-code/Drone makers urge U.S. to let them sell more overseasU.S. firms such as Northrop are eager to tap foreign countries' growing appetite for drones, which some nations already sell. Arms control advocates fear the weapons could fall into enemy hands.www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-drone-foreign-sales-20120701,0,3539035.story
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Post by avordvet on Jul 3, 2012 17:16:51 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Jul 9, 2012 4:44:16 GMT -5
Airforce training Drone Operators by tracking and "targeting" American civilian Vehicles... The Drone ZoneBy MARK MAZZETTI, Published: July 6, 2012 Today many of the pilots at Holloman never get off the ground. The base has been converted into the U.S. Air Force's primary training center for drone operators, where pilots spend their days in sand-colored trailers near a runway from which their planes take off without them. Inside each trailer, a pilot flies his plane from a padded chair, using a joystick and throttle, as his partner, the "sensor operator," focuses on the grainy images moving across a video screen, directing missiles to their targets with a laser. Holloman sits on almost 60,000 acres of desert badlands, near jagged hills that are frosted with snow for several months of the year — a perfect training ground for pilots who will fly Predators and Reapers over the similarly hostile terrain of Afghanistan. When I visited the base earlier this year with a small group of reporters, we were taken into a command post where a large flat-screen television was broadcasting a video feed from a drone flying overhead. It took a few seconds to figure out exactly what we were looking at. A white S.U.V. traveling along a highway adjacent to the base came into the cross hairs in the center of the screen and was tracked as it headed south along the desert road. When the S.U.V. drove out of the picture, the drone began following another car. "Wait, you guys practice tracking enemies by using civilian cars?" a reporter asked. One Air Force officer responded that this was only a training mission, and then the group was quickly hustled out of the room. www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/magazine/the-drone-zone.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
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Post by avordvet on Jul 14, 2012 4:28:51 GMT -5
Tiny 2-Foot Missile Could Be 'Months' Away From Drone WarBy Spencer Ackerman, July 13, 2012 6:30 am That would open new worlds of possibility for the U.S. drone arsenal. There are a lot more small drones than there are Preds and Reapers. The small-fry robots are used as flying spies, since they're too lightweight to arm - until now. www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/small-drone-missile-soon/
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Post by avordvet on Jul 15, 2012 6:06:11 GMT -5
Consider: Drone SwarmsConsider a defense contractor setting up an assembly line to produce a million disposable drones, armed with the new mini-missile Raytheon is building, coupled with a GPS guidance system. You already know your front door has been GPS'd by the Census workers. You know these things can be programmed to fly their entire mission without human interaction.
Consider they sit in hangars across the country, pre-targeted.iiipercent.blogspot.com/2012/07/consider-drone-swarms.html
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Post by avordvet on Jul 22, 2012 6:13:49 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Aug 2, 2012 15:12:53 GMT -5
Court Upholds Domestic Drone Use in Arrest of American CitizenA motion to dismiss charges based on the use of a Predator drone was denied Wednesday
By Jason Koebler, August 2, 2012 A North Dakota court has preliminarily upheld the first-ever use of an unmanned drone to assist in the arrest of an American citizen. A judge denied a request to dismiss charges Wednesday against Rodney Brossart, a man arrested last year after a 16-hour standoff with police at his Lakota, N.D., ranch. Brossart's lawyer argued that law enforcement's "warrantless use of [an] unmanned military-like surveillance aircraft" and "outrageous governmental conduct" warranted dismissal of the case, according to court documents obtained by U.S. News. www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/08/02/court-upholds-domestic-drone-use-in-arrest-of-american-citizen
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Post by avordvet on Aug 7, 2012 4:18:03 GMT -5
If Colombian cartels are able to build dope-smuggling submarines, when will Mexican crime lords begin sending up surveillance drones to identify unpatrolled sectors of the U.S. border? Soon, I reckon, if it's not already happening.The emerging 'drone' culture BY EUGENE ROBINSON The age of the drones has arrived. It's not possible to uninvent these Orwellian devices, but we can - and must - restrain their use. As instruments of war, pilotless aircraft have already become essential. The Washington Post reported last year that more than 50 countries had developed or purchased drones to use in surveillance - and that many of those nations were working to weaponize the aircraft. Deadly missiles fired from drones are among the most effective U.S. weapons against the Taliban and al Qaida. www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/06/2930381/the-emerging-drone-culture.html/06/2930381/the-emerging-drone-culture.html#storylink=cpy
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Post by avordvet on Aug 9, 2012 4:34:28 GMT -5
Dogfighting drones – swarms of unmanned battle-bots take to the skiesResearch to enable dogfights between enemy UAVs will see 100 combat drones battle it out in a 2015 competition. Berenice Baker investigates the technical and human challenges facing a research team who are aiming to have their aerial battle bots dominate the sky, in a bid to inform future battles between military drones. www.airforce-technology.com/features/featuredogfight-drones-unmanned-battle-bot-swarms/
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Post by avordvet on Aug 16, 2012 14:03:57 GMT -5
When are drone killings illegal?By Mary Ellen O'Connell, Special to CNN, updated 11:12 AM EDT, Thu August 16, 2012 The belated scrutiny is welcome. Yet it still fails to critically assess the essential question: Is this killing occurring in war?
Both Presidents Bush and Obama have attempted to justify thousands of drone attacks as part of a "war" or "armed conflict." But is that correct?www.cnn.com/2012/08/15/opinion/oconnell-targeted-killing/index.html
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Post by avordvet on Aug 17, 2012 3:37:45 GMT -5
Foxes guarding the hen house... now that everyone is on to their maneuvers, the placation starts until the sheeple are lulled back to sleep. Police chiefs adopt drone code of conductBy Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times, Thursday, August 16, 2012 The nation's police chiefs have adopted a code of conduct for their use of drones, including letting any images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, be open to inspection by the public, and that the images not be stored unless they are evidence of a crime or part of an ongoing investigation. The chiefs also said that if they plan to fly drones over an area where they are likely to spot criminal activity and where they would be intruding on someone's "reasonable expectations of privacy," they should seek to get a search warrant first. In their three-page document, the chiefs said they are aware of privacy issues that have arisen with the prospect of an explosion in both governmental and private use of drone technology. "Privacy concerns are an issue that must be dealt with effectively if a law enforcement agency expects the public to support the use of UAV by their police," the chiefs said. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/16/police-chiefs-adopt-drone-code-conduct/
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Post by avordvet on Sept 1, 2012 6:05:06 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Sept 5, 2012 4:18:11 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Sept 7, 2012 13:15:16 GMT -5
Who Is Calling 'BS' on Obama for His Response on Drones?Posted on September 7, 2012 at 1:11pm by Liz Klimas First, Obama in the interview said the criteria for using drones "is very tight and very strict." Here are Obama's answers for using the unmanned aerial vehicles in attacks (via the Bureau Investigates):
"It has to be a target that is authorized by our laws." "It has to be a threat that is serious and not speculative." "It has to be a situation in which we can’t capture the individual before they move forward on some sort of operational plot against the United States." "We've got to make sure that in whatever operations we conduct, we are very careful about avoiding civilian casualties." "That while there is a legal justification for us to try and stop [American citizens] from carrying out plots... they are subject to the protections of the constitution and due process."
Wired called at least two of these points "half-truths." The ones it questions most specifically are 2, 3 and 5. Wired reports Micah Zenko, an analyst who has tracked the use of drones in wars for the Council on Foreign Relations, saying it is "simply not true" to say every drone launched in an attack was for "some operational plot against the United States."www.theblaze.com/stories/nr-analyst-calls-b-s-on-obamas-strict-drone-use-criteria/
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Post by avordvet on Oct 2, 2012 4:32:23 GMT -5
Professor: Drones Will Soon Be Able To Kill During War Without Human AssistanceOctober 1, 2012 2:47 PM WASHINGTON (CBSDC) - Drones could soon operate without the help of humans. Agence France-Presse is reporting that the Pentagon wants its drones to be more autonomous, so that they can run with little to no assistance from people. "Before they were blind, deaf and dumb," Mark Maybury, chief scientist for the U.S. Air Force, told AFP. "Now we're beginning to make them to see, hear and sense." washington.cbslocal.com/2012/10/01/professor-drones-will-soon-be-able-to-kill-during-war-without-human-assistance/
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Post by avordvet on Oct 18, 2012 3:53:22 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Oct 19, 2012 3:48:24 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Dec 7, 2012 5:23:56 GMT -5
Military Drones Prowl US SkiesBy TechNewsDaily Staff, LiveScience.com Military drones used to track terrorists or insurgents in Afghanistan have also been flying across the U.S. homeland. Newly released documents show U.S. drone flights by the Air Force, Marine Corps and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the first time. news.yahoo.com/military-drones-prowl-us-skies-204238872.html
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Post by avordvet on Dec 7, 2012 5:47:06 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Dec 12, 2012 4:37:09 GMT -5
Homeland Security increasingly loaning drones to local policeBy Kimberly Dvorak, Washington Guardian, Monday, December 10, 2012 The little-noticed August 2011 incident at the Lakota, N.D., ranch, which ended peacefully, was a watershed moment for Americans. It was one of the first known times an unmanned aerial vehicle owned by the U.S. government was used in local police work. Since then, The Washington Guardian has confirmed, DHS and its Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency have deployed drones -- originally bought to guard America’s borders -- to assist local law enforcement and other federal agencies on several occasions. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/10/homeland-security-increasingly-loaning-drones-to-l/
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Post by avordvet on Dec 14, 2012 5:25:06 GMT -5
Newly Released Drone Records Reveal Extensive Military Flights in USView EFF's new Map of Domestic Drone Authorizations in a larger window. Today EFF posted several thousand pages of new drone license records and a new map that tracks the location of drone flights across the United States. These records, received as a result of EFF's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), come from state and local law enforcement agencies, universities and--for the first time--three branches of the U.S. military: the Air Force, Marine Corps, and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/newly-released-drone-records-reveal-extensive-military-flights-us
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Post by avordvet on Dec 18, 2012 7:43:30 GMT -5
The Woes of an American Drone OperatorBy Nicola Abe For more than five years, Brandon Bryant worked in an oblong, windowless container about the size of a trailer, where the air-conditioning was kept at 17 degrees Celsius (63 degrees Fahrenheit) and, for security reasons, the door couldn't be opened. Bryant and his coworkers sat in front of 14 computer monitors and four keyboards. When Bryant pressed a button in New Mexico, someone died on the other side of the world. www.spiegel.de/international/world/pain-continues-after-war-for-american-drone-pilot-a-872726.html
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Post by avordvet on Dec 19, 2012 15:19:12 GMT -5
Hmm, gonna have to come up with a small electrical/Micro EMP curtain...
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 3, 2013 11:14:01 GMT -5
I haven't heard from Global Guerillas in awhile but thsi is an interesting commercial take on drones... globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2013/01/dronenet-the-next-big-thing.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FrzYD+%28Global+Guerrillas%29Here's the next BIG thing. Something that has the potential to be as big as the Internet. It's one of those ideas that hits you like a ton of bricks once you figure it out. Given the rise in the entrepreneurial backchatter I'm getting on it, I supect it's going to roll out very quickly. More quickly than most people think once it gets going, since most of the infrastructure required to put it into motion is already in place. What is it? It's an Internet of drones. A short distance drone delivery service built on an open protocol. Think short haul logistics. It's a system that will explode in a way that is very similar to the way the Internet grew up -- where connections were bought by individuals and installed one modem and IP address at a time, and where the early providers are local geeks with shelves full of modems and an expensive T-1 lines. It's an approach that uses "uncontrolled airspace" and incremental purchases of cheap, standards compliant pads/drones to roll itself out (very similar to the way the Internet was able to piggy back on the old telephone system). As a result of this open approach and decentralization, it's something that could grow VERY fast.
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Post by avordvet on Jan 9, 2013 4:59:19 GMT -5
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