Archive for the 'Drones' Category

(RepPress) – ohn has the opportunity to ask the President of the United States of America questions and it looks like he is going to blow it. Read the rest of this entry »

(DailyCaller) – Democratic Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Republican Texas Rep. Ron Paul and Democratic New Jersey Rep. Rush Holt Jr. are challenging the Obama administration to release documents it uses to legally justify drone strikes overseas. Read the rest of this entry »

(RealNews) – Vijay Prashad: President Obama plans to expand the use of drone attacks as a way to project US power Read the rest of this entry »

(NewAmerican) – At a conference of top Pakistani and American officials in Aspen, Colorado, Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, criticized the Central Intelligence Agency’s drone warfare in Pakistan, describing it as having reached the point of “diminishing returns” and contributing to the growing anti-American sentiment in the country. Read the rest of this entry »

(DronesWatch) – The United States has launched a technological arms race as 40 nations ramp up their drone programs for war. Read the rest of this entry »

(WeAreChange) – President Barack Obama has personally ordered 268 assissinations by drone in Pakistan alone since he took office in 2009.
Obama Admits Repeatedly Ordering Assassinations Of Innocent Civilians.

Romney will be even worse. Read the rest of this entry »

(IND) – Former president Jimmy Carter has blasted the United States for anti-terror strategies such as targeting individuals for assassination and using unmanned drones to bomb suspected targets, saying they directly flout the basic tenets of universal human rights and foment anti-US sentiment. Read the rest of this entry »

(ProPublica) – The covert U.S. effort to strike terrorist leaders using drones has moved further out of the shadows this year — targeted killing has been mentioned by President Obama and defended in speeches by Attorney General Eric Holder and Obama counterterrorism adviser John Brennan. The White House recently declassified the fact that it is conducting military operations in Yemen and Somalia. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (Infowars) – Garbage Truck Drivers, Landscapers Snoop for Cops – Read More Here

“Incidental” surveillance data can be held for 90 days

(SteveWatson) – A newly discovered Air Force intelligence brief states that should fleets of unmanned drones accidentally capture surveillance footage of Americans, the data can be stored and analyzed by the Pentagon for up to 90 days.

The instruction, dated April 23, admits that the Air Force cannot legally conduct “nonconsensual surveillance” on Americans, but also states that should the drones”incidentally” capture data while conducting other missions, military intelligence has the right to study it to determine whether the subjects are legitimate targets of domestic surveillance. Read the rest of this entry »

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(HigginsBlog) – The US has been forced to reveal the location of 63 secret bases used to conduct aerial drone flights for domestic spying operations. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (HigginsBlog) – No Charges, No Trial, No Lawyer, No Jury: Straight to Execution – Read More Here

(HigginsBlog) – Police are deploying an army of drones to spy on US citizens that can be used to fire rockets through your window if the government doesn’t like what you are doing. Read the rest of this entry »

(DaisyLuther) – Through the ages, the idea of soldiers barging into homes, pillaging, raping and killing, has stricken fear into the hearts of the oppressed.

Before and during the Wars of Independence in Scotland, English lords and their forces plucked defenseless women from their homes, killed everyone else, then burned the structures to the ground.

During the US Civil War, militia in search of food and supplies invaded the homes of unprotected women and children. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Get ready to look up at the sky and see drones hovering above. As of now the unmanned aircraft can only be used in the air by the military and certain law enforcement agencies. But this week Congress passed a bill that would allow for commercial and private use of drones. And these aircraft typically carry surveillance equipment and even weapons sometimes. Alex Jones, a radiohost explains what does that mean for your privacy and safety. Read the rest of this entry »

(AJC) – The system wants this video erased! Only you can get it out and set the truth free! Read the rest of this entry »

Technology used to hunt enemy combatants in Afghanistan will be used for “non-emergency incidents” within the U.S.

(PaulWatson) – The Department of Homeland Security plans to spend up to $50 million dollars on a spy system that has been used to hunt insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan for the purposes of “emergency and non-emergency incidents” within the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – Despite promises the 2012 NDAA did not apply to military operations on U.S. soil or against American Citizens, a massive military drone deployment into U.S airspace has been approved by Congress.

Despite all of the concerns regarding the language of the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) for fiscal year 2012 our beloved politicians once again turned a deaf to the American people and the atrocious bill was pushed into law. Read the rest of this entry »

(Salon) – The New York Times‘ Scott Shane reported this morning on the Bureau of Investigative Journalism study I wrote about yesterday, detailing that the U.S. drone program, as the NYT put it, “repeatedly targeted rescuers who responded to the scene of a strike, as well as mourners at subsequent funerals.” Shane’s article contains this paragraph:

A senior American counterterrorism official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, questioned the report’s findings, saying “targeting decisions are the product of intensive intelligence collection and observation.” The official added: “One must wonder why an effort that has so carefully gone after terrorists who plot to kill civilians has been subjected to so much misinformation. Let’s be under no illusions — there are a number of elements who would like nothing more than to malign these efforts and help Al Qaeda succeed.”

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(RussiaToday) – More and more ridiculous as the days go by… as if the world is turned on its head. Read the rest of this entry »

(BIJ) – The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of  civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals, an investigation by the Bureau for the Sunday Times has revealed.

The findings are published just days after President Obama claimed that the drone campaign in Pakistan was a ‘targeted, focused effort’ that ‘has not caused a huge number of civilian casualties.’ Read the rest of this entry »

(ActivistPost) – The stage has already been set and played upon for divisions of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to patrol and strike undeclared war zones abroad. Read the rest of this entry »

(EndTheLie) – Late last year I reported on how the Department of Justice refused to reveal the legal justification for the United States’ highly secretive drone-based targeted killing programin response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the New York Times.

After that failed attempt, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has stepped up to the plate in an effort to get the Obama administration to actually live up to their promises of transparency.

However, the government continues to nonsensically claim that the program is indeed so incredibly secret that they cannot even confirm or deny the existence of the program itself. Read the rest of this entry »

(Counterpunch) – It’s all because of the little noticed annual report for 2010 from the United States Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS).  The document was released March 2011.  Some especially interesting language is found on page 26 in a section entitled “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.”  It describes how the “Department of State coordinated with the U.S. Department of Defense and other government agencies to research using Tier 1 (low altitude, long endurance) unmanned aerial vehicles in high-threat locations such as Iraq and Afghanistan.  Read the rest of this entry »

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(RussiaToday) – Drone strikes have become taboo among US leaders; allegedly for security reasons. Still Pakistan and the US have an agreement to continue drones strikes that are aimed at killing the Taliban, but at the same time have killed innocent Pakistanis. For the first time Obama has admitted drones not only kill the enemy, but innocent people. Michael Maloof, former Pentagon official, gives us his thoughts on the matter. Read the rest of this entry »

(EFF) – Today, EFF filed suit against the Federal Aviation Administration seeking information on drone flights in the United States. The FAAis the sole entity within the federal government capable of authorizing domestic drone flights, and for too long now, it has failed to release specific and detailed information on who is authorized to fly drones within US borders. Read the rest of this entry »

(BusinessInsider) – President Obama’s enormous expansion of the U.S. drone program may be pushing too fast for military staffing to keep up.

David S. Cloud of The Los Angeles Times reports the military is now forced to rely on a string of civilian contractors placed at all levels along the “kill chain.” These are the people who analyze incoming drone video and decide when to fire Hellfire missiles.

The practice is not new. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Iran by many is considered to be technologically inferior to most countries around the world. But earlier this month, Iran was able to hack the GPS system of a US spy drone and safely land it. Now concerns have been raised on the vulnerability of our military drones and have many wondering how else these vulnerabilities could be used against the US.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former Reagan administration official, joins us to give us his take on how this could affect the military defense industry. Read the rest of this entry »

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(KurtNimmo) – On Monday Obama asked Iran to return the CIA’s RQ-170 Sentinel it brought down and Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta described efforts to seek the return of the drone from Iran as “an appropriate request.” Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (PrisonPlanet) – Santa Gets a TSA Pat-down – Read More Here

(RussiaToday) – Predator drones have been used to fight the war on terror worldwide. Recently Iran shot down a US drone flying over the country and now reports have surfaced indicating these same drones are being used on American citizens. Alex Jones, radio show host, joins us to help us dig deeper and find out why US citizens are being targeted. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – The US police continue to play cat and mouse with the Occupy movement, having torn down the last remaining Occupy Wall Street camp in San Francisco, arresting 55 people for illegal lodging. Read the rest of this entry »

(ActivistPost) – It is a sign of just how fast the police state is advancing that drones in American skies have gone from conspiracy theory to admitted fact in about a year. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – Update: News channel 5 confirms door-to-door questioning of food supplies in Tennessee – Mike Adams – Read More Here

(Telegraph) – Police to test laser that ‘blinds rioters’ – Read More Here

(Blaze) – Schumer Calls For Passenger Advocates At Airports During TSA Security Screenings – Read More Here

(IND) – US protests boost sales and fears of sonic blaster

More US police and emergency-response agencies are using the so-called Long-Range Acoustic Devices instead of megaphones or conventional loudspeakers for crowd control, according to news reports and leading manufacturer LRAD Corp. of San Diego. Read More Here

(KrisAnneHall) – Predator Drone Used in Arrest of Farmer

I have voiced my firm opposition to SB1867 because of its potential use against US citizens, I have been called an extremist, a chicken little, etc. Now RT, a Russian news media source, has posted an article that made my hair stand on end. In June of this year, a predator drone was used by local law enforcement to facilitate the arrest of a North Dakota Family. Read More Here

(Rueters) – Undercover cops spied on Occupy LA in search of ‘domestic terrorists’

Undercover police officers infiltrated Occupy LA’s tent city last month to spy on people they suspected of stockpiling human waste and crude weapons for resisting an eventual eviction, police and city government sources said. Read More Here

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(SteveWatson) – Russian Protesters Encounter Surveillance UAV Drone

Thank goodness this sort of thing doesn’t happen in the land of the free… oh wait Read the rest of this entry »

(Rys2Sense) – December 6th, 2011 – Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Last month’s attack by a NATO aircraft on Pakistani region that killed 24 soldiers has infuriated Islamabad. RT spoke to Hamid Gul, the country’s former head of intelligence, about consequences the incident may have for US-Pakistani relations. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – After nearly a two month manhunt, former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was found and killed. Revolutionary forces flooded his hometown, Sirte, and according to some reports, the US fired a drone missile at his convoy causing his death. Michel Chossudovsky, director for the Centre for Research on Globalization, tells us more about today’s events. Read the rest of this entry »

(SOTT) – A ground-breaking investigation examines the most secret aspect of America’s shadowy drone wars and maps out a world of hidden bases dotting the globe.

They increasingly dot the planet. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where “pilots” work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in Africa formerly used by the French Foreign Legion, a third at a big air base in Afghanistan where Air Force personnel sit in front of multiple computer screens, and a fourth that almost no one talks about at an air base in the United Arab Emirates. Read the rest of this entry »

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See Also: (Guardian) – Spanish MP to sue FBI for using his face in al-Qaida ‘most wanted’ photos – Read More Here

(PressTV) – US drones are flown to southern Somalia from secret US bases in neighboring Kenya, Press TV reports, quoting a Somali official.

A Somali government official, who spoke on the condition of unanimity, told Press TV that there are secret US bases in Kenya mainly used for flying American pilotless drone bombers. Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – Engineers at the University of Southampton have developed an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) whose entire structure has been printed, potentially changing the economics of aircraft design. Read the rest of this entry »

(SteveWatson) – End game looks close as US, French push toward “coup de grace” Read the rest of this entry »

(Infowars) – Is the greatest threat humanity faces posed by the rise of artificial intelligence? Society’s ruling elites have long ago pressured us to become mere ‘cogs in the machine’ who makes few, if any, meaningful decisions about our own lives. The agenda to rule a world government through scientific control and by reducing the ‘useless’ population has been upon us for some time. Read the rest of this entry »

(CorbettReport) – Unmanned aerial vehicles are once again grabbing headlines as the UK government was forced to admit last week that an RAF drone killed four Afghan civilians and injured two others in an air strike in Helmsland earlier this year.

(RussiaToday) – Moscow has raised concern over France supplying weapons to Libyan rebels and over ambigious interpretations of the UN Security Council resolution on Libya. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has also once again said that the sides in the Syrian conflict should resolve their differences through dialogue only. Investigative journalist Webster Tarpley, who’s in Tripoli, shared his views with RT. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – The CIA is ready to expand its drone strikes from Pakistan to Yemen. A U.S. official said that a secret plan to bomb Yemen has been in the works for months, Fox News reports today. Read the rest of this entry »

“Although it is hard to predict where the drone infrastructure will grow, if other defense contracting projects are a reliable guide, the drone-ification of America will probably continue until there is a drone aerodrome in every state and a drone degree program to go with it.” ~ Richard Wheeler, Wired (Feb. 28, 2011)

(LewRockwell) – The U.S. government has a history of commandeering military technology for use against Americans. We saw this happen with tear gas, tasers and sound cannons, all of which were first used on the battlefield before being deployed against civilians at home. Now the drones – pilotless, remote controlled aircraft that have been used extensively in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan (at least 600 civilians have been killed in drone attacks in Pakistan since the United States started targeting insurgents in that country) and were most recently approved by President Obama for use in Libya – are coming home to roost (and fly) in domestic airspace. Read the rest of this entry »