I was trying to find a thread to put this in and I probably overlooked it. I thought it was interesting; via WRH:
http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=9305
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by chump » Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:03 pm
by elfismiles » Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:55 pm
PsiOp Radio 56 – 080916
http://psiopradio.com/media/2008/PsiOp% ... 080916.mp3
PsiOp Radio: Spy Drone Over Austin?
PsiOp Radio returns tonight, live, with an exclusive report: two eyewitnesses have reported to me that last night at 3 am a strange aircraft matching the description of a Predator drone was seen circling over north Austin. My co-host SMiles Lewis and I will discuss the details of this disturbing incident, as well as a bunch of other news stories tonight starting at 7 pm CDT / 0100 UTC. The show is two hours long and is carried on Anomaly Radio and Revere Radio. Don’t miss it, and be sure to call in. We’d love to hear from you …
posted by Mack White at 5:08 PM
http://mackwhite.blogspot.com/2008/09/p ... -over.html
by chump » Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:57 pm
by 82_28 » Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:42 pm
chump wrote:From my observations, revelations like this don't usually come out in the news until many years after the fact. I remember hearing about drones along the Texas border, but to use them to hand out speeding tickets, etc? It sounds like Houston has been gearing up for a long time.
I know how it is in the Lone Star State though. (I grew up in Dallas before I moved to Colorado, and have been back to visit a number of times.) There always seems to be a lot of cops. It used to make me paranoid. I guess ya'll were ahead of your time.
I haven't seen or heard any mention of drones in operating Colorado, but it wouldn't surprize me. They just haven't told us yet. I'm waiting for the day that I get a speeding ticket from a drone. That's my guess as to why the authorities are prepping Houstonians in the media.
Thanks for the links.
by Hugo Farnsworth » Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:09 am
by chump » Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:21 am
82_28 wrote:chump wrote:From my observations, revelations like this don't usually come out in the news until many years after the fact. I remember hearing about drones along the Texas border, but to use them to hand out speeding tickets, etc? It sounds like Houston has been gearing up for a long time.
I know how it is in the Lone Star State though. (I grew up in Dallas before I moved to Colorado, and have been back to visit a number of times.) There always seems to be a lot of cops. It used to make me paranoid. I guess ya'll were ahead of your time.
I haven't seen or heard any mention of drones in operating Colorado, but it wouldn't surprize me. They just haven't told us yet. I'm waiting for the day that I get a speeding ticket from a drone. That's my guess as to why the authorities are prepping Houstonians in the media.
Thanks for the links.
I can speak with first hand knowledge, speaking of Colorado, don't even have so much as a single beer and think you won't be targeted anywhere in suburban Denver, walking or driving. They used to "pull me over" for walking home from the bar back in the day. Doncha know, streets aren't meant to be walked down? Arapahoe county is crazy for their hero cops. Back when Patrick Sullivan was running the show it made me think of Maricopa county and that insane fascist that handles the crime profiteering biz down there, whatever his name is. And you know, I always envisioned Dallas to be not much different.
No triangulatory details, chump, but where do you hail from in the old 303? I moved out of Littleton just as Harris and Klebold were putting it on the map.
by 82_28 » Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:42 am
by Uncle $cam » Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:05 pm
Until now all human history has been only a perpetual and bloody immolation of millions of poor human beings in honour of some pitiless abstraction -- God, country, power of state, national honour, historical rights, judicial rights, political liberty, public welfare. -
Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State, p. 59
by elfismiles » Fri Jan 08, 2010 2:31 pm
by elfismiles » Fri Jan 08, 2010 2:36 pm
by Uncle $cam » Fri Jan 08, 2010 9:26 pm
by Jane Mayer
On August 5th, officials at the Central Intelligence Agency, in Langley, Virginia, watched a live video feed relaying closeup footage of one of the most wanted terrorists in Pakistan. Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Taliban in Pakistan, could be seen reclining on the rooftop of his father-in-law’s house, in Zanghara, a hamlet in South Waziristan. It was a hot summer night, and he was joined outside by his wife and his uncle, a medic; at one point, the remarkably crisp images showed that Mehsud, who suffered from diabetes and a kidney ailment, was receiving an intravenous drip.
The video was being captured by the infrared camera of a Predator drone, a remotely controlled, unmanned plane that had been hovering, undetected, two miles or so above the house. Pakistan’s Interior Minister, A. Rehman Malik, told me recently that Mehsud was resting on his back. Malik, using his hands to make a picture frame, explained that the Predator’s targeters could see Mehsud’s entire body, not just the top of his head. “It was a perfect picture,” Malik, who watched the videotape later, said. “We used to see James Bond movies where he talked into his shoe or his watch. We thought it was a fairy tale. But this was fact!” The image remained just as stable when the C.I.A. remotely launched two Hellfire missiles from the Predator. Authorities watched the fiery blast in real time. After the dust cloud dissipated, all that remained of Mehsud was a detached torso. Eleven others died: his wife, his father-in-law, his mother-in-law, a lieutenant, and seven bodyguards.
Pakistan’s government considered Mehsud its top enemy, holding him responsible for the vast majority of recent terrorist attacks inside the country, including the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, in December, 2007, and the bombing, last September, of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, which killed more than fifty people. Mehsud was also thought to have helped his Afghan confederates attack American and coalition troops across the border. Roger Cressey, a former counterterrorism official on the National Security Council, who is now a partner at Good Harbor, a consulting firm, told me, “Mehsud was someone both we and Pakistan were happy to see go up in smoke.” Indeed, there was no controversy when, a few days after the missile strike, CNN reported that President Barack Obama had authorized it.
However, at about the same time, there was widespread anger after the Wall Street Journal revealed that during the Bush Administration the C.I.A. had considered setting up hit squads to capture or kill Al Qaeda operatives around the world. The furor grew when the Times reported that the C.I.A. had turned to a private contractor to help with this highly sensitive operation: the controversial firm Blackwater, now known as Xe Services. Members of the Senate and House intelligence committees demanded investigations of the program, which, they said, had been hidden from them. And many legal experts argued that, had the program become fully operational, it would have violated a 1976 executive order, signed by President Gerald R. Ford, banning American intelligence forces from engaging in assassination.
by General Patton » Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:58 pm
by 82_28 » Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:09 pm
by General Patton » Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:28 pm
82_28 wrote:Thing is, what are these "drones" surveilling?
by elfismiles » Mon Jan 11, 2010 1:48 am
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