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[Uncle $cam]

[elfismiles]

US drones collecting 'too much information'
US remote-controlled spy drones used over Afghanistan and Iraq are producing so much video intelligence that analysts are finding it more and more difficult to keep up with it, according to The New York Times.

Published: 7:00AM GMT 11 Jan 2010

The newspaper said the Air Force drones collected nearly three times as much video over Afghanistan and Iraq last year as in 2007 -- about 24 years' worth if watched continuously.

That volume is expected to multiply in the coming years as drones are added to the fleet and as some start using multiple cameras to shoot in many directions, the report said.


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Al-Qa'eda's American-born propaganda chief may have died in predator attackA group of young analysts already watches every second of the footage live as it is streamed to Langley Air Force Base in Virginia and to other intelligence centers, and they quickly pass warnings about insurgents and roadside bombs to troops in the field, according to the paper.

But military officials also see much potential in using the archives of video collected by the drones for later analysis, like searching for patterns of insurgent activity over time, The Times said.

To date, only a small fraction of the stored video has been retrieved for such intelligence purposes, the paper said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... ation.html

[elfismiles]

US drones collecting 'too much information'
US remote-controlled spy drones used over Afghanistan and Iraq are producing so much video intelligence that analysts are finding it more and more difficult to keep up with it, according to The New York Times.

Published: 7:00AM GMT 11 Jan 2010

The newspaper said the Air Force drones collected nearly three times as much video over Afghanistan and Iraq last year as in 2007 -- about 24 years' worth if watched continuously.

That volume is expected to multiply in the coming years as drones are added to the fleet and as some start using multiple cameras to shoot in many directions, the report said.

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MoD 'slow to appreciate' potential of drone aircraft in Iraq and Afghanistan, MPs say
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Al-Qa'eda's American-born propaganda chief may have died in predator attackA group of young analysts already watches every second of the footage live as it is streamed to Langley Air Force Base in Virginia and to other intelligence centers, and they quickly pass warnings about insurgents and roadside bombs to troops in the field, according to the paper.

But military officials also see much potential in using the archives of video collected by the drones for later analysis, like searching for patterns of insurgent activity over time, The Times said.

To date, only a small fraction of the stored video has been retrieved for such intelligence purposes, the paper said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... ation.html

[Uncle $cam]

I imagine It's ubiquitous knowledge that tools are not inheriently evil, In otherwords, can be used for good or ill. But that's usually as far as anyone takes that line of thinking, as the most useful tools almost always wind up in the hands of those who would gain most from institutionalized structural violence.

[chump]

[elfismiles]

Surveillance Drones To Zap Protesters Into Submission
The future of policing: Dissidents to be tortured into compliance by marauding unmanned vehicles

Paul Joseph Watson
Propaganda Matrix
Friday, February 12, 2010

Illustrating once again that the prison planet being built around us far outstrips anything Aldous Huxley or George Orwell ever imagined, a Wired News report details how police forces worldwide are preparing to unveil drone aircraft that can not only conduct surveillance of protesters, but also zap them into submission with non-lethal weapons.

As part of their ongoing mission to "protect and serve" the new world order, cops across the world are getting access to military drones which allow them to "carry out surveillance on everyone from protesters and antisocial motorists to fly-tippers," reports Wired News.

The report details how the future of policing will resemble something approaching a combination of They Live and The Running Man, with unmanned drones replacing police helicopters whizzing around everywhere torturing and knocking out anyone who misbehaves.

According to the report, this is a natural progression from CCTV cameras that shout at passers-by, currently deployed in several UK cities, only now drones will be fitted with LRAD acoustic devices, torture sound weapons that were indiscriminately used and abused during the G20 summit in Pittsburgh on innocent members of the public who were just walking down the street and had not even dared to engage in the criminal activity of expressing their First Amendment right to assemble.

"The LRAD has been tested on the Austrian S-100 unmanned helicopter, and the technology is ready if there is a police requirement," states the article.

Also available to police will be a drone that can fire tear gas as well as rubber pellets to disperse anyone still living under the delusion that they were born in a democratic country.

"French company Tecknisolar Seni has demonstrated a portable drone armed with a double-barrelled 44mm Flash-Ball gun," states the report. "Used by French special police units, the one-kilo Flash-Ball resembles a large calibre handgun and fires non-lethal rounds, including tear gas and rubber impact rounds to bring down a suspect without permanent damage -- "the same effect as the punch of a champion boxer," claim makers Verney-Carron."

Of course the fact that the Flash-Ball devices have caused "permanent damage" in the form of head injuries is glossed over.

Another option will be a mini-flying saucer drone fitted with a Taser gun, primed to shoot 50,000-volts into anyone who refuses to bow down at the feet of global government.

"Taser stun guns are now so light (about 150 grams) that they could be mounted on the smaller drones. Antoine di Zazzo, head of SMP Technologies, which distributes tasers in France, says the company is fitting one to a small quad-rotor iDrone (another quad-rotor toy helicopter), which some have called a "flying saucer".

Since police routinely use Tasers as a method of "pain compliance," ie torture, and not in genuinely threatening situations, abuse of the devices is widespread in every country that has introduced them. Since June 2001, over 350 people have died in the United States after being hit with these "non-lethal weapons". Imagine how incidents of abuse would skyrocket once the personal element of using a Taser is removed and they are strapped to marauding surveillance drones, eliminating any responsibility for deaths and injuries that occur.

Why not just equip the drones with hellfire missiles and have done with it? Now it's admitted that the authorities treat any dissenter, any protester, anyone who questions the system, even anyone who takes a photograph in public as a terrorist, why not just blow us all away like they do to "insurgents" in Afghanistan?

The fact that every one of these fascistic and futuristic tools of enslavement is being primed to be used mainly against protesters only confirms that the police state is not coming, it's not some future threat, it's here in 2010 - we're living in a world that does not tolerate dissent against its overlords, we're truly living on a prison planet.


http://www.propagandamatrix.com/article ... esters.htm

[chump]

Can you imagine what the world could be like if these new technologies are mass produced and then set loose?

It reminds me of "The Terminator", or "I, Robot". Let's face it, before long, this technology could be prevalent.

Bee like drones, buzzing by your head, instructing you to pick up that piece of paper; and you do it because you've learned that the little mother fuvker is going to zap you if you don't. They could be everywhere, telling people what to do, inflicting a commensurate amount of pain, or even death if you fail to do as you are told. Don't you dare swat at the little demon. If you do then it's drone buddies will swarm like you've attacked the hive (and you'll probably get a bill).

However, drones of all shapes and sizes, could be programmed and mass produced to perform an amazing variety of functions, whatever the creator/robotic designer can envision, and then set loose upon the world to perform that function, exponentially, again and again and again. Eventually, the drones could even be designed to produced more drones (kind of like DNA). Drones could be designed to pick that piece of paper for you. People would never have to work again. There would be no need for money. This could be a good thing. It depends whoever is designing the drones.

[elfismiles]

Exactly, it's like we are TRYING to create the SkyNet reality from TERMINATOR.

Like all tech, they are a double-edged sword.

Can you imagine what the world could be like if these new technologies are mass produced and then set loose?

It reminds me of "The Terminator", or "I, Robot". Let's face it, before long, this technology could be prevalent.

Bee like drones, buzzing by your head, instructing you to pick up that piece of paper; and you do it because you've learned that the little mother fuvker is going to zap you if you don't. They could be everywhere, telling people what to do, inflicting a commensurate amount of pain, or even death if you fail to do as you are told. Don't you dare swat at the little demon. If you do then it's drone buddies will swarm like you've attacked the hive (and you'll probably get a bill).

However, drones of all shapes and sizes, could be programmed and mass produced to perform an amazing variety of functions, whatever the creator/robotic designer can envision, and then set loose upon the world to perform that function, exponentially, again and again and again. Eventually, the drones could even be designed to produced more drones (kind of like DNA). Drones could be designed to pick that piece of paper for you. People would never have to work again. There would be no need for money. This could be a good thing. It depends whoever is designing the drones.

[Uncle $cam]

[slomo]

I imagine It's ubiquitous knowledge that tools are not inheriently evil, In otherwords, can be used for good or ill. But that's usually as far as anyone takes that line of thinking, as the most useful tools almost always wind up in the hands of those who would gain most from institutionalized structural violence.

Not all tools are morally neutral. In fact, the vast majority of them are not. All technology has a context. Some technologies concentrate power, others distribute it.

Needless to say, the effect of advanced surveillance technologies, and of advanced weaponry, it to concentrate power in the hands of the few.

[elfismiles]

DESCRIPTION OF ACTION

FIRST PROTEST AGAINST CIA DRONE ATTACKS
COMING TO LANGLEY, VIRGINIA

"Every one of these dead non-combatants represents an alienated family, a new revenge feud, and more
recruits for a militant movement that has grown exponentially even as drone strikes have increased."
- David Kilcullen (Counterinsurgency Expert) Center for New American Security

On January 16th, 2010 from 1pm to 4pm activists will descend upon the home of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia to protest the immoral, illegal, and inhumane use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs--also known as "drones").

Speaking at this event will be:

- Cindy Sheehan (world renowned U.S. anti-war/peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee)
- Cynthia McKinney (former six term member of the U.S. House of Representatives and former Green Party candidate for President of the United States)
- Hadi Jawad (Pakistani-American and Co-founder of the Crawford Peace House)
- Kathy Kelly (U.S. peace activist, pacifist and author, a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, one of the founding members of Voices in the Wilderness, and currently a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence)
- Debra Sweet (Brooklyn-based director of World Can’t Wait)
- Bruce Gagnon (coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space)
- Joshua Smith (anti-war/peace activist, analyst and coordinator)
- David Rovics (musician)

By some reports the current implementation and planned operational expansion of the strike-capable drone programs in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan have to date yielded up to 33% civilian (non-combatant) deaths. To any sane and honorable person this statistic alone should prove that the "actionable intelligence" and robotic delivery vehicle do not yield a proper basis and/or method for credible attack. The primary and proven case against drone attacks is that they pose a public danger that can only be deemed as indiscriminate bombing. On the day of the event, activists will demand that the United States and its allies adhere to the protection of civilians (non-combatants) in international armed conflicts in accordance with the multiple existing conventions, protocols and customary international laws. These same activists will, of course, also demand an end to the wars and occupations currently under way and an immediate withdrawal of all troops and contractors.

Drones operate in the theater of war by being fueled and maintained at airbases within their locale but which are remotely piloted via satellite connected ground control stations half-way around the world and from an environment disassociated with any human connection to reality of their actions. The psychological aspect of this endeavor will ultimately create a false sense that war is easier to condone, safer to conduct and more acceptable in U.S. public and political opinion to initiate.

Recently, it has been reported in mainstream media that the United States Central Intelligence Agency has been working in cooperation with Private Military Contractors (PMCs--also known as "mercenaries") in waging secret operations in utilizing drone attacks. Under this veil secrecy it can only be assumed that impunity for war crimes is being actively cultivated within the highest level of Department of Defense operations via proxy by the Central Intelligence Agency (which then sub-contracts out the directives).

The most well known drone is the propeller driven Predator A (MQ-1). This drone began as merely a streaming video reconnaissance tool but was soon armed with Hellfire missiles. The United States Military then upgraded the entire drone arsenal with what has become a an even more ruthless killer--the Predator B "Reaper" (MQ-9). With millions upon millions, of U.S. taxpayer funded dollars the Reaper became higher, faster and stronger with increased size and fuel capacity, quicker engagement via a turbo-prop engine and a larger weapons payload/assortment. The Reaper is seemingly a "steroid raged monster" that cowardly stalks it's prey. The next evolution is the Predator C "Avenger" which will employ stealth design/materials, jet engine and highly advanced optics systems.

Within the oration of the activists at this event the most frightening aspect of future drone programs will be explained and spelled out to attendees and to the press. The three most notable facts are (1) that drone programs currently under development will soon yield a series of UAV aircraft that will operate in a fully autonomous mode (meaning that no human will be controlling the craft remotely), (2) that the UAV program is destined to become the primary type of air power for the U.S. military which will also be tasked with the ability to carry out nuclear strikes, and (3) the use of drones will morph into rapid and various domestic roles as well (operating in, around and over cities of the United States).

Location: Langley, VA – Route 123 (Dolley Madison Blvd) between Potomac School Rd & Savile Ln.
Google map is here.

UPDATE: (January 12, 2010) Previously announced speaker Ann Wright is due for some well deserved rest after spending a full month in Cairo, Egypt facilitating the Gaza Freedom March logistics and governmental negotiations. She will be replaced by Hadi Jawad.

http://www.cindysheehanssoapbox.com/peacePage.html

http://www.ipdop.org/cia_drone_protest_flyer_cssb.pdf

[Seamus OBlimey]

Unlicensed Merseyside Police drone grounded

A man was tracked down with the camera after he ran off from a stolen car.

The technology onboard the drone meant the officer using it was able to use live images of the suspect's body heat. The officer then directed patrols on the ground to where the man was hiding in undergrowth.

Two men were arrested and later bailed in connection to the theft.

Obviously inamissable evidence I'd be pleading!

Meet The Hexacopter

[Uncle $cam]

Obviously inamissable evidence I'd be pleading!

Meet The Hexacopter

I think someone drtt...(didn't read the thread).

[Seamus OBlimey]

Sorry, hadn't noticed there was a page 2 before I posted and only added the Hex to my post as I'd seen it yesterday. I've done it before and I'll probably do it again. No big deal is it?

[Joe Hillshoist]

No big deal is it?

Its evil seamus.

Evil I tell you.