Subject: Fears Confirmed: Domestic Drones 'Fly Regularly' in US Airspace
Miriam,
Uprisings will become more frequent the more the Working Class and Lower Class feel the Master's heel. Revolution? Probably a long way off, and that is not to suggest that all revolutions are successful.
Carl Jarvis
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Miriam
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Subject: Fears Confirmed: Domestic Drones 'Fly Regularly' in US Airspace
Fears Confirmed: Domestic Drones 'Fly Regularly' in US Airspace
Watchdog publishes new flight map, 'takes surveillance to a whole new level'
by - Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Common Dreams, December 5, 2012
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/05-9?print
Digital watchdog the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) published several
thousand pages of new drone license records on Wednesday confirming
innumerable theorists' fears that drones regularly fly in national airspace
all around the country.
The records, which were obtained by way of a 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), the group writes on their
Deeplinks blog.
According to the records, the Air Force has been testing out a variety of
drones, from the smaller, hand-launched Raven, Puma and Wasp drones to the
larger Predator and Reaper models largely responsible for countless civilian
and foreign military deaths.
Breaking down the shocking capabilities of the various machines, Deeplinks
writes that the technologies take surveillance to a whole new level. They
continue
According to a recent Gizmodo article, the Puma AE ("All Environment") drone
can land anywhere, "either in tight city streets or onto a water surface if
the mission dictates, even after a near-vertical 'deep stall' final
approach." Another drone, Insitu's ScanEagle, which the Air Force has flown
near Virginia Beach, sports an "inertial-stabilized camera turret, [that]
allows for the tracking of a target of interest for extended periods of
time, even when the target is moving and the aircraft nose is seldom pointed
at the target." Boeing's A160 Hummingbird, which the Air Force has flown
near Victorville, California, is capable of staying in the air for 16 to 24
hours at a time and carries a gigapixel camera and a "Forester
foliage-penetration radar" system designed by the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA).
Perhaps the scariest is the technology carried by a Reaper drone the Air
Force is flying near Lincoln, Nevada and in areas of California and Utah.
This drone uses Gorgon Stare technology, which Wikipedia defines as "a
spherical array of nine cameras attached to an aerial drone capable of
capturing motion imagery of an entire city." This imagery "can then be
analyzed by humans or an artificial intelligence, such as the Mind's Eye
project" being developed by DARPA.
Also Wednesday, the watchdog group published a new map that tracks the
location of drone flights across the United States.
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