One Drone Thread to Rule them ALL

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Postby elfismiles » Thu Oct 09, 2014 10:19 am

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Drones (HBO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4NRJoCNHIs

'Obama Drone' Street Art Targets Gwyneth Paltrow Ahead of L.A. Fundraiser
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LOS ANGELES, California -- Several posters depicting actress Gwyneth Paltrow as an "Obama Drone" have surfaced near the Brentwood home of the Iron Man 3 and Shakespeare in Love actress.
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Postby elfismiles » Thu Oct 09, 2014 1:47 pm

Hear Cornel West on Obama: ‘A Drone Presidency’ (Video)
TIME Staff / Oct. 6, 2014
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The activist on why he couldn't vote for Barack Obama in 2012

In an interview with Time for 10 Questions, Cornel West says he didn’t even vote in 2012. “I couldn’t vote for a war criminal,” he said, calling President Obama’s administration “a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency, a national surveillance presidency, that violates rights and liberties.”

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Postby elfismiles » Thu Oct 09, 2014 5:11 pm

Angry Bird: Hawk knocks drone out of the sky
Posted 10:17 PM, October 8, 2014, by Fox 5 Digital Team, Updated at 10:37pm, October 8, 2014

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Postby elfismiles » Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:32 am

San Francisco Drone Maker Unveils Smartphone-Controlled Drone That Folds Up Into Pocket Size
by Carlos E. Castaneda
October 13, 2014 1:49 PM

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Re: One Drone Thread to Rule them ALL

Postby elfismiles » Tue Oct 21, 2014 4:59 pm

October 21, 2014 16:12
Combat robots to protect Russian oil and gas infrastructure in Arctic - Foundation

MOSCOW. Oct 21 (Interfax-AVN) - Undersea combat robots will be protecting Russian oilrigs and transportation networks in the Arctic region at some point, Deputy General Director of the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects, Chairman of the Foundation's Scientific and Technological Board Vitaly Davydov told Interfax-AVN.

"The Foundation is not designing robotic sharks but it is working on undersea robots and autonomous gadgets capable of protecting infrastructure, controlling the waters and detecting, tracking and, if necessary, destroying a potential enemy. The prospective machinery may be deployed on the sea bottom and specialized submersibles," he said.

So far, the Foundation is focused not so much on defense issues as on mineral development projects, Davydov said.

"The rivalry in this region will be centered on its natural resources. A key task to be solved in the Arctic is access to mineral resources, first and foremost, hydrocarbons. This goal can be achieved through the completion of numerous tasks in the discovery, production and transportation of resources, sub-glacial operations and infrastructural security. This is the target of the Foundation's research programs," he said.

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(Our editorial staff can be reached at eng.editors@interfax.ru)

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Postby elfismiles » Wed Oct 22, 2014 4:09 pm

Driverless buses on the way
Claire Perry reveals one major company has already held talks about introducing computer-controlled buses in UK
By Nick Collins, Transport Correspondent
4:37PM BST 22 Oct 2014
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Postby elfismiles » Thu Oct 23, 2014 3:18 pm

Minister of Defence Ine Eriksen Søreide under fire about new autonomous missile technology. Photo: Torstein Bøe / NTB scanpix
Norway's 'killer robot' technology under fire
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Published: 23 Oct 2014 11:28 GMT+02:00
Updated: 23 Oct 2014 11:28 GMT+02:00

The Norwegian government is set to develop a new controversial robot-controlled missile for its fighter jets, but faces opposition from MPs and peace organizations claiming the technology may break international law.
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The partially autonomously controlled missiles, or so-called "killer robots", will be used for airborne strikes for its new fighter jets and have the ability to identify targets and make decisions to kill without human interference.

The Norwegian Peace League, for one, believe the technology may violate international law, wanting a parliamentary debate about the move.

Alexander Harang of the Norwegian Peace League (Norges Fredslag) demands discussion . He is also a member for the international “Campaign to stop killer robots”.

Norway is one of many countries developing weapons that can operate without human control or surveillance.

The technology raises moral questions, such as what happens when the human is removed from the battle field and machines are left to do the job? Or who will be responsible if the weapon makes mistakes or performs attacks violating international law?

Harang believes that a discussion is highly relevant before final development of Joint Strike Missiles (JSM) made by Norway's Kongsberg Gruppen. These missiles will be part of the weaponry of the Norwegian Armed Forces’ new fighter jet plane, the Joint Strike Fighter.

The peace activist also believes it is important to introduce guidelines for such weapons before their development goes too far.

Harang said he contacted all the political parties this spring in order to get a debate in Parliament on the potential consequences based on international law in developing more autonomously controlled weapons. This was after the government decided Kongsberg Gruppen would get 2.2 billion kroner ($330 million) more in order to develop the missile.

Such a debate never took place.

Christof Heyns, a UN special investigator, is also concerned about such weapons of the future.

Heyns said: “We have seen during the last decade that the distance between the soldier and the target increase. But what we see now is that the weapon becomes the warrior.”

“Norway is a large exporter of weapons. This makes us have to be extra attentive to ethical discussions,” he said.

Kongsberg Gruppen is developing the JSM on order from the Norwegian Armed Forces.

Ronny Lie, communications director at Kongsberg Gruppen, wrote in an email to NTB: “Remotely controlled solutions for demanding civilian and military tasks have become increasingly more important during the last years. The Norwegian high-tech industry needs to join this development.”

Lie stated his company follows the rules and regulations set by the relevant authorities and that it is not in their mandate to consider any challenges related to international law.

Minister of Defence for Norway, Ine Eriksen Søreide, believes it will serve no purpose to introduce a temporary ban on developing deadly robots.

MP Kåre Simensen challenged Søreide as to what Norway should do when new weapon technology challenges international law.

Søreide replied: “No technology has currently been developed that would fall in under such a situation.”

Søreide agreed that a greater degree of military robotization would raise complex questions. However she rejected suggestion from Christof Heyns to introduce a temporary prohibition against the development of deadly robots until new rules had been established.

The Minister of Defence assured her critics Norway adheres to the rules in place from UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW).

http://www.thelocal.no/20141023/norways ... under-fire
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Postby elfismiles » Fri Oct 24, 2014 12:48 pm

New Drone Fits in Your Pocket, Flies for Two Hours
Oct 23, 2014 10:30 AM ET // by Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum
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Postby elfismiles » Mon Oct 27, 2014 8:44 am

Quadcopter drone 'deliberately flown at passenger airliner' over Essex
Plane came within 80ft of colliding with drone as it went to land at Southend
Pilot of 74-seater airliner said quadcopter was 'very close' to right wing-tip
Co-pilot told investigation drone was deliberately flown at aircraft at 1,500ft
UK Airprox Board incident report concluded there was 'high risk of collision'
By Emma Glanfield for MailOnline
Published: 04:43 EST, 26 October 2014 | Updated: 08:02 EST, 26 October 2014
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... Essex.html

Drone deliberately flown at plane above Essex sparking terror fears
Oct 25, 2014 17:00
By Ben Glaze
Airliner narrowly avoided a collision with a remote controlled quadcopter which the pilot states was purposely being flown at the plane
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Postby seemslikeadream » Thu Nov 06, 2014 8:16 am

Primary Sources: New Documents on US Citizen Killed in CIA Drone Strike
By Jason Leopold

November 4, 2014 | 3:00 pm
The FBI has released another set of documents on Samir Khan, the Charlotte, North Carolina man who blogged about jihad, went on to edit Al-Qaeda's official magazine Inspire, and was killed in a 2011 CIA drone strike in Yemen along with the radical preacher Anwar Al-Awlaki.

In September, VICE News reported on the first set of documents on Khan the FBI turned over in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. Those documents indicated that the FBI began its probe of Khan in 2006 based entirely on what the bureau referred to as "jihadist" blog posts to Inshallahshaheed, an Arabic phrase that means "Martyr, God willing." It is extremely rare for files on accused terrorists to be released by the government; historically, they have remained classified.

An exclusive look inside the FBI's files on the US citizen who edited al Qaeda's official magazine. Read more here.

The latest batch of heavily redacted investigative files reveal that the bureau had grown increasingly concerned over Khan's anti-American screeds posted to his blog and determined he was a serious threat.

"Charlotte Division [redacted] to determine Samir Khan's threat potential based on his online and anti-US and jihad rhetoric," says a December 11, 2007 FBI file. "Samir Khan continues to post blogs on the internet which advocate and encourage violence. Given the totality of these indicators, Charlotte consider Samir Zafar Khan a threat."

The bureau also singled out an interview Khan gave to the New York Times in October 2007 as evidence of his Islamic radicalism. In November 2007, according to one file, a special agent at the FBI's Charlotte field office requested permission to monitor Khan via closed-circuit television (CCTV).

"Authority is requested to utilize CCTV coverage of an exterior public area or an interior common area where no reasonable expectation of privacy exists," the agent wrote. "No SOUND authority is being requested. There will be remote monitoring in that the camera will not be physically held by an Agent or consenting party. No consenting party is required to be in the area to be viewed for this CCTV-NO SOUND authority."

The agent added that because Khan was the subject of a criminal investigation "the provisions of the Attorney General's Guidelines for Foreign Intelligence and Foreign Counterintelligence investigations do not apply." In other words, the agent argued, because there would not be a reasonable expectation of privacy in the area of surveillance, the bureau did not need to secure a warrant from a special surveillance court.

Inside 'Black Dart,' the US military's war on drones. Read more here.

Although the 250 pages of documents reveal that Khan was under heavy surveillance and the FBI had cultivated confidential sources who provided information to FBI agents about Khan, he somehow managed to flee the US in 2009 and travel to Yemen undetected.

The FBI withheld more than 700 pages of documents on Khan on national security grounds and other exemptions. The files were maintained in an investigative file in the FBI's Charlotte field office.
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Re: One Drone Thread to Rule them ALL

Postby elfismiles » Fri Nov 07, 2014 1:42 pm

Drone army seeks to redefine 'neighborhood watch' (Video)
Posted: Nov 05, 2014 6:40 PM CST Updated: Nov 07, 2014 8:53 AM CST
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Re: One Drone Thread to Rule them ALL

Postby Iamwhomiam » Fri Nov 07, 2014 11:41 pm

A local Peace blog published this on November 3rd:

Join Code Pink and Col Ann Wright Drone Protest at Creech AFB, Nov. 9-15, Where the U.S. military does the dirty targeted killing for the CIA

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Mahai’a and her father Mauro Oliveira singing Lakota songs right before their arrest at Beale Air Force Base on October 28, 2014


By Mauro Oliveira

10/28/2014

It was a familiar and warm exchange of greetings and spirited talk. The small group of activists I was with had called out to the military gate guards with a question concerning the spider web like substance that seemed to be everywhere around the base; on cars, vegetation telephone poles, fences, floating in the air and across the land. Men with sidearms and radios in camo fatigues approached us.

It was just then getting dark with the officer-in-charge and us each on our legal side of the white line that marked base property and certain arrest should we cross it. With U2s and fighter jets flying around overhead, the officer in charge cheerfully insisted we were looking at spider webs. He then asked if we intended to cross the line at which we answered “not tonight”.

I was there with My daughter Mahai’a, not quite 18, and we were the new faces on the line. We are no strangers to protest- my daughter’ s conscientious objector file goes back to her crib and stroller.

Soon, after light chat, we all said our good nights and a handful of us retreated to a makeshift campsite just yards away in the shadows of the desert vegetation.

Barry Binks, a Veterans For Peace foot soldier, has been religiously showing up here at Beale Air Force base, east of Sacramento, month after month. With him is an incredible affinity group of mostly Elder citizens, who have been setting up information outlets, banners, signage and even blockading the entrance to the base, triggering their arrest by the MPs. The dedicated dozen seasoned peace activists there with us this morning, I learned later, collectively had many arrests from Washington DC to California.

The primary issue that brings them and us together is drone assassinations but all the activists make no bones about the war machine in general. Beale is the site where Global Hawk reconnaissance drones are piloted from. The drone itself is near its target, most notably the Mid East through Pakistan where hundreds of well publicized strikes have blown to pieces children and entire families. We recognized these drone pilots by their black eagle patches displayed on their shoulders as they pass through the gate of the base.

Barry explained that these pilots find the targets that reaper and predator drones then strike with a missile. Many of those terror aircraft are flown from Creech Air Force base near Las Vegas, the site of planned protests and actions starting November 9-15, 2014. This group will be meeting up with well known peace activist and former Ambassador to Afghanistan Lt. Colonel Anne Wright and other activists from across the nation to spotlight what we all believe to be the war crimes taking place at Creech Air Force Base.

Almost two years ago Senator Lyndsey Graham had revealed that over 4,700 had been killed by drone strikes and the White House has suggested that few if any civilians have been killed. The same White House that classified every male of combat age a terrorist. Furthermore, the White House’s word eroded long ago.

Since 911 my wife and I, and eventually our children as well, have witnessed one immoral act after the other by Washington in the name of “America(ns)”….in the name of you and me. One lie after the other, from who committed and what acts were committed on 9-11, to the non-existent link to Saddam Hussein, to weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist, a nuclear hoax, a promise of a fast war, that we would be greeted as liberators, that we would leave the Iraqis better off.

That’s just the start…the patriot act, depleted uranium and phosphorous weapons, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and torture. And more torture.

There was the anthrax letters shell game, Blackwater, Halliburton and pallets of money that disappeared much like Iraqi treasure. The greed and slaughter continued with Obama, presidential ordered secret assassinations, the NSA, telecoms, banks and other corporations conspiring against and committing crimes against US Citizens and the Militarization of the every day cop.

But it is the drone strike that makes Americans the most hated people and nation on Earth. It is a cowardly act that disregards whatever rules of war that ever existed in the however misguided “honor” of men. These bombs not only have killed children, teenagers, mothers, fathers grandparents, neighbors and entire wedding parties; they have created a level of anxiety and fear across vast regions. Mentally they are a torture of mass destruction. The pictures, eye witness accounts and journalist verifications on the ground are infinitely more believable than ANY White House in my lifetime.

Drone strikes are not a Christian act or the act of any other religion for that matter, except one perhaps and that would be most easily classified simply as evil. Drone strikes are terrorist acts and the United States is the terrorist. The hypocrisy of fighting terrorism with terrorism as a moral detour from the Law of God is so fundamentally flawed that it paves the way for billions of people to easily and justifiably call us Satanic.

Before the sun rose our banners greeted the rapid flow of vehicles, including drone pilots, entering the base. We sang spirited songs as wild horses ran ecstatically in the distance. We then all moved into the road and blockaded the entrance and exit. State Highway moved in and huddled with the base MPs.

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Part of occupy Beale demonstration on the morning of October 28th

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Some of the early morning banners at Beale AFB, October 28, 2014

My daughter has stood against war all her life and today was no different. As the guards attempted to avert an arrest and close the gate, effectively completing our blockade, my daughter and I slid thru and triggered our military arrest.

We want drones to end and until THAT day, my family wants it to be clear to the victims of drone strikes and to the entire world, that we believe in Peace, not war and consider drone strikes as a war crime against humanity and an act against the Creators greatest gift, the Children of the world, of which we all are. We face a federal judge and she or he will face our Truth. Please Pray for us.

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Being detained by military police after entering the base.


Editor’s note: In the midst of the Drone Quilts Exhibits here in the New York Capital District the victims of our extrajudicial drone attacks are front and center. We also had an outstanding panel discussion with three active resisters of the Hancock Air National Guard Base long running protests this past Friday afternoon at the RPI Chapel + Cultural Center.Where students, and faculty and community members learned more about their large demonstrations, arrests and trials.

We are now living with a 1/5 scale drone replica of the Reaper MQ9. All of these things moved me to share this heartfelt and eloquent article about the most recent protest at Beale Air Force Base, and the announcement of another to take place at Creech AFB this coming week.


http://blog.timesunion.com/wagingpeace/father-and-daughter-arrested-protesting-worlds-most-hated-weapon-guest-post-by-mauro-olivera/6373/
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Re: One Drone Thread to Rule them ALL

Postby elfismiles » Sat Nov 08, 2014 9:36 am

Man allegedly shoots down neighbor’s drone with shotgun
By Mike Flacy — October 1, 2014
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/ ... ors-drone/
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Re: One Drone Thread to Rule them ALL

Postby elfismiles » Sat Nov 08, 2014 10:33 am


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YqUocVcyrE

elfismiles » 25 Sep 2014 20:56 wrote:Image
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Re: One Drone Thread to Rule them ALL

Postby elfismiles » Sat Nov 08, 2014 10:33 am

Thanks for posting this Iam

Iamwhomiam » 08 Nov 2014 03:41 wrote:A local Peace blog published this on November 3rd:

Join Code Pink and Col Ann Wright Drone Protest at Creech AFB, Nov. 9-15, Where the U.S. military does the dirty targeted killing for the CIA

please contact:

Toby Blome ratherbenyckeling@comcast.net


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By Mauro Oliveira
10/28/2014
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http://blog.timesunion.com/wagingpeace/father-and-daughter-arrested-protesting-worlds-most-hated-weapon-guest-post-by-mauro-olivera/6373/
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