Tag Archive for drones

Dronestream: Keeping Track of the strikes (Video Report)

from Huff Post 

NYU’s Josh Begley has launched a Twitter account where he’s tweeting every reported US drone strike over the past 10 years.

US Congress hears calls for drone safeguards (+) Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk 3/11/13: Congress, Drones, and The Imperial Presidency (Video Report)

From Space War by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) March 20, 2013

Lawmakers and advocates on Wednesday called for safeguards to be placed on the domestic use of drones in order to protect the privacy of Americans.

Congress has ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to open up airspace to the unmanned aircraft by October 2015, a decision expected to see thousands of drones criss-crossing the sky within a few years.

Their imminent proliferation has stirred a debate, amid concerns they may be deployed to snoop on law-abiding citizens. . . . Read Complete Report

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Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk 3/11/13: Congress, Drones, and The Imperial Presidency

Published on Mar 10, 2013

First US city bans drones (Video Report)

from RTAmerica· via youtube Published on Mar 4, 2013

Rand Paul threatens to block Brennan nomination Until Questions about Killing Americans with Drones are answered(W/Video)

from youtube uploaded by  RTAmerica

Published on Feb 14, 2013

United States Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is threatening to delay the confirmation of John O. Brennan as head of the CIA until he gets all the answers about the Obama administration’s covert drone program. Sen. Paul has sent two letters to Mr. Brennan since the start of the year, and this week said he has yet to hear a response. Now Sen. Paul says he will put a hold on Pres. Obama’s nomination for CIA director until he hears all the answers about America’s drones, the extrajudicial killings of US citizens and the elusive ‘disposition matrix’ used to identify targets. J.D. Tuccile, managing editor of Reason 24/7, offers us more.

Rise of the Machines – USA (Video Report)

From youtube uploaded by  journeymanpictures Oct 15, 2012

US government reveals memo on killing of Americans (Video Report)

From youtube uploaded by RTAmerica

Published on Feb 5, 2013

On Tuesday, a confidential Justice Department memo was released revealing the legal justification for the US government to conduct drone strikes on American citizens abroad. The portion of the memo that has been getting a lot of attention is that the government does not need evidence to justify a deadly attack. NBC first got its hands on the white paper and now a group of 11 bipartisan senators are demanding answers from the Obama administration. Stephen Miles, coalition coordinator for Win without War, gives us his take on the secret drone memo.

NOVA: The Rise of the Drones: A Single Shot

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Looking Up: Drones Worldwide Reports (W.Video)

from youtube

Pentagon struggles to make unhackable drone

Uploaded by RTAmerica

Published on Jan 2, 2013

In the past few years, the use of drones both domestically and internationally has increased in astonishing numbers. The unmanned craft are used to bomb targets in war and secure America’s borders, but now they are getting much needed attention by the Pentagon.


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From Space War

Japan mulls US spy drones for marine surveillance: report

by Staff Writers
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 31, 2012

Japan is considering introducing US spy drones to boost surveillance of its territorial waters near islands in the East China Sea at the centre of a bitter dispute with Beijing, Kyodo News said Monday.

The Japanese defence ministry hopes to introduce the unmanned Global Hawk aircraft by 2015 “in a bid to counter China’s growing assertiveness at sea, especially when it comes to the Senkaku Islands”, the news agency said, citing unnamed government officials. . . . Read Complete Report

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From Space War
Japan security firm to offer private drone

by Staff Writers
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 27, 2012

A Japanese security company plans to rent out a private drone that takes off when intruder alarms are tripped and records footage of break-ins as they happen, a spokeswoman said Thursday.

The helicopter-like device is equipped with a small surveillance camera that can transmit live pictures of a crime taking place. . . . Read Complete Report

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U.S. ‘seeks to sell Algeria spy satellite’

by Staff Writers
Algiers, Algeria (UPI) Jan 2, 2012

U.S. intelligence, alarmed at the emergence of a jihadist sanctuary in northern Mali, is considering providing Algeria, the military heavyweight in North Africa, with a surveillance satellite to monitor al-Qaida operations in the Sahara region.

The plan, reported by the Intelligence Online website, appears to be part of a growing U.S. effort to bolster regional military forces arrayed against the jihadist fighters who have controlled northern Mali since spring 2012, without committing U.S. forces to yet another foreign conflict. . . . Read Complete Report

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From Space War

Pentagon to sell spy drones for $1.2bln to South Korea

by Staff Writers
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 26, 2012

The Pentagon is going to sell four of the Block 30 versions of the Global Hawk high-altitude spy drones to South Korea, of which the US Department of Defense has informed Congress recently. . . . Read Complete Report

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From Space War

Seoul says has other drone options than Global Hawks

by Staff Writers
Seoul (AFP) Dec 26, 2012

South Korea is not necessarily committed to buying US Global Hawk surveillance drones, a spokesman said Wednesday, after the Pentagon requested congressional permission for such a sale.

Seoul’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said it would decide early next year whether to buy the high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles made by Northrop Grumman that have come with a higher than expected price tag, at $1.2 billion for four of the drones. . . . Read Complete Report

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From Space Wars

Elbit Systems Israel Ministry of Defense Approximately $315 Million

by Staff Writers
Haifa, Israel (SPX) Jan 02, 2013

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. . . “The new contracts relate to a variety of the Company’s fields of activity and include Unmanned Systems,” . . .

… “Unmanned Systems: Hermes 900 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (“UAS”) to be supplied within three years, as well as maintenance services for UAS over a period of eight years, in a total value of approximately $90 million.” . . . Read Complete Report

 

 

Feds confirm: Military drones are watching you

from WND

by DREW ZAHN Email

12/8/2012

It’s confirmed: The drones are overhead.

Records newly released to the Electronic Frontier Foundation reveal the federal government has approved dozens of licenses for unmanned aerial surveillance drones all across the United States.

“These records, received as a result of EFF’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA),” the EFF reports, “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).”. . . Read Complete Report