Maple Seed Drones Will Swarm the Future

ShareThis Maple Seed Drones Will Swarm the Future [Not if enough people *blow them out of the sky.*] 04 Jul 2012 Imagine a cheap, tiny, hovering aerial drone capable of being launched with the flick of a person’s wrist and able to provide manipulable 360-degree surveillance views. It’s real, it’s inspired by maple seeds, and [...]

Iran will duplicate captured US RQ-170 spy drone: IRGC cmdr.

ShareThis Iran will duplicate captured US RQ-170 spy drone: IRGC cmdr. 03 Jul 2012 A senior commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran has gained enough information from the US drone it captured last year to duplicate the aircraft. “The American RQ-170 drone will be undoubtedly duplicated,” Commander of the IRGC’s Aerospace [...]

Drones vulnerable to terrorist hijacking, researchers say

ShareThis Drones vulnerable to terrorist hijacking, researchers say 25 Jun 2012 A small surveillance drone flies over an Austin stadium, diligently following a series of GPS waypoints that have been programmed into its flight computer. Then, as if some phantom has given the drone a self-destruct order, it hurtles toward the ground… Professor Todd Humphreys [...]

U.S. plans more drone flights over Caribbean

ShareThis USociopaths want to torch every domestic program but spend billions on surveillance drones to facilitate the CIA’s drug trade: U.S. plans more drone flights over Caribbean 23 Jun 2012 After quietly testing Predator drones over the Bahamas for more than 18 months, the Department of Homeland Security plans to expand the unmanned surveillance flights [...]

Drone strikes: activists seek to lift lid on open secret of targeted killings

ShareThis Drone strikes: activists seek to lift lid on open secret of targeted killings 19 Jun 2012 The CIA’s covert targeted killing programme will come under fresh scrutiny on Wednesday, the deadline for Barack Obama’s administration to respond to a lawsuit over the agency’s refusal to confirm or deny its existence. The federal lawsuit is [...]

Drone strikes threaten 50 years of international law, says UN rapporteur

ShareThis Drone strikes threaten 50 years of international law, says UN rapporteur –US policy of using drone strikes to carry out targeted killings ‘may encourage other states to flout international law’ 21 Jun 2012 The US policy of using aerial drones to carry out targeted killings presents a major challenge to the system of international [...]

Poll: Global Disapproval Of Drone Strikes Except For U.S. Citizens

Poll: Global Disapproval Of Drone Strikes Except For U.S. Citizens

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Twenty-six members of Congress call on Obama to justify drone strikes

(RAW STORY)   Twenty-six members of Congress have called on President Barack Obama to provide a legal justification for so-called “signature” drone strikes against suspected terrorists. The Washington Post reported in April that the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command have been authorized to strike targets based solely on patterns of suspicious behavior that are detected through [...]

US assassination drone strike kills at least four in Pakistan

ShareThis US assassination drone strike kills at least four in Pakistan 13 Jun 2012 At least four people have been killed in an airstrike carried out by a US assassination drone in the North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan. The Wednesday attack was carried out in the town of Miranshah, the administrative headquarters of the [...]

Navy drone crashes in Maryland

ShareThis Navy drone crashes in Maryland 11 Jun 2012 A U.S. Navy drone crashed Monday in a marsh near Salisbury, Maryland. The RQ-4A Global Hawk drone crashed during a routine training flight from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, according to Jamie Cosgrove, a spokeswoman for the Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons Program at the base. [...]