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| image: Air Force Tech. Sgt. Chad Chisholm |
The proliferation of drone technology for surveillance and war has spread at warp speed to nearly every area of the world. Despite some lip service being paid by a small portion of Congress about the threat of drones being used for indiscriminate targeted killings at home and abroad, the truth is that Congress has already fully welcomed drones into American skies. Corporate mercenaries are simultaneously in a commercial race to the bottom and have gone international with no disclosure.
In just a few short years, we have witnessed the revelation (and disbelief) of drone tests on American soil, to micro drones commissioned by local police departments, to worldwide outrage over drone bombings around the world and the innocents killed, to the realization that drone tech is reaching disturbing levels as constant surveillance threatens to reach into our own backyards.
Perhaps more than where we are at, it is where we are going.
The latest revelation is that there are potentially 110 drone bases on American soil. This is confirmation that what was said by drone expert P.W. Singer was not hyperbole:
At this point, it doesn't really matter if you are against the technology, because it's coming.
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The miniaturization of drones is where it really gets interesting. You can use these things anywhere, put them anyplace, and the target will never even know they're being watched.
This is where things go into the darkest realms of dystopian fiction -- the natural world is starting to possess the capabilities of drone surveillance and war -- the insects are literally watching ... and the world of nanotechnology beckons.
The following infographic offers some interesting facts about how this seemingly new technology has permeated our living space, and which country is not only responsible for the spread of drone tech, but which country is the only one with majority support from its citizens for drone attacks.
It would seem that we had best keep our eyes on the skies ... at the very least.
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3 comments:
Once they start tasering and bombing wedding parties in america then maybe that 62% number will change slightly.
There are drones among the american population too.
I live in Redding, California. On the late afternoon of May, 18th, 2012, I was re-routed from a regular path to my home by police activity just down the street from where I live. The Redding PD had blocked off each end of the street, and the officer said it was "for public safety reasons". So I found another route down to the end of the block. There was a police helicopter overhead, the pilot skillfully hovering above the quarantined area. After I pulled into my driveway, I could clearly see the police helicopter about two hundreds yards away, at about a 45* angle above the horizon. There was something unusual about it. I pulled out a mammoth pair of 20X80 Barska binoculars I had in the car, and they brought the helo up close looking through them. The unusual thing about the aircraft was, one of the cops inside was leaning out the door on the left side of the aircraft, looking at something. And then I saw it: Into the frame of my view flew a small, silver sphere, about two feet in diameter, with what looked like the aperture of a lens sticking out from below the belt line. It zig-zagged into a position above and behind the helo, then climbed and held that position for another fifteen minutes. I thought perhaps it could have been a small Helium-filled party balloon, but there was a stiff breeze, maybe 15 MPH-- no balloon could hold its position like that with that kind of wind blowing. And it had a perfectly spherical shape. When trying to observe it with the naked eye, it was impossible to see. And it wasn't any more that 500 feet off the ground. Whatever it was, it was highly maneuverable. And it suggested to me that there are levels of technology seeing deployment over our country that are truly startling. Very disturbing.
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