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Permanent Drones Set to Take Flight

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P.W. Singer, Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at The Brookings Institution. Brookings is one of the world's leading globalist think-tanks responsible for war policy and engineered chaos across the planet, outlined with precision in their own document Which Path to Persia? This is important to keep in mind, as Singer states his concern over some of the ethical and psychological implications of robot war. The proven barbarity of the think-tank he is a part of, as well as their foundational role in the ever-expanding military-industrial complex, calls his sincerity into question. Singer has stated in the past that "At this point, it doesn't really matter if you are against the technology, because it's coming."


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The latest chapter of the drone chronicles comes to us by way of Aerospace and Defense News. A research paper issued by them indicates that investment in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) will continue to increase over the next decade. In order to see the full report one must pay in excess of $4,800 to see the specifics, but a general forecast is given in the marketing overview.

The report clearly acknowledges what other defense analysts and official sources have admitted: there is a worldwide drone arms race occurring that has been spurred by U.S. investment and supremacy in the field. The U.S. is now using drones in at least 6 countries abroad, as well as along both U.S. borders and over the interior of the United States. This is causing a wave of drone tech development that is increasingly funded across the globe and, as the report indicates, there is a troubling new direction.

Key trends cited in the report include:

The global drone market is expected to increase during the forecast period.
Demand will be driven by external, as well as internal threats.
Competition will increase due to territorial disputes and modernization initiatives.
Significant spending will occur in North America and Europe, with Europe's share to increase as countries across the region enhance their capabilities.
The market will continue to be dominated by the United States.
The Asia-Pacific is expected to invest heavily due to regional tensions.
The three most popular categories of drones will be those with surveillance capabilities: MALE (Medium Altitude Long Endurance) HALE (High Altitude Long Endurance) and TUAV (Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - designed for sea-level).

The above-mentioned forecast is to be expected in an increasingly militarized world. However, a stunning admission is made in the final paragraph of the press release for this report: drones are set to become a permanent fixture in the skies around the globe:

Laser-powered UAVs are powered by a laser transmitter which converts power from a primary source, such as a battery, generator or AC powerline, into a single-wavelength beam of light. These UAVs are capable of staying airborne for their entire lifecycle as this method of recharging avoids the need to land and refuel, which may also improve the lifecycle and maintenance costs as much of the damage incurred by UAVs occurs while landing.

This seemingly innocuous statement is a chilling conclusion which suggests that the plan is to keep drones airborne continuously, forming a potentially interconnected, autonomous fleet of surveillance. This already is the case with the satellite technology, but the implications of having flight- and sea-level surveillance (which can also be weaponized) is staggering.

Drones have been miniaturized down to insect-sized vehicles, with investment in nanotechnology signed off on by the White House in a 60-page report (pdf) that forms a roadmap for future surveillance at the molecular level. Once the precedent is set for a permanent drone presence in our skies, the floodgate of a science fiction nightmare is bound to be opened.

One interesting aspect to the admission of this permanent drone surveillance network is its mention of the laser transmitter power source conversion capability. Such technology and infrastructure could greatly benefit mankind if put to proper use. Instead, it is being used as the next level of full spectrum dominance over human movement and freedom. Such an initiative is ample proof that this has nothing to do with protecting lives, and everything to do with implementing a system of permanent human control that will be very difficult to resist or protest against.

The video below features P.W. Singer, Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at The Brookings Institution. Brookings is one of the world's leading globalist think-tanks responsible for war policy and engineered chaos across the planet, outlined with precision in their own document Which Path to Persia? This is important to keep in mind, as Singer states his concern over some of the ethical and psychological implications of robot war. The proven barbarity of the think-tank he is a part of, as well as their foundational role in the ever-expanding military-industrial complex, calls his sincerity into question. Singer has stated in the past that "At this point, it doesn't really matter if you are against the technology, because it's coming."

At a 2009 TED Conference he gives a presentation about the future of robotic war that is well worth viewing, as it comes directly from someone on the inside of the war machine. The presentation is naturally peppered with propaganda, but also reveals that the very technology supposedly used against terrorists is an enabling device for those very same terrorists. This leads Singer to cheekily refer to the "robot revolution" as a "killer app" with a game changing effect on the battlefield landscape.

Increasingly, it looks as if that battlefield will have no boundaries.


http://www.activistpost.com/2011/09/permanent-drones-set-to-take-flight.html
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59 comments // Permanent Drones Set to Take Flight

  • hombre76
    • +1
      hombre76  
    • So it occured to me how important a drone fleet of comunications arays are deployable with the threat of serios disruption tothe satilites we have in orbit due to massive solar ejections.

    • 9 months ago
  • ThirdSection
  • Anonmaly
    • 0
      Anonmaly  
    • ThirdSection:

      Ah.... Another with a fondness for farm fresh eggs.... To bad even raising chickens is almost exclusively a rich (or at least otherwise employed) mans game....

      (odd how raising chickens that fly across the coup to see you in the morning makes it all but completely impossible to eat them....)

      Sweet vid, ^'d....

    • 9 months ago
  • Anonmaly
  • ThirdSection
  • ThirdSection
    • +1
      ThirdSection  
    • Anonmaly:

      I've actually noticed that chicken-raising out in my neck of the hollers cuts quite evenly across gender lines, and most are willing to part with some eggs for a reasonable price :-)

      Anyway, as for the vid, if you haven't seen Dr. Strangelove, it's one of the better Stanley Kubrick/Peter Sellers flicks out there and I highly recommend it!!! It came out around '65 but it seems strangely relevant even today...

    • 9 months ago
  • Anonmaly
  • Anonmaly
    • +1
      Anonmaly  
    • Image
    • Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations.

      This is over 2 years old, the potential exists, and it's being worked on by a few groups of people....

      If "insurgents" could hack them in dope growing goat herding country.......

      I still prefer a 50cal with a good scope.....

      http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html

    • 9 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
    • +2
      Gravity_Man  
    • Before launching swarms of drones they need to launch a public information campaign telling people to not run in groups... and screaming, no screaming.

      EVEN IF THEY'RE FIRED UPON.

    • 9 months ago
  • WestCoastDem
  • kgMA
  • Schnookums
    • +3
      Schnookums  
    • How long will it be until the first "unfortunate incident" where one of these takes out a family on their way to visit relatives for the weekend thinking is's a minivan full of 'terrorists'?

      Now that would be terrorizing.

    • 9 months ago
  • EmperorThan
    • +4
      EmperorThan  
    • "What's the worst that could happen?" *permanent drone swan-dives into my house*

      Who knew that solar panels needed to be cleaned every once in a while to keep working?

    • 9 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
    • -1
      Gravity_Man  
    • EmperorThan:

      Everybody knows that [after they laid down the $50k big ones]. But how many people know the solar cells DIE before half the loan is paid off? hahaha Obviously the technology is a FAIL to Buyers a Big Win to Sellers. AND THEY STILL WENT BELLY-UP!!!

      There are much better ways to lasso solar.

    • 9 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
    • -1
      Gravity_Man  
    • They're really up there to take over TV & cellphone duties when satellites fall out of orbit and hit Bailey. So they have a righteous purpose => TV, and hitting Bailey. Pandora has been breached there's no going back.

      Enough airborne monkeys can give Texas some needed shade.

      And if they make for more jobs they're a lock.

    • 9 months ago
  • bailey78
  • Gravity_Man
  • Gravity_Man
    • +2
      Gravity_Man  
    • bailey78:

      This is just a part of the overall Gubbermint Plan to chase all youse rural squatters back into the cities so they can squeeze ya of higher taxes. Cities will be declared Drone Free Zones directly, then watch all youse rats run back to the hive where ya belong.

      Where they still chant "We Love You Joanie". hahahaha Come on home to the cult base. WE HAVE FREE WI-FI YA KNOW. Drugs sold on most every corner where we randomly select a 2% token of users and pile them into Soylent Green trucks, but you are used to fighting coyotes so you won't get caught.

      Yur too smart.

    • 9 months ago
  • bailey78
  • Gravity_Man
    • 0
      Gravity_Man  
    • bailey78:

      Ahh, I see. Your attitude needs adjustment Comrade Bailey. You will bow down before me, and one day, YOUR HEIRS.

      From the new city apartment we assign you since you have forfeited our generous -and initial- choice.

      We need the mineral rights under yur land. See ya soon. The Goverment.

    • 9 months ago
  • bailey78
  • Gravity_Man
    • +1
      Gravity_Man  
    • bailey78:

      You see how long that drone is Bailey-toast? It has a fulllength railgun inside that baby that fires a million powderless bullets per minute. You won't last a minute Bailey-toast. Pack yer stuff. We the City Czar have decided you will be relocated to Boston.

      Do you understand? Now, take another long look at our drone and notice there aren't any FUEL TANKS. That's because that big bubble is where the Helium is stored. When helium's expanded it rises higher, when helium's compressed it dives down yer throat Bailey-toast, each Climb-Dive including a 3-400 mile trip on the horizontal.

      When it dives the prop on the back end is driving a generator that supplies the electricity for the Helium-compression system. That is why the title of this thread claims it will stay aloft PERMANENTLY. The word was not used improperly. You Americans, so trusting even when faced with CONSTANT SURVEILLANCE, night and day, day and night.

      Rack em Dan-O.

    • 9 months ago
  • bailey78
  • Gravity_Man
    • +1
      Gravity_Man  
    • bailey78:

      They put on a nice show, keep up appearances eh? How tricky. The big bubble in the nose is for helium ballast so-to-speak. It flies through the air up & down as a porpoise glides through water.

      Lightweight alloys makes it possible. Bullets without heavy powder makes it possible. Those training wheel size wheels makes it possible. I know the system exists for it to work that way because the inventor Robert Hunt used my wind engine invention to make the first one fly; so you can believe what you want while I believe what I know.

      Bailey-toast. We're all sons of Bailey-toast now.

      Here. Knock yourself out => http://www.fuellessflight.com

      http://www.renewableone.com/fuellessflight/flf/images/c-shot1.jpg

      These drones are scaled-down versions. The big ones are for troop & munitions transport to any point on Planet Dirt, without needing any aviation fuel (or refueling planes).

    • 9 months ago
  • bailey78
  • Anonmaly
  • Gravity_Man
  • Gravity_Man
    • 0
      Gravity_Man  
    • Anonmaly:

      I don't really think of my revelation as an "analysis", it's just the facts. I invented my Wind Engine in November 2000, protected it as best I could with a number of tricks, including a company that promised to sue if anyone used it. So since I had protections in place that I felt were very solid (i.e. theft proof) I placed it online on March 10 2003.

      Before month's end Robert Hunt had formed his corporation. He made a minor change to my engine but the Process was identical. These drones are just scaled-down versions of the larger planes, and the big planes have been rolling off assembly lines for several years now.

      Completely non-fuel-burning planes used for troop & munitions deployment anywhere in the world w/out needing any fuel.

      JUST LIKE THESE DRONES.

    • 9 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
    • 0
      Gravity_Man  
    • Anonmaly:

      That's why I have lacked the monies to build any of my zero pollution car engines and nuclear power plant steamer system, because Hunt and the U.S. military botrh ripped me off of any decent royalties.

      They got their Weapons and the American People got the oopsie end of the stick to hold in their hands not having any of my superior engines since that one and a few others were stolen by Virginia Tech Blacksburg Virginia Employees I tried to deal with.

      Robert Hunt best I can tell was a Virginia Tech alumni so that was the connection. He was waiting for someone to come along and invent my Wind Engine. In fact, he had 3 other inventions that also used it, one of them a underwater turbine system in the waters off of Manhattan.

      One other of his systems was a difference engine it was 1700 feet tall, needed my Wind Engine to work. I forget the other one but altogether there were 4 energy systems lacking my engine, so when I placed it online and he/they saw it he jumped into gear and immediately formed his corporation, in March 2003.

      No "analysis" is required but thanks.

    • 9 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
    • 0
      Gravity_Man  
    • Anonmaly:

      Go to this page http://www.fuellessflight.com/techno/tech.htm a ways past half-way down the page where it says "How to Build the New Hybrid Aircraft" it tells all what I posted above and more. Lightweight to the extreme using carbon fiber shell material and so on, including helium.

      You see, as long as they keep showing slow-moving devices it gives the impression of no connection with the sleek fast drones. NEAT TRICK.

    • 9 months ago
  • hombre76
  • Gravity_Man
    • 0
      Gravity_Man  
    • hombre76:

      Not a problem. These non-fuel-using planes and drones could be used for MANY GOOD PURPOSES. They could be air-dropping medicines & food supplies all over the world with them right now. Instead they have chosen to keep them secret from the Public understanding they even exist.

      That way the taxpayers don't fully comprehend how truly Evil the governments of the World are. All the Gov't Leaders are in on the scam. They have established a condition of WORLD PEACE where the world's populations do not know the Peace has been arranged.

      In order to maintain such a wonderful scam they have different ones do sabre-rattling from time to time. Israel floats nuclear subs off of Iran's coast threatening to blow them off the map, then Amadinejab threatens to blow Israel off the map, then next week israel threatens to blow Palestine to dust particles.

      And sometimes they do blow away civilians to make their scam appear quite real, but it's all one big shellgame. But, United States soldiers, Marines, Navy Seals both men and women of all U.S. Armed Forces are being MAIMED AND KILLED TO KEEP UP THE BIG ACT.

      So it's a big game with real death. Skynet without Skynet.

    • 9 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
    • 0
      Gravity_Man  
    • Gravity_Man:

      I should say rather Skynet Deaths without Skynet Terror, the trick being to have people being killed at a lesser rate than would be enough to ruffle the taxpayer-citizen's feathers, and then they might actually wake up and understand the scam.

      All the world leaders have made this backroom aka boardroom agreement, handshakes, WINKIE~WINKIE. They've all agreed to certain percentages of deaths as being acceptable losses.

      And of course whatever it takes to stay in power. They are all on the same side now buddy-ro. Them against hahaha "The People" who still think they have formed a more perfect union, and all that 230 year old garbage that no longer applies.

    • 9 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
    • 0
      Gravity_Man  
    • Gravity_Man:

      Former VP Dick Cheney just released a new book where he fabricates a line of pablum for the public who still wants to believe their drivel explanations... explanations that keeps the voter-taxpayer blindfolded to what they are really concocting.

      HIDING THE FUELLESS PLANE YEP, A DEAD GIVEAWAY OF THEIR REAL INTENTIONS. I'VE BEEN WATCHING THIS UNFOLD FOR A LONG TIME.

      But tonight was the very first time I had drawn a connection between the troop transport-size planes and the small drones. You have Bailey78 ta thank for awakening me. I've actually spent the last two days in a stretched out heart attack that was caused by a new diet pill I tried and overloaded my system with Caffeine. My heart went to racing nonstop for over 15 hours... and unfortunately also all the caffeine re-awakened the Lyme's disease bacteria so they attacked my heart muscle with PURE HATE.

      I'm still weak from battle. I had to do some real scrambling to figure out how to stop the Lyme's, which btw no doctors in the world know how to do, but I do. I sent a full explanation via open e-mail to a friend over in Romania, knowing full well "they" will read it and go about solving Lyme's by following my detailed instructions.

      hahaha Which will be yet another invention/discovery of mine I won;'t get paid for either because "they" know if I ever did get properly paid I would build one of my fuelless car engines.

      => They can't allow Americans to ever have my car engine.
      => They can't allow Americans to ever have my car engine.
      => They can't allow Americans to ever have my car engine.
      => They can't allow Americans to ever have my car engine.

      As long as they siphon gas (invention ideas) from my spilling over gas tank of a brain they have it all, take credit for everything I do, without paying me, keeping Americans completely DOOR KNOB STUPID.

    • 9 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
    • 0
      Gravity_Man  
    • Gravity_Man:

      I usually avoid "vulgar language" but, I will make an allowance this one time and say this => the good ol' USofA truly is currently run by a gang of total assholes and slime unworthy of holding Public Office.

      I do not think it, I know it. They're killing US soldiers.

    • 9 months ago
  • hombre76
  • Gravity_Man
    • 0
      Gravity_Man  
    • hombre76:

      Skynet indeed. How about a troop transport that can land down on the water anywhere in the world and deploy an army then take back off?

      HAHAHAHA We are currently experiencing a period of World Peace based partly on the aircraft technology described above in my other posts.

      They could also be being charged from HAARP sending energy down from above down to the drones, but I would not know that. It's above my pay grade, but I do know about 10-15 years ago they were toying around with flying saucer-shaped craft that received laser power fired from the ground to the under belly of the saucer.

      Americans are kept so pathetically ignorant, don't even know they have paid for Skynet already. LISTEN TO EM HOWL MAN. THEY'RE CRACKING JOKES.

    • 9 months ago
  • hombre76
    • +2
      hombre76  
    • I dont like being watched but they are anyway with their satalites and this apears to me to be a more fuel effecient way of getting orbital like services that would normaly be conducted by a much more expensive satilite that requires a shit ton more fuel to get up there. but ya Eyes in the sky baby eyes in the sky....

    • 9 months ago
  • ampersand
    • +4
      ampersand  
    • I guess was just being unaccountably lazy;here's an FYI note for those interested in such things:

      "in 2006, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a certificate of authorization which will allow the M/RQ-1 and M/RQ-9 aircraft to be used within U.S. civilian airspace to search for survivors of disasters. Requests had been made in 2005 for the aircraft to be used in search and rescue operations following Hurricane Katrina, but because there was no FAA authorization in place at the time, the assets were not used. The Predator's infrared camera with digitally-enhanced zoom has the capability of identifying the heat signature of a human body from an altitude of 3 km (10,000 ft), making the aircraft an ideal search and rescue tool.[15]

      The longest declassified Predator flight to date lasted for 40 hours, 5 minutes. The total flight time has reached 1 million hours as of April 2010."

    • 9 months ago
  • ampersand
    • +6
      ampersand  
    • Question for our brothers in the military; how high do these drones fly?
      My first thought was to go shopping, but on reflection, I realize you probably couldn't reach one of these with a rocket launcher.

      Maybe it's time to have some exploratory talks with the ferociously armed (and now presciently paranoid) right wing groups.
      As the cliche notes, even a stopped clock is right twice a day...

    • 9 months ago
  • remanns
  • ampersand
    • +1
      ampersand  
    • remanns:

      You're right in that there have been some concerns with accuracy with drones and also, in observing we may be left with nothing but curses to hurl.
      I don't have the character of a defeatist, but any reading of history all the way down from the Macedonian phalanx to radar show conclusively that the side with the better technology wins.
      The US is a conquered province. The only way out of this is to do from the inside.
      We need a battleship Potemkin event were the soldiers and sailors realize where the real oppression comes from, and finally themselves revolt and turn the guns around.

    • 9 months ago
  • remanns
  • bailey78
  • Hardytoo
  • oldbanjo
  • bailey78
  • Nick19
  • bailey78
  • bailey78
  • rebel_scum
  • Anonmaly
  • Saladin
    • +5
      Saladin  
    • It's pretty concerning to think that a fleet of predator drones could just be patrolling the country at any given time.

      That's not the kind of power you want to give someone.

    • 9 months ago
  • remanns
    • +4
      remanns  
    • Saladin:

      I think the right to bear arms has things like rocket launchers in mind ; its all about having an armed citizenry that is not EASILY governable. They [governments] have to actually USE some of the massive military power they have at their disposal,....they cant leverage force "on the cheap".

      Not saying citizens could hold their own for a minute,....but they could raise the price tag of tyranny.

    • 9 months ago
  • remanns
  • crabbyoldguy
    • +4
      crabbyoldguy  
    • remanns:

      Just remember citizens build the war machines, not politicians, so keeping those engineers, machinist, and chemist rolling out of the schools. Oh and get yourself some microwave jammers.

    • 9 months ago
  • rebel_scum
  • Hardytoo
  • remanns
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