Tag: drones
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spacewar: discovery, debris & drones
discovery nears space station as debris nears, too from ap: Seven astronauts raced to the international space station aboard space shuttle Discovery on Monday, while NASA debated whether the orbiting outpost will need to move aside to dodge part of an old Soviet satellite. Space station astronauts had a close call last week with a…
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geopolitiks: closing bases & launching satellites
kyrgyzstan closing US base key to afghan conflictfrom ap: Kyrgyzstan’s president said Tuesday his country is ending U.S. use of an air base key to military operations in Afghanistan – a decision with potentially grave consequences for U.S. efforts to put down surging Taliban and al-Qaida violence. A U.S. military official in Afghanistan called President…
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pakistan in the crosshairs: bombs, blackops & bhutto
huge truck bomb strikes marriot hotel in islamabadfrom winter patriot: A huge truck bomb exploded at the entrance to the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Saturday evening, killing at least 40 people and wounding more than 150, the police said. This according to Carlotta Gall, who reports from Pakistan and Afghanistan for the New York…
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police state usa: terror drills, curfews, gps & ip snooping
terror drill finds culprit with dirty bombfrom ny daily news: It was only a drill, but the scenario was still terrifying. A boat loaded with radioactive materials sailed through New York Harbor Friday. A multiagency task force – led by state-of-the-art NYPD boats – was assigned to stop the interloper. “We’re trying to further…protect the…
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pentagon’s unmanned spokesdrone completes its first press conference mission
from onion news network: The spokesdrone will field questions deemed too dangerous for a human press secretary, whose career could be irreparably damaged by answering them.
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crankin’ up the osama propaganda
deal lets US drones strike bin ladenfrom washington times: The United States has a standing agreement with Pakistan that CIA-operated Predator drones may strike Osama bin Laden’s hide-out without prior permission from Islamabad, according to people familiar with the arrangement. is osama bin laden dying… again?from time: Which is closer to dying: Osama bin Laden…
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prof accused of passing drone tech to china
from danger rom: A retired university professor is accused of passing information to China about high-tech work on drones. J. Reece Roth, a 70-year old professor who used to work at the University of Tennessee’s Plasma Sciences Lab got caught up in the complex web of regulations that surrounds non-classified data subject to export controls.…
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mig shoots drone, t5 meets rfid & pak attack
russian mig shoots georgian dronefrom danger room: A Russian MiG 29 shot down what Georgians say was an unarmed drone used by the ministry of interior. And guess what? They’ve got video (the beauty of drone warfare). The Georgians, needless to say, are really mad. The shoot-down is part of a larger dispute over Abkhazia,…
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dcctv, red teams, red lights & washed-up drones
surveillance quietly expands in district of criminalsfrom washington times: Smile, Washington – the cameras are rolling whether you know it or not. Police and homeland security officials say they will not post signs around the more than 5,200 cameras being consolidated into one network under an initiative announced by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty… The first…
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drones, chips, secret spies & street-sweeper cameras
feds to fly more drones along US bordersfrom ap: Four Predator B drones have become fixtures over Arizona since October 2006, and two more will join them soon, Juan Munoz-Torres, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman, said Wednesday. Once those six are in place, the agency wants Congress to fund six drones along the Canadian…
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scientology, spy drones, tasers & insider trading
will smith boosting scientologyfrom ny daily news: Will Smith has joined the ranks of Hollywood power players actively recruiting for the Church of Scientology… Smith, who is best buddies with Scientology booster Tom Cruise, has never confirmed that he joined the church. But he told “Access Hollywood” last month: “I was introduced to it by…