The Drone Gender Gap: Big Differences in How Men and Women View Strikes
• Wired.comA new report on global attitudes about the U.S. from the Pew Research Center shows something that isn’t terribly surprising:
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The Drone That Killed My Grandson By Nasser al-Awlaki Published: July 17, 2013
• Daily Paul.com"My grandson was killed by his own government. The Obama administration must answer for its actions and be held accountable.
Lobbying Effort Keeps Flawed Drone Flying
• http://chrisinmaryville.net/WASHINGTON – Despite budget sequesters, weekly furloughs of civilian Defense Department employees, and the prospect of budget-imposed reductions in the number of active-duty and reserve personnel, the Pentagon has still found money to fund the underp
Colorado Town Debates Bounty On Drones
• popsci.comIf the bill passes, it's open season on government drones.
Air Force drone crashes and explodes in Florida, shutting down highway (VIDEO)
• RT.comA United States military drone presumed to be a QF-4 crashed, exploded and sent up a large black cloud of smoke Wednesday morning at Tyndall Air Force Base.
Jeremy Scahill Goes Off On MSNBC Pundits For Defending Obama Drone Strikes
• Daily Paul.comLike his friend Glenn Greenwald, the man has guts:
Customs & Border Protection Considered Weaponizing Drones
• EFFA Customs & Border Protection (CPB) report, released in response to EFF’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the agency, shows CBP has considered adding weapons to its domestic Predator drones.
University Of Nevada Students Could Soon Earn Degrees In Drone Studies
• popsci.comTraining now for the jobs of the future
Game of Drones: Does NYC Have an ‘Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’ Problem?
• .“The fact that police would obstruct cameras just sort of put in our minds that we might be in a situation where you can’t get a good shot because there’s a wall or a fence or something,” Mr. Pool, now 27, told The Observer..
FBI has received aviation clearance for at least four domestic drone operations
• Washington PostThe FBI has received clearance from federal aviation officials to conduct drone surveillance operations in the United States on at least four occasions since 2010, according to public records and U.S. officials.
The Drone Ranger: Obama’s Dirty Wars - by Greg Palast
• .About the time Obama ordered the drone strike that killed al-Awlaki, the 16-year-old American kid Facebooked his second-rate choice of hip-hop favorites. I say "second-rate," because Abdul was my son's age almost exactly,
Raffaello D'Andrea: The astounding athletic power of quadcopters
• ted.comIn a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D'Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. In a series of nifty demos, D'Andrea show drones that play catch........
A London Sushi Chain Is Now Delivering Dinner By Drone
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Megan WillettLondon-based chain YO! Sushi is testing a new way to get food to customers' tables: The flying tray.
Domino's DomiCopter takes pizza delivery airborne
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Angus MacKenzieRecently, aerial drones have been used to bless festival goers with strategically placed beer drops and burrito lovers with air-borne deliveries.
An Operating System for the Commercial Drone Era
• Technologyreview.comAs commercial uses of drones emerge, startups create software that could help the devices take flight.
Meet A Pet Drone That Follows You Like A Lost Puppy [Video]
• popsci.comThis autonomous flying servant can track and record you from the sky. Drones can't fetch a taco for you, but they can lift cameras into the sky and return impressive aerial video and photography.
Drones, and the Military-Industrial Complex
Melinda Pillsbury-fosterWeapons of war, and war itself changed, transmuted into a business plan to convert our lives to money in the pockets of corporations. The logic is chilling.
Obama drone oversight proposal prompts concern over 'kill courts'
• guardian.co.ukHuman rights groups wary after president asks Congress to establish special court or board to authorise legal drone action
Obama outlines counterterrorism policy
• USA TodayU.S. drone program - Both the military and the CIA use armed drones in surveillance and strike operations around the world. The military uses them routinely in war zones, while the CIA uses unmanned planes in top-secret operations to track and kill i
Warrantless Drone Surveillance Banned in Tennessee
• http://chrisinmaryville.net/At this stage in the ‘drone game,’ the feds are working hard behind the scenes to get states to operate the drones for them. In fact, the primary engine behind the expansion of drone surveillance being carried out by states and local communities i
Obama outlines rules for armed drone strikes
• ReutersIn a wide-ranging speech on foreign policy on Thursday, President Barack Obama defended his administration's use of drones to kill terrorists abroad, and in a nod to concerns, outlined plans to limit the use of such strikes.
Holder: U.S. killed four Americans overseas in drone strikes since 2009
• The TicketAttorney General Eric Holder informed Congress on Wednesday that the U.S. has killed four Americans in drone strikes since 2009: radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and three others who were “not specifically targeted.”
Oklahoma Students Design Drones That Can Fly Into Tornadoes
• popsci.comThe remotely piloted vehicles could one day replace storm chasers, who risk their lives to capture valuable data about tornadoes.
Airware, A Startup That's Helping Bring Drones To The Masses, Just Raised $10.7 Million
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Alyson ShontellDrones are spreading beyond military warfare and becoming the hot new thing in startups.
Drone Operator Tells of Killing Civilians, Children
• antiwar.comHere is an NPR segment featuring a former Air Force pilot who operated drones. He describes targeting and killing people he thinks were civilians, or at least not a threat.
Tiny Device Will Detect Domestic Drones
• http://www.usnews.com, By Jason KoeblerWorried about an unmanned plane looking into your window? This small detector could alert you when robot planes buzz past
Burning Liquid Hydrogen For Fuel, Navy Drone Flies For 48 Hours Straight
• popsci.comThis long-range spy-bot is also nearly silent.
Lijian stealth drone prepares for test flight
• .The Lijian is described as the world's third stealth combat drone. A newly designed Chinese drone is ready for its first flight test after completing its taxi test at an unknown airfield in the southeastern province of Jiangxi.
I Confronted A Drone Pilot
• http://govtslaves.info, Aaron DykesWho flies the drones America uses to take out military targets in foreign locales all over the globe?
Drone Strikes Are Winning War in Yemen -- for Al-Qaeda
• Bloomberg.comIt was a contradiction that perfectly captured the essence of the U.S. drone war against Islamic terrorists: Just as we learned that strikes in Yemen had resumed after a three-month hiatus
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