New USAF spy plane will ‘see everything’
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Things may soon be worse — far worse — for people in Afghanistan.
A new US Air Force robot spy plane colourfully dubbed the Gorgon Stare “can see everything”, says the Washington Post.
“This winter, the Air Force is set to deploy to Afghanistan what it says is a revolutionary airborne surveillance system called Gorgon Stare, which will be able to transmit live video images of physical movement across an entire town”, says the story, going on:
“The system, made up of nine video cameras mounted on a remotely piloted aircraft, can transmit live images to soldiers on the ground or to analysts tracking enemy movements. It can send up to 65 different images to different users; by contrast, Air Force drones today shoot video from a single camera over a ‘soda straw’ area the size of a building or two.
“Gorgon Stare will be looking at a whole city, so there will be no way for the adversary to know what we’re looking at, and we can see everything”, major general James O. Poss, the USAF’s assistant deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, is quoted as saying.
But there could be a problem, says the Washington Post, adding, “Officials also acknowledge that Gorgon Stare is of limited value unless they can match it with improved human intelligence – eyewitness reports of who is doing what on the ground.”
First Afghanistan, and then …
Washington Post – With Air Force’s new drone, ‘we can see everything’, January 2, 2011
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian & military participation ~ Marshall McLuhan
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January 3rd, 2011 at 11:12 am
Understand that what we allow the gov’t to do to the Afghan / Iraqi people, they will ultimately do TO US.
Do you think the zealots in and out of gov’t aren’t itching to deploy this here at home?
I can just hear “It will keep the children safe, you don’t hate children do you?”
Or maybe they will give us another false flag attack and then say “Shut up! We must deploy these! Do you want us to get hit again?”
Sadly, 80% of the thumb-sucking dumb-asss serfs will go for it, just like they went for the rape-scanners in the airport because some patsy lit his underwear on fire. Too bad they don’t know he was escorted onto the plane by the intelligence operatives and that the machines were already ordered and manufactured before this incident. Find out what “Scott Haskell” and his wife (both are lawyers in good standing) saw when that flight was boarding. There were other witnesses too. The FBI lied and lied and lied, and the media lied and lied and lied, until the witnesses came forward and blew the whistle.
January 3rd, 2011 at 1:30 pm
“Scott Haskell” ??
I take it you mean Kurt Haskell.
January 3rd, 2011 at 1:45 pm
hey beav…he means Eddie Haskel. ask Lumpy. he’ll tell ya.
January 3rd, 2011 at 2:04 pm
@ClarryMay
Yes Kurt and Lori Haskell. My mistake. In my defence this happened a year ago.
@Luggage
I guess you like to make jokey jokes, who doesn’t? But this is serious stuff:
Kurt Haskell on mlive dot com:
Dec. 26, MLive.com: An Indian man in a nicely dressed suit around age 50 approached the check in counter with the terrorist and said “This man needs to get on this flight and he has no passport.” The two of them were an odd pair as the terrorist is a short, black man that looked like he was very poor and looks around age 17(Although I think he is 23 he doesn’t look it). It did not cross my mind that they were terrorists, only that the two looked weird together. The ticket taker said “you can’t board without a passport”. The Indian man then replied, “He is from Sudan, we do this all the time”. I can only take from this to mean that it is difficult to get passports from Sudan and this was some sort of sympathy ploy. The ticket taker then said “You will have to talk to my manager”, and sent the two down a hallway. I never saw the Indian man again as he wasn’t on the flight. It was also weird that the terrorist never said a word in this exchange.
Go to mlive and search for his name and read the dozen or so articles to get more infos. There are other witness accounts too, and apparently the Dutch military is/was looking into this. I’m not sure what came of any of this except for the rape-scanning / crotch-groping we have in the airports now. And some interesting people got rich off selling these scanner machines, which happened to be ready to go at just the right time. It makes one wonder if the crotch-grabbing for rape-scan refusniks was more of a business decision than a counter-terrorism decision.
The upcoming “Ecosystem of Corruption” should be interesting.