Drones Used by California Cities to Patrol for Illegal Fireworks and Issue Fines
California residents who lit illegal fireworks over the July 4 holiday may be in for a nasty surprise in the mail thanks to covert fire department operations.
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Fishing For Drones: Palestinian Kite With Fishing Net Bring Downs Israeli Drone (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
Palestinian kite fliers are using fishing nets to disrupt Israeli drones deployed over Gaza to target, intimidate, and rain down tear gas from above upon protesters during the weeks of demonstrations known as the Great March of Return.
Russian Post’s First Drone Mail Delivery Fails Spectacularly (VIDEO)
It went up, then it went down.
U.S. Launches Airstrike In Southern Libya, Kills Al-Qaeda Chief
The United States military carried out its first ever drone strike in southern Libya against Al Qaeda militants this weekend, signaling a possibly significant expansion of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign in the war-ravaged North African nation.
Google Admits to Collaboration With U.S. Military On Its Illegal Drone Assassination Program
Google’s TensorFlow AI systems are being used by the US Department of Defense’s Project Maven, which was established in July last year to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify and analyze objects in the vast amount of footage captured by US drones.
Trump’s Industrial-Scale Expansion of the Illegal U.S. Secret Drone War Has Resulted in a Staggering Loss of Civilian Life
The first year of the Trump administration alone has resulted in more loss of life from drone strikes than all eight years of Obama’s presidency.
Nobel Peace Prize Winner President Obama Dropped 26,171 Bombs in 2016
In 2016, President Obama’s last year in office, the United States dropped 26,171 bombs in seven countries, the vast majority (24,287) targeting Syria and Iraq. That amounts to 72 bombs per day – three bombs per hour – every day for the entire year.
Past Masterpiece of the Week (August 29-Sept 4, 2016): The Drones – Further Temptations
Before wireless controlled hobby quadcopters or US military weaponized unmanned aerial vehicles raining death from the sunny skies, and decades before the Australian band formed under the same moniker, there was simply the British punk band, The Drones.