Pentagon testing ‘spy balloons’ across Midwest for ‘persistent’ domestic surveillance

[the other mike]

What is Big Brother 'up' to now ?

The Pentagon is testing a new surveillance technology, using American citizens as guinea pigs. Test flying dozens of high-altitude ‘spy balloons’ over the Midwest, the project has alarmed privacy advocates and rights groups.

The Defense Department's Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) commissioned the tests in mid-July, which are being carried out through a private aerospace and security firm, the Sierra Nevada Corporation, according to a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing made last month and published recently.

The goal of the project, according to the document, is to “Conduct high altitude MESH networking tests over South Dakota to provide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats.” Once airborne, the balloons are expected to spread across five additional Midwestern states: Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri and Illinois.

Pentagon testing ‘spy balloons’ across Midwest for ‘persistent’ domestic surveillance

Frightening and dangerous future of warfare as ‘Robocalypse’ is on the horizon
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/439788-mind-controlled-drones-warfare/

 

[Third Party]

What is Big Brother 'up' to now ?

The Pentagon is testing a new surveillance technology, using American citizens as guinea pigs. Test flying dozens of high-altitude ‘spy balloons’ over the Midwest, the project has alarmed privacy advocates and rights groups.

The Defense Department's Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) commissioned the tests in mid-July, which are being carried out through a private aerospace and security firm, the Sierra Nevada Corporation, according to a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing made last month and published recently.

The goal of the project, according to the document, is to “Conduct high altitude MESH networking tests over South Dakota to provide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats.” Once airborne, the balloons are expected to spread across five additional Midwestern states: Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri and Illinois.

Pentagon testing ‘spy balloons’ across Midwest for ‘persistent’ domestic surveillance

Frightening and dangerous future of warfare as ‘Robocalypse’ is on the horizon
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/439788-mind-controlled-drones-warfare/

How about at the Border? NOW!

 

[the other mike]

What is Big Brother 'up' to now ?

The Pentagon is testing a new surveillance technology, using American citizens as guinea pigs. Test flying dozens of high-altitude ‘spy balloons’ over the Midwest, the project has alarmed privacy advocates and rights groups.

The Defense Department's Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) commissioned the tests in mid-July, which are being carried out through a private aerospace and security firm, the Sierra Nevada Corporation, according to a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing made last month and published recently.

The goal of the project, according to the document, is to “Conduct high altitude MESH networking tests over South Dakota to provide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats.” Once airborne, the balloons are expected to spread across five additional Midwestern states: Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri and Illinois.

Pentagon testing ‘spy balloons’ across Midwest for ‘persistent’ domestic surveillance

Frightening and dangerous future of warfare as ‘Robocalypse’ is on the horizon
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/439788-mind-controlled-drones-warfare/

How about at the Border? NOW!

Equipped with DEW lasers.
If you blast a 100 foot wide crater in front of a bunch of people, I guarantee they will turn around and head back to where they came from.

 

[ColonelAngus]

When did it become fine with everyone that the government spies on everyone and tech companies collect and sell all our personal data?

It’s bizarre, especially from the left who absolutely railed against Nixon for taping conversations. Now the left doesn’t give a shit that the government keeps copied of all of our data in a giant warehouse in Utah.

When did it become cool to be statists?

 

[the other mike]

When they say a surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking , what they probably mean is to enforce cannabis regulations now that it's being legalized and decriminalized.

 

[the other mike]

When did it become fine with everyone that the government spies on everyone and tech companies collect and sell all our personal data?

It’s bizarre, especially from the left who absolutely railed against Nixon for taping conversations. Now the left doesn’t give a shit that the government keeps copied of all of our data in a giant warehouse in Utah.

When did it become cool to be statists?

Totally agree. Americans are sleepwalking.
I can't think of a better way to describe it. When Rachel Maddow started having John Brennan and James Clapper on as guest commentators, that wasn't some kind of clue for people that
something very weird is going on here ?

 

[Third Party]

When did it become fine with everyone that the government spies on everyone and tech companies collect and sell all our personal data?

It’s bizarre, especially from the left who absolutely railed against Nixon for taping conversations. Now the left doesn’t give a shit that the government keeps copied of all of our data in a giant warehouse in Utah.

When did it become cool to be statists?

Yesterday's hippies became the yuppies and now are the oldies. Natural progression of body and mind.

 

[the other mike]

When did it become fine with everyone that the government spies on everyone and tech companies collect and sell all our personal data?

It’s bizarre, especially from the left who absolutely railed against Nixon for taping conversations. Now the left doesn’t give a shit that the government keeps copied of all of our data in a giant warehouse in Utah.

When did it become cool to be statists?

Yesterday's hippies became the yuppies and now are the oldies. Natural progression of body and mind.

No. Americans, especially on the left, have been collectively brainwashed.

 

[the other mike]

 

[Third Party]

When did it become fine with everyone that the government spies on everyone and tech companies collect and sell all our personal data?

It’s bizarre, especially from the left who absolutely railed against Nixon for taping conversations. Now the left doesn’t give a shit that the government keeps copied of all of our data in a giant warehouse in Utah.

When did it become cool to be statists?

Yesterday's hippies became the yuppies and now are the oldies. Natural progression of body and mind.

No. Americans, especially on the left, have been collectively brainwashed.

Notice, they are mostly young or dating younger interns?

 

[Dekster]

What happens when a spy balloon flies into a wind turbine?

 

[Mr Natural]

Gotta keep an eye on those fly over people; they’re trouble.

 

[lennypartiv]

As long as they use it to put more liberals in jail, I'm fine with it.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

No. Americans, especially on the left, have been collectively brainwashed.

The left is the segment of the political scale that now perpetuates and protects Big Government. They are ideologically wedded to Big Brother, by and large.

You won't see Facebook punishing and banishing leftist thought.
The globalist agenda is that of the left. Quite a reversal of positions since the mid sixties.

 

[rightwinger]

What is Big Brother 'up' to now ?

The Pentagon is testing a new surveillance technology, using American citizens as guinea pigs. Test flying dozens of high-altitude ‘spy balloons’ over the Midwest, the project has alarmed privacy advocates and rights groups.

The Defense Department's Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) commissioned the tests in mid-July, which are being carried out through a private aerospace and security firm, the Sierra Nevada Corporation, according to a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing made last month and published recently.

The goal of the project, according to the document, is to “Conduct high altitude MESH networking tests over South Dakota to provide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats.” Once airborne, the balloons are expected to spread across five additional Midwestern states: Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri and Illinois.

Pentagon testing ‘spy balloons’ across Midwest for ‘persistent’ domestic surveillance

Frightening and dangerous future of warfare as ‘Robocalypse’ is on the horizon
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/439788-mind-controlled-drones-warfare/

How about at the Border? NOW!

We have had them at the border for decades

 

[rightwinger]

We used to have two of those balloons flying over Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. I used to see them every day

Then one of the blimps broke loose and dragged a cable across I 95
We don’t see them anymore

Army Surveillance Blimp on the Loose Over Pennsylvania, Chased by Fighter Jets

 

[the other mike]

I grew up in Akron- home of the Goodyear blimp so we saw them all the time.

 

[Third Party]

What is Big Brother 'up' to now ?

The Pentagon is testing a new surveillance technology, using American citizens as guinea pigs. Test flying dozens of high-altitude ‘spy balloons’ over the Midwest, the project has alarmed privacy advocates and rights groups.

The Defense Department's Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) commissioned the tests in mid-July, which are being carried out through a private aerospace and security firm, the Sierra Nevada Corporation, according to a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing made last month and published recently.

The goal of the project, according to the document, is to “Conduct high altitude MESH networking tests over South Dakota to provide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats.” Once airborne, the balloons are expected to spread across five additional Midwestern states: Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri and Illinois.

Pentagon testing ‘spy balloons’ across Midwest for ‘persistent’ domestic surveillance

Frightening and dangerous future of warfare as ‘Robocalypse’ is on the horizon
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/439788-mind-controlled-drones-warfare/

How about at the Border? NOW!

We have had them at the border for decades

I thought Democrats said that's what we needed?

 

[ColonelAngus]

When did it become fine with everyone that the government spies on everyone and tech companies collect and sell all our personal data?

It’s bizarre, especially from the left who absolutely railed against Nixon for taping conversations. Now the left doesn’t give a shit that the government keeps copied of all of our data in a giant warehouse in Utah.

When did it become cool to be statists?

Yesterday's hippies became the yuppies and now are the oldies. Natural progression of body and mind.

Sp yuppies are ok with government spying and are statists?

Not sure about that.

I think it’s because Obama was doing it, by definition, it’s ok.

No one on the left is critical of Obama’s drone strikes on brown people or the 3 million people he deported.

Why is that?

 

[pknopp]

I hope someone figures out how to bring them down.