Big Brother: Unmanned airborne reconnaissance

[Mark Gobell]

The Byrne Report

Urban Operations

By Peter Byrne

Did you know that the U.S. Northern Command just tightened its control over Northern California? "NORTHCOM" is the combatant command created by the Bush administration to control armies on the move inside the so-called North American battle space, which includes Mexico and Canada. The self-described job of NORTHCOM is to repel invaders, eliminate drug dealers and "terrorists," and control civil disturbances. To spot these nuisances, NORTHCOM runs an intelligence "fusion center" at its headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. It correlates electronic data collected from military and commercial sources with duly recorded suspicions forwarded by local law enforcement agencies and neighborhood watch groups.

On Nov. 19, NORTHCOM's 9th Reconnaissance Wing announced the deployment of the Global Hawk at Beale Air Force Base in Yuba County. On that day, the Air Force's newest unmanned spy plane flew its first official combat command mission over the continental United States. Beale will soon host a dozen of these $132 million war-fighting machines, which can fly at 65,000 feet for 34 hours while leisurely photographing Americans and uploading their pixels to the fusion center at Colorado Springs. Privacy? Fuhgeddaboutit.

http://www.bohemian.com/bohemian/12.06.06/byrne-0649.html

[Hazzard]

So in otherwords NORTHCOM is going to be the frontline command and control center for controlling and subdueing anykind of revolution.

Sounds just like SKYNET.

[wepmob2000]

Thats an amazing turn of phrase - "the North American battle space", it makes you wonder what they really are preparing for..........

[ishaar]

[wepmob2000]

[ishaar]

re economic implosion, from another thread started by Blackcat,

U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY ARRESTED IN GERMANY
PAULSON AND CHENEY SUBPOENAED BY TRIBUNAL

http://www.revereradio.net/e107/news.php?extend.644