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Citizen Surveillance -- UAV Drones Used for Positive Outcomes
by staff report via reed - AFP Sunday, Dec 25 2011, 9:47pm international /
environment /
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High Technology is Second Nature to the Digital Generation
In stark contrast to the nefarious purposes to which the US military and the civilian murdering CIA deploy UAV Drone technology, we are pleased to report that the anti-whaling ship, Sea Shepherd, is utilising long range surveillance Drones to thwart Japanese whaling in our Southern Oceans. We should never forget that citizens developed all these new technologies and that talentless commercial and military organisations have utilised them for destructive purposes.
Crew members launch a Drone from the deck of the Sea Shepherd
Highly qualified and skilled elites have recently learned through bitter experience to keep new vital technologies to themselves; nevertheless, they continue to survive in subsidised environments by offering corporates and the military 'tantalising proposals' -- funds can easily be siphoned off for other, more important life-enhancing and environmentally sustainable projects.
Recent examples of average citizens adopting and adapting new technologies include 'Occupy' protesters using toy Drones to monitor the misogynistic, brutal and camera-shy NYPD; and now anti-whaling activists are using sophisticated, long range Drones to save our whales from Japanese whaling fleets.
It is hoped that innovative and creative citizens with high ideals inspire the rest of us to do what we can to eliminate the malevolent forces that have infected our societies and destroyed our representative democracies.
Criminal ruling interests have demonstrated their wares to the WORLD over the past decade; unbridled avarice, economic collapse, mass murder, mayhem, (permanent) war and environmental degradation. This is the result of Corporate and commercial interests pursuing unsustainable, short term goals for quick profits and following perverse PERMANENT WAR DOCTRINES.
It is time we put an end to these psychopathic, social PARASITES before they put an end to us; and I do not exaggerate!
Sea Shepherd story follows:
Anti-whaling activists use drone to track Japan fleet
SYDNEY: Anti-whaling activists said they had intercepted the Japanese harpoon fleet far north of Antarctic waters Sunday with the help of a military-style drone.
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society spokesman Paul Watson said the unmanned long-range drone, launched from the anti-whaling ship the Steve Irwin, had located the Japanese fleet and relayed the coordinates back to the activists.
Watson said Sea Shepherd, a militant activist group which annually shadows and harasses the Japanese whalers, had caught up with the fleet at 37 degrees south, 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometres) above Antarctic waters.
No whales had been killed so far, he added.
“This is going to be a long hard pursuit from here to the coast of Antarctica,” said captain Watson.
“But thanks to these drones, we now have an advantage we have never had before — eyes in the sky.”
Though three Japanese security vessels were now tailing the Steve Irwin to prevent it from following the Nisshin Maru factory ship, Watson said the activists had the upper hand with their two drones, donated by a US port security firm.
“We can cover hundreds of miles with these drones and they have proven to be valuable assets for this campaign,” he said.
While the Steve Irwin was being tailed by the harpooners’ security detail Watson said Sea Shepherd’s other vessels the Bob Barker and Brigitte Bardot — which can travel faster than the whalers — were free to chase the Japanese south.
Commercial whaling is banned under an international treaty but Japan has since 1987 used a loophole to carry out “lethal research” in the name of science — a practice condemned by environmentalists and anti-whaling nations.
Australia, New Zealand, the United States and the Netherlands issued a joint statement earlier this month expressing their “disappointment” at the annual hunt and warning against violent encounters.
Confrontations with the increasingly sophisticated Sea Shepherd group have escalated in recent years, with one clash sinking an activist powerboat and a protester arrested for boarding a Japanese ship.
Sea Shepherd harassment saw the Japanese cut their hunt short last season, and they are now suing the activists in Washington seeking an injunction against what they say is a “life-threatening” campaign.
Japan’s coast guard has deployed an unspecified number of vessels to protect the whaling ships, and Tokyo has confirmed it will use some of the public funds earmarked for tsunami reconstruction to boost security for the hunt.
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