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government wants to have unmaned drones patrolling the skies.

It seems a little known provision in the 2005 bill authorizing the use of Predator drones along the U.S. border allowed other agencies to borrow the drones for, “interior law enforcement support.” So, now the same MQ-9 “hunter/killer” drones used for CIA assassinations in Yemen and Pakistan are being used to track down stray cattle in North Dakota… no joke.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a Senate hearing Tuesday that unmanned aerial drones will soon fly through Texas skies!

"Big Sis" declared that over the past 15 months, federal law enforcement initiatives have made the border more secure than in any other time in history, the SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS reports in Wednesday editions.

The new "predator bees" have the capability to fly at altitudes used by commercial aircraft, and are designed to enhance intelligence capabilities of federal, state and local law enforcement.

In February of this year, Congress passed the FAA Reauthorization Act, with its provision to deploy fleets of drones domestically.

The Pirate Bay announced that in future parts of its site could be hosted on GPS controlled drones. This is an important step to freedom on the internet and should be announced.

Apparently the drones are not only used to bomb civilians in Pakistan and Afghanistan now the establishment have found another use for them , to spy on Americans , it is no surprise that the government turn against its own citizens , if you thought that your government is their to protect you and that giving up some of your freedom will bring you security , then think again ..who is going to protect you from the tyranny of your own government , the same government that have been massacring civilians with the drones in your name can turn against you any time ...

In Houston where aerial drones were tried out, local media investigations stopped their use be Houston Police.

Earlier this year, a North Dakota sheriff was on the search for six missing cows. He turned up with a warrant at a family ranch, but was chased off by someone with a rifle, reports the Los Angeles Times. So he called in back-up, including a drone from Border Patrol, to search the family’s 3,000-acre ranch for the armed suspects. The drone used its sensors to find them and to determine they were unarmed. Police then arrested the family of six, marking the first known use of a drone to arrest U.S. citizens, reports the Times.

Like a Swarm of Lethal Bugs: The Most Terrifying Drone Video Yet

An Air Force simulation says researchers are at work on killer robots so tiny that a group of them could blend into a cityscape.

Science writer John Horgan's feature on the many ways drones will be used in coming years is interesting throughout, and terrifying in the passage where he describes an effort to build micro-drones that are, as the U.S. Air Force describes them, "Unobtrusive, pervasive, and lethal."