by Dee McLachlan
Some months ago a woman in Adelaide posted on Facebook that there were drones hovering over her suburb at night. Her social media post lit up with derogatory accusations about her imaginings.
I had been told about these drones by a friend in Adelaide, and on a quick glance they could easily mistaken for bright stars. On visiting Adelaide I noticed for myself, just after sunset, several low flying objects that were obviously too large for stars. As the evening progressed they seemed to rise in the sky to greater heights — watching over the suburb.
We decided a telescope was required and purchased a cheap one. What I discovered through the telescope was an object with essentially four lights — one brighter than the others, and one very dim. The photograph (above-right) was taken with my cell phone through the telescope. Rather primitive, but effective enough.
When I returned back to Melbourne, I walked out on my apartment balcony, and looked up. Lo and behold there it was. A bright light hovering near the moon, and was too large to be a star. (Moon and drone can be seen in the above-left photograph.)
I assume these drones are for surveillance, but this article is a request for anyone to provide more detail and alternative theories.
SA Police Bought a Drone Fleet in 2013
Back in 2013, the South Australian police force bought a fleet of aerial drones to assist with cost-effective surveillance operations. The technology website, Delimiter, reported at that time:
“…documents reveal that the police force requires drones capable of providing ‘overt tactical and search and rescue capability’, as well as ‘covert capability to assist in investigations’, during both day and night… Minister O’Brien said that the devices would feature still, video and infra-red cameras, and… the camera system for the RPAS [remotely piloted aircraft system] must be of a high quality and should overlay images with Global Positioning System (GPS) points. The images/footage must be of a standard sufficient to be utilised as evidence.”
Other police forces around Australia followed suit, as there are obviously huge advantages in drone surveillance. But the The Delimiter article quotes Michael Salter, a lecturer in criminology at the University of Western Sydney:
“Military tactics and hardware can make policing more appealing to recruits and generate impressive media spectacles, but they do not prevent or solve crime. The underlying causes of social disorder go unaddressed while public funds are spent instead on expensive but ineffective and potentially dangerous toys.”
But I really haven’t heard an open debate about the potential dangers or invasions of privacy. Have you?
Drones in the UK — Airport Shutdown
In July 2017, the BBC reported UK’s first dedicated police drone unit in the UK. Devon and Cornwall Police had been testing the drones with Dorset Police in 2015, but established a permanent unit two years later — hoping to use it in counter-terrorism operations, or to find missing persons.
On 19 December 2018, rogue drone sightings led to three days of travel chaos and 1,000 flights being canceled or diverted at Gatwick Airport.
By the end of December, the Telegraph had reported that,
“…the drone sightings which kept Gatwick Airport on lockdown for 36 hours may have been reports of Sussex Police’s own aircraft, the force’s highest-ranking officer admitted yesterday. Police received 115 reports of sightings in the area surrounding the airfield, including 92 confirmed by Sussex Police’s Chief Constable Giles York as coming from “credible people”.
The police drones were launched to search for what officers believed at the time to be malicious aircraft deliberately being flown above the runway?
Who Is Watching Us?
In an ABC interview (19/10/2018), Assistant Commissioner of Victoria Police, Ross Guenther, suggested that UAVs may be used to surveil public events as part of its counter-terrorism strategy for the next three years. He said:
“Say you went to the Myer Music Bowl, for example, and you took a backpack with you to that… You drop the backpack down but then you just returned to the gate and left the property, that would be an irregular behaviour… The intention of it is to protect the community and it’s not that we’re using that technology 24 hours a day at all our meeting places, for example.”
The drones would most likely carry various types of equipment, including live-feed video cameras, infrared cameras, heat sensors, and radar.
Most people I speak to have no idea that big brother is in the sky monitoring their every move, and backpack.
Smart Cities — Darwin.beta
On 29 April 2019, Epoch Times reported:
“Australia is preparing to debut its version of the Chinese regime’s high-tech system for monitoring and controlling its citizens. The launch, to take place in the northern city of Darwin, will include systems to monitor people’s activity via their cell phones.
“The new system is based on monitoring programs in Shenzhen, China, where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is testing its Social Credit System. Officials on the Darwin council traveled to Shenzhen, according to NT News, to “have a chance to see exactly how their Smart Technology works prior to being fully rolled out.”
“In Darwin, they’ve already constructed “poles, fitted with speakers, cameras and Wi-Fi,” according to NT News, to monitor people, their movements around the city, the websites they visit, and what apps they use. The monitoring will be done mainly by artificial intelligence, but will alert authorities based on set triggers.
“Just as in China, the surveillance system is being branded as a “smart city” program, and while Australian officials claim its operations are benign, they’ve announced it functions to monitor cell phone activity and “virtual fences” that will trigger alerts if people cross them.”
Trump’s banning of a Chinese surveillance tech has (according to macrobusiness.com.au) disrupted Darwin’s smart city plans, writing, “Darwin’s plans to install the system in advance of the arrival of their Communist Party of China masters in tatters.”
Oz is the launching pad .
for the war against these bastards.
At 50 seconds Abbott says “The world is looking to all of us right now..”
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Oh for God’s sake, Aussies, hop onto it, would you?
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I have personally witnessed 2 drone hovering flights over Rockingham in W.A. during daylight hours. They may not have been police assets, as one in particular appeared to hover for quite some time, about 3/4 hour at sunset, over and around a newly built block of units that were about to be released.
Whenever the authorities state that a certain program is to avert terrorism, we know it to be a lie, as it is these authorities that initiate the terrorist activities. This is happening time and time again, all around the Western World at least.
You need look no further than Port Arthur, the Sydney Siege, London’s 7/7, US 9/11, Mumbai, Sri Lanka, NZ Christchurch, US Oklahoma City, Sandy Hook, The Aurora Theatre attack the and Madrid Underground bombing, to name a few.
Good idea, Mal. We should promulgate a ban on the word terrorism.
Dee, if those are the “smart” cities, I’d hate to think what the dumb ones are like.
Dee, I know you want us to credit your drone discovery, but what can one say except “This is not acceptable.”
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Get used to it.
“Just dropping by, want to sell? We have people wanting to buy your residence.”
https://bestdroneforthejob.com/drone-buying-guides/fly-it-or-buy-it-the-complete-guide-to-using-camera-drones-for-real-estate-marketing/
“Oh Mrs Robison, what a lovely sight you are there by your pool”.
“Prisoner 666, your delivery is now arriving prison yard 10”.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/prisons-try-to-stop-drones-from-delivering-drugs-porn-and-cellphones-to-inmates/2016/10/12/645fb102-800c-11e6-8d0c-fb6c00c90481_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1fc87d3c061a
“Is that you up there inspector? Hi, he is not here, have a nice day”.
“Driver: this is traffic control, don’t look up just pull over”.
As an aside: A house across the road from ours was for sale and the ‘for sale sign’ had a lovely aerial photograph of the subject property…………….and the backyard pools of the neighbours on each side…………..I did not know that they had pools!!!!!
I was surprised that when I used my craft to clone the firmware of my domestically available Chinese drone(deejayeye- sorry M hope you not yawn). I noticed it was committing suicide and deleting its very existence.The annotations to the adjustable parameters and the fields were in English, surprising me who was expecting Chinese(Cantonese/Mand). Goes tech here so I not bore further, but interesting.
Moo goo gai pan to you Simon. I never yawn.
Ned, no more of that special suntanning in the back yard….
lol, gave me the California Roll, both not so spicy, wink
Try NUDIE BEACH,
Hey Mary see you there. Arlyn you too!
The why travel.
https://www.timeout.com/sydney/things-to-do/the-best-nudist-beaches-in-sydney
So who needs a Harvey Norman Drone expense and be arrested?
Take the family, was fun in 2000 on a cruiser parked and watching the studs and Eves at Balmoral to the North on a beach and those gratifying themselves up in the bushes
Then the 60 year old nude moored nearby decided to swab down the top of his cabin of his miserable little boat. We waited a few minutes for his wife to appear, then we had to send the kids to the starboard side and leave.
Who needs drones?
Dr. Days’s marvellous NWO; now here.
Disclaimer:
This is not a NSW or Qld tourist add……. They just wish!
OOPs. to the ‘Southern’ side of Balmoral cove.
Could be Buchan’s Point in Cairns. The best part would be watching all the good local family men fleeing the bushes in fear of their wives. Maybe surveillance can also be fun. (Maybe that is part of the problem?)
From the department of genuine satire
Honest Government Ad | 2019 Election (Season Finale)
Is the “Australien” Government a subtle hint?
Oh, Diane, if only it were satire.
It is not, there is a petition with 3,000 + signatories wishing for Zarli, who beat Abbott, to place energy saving windmills on the Northern Beaches in Sydney of the electorate of Warringah.
Go for it Warringah, support clean energy and put up your windmills for free energy for the electorate of Warringah.
Go; Manly, Warriewood, Clontarf up to Palm Beach.
Go North Head of Sydney’s entrance, should take a dozen windmills on the tops with plenty of Southerly’s to give free energy….. send a message to cruise ship passengers entering the Harbour….we are a clean energy Nation.
Go Zarli, just do it.
That’s why they shut down the power stations in Lake Macquarie , and now need more wars for oil to run the generators that pump the electricity for Sydney Newcastle Wollongong etc . At a premium price . Life’s good if you have the cash idols !
Beautiful country even better people , shame the 10% only want it for themselves .
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Its all about god …Gas Oil Drugs. Its all about SECRECY for their corporate-criminal activities. Here is but one example:
Oil and gas had hidden role in Australia’s response to Indonesian invasion of Timor-Leste
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/07/oil-and-gas-had-hidden-role-in-australias-response-to-indonesian-invasion-of-timor-leste
These seditious traitors called politicians have dismantled Australia’s refineries and we are pegged to the Singapore price index which places Australia in a weaker position of national security national sovereignty and national independence.
Almost Half of Australia’s Petrol, Diesel and Jet Fuel Imports come from South Korea and Japan
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-08-21/almost-half-australias-petrol-diesel-jet-fuel-imports-come-south-korea-japan/
Last report: 8,000 plus.
Go Zarli.
Go Warringah.
Global smart cities market to reach a whopping $3.5 trillion by 2026
https://readwrite.com/2017/01/07/smart-cities-market-will-grow-3-5-trillion-worldwide-2026-cl4
Smart cities are surveillance cities
‘Smart Cities’ Are the Next Phase in the 21st Century Surveillance Grid
https://www.globalresearch.ca/smart-cities-are-the-next-phase-in-the-21st-century-surveillance-grid/5455925
Privacy in a Smart City
The global move towards a ‘smarter planet’ is a worrying prospect for many who are concerned with the growing erosion of privacy in the modern world. Can privacy exist in a smart city where every corner and crevice of the urban environment is fitted with digital sensors collecting data on every movement of the city 24 hours a day?
Furthermore, many of the supporters and proponents of smart initiatives are multinational corporations and notorious foundations, including IBM, Siemens, Cisco and the Rockefeller Foundation. The notion of corporate giants managing a smarter planet becomes even more troubling when you consider the history of companies such as IBM, which played a pivotal role in the holocaust and worked closely with Nazi Germany. Given IBM’s dark history, should we trust it with the power to regulate and manage numerous cities around the world?
In an article for AlterNet titled: The Terrifying “Smart” City of the Future, Allegra Kirkland details some of the more disturbing aspects of a smarter planet:
“The surveillance implications of these sorts of mass data-generating civic projects are unnerving, to say the least. Urban designer and author Adam Greenfield wrote on his blog Speedbird that this centralized governing model is “disturbingly consonant with the exercise of authoritarianism.” To further complicate matters, the vast majority of smart-city technology is designed by IT-systems giants like IBM and Siemens. In places like Songdo, which was the brainchild of Cisco Systems, corporate entities become responsible for designing and maintaining the basic functions of urban life…. Private corporations are the ones measuring and controlling these mountains of data, and that they don’t have the same accountability to the public that government does.”
The main problem is the idea that no such thing has ever happened before:
No wonder the precedent is routinely written off as some sort of myth/fairy tale
The belief that no-one’s steering the ship is critical to putting such technology to such use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5tEAINU3wc
I came from a small seaside village . In the early sixties , there were small fridges in the kitchens but they were always empty . Why ? Because people were totally self sufficient , they fished ,had goats pigs , grew their own vegetables fruits , made oil and wine . Made their own art music and sculpture,
that is most people could dance and sing in harmony .
Look at us today , in the mega cities , we go to the supermarkets (if we have money) come home
put it in the microwave , sit down look at their screens , and think we’re civilised and getting smarter.
WTF . We are useless eaters in their system of oppression and slavery . On the whole , what do we produce in the internet age . SFA .
The person that has the alleged drones and planes circulating their house constantly, lives right near Parafield airport…
I could say the R.A.A.F. planes hovered over my house, I live minutes from the base and my house is on their flight path, which i’m guessing so is DS’s house near parafield!!
A life in the wilderness in a micro nation is seeming like an attractive option for the future, I am a bit over technology
The future is a horror.