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FAA approves airborne poison-spraying pesticide drones

If glyphosate wasn’t scary enough for you, Monsanto’s newest idea will surely have your hair standing on end. The agri-business giant has come up with a pesticide drone – because drones and pesticides are two things that clearly belong together. Dumping herbicides and pesticides from the sky seems like something the government should oppose, but instead, somehow the corporate giant has won federal approval for this monstrous development.

The helicopters, which have been designed by Yamaha Corp. U.S.A.,  are incredibly lightweight and don’t require human pilots. In 2015, the federal government announced their approval for the autonomous helicopters to be used by farmers to spray fertilizers and pesticides. Rice farmers in Japan have already begun using the drones for this very purpose – though that does not exactly inspire confidence.

Supposedly, the drones are best used for precision spraying on hilly terrain and tough-to-reach areas. While this does kind of make sense, the real problem here is that the government is allowing people to spray pesticides from unmanned helicopters. Understandably, officials were “initially hesitant,” but ended up granting a Section 333 exemption for the new civilian drone. Steve Markofski, a spokesman for Yamaha Corp. U.S.A., told the Associated Press, “I certainly understand their cautious approach. It’s a daunting task given our airspace is complicated.”

There are many reasons why these “drone-copters,” if you will, should be approached with caution – or better yet, avoided all together. But apparently matters of national health and security are of very little importance to the FAA. Sadly, this is not really surprising coming from a federal agency.

First of all, these drones will make it easier than ever for farmers to douse their crops – and the surrounding areas – in glyphosate or other toxic chemicals. When you spray these pesticides into the air, especially from above in a drone, you are not just spraying the target; the toxic mist will spread into the air. There is no telling how far exactly these toxic particles can spread, but suffice it to say they can contaminate their surroundings easily.

A report by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences revealed that around 5 percent of the pesticides sprayed on crops will drift to other areas; this is more than enough to be harmful to the surrounding environment. Pesticides are already found in rivers, groundwater and even fresh rain. The risks of unwanted pesticide spread into our air, water and soil are already hard enough to control – what will happen when farmers can spray pesticides and herbicides from a flying, unmanned drone at will?

And furthermore, what is going to happen when that drone is eventually hacked? Chinese hackers have already hacked into U.S. airlines. Don’t you think airline computer systems are a little more secure than Farmer Joe’s pesticide drone-copter? Do we really want these drones to end up spraying people with these pesticides instead of plants? Because that is probably going to happen.

Sources:

NaturalNews.com

Trib.com

SLU.se

Bloomberg.com

Science.NaturalNews.com

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From your phone calls to your texts: how closely is the NSA’s ‘Spynet’ following you?

The computer system that the National Security Agency (also known as the Illegal Spying Agency) uses to identify and track “terrorists” is seriously flawed, warns a shocking new report that takes a closer look at the leaked documents put forward by former NSA subcontractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Many innocent people, particularly in Pakistan, are at serious risk of being killed by a ground-based death squad or unmanned drone strike because NSA’s “SKYNET” program — hink Terminator movies— doesn’t know how to accurately differentiate between legitimate threats and people whose behaviors simply deviate from the norm.

The report indicates that the NSA’s metadata sweeps, which is really just code for illegal spying activities, involve putting an artificial intelligence-based computer algorithm in charge of determining whether or not somebody is a “threat.” It then uses this information to determine whether or not the “threat” needs to be defused.

The Big Brother implications of this evil and highly corrupt system are enough to convince even the most stalwart skeptic that the U.S. government has way too much power — power that it continually uses to murder innocent lives to advance the globalist agenda. And even those on the inside are starting to speak up about the horrors that are taking place under SKYNET’s watch.

According to Human Rights Data Analysis’ executive director Patrick Ball, NSA’s SKYNET program is “ridiculously optimistic,” meaning it tends to target all sorts of innocent people because, quite frankly, it’s a robot with a mind of its own.

“The program, cheekily called SKYNET after the humanity-destroying artificial intelligence from the Terminator franchise, tracks movements and known associates, then an algorithm analyzes all that Big Data and flags potential terrorists to be targeted for drone strikes,” explains New York Magazine.

“The problem is, a data expert told Ars Technica this week, that algorithm is ‘completely [bollocks].'”

More than 4,000 innocent Pakistanis have been murdered by American military under Obama’s watch

A much more detailed explanation of SKYNET’s flaws is available at Ars Technica, but it suffice to say that in order for the system to work, there has to be a certain number of known terrorists within a population. And as of this writing, there are currently only seven in Pakistan, among a population of about 55 million.

This means that innocent people are being pinned and labeled as “terrorists” by the NSA even though they’ve done absolutely nothing wrong. And some of them are ending up dead as a result, the product of a perpetual, U.S.-led “war on terror” that is sowing carnage, misery, and death all throughout the world.

Even the NSA admits that its system has a 0.008 percent false-positive rate, which translates to about 15,000 people in Pakistan alone who will be erroneously tagged as terrorists, and potentially gunned down in a drone or military strike.

It’s the reason why so many people spoke out against NSA spying, warning that such activity represents a threat to everyone, not just Pakistanis. If it’s happening there, you can be sure it will eventually happen here, should the powers that be see a “need” to implement this type of “security” apparatus on domestic soil.

“Big Data being used to show you ads or recommend friends can certainly feel intrusive, but when Facebook gets it wrong, the worst consequence is that icky, uncanny valley feeling,” New York Magazine says.

“But that’s nothing compared to what can happen when machine learning goes wrong for a military-intelligence app in Pakistan. It can literally be life or death.”

Sources include:

TheDailySheeple.com

HRDAG.org

NYMag.com

Science.NaturalNews.com