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Dear Public Intelligence,
I am from Canada and greatly appreciate your map on drone locations in the U.S. plus other information.
I have appended drone-related information, just in case it may be of benefit to you.
I’ve run an activist email network for 12 years. We have collected and posted quite a bit of information related to Lockheed Martin and the militarization of the Canadian economy. (Canadians are deluded that we play a role of peace-keeping in the world.)
I have a particular interest because of my on-going trial (4 years now) over the involvement of Lockheed Martin Corporation in the Canadian census (the same as they are involved in your census data collection). I refused to fill in a census form and was charged.
In solidarity and peace,
Sandra Finley
(contact info)
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Grand Forks ND is on your drone map. But you may, or may not know:
“ . . . The Department of Aviation at the University of North Dakota, located in Grand Forks and the operator of the test and training site at Grand Forks AFB, now offers the first Bachelors of Science program in Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operations. The Aviation Maintenance Technology program at Northland Community and Technical College, located in Thief River Falls, Minnesota just 40 miles east of Grand Forks, will soon offer courses in the repair of UAVs.. . . “
(Click on the date link for the full article)
• 2010-11-01 (Drone training in Canada) Saskatchewan Aviation Learning Centre Grand Opening at Sask Indian Institute of Technology
echoes this paragraph from
• 2011-04-22 The Drone-ification of America (correction: .. of NORTH America)
COMPARE:
Federal education and stimulus money is being used to create nonmilitary drone education programs. The Department of Aviation at the University of North Dakota, located in Grand Forks and the operator of the test and training site at Grand Forks AFB, now offers the first Bachelors of Science program in Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operations. The Aviation Maintenance Technology program at Northland Community and Technical College, located in Thief River Falls, Minnesota just 40 miles east of Grand Forks, will soon offer courses in the repair of UAVs.
The Drone-ification article continues:
Added to that, an amendment to the House version of the bill legalizing drone testing in American airspace set September 30, 2015 as a deadline by which to have general use of drones. The University of North Dakota is also offering a 4-year degree in piloting drones in what is soon expected to be a $20 billion industry.
Clearly, Congress, the Defense Department, the Obama administration and the military contractors who drive the wars all have strong financial interests in having drones crisscrossing the skies of America. They know that this spy technology will be the next big money-making scheme for those who profit from war and the machinery of war. But you can rest assured that the introduction of drones into American airspace will not only further fuse the American government, the American economy and the military industry, perpetuating needless foreign interventions at the expense of civilians abroad and Americans at home but it will serve as yet another nail in the coffin for American civil liberties.
COMPARE TO THIS! The Canadian version of the preceding. The wording is transportable. Talk about “harmonization” and “integration”:
Federal stimulus money is being used to create drone education programs. The Saskatchewan Aviation Learning Centre located in Saskatoon, a joint effort between Lockheed Martin ($3.5 million), Boeing, the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technology (SIIT), SIAST, Western Economic Diversification (Minister Responsible Lynn Yelich), the Government of Saskatchewan, and the Saskatoon Airport Authority, now offers the first Bachelors program in Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operations. The Aviation Maintenance Technology program at SIIT will soon offer courses in the repair of UAVs through the Saskatchewan Aviation Learning Centre. The Commercial Pilots programme at SIAST will soon be located in the same new facility at the Saskatoon Airport.
Clearly the Defense Department, the Harper administration, and the military contractors who drive the wars all have strong financial interests in having drones crisscrossing the skies of North America. They know that this spy technology will be the next big money-making scheme for those who profit from war and the machinery of war. But you can rest assured that the introduction of drones into North American airspace will not only further fuse the North American government, the North American economy and the military industry, perpetuating needless foreign interventions at the expense of civilians abroad and North Americans at home but it will serve as yet another nail in the coffin for North American civil liberties.
OTHER POSTINGS RELATED TO DRONES
Ref: www.sandrafinley.ca , go to the “Categories” on the right-hand side. Scroll down to “Peace or Violence”, down to “Lockheed Martin”, and then to “Drones”.
(Or just click on Drones (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles / UAVs) )
A list of the postings, with summaries is generated. Scroll down past the top page headings in order to find the list (which includes a summary of each).
The list, without the summaries (each of the following is a link that can be clicked on):
• 2012-05-30 The President’s Kill List, The New Yorker, Amy Davidson
• Very important televised debate: Jeremy Scahill (“The Nation”) says Obama drone strikes constitute murder, and he says it on NBC. The U.S. “kill list”.
• 2012-04-22 Americans mobilized to stop drone warfare, violation of International Law
• 2012-02-12 Bill Clears Path For 30,000 Surveillance Drones Over US In Next Ten Years
• 2011-12-22 Border plan benefits Saskatchewan . . ? A nice little sales job from the Govt of Saskatchewan.
• 2011-12-19 CBC Radio “The Current” interview: Drone attacks in Pakistan, the Ally from Hell. Lockheed Martin funding drone technology in Saskatoon
• 2011-12-04 Why Iran’s capture of US drone will shake CIA. (Drone built by Lockheed Martin.)
• 2011-11-02 Canada has drones? Finnish campaign is under way to cancel a new deal to purchase Israeli drones.
• 2011-04-24 Libya hit by drones. BUT Pay attention to what they are doing with drones in North America, and here in Saskatoon.
• 2011-04-24 The Verdict: Guilty of Protesting the Drones
• 2011-04-23 Attack of the drones: Obama approves the use of unmanned aircraft in Libya conflict
• 2011-04-22 The Drone-ification of America. (correction: .. of NORTH America)
• 2011-04-16 Drones Fly Through Congress to Enter US Skies
• 2011-04-13 Pakistan Moves to Curb More Aggressive US Drone Strikes, Spying
• 2011-01-27 Unmanned Spyplane For Canadian Border Security (Drones)
• 2011-01-26 Unmanned plane (drone) patrolling stretch of Canada-U.S. border
• 2010-11-01 Saskatchewan Aviation Learning Centre (Saskatoon Airport) Grand Opening. Lockheed Martin’s “products” not itemized (UAVs (Drones), cluster munitions, DU (Depleted Uranium) weapons, land mines).
• 2010-10-10 Stunning victory: Breaking the law to obey a higher law (Lockheed Martin’s unmanned drones, Creech Air Force Base).
• 2010-06-26 Aerospace Giant Lockheed Martin Donating $3.5 Million Training Package to the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technology (SIIT) in Saskatoon (Drones)
• 2010-04-11 Lockheed Martin setting up near Saskatoon at Whitecap. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (unmanned drones).
• 2010-04-01 University of North Dakota First to Offer a Four-Year Degree in UAV Piloting
• 2009-02-18 US/Canada Border Increasingly Militarized, Unmanned drone prowls over the lonely prairie. G&M
• 2008-12-05 Predator UAV (Drones) Set for U.S.- Canada Patrol
• 2007-02-12 UAV Tested For US Border Security (Canadian border)
It’s actually a cool and useful piece of info. I’m satisfied that you shared this helpful information with us.
Please keep us up to date like this. Thanks for sharing.
I had forgotten about this collection around drones, Anuja. Thanks for reminding me. It’s from the early days of drones – introduced and known only through the military and surveillance industries.
Today there is some, but not a lot of discussion about how and why they are used to kill people. Many people will not know that they are used all along the Canada-U.S. border.
People will be more likely to know the consumer market that now exists – – we can each go and buy ourselves a drone. They might get upset because their neighbour can fly a drone with a camera onboard and spy on them. They don’t get upset that some whiz computer-game kids can sit at a consul and drop bombs by remote control – – terrorizing and killing parents and kids in other countries.
They get upset about what is, in comparison, much less important. Think about the long term consequences: the industries whose specialty is killing don’t sell their technologies and weapons ONLY to us in the West. They sell to whoever has money. We are rather stupid to pay taxes to our Governments to buy the killing kind of drones for warfare – – in time, those same weapons will be used against us. And you could say, rightfully so – – that is what our sayings tell us: what goes around comes around. Or you reap what you sow.
I do not know where you are from. I think it is important for Canadians to inform themselves about the expansion of the American military-industrial complex into Canada. It is important that we fight to stop, for example, the multi-billion dollar deals through the Govt of Canada to the Saudis. And the purchase of Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth bombers. And so on. We have power if we work together. It is our responsibility to see that our Governments do NOT do to other people what we do NOT want other people to do to us. It is the Golden Rule that has been taught to people by every one of the major religions in the world. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. . . . Oh dear! Enough from me!