Tag: California

Gorgon Stare – A “Persistent Eye in the Sky” May Be Coming to a City Near You

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Gorgon Stare – A “Persistent Eye in the Sky” May Be Coming to a City Near You

This plan was ordered by Congress in the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act. It directed the Departments of Defense and Transportation to “develop a plan for providing expanded access to the national airspace for unmanned aircraft systems of the Department of Defense.” Gen. Poss was one of nearly two dozen ex-military officers who, starting in 2010, were put into positions at the FAA to oversee drone integration research. With little public scrutiny, the plan has been moving forward ever since.

If you’re thinking that this is a partisan issue, think again. This plan has been enacted and expanded under Presidents and Congresses of both parties. If you’re uncomfortable with a President Biden having the ability to track the movements of every Tea Party or Q-Anon supporter, you should be. Just as we should all be concerned about a President Trump tracking…well, everybody else.

More evidence coronavirus had spread to the West BEFORE China came clean: LA doctors find evidence it may have been circulating in US MONTHS earlier than first reported case

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

More evidence coronavirus had spread to the West BEFORE China came clean: LA doctors find evidence it may have been circulating in US MONTHS earlier than first reported case

The scientists say that, between December and February, there may have been as many as 1,000 coronavirus patients in Los Angeles.

The finding is published after only yesterday a British family came forward with a coroner’s report saying that their relative, 84-year-old Peter Attwood, died of coronavirus after catching it in December.

Mr Attwood’s death came two months before the first death was officially recorded in Britain and has been officially attributed to the disease, despite China not announcing its existence until after the grandfather had already caught it.

US Media Can’t Think How to Fight Fires Without $1-an-Hour Prison Labor

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

US Media Can’t Think How to Fight Fires Without $1-an-Hour Prison Labor

Trained firefighters being good enough to work for nearly nothing, but ineligible to get real jobs, would seem to represent an even bigger irony — and a more important story — than California having to spend a few million dollars extra to fight two crises at once. But covering the wildfire story that way would require seeing it through the eyes of inmates, not of a government whose main concern is the inconvenience of having to pay people when you’re used to getting their work almost for free. That’s an argument we’ve heard before, of course — but one would have hoped it wouldn’t still be guiding news coverage nearly 200 years later.