MILITARY DRONE EXERCISE BLACK DART, SMALL DRONES NIGHTMARE

THE MILITARY SAYS IT IS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT HOW EASILY SMALL DRONES HAVE RECENTLY BEEN USED NEAR "SENSITIVE AND RESTRICTED AREAS" AND PLANS AN "EXERCISE" OUT IN CALIFORNIA TO READY THEMSELVES SHOULD AMERICA COME UNDER ATTACK BY SMALL DRONES IN TERRORISTS HANDS.

"Sweat the small stuff."   

That’s the unofficial motto for this year’s edition of the military exercise Black Dart, a two-week test of tactics and technologies to combat hostile drones that begins Monday on the Point Mugu range at Naval Base Ventura County in California.

Small drones are this year’s focus, said the director of this 14th edition of Black Dart, Air Force Maj. Scott Gregg, because of worrisome incidents since the last exercise.

Gregg cited the quadcopter that a drunk crashed onto the White House lawn in the wee hours of Jan. 26 and sightings of unidentified small drones flying over nuclear reactors in France. In the wake of those events, he said, “Even though we’ve been looking at [the small drone threat], it’s taken on a new sense of urgency.”

Gregg also could have mentioned how, to protest government surveillance, the Pirate Party of Germany flew a small drone right up to the podium as Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke in Dresden two years ago. Or how in Japan last April, a nuclear-energy foe landed a drone carrying radioactive sand on the roof of the prime minister’s residence. And there was a report last week that British officials are worried ISIS may try to bomb festival crowds using small drones."

THEY'RE GOING TO BLOW SOME OUT OF THE SKY!

WOOOO-HOOOO!
THAT SHOULD BE FUN, RIGHT?
COULD WE HAVE THE ONES THEY MISS, PLEASE?

" The $4.2 million budget for the event covers the cost of running the Point Mugu range and providing a small fleet of “surrogate threat” drones. For five hours each day, Gregg’s Black Dart team will fly up to six drones at a time over the range while participants test radars, lasers, missiles, guns and other technologies they think the military might use to detect and kill or neutralize drones of all sizes."

$4.2 MILLION?
THAT'S WHAT, TAXPAYER FUNDS OR MONOPOLY MONEY?

THEY CUT THE FAILURES SOME SLACK...YOU FAIL, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WILL STILL FUND YOU, BABY!
"One nice feature for contractors: Failure is an option. 

Black Dart isn’t an official procurement milestone, so companies can test their technologies there knowing that if they don’t work as hoped, there’s no obligation to file a report that might lead the Pentagon or Congress to cut their funding or cancel their program. They can just use the test results the way test results were meant to be used — to find out what works and fix what doesn’t."

IT WAS A SECRET...NOT ANYMORE!
"The military has largely kept its work on the problem quiet to prevent hostile actors from learning what defenses and countermeasures the US possesses."The Defense Intelligence Agency conducted the first Black Dart exercise in 2002 under a veil of secrecy, and the annual event stayed veiled through 2013.
REALLY?
THEN WHY SPILL THEIR GUTS OUT ABOUT IT NOW?
HOW D-U-M-B IS THAT?

FOR THOSE WE LABEL TERRORISTS, SURELY THIS TIDBIT THAT MADE MAJOR MEDIA NEWS WILL HELP THEM MAKE BETTER PLANS.
SOME AREN'T KNOWN FOR BEING ANY TOO CLEVER AND ANY TIME OUR GOVERNMENT CAN MAKE THINGS EASIER FOR THEM, WE WILL!

MAYBE THE MILITARY CAN JUST PRINT OUT INSTRUCTIONS USING CARTOON FIGURES?

A VIDEO HOW-TO MIGHT BE NICE.
WE COULD SEND THEM VIDEO PLAYERS, TOO.
AND A GOOD TRANSLATOR IN CASE THEY HAVE QUESTIONS?

WELL, I'M SURE THEY ACCOMPLISHED WHAT WAS INTENDED TO BE ACCOMPLISHED BY GETTING THIS OUT THERE FOR ALL OF US TO READ...

"LOOK, LOOK, AMERICA! A NEW AND IMPROVED THREAT! 

FEAR AND TREMBLING AND SHOCK AND AWE! 
AND IF THIS HAPPENS, IF THIS COMES TO PASS, THEN DAMN THOSE TERRORISTS!"

WE MAY BE ABOUT TO SEE SADDAM HUSSEIN OR USAMA BIN LADEN RESURRECTED FOR THIS ONE, RECKON?

HOW ABOUT ISIS?
HOME-GROWN TERRORISTS?
SOME STONED-OUT-OF-HIS-MIND KID, WITH ORANGE INSTEAD OF GREEN HAIR?
WHO WILL IT BE?

WILL THE FBI SAVE US AGAIN WITH ANOTHER "STING" OPERATION AND CATCH THE BAD GUYS AFTER THEY BUY THE DRONES FOR THEM, DRIVE THEM TO THE DRONE LAUNCH SITE AND PUT GAS AND MAYBE A WEE BIT OF ANTHRAX OR ??? IN THE LITTLE BOOGERS FOR THEM?

THE FBI REALLY DID LEND A HAND TO A FEW WHO "PLOTTED A DRONE ATTACK!

IN 2011, THE FBI WEBSITE PATTED ITSELF ON THE BACK FOR FOILING A WOULD-BE DRONE ASSASSIN.In recorded conversations with the CW that began in January 2011, 
Ferdaus stated that he planned to attack the Pentagon using aircraft similar to “small drone airplanes” filled with explosives and guided by GPS equipment.

IN 2014, IT WAS A MOROCCAN GUY WHOM THEY SAY WANTED TO FLY DRONES INTO SCHOOLS, BACK IN APRIL .
SEE THAT ARTICLE BY CBS <HERE>.

WELL, THE FBI DID CONFESS TO USING DRONES RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA 10 TIMES...JUST 10, BOYS?
REALLY?
COME ON!
I GUESS THAT GAVE THEM THE EXPERIENCE TO GO OUT AND HELP, I MEAN STOP, DRONE ATTACKS BY TERRORISTS, RIGHT?

LOOKING MIGHTY FINE, FBI, CIA, AND MILITARY GUYS, MIGHTY FINE!

CONTINUING...
"with more than 80 countries now buying or building drones of their own, and with terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas and ISIS known to have used unarmed drones in the Middle East, that advantage [THE U.S. MILITARY ADVANTAGE] has evaporated.

Few countries and no terrorist groups are likely to emulate the complex and costly US system of undersea fiber-optic cables and satellite earth terminals in Europe that allows crews in the United States to fly drones carrying missiles and bombs over Africa, the Middle East and South Asia."

YEAH, WELL, WHO NEEDS BOMBS WHEN THERE'S ANTHRAX OR OTHER BAD TINY THINGS IN THE HANDS OF THOSE TERRORISTS, RIGHT?
HOW MANY VIALS OF DEADLY TOXINS DID THE CDC SEND TO OLD SADDAM AGAIN?

DID THEY EVER FIGURE OUT HOW MUCH HE GOT?
[SEE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD <HERE>]

THE CDC DID FINALLY OWN UP TO THAT "OOPSIE" DEAL.
[CLICK ON THE LITTLE NUMBERS, CADETS, GO BACK IN TIME...]

"From the United States, the non-profit American Type Culture Collection and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control sold or sent biological samples to Iraq up until 1989, which Iraq claimed to need for medical research.

These materials included anthrax, West Nile virus and botulism, as well as Brucella melitensis, and Clostridium perfringens. 

Some of these materials were used for Iraq's biological weapons research program, while others were used for vaccine development.^[4] 

In delivering these materials "The CDC was abiding by World Health Organization guidelines that encouraged the free exchange of biological samples among medical researchers..." according to Thomas Monath, CDC lab director. It was a request "which we were obligated to fulfill," as described in WHO and UN treaties.^[5] "

AND HOW MANY KURDISH PEOPLE AND OTHERS DIED FROM THAT "HELPING HAND" AMERICA GAVE SADDAM?

According to an article in the London Sunday Times:
"During UN inspections in 1998, it emerged that Hussein had had prisoners tied to stakes and bombarded with anthrax and chemical weapons for experimental purposes. These experiments began in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq War after initial experiments on sheep and camels. Dozens of prisoners are believed to have died in agony during the program. "

"The Halabja chemical attack killed between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injured 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Thousands more died of complications, diseases, and birth defects in the years after the attack."

[ SEE: BBC ON THIS DAY | 16 | 1988: Thousands die in Halabja gas attack". BBC News. 

AND "Halabja, the massacre the West tried to ignore". Timesonline.co.uk.  AND
1988 Kurdish massacre labeled genocide, UPI, 8 March 2010]

SO WE'D BEST HOPE THE OLD CDC NOR ANY OTHER AMERICAN HELPING HAND SENT SOME OF THAT TO OTHER MIDDLE EAST NATIONS, YES?
IRAQ HAD PLENTY TO GO AROUND.

AND LET'S ALSO HOPE ALL THAT WHICH THE CDC SHARES WITH COLLEGE LABS AND ALL RESEARCH FACILITIES, GOVERNMENT AND OTHERWISE,  IS ALL TUCKED AWAY NICELY, SAFE FROM...WELL, WHOMEVER FEELS AN URGE?

AND WE CAN ALSO HOPE THE MILITARY DOESN'T GET ALL CONFUSED AS IT HAS SO MANY TIMES AND LAY IN A LITTLE "FRIENDLY FIRE" IN THEIR CUTE LITTLE GAMES OVER CALIFORNIA...OR ANYWHERE ELSE.

BUT, HONESTLY, ANYONE WHO HAS A COUPLE HUNDRED BUCKS CAN GET A DRONE, AND A FIRST YEAR COLLEGE SCIENCE MAJOR CAN DIG A LITTLE ANTHRAX OUT OF AMERICAN SOIL AND GROW AS MANY CULTURES AS HE/SHE WOULD LIKE.

THIS ISN'T ROCKET SCIENCE.

LOOK AT THE GUY WHO MANAGED TO MOUNT A HANDGUN ON A DRONE!
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/16/drone-firing-handgun-video-youtube
EASY AS PIE!

AND WE'VE KNOWN THAT FOR SOOOOOOO LONG!

IT'S A GOOD TIME TO ADD ANOTHER MILITARY EXERCISE TO THE ONGOING JADE HELM 15, THOUGH... NICE THEY CAME UP WITH SUCH A HELPFUL ONE AS "BLACK DART".

CATCHY NAME, YES?
SORT OF LIKE "BLACK BART"....

<SIGH>... ONWARD.
GOOD LUCK, CALIFORNIANS!

GOOD LUCK, ALL OF YOU WHO ARE CURRENTLY ENTERTAINING THE BOYS PLAYING OUT "JADE HELM 2015"!

DO WE HAVE A BODY COUNT YET?