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Drones Fly Drugs And Porn Into Jail

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Grace Carr Inmates increasingly use drones to smuggle anything from cell phones to weapons into jails across the country, according to Department of Justice (DOJ) documents released in mid-June. The documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, reveal more than a dozen attempts to transport mobile phones, drugs, and porn…

South Korea Finds Suspected North Korean Spy Drone Near DMZ

South Korea Finds Suspected North Korean Spy Drone Near DMZ

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell South Korea discovered a suspected North Korean drone on a mountain near its shared border Friday, according to the military, that believes the device was conducting reconnaissance. North Korea has been regularly conducting missile tests, firing off everything from ballistic missiles to surface-to-air missiles to coastal defense cruise missiles….

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Rogue Drones Crashes Into Stands At MLB Game [VIDEO]

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman A rogue drone embedded with a camera crashed into the stands Sunday at Petco Park, the home venue for the San Diego Padres, during the middle of a baseball game. WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCV38rSiQnk   Fans gazed at the flying device as it zipped around the arena, even getting very…

Pentagon: Less Than 1 Percent Of Strikes On The Islamic State Kill Civilians
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Pentagon: Less Than 1 Percent Of Strikes On The Islamic State Kill Civilians

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti Less than 1 percent of the nearly 18,000 U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria yielded reports of possible civilian casualties, according to the Pentagon’s monthly civilian casualty assessment. Of the less than one percent of strikes that resulted in possible civilian casualties, only a…

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Rogue Drone Allegedly Flew ‘Within Wingspan’ Of Commercial Airplane

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman An unidentified drone flew within roughly 20 meters of a plane in the U.K., according to a recently released monthly report of near misses. Pilots of an Airbus A320, a commercial passenger jet airliner, said he saw a large drone (unmanned aerial vehicle) flying near its aircraft, estimated to…

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WATCH: Now You Can Take Down Drones Without Using A Shotgun

by Eric Lieberman People worried about their safety and privacy now have a new weapon for disabling drones — a small hardware module that can hijack the flying device. The piece of technology, called Icarus, can overtake the DSMx, the remote control system in many drones as well as other vehicles like planes, helicopters, cars, and boats, according to Ars Technica….

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Clinton Says Alleged Talk Of Droning Assange “Would Have Been A Joke”

by Kody Fairfield On Tuesday, Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton held a press conference where she was asked about her alleged comments on droning Wikileaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange. Clinton’s exact words were: Question: Did you ever joke about droning Assange? Clinton: I…I…I don’t know anything about what he is talking about and… uh…I recall any joke…uh… It…

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UN: Drone Strike Against Assange is Criminal Violation of Human Rights

by Kody Fairfield In all the uproar over the leaked documents showing that Democratic nominee for President Hillary Clinton allegedly saying, “Why can’t we just drone this guy?” in reference to silencing Wikileaks, and its editor/founder Julian Assange, the United Nations (UN) felt the need to weigh in. On Monday, the UN released a statement essentially saying that the…

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Clinton on Assange: “Can’t We Just Drone This Guy?”

by Kody Fairfield We knew that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has never met a war she did not like, and that her relationships with embassies worldwide tend to be a contentious, but the newest information to come out about her regard for military action is a bit troubling. According to a report from True Pundit (TP), Clinton,…

Rand Paul Introduces Amendment to Prohibit Drone Surveillance on US Soil

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced a bipartisan amendment with Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) to the FAA Authorization Act which would prohibit law enforcement from using drones to surveil Americans without a warrant. “The use of drone surveillance may work on the battlefields overseas, but it isn’t well-suited for unrestrained use on the streets in the United…