Comment: We predicted, decades ago, that the end-goal of 9/11, the War on Terror, and the 'blending' of US and Israeli government policy was to remake the USA in Israel's image...
© UnknownDrones over America
The drones are made by a company called Skydio which in the last few years has gone from relative obscurity to quietly become a multi-billion dollar company and the largest drone manufacturer in the US.
The extent of Skydio drone usage across the US, and the extent to which their usage has grown in just a few years, is extraordinary. The company has contracts with more than 800 law enforcement and security agencies across the country, up from 320 in March last year, and their drones are being launched hundreds of times a day to monitor people in towns and cities across the country.
Skydio has extensive links with Israel. In the first weeks of the genocide the California-based company sent more than one hundred drones to the IDF with promises of more to come. How many more were delivered since that admission is unknown. Skydio has an office in Israel and partners with DefenceSync, a local military drone contractor operating as the middle man between drone manufacturers and the IDF. Skydio has also raised hundreds of millions of dollars from Israeli-American venture capitalists and from venture capital funds with extensive investments in Israel, including from Marc Andreessen's firm Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z.
And now these drones, tested in genocide and refined on Palestinians, are swarming American cities.
According to my research almost every large American city has signed a contract with Skydio in the last 18 months, including Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Diego, Cleveland and Jacksonville. Skydio drones were recently used by city police departments to gather information at the 'No Kings' protests and were also used by Yale to spy on the anti-genocide protest camp set up by students at the university last year.
In Miami, Skydio drones are being used to spy on spring breakers, and in Atlanta the company has partnered with the Atlanta Police Foundation to install a permanent drone station within the massive new Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. Detroit recently spent nearly $300,000 on fourteen Skydio drones according to a city procurement report. Last month ICE bought an X10D Skydio drone, which automatically tracks and pursues a target. US Customs and Border Protection has bought thirty-three of the same drones since July.
The AI system behind Skydio drones is powered by Nvidia chips and enables their operation without a human user. The drones have thermal imaging cameras and can operate in places where GPS doesn't work, so-called 'GPS-denied environments.' They also reconstruct buildings and other infrastructure in 3D and can fly at more than 30 miles per hour.
The New York police were early adopters of Skydio drones and are particularly enthusiastic users. A spokesman recently told a drone news website that the NYPD launched more than 20,000 drone flights in less than a year, which would mean drones are being launched around the city 55 times per day. A city report last year said the NYPD at that time was operating 41 Skydio drones. A recent Federal Aviation Authority rule change, however, means that number will undoubtedly have increased and more generally underpins the massive expansion in the use of Skydio drones.
Prior to March this year, FAA rules meant that drones could only be used by US security forces if the operator kept the drone in sight. They also couldn't be used over crowded city streets. An FAA waiver issued that month opened the floodgates, allowing police and security agencies to operate drones beyond a visual line of sight and over large crowds of people. Skydio called the waiver ground-breaking. It was. The change has ushered in a Skydio drone buying spree by US police and security forces, with many now employing what is called a 'Drone As First Responder' program. Without the need to see the drone, and with drones free to cruise over city streets, the police are increasingly sending drones before humans to call outs and for broader investigative purposes. Cincinnati for example says that by the end of this year 90% of all call outs will be serviced first by a Skydio drone.
This extensive level of coverage is enabled by Skydio's docking platform hardware. These launch pads are placed in locations around a city enabling drones to be remote charged, launched and landed many miles away from police HQs. After launch, all the information gathered by these flights is both saved to an internal SD card and automatically uploaded to special software configured for law enforcement. This software is made by Axon, a major financial backer of Skydio and the controversial maker of Tasers and 'less-lethal weapons' used by police departments in the US and across the west. The software, Axon Evidence, enables, in the words of an Axon press release, 'the automatic uploads of photos and video footage from drones into a digital evidence management system.'
Axon's equipment is also central to Israel's infrastructure of apartheid, with the company providing body cameras and Tasers to Israeli police forces and prison guards who routinely torture Palestinians. Axon, which participated in a $220 million Series E round of funding in Skydio, is just one of the many entities backing Skydio who serve a Zionist agenda.
Skydio's first investor in 2015 was Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) which provided $3 million of seed capital to the three-man team behind the drone maker. They have since invested tens of millions across numerous funding rounds. The founders of a16z, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, are both notorious Zionists. The firm was the most active venture capital investor in Israel in 2024 and this summer Andreessen and Horowitz visited Israel to meet with tech companies founded by ex-IDF and Unit 8200 war criminals.
Other Skydio investors include Next 47, which has an office in Israel headed by Moshe Zilberstein who worked in the IDF's computer spy centre Mamram, and Hercules Capital whose managing director Ella-Tamar Adnahan is an Israeli-American described by Israeli media as "Israel's go-to tech banker in the US."
The saturation of US police departments with drone technology so closely connected to Israel, technology used to carry out war crimes is a frightening, if not unsurprising, development. Skydio drones will be central to the rapidly advancing proto-fascism in the US and the crack down on Antifa and other so-called 'domestic terrorists' by the Trump administration. In this context, the bigger surprise is that the rapid expansion of Israel-linked surveillance drone technology across America has so far gone largely under the radar.
Skydio should also make it on to the agenda of Zohran Mamdani. Recently criticised for saying "when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF," Skydio is just another example that shows he's right. If he has the courage of his convictions, he could do worse than use his powers as mayor to shut down the NYPD's Skydio deal.
Skydio is also a large supplier to the Department of Defence, recently signing a contract to provide the US Army with reconnaissance drones. As a significant supplier to both military and civilian security forces, it raises questions about what information is or will be shared between the US military and domestic security agencies via the Skydio-Axon digital evidence management system.
Skydio shows once again how Gaza is the laboratory for weapons makers, the place where new surveillance and apartheid technologies are tested, before being refined and used in the west. And next year Skydio is rolling out new indoor drones. We can only speculate as to what extent these new drones were informed by the 'learnings' accrued via genocide.
The story of Skydio shows that what happens in Gaza doesn't stay in Gaza. The logic of capitalist imperialism means these technologies will always find their way home.
Reader Comments
Chickens coming home to roost is the answer: Um....."what happens next" Alex for 2664 please....
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Oh that is easy - shoot down the drones flying overhead.....
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OK - lets make it easy for 666 Alex.
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Oh glory be - tis another daily double - what is the question?
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the answer is yes - shoot down the drones alex.....they need to be put out of their misery and ours!
What is the context? The USA has had millions of illegal immigrants enter the country, many young men with no families, during the last 5 years. This has led to criminal activity. In my view, this infiltration of illegal immigrants is mostly not connected to people seeking asylum and protection. Instead they are mostly cartels, child and drug traffickers, and para-military units used in other countries to destabilize society and leading to a movement toward complete control by the government.
How do you identify and track these elements? In this view, drones serve that purpose, to identify, track and root out these illegal immigrants. Can it be turned into a movement toward totalitarianism? Of course.
Is that correct?
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Well if so, I refute you. The drones need to be SHOT down - they have no place and lack merit Dwoods44.
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For Christ's sake - there is no need for drones to root out illegal immigrants and don't be a drone supporter - cause next thing you know - they be rooting you out....truly - tis easy to identify and root out those illegally in the land and that ought be done - but drones are the tools of nefarious ones - duh.
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With that said Palestine belongs to the Palestinians.
The Trump team is faced with a global power structure that they are dismantling. Can it be done without technology? No. DOGE dismantled USAID's money laundering.
Is Palantir a danger to humanity's freedom if implemented by psychopaths? Yes.
Do you or do you not support drones in the sky?
Answer if you don't mind, but don't answer if you don't want to - I'm clear in my position - I DONT support drones in the sky, nor do I support Palentir or however tis "spelled" - that freaking ass Theil company of no good and harm for sure - PROVEN, nor "ai" bugging up my business for fuck sake. I hope that is clear to you and tis not stated in an "emotionally triggered state" - tis just the facts Jack!
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I don't care for fucking drones getting into my business - and if they fly overhead - I might just go ahead and bring them down.
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If they get close - a shotgun is a good tool - if they are far away but lingering - use a '22 I reckon - whatever - take em down if they are not minding their own business - and being busy documenting that which is none of theirs - NONE - Nada - nichts - go away drones - we will shoot you down - easy peasy pickings...
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Justified Retribution awaits the drone flyers.
We are in a unique and unstable time. The globalist power structure was an election away from genociding most of the world's population and establishing a one world totalitarian government. Hillary lost. The 2030 agenda and WEF have nearly collapsed because of it. Trump and his team became a target and remain a target.
The dismantling of the globalist power structure requires the use of AI regardless of the danger. Why? Because the globalists are using it to attack humanity.
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Personally - there is not another place I'd just assume be then in the hilly woods by the river - but that is just me - I like it in a forest.
Growing up North of Santa Barbara there are mostly oak trees, which are also beautiful.
When I was working near San Jose, CA, the facility was surrounded by ancient oak trees, around 5-6 foot diameter trunks.
I feel at home in the woods...
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When I visited the San Francisco area years ago we went to Muir Woods and the redwoods there were breathtaking. I think it is sort of fixed in my brain just how majestically enormous those trees in groves were - truly something all should experience I think.
One place I regret not visiting when I was in the area is the Sequoia National Park - [Link]
I should of done it during one of my many visits to Bakersfield, but I didn't.
Maybe in the future another opportunity will present itself. I hope so.
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Ken
'What is the Deep State? - Questions For Corbett' [Link]
Any thoughts on that???
And that thinking is certainly in my mind, that which typifies those individuals and groups(leadership), which under the cover of the "noble lie", go about their affairs taking advantage("never want a serious crisis to go to waste") of what ever they desire... This would seem like a weather system(I think) because it is the phycological make up of these types (antisocial) other than the "card holding" membership that defines their "unhuman" behavior so detrimental to all of us regardless of our social standing or place in the human hierarchy. The leadership we see is the plutocracy, but "the power behind the throne"(IMO) is those with the mindset and action to carry about what they want(regardless of the means to the "unhuman" ends like depopulation).
So, what has Trump (and team) done to combat this? To me all the actual actions are complicit unfortunately(beyond just optics). The optics like MAGA are looking worse which to me may be the value. The more the Trump administration looks like the Biden administration the more people will wake up which is the real value of Trump(I think). Which is back to this article and our discussion there:
Trump hasn't changed America, but he has revealed it
A year has passed since November 2024, when Donald Trump won the US presidential election for the second time. And it makes more sense to start the clock there, rather than on Inauguration Day....That is true with the Sequoias and really all the big trees in a way....they work together mutually for the benefit of the tree community. They hold each other up.
So one ought be careful about cutting down a big tree - cause it might be its roots were critical part of the infrastructure holding the whole community of trees together - cause no tree can live long without others nearby.
I would contrast trees supporting each other with roots underground communicating for the benefit of the tree community with "globalist" who as TBoris above suggests are like "weather systems" - weather and wind are fickle - roots underground are not.
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BK
"You gotta lick the ground
... But you are trapped in the middle
Oh yeah"
Lady Libra I have on good council takes no prisoners.
Take it for what it is worth - but one side balances the other.
I don't care for drones unwelcome in the sky nor planes making chemtrails - but once everybody realizes - then it will be a "group effort" to defend against said invasions of privacy - to say the least.
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You know like them ole cotton fields back home - getting rocked in the cradle - just a mile from TexArkana....
[Link] - oh gracious me them pilots flying the drones from afar and the ones making the chemtrails - I got news for you -
In my searching on this subject, there are many links, like Snopes, stating this is not true. In case you are not aware, I see Snopes as propaganda.
quote: "In a significant update, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth exposed a Department of Defense (DoD) program called Digital Escorts, which he revealed employed Chinese coders , supervised by U.S. contractors, to support sensitive DoD cloud systems for nearly a decade . Pointing to the obvious risk, he demanded a third-party audit of the program at no cost to taxpayers and sent a strongly worded letter to Microsoft."
Brave AI on what Pelosi has made from her Congressional duties: "Pelosi’s real estate portfolio, largely held jointly with her husband, is valued at approximately $45–50 million.
Key properties include:A mansion in Pacific Heights, San Francisco, valued between $25 million and $30 million.
A vineyard estate in St. Helena, Napa Valley, worth an estimated $6–8 million, which generates agricultural income.
A townhouse in Washington, D.C., valued at about $3 million.
Multiple commercial properties in San Francisco, including:945 Battery St., assessed at $12.7 million, generating $1–5 million in annual partnership income.
222 Kearny St., a 10-story office building assessed at $29.3 million, producing $15,000–$50,000 in partnership income.
1301 Sansome St. and 45 Belden Place, among others, each contributing significant rental or partnership income.
The majority of her wealth comes from stock market investments, particularly in major technology companies. C'mon man, that was all legal. She had no inside information. (sarcasm)
Is this a tipping point for humanity? Is this a tipping point for the earth? Are there larger forces at work, like periodic comets resetting the Earth? Is this the Biblical apocalyptic period? In my view, you can only control your consciousness, your relation to people, and your relation to the source of creation.