How To Track Drones, Strikes In Covert War On The People

With 30,000 of Obama’s weapon of choice, drones, on order to fly over Americans, with the president’s targeted killings on U.S. soil authorized, with his illegal spy machine metadata used for targeting innocent people, and with citizen’s humanitarian interest in his illegal drone attacks overseas killing 100s of children daily, more people want to track the silent pesky flying monsters and the administration’s covert war on the people.  

How about an app that that would do just that? One that tracks every U.S. drone strike and send a push notification to users each time a flying robot carries out a deadly mission around the world? 

That’s just what Apple approved Friday, a Metadata app.

Josh Begley, the data artist, developer and creator of the app, finally got through Apple’s careful approval process on his sixth try, paving the way for citizens to switch the tables on NSA – at least a bit – and spy on what it’s using its metadata to do to innocent people globally. 

Begley’s been trying for over a year, using the word “drone” in his names for the app. Apple didn’t go for the name and said it would not interest enough people.

Perhaps Apple missed the news about 30,000 drones in the works to spy and shoot over American skies. Maybe Apple just has a thing about the word “drone.” Seems the latter is probably correct.

It took semantic trickery, according to Mashable.

“Begley got the app approved because he removed the word ‘drone’ from the name of the app and from its description. For the first three attempts, it was called Drones+, then Dronestream for the last two.

This latest, successful time? He called it Metadata+.

“Begley initially submitted it with no content or functionality, adding the archive of strikes later. With those simple gimmicks, the app got the green light from Apple, which didn’t raise any qualms about it.”

Now, people can see where drones have attacked people, making them “bugsplat,” as the military calls its dead targets killed by drones.

A tweet by Esquire‘s Tom Junod was inspired the app’s new name:

As with the previous test app, this one went through after just six days — no objections on usefulness or questionable content this time. At that point, all Begley had to do was fill the app with the historical archive of drone strikes.

“At the end of the day, of course, the app is not about Apple or Android or the process for approving apps,” Begley said. “It’s about tracking and mapping covert war. Like@dronestream, I want it to be a living archive of hauntings — those which ghost the landscapes we create, and those which ghost the landscapes some of us will never have to see.”

Source: Mashable

Photo Credit: Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt, US Air Force