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Marijuana field spotted through Google Earth
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article published on 30 January, 2009
Swiss authorities announced today that they had found a large marijuana plantation while using Google Earth, the extremely popular free satellite mapping software.
The discovery was part of an ongoing investigation that has so far led to the arrest of 16 people and the seizure of 1.2 tons of marijuana with a street value of $2.5 million USD. Cash and other valuables were seized as well ... [ read the full article ]
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SuperXL
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1. February 2009 @ 16:55 |
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Originally posted by telewig:
How come they haven't found the opium fields in Afghanistan, destroyed them, cut off the Taliban's cash and brought our troops home.
i think it's because there's too much money to be made/wasted on war.
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Damon666
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1. February 2009 @ 19:41 |
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Scaremongering thats what its all about, just keep doing what you do and dont worry!!
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haskins69
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1. February 2009 @ 20:45 |
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don't fool your selfs switzerland can't afford satilites so they probly did see it in old image and wait till next crop to bust the poor pot growers
that said the U.S.Gov. has satilites already hunderds of them and if you think their not watching then your a fool
they know all and see all they just don't tip their hand over a few hunderd pot plants
I mean come on when I was in the service in 1980 they could read car plates from space now they can read a dime I'm told .......so they know!!
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1. February 2009 @ 23:36 |
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Originally posted by telewig:
How come they haven't found the opium fields in Afghanistan, destroyed them, cut off the Taliban's cash and brought our troops home.
Yeah, the pot growers aren't the real terrorists!
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haskins69
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2. February 2009 @ 00:46 |
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they know right where the opium is growing
but since it's the only money making industry in Afghanistan
our gov ignors it because to stop it would cause more trouble not less for our troops
to bring them home we need to expand into pakistan and basicly get them at home and when they cross the border to attack us
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bandoogie
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2. February 2009 @ 02:06 |
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Because they U.S. gov't is too busy making money off of the opium.
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2. February 2009 @ 03:21 |
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Listen the 3d view they had up was from Last summer by looking at the trees but its amazing how they could invade your privacy like that. look at it security wise what if your personal information got compromised with Google earth an attacker can verify where you live and what house your live in i call that invasion of privacy and i think it needs to be stopped. Google needs to use this shit to help the US not for spying on us. Looking at the logic of it how can a statelites zoom down and give off 3d imagery. Google has the highest of high tech equipment.
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haskins69
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2. February 2009 @ 03:36 |
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quote:"Google has the highest of high tech equipment"
WRONG !!!!
the U.S. Government does
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gamecheif
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2. February 2009 @ 04:48 |
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NO you are sorta right but if they were the ONLY ones with high tech equipment Google earth wouldnt had been the survailenece used to spy on a marijuana field....
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2. February 2009 @ 10:24 |
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its sad that the cops are no using the web, but understandably its a work in progress the sat pics are out of date what no one thought was that the feilds must now be rotated to other locations change of view if you must but why didnt the US government use it to find all those weapons of mass distruction ... oh wait there wasnt any just a weapon of mass(the whole world) disstraction oh ok that makes more since
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2. February 2009 @ 10:38 |
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LMAO.
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2. February 2009 @ 11:29 |
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Thays too funny lmao
But now all they have done is told the crooks they need to cover it up and grow it inside away from veiw. Perhaps they should of kept the fact that they used google earth to themselves. Not to mention the pot farmers could check google themselves to make sure if it can be seen or not lol
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haskins69
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2. February 2009 @ 12:12 |
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"gamechief"
while google does have satilelites
check your google earth it only zooms in clear to a point
U.S. Gov. satilelites can count the hairs sticking out of a girl whos laying out's bikini big difference
and the reason the swiss didn't use our Gov. satilelites is simple cost
our Gov. charges other countrys to use our technology and of course they reduce its ablity's so no knows just how good our technology is
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2. February 2009 @ 12:50 |
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They tried prohibition and it created the Mafia. When are they going to learn when more people do it faster than they can build jails to hold them, laws need to be repealed? As for Google, George Orwell only missed it by a quarter of a century. With the new Terrorist Act since 9/11 we've lost all our rights under the 4th Amendment.
Google is now involved w/the U.S. Government to create a massive data base which lets Big Brother know any and everything you've ever seen or read on the net, and I mean every single one of us. Not to mention the invasion of home and privacy without any justifiable reason of suspicion or search warrants. I guess McCarthyism is still alive and well in the good ole U.S.of A.
You don't have to grow or sell to be busted, just try recreational use and see where you end up. But hey, don't worry, they're just looking out for our own well being! Right?
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haskins69
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2. February 2009 @ 12:55 |
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Originally posted by bigorange:
They tried prohibition and it created the Mafia. When are they going to learn when more people do it faster than they can build jails to hold them, laws need to be repealed? As for Google, George Orwell only missed it by a quarter of a century. With the new Terrorist Act since 9/11 we've lost all our rights under the 4th Amendment.
Google is now involved w/the U.S. Government to create a massive data base which lets Big Brother know any and everything you've ever seen or read on the net, and I mean every single one of us. Not to mention the invasion of home and privacy without any justifiable reason of suspicion or search warrants. I guess McCarthyism is still alive and well in the good ole U.S.of A.
You don't have to grow or sell to be busted, just try recreational use and see where you end up. But hey, don't worry, they're just looking out for our own well being! Right?
AMEN!!!!
but we got OBAMA now he said he was for legalizing weed!!!!
if he keeps only one promise I hope that's it!!
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2. February 2009 @ 13:53 |
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Quote:
Originally posted by bigorange:
They tried prohibition and it created the Mafia. When are they going to learn when more people do it faster than they can build jails to hold them, laws need to be repealed? As for Google, George Orwell only missed it by a quarter of a century. With the new Terrorist Act since 9/11 we've lost all our rights under the 4th Amendment.
Google is now involved w/the U.S. Government to create a massive data base which lets Big Brother know any and everything you've ever seen or read on the net, and I mean every single one of us. Not to mention the invasion of home and privacy without any justifiable reason of suspicion or search warrants. I guess McCarthyism is still alive and well in the good ole U.S.of A.
You don't have to grow or sell to be busted, just try recreational use and see where you end up. But hey, don't worry, they're just looking out for our own well being! Right?
AMEN!!!!
but we got OBAMA now he said he was for legalizing weed!!!!
if he keeps only one promise I hope that's it!!
Oh what a party that'll be! Home-grown will crop-up everywhere and push back the dealers off the street. The government will only be able to tax the commercial growers. Heaven on earth.
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haskins69
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2. February 2009 @ 14:09 |
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A................MEN!!!!!
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2. February 2009 @ 14:26 |
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Quote:
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Originally posted by bigorange:
They tried prohibition and it created the Mafia. When are they going to learn when more people do it faster than they can build jails to hold them, laws need to be repealed? As for Google, George Orwell only missed it by a quarter of a century. With the new Terrorist Act since 9/11 we've lost all our rights under the 4th Amendment.
Google is now involved w/the U.S. Government to create a massive data base which lets Big Brother know any and everything you've ever seen or read on the net, and I mean every single one of us. Not to mention the invasion of home and privacy without any justifiable reason of suspicion or search warrants. I guess McCarthyism is still alive and well in the good ole U.S.of A.
You don't have to grow or sell to be busted, just try recreational use and see where you end up. But hey, don't worry, they're just looking out for our own well being! Right?
AMEN!!!!
but we got OBAMA now he said he was for legalizing weed!!!!
if he keeps only one promise I hope that's it!!
Oh what a party that'll be! Home-grown will crop-up everywhere and push back the dealers off the street. The government will only be able to tax the commercial growers. Heaven on earth.
The could open up liquor as well, start off with a 100$ a year growers/makers license then tax a percentage of commercial growerson top of that.
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haskins69
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2. February 2009 @ 16:05 |
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screw buying the weed I live in central Illinois in a small farm town I'd buy my tax stamp [ I'd even be willing to pay say $300+ for it since I smoke that much in a couple months now] and I'd just grow my own very high quality weed
and I'm sure most poor pot smokers who have a yard or spare closet would do the same making the Mexico weed connection dead....thank god swag sucks
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2. February 2009 @ 18:17 |
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I wouldn't worry about Google earth they are not even up to date. I looked in my area and the buildings are 2 years at least out of date. Now if there was a reason too get upset don't because the pictures of areas are not up too date.
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edisongs
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2. February 2009 @ 18:32 |
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I am afraid there is better money to be made in incarcerations, new prisons, and so on than in legalization of pot. Legal weed only gives the gov. a growers' or users' tax. They can make a lot more on perpetual fines, jail time, etc. Plus, the user "becomes" a criminal that can be controled in far more ways, not least of which are the removal of his constitutional rights to self-defence (gun ownership) and to his citizen-control of the system (voting and jurying). Face it, this is a "legal" end-run around your rights as a free American. We may still be brave, but we are rapidly losing our ability to be the land of the free.
Don't think for a minute that Obamah won't be pulled into that Washington Insiders club. We all thought, too, that the peanut farmer from Georgia (Jimmy Carter) was no patsy of the powers that be. We know better now. Obamah is not the antichrist, but neither is he the Messiah. His starry-eyed idealism will be forced back to reality before his first 100 days in office.
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3. February 2009 @ 01:24 |
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A lot of you are noongs lol.
Let me see, a cop just happens to see a small marijuana field whilst browsing on Google Earth...
Oh come on, it's a media beat-up. For one thing Google doesn't resolve those images using satellites only. When it gets closer it switches to aerial photographs. No satellite can resolve to the resolutions that some here believe it can- simply because of atmospheric diffusion. Identification of large crops via satellite has to be done using special filters and such. I mean how many of you have spotted a particular plant species with Google Earth? Even if the cops used the original aerial negatives it's not done every day.
Surely the line "...The 16 suspects have allegedly sold 7.7 tons of marijuana since 2004...." should give you pause for the veracity of the report. I mean, how did they know that? From GE... c'on. :D
Oh yeah, if your country hands over the responsibility for punitive incarceration for breaking it's laws to private industry then you can forget marijuana ever being decriminalised much less legalised. It's a fine in my state, but the authorities have constantly been whittling down those rights, to one plant grown outdoors now (and they still bitch)- of course if you do that some little ratboy will leap over the fence and filch it or if you've harvested it then expect a break-in and a steaming egg laid on your kitchen table... and it won't be breakfast.
Its a lot easier being righteous than right.
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3. February 2009 @ 18:22 |
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This is some great news and now Google can say that they help the community. The scary thing is this reminds me of the movie called Eagle Eye, not far now for them to create something so they can see me sitting in my room typing this comment.
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edisongs
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3. February 2009 @ 19:33 |
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Re: Jemborg's insightful comments.
Privatization of incarceration is an unfortunate fact of life in America now. It does make money, so there are plenty of lobbyists encouraging politicians to increase it at the expense of the general populace.
As one among many references any one of us could find with a simple search, see:
http://mediafilter.org/caq/Prison.html
particularly at the heading labeled "The Buslnes (sic) of Punishment".
Thanks Jemborg, for your common-sense approach to this rather than more apocalyptic fear peddling.
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4. February 2009 @ 15:40 |
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Originally posted by edisongs:
Re: Jemborg's insightful comments.
Well, you're welcome edisongs, but I was really seconding your excellent post earlier. It's happens in my country too (Australia)- the refugee camps that used to incarcerate them were privately run.
If you really want the willies, see "Ghosts of the Civil Dead" a Aussie film (starring Nick Cave of all people- being particularly mental) that deals with the subject. Not a documentary. It postulates that creating (worse) criminals will be the agenda for these prison companies, not rehabilitation. Why? Because it's good for business.
And, as long as you (questionably) allow gated suburbs... why should they care if more violent crims wander the streets ready to re-offend and be re-incarcerated.
It's my bet the cops had a tip-off about that crop. Busted it. Had a look at the old photo's on GEarth saw something green in the same place years ago- went and dug up the original aerial 10"x10" negs for evidence. It still might not stand up in court.
Large crop identification is done by reading the already know wavelength signatures of said crops. As it stands, you might be able to pick out a truck with spy satellites, as to reading it's number plate... forget it.
PS: We have very strict gun ownership laws here- gun crime of the type America regularly sees is quite rare. Michael Moore (deliberately?) got it wrong about Canada- they have very strict laws regarding handgun ownership too.
Cheers.
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