Andrew Conte stripes.com If North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong Un ever orders troops into the demilitarized zone, an army of South Korean robots could be waiting. A Samsung subsidiary plans to deploy sentry robots to the tense South Korean border. The machines will be equipped with machine guns and cameras, …
Alabama Truth Radio News Live April 24th, 2013 Join us tonight live at 10pm CST right here for ATR News! Headlines for tonight’s show: Air Force Trains More Drone Pilots than Real Pilots CISPA: Allows Employers To Force You To Hand Over Your Facebook Passwords Meet the Disastrous “Internet Sales …
Melissa Melton truthstreammedia.com By design, the so-called War on Terror is never meant to truly end. Ex-Pentagon Chief Leon Panetta basically condoned a never-ending drone war back in February before he retired: “I think it depends on the nature of the threat that we’re confronting. We are in a war. We’re …
Caroline May Daily Caller Following reports that Sen. Rand Paul had changed his position on drone use, the Kentucky Republican responded with a statement Tuesday night insisting he hasn’t flip-flopped on the issue. Earlier on Tuesday, Paul, who launched a dramatic speaking filibuster in March to oppose the potential use …
rt.com As Washington pushes to expand its drone warfare in Africa, hundreds have gathered in front of the White House to protest the “robotic killing machines” slaughtering thousands across the globe. Organized by the ANSWER coalition, the movement is calling on the administration to stop the use of drones on …
Noel Sharkey CNN (CNN) — As wars become increasingly automated, we must ask ourselves how far we want to delegate responsibility to machines. Where do we want to draw the line? Weapons systems have been evolving for millennia and there have always been attempts to resist them. But does that …
WashingtonsBlog What DID the Government Say about Assassinating Americans On American Soil? As we noted Friday, Attorney General Holder’s statement that the president will not assassinate non-combatant Americans on U.S. soil with a drone left a huge loophole, and raised more questions than it answered. Later that day, top constitutional …
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Jason Koebler usnews.com Charlottesville, Va., has become the first city in the United States to formally pass an anti-drone resolution. The resolution, passed Monday, “calls on the United States Congress and the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia to adopt legislation prohibiting information obtained from the domestic use of …
JacobSloan disinfo.com Surreal dystopian science fiction come to life: from the PBS Rise of the Drones series, the Pentagon’s ARGUS 1.8-billion-pixel surveillance sensor allows airborne drones to capture unending, minutely-detailed video streams of everything occurring far down below on Earth. The idea is to avoid “mistakes” like the killing of …
Santoni Tom opednews.com How many Obama-ordered civilian deaths in foreign lands will you tolerate before speaking out and taking action? Three Pakistani children are three too many for me. In a blatant and unmistakable act of war against a sovereign nation, Barack Obama, four days into his administration on Friday, …
Ed Krayewski Reason.com Der Spiegel has an illuminating profile of a drone pilot for the United States Air Force, Brandon Bryant, and what the work entails: When he received the order to fire, he pressed a button with his left hand and marked the roof with a laser. The pilot …
Saturday, December 8, 2012 Houston Chronicle Supporters of the “war on terror” in both parties tend to support the use of unmanned aircraft that often try to assassinate terrorism suspects. But libertarian Republicans have teamed up with civil liberties-backing Democrats to oppose the drones. Now, the partisan trenches have been …
Alabama Truth Radio Live December 4th, 2012 Tonight on ATR News Live, you host JB takes you through the headlines! First up we have new developments in the world of drones. How will this effect your safety and privacy? Find out tonight! Also we look at a new animated infographic …
rt.com The US Navy has executed the first launch of a stealth drone set to be the first robot aircraft piloted by artificial intelligence. The “killer robot” might be the next step in the development of machines with the power to decide who lives or dies. Landing on a flight …