Feb 10
Looks like this drone fad is catching on. From Singularity Hub: According to a recent report from the Congressional Research Service, nearly one in three US warplanes are drones…and those machines are changing the way the world wages war. US soldiers in Afghanistan rely more and more upon intelligence gathered from drones, and President Obama recently …
Sep 24
Ineke Malsch, with the support of nanopodium, has put together six, five minute interviews with opinion makers as part as the nanorights and peace project. They’re meant to be part of the Dutch public’s conversation about nanotech. I’ve posted one here, about nanotech and defense, and the rest can be viewed here. The others are about water purification, solar …
Apr 07
YouTube – Collateral Murder – Wikileaks – Iraq. “WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since …
Apr 05
During a bungled night-time raid in Afghanistan, NATO troops killed two pregnant ladies, dug the bullets out of their bodies, poured alcohol on the wounds then claimed that Afgan militants had bound and murdered them before NATO ever got there. Our enemy is so very inhuman. Oh wait, that inhuman shit was done by us. …
Jan 21
Nature has done our dirty work. We are now free to invade Haiti. (Again.) Within a few years we’ll have turned the whole place into Cuba circa 1955. Complete with puppet dictator and resort hotels. If oil just so-happens to be there, then all the better. We will, after all, need to be repaid. Not …
Dec 18
File this one under asymmetric warfare: Those predator drones that the American government uses to slaughter women and children can be hacked for $26. Each drone costs 4.5 million dollars. But it’s just $25.95 to buy a piece of off the shelf software, like Skygrabber, that will allow you to see what the drones are …
Oct 10
YouTube – Taliban Attack auf amerikanisches Basiscamp!. Via This is Taliban video of their attack on the US Kamdesh forward operating base in Nuristan. After eight years of fighting them, the Taliban still possess guns and the ability to launch a large-scale assault. They also have camcorders and video-editing software. I wonder if they’re using …
Aug 12
Einstein had an idea from the confusion of his knowledge, Then there were a thousand more turning to advantage. They realised that their god was dead, So they reclaimed power through the bomb instead. Another’s code, another’s brain, They’ll shower us all in deadly rain, –Where Next, Columbus? Crass August 6th was the 64th anniversary …
Jul 19
pic nicked from here The Pentagon is looking to harness the power of cricket communications to warn of impending chemical attacks. They’ll turn the bugs into cyborgs and program their wing beats, which they communicate through, to alter when the insects detect certain chemicals. So cricket smells something, cricket changes its call tone. Cricket hears …
