Here is an interesting piece on what it will mean when our armies have drones and robots and don’t need to rely on soldiers anymore: Drones will cause an upheaval of society like we haven’t seen in 700 years The human race is on the brink of momentous and dire change. It is a change […]
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Remember when a couple of years ago I mentioned that the NZ Army had drones high on their list of “must haves” and then they got some and it turned out NZ was en route for US army drones? Drone aircraft, which we first heard of as weapons of war used by the United States […]
Oh Goodie! Scientists, engineers and policymakers are all figuring out ways drones can be used better and more smartly, more precise and less damaging to civilians, with longer range and better staying power. One method under development is by increasing autonomy on the drone itself. Eventually, drones may have the technical ability to make even […]
Oh oops, missed this one: Here is my question, in fact I have several ones: Why was this a secret? Why is NZ en route for these monstrosities? Are these drones nuclear driven? (It seems that the answer to that one is that they still fly on conventional fuel Why is the Luftwaffe of Germany […]
Protesting Killer robots only makes sense if you still believe there is such a thing as a responsive governing body and 19 Arabs attacked America on 911. If like me you prefer to look at the science of 9/11 and since the science tells us that the official CT is impossible you have to accept […]
Why am I not surprised? Last week we reported that in the aftermath of the so far disastrous French campaign to eradicate “rebels” in the north of Mali, because of their implied threat fo Europe, that “US Drones, Boots Arrive In Mali.” Turns out we were wrong, and as the case virtually always is, for […]
Obama has mandated the fact that the American Airspace has to be opened to drones by 2015. The fact is they already operate in the US. Now according to Drones UK an obscure document shows that Europe will follow suit in 2016. This means that unmanned aerial vehicles will patrol the skies of Europe with […]
Well that didn’t take long did it? A decision will be made in 6 months!!! And while we’re at it why risk a policeman’s life? Might as well arm them and shoot “terrorists” criminals from a distance! New Zealand police are investigating whether to use unmanned aerial vehicles, which would act as spies in the […]
If I told you that if New Zealand was attacked I would take up arms and fight as many of the enemy as I could and if I were to die in battle I would try to take as many of the enemy with me as I could I dare say I would be heralded […]
In the early 60s a university professor did an experiment that shocked the world. Professor Milgram showed that under the right circumstances 65% of all people would be prepared to administer a lethal electrical shock to a person they had never met did not know anything about other than what they had been told by […]
As I reported in December 2011 drones were high on the NZ Military wish list and recently they got their wish. Sort of.
Now it turns out drones owned by AUT University could and trust me they will be used to monitor the Maui Dolphin and vulnerable land based critters. Before you go oh, that’s all right they need to be monitored and maybe we can save them from extinction that way here are a few pointers that might make you go; Hmmm, maybe not!
While the US army trains their drone operators by following civilian cars on US highways we are desensitised to the arrival of drones with the announcement that the NZ Army gets their wet dream fulfilled. Maybe not with Predator drones just yet but rest assured they will follow
Ok, this is very important. The next five days Alex Jones Prison planet is free. They have a page which updates as news about the Bilderberg meeting comes out. While here in New Zealand not a lot of people know about it with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key visiting NATO head quarters (Australia is […]
Last fall, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s department got together for a photo op showing off a new unmanned surveillance craft. The $300,000 drone did not have an auspicious debut. Minutes after take-off, the UAV lost touch with the control console and plummeted to earth, crashing into the police officers assembled for the launch. No one was hurt, because police […]
Of course it’s for the greater good. I mean all those scamming farmers need to be spied on and an inspector costs 3x more than an unmanned drone. So there we go. Europeans will have to get used to being spied on by drones and later when it all goes pear shaped they will have […]
A bill passed in by Congress this week paves the way for the use of surveillance drones in US skies. The FAA predicts that by 2020 there could be up to 30,000 drones in operation. Once signed by president Obama, the FAA Reauthorization Act allows for the FAA to permit the use of drones and […]
The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) is planning to adapt laws to allow more drones to fly over the USA. This would include armed drones. That’s right, military armed drones will fly over the land of the free and the brave and just in case you think New Zealand is far away from all of this […]
In all the hype about a planned billion-dollar research facility in New York City, there isn’t a hint of a discussion about how it would serve the Israeli war on Palestine. A DEADLY drone, modeled on the dragonfly insect, with a 9-inch wingspan. Four-wheeled mini-robots with panoramic video-imaging capabilities that perform surveillance without risk of […]
The use of drones is steadily increasing. Here are just a few instances: A US predator drone kills 35 Kurdish civilians in Turkey An Israeli drone is sighted in Turkey. Pilotless helicopter drones will be used to supply remote outposts of the empire. The US is now turning to drones to spy on China Drones […]
President Obama’s enormous expansion of the U.S. drone program may be pushing too fast for military staffing to keep up. David S. Cloud of The Los Angeles Times reports the military is now forced to rely on a string of civilian contractors placed at all levels along the “kill chain.” These are the people who […]
In 2009 A report came out stating that the NZ military was salivating at the thought of having some drones to guard our national waters! I pointed out that these hellish machines would be equally handy to spy on the population. Here we are at the end of 2011 and I thought I’d give you […]
A hypersonic flying missile that can strike a target anywhere in the world in just 30 minutes has been unveiled by the U.S. military. The Advanced Hypersonic Weapon (AHW), which travels five times the speed of sound, was successfully tested yesterday. It was launched by rocket from Hawaii at 11.30am, glided south westwards through the […]
If war becomes unreal to the citizens of modern democracies, will they care enough to restrain and control the violence exercised in their name? Will they do so, if they and their sons and daughters are spared the hazards of combat? – Michael Ignatieff, Virtual War (2000) Remember the drones on the wish list of […]
That would be the same drones that kill Pakistanis anonymously. Even though the Federal Aviation Administration has banned the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), the Department of Homeland Security currently has a US spy aircraft patrolling the northern border of New York for the month of June. “U.S. border officials are testing an unmanned […]
What does that mean for you and me? Let me give you a hint. Imagine just like Iceland that we have something the Global elite wants and we naive as we are tell them to shove it, first there will be an economic collapse just like in Iceland and if we still don’t budge there […]
I am one of those hardcore lefty pacifists who in the sixties and seventies would have worn one of those broken gun pins if I knew were to get them so this makes sense to me right? Well, let me put it this way; lets ban all guns but rather than take them away from […]
Brilliant, now every gamer who knows how to fly a virtual plane can get a job killing people in far away places without getting of his gaming butt. How sick is this. According to the RAF there’s a top gun in every adolescent gamer with a penchant for destruction. —————————————– Britain plans to replace its […]
PAKISTAN received an early warning of what the era of “smart power” under President Barack Obama will look like after two remote-controlled US airstrikes killed 22 people at suspected terrorist hideouts in the border area of Waziristan. There will be no let-up in the military pressure on terrorist groups, US officials warned, as Obama prepares […]
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