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by Searcher08 » Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:56 am
by elfismiles » Tue Mar 10, 2015 2:23 pm
by elfismiles » Fri Mar 13, 2015 11:14 am
Alex Jones plays a new special report done by his very own son Rex Jones which goes into detail about the many dangers and uses of drones.
by elfismiles » Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:32 am
InfraGard » 23 Mar 2015 00:09 wrote:Ethan Hawke Drone Warfare Drama ‘Good Kill’
The first official U.S. trailer for the drone warfare movie “Good Kill” finds Ethan Hawke tormented by a remote war.
Combat now unfolds like a video game as Hawke — a former Air Force pilot with six tours of duty under his belt — works eight hours a day fighting the Taliban by remote control from an air-conditioned bunker. He soon begins to question the ethics of dropping bombs from the safety of his post in Las Vegas.
“Don’t ask me if it’s a just war,” his commander (played by Bruce Greenwood) says. “It’s just war.”
The movie from IFC Films reunites Hawke with his “Gattaca” and “Lord of War” director, Andrew Niccol...
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/watch ... 201457456/
by semper occultus » Wed Apr 08, 2015 3:30 am
by elfismiles » Thu Apr 16, 2015 9:26 am
Breaux showed us how he was sitting next to a shotgun he uses to scare off coyotes when he saw the drone hovering outside his window.
Breaux told INSIDE EDITION, "I throw my cell phone to my friend, 'Hey, videotape me.'"
He said he couldn't get a shot off at first because the shotgun was on safety, but when he turned the corner, he managed to bring down the drone with a single shot.
Somehow Larry's shot missed the computer chip that was recording video.
Breaux believes the person controlling the drone was standing on top of the hill which is on Larry's property, and when he shot the drone out of the sky, he heard that person start to yell.
He showed us what could be a figure in the distance, but it's impossible to tell for sure.
Breaux says he never found the owner of the drone and hasn't reported the incident to the police.
The video is dramatic for sure, maybe almost too dramatic, and now we wonder if it was a set up for his Kickstarter campaign, which is soliciting donations online for his organic lemon business.
So, we had to ask, "What do you want to say to those folks who think you did this for publicity?"
He responded, "All I can say is its a true story and I've got the raw video on my phone but not on the drone, and it's just a freak thing that the chips survived."
Breaux has a Kickstarter page, showing he has raised a little over 400 dollars of the 60,000 he needs to start his organic lemon business.
His Kickstarter campaign utilizes drone video that looks awfully familiar to the video in question.
Jim Moret asked, "You don't own your own drone?"
He replied, "No, never have."
So, you be the judge. Is this a case of man versus drone - or something else?
Jim Moret concluded by asking, "Just for the record, you did not shoot your own drone out of the sky?"
He said, "I did not shoot my own drone out of the sky."
by elfismiles » Wed Apr 22, 2015 3:07 pm
by RocketMan » Thu Apr 23, 2015 4:17 pm
A US counter-terrorism operation in January killed two hostages, one American and one Italian, held by al-Qaida in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the White House announced on Thursday.
Barack Obama is due to make a statement shortly about the deaths of Warren Weinstein, an American held by al-Qaida since 2011, and Giovanni Lo Porto, an Italian national who had been an al-Qaida hostage since 2012.
“Analysis of all available information has led the intelligence community to judge with high confidence that the operation accidentally killed both hostages,” Obama’s press secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement.
“The operation targeted an al-Qaida-associated compound, where we had no reason to believe either hostage was present, located in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan. No words can fully express our regret over this terrible tragedy.”
The White House believes the same counterterrorism operation also killed two other Americans who had joined al-Qaida: Ahmed Farouq, and Adam Gadahn.
In a statement, the White House expressed sorrow over the hostage deaths and said the United States had no reason to believe hostages were at the targeted compound.
The White House believes that Farouq was killed in the same January operation that resulted in the hostages’ deaths. And it has also concluded that Gadahn was likely killed in a separate US mission.
by MinM » Sat Apr 25, 2015 9:48 am
Trevor Timm @trevortimm · Obama apparently doesn't sign off on drone strikes anymore, the CIA just does it themselves. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/world ... -says.html
The Intercept @the_intercept · Exclusive: Top secret documents reveal Germany is the heart of America's drone war. http://interc.pt/1E9T7TH
Disinformation @disinfo · 'Seagulls': Short Film About Surveillance Drones Shadowing a Girl http://ow.ly/LLUSG
Blacklisted News @BlacklistedNews · CIA Drone Kills Adam “Gadahn”, but What About Adam “Pearlman”? http://dlvr.it/9XpZXm
by Grizzly » Sun Apr 26, 2015 2:02 am
by SonicG » Sun Apr 26, 2015 2:20 am
elfismiles » Thu Apr 23, 2015 2:07 am wrote:Drone 'containing radiation' lands on roof of Japanese PM's office
Traces of radiation reportedly detected on drone carrying camera and bottle with unidentified contents
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/a ... ers-office
Unemployed Yasuo Yamamoto, 40, who lives in Fukui Prefecture in western Japan, was arrested on Friday and charged with obstruction of official business, police said.
The maximum penalty is three years in prison or a 500,000 yen (£2,770) fine.
Media reported that Yamamoto turned himself in at a police station in Fukui and said he landed the drone as a protest against nuclear power.
by conniption » Fri Aug 21, 2015 4:35 am
Washinton's Blog
Most Disgusting Game Ever
Posted on August 20, 2015
by DavidSwanson
No, I’m not referring to the U.S. election. I’m referring to “Bycatch.” The name refers not to fish accidentally caught and killed while trying to catch and kill other fish, but to humans murdered in a game in which the player hopes to murder certain other humans but knows that he or she stands a good chance of murdering some bycatch.
The Nazis never reached this height of banality in the general German public, but had they done so it would be a sinister feature of tens of thousands of Hollywood movies. If Russians sat around playing a board game that involved blowing up Ukrainian children, the Washington Post would have already published several front-page articles.
This is a game that puts you in the shoes of one particular human being, thus far, but imagines several engaging in the same activity in competition. In Bycatch you become Barack Obama going through his Tuesday murder list. But Bycatch imagines as many nations as people playing the game, each engaging in a drone murder spree against the others. Here’s an excerpt from the rules:
“How to strike
“Suspects hiding in other nations can be eliminated by means of a strike. You choose the opponent you wish to target and go through these steps:
“Discard two identical citizens who are not suspects from your hand.
“Remove three consecutive citizens from your chosen opponent’s hand.
“Show these cards to the other players.
“Place them face down in front of you.
“Failed Strike: If none of the eliminated citizens are suspects, they are all collateral damage.
“Successful Strike: If at least one eliminated citizen is a suspect, do the following:
Place the current intelligence card face down on top of the eliminated citizens.
Reveal a new intelligence card.
“The remaining citizens are collateral damage.”
Thrilling! I wonder how one wins such a game of easy murder?
“Add 100 points for each suspect eliminated by a strike. Use the intelligence cards to identify eliminated suspects.
“Collateral Damage: Detract 10 points for each citizen in a strike who was not a suspect.”
So, if you casually murder three “wrong” people, you lose 30 points. But if you only murder two “wrong” people and murder one “right” person, you gain 80 points. I wonder what people will do?
This is a game to be played by well-off people who can afford to purchase such crap and to sit around playing with it. And it’s being marketed to them with a wink by people who know better. The game’s would-be profiteers have this to say about it:
“Appealing artwork helps you empathize with your citizens and the horrors of drone strikes and collateral damage.”
Right. Because tossing lives around on playing cards and making more points the more you murder is a well-established path to empathy.
I thought I couldn’t grow any more disgusted with the human race. I was wrong.
_______One of ten comments:
Brockland A.T. • 8 hours ago
'Bycatch' may be immoral, but its based on a historical precedent for normalizing amoral behavior with gaming. In fact, the author seems to be completely out of touch with key segments of popular culture.
Gamers are very often tech geeks, no small number of which glorify the military and participate in it.
The most famous wargamer ever associated with a real war scenario was Sean 'Vile Rat' Smith. Famous not just because he died at the Benghazi attack, Smith was a notorious player on the 'Eve Online' MMORPG wargame. Smith orchistrated a deep-cover infiltration and annihilation of a rival team (clan) in that community. Game clanning is not just a team playing a game; its very damn-near like a cult. Or a good team-building exercise for a spook shop.
The modern roots hearken back to the still infamous 'Monopoly' game Monopoly (Parker Brothers) and its antecedent, 'The Landlord's Game' (Elizabeth J. Maggie Phillips), was played in various formulations before Charles Darrow sold a version to Parker Brothers top be come the dominant industry standard. Lizzie Phillips originally intended to teach the dangers of monopoly and rentiers, since the whole object of the game was to own all the property and bankrupt the other players. Parker Brothers emphasized the gameplay elements which succeeded in obscuring the educational element.
Everyone enters a new game expecting to win. As in real life, people dream of having the privileges of the 1% of 1% and only till retirement do the majority realize, they aren't winning. Until then, they play the game, confident of a long-term payoff, as long as they are paid off enough to keep playing. Monopoly games usually end in rancor over cheating and brutal take-no-prisoners attitudes. Which can make for fine spectator's sport.
http://www.pbs.org/opb/history...
The genre of the 'knockout game' continued into the Cold War era as various war games found life on game boards like Axis and Allies and Risk. Tens of millions of virtual men (and countless unrecorded civilians) have died in the imaginations of more or less innocent gamers. Many aren't inherently violent, but internalized the particular worldview that wars of aggression are somehow normal.
Enter the video game era. Boardgames were an isolated geek subculture, that became mainstream with the advent of popular video gaming. Most people may recall the odious 'Custor's Revenge' game, where a pixel General Custer assaults an Indian maiden to win the game. That's crude child's play. The real head games are in the '4X' and MMORPG genres of video gaming. Try and follow the money, and you will find hints of the CIA's In-Q-Tel and like shops buying in via venture capital ops.
4X games and many Multiple Multiplayer Online Games are imperialism distilled. Many war-themed board games came to life and found a new audience with video gaming. 4X means, Explore, Expand, Exploit, and Exterminate as the player attempts to build an empire. Famous for dumb AI combat and dumber AI diplomacy, these games exalt the mafiaboy in thou.
Whether tactical such as Medal of Honor or strategic such as Civilization, killing off the 'other' has never been so much fun. One can even take imperialism the the stars against make-believe aliens; video games are the hard sci-fi war novels of a new generation.
http://www.gameranx.com/featur...
This piffy little card game was probably dreamt up as a psy-op by people so immersed in the culture of sociopathy it never occurred to them it needed a bit more fig leaf to cover its assault-the-world attitude problem.
Its sad only insofar as its as unidimensional as 'Custer's Revenge', and doesn't bother to gloss over the inhumanity of humans.
The redeeming factor of most of the best 4X games is that the player can assume a defensive posture and pretend to be responding to an act of aggression, not instigating one. Civilization, for example, has two distinct player types; warmongers who want to win by war, and builders, who seek to outbuild a warmongery AI.
So, yes this is a cultural significant card game, but no, its not beyond the pale as far as gaming goes. That award goes to whomever thought serial killer collector cards were a good idea.
by elfismiles » Fri Aug 21, 2015 4:56 pm
Move over Amazon! Packages could one day be delivered by unicycle drones that swarm together to transport heavy parcels
Transwheel drones use a single self-balancing wheel and a robotic arm to pick up and carry packages
The electric robots would work alone for small deliveries or operate together as a swarm to carry larger loads
They would use GPS to help them navigate and facial recognition to confirm the identity of a recipient
Designers say the robots could allow customers to receive deliveries at times that are convenient to them
By Richard Gray for MailOnline
Published: 06:12 EST, 21 August 2015 | Updated: 07:11 EST, 21 August 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueBZQnJBxuA
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... rcels.html
by Grizzly » Sun Aug 23, 2015 3:19 am
What is the greatest movie car chase of all time? Type the phrase “best car chases” into Google and you’ll get page upon page of lists ranking, debating, and considering that question. The “best” of anything in cinema is subjective, and open to interpretation. But no matter what list you read or which critic you trust, a few contenders pop up over and over again: ‘Bullitt,’ ‘The French Connection,’ ‘Ronin.’ And rightfully so; those movies all contain incredible car chases.
But there is one all-time great car chase that I’ve never seen on any online list of the best car chases; not on Time’s or IGN’s or Popular Mechanics’ or Yahoo’s or ShortList.com’s. Time Out didn’t even include it on their list of the “most insane” car chases in history, even though it features maybe the toughest movie cop ever running for his life from a remote-controlled toy car.
Read More: The Best Forgotten Car Chase in Movie History | http://screencrush.com/dead-pool-best-c ... ck=tsmclip
The Dead Pool is a 1988 American action flim directed by Buddy Van Horn, written by Steve Sharon, and starring Clint Eastwood as Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan. It is the fifth and final film in the Dirty Harry film series, set in San Francisco, California.
The story concerns the manipulation of a dead pool game by a serial killer, whose efforts are confronted by the hardened detective Callahan. It co-stars Liam Neeson, Patricia Clarkson and Jim Carrey (in his first dramatic role), each of whom eventually went on to greater film fame. It is the only film in the series to not feature Albert Popwell, an actor who had played a different character in each of the previous four films.
At 91 minutes, it is the shortest of the five Dirty Harry films.
by elfismiles » Sun Aug 23, 2015 11:02 am
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