Technology of Our Time; BrasscheckTV: Death by remote control: Robots of the battlefield‏

Lisbon,
 
They can move together in swarms, build towers, dance, throw and
catch, assess targets and soon will even make their own decisions.
Both in war and at home, drones are developing fast and gaining
control.
 
As UAV drones and robots become more and more relied upon by both
our military and DOMESTIC law enforcement, it's time we take a look
beyond the headlines and sound bites to focus on the machines
themselves.
 
Video:
 
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/10437.html
 
Goodman Green
- Brasscheck

 Attack of the Drones - USA

U.S. Military Drones Reported Operating Across the United States
By Danny Schechter
The Market Oracle

It’s easy to understand why Presidents, politicians and the military love robots. They don’t talk back. They follow orders.  You press a button and they do what they are told. They are considered so efficient, and so lethal.
These modern killing machines represent science fiction reborn as science ‘faction.’

Robots and drones don’t burn Korans or pose with the heads of their captives on the battlefield. (Robots also don’t protest wars.)  Lose the human factor and you get silent but deadly total destruction.

And that’s why drone warfare has become such a weapon of choice. You have video game jockeys sitting on their asses in front of consoles of digital displays at an Air Force base outside Las Vegas, targeting suspected terrorists in Afghanistan. After a couple of quick kills, they take the rest of the day off.

It’s only later, that we get the reports of civilians decimated as collateral damage.

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