Above Photo: The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is calling for a pre-emptive ban on lethal robot weapons that could attack targets without human intervention (Oli Scarff / Getty) As Campaigners Warn Autonomous Weapons Are Becoming A Reality UN Experts Warned Earlier This Year Of Evidence Pointing To The First Ever Lethal Use Of A Fully Autonomous Drone. But Campaigners Warn Several Countries Including The UK Are Blocking Progress Towards A Ban On Such Weaponry. Britain has been accused of blocking progress towards a global treaty banning so-called “killer robots” and leaving the door ajar for the development of hi-tech weaponry […]
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Above Photo: Humanitarian groups have been calling for a ban on autonomous weapons. (Wolfgang Kumm / picture alliance / Getty Images). Autonomous weapon systems – commonly known as killer robots – may have killed human beings for the first time ever last year, according to a recent United Nations Security Council report on the Libyan civil war. History could well identify this as the starting point of the next major arms race, one that has the potential to be humanity’s final one. The United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons debated the question of banning autonomous weapons at its once-every-five-years review meeting in Geneva Dec. 13-17, […]
Above photo: Ann Wright addresses the crowd outside Rockefeller Center. WNV/Eric Stoner. Now is the time for accountability for the U.S. assassin drone program. For decades the U.S. has been murdering innocent civilians, including U.S. citizens, in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Mali and who knows where else. Not one person in the military has been held accountable for these criminal acts. Instead, drone whistleblower Daniel Hale is sitting in prison with a 45 month sentence. The August 29, 2021 deaths of ten innocent civilians, including seven children, in a family compound in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan by a hellfire missile fired from […]
Ukraine announced a preliminary deal with Indonesia for anti-ship cruise missiles. According to a Defense Express report, military leaders of Indonesia and Ukraine have signed agreements to boost their military cooperation, including an understanding to supply the newest Ukrainian coastal defense system, called Neptune. The deals announced in a memorandum of understanding between the two countries on Friday would involve the sale of new Ukrainian radar systems, air-to-air missiles, and a new Neptun coastal defense system with R-360 cruise missiles. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – It is important to note, however, that a signed memorandum does not mean Indonesia […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/15/1079944610_0:59:1435:866_1200x675_80_0_0_fdad5aac18f56af0c68e53d89d699e7e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Jason Dunn. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/uk/202010181080809062-mother-of-harry-dunn-appeals-to-joe-biden-to-bring-sons-killer-to-justice-if-he-wins-election/ Following the case of the death of 19-year old motorcyclist Harry Dunn in 2019, his mother has appealed to presidential candidate Joe Biden to reverse the subsequent diplomatic immunity granted to his alleged killer by the US government. The mother of Harry Dunn has urged former US Vice President Joe Biden to aid bring her son’s alleged killer to justice in the event that he wins the November presidential election. In her video message, observed by the PA news agency, Charlotte Charles called on the Democratic presidential contender to end the diplomatic […]
Multiple homicides took place in Zama, Japan, in November 2017, in which nine people, mostly young women including 3 high school girls, were murdered by a 27-year-old man, Takahiro Shiraishi. “Twitter killer” Takahiro Shiraishi has pleaded guilty to killing nine people after contacting them on the social media platform, in a terrifying case that shocked Japan in 2017, The Japan Times reported. The 29-year-old man told the Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo District Court that the allegations against him were “correct”. However, his lawyers argued that the charges have to be reduced as Takahiro Shiraishi’s victims had expressed suicidal thoughts and gave their consent to […]
Bailey Boswell, the woman accused of helping her boyfriend strangle a 24-year-old wooed through Tinder, “got off sexually” from talking about killing and torture, prosecutors alleged on Friday, as the bombshell trial involving claims of a vampire sex cult began. Boswell, 26, is charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and improper disposal of human remains for her role in the 2017 slaying and dismemberment of Sydney Loofe, a cashier at a Lincoln home-improvements store. Prosecutors allege Boswell conspired for weeks with her boyfriend, Aubrey Trail, 52, to lure Loofe to her death. Loofe was missing for 19 days after […]
While serving his sentence, mass killer Anders Breivik, the man behind the bloodiest killing spree in the history of modern Norway, expressed remorse over his deeds and voiced a desire to leave the extremist environment. However, many dismissed his “remorse” as mere manipulation. Convicted Norwegian terrorist and mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, who is serving a 21-year sentence for killing 77 people on 22 July 2011, has submitted a request for parole through his lawyer. “He wants this now. He has been in solitary confinement for over eight years since the trial was over,” Breivik’s lawyer Øystein Storrvik told the newspaper […]
Republican and Democrat politicians have both embraced legislation to immunize themselves and their deep-pocketed corporate donors from legal liability for ill-thought-out pandemic policies blamed for the deaths of thousands. Republicans in the Senate have all but plagiarized a controversial provision from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo that will offer legal immunity to corporations that ran the care homes in which hundreds of thousands of elderly Americans died with the coronavirus over the last six months, according to a trio of progressive journalists who compared the texts and interviewed some of the lobbyists who wrote the polarizing passages for the politicians in […]
A New Zealand court has sentenced mass shooter Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 Muslim worshipers at a mosque last year, to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the first such ruling ever handed down in the country. The 29-year-old Australian previously admitted to some 92 charges – 51 for murder, 40 for attempted murder and one linked to terrorism – following the 2019 shooting rampage at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. At Tarrant’s sentencing on Thursday, High Court Judge Cameron Mander said the severity of his crimes justified the harsh penalty. “Your crimes… are so wicked that even […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy The Brenton Tarrant massacre in Christchurch mosques was not the impromptu gesture of a white supremacist terrorist as he has been claimed. It was a real military mission planned in every detail for two long years. This is what emerged from the first hearing held today, Monday 24 August, before the District Court of the city of New Zealand where the massacre took place on March 15, 2019. Not only has it prepared with sophisticated weapons and even the use of drones the successful attacks in the places of cult of the Muslims […]
Kris Pedretti was a “normal 15-year-old kid” before Joseph DeAngelo entered her California bedroom just before Christmas in 1976. “By the time that night came to an end, my world changed forever,” she said in a Sacramento County courtroom this week, describing how she was bound, gagged, and raped that winter night. “I sang ‘Jesus Loves Me’ in my head as I waited—waited to die.” Pedretti, now 59, was one of several women who DeAngelo terrorized during the 1970s and 80s—and among more than three dozen survivors and family members of victims who gave emotional statements this week while demanding a […]
Joseph James DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer, was sentenced on Friday to life in prison after admitting to more than a dozen murders in the 1970s and ’80s. Santiago Mejia/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Santiago Mejia/AFP via Getty Images Joseph James DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer, was sentenced on Friday to life in prison after admitting to more than a dozen murders in the 1970s and ’80s. Santiago Mejia/AFP via Getty Images Updated at 2:32 p.m. ET The former police officer known as the Golden State Killer was sentenced Friday to spend the rest of his life in […]
Military contractor Northrop Grumman is sponsoring an award for best “aerospace, defense and security” journalism at PressGazette’s British Journalism Awards, a crude act of public relations that doesn’t seem to faze the media. UK journalism organization Press Gazette has announced a pair of new categories for 2020’s British Journalism Awards: “anti-corruption journalism,” sponsored by human rights NGO Global Witness, and “aerospace, defense and security,” sponsored by Northrop – a company one might charitably call the polar opposite of a human rights NGO. The description of the new award on Press Gazette’s site is careful to make clear that this isn’t an […]
After a brief chase down several county roads, the trooper initiated a PIT maneuver, and the car came to a stop in a ditch, the GBI said. The trooper fired one round, fatally striking Lewis. In an incident report, Thompson wrote that he shot Lewis in the forehead because he thought Lewis was going to run him over. Update (August 14, 2020) – On Friday, August 14, 2020, in coordination with the Ogeechee Judicial Circuit, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested Jacob Gordon Thompson, age 27, on charges of felony murder and aggravated assault. He will be booked into the Screven County […]
pinterest Eagle One/Drone 0 https://t.co/YP5s4CHfUs — Carol Duff (@CarolDuff18) August 14, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: Here is your laugh for the day! A play by play between an eagle and an EGLE drone taking video of the Lake Michigan shoreline….Carol Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator. She has traveled […]
Back in May we reported that New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo, Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, MD and Executive Deputy Commissioner Sally Dreslin’s actions led to thousands of deaths in New York state. Yaacov Apelbaum at the Illustrated Primer shared that these New York politicians are accountable for thousands of nursing home deaths because of their insane directives related to the China coronavirus. Apelbaum first pointed out the ludicrous directive from New York’s Department of Health, including: During this global health emergency, all NHs [nursing homes] must comply with the expedited receipt of residents returning from hospitals to NHs. TRENDING: Portland Mayor Ted […]
This Marsupial Sabertooth Was No Killer Cat by Alex Fox/Smithsonianmag.com The extinct saber-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis prowled Pleistocene North America sporting seven-inch, blade-like canines that paleontologists say may have allowed it to slit gaping wounds across throats and bellies to swiftly bleed out its prey, reports Riley Black for National Geographic. Understandably, when paleontologists discovered an ancient Argentine marsupial the size of a leopard with fangs that were even larger, relative to its body size, they assumed its huge canines were also for slashing and impaling writhing prey. But now, new research suggests that the marsupial sabertooth, Thylacosmilus atrox, was more likely a scavenger than a death-dealing predator. […]
US President Donald Trump has signed a measure giving the nod to American weapons producers to sell more military-grade drones to foreign nations, insisting previous export controls were “outdated” and “unfair.” The new directive – announced by the White House on Friday – eases restrictions on the sale of large drones, which were previously classified similarly to cruise missiles and under strict export restrictions. The move marks a significant change to the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), an informal body of rules governing munitions sales to some 35 participating countries. “Not only do these outdated standards give an unfair advantage to […]
News media set up in front of the home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas on Monday in North Brunswick, N.J. A gunman posing as a delivery person shot and killed Salas’ 20-year-old son Sunday evening. investigators say there could be a connection between this attack and one in California earlier this month. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Lennihan/AP News media set up in front of the home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas on Monday in North Brunswick, N.J. A gunman posing as a delivery person shot and killed Salas’ 20-year-old son Sunday evening. investigators say there could […]
Cuomo received an award in Savannah this week after he compiled the worst coronavirus record of any leader in the world. Andrew Cuomo is the hero of the left. New York state and Governor Cuomo had THE WORST Coronavirus death ratio in the world — higher than any state (except New Jersey) and higher than ANY COUNTRY! Advertisement – story continues below New York state under Cuomo’s leadership forced nursing homes to take in sick coronavirus patients. The policy resulted in at least 4,900 coronavirus deaths in New York state nursing homes. It was a New York state directive approved by […]
The U.S. Army is working to transform armored vehicles into robotic combat vehicles for future battlefields. In a recent report, the Combat Capabilities Development Command noted that military researchers are working to integrate the next generation of technology-enabled capabilities to demonstrate new robotic capabilities to meet emerging military needs. The Next Generation Combat Vehicle – Cross Functional Team and CCDC Ground Vehicle Systems Center, in collaboration, are conducting soldier operational experiments to assess the feasibility of integrating unmanned vehicles into ground combat formations at Ft. Carson, Col., from June 15 – Aug. 14, 2020. “Preparations continue at U.S. Army Fort Carson for […]
As Jihad Watch reported, the Armenian Christian refugee Kevork Almassian was attacked on the street in Berlin on July 6, by what he called „two Islamists with a knife.“ Almassian had to run for his life and was chased by one of the terrorists for about 10 minutes until the assailant gave up. Almassian works for the conservative AfD party in the German Bundestag. Ever since his identity was doxxed last year by public broadcaster ARD, Lars Wienand of T-Online News and Palestinian lawyer Nahla Osman, he has received death threats. Now it seems someone has acted on those threats. Almassian […]
As NYPD detectives sought the black-clad monster who beheaded and dismembered 33-year-old tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh in his $2.2 million Manhattan apartment, his family issued a plea for justice. “No words or actions to provide any of us comfort except the capture of the person who exhibited nothing short of evil upon our loved one,” the family statement said. “We need and urge the NYPD and other members of law enforcement to work diligently to get to the bottom of this horrific crime and bring justice for Fahim.” The family described the brutality of the killing as beyond comprehension. “The headlines […]
Carine Hutsebaut is a Commissioner on the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Human Trafficking and Child Sex Abuse, and the author of Child Hunters, a book about pedophilia and murderous pedophilia that makes three big points: a) the police turn a blind eye to this; b) relatives are often the greatest offenders; and c) pedophiles can be rehabilitated. The last, while controversial, has been proven. This interview is complemented by her open letter to President Donald J. Trump, her book Child Hunters, and her new website offering a diploma in identifying and dealing with pedophiles and finding and healing missing […]
With countries across the world continuing to ease COVID-19 lockdowns, wearing a medical mask in shops and on public transport is still mandatory in Ireland and Scotland. Facebook users have shared footage of a person asserting that the metal strip inside a face mask is nothing but a 5G antenna allegedly aimed at destroying people. In the video, a man’s voice is heard referring to “the 5G antenna killer that’s inside the masks that they are telling everybody to wear”. “They tell you to put it on so that you can breathe right above your nostrils so you can inhale and […]
US Killer Cops Mastered ‘Fascist Israel’s Technique Proudly Used On Palestinians’ June 28, 2020 US Killer Cops Mastered ‘Fascist Israel’s Technique Proudly Used On Palestinians’2020-06-282020-06-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/israel.png200px200px Above photo: Israeli border police arrest a Palestinian protester near the West Bank city of Ramallah, December 22, 2017 © Reuters / Goran Tomasevic. Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters sees eerie similarities in Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and US police departments’ approach to their own citizens. The legendary singer told RT it’s “about time” the world called out both. “Thank goodness there’s an uprising,” Waters told RT’s ‘Going Underground’ on Tuesday, referring to the wave of protests […]
Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters sees eerie similarities in Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and US police departments’ treatment of their own citizens. The legendary singer told RT it’s “about time” the world called out both. “Thank goodness there’s an uprising,” Waters told RT’s ‘Going Underground’ on Tuesday, referring to the wave of protests and riots sweeping the US since the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis last month. “It’s about time.” The kneeling chokehold that killed Floyd was described by Waters as “an Israeli technique, proudly developed by the IDF in the occupied territories in Palestine.” An […]
As Ethereum pushes slowly toward a new type of blockchain technology that some cryptocurrency experts predict could represent the future of decentralized finance, the upstart competitor Cardano is getting ready to go live. And Cardano’s digital token, ADA, is soaring this year in digital-asset markets on speculation that the project’s early embrace of a “proof-of-stake” blockchain might put it in a stronger position to challenge the much-larger Ethereum network. You’re reading First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily markets newsletter. Assembled by the CoinDesk Markets Team, First Mover starts your day with the most up-to-date sentiment around crypto markets, which of course never close, putting in context […]
Raindrops can be a deadly threat to fragile organisms such as insects, with the force of the blow equivalent to a person being struck by a bowling ball. The danger is even greater in the case of a high-speed impact. A team of biologists has studied the effect of raindrops on minute organisms, such a butterflies, that often struggle to survive the impact. In the peer-reviewed study, “How a raindrop gets shattered on biological surfaces”, published on 8 June in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), biological and environmental engineer Sunghwan Jung, from […]
Retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn was murdered on Monday night outside of Lee’s Pawn and Jewelry in North St. Louis City. The looters then broke in the store and looted it as dozens of cars drove by on Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. David Dorn was 77-years-old when he was gunned down by looters. He lay outside the store bleeding as his death was captured on Facebook Live. TRENDING: Actor Tom Arnold Calls For Armed Insurrection Against Trump Supporters On Friday St. Louis Police released photos of persons of interest in the murder of Ret. Capt. David Dorn. Here […]
A Virginia man inspired by notorious “incel” mass shooter Elliott Rodger fantasized about blowing up a shopping mall and killing “hot cheerleaders,” according to an FBI affidavit. On June 2, Cole Carini of Richlands, Virginia, showed up at the Clinch Valley Medical Center with a missing hand. Several fingers on Carini’s other hand were also gone, and he had shrapnel wounds to the neck and throat. A local sheriff’s deputy arrived to interview Carini, who claimed his gruesome injuries were the result of a gardening accident. But something didn’t add up. Police, who knew Carini, 23, had previously been convicted on […]
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Can 2020 get crazier? You bet. We’re just getting started. If you wrote a screenplay of what’s happened so far in 2020 and gave it to Hollywood producers, they’d laugh you right out of the room. “So, your movie,” they’d say, “has the president of the United States being impeached, a pandemic killing more than 100,000 Americans and 375,000 worldwide, race riots and looting in dozens of U.S. cities, a billion animals killed in Australian wildfires, Brexit, royals abdicating, drone strikes whacking terrorists — and a wave of killer hornets to boot? Get out!” And here’s the thing: We’re only 155 […]
Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/Getty Four days and three nights of unrest after Derek Chauvin’s knee was on the neck of George Floyd, the now former Minnesota police officer was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said the state investigation moved with “extraordinary speed,” noting that his office has never charged a police officer in “that kind of timeframe.” And yet, after viewing the video of Floyd’s death, most wonder why Chauvin wasn’t charged sooner. The answer is that the law deliberately stacks the deck in favor of police officers. All criminal defendants have […]
Derek Chauvin and Floyd worked security at the El Nuevo Rodeo club, down the street from Minneapolis’ Third Precinct, according to Maya Santamaria, the club’s former owner who sold the venue within the last few months. Floyd, who Santamaria called a “great guy” known for his big smile, often worked as an extra security guard on Tuesdays when the club held popular “urban” music nights. Chauvin served as an off-duty police officer for the club for almost 17 years. “I wouldn’t characterize them as knowing each other,” Santamaria told CNN’s Josh Campbell in an interview. “We did all work together at the […]
Black leaders in Minnesota and friends of George Floyd are at a press conference at Minneapolis City Hall. They just found out that Derek Chauvin was arrested. This is their response: pic.twitter.com/DLzkIORgsq — Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) May 29, 2020 The police officer seen in a video with his knee on George Floyd’s neck was involved in 18 complaints prior to being fired, according to records released by the city. https://t.co/2gTmbizdAD — ABC News (@ABC) May 29, 2020 Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd, was arrested. This is not enough. We have much further to go — including swift, […]
Top Shelf It seems like enterprise blockchain is between finding its “killer app” and being killed. “Everyone had a killer app three years ago. That was the state of blockchain business,” Shyam Nagarajan, a director at IBM, said during a marathon session at Consensus: Distributed. “People have wisened up since then.” There are a number of roadblocks obstructing the possibility of adoption and successful implementation of business-grade blockchain. Cited most frequently is the problem with scalability. It turns out, it’s difficult to get other people or competing companies to join onto someone else’s private network, CoinDesk’s Ian Allison reported Thursday. Sometimes this is […]
Gregory McMichael, the former Georgia police detective charged in the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, was stripped of his law-enforcement certification last February after failing to complete required use-of-force courses, records state. Records first obtained by The Washington Post show that McMichael, 64, lost his power to arrest after repeatedly failing to complete required training sessions—even after a 2014 warning that he had not finished mandatory force and firearms courses. During his 37-year career in law enforcement, McMichael was stripped of his law-enforcement powers twice: Once in January 2006 after an undisclosed infraction and again in February 2019 after the […]
«You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If you say, “The Lord is my refuge”, and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent».(Holy Bible – Psalm 90) by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy UPDATE ON MAY, 1 US President Donald Trump revealed Friday that Gilead Sciences’ antiviral drug remdesivir has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of COVID-19. According to Reuters, Gilead CEO Daniel O’Day called the FDA’s emergency authorization an “important first step” and […]
«You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If you say, “The Lord is my refuge”, and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent».(Holy Bible – Psalm 90) by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy UPDATE ON MAY, 1 US President Donald Trump revealed Friday that Gilead Sciences’ antiviral drug remdesivir has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of COVID-19. According to Reuters, Gilead CEO Daniel O’Day called the FDA’s emergency authorization an “important first step” and […]