"The Senate passed a measure, 79-12, that would fund the government through Nov. 18 and includes $2.6 billion for Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster relief for fiscal 2012. The Senate separately passed a short-term CR through Oct. 4 by voice vote to give the House time to consider the longer bill." – Roll Call Senate [...]
The media report that the United States government is working to develop pilotless military drones that are fully automatic, identifying and destroying human targets on the ground without any intervention from an operator or pilot back in Nevada, is generating virtually no public outrage. That a computer brain can become judge, jury, and executioner in the [...]
The military-industrial complex is desperate: "defense" outlays might actually get cut. The Horror! Imagine if, after real, inflation-adjusted military expenditures doubled over the last decade, they dropped a tiny bit. The world would end! The commies would revive and take over the world! The IslamoFascists would turn America into an Ottoman province! The Chinese would conquer [...]
