Peace Activists in the United States have launched a campaign they hope will result in an international ban on weaponized drones. Their new website will tell you more than you want to know about the deployment and lethal effects of these airborne killing machines. It also has suggestions for action
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Ken Chapman: Are Alberta’s Policy Makers Agile Enough for Emerging Technologies?
I have been travelling the province facilitating workshops on the the impacts and implications of emerging technologies in our economy. These technologies are also called disruptive and exponential by some folks, depending on if you have a half empty or half full mindset. NEW SKILLS & NEW COMPETENCIES:The underlying motivation
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Shawnigan Protests-Helicopter Rides To View the SIA Contaminated Landfill-Wednesday, January 6th between 9 am and 3 pm
On Wednesday, January 6th between 9 am and 3 pm, the #SaveShawniganWater Community Action Group has arranged to provide aerial tours by helicopter from Shawnigan Village to the south end of Shawnigan Lake. Politicians Read more…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: How the Fearsome Become the Fearful
A Weapon of Weakness? How did we become indentured to a culture of fear? Fear-mongering has become a modus operandi in today’s morally corrupt, visionless politics. It is the stock in trade of authoritarians like our own Stephen Harper and it’s effective. The thing is democracy cannot thrive in the presence
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: #GlobalNoDrones: First global day of action against surveillance and killer drones
On Saturday, October 4, 2014, thousands of people around the world are expected to protest the burgeoning use of drones for surveillance and extrajudicial killings. The post #GlobalNoDrones: First global day of action against surveillance and killer drones appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Hashtag hypocrisy: #on the other hand my husband orders drone strikes that have killed hundreds of kids
The kidnapping of the Nigerian schoolgirls by Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, also known by the Hausa name Boko Haram, happened over a month ago. By now a percentage of these girls are likely dispersed… transported across the porous Nigerian border into Chad, Cameroon and Niger where Boko Haram leader
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: FINALLY THE DRONES !!! And hopefully A LOT MORE to come about them !
First Look Media:
The // Intercept – LAUNCHED February 10, 2014
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/
Feb 10, 2014 – Article By Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald
The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/the-nsas-secret-role/
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Death by Metadata – Feb 10, 2014
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Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: FINALLY THE DRONES !!! And hopefully A LOT MORE to come about them !
First Look Media: The // Intercept – LAUNCHED February 10, 2014 https://firstlook.org/theintercept/ Feb 10, 2014 – Article By Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/the-nsas-secret-role/ More: Death by Metadata – Feb 10, 2014 FIRST LOOK MEDIA – https://www.firstlook.org/#/home
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: FINALLY THE DRONES !!! And hopefully A LOT MORE to come about them !
First Look Media // The Intercept – LAUNCHED February 10, 2014 Defying Threats to Journalism, Jeremy Scahill & Glenn Greenwald Launch New Venture, The Intercept – Feb 10, 2014 http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/10/defying_threats_to_journalism_jeremy_scahill THE INTERCEPT – https://firstlook.org/theintercept/ FIRST LOOK MEDIA – https://www.firstlook.org/#/home
Continue readingdrive-by planet: RT’s Breaking the Set: George Galloway on ‘Killing of Tony Blair’, Yemen drone attack and the death of Abbas Khan
In this RT interview British Respect Party MP, George Galloway, talks about his upcoming documentary film The Killing of Tony Blair. He also gives his views on the harassment of The Guardian by British authorities and the strange death of Dr Abbas Khan in a Syria prison. British citizen Khan
Continue readingLeDaro: A drone in your neighbourhood soon.
Americans are going to issue drone driver licence for safety. That is what NRA says about guns too – that they are safe. Where are we headed? Riley Morgan, 14, flies a home-built drone AfterDARC on Oct. 11. Morgan has been working with drones for half a year. This drone
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: War Crimes Attorney Says He Will Get George W. Bush
Richard Hughes Political Blogger The ‘Truth Seeker’ is revealing legal efforts to arrest and prosecute George W. Bush and Barack Obama for illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Further charges for illegal surveillance, war crimes including torture, genocide, drone attacks world wide are being pursued against President Obama as well.
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Lowkey ‘Obama Nation:part 3’: featuring Malcolm X footage, M1, Lupe Fiasco, 2Pac
This post follows up on earlier posts of Lowkey‘s Obama Nation… here is part 3. Obama Nation includes input from M1, 2Pac, Lupe Fiasco and others. Also includes footage from a speech by Malcolm X. Syria comes up in the lyrics: “Drones over Pakistan, Yemen and Libya… is Obama the
Continue readingeaves.ca: The Past, Present and Future of Sensor Journalism
This weekend I had the pleasure of being invited to the Tow Centre for Digital Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School for a workshop on sensor journalism. The workshop (hashtag #towsenses) brought together a “community of journalists, hackers, makers, academics and researchers to explore the use of sensors in journalism;
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Who is the real terrorist?: LowKey – Terrorist video
Definitions of terrorism: “The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.” – Merriam Webster “Systematic use of violence and intimidation to achieve some goal.“ – Free Dictionary “The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.” – Dictionary.com Noam Chomsky clarifies the
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Eric Schmidt’s privacy concerns about drones more than a little ironic
Executive chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, recently went public with his concerns about ‘everyman’ drones getting into the wrong hands. Thinks they should be banned… might be a privacy threat. Guess Schmidt should know being a top exec of a company that some regard as one of the biggest privacy
Continue readingLeft Over: Droning on and On at the NDP Convention…(but no drones, please!)
Tiny socialist caucus raises ruckus at NDP convention Party forces protesting delegates to put away anti-drone banner By Laura Payton, CBC News What a bunch of middle of the road drones the NDP has become…now there is a muzzling of dissent? I have always voted NDP – not because I agreed
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Dennis Kucinich: US An ‘Orwellian State’
Some refreshing honesty from an American politician – well-worth watching: H/t Disinformation Recommend this Post
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