US funds development of Terminator Army

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The Pentagon is spending £70 billion on a programme to build heavily-armed robots for the battlefield in the hope that future wars will be fought without the loss of its soldiers' lives.

The scheme, known as Future Combat Systems, is the largest military contract in American history and will help to drive the defence budget up by almost 20 per cent to just over £265 billion in five years' time.

Much of the cash will be spent computerising the military, but the ultimate aim is to take members of the armed forces out of harm's way. They would be replaced by robots capable of hunting and killing America's enemies.

More advanced machines which can decide whether to kill would also be legal, said Mr Johnson.

"The lawyers tell me there are no prohibitions against robots making life-or-death decisions," he said.

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jenks

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saw these things on tv the other night - they look like breadboxes with cameras attached, and big fucking guns. the military reckon that removing the fear of combat situation will allow the operators to make 'rational' decisions thus reducing the number of 'accidental' deaths. it just made me think that if you're not there and are viewing the situation through the screen then aren't you just participating in a video game - divorced from the actuality of the context you are surely not going to see the'enemy' as real, thus making it far easier to kill'em - isn't there a move towards abnegating responsibility through increased use of technology - it wasn't me it was the software.
 

Backjob

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More to the point - what happens when everybody has a robot army? Like, can you have a war where nobody dies? Wouldn't it just be easier for Bush and Kim Jong Il just to sit down and settle things with a game of Tekken?
 
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They could equip them with these weapons:

new scientist article

"The US military is funding development of a weapon that delivers a bout of excruciating pain from up to 2 kilometres away. Intended for use against rioters, it is meant to leave victims unharmed. But pain researchers are furious that work aimed at controlling pain has been used to develop a weapon. And they fear that the technology will be used for torture."
 

Yuri

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The USa is totally insane and they have the means, or believe they do.

Too bad W didn't accept Saddam's offer of a duel. Still this might be better than the "Chemical Soldier".



"On the battlefields of the future we will witness a true clash of ignorant armies, armies ignorant of their own emotions and even of the reasons for which they fight. Soldiers on all sides will be reduced to fearless chemical automatons who fight simply because they can do nothing else...Once the chemical genie is out of the bottle, the full range of human mental and physical actions become targets for chemical control...Today it is already possible by chemical or electrical stimulation to increase the aggression levels of the human being by stimulating the amygdala, a section of the brain known to control aggression and rage. Such "human potential engineering" is already a partial reality and the necessary technical knowledge increases every day[154]."

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According to Gabriel, the military intends to meet this challenge by creating "the chemical soldier," a designer-drugged zombie in fighting man's uniform

A prototype of the future warrior may already be with us. The Navy SEAL I interviewed spoke in horrifying detail of dismemberment without emotion, of rape as routine, of killing without affect. And then FORGETTING THAT HE HAD KILLED. Even years later, he could not recall the stories behind many of the wounds on his own body. He claims that whenever he would need the services of the veteran's hospital, doctors would re-hypnotize him shortly after his admission, while a physician specifically cleared for such work would examine his medical history, which was highly classified and kept under lock and key.

According to the SEAL's testimony, his memory block cracked little by little, as a result of events too complex to recount here. Finally, years after Vietnam, he was able to remember what he did.

Amnesia was a blessing.

-->> http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/mind_control/165623.html


By the way, there was a publication called "The Lobster" Does anyone read this mag, apparently online only.
 
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