The Pentagon seeks to manufacture and deploy cybernetic insects equipped with biological or other weapons, and I just found out about it. The science of death waxes large, and the gates of hell beckon to the War Pigs. The Tom Dispatch:
After all those years of warnings about sinister African killer bees inexorably heading toward the U.S., DARPA decided to draft bees into military service. In 2002, projects examining the performance of honeybees trained to detect explosives and locate other "odors of interest" were launched. Since then, DARPA has been creating insect databases while increasing efforts to "understand how to use endemic insects as collectors of environmental information." DARPA says it has already tested "this endemic insect system in key operational demonstrations here and abroad." How long until they start thinking about weaponizing insects as well? Instead of your plain old, garden variety Stinger missiles, you could have a swarm of missile stingers.
Now that's my kind of Information. One can only wonder when the revelations about UFO technology will be revealed. (pfft.)
More:
It gets better (er, uh, worse). Some people are already looking into changing international laws to allow the use of weaponized bugs. Part of the story originated in The Times 15 months ago. Nick Turse synopsis:
Rodney Brooks, the director of the computer science and artificial intelligence lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, indicated that the Pentagon is striving toward a major expansion in the use of non-traditional air power -- like unmanned aerial vehicles and cyborg insects -- in the years ahead. "There's no doubt their things will become weaponized," he explained, "so the question [is]: should they [be] given targeting authority?" Brooks went on to assert, according to The Times, that it might be time to consider rewriting international law to take the future weaponization of such "devices" into account.
Sometimes a wasp isn't just a W.A.S.P. Nick Turse asked:
Why does the U.S. government foster unfettered, blue-skies creativity only in the context of lethal technologies (or those that, indirectly, enhance lethality by aiding the functioning of the armed forces)?
I have a question also. Does this mean the world is about to witness a cybernetics arms race? You know Putin loves bugs just as much as we do (oh, different kind of bug, sort of). Russia is going to want murderous robot bugs too. Exterminators unite and conquer!
Hmm, Super Soldiers may be harder to deal with.
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Oh, look, The Freedom Cage is Empty!
The Christian Science Monitor:
They're outside city offices, in parks, on the capitol steps and near the US Mint. But the one place most protesters here are avoiding is the official demonstration zone, a fenced-in parking lot near the Democratic National Convention that activists here mockingly call "the freedom cage."
The 47,000-square-foot zone is hemmed by rows of metal barricades and concrete barriers and watched over by uniformed Secret Service agents. Views of the Pepsi Center convention site, some 700 feet away, are blocked by a giant tent housing news media.
That sounds fantastic. I wonder why it's empty.
Everybody knew law enforcement would be there. The protesters decided to go places where there might be a little more freedom. Denver, though, can be tricky. Why just yesterday an...
Extremely Dangerous Young Girl Was Leveled By A Cop
Excessive force in Denver? There's no way. That couldn't happen in the political atmosphere of love, hope and equality brought to our nation by the Gross Old Pricks Politicos. Oh, damn, I spoke too soon.
What a wonderful party they are having in Denver. Did you hear about the 24 year old woman who got knocked on her ass by a very strong, armed, baton wielding cop? She was a member of the dangerous extremist group Code Pink, those ladies who are against the wars overseas. She was arrested a short while later, apparently because she was talking to reporters. Dirty troublemakers... Get off my lawn!!!
Watch it.
[Thanks to Lina Newhouser and Common Dreams.]
By now everybody knows
Hillary Stomped McAss Last Night
Meanwhile, in Bizarro World, Ron Fournier is still spinning nonsense:
Standing before thousands of delegates, almost half of them her backers, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton declared it time "to unite as a single party with a single purpose" and urged her followers to help elect once-bitter rivalBarack Obama. "We are on the same team," she said, after allowing the applause to build to a crescendo and linger, longer than usual — much like the Democratic primary race itself. "Barack Obama is my candidate," she said. "And he must be our president."
But did she mean it?
And would it matter?
Whatevs. Oh, AP, your objectivity will be missed. How many ways is Fournier a pinhead? You tell me.
Douchier and douchier.
I would have written more about the convention, but I see you all have that covered, covered, very covered. Also, I did not go. I don't like the way "cages" sounds.
Peace, DK!