Post by Aaron Cynic About 75 demonstrators gathered in the Chicago loop to protest drone warfare as part of a nationwide demonstration against the use and manufacture of drones by the American military. Protesters briefly marched and chanted along Wacker Drive and then stopped at the Lyric Opera House to pass out flyers and perform [...]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to take warfare to the next level of science fiction by integrating lasers into planes within two years. Gizmodo reports last week the Defense Department’s research wing announced it would integrate the HELLADS (High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System) system, a solid state laser system light [...]

Article by Aaron Cynic Illinois legislators are still wrestling with the issue of average citizens recording police activities on the streets, particularly in regard to the upcoming NATO/G8 demonstrations in May in Chicago. Local law enforcement, however, will be able to keep their eyes and ears trained on anyone planning to protest, and will now [...]

The Pengaton’s new eye in the sky

According to the U.S. Government and countless politicians and political commentators, Jullian Assage is a terrorist mastermind who needs to be jailed or executed and his website Wikileaks needs to be shut down because he and his associates are a terrorist cell. Aside from answering the hyperbolic calls to do our patriotic duty and burn [...]

File this under “not surprised:” The L.A. County Sherriff’s Department will begin using a smaller version of the Active Denial System to control inmates at the Pitchess Detention Center. The Assault Intervention Device stands at only 7.5” tall and will emit an invisible heat wave nearly 5 inches in diameter in a range of about [...]

I attempt to read as much as possible. Over the past few months, the bulk of that has been limited to mainly pixels, but like the month two years ago I spent hold up using a corporate bookstore as a library (which I highly recommend), I’ve decided I need to get back to reading ink [...]

Every time I log in to the site to do maintenance and add posts, I get a bit excited when I see I have pending comments. “Wow! Not only is someone reading, but someone has something to say about it!” Unfortunately, this usually isn’t the case. That someone turns out not to be exactly human [...]

The Pentagon has a new toy in its quest to further dehumanize warfare and bring humanity one step closer to robotic extinction: The EATR. The concept is pretty simple. The Energetically Autonomous Tactcial Robot will “perform long range, long endurance missions without the need for conventional refueling.” The EATR won’t need to refuel thanks to [...]