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Elaine Supkis on EATR: ENERGETICALLY AUTONOMOUS TACTICAL ROBOT. This is a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II Project (DARPA Contract W31P4Q-08-C-0292a). Supkis blog-entry is based on a presentation of the project made 9 April, 2009, by
a review of “The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts,” an important collection of articles on United States militarism and imperialism, edited by Catherine Lutz
Wilkerson: "Let's make it a commercial empire and let's maintain that empire in terms of commerce and not in terms of killing people, killing people for oil or killing people for human rights. I think both are just as bad as the other..."
Elaine Supkis on EATR: ENERGETICALLY AUTONOMOUS TACTICAL ROBOT. This is a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II Project (DARPA Contract W31P4Q-08-C-0292a). Supkis blog-entry is based on a presentation of the project made 9 April, 2009, by Dr. Robert Finkelstein President, Robotic Technology Inc. of Robotic Technology Inc. EATR provides ability to occupy territory and perform missions with sensors or weapons without fatigue and stress. "And will the Wookies and other peasant populations stop these assassin machines which exist mainly to kill civilians? Tune in for ‘The Empire Strikes Out In Afghanistan’." -- A illustration of how science and technology is misused in Western civilisation. How perverted Christianity creates "Superman" in its image, after its likeness.
"In fiscal year 2008, the foreign military sales program sold $36 billion in weapons and defense articles, an increase of more than 50% over 2007," writes FPIF columnist Frida Berrigan in Weapons: Our #1 Export? "Sales for the first half of 2009 reached $