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US Navy submarine fires drone from underwater

RT
Published time: December 06, 2013 03:03

Time-lapse photography shows the launch of a drone from the submerged submarine USS Providence. (Photo: NAVSEA-AUTEC)

The US Navy has successfully launched an unmanned aerial system from a fully submerged submarine, marking the successful completion of a nearly six year long program designed to further the Navy’s drone capabilities.

The fuel-cell powered, completely electric unmanned aerial system (UAS) was developed by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) with funding assistance provided by the Department of Defense Rapid Reaction Technology Office and the SwampWorks innovation program.

Engineers used a launch system known as ‘Sea Robin’ (first developed to launch tomahawk missiles from submarines) to fire what is known as the eXperimental Fuel Cell Unmanned Aerial System, or XFC UAS. The UAS surfaced before rocketing through the air for several hours, broadcasting the entire mission via live video to commanders watching from a nearby base.

This six-year effort represents the best in collaboration of a Navy laboratory and industry to produce a technology that meets the needs of the special operations community,” Dr. Warren Schultz, program developer and manager at NRL, said in a press release. “The creativity and resourcefulness brought to the project by a unique team of scientists and engineers represents an unprecedented shift in UAV propulsion and launch systems.”

The Navy’s announcement Thursday comes as the public is questioning the very future of drones. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced this week that he hopes the company will eventually deliver packages throughout the United States by using drones rather than traditional ground and air delivery services. The mere mention of such a plan was enough to cause a commotion, with columnists and lawmakers alike warning against such a plan.

Moreover, upcoming regulations by the FAA on the domestic use of drones are expected to include major restrictions and limit the use of UAV’s weighing up to 55 pounds.

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VIDEO — Chaos, vandalism & looting as police strike in Argentinа

RT
Dec 4, 2013

NOTE: Video is muted
At least 130 people were injured and one killed following mass looting and vandalism by gangs of youths, who took over several parts of Cordoba City in Argentina. The lawlessness was a result of the police going on strike over low pay. READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/vi4dod

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VIDEO — CrossTalk: Dividing Ukraine

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Dec 4, 2013

Are we witnessing a second Orange Revolution in Ukraine? Is it a zero-sum game for all parties involved? Is it possible to work out a deal that the EU, Ukraine and Russia can be satisfied with? And is ‘going West or East’ too simplistic for a Ukraine divided? CrossTalking with Mark Sleboda, Jan Techau and Alexander Mercouris.

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Hotel shortage may push Syria peace talks out of Geneva

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Dec 3, 2013

The much-anticipated “Geneva II” Syrian peace talks might not be held in Geneva due to insufficient hotel availability, UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said in an interview broadcast Tuesday.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon finally set a date last week for the peace conference, which has been repeatedly postponed since June and is now set to kick off on January 22.

But while UN organisers were glad to finally have a date to work towards, they now find themselves in a pickle, Brahimi acknowledged in an interview with public broadcaster RTS. (Read more…)

The conference is due to begin on the same day the global elite gathers for the annual World Economic Forum at the swank Swiss ski resort of Davos and will also clash with a luxury watch fair in Geneva.

The city’s hotels are fully booked, leading organisers to look for alternatives.

One of them is Montreux — a scenic town at the other end of Lake Geneva and known for its jazz festival — to gather Syria’s warring parties for peace talks.

“If we go to Montreux, it would be for just 24 hours, while waiting for the watch show and Davos to end,” Brahimi told RTS.

Montreux is just over an hour’s train ride from Geneva, but the veteran Algerian diplomat explained that people who come to Geneva are often unwilling to accept a long commute.

“If you go to New York, you know that it will take you an hour or two to get into town, and you accept that,” he said.

“In Geneva you are used to being just 10 minutes from the airport, so if we told people they would have to travel for an hour and 15 minutes, they would say, oh la la.”

UN spokeswoman Corinne Momal-Vanian confirmed that the ministerial-level meeting on January 22 itself “may indeed be held outside of Geneva because of logistics reasons.”

She said no decision had yet been made.

When asked whether the conference would have to be renamed if moved, Momal-Vanian said: “We try not to respond to hypothetical questions.”

[Image via Agence France-Presse]

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Ottawa woman escapes jail time at sentencing for $115k welfare fraud

by Joe Lofaro
Metro
Nov 25, 2013

The Ottawa courthouse. (Metro File)

A 38-year-old woman who inappropriately claimed more than $100,000 from welfare over the span of a decade was given a two-year conditional sentence Monday.

Shera St. Martin has so far paid back $50 of the $115,646.90 she pocketed from Ontario Works from 1998 to 2008. It will likely take years for the mother of two to pay back the rest.

Crown prosecutors said her living arrangement made her ineligible for welfare during the 10-year period. She was charged last December, but only pleaded guilty to one count of fraud over $5,000 on Sept. 12. Court heard she received welfare while, at times, living with the father of her children.

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VIDEO — “I’m Just a Mom!” Daphne Lee Gives Powerful Speech Against NDAA in Clark County, Nevada

PANDA People Against The NDAA
Nov 24, 2013

After making her wait 8 hours, the Clark County Commission decided to hear Daphne Lee speak against the NDAA in Clark County, NV. What followed was one of the most powerful public comments in history.

Join the movement: http://www.pandaunite.org/takeback

PANDA NV’s Anti-NDAA Resolution, step one, will be on the Agenda Dec. 3rd at the Clark County Commission Meeting @ 9AM. If you’re in the area, please attend and give her support!

The PANDA (People Against the NDAA Mission Statement:

Our Mission is to nonviolently defeat, strike down, repeal, stop, void and fight the indefinite detention provisions, Sections 1021 and 1022, of the National Defense Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year of 2012, to fight for American civil liberties, to combat laws restricting liberty in the interest of National Security, to support current government officials that are doing so and to engage a younger generation in the politics of the United States so this cannot happen again.


URGENT – Thailand: Regime & Western Backers Claim “Insurrection” – Penalty, Death

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December 3, 2013 (Tony Cartalucci) – Anti-regime protesters, outnumbering police at two locations in Bangkok, Police Head Quarters and Government House, are poised to take over and occupy both locations peacefully as they have other government sites throughout the city. However, the regime has dropped leaflets over the protesters claiming that the anti-regime protests constitute “insurrection” (which carries a maximum penalty of death), that the leaders are to be arrested, and protesters are to return home.

In support of the regime, dishonest reporting by news agencies such as the BBC have titled articles such as, “Thailand rally leader tells protesters to target police,” to give the impression that the police themselves are to be targeted and subjected to the same “violence” seen during a clash between students (not protesters) on the other side of the city where a pro-regime rally was being held, and regime gunmen opened fire on students killing at least 4. The actual report however, states:

The leader of Thailand’s anti-government movement has announced new targets for his supporters as protests appear set to continue.

Suthep Thaugsuban called for demonstrators to take over the police headquarters in Bangkok in a defiant speech late on Monday.

It came after clashes broke out as protesters tried to storm the prime minister’s office.
The Thai prime minister has rejected protesters’ demands that she step down.

Yingluck Shinawatra said she was open to negotiations but that calls for the government to be replaced by an appointed council was illegal and unconstitutional.

No where in the article does BBC ever substantiate the claim it made in its title, unless by “targeting police” it meant, peacefully taking over the Police HQ building.

Current Thai Regime is NOT Democratically Elected

Furthermore – the BBC along with other foreign news agencies continue to portray the current regime as “democratically elected” and the anti-regime protests as attempting to “overthrow an elected government.”

In reality, the country is openly run by US-backed convicted criminal, fugitive, and mass murderer, Thaksin Shinawatra, brother of current prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra (his sister), in a breathtaking display of banana republic-nepotism. Thaksin Shinawatra is not even located in Thailand, but rather spends his time divided between Dubai, Hong Kong, and Cambodia, where the current ruling regime flies out to meet him for meetings (here, here, and here). The New York Times even admits, in its article, “In Thailand, Power Comes With Help From Skype,” that Thaksin Shinawatra, not the current “prime minister” Yingluck, his sister, runs the country from abroad via Skype phone calls (emphasis added):

Millions of people across the globe have cut the tethers to their offices, working remotely from home, airport lounges or just about anywhere they can get an Internet connection. But the political party governing Thailand has taken telecommuting into an altogether different realm.

For the past year and a half, by the party’s own admission, the most important political decisions in this country of 65 million people have been made from abroad, by a former prime minister who has been in self-imposed exile since 2008 to escape corruption charges.

Yingluck Shinawatra is clearly not the “elected leader” of anything and is merely the placeholder for her brother who, defacto, ran for office from abroad in 2011, and currently rules the country via mobile meetings and Skype calls. The campaign slogan in 2011 literally was, “Thaksin thinks, Puea Thai (his political party) does,” indicating that his sister Yingluck, like her two predecessors, Somchai Wongsawat (Thaksin’s brother-in-law), and  Samak Sundaravej (who literally declared he was Thaksin’s proxy to TIME), is merely filling a superficial role.

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