That new military robot is a CARLYLE GROUP product.

[barbaraann]

Army Prepares 'Robo-Soldier' for Iraq
Sat Jan 22, 8:51 PM ET
By MICHAEL P. REGAN, AP Business Writer

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. - The rain is turning to snow on a blustery January morning, and all the men gathered in a parking lot here surely would prefer to be inside. But the weather couldn't matter less to the robotic sharpshooter they are here to watch as it splashes through puddles, the barrel of its machine gun pointing the way like Pinocchio's nose. The Army is preparing to send 18 of these remote-controlled robotic warriors to fight in Iraq (news - web sites) beginning in March or April.
...
The only difference is that his weapon is not at his shoulder, it's up to half a mile a way," said Bob Quinn, general manager of Talon robots for Foster-Miller Inc., the Waltham, Mass., company that makes the SWORDS. As one Marine fresh out of boot camp told Quinn upon seeing the robot: "This is my invisibility cloak."
...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&e=15&u=/ap/gunslinging_robot

Foster-Miller a subsidiary of QinetiQ. Check out who is on the Board of Directors of QinetiQ:

Glenn Youngkin
Glenn Youngkin is a Managing Director of The Carlyle Group and he is based at the firm's London office. He moved to London with his family three years after having led some of Carlyle's most successful investments in the US, including EG&G, Lear Sieglar and a joint venture with Cadbury-Schweppes to establish the Dr Pepper/Seven Up Bottling Group.

http://www.qinetiq.com/home/about_qinetiq/leadership_team/qinetiq_holdings_ltd.html

The wealth of our country is being transferred to the BFEE. By the end of Bush's new term, they might have completed the process.


There's a lot of scary information in the Yahoo article--it's worth reading the entire thing.

[notadmblnd]

1. How long do you think they'll last (work)?

[barbaraann]

2. It seems to me they'll last a few hours, maybe minutes.

I'm not an expert but I think they look like the stupidest weapon ever invented.

[asjr]

3. They put one in the White House, so who knows.

[Deja Q]

4. Must be a relative of this:

[Octafish]

5. Or mebbe Robocop IV...

If it's Carlyle, at least you know its brain is better than Smirko's.

PS: Robots would make it easier to fight oil wars as well as put down domestic troubles, eh?

[Deja Q]

6. Ah! So that's what's going into Iraq next? Don't forget, machines are

predictable...

[notadmblnd]

7. re: PS

thats why we'll have to listen carefully to how the insurgents will handle these things. Other than the plastic coating them, it doesn't look like the wires on these things are protected.

[sweetheart]

9. Likely that one is sans-covering

Surely any designer would cover the thing with a layer of armour, but
when demonstrating it, the armour would so conceal its bits, that it
would likely appear as if not even armed.

Frankly, were i a soldier in iraq, i could think of plenty of uses
for something like that... to draw fire, to look around dangerous
bends and help troops advance under fire without putting flesh exposed.

I'm sure the first objective of any opponent will be to capture one
of the machines and take it away for study... likely as well, that is
why the covering is not in the photo, nor the top of the machine where
likely the magazines and sensors are more visible... as well as its
weaknesses.

Carlyle has a very posh london HQ. I can understand why they migrated
there outside from the US. For all the republican hatred of those
foreigners, the pukes can't wait to get out to london and away from
their horrible mess across the pond.

[leesa]

8. Good deal for Carlisle...they will cost a fortune and be blown up in 5

minutes. It's about on par with the Missle Defense System scam.

The Bush Crime Family intends to leave America completely defenseless.

[Al-CIAda]

10. Armed with mini-nukes!

http://www.sfbayview.com/110304/ucregents110304.shtml

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UC Regents lose control of nuclear weapons program
Five admirals, Carlyle Group and Rand take over
Part 6
by Leuren Moret
Dr. Henry Kissinger, who wrote: “Depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World.”
Research on population control, preventing future births, is now being carried out secretly by biotech companies. Dr. Ignacio Chapela, a University of California microbiologist, discovered that wild corn in remote parts of Mexico is contaminated with lab altered DNA. That discovery made him a threat to the biotech industry.
Chapela was denied tenure at UC Berkeley when he reported this to the scientific community, despite the embarrassing discovery that UC Chancellor Berdahl, who was denying him tenure, was getting large cash payments - $40,000 per year - from the LAM Research Corp. in Plano, Texas.
Berdahl served as president of Texas A&M University before coming to Berkeley. During a presentation about his case, Chapela revealed that a spermicidal corn developed by a U.S. company is now being tested in Mexico. Males who unknowingly eat the corn produce non-viable sperm and are unable to reproduce.