AMAL Membina 'Rumah LEGO' untuk MENANGANI Krisis Sewa UNITED KINGDOM . . .

Srikandi - Salah satu amal perumahan terkemuka di UK telah datang dengan cara baru untuk mengalahkan krisis perumahan di London, dalam bentuk perumahan 'ala Lego'.

Y: Cube, yang dibangunkan oleh YMCA, menawarkan 26 meter persegi pasang siap 'studio' pangsapuri yang boleh dengan mudah dibina hampir di mana sahaja.

Menurut amal, blok perumahan menyediakan segala-galanya daripada air bersih untuk pemanasan pusat, menjadikan rumah mereka yang ideal untuk orang yang bekerja di London tidak mampu membayar sewa di ibu negara.

Satu unit kos sekitar £ 30.000 untuk membina, dan disewakan untuk £ 140 setiap minggu, menjadikan unit 65 % peratus lebih murah daripada penginapan standard London. Unit-unit ini telah dihasilkan dengan Roger Strik Harbour, seorang arkitek yang memenangi anugerah sebahagiannya dimiliki oleh Baron Rogers daripada Riverside, yang pakar dalam struktur fungsionalis.

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Rapat menyerupai hotel merah ditemui pada papan Monopoli, unit juga boleh disusun di menara untuk menjimatkan ruang dan sesuai lebih ramai penduduk.

"Purata pendapatan boleh guna yang berlaku di perumahan kini sedang berlaku 50 % peratus. Orang ramai perlu membuat kompromi besar, mereka perlu berkongsi rumah pangsa, rumah bahagian. Sebaik-baiknya, apa yang mereka mahu adalah pintu depan mereka sendiri, "Pengarah YMCA Perumahan dan Pembangunan Andy Readfearn kepada RT. "Jadi ada, jurang besar besar-besaran dan apa yang kita mahu lakukan adalah segera menyampaikan bahawa, mencabar sektor utk menye-diakan pilihan dan memberi harapan kepada rakyat.

"Kita perlu membuat pembaharuan, anda perlu membawa orang yang berbeza untuk pasaran. Y: Cube adalah penyelesaian kami. Ini membolehkan kami untuk mendapatkan penginapan dengan cepat, kita boleh menyimpan sewa ini benar-benar rendah supaya semua orang mendapat faedah, "katanya.

Penyelesaian itu datang kerana tiada tempat tinggal yang dapat dikawal di seluruh United Kingdom.

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Menurut pangkalan data Homeless & Rangkaian Maklumat (CHAIN) yg digabung-kan, 112.070 orang mengisytiharkan diri mereka kehilangan tempat tinggal di antara 2013-14, manakala bilangan orang yang tidur kasar di London meningkat lebih daripada 70 % peratus, kepada 6437 orang.

Laporan lain mencadangkan satu dalam 3 rakyat Britain hanya satu gaji cek dari tiada tempat tinggal, sebagai upah di hujung bawah ekonomi terus berkembang. Shelter, satu lagi sokongan kebajikan kehilangan tempat tinggal, menganggarkan lebih 90,000 kanak-kanak di UK adalah tanpa tempat kediaman tetap, bilangan tertinggi kanak-kanak yang tiada tempat tinggal sejak 2011.

CHARITY Builds ‘LEGO Houses’ to tackle United Kingdom Rent CRISIS . . .

One of the UK’s leading housing charities has come up with a novel way to beat London’s housing crisis, in the form of ‘Lego-style’ housing.

Y: Cube, developed by the YMCA, offer 26 square meter prefabricated ‘studio’ apartments that can be easily built almost anywhere.

According to the charity, the housing blocks provide everything from clean water to central heating, making them the ideal home for people working in London unable to afford the capital’s rent.

One unit costs around £30,000 to build, and are let for £140 per week, making the units 65 percent cheaper than standard London accommodation. The units were developed with Roger Strik Harbour, an award winning architect partially owned by Baron Rogers of Riverside, which specializes in functionalist structures.

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Closely resembling the red hotels found on a Monopoly board, the units can also be stacked in a tower in order to save space and fit more residents.

“The average disposable income going on housing now is going on fifty percent. People are having to make huge compromises, they’re having to share flats, share houses. Ideally, what people want is their own front door,” YMCA Director of Housing and Development Andy Readfearn told RT. “So there’s a massive, massive gap and what we want to do is begin to address that, challenge the sector to provide choice and give hope to people.

“You have to innovate, you have to bring different people to the market. Y: Cube is our solution. This allows us to procure accommodation quickly, we can keep these rents really low so everyone benefits,” he added.

Such solutions come as homelessness is spiking across the UK.

READ MORE:‘Scandalous’: 1.6m UK pensioners living in poverty – report

According to the Combined Homeless and Information Network (CHAIN) database, 112,070 people declared themselves homeless between 2013-14, while the number of people sleeping rough in London grew by more than 70 percent, to 6,437 people.

Other reports suggest one in three Britons are just one pay check away from homelessness, as wages at the bottom end of the economy continue to stagnate. Shelter, another homeless support charity, estimate more than 90,000 children in the UK are without a permanent home, the highest number of homeless children since 2011.

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Amerika Syarikat untuk MENINGKATKAN perbelanjaan SENJATA nuklear - PENTAGON . . .

Tentera Udara Amerika Syarikat juruteknik Airman Kanan penyelenggaraan peluru berpandu Theadore Fife kelihatan di atas mulut peringkat yang ke-3 peluru berpandu nuklear Peacekeeper mendalam dalam silo bawah tanah di padang rumput Wyoming terdekat Hawk Springs, Wyoming (U.S. Air Force missile maintenance technician Senior Airman Theadore Fife looks over the top of the third stage of a Peacekeeper nuclear missile deep in an underground silo on the Wyoming prairie near Hawk Springs, Wyoming (Reuters)

Srikandi - Setiausaha Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat Chuck Hagel mengumumkan baik pulih bagaimana senjata senjata nuklear Amerika Syarikat yang dikekalkan, menyeru berbilion-bilion dolar dalam pelaburan untuk menangani pelanggaran keselamatan baru-baru ini dan moral yg rendah di kalangan pengurusan tenaga nuklear.

Hagel turunkan pd hari Jumaat keputusan 2 ulasan - satu dilakukan oleh Pentagon dan satu lagi kuar luar - Daya nuklear protokol penyelenggaraan Amerika Syarikat yang, pada tahun2 kebelakangan ini, telah dilanda skandal. Ulasan diperintahkan selepas laporan oleh AP menunjukkan keselamatan, keselamatan, moral, & kesila-pan kepimpinan di kalangan tenaga nuklear.

"Punca telah kekurangan yang dialami tumpuan, perhatian dan sumber, menye-babkan rasa meresap bahawa kerjaya di sebuah syarikat menawarkan nuklear terlalu sedikit peluang untuk berkembang dan maju," kata Hagel Jumaat.

Ulasan mendapati struktur kepimpinan tentera Amerika Syarikat nuklear memer-lukan pembaharuan pegawai diberi telah, pada masa lalu baru2 ini, telah menye-dari tingkah laku bermasalah dan tumpuan dari orang bawahannya.

Ulasan juga menunjuk kpd "tenaga kerja yg nuklear yg berdedikasi, berkebolehan, dan berprestasi baik walaupun berdepan pelbagai cabaran yg terhasil daripada kekurangan kakitangan, kekurangan sumber, dan bergantung kepada penuaan dan rapuh sokongan infrastruktur dalam terlebih diperiksa dan terlalu mengelak risiko alam sekitar, "menurut Jabatan Pertahanan.

Analisis di Pentagon sendiri dilaporkan masalah, daripada "tidak mencukupi" dan "penuaan" peralatan dan kemudahan untuk "budaya pemeriksaan berlebihan" kpd sempadan tidak jelas antara akauntabiliti & kesempurnaan dalam Tentera Udara.

Satu contoh keupayaan nuklear penyelenggaraan Amerika Syarikat yang tidak mencukupi terdapat dalam ulasan: Tidak, sehingga baru-baru ini, hanya satu set alat yang disediakan untuk mengetatkan bolt pada akhir kepala peledak dari peluru berpandu Minuteman 3 - dan peluru berpandu darat antara benua balistik (ICBM) - di ketiga-3 pangkalan Amerika Syarikat ICBM di North Dakota, Wyoming, dan Montana. Bahawa satu set akan dikongsi melalui penyampaian Federal Express, pegawai pertahanan kepada AP.

Hagel juga mengumumkan bahawa berbilion-bilion dolar yang diperlukan dalam tempoh 5 tahun akan datang untuk meningkatkan infrastruktur di kalangan kuasa-kuasa nuklear. 

Sebagai contoh, beliau telah dicadangkan untuk menggantikan UH-1 Huey armada helikopter penuaan, penting dlm keselamatan di pangkalan ICBM.

Pelaburan keseluruhan meningkat bagi kuasa-kuasa nuklear Hagel dicadangkan akan kos kira-kira $ 10 bilion, menurut pegawai-pegawai pertahanan.

US to Increase Nuclear Weapons Spending - Pentagon

United States Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has announced an overhaul of how the US nuclear weapon arsenal is maintained, calling for billions of dollars in investment to address recent security violations and low morale among nuclear-force management.

Hagel revealed on Friday the results of two reviews - one done by the Pentagon and another external probe - of US nuclear force maintenance protocol that, in recent years, has been beset by scandal. The reviews were ordered after reporting by AP showed security, safety, morale, and leadership lapses among the nuclear force.

"The root cause has been lack of sustained focus, attention and resources, resulting in a pervasive sense that a career in a nuclear enterprise offers too few opportunities for growth and advancement,” Hagel said Friday.

The reviews found that the leadership structure of US nuclear forces requires reform given officials have, in the recent past, been unaware of problematic behavior and focus from underlings.

The reviews also pointed to "a nuclear workforce that was dedicated, capable, and performing well in spite of challenges resulting from being understaffed, under-resourced, and reliant on an aging and fragile supporting infrastructure in an over-inspected and overly risk-averse environment," according to the Defense Department.

The Pentagon’s own analysis reported problems, from "inadequate" and "aging" equipment and facilities to "a culture of excessive inspections" to an ill-defined boundary between accountability and perfection in the Air Force.

One example of inadequate US nuclear-maintenance capabilities found in the reviews: There was, until recently, just one tool set available to tighten bolts on the warhead end of a Minuteman 3 missile - and land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) - at all three US ICBM bases in North Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. That one set would be shared via Federal Express delivery, defense officials told AP.

Hagel also announced that billions of dollars are needed in the next five years to boost infrastructure among the nuclear forces. For instance, he has proposed to replace the aging UH-1 Huey helicopter fleet, integral in security at ICBM bases.

The overall increased investment for nuclear forces Hagel proposed will cost about $10 billion, according to defense officials.

Setiausaha Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat Chuck Hagel (US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (AFP Photo)

Hagel berkata beliau akan meletakkan seorang jeneral 4 bintang yang menjaga kuasa nuklear untuk meredakan kelemahan asas yang ditunjukkan dalam ulasan, termasuk lebih daripada 100 cadangan untuk meningkatkan daya nuklear.

Penulis ulasan 'ditemui dgn kegagalan Personel Kebolehpercayaan Program kuasa nuklear, yang digunakan untuk memantau kecergasan mental ahli perkhidmatan mengekalkan senjata nuklear yang paling kukuh di DUNIA. Program ini, mereka dilaporkan, telah menjadi satu proses pentadbiran yg membebankan hanya meng-halang misi. Hagel telah memerintahkan kepada diperbaharui.

Dalam tahun-tahun kebelakangan ini, kedua-dua kuasa nuklear utk Tentera Laut, yg mengekalkan kapal selam nuklear bersenjata, & Tentera Udara tlh menghadapi ’ exam-cheating’ ‘scandals’ peperiksaan menipu di kalangan tenaga pengajar latihan reaktor nuklear dan peluru berpandu anak kapal, masing-masing.

Dalam tempoh 2 tahun yang lalu, Tentera Udara unit didakwa menjaga senjata nuklear juga telah gagal sekuriti & keselamatan ‘safety and security’ pemerik-saan dan 2 kali meninggalkan pintu letupan ‘left open blast doors’ terbuka yang melindungi pusat-pusat kawalan pelancaran bawah tanah di 2 pangkalan yang berbeza - sekali manakala anak kapal tidur.

Pada akhir 2013, AP melaporkan bahawa kajian semula bebas utk Tentera Udara didapati tanda2 "burnout" dan tahap salah laku di kalangan krew pelancaran peluru berpandu dan pasukan keselamatan peluru berpandu.

Pakar-pakar telah pun menyuarakan keraguan tentang pembaharuan Hagel dan sama ada mereka akan membuat perbezaan.

"Melontar wang selepas masalah boleh menetapkan beberapa isu teknikal tetapi ia tidak mungkin untuk menyelesaikan pembubaran itu yang mesti datang dari duduk dalam lubang silo di Midwest dgn peluru berpandu berwaspada utk bertindak balas terhadap serangan nuklear yang tidak mungkin pernah datang," Hans Kristensen, seorang pakar nuklear dengan Persekutuan Saintis Amerika, kepada AP.

Hagel said he will put a four-star general in charge of nuclear forces to assuage the fundamental flaws exemplified in the reviews, which included more than 100 recommendations to boost nuclear forces.

The reviews’ authors found failings with the nuclear force’s Personnel Reliability Program, which is used to monitor mental fitness of service members maintaining the world’s most robust nuclear arsenal. The program, they reported, has become a burdensome administrative process that has only hindered the mission. Hagel has ordered it to be reformed.

In recent years, both nuclear forces for the Navy, which maintains nuclear-armed submarines, and the Air Force have faced exam-cheating scandals among nuclear reactor training instructors and missile crew members, respectively.

In the past two years, Air Force units charged with keeping up nuclear arsenals have also failed safety and security inspections and twice left open blast doors that protect underground launch control centers at two different bases - once while crew members slept.

In late 2013, AP reported that an independent review for the Air Force found signs of “burnout” and high levels of misconduct among missile launch crews and missile security forces.

Experts have already voiced skepticism about Hagel’s reforms and whether they would make a difference.

"Throwing money after problems may fix some technical issues but it is unlikely to resolve the dissolution that must come from sitting in a silo hole in the Midwest with missiles on high alert to respond to a nuclear attack that is unlikely to ever come," Hans Kristensen, a nuclear expert with the Federation of American Scientists, told AP.

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BERMAIN dengan TELINGA 'Obama BERBISIK Aung San Suu Kyi dengan CIUMAN' . . .

US President Barack Obama (L) and Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi make their way from a press conference at her residence in Yangon on November 14, 2014. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Srikandi - Presiden Barack Obama memberi sabar panjang ahli politik pembang-kang Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi, yang kacau oleh ucapan banyak memuji rakan seni hadiah nobel itu dgn cium yang besar kepada telinga semasa lawatan singgah di Myanmar.

Obama tiba di rumah Suu Kyi di Rangoon pd hari Jumaat untuk memberi kerajaan ukuran dasar awam Myanmar lidah celaan atas layanan mereka terhadap agama minoriti, dan keputusan baru-baru ini yg akan menghalang 'The Titanium Orchid' bangsa presiden akan datang.

Suu Kyi, dibebaskan 4 tahun lalu selepas menghabiskan bahagian yang lebih baik daripada 2 dekad di bawah tahanan rumah, tidak boleh bertanding utk mendapat jawatan tertinggi di negara ini kerana klausa perlembagaan, yg melarang mereka yang mempunyai hubungan yg kuat kepada negara asing utk bertanding presiden. Anak-anaknya adalah warganegara British, seperti suaminya. Obama melem-parkan sokongan di belakang tawaran Suu Kyi untuk mengubah perlembagaan.

PLAY it by Ear: OBAMA Stuns Aung San Suu Kyi with KISS . . .

President Barack Obama gave long-suffering Burmese opposition politician, Aung San Suu Kyi, a stir by greeting his much lauded Nobel Prize winning counterpart with a big kiss on the ear during a stopover visit in Myanmar.

Obama arrived at Suu Kyi’s home in Rangoon on Friday to give Myanmar’s nominally civilian government a tongue lashing over its treatment of religious minorities, and a recent ruling that will keep ‘The Titanium Orchid’ out of the next presidential race.

Suu Kyi, released four years ago after spending the better part of two decades under house arrest, cannot run for the country’s highest office due to a constitutional clause, which prohibits those with strong ties to a foreign national from running for president. Her sons are British citizens, as was her late husband. Obama threw his support behind Suu Kyi’s bid to change the constitution.

US President Barack Obama embraces Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a press conference at her residence in Yangon on November 14, 2014 (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

"Saya tidak faham peruntukan yang pasti menghalang seseorang daripada ber-tanding untuk presiden kerana siapa anak2 mereka," AP memetik Obama sebagai berkata di tepi tasik rumah Suu Kyi.

"Itu tidak memberi pengertian yang mendalam kepada saya" katanya lagi.

Tetapi ia adalah apa yang Obama lakukan daripada jarak pendengaran mikrofon yang benar-benar meninggalkan kesan di lama icon pro-demokrasi Myanmar.

Berikutan komen bersama oleh Panglima Besar dan ahli parlimen yang memikat, Obama memberi Suu Kyi satu pelukan sampingan janggal sebelum menanam satu basah yang besar tepat di telinganya.

Suu Kyi, seorang janda lebih 15 tahun, mengambil isyarat dengan rahmat yang baik.

“I don’t understand a provision that would bar somebody from running for president because of who their children are,” AP cites Obama as saying at Suu Kyi’s lakeside home.

“That doesn’t make much sense to me” he continued.

But it was what Obama did out of earshot of the microphone that really left an impression on Myanmar’s longstanding pro-democracy icon.

Following joint comments by the Commander in Chief and the alluring lawmaker, Obama gave Suu Kyi an awkward side hug before planting a big wet one right on her ear.

Suu Kyi, a widow of over 15 years, took the gesture with good grace.

US President Barack Obama (R) kisses Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi after making a speech at her residence in Yangon on November 19, 2012. (AFP Photo/Jewel Samad)

Perkara yang sama tidak boleh dikatakan untuk isteri Barack itu, Michelle, yang sebelum ini mendapat kesal dengan lelaki itu kerana agak terlalu akrab dengan pemimpin-pemimpin wanita DUNIA .

Semasa upacara untuk Nelson Mandela di Johannesburg tahun lepas, Michele Obama kelihatan jelas kecewa kerana Obama bantered dengan Perdana Menteri Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt, pd satu ketika meletakkan tangannya di atas bahunya. 

Obama kemudian mengambil mengambil gambar diri sendiri dengan Thorning-Schmidt dan British PM David Cameron manakala Michele menoleh ke sana.

The same might not be said for Barack’s wife, Michelle, who has previously gotten peeved with her man for being a bit too familiar with female world leaders.

During a memorial service for Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg last year, Michele Obama looked visibly upset as Obama bantered with Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, at one point putting his hand on her shoulder. Obama later took a selfie with Thorning-Schmidt and British PM David Cameron while Michele looked way.

US President Barack Obama (R) and British Prime Minister David Cameron pose for a selfie picture with Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt (C) next to US First Lady Michelle Obama (R) during the memorial service of South African former president Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium (Soccer City) in Johannesburg on December 10, 2013. (AFP Photo)

Later photographs showed that Barack and Michele had switched seats, with the mopey president’s back inclined slightly to Thorning-Schmidt, while Michele rolled her eyes.

Of course, Obama’s not the only world leader to spark controversy with a largely innocuous gesture, which happened to be photographed from every which way.

Kemudian gambar-gambar yang menunjukkan Barack dan Michele telah bertukar tempat duduk, dgn belakang presiden mopey ini condong sedikit kepada Thorning-Schmidt, manakala Michele bergolek matanya.

Sudah tentu, Obama bukan pemimpin DUNIA hanya untuk mencetuskan kontroversi dengan isyarat sebahagian besarnya tidak berbahaya, yang berlaku untuk diambil gambar dari setiap cara.

TIDAK Mendapatkan CUKUP: Obama mengambil FOTO 

diri sendiri lagi, kini dengan PM MALAYSIA . . .

Obama mengambil gambar diri sendiri kembali, kali ini muncul semula selama ayunan terkini presiden melalui Asia - dan tepat pd masanya utk membuat bingung bulu pengkritiknya sekali lagi.

Perjumpaan dgn Perdana Menteri Malaysia Najib Razak pada hari Ahad, kedua-dua pemimpin membincangkan pelbagai isu - termasuk pencabulan hak asasi manusia terhadap pembangkang kerajaan & Trans-Pasifik perjanjian perdagangan Per-kongsian terhenti - tetapi berita yg membuat gelombang segera di luar negara ialah Razak yakin Obama utk menyertai beliau dlm lain mengambil gambar diri sendiri.

Kedua-dua pemimpin tersenyum dalam gambar, yang disiarkan Razak ke Twitter sejurus selepas ia diambil. Foto itu pun menggemari oleh lebih daripada 14,100 orang dan Ditweet semula oleh hampir 30,000.

Can't get enough: Obama takes Another 

selfie, now with Malaysian PM

The Obama selfie is back, this time re-emerging during the president’s latest swing through Asia – and just in time to ruffle the feathers of his critics once again.

Meeting with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Sunday, the two leaders discussed numerous issues – including human rights abuses against the government’s opposition and the stalled Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal – but the news making immediate waves outside of the country is that Razak convinced Obama to join him in another selfie.

Both leaders are smiling in the photo, which Razak posted to Twitter shortly after it was taken. The photo has already been favorited by more than 14,100 people and retweeted by nearly 30,000.

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PENUNJUK perasaan ANTI-Amerika Syarikat Menyerang KELASI USS Ross di ISTANBUL . . .

Srikandi - Ahli-ahli yang jauh-kiri Turki Belia Kesatuan melemparkan belon berisi cat di kelasi Amerika Syarikat, berjenama mereka pembunuh dan cuba untuk meletakkan beg plastik ke kepala mereka. Kelasi, yang tidak berpakaian seragam, baru sahaja turun dari pemusnah berpandu-peluru berpandu USS Ross, yg berlabuh di Istanbul beberapa hari yang lalu.

Lelaki ini berjaya melarikan diri dan kembali ke kapal mereka. Cuti pantai Seluruh anak kapal kini telah dibatalkan. 12 orang telah ditahan berkaitan dgn apa yg kelihatan sebagai serangan yang dirancang.

ANTI-US protesters ATTACK USS ROSS Sailors 

in ISTANBUL . . .

Members of the far-left Turkish Youth Union threw paint-filled balloons at US sailors, branded them murderers and attempted to put plastic bags over their heads. The sailors, who were not in uniform, had just disembarked from the guided-missile destroyer USS Ross, which docked in Istanbul a few days ago.

The men managed to escape and return to their ship. The entire crew's shore leave has now been canceled. Twelve people have been arrested in connection with what appears to be a planned assault.

PBB Membunyikan LOCENG pada KEBANGKITAN Autonomi 'Robot PEMBUNUH' . . .

Reutrers/U.S. Navy

Srikandi - Dengan percambahan sistem senjata maut, semakin mampu menjalan-kan misi pengawasan jauh dengan manusia yang minimum, PBB menuntut pera-turan-peraturan mengenai mesin membunuh.

Negara anggota PBB pd Khamis memberi amaran, di Konvensyen tahunan menge-nai Senjata Konvensional (CCW) di Geneva, bahawa senjata autonomi sistem yg menampilkan teknologi yg boleh membawa maut, akan meningkatkan pelanggar-an undang-undang antarabangsa dan kemanusiaan.

BACA lanjut: Noam Chomsky panggilan Smerika Syarikat 'negara pengganas utama DUNIA' READ MORE: Noam Chomsky calls US 'world's leading terrorist state'

Sekatan ke atas teknologi pembunuh berdengung jatuh di bawah apa yg dipanggil "pada konvensyen senjata konvensional tertentu" - satu sub-seksyen dalam Konven-syen Geneva. Walau bagaimanapun, ramai rakyat tlh menjadi mangsa kpd seran-gan berdengung.

Pada bulan Disember 2013, sebagai contoh, serangan Amerika Syarikat di Yaman membunuh 15 orang yang dalam perjalanan ke majlis perkahwinan. Pakistan, sementara itu, dianggarkan telah mengalami lebih daripada 3,200 kematian serangan-drone sejak 2004, 175 dari orang-orang yang kematian kanak-kanak.

Para perwakilan akan mengundi secara konsensus pada petang Jumaat sama ada untuk terus tahun depan dgn rundingan pelbagai hala mengenai perkara-perkara yg berkaitan dgn "maut sistem senjata autonomi." Persidangan Geneva pada CCW ada pertemuan antarabangsa seperti ke-2 tahun ini utk membincangkan kebang-kitan senjata maut autonomi.

Semasa sesi PBB sebelum ini mengenai senjata autonomi, Christof Heyns, pelapor khas di luar undang-undang, ringkasan atau hukuman sewenang-wenangnya, ber-kata teknologi itu perlu diharamkan. "Mesin kekurangan moral dan kematian, dan hasilnya tidak harus mempunyai hidup dan mati kuasa ke atas manusia," katanya.

UN Sounds ALARM On Rise Of AUTONOMOUS 

Killer ROBOTS’ . . .

With the proliferation of lethal weapons system, increasingly capable of carrying out faraway missions with minimal human oversight, the UN is demanding regula-tions on the killing machines.

UN member states on Thursday warned, at the annual Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) in Geneva, that autonomous weapons systems featuring the deadly technology, will increase violations of international and humanitarian law.

READ MORE: Noam Chomsky calls US 'world's leading terrorist state'

Restrictions on killer drone technology falls under the so-called “convention on certain conventional weapons” – a sub-section of the Geneva Convention. However, many citizens have already fallen victim to drone strikes.

In December 2013, for example, a US strike in Yemen killed 15 people on their way to a wedding. Pakistan, meanwhile, is estimated to have suffered over 3,200 drone-strike fatalities since 2004, 175 of those deaths being children.

The delegates will vote by consensus on Friday afternoon whether to continue next year with multilateral talks on subjects relating to “lethal autonomous weapons systems.” The Geneva conference on CCW was the second such international assembly this year to discuss the rise of autonomous lethal weapons.

During the previous UN session on autonomous weapons, Christof Heyns, special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said the technology should be outlawed. “Machines lack morality and mortality, and as a result should not have life and death powers over humans,” he said.

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Pemerhati Hak Asasi Manusia mentangani badan antarabangsa pada hari Khamis, amaran masa yg suntuk utk menangani isu teknologi yg boleh membawa maut ini, telah bertanggungjawab utk membunuh ratusan orang awam yg tidak berdosa.

"Ada rasa yang mendesak tentang bagaimana kita berurusan dengan robot pembunuh. Teknologi adalah berlumba-lumba ke hadapan, "katanya.

Organisasi lain, Kempen Hentikan Robot Killer, menghantar surat kpd persidangan PBB yang menyeru kpd pemimpin "preemptively mengharamkan senjata yg akan pilih dan sasaran serangan tanpa campur tangan manusia lagi."

"Kami mempunyai banyak kebimbangan dengan senjata autonomi sepenuhnya, tetapi mungkin kebimbangan yang paling penting kami adalah dengan tanggapan membenarkan mesin untuk mengambil kehidupan manusia di medan perang atau dalam penguatkuasaan undang-undang dan keadaan-keadaan lain," kata surat itu.

Minggu ini, New York Times melaporkan bahawa Britain, Israel & Norway adalah "sudah menggerakkan peluru berpandu & pesawat yg melancarkan serangan ter-hadap radar musuh, kereta kebal atau kapal tanpa kawalan manusia secara lang-sung." Selepas pelancaran, kenderaan udara atas kapal sensor automatik memilih sasaran.

BACA lagi: lelaki Yaman mendakwa Jerman banyak serangan serangan drone yang membunuh saudara-saudaranya READ MORE: Yemeni man sues Germany over US drone attack that killed his relatives

Sementara itu, Lockheed Martin sedang membangunkan apa yang dipanggil Anti-Kapal peluru berpandu Long Range yg dilancarkan oleh B-1 pengebom dan direka untuk memusnahkan sasaran dengan jumlah minimum kawalan manusia. Peluru berpandu ini direka bagi mendapatkan "beratus-ratus batu, manuver sendiri utk mengelakkan radar, dan dpd hubungan radio dgn pengawal manusia," Times yang menyatakan.

Menurut Biro Siasatan Kewartawanan, dpd 746 orang yg disenaraikan sebagai terbunuh dlm serangan drone CIA antara Januari 2006 & Oktober 2009, sekurang-kurangnya 147 orang mati yang dilaporkan akan menjadi orang awam. Daripada jumlah itu kematian, 94 dikatakan anak-anak.

Human Rights Watch addressed the international body on Thursday, warning that time was running out on addressing the issue of this deadly technology, already responsible for killing hundreds of innocent civilians.

“There is a sense of urgency about how we deal with killer robots. Technology is racing ahead,” it said.

Another organization, the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, sent a letter to the UN conference that called on leaders to “preemptively ban weapons that would select and attack targets without further human intervention.”

“We have many concerns with these fully autonomous weapons, but perhaps our most significant concern is with the notion of permitting a machine to take a human life on the battlefield or in law enforcement and other situations,” the letter said.

This week, the New York Times reported that Britain, Israel & Norway are “already deploying missiles and drones that carry out attacks against enemy radar, tanks or ships without direct human control.” After launch, the aerial vehicles on-board sensors automatically choose targets.

READ MORE: Yemeni man sues Germany over US drone attack that killed his relatives

Meanwhile, Lockheed Martin is developing a so-called Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, which is launched by a B-1 bomber and is designed to destroy its target with a minimal amount of human control. The missile is designed to travel for “hundreds of miles, maneuvering on its own to avoid radar, and out of radio contact with human controllers,” the Times article noted.

According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, of 746 people listed as killed in CIA drone strikes between January 2006 and October 2009, at least 147 of the dead are reported to be civilians. Of that number of fatalities, 94 are said to be children.

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Pemimpin GLOBAL Untuk Memenuhi SIDANG Kemuncak G20 di Australia LIVE TERKINI

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Srikandi - Ekonomi maju dan baru muncul terbesar di DUNIA berkumpul di bandar Brisbane Australia untuk sidang kemuncak G20 tahunan. Top agenda Keselamatan global, krisis pemulihan pasca-ekonomi dan reformasi kewangan.

Jumaat 14 November

Global leaders meet for G20 summit in Australia

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The world’s largest advanced and emerging economies are gathering in the Aust-ralian city of Brisbane for the annual G20 summit. Global security, post-economic crisis recovery and financial reform will top the agenda.

12:32 GMT:

Ia mengambil masa hampir 10 minit untuk pintu kapal terbang Xi Jiping untuk di buka. Selepas pengembaraan midair baru-baru ini Bono ini, terdapat beberapa spekulasi bahawa satu lagi skandal pintu kapal terbang berada di atas kita.

It took nearly 10 minutes for Xi Jiping's plane door to open. After Bono's recent midair adventure, there was some speculation that another plane door scandal was upon us.

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Friday, November 14

11:28 GMT:

Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Australia to take part in the G20 Summit in Brisbane. Putin is planning to meet the leaders of the BRICS countries (Brazil, India, China, and South Africa) ahead of the summit to discuss the activities of the New Development Bank (NDB).

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Australia. Putin telah mendarat. Ini tidak gerudi. # G20 LIVE TERKINI (Australia. Putin has landed. This is not a drill. #G20 LIVE UPDATES http://on.rt.com/h4h69f  7:26 PM - 14 Nov 2014)

11:28 GMT:

Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin telah tiba di Australia untuk mengambil bahagian dlm Sidang Kemuncak G20 di Brisbane. Putin merancang utk bertemu pemimpin-pemimpin negara2 BRICS (Brazil, India, China, dan Afrika Selatan) di hadapan sidang kemuncak itu untuk membincangkan aktiviti-aktiviti Bank Pembangunan Baru (NDB).

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'Pengasingan Ekonomi pelanggaran undang-undang Intl': Top bawa pulang dari Putin menjelang ‘(Economic isolation a breach of intl law': Top takeaways from Putin ahead of #G20 http://on.rt.com/o6zryd  6:45 PM - 14 Nov 2014)

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10:04 GMT:

Sekatan diperkenalkan oleh ahli-ahli G20 terhadap Rusia bercanggah dengan prinsip-prinsip aktiviti puncak ini, serta undang-undang antarabangsa, Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin memberitahu agensi berita TASS menjelang mesyuarat G20 di Brisbane, Australia.

09:53 GMT:

Perdana Menteri Turki Ahmet Davutoglu telah dipanggil untuk G20 yang lebih inklusif yang akan memberikan suara kepada negara-negara yang berpendapatan rendah.

Turki, yang dijadualkan untuk mengambil alih jawatan presiden G20 pada 2015, berkata ia bertujuan untuk memperluaskan skop aktiviti G20, dengan isu-isu seperti wabak Ebola, pelarian dan keganasan yang diletakkan dalam agenda.

"Semasa Presiden kami, kami mahu menjadi suara semua orang," Reuters memetik Davutoglu sebagai memberitahu satu persidangan di Brisbane.

"Jika agenda G20 hanya terhad kepada isu-isu kewangan, G20 dapat berfungsi, ia tidak mempunyai legitimasi antarabangsa," katanya.

10:04 GMT: 

Sanctions introduced by members of the G20 against Russia contradict the very principles of the summit’s activities, as well as international law, Russian President Vladimir Putin told TASS news agency ahead of the G20 meeting in Brisbane, Australia.

09:53 GMT:

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has called for a more inclusive G20 which would give voice to lower income nations. Turkey, which is slated to take over the G20 presidency in 2015, said it intended to broaden the scope of the G20’s activities, with issues such as the Ebola outbreak, refugees and terrorism being placed on the agenda.

"During our presidency we want to be the voice of everybody," Reuters cites Davutoglu as telling a conference in Brisbane.

"If the G20 agenda is only limited to financial issues, the G20 cannot function, it cannot have international legitimacy," he said.

09:40 GMT:

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Melihat ke hadapan untuk menghadiri sesi G20 # esok dengan Presiden #Obama. Ia adalah satu keistimewaan untuk berada di sini sebagai suara perniagaan Australia. (Looking forward to attending #G20 session tomorrow with President #Obama. It's a privilege to be here as the voice of Australian business)

09:32 GMT:

Wartawan Kewangan Australia Michael Pascoe kpd RT tumpuan sidang kemuncak ini adalah ekonomi, bukan politik, dan oleh itu Rusia kekal sebagai bahagian yang penting dalam perhimpunan itu walaupun perbezaan pendapat politik.

"Rusia adalah ekonomi global yg penting, anda tidak akan mempunyai mesyuarat G20 tanpa pemain utamanya. Penekanan pada mesyuarat ini adalah cuba untuk mengangkat pertumbuhan ekonomi global. Sasarannya adalah untuk cuba untuk mendapatkan negara untuk melakukan kpd pertumbuhan 2 % peratus tambahan kepada apa yang mereka sebaliknya akan mencapai. Oleh itu, setiap negara akan menjadi tumpuan, "kata Pascoe.

09:16 GMT:

RT Egor Piskunov ini, yang melaporkan secara langsung dari sidang kemuncak G20, berkata acara tahun ini sedang berlaku, yang berlatarbelakangkan menggiatkan Perang Dingin retorik. Walaupun kejatuhan politik bagaimanapun, dia berkata sidang kemuncak itu masih menawarkan potensi bagi kerjasama global pd pelbagai isu.

09:32 GMT: 

Australian Financial Journalist Michael Pascoe told RT the summit’s focus is economics, not politics, and therefore Russia remains a vital part of the gathering despite political disagreements.

“Russia is an important global economy, you wouldn’t be having a G20 meeting without a major player. The emphasis on this meeting is trying to lift global economic growth. The target is to try to get countries to commit to an extra two percent growth on what they otherwise would achieve. Therefore, every country is going to be in focus,” Pascoe said.

09:16 GMT:

RT’s Egor Piskunov, who is reporting live from the G20 summit, says this year’s event is taking place amidst a background of intensifying Cold War rhetoric. Despite the political fallout however, he says the summit still offers the potential for global cooperation on a range of issues.

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