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Published: 2016-11-07
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_FV-V29vG0
everyone I'm Spiro welcome to this week's episode of news bites roundtable as everyone is well aware America has been in a perpetual state of war for sometime now over the years we have witnessed the atrocities of war broadcast on our televisions and we've also experienced those weapons of war coming home everything from MRAPs to drones now this week we will showcase a new spot exclusive article
from Eric Moshi titled drone casino my missus the wheel of misfortune now this article draws very interesting parallels between the gambling capital of the world and what has become the main operating hub for drones operated by the U. S. Air Force in Las Vegas at this time I'd like to bring in our guests our panel today we are joined by Eric Moshi eight news but analyst
and writer and professor Joseph pull the essay who is the research director of the department of media music communication and cultural studies at out Magarey university in Sydney Australia and of course I'm also joined by the one and only Sibel Edmonds hello everyone how are you doing well I am able the belt can you tell me what you thought about %HESITATION Eric's latest piece of his
drone exposes that he's been writing for news by I absolutely I agree five to ten articles each jail I'm talking about really reading it day and usually I engage in %HESITATION speed reading because of even though there are many brilliant articles out there on really important topics you get to this point especially with their current topics the current political topic subjects out there are a lot
of things come across as keen and that you see everywhere you know you may go to New York times all pen and you just read the same thing less they Mosel or or something on Zico virus but %HESITATION and I had to read several besides Eric's great work a of books and articles on this whole of artificial intelligence and also on the drones but this particular
article particularly of got my attention because I just got up it stopped me in my track and medicine well this just never occurred to me of did did the semiotic relations it's being there between the gambling industry especially the coolest seat cheesy a risque city of Las Vegas and the fact that the drone bases a our position there and more bases are moving day and then
you start looking at the concepts that that the characteristics of all this gambling city and and what they do and and and each yes a form of gambling no matter what they want to troll about accuracy at cetera eat of it it was one of those angles that you don't see and you don't hear about and though you know I had this great professor for literature
and when he was talking about Emily Dickinson you know we had this chair in the class he took this chair he turned it upside down as he said when you're looking at at as her point three you want to look at it not only like the chair to way you look at it you want to look at it from the site you wanna look at it
from the bottom turn it upside down and look at it to really get the picture to really try to get the meaning well the same thing but this approach with that drug use is looking at this whole %HESITATION phenomena a frightening phenomena from and very fresh a interesting angle and and I know Eric did a fantastic job narrating get writing get and researching get me the
distinguished guests though who has them immense level of water in this and and so all my antenna was who would not all of them were up and kind of journey and I keep thinking about it for two three days a I I majored one of my majors or criminal psychology so I was relating to that field as well so instead of going gin yanking and talking
here I I want to of green gin Eric and then a professor who yesterday and and and get into this topic more in depth especially since Eric has been a writing the series there on on on on the drone as as the topic from so many different perspectives maybe had the stock with the film industry what we are watching on TV this angle that Las Vegas
so he is the man here who has been presenting it prison presenting all of us these different pieces of like pieces of puzzle related to drones and this am interesting very interesting pictures %HESITATION emerging and I just love the fact that he he picked this matter science I don't you know a lot of people the writer article at one time deal to time deal then they
move to another topic are Eric you've been pounding on this topic and and now you brought this aliment so let's start with you and them from you we can move to a professor yesterday yes and it doesn't well first of all the credit goes to professor proved Nancy for his very original idea I'd I thought I did a decent job of presenting it to the public
in a way it is accessible so well we don't see read in its entirety it's actually onstage publishing but I'm able to get it for free since I I go to school at George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia it's a it was an article those very eye opening because I'm going to Las Vegas and on on November eleventh my best friends honeymoon so I'll be there
hopefully I won't be thinking about drones hopefully they won't be buzzing around my head like like to any birds on their but it is not fully is definitely going to acknowledge the realities of your surroundings and everywhere you go every state our military bases but it's a little bit of a different game literally a different game when you have drone bases because very they're very traumatizing
%HESITATION place of employment for a lot of people and this is becoming a little bit of a crisis in the military when it comes to military affairs because they're searching for more drone pilots to fill a book to fill the are to fill seats and of course when the when you fill the seats than there are more people in the Middle East to fill the coffers
%HESITATION consequently it's just it was just a very interesting article first of all I just want to ask our professor Paul Gacy about how he first got the idea for writing about the lexicon of casino gambling and how it interfered was there was their word or phrase in Amelie caught your eye and you and you set yourself while I need to inquire further yes float on
us you can say from the actual article up I did go there and took a number of photographs that I had a very gay colleague at the university of Arizona professor Susan Straka who knew that I was working on drones in Dallas and she said I must take you out there and we just spent a couple of guys they're not it's like the photographs what struck
me immediately walls and you can say this in the actual letters that are reproduced in the original article was the striking juxtaposition of civil society with Bambi like it isn't ground gardens signs saying the way children really staggering down the military industrial complex and it's mostly for and that is Nellis airforce base I'm not really provoked make you think what is the relation between these two
sites I mean the gambling casino capital of the world there's a sense of the civil from tee with front garden suburban vaults and a festive atmosphere because of the casinos and yet I know this to be one of the epicenters of America's secret wool and a cooler secret will because you up acknowledging your articles why really the drunk who also running under the right out including
when the US kills its own citizens like Anwar al Awlaki anti Sandra example Anne's friend so really that was the provocative moment when I got there materially and slowly stopped juxtapositions between civil society and the lethal killing machinery of drugs sitting next to each other do you get a very a very sorrow job was actually cool little bit intimidating because when when you're when you're a
student at a university and your reading work by professors you can't really put yourself on a level playing field when it comes to what what it takes to actually write these pieces you you probably read at least fifty plus books in order to give yourself the background information on each element of the of the of the works it was inspiring to me to read it to
know that one day in a row I reached that level of I'm just back dissecting theories and applying them to present combat drones for example yes well you do the excellent job been really liking of my work accessible to a larger public and you didn't compromise adult recite focused and accurate really in its mapping it the key components I Siebel said you really working on my
site matter and put all the pieces together and I actually think that that's the most important thing we can do is critical analysts or media journalists and that is to join the dots really and say that things aren't working oscillation there actually hidden infrastructures and relations that we need to identify nine and explodes because then the complicity Savalas become much more complicated and interesting because they've
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