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five days to go, better dust off your rifles goones
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# ? May 26, 2014 10:18 |
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Looks like the EU elections saw a slew of nationalist/pseudo-facist riding in on a wave of populism. It's going to be a fun time to be brown. E; Separatists have taken the Donetsk airport, firefight ongoing against Ukrainian paras with helicopter and air support. Looks like a push to properly lock down the east and remove Kiev's influence from what strategic points they still control. It's a pretty ballsy move, and the first time the separatists are confronting the army outside civilian filled cities or forest ambushes. Courthouse fucked around with this message at 14:12 on May 26, 2014 |
# ? May 26, 2014 11:14 |
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Petro Poroshenko, the candy magnate, has apparently won the Ukrainian elections. His vow to enrich the struggling eastern towns by investing commercially to turn them into "Chocolate Cities" seems to already be getting twisted around in the racist pro-Russian press.
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# ? May 26, 2014 17:53 |
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can't wait until chef from South Park's chocolate salty balls song gets quoted in regards to "Chocolate Cities"
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# ? May 26, 2014 23:31 |
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Goddamn oompa-loompas TAKIN OUR JOBS!
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# ? May 27, 2014 22:50 |
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Chuck Hagel, who got two Purple Hearts in Vietnam, says the VA scandal makes him "sick to his stomach." http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2014/05/26/hagel-on-va-scandal-it-makes-me-sick-to-my-stomach/ The VA has pencilled him in for an initial check for his stomach illness in about four months, but says it may have to get pushed
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# ? May 27, 2014 23:01 |
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More seriously: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/26/world/asia/china-japan-jets-scramble/ quote:Hong Kong (CNN) -- Territorial tensions between China and Japan have flared after a close encounter between their military jets in disputed airspace over the East China Sea. The neighboring rivals accused each other of potentially triggering a dangerous incident, after two pairs of Chinese fighter jets were scrambled and flew unprecedentedly close to a Japanese OP-3C surveillance plane and a YS-11EB electronic intelligence aircraft Saturday. The article also obliquely mentions how, after China set up their questionably legal air defense identification zone, the US made a show of buzzing it with unarmed B-52s, but doesn't mention that since then we've quietly redirected traffic around it, and that US-based civilian traffic has been following the new identification and traffic rules the Chinese set up.
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# ? May 27, 2014 23:07 |
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japan's gonna form voltron and gently caress poo poo up, i hope.
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# ? May 27, 2014 23:29 |
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If we had Teddy Roosevelt as president today he would be all up in Russia and China's poo poo.
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# ? May 28, 2014 01:27 |
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Snowdens Secret posted:The article also obliquely mentions how, after China set up their questionably legal air defense identification zone, the US made a show of buzzing it with unarmed B-52s, but doesn't mention that since then we've quietly redirected traffic around it, and that US-based civilian traffic has been following the new identification and traffic rules the Chinese set up. When you say redirected traffic, are you talking about civilian traffic or military? I know the government has advised U.S. airlines to follow the published NOTAMs regarding the ADIZ and that the airlines have made some routing changes, but I would be shocked if we made any sort of change to our freedom of navigation/surveillance operations. Also China sunk a Vietnamese fishing boat in the vicinity of that drilling vessel that Vietnam is all pissy about, just another day in the South China Sea.
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# ? May 28, 2014 01:58 |
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Snowdens Secret posted:More seriously: I heard that civilian traffic was being redirected but the USAF still routinely flew through it unannounced.
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# ? May 28, 2014 02:53 |
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iyaayas01 posted:When you say redirected traffic, are you talking about civilian traffic or military? I know the government has advised U.S. airlines to follow the published NOTAMs regarding the ADIZ and that the airlines have made some routing changes, but I would be shocked if we made any sort of change to our freedom of navigation/surveillance operations. I read that we flew the 2 B-52s through and that was it for testing it, but maybe that just meant that was the only real obviously provocative move and I'm just interpreting it wrong.
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# ? May 28, 2014 04:55 |
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Snowdens Secret posted:I read that we flew the 2 B-52s through and that was it for testing it, but maybe that just meant that was the only real obviously provocative move and I'm just interpreting it wrong.
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# ? May 28, 2014 05:01 |
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standard.deviant posted:I'm guessing the usual reconnaissance flights that the US uses to tweak Chinese/North Korean/Russian/Iranian/whatever noses occur within their respective ADIZ, and this wouldn't be an exception. At the same time, it's not exactly newsworthy. Pretty much this. The ones in the Chinese ADIZ just now have a freedom of navigation component to them as well, I suppose.
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# ? May 28, 2014 05:33 |
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So our old pal Edward Snowden is now proclaiming that he was a trained and seasoned intelligence officer for the CIA, NSA, and DIA. So, let's suspend our disbelief for a second. Assuming this is true, wouldn't that completely undermine his original story of "IT guy exposing the wrongdoings of the government" and instead replace it with "former spy complicit in said acts who outed himself for no apparent reason?" And doesn't the crowd that he panders to loving hate spies?
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# ? May 28, 2014 16:41 |
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There isn't a big enough for Snowden now.
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# ? May 28, 2014 17:10 |
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news: Senator Romeo Dallaire will be retiring (e: in part due to ongoing PTSD) You may remember him as the Force Commander for UNAMIR - UN's peacekeeping mission in Rwanda. He found himself in the middle of not only a genocide but a civil war, receiving no support and being cock-blocked at every turn in every attempt to control the situation. He wrote Shake Hands with the Devil as a memoir of it and this longish article today is a pretty good summary. http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/profile-romeo-dallaires-peacekeeping-nightmare I remember on one occasion he unloaded his sidearm and gave his ammo to his aide before a meeting, because he couldn't trust himself to not just plug everyone at the table. He was tempted more than once in this way. It had it all. Horrible bureaucracy, accountant nickle-and-diming (why the gently caress is the fax machine not working? Accountant disabled it because it costs too much), shitbags sabotaging their own vehicles - they only had a few working ones - so they wouldn't have to leave base, expired MREs for three meals a day (and when the got to the German ones they stank to high heaven), and so on. The Eyes Have It fucked around with this message at 18:20 on May 28, 2014 |
# ? May 28, 2014 17:34 |
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Brian Williams should have went in with a bomb. RIP Lion of Panjshir.
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# ? May 28, 2014 18:08 |
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psydude posted:So our old pal Edward Snowden is now proclaiming that he was a trained and seasoned intelligence officer for the CIA, NSA, and DIA. Isn't he like 25 or some other ridiculously young age that torpedoes his claim?
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# ? May 28, 2014 19:05 |
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psydude posted:So our old pal Edward Snowden is now proclaiming that he was a trained and seasoned intelligence officer for the CIA, NSA, and DIA. Isn't he like a giant objectvist too. Honestly not sure whats worse, Him being useful idiot who tons of poo poo to russia because "gently caress the man" or he has been on the Russian payroll all along and D&D and others are easily duped.
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# ? May 28, 2014 21:02 |
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Mister Sinewave posted:news: Senator Romeo Dallaire will be retiring (e: in part due to ongoing PTSD) I read his book. It was my first, tentative step down the road to giving up on people.
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# ? May 28, 2014 21:27 |
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Mister Sinewave posted:news: Senator Romeo Dallaire will be retiring (e: in part due to ongoing PTSD) I just read the article and pretty much lost all faith in humanity. Sounds like he was basically given the worst situation possible. I'm surprised that he didn't say gently caress it and go AWOL.
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# ? May 28, 2014 22:32 |
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PLANES CURE TOWERS posted:I just read the article and pretty much lost all faith in humanity. quote:One Hutu woman who participated in killing 80 Tutsi children calmly explained to UN investigators that the youngsters did not run away from the mob “because they knew us.” She did acknowledge, however, as the children waited their turn to be killed and could see the carnage before them, “they had big eyes.”
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# ? May 28, 2014 22:55 |
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I took a recent tragedies of East and South Africa class in college and after the blocks on Rwanda followed by current gold and diamond industry practices I concluded the only acceptable solution to being alive is raging alcoholism edit: maybe we will get lucky and Putin will implement "Operation: Macho Man" concurrently with China and Japan popping off at each other resulting in cleansing fire maffew buildings fucked around with this message at 23:11 on May 28, 2014 |
# ? May 28, 2014 23:02 |
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Nuke the planet. Just burn it all down and let the next species take a crack at it.
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# ? May 28, 2014 23:04 |
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quote:In some cases, Dallaire had already assigned soldiers to guard key officials but that did little good. Ghanaian troops had been posted at the home of Lando Ndasingwa, the only Tutsi in the Hutu government and doubtless a target for extremists. But when the Rwandan presidential guard burst into Ndasingwa’s home, his Ghanaian protectors fled out the back. Ndasingwa, his Montreal-born wife, Helen, their children, Malaika, 17, and Patrick, 15, and Ndasingwa’s mother, Bibiane Nyiratulira, were then executed with gunshots to the head. A UN official would later claim the Ghanaians fled because they had been outnumbered and could do little. But Ndasingwa’s sister, Louise, wonders why they at least didn’t try to take the children with them. quote:That same night another contingent of Ghanaian troops stood guard at the home of Joseph Kavaruganda, a Supreme Court judge who favoured sharing power with the Tutsis. The presidential guard showed up for Kavaruganda who was beaten and thrown into the back of a truck, never to be seen again. As he was being bundled away, his wife, Anonciata, and his children watched as the Ghanaians joked with the presidential guard and even shared a few drinks with the family’s tormentors. Anonciata and the children would later escape from Rwanda after taking refuge in the Canadian embassy in Kigali. Come on Ghana. Also the Belgians holding off a mob of Hutu in a blockhouse with nothing but a pistol and an AK-47 for 4 hours is pretty Fojar38 fucked around with this message at 23:32 on May 28, 2014 |
# ? May 28, 2014 23:29 |
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psydude posted:So our old pal Edward Snowden is now proclaiming that he was a trained and seasoned intelligence officer for the CIA, NSA, and DIA. Well, his description of his "spy" work essentially boils down to 'IT guy stealing everyone's internets while pretending to be IT guy not stealing everyone's internets'. So... by that description everyone in the NSA is a spy, because they are covertly spying on your computer. He's not claiming to be a field agent or anything. quote:african tribal conflict We are all animals under a thin veneer of civilization, etc, etc. What's more strange to me is that we are so thoroughly traumatized by what in the rest of the animal kingdom is fairly normal behavior.
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# ? May 29, 2014 00:10 |
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Courthouse posted:We are all animals under a thin veneer of civilization, etc, etc. What's more strange to me is that we are so thoroughly traumatized by what in the rest of the animal kingdom is fairly normal behavior.
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# ? May 29, 2014 00:23 |
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Correct, we cry when the feeble, sick and defective are killed
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# ? May 29, 2014 00:28 |
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maffew buildings posted:Correct, we cry when the feeble, sick and defective are killed You might. Pussy.
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# ? May 29, 2014 00:48 |
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Fojar38 posted:Come on Ghana. i think its kinda exciting that you can draw parallels to today and just prior to ww2. putin performing foul necromancies on the corpse of the cccp, fascism on the rise in europe again, america becoming more isolationist, japan squaking about returning to the big boys table gives me a small glimmer of hope that in 20 years there will be a lot less people around
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# ? May 29, 2014 01:08 |
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Some OSCE inspectors got kidnapped around east Ukraine, again. Looks like the Russian troops are maybe-possibly withdrawing from the Ukrainian border. NATO reports they are packing things up. Unless of course they are packing it up to move a few miles to the west. Dead Reckoning posted:Gonna take a wild stab at this and say it's because we are not like other animals in all the ways that matter. Sure, but seeing as how our entire history is filled with this kind of poo poo on a pretty constant level it seems evolutionary counterproductive that we start putting guns to our heads and drinking diluted poison because of it. :/
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# ? May 29, 2014 01:28 |
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Courthouse posted:Well, his description of his "spy" work essentially boils down to 'IT guy stealing everyone's internets while pretending to be IT guy not stealing everyone's internets'. So... by that description everyone in the NSA is a spy, because they are covertly spying on your computer. He's not claiming to be a field agent or anything. quote:"I was trained as a spy in sort of the traditional sense of the word in that I lived and worked undercover overseas -- pretending to work in a job that I'm not -- and even being assigned a name that was not mine," Snowden said in an interview with NBC News, a portion of which aired Tuesday. The full interview will air Wednesday evening. Sounds a lot like he's trying to claim he was in the field to me. I mean, I'm fairly certain it's all bullshit anyway, but I'm surprised that this dude is so adamant about proving his spy cred to us.
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# ? May 29, 2014 03:33 |
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Snowden's a attention whore. And Russia needs news that's not Ukraine Invasion 2014.
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# ? May 29, 2014 03:49 |
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psydude posted:Sounds a lot like he's trying to claim he was in the field to me. I mean, I'm fairly certain it's all bullshit anyway, but I'm surprised that this dude is so adamant about proving his spy cred to us. Considering his location and visa disposition I'm surprised he didn't lead off with "I am the walrus". There's ways to to blow the whistle, but dude did it so so very wrong. If that's really what he meant to do. Edit: Lets be honest, dude probably got turned for some almost-vanilla sex poo poo. SentSix fucked around with this message at 04:49 on May 29, 2014 |
# ? May 29, 2014 04:41 |
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psydude posted:Sounds a lot like he's trying to claim he was in the field to me. I mean, I'm fairly certain it's all bullshit anyway, but I'm surprised that this dude is so adamant about proving his spy cred to us. Right, but in the "field" as an IT guy. Not James Bond or anything, which is the idea most people get when you say you're a "spy". I'm sure all these organizations have plenty of IT people sent out to work on vacuuming the internet, what with pretty much all intelligence these days being data based. And of course for counterintel IT stuff, which when you get right down to it is just hunting malware and closing holes hackers could use. But it sounds cooler if you call it counterintelligence.
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# ? May 29, 2014 10:34 |
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Courthouse posted:Right, but in the "field" as an IT guy. Not James Bond or anything, which is the idea most people get when you say you're a "spy". I'm sure all these organizations have plenty of IT people sent out to work on vacuuming the internet, what with pretty much all intelligence these days being data based. And of course for counterintel IT stuff, which when you get right down to it is just hunting malware and closing holes hackers could use. But it sounds cooler if you call it counterintelligence. I can't speak to the offensive part, but an IT person, specifically someone as "advanced" as he claims to be, wouldn't call that counterintelligence, they'd call it security engineering or computer network defense. It seems like an issue of semantics, but it actually provides some insight into his background (or lack thereof).
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# ? May 29, 2014 12:30 |
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I think the dude is just a little irritated that people keep trying to dismiss him as some low-level Geek Squad IT flunky while also saying that he caused irreparable damage to our national security.
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# ? May 29, 2014 14:57 |
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27618681 Pro-Russian rebels shot down a Ukrainian helicopter, 14 KIA.
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# ? May 29, 2014 16:10 |
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BigDave posted:http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27618681 You know, if Russia is going to be as obvious as to give the separatists half decent man portable AA I really don't see why they can't just loving invade already. Stop being a loving tease, Putin.
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