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Apple Zone / Re: Things go boom

« on: Today at 04:23:40 pm »

Interesting, if true:

While the reality of Gladio’s existence in Europe is a matter of historical record, Edmonds contended the same strategy was adopted by the Pentagon in the 1990s in a new theatre of operations, namely, Asia. “Instead of using neo-Nazis, they used mujahideen working under various bin Ladens, as well as al-Zawahiri”, she said.

The last publicly known Gladio meeting occurred in NATO’s Allied Clandestine Committee (ACC) in Brussels in 1990. While Italy was a focal point for the older European operations, Edmonds said that Turkey and Azerbaijan served as the main conduits for a completely new, different set of operations in Asia using veterans of the anti-Soviet campaign in Afghanistan, the so-called “Afghan Arabs” that had been trained by al-Qaeda.

These new Pentagon-led operations were codenamed ‘Gladio B’ by FBI counterintelligence: “In 1997, NATO asked [Egyptian President] Hosni Mubarak to release from prison Islamist militants affiliated to Ayman al-Zawahiri [whose role in the assassination of Anwar Sadat led to Mubarak’s ascension]. They were flown under U.S. orders to Turkey for [training and use in] operations by the Pentagon”, she said.

Azerbaijan was heavily, if unofficially, involved in sustaining the Chechen jihad.  Azerbaijan's post-Soviet leadership also had ties to the original Gladio in Turkey - the Grey Wolves of the MHP.  Said leadership turned to the "Afghan Arabs", to use them as special forces and infiltrators in their war against Georgia.

I would not be surprised if Gladio B were still running, or had moved onto Gladio C or even D in the wake of 9/11 and the subsequent phases of the War on Terror.  But the evidence is...rather thinner than that which exists for the original Gladio.

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Apple Zone / Re: Things go boom

« on: Today at 04:15:40 pm »

Well, look at that. 

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57584771/boston-bombings-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-left-note-in-boat-he-hid-in-sources-say/

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a note claiming responsibility for the April 13 attack on the Boston Marathon, reports CBS News senior correspondent John Miller.

Sources tell Miller that Tsarnaev wrote the note in the boat he was hiding in as police pursued him, and as he bled from gunshot wounds sustained in an earlier shootout between police and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. It reads as part manifesto, part suicide note, and part justification for the killing and maiming of innocent civilians.

The note — scrawled with a marker on the interior wall of the cabin — said the bombings were retribution for U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, and called the Boston victims “collateral damage” in the same way Muslims have been in the American-led wars. “When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims,” Tsarnaev wrote.

I suppose that solves any problems that could arise from having questioned someone while doped up.

This is unusual, though.

The discovery of writings intensified tensions between the FBI and local police when FBI agents believed some Boston officers and state police had taken cell phone pictures of the writing.

Agents demanded the phones of all officers at the scene the night of the capture of Dzhokhar be confiscated to avoid the photos becoming public before being used as evidence at trial, according to two law enforcement officials.

A FBI spokesperson said agents cannot confiscate phones without a warrant and officials said none of the police approached would agree to turn over their phones to the FBI.

If the FBI documented the scene properly, the photos shouldn't be a big issue.  Sure, tainted jury blah blah blah, but let's face it, the High Value Interrogation Group leaks are doing that anyway.

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Apple Zone / Re: Open Bar VII: written by George Lucas!

« on: Today at 10:11:09 am »

Oh yes, it's real.  And it's every bit as awesome as it looks.  And every bit as trope-alicious.   

I just don't understand why this wasn't the full game.

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Apple Zone / Re: Open Bar VII: written by George Lucas!

« on: Today at 09:24:06 am »

I think Blood Dragon may be the best game ever concieved of.

It's Far Cry 3 without crybaby mcshiteater Jason Brody, for starters.  And then it's a homage to every single 80s action flick ever made.  And it has fricking dragons that shoot laser beams out of their eyes.

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Apple Zone / Re: On fucked Millennials:

« on: Today at 08:53:54 am »

It's either that or things go all Baader-Meinhoff and Red Brigades like.   Well, what they were like without the persistent and plausible accusations of covert state support and influence.  Small groups of fanatics who feel cut off from wider society, unable to make changes in a democratic fashion, locked out of a system of wealth and privilege and motivated towards propaganda of the deed in its bloodiest manifestation.

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Apple Zone / Re: On fucked Millennials:

« on: Today at 08:46:52 am »

Ahhhh

This makes me think it's time for a charismatic leader to pop up.

Perhaps.  I've been arguing for a while that US political dysfunction will lead to a "man on a horse" scenario, most likely from the ranks of the military.  Europe, of course, has experience of charismatic populists with a dim view of foreigners, and seems determined to prove Hegel's maxim about history (that the only thing we learn from it is that we do not learn from it) right once more (though equally, Marx's view that history repeats itself, second time as farce, may be applicable).

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Apple Zone / Re: Open Bar VII: written by George Lucas!

« on: Yesterday at 11:06:25 pm »

When I'm not talking, you can be assured, it's because I'm tearing strips off some IRL juvenile delinquent and forgot to log off from PD first.

My jealousy is palpable.

Oh, you wouldn't like it.  I'm not allowed to even raise my voice to students, let alone righteously RANT about the unseen horrors that will slowly devour them should they continue along their ruinous path. 

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Apple Zone / Re: Open Bar VII: written by George Lucas!

« on: Yesterday at 10:43:35 pm »

When I'm not talking, you can be assured, it's because I'm tearing strips off some IRL juvenile delinquent and forgot to log off from PD first.

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Apple Zone / Re: On fucked Millennials:

« on: Yesterday at 10:30:46 pm »

Ditto for Portland, except add in the "living in a house with 15 other hippies, making a living at the streetcorner circus".

Which is, compared to some options, downright respectable these days.

I would worry more for the future, but I also remember the hippies all turning into yuppies, after wasting a similar amount of time.

So a few - perhaps enough - will pull their head out.  The rest will make excuses.  I mean, it certainly isn't THEIR fault (which was the point of the whole article).

Yeah, kind of what I got from it was that since it isn't their fault, someone else should fix it.

Ain't gonna happen. I mean, that would be nice and everything, but LOL.

Like I said, the people who have the power don't WANT to fix it, and the older generation who DOES want to fix it is too busy working two minimum-wage jobs to try to keep the roof over their heads and make meals so we don't all end up starving on the street.

SRSLY GUYS, YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE. HELP.

One thing I've felt, since the start of the crisis, is that people who might otherwise be drawn to opposing the existing status quo fail to do so because of a lack of a theory of action in regards to the kind of society that should be built in the place of the one existing now ("there is no alternative") and no theory on how to actualise that.

Like Walter Sobchak says, "Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos."

They don't know what they want and they don't know how to get it.  "What do we want?  Uh, things to be nice again.  When do we want it?  Well, today would be nice, but if it doesn't happen, I'll blog really angrily about it for a while."  Hardly a rallying cry for social change.  And figuring out those two things is much harder than whining about it on the interwebs.

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Apple Zone / Re: Open Bar VII: written by George Lucas!

« on: Yesterday at 08:34:13 pm »

When in Rome, I guess...

When in Rome, assassinate people by throwing them down a well.

Or into a well-stocked pond of lampreys.

As I said, a Roman well.

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Apple Zone / Re: Open Bar VII: written by George Lucas!

« on: Yesterday at 07:58:34 pm »

When in Rome, I guess...

When in Rome, assassinate people by throwing them down a well.

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Apple Zone / Re: I fucking hate you.

« on: Yesterday at 07:54:31 pm »

Hello.

I'd like to think it is part of a cunning and long term plan to drive you to exactly these measures.  "Anything for a laugh", right?  At least, I'd believe that if I had ever seen evidence of cunning or long term planning here.

However, I'm sure someone will be along shortly to explain why having any actual effect on the world around you is "greyfaced".  And then RWHN will pop up and post a passive-aggressive one liner, upset because he is no longer the centre of attention.  Then the three lameass pet trolls from FB/Totse2 will take the opportunity to wade into the mess and try to make it worse, only succeeding due to at least one person insisting on taking them absolutely seriously.

And then we can all take turns sniffing each other's farts. 

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Apple Zone / Re: Open Bar VII: written by George Lucas!

« on: Yesterday at 06:13:59 pm »

I've bookmarked that place too, though, of course, my schedule for the next couple of months might be a bit hectic.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Free Market Privileged Circumcision While Hopped Up on Magickle Drugs Thread

« on: Yesterday at 06:11:13 pm »

*posts bizarre cut and paste job from Infowars on how water flouridation is a Communist plot to steal straight, white, male, American foreskins to sell on the black market*

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Apple Zone / Re: Open Bar VII: written by George Lucas!

« on: Yesterday at 06:02:02 pm »

Yeah well, the fact remains that the people PD make me.feel THAT much better about my life. I would be in a much darker place without you spags. Drug threads or no.

Yes, but that much darker place wouldnt have drug threads.  So really, we have to ask, would they be so bad?