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UK National Archives Divulge Secrets
Sunil Sood writes "Yes, its that time of year again - no, not the New Year but when the UK National Archives release a whole lot of previously "classified" information (many govt papers in the UK, with only a few exceptions, are classified secret for a 'standard' 30 years) As normal, you have the usual combination of the amusing: The design of a coin to mark the UK joining the EEC was changed, after Prince Philip said he did not like the 'little p', and the more serious: it was believed the USA had plans for US airborne troops to seize the oil installations in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in 1973."
Until SCO divulges the infringing code?
*winks and waits for his -1, Offtopic*
Of course, we all know that if British intelligence reports something, it must be false. Otherwise we would all have died 45 minutes after the invasion of Iraq.
GRRRR. Why is /. so UK centric? Aren't the editors aware that there are people in other countries that read this site?
I have a shitty sig!
Actually, the Golan Heights are part of Syria... according to internation law anyway... but who cares about that these days ;)
So they even have plans for when an American citizen is caught in possession of a sense of humour and wit? Wow, talk about covering all the bases.
Turner: What the hell does Counter Intelligence care about a bunch of goddamned books! A book in Dutch! A book out of Venezuela! ...mystery stories in Arabic! What the hell is so important about...(he stops dead.Still.) Oil fields. This whole damn thing was about oil. Wasn't it?
Atwood: Wait!
Turner:
Atwood: Yes, it is! It still is!
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
Did they finally admit to knowledge of 007's actions?
~Chris Hammond
Something like that, I think I read it in the Almanac.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
Of course, there's nothing terrifying about the prospect of a cruise missile tearing into your house at 600mph followed by the occupation of your country by massively armed American kids whose primary motivations in ife are a) shitty beer b) anal porn c) smoking biftas and d) really, really BAD harmonised post-Metallica skater-boy cock-rock.
That was classic intercourse!
Can someone tell me who is currently tasked with the invasion plans for France? I want to speak to him.
Yes, but why don't we have plans to switch away from fossil fuels? Why don't we have plans to make a more self-reliant society? Why don't we have plans to benefit all of mankind?
It's kind of sad to look back at the ignoble plans we have made and realize that we haven't really changed.
Why don't we have plans to give everybody in the world flowers, and a puppy? Its sad to look back at the ignoble plans we have made and realize that not everybody has seen a rainbow yet.
Best Slashdot comment ever
You would rather have them motivated by Nsync or maybe Brittney? :/
We currently have PLANS to invade Canada, we have for years, the Canadians have the same "Plans"
Since the U.S and Canadian militaries are so tightly integrated, how would this work? The second in command of NORAD is always a Canadian.
American General: Launch all bombers to target Ottawa!
Canadian General: Yes sir! (to American Colonel) Launch all bombers to target Washington!
American Colonel: Yes sir! (to Canadian Colonel) Launch all bombers to target Ottawa!
Canadian Colonel: Yes sir! Launch all bombers to target Washington!
Etc...
Whereupon he gets the shit kicked out of him by a parisian whore and an appalled, struggling, artist who'll put down his brush and glass of wine and run over to help the whore, who'll both explain between blows that invasion plans based on poor stereotypes are never likely to be successful.
Probably to land in france with 3000 FOX Reporters to cover the glorious american victory, and 2000 soldiers. The invasion plan will work for about three minutes, right up until France nukes Washington (unlike Iraq, and like the US and Britain, France has real weapons of mass destruction...)
Hehe, explain to me how China could invade the US? A billion canoes and one man's dream? Oh wait, there's 8,000 miles of Ocean and the US Navy in the way. But hey if we can get past the logistics of an inter-continental invasion and the most powerful Naval force in the world we can pull it off -- err, wait, they have thousands of nukes that can reach us and we've only got a few dozen. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I have a friend who was in the Military back in teh 1960s. He was able to tell me that one of the assignments that he had involved lowering a 200+ foot long antenna from the back of an airplane flying near the Florida Keys. I said, that I assumed that they were listening for something coming out of Cuba. ~40 years later he told me that he could not respond to my comment, that the work was still classified.
/., but fuck it I have nothing to hide. 20 years ago I saw several UFOs, I also encountered a Man in Black several months later. Even now, a chill passes through me every time I speak of write about it.
In all seriousness, the government may keep things classified long after they are common knowledge, but how many times have you heard of them taking something that is ALREADY public knowledge and then keeping it classified for 50 years?
I'm hesitant to say this here on
I'm from Pittsburgh, with about an hour of driving you can hear several first hand accounts of people who witnessed something crash in Kecksburg during December 1965, and the military came in to cart away this "nothing" that crashed in the woods. From the descriptions of the object, I'd be more likely to believe that it was a Soviet space craft than anything "Alien".
It's kind of hard to keep a lid on the "big stories" like Roswell. The only way to keep it quiet would have been to kill every witness, but then the strange disappearance would have been a story with its own life. Instead of UFO crash stories, we'd have stories about mass disappearances/murders.
But because it's the Government it must be a conspiracy of some sort.
A large corporation can sue you into bankruptcy, but they can't label you a terrorist or a "hacker" and incarcerate you without trial for several years. SCO can't shoot at Linus 41 times as he reaches for his wallet. We have far more to fear from the government, as such we should be more watchful of the government's activities.
On the positive side, we can hope that in 7 years the UK will release some useful information about what US and UK military personnel encountered in Rendelsham Forest in December 1980
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Luckily, standonguard.com has been taken offline since it outlined the Canadian takeover of the United States. Celine Dion was part of the second wave.
Which is why the US is also planing to invade Iran, Syria and Suadi next week. After all they could attempt to build Weapons of Mass Destruction. Best to enact a "regime change" and get rid of the possibility. Just to be safe. Right?
What's amazing? Seems the best hope you have of not being nuked by NATO.