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Budget Issues Force Spy Satellites Into The Open

Posted by timothy on from the pretty-soon-we're-talking-real-money dept.

Korsair25 points out this article about a U.S. spy satellite program. "Quote: 'Over the decades, spying from space has always earned super-secret status. They are the black projects, fulfilling dark tasks and often bankrolled by blank check.' It also talks about some of the technology used to disguise or camouflage some of the operational satellites."

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  1. Close, but you're just not cynical enough. . . by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Why is it so very hard for people to accept the possibility that 9/11 was deliberately allowed to happen?

    I mean, come on! A sociopath doesn't care about the welfare of other people. Killing a few thousand to achieve his/her goals is no different than blowing up frogs during childhood. It's not like the U.S. hasn't recklessly killed innocent people before in the name of weapons sales and big business. Honestly! Why is this such a hard logical step for people to make?

    I mean, it's the easiest and most rational solution. It fits all the evidence without requiring any mental gymnastics. And yet, people insist on coming up with laborious and clumsy explanations which all spin around the make-believe center pin wherein Bush and his fellows are not really self-serving, heartless liars. Anything but that!

    That, in itself, is evidence enough of an even more important principal at work, I think.


    -FL