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Spy Chief Hints At Limits On Satellite Photos
An anonymous reader writes "Vice Adm. Robert Murrett, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, says that the increasing availability of commercial satellite photos may require the government to restrict distribution. 'I could certainly foresee circumstances in which we would not want imagery to be openly disseminated of a sensitive site of any type, whether it is here or overseas,' he said. This would include imagery on Web sites such as Google Earth, because the companies that supply the photos get help from the NGIA with launches." I had never heard of this particular intelligence agency. During the early months of the invasion of Afghanistan they bought up all satellite imagery over that country, worldwide, in a tactic later dubbed "checkbook shutter control."
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On 24 Apr 2007, The Black Monk wrote:
>Here are some of his words from his manifesto:
>http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/tobyharnden/ april07/nerdkiller.htm
>"Psy-Cho, as Lone Star Times calls him, rejected Christianity,
>condemned debauchery and wealth
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Interesting juxtaposition of words. Cho "rejected Xianity", yet
he "condemned debauchery" and mammon-worship. In the sense that
most self-described "Christians" are wholesale hypocrites, then
Cho rejected them, not our LORD and Saviour Jesus Christ. Or if
Cho did say he rejected Christianity, I haven't seen this video,
or read it in his manifesto. Perhaps someone knows where he said
"I reject Christianity". Are these Cho's word's, or the media's?
>and called himself "Ishmael" or
>"Ismail Ax". Scores of bloggers have speculated about a link to
>Islam.
Cho's aforementioned condemnation of debauchery, and mammon-
worship, and imputed rejection of westernized "Christianity",
rejection -- condemnation, such reveals Cho's projection of
his own feelings of not fitting into a hypocritical society
of "Christians" who worship mammon and promote all manner of
debauchery. Obviously, Cho himself felt--in some ways, was--
rejected and condemned by the aforesaid. Cho didn't fit in,
much as our Muslim brethren are having trouble "fitting in",
or our Mexican brethren are having trouble "fitting in" etc.
But all nations, all peoples are guilty of being xenophobic,
hypocritical, mammon-worshipping and into everything immoral;
if not one thing, then something else, sinners are *always*
into _something_ immoral, pornography, pharmaceuticals, etc.
Cho had attended America's hard-line Anti-Christian Atheistic
public schools from the time he arrived here at age 8, through
2003 when he graduated high school. Thus Cho was schizophrenic:
part-Atheist by training and indoctrination, part-Christian by
his immortal soul seeing the Light. We might loosely associate
the left-brain with the mundane (Atheist) training, "severity",
and right-brain with the more sublime awareness of heaven and
hell, ergo "wisdom". Whereby Cho's intense psychic affliction,
his karma, and karmic attraction by those to his upset sphere
of influence, could not be reconciled from within and so Cho
externalized it, and went bloody "postal" April 16, 2007 AD.
This next quote from Cho is likewise revealing:
>Cho rejected the reported strong Christian faith of his parents.
>"Jesus loves crucifying me," he said in a video clip. "You loved
>introducing cancer in my head and terrorising my heart, raping my soul
>all this time."
Jesus, love, take up your cross, me (Cho's mortal ego-self).
That's a very Christian thing to say, actually. Next, "You",
here meaning the mortal-world fallen in sin, "meet my new
friend cancer", mortality, dis-ease, which can manifest in
real disease (kudos Edgar Cayce). Cho was contemptuous of
his bad karma, and that of the world, seeing that we are
verily Lucifers all: each time our soul is kicked out of
heaven to mortally incarnate to this "struggling" earth
(cf. Adolf Hitler's Kampf--revealing his own afflictions).
Cho seems to blame Jesus Christ for Cho's own sinfulness.
you know, like "the devil made me do it". Indeed, by Cho
allowing his God-self (Devil of the major arcana, Aries)
to be controlled by his ego-self (devil-incarnate of the
minor arcana, literally the human ego of the human brain,
it can be rightly said that the devil did make Cho do it.
As the maxim goes, our ego makes an excellent servant but
a poor master. Cho lost control of his own ego, as we see.
Thus, the holier-than-thou hypocritical world loves mammon
and debauchery, exacerbating the unease, unsettling motion,
emotional distress, in Cho's mortal ego-self, "in my head".
Then "terrorizing my
you can be jailed for going over the speeding limit by 20 mph, there are more cameras than people, its illegal to own GPS recievers that tell you where the speeding cameras are, new speeding cameras that identify individual cars and time you over long distances to see if you broke the average speeding limit, and now they're going to watch your every single move from the A4 and thru London, and send you a smegging bill.
I'd rather live in the US than in England.
guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
What they are concerned about, of course, is not Google Maps and static data like that. They are very concerned about these foreign concerns sharing near-real-time tactical information, i.e. there's a brigade camped out at Lat xx, Long xx. and they have 4 tanks. This would permit active use in targeting and attack planning our troops.
The US are perfectly justified in using any means possible to deny the enemy this information. Of course, our allies will refuse to supply it, if they do not they are not our allies but are aiding the enemy. If they can't talk them into not sharing it, they will try to buy it, but if they can't or the operators refuse, they are perfectly legitimate targets and can and should be taken out. And it's certainly feasible to do so.
This isn't some sort of Goddamn game, we are talking about our troops lives here.
Brett
Yup. Funny how the tinfoil hat/ultraleft brigade is able to maintain such pure cognitive dissonance. On one hand, Bush is the dumbest thing to ever walk the planet. On the other hand, they also say he masterminded the stealing of 2 elections, caused a hurricane, orchestrated the invasion of 2 countries for "no reason except to steal oil" (damn you people are st00pid to believe that) and any other number of things that would require apparently a superbeing's worth of intelligence.
Yeah. You people are so funny to look at. You should be on display in a zoo. Trust me. The rest of us out here are laughing at you. Hard.