"A number of Pentagon officials said they were proudly holding on to their false glimmer of hope for a victory that remains forever out of reach, and explained that waging a war that can only end in sorrow has validated all their efforts."
Herat and Marv used to be the center of the universe - civilization without peer. Science, art and literature flowed in the widely literate bridgehead of the silk road.
Streets were lit and clean, houses were cooled by evaporation and sewage was carried away efficiently.
Europe was a muddy horse trough, at the time.
But the Mongols came. Ghengiz Khan changed these circumstances, not in a generation, but in a year. The population and culture of the Eastern Iranian plateau have not recovered in 8000 years...
Because in 36 short months, thanks to Goldman Sachs and their ball-suckers at the Carlyle Group, etc., the United States is going to resemble AFGHANISTAN more than it does DENMARK.
Who needs a science education to scavenge rats for supper?
Er... I assure you Mrs Buttle, the Ministry is always very scrupulous about following up and eradicating error. If you have any complaints which you'd like to make, I'd be more than happy to send you the appropriate forms. Look, I'm very sorry, but I'm afraid I don't know anything about it... I'm really just delivering the cheque. If you wouldn't mind signing these receipts, I'll go and leave you in peace.
We can all
look back at the wonderful decision that was made to send more troops
to Korea. If we had not, we could have been bogged down in a quagmire
there that would have required 50 plus years of American lives,
involvement and money. What a wonderful decision it was to send
more troops to Vietnam. If we had not, we could have lost over 58,000
soldier's lives; killed millions of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians
and been forced to flee the country with our tails between our legs,
deserting our allies to the horrors of communist retribution. Good
thing our wonderful leaders had the wisdom and courage to send "more
troops." Now we are forced with the same dilemma; send more
troops or face military defeat.
The question
is: why are we in Afghanistan in the first place? Now that time
has erased the emotions of retaliation for the events of 9/11 and
our country elected a new leader who campaigned on the principle
of bringing an end to our involvement in these costly wars, why
the call for more troops? Could it be we are again simply following
the dictates of the power cabal as Major General Smedley Darlington
Butler so eloquently outlined in his outstanding work, War
is a Racket?
Anyone with
a rudimentary knowledge of our quest for empire over the past six
decades realizes that Obama's contemplation of whether to send additional
troops to Afghanistan is simply those who control him providing
Obama with the opportunity to look "presidential." The
decision to send additional troops was reached prior to the situational
comedy of General McChrystal's leaked
"confidential report" to the Washington Post
and Obama's National Security Advisor's public
admonishment of McChrystal's failure to follow the chain of
command. All of this is nothing but a well-rehearsed, though poorly
camouflaged hoax. Additional troops will be sent to Afghanistan
within a very short period of time and Obama really has no say in
the matter. The question is: why?
Could it be
the US-installed puppet government in Afghanistan has new suitors
who represent a very real threat to the United State's control of
Afghanistan and her abundant natural resources? Is the entry of
Russia and Chinese influence into Afghanistan the real reason for
the need for more troops? Russia reportedly made its entry back
in 2007 with the reopening of its embassy in Kabul. The Russian
Foreign Minister, Sergei Ivanov, met privately with President Karzai
and offered military assistance through the Collective
Security Treaty Organization. (CSTO) The CSTO is made up of
Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and
Uzbekistan. Russia is the driving force in this organization, as
one might understand, due to the economic and military weakness
of the other members. There were meetings with CSTO delegation in
Kabul and neither the US nor the UK were invited. Were the US/UK
Germans were hung for exactly comparable actions. If you remember, "Blitzkreig" was universally condemned as inhumane and a war against a population, not an army. Now, war against population - and the jet-age perfection of blitz methodology - is routinely justified. You are an apologist for atrocity.
Read that again. YOU are an apologist for ATROCITY. You DRINK the blood of children. Not directly - you get sloppy seconds off the sacrificial table of the baby-murderers. You kill you OWN mother, through others.
Pipeline routes that we can control in the "Great Game" to exclude global power from China, Russia and/or India.
Global Opium and Heroin trade (Afghan opium production, which fell under Taliban rule has rocketed 1000% since the placement of 'coalition troops').
Don't believe it? That's because you didn't closely follow DoD and CIA ops in Laos and Cambodia - nor see the documented history continue through Nicaragua, El Salvador and Panama.
The lives they're saving are on our side. Our "side"? Imperial stormtroopers Their "side"? Mothers, children and helpless villagers, "inconveniently located" on top of something we want to steal.
I think your statement is true, if provided the modifier: If you don't have physical security, AND YOUR ATTACKER HAS A MAGICAL ACCESS TO AN INFINITE AMOUNT OF TIME, then you have nothing, and you can't ever get around that fact.
Look. Unattended physical access by the "Evil Maid" is a security risk - I will warrant you. She can steal the laptop with BitLocker, and reformat it with a new OS.
I don't see why you want to argue the more arcane aspects of physical security by misunderstanding the role of a TPM in encryption, when the blatant, obvious and probable are staring you in the face!
In fact, Joanna has fallen into the same error - improbable scenario and attack. Anyone with the motivation to place a Maid in your hotel to get at your data, is just as motivated and funded to get a sysadmin in your IT dept., where the vectors and opportunities to intercept your data are exponentially more plausible and rewarding.
The bootloader is signed. Use this in combination with the TPM chip (embedded smartcard) on your laptop - AS SPECIFIED BY THE GUIDANCE - and use a PIN. There's no loading the disk or getting at the data without cracking AES. At least once.
You see, under the post-Kennedy era system of American government, executive and legislative sideshows are intended not to demonstrate and direct power - but to distract from the real power of the land.
Bang! One magic bullet. You buy that story, and they already had you in the Matrix.
I am speaking to the specific class of influenza vaccines. Not critiquing tuberculosis, etc.
If you have such studies and data at hand, and are so familiar and confident in them, that you feel free to spit invective, rather than present your argument in a rational and concise manner - then please, do so.
Otherwise, you are just another ranting loonie, of the "I learned it in school, and saw it on the telly" variety.
Slashdot Mirror
U.S. Continues Quagmire-Building Effort In Afghanistan
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/u_s_continues_quagmire_building
"A number of Pentagon officials said they were proudly holding on to their false glimmer of hope for a victory that remains forever out of reach, and explained that waging a war that can only end in sorrow has validated all their efforts."
http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/US-continues-quagmire-map.jpg
The Onion writes itself. It simply reports the truth, with a straight face, and it makes people laugh, as they say to themselves, "How true!"
Like a BRA!?
Whoops! 800 years! Extra ought!
Herat and Marv used to be the center of the universe - civilization without peer. Science, art and literature flowed in the widely literate bridgehead of the silk road.
Streets were lit and clean, houses were cooled by evaporation and sewage was carried away efficiently.
Europe was a muddy horse trough, at the time.
But the Mongols came. Ghengiz Khan changed these circumstances, not in a generation, but in a year. The population and culture of the Eastern Iranian plateau have not recovered in 8000 years...
America is next. About bloody time.
Because in 36 short months, thanks to Goldman Sachs and their ball-suckers at the Carlyle Group, etc., the United States is going to resemble AFGHANISTAN more than it does DENMARK.
Who needs a science education to scavenge rats for supper?
"Nuclear engine develops YOU!"
I think that I CAN'T remember - having been bored-to-death by Landau and Bain.
Well the you can party like it's 1999 - "Whoops, Party over, outta time..."
Funny.
According my reading of the calendar - it's right here on the wall, in my office - the whole thing goes tits-up, Dec 31, 2009!
Er ... I assure you Mrs Buttle, the Ministry is always very scrupulous about following up and eradicating error. If you have any complaints which you'd like to make, I'd be more than happy to send you the appropriate forms. Look, I'm very sorry, but I'm afraid I don't know anything about it... I'm really just delivering the cheque. If you wouldn't mind signing these receipts, I'll go and leave you in peace.
Well, Albert. I say we eat the girl, instead.
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/boyanddog/boyanddog2.wav
The Real Reason for More Troops in Afghanistan
We can all look back at the wonderful decision that was made to send more troops to Korea. If we had not, we could have been bogged down in a quagmire there that would have required 50 plus years of American lives, involvement and money. What a wonderful decision it was to send more troops to Vietnam. If we had not, we could have lost over 58,000 soldier's lives; killed millions of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians and been forced to flee the country with our tails between our legs, deserting our allies to the horrors of communist retribution. Good thing our wonderful leaders had the wisdom and courage to send "more troops." Now we are forced with the same dilemma; send more troops or face military defeat.
The question is: why are we in Afghanistan in the first place? Now that time has erased the emotions of retaliation for the events of 9/11 and our country elected a new leader who campaigned on the principle of bringing an end to our involvement in these costly wars, why the call for more troops? Could it be we are again simply following the dictates of the power cabal as Major General Smedley Darlington Butler so eloquently outlined in his outstanding work, War is a Racket ?
Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of our quest for empire over the past six decades realizes that Obama's contemplation of whether to send additional troops to Afghanistan is simply those who control him providing Obama with the opportunity to look "presidential." The decision to send additional troops was reached prior to the situational comedy of General McChrystal's leaked "confidential report" to the Washington Post and Obama's National Security Advisor's public admonishment of McChrystal's failure to follow the chain of command. All of this is nothing but a well-rehearsed, though poorly camouflaged hoax. Additional troops will be sent to Afghanistan within a very short period of time and Obama really has no say in the matter. The question is: why?
Could it be the US-installed puppet government in Afghanistan has new suitors who represent a very real threat to the United State's control of Afghanistan and her abundant natural resources? Is the entry of Russia and Chinese influence into Afghanistan the real reason for the need for more troops? Russia reportedly made its entry back in 2007 with the reopening of its embassy in Kabul. The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Ivanov, met privately with President Karzai and offered military assistance through the Collective Security Treaty Organization. (CSTO) The CSTO is made up of Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Russia is the driving force in this organization, as one might understand, due to the economic and military weakness of the other members. There were meetings with CSTO delegation in Kabul and neither the US nor the UK were invited. Were the US/UK
Participation in this war of agression is categorically a war-crime. Period.
It wasn't a crime to kill blacks in South Africa, at one time, either.
I offer two articles about Afghanistan. If this result not crime, it is only because the laws have been written by the oppressor.
Media Distortion: Killing Innocent Afghan Civilians to "Save Our Troops"
Eight Years of Horror Perpetrated agaisnt the people of Afghanistan
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15665
Photos of Civilians Injured by US/NATO Forces in Afghanistan
http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009/10/19/photos-of-civilians-injured-by-us-nato-forces-in-afghanistan.html
Germans were hung for exactly comparable actions. If you remember, "Blitzkreig" was universally condemned as inhumane and a war against a population, not an army. Now, war against population - and the jet-age perfection of blitz methodology - is routinely justified. You are an apologist for atrocity.
Read that again. YOU are an apologist for ATROCITY. You DRINK the blood of children. Not directly - you get sloppy seconds off the sacrificial table of the baby-murderers. You kill you OWN mother, through others.
Thank you for your insightful illustration of the Nurembburg defense.
Natural gas.
Pipeline routes that we can control in the "Great Game" to exclude global power from China, Russia and/or India.
Global Opium and Heroin trade (Afghan opium production, which fell under Taliban rule has rocketed 1000% since the placement of 'coalition troops').
Don't believe it? That's because you didn't closely follow DoD and CIA ops in Laos and Cambodia - nor see the documented history continue through Nicaragua, El Salvador and Panama.
Sure. The Wehrmacht mission always looks good - compared to the Waffen SS.
Hope you had fun avoiding the White Phosphorus and DU war-crimes in Fallujah.
The lives they're saving are on our side.
Our "side"? Imperial stormtroopers
Their "side"? Mothers, children and helpless villagers, "inconveniently located" on top of something we want to steal.
I think your statement is true, if provided the modifier: If you don't have physical security, AND YOUR ATTACKER HAS A MAGICAL ACCESS TO AN INFINITE AMOUNT OF TIME, then you have nothing, and you can't ever get around that fact.
Look. Unattended physical access by the "Evil Maid" is a security risk - I will warrant you. She can steal the laptop with BitLocker, and reformat it with a new OS.
I don't see why you want to argue the more arcane aspects of physical security by misunderstanding the role of a TPM in encryption, when the blatant, obvious and probable are staring you in the face!
In fact, Joanna has fallen into the same error - improbable scenario and attack. Anyone with the motivation to place a Maid in your hotel to get at your data, is just as motivated and funded to get a sysadmin in your IT dept., where the vectors and opportunities to intercept your data are exponentially more plausible and rewarding.
Bullshit.
The bootloader is signed. Use this in combination with the TPM chip (embedded smartcard) on your laptop - AS SPECIFIED BY THE GUIDANCE - and use a PIN. There's no loading the disk or getting at the data without cracking AES. At least once.
So... Start your engines.
KILGORE! I LOVE YOU!
When's the sequel to Venus on the Half Shell going to appear?
They hate us, for our freedoms!
Too bad the US Intelligence community just invested in that Visible boondoggle.
They'll NEVER catch up to the work of the NSA/Stanford side-project, under the command of Dr. Schmidt.
Vote! Vote my little worms!
Divert your will and energies into our little show of "change"!
While another Goldman exec is put in charge of "Enforcement - ensuring that there is none...
You see, under the post-Kennedy era system of American government, executive and legislative sideshows are intended not to demonstrate and direct power - but to distract from the real power of the land.
Bang! One magic bullet. You buy that story, and they already had you in the Matrix.
Equally, all experimental data supporting efficacy of Influenza vaccination is wishful thinking, and imprecise analogy.
I am speaking to the specific class of influenza vaccines. Not critiquing tuberculosis, etc.
If you have such studies and data at hand, and are so familiar and confident in them, that you feel free to spit invective, rather than present your argument in a rational and concise manner - then please, do so.
Otherwise, you are just another ranting loonie, of the "I learned it in school, and saw it on the telly" variety.