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Information in the ultimate weapon and the internet is the ideal vector for attack.
I don't understand why this comment is being voted up. What does it mean, and how does it relate to the comment it's responding to?
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Except we never closed Gitmo, and even if we did, the public outcry is associated with that base's name alone. If the military were to rename and move it a couple miles over, the public perception wouldn't ever reach Gitmo levels at least as long as Obama is in office.
Which is pretty much what's happening, except it's moving to the other side of the world. And we're just killing people rather than bringing them in. So, there's your Gitmo solution.
It was in Panama as the "U.S. Army Caribbean Training Center" and was forced to move as a result of the Panama Canal treaty. Then they changed the name to School of the America's and focused on fighting communists (with the same tactic of training what we now call insurgents).
After the killing of nuns in South America it started to get bad press (referred to as the "School of Assassins") and eventually was forced to "close" and reopen as "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation".
Gitmo seems like it is about to undergo a similar process.
Edit: Just saw that today is the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. The people responsible were trained at the School of Americas.
New Update: "To those worrying about us--we're fine, and will issue a suitable riposte shortly." http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/10993931099
New Update: "To those worrying about us--we're fine, and will issue a suitable riposte shortly." http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/10993931099
i have a second source who validates that they're ok, just busy looking for bandwidth in a politically neutral state/jurisdiction. If anyone knows anyone who has that, pls let me know & i'll pass it on....
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> Those who introspect and attempt to confront the demons within must have more courage than a soldier on the battle field. Nice rhetoric, but I don't buy it. Methinks the author of said quote has never been a soldier.
I thought that too. It's one thing to think about death and another to face it. But I have faced it. 4 times I've almost died: Once I was saved from drowning, I was in two car crashes, and the last time was due to an illness. Everything went blue. My vision shrank to a pin hole and right before I passed out and collapsed, this feeling of peace came over me. I remember thinking, "This is what it is like? This is dying…
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Those loyal to truth are often the enemy of all. We all have secrets to hide. Watching a philosopher speak the other day, he said a quote from someone I can't remember, but goes something like this: Those who introspect and attempt to confront the demons within must have more courage than a soldier on the battle field. In this case, if the "leader of the free world" is responsible for something so dramatic that this…
> Those loyal to truth are often the enemy of all. And lately especially of the US govt. Our govt. holds secrecy of classified information above morality. I am sure CIA and other such agencies have blood on their hands, and they have done many morally questionable things in the name of 'national interest'. For them morality is only manifested as legal limits -- the amount of stuff they can get away before being found…
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i have a second source who validates that they're ok, just busy looking for bandwidth in a politically neutral state/jurisdiction. If anyone knows anyone who has that, pls let me know & i'll pass it on....
Isn't this a great use case for torrents?
It sounds like there'd be some risk involved..
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Isn't this a great use case for torrents?
Would you be willing to host the torrent file? It sounds like there'd be some risk involved..
Or host it in a country that likes to irritate the US government. Iran comes to mind. Venezuela would surely be open to it as well.
If Osama Bin Laden can find hosting there is no reason why a group of clever engineers can't as well.
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Would you be willing to host the torrent file? It sounds like there'd be some risk involved..
Trackerless torrent files combined with hosts like Rapidshare, Zshare, Megaupload, etc should do the trick. Once it starts to spread it's unstoppable. Or host it in a country that likes to irritate the US government. Iran comes to mind. Venezuela would surely be open to it as well. If Osama Bin Laden can find hosting there is no reason why a group of clever engineers can't as well.
This is the internet, after all.
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It means that the free and open exchange of information is the public's best weapon against corruption.
If that's so, why is Africa still a mess? We have no shortage of knowledge about the scale of corruption south of the Sahara (and north of it); the problem is that those who are prepared to fight in, let's say, Nigeria and those who want to stop corruption in Nigeria are seldom the same people. In the end, weapons are the most important weapons. If a group of people no longer care about anything but their own power,…