New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus
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New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus
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#2God likes octopuses better than whales.
God says... C:\TAD\Text\WALDEN.TXT
-- all that he could now cling to -- to convince me that it was no common "rider." I felt it, and still remark it almost daily in my walks, for by it hangs the history of a family. Once more, on the left, where are seen the well and lilac bushes by the wall, in the now open field, lived Nutting and Le Grosse. But to return toward Lincoln. Farther in the woods than any of these, where the road approaches nearest to the pond, Wyman the potter squatted, and furnished his townsmen with earth
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#3Link-baity title, but warranted, I'd say.
The story is that the government is launching a spy satellite with a logo on it featuring a "mascot" -- a giant Kraken-like octopus taking over the planet. Whoever created it could only have been thinking of their bureau's unchecked ability to do what it wanted and not the public's perception of it because the creature, especially its eye, looks menacing, ominous, foreboding, malicious, malevolent, and borderline evil. It implies the agency is insular, unaccountable, and has an aggressive, secret agenda it cares about more than anything else, certainly more than your privacy or the consequences of its actions.
The kicker is a comment that juxtaposes the logo with a warning illustration saying "Know your communist enemy" with a nearly-identical logo, presumably implying an evil enemy from the Cold War, which we have become.
The government octopus looks like the Kraken on the top of the wikipedia page -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken -- except the government one is planet-sized and its eyes seem to have more evil intent, to me, at least.
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#4"NOTHING IS BEYOND OUR REACH" says their tag line.
Let that sink in for a minute.
It's the mindset of crazies.
Re: New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus
#5Link-baity title, but warranted, I'd say. The story is that the government is launching a spy satellite with a logo on it featuring a "mascot" -- a giant Kraken-like octopus taking over the planet. Whoever created it could only have been thinking of their bureau's unchecked ability to do what it wanted and not the public's perception of it because the creature, especially its eye, looks menacing, ominous, foreboding,…
Indeed. As the article points out, it's all very super-villainy. They're not even trying to pretend they're the good guys anymore.
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#6"NOTHING IS BEYOND OUR REACH" says their tag line. Let that sink in for a minute. It's the mindset of crazies.
It's definitely something someone with too much power would say or think, especially in the context of the NSA.
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#7That Octopus is probably one of their tamer patches. The National Reconnaissance Office missions have the best patches - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_Launches and http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/Mission_Pa... detail them rather well.
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#8None of the revelations of US spying of the past year have particularly shocked or surprised me, and probably not very many here.
The level of sheer insanity displayed in the latest revelations however, with yesterday's "horde of Orcs" and this sickening slogan "nothing is beyond our reach" is worse than I could have imagined.
US intelligence has not just gone beyond what is acceptable, they've completely gone off the reservation and have lost all perspective. Historically, this doesn't end well.
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#9It's the Space Kraken! We must fire SRB's at it!
http://www.kerbalcomics.com/2012/07/30/episode-12-fighting-s...
Re: New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus
#10None of the revelations of US spying of the past year have particularly shocked or surprised me, and probably not very many here. The level of sheer insanity displayed in the latest revelations however, with yesterday's "horde of Orcs" and this sickening slogan "nothing is beyond our reach" is worse than I could have imagined. US intelligence has not just gone beyond what is acceptable, they've completely gone off th…
>Historically, this doesn't end well.
Doesn't end well for us the little people. Those who operate in the shadows, those have the power to play these games probably have it a lot better since they undoubtedly operate outside the rules they set for the rest of us (witness the lack of accountability shown by anyone who has ever been involved in any of these shenanigans).