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Fwd: [NATURAL_DEFENCE] US Military Out of Control
by grarpamp 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ECOTERRA Intl. <office(a)ecoterra-international.org> Date: Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 8:16 AM Subject: [NATURAL_DEFENCE] US Military Out of Control To: MAILHUB <mailhub(a)ecoterra.net> NO OVERSIGHT AND OUT OF CONTROL: USAmerican Military just does what it wants - worldwide. The New York Times notes that the U.S. now has “over 240,000 active-duty and reserve troops in at least 172 countries and territories.” Count it again: In 172 countries, out of 193 UN member states (the UN knows it - but not the US Senate). Senators ‘Stunned’ To Learn US Has 1,000 Ground Troops In Niger Senate Armed Services Committee members confirmed they had no idea that the U.S. had upwards of 1,000 ground troops operating inside Niger. By Jason Ditz | Antiwar.com - October 25th, 2017 With Pentagon officials offering the first details on the Niger ambush incident, they also revealed details about the ongoing U.S. war in Niger, including the revelation that there is an ongoing U.S. war in Niger. Nobody seems to have known about it. Especially not those whose job it is to know. Senate Armed Services Committee members confirmed they were “stunned” by the revelation, and had no idea that the U.S. had upwards of 1,000 ground troops operating inside Niger. ________________________________ PICTURE | In this image provided by the U.S. Army, a carry team of soldiers from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), carry the transfer case during a casualty return for Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright, of Lyons, Ga., at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Oct. 5, 2017. U.S. and Niger forces were ambushed on Oct. 4 and Wright and three other soldiers were killed. (Pfc. Lane Hiser/U.S. Army via AP) ________________________________ Gen. Joe Dunford presented this military operation as being targeted at an ISIS affiliate inside Niger, and the suggestion is that the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Afghanistan is serving as the legal justification. Perennial hawk Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) expressed comfort with this, saying it is the military’s job to decide who the enemy is, and Congress could defund the war if they objected. This is both not the way US wars are supposed to be launched, and obviously a problem since Congress didn’t even know the war was going on. This is adding to the push to repeal the AUMF as well, or to replace it with something more specific that at the very least wouldn’t be used 16 years after the fact to start a war without telling anyone about it. Officially, where US troops are deployed is supposed to be a matter of public record, though the Trump Administration has been increasingly averse to doing so with any precision, and the most recent figures show over 27,000 US troops deployed overseas to unspecified locations. --- Related | Dying (and Killing) For The Empire Is Not Heroic A U.S. Soldier Died In Niger. What On Earth Are We Doing There? Pentagon Uses Niger Ambush To Bolster AFRICOM Military Budget American writer urged the U.S. to stop promoting fake democracy in Ethiopia - see also: https://www.u-oromo.org/ ___________________________________________________________ - Please send your feedback and comments to americasnode[AT]ecoterra.net All ECOTERRA Media and Disseminations are re-distributable under Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-Alike Licence, but kindly do not take the ECOTERRA free mailing list services for granted! 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Greeting
by ilsa 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Anyone going to the Internet Archive San Francisco, Hackathon to complete some security stuff? Smile, ilsa Ilsa Bartlett Institute for Rewiring the System http://ilsabartlett.wordpress.com http://www.google.com/profiles/ilsa.bartlett www.hotlux.com/angel <http://www.hotlux.com/angel.htm> "Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person." -John Coltrane

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Moon Math and Pretty Rainbows
by grarpamp 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

https://i.imgur.com/orsOrzw.png https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7a4wy5/before_we_go_any_further_i… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alw5hs0chj0 https://i.redd.it/afkmeq8mlbvz.jpg https://imgur.com/citY5yh BTC+BCC+BTG=7500 NYE party @ 9000+ ;) "It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on."

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Is it still good practice to reinstall everything after you are owned?
by How Rude ! 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

> rooty arfspoop at protonmail.com > Wed Nov 1 09:15:16 PDT 2017 > > winblows is a virus > Not true. It is a botnet. Also: blackhat.com/eu-17/briefings/schedule/#how-to-hack-a-turned-off-computer-or… JS;DR: All computers are fucked.

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Is it still good practice to reinstall everything after you are owned?
by Georgi Guninski 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

Is it still good practice to reinstall everything after you are owned? It used to be, but after reading about windows viruses I am not sure it is.

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Post Halloween Music In This Thread... :)
by grarpamp 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

Post Halloween Music In This Thread... :)

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Nothing To Hide: A Surveillance Thoughtumentary
by grarpamp 31 Oct '17

31 Oct '17

Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv3qSfKjCPI https://vimeo.com/185535526 Full Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3mQu9YQesk https://vimeo.com/189016018 https://vimeo.com/nothingtohide Created by Marc Meillassoux In English, Spanish, French, German. A fine film, pass it on. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1587081065/nothing-to-hide-the-documen… https://www.facebook.com/Nothing-to-Hide-Documentary-Film-666963573432713 https://twitter.com/Nothin_to_Hide https://blogs.mediapart.fr/nothing-hide-documentaire https://nothingtohidedoc.wordpress.com/ https://leetchi.com/c/project-nothing-to-hide This documentary questions the growing, puzzling and passive public acceptance of massive corporate and governmental incursions into individual and group privacy and rights. If you think you have "nothing to hide", you are at the right place. We are convinced this film is about everyone. Meeting at events in Berlin, we decided to team up and tackle what is often left out in the surveillance debate. Whereas many post-Snowden reports focus on technical or more abstract aspects of Big Data, we expose its sociological impact, something we all struggle to understand going about our daily lives. The NOTHING TO HIDE argument has not yet been investigated. Ignoring this question does not allow us to answer another: What kind of society are we building for ourselves and future generations? What does it say about us and our societies when we embrace the NOTHING TO HIDE justification? Learn to fly...! Related... https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/search?q=nothing+to+hide

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We Think The Price Of Cryptocurrency Is Worth It
by grarpamp 31 Oct '17

31 Oct '17

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Post Halloween Music In This Thread... :)
by We Bite 31 Oct '17

31 Oct '17

> grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com > Mon Oct 30 15:44:22 PDT 2017 > > post music > you first > For fuck's sake, emptyhandedanon. Roky Erickson - Night Of The Vampire: youtube.com/watch?v=eEpRcVMyuOY wikipedia.org/wiki/Roky_Erickson Happy Halloween [pic related], Jewracula

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Re: jimbellproject.org is looking for volunteers
by jim bell 31 Oct '17

31 Oct '17

From: Volunteer <getalookatmyf(a)cock.email> > jim bell jdb10987 at yahoo.com > Fri Oct 13 05:42:04 PDT 2017 > >> eliminate taxes >> tax bitcoin owners >> gibs me 1/1000th >Lol. What a libertarian. >Sounds more like a tyrannical king. >Gibs me 1/1000 nights with your wife. You have a very vague objection. Nevertheless, I will address it. Freedom is not free. Like other products, it costs money, and a person who offers the possibility of it is not responsible for the lack of it. For instance, the local grocery store doesn't make me hungry, though it sells products to relieve my hunger. Walmart sells tens of thousands of products, but it doesn't make me need any of them. Do you already resent product-sellers who offer products that you need or like to have? If not, why not? I'd like to offer people freedom. Ideally it wouldn't cost anything, but that's not possible now. 22 years ago, I invented/discovered my AP concept, and since then virtually nobody has argued that if properly implemented, it won't work. The cost, in principle, would be exceedingly low. For instance, it looks like the new Defense budget for America will be over $700 billion. AP could easily protect the region formerly known as "The United States" for less than 1/100 that. ($7 billion could kill 700 threatening world leaders, and each of their successors, if the cost to kill one is $10 million. Are you willing to dispute this? Very likely, the actual problem is that you are a Statist. A Statist is a person who wants government, or believes in government. Maybe not all governments, but at least one government. He believes in government, probably in large part, because he thinks he will be (or already is) in charge: Jim Bell

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