Turkey bombed Iraq which was a US 'protectorate'

Turkey though is Israeli and US bedfellow so no objection.

Though this is grounds for war. With Turkey.

Saudi Arabia, with American support, is fomenting religious civil war between the Sunni’s and Shia in
Iraq, Syria and much of the Middle East region

t. ‘People are amazed how fast it can separate the head from the
body,’ he said. Sometimes he also has to carry out amputations of hands or legs. ‘I use a special sharp
knife, not a sword. When I cut off a hand I cut it from the joint. If it is a leg the authorities specify where
it is to be taken off, so I follow that.’”

The Associated Press that Saudi leaders were shocked to
learn 15 of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

8 > 2

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Dogz love boobies

“Any hope that the Obama administration would roll back the constitutional excesses of George Bush in the war on terror was extinguished today.

ya think?

President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law today. The statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration there are about 1.5 million car accidents with deer each year that result in $1billion in vehicle damage.
Latest figures show that each year more than 100 people are killed with 10,000 injured after collisions with deer.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079939/Elderly-driver-70-killed-car-crash-severed-deer-head-flies-windscreen.html#ixzz1iCG5ygYP

“We have differing views on this,” said Romney. “Some of the people, actually one of the people, running for president thinks it’s O.K. for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. I don’t.”

I don't think its acceptable for Romney to own guns, or computers, or to run for pres.

. It said it was able to get the credit card details in part because Stratfor didn't bother encrypting them — an easy-to-avoid blunder which, if true, would be a major embarrassment for any security-related company.

Fred Burton, Stratfor's vice president of intelligence, said the company had reported the intrusion to law enforcement officials and was working with them on the investigation.

Right, social attempt solution for a tech problem.
Morons.

So you raise some ferrets. And you give one the flu.
Let it infect another. Let that one infect a third.

Continue this serial passage until a ferret in the same room, not just cage, gets sick from flu.

Now you have an airborne variant of the flu you started with.

For sci bonus points, sequence it and comment on mutations.

For Streisand effect, have the USG try to censor your work.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- The paper used to produce newspapers came under government control in Argentina on Thursday, in a long-sought victory for President Cristina Fernandez in her dispute with the country's opposition media.

Argentina's senate, which is controlled by Fernandez's allies, voted 41-26 to control newsprint's manufacture, sale and distribution to media friends and foes alike.



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How about Cat-5 cable? Typewriter ribbons?

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/adrian-lamo-bradley-manning/

The last supper wasn't so well documented.

that the US is afraid to send people to fight its battles; we're afraid to meet the enemy face to face, and that makes us cowards and dishonorable.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/12/drone-ethics-briefing-what-a-leading-robot-expert-told-the-cia/250060/

Even if we could solve these problems, there may be another one we'd then have to worry about. Let's say we were able to create a robot that targets only combatants and that leaves no collateral damage--an armed robot with a perfectly accurate targeting system. Well, oddly enough, this may violate a rule by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which bans weapons that cause more than 25% field mortality and 5% hospital mortality. ICRC is the only institution named as a controlling authority in IHL, so we comply with their rules. A robot that kills most everything it aims at could have a mortality rate approaching 100%, well over ICRC's 25% threshold. And this may be possible given the superhuman accuracy of machines, again assuming we can eventually solve the distinction problem. Such a robot would be so fearsome, inhumane, and devastating that it threatens an implicit value of a fair fight, even in war. For instance, poison is also banned for being inhumane and too effective. This notion of a fair fight comes from just-war theory, which is the basis for IHL. Further, this kind of robot would force questions about the ethics of creating machines that kill people on its own.


the relics that think that war is controlled by bans on expanding bullets, robots, chemwar, salting the earth, is evil. those relics don't understand modern war.
modern war, where 10 to 100 civilians die for each of your mercs.

and the usg only fields paid mercs, not conscripts: so their moral value is zero.

It's conceivable that there might be a target of such high value that even a 1,000:1 collateral-damage rate, or greater, would be acceptable to us.

What's an acceptable rate of innocents killed for every bad guy killed: 2:1, 10:1, 50:1?


http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/12/drone-ethics-briefing-what-a-leading-robot-expert-told-the-cia/250060/

In our Bohemian days, we were internationalist in politics and quite the opposite of patriotic. I hadn’t realized the need Christopher felt to belong to something. He was far too satirical to show it. But in the fullness of time he revealed that he really belonged in an America of his own choice.

But skepticism is a universal solvent, and once applied, it does not stop just because Christendom is gone. "I think, therefore I am. I think." We pulled out the stopper of faith, and the bathwater of reason appeared undisturbed for a time. But modernism slowly receded and now postmodernism is circling the drain. Our intelligentsia needs to figure out how to do more than sit in an empty tub and reminisce about the days when Voltaire knew how to keep the water hot. ...