United States of Spying

[Coligny]

In a democracy he would have a chance at second place max (with a lot of mouthbreather still thinking he's a traitor). In a capitalist dictatorship like the US, impossible...

[Russell]

Edward Snowden's girlfriend living with him in Moscow, film reveals

The mystery of the whereabouts of Edward Snowden’s long-time girlfriend is solved in a documentary that premiered in New York on Friday night: she has been living with the national security whistleblower in Russia since July.

The surprise revelation in the documentary, filmed by Laura Poitras, upends the widespread assumption that Snowden had deserted Lindsay Mills and that she, in a fit of pique, fled Hawaii where they had been living to stay with her parents in mainland US.

Since Snowden, a former NSA contractor, outed himself last year as being behind the biggest leak in US intelligence history, Mills has remained silent, giving no interviews or any hints of her feelings on the subject of her boyfriend or his actions.

The two-hour long documentary, Citizenfour, shows Mills living in Russia with Snowden.

When the Guardian met Snowden in Moscow in July, Snowden suggested the relationship was more complex than the view constantly recycled in the media of a woman abandoned and hinted that the two were not in fact estranged.

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Not major news, but since she appeared earlier in this thread, I thought you guys might wanna know...

[Coligny]

Save the warthog:

Maybe going better than expected...

U.S. Air Force fires General Who Threatened Airmen With ‘Treason’

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/u-s-ai ... d8cb25aaf9

[yanpa]

Save the warthog:

Maybe going better than expected...

U.S. Air Force fires General Who Threatened Airmen With ‘Treason’

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/u-s-ai ... d8cb25aaf9

Medium.com - the website for short-sighted people.

[Coligny]

Worse: followed from a fark thread...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Obama says sorry to Japan after WikiLeaks claims of US spying

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday apologised to Tokyo after WikiLeaks claimed Washington had spied on Japanese politicians, a government spokesman said.

Obama held a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Wednesday morning, spokesman Yoshihide Suga said, adding that the pair agreed to work together on global economic issues in the wake of a stock market meltdown sparked by fears over China.

President Obama said he was very sorry... as the case caused a big debate in Japan," Suga told a regular news conference, without confirming the spying claims.

He added that Abe reiterated his "serious concern" over the case.

"Prime Minister Abe told (Obama) that, if the Japanese people concerned were subject to these activities, it would risk jeopardising trusting relations between allies," Suga said.

[matsuki]

Unlike German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande, Abe did not appear to be a direct target of wiretapping -- but other senior politicians were, according to WikiLeaks, including Trade Minister Yoichi Miyazawa.

How does a foreign country wiretap senior politicians in Japan?

[Coligny]

Check the roof of the ambassy for extra antennas...

They are fist fucking the country since 1945.
It's more surprising that they managed to listen on Hollande's booty calls...

[Russell]

Unlike German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande, Abe did not appear to be a direct target of wiretapping -- but other senior politicians were, according to WikiLeaks, including Trade Minister Yoichi Miyazawa.

How does a foreign country wiretap senior politicians in Japan?

So, who were they wiretapping then?

The people really in power?!?

[Samurai_Jerk]

Unlike German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande, Abe did not appear to be a direct target of wiretapping -- but other senior politicians were, according to WikiLeaks, including Trade Minister Yoichi Miyazawa.

How does a foreign country wiretap senior politicians in Japan?

What's so surprising? They do that kind of shit all the time.

[matsuki]

Unlike German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande, Abe did not appear to be a direct target of wiretapping -- but other senior politicians were, according to WikiLeaks, including Trade Minister Yoichi Miyazawa.

How does a foreign country wiretap senior politicians in Japan?

What's so surprising? They do that kind of shit all the time.

In the past, yeah...but in 2015 Japan, seems like a bigger feat to pull off.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Unlike German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande, Abe did not appear to be a direct target of wiretapping -- but other senior politicians were, according to WikiLeaks, including Trade Minister Yoichi Miyazawa.

How does a foreign country wiretap senior politicians in Japan?

What's so surprising? They do that kind of shit all the time.

In the past, yeah...but in 2015 Japan, seems like a bigger feat to pull off.

Modern technology makes it easier to spy, doesn't it? In the past they actually had to do physical wire taps.

[Coligny]

hubby, aboot your sun/heatstroke brain damage theory...

You might be onto something...

Before mobile phone life might have been hard for intel services...

Now... And with the uniformity iphone/android... I wonder if they even pay the interns...

[Coligny]

The Warthog again...

Test CAS (close air support) competition between the F35 and the A10 to prove the F35 superiority...

http://www.defensenews.com/story/defens ... /71336130/

Seems they want to also put the F35 against the F15E Strike Eagle... Who is a deep strike multi crew(*)... Not a CAS plane...

No word on F35 / F18 match though... Maybe because it would be much harder to rig the game against the F18...

Anyway... They are going to cheat... It's going to be obvious... And a lot of pork will pat themself on the back for the monies they are gonna make...

Or...

The A10 will manage to overcome the cheats and a lot of heads are gonna roll...

(*)yes, like your mom double ended dildo...

[Coligny]

Save the fucking Warthog already...

Or trade in ?

One helicarrier for the remaining fleet and spares ?
(We have jack shit for CAS, even if you count the S342 gazellles...)

[legion]

Biometric Data, what could possibly go wrong?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/23/opm_loses_millions_more_fingerprints/

You can change your password, you can't change your fingerprints

[Samurai_Jerk]

Biometric Data, what could possibly go wrong?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/23/opm_loses_millions_more_fingerprints/

You can change your password, you can't change your fingerprints

Chuugoku mitai!

[legion]

Biometric Data, what could possibly go wrong?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/23/opm_loses_millions_more_fingerprints/

You can change your password, you can't change your fingerprints

Chuugoku mitai!

Gee, that puts my mind at rest, for a minute I was worrying about all those fingerprints they collect at Narita.

[Coligny]

Biometric Data, what could possibly go wrong?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/23/opm_loses_millions_more_fingerprints/

You can change your password, you can't change your fingerprints

And it's impossible to use a dick print with the Iphone fingerprint reader...

Come on, who here didn't try it ?

[Russell]

Biometric Data, what could possibly go wrong?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/23/opm_loses_millions_more_fingerprints/

You can change your password, you can't change your fingerprints

And it's impossible to use a dick print with the Iphone fingerprint reader...

That's because you are not circumcised...

[Coligny]

Holy shit, you sworz not to speak aboot that d00d. At least I shave...

For the others: I can explain we wuz drunk and we wuz taping a new episode for my "nude woodworking" youtube channel. Then he heavily insisted on showing me how clean his car backseats were, then thing got really really weir...

After that te car was a write off BTW...

[matsuki]

Biometric Data, what could possibly go wrong?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/23/opm_loses_millions_more_fingerprints/

You can change your password, you can't change your fingerprints

Chuugoku mitai!

Gee, that puts my mind at rest, for a minute I was worrying about all those fingerprints they collect at Narita.

Was gonna say, last I checked, I wasn't fingerprinted at the airport here....in Japan, another story.

Either way, the whole data storage getting hacked problem is a never-ending issue. It's the next arms race...and I wouldn't be surprised if the investigation results in "chugoku mitai"

[Coligny]

You guys are a threat...

https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/

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A buffoonic, incompetent, threat...

[wagyl]

Was gonna say, last I checked, I wasn't fingerprinted at the airport here [USA]....in Japan, another story.

I was going to say, last I checked, I was. That also includes passengers who intend to only transit through the US. It is one of a number of reasons why I chose to travel to the Pacific Coast of South America via the Middle East and Atlantic Coast of South America.

[Wage Slave]

Seems they have been watching our old friend Mohammed Emwazi.

One official said the jihadist, Mohammed Emwazi, was thought to be hit as he left a building in Raqqa, Syria, and entered a vehicle. The official called it a "flawless" and “clean hit” with no collateral damage and that Emwazi basically "evaporated."

Perhaps it would have been better to take him alive and put him through the justice system but evaporation will do. Never heard of evaporation as a way of bumping someone off but, yeah, I can see that as polite alternative for blown to smithereens.

The Daily Mail, bless their red, white and blue underwear, managed to misreport it as eviscerated - which sounds far less tidy. Anyway, I don't believe everything the Pentagon says but this has the ring of truth. Evaporated it is then. Bye Bye.

Wonder if we will ever see the video. I do hope so.

https://gma.yahoo.com/jihadi-john-believed-killed-us-drone-strike-us-035317680--abc-news-topstories.html

Edit to add: I see the DM has corrected their top story. Sloppy as hell in the first place though. Evaporated it is.

[matsuki]

LOL, evaporated....that should be the name of his next album if he has any unreleased material.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Yeah, the "day in court" has come a bit out of fashion in the US. At least, they don't use trees and ropes any more for their justice, drones and evaporation are a definite step into the 21st century lynch justice...

[Wage Slave]

I agree but find it hard to criticise the US on this one. And you must admit, "We will hunt you down and kill you." is a very clear, simple message. Meanwhile the Daily Mail is still on about evisceration in their byline but not the main text. The mind boggles.

Officials in the US are scrambling to determine whether he has been killed following the drone attacks in Raqqa, Islamic State's capital (bottom right). The British Isis militant, whose real name is Mohammed Emwazi, was reportedly 'eviscerated' when leaving a building and entering a vehicle.

[matsuki]

Yeah, the "day in court" has come a bit out of fashion in the US. At least, they don't use trees and ropes any more for their justice, drones and evaporation are a definite step into the 21st century lynch justice...

As much as I am for capturing the dude and putting him on trial...we are talking about a dude from a terrorist group they got on video beheading people, making propaganda vids beheading people...during a war...in Syria. Somehow I'm ok with this evaporation.

[Russell]

Seems they have been watching our old friend Mohammed Emwazi.

One official said the jihadist, Mohammed Emwazi, was thought to be hit as he left a building in Raqqa, Syria, and entered a vehicle. The official called it a "flawless" and “clean hit” with no collateral damage and that Emwazi basically "evaporated."

Perhaps it would have been better to take him alive and put him through the justice system but evaporation will do. Never heard of evaporation as a way of bumping someone off but, yeah, I can see that as polite alternative for blown to smithereens.

The Daily Mail, bless their red, white and blue underwear, managed to misreport it as eviscerated - which sounds far less tidy. Anyway, I don't believe everything the Pentagon says but this has the ring of truth. Evaporated it is then. Bye Bye.

Wonder if we will ever see the video. I do hope so.

https://gma.yahoo.com/jihadi-john-believed-killed-us-drone-strike-us-035317680--abc-news-topstories.html

Edit to add: I see the DM has corrected their top story. Sloppy as hell in the first place though. Evaporated it is.

Evaporated sounds cleaner, but it just means that he is blown into more pieces of smaller sizes.

If you think that leaves no trace, try spraying 80 kg of red paint.

Only wondering how these tiny pieces are gonna fuck their 64 virgins in heaven. Or will Allah provide those virgins in a similar physical embodiment?

But by all means, show me the video...