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PosterChild's JournalWar is Hell, But...
But it beats the alternatives.
War, A Necessary Good
Related OP: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024875860
HeartBleed: The Advanced Persistent Threat
A friend of mine tells me that within hours of the public announcement of the HeartBleed vulnerability, his organization (a UART) came under attack by an ATP unit code-named UC. The ATP-UC attack was detected by their internal cyber security system and apparently was not able to establish a presence or "exfiltrate" any information.
Here is a detailed report on one particular ATP group - ATP1 - provided by Mandiant, a cyber security firm:
APT1: Exposing One of China's Cyber Espionage Units
Their web site includes videos of actual ATP1 attacker and intrusion activities in progress!
Dr. Zhivago, Cold Warrior
Dr. Zhivago, Cold Warrior (Washington Post)
(Long hidden, but suspected none the less.)
Donald Rumsfeld Hasn't Learned a Damn Thing
Donald Rumsfeld Hasn't Learned a Damn Thing (What more needs be said?)Do You Speak Dictator? A Quiz
By NICHOLAS KRISTOF
With President Vladimir V. Putin thuggishly stealing Crimea from Ukraine, and serious concern about whether he will also invade eastern Ukraine, a debate is unfolding about whether President Obama is doing enough to stand up to tyranny. That leads me to offer a quiz, so test your skills: Do you speak dictator?
My score: 9 / 12
(From the NY Times - They have a pay-wall over a certain number of articles a month and may require some sort of registration.)
Under Putin, A Fantasy Inside a Delusion Wrapped in a Tissue of Lies
He tells Russians not of their potential to join the world, but that they are victims and have enemies. In reality, Russia is more prosperous today than during the Soviet era, and its citizens benefit more from international involvement.
Madeleine Albright / Jim O’Brien / What Next for Ukraine?
I Was Putin's Pawn
What it was like to work for the Russian propaganda machine, and why I quit on live TV.
POLITICO - I Was Putin's Pawn
I knew I had to quit. I’d been a correspondent for RT for about two and a half years. I’d looked the other way as the network smeared America for the sake of making the Kremlin look better by comparison, while it sugarcoated atrocities by one brutal dictator after another. I’d been thinking about leaving for a long time, but was trying to hang in there until I figured out my next move.
Then Russia invaded Ukraine, and I came to see just how dangerous a propaganda tool the network was. I couldn't be a part of it any longer. I decided, somewhat arbitrarily, that March 5th would be my last day. And when that day came, after some particularly egregious coverage of the Ukraine crisis, I knew my resignation had to be public; I couldn't just silently disappear. That afternoon, I went to the bathroom to scribble down some thoughts before making my dramatic exit. During the 5 p.m. broadcast, after the coverage of Ukraine wrapped up, I made my closing statements:
“I cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian government that whitewashes the actions of Putin,” I said. “I am proud to be an American and believe in disseminating the truth. And that is why, after this newscast, I am resigning.”
How Should the US Respond to Russia?
... Russia has violated all kinds of laws and norms, including most crucially, a treaty that it signed with Ukraine guaranteeing that country’s borders, in return for which Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons... it would be a terrible precedent to allow issues like this to be resolved not through diplomacy, but by force. If Russia could detach parts of neighboring countries with impunity, won’t other great powers like China decide that they too can act in such ways...
How Should the US Respond to Russia?
The nefreious, shadowy, underhanded...
... activity of the National Endowment for Democracy in the Ukraine exposed:
$31,675 To cover the partial costs of the Association’s 9th annual human rights film festival.... Good God!! Human Rights... and FILM!!! A very, very dangerous combination !!!
$32,000 European Choice will organize ... several events to foster youth activism, including an essay contest focusing on the upcoming October 2012 parliamentary elections. An ESSAY CONTEST !!! Doesn't an ESSAY require THINKING??? We can't have THAT! Especially during an ELECTION!!
$21,945 Our House will publish and disseminate nine issues of "A Tutorial for Entrepreneurs" Holy Shit! Entrepreneurs! That's a outright CAPITALIST CONSPIRACY!1!1!
36,294 Smoloskyp will .... develop a virtual museum of Ukrainian samizdat. SAMIZDAT? Isn't that some sort of COMMIE propaganda???
$16,170 The Center will produce and disseminate 5,000 copies of an informational bulletin entitled "How to Vote." How to VOTE? What is this, some sort of voter registration drive? Sounds like ACORN!?! Right out of the Alinski playbook!!!
The World as it is: Does Reality Count?
Obama, The RealistMore than five years into Obama’s presidency, the single word that best sums up his foreign policy is “realist”—in some cases, as one former adviser told me, “hard-nosed,” even “cold” realist.
Much can be explained by what might seem the most unlikely source—his truly seminal years as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an outfit modeled explicitly on the principles of Saul Alinsky....
Alinsky stressed this as his No. 1 rule: “As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. … That means working in the system. … We will start with the system because there is no other place to start from except political lunacy"
....This realism—starting with the world as it is, in order to make effective changes—runs as a near-constant thread through Obama’s presidency. He articulated this view early on, in a speech that, several aides say, he worked on the longest and wrote almost entirely on his own—his Dec. 10, 2009, Nobel Peace Prize lecture in Oslo...
“The instruments of war do have a role to play in preserving the peace,” Obama said at one point. The global security of the post-World War II era, he added, was achieved not just by peace treaties, but by “the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms.” To acknowledge the occasional necessity for force, he went on, isn’t an act of cynicism but “a recognition of history, the imperfection of man and the limits of reason”—the world as it is.
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