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Jean Lievens: PayPal Integrates BitCoin — This Is HUGE!

Why Paypal integrating with Bitcoin is a big deal: reader opinion By Malavika Nair Alabama.com, 2 October 2014 Paypal, the online payment processing giant, recently announced it would start letting its merchants accept Bitcoin by taking first steps toward integrating with three of the largest existing Bitcoin payment processing companies: Bitpay, Coinbase and GoCoin. This seemingly …

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Robert Steele: Stephen Draper on Intelligence in Complex Environments, with Comment

Intelligence in Complex Environments by Stephen Draper Small Wars Journal, 1 August 2014 Four years into the United States military’s effort to counter the Lord’s Resistance Army in central Africa its leader, Joseph Kony, remains elusive. This certainly isn’t for lack of effort or resources. One hundred Special Forces advisors, a robust command and control …

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Wayne Madsen: NSA Spies on US Allies — With Direct Witting Assistance of AT&T, EDS, Qwest, H-P, Motorola, Cisco, Qualcomm, Oracle, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, and Verizon

Washington Spies on NATO; Other Allies Wayne MADSEN Strategic Culture.org | 18.05.2014 EXTRACT Implants are inserted by NSA into targeted computer systems and network devices through what the NSA calls «supply-chain interdiction». Equipment is intercepted between the manufacturer and the end-user. At a secret facility called a «load station», devices called «beacons» are inserted clandestinely …

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NIGHTWATCH: Afghanistan-Russia-India, Good-Bye ISAF

India-Russia-Afghanistan: India, Russia and Afghanistan quietly have created a triangular arrangement for providing arms aid to Afghanistan after NATO withdraws. None of the countries have made an official announcement. Only a small number of news services, including The Moscow Times and Pakistani newspapers, have published articles about it. The arrangement was finalized in February when …

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David Swanson: War Can Be Ended — And No, the US Civil War Was Not About Slavery and Not Worth the Human and Other Enduring True Costs

War Can Be Ended Part I Of BOOK: War No More: The Case For Abolition Slavery Was Abolished In the late eighteenth century the majority of people alive on earth were held in slavery or serfdom (three-quarters of the earth’s population, in fact, according to the Encyclopedia of Human Rights from Oxford University Press). The …

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Chuck Spinney: A Reckless Disregard for Truth and Sanity – The Syrian Guns of August

A Reckless Disregard for Truth and Sanity The Syrian Guns of August by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch, December 1, 2013 http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/10/the-syrian-guns-of-august/ Remember the thumping of Obama’s war drums for a US attack on Syria last August and September, including his spokesmen’s absurd invocations of Kosovo as a precedent for a limited cruise missile strike on Syria?  The …

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