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    How to get a milk can off a bears head

    Whoever put that can on the bears head in the first place is a real asshole
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    BlackWaters Founder Eric Prince In Africa

    It's actually more expensive, but outsourcing sensitive operations adds one more layer to opaqueness. If the US government and its officers fail to accomplish a goal, they look like bad. If a contractor fails to accomplish it's goal, the government is effectively shielded. If the government...
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    BlackWaters Founder Eric Prince In Africa

    I'm not going to discuss further as it will definitely be crossing into the line of no politics. However, I'll propose the end game still is the establishment of docile, malleable, and controllable Iraqi and Afghan governments sympathetic to US interests. The UN doesn't share those...
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    BlackWaters Founder Eric Prince In Africa

    Part of the problem is the vast majority of the US population doesn't want war. If you look at the major conflicts of the past century, the general US population never wanted a war. You had Gulf of Tonkin, 9/11, etc. that were the best opportunities to formally go to war, while the plans were...
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    BlackWaters Founder Eric Prince In Africa

    Sorry didn't mean to like that. I was going to reply with some thoughts, but outsourcing is a convenient way to handle things.
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    A drone's view of fireworks

    Con Te Partiro by Andrea Bocelli
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    Sidearms & Scatterguns Small handy EDC fixed blades, what do you........?

    I have one of those too. I'm going to get a custom IWB holster made for it with the soft loop. I don't care at all for the one it came with.
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    BlackWaters Founder Eric Prince In Africa

    The other interesting thing about Africa is they carry little cash or credit cards and pay with most stuff by cell phone. At least the 'modern' areas: What Africa Can Teach Us About the Future of Banking - Businessweek
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    Headstamps for 5.56

    Thanks x2 for this. Probably the topic for another thread, but has anybody tested neck hardness as a function of # firings to figure out how many firings you can get away with, before having to anneal?
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    Maggie’s What are you drinking right now!?

    Ouzo, a gift from my Israeli friend. Never been a fan of anise, but if there's alcohol in this stuff, I can't taste it at all.
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    Need some GOOD advice

    The best thing you can do is find a good PT and trainer that understands your situation. Shop around.
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    Headstamps for 5.56

    Can't answer definitively, but I had a huge box of 5.56 brass mostly LC and FC. I took all the mixed LC headstamps, processed them, and worked up a load, then shot about 250 or so from a stock 700 bolt gun with excellent results. When I verified my load I put 10 through 1 ragged hole about half...
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    Broken pins

    x2 on the Lee. Inexpensive and gets the job done.
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    This is getting nasty

    Most of the DoD associated research labs, really aren't all that shadowy, compared to other portions of the DoD/IC. Given that the public services sector of the economy is the only one growing, and a lot of that is due to DoD/Gov funding both in academia and industry, I see no tin foil hat...
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    This is getting nasty

    Reminds me of the MKUltra experiments, however more ethically in the gray: "Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was among the twenty-two Harvard undergraduates used as a guinea pig in ethically questionable experiments conducted at Harvard by Henry Murray. In the experiment each...
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    This is getting nasty

    This is officially the tin foil hat thread.
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    This is getting nasty

    I've been reading a lot on the Council of Foreign Relations lately. Very interesting stuff. Can anybody tell me who killed James Forrestal and why?
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    This is getting nasty

    I watched that flick and it was very interesting. At this point, I'm more interested in a complete list of shareholders in the Federal Reserve member banks.
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    This is getting nasty

    Unless you guys can name the names of the people really running the show, I have to conclude at this point there is a lot of speculation going on. I have a big reading list, and will get to the Tavistock book eventually. The book on the Federal Reserve was already on it as is Bernay's...