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"All of the internet free speech technology was initially created by our national security state. VPNs to hide your IP address, TOR and the dark web to be able to buy and sell goods anonymously, and encrypted chats. All these things were created as DARPA projects or joint CIA/NSA projects to be able to help intelligence-backed groups to overthrow governments that were causing problems to the Clinton administration, Bush administration, and Obama administration." "This plan worked magically from about 1991 to about 2014 when there began to be an about-face on internet freedom and its utility." "Later, NATO was publishing...

Anyone old enough remembers the 60s sitcoms Gomer Pyle -USMC, F Troop, and McHale's Navy.  A review of DVDs of those fine, funny shows of yore should be high on anyone's list who's been following NATO's misadventure in Libya.  Incoming Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta may want to take a look-see.  After watching a few episodes of each show, you'd swear Gomer Pyle is leading McHale's zanies and F Troop fumblers across Libya's desert sands in side-slapping futility -- all set to laugh track guffaws.Okay, NATO doesn't have boots on the ground in Libya, so Gomer and his goofs aren't...

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen insists that military alliance is "impartial" and will not take sides in the conflict in Libya.