How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar. -...
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memeplexo is a 26 year old person from Porto Alegre, Brazil
post-apocalyptic pataphysical scholar [flog]
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Operations in Pakistan's Tribal Areas (SWJ Blog)
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RARE WWII Kamikaze footage. IN COLOR.
Rated • 0 reviews • collecting, video, war, pacific, footage • youtube.com
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List of aircraft of World War II - Wikipedia, the free...
Rated • 0 reviews • aerospace, wiki, war, aircraft • wikipedia.org
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Army to Bloggers: We Won't Bust You. Promise. | Danger...
Rated • 0 reviews • military, war, blogosphere • wired.com
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.05/feat_cia.html
Rated • 7 reviews • fiction, war • wired.com
"For about a week, no one in Washington or Ottawa could invent a reason for anyone to be in Tehran. Then Mendez hit upon an unusual but strangely credible plan: He'd become Kevin Costa Harkins, an Irish film producer leading his preproduction crew through Iran to do some location scouting for a big-budget Hollywood epic. (...)
To build his cover, Mendez put $10,000 into his briefcase and flew to Los Angeles. He called his friend John Chambers, the veteran makeup artist who had won a 1969 Academy Award for Planet of the Apes and also happened to be one of Mendez's longtime CIA collaborators. Chambers brought in a special effects colleague, Bob Sidell. (...)
All they needed now was a film -- and Chambers had the perfect script. Months before, he had received a call from a would-be producer named Barry Geller. Geller had purchased the rights to Roger Zelazny's science fiction novel, Lord of Light, written his own treatment, raised a few million dollars in starting capital from wealthy investors, and hired Jack Kirby, the famous comic book artist who cocreated X-Men, to do concept drawings. (...)
Since Chambers had been hired by Geller to do makeup for the film, he still had the script and drawings at his house. The story, a tale of Hindu-inspired mystical science fiction, took place on a colonized planet. Iran's landscape could provide many of the rugged settings required by the script. A famous underground bazaar in Tehran even matched one of the necessary locations. "This is perfect," Mendez said. He removed the cover and gave the script a new name, Argo -- like the vessel used by Jason on his daring voyage across the world to retrieve the Golden Fleece. (...)"
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Maciejowski Bible
Rated • 1 review • arts, bible, war • keesn.nl
Saul destroys Nahash and the Ammonites
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The battle for Babylon | Comment is free |...
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Picture This: Transonic Jet Gathers Clouds | Danger Room...
Rated • 5 reviews • technology, war • wired.com
UFO my ride.
