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Wim is a 49 year old man from The Hague, Netherlands
Hi, I'm Wim. I work as an investigative journalist (intelligence, terrorism -I used to work in govt. intel and am unable to lose the investigative habit, haha), have a penchant for poetry, Irish whisky, blues and Bach, and I've since long given up my attempts to quit smoking.
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Tehran-43: Wrecking the plan to kill Stalin, Roosevelt...
From the page: "We arrested all the members of the first group and made them make contact with enemy intelligence under our supervision. It was tempting to seize Skorzeny himself, but the Big Three had already arrived in Tehran and we could not afford the risk. We deliberately gave a radio operator an opportunity to report the failure of the mission, and the Germans decided against sending the main group under Skorzeny to Tehran. In this way, the success of our group in locating the Nazi advance party and our subsequent actions thwarted an attempt to assassinate the Big Three."
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Interesting story from a man with a fascinating biography.
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BBC News - Turkish ex-president Kenan Evren faces coup...
Rated • 1 review • politics • bbc.co.uk
From the page: \"A Turkish court has accepted indictments against the country\'s seventh president, Kenan Evren, for his role in the 1980 army coup.
Prosecutors are seeking life terms for Gen Evren, 94, and another retired general, Tahsin Sahinkaya, 86, the only survivors among the five coup leaders.
Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday the time for coups was over.
Last Friday, the former head of Turkey\'s armed forces was remanded in custody over an alleged 2003 plot.\"
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Clearly Erdogan is carrying out his own \'silent\' coup d\'etat by taking the armed forces out of the power-equasion. Or at least he seems to be attempting it quite succesfully, so far.
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http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/R40901.pdf
Rated • 1 review • government • fas.org
If you are in the U.S. and use binoculars, or take measurements, or appear to be observing something, you may be reported (in a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) to the U.S. intelligence community.The Congressional Research Service has published an interesting report on this kind of thing.
I believe this SAR-initiative fits into the makings of a police state.
Jefferson said that whoever is willing to give up liberty for security, deserves neither.
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How Austerity Is Killing Europe by Jeff Madrick |...
Rated • 1 review • government • nybooks.com
From the page: \"On the last day of 2011, a headline in The Wall Street Journal read: “Spain Misses Deficit Target, Sets Cuts.” The cruel forces of poor economic logic were at work to welcome in the new year. The European Union has become a vicious circle of burgeoning debt leading to radical austerity measures, which in turn further weaken economic conditions and result in calls for still more damaging cuts in government spending and higher taxes. The European debt crisis began with Greece, and that nation remains the European Union’s most stricken economy. But it has spread inexorably to Ireland, Portugal, Italy, and Spain, and even threatens France and possibly the U.K. It need not have done so. Rarely do we get so stark an example of bad—arguably even perverse—economic thinking in action.\"
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I had wanted to comment on the article, but while writing it dawned upon me how much the New StumbleUpon sucks.
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