By James Bamford, Wired



For the NSA, overflowing with tens of billions of dollars in post-9/11 budget awards, the cryptanalysis breakthrough came at a time of explosive growth, in size as well as in power. Established as an arm of the Department of Defense following Pearl Harbor, with the primary purpose of preventing another surprise assault, the NSA suffered a series of humiliations in the post-Cold War years. Caught offguard by an escalating series of terrorist attacks—the…

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if ya can be patient ... then suddenly here'll i'll be ...

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... before I found you I joined Diaspora @https://diasp.org (there are already quite a lot of pods) ... and sometimes me's still there (da guys search for da same tune as we do in here) ... so I thought ya might also like what…

As I have run my own forging atelier creating beauty in various metals and wood I couldn't pass by and not give you diz gorgeous work of art.

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Graham from Perth sends me all different stuff, mostly jokes but it's the first time he sent such beautiful photos of…

Plato:

For the greater good.

Karl Marx:

It was a historical inevitability.

Machiavelli:

So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken

which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but

also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend

with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the

princely chicken's dominion maintained.

Hippocrates:

Because of an excess of light pink gooey…