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Post by newhivemaster on Mar 22, 2016 0:43:39 GMT -5
Worm hunting EARLY today. Up late, and noticed that the day had rolled over.
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newhivemaster
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Post by newhivemaster on Mar 22, 2016 0:44:01 GMT -5
Good morning, Hive!!!
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Post by mrobvious on Mar 22, 2016 4:57:10 GMT -5
Good Morning. No wonder I can't find any early birds around here. Your worms keep eating them.
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Post by mrobvious on Mar 22, 2016 5:04:03 GMT -5
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Post by Outsider on Mar 22, 2016 5:35:04 GMT -5
Saw that this am; in retaliation for the guy getting busted in Brussels, or planned already, do you think?
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Post by forgottenlord on Mar 22, 2016 6:30:47 GMT -5
Saw that this am; in retaliation for the guy getting busted in Brussels, or planned already, do you think? I suspect a little of both. I'm reading and he'd said that he'd rebuilt his network and started planning fresh attacks so what might have happened is in the absence of their leader, they opted to advance his plans before they could be exposed. BTW: current stats are 23 dead, 55 wounded. I'm seeing 13 at the airport and 10 or 15 at the Metro station (both numbers have been given by officials but different officials - the latter supposedly came from the transit operator so it might have him just eyeballing it). Obviously, it's early, those totals are expected to skyrocket.
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Post by forgottenlord on Mar 22, 2016 6:37:54 GMT -5
A study reviewed the studies of alcohol consumption and supposed links to health and concluded that it previous conclusions of health benefits are unfounded. Specifically, it noted that those who were classified as non-drinkers in said studies did not properly consider past consumption practices. www.cbc.ca/news/health/alcohol-health-1.3501314
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Post by forgottenlord on Mar 22, 2016 6:39:04 GMT -5
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Post by forgottenlord on Mar 22, 2016 6:40:36 GMT -5
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Post by Outsider on Mar 22, 2016 6:49:35 GMT -5
This was a good read. Saw it on my fb news feed this am
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Post by mrobvious on Mar 22, 2016 7:01:29 GMT -5
"To me, it suggests that either the FBI doesn't understand the technology or they weren't giving us the whole truth when they said there is no other possible way" of examining the phone without Apple's help, said Alex Abdo, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union. "Both of those are scary to me."
Yes, very scary. Our FBI wants the brute force tools to do their job when it's fully possible that there are lots of smart people out there that can help without forcing Apple to smash their encryption.
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Post by forgottenlord on Mar 22, 2016 7:05:09 GMT -5
"To me, it suggests that either the FBI doesn't understand the technology or they weren't giving us the whole truth when they said there is no other possible way" of examining the phone without Apple's help, said Alex Abdo, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union. "Both of those are scary to me."
Yes, very scary. Our FBI wants the brute force tools to do their job when it's fully possible that there are lots of smart people out there that can help without forcing Apple to smash their encryption. It also highlights the flaw of total intelligence that is the modus operandi of the current intelligence community. When you assume you know everything because you have access to everything, you are blind to the possibilities of what you don't know and become less creative at trying to figure it out. Whether it actually results in increased safety is a dubious proposition at best.
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Post by mrobvious on Mar 22, 2016 7:10:59 GMT -5
"To me, it suggests that either the FBI doesn't understand the technology or they weren't giving us the whole truth when they said there is no other possible way" of examining the phone without Apple's help, said Alex Abdo, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union. "Both of those are scary to me."
Yes, very scary. Our FBI wants the brute force tools to do their job when it's fully possible that there are lots of smart people out there that can help without forcing Apple to smash their encryption. It also highlights the flaw of total intelligence that is the modus operandi of the current intelligence community. When you assume you know everything because you have access to everything, you are blind to the possibilities of what you don't know and become less creative at trying to figure it out. Whether it actually results in increased safety is a dubious proposition at best. That is a good point; how did they ever function without all the modern trappings?
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Post by foggyisback on Mar 22, 2016 7:27:51 GMT -5
s author=" Outsider" source="/post/304/thread" timestamp="1458642904"] Saw that this am; in retaliation for the guy getting busted in Brussels, or planned already, do you think?[/quote] I agree it was a little of both. Still unfortunate that this could happen in Syria and no one shrugs any shoulders.
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Post by forgottenlord on Mar 22, 2016 7:47:07 GMT -5
It also highlights the flaw of total intelligence that is the modus operandi of the current intelligence community. When you assume you know everything because you have access to everything, you are blind to the possibilities of what you don't know and become less creative at trying to figure it out. Whether it actually results in increased safety is a dubious proposition at best. That is a good point; how did they ever function without all the modern trappings? I remember that when the Paris attacks happened, they intelligence community admitted that they were baffled and caught completely off guard because the networks had all gone dark. It was only after that they figured out what happened: the terrorists had figured out how to exploit the dark net - the unmapped nodes of the Internet and how to transmit messages directly to one another. In a world of absolute intelligence, the intelligence community created a single point of failure. Contrast the attempted London attack where three different intelligence agencies had fully infiltrated the group. People intelligence is the most powerful tool in the world, but the intelligence community does not value it because it is not perfect and they delude themselves into believing that perfection is an achievable goal.
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Post by Outsider on Mar 22, 2016 7:52:03 GMT -5
Brussels Terror Attacks Bring Guerrilla War to the Heart of Europe Coordinated attacks on Brussels this morning may signal the start of an ISIS-led guerrilla warfare campaign in the West. PARIS — As explosions rocked the airport and the metro in Brussels this morning, fears grew that the threat of terrorism is morphing into the threat of guerrilla war in Europe. The attacks, which killed more than 20 people, came four days after the arrest in Brussels of Salah Abdeslam, a member of the terrorist cell that attacked Paris cafés, a sports stadium, and a concert hall in November, slaughtering 130 people. On Sunday, the Belgian foreign minister warned that Abdeslam was planning a new attack. Some reports suggest that this attack, clearly coordinated in the style of the Paris carnage, was what was in the works, and went ahead without Abdeslam. It was known that at least two of his associates were still on the run. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said it was clear Europe was no longer simply the victim of a series of isolated terror attacks. "We have been subjected for the last few months in Europe to acts of war," he said. "We are at war." As French scholar Gilles Kepel has pointed out, the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, which carried out the Paris attacks and which presumably was involved in today’s bombings, is following a playbook written more than a decade ago: The Call for an International Islamic Resistance by Abu Musab al Suri, a Syrian jihadist. www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/22/bomb-blasts-rip-into-heart-of-europe.html
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Post by Outsider on Mar 22, 2016 7:54:04 GMT -5
The Republican Establishment’s Desperate Scheme to Steal the Presidency The stop-Trump set’s latest fantasy: a third-party conservative candidate who could leave Clinton just short of the magic number. Well, now they’re really serious, they swear. The “they” here are the Republican power people, and the thing they’re now really, really serious about is stopping Donald Trump. Seen this movie? Yeah, I have too. But we have a new iteration now, since a lot of these folks went on the record to talk to The New York Times about their latest stop-Trump scheme. It’s desperate, it’s daft, and if it’s going to have any impact on the election it will probably be only to make it more likely that Hillary Clinton wins in November. But there is a chance, just a chance, that it will succeed, and if it does succeed, it will produce what I have thought for some time now would be this election’s ultimate nightmare scenario: The House of Representatives appointing as president the person who finished third—a very, very distant third—in the Electoral College. Here’s the bleak tale of how that would happen. The Times article notes that Republicans are hoping to block Trump in Wisconsin on April 5 with either Ted Cruz or John Kasich and then build from there. But if that fails—and it’s likely to—these GOP insiders are prepared to run an “independent conservative” for president on a third-party line. The first and most obvious question that most people would ask is, “Who is this savior?” That’s actually the least interesting question. The Times article mentions Rick Perry and former Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn. A twice-failed presidential contender and a retired senator whose with extremely limited appeal beyond the base. Yawn. But let’s put “who” aside. The more interesting questions here are 1) how would this person get on 50 state ballots and 2) what impact on the actual vote would this candidacy have? www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/22/the-republican-establishment-s-desperate-scheme-to-steal-the-presidency.html
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Post by Outsider on Mar 22, 2016 7:55:27 GMT -5
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz’s Magical Budget Math The GOP frontrunners wave “growth” and “waste, fraud and abuse” wands. Don’t get distraced. The GOP prides itself on being the party that cares about smaller government and reducing debt and deficits. But the policies we have seen so far from the Republican presidential candidates, for the most part, have been utterly out of touch with the fiscal realities our country faces. All the major candidates have said they want to balance the budget. And yet, they have proposed massive tax cuts that costs trillions of dollars, very few spending cuts and barely any specifics on entitlements. In fact, the Republican front-runner doesn’t even think we should touch Social Security at all despite the program’s looming insolvency. During the last Republican debate, CNN’s Dana Bash asked Donald Trump how he would address Social Security—the largest government program and one of the fastest growing parts of the budget. There are plenty of options: raise the retirement age, change the benefit formula, fix how we calculate inflation, bring in more revenues. Yet Trump first explained how Democrats don’t want to do anything to Social Security. Then he explained how he… doesn’t want to do anything to Social Security. That is both a pander, and a recipe for large, abrupt, across-the-board cuts when the trust funds run out of money in about 15 years. “You’re talking about waste, fraud and abuse,” Bash followed up, “but an independent bipartisan organization, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, says improper payments like you’re talking about—that would only save about $3 billion, but it would take $150 billion to make Social Security solvent. So how would you find that other $147 billion?” Trump went with a confusing answer about increasing our military spending, not policing the world and negotiating better deals. Sorry, but that is not a Social Security reform plan. The numbers just don’t add up. www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/22/donald-trump-and-ted-cruz-s-magical-budget-math.html
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Post by foggyisback on Mar 22, 2016 8:03:51 GMT -5
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Post by foggyisback on Mar 22, 2016 8:08:55 GMT -5
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz’s Magical Budget Math The GOP frontrunners wave “growth” and “waste, fraud and abuse” wands. Don’t get distraced. The GOP prides itself on being the party that cares about smaller government and reducing debt and deficits. But the policies we have seen so far from the Republican presidential candidates, for the most part, have been utterly out of touch with the fiscal realities our country faces. All the major candidates have said they want to balance the budget. And yet, they have proposed massive tax cuts that costs trillions of dollars, very few spending cuts and barely any specifics on entitlements. In fact, the Republican front-runner doesn’t even think we should touch Social Security at all despite the program’s looming insolvency. During the last Republican debate, CNN’s Dana Bash asked Donald Trump how he would address Social Security—the largest government program and one of the fastest growing parts of the budget. There are plenty of options: raise the retirement age, change the benefit formula, fix how we calculate inflation, bring in more revenues. Yet Trump first explained how Democrats don’t want to do anything to Social Security. Then he explained how he… doesn’t want to do anything to Social Security. That is both a pander, and a recipe for large, abrupt, across-the-board cuts when the trust funds run out of money in about 15 years. “You’re talking about waste, fraud and abuse,” Bash followed up, “but an independent bipartisan organization, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, says improper payments like you’re talking about—that would only save about $3 billion, but it would take $150 billion to make Social Security solvent. So how would you find that other $147 billion?” Trump went with a confusing answer about increasing our military spending, not policing the world and negotiating better deals. Sorry, but that is not a Social Security reform plan. The numbers just don’t add up. www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/22/donald-trump-and-ted-cruz-s-magical-budget-math.htmlWho else in this world besides DNN reporters pronounce Dana 'danna' and Suzanne 'su-zohn'?!?
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Post by mrobvious on Mar 22, 2016 8:10:38 GMT -5
Brussels Terror Attacks Bring Guerrilla War to the Heart of Europe Coordinated attacks on Brussels this morning may signal the start of an ISIS-led guerrilla warfare campaign in the West. PARIS — As explosions rocked the airport and the metro in Brussels this morning, fears grew that the threat of terrorism is morphing into the threat of guerrilla war in Europe. The attacks, which killed more than 20 people, came four days after the arrest in Brussels of Salah Abdeslam, a member of the terrorist cell that attacked Paris cafés, a sports stadium, and a concert hall in November, slaughtering 130 people. On Sunday, the Belgian foreign minister warned that Abdeslam was planning a new attack. Some reports suggest that this attack, clearly coordinated in the style of the Paris carnage, was what was in the works, and went ahead without Abdeslam. It was known that at least two of his associates were still on the run. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said it was clear Europe was no longer simply the victim of a series of isolated terror attacks. "We have been subjected for the last few months in Europe to acts of war," he said. "We are at war." As French scholar Gilles Kepel has pointed out, the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, which carried out the Paris attacks and which presumably was involved in today’s bombings, is following a playbook written more than a decade ago: The Call for an International Islamic Resistance by Abu Musab al Suri, a Syrian jihadist. www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/22/bomb-blasts-rip-into-heart-of-europe.htmlAnd all of that shit will fail. It's not the first time we've seen terrorism in Europe and it was eventually destroyed. This is unlike say rebellion in Algeria against a colonial power. You can't win against peoples thirst for freedom. You can suppress it yes, but never win against it. Just as these asshole terrorists can never win an aimless war against a sovereign nation. All they can do is to harm their own movement and eventually ability to function in a free society. Our greatest failure was to be dragged into a costly war on their terms in Middle East (Iraq). Had we not taken the bait we would have had more potent resources to nail them with focus without working as a massive recruitment tool.
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Post by foggyisback on Mar 22, 2016 8:11:09 GMT -5
Worm hunting EARLY today. Up late, and noticed that the day had rolled over. 'That from Tremors??
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Post by foggyisback on Mar 22, 2016 8:13:58 GMT -5
Brussels Terror Attacks Bring Guerrilla War to the Heart of Europe Coordinated attacks on Brussels this morning may signal the start of an ISIS-led guerrilla warfare campaign in the West. PARIS — As explosions rocked the airport and the metro in Brussels this morning, fears grew that the threat of terrorism is morphing into the threat of guerrilla war in Europe. The attacks, which killed more than 20 people, came four days after the arrest in Brussels of Salah Abdeslam, a member of the terrorist cell that attacked Paris cafés, a sports stadium, and a concert hall in November, slaughtering 130 people. On Sunday, the Belgian foreign minister warned that Abdeslam was planning a new attack. Some reports suggest that this attack, clearly coordinated in the style of the Paris carnage, was what was in the works, and went ahead without Abdeslam. It was known that at least two of his associates were still on the run. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said it was clear Europe was no longer simply the victim of a series of isolated terror attacks. "We have been subjected for the last few months in Europe to acts of war," he said. "We are at war." As French scholar Gilles Kepel has pointed out, the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, which carried out the Paris attacks and which presumably was involved in today’s bombings, is following a playbook written more than a decade ago: The Call for an International Islamic Resistance by Abu Musab al Suri, a Syrian jihadist. www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/22/bomb-blasts-rip-into-heart-of-europe.htmlAnd all of that shit will fail. It's not the first time we've seen terrorism in Europe and it was eventually destroyed. This is unlike say rebellion in Algeria against a colonial power. You can't win against peoples thirst for freedom. You can suppress it yes, but never win against it. Just as these asshole terrorists can never win an aimless war against a sovereign nation. All they can do is to harm their own movement and eventually ability to function in a free society. Our greatest failure was to be dragged into a costly war on their terms in Middle East (Iraq). Had we not taken the bait we would have had more potent resources to nail them with focus without working as a massive recruitment tool. There probably wouldn't be an IS if we hadn't invaded Iraq. Agree that this is an attack of desperation?
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Post by mrobvious on Mar 22, 2016 8:14:26 GMT -5
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz’s Magical Budget Math The GOP frontrunners wave “growth” and “waste, fraud and abuse” wands. Don’t get distraced. The GOP prides itself on being the party that cares about smaller government and reducing debt and deficits. But the policies we have seen so far from the Republican presidential candidates, for the most part, have been utterly out of touch with the fiscal realities our country faces. All the major candidates have said they want to balance the budget. And yet, they have proposed massive tax cuts that costs trillions of dollars, very few spending cuts and barely any specifics on entitlements. In fact, the Republican front-runner doesn’t even think we should touch Social Security at all despite the program’s looming insolvency. During the last Republican debate, CNN’s Dana Bash asked Donald Trump how he would address Social Security—the largest government program and one of the fastest growing parts of the budget. There are plenty of options: raise the retirement age, change the benefit formula, fix how we calculate inflation, bring in more revenues. Yet Trump first explained how Democrats don’t want to do anything to Social Security. Then he explained how he… doesn’t want to do anything to Social Security. That is both a pander, and a recipe for large, abrupt, across-the-board cuts when the trust funds run out of money in about 15 years. “You’re talking about waste, fraud and abuse,” Bash followed up, “but an independent bipartisan organization, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, says improper payments like you’re talking about—that would only save about $3 billion, but it would take $150 billion to make Social Security solvent. So how would you find that other $147 billion?” Trump went with a confusing answer about increasing our military spending, not policing the world and negotiating better deals. Sorry, but that is not a Social Security reform plan. The numbers just don’t add up. www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/22/donald-trump-and-ted-cruz-s-magical-budget-math.htmlRemember Joe DeKlien declaring Paul Ryan brave for coming up with a unicorn budget with rosy dreams and Angel Choirs singing and that eventually Romney picked up on? Yeah, that is Media bending over and declaring what was by any economists (including conservative) nothing but a pile of fantasy BS. And every single budget out of GOP and every fantasy out of the skull of GOP candidates remain a total disaster in terms of fixing our economy. They promise austerity on a grand and destructive level for the Middle Class and a bonanza for the super rich which destroying the fundamental function of our republic.
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Post by mrobvious on Mar 22, 2016 8:14:48 GMT -5
Worm hunting EARLY today. Up late, and noticed that the day had rolled over. 'That from Tremors?? DUDE!!!! Dune
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Post by mrobvious on Mar 22, 2016 8:17:43 GMT -5
And all of that shit will fail. It's not the first time we've seen terrorism in Europe and it was eventually destroyed. This is unlike say rebellion in Algeria against a colonial power. You can't win against peoples thirst for freedom. You can suppress it yes, but never win against it. Just as these asshole terrorists can never win an aimless war against a sovereign nation. All they can do is to harm their own movement and eventually ability to function in a free society. Our greatest failure was to be dragged into a costly war on their terms in Middle East (Iraq). Had we not taken the bait we would have had more potent resources to nail them with focus without working as a massive recruitment tool. There probably wouldn't be an IS if we hadn't invaded Iraq. Agree that this is an attack of desperation? Oh it is. ISIS is falling apart. Threatening on all fronts. ISIS only exist because Assad have to fight so many other groups. However since we started nailing their oil money they can't finance their wet dream caliphate. And since they declared their holy nation we have real infrastructure to target. I say the only relative slow down is that Turkey started targeting units fighting ISIS (Kurds) and that Russia got involved shoring up Assad but at the same time weakening moderate rebels also fighting ISIS. Meanwhile in Iraq ISIS is quickly losing the infrastructure they need to keep control over large areas. They're down to villages and desert now.
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Post by kbanginmotown on Mar 22, 2016 8:17:54 GMT -5
A study reviewed the studies of alcohol consumption and supposed links to health and concluded that it previous conclusions of health benefits are unfounded. Specifically, it noted that those who were classified as non-drinkers in said studies did not properly consider past consumption practices. www.cbc.ca/news/health/alcohol-health-1.3501314Damn! ::sets down Bloody Mary:: ::pauses:: ::continues drinking:: ...
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Post by forgottenlord on Mar 22, 2016 8:18:00 GMT -5
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Post by forgottenlord on Mar 22, 2016 8:20:40 GMT -5
There probably wouldn't be an IS if we hadn't invaded Iraq. Agree that this is an attack of desperation? Oh it is. ISIS is falling apart. Threatening on all fronts. ISIS only exist because Assad have to fight so many other groups. However since we started nailing their oil money they can't finance their wet dream caliphate. And since they declared their holy nation we have real infrastructure to target. I say the only relative slow down is that Turkey started targeting units fighting ISIS (Kurds) and that Russia got involved shoring up Assad but at the same time weakening moderate rebels also fighting ISIS. Meanwhile in Iraq ISIS is quickly losing the infrastructure they need to keep control over large areas. They're down to villages and desert now. It's worth noting that ISIS is foundationally based upon pillager tactics and now that their ability to pillage has been limited coupled with a lack of replacement capital through the oil crackdown, their collapse is inevitable.
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Post by mrobvious on Mar 22, 2016 8:24:01 GMT -5
Oh it is. ISIS is falling apart. Threatening on all fronts. ISIS only exist because Assad have to fight so many other groups. However since we started nailing their oil money they can't finance their wet dream caliphate. And since they declared their holy nation we have real infrastructure to target. I say the only relative slow down is that Turkey started targeting units fighting ISIS (Kurds) and that Russia got involved shoring up Assad but at the same time weakening moderate rebels also fighting ISIS. Meanwhile in Iraq ISIS is quickly losing the infrastructure they need to keep control over large areas. They're down to villages and desert now. It's worth noting that ISIS is foundationally based upon pillager tactics and now that their ability to pillage has been limited coupled with a lack of replacement capital through the oil crackdown, their collapse is inevitable. Also note, some of the teenagers joining ISIS are not coming back. Girls/young women talking about a culture of rape and young men talking about beheadings and torture for the most arbitrary things. It's far from the 'cool' ideological/religious cause they were fooled into joining.
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