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2011-09-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by tipper 2011-09-28 00:04|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Along cometh TWITTER > [IIRC] HITLER, BUSH, OBAMA, HILLARY CLINTONSARKOZY, CAMERON, BLAIR [+ others] ARE ALL FROM THE SAME FAMILY TREE.

"Its in the Blood/All in the Family", aa the saying(s) go.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-09-28 00:37|| 2011-09-28 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Isn't Sarkozy Hungarian though?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-28 01:20|| 2011-09-28 01:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, but Sarkozy is far less likely to be a MOSSAD agent.

It's a standard rule of thumb that intelligence agencies post their spies in 3rd countries, hopefully neutral ones. The largest Soviet "interest section", for example, was in Canada. This actually benefited Canadian citizens around the world, because the Soviets told all their client countries to respect Canada's neutrality, and not harass their citizens.

The US is a natural for Israel, not because of our neutrality, but because we have such "open access" around the world, something perhaps even more valuable than neutrality.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-09-28 11:06|| 2011-09-28 11:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah, but Sarkozy is far less likely to be a MOSSAD agent

He doesn't seem to radiate competence very much... and there's all the affairs and whatnot, which is kinda a no-no for intelligence people, no matter how nice her birthday suit is.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-28 12:04|| 2011-09-28 12:04|| Front Page Top

#5 The weird thing is that some intelligence agencies actually go out of their way to recruit homosexuals as field people, as long as they and their partner remain monogamous.

This is because they are often a better fit for the recruitment matrix. That is, it is often a cultural taboo to suggest that two men are homosexuals, even if they travel together. While foreign men may sexually harass a woman agent, they won't harass male agents, as long as they avoid other homosexuals.

And even if they get a government angry with them, they might be able to locate and use that country's homosexual underground to escape.

Weird business.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-09-28 17:29|| 2011-09-28 17:29|| Front Page Top

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