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Robert Young Pelton Profile picture
@RYP__
Jun 25, 2018 • 3 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
In Anza Borrego I was pulled over in the middle of the desert by a ranger at night for having my Defender driving lights on. Having spent years exploring the most remote corners, I asked the officer why he had his lights and siren on and he said "I might be going to a rave"
Years ago I had wanted to write a piece for my #NationalGeographic Adventure column about the collapse of the State Park system. They said no one would care. But here is the ugly truth: sandiegouniontribune.com/g00/communitie…
So I was finally able to draw attention to this problem thanks to Wes Siler and #Outside Magazine outsideonline.com/2162971/breaki…

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Oct 9, 2018
Back when the CIA kept international journalism afloat. Travel publisher Eugene Fodor also allowed CIA NOCs to use his company offices as fronts. nytimes.com/1977/12/26/arc…
May 15 1984. The CIA is upset that the media can publish anything they want. muckrock.com/news/archives/…
May 13 1984. Two days earlier. the media reveals that the United States throws foreign elections by donating millions of dollars to favored candidates. nytimes.com/1984/05/13/wor…
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Oct 9, 2018
Al-Saif Al-Ajrab. Arab bodyguards have a really bad habit of using low grade steroids to bulk up. When I left Libya one of my bodyguards asked to bring horse steroids. It also shrinks their balls to the size of raisins. alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2…
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send hijackers and money. salon.com/2018/10/09/the…
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Oct 7, 2018
1979 was a pivotal year in history. Iran, Russia, China and Britain all began events that would take us where we are today. newsweek.com/why-1979-was-y…
A muj friend of mine in Afghanistan worked with Azzam's assistant Bin Laden and said he would only pay for transporting rockets if you were a Salafist. Saudi money created al Qaeda. Hezbi head Hek stockpiled all the weapons and money we gave him. Only fighting to get more money.
I know of at least 8 CIA missions scrubbed to get bin Laden. That does not include Khartoum's no strings offer in 96 or the Talib's 01 offer to hand him over if they could provide evidence of 9/11 collusion. In 98 Bin Laden blew up two embassies the Uganda plot was foiled)
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Oct 5, 2018
America's war in #Afghanistan began on July 3, 1979. Yes, six months before the #Soviets invaded and long before Operation Enduring Freedom. That's four decades of winning, losing and not giving a damn when the Taliban rolled in. counterpunch.org/1998/01/15/how…
the talibs or #Taliban owe their origins to Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, who translated the Koran into Persian and the Deobandi Dar al-Ulum in Deoband in the Uttar Pradesh province of India opendemocracy.net/sayed-hassan-a…
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Oct 4, 2018
Ghani doesn't want to, and won't, meet with Prince. I was asked many times if Ghani was corrupt. No, he is not. So that is your answer. nytimes.com/2018/10/04/wor…
The CENTCOM boss that runs our army over there weighs in...you know the ones that are accountable, swear an oath of allegiance (to our country), have to clean up the mess and don't do 90 days on, 30 off at four times the day rate. Sorry no cake for Erik. taskandpurpose.com/centcom-votel-…
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Oct 1, 2018
Mercenary provocateur for hire Steve Bannon was testing inflammatory memes as early as 2014. The Breitbart, fake news, troll factory, Facebook, Jingoist divisive targeting tactics are popular in third world countries and also used by terrorist groups.
The 2013 paper that inspired the current targeting. Facebook users who took the "myPersonality" quiz were unwittingly handing over the data of 360 of their "friends". Stillwell refused to work for SCL so they copied his work and created Cambridge Analytica apa.org/pubs/journals/…
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