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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"A little sinister!!" The story behind National Reconnaissance Office's octopus logo
"It's really neat to me. It's kind of saying the enemy has nowhere to run."https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2016/jan/19/octopus-NRO/
That might have had something to do with the mission logo being a gigantic octopus devouring the Earth.
The logo was widely lampooned as emblematic of the intelligence community's tone-deafness to public sentiment. Incidentally, an octopus enveloping the planet also so happens to be the logo of SPECTRE, the international criminal syndicate that James Bond is always thwarting. So there's that.
Privacy and security researcher Runa Sandvik wanted to know who approved this and why, so she filed a FOIA with the NRO for the development materials that went into the logo. A few months later, the NRO delivered.
longship
(40,416 posts)Especially on Fridays when he posts his weekly Friday cephalopod pic. And don't get me started about PZ's Cthulhu obsession.
Then again, Cthulhu may be a sort of a cephalopod -- either way, both are evil. As is PZ (as he would admit). Still, he is Minnesota nice and wouldn't hurt a flea. Nevertheless, PZ is a true liberal and minces no words in his blog.
One of the best blogs anywhere.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I mean, yes: in a perfect world the octopus probably is an organism we should admire; the optics on this are just horrible, though...
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)ronnie624
(5,764 posts)These people are so delusional.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)What seems wrong with it to you?
ronnie624
(5,764 posts)Usually from the puffed and strutting. Anyone who refers to themselves in such a way, clearly has considerable regard for their self.
I guess that's okay.
Behind the Aegis
(53,961 posts)The octopus (along with spiders, apes, and pigs) have often been associated with Jews, but especially the octopus because it has so many arms, which were to represent the ever present arms of the Jewish people in everything. Of course, I wasn't the only one to see it because apparently there are more than a few out there (?) who think this is just another "hiding in plain sight" move from the New World Order (NWO) which is really just an arm of the Zionist Occupied Governments (ZOG).
Historical anti-Semitism...
Krokodil in 1972
Latuff 2010? (a twofer with this one)
David Icke
Nazi era
"ZOG"
Al Ahram