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Wikileaks poll

What do you think of wikileaks?

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applecorped said:
But were Americans dammit, we need adventures!;)
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It was proposed a long time ago that you turn, say, Texas into a "violence experience park", where everyone who wishes to can feel like a hero like they did in the old days. It would just be important that this happens in a controlled environment, where people who aren't interested in playing that game anymore aren't hurt.
 
Oliver said:
I wonder if that loony "Journalist" actually understood what McGovern meant...
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I hope the kid had some kind of "who the hell was this guy" moment and will listen to the long version of what McGovern has to say. 20min radio interview from last week. Among many other things, even Ray is surprised about how successfully the germans and spaniards could be pressured into not bringing kidnappers and torturers to justice, like the cables reveal. ;)
 
Apropos, seen the latest Rapnews? Hilarious performance by Alex Jones in a duet with Hillary Clinton. :D

Rap News 6 - Wikileaks' Cablegate: the truth is out there
 
As I said, Assange is a new idol for the young, a new Michael Jackson, he inspires songs and copycats, people will use his image as an avatar, and I'm sure his leather Jacket is sold out.

And BTW, it's "à propos".
 
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Pardalis said:
As I said, Assange is a new idol for the young, a new Michael Jackson, he inspires songs and copycats, people will use his image as an avatar, and I'm sure his leather Jacket is sold out.

And BTW, it's "à propos".
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BTW, it is "apropos" in English.
 
Pardalis said:
As I said, Assange is a new idol for the young, a new Michael Jackson, he inspires songs and copycats, people will use his image as an avatar, and I'm sure his leather Jacket is sold out.

And BTW, it's "à propos".
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Your observation is completely wrong ... again. However, it is true that I use him as Avatar just to annoy you. :p Anyway, Assange does not matter at all in that whole story. Some day you will acknowledge that, too. Or probably not.
 
Just in from salon.com:

Glenn Greenwald said:
The merger of journalists and government officials

The video of the CNN debate I did last night about WikiLeaks with former Bush Homeland Security Adviser (and CNN contributor) Fran Townsend and CNN anchor Jessica Yellin is posted below. The way it proceeded was quite instructive to me and I want to make four observations about the discussion:

(1) Over the last month, I've done many television and radio segments about WikiLeaks and what always strikes me is how indistinguishable -- identical -- are the political figures and the journalists. There's just no difference in how they think, what their values and priorities are, how completely they've ingested and how eagerly they recite the same anti-WikiLeaks, "Assange = Saddam" script. So absolute is the WikiLeaks-is-Evil bipartisan orthodoxy among the Beltway political and media class (forever cemented by the joint Biden/McConnell decree that Assange is a "high-tech Terrorist,") that you're viewed as being from another planet if you don't spout it. It's the equivalent of questioning Saddam's WMD stockpile in early 2003.

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Embarrassing how this thread is dominated by two wacky Germans spoonfeeding you facts you are perfectly able to look up and understand yourselves, given that most of you are on the right side of the bell curve, reasonably educated and have enough time on your hands to bitch around on internet forums. But the combined yankistani critical-thinking ability of this subforum is only able to produce a quiet blank stare. Stop being apathetic complacent douchebags. Now is the time.
 
Childlike Empress said:
Embarrassing how this thread is dominated by two wacky Germans spoonfeeding you facts you are perfectly able to look up and understand yourselves, given that most of you are on the right side of the bell curve, reasonably educated and have enough time on your hands to bitch around on internet forums. But the combined yankistani critical-thinking ability of this subforum is only able to produce a quiet blank stare. Stop being apathetic complacent douchebags. Now is the time.
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Feel better?
 
Childlike Empress said:
Embarrassing how this thread is dominated by two wacky Germans spoonfeeding you facts you are perfectly able to look up and understand yourselves, given that most of you are on the right side of the bell curve, reasonably educated and have enough time on your hands to bitch around on internet forums. But the combined yankistani critical-thinking ability of this subforum is only able to produce a quiet blank stare. Stop being apathetic complacent douchebags. Now is the time.
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Nominated.
 
Thanks babycondor.

Two weeks or so ago, Australian-born and UK-based investigative journalism legend John Pilger's latest documentary "The war you don't see" aired on UK public television. The topic could be summed up with the line in my signature. In it are excerpts from an interview Pilger did with Assange.

Now Pilger has released the full interview. Apparently it was conducted in late summer/early autumn. It's 68 min of two people sitting in a dark room and having a calm and in-depth discussion about method, motive and perspective.

 
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