tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post8379629027704087131..comments2024-03-29T09:32:34.853-04:00Comments on Mike Norman Economics: Craig Murray - The Guardian Rejoices in the Silencing of Assange mike normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-3041939059625460902018-05-17T13:32:00.593-04:002018-05-17T13:32:00.593-04:00Tangentially related: the CIA has charged a former...Tangentially related: the CIA has charged a former employee with espionage regarding the release of information about CIA hacking activity and techniques. But they don't have any evidence so they charged him with child pornography, claiming that they found "tens of thousands of pictures" on his computer.<br /><br />Child porn stings and smears have been used repeatedly against people the Deep State doesn't care for, like Scott Ritter. Glenn Greenwald doesn't travel with electronic devices because he's concerned that such things could be planted on them and that he could then be arrested based on "routine search" while traveling.Noah Wayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12012500819097539976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-88767364557903104632018-05-17T06:03:57.200-04:002018-05-17T06:03:57.200-04:00I wouldnt say that Assange is looked upon that way...I wouldnt say that Assange is looked upon that way here in the US...<br /><br />I think here in US he has probably a wider acceptance... 99% of negativity against Assange is UK driven...<br /><br />The UK intelligence community has a lot to hide wrt their involvement in the coup attempt against Trump... and will eventually be made to pay a price for this... maybe the whole UK will be made to pay a price...<br /><br />Typical Trump people here imo probably support Assange... Trump is on the record as saying "I love wikileaks.."...Matt Frankohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978352335097260145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-2750048694906638892018-05-17T04:11:09.271-04:002018-05-17T04:11:09.271-04:00“Boy, do I hate The Guardian. I bought that paper ...“Boy, do I hate The Guardian. I bought that paper for years and carried it about as a badge of honour, and maybe it was okay once, but I suspect that to some degree it was always leading me away from the truth to protect the establishment's interests.” ~ Kaivey<br /><br />The original Manchester Guardian was honest and colorful; even witty and insightful. In 1959 it became known as “The Guardian.” By the late 1980s it had really started to slip. In the 1990s it completely sold out to the neoliberal Establishment. Today it is not fit to line birdcages with. It is true that the Guardian is not part of Rupert Murdoch’s fiefdom, but it is still a tabloid rag that Britons read on the dreary train ride to and from work. <br /><br />At home, Britons get their news from the radio, from TV, and from the Internet. Or from gossip in the pub. On the trains they get their news from broadsheet tabloids like the Guardian or the Sun, that intersperse sexy photos (e.g. “page 3 girls” meaning bare-breasted female glamour models) with pro-neoliberal, pro-war, pro-Israel trash. <br /><br />Those privatized trains. Always trying to gouge you for more money when you buy tickets. (“That fare is only offered on Tuesdays from 2 to 2:30 pm.”)<br /><br />When I was a young boy in the USA I listened to the BBC on short wave radio, and I loved what I took to be its cosmopolitan sophistication. I learned many things about faraway lands that I had not known before. As a little boy I fancied that the BBC made me into something of a James Bond, learning about foreign cultures. <br /><br />Those were better days. The elderly in the U.K. know what I am talking about. The youth do not. <br /><br />My late aunt and late grandmother were from England. They used to show me photos from the homeland (taken 1940-1970). That was a different world. Young people have no idea how far things have fallen. Our world today has become a “Mad Max” wasteland.Konradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01739209449391854796noreply@blogger.com