His own story is proof enough of what he is saying. Here is a man with a prestigious and decades long career in journalism that immediately gets stabbed in the back the minute he questions the corporate propaganda line. His job gone, his visibility gone, his prospects gone. Condemned to a life sentence of giving out Cassandra oracles in obscure forums for thinking for himself.

Is that beautiful or what? Makes you believe in the human spirit.

The History Channel is to history what baconnaise is to condiments.

I was trying (but have failed) to find a War Nerd column (highly recommended reading) on the subject of american military revisionism in WW2. The Sherman "makeover" as actually being a really nice tank and yadayadayada was part of a larger jingoistic effort during the start of the current desert wars. Remember those days of red, white and blue fever? Wonder if the History channel will make a doc on that...

As for the Sherman, you just need to look at it. I would call it a VW Beetle with a turret mounted on top, but that would be insulting a fine car.

The truth of course is that the real WW2 was fought on the eastern front and the might of the Wehrmacht was only halted by rivers of Russian blood.

24 year old (if you are referring to Manning). And I would say to you that courage without conscience is simple barbarity.

When the democratic revolution happened here in Portugal, 25 of April of 1974, the soldiers under the command of the regime all disobeyed orders. Things could have gotten very ugly if they had disregarded their conscience and followed orders like good soldiers. There was special concern over a battleship stationed near Lisbon, since the Navy was more loyalist. They could have leveled half the city. But they did nothing.

The only people who fired on the crowd were the secret services, trying to gain time so they could burn all the evidence of their abuses of the population.

So you tell me that Manning doesn't know his ass from his head, but maybe it's the other way around. Because US soldiers are very good soldiers. They always obey orders.

Would you report on someone for illegally invading another country and killing women and children? How far would you go to stop such wanton destruction?

Your arguments are just imperial rhetoric. Everything the US does is always moral and justified, but anything anyone else does that even slightly resembles defiance is an intolerable offense. I'm sure the "entire fucking internet" would have preferred that no invasion had ever taken place. But it did, so now one fights as he is able against the lobotomized destruction machine the US has become.

Sometimes I feel so tired when studying history. The same patterns and arguments repeat themselves ad nauseam. What do you think the Soviets were saying in their propaganda during their invasion of Afghanistan? Didn't Russian mothers care about their children being blown up in the desert? Did that stop the US giving AA weaponry to the Taliban?

But you are correct. All that pales in comparison to Wikileaks telling it like it is.

>> ^MarineGunrock:

How is this guy a creep, asshole, cunt, moron, idiot or deserve any other derogatory name?
That piece of shit Manning stole thousands of classified documents that, in the wrong hands (read: the entire fucking internet) could cause a lot of harm to U.S. service members. The only thing this guy did was tell the authorities what the P.O.S. did. Would you trash-talk someone for reporting a theft, rape or murder? How the fuck is this any different?

>> ^sme4r:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.04/hacker_pr.html check him out


Thanks for the info. Still, I wouldn't take anything at Wired too seriously. Every third article is a blowjob piece about the newest and greatest US killing machine.

Notice how they mention almost like a minor detail the fact that Lamo stalked and used a tazer on his ex-girlfriend. But hey! He loves kittens.

>> ^enoch:

i am going to go out on a limb and say that this weasel is a paid whore with the flimsy cover that he is working as a "private citizen".


Indeed. What seems to have happened is that the US intelligence agencies aren't allowed to do some kinds of spying, so they just went ahead and outsourced the entire thing to "citizen groups".

You know, the kind that are funded by the government and have surveillance state cronies heading them.

This is from the HOPE (Hackers from Planet Earth) conference in New York, back in July.

>> ^Yogi:

Why would this guy go in front of this audience? Also where the heck is this anyways?

Ah! When I saw this on RPS it also devolved into a discussion about "OMG GOLIATHS DON'T FIRE MISSILES AT GROUND UNITS!!!11 noob kekekekekeke"

Props to the maker. Stop motion can be a little like plucking every hair in your body, one at a time.

I have a photographer friend that said to me "The difference between art and porn is the way you light the scene." Of course, some B&W and slow motion can't hurt either.

Notice how well everything is framed, the good taste in wardrobe, the game of domination between the two actresses. The nudity becomes an essential part of the message, not a cheap add-on like the Tie and CPR stunts.

So my vote is art.

Is it just me or do these How-To now in fashion on the tubes feel incredibly cheap? It's like an easy way for lazy filmmakers to get some views for their videos without any merit.

I'm not opposed at all to nudity and sexuality in film but they must have some purpose. Otherwise it's just softcore porn that reeks of desperation. It's not even good porn!

Mine was a about a hospital. Great success.

Fox: Fat and Unbalanced!

>> ^direpickle:

Saw it coming. (That's what she said!)


After spending the night with all of them, I somewhat doubt she would say anything is tight anymore.

The Shakespeare ghost sold me. Noticed how the Obama helicopter is black? Perceptive!