Posted on 12/07/2010 6:38:54 PM PST by SmithL
IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide's The News, wrote: "In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win."
His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch's expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of Gallipoli. The British tried to shut him up but Keith Murdoch would not be silenced and his efforts led to the termination of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign.
Nearly a century later, WikiLeaks is also fearlessly publishing facts that need to be made public.
I grew up in a Queensland country town where people spoke their minds bluntly. They distrusted big government as something that could be corrupted if not watched carefully. The dark days of corruption in the Queensland government before the Fitzgerald inquiry are testimony to what happens when the politicians gag the media from reporting the truth.
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These things have stayed with me. WikiLeaks was created around these core values. The idea, conceived in Australia, was to use internet technologies in new ways to report the truth.
WikiLeaks coined a new type of journalism: scientific journalism. We work with other media outlets to bring people the news, but also to prove it is true. Scientific journalism allows you to read a news story, then to click online to see the original document it is based on. That way you can judge for yourself: Is the story true? Did the journalist report it accurately?
Democratic societies need a strong media and WikiLeaks is part of that media. The media helps keep government honest. WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars, and broken stories...
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Ah. My mistake. I get it. Haven’t seen the spoof ... heard of it, though.
SnakeDoc
>>it was just a quote
Stupid is as Stupid quotes.
It’s not non-sequitur to recognize that without demoralized miscreant jackwagons like Manning, and those who facilitated his/her/its brainwashed demoralization, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
>>Assange should spend the remainder of his life in custody.
I feel the same way about the those involved with the Pentagon Papers. But.
We’ll see.
If you can think of a better quote about killing a messenger when a messenger needs killing, let me know.
Otherwise, take your whining elsewhere.
SnakeDoc
"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to ta... errr... {click click click}...um - who's winning Dancing with the Stars and American Idol between Viagra and Soma commercials this week?"
so true.
Ask someone about an issue on what is happening in the country and they have no clue, ask them who is dating who in Hollywood and they know that answer, My MIL is EXACTLY like that and yes she is a long time MA Dem voter
I have to admit that I am a bit torn on this issue.
" ....Reach filthy rich movie makers, intellectuals in so-called academic circles.Cynical, ego-centric people who can look into your eyes with angelic expression and tell you a lie...
...This are the most recruitable people; people who lack moral principals - who are either too greedy or too, uh, suffer from self-importance, uh, they feel that they matter a lot. Uh, these are the people who KGB wanted very much to recruit."
You sure do throw around insults quite freely ... all because you disagree about a movie. Admirable.
SnakeDoc
Wow! Fast ZOT!
Mann is a traitor and must die. the fact he is a queer is not relevant.
Actually, before Wikileaks, Assange was a very famous hacker who gave the NSA hell. There was even a book written about him in the 90s (name escapes me now). Back around 95-99 he was the primary at AUCRYPTO and was part of cypherpunks.
If you want a scary look into his mind, the guy's at cypherpunks archived all his communication for several years.
http://cryptome.org/0001/assange-cpunks.htm
Don't underestimate this guy, plus, don't think he is just some innocent champion of the truth as some try to label him. Some news sources in the 90s even referred to him as a cryptographer and there was speculation he may have been an operative for someone.
Something else that is interesting is The Jester found that Assange buried trojans into the WikiLeaks documents that even he can't crack. This is probably his 'insurance' policy.
http://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/wikileaks-insurance-policy-expired/
The book about him is Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness, and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
>>the fact he is a queer is not relevant.
It is relevant to the extent that he/she/it would have been ASKED and excluded from military service if Comrade Klintoon hadn’t changed the policy and let him/her/it inside the circle of trust in the first place.
I couldn’t care less if you’re insulting ... it was an observation. Nothing you could possibly say could make me whine.
The logical leap required to blame the movie ‘300’ for the existence of “mentaly ill moral miscreant homosexuals” in the military is remarkable.
We don’t disagree on gays in the military, Manning, Assange, Wikileaks, or the punishments that should ensue. We seem to disagree about the level of responsibility of the movie ‘300’ in that fiasco. So, yes, it is just a disagreement about a movie.
I don’t find the comparisons of Manning and actual Greek military culture insulting ... I just find you insulting. As for REAL Hellenistic military culture — as you’ve noted, ‘300’ isn’t about REAL Hellenistic military culture. It is a comic-book adaptation that not only removes homosexuality from the culture, but insults it.
It is an irrelevancy.
SnakeDoc
And yet... here you are.
There is no logical leap required to observe the demoralizing and subversive effect of the desensitizing crap-"Art" Hollywood produces.As Bezmenov observes:"1. Ideological subversion is the process which is legitimate old word and open. You can see it with your own eyes. All American mass media has to do is to "unplug bananas" from their ears, open up their eyes, and they can see it. There is no mystery. "
Uhuh, and do all of the elements of your worldview, and associated coping skills, originate in comic-books?
To historical revisionists perhaps - but to those of us intent upon avoiding the mistakes of the past, not so much.
>> There is no logical leap required to observe the demoralizing and subversive effect of the desensitizing crap
There is no desensitizing the over-sensitive ... so I’m sure you’ll be fine.
>> Uhuh, and do all of the elements of your worldview, and associated coping skills, originate in comic-books?
Actually, my entire worldview comes from comic book movie adaptations. In tricky situations, I often ask myself ... what would Batman do?
Like you, I don’t have any coping skills ... I just whine on message boards when people quote movies I don’t like. I assume the quoted movie represents their worldview, and divert them with asinine debates about the merits of said worldview.
Good grief.
SnakeDoc
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