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9622. arkymalarky - 8/30/2013 10:46:01 PM Surely Wombat is right about the likely extent of US response. 9623. alistairconnor - 2/11/2014 12:45:18 PM Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill have launched their news/investigation site (funded by eBay founder, Pierre Omidyar, and his organisation Firstlook Media)
Welcome to The Intercept The Intercept has a two-fold mission: one short-term, the other long-term. Our short-term mission is limited but critically important: to provide a platform and an editorial structure in which to aggressively report on the disclosures provided to us by our source, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. We decided to launch now because we believe we have a vital and urgent obligation to this story, to these documents, and to the public. Over the past seven months the journalists who have reported on these documents from the National Security Agency have been repeatedly threatened by a wide range of government officials. Sometimes, the intimidation campaign has gone beyond mere threats. These attempted intimidation tactics have intensified in recent weeks and have become clearly more concerted and coordinated. None of this will deter the journalism we are doing. A primary function of The Intercept is to insist upon and defend our press freedoms from those who wish to infringe them. We are determined to move forward with what we believe is essential reporting in the public interest and with a commitment to the ideal that a truly free and independent press is a vital component of any healthy democratic society. Our first two news articles at The Intercept are now published. The first, by Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald, documents the NSA’s use of highly unreliable methods to target individuals around the world for assassinations by drone, resulting in the deaths of innocent people. It relies upon a new well-placed source, as well as new NSA documents from the Snowden archive, to tell the story.
9624. Trillium - 2/17/2014 2:16:55 AM A friend who grew up in Venezuela sent this to me and asked that it be shared as widely as possible. I'm not usually quick to fall into line for those sorts of requests, but this one moved me:
what's going on in Venezuela
9625. Wombat - 2/17/2014 6:58:39 AM Ah, life in the socialist paradise that is post-Chavez Venezuela. Right Bhelpuri? 9626. bhelpuri - 2/17/2014 7:42:22 PM CIA dirty tricks, obviously. #YanquiMischief 9627. bhelpuri - 2/17/2014 7:42:26 PM CIA dirty tricks, obviously. #YanquiMischief 9628. Wombat - 2/17/2014 8:09:49 PM Of course. #NoMoreColdWar 9629. arkymalarky - 3/5/2014 1:09:09 AM Wow. Republicans admiring Putin? Now we see what type of qualities they value in a leader. Scary. Certainly wouldn't want them ever to have the chance to have the leadership in the US again if that's how they think good leaders should behave. Better red.... 9630. judithathome - 3/5/2014 1:40:19 AM I know...it's deplorable. 9631. alistairconnor - 3/6/2014 1:29:30 AM Sorry. I couldn't resist this one.
 9632. Trillium - 3/6/2014 4:17:23 AM Argggh. Okay, I laughed. 9633. judithathome - 3/7/2014 12:14:51 AM As did we all, I'm sure.
Unfortunately...it's not a laughing matter. 9634. arkymalarky - 4/15/2014 2:22:31 AM What's next in Ukraine? 9635. Wombat - 4/15/2014 5:20:54 PM I don't know. Ukraine is in a potentially terrible position. 9636. bhelpuri - 8/25/2014 5:43:35 AM I discovered just now that Pseuder has set up a blog: pseudoerasmus.com, in which is explored and addressed many of the same topics that have engaged him for years. A bit deadly serious + eye-wateringly voluminous for me, but still some good stuff there.
Most fascinating to me is the rather decent series of banner photos, noth flashy but consistently decent. Where do they come from? Our man's own ouevre? Hidden depths and all that... 9637. alistairconnor - 9/10/2014 3:32:03 PM Yeah it looks pretty good... a fair proportion of narcissistic stream-of-consciousness, but one expects no less from the Pseud. 9638. bhelpuri - 10/27/2014 3:32:27 PM The New Yorker fudges around the obvious - the US has been increasingly oligarchic in its internal functioning since Reagan. 9639. iiibbb - 10/27/2014 8:54:31 PM We live in an idiocracy 9640. iiibbb - 10/27/2014 8:57:07 PM Or possibly the best term would be oligarchic-idiotheocracy 9641. arkymalarky - 10/28/2014 1:36:00 AM when we were working our butts off to support rural schools, poor and minority communities, and equal funding we were demonized and the chamber of commerce was meeting privately--yes, privately--with groups of legislators, directly impacting legislation. I told my superintendent at the time that as long as we were on the other side of the door we wouldn't get anywhere. our greatest success was getting a poison pill into Governor Huckabee's pet bill. since then I've seen and read a lot and it is scary. this situation has been flying under the radar for years. no way ANY grassroots group, including the tea party, influences decisions at even local levels. it's a corporatocracy and has been moving toward that since the 1980s.
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