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DaveCinzano said:
You can't share search results - but you should be able to see a poster's profile page, from which you can see their posts:

http://www.urban75.net/forums/members/lauriepenny.57994/
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You h@><0r3d the board kewlstyle.

http://manyfesto.org/2014/07/15/the-weaponized-naked-girl/

This blogpost about Crabapple, Femen, Pussy Riot and urban75 poster lauriepenny touches on some of the stuff brought up here .

Crabapple is calling herself a Bonapartist now apparently.
 
copliker said:
Crabapple is calling herself a Bonapartist now apparently.
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That's an interesting euphemism for cheerleader of US foreign policy, war and far-right paramilitarism in Venezuela. I wonder if she cleared it with her boss James Murdoch first?
 
This article is brilliant btw copliker

Particularly like this bit

I asked the question, why is a young woman like Molly Crabapple chosen to write about Syria, and not a young woman like Eva Bartlett? We could say it’s as simple as the fact that Crabapple supports NATO intervention in Syria, weaving a case for the need for intervention by bravely “risking her life” going 100 meters into Syria to report on the need for the Syrian government to be overthrown by foreign forces. Bartlett does not agree with this, but let’s also look deeper at what disqualifies her: she has worked as a regional organizer for ISM in Gaza, speaks Arabic, and has a firm grounding in the region. She has worked as a human shield for the Palestinian people against imperialist bombs. While this first-hand knowledge might qualify her to some, it would probably disqualify her from taking a job in professional journalism, as this would require a level of “objectivity” she clearly no longer possesses.

This position also offered her the opportunity to visit the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, where hundreds of prisoners are denied basic rights as human beings and are currently on mass hunger strike. The stories of torture and mistreatment out of Guantanamo are not hard to find, including reports of a CIA murder cover up, but these are conspicuously absent from Crabapple’s reporting. She instead spends most of her time with the guards and wardens of the prison camp, drawing pictures of the idyllic scenery and the equipment they use to torture the prisoners. She draws Guantanamo as overgrown and mysterious, lush and abandoned, a sort of Tim Burton set. It is no longer threatening, merely an uncomfortable afterthought. When questioning the purpose of this visit, I was asked “What could someone REALLY dig up on such a trip?” What indeed. So then the question becomes: why was this woman who did no journalism of note, who left out actual journalism of note from her report, allowed to visit such a blight on humanity if not to present an acceptable and non-threatening version of it to her audience?

It’s clear then, that a woman such as this is not qualified to be considered a journalist, much less a “leftist” by any serious standards. She is simply a pop-culture propagandist, marketed to young leftists as an acceptable and attractive alternative to Thomas Friedman. Yet, when confronted with criticism on her position or credentials, Crabapple retreats into a victim’s shell. Her critics are “haters”, “jealous”, or “obsessed with her [sexually]“. Refugee Palestinian children become her sexual molesters while she simultaneously and bravely calls for their betterment - not through BDS or armed resistance, but *some*how. Likewise, the “left” pelts her with alleged rape threats while she is only trying to help them win broader exposure. Her sexuality as a woman simultaneously promotes and shields her. She even went as far as to paint a portrait of herself with various criticisms painted over her face – few of them were threats to her body, most of them to her politics, but certainly all one and the same in her artistic representation.[/quote
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J Ed said:
That's an interesting euphemism for cheerleader of US foreign policy, war and far-right paramilitarism in Venezuela. I wonder if she cleared it with her boss James Murdoch first?
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Crabapple's rotten blurtings about Venezuela, the brutal poors murdering our beautiful white girls, are a bit of a glaring omission.
 
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She's criticising the author of that piece for self funding her masters degree at SOAS as well, well for having a masters but not realising the author delivered Chinese food and such to pay for it :D

Did do an event for the Economist though, which is worse than having your own agent to book stuff for you. Obviously.
 
Balbi said:
She's criticising the author of that piece for self funding her masters degree at SOAS as well, well for having a masters but not realising the author delivered Chinese food and such to pay for it :D

Did do an event for the Economist though, which is worse than having your own agent to book stuff for you. Obviously.
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She was a temp secretary or something at the economist.
 
Both have called it bullshit, the article and that women making personal attacks on other women isn't an activism they're part of. Which proves the point, entirely.
 
How to retain your left 'cred' while continuing your PR work on behalf of the likes of James Murdoch? Limit your support of revolutionary struggles to those which took place in the 18th Century.

 
Balbi said:
She's criticising the author of that piece for self funding her masters degree at SOAS as well, well for having a masters but not realising the author delivered Chinese food and such to pay for it :D

Did do an event for the Economist though, which is worse than having your own agent to book stuff for you. Obviously.
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She reckons they got this by being doxxed by Vice journo Danny Gold who knows her real name from a while ago and was poking around her linkedin. I'm certainly not on linkedin so I dunno how that works. You can see who's viewing your profile?
 
Noreena Hertz the self styled 'anti-capitalist' queen, sorry, economist, has written a self help book "Eyes Wide Open: How to Make Smart Decisions in a Confusing World"

The publishers quote a Sony exec as approving of the the book.
 
copliker said:
I'm certainly not on linkedin so I dunno how that works. You can see who's viewing your profile?
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Yes, so if you are researching someone it pays to either have cover, or to just not give a shit who knows you are looking at someone or something.
 
PS Our old friend Amanda is celebrating finishing her book, which apparently “expands upon her popular TED talk to reveal how ordinary people, those of us without thousands of Twitter followers and adoring fans, can use these same principles in our own lives.”

Eh?

Well...

Imagine standing on a box in the middle of a busy city, dressed as a white-faced bride, and silently using your eyes to ask people for money. Or touring Europe in a punk cabaret band, and finding a place to sleep each night by reaching out to strangers on Twitter. For Amanda Palmer, actions like these have gone beyond satisfying her basic needs for food and shelter — they've taught her how to turn strangers into friends, build communities, and discover her own giving impulses. And because she had learned how to ask, she was able to go to the world to ask for the money to make a new album and tour with it, and to raise over a million dollars in a month.
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http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781455581085
 
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