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The article that wikileaks seems upset over is pretty awful apologism to be honest. The right libertarian views of wikileaks *do* bother me, although they make me wonder whether they aren't just a manifestation of the absolute failure of the left to provide a clearly identifiable alternative to neoliberalism for the disaffected. Still, if an article tried to discredit opposition to drone strikes in Yemen or Pakistan or wherever by running a hit piece on the homophobic views expressed in a chatroom of whoever was doing drone casualty monitoring that would be pretty stupid too. Snowden could be an outright neo-Nazi or a believer in UFOs, it doesn't make any of what he has leaked less true or worrying.
 
Wikileaks accused Penny and Lewis by name of being members of the PPE clique earlier, even though neither did PPE.

You don't need to make shit up to cast doubt on their radical credentials.
 
Wikileaks accused Penny and Lewis by name of being members of the PPE clique earlier, even though neither did PPE.

I get what they might be saying though, they mean that there was a social circle of people at Oxford that mostly did PPE that had a few people who were doing other courses in it.
 
The article that wikileaks seems upset over is pretty awful apologism to be honest. The right libertarian views of wikileaks *do* bother me, although they make me wonder whether they aren't just a manifestation of the absolute failure of the left to provide a clearly identifiable alternative to neoliberalism for the disaffected. Still, if an article tried to discredit opposition to drone strikes in Yemen or Pakistan or wherever by running a hit piece on the homophobic views expressed in a chatroom of whoever was doing drone casualty monitoring that would be pretty stupid too. Snowden could be an outright neo-Nazi or a believer in UFOs, it doesn't make any of what he has leaked less true or worrying.
This is hilarious.
But as Reuters has reported, Snowden gained access to mountains of classified material through more prosaic means: obtaining log-ins and passwords from a small number of highly trained co-workers, some of whom have since been fired from their posts. One of Reuters’s sources suggested that Snowden acquired the log-ins by telling his colleagues that he needed them “to do his job as a computer systems administrator
You work for the NSA, but give your logon details to someone who asks?
 
well that english bloke downloaded a basic script and 'hacked' the pentagon computers didn't he? At that point if I was in charge of net security I'd be offering the man a job. But as the embarrassment was too great they tried to permajail him.
 
He's bang on. What do Laurie Penny and Helen Lewis think the New Statesman is? A radical journal?

Well, that's certainly what they present and represent it as, isn't it?
Obviously, we cynics see these actions as entirely instrumental on their parts, but who knows, maybe they and their co-workers do labour under an actual delusion that they're radicals working for a radical journal? :D
 
Well, that's certainly what they present and represent it as, isn't it?
Obviously, we cynics see these actions as entirely instrumental on their parts, but who knows, maybe they and their co-workers do labour under an actual delusion that they're radicals working for a radical journal? :D
I've got a suspicion LP believes her own press.
 
I think it's a wrong claim - the PPE lot are in parliament, working as advisers and more directly parliament and party focused think tanks. The NS really is the english lit graduate end of it (see the two named). The soppier end of elite dominance based on a smaller different more individual type of instrumentalism.
 
"“There’s stuff that Hannah has done in her ignorance or good-hearted way that I would never, ever undertake in my life,” Dunham added. For example, after Hannah’s parents abruptly cut her off, she pockets the tip for the housekeeper they’ve left in their hotel room."

http://www.jewishjournal.com/the_ticket/item/girls_writer_lays_bare_womens_insecurities_20120425/

Ignorance, you say?

I have such sentimental feelings for Gap. I do! There was a Gap across the street from where I went to school in New York and I would go there all the time. I didn't have any money but when they had the clearance rack I bought a suit jacket. I wore it for five years till it completely lost all its shape and my wife finally made me throw it away. So when that came up, it just seemed obvious. Who doesn't want to support Gap?"

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jan/18/adam-driver-girls-inside-llewyn-davis
 
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