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In defense of Adrian Lamo ( RIP )
by professor rat 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

If he ever was a paid informant I suspect evidence would have emerged by now - is there any evidence for that? Then he did much more practical work to stop the Iraq invasion WHEN IT MATTERED - the early noughties - than Julian Rand Paul Asshat. ( Who no-one heard of pre-2006 ) He did that by breaking into the Michael-Gordon-Judith-Miller NYT - the NYT of ' Aluminum Tubes " infamy. WL was years late and dollars short for any effective antiwar action - then its mini-Fuhrer washed his hands entirely of pacifist activism in 2013. Oh, and did I mention Julio worked for the Police in the 1990's? Its in his Wikipedia entry. I mean if being a police employee is a dealbreaker for youse.

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Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks
by jim bell 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

https://news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london-shoot-out-insi… In 2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder, spurring heated debat...

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CIA hired Lamo
by zeynepaydogan 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

Adrian Lamo was known as "the [homeless hacker](https://context.reverso.net/%C3%A7eviri/ingilizce-t%C3%BCrk%C3%A7e/… Lolhttps://context.reverso.net/%C3%A7eviri/ingilizce-t%C3%BCrk%C3%A7e/homel… He didn't have any money. The media told us all about it for years. He didn't even have a place to stay. But the CIA paid him for years. Why is WL quiet about it when he doesn't hide the closest thing he's ever worked for the CIA? C’mon when is this gonna be discussed? The person who used to be close to Adrian and is not making his voice right now is interested in Assange today. “Assange knows these things. It hurts him.” said Lamo’s best. They like it when Assange suffers And someone's still quiet When will a journalist have the courage to tell the truth now? Sent from ProtonMail for iOS

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Julian Assmange is a pro-militarist, pro-intel person.
by professor rat 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

Julian Assmange is a pro-militarist, pro-intel person judged simply on the basis of his words and actions over many years. Anyone with a problem with that has a problem with him. WikiLeaks hasn’t spread a word of support for the Hong Kong protesters or for ANY of the lands and countries oppressed by nowadays Chinese government, including Chinese citizens.They just highlight "ooh the US govt is supporting the protests!" http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/-wikileaks-related-news/23/no-comment-wikile…

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Jake Applecheeks strange love of Laibach
by professor rat 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

https://www.google.com/search?q=Laibach&client=opera&hs=RfD&tbm=isch&source…

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Query for Jacob Appelbaum
by professor rat 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

I repeat my question from when you were last here on this list ... how much did you get for selling Snowden trove material to the corpse-media in Europe? Jake? JAKE!?

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Assange (and many of his "experts") lied about what led to his charges.
by professor rat 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

"...the timeline in the story proves Assange (and many of his "experts") lied about what led to his charges. https://www.emptywheel.net/2021/09/26/the-yahoo-story-about-all-the-things-… JULIAN " “People with strong principles don’t survive for long ” ASSANGE quoted in " Risk" released in 2017.

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A tale told by three idiots
by professor rat 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

"In the end, the assassination discussions went nowhere, said former officials." https://www.emptywheel.net/2021/09/26/the-yahoo-story-about-all-the-things-…

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Does Jake still think Tim May was fascist?
by professor rat 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

Strong-crypto, digital money, anonymous networks, pseudonyms, zero- knowledge proofs, reputations, information-markets, netwar, collapse-of-governments. http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt TIMOTHY " An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion " C. MAY 1992 TIM " I guess now that the Pentagon is setting up a murder pool it can't be illegal for us to do it " MAY. 2003

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Snowden leak considered consequential
by professor rat 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

I would argue that the Snowden leak was consequential in at least two important ways 1) It prompted the Conyer-Amash law push that only just failed, and... 2) It helped the rise of the celebrity, millionaire journalist bubble ( Julian, Glenn, Alex Jones...) I don't see that sort of deep meaning in the Vault 7 case. But if there's a consensus among national-security journalists that it was terribly important...I may have to defer to their collective national-security wisdom. Meh.

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