Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
I’m somewhat confused.
Neil seems to have that effect.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to philipmatthews,
That's just sad. Besides, Muffin McPoopincakes is much more euphonious...
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to HORansome,
people are seeing what they take to be clear evidence of conspiratorial machination in what might be merely business as usual.
Ah, but what if conspiracy IS business as usual? Eh? Eh?
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OnPoint: Pay Attention, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Somehow, I read the "comparable" anyway. I'll be really disturbed if we're actually in tune with each other...
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Hard News: Spinning and soldiering, in reply to Bruce Manning,
I think you should get merit for a really good attempt, though.
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OnPoint: Pay Attention, in reply to giovanni tiso,
What Ellseberg did was more directly to what Manning has allegedly done in copying the war cables and passing them on to Wikipedia, and arises out of moral outrage for the nature of the informaiton withheld
Fair point.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to philipmatthews,
Linky no worky
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Andrew E,
Yes, I knew about it. But then again, I keep an eye out for those things.
And I'm glad that you do. Thanks, Andrew.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
partly a realisation that the US isn’t too popular around the world and that a good way to spread sympathy for their country and systems is to expose influential people to it.
Then surely they should be throwing money at Wikileaks, which is exposing them to more influential people than they could possibly imagine :-D (not seeing a lot of sympathy out it it, though)
With due respect to your wife and other journos that have been on the scheme, the State Dept wan's to expose only a favourable view to those influential people.
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OnPoint: Pay Attention, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Has it ever been tried?
Pentagon Papers, maybe? Ellsberg's release of those beefed up the antiwar movement substantially. From that point on, the end was in sight (in hindsight anyway) for America's involvement in Vietnam, which came relatively quickly as pre-Internet timescales go.
It didn't change the way the government functioned, perhaps, so on that you have a point.