To be honest, I'm still rubbing my eyes. Only a few years ago, I wouldn't have thought it possible, but - we've reached the day when the Russian Pravda can accuse the United States of stifling the free press - and be actually right.
I mean, it's not just that Big Media is corrupted and rotten to its core - that's not news. The almighty dollar decides what's acceptable news and what is not. But we've reached a new level of madness recently.
Lieberman successfully managed to pressure Amazon not to host Wikileak pages anymore. Same for Tableau, who was used to visualize charts.
He also succeeded in getting the DNS entry for wikileaks.org deleted by EveryDNS. The site has since moved to wikileaks.ch
There's an international warrant issued for Wikileaks representative Assange for alleged rape in Sweden. The funny aspect is that this was predicted to happen by Scott Ritter. He's the US official who called the Iraq "nuclear weapons" scam a scam. Well, he would know. In fact, the very same happened to him before.
Free press? Hehe :)
The Library of Congress (!) has blocked access to the Wikileaks site on its staff computers and on the wireless network that visitors use.
American first-line politicians (Palin, Gingrich etc) are openly demanding that Assange should be assassinated. For "treason". Nevermind that he's not even a US citizen to begin with, he's from Australia. The 51% of Americans who are convinced that he's a traitor according to a poll wouldn't know either, of course. Ignorance is bliss.
I kinda remember the public outcry when Iran had done the same by issuing a Fatwa to have Rushdie killed over a fictional text insulting the Prophet Mohammed. The Wikileaks documents however are obviously factual nonfiction. That makes the American Fatwa a little bit more disgusting in my eyes.
In my eyes, America has just joined the illustrious ranks of the likes of China (censorship) and Iran (instigation for murder). Nevermind the Red Khmer (Torture/Waterboarding) before. Warrantless spying on the citizens (Stasi in East Germany) is old news. And people don't even realize it. How depressing is that?
I can't put the current disgust that I feel about the unmasked monster into words, and it's hard for me to contain it. But I have to say that watching this mad witchhunt made me pessimistic about the current state of "civilization".
I mean, it's not just that Big Media is corrupted and rotten to its core - that's not news. The almighty dollar decides what's acceptable news and what is not. But we've reached a new level of madness recently.
Lieberman successfully managed to pressure Amazon not to host Wikileak pages anymore. Same for Tableau, who was used to visualize charts.
He also succeeded in getting the DNS entry for wikileaks.org deleted by EveryDNS. The site has since moved to wikileaks.ch
There's an international warrant issued for Wikileaks representative Assange for alleged rape in Sweden. The funny aspect is that this was predicted to happen by Scott Ritter. He's the US official who called the Iraq "nuclear weapons" scam a scam. Well, he would know. In fact, the very same happened to him before.
Free press? Hehe :)
The Library of Congress (!) has blocked access to the Wikileaks site on its staff computers and on the wireless network that visitors use.
American first-line politicians (Palin, Gingrich etc) are openly demanding that Assange should be assassinated. For "treason". Nevermind that he's not even a US citizen to begin with, he's from Australia. The 51% of Americans who are convinced that he's a traitor according to a poll wouldn't know either, of course. Ignorance is bliss.
I kinda remember the public outcry when Iran had done the same by issuing a Fatwa to have Rushdie killed over a fictional text insulting the Prophet Mohammed. The Wikileaks documents however are obviously factual nonfiction. That makes the American Fatwa a little bit more disgusting in my eyes.
In my eyes, America has just joined the illustrious ranks of the likes of China (censorship) and Iran (instigation for murder). Nevermind the Red Khmer (Torture/Waterboarding) before. Warrantless spying on the citizens (Stasi in East Germany) is old news. And people don't even realize it. How depressing is that?
I can't put the current disgust that I feel about the unmasked monster into words, and it's hard for me to contain it. But I have to say that watching this mad witchhunt made me pessimistic about the current state of "civilization".