Reading around on parts of the Irish internet yesterday, during the visit of Barack Obama to Ireland, I saw a lot of exclamations in this vein: I spent the whole day watching it on TV3, fantastic stuff. I get goosepimples when I see the Americans landing here, theres something fantastically grand and epic about it… [Read more…]
May 22, 2011
I wrote to the editor of the Irish Times this morning. I have little hope that my letter will be published, and so I thought I would post the letter here too. Madam, Today the American president visits Irish soil, to a sycophantic welcome from our political class and from the general public. It would… [Read more…]
January 11, 2011
Ryan Singel, at Wired’s Threat Level Blog, presents a laudatory analysis of Twitter’s decision to challenge the DoJ’s move, during a secret Grand Jury investigation in Virgina, to subpoena the private details of various accounts related to Wikileaks. WL Central has covered this issue in detail (listed at the bottom of this post. Singel’s article… [Read more…]
December 4, 2010
The Falsehood: Wikileaks’ release of 250K diplomatic cables constitutes an act of treason against the United States, and renders Julian Assange and other Wikileaks staffers liable to charges punishable by capital punishment. The Explanation: This falsehood is quite straightforward, and has become a talking point in the mainstream media since Cablegate broke. It finds form… [Read more…]
May 24, 2011
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