{"id":1528,"date":"2010-06-03T03:29:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T10:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2010-06-03T03:29:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T10:29:48","slug":"thursday-miscellany-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/03\/thursday-miscellany-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>So. You think government&#8217;s a joke? In Iceland, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allgov.com\/Unusual_News\/ViewNews\/Comic_Party_Wins_Iceland_Election__Promises_Disneyland_at_Airport_Transparent_Corruption_100601\" target=\"_blank\">they <i>know<\/i> it is<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/c4ss.org\/content\/2665\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Two lessons from a rogue ex-cop.&#8221;<\/a> Love that Barry Cooper.\n<li>&#8220;A casino run by the banks, for the banks.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/after-the-flash-crash-are-small-investors-finally-giving-up-on-the-stock-market-2010-6\" target=\"_blank\">Well said. Darned well said.<\/a>\n<li>But there are billions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/index.php\/debates\/copenhagen_article\/8944\" target=\"_blank\">billions of reasons to be cheerful,<\/a> anyhow.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/01\/health\/research\/01happy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Or 85 of them.<\/a>\n<li>I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-grossman-israel-20100602,0,3173471.story\" target=\"_blank\">this op-ed<\/a> says it all about Monday&#8217;s disaster at sea.\n<li>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/31\/new-yorkers-disgraceful-embrace-of-government-coverups\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Bovard:<\/a> Right to the end, I was about to say that this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2010\/06\/07\/100607fa_fact_khatchadourian?currentPage=all#ixzz0pXSu32ff\" target=\"_blank\"><i>New Yorker<\/i> article on Julian Assange<\/a> and his heroic WikiLeaks was brilliant. It&#8217;s an intimate portrait of a secretive man, his world, and especially of the way he and his supporters unveiled the vile <a href=\"http:\/\/collateralmurder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">collateral murder video<\/a> to the world. Then suddenly, the author blats out this: &#8220;But, unlike authoritarian regimes, democratic governments hold secrets largely because citizens agree that they should, in order to protect legitimate policy.&#8221; WTF????? Did anybody ask you whether you wanted such &#8220;legitimate policies&#8221; as torture and murder covered up by the &#8220;democratic&#8221; U.S. government? Did you tell the TSA it&#8217;s okay to illegal refuse FOIA requests for <i>undoctored<\/i> test images from its full-body scanners? Did you tell every president since Nixon you agreed with the secrecy of &#8220;executive privilege&#8221;? Has anybody ever checked with you to see whether you agree that everything the CIA, NSA, etc. ever does is &#8220;legitimately&#8221; secret? How about all those secret assassination plans &#8212; the ones that wipe out all sorts of people, from foreign leaders to babies who just happen to be living in the wrong house when the predator drone comes calling? I could go on. But, <i>New Yorker<\/i>, get off it. &#8220;Democratic&#8221; governments keep secrets for exactly the same reason &#8220;authoritarian&#8221; governments do. Because they <i>are<\/i> authoritarian governments. And they&#8217;re up to no good.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So. You think government&#8217;s a joke? In Iceland, they know it is. &#8220;Two lessons from a rogue ex-cop.&#8221; Love that Barry Cooper. &#8220;A casino run by the banks, for the banks.&#8221; Well said. Darned well said. But there are billions of billions of reasons to be cheerful, anyhow. Or 85 of them. I think this op-ed says it all about Monday&#8217;s disaster at sea. Via Jim Bovard: Right to the end, I was about to say that this New Yorker article on Julian Assange and his heroic WikiLeaks was brilliant. It&#8217;s an intimate portrait of a secretive man, his world,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/03\/thursday-miscellany-4\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday miscellany<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,25,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}