Ok, so view the seven minute clip. Here's the thing. This guy has a point...the lady in this clip...from 1920...is holding something, and talking through it. I watched the clip three times. I am convinced that she is holding a cellphone. The problem is...she shouldn't be. And if she is....what does this really mean in 1920?
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
The Wrong Folks to Mess With
You aren't hearing much on the topic....at least for the next couple of days...but WikiLeaks is about to come up gasping for air.
Yes, it is true that WikiLeaks is going to publish more classified Pentagon messages. And a month from now.....I expect them to release another batch of messages. And a month after that, another batch of messages.
Frankly, the drama is now dead. The public doesn't care much. The key sign? They hinged the big releases to involve certain key newspapers in Europe, and the New York Times. To be honest, people of influence have kinda dropped the New York Times, and its significance in the world is less than a decade ago. So public outage is pretty much a little above marginal.
As for my original hint of gasping for air? Well, that has nothing to do with the Pentagon's secret messages. Instead, it has to deal with secret Russian email, from Russian businessmen, Russian government officials, and from Russian folks of importance. WikiLeaks somehow got itself into a position of acquiring these....I'm guessing via an American "helper" (strictly a guess).
What Julian Assange and the remainder of leadership of WikiLeaks haven't calculated....is that the Russians have KGB and Mafia guys on the payroll. If they aren't happy....they kill people.
I suspect that WikiLeaks has taken on a five-star treasure of leaks and just figured that the Russians would act the same way as the Pentagon....in a civilized manner. That was probably a stupid gamble.
Over the next couple of weeks....I'm expecting the WikiLeaks management crowd to dwindle quickly....as they scatter and admit they don't want much to do with the mess. Julian Assange? I think he'll disappear for a couple of months. Just a humble guess.
Yes, it is true that WikiLeaks is going to publish more classified Pentagon messages. And a month from now.....I expect them to release another batch of messages. And a month after that, another batch of messages.
Frankly, the drama is now dead. The public doesn't care much. The key sign? They hinged the big releases to involve certain key newspapers in Europe, and the New York Times. To be honest, people of influence have kinda dropped the New York Times, and its significance in the world is less than a decade ago. So public outage is pretty much a little above marginal.
As for my original hint of gasping for air? Well, that has nothing to do with the Pentagon's secret messages. Instead, it has to deal with secret Russian email, from Russian businessmen, Russian government officials, and from Russian folks of importance. WikiLeaks somehow got itself into a position of acquiring these....I'm guessing via an American "helper" (strictly a guess).
What Julian Assange and the remainder of leadership of WikiLeaks haven't calculated....is that the Russians have KGB and Mafia guys on the payroll. If they aren't happy....they kill people.
I suspect that WikiLeaks has taken on a five-star treasure of leaks and just figured that the Russians would act the same way as the Pentagon....in a civilized manner. That was probably a stupid gamble.
Over the next couple of weeks....I'm expecting the WikiLeaks management crowd to dwindle quickly....as they scatter and admit they don't want much to do with the mess. Julian Assange? I think he'll disappear for a couple of months. Just a humble guess.
Our Future?
For a number of weeks...on the campaign trail....the President used the slur-pee and car-in-the-ditch routine to sell supporters at his campaign stops.
In the last day or two....he's now switched over. The ditch routine has run full circle....so now we've gone onto buses.
We now hear: "We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
The curious thing is that January will come and a new Republican-run house will be around. Nothing gets accomplished without negotiation. The President will have to make two or three speeches....to lessen all of the soap opera-like speeches that he made over the past six weeks....and mend his fences.
The amusing part will come when various news interviews come, and everything has to be very polite and forgiving in nature. Naturally, there is a limit to this and I suspect by August....his rhetoric will shift back to "evil Republicans" because the next election cycle will start up.
I sat and pondered over this. Are we in a new society where you have twelve months to accomplish anything politically....before you have to launch into a WWE-wrestling-like mentality? A society geared toward twelve months of happiness and then twelve months of down-in-the-dirt politics? Is this our new schedule?
I suspect that we are all getting tired of this mess, and it'd be nice to have some idiots in the White House, the Senate, and the House....whose number one priority is to chat about NCAA football, septic tanks, episodes of Gillian's Island, and the plus side of a Ford F-150 pick-up. I hate to suggest such a fix....but this might be the only thing left for us.
In the last day or two....he's now switched over. The ditch routine has run full circle....so now we've gone onto buses.
We now hear: "We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
The curious thing is that January will come and a new Republican-run house will be around. Nothing gets accomplished without negotiation. The President will have to make two or three speeches....to lessen all of the soap opera-like speeches that he made over the past six weeks....and mend his fences.
The amusing part will come when various news interviews come, and everything has to be very polite and forgiving in nature. Naturally, there is a limit to this and I suspect by August....his rhetoric will shift back to "evil Republicans" because the next election cycle will start up.
I sat and pondered over this. Are we in a new society where you have twelve months to accomplish anything politically....before you have to launch into a WWE-wrestling-like mentality? A society geared toward twelve months of happiness and then twelve months of down-in-the-dirt politics? Is this our new schedule?
I suspect that we are all getting tired of this mess, and it'd be nice to have some idiots in the White House, the Senate, and the House....whose number one priority is to chat about NCAA football, septic tanks, episodes of Gillian's Island, and the plus side of a Ford F-150 pick-up. I hate to suggest such a fix....but this might be the only thing left for us.
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