That's appalling.

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I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists

How kind of Assange to throw a bone to Mugabe. I'm sure Zimbabwe will be that much better off for his assistance.

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When you can do nothing what can you do?

An odd Tolkien connection to Wikileaks. Salon reports that, in response to the previous leaks, or in anticipation of the expected leaks connected to banking operations, several internet security firms have allegedly been working with Bank of America on responses, and one of them suggested some sort of attack on journalists sympathetic to Wikileaks, including Glenn Greenwald at Salon. Here's the Tolkien twist: one of the security companies is named palantír Technologies!

On the story's appearance, palantír announced that it would no longer have anything to do with HBGary, the company which apparently drafted the plans, and palantír's CEO issued a statement: "I want to publicly apologize to progressive organizations in general, and Mr. Greenwald in particular, for any involvement that we may have had in these matters."

The wikileaks spokesperson, Julian Assange, has begun presenting an interview programme on RT called Julian Assange's The World Tomorrow
His first interviewee is Hezbollah leader Sayyid Nasrallah, the first such interview Nasrallah has given in six years. It is, in my opinion, an interesting and even enlightening piece of broadcasting, as it provides a point of view that is near totally denied by the West's msm.

I wasn't sure if this post should have its own topic, so posted here.

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tenebris lux

Heh, palantír technologies. Peter Theil. Back in the news.. connections with Cambridge Analytica. It's just one big ouroboros, isn't it? palantír indeed.
This isn't Peter Theil's only Tolkien named business reference.

That ain't irony. That's hypocrisy.

This - this is, like, hyper-hypocrisy.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/981452587173142528

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“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”

- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

We can't even make this stuff up, can we? Satire writers have got to have it tough these days.