Are you listening, Steve Jobs? (via BirdAbroad)

In Scotland we have a saying. Ye couldnae make it up.

The Western news media is replete with pithy descriptions of the rapid changes taking place in China: China has the world's fastest growing economy. China is undergoing remarkable and rapid change. This represents a unique moment for a society changing as quickly as China. You probably read such things in the paper every day – but if you have never been to China, I'm not sure you know quite what this means on a mundane level. As I've mentioned el … Read More

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Wikileaks and UFOs

I LIKE the sound of this . . .
Even if only in a “Yes, I wish” sort of way.

Q. Mr Assange, have there ever been documents forwarded to you which deal with the topic of UFOs or extraterrestrials? 

A. Julian Assange:
Many weirdos email us about UFOs or how they discovered that they were the anti-christ whilst talking with their ex-wife at a garden party over a pot-plant. However, as yet they have not satisfied two of our publishing rules. 
1) that the documents not be self-authored; 
2) that they be original. 
However, it is worth noting that in yet-to-be-published parts of the cablegate archive there are indeed references to UFOs.

And then this bit from someone else:
Anonymous said…
Wow, I hadn’t heard about the Wikileaks alien story. Can’t wait.
Okay, here’s another point worth bearing in mind. According to media reality the US knows that Wikileaks is a major path through which damaging leaks pass. They’ve been hurt before by the leaks on Iraq and Afghanistan. That meant that the US had three options.
1. Do nothing and wait for more leaks (media reality)
2. Eliminate Wikileaks.
3. Feed Wikileaks with false information.

They haven’t done 2.

Now we are presented with three possibilites
1. Wikileaks is for real, but the established powers haven’t been able to do anything about it. (media reality)
2. Wikileaks is a black operation designed to create a credible reality and promulgate falsehoods.
3. Wikileaks is for real, but is unwittingly being used to promulgate falsehoods.

Even if we assume that each of those possibilities has an equal likely hood of being true, that still gives us a two thirds chance that the information provided by Wikileaks, while credible, is in some important ways false and designed to move the public in a direction that serves the established powers.