85 days in Slavyansk is a good read on the background here. It will always be a source of amazement at the power of modern propaganda that Irish people were convinced to not support these people in their resistance to imperialist domination and ethnic cleansing.
>character assassination
He openly admits to being a "libertarian" - see the link above.
And the shitty way that his leak panned out is all there for anyone to see. Greenwald and Omidyar got to gatekeep the material - all I've ever seen from it has been fairly harmless.
There's a much bigger story to be told about how surveillance is a baked in core feature from the outset in Silicon Valley - whereas these lads make out that the only problem is when Big Gubbmint is involved. Yasha Levine wrote a book about this that was pretty good and certainly more enlightening than anything that came out of Snowden/Greenwald, but it didn't get half the attention ... for some reason.
If anyone at the time didn't already assume that the US security state was closely monitoring the internet - and still is, as well as Russia, China, the Brits, Germans, and about every other state with the capacity - then they should DM me because I've some magic beans I want to sell them.
You started off attacking "so called leftists" because they don't uncritically support a far right political operator as he boosts far right political forces in various parts of the world. But when his actual politics and agenda are pointed out in a way you can't deny, all of a sudden you all of a sudden "don't give 2 fucks about Snowden". Great stuff.
Fwiw it was never an about face for me, I thought Snowden, Assange and Greenwald were suspect more or less from the get-go.
Using rhetoric like generalising all travellers as criminals, making them out to be low IQ individuals (like yourself) who are dangerous and need to adjust their culture to yours makes you fascistic in thought consciously or otherwise..
I dunno what low IQ and crime have to do with eachother, maybe you have an insight into it being an ejit and all.. Have you considered high IQ individuals don't get caught committing crimes?
Here's some reading that refutes what you pulled out of your hole https://www.amazon.com/Criminal-Genius-Portrait-High-IQ-Offenders/dp/0520282426
First edition should be out in a few weeks.
For your other demands you can try this one. I'm told that if you mail the embassy they'll give you a copy for free.
Not sure about art criticism though. If something is promising you all of these things I'd be wary that it was a cult.
>Regarding #JulianAssange tweet, Inadvertent tweet, faulty source, please disregard!
How the fuck can you get something like that wrong, this guy must be a nitwit.
Fair play. You might be interested in this piece of software called ScanTailor, it's what I use to clean up the scans I make. You could also check out K2pdfopt, it's good for doing OCR etc. although it's a bit complicated to use.
Finally, you might consider uploading your books onto Library Genesis as well as archive.org -- it's where lots of people go to first when looking for books.
Most recently read Emily O'Reilly's book about Veronica Guerin prompted by the terrible movie being on TV. Was just googling and the extracts online looked intriguing, it turns out that O'Reilly pulls no punches here, laying bare both Guerin's own issues, the Indo's editorial policies and the sanctimonious bullshit from those who insisted that the only way to tell the story was by making her in to a cartoon martyr.
A global monarch will be a good choice to administer the Kosmos, the new international trade currency.
I'd assume the detailed implementation is in the book, which can be obtained through Amazon here. Guess the duality of Amazon as good and evil is a transitional inequity.
>Demonstrators gather outside Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ $80m New York City penthouse, to protest the retailer’s treatment of workers during the pandemic