Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years

Image from source, Washington Post

Here's my take on Bradley Manning: he is in some ways a hero, and in some ways a dope. There had to be a way to expose the classified information that was important without dumping a trove of information indiscriminately, and there was probably a better person to give it to than Julian Assange. I don't necessarily think he's a traitor, but he was in the military, he did break the rules and the law. He really had to be punished. And as these things go, his sentence is comparatively light, especially when you figure time served, and the potential for parole in 10 years or so.

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Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years

A military judge on Wednesday sentenced Pfc. Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison, bringing to a close the government’s determined pursuit of the Army intelligence analyst who leaked the largest cache of classified documents in U.S. history. . .

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"Secret" Breitbart Video of Obama Previously Aired on PBS in 2008

Young Obama, from source, Raw Story

Fail. The "secret" video was supposed to be so explosive that Breitbart was killed for it (ha!)? Not a secret. Not explosive. Kinda boring. Except that it shows that President Obama was a commanding speaker twenty years ago. FAIL.

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PBS already aired Breitbart’s Obama footage

Breitbart.com editors Ben Shapiro and Joel Pollak said Wednesday on Sean Hannity’s radio show that they would release footage that proved President Barack Obama had “radical intellectual founders” — footage which was covered up by the mainstream media.  But before Breitbart.com released the footage, PBS Frontline published the full unedited video themselves, noting that they had previously included the footage in their election special The Choice 2008. . .

Read more at: Raw Story

Will WikiLeaks Let us Know if The Visitors Are Our Friends?

UFOs in the WikiLeaks? Oooh, I hope so. Wouldn't it be interesting if the government really was covering up extraterrestrials--just like the conspiracy theories say--and we only find out it's true from WikiLeaks? Call Mulder and Scully to get to the bottom of this. I want to believe. . .

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WikiLeaks chief: Expect UFO talk in future files

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Friday that there were some references to UFOs in "yet-to-be-published" confidential files obtained from the U.S. government. . .

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Stephen Colbert: Trevor Paglen's Secret Military Patches

I know that The Colbert Report isn't everybody's cup of tea. But Stephen Colbert has managed to turn what could have been a one-note character into comedy gold. His interviews are often more about Stephen Colbert as a character than the subject he's interviewing. But this one, for some reason, really caught my eye. Enjoy.