08-04-2016, 08:32 AM
Hello hypocrisy. Again.
I had to giggle this morning watching an RT story on the Panama Papers about the State Department spokesman who was asked about them by an American journo (from one of the news agencies, AP, I think). In response the State Dept., spokesman typified the papers as being: "valuable", "fair" and "credible".
He was then asked by the same journalist: "in fact then, in essence you would support the publication of this stuff, right?" The spokesman twisted in the wind, knowing what was coming.
The Journo then continued: "In the case of Wikileaks and the Snowden documents the US government quite loudly talked about how this was stolen. In the light of this do you think that the hacking which the law firm says it was a victim of, is theft... do you regard these documents as having been stolen?"
The reply from State said in response that he didn't know if "we were going to pronounce if this was theft or not." Ant turned his attention elsewhere.
Oh the hypocrisy.
And also the fact that this confirms for me that this leak was designed by the US.
I had to giggle this morning watching an RT story on the Panama Papers about the State Department spokesman who was asked about them by an American journo (from one of the news agencies, AP, I think). In response the State Dept., spokesman typified the papers as being: "valuable", "fair" and "credible".
He was then asked by the same journalist: "in fact then, in essence you would support the publication of this stuff, right?" The spokesman twisted in the wind, knowing what was coming.
The Journo then continued: "In the case of Wikileaks and the Snowden documents the US government quite loudly talked about how this was stolen. In the light of this do you think that the hacking which the law firm says it was a victim of, is theft... do you regard these documents as having been stolen?"
The reply from State said in response that he didn't know if "we were going to pronounce if this was theft or not." Ant turned his attention elsewhere.
Oh the hypocrisy.
And also the fact that this confirms for me that this leak was designed by the US.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14