Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Security Leaks as TV Drama

By John Ballard


Last night's NCIS Los Angeles (Season 2, Episode 13 "Archangel") has this plotline.


The NCIS team sets out to find the individual responsible for stealing a classified Pentagon document before the file's decryption code is cracked by the wrong party.

The case of Bradley Manning and his alleged Wikileaks connection was unmistakable. Because I am a long-rime Linda Hunt fan it is my responsibility to blog about this episode and pass along two fairly fresh pieces of information.


?CBS programs (And probably other networks. I'm not much of a TV person so I'm not sure.) are now available online. Here is a link to find last night's episode but I don't know how to skip the commercials. It's playing in the background as I type. When the day comes when I have time to watch television I will do more of it. But I'm waiting for an economical, user-friendly interface of TV and Internet. (Our ISP is the phone provider, TV is from another source and rigging them together makes an even bigger mess than what we now have -- two or three remotes that always get messed up when the fifteen month old little person who comes around every day needs the system for Yo Gabba Gabba! DVDs. And yes, the DVD player has to get into the mess as well.)


A character appears in NCIS -- Archangel twenty-seven minutes into the show.
Here are images of that actor and Bradley Manning.
I report. You decide.


Manning NCIS


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


?On a more serious note, the MLK Day weekend included demonstrations in front of the FBI building in Washington and Quantico Marine Base where Bradley Manning has is still being held, reportedly in solitary confinement, for eight months.  Hat tip to  Jotman, who also blogged about the Washington protest and has pictures at his site


On January 17, 2011, Peace and Social Justice activists staged a spirited demonstration in front of the national headquarters of the FBI, in Washington, D.C. They demanded the FBI keep its "hands off our activists." This is in reference to recent FBI harassment and raids on the homes/offices of activists in Chicago, Minneapolis and Michigan. They also demanded the release of Bradley Manning. Currently, he is imprisoned at the U.S. Marine base, at Quantico, VA. I talked with Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst, at the demonstration. He sharply criticized U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's view of the law. And with respect to the treatment of Bradley Manning, and other issues, too, he asked: "Where is the Justice?" To learn more, go to: http://www.defendingdissent.org/actio...












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