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A Typical Day for PFC Bradley Manning - http://bit.ly/gqpDCI by his lawyer. but why do they stop him exercising > 1 hour? (v @newsbrooke)
- Benoit Mortier repeated this.
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@glynmoody Presumably he went in fit. Fit body = clear mind ... 7+ months of non-exercise would leave muscles more like jello. #freebradley
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@glynmoody Don't forget he signed away most of his rights when he joined the army. Any sadist can do whatever their rules allow now.
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@webmink sure; but does America really want to avail itself of the sadist's clause with the world looking on...?
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@glynmoody I suspect they still think no-one is looking.
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@webmink or that those of us who are don't count...
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@glynmoody It's a shame that Wikileaks raised all that money in Manning's name, and never actually gave him a penny of it, hm?
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@lefty the cheque is in the post according to this: http://wapo.st/dYx7kL
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@glynmoody Money pledged in July that hasn't arrived? Pretty weak.
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@eximious I don't know the details, but presumably they've had a few things on their hands recently
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@glynmoody People are pretty screwed after signing a contract with the Army. (see also: the Halliburton employee who was sexually assaulted)
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@eximious indeed; of course, that doesn't mean they *have* to be abused by the system...
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@glynmoody Old news, no. Now Wau Holland has advised Manning's people that they're facing an audit and won't be able to provide anything.
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@glynmoody They weren't too busy too spend all of June and July raising money in his name. Now they're just to busy to give it to him, eh?
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@glynmoody Evidently one of the "things on their hands" is an audit by the German authorities.
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@eximious It's _never_ arriving, per the latest update. See http://t.co/4NvdhMo
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@glynmoody This one’s for you: embedded reporters in wrong camp → taz.de/1/politik/nahost/artikel/1/its-a-war-right/ ⇒real answers (german)
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@lefty well, maybe they should have sent it earlier, but we don't know what was going on so it's hard to say
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@lefty but what we do know is that just about every financial institution is making it hard to do anything with money, so blame them
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@glynmoody They've been stalling Manning people on the money since August. Maybe you're right. But I don't think so.
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@glynmoody Wau Holland promised financial details in August, and never came through. I doubt we'll see them by year-end, as promised, either
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@lefty well, I'm quite prepared to believe they're inefficient/forgetful/careless; but recent events have hardly made things easier
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@lefty more generally, Wikileaks' entire financial organisation needs to be put on a firmer, formal basis
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@glynmoody No, they could be lucky and serve during an entirely uneventful period of US history.
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@eximious well, a nation show its real strength when under stress - grace under pressure etc etc
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@glynmoody Indeed. Do you anticipate seeing that actually happen anytime in the foreseeable future? I see no particular signs of it.
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@glynmoody FYI, my initial stab at untangling the mare's nest of Wikileaks, etc. wp.me/pMEVl-3X
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@lefty: thanks - and apologies for not replying sooner, I've been offline mostly. I think we'll have to agree to disagree over Mr Lanier...
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