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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Well said Bob !<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Here is some background on “ WIRED “ online publication –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Owned by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cond%C3%A9_Nast_Publications" title="Condé Nast Publications">Condé Nast</a>, it is headquartered in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco,_California" title="San Francisco, California">San Francisco, California</a>, and has been in publication since March/April 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Condé Nast Inc.</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> is an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media" title="Mass media">mass media</a> company founded in 1909 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cond%C3%A9_Montrose_Nast" title="Condé Montrose Nast">Condé Montrose Nast</a>, based at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_World_Trade_Center" title="One World Trade Center">One World Trade Center</a> and owned by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications" title="Advance Publications">Advance Publications</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cond%C3%A9_Nast#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> The company attracts more than 164 million consumers across its 19 brands and media: <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allure_(magazine)" title="Allure (magazine)">Allure</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_Digest" title="Architectural Digest">Architectural Digest</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Technica" title="Ars Technica">Ars Technica</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backchannel_(blog)" title="Backchannel (blog)">Backchannel</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_App%C3%A9tit" title="Bon Appétit">Bon Appétit</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brides_(magazine)" title="Brides (magazine)">Brides</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cond%C3%A9_Nast_Traveler" title="Condé Nast Traveler">Condé Nast Traveler</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurious" title=Epicurious>Epicurious</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glamour_(magazine)" title="Glamour (magazine)">Glamour</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_Digest" title="Golf Digest">Golf Digest</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GQ" title=GQ>GQ</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitchfork_(website)" title="Pitchfork (website)">Pitchfork</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(magazine)" title="Self (magazine)">Self</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Vogue" title="Teen Vogue">Teen Vogue</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(magazine)" title="Vanity Fair (magazine)">Vanity Fair</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogue_(magazine)" title="Vogue (magazine)">Vogue</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_(magazine)" title="W (magazine)">W</a></i> and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_(magazine)" title="Wired (magazine)">Wired</a></i>. Robert A. Sauerberg Jr. is Condé Nast's current chief executive officer and president. US <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogue_(magazine)" title="Vogue (magazine)">Vogue</a> editor-in-chief <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Wintour" title="Anna Wintour">Anna Wintour</a> serves as the current artistic director of Condé Nast. The company launched <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cond%C3%A9_Nast_Entertainment" title="Condé Nast Entertainment">Condé Nast Entertainment</a> in 2011 to develop film, television and digital video programming.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Hence “ WIRED “ magazine is owned by a huge corporate media conglomerate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>WikiLeaks affair<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Wired</span></i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> was criticized<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_(magazine)#cite_note-32">[32]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_(magazine)#cite_note-33">[33]</a></sup> for its handling of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Lamo" title="Adrian Lamo">Adrian Lamo</a>/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning" title="Chelsea Manning">Chelsea Manning</a> logs. <i>Wired</i> contributor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Poulsen" title="Kevin Poulsen">Kevin Poulsen</a> used Lamo to obtain transcripts of the communications between Lamo and Manning that led to Manning's arrest over the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks" title=WikiLeaks>WikiLeaks</a>" in 2010. Poulsen released approximately one third of the logs, but he and <i>Wired</i> editor-in-chief Evan Hansen refused to release more on grounds of privacy. The issue became a subject of controversy,<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_(magazine)#cite_note-34">[34]</a></sup> when Poulsen and Hansen attacked <i>Wired</i> critic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald" title="Glenn Greenwald">Glenn Greenwald</a>.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_(magazine)#cite_note-35">[35]</a></sup> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:20.0pt'>The Guardian <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt'>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange slams Wired magazine on Twitter <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>Editor-in-chief of controversial whistleblowing website says US technology magazine 'has an agenda and is not to be trusted' <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/josh-halliday">Josh Halliday</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Tue 19 Oct 2010 06.23 EDT First published on Tue 19 Oct 2010 06.23 EDT <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=300 height=180 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D4A27C.7AD28B50" alt="Wikileaks founder Julian Assange"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The founder of WikiLeaks, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/julian-assange">Julian Assange</a>, has launched a verbal broadside against US technology magazine Wired, claiming the publication "has [an] agenda, doesn't check facts and is not to be trusted".<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Assange, the editor-in-chief of the controversial whistleblowing website, also claimed the Condé Nast title is a "known opponent and spreader of all sorts of minsinformation about WikiLeaks", pointing to what he claimed were false reports in the magazine that the site was due to release as many as 500,000 classified US documents from the Iraq war online on Monday.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Kevin Poulsen, a senior editor at Wired, is "responsible for a tremendous amount of other completely false information [about] WikiLeaks", Assange <a href="http://www.twitlonger.com/show/6hqu1n" title="wrote on Twitter">alleged on Twitter</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>David J.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 01, 2019 11:32 PM<br><b>To:</b> Szoke, Ron<br><b>Cc:</b> Peace-discuss; Bill Strutz<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: WIRED: How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>"<span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>The researchers can’t say whether any of this propaganda actually influenced the election.</span>"<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>That's the core issue, isn't it?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>If some people were messing around but had no significant impact, why should there be such an obsession about this?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Hillary's loss is easy to explain without reference to a foreign conspiracy. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>The amount of money "the Russians" apparently spent was microscopic compared to what Hillary and Trump spent.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>The story that this determined the outcome of the election is wildly implausible.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>It's certainly reasonable to try to make reasonable efforts to stop foreigners from messing around in our elections. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>But this is not why Hillary lost, and it's not obvious why we should be obsessed with Russian interference as opposed to any other form of interference. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>===<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>Robert Reuel Naiman<br>Policy Director<br>Just Foreign Policy<br><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>(202) 448-2898 x1<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 12:07 AM Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>From: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>"Szoke, Ron" <<a href="mailto:r-szoke@illinois.edu" target="_blank">r-szoke@illinois.edu</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Subject: </span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>WIRED: How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Date: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>January 1, 2019</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>WIRED: "How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America"<br><br><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/russia-ira-propaganda-senate-report/?mbid=email_onsiteshare" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/story/russia-ira-propaganda-senate-report/?mbid=email_onsiteshare</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>NOTE: According our local pundits & most authoritative resident experts on these matters, nothing like this ever happened, & this is all FAKE NEWS invented by warmongering neoliberal elements in the Deep State & American Political Elite (APE). <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br><a 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