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Dave Emory
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Dave Emory writes Spitfire List, a personal blog at spitfirelist.com about politics and history. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dave Emory's For the Record radio-show archive, which covers Assange, WikiLeaks, Snowden, Operation Paperclip and intelligence agencies. Commenters mostly doubt its reliability.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Web site and blog of anti-fascist researcher and radio personality Dave Emory.
What Hacker News says?
While I wouldn't claim this is a reliable source, you could check out Dave Emory on Assange ( http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-724-wiki-of-the-d... and http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-725-leak-this-wik... ). Emory tries to connect Assange, the Swedish Pirate Party, a Nazi conspiracy, western intelligence agencies, and an Australian brainwashing cult of bleach-blond children. He also points to an…
Comment linking /for-the-record/ftr-725-leak-this-wiki-spooks-and-the-world-of-stieg-larsson/
on “WikiLeaks Archive — Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy”Submitted Ex-Nazi's brilliant U.S. career strangled in a web of lies (1981) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionStepping through the dreck of Emory's arguments[1], the only substance I can find is claim that all these folks are libertarians or right-ward sympathizes (It's not true that everyone defending Snowden is Libertarian but that's only one problem with Emory's off-kilter claims and argument-style). I'd view myself as left-to-far-left with zero sympathies to libertarian politics as such. But any claim that all the liber…
Comment linking /news/snowdens-ride-part-i-eddie-the-friendly-spook-and-the-bnd/
on “NSA whistleblower warns of surveillance state”I guess this is a conspiracy theory... But I've actually come around to the belief that Snowden has always worked for the CIA. This was a turf war job by the CIA against the NSA that had the bonus effect of striking fear into the world's internet users. Ed worked for the CIA before NSA and there are some interesting ties between Glen Greenwald and US's sponsored propaganda services. If you are interested in diving i…
Comment linking /for-the-record/ftr-924-technocratic-fascism-the-high-profile-hacks-and-the-obverse-oswald-update-on-the-adventures-of-eddie-the-friendly-spook/
on “New CIA director thinks Snowden should be killed”The 1991 article "Cancer Warfare"[1] by "Richard Hatch", is interesting in this regard. Extensively footnoted and appearing erudite and informed, it examines the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Viral Cancer Program (VCP) - "launched in 1971 with great fanfare as part of Nixon’s War on Cancer" - concluding that: > While Nixon ordered a supposed end to BW offensive efforts in 1969, the Central Intelligence Ag…
Comment linking /news/cancer-warfare/
on “Lessons from Operation “Denver,” the KGB’s Aids Disinformation Campaign”Not surprising! Ignoring and downplaying the crimes of Operation Paperclip Nazis is a well established pastime among U.S. historians. "A Secret Agenda" by Linda Hunt is an excellent read on the subject, and goes into lots of detail about the Mittelwerk rocket factory which Von Braun ran: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/File:Secret_Agenda.pdf And if you think Von Braun was bad, wait until you hear about Kurt Blome (who a…
Comment linking /news/ex-nazi%E2%80%99s-brilliant-u-s-career-strangled-in-a-web-of-lies/
on “Von Braun Class Station”