Robert Heinlein: SECRECY IS THE HALLMARK OF TYRANNY! This is the Era Of Sunshine.
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Just Foreign Policy News, November 29, 2010 , http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/775
Wikileaks Honduras: State Dept. Busted on Support of Coup
According to a leaked cable, by July 24, 2009, the U.S. government was totally clear about the basic facts of what took place in Honduras on June 28, 2009. But a month after the cable was sent, the State Department was publicly pretending that the facts were murky and needed further study. Why did the State Department drag its feet, pretending that facts which it knew to be clear-cut were murky? Why didn’t the State Department speak publicly after July 24 with the same moral clarity as the July 24 cable from the Embassy in Honduras? Had it done so, history might have been different.
Why this matters now: because major US media refuse to report evidence of US “involvement” in coups in Venezuela, Haiti, and Honduras, or acknowledge that it exists, and that’s why we’re trying to help as many Americans as possible see the Oliver Stone documentary, “South of the Border.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/wikileaks-honduras-state_b_789282.html
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So where is the change , Obama?
Sure would like to see it. YOU PROMISED!!1) The Pentagon says violence in Afghanistan has reached an all-time high, with clashes up fourfold since 2007, the BBC reports. In a report covering the period between 1 April and 30 September, the Pentagon attributed much of the increase in violence to the growth in the coalition force after Obama’s escalation this year. “Efforts to reduce insurgent capacity, such as safe havens and logistic support originating in Pakistan and Iran, have not produced measurable results,” the report states. “The insurgency has proven resilient with sustained logistics capacity and command and control.”
*Action: Host a “South of the Border” Screening Party
Bolivian President Evo Morales criticizes US involvement in coups in Latin America, but the AP claims critics have provided “no clear evidence” of US involvement in the coup in Venezuela.
On December 10 – Human Rights Day – host a house party to watch Oliver Stone’s documentary “South of the Border,” and tune in to a live webcast with Just Foreign Policy President Mark Weisbrot, who co-wrote the script. Help educate your community about what the U.S. has been doing in Latin America.
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/southofobama-
I don’t think Obama promised to change this.
There seems to be confusion over the laudable goal of “transparency” in how we pass legislation and the mistaken idea that we will no longer have any spies, “top secret” clearances, etc.
Personally, I’d LOVE to see things like “secret holds” in the Senate go away. But if anyone thinks anyone is electable running on a platform of “no more secrets” they’re in for a big disappointment.
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Thanks, this will make Charles II happy he was getting slamed at the orange monster the other day for a series he did on this.
Oh about that hopey changey thing I’ll get back to later;)
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It is HIGH TIME for sunshine.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/355882,put-foot-cia-prison.html
WikiLeaks: Lithuanian president put her foot down over CIA prisonVilnius – Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite intervened to prevent the transfer of inmates from the United States’ Guantanamo prison camp, the New York Times reported Tuesday, citing leaked US diplomatic documents.
Shortly after taking office in July 2009, Grybauskaite annulled a previous agreement to accept a Guantanamo inmate amid an ongoing controversy about an alleged secret CIA prison located near the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, it was claimed.
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Meanwhile, Obama has tried to address this issue, which is good:Obama tells CIA agents to ‘uphold our values’
By Sheldon Alberts, Washington Correspondent, Canwest News Service April 20, 2009
http://www.nsnews.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Obama+tells+agents+uphold+values/1516047/story.html?id=1516047
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday said U.S. intelligence agents must hold themselves to a “higher standard” when dealing with the nation’s most unscrupulous enemies, even when they believe adhering to anti-torture policy makes it more difficult to protect America from attack.Confronting criticism over his decision to outlaw and to publicize controversial interrogation tactics approved during the Bush administration, Obama told employees at the Central Intelligence Agency the U.S. has a moral duty to adhere to the rule of law.
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Getting the CIA under his thumb is going to be a real task, since I think they are the implementation wing of shadow government orders, along with incredibly criminal activity in most sections of high crimes.
——————I just keep finding more on the CIA:
CIA implanted electrodes in brains of unsuspecting soldiers, suit alleges
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×9650595
Source: Raw StoryA group of military veterans are suing to get the CIA to come clean about allegedly implanting remote control devices in their brains.
It’s well known that the CIA began testing substances like LSD on soldiers beginning in the 1950s but less is known about allegations that the agency implanted electrodes in subjects.
A 2009 lawsuit (.pdf) claimed that the CIA intended to design and test septal electrodes that would enable them to control human behavior. The lawsuit said that because the government never disclosed the risks, the subjects were not able to give informed consent.
Bruce Price, one plaintiff in the lawsuit, believes that MRI scans confirm that the CIA placed a device in his brain in 1966.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/cia-allegedly-implan… /
And more on this: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Bruce+Price,+CIA&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8———–
More From Wikileaks:
http://gsn.nti.org/gsn/nw_20101129_7360.php
North Korea Supplied Powerful Missiles to Iran, Cables Reveal
Monday, Nov. 29, 2010
Classified U.S. intelligence reports have determined that North Korea supplied Iran with a stockpile of sophisticated missiles that would extend the Middle Eastern state’s strike capabilities in ways the United States had previously not disclosed, the New York Times reported yesterday (see GSN, March 8).————–
I had completely forgot about Secrecy News until today:
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?s=Wikileakshttp://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2010/11/race_to_fix.html
The Race to Fix the Classification System
November 29th, 2010 by Steven AftergoodThe massive disclosure of a quarter million diplomatic records by Wikileaks this weekend underscores the precarious state of the U.S. national security classification system.
The Wikileaks project seems to be, more than anything else, an assault on secrecy. If Wikileaks were most concerned about whistleblowing, it would focus on revealing corruption. If it were concerned with historical truth, it would emphasize the discovery of verifiably true facts. If it were anti-war, it would safeguard, not disrupt, the conduct of diplomatic communications. But instead, what Wikileaks has done is to publish a vast potpourri of records — dazzling, revelatory, true, questionable, embarrassing, or routine — whose only common feature is that they are classified or otherwise restricted.
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Context matters. Even Democrats vilify “leftwing” governments in other countries — so — expecting this country to defend one is a little much.
However — if the Honduran coup was the product of planning that had included the US — Obama certainly made clear that he wasn’t going to be supporting it since unlike whomever in the state department — he didn’t say it needed further study — he IMMEDIATELY said it was illegal.
And it just goes to show you how effective that demand that Obama speak out on this or that would actually be — as if he can just speak change into being. He called the coup illegal — apparently the state department didn’t care what he thought.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8125292.stm
This stuff is deeply entrenched — and it’s not just the US. The US government gets the blame for it all — but Europeans are very much involved. With some European countries almost completely dependent on financial services (neo-colonialism) — they really “need” to maintain and try to expand neoliberal economic policies. We don’t need it as much as they do — our role has been that of the stupid thug that can easily be sweet-talked into doing whatever the bosses want.
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Regardless, I call for a comprehensive and complete end to any government secrecy.
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/index.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/us-embassy-cables-the-documents
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-mervyn-king-quit-political-bias
WikiLeaks: Mervyn King should quit over ‘political bias’, says Blanchflower
• Leaked US cables show governor of Bank of England’s ‘thirst for power has clouded his judgment’, former colleague says
• Read David Blanchflower’s article here“Mervyn King is one smart guy and that has always been abundantly clear,” said Blanchflower. “Unfortunately, it is his thirst for power and influence that has clouded his judgment one too many times. He has now committed the unforgivable sin of compromising the independence of the Bank of England. He is expected to be politically neutral but he has shown himself to be politically biased and as a result is now in an untenable position. King must go.”"
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http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/reldate/2010-12-01_0.html
Browse by 2010/12/01snip
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¶7. (C) Why the U.S. relationship appears off the table, at
least so far, is probably be due to several key factors. An
almost inherent Canadian inferiority complex may disincline
Canadian political leaders from making this election about
the U.S. (unlike in the 1988 free trade campaigns) instead of
sticking to domestic topics of bread-and-butter interest to
voters. The leaders may also recognize that bilateral
relations are simply too important — and successful — to
turn into political campaign fodder that could backfire.
They may also be viewing the poll numbers in the U.S. and
recognizing that the results are too close to call. Had the
Canadian campaign taken place after the U.S. election, the
Conservatives might have been tempted to claim they could
work more effectively with a President McCain, or the
Liberals with a President Obama. Even this could be a risky
strategy, as perceptions of being too close to the U.S.
leader are often distasteful to Canadian voters; one
recurrent jibe about PM Harper is that he is a “clone of
George W. Bush.” Ultimately, the U.S. is like the proverbial
900 pound gorilla in the midst of the Canadian federal
election: overwhelming but too potentially menacing to
acknowledge.Visit Canada,s Economy and Environment Forum at
http://www.intelink.gov/communities/state/can ada”
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2008/09/08OTTAWA1258.html
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http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/01/09MOSCOW226.html
“Getting Ugly and Personal with NDI
———————————-¶7. (C) On January 29, USAID FSNs received an email from
XXXXXXXXXXXX with a photoshopped image of
XXXXXXXXXXXX reclining with an underage
child. The picture was attached to a message, ostensibly from
a Russian citizen, which accused XXXXXXXXXXXX of raping
her 9-year old daughter. This latest provocation falls on the
heels of a scandal in Murmansk alleging NDI interference in
local elections and harassment of NDI staff XXXXXXXXXXXX.
The Ambassador met with representatives from NDI on January
30 on harassment of the NGO, reported septel.Panic or Provocation
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have taken the initiative to stir the waters of Russian
politics, not only with those letters, but also with the
proposed revision of the law on treason, on jury trials, and
the heavy-handed response to the protests in Vladivostok.
Some of those initiatives have been blunted directly, such as
Medvedev’s decision to revise the proposed law on treason,
others by publicizing the issue (the letter to the Higher
School of Economics, for example, received coverage in the
popular tabloid MK and on Ren TV) — suggesting an
intensification of inter-elite conflict.¶9. (C) Comment. We cannot rule out that those provocations
may in part be directed at complicating efforts to improve
US-Russian relations. At a time when both Putin and Medvedev
have indicated the potential for starting with a clean slate
in relations with the new Obama administration, those within
the security services who see value (including to their
budgets) from continued tensions or whose world view is
predicated on US-Russia conflict are likely under pressure to
play a spoiler role. Ambassador plans to raise all of those
incidents forcefully in high-level meetings next week to send
a message back flagging the risks inherent in allowing rogue
elements to run amok in the relationship. End Comment.
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It is just amazing to me how the State Department is thinking and what info they are storing. They don’t “talk” like this to us. Why not?
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/11/09BUENOSAIRES1235.html
On the Brazilian leader, the woman, Kirschner.Again, with this info, I am still more than ever thinking it would be wise to invest in Brazilian currency. It should be low right now and could boom later.
Amendment much later: Argentina had Kirschner. Sorry. I get them mixed up sometimes because sis was in both places for a time. Brazil was her beloved land tho. I think she loved it even more than her homeland, Kansas.
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With some people claiming Hillary violated international law and should resign — and because of the White House defense of her — I decided to go read the cables they cite as evidence.
As I read — once again I had the feeling of sins of my past coming back to haunt me. I admit that during the Bush years — I would have overlooked and possibly even joined in “spinning” the contents of those cables in a way that reflected badly on the Bush administration. In that sense — somebody who would say I am different — now — would be correct. At the time — I assumed that all my left leaning friends were “in” on the spin. In fact — I generally did that “for fun” — to pick at rightwingers — I wasn’t serious. At the time — I had no idea that some people believed what I saw as deliberate “spin” was a genuine interpretation and representation of those events. To my credit — depending on the circumstances — if I thought it was important — I’d say “all spin aside” and give my honest opinion on something.
Those cables make clear that the request is pursuant to directives that went out years ago — long before Hillary was SOS. It’s also clear that it’s advising people on information they should collect and report if and as they get it in the course of their activities — it isn’t instructing them to engage in espionage to get it.
Who doesn’t know that the CIA collects as much info as possible on other countries and it’s representatives? Hell — they even make some of the data they collect available to the general public. I can’t begin to count how many times I’ve searched for some kind of information — whether it be demographic, political, social or geographical — about some country and found the info I was looking for in the CIA factbook — or whatever it’s called.
Those cables tell people the kind of information US intelligence wants them to report should they get it. It clearly says include — if possible — x, y, z — and tells them that they are particularly interested in reports of discussions on some priority topics.
Which — the downside to not having cable anymore is that I can’t check in on the mainstream news to see if the stuff on the net is flying in the “real world.” So — for all I know — this stuff may be an issue only among the redundant membership of the websites I frequent. And I include redundant because some people tend to add it all up as if all the members of each site are unique to the whole — which means that 5 comments they saw at 5 different websites making them think that opinion seems kind of popular might all come from 1 person saying it in 5 places.
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Actually, the CIA has been in a huge trend to downplay Humint, Human intelligence, with Bush shutting down some CIA sites around the world. They have since started it back up again, as they realize that the best info is on the ground, with people flowing within the society they are watching. In fact, the best info comes from Humint, in non-classified areas.
Folks, the internet is also giving us the ability to do humint on our own.
I agree, having read quite a few of them, those cables are biased and reflect an SOS agenda. Now I really like Hillary.
As far as getting the real news, try The Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/There are also other places I go to:
http://www.cepr.net/
http://www.epi.org/
http://www.ipsnews.net/ (slanted somewhat)
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/
http://www.kurzweilai.net/And I have a lot of yahoo news alerts that I seldom really get to.
For science: http://www.eurekalert.org/pubnews.php
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Somewhere, I posted the mention of Wikileaks docs mentioning the ppotential collapse of N. Korea. I don’t remember where i put it. But it is now hitting the news.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_china_nkorea_wikileaks===========
And whoa!!
A scandal involving foreign contractors employed to train Afghan policemen who took drugs and paid for young “dancing boys” to entertain them in northern Afghanistan caused such panic that the interior minister begged the US embassy to try and “quash” the story, according to one of the US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks.http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/02/foreign-contractors-hired-dancing-boys?intcmp=239
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This is where you can find it now, since the Swiss shut down one of the Wikileaks sites:
213.251.145.96
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Digital McCarthyism
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/article933915.ece
It has been one long battle for WikiLeaks merely to exist on the Internet since it started publishing the U.S. diplomatic cables. The cat-and-mouse game that it has had to play to retain an accessible address in cyberspace is the result of a virulent attack launched by right-wing lawmakers in America and their supporters, and commercial entities such as Amazon, which caved in to the pressure. But more fundamentally, the WikiLeaks saga represents the acid test for free speech. With each tranche of documents published online, the world is witnessing the total loss of dominance of secretive governments over information. The backlash has come swiftly, with bellicose American Senators engaging in plain intimidation to get commercial entities to stop offering services to WikiLeaks on the ground that it is distributing material it does not own. Some politicians have made a jingoistic pitch and called for the execution of the source of the leaks. This is nothing but Digital McCarthyism. Were it not for the threat it poses to the free Internet, it would even appear amusing. Earlier this year, President Barack Obama was ‘troubled’ by the cyber attacks on Google, which were said to originate in China, and wanted those responsible to face the consequences. The more freely information flows, the stronger society becomes, he had said during an earlier visit to China. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was also strongly critical of Internet restrictions in China. Now the boot is on the other foot. Concern for free speech is nowhere in evidence as extra-legal methods are deployed to deny Americans their First Amendment rights.
The campaign against WikiLeaks is a clear move to censor political material on the Internet and, potentially, on other media. The first moves made by lawmakers such as Senator Joe Lieberman, who chairs the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, have no legal foundation and yet have succeeded with Amazon and PayPal. What has followed is shockingly repressive and obscurantist. The Library of Congress blocked access to WikiLeaks across its computer systems, including reading rooms, and Columbia University students aspiring for diplomatic careers have been advised not to comment on, or link to, the whistleblower website’s revelations. It is doubly tragic that such concerted attacks are securing support from countries with a progressive legacy such as France. The intolerant response to WikiLeaks is a potential threat to all media and must be fought. Senator Lieberman and other lawmakers have introduced legislation that proposes to make the publication of an intelligence source a federal crime. Already, U.S. law allows the shutting down of some Internet domains managed in that country on grounds of infringement of copyright. The threat to the publication of inconvenient material, even with responsible redactions, is all too real.
Keywords: WikiLeaks, cablegate, U.S. diplomatic cables, cyber attacks, Google, infringement, Amazon, PayPal
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I read a diary on Kos the other day comparing this (harassment of Assange with sex charges) to Ritter (being charged with rape when he spoke out about Iraq.)
Have you seen this?
Assange’s “Sex By Surprise” Accuser Worked With US-Funded, CIA-Tied Anti-Castro Group
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I think drawing comparisons between these situations is kind of simplistic.
The Assange thing is a soap opera — the charges against him just tabloid gossip type stuff about a current fad.
The Ritter thing was different. Ritter’s situation had less of an attention-seeking quality to it — less room to consider it a self-serving thing. And well — in Ritter’s case — his troubles began before he tried to warn us that the Bush administration was making a phony case. They leaked info about about him to discredit him.
But — here’s something that I find rather funny about Assange’s defenders. If Assange was currently in the news for doing something they didn’t like — that headline would read “Assange’s Former Girlfriend Worked With US-Funded, CIA-Tied Anti-Castro Group” or something to that effect.
The Assange thing is almost a joke — except sooner or later he just might get and publish something with tragic repercussions. The Ritter story is filled with genuine tragedy — the lives lost in that war for lies and Ritter’s apparent sexual dysfunction.
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What troubles did Ritter have before he said that Iraq was not a WMD threat? I read him and a lot about him at the time. AND i believed him. Where did he have apparent sexual dysfunction? And certainly not more so that George Bush and his rape allegations.
No, I just don’t see it that way. I don’t find the Assange thing to be anything like a joke.
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I believed Ritter’s statements about Iraq. I don’t do ad hominem. I read the UN reports and the things Ritter said matched what was in those reports. And those things that weren’t covered in the reports made sense in the context of the events as reported at the relevant time.
Ritter’s first brush with sex charges had already happened by the time he was making headlines over his claims about Iraq. What happened with him is that the details were supposed to be kept underwraps and somebody went public with them in an attempt to discredit him. Very recently Ritter got caught in an internet sting — again.
Ritter repeatedly getting caught in police internet stings is not quite the same thing as the Bush story. Ritter was caught more than once trying to set up sex with somebody posing as a minor — and this last time — he was masturbating on the web cam.
I call it dysfunction because regardless of what actually transpired — if he did think his internet “partners” were at least 18 — after getting into trouble trying to have sexual encounters of whatever kind with young girls no matter their age — he would have stopped looking for that kind of stuff online.
And the Assange thing? He was staying with the first woman — the one the headline is talking about — and having sex with her. He met the second woman — which is the one who actually pressed the original charges — afterwards and began having sex with her. The condom broke and then she supposedly learned that he was having sex with the first woman at the same time — and she filed charges to try to get his HIV status. Apparently you can do that in Sweden — or wherever they are.
So — Ritter’s troubles are tragic. Assange’s are the stuff soap operas are made of.
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I just don’t see where he was convicted of the Jan. accusations, regarding Scott Ritter. I can’t find anywhere where it says how the trial went in Sept. 2010.
I am sorry. It was a sting operation that probably fell down in court due to the way that it was illegally set up.
I don’t think it is a crime for a person to have cyber sex. And it isn’t a crime to have it with someone who may or may not be underage. There is no way to know those things.
Have you ever been in one of those chat rooms? They are innane. Absolutely and totally a place where people go to NOT think. They talk about what they had for supper and how they tied their shoes that morning. And Who called Who. And I am pissed as hell at my teacher.
As for Assange, it would seem to me to be a more serious implication than Ritter’s case. HIV is nothing to laugh at.
For Ritter, no one is touching anyone. For Assange, while I hope things are bogus, and while I would certainly give my body up to him for a time merely in appreciation, viral loads seem to be pretty important these days.
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Thank you for that. It sure seems to help a lot, especially in seeing how the CIA works. I don’t want the CIA to fund this kind of activity anymore.
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My wife has today and tomorrow off. Every day is Saturday, for me. So when she said “let’s have a few beers and sit in the hot tub” I was all for it.
Since I have a (unfortunately, not always perfectly self-enforced) policy against PWI, I’ll be back tomorrow.
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I don’t know. When I logged in to delete spamming new users it showed up as being held up by Akismet because it couldn’t “check” something and said it would “check” again in 17 minutes.
I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s never happened before. I did just update the version of Akismet, though, so it could be related to a “bug” in the new version.
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http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/the-lighter-side-of-wikileaks/19750609
Surge Desk
The Lighter Side of WikiLeaks
Updated: 25 minutes ago
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Just went ahead and put it here, rather than start a new post. This is a kicker tho!US pressed Berlin not to arrest CIA agents
Published: 9 Dec 10 08:01 CET
Updated: 9 Dec 10 14:19 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20101209-31697.htmlMore documents released by Wikileaks this week have shown that Washington put intense pressure on Berlin not to enforce arrest warrants against CIA agents involved in the 2003 abduction of a German citizen mistakenly believed to be a terrorist.
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I think people should see this wikileaks issue.
Leaked Cables Point to North Korean Work in Myanmar
Friday, Dec. 10, 2010
http://gsn.nti.org/gsn/nw_20101210_9707.php
A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable from August 2009 reported sightings of a large North Korean presence in Myanmar rumored to be involved in work on an underground facility, Agence France-Presse reported today (see GSN, Nov. 22)
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WOW, went to Wikileaks to sit down and read. I opened the first one to pop up and this is what I said:
http://wikileaks.chmod.fi/cable/2008/05/08TEGUCIGALPA459.html
S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 04 TEGUCIGALPA 000459
SIPDIS
MADRID FOR HUGO LLORENS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/14/2018
TAGS: PGOV PINR PREL KDEM ECON SOCI KCRM ENRG EFIN
SNAR, SMIG, MARR, MASS, MOPS, HOSUBJECT: PRESIDENT JOSE MANUEL ZELAYA ROSALES: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS OF AMBASSADOR FORD REF: OFFICIAL BIOS ON FILE
Classified By: AMBASSADOR CHARLES A. FORD FOR REASONS 1.4 (b and d)
¶1. (S) Summary: Honduran President Jose Manuel &Mel8 Zelaya Rosales is a throwback to an earlier Central American era, almost a caricature of a land-owner &caudillo8 in terms of his leadership style and tone. Ever the rebellious teenager, Zelaya,s principal goal in office is to enrich himself and his family while leaving a public legacy as a martyr who tried to do good but was thwarted at every turn by powerful, unnamed interests. Various public statements over his tenure suggest he would be quite comfortable as a martyr who tried but failed honorably in his attempt to seek out social justice for the poor. He is comfortable working with the Armed Forces and until recently with the Catholic Church, yet resents the very existence of the Congress, the Attorney General and Supreme Court. Over his two and a half years in office, he has become increasingly surrounded by those involved in organized crime activities. End Summary.
¶2. (S) I have gotten to know Mel Zelaya quite well over my tenure as Ambassador, and offer these personal reflections on his character, his views of the United States, and on what his presidency means for our interest in the region with the objective of informing future policy choices.
¶3. (S) Personally, I have found Zelaya to be gracious and charming, quite willing to tell me whatever he thinks I want to hear at that moment. For example, in the period June-August 2007, we must have met weekly, with his agenda focused on explaining his nomination of Jorge Arturo Reina (who lost his U.S. visa for past terrorist connections) as the UN Ambassador, his presence in Managua at Sandinista celebrations and his intentions with regard to Hugo Chavez. It was interesting to see how his explanations differed from meeting to meeting, almost as if he had no recollection of our exchange just a few days before.
And there is more. He is so much like GW Bush that it ceases to be funny!!
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http://hondurasweekly.com/editorial/3182-in-praise-of-gadflies-iconoclasts-and-muckrakers
In Praise of Gadflies, Iconoclasts and Muckrakers
Friday, 10 December 2010 00:00
WikiLeaks represents investigative journalism at its finest. Everyone is fair game: people, businesses and mafia states dedicated to the enrichment of a small clique through deception, surveillance, war, economic colonialism and exploitation, torture and assassination. -
Michael Moore: Why I’m Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Posted by Ralph Bernardo on December 14, 2010
http://www.disinfo.com/2010/12/michael-moore-why-im-posting-bail-money-for-julian-assange/Moore / AssangeMichael Moore writes on his blog:
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail.
Furthermore, I am publicly offering the assistance of my website, my servers, my domain names and anything else I can do to keep WikiLeaks alive and thriving as it continues its work to expose the crimes that were concocted in secret and carried out in our name and with our tax dollars.
We were taken to war in Iraq on a lie. Hundreds of thousands are now dead. Just imagine if the men who planned this war crime back in 2002 had had a WikiLeaks to deal with. They might not have been able to pull it off. The only reason they thought they could…
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From an email from CEPR.
CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH
________________________________________Wikileaks Cables Show Why Washington Won’t Allow Democracy in Haiti
By Mark Weisbrot
________________________________________This column was published by The Guardian Unlimited (UK) on December 17, 2010. If anyone wants to reprint it, please include a link to the original: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/dec/17/haiti-wikileaks
The polarization of the debate around Wikileaks is pretty simple, really. Of all the governments in the world, the United States government is the greatest threat to world peace and security today. This is obvious to anyone who looks at the facts with a modicum of objectivity. The Iraq war has claimed hundreds of thousands, and most likely more than a million lives. It was completely unnecessary and unjustifiable, and based on lies. Now Washington is moving toward a military confrontation with Iran.
As Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, pointed out in an interview recently, [http://www.therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=5988] in the preparation for a war with Iran, we are at about the level of 1998 in the build-up to the Iraq war.
On this basis, even ignoring the tremendous harm that Washington causes to developing countries in such areas as economic development (through such institutions as the International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization), or climate change, it is clear that any information which sheds light on U.S. “diplomacy” is more than useful. It has the potential to help save millions of human lives.
You either get this or you don’t. Brazil’s president Lula da Silva, who earned Washington’s displeasure last May when he tried to help defuse the confrontation with Iran, gets it. That’s why he defended and declared his “solidarity” [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-09/lula-defends-wikileaks-offers-brazil-s-solidarity-with-jailed-founder.html]with embattled Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, even though the leaked cables were not pleasant reading for his own government.
One area of U.S. foreign policy that the Wikileaks cables help illuminate [http://www.mediahacker.org/2010/11/wikileaks-cablegate-and-haiti/], which the major media has predictably ignored, is the occupation of Haiti. In 2004 the country’s democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown for the second time, through an effort led by the United States government. [http://articles.latimes.com/2004/mar/04/opinion/oe-sachs4]Officials of the constitutional government were jailed and thousands of its supporters were killed.
The Haitian coup, besides being a repeat of Aristide’s overthrow in 1991, was also very similar to the attempted coup in Venezuela in 2002 – which also had Washington’s fingerprints all over it. Some of the same people in Washington were even involved in both efforts. But the Venezuelan coup failed – partly because Latin American governments immediately and forcefully declared that they would not recognize the coup government.
In the case of Haiti, Washington had learned from its mistakes in the Venezuelan coup and had gathered support for an illegitimate government in advance. A UN resolution was passed just days after the coup, and UN forces, headed by Brazil, were sent to the country. The mission is still headed by Brazil, and has troops from a number of other Latin American governments that are left of center, including Bolivia, Argentina and Uruguay. They are also joined by Chile, Peru and Guatemala from Latin America.
Would these governments have sent troops to occupy Venezuela if that coup had succeeded? Clearly they would not have considered such a move, yet the occupation of Haiti is no more justifiable. South America’s progressive governments have strongly challenged U.S. foreign policy in the region and the world, with some of them regularly using words like imperialism and empire as synonyms for Washington. They have built new institutions such as UNASUR [http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/unasur-emerging-geopolitical-force/]to prevent these kinds of abuses from the north. Bolivia expelled the U.S. ambassador in September of 2008 for interfering in its own internal affairs.
Is it because Haitians are poor and black that their most fundamental human and democratic rights can be trampled upon?
The participation of these governments in the occupation of Haiti is a serious political contradiction for them, and it is getting worse. The Wikileaks cables [http://www.mediahacker.org/2010/11/wikileaks-cablegate-and-haiti/] illustrate how important the control of Haiti is to the United States.
A long memo [http://213.251.145.96/cable/2007/03/07PORTAUPRINCE408.html]from the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince to the U.S. Secretary of State answers detailed questions about Haitian president Rene Preval’s political, personal, and family life, including such vital national security questions as “How many drinks can Preval consume before he shows signs of inebriation?” It also expresses one of Washington’s main concerns:
“his reflexive nationalism, and his disinterest in managing bilateral relations in a broad diplomatic sense, will lead to periodic frictions as we move forward our bilateral agenda.
Case in point, we believe that in terms of foreign policy, Preval is most interested in gaining increased assistance from any available resource. He is likely to be tempted to frame his relationship with Venezuela and Chavez-allies in the hemisphere in a way that he hopes will create a competitive atmosphere as far as who can provide the most to Haiti.”This is why they got rid of Aristide – who was much to the left of Preval — and won’t let him back in the country. This is why Washington funded the recent “elections [http://www.cepr.net/index.php/elections/]” that excluded Haiti’s largest political party, the equivalent of shutting out the Democrats and Republicans in the United States. And this is why MINUSTAH is still occupying the country [http://www.cepr.net/index.php/minustah/], more than six years after the coup, without any apparent mission other than replacing the hated Haitian army – which Aristide abolished – as a repressive force.
People who do not understand U.S. foreign policy think that control over Haiti does not matter to Washington, because it is so poor and has no strategic minerals or resources. But that is not how Washington operates, as the Wikileaks cables repeatedly illustrate. For the State Department and its allies, it is all a ruthless chess game, and the pawns matter. Left governments will be removed or prevented from taking power where it is possible to do so; and the poorest countries – like Honduras last year – [http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/top-ten-ways] present the most opportune targets. A democratically elected government in Haiti, due to its history and the consciousness of the population, will inevitably be a left government – and one that will not line up with Washington’s foreign policy priorities for the region. Hence, democracy is not allowed.
Thousands of Haitians have been protesting [http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/relief-and-reconstruction-watch/minustah-responds-to-day-of-protests-by-tear-gassing-idp-camp] the sham elections, as well as MINUSTAH’s role in causing the cholera epidemic, which has already taken more than 2,300 lives and can be expected to kill thousands more in the coming months and years. Judging from the rapid spread of the disease, there may have been gross criminal negligence on the part of MINUSTAH – i.e. large-scale dumping of fecal waste [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gXnA1Hxq9FM3EuY_FSOZ7GTA0y-Q?docId=e02d10ba8abe485bb2702a97b%20%20b1c6845] into the Artibonite river. This is another huge reason for them to leave Haiti.
This is a mission that costs over $500 million a year, when the UN can’t even raise a third of that to fight the epidemic that the mission caused, or to provide clean water for Haitians. And now the UN is asking for an increase [http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/relief-and-reconstruction-watch/wikileaks-reveals-minustah-fatigue-among-minustah-members]to over $850 million for MINUSTAH.
It is high time that the progressive governments of Latin America quit this occupation, which goes against their own principles and deeply held beliefs, and is against the will of the Haitian people.
________________________________________
Mark Weisbrot [http://www.cepr.net/index.php/mark-weisbrot/]is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, D.C He is also president of Just Foreign Policy [http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/].
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US embassy cables: Pope John Paul II orders release of Vatican archives on Nazi Germany
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 21 December 2010 21.30 GMT
Article historyhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/2504
COMMENT: THE DECISION TO PARTIALLY OPEN THE VATICAN ARCHIVES RELATING TO VATICAN-GERMAN RELATIONS DURING THE LEAD UP TO WORLD WAR II AND DURING THE WAR ITSELF APPEARS TO BE AN ATTEMPT BY THE POPE TO SILENCE ACCUSATIONS OF ANTI- SEMITISM LEVELED AGAINST HIS PREDECESSOR PIUS XII. IT MAY ALSO HERALD RENEWED VATICAN INTEREST IN BEATIFYING PIUS XII – FREE FROM THE PALL OF SCANDAL AND DERISION. THE DECISION BY POPE JOHN PAUL II TO DISPENSE WITH STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES IN THIS CASE COMES AFTER YEARS OF VATICAN UNCLASSIFIED
PAGE 03 VATICA 00819 190632Z PROTESTATIONS THAT THIS MATERIAL COULD NOT BE RELEASED BECAUSE IT WAS NOT YET PROPERLY CATALOGUED. IN ADDITION, THE GENERAL ARGUMENT WAS FORWARDED THAT MUCH ARCHIVAL MATERIAL WAS “SENSITIVE” AND MIGHT EMBARRASS LIVING PERSONS, AND THUS SHOULD NOT BE RELEASED UNTIL AFTER A PROPER PERIOD OF TIME – CURRENTLY 70 YEARS. TODAY’S DECISION SHOWS THAT WHEN THE POPE IS CONCERNED ENOUGH ABOUT CHURCH INTERESTS, HE WILL DO AWAY WITH THE VATICAN’S STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES IN ORDER TO FURTHER THOSE INTERESTS. THE DECISION SHOWS THAT WHATEVER THE POPE WANTS, DOES IN FACT HAPPEN.
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Swiss find signs of illegal US surveillance
1 hr 41 mins ago
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110116/ts_alt_afp/switzerlandusdiplomacyespionage/printGENEVA (AFP) – Bern has found signs that the US embassy in Geneva has been conducting illegal surveillance on Swiss territory, the justice ministry told AFP Sunday, confirming local press reports.
The Swiss government had in 2007 rejected requests made by the US missions in Bern and Geneva to protect their buildings through a surveillance programme “due to a lack of legal basis and bilateral accords on this domain,” the ministry said in a statement.
However, it emerged late last year that US embassies in Norway and Denmark had been conducting similar programmes.
Following the disclosures in Scandinavia, “Swiss authorities have found, during last autumn, indications showing that such a programme is ongoing at the US mission in Geneva.”
Swiss authorities have sought the immediate suspension of the programme and are “now proceeding with an in-depth examination of the situation in Geneva,” added the ministry.
Since news broke in Scandinavia of the programme, Washington has acknowledged conducting surveillance through its embassies, but has insisted it is aimed solely at protecting its missions against attack and is carried out within the laws of the host countries.
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WikiLeaks: Secret Guantanamo files show U.S. disarray
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/04/24/112729/wikileaks-us-intelligence-summaries.html* Story | WikiLeaks cables bare secrets of U.S.-Laotian relations
* Story | State Department cables reveal U.S. thirst for all things Iranian
* Story | WikiLeaks cables show U.S. took softer line toward Libya
* Story | WikiLeaks claims second U.S. ambassador, in Ecuador
* Story | WikiLeaks cable casts doubt on Guantanamo medical care
* Story | WikiLeaks dispute claims U.S. ambassador to Mexico
* Story | State Dept. official’s comments about WikiLeaks suspect touch off furor
* Story | WikiLeaks: ACLU challenges subpoena for Twitter records
* On the Web | More world coverage from McClatchyBy Carol Rosenberg and Tom Lasseter | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Faced with the worst-ever single attack by foreigners on American soil, the U.S. military set up a human intelligence laboratory at Guantanamo that used interrogation and detention practices that they largely made up as they went along.
The world may have thought the U.S. was detaining a band of international terrorists whose questioning would help the hunt for Osama Bin Laden or foil the next 9/11.
But a collection of secret Bush-era intelligence documents not meant to surface for another 20 years shows that the military’s efforts at Guantanamo often were much less effective than the government has acknowledged.
Viewed as a whole, the secret intelligence summaries help explain why in May 2009 President Barack Obama, after ordering his own review of wartime intelligence, called America’s experiment at Guantanamo “quite simply a mess.”
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/04/24/112729/wikileaks-us-intelligence-summaries.html#ixzz1KW1htT5v
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Wikileaks revelations about Gitmo bad news for Obama
In May 2009, when U.S. President Barack Obama was defending his decision to close Guantanamo’s prison, he vowed to review the intelligence files of every remaining detainee.
“We’re cleaning up something that is, quite simply, a mess — a misguided experiment,” he said in a speech at Washington’s National Archive.
Now that messy experiment is public for the world to see.
Yeah, I’m going to vote for Obama again. Because the GOP will take away SS and medicare and give the money in those accounts, which I’ve paid into for almost 40 years, to rich bastards who don’t need any more money, and are only “job creators” WHEN THERE’S DEMAND FOR WHAT THEY SELL. It has nothing to do with how much money they have.
But I’m underwhelmed.
I mean, yeah, Bush was the.worst.president.ever, and yeah, he left us massively in debt, with no work, fighting two wars. I may not have the answers, but I’m not the POTUS. I expect a Democratic POTUS to fix this shit.
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off wiki topic, but may be of interest to you:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/15182-colombian-scientist-discovers-how-to-prevent-infectious-disease.htmlobama has learned that there is a serious balancing act and at any point in time will indeed off-balance, the fall will indeed occur. I would advise him to refrain from protecting the previous president and let him be seen in the bad, bad, dark view Bush has created for himself.
It is easier for a camel to get thru the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
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A WikiLeaks link in mainstream media. McClatchy is now doing what the Guardian is doing.
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Apologies if this is posted upthread. I didn’t look.
The torrent contains information about:
- The US Chamber of Commerce
- The ultraconservative think tank the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan
- The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)If you’re not familiar with ALEC:
the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) the right wing shadow government who has a major hand in writing our 50 state’s draconion laws that do everything from privatizing prisons and making prisoners slave labor for corporate interests, to union busting bills OH SB5 and Wisconsin Senate Bill 11, to legislation introduced in 31 states to attempt to implement unneeded and expensive Voter ID requirements with the final goal to supress Democratic voters.
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ALEC hides behind its 501(c)3 tax exempt status, influences legislation (actually writes legislation) which is introduced in 50 state capitols, gets our state legislators to travel to its “educational” conferences on our taxpayer’s nickel, and does this behind a shroud of secrecy.
Edit to add a link to more complete info, including how to decrypt the files, on Kos.
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I just watched “ASSAUNGE: Wikileaks” on pay-per-view. Have any of you seen it? Do look for it on pay-per-view. Throw some support his way by ordering it.
More from McClatchy, with a list that very interesting!
Chavez, addressing issues with Chavez.
I personally think Bush and Chavez are two birds with the same feathers, both egomaniacal and most likely active alcoholics.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/wikileaks/
Hey, someone might like this one:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/04/22/112679/wikileaks-cables-bare-secrets.html
Posted on Friday, April 22, 2011
WikiLeaks cables bare secrets of U.S.-Laotian relations
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/04/22/112679/wikileaks-cables-bare-secrets.html#ixzz1LmgFyyYLAnd again I would love to support Bradley Manning. He is a hot button right now. Gotta find the gloves before I address that button.
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http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A3722F5E2284980B484BCA835F64A128
Facebook, Google and Yahoo, and more – All CIA Spies for USAVideo Information
Julian Assange says his website’s revelations are just the tip of the iceberg. In an exclusive interview with RT, Julian Assange said it is only a matter of time before more damaging information becomes known.
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I wasn’t there. I didn’t know about it.
http://www.kmbc.com/news/28132405/detail.html
Protests Offer Support To Bradley Manning
Group Alleges Government’s Wikileaks Case Is WeakPOSTED: 5:09 pm CDT June 4, 2011
UPDATED: 5:29 pm CDT June 4, 2011Read more: http://www.kmbc.com/news/28132405/detail.html#ixzz1ONPxG06d
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WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, U.N. says
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/31/122789/wikileaks-iraqi-children-in-us.htmlThis cell phone photo was shot by a resident of Ishaqi on March 15, 2006, of bodies Iraqi police said were of children executed by U.S. troops after a night raid there. Here, the bodies of the five children are wrapped in blankets and laid in a pickup bed to be taken for burial. A State Department cable obtained by WikiLeaks quotes the U.N. investigator of extrajudicial killings as saying an autopsy showed the residents of the house had been handcuffed and shot in the head, including children under the age of 5. McClatchy obtained the photo from a resident when the incident occurred. |
(The photo is in the library, can’t find a way to add it. But it is highly inspiring, inspires a person to act.)
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/31/122789/wikileaks-iraqi-children-in-us.html#ixzz1WntzuCKk
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Cable: massacre of Iraqi family by U.S. troops in 2006Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/31/122766/cable-massacre-of-iraqi-family.html#storylink=omni_popular#ixzz1WnvKF7VC
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/31/122766/cable-massacre-of-iraqi-family.html#storylink=omni_popular-
Was just coming to link that myself, along with two rendition stories that are also in the news.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/02/wikileaks-iraq-massacre-inquiry
A bunch of war tidbits in the news all of a sudden the last day or so.
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Yeah! 9-11 was an inside job.
There is also the question of how involved the Saudi Princes, all of them now mysteriously deceased (not one still living), were in 9-11.
And again, these people are friends with the Bush Family, while the pilots of those fatal flights trained in The then-Bush of Florida, in a flight school of a good friend of Jeb’s.
Cheney orchestrated it all.
THIS IS THE ERA OF SUNSHINE!
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Once again, speculators behind sharply rising oil and gasoline prices
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/02/21/139521/once-again-speculators-behind.html#storylink=omni_popular#storylink=cpy
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WikiLeaks: Saudis often warned U.S. about oil speculators
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/05/25/114759/wikileaks-saudis-often-warned.html#storylink=omni_popular#storylink=cpy
And this knowledge because of Wikileaks:
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Julian Assange ‘will be given asylum in Ecuador’
Posted: August 15, 2012 | 0 Comments
1The WikiLeaks founder took refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London on June 19 after losing his appeal against extradition to Sweden where he is wanted over allegations of sexual offences.
After formally applying for political asylum, a decision was due this week. In the meantime, a warrant for his arrest for breaching his bail conditions means he is likely to be rearrested if he steps outside the embassy.
According to an official close to the government, Correa has already decided to approve Assange’s application.
“Ecuador will grant asylum to Julian Assange,” a source told the Guardian.
Read the full article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk
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http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=A8D97B0FFE5382DB229DF5A4BD629150
Julian Assange speech at the Ecuadorian embassy August 19, 2012
(3392 views) Uploaded 8/19/2012 1:48:07 PM by HealthRanger (338 videos)-
The text of that speech and another place to view it. Seems that many of the speech videos are being slowed to stops sometimes. Wonder why that might be? LOL!!!
Boy some group doesn’t want you seeing this video!! Wonder who that might be?? LOL!!!http://www.opednews.com/articles/Full-Video-and-Full-Transc-by-Julian-Assange-120819-171.html
Continue to take a stand, Latin America!
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Resistance From a Cage: Julian Assange Speaks to Norwegian Journalist Eirik Vold
Friday, 01 March 2013 00:00 By Eirik Vold, Truthout | InterviewThis is an exclusive English translation of an interview published Saturday, February 16, 2013, in the Norwegian news outlet Dagens Næringsliv.
Quoting the srticle:
“A cryptographer friend? Does that sound a bit like having a “hobbit friend” to you? Then let this be a warning: If you are not used to a modern Internet vocabulary, the story of Julian Assange is full of characters that may seem like they are out of a science fiction novel: cryptographer friends with vital secrets looking over their shoulders in order not to get caught; eccentric professors about to conjure up a quantum mechanics machine with the power to destroy all of cyberspace if it falls into the wrong hands; tiny torrent files, floating around in abstract space, unintelligible and meaningless when separated, but powerful information packages able to knock down governments if sewn together the right way and delivered to the masses. And they are all real and alive. Just as real and alive as the Swedish prosecutors and their extradition request for Assange or the CIA agents on a mission to stop WikiLeaks from leaking – as real as the heavy wooden door I just opened on my way into the Ecuadorian embassy in London and then shut carefully behind me. Aside from the will of a controversial South American president, that door is now the only barrier between Julian Assange and me on the inside, and the police officer from Scotland Yard (London Metropolitan Police) waiting patiently on the outside with handcuffs, a gun and orders to arrest and deport my interviewee.” -snip-“Assange explained how US foreign policy was exposed as violent and dishonest, how the revelations made the ground shake beneath corrupt and oppressive regimes and corporations all over the world and stimulated revolutions, as in Tunisia, and reformist movements in Ghana and Kenya.” – snip-
“”The left? The left is still stuck in the 1960s,” Assange states drily. Ideologically, he is closer to the free market, even though he says markets always tend to evolve into monopolies unless they are forced to work freely.” -snip-
“”In the same way that the ability to solve physical problems is limited by our understanding of physical laws, the ability to solve societal problems depends on our insight into human institutions. All political theories on how the world is and how it should be are built on such an understanding.” -snip-
“Media organizations start off small. But when they grow, they are invited to sit down with the powerful. Then they become part of the same powerful elite that they are supposed to be critically monitoring,” he explains.
“It’s shameful,” Assange says, “that a handful of activists in WikiLeaks have published more secret documents than the entire establishment press, with all its billion-dollar budgets, technical competence and human resources, all together.”
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/04-3
Published on Monday, March 4, 2013 by TruthDig.com
We Are Bradley Manning
by Chris HedgesI was in a military courtroom at Fort Meade in Maryland on Thursday as Pfc. Bradley Manning admitted giving classified government documents to WikiLeaks. The hundreds of thousands of leaked documents exposed U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as government misconduct. A statement that Manning made to the court was a powerful and moving treatise on the importance of placing conscience above personal safety, the necessity of sacrificing careers and liberty for the public good, and the moral imperative of carrying out acts of defiance. Manning will surely pay with many years—perhaps his entire life—in prison. But we too will pay. The war against Bradley Manning is a war against us all.
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http://www.legitgov.org/Top-Swedish-prosecutor-leaves-Assange-case
Top Swedish prosecutor leaves Assange case
March 31, 2013 by legitgov
ShareThisTop Swedish prosecutor leaves Assange case 29 Mary 2013 The top Swedish prosecutor pursuing sexual assault charges against Julian Assange has abruptly left the case and one of Mr Assange’s accusers [CIA troll Anna Ardin] has sacked her lawyer. The turmoil in the Swedish Prosecution Authority’s effort to extradite Mr Assange comes as another leading Swedish judge prepares to deliver an unprecedented public lecture in Australia next week on the WikiLeaks publisher’s case. The Swedish Prosecution Authority wants to extradite Mr Assange to have him questioned in Stockholm in relation to sexual assault allegations by two women.
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