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[Icarus27k]

Re: WikiLeaks: U.S. officials talking about Canada

I like how the US embassy in Ottawa talks at length about Canadian TV shows. Not news programs, but entertainment shows. The cable in question is dated Jan. 25, 2008, and talks at length about "The Border", "Little Mosque on the Prairie" and "H2O". The full cable is here:

WikiLeaks Archive ? A Selection From the Cache of Diplomatic Dispatches - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

 

[eh1eh]

Re: WikiLeaks: U.S. officials talking about Canada

I like how the US embassy in Ottawa talks at length about Canadian TV shows. Not news programs, but entertainment shows. The cable in question is dated Jan. 25, 2008, and talks at length about "The Border", "Little Mosque on the Prairie" and "H2O". The full cable is here:

WikiLeaks Archive ? A Selection From the Cache of Diplomatic Dispatches - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

They are babies. It's our birth right to dis the US. We are so under their thumb otherwise. They should be happy we are content with sarcasm and humour.. Ha Ha.

 

[TenPenny]

Re: WikiLeaks: U.S. officials talking about Canada

Obviously, the US embassy staff in Ottawa spends a lot of time watching Canadian TV.

 

[Tonington]

Re: U.S. to Canada: WikiLeaks release may hurt relations

Did the New York Times post the wikileaks????

Selected quotes. Who didn't?

 

[Avro]

Re: WikiLeaks: U.S. officials talking about Canada

I thought yanks had thicker skin than that.

Guess I was wrong.

 

[Machjo]

Re: U.S. to Canada: WikiLeaks release may hurt relations

Who's your local candidate?

Royal Galipeau.

 

[lone wolf]

Re: U.S. to Canada: WikiLeaks release may hurt relations

Gee ... who'da thought diplomats were diplomatic?

 

[Kreskin]

Re: U.S. to Canada: WikiLeaks release may hurt relations

These "cables" read like conversations you might expect anyone to have. They should help US/Canada relations, now that Canadians see the Americans aren't up to anything out of the ordinary.

 

[Highball]

Re: WikiLeaks: U.S. officials talking about Canada

The number one priority of the US political and military/industrial complex is to vilify Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. The North Korea issue is now on the back page. The more I see those in power react the more I sense there is something really interesting to all of us regardless of nationality. How many times have you ever seen the Interpol get involved so quickly? No weapons, no murders, no violence and they are making him Public Enemy Number One. Now you can see what happens if the machine gets challenged.

 

[Icarus27k]

Re: WikiLeaks: U.S. officials talking about Canada

Perhaps the Interpol alert is just a part of the frenzy. That is, it's only being talked about because media is talking about it.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Re: WikiLeaks: U.S. officials talking about Canada

I've been mildly amused from the beginning by all this, noting that the official response has basically been to try to shoot the messenger. I have not yet seen anything I didn't already know or suspect, and certainly nothing that surprised me. And I'm sure the people officially in the know, who know much more about these things than I do, aren't surprised either. In presumably private communications people say things they wouldn't say in public, that's all, and sometimes candor is embarrassing. The situation is as the Globe & Mail described it, like an adolescent whose diary has suddenly been made public.

 

[Cliffy]

Re: U.S. to Canada: WikiLeaks release may hurt relations

Tempest in a tea pot. The US is looking for a diversion to take the focus off other more important matters, like North Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan. Petulant little pecker heads.

 

[hermite]

Re: U.S. to Canada: WikiLeaks release may hurt relations

Here's the cable bound to hurt relations: US diplomat complains about Canadian TV

:laughing6: My absolute favorite leak so far.

TV shows depicting American plots to steal Canadian water supplies, assassinate the Prime Minister and F-16 strikes on Quebec are among the "insidious negative" stereotypes that a U.S. diplomat complained about in a diplomatic cable released Wednesday by WikiLeaks.

"The degree of comfort with which Canadian broadcast entities, including those financed by Canadian tax dollars, twist current events to feed long-standing negative images of the U.S. - and the extent to which the Canadian public seems willing to indulge in the feast - is noteworthy," the cable says.

US diplomat complains about Canadian TV - KOLD News 13

 

[Trotz]

Re: U.S. to Canada: WikiLeaks release may hurt relations

Would love to make a rebuttle about Americans being stupid.


At best our relationship with the United States was a detent that was necessitated as a result of the Cold War.

It shouldn't be non-surprising that since the collapse of the Soviet Union, that we (also in addition to other European allies) have distanced themselves from "Uncle Sam".

The Cold War was really just an exception in Canadian relations with the United States. If you look at policy from 1776 - 1940, you would otherwise come to the conclusion that Canadian-American relations were hostile to the point of non-cooperation.

 

[ironsides]

Re: WikiLeaks: U.S. officials talking about Canada

Bask in your glory, your TV shows are on our TV networks also. Some have been big hits down here for years. Touchy folks up there, just be happy they are doing so good.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Re: U.S. to Canada: WikiLeaks release may hurt relations

Here's the cable bound to hurt relations: US diplomat complains about Canadian TV

:laughing6: My absolute favorite leak so far.

I liked that one too. Maybe somebody should tell them that the program that drew a lot of the criticism, The Border, was mostly written by an American named Denis McGrath.

 

[Omicron]

Wikileaks

http://tunes.digitalock.com/pictureofmewithoutyou.mp3 <-- soundtrack. Click to hear while reading these words.


A dickhole dumped crap in order to ease his American consciousness. I love Americans. Nobody else can do that.

Canada came off clean.

Only problems were: 1) CSIS director hated the way he could do more, but the courts stopped him. Boo hoo. It means the courts are working. It means we are still sovereign. It means we as a people have a court less stressed if we be on guard.

Problem 2) Canada has maintained invisibility... even with dominant forces in Afghanistan. Most of the rest of the world hardly notices we exist, in spite of being the dominant force in Afghanistan.

Brilliant.

Let us continue to talk about only stuff that matters, and let us continue to party the proper way, and let us all continue to strive towards the issue of figuring out how to deal with a government with only 30% support going neanderthal joy-ass giving away national weath like the tarsands which our ancestors moved here and struggled hard under the gamble of their kids to benefit from.

 

[eh1eh]

I like how America has tromped around the world in the name of everything from bananas to oil in a hegemonic fashion then get offended when their personality is reflected in foreign popular television shows. :0

 

[earth_as_one]

The rape case against Wikileaks' Julian Assange

Does anyone else think its an unlikely co-incidence that wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been charged with rape and molestation at the same time he has released hundreds of thousands of damaging documents and his website is the focus of a massive denial of service attack?

The basis for the rape and molestation charges are ridiculous:
Sweden's reputation is on trial in Julian Assange case | Herald Sun

Also this link explains how wikileaks works, how to send anonymous tips and the ongoing wikileak denial of service attack.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/tech...s+brief+lowdown+tech+savvy/3925848/story.html

 

[CDNBear]

Re: The rape case against Wikileaks' Julian Assange

I think the charges are a sham, but I'm not brain dead enough to believe in or even merely entertain the notion that the US military or Government is behind the actions of two publicity hungry women.