Good job combining threads on the same or similar subject.
If only those who go posting helter-skelter without looking first, you and the other moderators would not have waste time correcting their carelessness.
Par for the course. It is all part and parcel of American freedom. North Americans love sex scandals because they are so sexually repressed. They inherited it from the Brits.The rape charges aren't real it's CIA they pull thistype of **** all the time and I'll quote myself again which was BEFORE any news of a rape hit the newswires.
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Re: U.S. to Canada: WikiLeaks release may hurt relations
1 week ago
Assange will myteriously die in a car or plane crash or be linked to hookers and cocaine very soon.
Just watch......
It may or not have been cocaine but....."NAIL ON THE HEAD" for sex scandal!!
Kevin Rudd, Australian foreign minister: "US personnel responsible for cable leak."
Typical front page from an obsolete garbage pile that makes the National Enquirer a literary and journalistic master piece.
Information is only important because of what you do with it. So I wouldn't say the leaks are important because we now know about them. What I am asking is, are all these media outlets simply making matters worse in the distribution of the information so widely and are they guilty of some level of treason as well? I noticed the Toronto Star posted a link to the Wikileaks new site.
GovermentSachs are the ones who really run Canada. One former and one still employed by GovermentSachs run the Bank of Canada.These *****s have sold us to the internationalists, all Canadian soverienty has been surrendered to the corporatists and the bankers.
How little knowledge you picked up while in China, and how little you know about your own country. You want an example:
" I have been to China and saw people conscious of every word they spoke, every movement was closely monitored by the police"
http://www.lnahinu.com/blog/2008/03/25/you-cannot-compare-the-us-and-china/
I have only been to Hong Kong, so I will not comment other than we had a great time.
http://thereport.amnesty.org/sites/default/files/AIR2010_AZ_EN.pdf#page=51The authorities continued to tighten restrictions
on freedom of expression, assembly and association
due partly to sensitivities surrounding a series of
landmark anniversaries, including the 60th
anniversary of the People’s Republic on 1 October.
Human rights defenders were detained, prosecuted,
held under house arrest and subjected to enforced
disappearance. Pervasive internet and media
controls remained. “Strike hard” campaigns resulted
in sweeping arrests in the Xinjiang Uighur
Autonomous Region (XUAR), particularly following
violence and unrest in July. Independent human
rights monitoring was prevented in Tibetanpopulated
regions. The authorities continued to
strictly control the parameters of religious practice,
with Catholic and Protestant groups practising
outside official bounds being harassed, detained and
sometimes imprisoned. The severe and systematic
10-year campaign against the Falun Gong
continued....
No doubt there'll some juicy tidbits about wikileak sometime soon. Gotta love soiled laundry as related by e-gossip
There was already a thread on this. It was moved into the huge "Complete Wikileaks" thread so I can see why you missed it. I'll merge this one with that.![]()
“To tell the truth is revolutionary.”
How can it affect what they don't have?Well, Petros, we are told the truth so seldom, we're offended by it. It's seditious to be exposed to the truth; it affects the gonads of the "manly" among us!
"The truth will set you free (but you'll be crucified fer tellin' it!)"
- JC as told in John 8:32
Is stealing secret information justifiable if it blows the whistle on wrongdoing? Perhaps. But that's not what WikiLeaks does. It doesn’t embarrass wrongdoers. It exposes and endangers real whistleblowers.
WikiLeaks published a document that named an Algerian activist covertly aiding the democracy movement there. It identified a Venezuelan reporter secretly exposing the appalling conditions of hospitals for the poor. Both are real whistleblowers. Both were outed by Assange.
Assange admits WikiLeaks will probably end up with "blood on our hands." But he's not too worried.
Vladimir Putin and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can't believe their good luck.
So it’s not wiki. It's not leaks. It's not whistleblowing. It's not even journalism. Assange got his hands on e-mails sent by Venezuela's ambassador to Argentina. He tried to auction them to the highest bidder - presumably to Chavez, too. That's not journalism. That's a shakedown. Maybe even a willingness to keep secrets, for the right price.
Then there's Assange's threat that if he's treated improperly - say, if he's forced to stand trial for rape in Sweden - he'll release another batch of secrets, he has labelled "insurance."
If a real journalist had real news, he'd publish it for its own sake. But by using his "news" as a bargaining chip, he gives away his game. It's not journalism. It's espionage. It's a weapon of war. And if police try to hold him accountable to the law, he'll use his weapon.
Assange revealed secret U.S. counterterrorism work in Yemen. That will likely end now, and Yemen may fall to al-Qaida.
Do you doubt if WikiLeaks was around in the 1940s it would have tipped off the Nazis to D-Day or leaked Anne Frank's hiding place too?