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Bitte Schon ~ Just remember the DHHS abbreviation was meant to be DHS. It really doesn't matter, the DHS, DHHS and DES are all intertwined with the corruption leaking from the Federal Reserve and the Beltway.
What everyone should do is to apply for the Food Stamp program and take as much money from the system as is humanly possible to push the US into bankruptcy. If the Federal Reserve can print off money to bail out the banks. . .they might as well fire up the printing presses to print off Food Stamps so everyone within the US can get free food.
Geesh, why should anyone work again? Lets just have Bernanke and is Treasury Secretary spread the joy around to the people. If they pushed 85 billion dollars a month to the US public we would have a sweltering economical recovery! Also, the rest of the world wouldn't have to incur what is going to happen due to the banks being bailed out instead of the people. There is no money coming from the consumer's pockets! It is all going to the banks! The banksters have screwed it all up. They played around with securitized debt vehicles and all types of derivatives to create even more of a financial disaster!
This thing is going to be a total wipeout. . .and I mean, TOTAL!
Keep your eyes peeled. . .
Peace,
Mark
Mark thank You, for very good info -
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=91979142
ex. created by 666 -
http://globalfire.tv/nj/12en/race/europe_flooded.htm
next. nwo 666 BS want 2 mil. to USA of
his muslim brotherhood - to take over US with
10 wifes each male to make 100 kids each etc.
- we have to Pray Our Bro Jesus, thank Him for
all Help for the People -
the Syrian army has sent reinforcements to Christian village of
Ma'loula, the historic village, which is on a
UNESCO list of world heritage sites -
is home to two of the oldest surviving monasteries in Syria:
Mar Sarkis and Mar Takla.
Some villagers there still speak a version of Aramaic, an
ancient language believed to have been spoken
by Bro Jesus Christ -
where government forces have been battling foreign-backed
osama al-Qaeda rebel militants for the past week -
It is the first time that militants attack Ma'loula, which is
located about 70 kilometers northeast of Damascus.
100s people have also taken refuge in the convents.
Residents said the militants seized the mountaintop Safir Hotel
and fired in the direction of the community below during the
hours-long capture.
Syria Gov. Protecting Christian Village From Rebels (Video)
http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.ca/2013/09/syria-gov-protecting-christian-village.html#at_pco=tcb-1.0&at_tot=5&at_ab=-&at_pos=4
Syria sends reinforcement to protect Christian village of Maaloula
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trXCkiV5D3U
WikiLeaks shows bitter Canada-U.S. water tiff
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/post_new.aspx?board_id=19434
Wall Street Journal Launches WikiLeaks-Style Site called SafeHouse
Similar to WikiLeaks, SafeHouse allows whistleblowers to confidentially upload documents to the site. A senior Wall Street Journal editor will manage the standalone site, which is based on secure servers. […]
SafeHouse opened for submissions on Thursday. Whistleblowers can choose whether to send their contact details or to remain anonymous. Users can also request to “become a confidential source” of the paper, though this requires contact details.
However, the site’s terms and conditions – which users must agree to before uploading material – could prove controversial. They state that the Journal “reserve[s] the right to disclose any information about you to law enforcement authorities or to a requesting third party, without notice, in order to comply with any applicable laws and/or requests under legal process […]“.
http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/wall-street-journal-launches-wikileaks-style-site.html
WikiLeaks cable links defecting Yemeni general to smuggling rackets
US diplomatic cables reveal powerful army chief behind moves to oust president is seen as unwelcome successor to Saleh
A Yemeni army defector joins protesters in Sana'a. Three commanders, including Major General
Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, have joined the opposition, demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh
Monday 21 March 2011 13.53 GMT
The Yemeni general who has thrown his weight behind moves to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh is a powerful and shadowy figure who has amassed a fortune in arms and fuel smuggling rackets, according to US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.
Major General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar "is generally perceived to be the second most powerful man in Yemen", but leans closer to radical political Islam than Saleh, according to a cable sent by Thomas Krajeski in 2005 when he was the US ambassador in Sana'a.
"Ali Mohsen's questionable dealings with terrorists and extremists, however, would make his accession unwelcome to the US and others in the international community," Krajeski wrote. "He is known to have Salafi leanings and to support a more radical Islamic political agenda than Saleh. He has powerful Wahhabi supporters in Saudi Arabia and has reportedly aided the [Saudis] in establishing Wahhabi institutions in northern Yemen. He is also believed to have been behind the formation of the Aden-Abyan army, and is a close associate of noted arms dealer Faris Manna."
For years, he acted as Saleh's "iron fist", building a reputation at home that lies somewhere between fear and revulsion, according to Krajeski.
"Ali Mohsen's name is mentioned in hushed tones among most Yemenis, and he rarely appears in public. Those that know him say he is charming and gregarious. As commander of the north-east region and the first armoured division, Ali Mohsen acts as Saleh's iron fist."
The cable said the general had little support from a public which viewed him as cynical and self-interested. The ambassador said that at the time the general was more likely to try to play kingmaker than take the top job for himself.
"Ali Mohsen would likely face domestic as well as international opposition if he sought the presidency," he said. "Mohsen's reputation may have been damaged in some circles by his role in the al-Houthi rebellions," he added, referring to the suppression of an uprising by Shia Zaidis in the north of the country. "Although ultimately successful in quashing the insurgency, the campaign resulted in hundreds of fatalities, months of clashes, and earned the enmity of the northern tribes and traditional Zaydis."
Krajeski said the general had enriched himself through numerous smuggling rackets. "A major beneficiary of diesel smuggling in recent years, he also appears to have amassed a fortune in the smuggling of arms, food staples and consumer products."
In another 2005 cable, a well-placed Yemeni insider told the ambassador that Ali Mohsen was involved in smuggling diesel, "using military vehicles and ... staff to move fuel to markets in Yemen and Saudi Arabia".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/21/wikileaks-cables-yemeni-general-smuggling
US ambassador to Mexico resigns over WikiLeaks embassy cables
Carlos Pascual became embroiled in row with Mexican president, Felipe Calderón, over cables criticising drug war
Carlos Pascual, the US ambassador to Mexico, has resigned over a row with the Mexican president,
Felipe Calderón, over the WikiLeaks cables.
Sunday 20 March 2011 04.17 GMT
The US ambassador to Mexico has resigned amid a furore over a leaked diplomatic cable in which he complained about inefficiency and infighting among Mexican security forces in the campaign against drug cartels.
Hillary Clinton said Carlos Pascual's decision to step down was "based upon his personal desire to ensure the strong relationship between our two countries and to avert issues" raised by the Mexican president, Felipe Calderón.
The US secretary of state was not specific, but a furious Calderón has publicly criticised Pascual's criticisms, divulged as part of the US embassy cables by WikiLeaks.
Pascual's resignation appears to be the biggest fallout yet from the release of thousands of sensitive US diplomatic cables from around the world. It is the first such public departure by a US ambassador during the Obama administration.
Clinton went to lengths to praise Pascual's work in Mexico and said the Obama administration never lost confidence in him. Clinton said Pascual's work with Mexico to build institutions capable of fighting drug traffickers "will serve both our nations for decades".
She was "particularly grateful to Carlos for his efforts to sustain the morale and security of American personnel after tragic shootings in Mexico" that killed a US employee and three other people tied to the consulate in the border city of Ciudad Juarez last year.
"It is with great reluctance that President Obama and I have acceded to Carlos's request" to step down, Clinton said in a statement.
The ambassador's resignation laid bare how difficult relations between the US embassy and the Mexican government had become since the release of the cable in December. Calderón has made no secret of his personal anger at Pascual.
"I will not accept or tolerate any type of intervention," Calderón said in an interview with the newspaper El Universal in late February. "But that man's ignorance translates into a distortion of what is happening in Mexico and affects things and creates ill feeling within our own team."
There was no immediate reaction from the Mexican government, although an official from Calderón's office said it was preparing a response.
Pascual may have ruffled feathers in the Mexican government and Calderón's National Action party by dating the daughter of Francisco Rojas, the congressional leader of the former longtime ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. Mexican officials and the U.S. Embassy have declined to comment on that matter.
One of the leaked diplomatic cables that most angered Calderón referred to friction between Mexico's army and navy while detailing an operation that led to the death of drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva.
Pascual said the US, which had information locating Beltran Leyva, originally took it to the army, which refused to move quickly. Beltran Leyva was eventually brought down in a shootout with Mexican marines, who have since taken the lead in other operations against cartel capos.
Other cables reported jealousies and a lack of co-ordination between various Mexican security forces.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/20/us-ambassador-mexico-resigns-wikileaks
Edward Teller, the father of our hydrogen bomb often stated that a country will waste money if they build weapons that it is much cheaper to defend againt. We use very expensive weapons to kill people that cannot even read. Of course in ten years we have not defeated them
War became a money making scheme for companies. Ongoing wars made companies filthy rich.
Victories ultimately cost us money (see the Marshall Plan). So why pay for some other country's rebuilding efforts when it was simply cheaper to run up the deficit?
Anyway, I'm preaching to the choir. Of course the government hid facts (including the real truth behind the Gulf of Tonkin "incident").
They figured no one would care. Unfortunately they didn't bother to note the crowds of angry anti-war protesters growing outside their "door", so to speak...but I digress...
Ordinary
They went to the supreme court and the court sided with the publishers. Of course the government would not want the Pentaon papers published becuase they said that the decision makers within the government knew we couldn't win the war. But there were many people to this day say we could have won if only they let our military fight them. Which would have led to a potential WWIII
"....I guess many don't remember the Pentagon Papers which was far more damaging and were allowed to post by The NY Time and Washington Post"
FYI the Pentagon (and the White House) tried very hard to get them NOT to print those documents, SoxFan.....
Ordinary
I believe he was in the US recently to speak and by golly he was allowed to as would any publisher. I guess many don't remember the Pentagon Papers which was far more damaging and were allowed to post by The NY Time and Washington Post
"....Second he broke no laws in the US so why is he coming here again?"
He wants to "visit" Washington D.C.
"...Or is the US Constitution only applicable when we like it?"
When we like it, apparently....
Ordinary
Yup.
An Ordinarydude who also knew a couple of Chets in his life.....
One commenter at the zerohedge link - I'd like to think that once we had a country where such revelations
would actually lead to some prosecutions. Now I say, I'll believe it when I see it. They don't even bother to
give lip service to law in order any more.
Ditto Chet ... Ditto.
First off he hasn't been charged with anything yet in Sweden nor I doubt will he be charged with having unprotected sex with a consenting adult.
Second he broke no laws in the US so why is he coming here again? Or is the US Constitution only applicable when we like it?
"Operation LeakS" Releases Initial BofA Emails Indicating Premeditated Intent To Deceive Government And Auditors
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/operation-leaks-releases-initial-bofa-emails-indicating-premeditated-intent-deceive-governme
Hacker group releases BofA employee correspondence
On Monday March 14, 2011, 6:30 am EDT
By Joe Rauch
"CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Anonymous, a hacker group sympathetic to WikiLeaks, released on Monday emails that it obtained from someone who said he is a former Bank of America Corp employee.
In the emails dating from November 2010, people that appear to be employees of a Balboa Insurance, a Bank of America insurance unit, discuss removing documents from loan files for a group of insured properties.
Neither the emails nor correspondence released by Anonymous indicate the reason behind the electronic record keeping discussion.
A representative of Anonymous told Reuters on Sunday the documents relate to the issue of whether Bank of America has improperly foreclosed on homes. The representative added that he had not seen the documents, but he has been briefed on their contents.
Consumer groups have accused major U.S. lenders of foreclosing on many homes without having proper documentation in place.
A BofA spokesman said on Sunday the documents were clerical and administrative documents stolen by a former Balboa Insurance employee, and were not related to foreclosures.
"We are confident that his extravagant assertions are untrue," the spokesman said.
The group's email release also includes correspondence between Anonymous and the former employee, in which the former employee described the bank as a "cult" and said the company is now intent on destroying his career.
"I'm well known throughout Bank of America," the former employee said in one email. "They saw to that when they showed everyone my picture and labeled me as a terrorist."
The documents are available at http://bankofamericasuck.com/, a website that was working intermittently early on Monday morning.
(Reporting by Joe Rauch; Additional reporting by Mark Hosenball in Washington, D.C.; Editing by Jon Loades-Carter)
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Hacker-group-releases-BofA-rb-3699051882.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=4&asset=&ccode=
Ordinary
Hacker group plans BofA e-mail release Monday
By Joe Rauch and Mark Hosenball Joe Rauch And Mark Hosenball – Sun Mar 13, 9:51 pm ET
"CHARLOTTE, N.C./WASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) – Anonymous, a hacker group sympathetic to WikiLeaks, plans to release e-mails obtained from Bank of America Corp early Monday morning, according to posts on the group's Twitter feed.
The group, unrelated to the document leak website founded by Julian Assange, said it plans to release documents exposing "corruption and fraud" at the largest U.S. bank by assets.
A representative of Anonymous said the documents relate to the issue of whether Bank of America has improperly foreclosed on homes. The representative added that he had not seen the documents, but he has been briefed on their contents.
A Bank of America Corp spokesman said the documents were non-foreclosure related clerical and administrative documents stolen by a former Balboa Insurance employee.
The division -- which BofA has since agreed to sell to Australian insurer QBE Insurance Group -- provides mortgage and auto insurance for banks, and provides home insurance for consumers.
"We are confident that his extravagant assertions are untrue," the spokesman said.
(Reporting by Joe Rauch; Editing by Gunna Dickson and Dhara Ranasinghe)"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110314/ts_nm/us_bankofamerica_anonymous
Ordinary
Have a good one.
Ordinary
I think he is a sleaze bag, not a saint.
Will be interesting to see what happens with the trial, if any. I have a feeeling a lot of former groupies will appear. Once on Swedish soil his ass will be hauled back to the US of A. I for one, will be having a Foster's lager when that happens.
Cheers, mate.
Problem is, the accusers are claiming he didn't rape them....
Ordinary
Well, under Swedish law having sex with someone that's sleeping and having unprotected sex with someone that's said no, is considered rape. Sounds like Julian gets around and loves them groupies. Call me weird, but I think even groupies have rights!
Maybe in Australia you can screw dead kangaroos and its OK mate!
You really think he'll go to jail?
Ordinary
WikiLeaks Suspect Gets Sleeping Smock
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — The Marine Corps says it has issued a suicide-proof sleeping garment to the imprisoned Army private suspected of giving classified material to WikiLeaks.
Col. Thomas Johnson said Thursday that Pfc. Bradley Manning was given the smock Monday as a substitute for clothing that is removed each night from Manning’s cell at the brig in Quantico, Va.
Manning says in a memo to base commander Col. Daniel Choike that the clothing-removal order on March 2 was punitive. He says the bulky smock is uncomfortable.
Manning’s memo is a rebuttal of Choike’s decision on March 1 to deny Manning’s request for an easing of the maximum-custody order that keeps him locked up alone 23 hours a day.
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2011/03/10/wikileaks-suspect-gets-sleeping-smock/
Report: Assange's alleged "Jewish" conspiracy
But WikiLeaks leader disputes editor's claim that he blamed a "Jewish" conspiracy
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/03/01/assange_jewish_conspiracy_guardian_wikileaks
WikiLeaks’s Assange Can Be Extradited to Sweden, Judge Rules
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-02-24/wikileaks-s-assange-can-be-extradited-to-sweden-judge-rules.html
Wikileaks threatens action against ex-colleague of Assange
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/wikileaks-threatens-action-against-excolleague-of-assange-2212175.html
WIKILEAKS: USA fears Saudi oil may have been overstated by 40%...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/08/saudi-oil-reserves-overstated-wikileaks
WikiLeaks Founder Fights Extradition
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has appeared in a British court for the first day of his extradition hearing. Swedish prosecutors want to question Assange in connection with sexual misconduct allegations, an extradition request his lawyers believe is politically motivated. Assange's lawyers say they are concerned if he is extradited to Sweden, he could be sent to the United States to face charges for publishing sensitive government documents.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange emerged from court optimistic his name will be cleared. "For the past five-and-one-half months we have been in a condition where a black box has been applied to my life and on the outside of that black box has been written rape. Thanks to an open court process being opened, and I hope over the next day we will see that that box is in fact empty and has nothing to do with the words that are on the outside of it," he said.
In court, his lawyers argued the Swedish prosecutor did not have the authority to issue a European Arrest Warrant, and introduced two witnesses who criticized the prosecution’s procedure and the case made by Assange’s accusers.
Extradition lawyer Julian Knowles says Assange’s lawyers are facing an uphill battle. "The room for maneuver that the defense has is very limited because the law is designed to allow for quick simple extradition to other European countries. So the defense do start from a difficult position; they are however raising some interesting issues," he said.
One of those issues is that the Swedish authorities only want Assange for questioning, but Knowles says because the warrant says he is wanted for trial, that argument might not carry weight.
"The defense have got an argument that has got substance to it, but again I think on balance, the judge will be satisfied that because the Swedes have said on the warrant that they want him for trial, the judge will be satisfied that that is what they mean," Knowles said.
Assange’s lawyer pointed out in court that Assange had repeatedly offered to be interviewed. Knowles does not think that will help either. "The fact is he does not want to go back to Sweden, the Swedes say they want to try him and whether he has offered to cooperate or not is neither here nor there," he said.
Knowles says it is difficult to predict any trial’s outcome, but as an experienced extradition lawyer, he thinks this case is fairly clear cut. "My own view of the merit of the arguments is that on the defense side, the defense arguments ultimately, while of substance, will not succeed and that Mr. Assange will be extradited to Sweden," he said.
Assange seemed heartened by the open court hearings. His lawyers say if he is extradited to Sweden, any trial would be held in secret, as is customary with rape proceedings there. The extradition case continues Tuesday.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/WikiLeaks-Founder-Fights-Extradition-115496954.html
WikiLeaks' Assange makes Facebook fundraising plea
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/02/04/wikileaks.assange.defense/?hpt=Sbin
Assange's Swedish sex crimes file is leaked online
(AP) – 3 hours ago
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Leaked Swedish police documents on the Julian Assange sex cases raise key questions for both sides about the allegations.
Was one of the WikiLeaks founder's Swedish lovers asleep during intercourse? Did she consent to unprotected sex? Those answers will determine whether rape was committed under Swedish law.
The 39-year-old Australian denies any wrongdoing in separate encounters with two Swedish women last summer, and is fighting Swedish attempts to have him extradited from Britain to face questioning in the cases. He will appear in court in London on Monday and Tuesday in that extradition case.
In leaked police documents that emerged this week on the Internet, the Swedish woman accusing Assange of rape woke up as he was having sex with her, but let him continue even though she knew he wasn't wearing a condom.
She says she insisted that Assange wear a condom when they had sex in her apartment in the Swedish city of Enkoping on Aug. 16, and that he reluctantly agreed. The incident labeled as rape happened the next morning, when the woman claims she was woken up by Assange having unprotected sex with her.
"She immediately asked: 'Are you wearing anything?' and he answered 'You,'" according to a police summary of her deposition. "She said to him 'You better don't have HIV' and he answered 'Of course not.' She felt it was too late. He was already inside her and she let him continue."
Having sex with a sleeping person can be considered rape in Sweden, but the details in the leaked transcript could explain why different prosecutors have made different assessments of the incident.
One Stockholm prosecutor threw out the rape case altogether. A more senior prosecutor later reinstated it, and asked for Assange's extradition from Britain so she could question him in the case.
It's unclear who leaked the police documents, some of which have been publicly released before but with key portions blocked out. It's also not clear which side the full police documents would help more.
"It is a complicating factor that this person when she wakes up in one way or another gives her consent," said Nils-Petter Ekdahl, a judge and expert on Sweden's sex crimes legislation. "Does the consent also apply to what happened when one was sleeping? This question has not been tested by the justice system."
The documents included a cover letter signed by Assange's Swedish lawyer, Bjoern Hurtig.
"I can just say that I sent them to my client through his lawyer in London. But how it ended up on the Internet I don't know," Hurtig told The Associated Press. "It's incredibly unfortunate."
Assange is also accused of sexual molestation and unlawful coercion against another Swedish woman with whom he had sex in the same week. The leaked documents show she accuses him of deliberately damaging a condom during consensual sex, which he denies.
Assange met both women in connection with a seminar he gave on free speech in Stockholm after he and WikiLeaks made headlines around the world with the release of thousands of secret U.S. military documents on the war in Afghanistan.
His supporters say the allegations are trumped up and possibly politically motivated, charges that the women's lawyers have denied.
WikiLeaks has deeply angered the U.S. and other governments by publishing tens of thousands of secret military documents on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as a massive trove of U.S. diplomatic cables.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jQJI4x4Vyc8BrIsVdUg0Yx6B3Hew?docId=6489c18e448149b19f044ebd093e5f83
WikiLeaked Cable Points To More 9/11 Conspirators
http://gothamist.com/2011/02/02/wikileaked_cable_points_to_more_911.php
WikiLeaks: US and China in military standoff over space missiles
The United States threatened to take military action against China during a secret "star wars" arms race within the past few years, according to leaked documents obtained by The Daily Telegraph.
The two nuclear superpowers both shot down their own satellites using sophisticated missiles in separate show of strength, the files suggest.
The American Government was so incensed by Chinese actions in space that it privately warned Beijing it would face military action if it did not desist.
The Chinese carried out further tests as recently as last year, however, leading to further protests from Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, secret documents show.
Beijing justified its actions by accusing the Americans of developing an “offensive” laser weapon system that would have the capability of destroying missiles before they left enemy territory.
The disclosures are contained in the latest documents obtained by the Wikileaks website, which have been released to The Telegraph. They detail the private fears of both superpowers as they sought mastery of the new military frontier.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8299495/WikiLeaks-US-and-China-in-military-standoff-over-space-missiles.html
WikiLeaks unplugged
The era of WikiLeaks appears over, the group is in disarray even as the U.S. takes measures to prevent future leaks and news organizations move to cut out the middleman.
Is the era of WikiLeaks over?
It's been less than a year since the underground organization made its first big splash with the release of thousands of U.S. military files from Afghanistan. And it's been only two months since WikiLeaks began releasing documents from its trove of 251,287 U.S. diplomatic cables.
But with fewer than 3,000 cables released, the newspapers that were given access to the database have found that it has already reached the point of diminishing returns. Journalists working on the project say they (naturally) published the most interesting stuff first; what remains, apparently, is mostly a vast collection of diplomatic trivia.
And what of WikiLeaks itself? The organization is in tatters; its early successes have prompted both new competition and new controls on leaks.
As WikiLeaks' founder, the mercurial cyber-militant Julian Assange, faces criminal investigations in Sweden and the United States, some of his lieutenants — alienated by Assange's domineering ways — have split to form a new, competing leak depository called "OpenLeaks." Even more threatening, the New York Times is considering a plan to cut out the middleman by opening an electronic leak channel of its own. "The aim would be to facilitate tips and information from sources who are afraid to directly approach a reporter," the Times' editor, Bill Keller, told me via e-mail.
Meanwhile, the U.S. government has taken steps to prevent others from doing what a soldier based in Iraq, Pfc. Bradley Manning, allegedly did for WikiLeaks, downloading secret cables onto compact disks and spiriting them away. "Bradley Manning could not do today what he did a year ago," an official said.
Leaks will continue with or without WikiLeaks, but that's nothing new. As John Adams, America's second president, lamented: 'How can a government go on, publishing all of their negotiations with foreign nations, I know not."
The question is, now that we've survived WikiLeaks, what have we learned?
The WikiLeaks documents contained few blockbusters. These were not the Pentagon Papers. What they primarily showed was that American diplomats told the truth most of the time, that their perceptions of foreign leaders were more acerbic and interesting than anyone knew, and that many of them are quite good writers.
We learned that it's a nasty world out there. We learned that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi may be making money from private business deals with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. We learned that Arab leaders are desperately afraid of the growing power of Iran, just as U.S. officials have been claiming for years. We learned that China's government employs thousands of computer hackers to try to read everyone else's e-mails.
We also learned that we still need journalists to decipher what raw information means. It's telling that even Assange, no fan of traditional institutions, felt a need to turn to old-fashioned newspapers and magazines to make sense of all those cables.
Even then, hasty journalism produced some stories that were incomplete. One of the biggest apparent scoops was a report that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had sent a cable ordering U.S. diplomats at the United Nations to spy on their foreign counterparts and even collect samples of their DNA (exactly how was left to the reader's imagination). But officials later explained that Clinton hadn't written that cable (it bore her signature as a formality) and that it was the kind of annual "wish list" from the CIA that most diplomats — the sensible ones — routinely ignore.
And we learned that some leaks can be dangerous. The Guardian published an article based on cables reporting that Zimbabwe's prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, had privately urged Western governments to maintain their economic sanctions against the regime of President Robert Mugabe. Zimbabwe's attorney general promptly announced that he would use the report as the basis of a treason investigation.
U.S. officials say they assume, but don't know for sure, that "technologically astute intelligence services" like China's have penetrated the WikiLeaks database (which is in the hands of five newspapers as well as the parent organization). As a result, the U.S. government has contacted hundreds of people named in the cables to warn them that they could be exposed. "No one's been killed, but I don't think that's the right standard to apply," a U.S. official said. "There are people we have helped to move to safe places."
But then, some of the cables may have had positive results too. In Tunisia, human rights activists have said they were bolstered by WikiLeaks cables that showed that the U.S. government didn't love President Zine el Abidine ben Ali — although the claim that WikiLeaks played a major role in touching off that revolution has been vastly overblown. And U.S. officials have said privately that the WikiLeaks cables on Iran have helped impress the Tehran regime with how widespread foreign opposition is to its program to enrich uranium that could be used for nuclear weapons.
The long-term problem every government faces in keeping secrets isn't WikiLeaks; it's the information technology that makes communication easier but makes leaking easier too.
The wisest words on this subject remain those offered by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates last year. In sum, he said: Get used to it.
"Every other government in the world knows the United States government leaks like a sieve, and it has for a long time," Gates said.
"Is this embarrassing? Yes. Is it awkward? Yes. Consequences for U.S. foreign policy? I think fairly modest."
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-mcmanus-column-wikileaks-20110130,0,5651051.column
Pretty obvious to me that he has some mental issues...
Yes, some seem to take investment/trading differences very personal.
In Reply to 'TinaMarie'
time will tell regarding BAC.
he appears to have gotten peoples attention.
we all know that BAC, C, GS, JPM are all corrupt organizations.
time for the reaper...
it's a natural cycle...the big ones fall under their own weight...not 'cause someone told on them.
I do believe he made several tweets a while back threatening to "expose" BAC
which he never has
the guy is full of sh*t IMO
and now he's going on and on about Egypt issues being caused by the US
market manipulation?...you jest i assume...and if not how is he involved with market manipulation ? please do tell ;^)
that aside...
i happened to watch the 60Minutes piece...
what is interesting is that our own government (through the Bush Administration) gave up Valerie Plame yet when Assange receives info from various sources, that can only be guilty of their own conscience and what is right...this government wants to nail him. the Bush Admin actually gives up a CIA agent and not one criminal charge is brought against any of the perpetrators.
and what is the the real crime...nothing...Wikileaks is embarrassing them and exposing the lies. opps ..my bad...alleged mis-representations.
what is happening is what can be summed up in this phrase;
"Do as I say, not as I do." - The US Government.
so it's fine and o.k. that this corrupt system can put in place the Patriot Act (just one example) on its own citizens under the premise of national security but when the table is turned and Toto pulls back the curtain on the Wizard of Oz (this government) then they call it a threat and terrorist,...
all that is happening is the internet has individuals that can level the lies that are perpetrated by actual documentation and that scares the bajebbies out of the authorities...
bottom line...the gig is up all and powerful Oz (US government)
To hell with the sex offenses
nail him with market manipulation instead!
(probably get more time anyways)
WikiLeaks Founder Says Enjoys Making Banks Squirm
Daniel Trotta
Reuters.com
Jan. 28, 2011
NEW YORK
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he enjoys making banks squirm thinking they might be the next targets of his website which has published U.S. diplomatic and military secrets.
"I think it's great. We have all these banks squirming, thinking maybe it's them," Assange told the CBS television program "60 Minutes" in an interview.
CBS released a partial transcript on Friday ahead of Sunday's broadcast of the full segment.
Bank of America Corp shares fell more than 3 percent on November 30 on investor fears that the largest U.S. bank by assets would be the subject of a document release.
Interviewer Steve Kroft asked Assange whether he had acquired a five-gigabyte hard drive belonging to one of the bank's executives, as Assange had previously asserted.
"I won't make any comment in relation to that upcoming publication," said Assange, who is under a form of modified house arrest in England, awaiting an extradition hearing to Sweden for questioning over alleged sex offenses that he denies.
Assange had told Forbes magazine that WikiLeaks planned a "megaleak" by releasing tens of thousands of internal documents from a major U.S. bank in early 2011 that he expected would lead to investigations of the bank.
In an October 2009 interview, Assange told Computerworld that WikiLeaks had obtained five gigabytes of data from a Bank of America executive's hard drive.
The Forbes interview came just after WikiLeaks released 250,000 U.S. government diplomatic cables. Previously, WikiLeaks had made public nearly 500,000 classified U.S. files on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Major headlines were generated by some of the cables, which revealed that Saudi leaders had urged U.S. military action against Iran and detailed contacts between U.S. diplomats and political dissidents and opposition leaders in some countries.
Assange told "60 Minutes" he fully expected U.S. retaliation but that the American government was incapable of taking his website down.
"The U.S. does not have the technology to take the site down . ... Just the way our technology is constructed, the way the Internet is constructed," Assange said.
"We've had attacks on particular domain names. Little pieces of infrastructure knocked out. But we now have some 2,000 fully independent in every way websites, where we're publishing around the world. It is -- I mean, it's not possible to do."
WikiLeaks says it is a nonprofit organization funded by human rights campaigners, journalists and the general public. Launched in 2006, it promotes the leaking of information to fight government and corporate corruption.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/29/us-wikileaks-idUSTRE70R5A120110129
he should come to ihub
it wouldn't take him any time to form a cult of people who hate others.
He loves chaos... and, hates the US. JMO
"LOL I so love your way with words..."
...well there was a point in my life when I wrote poetry (mainly to woo women's hearts) LOL
"...They have a way with words as well but it's in some foreign jargon that only they understand."
Meh...doesn't phase me. Regardless I'll pay the board a visit sometime :)
"...Cool bunch of limey's I would say."
You know, that reminds me. I wonder what their obsession is with large American automobiles....
Ordinary
LOL I so love your way with words.
You should research/post on the NIR board sometimes.
Fascinating folks over there as well.
They have a way with words as well but it's in some foreign jargon that only they understand.
Cool bunch of limey's I would say.
He needs to shit or get off the pot.
Really....
Ordinary
Good afternoon.
Me thinks you're right.
And it's because the media gives him so much attention when he threatens this and that.
MOMO trading = FTW
Ordinary
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THE WikiLeaks website was fighting to stay online yesterday after Sweden issued a new arrest warrant for its elusive chief, and cyber attacks and government officials threatened to silence it.
The whistleblowing website's founder Julian Assange briefly broke cover to say he had boosted his security after receiving death threats amid the storm unleashed by his site's publication of some 250,000 US diplomatic cables.
Advertisement: Story continues below In Stockholm, Swedish prosecutors issued a new international arrest warrant for Mr Assange - who is believed to be in Britain - on sex assault allegations that incorporated missing elements requested by British police. Reports in Britain said Mr Assange could be arrested within 10 days.
The website was forced to turn to Switzerland for a new domain name after its original wikileaks.org address was shut down by an American provider, while Paris tried to ban French servers from hosting it.
The Swiss address was out of service late on Friday after the domain name was blocked by the US system provider, but WikiLeaks popped up on more than 20 alternative websites.
In another blow, US-based online payment service PayPal has blocked financial transfers to WikiLeaks after governments around the world initiated legal action against the website.
Meanwhile, the US military in Iraq is trying to prevent its soldiers from viewing WikiLeaks documents and has posted a web advisory suggesting they could be breaking the law, a spokeswoman said.
The warning, posted on Friday, pops up on the US military's unclassified network, NIPRNet, before soldiers can gain access to news and other websites and tells troops they should not view, download or forward the secret releases.
The latest cables released by the site revealed American officials had suspected Yemen had a cache of missiles that could have threatened US forces if they fell into the wrong hands.
Others highlighted what US officials described as Britain's ''paranoia'' about its so-called special relationship with the US.
In an online interview with The Guardian, Mr Assange, 39, vowed to resist the ''attacks against us by the US''.
''The threats against our lives are a matter of public record. However, we are taking the appropriate precautions to the degree that we are able when dealing with a superpower.''
Mr Assange's lawyer in London, Mark Stephens, said that neither he nor Scotland Yard had received the new arrest warrant released by Sweden.
In France, Industry Minister Eric Besson called for WikiLeaks to be banned from French servers, saying it was endangering lives. The move is significant because the 250,000 US diplomatic cables released to The Guardian and four other media organisations are hosted by a French company, Octopuce.
WikiLeaks has been part-hosted by OVH, a company based in northern France, since Thursday, when it was dropped by Amazon after pressure from US Senator Joe Lieberman.
Mr Assange said: ''These attacks will not stop our mission, but should be setting off alarm bells about the rule of law in the United States.''
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