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Bill Clinton Expects Cables Leak to Cost Lives
Post Date: 2010-12-01 19:12:24 by WhiteSands
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GREENSBORO, North Carolina -- Former President Bill Clinton said Tuesday he expects people to lose their lives over this week's massive leak of diplomatic documents but doesn't believe the founder of the website that is posting the files has succeeded in evading U.S. authorities. "I'll be very surprised if some people don't lose their lives," Clinton said in a speech in North Carolina. "And goodness knows how many will lose their careers." Clinton's wife, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, has argued that the website WikiLeaks acted illegally in posting the sensitive files. Bill Clinton said after the event that it's clear that WikiLeaks ...
Former WikiLeaks Activists to Launch New Whistleblowing Site
Post Date: 2010-12-01 17:20:16 by Brian S
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A group of former members of WikiLeaks is planning to launch its own whistleblowing platform in mid-December, according to a German newspaper. The activists criticize WikiLeaks for concentrating too much on the US and want to take a broader approach. Julian Assange is the public face of the whistleblowing organization WikiLeaks, and Sunday's publication of the leaked US diplomatic cables will have raised his profile even higher. In fact, the former hacker is now a leading candidate for Time magazine's "2010 Person of the Year." But former members of the organization have criticized his supposedly autocratic leadership style. "I am the heart and soul of this ...
Hunt WikiLeaks Chief Down Like Osama bin Laden: Sarah Palin Demands Assange is Treated Like Al Qaeda Terrorist
Post Date: 2010-12-01 16:54:22 by Murron
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Hunt WikiLeaks Chief Down Like Osama bin Laden: Sarah Palin Demands Assange is Treated Like Al Qaeda Terrorist By Daily Mail Reporter Sarah Palin has demanded that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is hunted down like Osama bin Laden. In an extraordinary outburst on Facebook, the former Alaska governor attacked the White House for 'incompetent handling of this whole fiasco.' 'First and foremost, what steps were taken to stop Wikileaks director Julian Assange from distributing this highly sensitive classified material especially after he had already published material not once but twice in the previous months?.' she wrote. Attack: Republican Sarah Palin (left) has ...
Russia Moves Tactical Nukes Closer to NATO
Post Date: 2010-12-01 12:10:24 by Brian S
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While the U.S. and Russia have been publicly crowing about their awesome new friendship for the past two years, Moscow’s been moving small, ground-based nuclear weapons closer to the borders of Washington’s easternmost NATO allies. What’s a little heightened nuclear tension between buddies, right? As recently as this spring, the Russians have moved their tactical nukes to sites close to their Western frontiers, alarming the Baltic and Eastern European members of NATO, the Wall Street Journal reports. Russia’s longstanding position is that it won’t pull its tactical nuclear weapons behind the Ural Mountains until the U.S. gets its own small nukes out of Europe. True ...
Putin: Russia Will Have To Deploy New Nukes If U.S. Treaty Isn’t Ratified
Post Date: 2010-12-01 12:08:49 by Brian S
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MOSCOW—Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is warning that his country will find it necessary to build up its nuclear forces, if the United States doesn’t ratify a new arms reduction treaty. The treaty, called New START, was worked out this year amid praise that it marked a newly cooperative spirit between Washington and Moscow. However, many Republicans in the U.S. Senate are expressing reluctance to ratify it. Putin, in an interview to be broadcast Wednesday on CNN, said that if the treaty isn’t ratified, “we’ll have to react somehow,” including deploying new nuclear technology. In interview excerpts posted on CNN’s website, Putin said the treaty is ...
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange: Does Sarah Palin think CIA should 'neutralize' him?
Post Date: 2010-11-30 21:28:37 by Skip Intro
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WikiLeaks' Julian Assange: Does Sarah Palin think CIA should 'neutralize' him? Sarah Palin says WikiLeaks committed a “treasonous act” with its document dump of US diplomatic secrets. Furthermore, on her Twitter feed Tuesday she said Congress should prod the Obama administration to use “all necessary means to respond to and defeat WikiLeaks.” Whoa. Is Ms. Palin, saying that the US should treat WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a target to be snatched off the streets somewhere by the CIA? Or maybe even, um, neutralized, so to speak? That may be the case. And she would not be the only Republican public figure calling for such action. First off, ...
Mike Huckabee calls for execution of Julian Assange
Post Date: 2010-11-30 20:23:05 by jwpegler
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Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee said Monday that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange should be tried for treason. He followed up the call by saying Mr. Assange should be executed if found guilty. “Whoever in our government leaked that information is guilty of treason, and I think anything less than execution is too kind a penalty,” the Republican said in an interview. He added that the latest batch of Wikileaks put American lives “at risk.” Mr. Huckabee said the leaks released by the website put American relationship at risk and harm foreign policy. Mr. Huckabee, a current host on Fox News, has been touted as a possible presidential candidate in 2012. The former ...
WikiLeaks boss living on borrowed time
Post Date: 2010-11-30 19:44:06 by Mad Dog
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Why isn’t Julian Assange dead yet? Assange says he’s the editor of a website called WikiLeaks. But he’s not really an editor, because WikiLeaks doesn’t do much writing. It’s a website where secrets are posted to the Internet. But most of the secrets revealed there aren’t really leaked either. They’re stolen. When WikiLeaks debuted in January 2007, it promised to shine a light of scrutiny on dictatorships. Many of its early directors were Chinese dissidents. Its focus would be “oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.” They said their “roots are in dissident communities and our focus is ...
WikiLeaks reveals that Arab allies urged U.S. to strike Iran
Post Date: 2010-11-30 14:11:45 by WhiteSands
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Documents show how leaders have tried to get Tehran to renounce atomic ambitions. In late May 2009, Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, used a visit from a Congressional delegation to send a pointed message to the new American president. In a secret cable sent back to Washington, the American ambassador to Israel, James B. Cunningham, reported that Mr. Barak had argued that the world had 6 to 18 months “in which stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons might still be viable.” After that, Mr. Barak said, “any military solution would result in unacceptable collateral damage.” There was little surprising in Mr. Barak’s implicit threat that Israel might ...
WikiLeaks Fallout: Should Hillary Clinton Resign?
Post Date: 2010-11-30 13:55:41 by WhiteSands
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Should Hillary Clinton resign as secretary of state due to the WikiLeaks revelations? My friend Jack Shafer at Slate makes a good case. His reason: Clinton, like predecessor Condoleezza Rice, signed orders instructing U.S. foreign service officers to spy on the diplomats of other nations. Cables went out under her name telling State Department officials overseas to collect the fingerprints, facial images, DNA, and iris scans of African leaders, to obtain passwords, credit card numbers, and frequent flyer accounts used by foreign diplomats, and to gather private information on United Nations officials, including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Diplomats are not spies (though spies do pose as ...
Ecuador Offers WikiLeak's Founder Assange Residency, No Questions Asked
Post Date: 2010-11-29 23:55:08 by Brian S
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QUITO - Ecuador on Monday offered Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who has enraged Washington by releasing masses of classified U.S. documents, residency with no questions asked. "We are ready to give him residence in Ecuador, with no problems and no conditions," Deputy Foreign Minister Kintto Lucas told the Internet site Ecuadorinmediato. "We are going to invite him to come to Ecuador so he can freely present the information he possesses and all the documentation, not just over the Internet but in a variety of public forums," he said. An international arrest warrant was issued in mid-November against Assange, a 39-year-old Australian, on suspicion of rape and ...
WikiLeaks Plans To Release A U.S. Bank's Documents
Post Date: 2010-11-29 23:41:43 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - The founder of whistle-blower website WikiLeaks plans to release tens of thousands of internal documents from a major U.S. bank early next year, Forbes Magazine reported on Monday. Julian Assange declined in an interview with Forbes to identify the bank, but he said that he expected that the disclosures, which follow his group's release of U.S. military and diplomatic documents, would lead to investigations."We have one related to a bank coming up, that's a megaleak. It's not as big a scale as the Iraq material, but it's either tens or hundreds of thousands of documents depending on how you define it," Assange said in the interview posted on the Forbes ...
Leaked Documents Show Middle East Consensus on Threat Posed by Iran [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-11-29 21:08:01 by WhiteSands
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The thousands of pages of newly leaked State Department documents are sprinkled with examples of name-calling and diplomatic horse-trading, causing consternation for Obama administration officials as they try to sustain vital alliances around the world. But the seismic document spill by WikiLeaks showed one area of profound agreement -- that Iran is viewed in the Middle East as the region's No. 1 troublemaker. Gulf nation leaders were known to dislike the Iranian regime and its nuclear program but rarely made those sentiments known publicly. The leaked cables and communications, though, show those officials talking about Iran with a degree of disdain and worry more commonly found ...
CRAZY WARRIORS OF A FAILING WAR!
Post Date: 2010-11-29 19:00:40 by continental op
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NATO’s plan to handover control of security in Afghanistan to Afghan forces by 2014 is inline with the popular sentiment amongst several Western nations which contribute contingents towards ISAF. NATO has announced that it could also halt combat operations by 2014, if security conditions were good enough. However, Pentagon has declared that NATO’s timeline for ending combat operations was an "aspirational" deadline. Richard Holbrooke said that “2014 did not mark end of international presence in Afghanistan… "There will be continued economic assistance, there will be continued training of the Afghan army and police." A Pentagon progress report on ...
WikiLeaks: Russians Smell Anti-Obama Conspiracy
Post Date: 2010-11-29 14:57:53 by Brian S
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Moscow — In Russia, the motherland of conspiracy theories, almost no one believes that Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are free agents acting on a desire to crack official secrecy and broaden the horizons of public awareness. Although the more than a quarter-million secret US diplomatic cables spilled into cyberspace by WikiLeaks on Sunday include just 3,337 reports prepared by the US Embassy in Moscow, many Russians are already viewing it as part of a plot by American hardliners to discredit President Obama and, perhaps, to undermine his fragile efforts to “reset” US-Russia relations. In Russian political culture, the secret services, Kremlin leaders, and business oligarchs ...
SKorea Cancels New Artillery Drill On Tense Island
Post Date: 2010-11-29 13:21:09 by Brian S
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South Korea's military has canceled a live-fire artillery exercise planned for Tuesday on the front-line island targeted last week by a deadly North Korean bombardment. Officials from the South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters Monday that the plans to fire artillery rounds into waters southwest of Yeonpyeong Island have been canceled. The military did not give a reason for the cancellation. Similar live-fire maneuvers by South Korean troops one week ago triggered the North's bombardment that decimated parts of Yeonpyeong Island, killed four people and drew return fire in a clash that set the region on edge. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for ...
Africa Must Deindustrialize
Post Date: 2010-11-29 11:08:50 by continental op
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I read with interest Denis Mangan's recent article, calling for an end to Western foreign aid to Africa. I deployed the same arguments, and many more, in the Anti-Geldof Compilation CD I organised five years ago (and which comes with a 28-page booklet, containing a 7,000-word refutation of the Live8 / anti-poverty campaign). But in 2010 my position is even more radical, in that I reject not just aid, but the idea of 'development' altogether. Development is a byproduct of the Western liberal ideology, which is founded on doctrines of equality and progress, the former of which implies a totalitarian mindset while the latter implies a linear conception of history. I ask, why do ...
the tactical moxie of kai murros
Post Date: 2010-11-29 10:51:35 by continental op
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The blurb on the Kai Murros Fan Club on Facebook says it best: Kai Murros is one of the most important pan-European visionaries alive to today. He is also one of the most respected thinkers of the New Right in Europe. His ideas are some of the most radical & original in the movement. He lives in Helsinki. Now Nationalist ideas are marginalized in Finland much as they are in the USA. And subject to the same media blackout. Yet Kai Murros pierced the smoke & mirrors and got a hearing. How? Events forced him into a change of thinking. Finland in the early 1990s was enduring one of the worst depressions in its history51;comparable to what the USA is experiencing now. He found the ...
Reasons to Admire North Korea
Post Date: 2010-11-29 10:11:50 by continental op
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Yes, I am a white racialist, and I admire North Korea. Let me explain. North Korea—Not Communist North Korea is not communist, plain and simple. Juche, the official state ideology of North Korea, can be roughly translated as “spirit of self-reliance.” Kim Jong Il, the Supreme Leader of North Korea, said the basis of Juche is the idea that “man is the master of everything and decides everything” [1]. Juche can also be understood as “always putting Korean things first.”[2] This is obviously more nationalist than communist. In 2009 North Korea officially stopped using the term communism to describe itself and removed it from the constitution. ...
Pakistani soldiers regard Afghan Taliban as freedom fighters
Post Date: 2010-11-29 09:56:12 by continental op
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The US military’s hope of a year ago that a surge in troop numbers inside Afghanistan would turn the tide in the guerrilla war is fading fast. The Taliban have extended their grip in the north and west of the country. The one option left to America and its allies is to try to force the Pakistan army to act decisively against the Taliban in Pakistan. But it is not going to happen. Most Pakistani soldiers are happy to fight the Pakistan Taliban, but of their Afghan equivalents they view them as freedom fighters combating a foreign occupation. A second reason why the Pakistan military is unlikely to attack the Taliban is that we may be seeing the opening moves in the endgame in ...
Taliban prepare to punish WikiLeaks Afghan informers
Post Date: 2010-11-28 21:38:56 by WhiteSands
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Taliban courts are preparing to try and punish any Afghan informers identified in thousands of sensitive documents due for imminent release by the WikiLeaks whistleblower website. A spokesman for the militant movement said it would scour the files for the names of Afghan intelligence sources who had given the Nato-led coalition information on the insurgents. If found and captured the informers would be tried and punished by the Taliban's shadow system of courts which extends throughout Afghanistan. The spokesman would not say what punishment the movement would exact, but Taliban fighters routinely behead, hang or shoot dead those considered to be spies or associated with foreign ...
Wikileaks: US referred to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as 'Hitler'
Post Date: 2010-11-28 14:15:50 by WhiteSands
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is referred to as "Hitler" while President Nicolas Sarkozy of France is called a "naked emperor" in US documents released by Wikilieaks on Sunday. US officials referred to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as an "Alpha Male," while President Dmitry Medvedev is "afraid, hesitant." Der Spiegel also quoteed the State Department as saying that President Barack Obama "prefers to look East rather than West," and "has no feelings for Europe". The leak came minutes after Wikileaks claimed that it was under cyber attack on Sunday ahead of the expected release of thousands of secret documents. ...
US embassy cables: Saudi king urges US strike on Iran
Post Date: 2010-11-28 14:08:36 by WhiteSands
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Sunday, 20 April 2008, 08:47 S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 03 RIYADH 000649 SIPDIS SIPDIS WHITE HOUSE FOR OVP, DEPARTMENT FOR NEA/ARP AND S/I SATTERFIELD EO 12958 DECL: 04/19/2018 TAGS EAID, ECON, EFIN, IZ, PGOV, PREL, MOPS, SA, IR SUBJECT: SAUDI KING ABDULLAH AND SENIOR PRINCES ON SAUDI POLICY TOWARD IRAQ Classified By: CDA Michael Gfoeller, Reasons 1.4 (b,d) 1. (S) Summary: US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and General David Petraeus met with Saudi King Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz, Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, General Presidency of Intelligence Chief Prince Muqrin bin Abd al-Aziz, and Interior Minister Nayif bin Abd al-Aziz during their April 14-15 visit to Riyadh. The Saudi King and ...
Report: North Korea Deploys Missiles Near Yellow Sea Border
Post Date: 2010-11-28 13:56:25 by WhiteSands
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North Korea has deployed surface-to-air missiles near the Yellow Sea border, the Yonhap News Agency reports. "(The missiles) appear to be targeting our fighter jets that fly near the Northern Limit Line," a South Korean source told the news agency. The source who spoke on condition of anonymity says North Korea is preparing to fire the Soviet-made missiles. "The military is preparing for the possibility of further provocations as the North Korean military has deployed firepower near the NLL and is preparing to fire," the source said. This latest development comes as a U.S. supercarrier and South Korean destroyer took up position in the tense sea on Sunday for joint ...
Israeli air security is easy on most, intrusive for a few
Post Date: 2010-11-27 22:25:07 by WhiteSands
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ERUSALEM - Israel has long held the reputation as home to the world's most stringent airport security procedures. But most passengers aren't frisked, there are no intimately revealing body-imaging scanners, and security experts dismiss as misguided the new, more intrusive American approach that requires pat-downs or highly detailed scans of every passenger. "Taking the bottle of water from the 87-year-old woman at JFK, you will never find an explosive material that is coming from bin Laden," said Shlomo Harnoy, head of the Sdema Group, an Israeli security consultancy that advises airports abroad. "You are concentrating on the wrong thing." Israel's approach ...
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