What convoluted logic it is that cites harm done by the release of “diplomatic” cables? “Diplomatic” cables? Even the concept of these missives as anything resembling “diplomacy” is an oxymoron if ever there was one. Seriously, even among friends do these epistles sound remotely “diplomatic?”
If the cables resemble anything at all it is the diatribe leaked daily from the “w” administration (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove or Rice) about anyone the administration didn’t like. If the cables resemble anything at all it is the leaked information during the entire Cold War by all sides.
Harm to whom? The authors of the cables? The nations “diplomats” represent? Others? How can anyone, for even an instant, believe in some small way that doing what is done convertly is going to remain that way? Even within the community of “diplomats” cables are touched by enough people that everyone has to know that sooner or later they will leak. No?
Maybe a long track record of mostly keeping secrets promotes arrogant indifference and the belief that “diplomats” like the oligarchs are somehow bullet-proof. Oh and by the way, the word is getting out about the oligarchs, as well.
Is it an arrogant indifference and a sense of being invulnerable---because of a long track record, perhaps? Oligarchs call it paranoia or conspiracy theory if you should guess what they (the oligarchs) are up to. With in-formation now moving openly and freely at the speed of light (except in countries that are fearful of that) that anything is a secret for long is remarkable.
The world of the surreptitious is changing, morphing into something else. It is best---though perhaps not easiest--- to hide in plain sight.
What was the initial intent of the diplomatic cables? Peace? Please. Were that the case would we even be having this discussion? I didn’t think so.
Across the span of time-space and history monarchs, rulers, popes, oligarchs and the like have dis-liked it when anyone refuses to kow-tow to them. “Off with their heads.” Or in the case of Julian Assange a/k/a WikiLeaks---quick find something to charge him with! The more salacious, the more deviant the better. It encourages people to forget about the presumption of innocence and the fact that allegations are not proof.
So it is that we learn that one of Assange’s accusers is an old hand at playing the Cold War games so popular with the controlling forces that emerged from the womb of the Second World War---violent, predictably unpredictable, malicious and malevolent, especially toward the defenseless.
In Texas Red that would be the proverbial “poor, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…”
From Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable apartheid public education, lack of healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way…
Hasta Siempre,
Hasta Siempre,
More:
Julian Assange: Whoever leaked US embassy cables is unparalleled hero
Assange Accuser Worked with US-Funded, CIA-Tied Anti-Castro Group
http://my.firedoglake.com/kirkmurphy/2010/12/04/assanges-chief-accuser-has-her-own-history-with-us-funded-anti-castro-groups-one-of-which-has-cia-ties/
Assange Not Actually Wanted for 'Rape'
Making a Mockery of the Real Crime of Rape
http://www.counterpunch.org/shamir09142010.html
and people are upset with WikiLeaks? Spare me. Nothing has changed since “w.”
Government reports violations of limits on spying aimed at U.S. citizens
Congress passed FISA in 1978 to prevent Americans' communications from being tapped without a warrant. Lawmakers amended the law in 2008 to broaden and clarify legal authorities after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and advances in Internet communications prompted fresh concerns over expanded surveillance powers.
The ACLU, human rights activists and other parties sued, charging that the new law violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unreasonable searches. A U.S. district judge tossed out the case, which remains on appeal, and the ACLU has pursued a related Freedom of Information Act request.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/02/AR2010120206052.html?wpisrc=nl_politics
democracy in action! No?
Govt. Workers: No Reading Leaked Docs!
http://www.newser.com/story/106875/govt-workers-no-reading-leaked-docs.html
Under attack, WikiLeaks seeks shelter in cold war bunker
WikiLeaks fights to stay online amid attacks
US Cables: Mexico drug war lacks clear strategy
Public Policy: America’s prejudice, bias toward anything different---isms die hard
A People's History of the United States – Howard Zinn
http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States-P-S/dp/0061965588/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290505605&sr=1-1
Profiles in Courage
13 Bankers
Winner take all Politics
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field- keywords=winner+take+all+politics
Slavery by Another Name
Illusions of Justice
The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990
“However, James W. Marquart, Sheldon Ekland-Olson, and Jonathan R. Sorensen offer a more complex thesis. In their book, The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990,[5] they argue that Texas' execution rate reflects the Southern "cultural tradition of exclusion," and that "[s]uch exclusion was a basic element of the legacy of slavery."
The Powers That Be
The Best and the Brightest
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_35?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=the+powers+that+be+david+halberstam&sprefix=the+powers+that+be+david+halberstam#/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_46?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=the+best+and+the+brightest+by+david+halberstam&sprefix=the+best+and+the+brightest+by+david+halberstam&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Athe+best+and+the+brightest+by+david+halberstam
back to the McCarthy witchunt days……
Amazon stops hosting WikiLeaks website
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101201/wr_nm/us_wikileaks_amazon
I don’t know dude maybe it’s because we hold ourselves out as so much better than those Muslim extremists---maybe not. Religiosities are religiosities regardless of the source of the man-made dogma they worship…
Smithsonian Under Fire For Gay Portraiture Exhibit
But included in that meditation is a crucifix — a cross bearing the body of Christ — crawling with ants. The image, according to Catholic League President Bill Donohue, is offensive. He calls the video "hate speech" and says that "the Smithsonian would never have their little ants crawling all over an image of Muhammad."
“If it's wrong for the government to take the taxpayers' money to promote religion, why is it OK to take taxpayers' money to assault religion?” - Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League
Library of Congress/Religion
The prison-industrial complex, apartheid public education system, racism and Elections 2010
The War Against The Third World Part One (John Stockwell)
The War Against The Third World Part Two
The War Against The Third World Part Three
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XwM4iCaaXI
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