I rated Julian Assange 100 out of 100 in TIME's 2010 Person of the Year poll. Cast your vote: http://www.time.com/time/specials/p...4,2028734_2028733_2028727,00.html?xid=poyw-fb
Interesting China pieces:- FIFTH GENERATION STAR LI KEQIANG DISCUSSES DOMESTIC CHALLENGES, TRADE RELATIONS WITH AMBASSADOR http://cablesearch.org/cable/view.php?id=07BEIJING1760&hl U/S HORMATSâ MEETINGS WITH BEIJING ECONOMISTS http://cablesearch.org/cable/view.php?id=09BEIJING3122 BUILDING U.S. JOBS BY LEVERAGING CHINA'S GROWTH http://cablesearch.org/cable/view.php?id=10BEIJING231
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-us-manipulated-climate-accord Assange now goes after the climate change nuts.
The more you folks salivate for anarchy the more the net is going to be restricted in the United States. I suspect you are all apartment dwellers with no significant net worth and not much future otherwise you wouldn't be so eager to pull the system apart.
most people are quite poor. how does one make them happy? 1. make them rich 2. brainwash them to feel happy 3. any other route? nothing comes to mind right away.
for the state department this is necessary so that employees don't put pieces of the puzzle together and find even more irregularities................
has anyone else noticed the relentlessly dark and negative tactics used by Wikileaks opponents? harassment, tracking, cutting off funds, personal attacks, threats, etc., etc. if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. these wikileaks opponents are thugs who obviously realize that no one prefers their agenda so they have to force it on people! oh by the way, when is hillary going to be held responsible for her actions, amidst all this energy to bring people to justice?
Unfortunately these leaks will give the feds a reason to spend a trillion dollars to implement laws and technology to take control over the internet and digital information under the facade of homeland security.
Speaking as a non-US citizen I don't think the US comes out of this too badly. As one writer in the FT notes, "You clearly see what the WikiLeakers never expected: A United States seriously and professionally trying to solve the most dangerous problems in a frighteningly complicated world, yet lacking the power to dictate solutions." Anyway, I think this particular thread should be dedicated more to the financial market and economic implications of the releases rather than the political aspects. Perhaps others can open up a new thread in the Politics and Religion section if they want to discuss the non trading aspects and rights and wrongs of WikiLeaks...