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The Story So Far...(Wired Magazine)

This is quite an interesting article. Not so very much because of the content but much more because of the date it appeared : June 6 2010. Way before the Wikileaks shit started hitting the fan. Lots of unknowns etcetera, but one has to admit that the military has a remarkably consistent response/opinion.

Thank you Interpol!

Hehehe... Naomi Wolf sees the upside of the arrest of Assange.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/interpol-the-worlds-datin_b_793033.html

"...there is an entire fraternity at the University of Texas you need to arrest immediately..."

World Press Freedom Day 2011 to be held in the United States

Oh, the irony of it all. You just can't make these thing up anymore. The real world will beat you every time.

Power is not a means, it's an end.

Why I sympathize with Wikileaks?
                    
              
  

"In accordance to the principles of Doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labor. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects. And its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact. Julia? Are you awake? There is truth, and there is untruth. To be in a minority of one doesn't make you mad."

"The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."

Because I'm slightly paranoid, that's why I sympathize with Wikileaks...

WikiLeaks and the multi faceted truth

I suppose most people have heard of WikiLeaks and all the muck they dredge up. This time they have started their own sub-website called http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/
                  
I don't know what to think of it. On the one hand it's good that this kind of information becomes public. On the other hand I would really like to know why the people behind WikiLeaks do not also publish the same information about other non-American conflicts(and believe me; as far as their war-record is concerned I am not exactly a fan of the United States).
            
If you're tired of being called 'lop-sided', 'prejudiced' and 'partial', why don't you all start documenting the wars, conflicts and massacres in Africa? I'm sure there's enough material there for another complete website.