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Ok, here is another try at the last one.
I mean, like all this jazz is way above my head, it's like far-outsville, you dig?
But what's going on is a bit too much, even for little ol' me, just a little ol' Philologist from Chicago.
Get it, Obama and Holder spent lots of time in Chicago so they should be hip to weird, but this time
it's a bit of a drag.
See, Holder is busy trying to find out how Assange broke the law because Barcak Hussein doesn't like
what he did. I get that.
But Assange has broken no law. In fact, persecuting him could easily be seen as a violation of the International
Human Bill of Rights (see last post). So, Holder has to find a law that doesn't apply, reinterpret it, which in
effect making a new law, and try to prosecute under that new interpretation.
Now it seems to me that is, you know, post ex facto, or, in English, after the fact, man. Like, you gotta make the law first, then
apply it to what happens after, not the other way around. Of course, I'm not a lawyer right now.
Of course, everything said about Assange was said about the Viet Nam leaker, but Ellesberg at least leaked Top Secret stuff.
Now, I did hear a lawyer say he found out he COULD donate to the Klu Klux Klan using MasterCard, but they have been told it
would be illegal to use MasterCard, Visa, Paypal, etc., for that. But isn't the KKK illegal? I'm not sure, but it seems crazy to me.
Sort of like one of Bernie Madoff's sons committing suicide by hanging himself from a dog leash. You know how much
weight would have to be sustained for a cervical dislocation of a grown man weighing, say, 175 lbs.? F-MA.
But I digress.
Perhaps it's ex post facto? Or, for all the difference it makes, post ex facto? After all, Latin does not depend on word order but inflections.
And there was a pipe in the apartment. Hm. New York building codes.
I must confess I haven't really read the leaks. I heard that in one of them Prince Andrew said that Britian had the best geography
teachers in the world. Things like that shouldn't be getting out. Especially since our students here in the U.S. identify England as Florida on a map, at least until they have been to spring break.
Well, they are demonstrating around the world in support of Assange.
One of the Swedish women has gone to help the Palestinians, no doubt having heard that there was an impending boycott of Swedish women in the works.
Anyway, in memory of Abbie Hoffmann, here is a repost of the site, I think, with a link to download everything.
An earlier leak about Afghanistan said something like "The children at the school were throwing rocks at the soldiers. This seemed to
be in good fun." So, really, nothing big here. :)
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[pt_br] Cablegate: Telegramas das embaixadas
[fr] Wikileaks entame la publication de câbles diplomatiques US confidentiels
[ru] WIKILEAKS приступил к публикации секретных писем американских посольств
[es] Wikileaks empieza a publicar cables diplomáticos de la embajada de estados unidos
[ar] موقع ويكيليكس يبدأ باطلاق مخاطبات سرية للسفارات الامريكية
Wikileaks began on Sunday November 28th publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain. The documents will give people around the world an unprecedented insight into US Government foreign activities.[pt_br] Cablegate: Telegramas das embaixadas
[fr] Wikileaks entame la publication de câbles diplomatiques US confidentiels
[ru] WIKILEAKS приступил к публикации секретных писем американских посольств
[es] Wikileaks empieza a publicar cables diplomáticos de la embajada de estados unidos
[ar] موقع ويكيليكس يبدأ باطلاق مخاطبات سرية للسفارات الامريكية
The cables, which date from 1966 up until the end of February this year, contain confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries throughout the world and the State Department in Washington DC. 15,652 of the cables are classified Secret.
The embassy cables will be released in stages over the next few months. The subject matter of these cables is of such importance, and the geographical spread so broad, that to do otherwise would not do this material justice.
The cables show the extent of US spying on its allies and the UN; turning a blind eye to corruption and human rights abuse in "client states"; backroom deals with supposedly neutral countries; lobbying for US corporations; and the measures US diplomats take to advance those who have access to them.
This document release reveals the contradictions between the US’s public persona and what it says behind closed doors – and shows that if citizens in a democracy want their governments to reflect their wishes, they should ask to see what’s going on behind the scenes.
Every American schoolchild is taught that George Washington – the country’s first President – could not tell a lie. If the administrations of his successors lived up to the same principle, today’s document flood would be a mere embarrassment. Instead, the US Government has been warning governments -- even the most corrupt -- around the world about the coming leaks and is bracing itself for the exposures.
The full set consists of 251,287 documents, comprising 261,276,536 words (seven times the size of "The Iraq War Logs", the world's previously largest classified information release).
The cables cover from 28th December 1966 to 28th February 2010 and originate from 274 embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions.
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Key figures:
- 15, 652 secret
- 101,748 confidential
- 133,887 unclassified
- Iraq most discussed country – 15,365 (Cables coming from Iraq – 6,677)
- Ankara, Turkey had most cables coming from it – 7,918
- From Secretary of State office - 8,017
According to the US State Departments labeling system, the most frequent subjects discussed are:
- External political relations – 145,451
- Internal government affairs – 122,896
- Human rights – 55,211
- Economic Conditions – 49,044
- Terrorists and terrorism – 28,801
- UN security council – 6,532
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