^^ good info there man.

from http://www.counterpunch.org/ridenour12172010.html

For those still in doubt about the significance of the documents being released, I point to some of the revelations.

1. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered State Department diplomats to steal personal human material information—DNA, fingerprints, iris scans, credit card information—from UN officials, including from the general secretary (their own man), from other diplomats and from human rights leaders.
2. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (the country where bin Ladin and most of the September 11 alleged terrorists come from) asked its friend, the United States government, to attack Iran.
Britain's Iraq inquiry was rigged so as to protect "US interests".
3. Brits are now angry at the US for the way its leaders privately criticize British troops in Afghanistan.
4. The US knows that Sri Lanka's government, under the Rajapaksa brothers's rule, massacred ten thousand or more Tamil civilians in the last days of the civil war. Sri Lanka's government can no longer have any credibility.
5. The US internally admits having lost control of Pakistan, where American forces are illegally killing civilians and despite the protests of the Pakistani government.
6. It has also been revealed that the US is secretly killing "undesirable" civilians in Yemen.

this info...is gold.

Information is not a crime.

US torturing Bradley Manning?
 

The United Nations office for torture issues in Geneva is now investigating a complaint that the U.S.is torturing Bradley Manning. Manning is the detained Army private suspected of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks. He has been held in solitary confinement for seven months despite being an exemplary prisoner. Many experts believe that being held in solitary confinement for an extended period of time does constitute torture. The U.N. said it received a complaint from one of Manning’s supporters alleging conditions at the brig amount to torture. According to the U.N., the complaint received alleges that Manning’s physical and mental health are deteriorating in the face of continual solitary confinement. The office of Manfred Nowak, special lawyer on torture based in Geneva, confirmed that they are investigating the report. A spokesman for the Marines denied mistreating Manning, telling the AP he is being kept safe, secure and ready for trial.
Last week, Manning’s lawyers and supporters released detailed information about the conditions in which Manning is being detained. Manning’s lawyer, David Coombs, posted a blog detailing the conditions, stating he is in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day with no bed sheets or a pillow and is unable to exercise while in his cell. The lawyer also expressed frustration with the harsh conditions, describing multiple attempts to improve them and indicating that he is prepared to file a motion under Article 13 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which bans illegal pretrial punishment.
Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange also spoke out about the alleged mistreatment of Manning. In an interview on MSNBC, Assange said that he doesn’t know if Manning is the whistleblower (due to the blinders of the software used by WikiLeaks), but he’s a “political prisoner” in the U.S., adding that claims he conspired with Manning are “absolute nonsense.” He urged human rights’ organizations to look into the treatment of Manning.

yes we torture our own US citizens without shame.

"PsySR also subtly hinted at an ulterior motive for Manning's detention, suggesting that the solitary confinement may be meant to break Manning's spirit so that he agrees to give "false testimony."
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/p...adley-manning/

the situation in Egypt is escalating to Medieval proportions, I pray for peace and consolation, even the Muslim Brotherhood has said the people who bombed that Coptic Church were not human :(

It's a very ugly sitiuation

Christians are facing a new rise in violence and persecution, and what is surprising is unlike in previous recent incidents, these attacks have had very little to do with politics, and have been largely religious/cultural beef, and that is actually quite rare.

Violence against indigenous (as opposed to missionary or foreign) Christian communities has been escalating in Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Pakistan, and even Nigeria!

Lord have His Mercy, I wonder what the wikileaks has to say about all this?

Obama is still torturing this man.

Manning was placed on suicide watch for two days last week, against the wishes of the jail's psychiatrist, lawyer David E. Coombs said. The Washington Post reported:

During this time, Manning was forced to stay in his cell around the clock, stripped to his underwear, the lawyer said. His prescription eyeglasses were taken from him, except for the hour of television he is allowed to watch or when he was reading, Coombs added.
On Wednesday, Coombs filed a complaint with Marine Corps Base Quantico, alleging that the commander of the brig, or detention facility, abused his discretion by placing Manning on suicide watch.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/a...held-quantico/
"House then reported that he would not be allowed to see Manning, that his car was searched and impounded, and that a military police officer reportedly told him the orders to do so "came from on high." "I am on approved visitation list; have been visiting since September," House tweeted.
Hamsher said she was ticketed and her car was towed because she offered only electronic proof of car insurance, not a paper form."

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff01262011.html

It seems increasingly evident that the US is also behind the current legal travails of Assange, who is currently under house arrest at the home of a supporter in the United Kingdom, where he is fighting extradition to Sweden to face questioning on very suspicious claims of sexual misconduct involving two Swedish women, at least one of whom has links through her brother to US intelligence services, and whose joint attorney was involved in assist[ing] the US with the CIA rendition of several Swedish residents, who were subsequently subjected to torture in Africa. As the British feminist organization Women Against Rape has declared, the charges against Assange, and the effort by Swedish authorities to use an Interpol Red Alert and a European warrant to incarcerate Assange are highly suspect. They state on their website, www.womenagainstrape.net "Women who are fighting for justice for themselves or their children are astounded at the zeal with which Julian Assange has been pursued. Questions need to be asked about the authorities' motivation when men who pose an obvious immediate danger to women and girls are treated more leniently."

yeah. so many women are raped and subject to violence everyday and in most cases nothing is done to even prevent the attacker from getting near them or their children, trials and investigations take place in which the victim's behaviour is questioned (instead of the perpetrator's) and so many women are killed by their partners on a daily basis, even tho they had filed complaints against them before. it's kind of insulting that they are suddenly so concerned with someone who had "unprotected consensual sex and didn't pick up the phone afterwards".

http://www.antifascistencyclopedia.c...azilian-people

a very clear interview outlining their goals and activity.

A good article by Slavoj Zizek:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n02/slavoj-...e-of-wikileaks

PPL still talkin about this shit?

so 2010....

LOOK IT KNOWS HOW TO TYPE!

Hey Tesla any update about the stargate in yemen? I find it a fascinating story

You might want to do a little googling - there seems to be a bunch of things going on at once in the Gulf of Aden - the Ark of the Covenant for one thing - its probably all nonsense but its very interesting. Note the archeological sites have already been raided in Egypt, just like in Iraq, as if people were planning for it (and smart museum curators hid the best stuff thankfully).

from a very entertaining thread:
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/fo...age1299423/pg1
"The largest naval buildup in history is going on, involving warships from the USA, Russia, China, and many other nations, off the coast of Yemen.The warships are gathered around at least 3 rectangular objects just beneath the surface, that are miles long each; all visible (for now) via google earth. The cover story for the buildup is that they're trying to stop piracy there, but the rectangular objects are real, and the overkill cannot be over piracy."

"There may be another base near marianas trench."
and to stay on topic, there was some mention in the wikileaks release abotu ufo's which seems to be connected to Yemen..

Smoe interesting things going on
On January 2, The New York Times wrote about a late night conference call held by Bank of America executives on November 30. The reason for the call was to deal with a statement given by WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange on November 29, where he said that he intended to “take down” a major American bank. The country’s third largest financial institution needed to get the jump on WikiLeaks, so they started scouring thousands of documents, and auditing physical assets.
Shortly after the late night conference call, the email from Hunton and Williams was sent. Booz Allen Hamilton, according to the Times, was the firm brought in to help manage the bank’s internal review.
A month after the proposal for the initial December meeting on WikiLeaks was created, email messages from HBGary Federal show plans for a meeting with Booz Allen Hamilton. The meeting was set after Barr emailed Hunton and Williams about information he was gathering on WikiLeaks and Anonymous. Later, this information would be the direct cause of Anonymous’ attack on HBGary.
[Booz Allen are a spook consultant corp, generally ex-security/welfare people, those people whose firms live at the trough of "security"]
http://www.thetechherald.com/article...inst-WikiLeaks

On Saturday, private security firm HBGary Federal bragged to the FT that it had discovered who key members of the hacking group Anonymous are. In response, Anonymous hacked HB Gary Federal and got 44,000 of their emails and made them publicly available.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/20...enn-greenwald/

http://www.counterpunch.org/shamir02252011.html
This article relates a couple of the wikileaks turncoats writing for the Guardian are actually falsifying the cables

article also describes our "free press":

Bill Keller confesses that before publishing, his “colleagues were invited to a windowless room at the State Department, where they encountered an unsmiling crowd. Representatives from the White House, the State Department, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the C.I.A., the Defense Intelligence Agency, the F.B.I. and the Pentagon gathered around a conference table. Others, who never identified themselves, lined the walls.” Keller reveals that US authorities actually vetted the NY Times “news” release and that corresponding orders were conveyed to the London outlet.

you know, lately I been thinkin, maybe Assange did rape or coerce these chicks into sex, and he preemptively went public with all this to get a smoke screen. Wikileaks has been around for years long before all this controversy, why would the govt suddenly now chose to target him, and further, if they really wanted him shut down, wouldn't they have just done it by now? I mean, its hardly a secret that the govt uses assassinations to silence its enemies..

so perhaps Assange really fucked with these chicks, and is using this all as a pretext and subterfuge to juke the convictions?

read a good Katha Pollitt article: the idea that Assange can be both a first amendment hero and a possible filthy little creep in the bedroom are not necessarily incompatible. The idea that they went after him so heavily does show that they are wanting to get him for political reasons, but he may be guilty of the coercive sex deal

I believe he is accused of engaging in intercourse without condom with a woman he had previously (several hours earlier and they were sleeping together) had consensual sex with - she claims she was asleep and woke up with him inside her, but you know people do things in their sleep - its an "only in Sweden" kid of thing, and its totally bogus that one of them works for a CIA cutout. As always, the Spectacle has to distract and turn it into a personal attack.

I've never heard any claim of force.

it was the batch of US State Dept cables and the internal Pentagon reports that did it - when they were releasing shit about China or Europa who cared?

Its all a distraction so we forget these cables show the US murdered civilains and covered it up.

from counterpunch.org


....The next morning, policewoman Sara Wennerblom telephoned Anna Ardin and told her that she would have to give evidence. They did the interview by telephone that same day. In this phone interview Anna said that she freely consented to have sex with Assange, but that she wouldn't have let it happen if she'd known he didn't have a condom. So much for the rape charge! A few hours later, the warrant was voided when another prosecutor, Eva Finne, looked at the reports and concluded that no crime was committed. Case closed.
...The right-wing Swedes were supported and guided by Karl Rove, the American political operator who has been advising Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt for the past two years.....
In order to reopen the case, a law firm run by two political heavyweights was brought in, Bodstrom and Borgstrom. Thomas Bodstrom was once a Justice minister whose claim to fame is that he delivered two hapless Swedish-resident Arabs to a CIA rendition plane so that they could be tortured in one of Mubarak’s jails.
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WASHINGTON — State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley quit on Sunday after causing a stir by describing the military's treatment of the suspected WikiLeaks leaker as "ridiculous" and "stupid," pointed words that forced President Barack Obama to defend the detention as appropriate.
"Given the impact of my remarks, for which I take full responsibility, I have submitted my resignation" to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, according to a department statement attributed to the office of the spokesman.
Crowley's comments about the conditions for Pfc. Bradley Manning at a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia, reverberated quickly, from the small audience in Massachusetts where Crowley spoke to a White House news conference Friday where Obama weighed in about the 23-year-old soldier believed responsible for the largest leak of classified American documents ever.
Manning is being held in solitary confinement for all but an hour every day, and is stripped naked each night and given a suicide-proof smock to wear to bed. His lawyer calls the treatment degrading. Amnesty International says it may violate Manning's human rights.
Crowley was quoted as saying in Massachusetts that he didn't understand why the military was handling Manning's detention that way, and calling it "ridiculous, counterproductive and stupid." Crowley also said "Manning is in the right place" in military detention.

… In light of disturbing WikiLeaks cables, American and worldwide human rights and environmental organizations will also be questioning why the Obama administration is covertly pushing for Bangladesh to reverse course and acquiesce to an internationally condemned open-pit mine that will displace an estimated 100,000-200,000 villagers and ravage desperately needed farmland and water resources. … The Phulbari coal mine is nothing less than a “humanitarian and ecological disaster.”
http://www.antifascistencyclopedia.c...-in-bangladesh

He's an American hero

On the same day that a major human rights organization issued a scathing report on Bush-era prisoner abuses, the United Nations alleged that the United States had violated a "long-standing" rule meant to prevent the torture of prisoners, by denying an official access to Pvt. Bradley Manning, the lone soldier accused of turning over secret documents to WikiLeaks.
Juan Mendez, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on torture, criticized the U.S. government for preventing a meeting with Manning, meant to ascertain whether the conditions of the soldier's confinement constituted torture. He insisted that an unmonitored meeting is standard practice around the world.
According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, that's something even Bush officials permitted (PDF) for their alleged high value al Qaeda detainees, but Manning seems to be a special case for the Obama administration.
"At the Special Rapporteur’s request and after several meetings, the US Department of Defense has allowed Mendez to visit Pfc. Manning but warned him that the conversation would be monitored," a prepared statement from the U.N. Human Rights Commission explained.
"Such a condition violates long-standing rules that the UN applies for prison visits and for interviews with inmates everywhere in the world. On humanitarian grounds and under protest, Mendez offered to Manning, through his counsel, to visit him under these restrictive conditions, an offer that Manning has declined."
“The United States, as a world leader, is a strong supporter of the international human rights system," Mendez is quoted as saying. "Therefore, its actions must seek to set the pace in good practices that enhance the role of human rights mechanisms, ensuring and maintaining unfettered access to detainees during enquiries."
Despite repeated petitions from Mendez, the U.S. has continued to refuse an unmonitored visit for Manning and insists his detention at Ft. Leavenworth is consistent with human rights standards.

wow, its more obvious with every release why the elites hate this guy - some people claim it is a cia/mossad front and if so I can't imagine why they'd release this or what propaganda purpose it would serve, other than to create more hate against the US, which would cause more attacks and then provide an excuse to keep the death machine going....no they'd never do that

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/0...ldren-in-raid/
According to a diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks, U.S. troops massacred an Iraqi family in the town of Ishaqi in 2006, handcuffing and then shooting 11 people in the head including a woman in her 70's and five children ages five and under.
McClatchy is reporting that the soldiers then called in an air strike on the house to cover up evidence of the killings.
This account differs sharply from an official version of the 2006 incident, which indicated that coalition forces captured an al Qaeda in Iraq operative in the house, which was destroyed in a firefight. The WikiLeaks cable, however, corroborates accounts by Ishaqi townspeople and includes questions about the incident by Philip Alston, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.