WIKILEAKS

[toonfandangl]

                        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o2ZGk1djTU

[toonfandangl]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pentagon-rushes-to-block-release-of-classified-files-on-wikileaks-1998313.html

[Michael Alexander]

I was reading that site yesterday, is this stuff really real then? Seems like a movie....

[toonfandangl]

Michael this is fair dinkum the guy that's mention "Julian Assange"  Wikileaks founder.............. just google his name, I did mention his name in a post a little while ago.

[toonfandangl]

                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0bIOMQIAKs

[toonfandangl]

 


This is the video Wikileaks released........its called 'Collataral Murder'....http://collateralmurder.com/

[toonfandangl]

       

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New Delhi, June 25, 2010
First Published: 23:11 IST(25/6/2010)
Last Updated: 23:14 IST(25/6/2010)
      
   
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The unjust war in Afghanistan is reeling under a media offensive. General Stanley A. McChrystal, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) chief in Kabul, has been blown away by a story in the latest issue of Rolling Stone. Reeking of eau de gonzo, 'The Runaway General' depicts McChrystal and his entourage as locker room louts stiffing the finger to limp-wristed Washington. The miasmic eau emanates from the soldiers, not the journalist, who has the quotes to back his story.

Meanwhile, the whistleblower magnet WikiLeaks.org is releasing its second blockbuster video of the season — footage of the May 4, 2009, massacre in the Afghan village of Granai, where heavy bombing killed at least 100 civilians, most of them children. In April, it had released stomach-turning footage of a gunship attack in Baghdad in 2007, titled 'Collateral Murder'.

Taken by the Apache's gun camera, it shows civilians being machine-gunned after the telephoto lens carried by a Reuter photographer is mistaken for a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG). It's become a black joke on the internet: "That's not an RPG, that's a Canon!" When a van carrying schoolchildren pulls up and the driver tries to help the wounded, it is also blown away.

Both acts violate the Geneva Convention. But what's truly shocking is the soundtrack. It reveals that the copter is crewed by sub-humans with no ethical faculty. While killing civilians, they talk like video gamers shooting for high scores. "Look at all those dead bastards," crows one as the dust settles.

Now, Wikileaks is releasing the video from Granai, where the civilian death toll was ten times more than shown in the Baghdad footage. No wonder the Americans are seeking the "cooperation" of Julian Assange, the Australian founder of WikiLeaks. For some weeks it was feared that they were hunting him. Wonder why they couldn't find him — he appeared recently on a panel of the European Parliament. But then, Americans aren't very good at finding people. Consider the elusive superstar Osama bin Laden — 27 audio and video hits and counting, and he's still on the loose.

Mainly, Assange has been in Iceland, helping to forge the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative. Last week, Iceland's parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of a resolution for media law reform moved by an all-party group of 19 MPs. Laws will now be passed for the protection of free speech, whistleblowers and anonymous sources and against Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (Slapp) suits and 'libel tourism', in which an aggrieved party in one country uses the courts of another country with favourable libel laws to sue a newspaper, journalist or blogger in a third country.

Iceland is internationalising media law and bringing it up to speed with the information age, and it will make money off it, too. Which it needs to recover from the economic crisis triggered by bank failures. Soon, Iceland could become the Grand Caymans of investigative journalism and blogging, with huge server farms and the head offices of media organisations.

I worry for the future of the US war machine. Media control, embedded journalism and manufactured patriotism are primitive methods, unequal to the media volcano that Iceland is unleashing. And in Afghanistan, McChrystal has been replaced by General David Petraeus, the man who fainted at a Senate hearing while facing hard questions about Afghanistan. Seriously, I worry.

Pratik Kanjilal is publisher of The Little Magazine n pratik@littlemag.com. The views expressed by the author are personalThe unjust war in Afghanistan is reeling under a media offensive. General Stanley A. McChrystal, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) chief in Kabul, has been blown away by a story in the latest issue of Rolling Stone. Reeking of eau de gonzo, 'The Runaway General' depicts McChrystal and his entourage as locker room louts stiffing the finger to limp-wristed Washington. The miasmic eau emanates from the soldiers, not the journalist, who has the quotes to back his story.

Meanwhile, the whistleblower magnet WikiLeaks.org is releasing its second blockbuster video of the season — footage of the May 4, 2009, massacre in the Afghan village of Granai, where heavy bombing killed at least 100 civilians, most of them children. In April, it had released stomach-turning footage of a gunship attack in Baghdad in 2007, titled 'Collateral Murder'.

Taken by the Apache's gun camera, it shows civilians being machine-gunned after the telephoto lens carried by a Reuter photographer is mistaken for a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG). It's become a black joke on the internet: "That's not an RPG, that's a Canon!" When a van carrying schoolchildren pulls up and the driver tries to help the wounded, it is also blown away.

Both acts violate the Geneva Convention. But what's truly shocking is the soundtrack. It reveals that the copter is crewed by sub-humans with no ethical faculty. While killing civilians, they talk like video gamers shooting for high scores. "Look at all those dead bastards," crows one as the dust settles.

Now, Wikileaks is releasing the video from Granai, where the civilian death toll was ten times more than shown in the Baghdad footage. No wonder the Americans are seeking the "cooperation" of Julian Assange, the Australian founder of WikiLeaks. For some weeks it was feared that they were hunting him. Wonder why they couldn't find him — he appeared recently on a panel of the European Parliament. But then, Americans aren't very good at finding people. Consider the elusive superstar Osama bin Laden — 27 audio and video hits and counting, and he's still on the loose.

Mainly, Assange has been in Iceland, helping to forge the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative. Last week, Iceland's parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of a resolution for media law reform moved by an all-party group of 19 MPs. Laws will now be passed for the protection of free speech, whistleblowers and anonymous sources and against Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (Slapp) suits and 'libel tourism', in which an aggrieved party in one country uses the courts of another country with favourable libel laws to sue a newspaper, journalist or blogger in a third country.

Iceland is internationalising media law and bringing it up to speed with the information age, and it will make money off it, too. Which it needs to recover from the economic crisis triggered by bank failures. Soon, Iceland could become the Grand Caymans of investigative journalism and blogging, with huge server farms and the head offices of media organisations.

I worry for the future of the US war machine. Media control, embedded journalism and manufactured patriotism are primitive methods, unequal to the media volcano that Iceland is unleashing. And in Afghanistan, McChrystal has been replaced by General David Petraeus, the man who fainted at a Senate hearing while facing hard questions about Afghanistan. Seriously, I worry.

(Pratik Kanjilal is publisher of The Little Magazine n pratik@littlemag.com. The views expressed by the author are personal.)

[toonfandangl]

To read more of Wikileaks information on South Africa (below is just a snippet) click onto the link below.

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:South_Africa


Role of the ANC in resolving the conflict

The ANC represented the main opposition to the government during apartheid and therefore they played a major role in resolving the conflict through participating in the peacemaking and peace-building processes. Initially intelligence agents of the National Party met in secret with ANC leaders, including Nelson Mandela, to judge whether conflict resolution was possible.[14] Discussions and negotiations took place leading to the eventual unbanning of the ANC and other opposing political parties by then President de Klerk on 2 February 1990. These initial meetings were the first crucial steps towards resolution.

the next official step towards rebuilding South Africa was the Groote Schuur Minute where the government and the ANC agreed on a common commitment towards the resolution of the existing climate of violence and intimidation from whatever quarter, as well as a commitment to stability and to a peaceful process of negotiations. The ANC negotiated the release of political prisoners and the indemnity from prosecution for returning exiles and moreover channels of communication were established between the Government and the ANC.

Later the Pretoria Minute represented another step towards resolution where agreements at Groote Schuur were reconsolidated and steps towards setting up an interim government and drafting a new constitution were established as well as the symbolic suspension of the military wing of the ANC – the Umkhonto we Sizwe. This represented a stop to direct violence within South Africa. Another agreement that came out of the Pretoria minute was that both parties would try and raise awareness that a New Order was underway and that the violence must stop. However violence still continued in Kwazulu-Natal, which violated the trust between Mandela and de Klerk. Moreover internal disputes in the ANC prolonged the war as consensus on peace was not reached.[15]

The next significant steps towards resolution were the Repeal of the Population Registration Act – this meant no one could claim, or be deprived of rights on the basis of racial classification, the repeal of the Group Areas and the Native Land Acts and a catch-all Abolishment of Racially Based Measures Act was passed.[15]

In December 1991 the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) was held with the aim of establishing a interim government. However a few months later in June 1992 the Boipatong massacre occurred and all negotiations crumbled as the ANC pulled out. After this negotiations proceeded between two agents, Cyril Ramaphosa of the ANC, and Roelf Meyer of the National Party. In over 40 meetings the two men discussed and negotiated over many issues including the nature of the future political system, the fates of over 40,000 current government employees and how the country was going to be divided. Cyril Ramaphosa dominated the negotiations, as he was far more apt at negotiation having worked as union leader in the mines, than Roelf Meyer, who had been unchallenged for the past three decades. The result of these negotiations was an interim constitution that meant the transition from apartheid to democracy was a constitutional continuation and that the rule of law and state sovereignty remained intact during the transition, which was vital for stability within the country. A date was set for the first democratic elections on 27 April 1994.[15] The ANC won 62.5% of the votes and has been in power ever since.[16]
[edit] Criticism
[edit] Party and state conflict

In September 2009, the Provincial ANC in KwaZulu Natal was implicated by the social movement Abahlali baseMjondolo, the South African Council of Churches, the Anglican Archbishop, and over 1,000 members of civil society in the coordinated attacks on Kennedy Road informal settlement.[17][18][19][20] MEC Willies Mchunu was heavily criticised for arresting members of Abahlali baseMjondolo but allegedly not arresting the people who perpetrated the attack. The KwaZulu Natal government has refused to heed calls for an independent investigation into the violence saying that the attack was the result of an illegitimate safety forum.[21][22][23][24] Amnesty International and other human rights organisations have supported calls for an independent inquiry into the violence.[25]
[edit] Controversy over corrupt members
Main article: South African Arms Deal

The most prominent corruption case involving the ANC relates to a series of bribes paid to companies involved in the ongoing R55 billion Arms Deal saga, which resulted in a long term jail sentence to former Deputy President Jacob Zuma's legal adviser Schabir Shaik. Zuma, now the State president, currently faces 7 813 charges relating to alleged fraud, bribery and corruption in the Arms Deal.[26] The ANC has also been criticised for its subsequent abolishment of the Scorpions, the multidisciplinary agency that investigated and prosecuted organised crime and corruption, and was heavily involved in the investigation into Zuma and Shaik.

Other recent corruption issues include the sexual misconduct and criminal charges of Beaufort West municipal manager Truman Prince,[27] and the Oilgate scandal, in which millions of Rand in funds from a state-owned company were allegedly funneled into ANC coffers.[28] Links between factions in the ANC, specifically the ANC Youth League leadership, and businessman Brett Kebble gained media attention following Kebble's murder in September 2005.

In December 2007 the ANC elected their new National Executive Committee (NEC), the highest structure in the party. Out of the 80 member committee, 9% are (post-apartheid) convicted criminals. Most of these members have been convicted of fraud, while one member, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, was convicted of the kidnapping of a 14-year-old boy, James Seipei (1974–1988), also known as Stompie Moeketsi (who was also murdered). According to an article in the Mail & Guardian, "by adding those who have been disciplined or moved, and those with dark clouds of unanswered questions hanging over their heads, the figure shifts to 29%."[29]

The ANC has also been accused of using government and civil society to fight its political battles against opposition parties such as the Democratic Alliance. The result has been a number of complaints and allegations that none of the political parties truly represent the interests of the poor.[30][31] This has resulted in the "No Land! No House! No Vote!" Campaign which becomes very prominent each time the country holds elections.[32][33]
[edit] Controversy over wasteful expenditure

The ANC has reportedly wasted over R1 billion of taxpayers' money over the past eight months on luxury vehicles, expensive hotels, banquets, advertising and other "wasteful expenditure"[34][35][36]

The main thrust behind this reporting is the official opposition in the country, the Democratic Alliance (DA). They have kept a tally of the expenditure called 'The Wasteful Expenditure Monitor'[37]

According to the DA,[38] this waste could have:

    * Built 18 574 new RDP houses
    * Fund 7775 teachers for a year

[Michael Alexander]

I see that the American men in Black have shut down the domain name of Wikileaks and the site has been targeted by hackers, Gee! wonder who the hackers work for, anyhow, the site has been moved to new servers in Europe.

But here is the thing, the Men in black are going to continue to try and take the site down, but it's to late, as I see that all the leaked info is now available on the Pirate websites....like the Piratebay and Btjunkie.....

interesting cyberwar this week!

[Mike Stenson (RIP)]

Read some of it, most of it is a load boring crap, was bored after 1 min.
Don't think anybody really cares what was said in those messages, the fact that they were stolen has got everybody backs up.
 

[Bob Molloy]

Try this for an alternative view of Wikileaks.
Link: http://mycatbirdseat.com/2010/11/jeff-gates-wikileaks-the-tel-aviv-connection/

[toonfandangl]

Australian Foreign Minister Backs Assange, Blames US For Leaks
By Joe Weber Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Rudd  said that the U.S. government is responsible for the leaking of hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic memos and warned against condemning Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange. Rudd is correct, the person who leaked the info to Assanage should be object of investigation, not the publisher.

Assange is under fire for releasing sensitive documents from American embassies that expose sensitive cover-ups and embarrass Washington. The Justice Department is currently exploring ways in which it can charge Assange with espionage.

"To have several million people on their distribution list for a quarter of million cables — that's where the problem lies and the person or persons responsible for their unauthorized release, who then gets engaged in the business of disseminating the content of that information, be it WikiLeaks, or anybody else, well that's a matter to be tested by the police," Rudd said.

Assange writes in an opinion piece published by 'The Australian' that there is a great need for WikiLeaks and denies that the site's publication of classified information has ever endangered a single life.

"WikiLeaks has a four-year publishing history. During that time we have changed whole governments, but not a single person, as far as anyone is aware, has been harmed," Assange wrote. "But the US, with Australian government connivance, has killed thousands in the past few months alone."

The 39-year-old Australian went on to write that Wikileaks acts as a balance of power and is needed to keep governments honest. "WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars, and broken stories about corporate corruption."

Meanwhile, Assange remains in the custody of British authorities while he awaits extradition to Sweden on a (possibly) trumped up rape charge.

Another case of shoot the messenger............................................................

[Bob Molloy]

All that glisters is not gold. Have a look at Lawson's take on Wikileaks, below. Can't implant a live link so you will have to cut and paste into Google

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TheJPboU4c&feature=player_embedded (via shareaholic.com)>

[Bob Molloy]

Oops, the link has too many references.

Try cutting and pasting this:

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TheJPboU4c&feature=player_embedded>

[toonfandangl]

Hi Bob! the utube link that I got was SEX, LIES IRAN, ISRAEL, AND WIKILEAKS, by JAMES LINTON I think its much the same as what the guy you mentioned Lawson..............................Frank.