A threat to power.

Imagine wikiLeaks disclosing documents revealing the collusion and thinking behind carrying out US policies.

"WikiLeaks to Publish New Documents Despite US Threats"

Somewhere an empire is stomping its feet in protest...

Global Flash Mob anyone?

"The documents leaked so far illustrate the frustration of U.S. forces in fighting the protracted Afghan conflict and revived debate over the war's uncertain progress. The White House angrily denounced the leaks, saying they put the lives of Afghan informants and U.S. troops at risk."

What about how the documents show how many civilians our military has killed, many of which were previously unreported incidents. Oh, but the AP says they just show how "frustrated" our poor poor military is in there efforts to do good and make peace. Typical propaganda from the US corporate media.

The persiflage statement that we have heard over and over and over again: A THREAT TO AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY....is nothing but BS! This has to be one of the most Orwellian, putrid and poisonous statements put out by our fascist leaders and their sychophant whores in the MSM. Folks, it is THEIR security that is threatened! not you, me or the average Americans security. Unfortunately, the average American sheeple always bows in obesiance to this MIC ad hominem.

WikiLeaks is the story of our time. All the kings horses and all the kings men can not put the kibosh on the truth. The whole world is watching US. What "We" are about to find out about ourselves, the rest of the world has known all along. "We" have been living inside a vacuum created by our Politburo. Secrecy is used to conceal evil deeds.

Maybe WikiLeaks is Superman and will bring back Truth, Justice and the American Way!

What's and aging empire to do? YOU can't stop WikiLeaks, Chavez, 100 Al-Qaeda, Ahmadinejad, an oil leak, global warming, dissent, etc..... Can you spell impotence?

*** BREAKING NEWS: HACKERS ARE NOT GOING TO SAVE THE WORLD ***

ThomasJefferson wrote:

>Long Live Julian Assange! Long Live Wikileaks!
>
>"Only the hackers can save us now!"

And to hell with types like Bradley Manning, a whistleblower, who is now a military prisoner, and soon to be tried?

If you think hackers are our saviors, think again! Read this article:

"Wikileaks editor skips NYC hacker event":
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20010866-83.html

Adrian Lamo - the HACKER who turned Bradley Manning in to the Pentagon authorities - was treated warmly by all at the hacker forum:

"'I think it's hilarious,' Lamo...said afterward [about the suggestion by a Wikileaks volunteer to ostracize him]. "And I don't think that the hacker community is really going to rise to it. I've been very well-treated by almost everybody I met...What would the [hacker] audience say? Who approves of leaking over a quarter million diplomatic cables?...The response would probably have been silence, confusion, and scattered laughter."

Lamo looks like a creepy little man.

STOP LOOKING FOR HEROES! First, it's Chomsky, who does nothing except give talks to students at universities for a $12,000 fee - and then invests that money in oil stocks and trust funds (to avoid paying tax) - and now it's the hacker community.

Until the public look to themselves to change things, NOTHING is going to change.

But as soon as a member of the public attacks a guy like Chomsky, they get "beaten up" by the "progressive" community. Great work, guys!

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DONATE TO HERE TO SAVE BRADLEY MANNING FROM POTENTIALLY LIFE IN PRISON:
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http://www.bradleymanning.org/

There have been question marks over Wikileaks commitment to help Manning, such as not providing a legal team i.e. they have more than enough money. Well, you'll have to research that yourselves. The site above, however, is not associated with Wikileaks.

*** BRADLEY MANNING ***

If the "progressive" community can't raise enough money to hire a good legal team for Manning, then it should hang its head in shame, and GO HOME!

Manning's actions go right to the heart of what the "progressive" community is meant to stand for - getting information out to the public!

"CommonDreams" should have a front page link to the site where you can donate, but it doesn't.

"Democracy Now!" also has NO link.

Chomsky's site is silent, too.

Clearly, THERE IS NO PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITY. Just a bunch of capitalists selling opinions, articles, and views for cash.

Manning is just 22 years old. He acted out of conscience; he intended no harm. Individuals should not be punished for doing what their conscience tells them to do. But those in power are PSYCHOPATHS - the military top brass, especially so - and that means they lack a conscience, so such actions are unfathomable to them.

The "progressive" community also, clearly, lacks a conscience. The "community" is simply a collection of complete and utter hypocrites.

http://www.bradleymanning.org

From BadleyManning.org site - why help with Bradley Manning's legal team?:

"After putting his life on the line to provide the public with information he felt they deserved, the fate of Bradley Manning - who is said to have felt unsupported in life anyway - would be left in the dirty hands of the US military prison system for a substantial portion of his life."

The "progressive" community just worships Chomsky, and hands that guy all their money - $12,000 just to get him to speak. Great work, everyone!

F**k the real heroes!

My heroes, and I usually refrain from using that word. I hope more filthy facts about our murderous foreign policy finally come to light. The shadow government finally has a pesky gnat sized bite of truth whizzing around its head, that it can't yet swat.

Let`s replace all the government "officals" with WikiLeaks employees and for once let the truth be told! GREAT work WikiLeaks! Keep the info flowing and educating the sleeping public! Maybe soon the public wake up and rise up to take back their prospective countries.

And so it begins, the battle for Americas soul,,,

In red,white and blue trunks the most powerful military in worlds history,

In the White Trunks held up by coax cable , Wiki leaks.

The epic global battle of military industrial complex vs. intellectual freedom of speech via the world wide internet has begun.

As a constitutional loving American , who values freedom of speech,I must fear the main stream media and our Government being controlled by the military industrial complex,I must place my support with truth to power.

I choose Freedom of speech, Wiki Leaks.

Why??? Its simple, our freedoms and future depend on freedom of speech. No one greater weapon does an American own.Think , and be heard.Do not follow into the arms those who preach fear through military might.

We the people ,may not have money, power, or an Army, but we have a constitution that protects our civil rights, and gun ownership.

You can fight aggression,bad policy making,poor leadership , and greedy war mongering chikenhawks with freedom of speech.

You can fight oppression and tyranny with guns.

Wiki Leaks is the free press America should have home grown for itself, but fear and intimidation have put a massive cloud over America blocking the Sunshine.

The USA has gone too far, and declared war on the world when it trys to dictate what can or can not be freedom of speech.

The truth is simply this, you can not hold back the truth. Its to powerful, its meant to be, its faith and justice all rolled up into a weapon of mass destruction used to cleans our evils, secrets, and deceptions from the depths of vile human denial.

The kind of denial that festers and grows, and if left unchecked consumes our souls whole country's at a time.

Our founding fathers were many things good an bad, but their efforts in writing a constitution that could protect us from self destruction are with out a doubt,soul searching truth for justice.

I have heard many a times that America is controlled by the elite, and the military industrial complex, but our military are " We the People" , we should not underestimate the power of non religious, un-brainwashed patriots in our military.

Not Everyone marches lockstep to the tune of war mongering fanatics.

SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH , SUPPORT WIKI LEAKS.

I THINK, THEREFORE I AM NOT A PUPPET TO THE AMERICAN WAR MACHINE HANDLERS.

Let`s replace all the government "officals" with WikiLeaks employees and for once let the truth be told! GREAT work WikiLeaks! Keep the info flowing and educating the sleeping public! Maybe soon they will wake and rise up to take back their prospective countries.

"The Pentagon demanded on Thursday that WikiLeaks ... pull back tens of thousands of secret Afghan war logs already posted on the Internet"

Are these people complete idiots who have no conception of how the internet works (despite it's start as Arpanet, through the Dept. of Defense)? How about a world-wide door to door campaign, asking people if they have any of those files to just deposit them into the canvas bag, to be hauled away to the trash? Or maybe they can just reverse time, so it never happened?
Is the government TRYING to be laughed at?

Exposing the war crimes and atrocities of US power elites and their war machine are vital for the victory of real democracy over US and other allied and client state totalitarianism and S & M ism. Long live a real free press!

"Freedom next time" as John Pilger would put it should be our guide for action and for those leading the brave fight for democracy in our time. They deserve the St George's Cross and all the other medals that they could be awarded for defending democracy. Let's get the British prime minister to award the St George's Cross to them in absentia straightaway!

All apologies except the one for the Goths' sacking of Rome I agree with, but this was more like Custer's last stand, and we all know Custer had it coming. Sometimes civilized people have to defend civilization against Western savagery too often passed off as Western civilization. How else will we get a return to the the democracy, civilization, and humanity which came out of the heart of Africa from 1.4 million to 2.4 million years according to the Smithsonian. We can't let the last 10,000 to 12,000 years of hierarchal power elites' brain washing stop us, That's too many years of hierarchy for humanity.

AD

I love to see the bastards squirm, from Obama on down. Wikileaks is magnificent.

The U.S. military and its globalized bases put the world at risk and constitute a threat to the continuance of life on Earth.

As such, any publication of documents that can diminish that risk and threat is welcome.

Until recently I harbored doubts about Julian Assange; they have been mitigated by his courageous resistance to U.S. intimidation, and I won't have any left if Wikileaks publishes more U.S. military documents.

I am very pleased that Wikileaks is kicking Amerikkka's butt.

The steadily unfolding story of Wikileaks versus the homicidal, world-bullying, testosterone-poisoned U.S.A. truly is the story of these times, and may the fucking Pentagon with its dorky spokesmodels go down in flames.

A further thought: It isn't just my imagination, is it, that this Wikileaks phenomenon appears to be symptomatic of the world saying to the U.S., or any state with the same kind of fucked-up 'we own the world - we'll exploit, rape, kill, enslave and subjugate as much as we please' mentality: 'FUCK OFF, NOW!!! You do NOT have the right to pull the shit you're pulling, we've had a goddamn bellyful of your bullshit, and we're fucking done lying down and taking it.'

That the United States expects the rest of the world to lie down and take it as it bulldozes over it, like the fucking Israelis and their theft of Palestinian land, is prima facie evidence of a delusional, failed state sowing the seeds of its destruction at a fantastic rate. We cannot expect the MSM in America to get their faces out of the crotches of the rich or the imperial political 'elites' long enough to do anything morally right or humane or intelligent or representative of the interests of the U.S. people, so we'll say it here: Wiklileaks has the balls to call the U.S. government on its crimes, and through its actions makes the critical point that IF THE U.S. THINKS IT CAN ASSUME THE RIGHT TO PULL THIS SHIT IN AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, AND LIKELY SOON IRAN, TO SAY NOTHING OF ITS WORLD-WIDE MILITARY BASES, HEGEMONIC TRAMPLING OF THE GLOBE, AND 'FULL-SPECTRUM DOMINANCE', THEN EVERYONE ELSE, STARTING WITH WIKILEAKS, HAS THE INCONTESTABLE RIGHT TO CALL THEM ON THIS SHIT AND TO STAND UP FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE, AND FUCK THE U.S. IF THEY DON'T LIKE IT.

Just because a schoolyard bully wants to punch me in the face and asserts some greater-size-and-physical-power right to do so does not in fact mean that I have to stand there and take it. That the U.S. believes that its victims and its critics should subjugate themselves and a more just international agenda to its will is asking for trouble.

When the Pentagon trotted out that fake, fatuous, lying arsehole 'Geoff Morrell' the other day to threaten Wikileaks, I had to laugh my guts out. Where did they get this clown? Oh, right, like most other corporate entities, the Pentagon has no idea whatsoever how to cast its actors so as not to look ridiculous. As long as you toe the company line, you'll do, no matter if the audience regards you as a pathetic twat. Get thee back to the singles bar, Mr Morrell, where I'm sure your cock size is your favoured subject with the brain-dead, shallow boys/girls/small furry animals you like to chat up. The Pentagon, like the ultra-corporatized U.S. government and its puppet in chief, is absolutely clueless as to how stupid and impotent they look. As bluepilgrim points out in these comments, 'are these people complete idiots [with] no conception of how the internet works?' Umm, yeah. But 'complete idiots' is being charitable. The United States government under Obama is managing daily to out-Bush Bush - a feat that I never for a moment imagined would characterize these days.

Mr Obama, and these fucked-up macho losers in the military would be well-advised to never mind Wikileaks and focus on the real threats and their own crimes - themselves and their teenage-boy notion of being and acting in the world, the 20,000 dead civilians, the murderous, video-gaming methodology of many of its forces. But that of course presupposes that the U.S. government has any connection or committment to the welfare or fate of its own nation or its people, or any sense of having to get along in the world, or the rights of other nations or peoples, when they do not align with American interests.

I like to think that Wikileaks' 'Insurance' file contains hard proof that 9/11/2001 was an inside job, photos of Cheney buggering Bush, etc.

Does anyone know why Adrian Lamo contributed money to wikileaks?

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/02/wikileaks-force/

Just curious.

It was reported that the Pentagon was "looking" for Julian Assange .....apparently much harder than they are looking for that cartoon character who lives in the cave, Osama Bin Laden and all his phony baloney audio and video tapes. One minute he has a grey beard, the next minute a jet black beard. Give me a break.

This has nothing to do with National Security. It is about the security of liars, deceivers, murderers, war profiteers and war criminals.

That five sided building on the other side of the river and the five thousand corporations that produce goods and services for it on the tax payers dime is the biggest threat the United States has ever faced.

The Military Industrial Complex, those same people who brought you the August 4th 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident......"but historians in recent years have concluded that the Aug . 4 attack never happened" [New York Times July 14, 201]..........these same treacherous scum-sucking parasites who fed sixty thousand boys into a meat grinder back then and have now fed around four thousand is it (?) into a new meat grinder, with all their lies, with 9/11 being the biggest whopper of them all.

Here's the reason we went into Iraq:

“Indeed, the United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.”
--- Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century, Page 14, A Report of The Project for the New American Century, September 2000. Among the 25 founding members of The Project for the New American Century whom signed the Statement of Principles in 1997, were Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz.

This was never about Saddam Hussein, he was just the excuse, he did not even matter! This was about building permanent bases sitting on top of 11% of the worlds remaining oil reserves.

But they could not sell this pile of s--t to the American People unless...

“Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.”
--- Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century, Page 51, A Report of The Project for the New American Century, September 2000. Among the 25 founding members of The Project for the New American Century whom signed the Statement of Principles in 1997, were Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz.

Funny how the terrorists are always where the oil is!?

And then they all ran around saying things like:

[9/11 created] "the kind of opportunities that World War II offered, to refashion the world."
--- Secretary Rumsfeld Interview," New York Times, October 12, 2001

"...how do you capitalize on these opportunities"
---Condoleezza Rice instructing senior members of the National Security Council, Nicholas Lemann, “The Next World Order: The Bush Administration May Have a Brand-New Doctrine of Power,” New Yorker, April 1, 2002

“[T]hrough the tears of sadness I see an opportunity.”
--- President George W. Bush, “September 11, 2001: Attack on America: Remarks by the President in Telephone Conversation with New York Mayor Giuliani and New York Governor Pataki 11:00 A.M. EDT”; September 13, 2001

How obvious is too obvious? May they all rot in Hell!

"Schmitt says that Wikileaks has fed the speculation that it is CIA-funded. "There's nothing better than half of the world thinking we are CIA," says Schmitt. "As long as the right half believe this. It might encourage some people to submit material."

John Young has changed his opinion about Wikileaks....
Young's main gripe is the anonymity of the site's operators, which he describes as leaving the group open to "being co-opted by spies. It is common spy tradecraft to do that, as in journalism, media, education, churches, government and so on.""

http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2009/10/start/exposed-wikileaks%27-secrets?page=all

Any ideas why a whistleblower would be heartened by believing they were leaking to a CIA front organization?