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Daily Archives: 29 November 2010
Wikileaks News
CIA, Mossad and Soros Behind Wikileaks
WMR has learned from Asian intelligence sources that there is a strong belief in some Asian countries, particularly China and Thailand, that the website Wikileaks, which purports to publish classified and sensitive documents while guaranteeing anonymity to the providers, is linked to U.S. cyber-warfare and computer espionage operations, as well as to Mossad’s own cyber-warfare activities.
Wikileaks claims to have decrypted video footage of a U.S. Predator air strike on civilians in Afghanistan and that covert U.S. State Department agents followed Wikileaks’s editor from Iceland to Norway in a surveillance operation conducted jointly by the United States and Iceland. Iceland’s financially-strapped government recently announced a policy of becoming a haven for websites that fear political oppression and censorship in their home countries. However, in the case of Wikileaks, countries like China and Thailand are suspicious of the websites’ actual “ownership.”
Wikileaks says it intends to show its video at an April 5 press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC but that its presenters may be detained or arrested before that time. WMR’s sources believe the Wikileaks “militancy” in the face of supposed surveillance appears fake.
Our Asian intelligence sources report the following: “Wikileaks is running a disinformation campaign, crying persecution by U.S. intelligence- when it is U.S. intelligence itself. Its [Wikileaks’] activities in Iceland are totally suspect.”
(Read more from truthrss.com)
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The hypocrisy of the media attack on Wikileaks
The traditional media has become so toothless it is reduced to attacking Wikileaks for doing its job properly. (Read more from politics.co.uk)
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Wikileaks cable release ‘attack on world’
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has denounced the release of classified diplomatic cables as an “attack on the international community”. (Read more from bbc.co.uk)
Jim Rogers and Andrew Schiff debate some socialist
It’s unusual for the good guys to have numbers on the statists.
World Bank head calls for monetary system linked to gold
Of course, I don’t think we need any world bank. Around 1900 almost all international trade conducted in gold and silver. This emerged voluntarily without any massive, tax-payer funded, secretive bureaucracies telling us that it ought to be that way. I’m suspicious of his true motives and intent in making this declaration.
In the run-up to the G20 summit of leading economies, to be held Thursday and Friday in Seoul, the president of the World Bank has published a column in the Financial Times calling for a fundamental revamping of the global currency system involving a lesser role for the US dollar and a modified gold standard. The Financial Times underscored the significance of the column by making it the subject of its front-page lead article on Monday.
In his column, World Bank chief Robert Zoellick, a former US Treasury official, points to the crisis conditions prompting his proposal. (Read more from wsws.org)