NOVEMBER 28, 2010 
WIKILEAKS BEGAN ON THIS DATE TO PUBLISH 251,287 LEAKED 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA EMBASSY CABLES.
The previous two WikiLeaks involved military 90,000 records from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. 
(Which are not in my areas of interest.)
(However there is little doubt that WikiLeaks caused the public opinion to change on the Afghan war)
The current release is of leaked dispatches from more than 274 US embassies and consulates worldwide.
The cables date from 1966 to the end of February 2010, but mostly from 2007.
The embassy cables will be released in stages over the next few months.
WE THOUGHT CLIMATE-GATE WAS THE BIGGEST STORY OF THE 21TH CENTURY
WE MIGHT BE WRONG, AS WIKILEAKS UNFOLDS
THIS IS IMPORTANT TRANSITIONAL HISTORY
Some Wikigate leaks suggest:
Nuclear proliferation and nuclear war is likely in out time.
We are in the greatest hegemonic contest of modern times.
We are in a permanently changed world, especially as regards economics, culture and politics. 
GOD HELP US!

DIRECTORY Return to MAIN HISTORY INDEX

... could become as important a journalistic tool
as the Freedom of Information Act.
Time Magazine 

"The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society"
"We are as a society apposed to secrecy"
"We decided long ago the dangers of excessive unwarranted concealment 
of pertinent facts far outweigh the dangers which are sited to justified it."
"No official or civilian or military should censor the news, or stifle descent, or cover up our mistakes or
to withhold from the press and public, the facts that they deserve to know"
"No President should fear public scrutiny of his programs for from that scrutiny comes understanding
 and from that understanding comes support and opposition and both are necessary".
"An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct them"
"The 1st amendment of the constitution directs the press to 
inform, arouse, reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunity,
 to indicate our crisis, choices, lead, mold, educate and anger."
"The press has a tremendous task to inform and alert the American people."
"Without debate and criticism no republic can survive"
"Outside the "narrow" limits of national security"
"Man was born to be free and independent."

President J.F. Kennedy

(narrow limits likely means top secret documents)

“The left will bankrupt you but the right will get you killed.” 
Source the father of Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Power

WikiLeaks is an international non-profit media organization that publishes submissions of otherwise unavailable documents from anonymous sources. It was created in 2006. The organization has described itself as having been founded by Chinese dissidents, as well as journalists, mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the U.S., Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa.
Little is known about the day-to-day functioning of WikiLeaks. It has no headquarters, few if any paid staff, hard if not impossible for the mighty USA to impose censorship.
Despite coming under a cyber attack that took down its main website earlier in the day, WikiLeaks started publishing the 251,287 cables - 15,652 of which are classified "secret" - from 274 US embassies around the world on a sub-website.  In an introduction, it painted the United States as a hypocritical superpower and attacked "the contradictions between the US's public persona and what it says behind closed doors”.

Amazon even went as far as to remove WikiLeak’s servers from their web service as a result of government pressure.  Some are already boycotting Amazon.  First Amendment to the Constitution protects WikiLeaks. It also protects Amazon.  The USA Government effectively "killing" its web address just days after Amazon pulled the site from its servers following political pressure.  The website went offline for the third time in a week this morning, in the biggest threat to its online presence yet.  Homeland security is believed involved.

The White House hit back, saying the release was a "reckless and dangerous action" that put lives in danger.  WikiLeaks “war diaries”, these documents appear to have caused little actual damage, besides being rather embarrassing to the U.S.  The White House credibility is in question and is in direct violation of President John F. Kennedy proclaimed Principles of Governance that led us out of the cold war.  

The Prime suspect in the leak is Bradley Manning b-1987.  Has admitted to 'wanting' to release 260,000 classified documents saying it's public data, it belongs to the public domain.  
Julian Assange b-1971, an Australian journalist and publisher, says - If - Bradley Manning - is behind some of our recent disclosures, then he is without doubt an unparalleled hero.

Julian Assange b-1971, an Australian journalist and publisher, says he’s the victim, of a “smear campaign” aimed at discrediting his website.  Sweden's actions against Assange have the trappings of persecution not prosecution.

The country’s Attorney General Robert McClelland admitted to a newspaper that Australia cooperated on security matters with international bodies, but refused to say whether they shared information about Julian Assange b-1971, an Australian journalist and publisher, who was born in Australia.  

A USA Government notice was issued:  No military computer can be used to visit Wikileaks sites or any site containing such information.  Most newspapers publish such information therefore they are restricted.  The message is clear, don't mess with Uncle Sam.

WikiLeaks is facing attacks in cyberspace and in the legal sphere by the USA. The site is assailed by hackers and has been booted from its U.S. server.  U.S. politicians have called for Assange b-1971, an Australian journalist and publisher, to be prosecuted for espionage — or worse.  Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin asked on Facebook: "Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al-Qaida and Taliban leaders?"   "In the end, someone must be responsible to the public and only a leadership that is willing to be publicly courageous can genuinely suggest that sources take risks for the greater good,"

Wikileaks is sending the "Cablegate" material and other secret documents in encrypted form "to over 100,000 people."  [Sounds like an execration, likely closed to 10,000]

"I think the basic concept (of Wikileaks) has a future," said Steven Aftergood, who works on government secrecy policy for the Federation of American Scientists. "Anonymous disclosure of restricted records is easier than it has ever been. The virtues of transparency and government accountability are more widely recognized than they have ever been. Those two factors together provide a foundation for this kind of activity.

The Icelandic government recently passed a resolution in favor of a bill that aims to turn the tiny nation into a journalistic haven by granting high-level protection to investigative journalists and their sources from super power governments.  Previously Iceland had placed a gag order on WikiLeaks.  However WikiLeaks proposed Iceland become a journalist haven.

2010 December 3;  US defense secretary and former senior CIA official Robert Gates, who described the reaction to the leaking of the cables as "significantly over-wrought". He pointed out that every country on earth knows that the US government has leaked like a sieve for a long time.

2010, December 6: Operation Payback (claims to have an army of 9,000 and growing daily) has officially declared Internet War by saying "We will fire at anyone that tries to censor WikiLeaks".  They believe the Internet is a new Basic Human Right.  Their first target was to shut down a Swiss Bank PostFinancial that on December 6. 2010 froze funds belonging to WikiLeaks.  Their site was still down at reporting time December 7.  They plan an attack on PayPal and Amazon is on the short list.  The Swedish Prosecution Authority web site is under attack by an anonymous source.  

2010 December 8; Who and what is being said in the Internet Cyber War.
Joe Liberman  a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, said that “the news organization, and others that published American diplomatic cables obtained and distributed by WikiLeaks, might be subject to criminal investigation”.
“We should treat Mr Assange the same way as other high-value terrorist targets: Kill him,” writes conservative columnist Jeffrey T Kuhner in the Washington Times.
William Kristol, former chief of staff to vice president Dan Quayle, asks, “Why can’t we use our various assets to harass, snatch or neutralize Julian Assange and his collaborators, wherever they are?”
“Why isn’t Julian Assange dead?” writes the prominent US pundit Jonah Goldberg.
“The CIA should have already killed Julian Assange,” says John Hawkins on the Right Wing News site.
Sarah Palin, a likely presidential candidate, compares Assange to an Al Qaeda leader;
Rick Santorum, former Pennsylvania senator and potential presidential contender, accuses Assange of “terrorism”.
Tom Flanagan a former senior adviser to Canadian Prime Minister, a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, said Assange should be assassinated ... I think Obama should put out a contract ... I wouldn't feel unhappy if Assange does disappear." ,

December 8, 2010:  PayPal today admitted it suspended payments to WikiLeaks after an intervention from the US State Department, December 4, 2010.  [They are likely trying to divert the attack on them to the State Department]  [PayPal is very venerable to a serious Trojan attacks as they are not a bank and provide no guarantees of lost funds]

December 8, 2010: Visa – apparently acting under intense pressure from Washington – announced it was suspending all payments to WikiLeaks. Visa was following MasterCard, PayPal and Amazon, all of which have severed ties with the site and its founder Julian Assange in the last few days.  The companies have justified their decision to stop donations on the grounds that WikiLeaks is acting "illegally" an allegation of the State Department.  No illegal action are identified in law.  In fact members of the Supreme court suggests there is no illegality by WikiLeaks.

2010 December 14:  The German hackers club an important cell of WikiLeaks headed by Daniel Domescheit-Berg b-1978 has broken away to form OpenLeaks.  They are promising transparency with a direct link to the media and a lack of celebrity.  Other new whistleblower web sites are springing up.

2010 December 18:  Bank of America Corp. has joined several other financial institutions in refusing to handle payments for WikiLeaks

2010 December 19:  USA Vice-President Joe Biden said Julian Assange is a dangerous "high-tech Terrorist"  by this statement he also labels the New York Times in the same camp as well as newspapers around the country.

2010 December 22:  USA Apple on Tuesday confirmed that it had removed from its online store an iPhone and iPad application that lets users view the content on the WikiLeacks site and follow the WikiLeaks Twitter account which was only up for 3 days.

2011 January 13:  WikiLeak website that has published thousands of confidential US embassy cables, has donated $15,100 (£9,500) to the legal defense fund of Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of handing providing it with the digital trove, as promised last year.  The support network calculates that the legal fund needs to have at least $115,000 to fight a vigorous defense. Including the WikiLeaks donation, it has collected more than $100,000.

2011 February 02;   “By disclosing information about corruption, human rights abuses and war crimes, WikiLeaks is a natural contender for the Nobel Peace Prize,”

2011 March 13:  PJ Crowley, the official spokesman at the state department, resigned after saying "What is being done to Bradley Manning is ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid on the part of the department of defense."   Bradley Manning is accused of leaking the WikiLeak papers.  Manning has been held in solitary confinement for the past 10 months. He is being subjected to a prevention of injury order, which sees him kept in his cell for 23 hours a day and stripped naked at night.  The UN is also investigating this inhuman punishment.

TOPICS of INTEREST are as follows by number of leaked documents:  However it should be noted that they contain only confidential and secret rated documents.  NO TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS ARE INCLUDED therefore they are only an embarrassment, so far, and does not threaten National Security in "my opinion".
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 
However I will organize them into topics of my interest which also appears to be the national leaders areas of interest/concern.  

NEWSPAPERS WITH COPIES OF LEAKED DOCUMENTS
U.K. - London Guardian: Prince Andrew denounced Guardian reporters investigating bribery as "those (expletive) journalists.. who poke their noses everywhere".  [This is likely why this news paper was given the Wikigate leaked files.]
American - New York Times [New York Times has a history of down playing information leaks, ie. Climate-Gate]
France - Le Monde
Spain - El Pas
Germany - Der Spiegel       
[Keep in mind they all will suppress some politically sensitive material, legally sensitive information by country  and will highlight politically correct material concerning their own country.  This strategy of releasing however was brilliant and outperforms Climate-Gate].
WikiLeaks has won countless awards, including The Economist’s 2008 New Media Award and the 2009 Amnesty International U.K. Media Award.
Journalism should be edgy and dangerous. The media is intended to rein in the government and ensure accountability.  The responses from most professional journalists in America have been downright disappointing.   Instead of investigating, they have fallen back to renouncing an organization that merely a year ago they were praising.  The news media tried to sweep Climategate under the rug and are now trying to sweep Wikigate under the rug.  It didn’t work, so when will so called professional journalists get with the new technology and program?  
These so called professional journalists should listen to John F, Kennedy speech on Government and press censorship and the secret devils. 2007, July 30.

Tom Flanagan, a [former] senior adviser to Canadian Prime Minister recently stated "I think Assange b-1971, an Australian journalist and publisher, should be assassinated ... I think Obama should put out a contract ... I wouldn't feel unhappy if Assange does disappear."
How do you feel about this?

The US military in Iraq is trying to censor its soldiers from viewing WikiLeaks documents and has posted a web advisory suggesting they could be breaking the law

Julian Assange b-1971, an Australian journalist and publisher, in London is held without bail for a week pending review of extradition request from Sweden and USA.  

. “In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth.  In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble.”.
---------------------Freedom and democracy no longer exists.---------------------------

There appears to be a consensus that "Iran is a disaster waiting to happen."

THE PLAYERS:
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and his government is under siege

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is compared to Hitler.  The French suggest "The current Iranian regime is effectively a fascist state and the time has come to decide on next steps."

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Kalki is viewed with suspicion by it's Arab neighbors.  Saudi King Abdullah said 'Maliki had no credibility'.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai as paranoid, with an "inability to grasp the most rudimentary principles of state-building, and overly self-conscious that his time in the spotlight of glowing reviews from the international community has passed.

Algeria president Abdelaziz Bouteflika's military regime corruption is rampant

Lebanon Hezbollah is a Shite Muslin milita movement 

King Abdullan bin Abulaziz of Saudi Arabia having struggled with a speech impediment throughout his life, he tends to express himself tersely.  [He appears to be a man of wisdom] [He also appears to speak his mind to those he disapproves of, no diplomatic type secrets, at least so far] 

Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan age 47 aka MBZ, crown prince of the Emerate of Abu Dahabi so far only good comments about this man.  

Libyan leader Col. Muammar Ghaddafi “relies heavily on his long-time Ukrainian nurse, Galyna Kolotnytska, who has been described as a ‘voluptuous blonde.’  He has intense phobias; fear of staying in upper floors, fear of flying over water, and is obsessively dependent on a small core of trusted personnel.

Oman Sultan Qaboos places a high emphasis on education and "frankness and clarity,"

Yemen 'Emerate president, Ali Abdullah Saleh is bizarre and petulant being accused of corruption, nepotism and human rights abuses.

Qatari prime minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani

Eritrea just north of Ethiopia is run by a totalitarian narcissistic President,  Isais Afwerki, is described as 'cruel and defiant'

Emerate of Abu Dahabi :  Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and his wife, Leila Trabelsi have fled to Saudi Arabia as the people revolt

THE COMMENTS:
Saudi Aribia King Abdullah has urged Iran to 'spare us your evil'.  "Iran's goal is to cause problems", "there is no doubt something unstable about them" [Iranians]

Saudi King Abdullah is reported to have “frequently exhorted the USA to attack Iran to put an end to its nuclear weapons program.”

Saudi official warned that if Iran is not stopped, gulf Arab states would develop their own nuclear weapons.  We risk nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, war prompted by Isreali strike, or both.

Saudi Arabia remains the chief financiers of militant groups like al Qaeda.  [This is likely from the eastern region of Saudi Arabia]

Saudi ambassador to Washington, Adel al-Jubeir,  quotes King Abdullah as saying concerning Iran “Cut off the head of the snake.” [Meaning Mahmound Ahmadinetad, president of Iran]. 

Saudi Arabia's top concerns, including its strong aversion to mixing trade and environmental priorities.  "Ask any Saudi," Al-Alamy said, "they all think Saudi Arabia will be asked to foot the bill for climate change."  If duties are placed on oil and gas, Saudi Arabia will not be able to move ahead with its economic diversification plans, and this creates a "phobia" of climate change talks.

Saudi:  Donors in Saudi Arabia were the "most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide".   The groups funded include al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba,  The memo, released by Wikileaks, also criticized efforts to combat militants by the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait.

Saudi:  A cable dated Jan. 26, 2010, records Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey D. Feltman, of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, saying that Saudi Arabia's minister of petroleum, Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi, "was involved in crafting the final agreement" of the Copenhagen Accord.  Saudi Arabia believes it has the most to lose from any binding emissions targets, and will never sign on to them.  The Saudis believe greenhouse-gas regulation is one of the greatest threats to their economic future, right up there with a nuclear Iran and internal political instability. (They also believe it is based on false science.)

Saudi Arabia proposed creating an Arab force backed by US and Nato air and sea power to intervene in Lebanon two years ago and destroy Iranian-backed Hezbollah, according to a US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.

It is believed Kuwait, Behrain and Oatar would like the USA to attack Iran.  Jordan and Egypt are deeply hostile to Iran.

Pakistan:  it has been proven that the Government was directly involved in assisting the Taliban.

Pakistan:  has been selling nuclear technology to North Korea, Iran and Libya.

Egypt considers Iran a significant threat to Egypt by supporting jihad and spoiling peace.

Egyptian military led by Defense Minister Tantawi continues to train and exercise as if "Israel was its only enemy.

Iraqis throughout the country were growing increasingly frustrated with foreign interference, notably from Iraq's neighbors. They singled out Saudi Arabia and Iran as the biggest culprits, but noted that a "mental revolution" was underway among Iraqi youth against foreign agendas seeking to undermine the country's stability, pointing to such trends in Anbar against the Saudis, Najaf against the Iranians, and Mosul against the Turks.

Iran abuses Iranian Red Cresent to send agents and weapons overseas.

Iran has obtained sophisticated missiles from North Korea capable of hitting Moscow and Western Europe [and by inference any Middle East Country].

Iran has been attempting to purchase five tons of carbon fiber for Iran's solid propellant ballistic missile program from Yoon Networks Shanghai Company, a China-based firm operated by a South Korean individual.

"Iranians are not stupid," Adams said repeatedly. "They follow all the issues closely, even if they at times misread the signals."

Iran did not believe the threat of US military action against them was realistic.  It saw the US as a "tough, determined adversary that can be manipulated and wounded".

"Iranians are obsessed with the west and this obsession at times blinds them to their interests,"

Iran: An economically dependent and politically subservient Iraq would foster greater strategic depth for Tehran. Iranian president Ahmadinejad has referred to Iraq in recent press statements as "a Shia base" confronting the broader menace perpetrated by those opposed to Iraq's identity and stability

'Axis of Evil' may have been more accurate than many believed. Documents reveal that North Korea and Iran have indeed been sharing weapons technology for years

WikiLeaks paint a picture of corruption in Afghanistan at every level of government and society.  [Maybe this is business as usual in the Middle East??]

Afghan President Hamid Karzai  is pretty much useless as an ally

Afghan Prime Minister Hamad said Simply put, "Hamas does not trust Egypt and the Quartet enterprise. "He noted that since its inception the Quartet has been anti-Hamas and aligned with the interests of Abu Mazen, Egypt and Jordan. These partners of the Quartet, are the very partners who have not delivered a Palestinian-Israeli agreement. 

Afghan Prime Minister Hamad returned to his theme that "peace brokers" act in their own self-interest that President Mubarak of Egypt is thinking about how his son can take his place and how to stave off the growing strength of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Egyptian government has jailed 10,000 Muslim Brotherhood members without bringing court cases against them.  The Egyptian "people blame America" now for their plight. The shift in mood on the ground is "mostly because of Mubarak and his close ties" to the United States. His only utility to the U.S. is brokering peace between Palestinians and Israelis, so he has no interest in taking himself out of the one game he has. 

Afghan Prime Minister Hamad said as for Qatar, "We want to help Abu Mazen and the Palestinians".The short-term needs of Palestinians in Gaza are acute. We need to broker a quick reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah and move forward quickly on rebuilding Gaza.

Afghan: leaders are not interested in reform but rather their own political interests and alliances in Parliament.

Afghan: In Kandahar, some police are starting to at least be able to read license plates when investigating cases; and  in a recent customs officer training, the officers at least acknowledged corruption exists and that it's wrong, which he said is not the case in many third world countries.  [This is after nine years of training?]

Afghans will not support a dominant international role, and that if we dig ourselves deeper into Afghan politics, we'll entrench ourselves deeper into the country with fewer options.  The issue "makes my blood boil," as he described the Canadian view that the international community must stand up for the silent majority or be blamed for letting Karzai and his family establish across the country the system of patronage and control that exists in Kandahar.

Afghan: Ahmed Waii Karzai in Kandahar, is corrupt and has a network of political clans that use state institutions to protect and enable licit and illicit enterprises.  He is not popular with the people and is raising his own army to project his interests.

Afagan:  Any efforts to bring the Karzai's closest relatives and allies to justice could compromise the informal governing networks to which Kandaharis have become accustomed, without necessarily replacing them with effective government officials or improving the delivery of services."

Afagan: threats have been made "including possible law enforcement actions against three prominent malign actors in southern Afghanistan, Abdul Razziq, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Asadullah Sherzad" but no action has been taken.  They appear not to understand the level of our knowledge of their activities, and that the coalition views many of their activities as malign, particularly relating to his influence over the police.

Afagan MP's and Religious scholars are on the Iranian payroll.

UAE said they are "46 seconds from Iran as measured by the flight time of a ballistic missile".  "Iran is a 'existential threat' to the UAE and was concerned about getting caught in the cross fire if Iran is provoked by the US or Israel."

UAE suggested the US send in ground forces if air force strikes were not enough to 'take out' Iranian nuclear targets"

UAE however says "Iran is a hugh problem that goes far beyond nuclear capabilities."  "Iranian support for terrorism is broader than just Hamas and Hezbollah.  Iran has influence in Afghanistan, Yemen, Kuwait, Bahrain, the eastern province of Saudi Arabia and Africa".

UAE: Iran-China trade relationship reached $50 billion last year.  UAE expressed a willingness to expand its energy ties with China.  

UAE: said a confrontation in the region would create oil supply problems worldwide.  14 million barrels a day pass through the Straits of Hormuz.  That said, he noted that the US and UAE militaries have plans to keep Hormuz clear. 

UAE is described as a "strategic gap" that militants can exploit

Kuwait: Al-Qaeda and other groups continued to "exploit Kuwait both as a source of funds and as a key transit point", partly because it remains the sole Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) country that has not criminalized terrorist financing,

Oman: Sultan Qaboos said Iran’s "charm offensive" in the GCC had succeeded in lessening suspicions of some officials about the true intentions of Iranian policies.
The Sultan expressed concern over a premature withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.

Oman: is awareness of Iran's deceptive tactics and expansionist ideological desires in the region.

Oman: Regarding claims that some rulers in the region wanted to keep their people uneducated in order to more easily control them, the Sultan explained that this strategy could easily backfire as it also left the populace more susceptible to influence by extremists, such as the Muslim Brotherhood. Former Egyptian president and pan-Arabist leader Gamal Abdal Nasser, the Sultan said, had "set the region back" by being "anti-everything" and engaging in vitriolic rhetoric designed to keep the masses ignorant.

Oman: said Iranian meddling abroad was "almost a game" to the regime in Tehran, and said that Iran's leaders would have to stop this practice if Iran wanted to "join the world as a noble country."

Oman: The Sultan commented that the Iranians are "not fools," and claimed that Tehran realized there are "certain lines it cannot cross" (i.e., direct confrontation with the U.S.). Regarding GCC relations with the Iranian government, he stated, "Iran is a big country with muscles and we must deal with it." He continued that Iran's "charm offensive" in the region had achieved a degree of success as some GCC authorities (he did not mention names) were now less suspicious of Iranian intentions. The Sultan added, laughing, that "I must say that as long as (the U.S.) is on the horizon, we have nothing to fear."

Oman: Iranian dependence on imports of refined fuel, the Sultan described Oman's efforts to obtain more natural gas to fuel growing domestic power needs and large-scale industrial projects. Oman had committed too much of its limited gas production to long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) export contracts. Oman hoped that new gas fields would be found in the Gulf of Oman to help ease the country's natural gas shortage. India's Reliance Industries was currently exploring a deepwater oil and gas block in this body of water, but had made no significant discoveries yet. Qatar would begin supplying gas to Oman by 2013

Qatar refused a US request to stop al-Jazeera giving so much airtime to Osama bin Laden and other anti-American figures, saying: "Parliamentary life requires you to have a free and credible media, and that is what we are trying to do.

Qatar is using the Arabic news channel al-jazeera as a bargaining chip in foreign policy negotiations by adapting its coverage to suit other foreign leaders and offering to cease critical transmissions in exchange for major concessions

Jordan:  The metaphor most commonly deployed by Jordanian officials when discussing Iran is of an octopus whose yenticles reach out insidiously to manipulate, foment, and undermine the best laid plans of the West and regional moderates.  Iran's tentacles include its allies Qatar and Syria, Hizballah in Lebanon, Hamas in the Palestian territories, an Iraqi government some times seen as supplicant to Tehran, and Shia communities throughout the region.

Jordanian officials doubt dialogue with US will convince Iran to withdraw its 'tentacles' they believe they can be severed if Iran is deprived of hot-button issues that make it a hero to many on the Arab street, such as its champing of the Palestinian cause.  [What Palestinian fail to realize is if Israel is hit with nuclear missiles, Palestinian gets the fallout and radio active land is useless for generations.]

Jordan's leaders believe that US engagement of Iran would reward regional hardliners while undermining Arab moderates - without convincing Iran to cease its support for terrorism, end its nuclear program or drop its hegemonic aspirations.

Jordan's leaders believe such engagement would reward regional hardliners while undermining Arab moderates - without convincing Iran to cease its support for terrorism, end its nuclear program or drop its hegemonic aspirations.  [Hegemonic = masculinity attributes including aggressiveness, strength, drive, ambition, and self-reliance, which they argue are encouraged in males but discouraged in females in contemporary Western society]  [It's noteworthy to put this in perspective it doesn't differ much from American 'Manifest Destiny' of the past which really says 'might is right']

Yemen's president telling a top US general "We'll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours," when discussing secretive US strikes on Al-Qaeda”.

Yemen: president, Ali Abdullah Saleh warns Yemen is on the brink of becoming "worse than Somalia".

Yemen: president, Saleh  said "We will offer the land in Aden and you and the Saudis will provide the funding," for the Guantánamo Bay prisoners.  He added it would be ready 90 days after receipt of the $11m required for construction.

Yemen:  The US had produced "only words but no solutions" to the terrorism issue in Yemen and demanded more funds and equipment, despite Washington spending $115m (£73m) equipping Yemen's counter-terrorism forces since 2002.

Yemen: president, Ali Abdullah Saleh described Americans as "hot-blooded and hasty when you need us" but "cold-blooded and British when we need you".

Syria shows a "stark ignorance" towards the rest of the world.

Bahrain's King Hamod Ibn Isa al Khalifa said Arab States must do more to stop Iran's nuclear program.  King Hamad pointed to Iran as the source of much of the trouble in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He argued forcefully for taking action to terminate their nuclear program, 'by whatever means necessary'. "That program must be stopped," he said. "The danger of letting it go on is greater than the danger of stopping it."

Israel can't afford to be wrong about Iran.  Iran is in the position of wanting to pay only a minimum cost for its current program. It does not want to be North Korea or what Iraq was before 2003. Iran intends to keep resolutions and sanctions at a certain manageable level and continue to produce low enriched uranium until there is enough for several bombs. "Mongolia" Yadlin stated that Iran could decide to produce a bomb by 2010, but Iran is waiting for the right time in the future and that there are some who will always doubt it despite the evidence.

Israel June 2009 estimated a window between 6 and 18 months from now in which stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons might still be viable. After that, he said, any military solution would result in unacceptable collateral damage. He also expressed concern that should Iran develop nuclear capabilities, other rogue states and/or terrorist groups would not be far behind. China and the US have the same objectives about Iran but China believes peaceful negations would achieve more meaningful results than sanctions.

US diplomats describe a world of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll behind the official pieties of Saudi Arabian royalty.  Liquor and prostitutes were present in abundance at a 2009 party.  "Though not witnessed directly at this event, cocaine and hashish use is common in these social circles."  More than 150 Saudi men and women, most in their 20s and 30s, were at the party. The patronage of royalty meant the feared religious police are kept a distance.  [this is no surprise as its common among most Islamic cultures, private life is independent from public life]

Iraq, Najaf:  December 2009; Iraqis throughout the country were growing increasingly frustrated with foreign interference, notably from Iraq's neighbors. He singled out Saudi Arabia and Iran as the biggest culprits, but noted that a "mental revolution" was underway among Iraqi youth against foreign agendas seeking to undermine the country's stability, pointing to such trends in Anbar against the Saudis, Najaf against the Iranians, and Mosul against the Turks.

France: September 2009, Public opinion in France is opposed to the war in Afghanistan, the situation here is much calmer than in the UK, Germany, or Italy.

US June 2009; Energy firm Chevron (a California-based energy firm) negotiated with Tehran about developing an Iraq-Iran cross-border oilfield, (Majnoon oilfield which is one of the richest in the world, near Basra and the Iranian border) in spite of tight US sanctions, according to the Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki in leaked diplomatic cables. "US persons may not trade in Iranian oil or petroleum products refined in Iran, nor may they finance such trading. Similarly, US persons may not perform services, including financing services, or supply goods or technology that would benefit the Iranian oil industry."   December 2009; “Majnoon was awarded to a consortium led by Royal Dutch Shell and Malaysia's Petronas."  So much for sanctions, oil reigns?

Eritrea just north of Ethiopia; Prisoners including children are routinely tortured in massively overcrowded prisons. Conditions are appalling, with prisoners unable to lie down or sit and deprived of water until they are unable to speak.  A politician secretly asked for Americans' help but the US ambassador responded that change must come from within.

Eritrea an impoverished, mostly friendless country located at the wrong end of the Red Sea, has become synonymous with trouble-making in the Horn of Africa region since it wrested independence from Ethiopia in 1991 after a bitter 30-year war.

Tunisia:  July 2009,  Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and his wife, Leila Trabelsi.  They tolerate no advice or criticism, whether domestic or international. Increasingly, they rely on the police for control and focus on preserving power.  Leila Trabelsi and her family, in private, regime opponents mock her; even those close to the government express dismay at her reported behavior.  Corruption in the inner circle is growing.  Many Tunisians are frustrated by the lack of political freedom and angered by First Family corruption, high unemployment and regional inequities. Tunisia is a police state, with little freedom of expression or association, and serious human rights problems.

Libya: Muammar al-Qaddafi (Gadhahi) b-1942 Sirte, Libya deems himself the only worldwide leader, the commander of the revolution, the dean of Arab leaders, the head of the African Union and king of the kings of Africa.  He refers to himself as being the sheikh of the tribes, the president of the Sahel-Saharan states, the commander of the International Islamic People Command, the Imam of the Muslims and the creator of the Green Book, which inspired evolution and humanity.  He is quite mad as demonstrated in the following quotes:
"O people, had it not been for electricity, we would have been watching television in the dark.
"I am not a dictator to close Facebook.  But I will arrest whoever enters it".
"Protest as you wish but do not take to the streets and squares".
"I will stay in Libya until I die or pass away".
"Obeying your parents is much more important than obeying your mother or father".
The 22 League of Arabic States suspended Libya from the League and declared Gadhahi has lost his legitimacy to rule for his appalling attacks on the Libyan people.  They are also asking for international support to create a no fly zone over Libya.  The League said the Libyan Rebel Council represents the Libyan People.
    

FREEDOM-CENSORSHIP-SECRECY
Saudi Arabia:  it is still one of the most repressive countries with regard to the Internet.  Bloggers are confronting the traditional forces of Saudi society which are attempting to prevent the Internet from becoming a forum for free discussions. A legislative arsenal is bound to intimidate citizens and promote a tendency for self-censorship.

Saudi-run website Elaph, was mysteriously hacked when it ran a piece about King Abdullah's sensational calls on the US to attack Iran to destroy its nuclear programme.

Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Tunisia have all tried to stem the flow of Wiki-revelations, whether the subject is corruption, authoritarianism or simply the embarrassment of having private exchanges with American interlocutors enter the public domain

UAE: Has enacted repressive laws of Censorship on the internet.  Citizens are increasingly resorting to proxy servers to access thousands of banned websites.  50% of UAE has access to the internet.  Taboo subjects include alternative political views, non-orthodox opinion about Islam. 

Egypt: More than a mere virtual communications tool, the Egyptian Internet has become a mobilization and dissension platform. Although website blocking remains limited, authorities are striving to regain control over bloggers who are more and more organized, despite all the harassment and arrests.

Egypt's four primary Internet providers – Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr – all stopped moving data in and out of the country at 12:34 a.m. local time, January 28, 2011, according to a network security firm monitoring the traffic.

Iran: one of cyber-censorship’s record-holding countries, has stepped up its crackdown and online surveillance since the protests over the disputed presidential reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on June 12, 2009. The regime is demonizing the new media, which it is accusing of serving foreign interest. While a dozen citizens are serving out their terms in Evin Prison, bold Internet users are continuing to mobilize.  Article 18 provides for a prison term of up to two years and a fine for anyone found guilty of “disseminating false information likely to agitate public opinion.“  Iran applies one of the world’s strictest filtering policies, which have been tightened even more since June 2009. To date, authorities claim to have blocked hundreds of thousands of sites.

Iran: jammed the BBC's Persian TV Service and Britain is looking for ways to limit Iranian State broadcasters in UK.

Syria:  is reinforcing its censorship of troublesome topics on the Web and tracking citizens who dare to express themselves freely on it. As a result, social networks have been particularly targeted by omnipresent surveillance. The promised technological improvements are slow to materialize. The authorities’ distrust of the potential for dissident online mobilization may be playing a role in this delay.

Bahreign:  Bahrain is experiencing one of the region’s highest Internet penetration rates. The democratization process has been losing momentum, which has had a negative impact on freedom of expression on the Web. The authorities have adopted the course of a massive filtering campaign, but the country’s citizens are proving to be inventive when it comes to circumventing censorship and are mobilizing to defend their rights.

Uzbekistan:  In this country deprived of independent media outlets, the authorities impose a very strict Internet censorship, while refusing to admit it publicly. Website filtering, sanctions and intimidations are used against potential critics of the regime. Citizens have learned to practice self-censorship

Lebanon's Al-Akhbar, a leftist and pro-Hizbullah paper, pulled off quite a trick: it somehow obtained unauthorized leaks from the WikiLeaks cache, posting 250 US cables from eight Arab countries on its website – only to find that it was cyber-attacked (and replaced by a shimmering pink Saudi girl chat room) when it published one of two devastatingly frank documents about President Ben Ali of Tunisia, who reinforced his country's reputation as the most internet-unfriendly in the region. "This is a professional job," said publisher Hassan Khalil, "not the work of some geek sitting in his bedroom."

Morocco banned the British Guardian and Spain's El Pais along with Al-Quds Al-Arabi, the independent London-based pan-Arab daily which has been following up on the stories of WikiLeaks from the start.

Tunisia has blocked the website of a Lebanese newspaper that published US cables released by WikiLeaks describing high-level corruption, a sclerotic regime, and deep hatred of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's wife and her family.

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NORTH KOREAN/CHINA CONCERNS/ISSUES;

THE PLAYERS:
North Korean President Kim Jong-iI is a fruitcake.  He has a reputation among the Chinese for being 'quite a good drinker' of alcohol.

South Koreans called President Lee Myung-bak “The Bulldozer’’ when he plowed into office nearly three years ago with vows to stop coddling North Korea with unconditional aid.

Chinese President Hu Jintao will shift to a "prudent" monetary policy next year from the "moderately loose" policy that has been followed since the outbreak of the global financial crisis.

Chinese Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao

Chinese State Councilor Liu is a a "future leader of China,"

Mongilians:  Vice Foreign Minister Kim Yong iI is 'enthusiastic' concerning a North Korean dialogue with the United States.  North Korea believes the real intention of the Six Party Talks was to destroy the North Korean regime.

THE COMMENTS:

North Korea:  80% of refuges to south Korea are women.  2,952 refuges escaped to China in 2009.  High level foreign diplomats are defecting.

North Korea: The political structure in North Korea is falling apart and the leadership transfer to Kim Jong-eun is not going well.

North Korea: is helping Burma develop nuclear weapons.

China says: The US perhaps does not realize that the North, for all its strong language, badly wants a rapprochement with Washington to end its international isolation and help remedy its domestic problems.

China is fed up with North Korean behavior and has signaled its readiness to accept Korean reunification and is privately distancing itself from the North Korean regime.  They suggest President Kim Jong-iI is acting like a “spoiled child” in order to get the attention of the "adult.".

Chinese ambassador warned that North Korean nuclear activity was "a threat to the whole world's security".   It is very troublesome.

Chinese officials assessed that it could cope with an influx of 300,000 North Koreans in the event of serious instability, but might need to use the military to seal the border.  It might also ask other countries for help.

China says North Korea has already collapsed economically and will collapse politically when Kim Jong-il dies.  China would not be able to stop North Korea's collapse following the death of Kim Jong-iI.

China would clearly 'not welcome' any US military presence north of the DMZ [demilitarised zone].

China, Beijing had "much less influence than most people believe".  But Chinese public opinion was increasingly critical of the North's behavior.  However China wants to maintain stability, and “don't want to drive [Kim Jong-il] mad."

China: In the first two G-20 Financial Summits, U.S. and Chinese positions had been close, closer even than the United States and Europe.  Views on major issues such as the need for fiscal stimulus and reform of international financial institutions were similar.

USA: Hillary Clinton:  Made a speech about internet freedom shortly after Google announced it would no longer censor results in China, , to the anger of Chinese leaders.  [This proved to be a hypocritical position, it’s ok for the USA to censor but not Russia]

USA:  Hillary Clinton reveals America's deep anxiety over China's growing economic power and hold on US finances by asking Australia's then prime minister: "How do you deal toughly with your banker?

USA:  Ambassador to China foresaw a testing year for bilateral relations in 2010 with both countries harboring currency concerns and fears over protectionism on the other side

Australia's former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd responded by calling himself "a brutal realist on China", arguing for a policy of "integrating China effectively into the international community and allowing it to demonstrate greater responsibility, all while also preparing to deploy force if everything goes wrong". He described Chinese leaders as "sub-rational and deeply emotional" on Taiwan, a frequent source of tension with the US.

Australia's former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd: said “How do you deal toughly with your banker?”  (Meaning China)

Thailand;  Playboy Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn is considered a political liability by the power privy council, because of his extramarital affairs in several European countries.   The succession is of pressing concern as King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who turned 83 this month, is in poor health.  He prefers his main mistress, rather than in Thailand with his wife and son".  If he becomes king it will split the country.

Thailand enjoys a rapid expansion of Russian tourists visiting Thailand but has to deal with an unwanted side effect - the presence of Russian organized crime networks around the popular beach destinations of Pattaya and Phuket.

FREEDOM-CENSORSHIP-SECRECY
China:  continues to intensify Web censorship, faced with an increasingly forceful online community. The much-vaunted promises made by organizers at the open ceremonies of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games have proven to be mere illusions for the world’s biggest citizen prison. Expanded dissemination of propaganda, generalized surveillance and crackdowns on Charter 08 signatories are commonplace on what has become the Chinese Intranet – with significant consequences for trade.  According to the authorities, China has the world’s largest Internet user population: 380 million. Its censorship system is one of the most technologically advanced in existence.  The “Electronic Great Wall” of China blocks tens of thousands of websites by combining URL filtering with the censoring of keywords ranging from “Tiananmen” and “Dalai Lama” to “democracy” and “human rights.”

North Korea:  In the world’s most hermetic country, the large majority of the population is not even aware that the Internet exists. An extremely limited Intranet has been created, but few can access it. The network is used by Kim Jong-il and a few senior officials for their personal enjoyment and to help spread the regime’s propaganda to foreign countries. The only glimmer of hope: the communications black market on the North Korean-Chinese border.

South Korea:  Close to 90% of South Korean households have Web access via the world’s best network infrastructure. However, concerned about maintaining order in a period of social unrest, the government has been attempting to strengthen censorship by resorting to excessive means and a liberticidal legislative arsenal that is inducing citizens to practice self-censorship – all that in the name of the fight against dissemination of “false information.”

Burma:  Two high-ranking government officials sentenced to death for having e-mailed documents abroad: Net censorship is a serious matter in Burma. Massive filtering of websites and extensive slowdowns during times of unrest are daily occurrences for the country’s Internet users. The Military Junta considers citizens to be enemies of the State. The legislation governing Internet use – the Electronic Act – is one of the most liberticidal laws in the world.

Australia:  Under the guise of fighting child pornography, the government wants to set up a filtering system never before seen in a democracy. The State of South Australia has passed a law prohibiting online anonymity in an electoral context.  Telecommunications Minister Stephen Conroy reaffirmed, on December 15, 2009, that the government plans to call for a vote on a bill that would impose mandatory filtering of what it considers “inappropriate” websites. The decision to block access to a website would not be made by a judge, but by a government agency, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).

Viet Nam:  As the 2011 Communist Party Congress draws nearer, the regime is muffling dissident views on the Internet, and its first target is critics of the country’s policy toward China.  In the last ten years, the Internet’s growth has soared, as has the country’s economic integration. The Web has been a great success with Vietnam’s young population. In November 2009, the social network Face book boasted a million users, as compared to only 50,000 early in that year.

Thai royal family is protected by the country's lese majesty laws, making it an offence to insult the monarchy.

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INDIA/PAKISTAN CONCERNS/ISSUES
Pakistanis consider bin Laden "an Islamic hero because the U.S. has named him 'public enemy number one.

THE PLAYERS:
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari: is walking a cultural tight rope.  This is interpreted as "Pakistan can’t be trusted"
(former Pakistan president was Pervez Musharraf)

India, President of the Republic Pratibha Devisingh Patil but the real power is exercised by the Council of Ministers.

THE COMMENTS:
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari:  There is really little point in Islamabad denying that its spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), helped launch the Taliban in Afghanistan and that the relationship has been an enduring one.
brought to light more allegations of Pakistani involvement with the Taliban and similar groups, although they were of varying degrees of reliability. And there is plenty of evidence that the ISI has trained other Islamist groups to operate in Indian-adminstered Kashmir, the Muslim-majority state which Pakistan believes should be under its control. Islam terrorist camps teach “You will be in heaven, paradise, and you will be with [the pure and beautiful companions promised to the faithful]," recalls Janjua. "You will get then wine and different kinds of fruits, honey, and you will have your own luxury cars and horses.” This they teach to the young poor boys. [“They are told that ‘You are a criminal and you will be in heaven and this is the way - that you take a jacket and finish your enemy all over the world, especially India, British, America and all the white-skins’. ”Janjua confirms reports that Pakistan’s secret services help the camps and that some of the preachers were from the military. He adds that Saudi Arabia is a major financial backer.
They are told that Islamabad that it cannot “look both ways” in the Afghan war and this must annoy Pakistanis on more than one count.

Pakistan will not give up it's nuclear stock pile

Pakistani charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which has been accused of being a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, used a Saudi-based front company to fund its activities in 2005.
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Jundullah, of a Pakistani tribe, the Iranian Sunni-Muslim group which has bombed mosques and killed Iranian revolutionary guards? Tehran claims it is backed by the US, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and the US’s ABC news has found US sources who say that is true.

India is perceived as the primary threat to Pakistani thus causing a closer alliance with the Taliban, terrorist groups and Pakistan.  Four groups are singled out: the Afghan Taliban, its allied Haqqani and Hekmatyar networks on the western Afghan frontier, and Lashkar-e-Taiba on the eastern border with India. Some ISI officials "continue to maintain ties with a wide array of extremist organizations, in particular the Taliban, LeT and other extremist organizations

India: Rahul Gandhi, the crown prince of Indian politics, believes Hindu extremists pose a greater threat to his country than Muslim militants.

India and Pakistan are now involved in a bitter struggle for influence in Afghanistan.  Pakistan continues to define India as its number one threat and insists that India plays an overactive role in Afghanistan."  

Pakastan has received $16 billion in foreign aid from America since 2001 but no amount of money will they break their alliance with the Taliban.  Secret cables show US diplomats and spies believe the army and its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency continue quietly to back selected militant groups

Pakastani President Pervez Musharraf said terming suicide attacks as un-Islamic.  All countries must find a way to deal with extremism.  He went on to say "but such terrorism must be addressed by force."  Prevent the misuse of mosques -- Prohibit speech that incites the public to violence -- Ban extremist organizations and their leadership (a delicate business, the President admitted, as the government must not/not be seen as anti-religion) -- Revise the national curriculum -- Reform madrassa education, introducing a standard curriculum that includes secular subjects (math, language, science, etc.

Pakastani President Pervez Musharraf said "There is no effective government control in Afghanistan."

Russia is concerned that Pakistan employs 120-130 K people working directly in their nuclear facilities and can't guarantee their loyalty.  They also noted the general educational and cultural levels are falling. 

Pakistan: The Lahore High Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking a ban on the WikiLeaks website. The petition argued that "since Pakistan had good bilateral relations with a number of countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, the leakage of secret information would adversely affect these ties,"

Afagan Allegations of corruption, nepotism and vote-rigging –by Wikileaks – is common knowledge by Afghans as well.  Mr. Karzai has become impervious to outside criticism, according to Afghan politicians. “He has come to the point of resisting everything that comes from the partners of Afghanistan,”.  The power wielded by his relatives in Kandahar is already well-known and well-publicized.  One cable in particular, describing a former Afghan vice-president arriving in the United Arab Emirates with $52-million in cash last year, has received particular attention.

US officials had evidence of widespread torture by Indian police and security forces and were secretly briefed by Red Cross staff about the systematic abuse of detainees in Kashmir, according to leaked diplomatic cables of 2005.  Other cables show that as recently as 2007 American diplomats were concerned about widespread human rights abuses by Indian security forces, who they said relied on torture for confessions.

India: The ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) concluded that India "condones torture" and that the torture victims were civilians as militants were routinely killed.

Tibet:  The Dalai Lama has told US officials that combating climate change is more urgent than finding a political solution in Tibet, which "can wait five to 10 years".

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EUROPEAN CONCERNS/ISSUES

THE PLAYERS:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel allegedly "avoids risk and is rarely creative." She is  “risk-averse” and portrayed as the type of manager who promotes incompetent people to make herself look better.

France's President Nicholas Sarkozy was referred to as an Emperior with no cloths and is as being 'thin skinned and authoritarian' and often rebukes his senior advisors for their alleged shortcomings.  

United Kingdom David Cameron, the American legal system is bullying the British legal system and the public doesn't like it.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is described as an "alpha-dog,"

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's has a  "nefarious connection" with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has allowed him to profit "handsomely" from lucrative energy deals,

Hungary has elected Viktor Orban is Prime minister  and is shifting the country to an authoritarian state.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is isolated and  has lost touch with his Cabinet and parliamentary group.

Kazakhstan: President Nursultan Nazarbayev

Azerbaijan's President Aliyez 

Herman Van Rompuy 1st president of EU Council is animated and frustrated.

THE COMMENTS:
Swedish:  "Prosecutor Ms. Ny appears to be making up law as she wants.  The alleged offences by Mr. Assange b-1971 remain unclear.  It appears now, by Ms Ny's interpretation that when consensual sex occurs but if a condom breaks, the male party is liable to 2 years imprisonment for sexual assault.   It is also disturbing that no Australian official has castigated Sweden for the shameful treatment of Mr Assange b-1971 has received ie. his human rights abused, in that he has not been charged and served with papers in the English language regarding the evidence against him of alleged sexual offences.  This is contrary to Article 6 of the European Covenant on Human Rights to which Sweden is a signatory nation."  Source is Peter Kemp, Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW, Australia 2010-12-04

Marianne Ny is Director of Stockholm Prosecutors Office.  Both women in Sweden the alleged victims agree it was consensual sex.  Ms. Ny charges have been overturned by higher folks twice before.  Neither Mr. Assange b-1971 or his legal counsel has received a single word in writing from the Swedish authorities relating to the allegations.  If the claims were made official to Mr. Asssange he could then likely start proceedings of defamation against Ms. Ny.  Mr. Assange b-1971 had offered to answer questions from the Swedish embassy but no official word from Swedish authorities.  Mr. Assange b-1971 resides in England.  I appears to me that Ms Ny is wanting her 15 minutes of fame or is under USA political pressure.  Either way Sweden is between a rock and a hard place.

Nicolas Sarkozy President of France: “An activist on the international scene, with an opportunistic eye for grabbing attention and credit, Sarkozy will remain a challenging partner despite his desire to improve the bilateral relationship.”

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as liking "wild parties. Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is described as “feckless, vain, and ineffective as a modern European leader.”   Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.is said to have close ties with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. 

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has lost touch with his Cabinet and parliamentary group.  Business associations, strong advocates of AKP economic policies, tell us they feel they have lost the PM’s ear. Erdogan has cut himself off from his closest spiritual advisers in the Iskender Pasa Naksibendi brotherhood in which he grew up.  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan referring to concerns over Iran's nuclear ambitions as 'gossip'.  He however agreed that on Saudi Arabia and China that Saudi Arabia is more important to both Beijing and Moscow than Iran. 

Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said of the Kurdistan Workers party (PKK);   "I say here very clearly, they will not win. They will gain nothing. They will melt away in their own darkness ... they will drown in their own blood."  Turkey’s position is highly criticized by Massoud Barzani, President of Iraqi Kurdistan, and the EU.

Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has certainly improved relations with one important neighbor: Iran.   His decision to vote against the latest UN sanctions on Tehran dismayed the US and European countries while delighting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

UK: Prince Andrew is not known for his intellect and speaks 'cockily, "on the verge of the rude".  Andrew launched a scathing attack on British anticorruption investigators, journalists and the French during an "astonishingly candid" performance at an official engagement that shocked a US diploma  

UK Charles has to cure himself of anorexia.  He will need to think through if he is actually carrying out his role to the best of his ability. 

UK it was acknowledged that heir-apparent to the British Crown, Charles Prince of Wales does not "command the same respect" as the Queen and said the Commonwealth was trying quietly to get him more involved in Commonwealth affairs

UK Prince Charles has no respect among Commonwealth members.

UK The British government has been training a Bangladeshi paramilitary force, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), condemned by human rights organizations as a "government death squad".

Frances President Nicholas Sarkozy visited Saudi Arabia and was less than gracious.

One businessman at Kyrgyzstan, said that doing business here is like doing business in the Yukon in the 19th century, ie only those willing to participate in local corrupt practices are able to make any money...at this point the Duk of York (Prince Andrew) laughed uproariously, saying that 'All of this sounds exactly like France'. 

Kyrgyzstan:  The group discussed a Kyrgyz business climate choked with “corruption,” a place where “nothing gets done” if the President’s son “does not get his cut,”  Hamid Karzai is a paranoid with a corrupt brother who divides his time between selling drugs and looting the treasury  Kumtor Gold mine lies near the Kyrgyz border with China and is operated by Toronto-based Centerra Gold ,reports: “due in part to [President] Karzai's weak leadership, widespread corruption in Afghanistan.

Kazakhstan: President Nursultan Nazarbayev billionaire son-in-law, Timur Kulibayev, paid Prince Andrew's representatives £15m-£3m over asking price.  Kulibayez frequently appears in US dispatches as one of the men who has accumulated millions in gas-rich Kazakhstan.

Azerbaijan's President Aliyez said the 'Sword of Damocles' is hanging over the relationship between Russian President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin as it is over Turkey-Armenia reconciliation.  "We have a saying in Azeri, 'two heads cannot be boiled in one pot'".

Azerbaijan's President Aliyez supports economic isolation (of Iran) and believed it could be effective if enforced by a broad coalition.

Azerbaijan's President Aliyez made it clear for his distaste for Erdogan government in Turkey, underscoring the 'naivete' of their foreign policy and the failure of their initiatives, including the loss of support for Turkey among traditional international friends because of Ankara's hostility to Israel.

Armenia was warned: "We raised with you our deep concerns about Armenia's transfer of arms to Iran which resulted in the death and injury of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.  Notwithstanding the close relationship between our countries, neither administration can overlook this case.

Nuclear battlefield weapons, were located in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Turkey.  Nuclear weapons remain at the heart of NATO's new doctrine — known as the alliance's “Strategic Concept”

UK The London Times claims to have found the names of dozens of Afghans said to have provided intelligence to US forces after a two-hour search in the 91,000 confidential documents made public by WikiLeaks.

Spain has compiled a list of Russian prosecutors, military officers and politicians who have dealings with organized crime networks.  Spanish authorities have arrested more than 60 suspects, including the top four mafia bosses outside Russia.

Spain alleged that Russian intelligence officials orchestrated gun shipments to Kurdish groups to destabilize Turkey and were pulling the strings behind the 2009 case of the Arctic Sea cargo ship suspected of carrying missiles destined for Iran

French President Nicholas Sarkozy is courting populous, non-aligned states in the hopes of extending French international influence.  Sarkozy declared that the G-8 should be expanded to include Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Africa, and Egypt to form the G-14.  Sarkozy has successfully managed to forge extremely close ties with Brazil in the past two years

Italy; Members of Berlusconi's office told the Americans that Berlusconi "determines Italy's policy on Russia single-handedly."

Turkish has opposition to an independent Kurdistan.

France has been requested to shut down WikiLeaks but the French did not bow to the pressure, responding in a letter that it will refer the issue of the legality of hosting WikiLeaks to a judge, and that "it was not up to the politicians or OVH (a French service provider) to request or decide the closure of the site."

2010 December 4:  Wikigate leaked documents says "Herman Van Rompuy 1st President of the EU Council predicted Global Climate negotiations in Mexico will be a disaster.  He was thankful he stayed away from the Copenhagen summit, which was a 'incredible disaster'.  "Had I been there my presidency would have been over before it began,"  He said the Cancun, Mexico Climate talks are doomed to fail..  'Who wants to see that horror movie again?'   A Copenhagen postmortem meeting of why the EU, proudly branding itself the world pioneer in combating climate change, had been snubbed by the US and China at the talks in Denmark, delivering a blow to prestige from which the EU has yet to recover.  Van Rompuy complained bitterly that the Europeans had been "totally excluded" and "mistreated" in Copenhagen.

Europe: Herman Van Rompuy President of the EU Council said in December 2009 that the Europeans will wait until the end of 2010 to see if there has been progress made in Afghanistan.  "If it doesn't work, that will be it, because it is the last chance."

Libyan Muammar Gaddafi bullied and cajoled British politicians and bureaucrats to release convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi.  the Libyan leader, made explicit and "thuggish" threats to halt all trade deals with Britain and harass embassy staff if Megrahi remained in jail, the cables show. At the same time "a parade of treats" was offered by Libya to the Scottish devolved administration if it agreed to let him go, though the cable says they were turned down.  [Actions however speak louder than word]

Scottish Government severely underestimated the both USG and UK public reaction to its decision to grant compassionate release to convicted Pan Am 103 bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi on August 20. Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has privately indicated that he was "shocked" by FBI Director Mueller's public letter.

The British government's deep fears that Libya would take "harsh and immediate" action against UK interests if the convicted Lockerbie bomber died in a Scottish prison are revealed in secret US embassy cables which show London's full support for the early release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.

UK: Liberal Democrats in November 2010 are currently reviewing the national budget to find GBP 20 billion (USD 40 billion) in savings, "not through government efficiency, but by cutting entire government programs.  To decentralize power and taxation to communities. Britain is stifled by our micro-managing, centralizing government. The party is also trying to define itself as the pro-family, pro-community party through decentralization, which resonates well with voters, by calling for greater autonomy for schools, lower tuition rates, universal child-care programs, and work-life balance campaigns.

Austria ignore the primary objectives of American foreign policy, it has been primarily focused on its own interests. Americans are  "frustrated and extremely disappointed," occasionally "increasingly concerned" and sometimes simply "unhappy" when the Austrians yet again broke promises or refused to go along.

USA:  The British ambassador to the Vatican warned that Pope Benedict XVI’s invitation to Anglican opponents of female priests to convert en masse to Catholicism was so inflammatory that it might lead to discrimination and even violence against Catholics in Britain, according to a secret US diplomatic cable.  "Anglican-Vatican relations were facing their worst crisis in 150 years as a result of the pope's decision"

USA diplomats believed the pope was instrumental in securing the release of 15 British sailors captured and held by Iran in 2007.

USA:  The Vatican is suffering from "muddled messaging" partly as a result of cardinals' technophobia and "ignorance about 21^st century communications."

Vatican Holy See Acting Foreign Minister equivalent Parolin told Charge August 18 that the Holy See was on the same page with the U.S. on most UNGA initiatives. On cloning, Charge emphasized the Holy See's potential to influence Catholic countries to support a ban on human cloning. Parolin emphasized the Holy See's agreement with the U.S. position and promised to support fully UN efforts to ban embryonic cloning

Vatican has withdrawn from a written agreement to join an international Holocaust memorial organization because of tensions over the activity of Pope Pius XII, the pope during the second world war.

Vatican: The Vatican refused to allow its officials to testify before an Irish commission investigating abuse of children by priests and was angered when they were summoned from Rome.

Vatican:  The pope was responsible for the Vatican's resistance to Turkey joining the EU and wanted a reference to Europe's "Christian roots" included in the EU constitution.

Vatican:  On other global issues such as climate change, the Vatican sought to use its moral authority as leverage, while refusing itself to sign formal treaties, such as the Copenhagen accord, that require reporting commitments.  The Vatican would "encourage other countries discreetly to associate themselves with the accord as opportunities arise".

Kenya could descend into violence worse than the 2008 post-election crisis unless rampant corruption in the ruling elite is tackled

FREEDOM-CENSORSHIP-SECRECY

Hungary has imposed January 4, 2011 a new strict censorship law governing radio, newspapers and the internet placing them under state control.  This is a return to communist rule of 20 years ago.  His media law, which places all Hungarian broadcasters and newspapers under the thumb of a watchdog panel of Fidesz supporters with the power to police newspapers' pages for “balance” and fine them or withdraw licenses.

Turkey: Ataturk, the Army, the issue of minorities (Kurds, Armenians, etc.) and the Nation’s dignity are all taboo subjects in Turkey. Several thousand websites are blocked, including the well-known YouTube, raising protests within the country. Bloggers and surfers who express their views freely on such topics are running the risk of reprisals.  Currently, some 3,700 sites are allegedly blocked in Turkey.

“We must salute the engines of press freedom, with Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland at their head.

UK: The Guardian editor says the most startling Wikileaks are still to be released.  [USA is likely to launch covert action against this UK newspaper as part of its censorship policy]

UK: Britain is looking for ways to censor Iranian State broadcasters in the UK in retaliation for Iran's censorship of BBC's Persian TV service.    

Sweden: It is also disturbing that no Australian official has castigated Sweden for the shameful treatment Mr Assange b-1971 has received ie his human rights abused, in that he has not been charged and served with papers in the English language regarding the evidence against him of alleged sexual offences. This is contrary to Article 6 of the European Covenant on Human Rights to which Sweden is a signatory nation. Those offences remain unclear and the Swedish prosecutor Ms Ny appears to be making up the law as she wants. It appears now, by Ms Ny's interpretation that when consensual sex occurs but if a condom breaks, the male party is liable to 2 years imprisonment for sexual assault. All this information is publicly available.   By Peter Kemp, Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia, on 2010-12-04

Sweden: The Stockholm office of Claes Borgstrom representing the two women has been hacked, as has Julian Assange lawyer.

Sweden:  Recently, Swedish immigration officials rejected Assange's application for a residence and work permit. This means he cannot register as the publisher of WikiLeaks there, as he had intended to do in order to profit from the strength of Swedish data protection laws.  Assange was practically treated as a pop star in Sweden, at least until two Swedish women accused him of sexual harassment and rape.  So reports Der Spiegel in Germany.

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RUSSIAN/BALTIC  CONCERNS/ISSUES

THE PLAYERS:

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is described as an "alpha-dog,"

Kazakhstan: President Nursultan Nazarbayev

Azerbaijan's President Aliyez 

THE COMMENTS:

Italian President Berlusconi a weak leader and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have 'intimate ties'; as well as various secret business arrangements

Russian: A cyber-attack on Estonia in 2007 was believed to have originated in Russia, and the Kremlin invaded Georgia a year later.

Russia:  Dmitry Medvedev, despite being President of the Russian Federation, is described as having to get all his decisions approved by former President and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin: who remains the most powerful force in the country

Russia is a corrupt, autocratic kleptocracy centered on the leadership of Vladimie Putin, in which officials, oligarchs and organized crime are bound together to create a 'Virtual Mafa State'.  

Russians are accused of arms trafficking, money laundering, personal enrichment, protection for gangsters, extortion and kickbacks, suitcases full of money and secret offshore bank accounts in Cyprus: the cables paint a bleak picture of a political system in which bribery alone totals an estimated $300bn a year, and in which it is often hard to distinguish between the activities of the government and organized crime.

Russian:  Kremlin's hostile measures against Georgia included missile attacks, murder plots and "a host of smaller-scale actions.  Russian secret services also ran a disinformation campaign against Georgia's pro-American, pro-Nato president, Mikheil Saakashvili, claiming he suffered from "paranoid dysfunction"

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is said to have close ties with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Russia have concluded their interests are served by keeping the west "tied down in an Afghanistan quagmire" and by sustaining the status quo in Iran. They elaborated that a solution that thwarts Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions and restores Iran as a normal member of the international community could undermine Russian regional and energy interests.

Russian under-investment in energy extraction infrastructure was such that Russia would not be able to meet European demand in four or five years. This created an opportunity for Russia to have even more leverage over a Europe that has not prepared to diversify its energy supplies.

Russian legal editor David R. Hoffman argues for transparency and a free press: And we see many right-wing commentators demanding that Assange b-1971 be hunted down, with some even calling for his murder, on the grounds that he may have endangered lives by releasing confidential government documents.  It is the American people who should be outraged that its government has transformed a nation with a reputation for freedom, justice, tolerance and respect for human rights into a backwater that revels in its criminality, cover-ups, injustices and hypocrisies.

Russia is accused of transshipment of ballistic missile components from North Korea to Iran via Beijing and complained that at least 10 similar missile-related deliveries had been allowed to proceed unhindered.

USA: Washington and its western allies have for the first time since the end of the cold war drawn up classified military plans to defend the most vulnerable parts of eastern Europe against Russian threats.  Nine NATO divisions – US, British, German, and Polish – have been identified for combat operations in the event of armed aggression against Poland or the three Baltic states. North Polish and German ports have been listed for the receipt of naval assault forces and British and US warships.  The decision to draft contingency plans for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania was taken secretly earlier this year at the urging of the US and Germany at NATO headquarters in Belgium, ending years of division at the heart of the western alliance over how to view Vladimir Putin's Russia. The state department fears that the major policy shift could trigger "unnecessary tensions" with Moscow.

Azerbaijan: The president Aliyev accused BP (British Petroleum) of stealing billions of dollars of oil from his country and using "mild blackmail" to secure the rights to develop vast gas reserves in the Caspian Sea region, according to leaked US cables.

 

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Russia: After the takeover by the Kremlin of the audiovisual media early in the Putin era, the Internet became the freest space for discussion and information-sharing in Russia. Yet its dependence is threatened by blogger arrests and prosecutions, and the blocking of independent websites labeled as “extremist.” The Web has also become a first-rate sphere of activity for government propaganda and could become a political control mechanism.

Azerbaijan:  A newspaper editor from Azerbaijan Eynulla Fatullayez b-1958 was arrested in April 2007, who has been beaten up, threatened, and jailed for eight and a half years on dubious charges after criticizing his government last night received a special prize at the Amnesty International Media Awards.

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CANADIAN  CONCERNS/ISSUES

THE PLAYERS:

THE COMMENTS:

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is credited with taking it on the chin and pressing ahead with common-sense measures, despite court challenges and political knocks from the Liberals, NDP and PQ.

Canadians specialize in moral self-righteousness and harbor an “Alice in Wonderland” view of the world.

Canadians 'feast' on tax payer financed anti-Americanism, thanks to the 'State-owned CBC tv show'.

Canada's almost inherently inferiority complex.

Former CSIS director Jim Judd said judicial rulings and public naiveté were paralyzing his spies –Canadians were prone to “knee-jerk anti-Americanism” and “paroxysms [sudden outburst of emotion]of moral outrage. ”He ascribed an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ worldview to Canadians and their courts, whose judges have tied CSIS ‘in knots.  
[Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is being hobbled by the judicial system which needs to be rationalized and controlled by the Senate.  The judicial system makes laws and has often basically replaced parliament.]  Iran’s proxy militia – Lebanon-based Hezbollah – was said to be present in Canada and Mr. Judd is said to have remarked CSIS is “vigorously harassing” known Hezbollah members.
“homegrown” al-Qaeda terrorism – characterizing it as “the recruitment of a small number of Canadian ‘wannabes’ of Pakistani origin for mostly overseas operations.”

Canada risk losing credibility among our own population if we go along with a rigged election in Afghan.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai  is pretty much useless as an ally

Libya Moammar Gadhafi had a riff with Petro-Canada who threatened to pull out 100 oil workers over the Lockerbie Bomber incident.  

Tom Flanagan a former Campaign manager for Prime Minister Harper and his former Chief of Staff is about to be investigated.  Vancouver lawyer Gail Davidson filed a written complaint against him with RCMP December 4, 2010 fir inciting the assignation of Julian Assange b-1971, an Australian journalist and publisher,.  Harper had already distanced himself from Flanagan.  University of Calgary where Flanagan is a teaching professor has a petition circulating for his removal.  He is a political science professor and should have known better.  A breach of s. 464 of the Criminal Code, which says counseling an offence, regardless of whether it is committed, can be punished by a sentence similar to what’s attached to the actual offence.  Flanagan is a a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, a left wing think-tank and that explains a lot.

“Canadians wish that more Americans would recognize that Canada is the largest source of imported energy for the U.S.,”
Canada “is working strenuously to improve the environmental impact of production from the oil sands.”  “In our view, our goal should be to encourage, where we can, a process that is already making fitful progress, the 'greening' of the oil sands,"  "Should we opt instead to support policies that damage the market for the oil sands and raise the cost of capital here, we should at least do so knowingly, well aware that, while this may seem to advance our environmental interests, it will harm our energy security."

Environment Minister Jim Prentice and U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson, says “[Prentice] threatened to impose new rules on oil sands”  …”but he didn’t really get around to it, and then one day he just cleaned out his desk and left.”  This is a contingency that the current environment minister, John Baird, seems reluctant to even mention, preferring instead to consign such discussion the realm of the hypothetical.  This leads to speculation that Prentice was asked to leave Government office.

April 26:  WikiLeaks has identified Mohamed Ould Slahi b-1971 as the leader of the Montreal Al-Qaeda cell.  He was the leader of a terror cell in Duisberg, Germany before coming to Montreal in 1999.  He was the imam of the Al Sunnah Al Nabawiah Mosque in Montreal.  The mosque was used to recruit, facilitate and train terrorists.   He is believed to have helped the training and facilitate the travel of the 9/11 terriorists.

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AMERICAN  CONCERNS/ISSUES

[The America people seem more concerned about money and economics than world peace]

THE PLAYERS:

Joseph Isadore Liegerman b-1942 is a Jewish representative for Connecticut. a Senator, who calls himself an Independent Democratic who was a John McCain supporter and lost his bid for vice president to Palin.  He says he favors the Republicans on foreign and defense policy. [some would say a war monger, others would say a loose cannon] 

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton Secretary of State violated the UN conventions

THE COMMENTS:
TheNorth Korea:
Chinese continue to signal intense displeasure with U.S. positions on issues from the Dalai Lama to Taiwan arms sales and Internet freedom, which they then cite as reasons why they may not cooperate with the U.S. on other issues.  [This could be the reason the USA is clamping down on internet freedom]

China perceives the U.S.A. as "closed" to Chinese and Chinese companies. Chinese businesspersons looking at investment opportunities around the globe are confused and intimidated by the different investment regulations and promotional activities in the fifty U.S. states.

China says U.S.A. visa regulations and, particularly in contrasting them with those of our competitors in Japan and Europe, perceive them as more restrictive than they actually are, even seeing them as "hostile" to Chinese travelers

Hillary Clinton ordered US diplomats to spy on UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon and permanent Security Council Representatives from China, Russia, France and UK.   This is to include undersecretaries, heads if specialized agencies, Chief Advisors and others.  The CIA, FBI and US Secret Service were included in the special reporting and collecting needs.  "The premises of the United Nations shall be inviolable" the 1946 UN convention on privileges and immunities.

USA: A year ago Mrs. Clinton made a major speech about Internet freedom, interpreted as a rebuke to China’s cyberattack on Google. “Even in authoritarian countries,” she said, “information networks are helping people to discover new facts and making governments more accountable.”   Now “that Clinton speech reads like a satirical masterpiece.”

USA Secretary of State Clinton lacked tact and was rude.  Americans thinks President Kirchner's government "to be extremely thin-skinned and intolerant of perceived criticism”.

USA Secretary of State Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton has less tact when dealing with some developing countries.  Clinton asked diplomats a series of questions in December last year which could infuriate President Kirchner and sabotage a recent rapprochement between Argentina and America.  She asked how the first lady-turned President was managing "her nerves and anxiety" in a blunt tone.  As one diplomat said This is nothing. "You should see what we say about you."

USA is known to run a secret assassination squad.  Senior influential US politicians demand the assassination of Julian Assange b-1971, an Australian journalist and publisher, of Wikigate.

USA: Despite sanctions and trade embargoes, over the past decade the U.S. government has granted special licences allowing American companies to do billions of dollars in business with Iran and other countries blacklisted as state sponsors of terrorism.  A little-known office of the Treasury Department has made nearly 10,000 exceptions to U.S. sanctions rules, approving deals involving countries that have been cast into economic purgatory, beyond the reach of normal American business.

USA: All told, an estimated 2,405 Americans have been shot and killed since Tucson, adding to the grim toll of 400,000 felled by guns since Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated in 1968. (The estimate of gun murders and accidental deaths is based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.)

UK Prince Andrew said “The Americans don't understand geography. Never have.”

Europeans; say Washington’s fierce reaction to the flood of secret diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks displays imperial arrogance and hypocrisy, indicating a post-9/11 obsession with secrecy that contradicts American principles.

Europe:  the official American reaction “is tipping over toward derangement.”  Most of the leaks are of low-level diplomatic cables, he noted, while concluding: “Not much truck with freedom of information, then, in the land of the free.”

Iran's president views the U.S. as a country that is overstretched and in difficulty as a result of too many commitments.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sees Iraq, Afghanistan, and the U.S. economy are the three main problems.

President Clinton near the end of his term sought help, the Arabs " They told him to do what he thinks right.  "Culturally, that is the way Arabs say "you are on your own."

King Abdullan bin Abulaziz of Saudi Arabia advice to President Obama "it is critically important to restore America's credibility" in the world.  President Bush didn't listen, he compounded the problems in the Middle-East.

Saudi Arabia's King said "thank God for bringing Obama to the Presidency".  "May God protect him, and I am concerned about his safety."  [a prophet is not recognized in his own Country]

About 60,000 Saudi students are abroad, about 20,000 in America, Saudi would like to see more in America. 

Russian Prime Minister Putin also denounced the Wikigate cables and warned the US not to stick its nose in Russia's affairs.  He made clear he was not amused by a US diplomat describing him as "Batman" and President Dmitry as "Robin".   

Russian Prime Minister Valademir Putin says "the West is hypocritical over WikiLeaks".  “If it is a full-fledged democracy, then why have they put Mr. Assange away in jail? You call that democracy?”  The Americans are like “the pot calling the kettle black.”  ‘Someone else’s cow may moo, but yours should keep quiet,’ ” Mr. Putin said. “So I would like to shoot that puck right back at our American colleagues.”

Mohammad Reza Sadeqinia , an Iranian national, was arrested in California on charges of soliciting murder after attempted  to hire a hit man to kill Iranian-American broadcaster Jamshid Sharmahd, an outspoken critic of the Iranian regime.  Sadeqinia claimed he was working on behalf of Iranian intelligence.

The United States of America: We have already covered Amazon, Tableau and and EveryDNS dropping WikiLeaks services, and at least the first two clearly linked to political pressure. It had been already reported that the State Department had prohibited its staff from accessing WikiLeaks, but now we learn that it went as far as to warn prospective student interns  to "NOT post links to these documents nor make comments on social media sites such as Facebook or through Twitter."  (To arms, to arms, grab your mouse, we are in an Information war instigated by Senator Joe Lieberman who has called on US corporations to stop doing business with Wikileaks or else.)

USA Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Power: " Lieberman? Joe Lieberman!?, should be in North Korea or China, in my view.  Because of the statements he makes.  And I have to believe that they're from his heart.  And those are the kind of statements that dictators make.  Those are the kind of statements that draconian societies that don't allow their citizens freedom and liberty make. I have a real problem with that". December 10, 2010.

USA “Joe Lieberman did was he--either he directly or through his chairmanship of the House Homeland Security Committee [Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs] leaned on Amazon, and Amazon kicked WikiLeaks off their server farm, which led to PayPal kicking off WikiLeaks, which [led] the banks. Visa and MasterCard [who] have stopped WikiLeaks from taking money. I mean, this to me is--reminds me of what I know of phone calls from the House of Un-American Activities, calling studios in Hollywood and saying, we want you to fire such and such.”  December 10, 2010, Paul Jay senior editor TRNN (The Real News Network)

USA ” Rallies will be staged in 21 US cities this week calling for the release of Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking military secrets to the public. Manning allegedly passed on the video known as "collateral murder" that showed American troops shooting civilians from a helicopter in Iraq in July 2007. The dead included two employees of the Reuters news agency.  , a professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, argues that if Manning did what he is accused of doing, he should be honoured as a hero for exposing war crimes.

USA:  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA, employees were told not to read or down load WikiLeaks information. [This was likely because it casts global warming in a bad light]  They are deleting any reference to WikiLeaks.  That doesn’t make sense when much of the information is already freely available from newspapers such as The New York Times and The Guardian. “The government has locked itself into a contradictory position that threatens mission performance,”.   The Congressional Research Service, which is part of the Library, may be left unable to compete with other analysts as a result of their inability to read information that everyone else can access.

USA Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor has said the court is likely to have to rule on the issue of balancing national security and freedom of speach due to the WikeLeaks posting a cache of USA military records about the Afghan war.  Sotomayor said the balance between national security and free speech is "a constant struggle in this society, between our security needs and our first amendment rights, and one that has existed throughout our history.  "Sotomayor compared the issue with the debate over allowing publication of the Pentagon Papers, a secret study about the Vietnam War. The New York Times published those in 1971 after the Supreme Court declined to block their publication over the objections of the Pentagon.

USA: Sen. Joe Lieberman on Tuesday December 7, 2010 said that the news organization, and others that published American diplomatic cables obtained and distributed by WikiLeaks, might be subject to criminal investigation. The Times Company,  Danielle Rhoades Ha the communications director, said "We believe that our decision to publish was responsible journalism, legal, and important to a democratic society. Sen. Joe Lieberman an Independent Democrat is believed behind the censorship of all government computers including the Congressional library, Congressional Research Service, Amazon, PayPal, NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration).  Someone said I’m not sure whether Wikileaks just adds to a store of knowledge that we already have or if it represents something new. But the idea that it’s a bad thing to know more about the how the governments that act in our names actually behave is laughable, and the idea that impeding their ability to act secretly prevents them from advancing the cause of justice and human rights, it seems to me, is utterly without merit.

The Library of Congress has blocked access to the WikiLeaks site on its staff computers and on the wireless network that visitors use.

The State and Commerce departments have also reportedly told their employees not to look at the WikiLeaks cables, while the Department of Educat6ion reportedly blocked it entirely.

Germany:  The USA military has been charging its allies a 15% handling fee on hundreds of millions of donated dollars raised internationally to build up the Afghan army.  The earmarked projects had not been disbursed, what happened to the funds?  Germany has threatened to cancel contributions.

German newspapers say “the already damaged reputation of the United States will only be further tattered with Assange’s new martyr status.”  Mr. Assange is being hounded, the paper said, “even though no one can explain what crimes Assange allegedly committed with the publication of the secret documents, or why publication by WikiLeaks was an offense, and in The New York Times, it was not.”

USA: U.S. relations with at least one country have not been harmed by WikiLeaks' revelations: Canada. "If the greatest concern between our two countries is what's on Canadian television then we're doing pretty well,"  [most Canadians believe Canadians and Americans spoof each other equally on TV]  [Canada however is deeply disappointed in USA post Wikileaks activities]

United States and China on climate change joined forces to stymie every attempt by European nations to reach agreement at the Copenhagen conference.

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Australia: "Granted that in western political circles, Mr Assange b-1971 is not flavour of the month, but what he is doing in my opinion, and in the opinion of many here and abroad, is vitally necessary to expose American foreign policy failures and potential war crimes and crimes against humanity--not for the purpose of damaging US interests but to make them accountable.  
I join with Professor Saul also in asking you Prime Minister why has there been no public complaint to the US about both Secretaries of State Condaleeza Rice and Hillary Clinton being in major breach of International law ie UN Covenants, by making orders to spy on UN personnel, including the Secretary General, to include theft of their credit card details and communication passwords. Perhaps the Attorney General should investigate this clear prima facie evidence of crime (likely against Australian diplomats as well), rather than he attempts to prosecute the messenger of those crimes. 
While we have close and a good relationship with the US, there is no doubt that US influence and power is declining. That we appear to be still posturing, (given that declining power and a new paradigm of privately enforced accountability) to the US on the issue of Wikileaks is, Prime Minister, deeply disappointing".   
By Peter Kemp, Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia, on 2010-12-04

USA recent repressive censorship of the internet and news media is in violation of the U.S. Constitution First Amendment and has caused America and Europe's transparency and freedom to deteriorate.

China made repeated and often successful hacking attacks on the U.S. government, private enterprises and Western allies as far back as 2002.  The hacking of Google that led the Internet company to briefly pull out of China was orchestrated by two members of China’s top ruling body, according to U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks and cited by The New York Times on Saturday.  

Hillary Clinton: "On their own, new technologies do not take sides in the struggle for freedom and progress. But the United States does. We stand for a single internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas. And we recognize that the world's information infrastructure will become what we and others make of it."

USA government championing World Press Freedom Day while also trying to squash WikiLeaks.   Commenters are having a ball, as you'd expect."  (The site was quickly shut down.  Press freedom no longer exists in America)

USA: MasterCard who stopped money transfers to WikiLeaks was brought down December 8 by the anonymous internet avengers by DNS failure and "distributed denial of service attacks" (DDoS) .  This was the same strategy the US Government used to shut down WikiLeaks.  Both actions are illegal without a judges order.  WikiLeaks however recovered by creating 500 mirror sites around the world.

USA The Supreme Court slapped down the USA President Richard Nixon efforts to stop newspapers from publishing the Pentagon leaked papers under the Espionage Act which carries a maximum penalty of death.   One renowned First Amendment and national security lawyer, Duke law professor emeritus Michael Tigar urged caution saying "The U.S. reaction to all of this is rather overblown,"

USA Vice-President Joe Biden said Julian Assange is a dangerous "high-tech Terrorist"  by this statement he also labels the New York Times in the same camp as well as newspapers around the country.

USA Allen West a tea party congressman proposed that the US should censor news outlets that “enabled” WikiLeaks to disseminate leaked documents.

USA Air Force has blocked access to mainstream US news sources like ‘The New York Times’ that covered the WikiLeaks affair on its Air Force-owned computers. Moreover, they’ve extended the ban to international sites the UK’s ‘The Guardian’ and Germany’s ‘Der Spiegel.’  [It appears, as Jack Nicholson once famously suggested, that the military can’t handle the truth.]

 

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SOUTH/CENTRAL AMERICAN  CONCERNS/ISSUES

THE PLAYERS:

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is "crazy" and said that even Brazil wasn't able to support him anymore. 

Brazil Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has ambitions of becoming a world power in the coming decades and believes the key is through the acquisition of certain technological and military autonomy.

Colombian president Álvaro Uribe

Paraguayan President Fernando Lugohas has replaced his top military commanders for the fourth time since taking office in 2008.

Haiti President Preval 

Mexico President Felipe Calderon is running out of time in the battle against organized crime.

THE COMMENTS:

Mexico 7,700 drug related homicides occurred in 2009 and only 2% of those arrested were ever charged.  The army was doing the policing work but were not trained in evidence collection.

Mexico insisted that as long as the US remained the biggest consumer of drugs in the world, the terror wrought by the drug cartels in Mexico would continue.

Mexico: The USA has lost faith in Mexico's ability to win the drug war.  Regions of Mexico are effectively controlled by organized crime.  In the past 4 years 34,612 people have been killed by the drug wars.

Mexico: Pervasive, debilitating fear has infected even relatively safe parts of the country.

Mexico: In the past 4 years to 2010 about 28,000 people have been killed in the drug war.

Mexican armed forces are bureaucratic, parochial, outdated and unfit to combat drug trafficking organizations.  

Venezuelan: The French say unfortunately, President Hugo Chavez is taking one of the richest countries in Latin America and turning it into another Zimbabwe.

Brazil: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has often commented that looking at French President Nicholas Sarkozy is like "looking in the mirror.  "Brazilian diplomats noted that the two men have very similar personalities. They are both motivated by their drive to reshape the world order.

Brazil hosts over 420 French companies which employ approximately 400,000 people. French exports totaled over $5 billion and Brazilian exports to France over $6 billion in 2008.

Brazil contends that it cannot accept Guantanamo migrants because it is illegal to designate someone not on Brazilian soil a refugee.

Brazil's president Lula da Silva and others of central and South America believe the United States government is the greatest threat to world peace and security today.  It is clear that any information which sheds light on US "diplomacy" is more than useful.  It has the potential to help save millions of human lives.  South America's progressive governments have strongly challenged US foreign policy in the region and the world, with some of them regularly using words like imperialism and empire as synonyms for Washington

Colombian president Álvaro Uribe and Venezuela President Hugo Chávez almost came to blows.Chavez reacted emotionally accusing Colombia of having sent assassination squads to kill him. "Chávez ended a verbal and physical tirade with: 'You can go to hell. I am leaving (the lunch).' Uribe responded: 'Don't be a coward and leave just to insult me from a distance.'"Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, had presided over this banana republic fiasco. The summit poorly conceived, inadequately managed and badly executed for allowing Venezuela and its leftist allies to derail proceedings.

Haiti President Preval did attend the Mexican conference but the discussion was an obscured footnote and Honduras President Lobo was not even invited in deference to Venezuela.

Argentinia:  The Summit, termed the worst expression of Banana Republic discourse that blames all of the regions problems on others without any practical solutions of their own. Argentinean President Cristina Kirchner mental health is being questioned.  Reports suggest Kirchner is a volatile and emotional leader who suffered from ‘nerves and anxiety’. 

Paraguay:  Iranian state agents or surrogates including, but not limited to, Hizballah, Hamas, al-Gama'at al-Islamiya, al-Qa'ida, jihadist media organizations - in Paraguay in particular in the Tri-Border area.

Paraguay:  Indications or evidence of terrorists' or terrorist support networks' involvement with narco-trafficking, money laundering, human smuggling, and/or other criminal activities as a means of obtaining funding or other logistical support

Peru; British Monterrico Metals Mining Company in Peru agitated for the removal of teachers and Catholic Bishops to new posts away from mining interests in Aug 2005

Venezuela: January 2010;Mounting economic problems have contributed to a decline in Chavez's popularity, which is an important reason Chavez agreed to a devaluation that would substantially increase government revenues and permit massive spending prior to the September legislative elections. Chavez is betting that short term measures can delay the long term consequences of his ill-conceived policies

Venezuela: February 2010; The government is extremely upset with the failure of international companies to register bids for offshore gas fields.  President Chavez plans to visit Russia, China and Japan to cultivate interest.

Venezuela's problems February 2010, were increasingly intractable, and that the internal domestic problems they were generating were pushing Chavez toward more authoritarianism and repression.

Italy's Eni stands to become possibly the second largest international oil company operating in Venezuela as a result of deals signed at the end of January 2010, according to Italian Ambassador Luigi Maccotta. It has agreed to develop the extra heavy crude Junin 5 block, to build an upgrader and a 1,000 MW power plant, and to transfer proprietary heavy oil technology to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.  Chevez had to take Italy's terms and conditions or "take it or leave it, I can get on my plane and move on".  [Keep in mind Italy has close ties with Russia and they could expropriate Eni.]

Cuba debate, had cast a long shadow at the recent Summit of the Americas. Venezuela's Hugo Chavez was clearly rattled by the thought that the U.S. and Cuba could enter into a dialogue that excluded him, and this motivated his "little scene" at the Summit

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Cuba: Despite a few improvements, Internet access actually remains beyond the reach of most of the population because of its high cost and low connection speeds. The regime, which maintains two parallel network, is now taking aim at a small blogger community that is becoming increasingly active.

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UNITED NATIONS CONCERNS/ISSUES

THE PLAYERS:

THE COMMENTS:

The UN is turning a blind eye to corruption and human rights abuse in "client states". [This is likely the reason they were not stopping IPCC abuse]

"The premises of the United Nations shall be inviolable" the 1946 UN convention on privileges and immunities.
Hillary Clinton ordered US diplomats to spy on UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon and permanent Security Council Representatives from China, Russia, France and UK.   This is to include undersecretaries, heads if specialized agencies, Chief Advisors and others.  The CIA, FBI and US Secret Service were included in the special reporting and collecting needs.

The 1961 Vienna convention on diplomatic relations, which covers the UN, also states that "the official correspondence of the mission shall be inviolable"

Washington is using its 11,500-strong foreign service to glean highly sensitive information on both allies and enemies.

Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, really want to buy Predator drones from the US. [But there's a long waiting list]

2010 December 6:  Wikigate leaks "The USA privately lobbied IPCC chairman Dr. Ratendra Parchauri as well as UK, EU, Agentina, Mali, Brazil and Uzbekistan to stop the appointment of Dr. Mostafa Jafaei of Iran as co-chairman of a key working group.  It would significantly complicate the USA funding. 

Wikileaks Show an attempt by Second World nations to siphon wealth and political power from First World nations, all in the name of Third World nations assumed to be "victims" of global warming.   At the same time, the US and other First World nations tried to offer aid directly to Third World nations; (certainly a curious case of "better the devil you know" diplomacy.)

Bolivia's president Morales would "convoke the first 'People's World Conference on Climate Change and the Mother Earth' ... as a vehicle for raising his and Bolivia's international political stature, especially among sympathetic anti-globalization groups."

Bolivian delegate to the Copenhagen talks told US diplomats that "[Bolivia's] position is aimed at creating an alternative development model consistent with Morales's anti-capitalist philosophy."

Maldives' ambassador-designate to the US, Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed, told the US deputy climate change envoy, Jonathan Pershing, his country wanted "tangible assistance", saying other nations would then realize "the advantages to be gained by compliance" with the accord.

EU climate action commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, in Brussels, where she told him, according to a cable, "the AOSIS [Alliance of Small Island States] countries 'could be our best allies' given their need for financing".

Denmark:  Connie Hedegaard the European Commissioner for Climate Action raised another toxic subject - whether the US aid would be all cash. She asked if the US would need to do any "creative accounting", noting some countries such as Japan and the UK wanted loan guarantees, not grants alone, included, a tactic she opposed.  Pershing said "donors have to balance the political need to provide real financing with the practical constraints of tight budgets", reported the Wikileaks cable.
(If you have even a lick of common sense, there should be no doubt in your mind about the true intentions of those now pushing climate change agendas.)

However most followers of the Climate Conferences agree the reasons behind the Climate Conference is no longer Climate or saving the world, it's about an Anti-Capitalist Philosophy.

Child labor is a major concern with 200 million being employed.  The biggest offenders include Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Liberia, Burma, Somalia, Sudan and Zimbabwe.  

FREEDOM-CENSORSHIP-SECRECY
Rwanda, Yemen and Syria have joined Burma and North Korea in the group of the world’s most repressive countries towards journalists.

“We must salute the engines of press freedom, with Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland at their head.

There is growing concern about the deteriorating press freedom situation in the European Union and America.  Italy, Romania, Greece, and Bulgaria have been highlighted.

Brazil, Russia, India and China – may all be at a roughly similar stage of economic development but the 2010 index highlights major differences in the press freedom situation in these countries

The Philippines, Ukraine, Greece and Kyrgyzstan all fell sharply in this year’s index. In the Philippines this was due to the massacre of around 30 journalists by a local baron, in Ukraine to the slow and steady deterioration in press freedom since Viktor Yanukovych’s election as president in February, in Greece to political unrest and physical attacks on several journalists, and in Kyrgyzstan to the ethnic hatred campaign that accompanied the political turmoil.

USA:: Collect UN activities in these countries:  Austria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Indonesia, Japan, Libya, Mexico, , Nigeria, Russia, Rwanda,, Somalia, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam.  Details on commercial and private VIP networks used for official communications, to include upgrades, security measures, passwords, personal encryption keys, and types of V P N versions used.

USA: Report on self-appointed frontrunners for permanent UNSC (United Nations Security Council) membership Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan (the Group of Four or G-4); the Uniting for Consensus group (especially Mexico, Italy, and Pakistan) that opposes additional permanent UNSC seats; the African Group; and the EU, as well as key UN officials within the Secretariat and the UN General Assembly (UNGA) Presidency.

USA: Report Secretariat attitudes toward and evidence of corruption in UN agencies and programs, and willingness to implement measures to reduce corruption.  Plans and intentions of UN member states or the Secretariat to address corruption issues at the UN and UN agencies.

USA: Report plans and intentions of the International Organization for Migration to assist with the reintegration of internally displaced persons and refugees.

The leaders of Myanmar and Belarus, or Thailand and Russia, can now rightly say to us: "You went after WikiLeaks' domain name, their hosting provider, and even denied your citizens the ability to register protest through donations, all without a warrant and all targeting overseas entities, simply because you decided you don't like the site. If that's the way governments get to behave, we can live with that."

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MISC. will be repositioned

“Robert Mugabe President of Zimbabwe is a brilliant tactician and has long thrived on his ability to abruptly change the rules of the game, radicalize the political dynamic and force everyone else to react to his agenda.  However, he is fundamentally hampered by several factors: his ego and belief in his own infallibility; his obsessive focus on the past as a justification for everything in the present and future; his deep ignorance on economic issues (coupled with the belief that his 18 doctorates give him the authority to suspend the laws of economics, including supply and demand); and his essentially short-term, tactical style.”  Robert Mugabe could care less if his country starves to death.  He’s a vicious thug who survives because he’s even more vicious than the other vicious thugs he surrounds himself with. And he knows as much about economics as Kim Jong-il does about democracy

France, November 30. 2010 Interpol placed Assange on its most-wanted list Tuesday after Sweden issued an arrest warrant against him as part of a drawn-out rape probe -- involving allegations he has denied. The Interpol "red notice" is likely to make international travel more difficult for him.

The American Congress has been blind sided with the censorship of the Library of Congress of Wikigate information which is their primary tool for information and differing opinions.  The citizens of Massachusetts should be up in arms that Lieberman is advocating censorship of the press and publishers of America.  First Amendment to the Constitution protects WikiLeaks and publishers but the so-called SHIELD Act (Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination) directly censors publishers as proposed by Lieberman

The American Government is calling on any other company or organization that is hosting Wikileaks to immediately terminate its relationship with them.  This would include more than 500 sites around the world.

Wikigate shows how Embassy dispatches show America used spying, threats and promises of aid to get support for (Global Warming) Copenhagen accord.  The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid is used by countries to gain political backing; how distrust, broken promises and creative accounting dog negotiations; and how the US mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the controversial "Copenhagen accord" the unofficial document that emerged from the ruins of the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009.
Negotiating a climate treaty is a high-stakes game, not just because of the danger warming poses to civilization but also because re-engineering the global economy to a low-carbon model will see the flow of billions of dollars redirected.

An American commitment to help Saudi Arabia with its economic diversification efforts would :take the pressure off climate change negotiations:.  Saudi Arabia are very eager to obtain carbon credits.  President Obama in Copenhagen, is antagonistic and causes genuine fear in Saudi Arabia to end dependence on foreign oil. The UK and Japan want loan guarantees to support the US on climate change.

"In the face of a concerted attempt to shut him down and after a decade since 9/11 that has been characterised by manipulation of the media by the authorities, the information released by Wikileaks is a refreshing glimpse into an increasingly opaque world."  The Frontline Club is near Paddington station in west London, a home for foreign correspondents and other journalists by Vaughn Smith, and home of Julian Assange.

US diplomats described Rudd, then Australia's prime minister, as a mistake-prone control freak with a tendency towards making "snap announcements without consulting other countries or within the Australian government"

Defence secretary Robert Gates showed what the US really thought about the arrest. When asked about it on a trip to Afghanistan yesterday he smirked, and said: "That sounds like good news to me".

WikiLeaks was attacked outside of due process and just run off the internet because the government has decided we don't like it, and that is a catastrophic loss for free speech.

Tunisia has blocked the website of a Lebanese newspaper that published US cables released by WikiLeaks describing high-level corruption, a sclerotic regime, and deep hatred of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's wife and her family

Tunisiaa tolerate no advice or criticism, whether domestic or international. Increasingly, they rely on the police for control and focus on preserving power.  Corruption in the inner circle is growing.

2013

April 6: Stefan Lindskog, chairman of the Supreme Court of Sweden, speaking on Wednesday at the University of Adelaide in Australia said that the sex-crime allegations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange are "a mess", and praised him for leaking classified US documents.  He further suggested that  the sexual allegations are a ploy to get him to Sweden from where he would be extradited to the U.SA. however he believes Sweden's extradition treaty with the United States would not apply to Assange.
Lindskog praised Assange's campaign of publishing the classified information through WikiLeaks.
"He'll be thought of as a person who made public some pieces of classified information to the benefit of mankind," 
"It should never be a crime to make known [a] crime of a state,'' he added.

This is a great embracement to the British, Swedish and American Governments, a pox upon their tents.