Wikileaks

[GunnGunn]

Oh no doubt Fab, the difference is though, we took what wasn't ours...

The Yanks just like a good poke, route around a bit and then they f**k off, bit like leaving the Fat Chic after Prom when she thinks she has found true love.

[Fabrestuta]

Heh good analogy, and in certain cases its true. Saddam was actually Americas boy during the Iran/Iraq war, and according to some of the things I have read the diplomat that was sent just before the invasion of Kuwait was a moron and Saddam took the opinion that America had given him free rein to attack Kuwait.

A little known fact is Kuwait was horizontal drilling and stealing Iraqi oil.

[Leody]

America also more or less supplied the Taliban with everything they had in the beginning when the Afghan people were fighting Russia. We helped them win the war, then walked away and left all the reconstruction to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia... That turned out to be a great idea when the funded the Taliban warlords.

[Fabrestuta]

Shit happens Leody. A certain pussy basically gave away Czecheslovakia for a piece of paper then uttered the now infamous "piece in our times" sentence. How did that work out?

[SE13]

America also more or less supplied the Taliban with everything they had in the beginning when the Afghan people were fighting Russia. We helped them win the war, then walked away and left all the reconstruction to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia... That turned out to be a great idea when the funded the Taliban warlords.

Didn't America more or less fund The IRA on their campaign of terror on the mainland, yet cry foul when acts of terror happened there?

[Leody]

I'm not as up to speed on the IRA honestly.

[Fabrestuta]

America also more or less supplied the Taliban with everything they had in the beginning when the Afghan people were fighting Russia. We helped them win the war, then walked away and left all the reconstruction to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia... That turned out to be a great idea when the funded the Taliban warlords.

Didn't America more or less fund The IRA on their campaign of terror on the mainland, yet cry foul when acts of terror happened there?

No man. The IRA got money from rich ex pats in America but its not like the American government were shipping money and weapons.

[Reverend Gooner]

Have you read about Dynscorp and child prostitution? That is the sort of stuff that needs to come out and I fully support Wikileaks in this. I read that 95% of their profit comes from the American taxpayer so hopefully the American people will kick up a stink about it and not brush it aside because it was wikileaks that informed them.


http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/07/re ... s-cab.html

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201012 ... ts-dynco...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/0 ... 93816.html

http://www.citystatetimes.com/911320/wi ... ghanistan/

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010 ... _up_of.php

[liam_cork]

heres something i noticed on the swedish laws

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11946652

[Est83]

That's seriously f**ked up Rev! Really hope something gets done about that!

[Reverend Gooner]

I know est, it is horrifying

Here is more about major corporations silently taking control of an entire governments

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010 ... ria-spying

That is disgraceful and representative of many things I hate about the business and corporate world the west promotes. God knows what other corporations are doing around the world. To think that we as taxpayers probably bailed out banks who go about themselves in similar immoral fashion, we pay, they play. Money well and truely corrupts.

[Est83]

So to summarise: like everything else in life, Wikileaks comes with the good and the bad.

No matter what peoples views on Wikileaks are, things like this need to be made known!

[Gunner Down Under]

Things that Rev posted about Shell taking hold of Nigeria definitely need to be known, they just don't need to post online every single thing that they find that can also endanger the lives of others.

[ManicDefender]

This whole Wikileaks situation really has opened a can of worns. Then you have team Anonymous who are threatening to bring everyone down who opposes Wikileaks. Would they really have enough resources to take down the likes of Facebook?

Also didn't they send a warning to Twitter? But they use Twitter to communicate with the outside. So how would that work? lol

[gzagee]

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