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AP – Founder and editor of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange,

Bloomberg BusinessWeek refers to WikiLeaks.org as a non profit group that releases information governments and businesses want to keep confidential. A cross reference with Wikipedia states that it “is an international non-profit media organization that publishes submissions of otherwise unavailable documents from anonymous sources and leaks…Within a year of its launch, the site claimed a database that had grown to more than 1.2 million documents.”

Here is how WikiLeaks describes itself on its website:

WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organization dedicated to bringing important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for independent sources around the world to leak information to our journalists. We publish material of ethical, political and historical significance while keeping the identity of our sources anonymous, thus providing a universal way for the revealing of suppressed and censored injustices.

WikiLeaks’ recent leak of 251,287 US Embassy cables appears to be the proverbial straw to break the camel’s back. Amazon.com apparently bowing to US political pressure has severed Wikileaks from its servers.  Yesterday we read about an international warrant issued by Interpol for Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange. To the horror of Bank of America executives they learned WikiLeaks has them on the radar next!

World powers seem ready after much embarrassment to cut off Assange and WikiLeaks at the knees.

BU did a search of WikiLeaks website and found one cable listed so far under US Embassy Bridgetown. The information appears to be nondescript to the BU household. We will continue to monitor as more documents are uploaded. We expect given Barbados’ insignificant positioning in the geopolitical sphere that it is highly unlikely WikiLeaks revelations will embarrass anyone in this neck of the woods.

The nature of the WikiLeaks leaks seem to have placed many people in the US intelligence community especially in danger. While relationships between governments can be resolved through diplomatic efforts, lives lost cannot be reinstated. The mission of WikiLeaks and its commitment to freedom of expression has thrown the world in a quandary. Frankly this is a matter with goal posts which are like to move. BU joins the world with keen interest to observe how this matter will play out. Whatever the result it will be precedent setting.


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  1. It is open knowledge that Uncle Sam through the labrynth of its various law enforcement agencies have in the past -and still today- have spied on and destabilised both allies and enemy countries around the world.Kissinger said long ago that America don’t have friends only interest.I would like to see the cables communication during the Grenada invasion and the destabilisation of Jamaica during the Michael Manley regime.

    They say knowlegde is power and in this information age the saying couldn’t ring truer.Wiki leak has only level the playing field…. and bring us closer to a information symmetric world.


  2. David

    What you haven’t said is that Wikileaks passed this information to five newspapers: The New York Times (USA);Le Monde (France); The Guardian (Great Britain); Der Spiegel (Germany). The newspapers are releasing selective information to the extent that they are checking with their Gov’ts to ensure that no “secret” information or information that will imperil lives is released.

    The newspapers could have chosen to sit on the information but the executives of these media enterprises are smart people and their organizations are not immune to profits. With everything that has been released is there any information that genuinely surprised you?


  3. @Sargeant

    Point taken but is there merit in the concern by the US government?


  4. this is a dangerous predecent. The person involve in leaking such information should be held for treason . Governments need for privacy at times is necessary . Truth is also necessary . but at what price are we willing to pay to know he truth.The questionis “Can we handle the Truth”


  5. Reuters is reporting that Swedish high court decided against hearing an appeal from WikiLeaks founder Assange.

    Seems the prosecution or should we say persecution is on.

    What does this say about our justice systems?


  6. David

    Among other things it is reported that potentially 2 million people had access to this information i.e. 2 million people among all levels of Gov’t including the military. How secret is information if 2 million has access to it?

    One would have thought that the US Gov’t would also make it difficult for someone to download this information, for a 22 year old armed with a Lady Gaga CD (which he erased the content) and access to a computer to be able to download these communications is beyond the pale. If I rent a DVD from my local rental store I don’t think I can copy the movie even Hollywood protects its propriety information.

    The US was only able to identify the culprit because he blabbed to a buddy (that social media again) otherwise they would be looking for a needle in a haystack

    Anyway the newspapers bear some responsibility, they can refuse to publish but profits rule the day.


  7. @BU.David et al…

    It has been said that you can only keep a secret if only you and one other person knows it.

    And the one other person is dead.

    Two millon people had access to these “secrets”.

    And yet the great US of A are upset because these “secrets” came out.

    WTF?


  8. Wikileaks is not just Julian Assange. Wikileaks is a network of people in several countries. I dont see how the US can be so upset, unless it is becase Hillary Clinton allegedly advised her diplomats to collect personal data on other diplomats and heads of governments – including charge card numbers, PINs, computer passwords, DNA, biometric data, etc. She even had them spying in the UN and on Mr. Moon, of all people. The Nasty States of America is embarrassed that now we all know it spies on and ridicules its own “allies”.

    I am going to send Wikileaks some money tomorrow before world governments collude to declare it a “terrorist organization”. I agree with and laud the leaks.


  9. Hatred has no boundaries! Every country has their spies , That is not news Only a fool would think otherwise. Any how the maniac who decided to leak such information worldwide did not do anyone any special favours but only to continue to drive a wedge of hostility among those countries who have a distrut fo each other.He should be held for Treason. A personnel hate for a country is one thing .But when it endangers the lives of innocent people such actions should be dealtwith in the harshest possible way.


  10. When I see Israel’s dirty laundry being aired, then I’ll say all is fair in espionage and war. This source is not some young kid, this is Israhell’s dirty leaking. For all we know this could also be a joke on us the people….the PERFECT excuse to shut down the internet, the hegelian dialectic at play.

    This is how you know that god’s little shitty rogue state is behind this ….the CONSTANT focus on Iran look here see how all the other Arabs see Iran as an enemy…see we ain’t wrong, we better get ’em! Nothing about the dirty zionist pigs deeds. The focus on Russia, the focus on Turkey and even though they feed at the US trough, they are never satisfied. What an ungrateful sty! The zio-pigs are behind this leak. And Assange…. well, somewhere I see his Ass being ‘ sanguaged.’


  11. It appears Julian Assange is not wanted for rape after all but for NOT wearing a condom!


  12. Wikileaks: The Tel Aviv connection
    By Jeff Gates
    Online Journal Contributing Writer

    What is Tel Aviv to do now that it’s known Israelis and pro-Israelis ‘fixed’ the intelligence that induced the U.S. to war in Iraq?

    Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Con me consistently for six decades and the relationship is over, as is Israel’s credibility as a legitimate nation state.

    Tel Aviv knows this. But what can the Zionist state do about it? Answer: Wikileaks.

    Why now? Misdirection. Shine the spotlight on Washington to take it off Tel Aviv. That’s good old-fashioned psy-ops. And challenge the credibility of the U.S. That’s Wikileaks.

    Any credible forensics would start by asking: to whose benefit? Then look to means, motive and opportunity plus the presence of stable nation-state intelligence inside the U.S.

    Other than Israel, who else is a credible candidate? Notice how quickly Israel’s role in the peace process vanished from the news. Now it’s Iran, Iran and more Iran. To whose benefit?

    Tel Aviv knows that the phony intelligence on Iraq leads to those skilled at waging war “by way of deception” — the motto of the Israeli Mossad. Wikileaks are noteworthy for what’s missing: the absence of any material damaging to Israeli goals.

    But still Tel Aviv faces an unprecedented peril: transparency. Americans know they were duped. And Israel rightly fears that Americans will soon realize by whom.

    snip

    This may signal the beginning of the end for the Obama presidency, his domestic policy failures are eclipsed by his failures in foreign policy.

    This may also signal pre-staging for the 2012 presidential primary with a weakened Obama forced to name Clinton as his running mate or stepping aside so she can lead the ballot.

    Her 2008 presidential campaign promised recognition of Israel as a “Jewish state” and promised an “undivided Jerusalem as the capital.” Tel Aviv was elated. A second Clinton presidency would ensure another victory for Israel — and no peace.

    Israeli psy-ops typically serve multiple purposes. Wikileaks is no exception.

    http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6646.shtml


  13. Why are the WikiLeaks debacle creating sensualization? In fairness, there’s nothing new here – the problem is the revealations of what took place in IRAQ…


  14. Why are the WikiLeaks debacle creating sensualization? In fairness, there’s nothing new here – the problem is the revelations of what took place in IRAQ…


  15. Cyber-attacks from government “HACKERS” crashed the WIKILEAKS* website in the “wee” hours of the morning but it has since gone back online hosted on French Servers routed through Switzerland…

    There seems to real polarization around this issue almost as if this is the first shot across the starboard bow in the 1st CYBER WAR* since the evolution of the internet…A war for control and who controls what!!!

    Subliminally, at the heart of all this is what has been argued back and forward on BU & around the “net” on the issues of “CIVIL FREEDOMS”, rights of conscience, the rites of the individual, freedom and access to information and who has to power to decide what is in the public interest and what’s NOT*…


  16. Without transparency – politicians will get away with MURDER…

    Today in the UK, legal & parliamentary precedence was set when former minister David Chaytor was given a criminal record for the EXPENSES SCANDAL… Validation that politicians cannot steal indiscriminately and avoid prosecution by claiming “PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE”…

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/8178619/David-Chaytor-the-former-Labour-MP-pleads-guilty-over-expenses.html

    In a related Parliamentary story, PHIL WOOLAS lost his High Court bid to be stripped of his seat after “LYING” about Liberal Democrat rival Elwyn Watkins…

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11904630

    NO POLITICIAN, PRIME MINISTER, PRESIDENT OR POPE* CAN BE ABOVE THE LAW…

    This is what Wikileaks et al argue…

    The “CRIME” that instigated the WAR in IRAQ – was a breach of international law, notwithstanding that Tony “the don” Blair & George “DUBYAH” Bush went unscathed from prosecution and should face a war trial tribunal…

    Here’s a strange irony: Sri Lankan Prez. Rajapaksa is being accused of war crimes… (political hypocrisy if I may say so)…

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11897784


  17. It seems WikiLeaks is finally been knocked of the Internet.


  18. Just like 9/11 wikileaks is yet another inside job.

    @Terrence B………Regarding your urgings to buy GOLD & SILVER, at the time of your purchase did you get the ACTUAL stuff or did they give you certificates? And how confident are you, that you will get the real deal when you present your certs?


  19. You can still access Wikileaks by typing the following IP address into your search box:

    213.251.145.96


  20. Now Paypal gets into the act of helping the cutoff WikiLeaks at the knees – http://wapo.st/eglAdM


  21. Thank goodnes I sent my 50 Euros yesterday morning by charge card. Thought it was all good. However, before I got upstairs the phone was ringing and the card company wanted to verify two “unusual” transactions. One to the National Arts Centre for orchestra tickets and the Sunshine Wikileaks payment. Maybe they now have me on their potential terrorist list. Uh gun be famous.


  22. ‘WikiLeaks WON’T be stopped’: Founder reveals 100,000 encrypted versions of secret files have been sent out as insurance…’

    Read more:


  23. Verily I say unto you …

    Are my people not justified in protecting our interests … for have we not been at subliminal war with the rest of the world, and have we not been for over two thousand years? Does Hopi not know that her rants cannot harm us? Do you not know that your Bible prophecy was written by us, and as long as the majority of Westerners of all races remain Christian, that we will be guaranteed a large and powerful sympathetic base on which to draw for support?


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  25. @HOPI
    Gold is already being dispensed from ATM’s… Gold/bullion futures is a market based activity… But you decide (LOL)… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ApExVPF2OU


  26. New cables today about US assets, companies and strategic places of interests exposed around the world including most notably, in the UK…

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