Taking stock of WikiLeaks
An assessment by George Friedman of the WikiLeaks situation:
Julian Assange has declared that geopolitics will be separated into pre-“Cablegate” and post-“Cablegate” eras. That was a bold claim. However, given the intense interest that the leaks produced, it is a claim that ought to be carefully considered. Several weeks have passed since the first of the diplomatic cables were released, and it is time now to address the following questions: First, how significant were the leaks? Second, how could they have happened? Third, was their release a crime? Fourth, what were their consequences? Finally, and most important, is the WikiLeaks premise that releasing government secrets is a healthy and appropriate act a tenable position?
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Now that Julian has been released from gaol, I must email him to congratulate him. I want to ask him when WikiLeaks are going to start releasing the cables that will prove that the association between man-made CO2 and the yet to be proven global warming threat, is the total fraud that all thinking, intelligent people know it to be.
It is obvious that almost all governments need a new and inexhaustable tax stream because the traditional tax bases no longer have a hope of reigning in the debt, caused by decades of incompetent financial management and a total disregard for future infrastructure planning. If Labour can send Australia broke in less than two years, what hope have other countries got. However badly a new tax is needed, at least Gillard and her band of yapping lap dogs should have the honesty to call it for what it is and blame its’ inception on the true reasons.
Good call.