Ooops!

[Photologyst]

Ooops!

Not that any of this is a surprise:

“...American diplomats compared Iran’s President Ahmedinejad with Adolf Hitler and labelled France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy as the “emperor with no clothes”.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel was depicted as “risk aversive”, while the Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin was an “alpha dog”. Afghanistan’s president Hamid Karzai was “driven by paranoia”...

..Italy’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, was known for his “wild parties” while Libya’s president Muammar Gaddafi had a “sumptuous blonde as a nursing sister”.


...Kim Jong-il, of North Korea, was said to suffer from epileptic fits, while President Medvedev of Russia was “hesitant”...

According to a review of the WikiLeaks documents published in the New York Times, Saudi donors were chief financiers of militant groups such as al-Qaeda and Chinese government operatives had waged a campaign of computer sabotage targeting the United States and its allies.


The Saudi leader was recorded as having “frequently exhorted the US to attack Iran to put an end to its nuclear weapons programme”....”

WikiLeaks sparks worldwide diplomatic crisis - Telegraph

The fallout from this is going to be better than any Hollywood movie.

[BEGM83]

Not to mention the hoohah surrounding the British Royal Family!

Gotta love WikiLeaks!

[Jonbar18]

It's back up!

[Niresangwa]

Yeah, the world is sooo much better of a place with this information made freely available.

[Photologyst]

Originally Posted by BEGM83

Not to mention the hoohah surrounding the British Royal Family!

Gotta love WikiLeaks!

With the net, nothing can be kept a secret for long. Perhaps it will make world leaders and other criminals think?

[BEGM83]

Nah at the moment it's all heresay and such - from what i've read in the British press - about Berlusconi's sex parties and Prince Andrew acting like a petulant child, nothing to get het up about.

Some things should stay secret though especially where the security of a nation is concerned.

Recently General Sir Mike Jackson (leader of the army type person here in the UK) was all over our press telling all and sundry we don't have enough forces nor the funds for said forces to defend the Falklands should Argentina decide to invade again.

Not exactly something we want publicising...that our armed forces are actually in more of dire straits than is already being publicised!!

[Photologyst]

Originally Posted by BEGM83

Nah at the moment it's all heresay and such - from what i've read in the British press - about Berlusconi's sex parties and Prince Andrew acting like a petulant child, nothing to get het up about.

Some things should stay secret though especially where the security of a nation is concerned.

Recently General Sir Mike Jackson (leader of the army type person here in the UK) was all over our press telling all and sundry we don't have enough forces nor the funds for said forces to defend the Falklands should Argentina decide to invade again.

Not exactly something we want publicising...that our armed forces are actually in more of dire straits than is already being publicised!!

Actually, that is probably common knowledge. Just as it is no secret that the U. S. cannot afford its multiple wars. No country can afford wars of choice and wars of necessity are also devastating to the treasury as well as the populace.

Like I said, in the OP, none of this is news. However, seeing it in B & W is a good thing.

Our corrupt governments are using taxpayer funds to feather their own nests and further their ambitions, all the while telling the people who pay the bills that we cannot afford: Healthcare, education, veterans care, repairing infrastructure, alternative energy research— you name it. Still, we do have (borrowed) money for wars.

Go figure.

[curelightwounds]

Originally Posted by Photologyst

With the net, nothing can be kept a secret for long. Perhaps it will make world leaders and other criminals think?

... no it probably won't.

[OsmosisStudios]

Originally Posted by Photologyst

The fallout from this is going to be better than any Hollywood movie.

Yup; you'll be able to make your popcorn on just the nuclear bomb radiation!

[Jim Bryant]

Isn't the first time the U.S. government has been involved, they just got caught with their pants down this time.