Fraction of 1 percent of WikiLeaks cables released

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Source: CNN

Although it may seem as though WikiLeaks has flooded the Web with a mind-boggling number of classified diplomatic cables, the site says it has actually published only a fraction of 1 percent of the trove of secret State Department information it has.

WikiLeaks claims to have an archive of 251,287 cables. It has published fewer than 1,000.

Julian Assange, the face and founder of the Web site, was arrested Tuesday in Britain on a sex crime case in Sweden - a case separate from WikiLeaks.

One of his attorneys, Jennifer Robinson, said that the remaining contents of the State Department trove will continue to be published "unabated as scheduled, in a very orderly fashion" in the coming months. The documents could even be released in parts throughout 2011 in conjunction with media that had advance access to WikiLeaks' documents about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, as well as the cables, said Robinson.

At least three media organizations have obtained advance copies of WikiLeaks' documents: The Guardian, The New York Times and Germany's Der Spiegel.

Read more: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/08/fraction-of-1-percent-of-wikileaks-cables-released/

[EFerrari]

1. Two corporate McPravda memes to look for:

1) Wikileaks "dumped" secret government docs on the net. Obviously, they didn't do that and aren't doing that. In the past, Wikileaks was criticized for not redacting enough and their new procedure is a response to that crit.

2) Wikileaks dumped "top secret" government docs on the net. Not true. These cables are very low level.

fwiw

[KansDem]

2. Also: "Manhunt is over!" as reported by Matt Lauer on NBC News

From yesterday on Democracy Now!:

GLENN GREENWALD: Well, what’s interesting is it’s being depicted in the media as some kind of an international manhunt that finally concluded. That’s what Matt Lauer announced this morning on NBC News, the international manhunt is over. The reality is that although this case has been around for quite some time, there was really only a valid arrest warrant for the first time in England, the country where he’s been located, as of yesterday, and last night his attorneys negotiated his turning himself in with the police department in London. So it was entirely voluntary. There was never any manhunt of any kind, nor has he been actually charged with a crime. The arrest warrant has been issued by the Swedish authorities in order to question him about the accusations that have been made. There’s no judgment that he’s guilty or that there should be a prosecution at all. They’re simply seeking to interrogate him.

DemocracyNow!

WOW!!! A 12-hour manhunt! Doesn't George W. need almost that much time to empty his bladder? :shrug:

[EFerrari]

5. Yeah! "The manhunt ended when Mr. Assange kept his appointment

at the police station."

:rofl:

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7. Lauer is a failed journalist - oh wait, you have to have been one once to have failed

nevermind

[Newest Reality]

3. It is going to be interesting to watch

the counter-ops of the Deadbeat Rich Inc via their dissemination tool, McPravda as it's Oz-heads spin madly, around and around, reframing the onslaught of Wikileaks salvos in the escalating cyberwar, now in progress.

More and more of us are locked-onto the mechanics of the psyops and the feeling can be much like a promotion in rank or even a medal of honor in vital knowledge that grants immunity to manipulative bullshit. We know that knowing is a vital part of responding. How we function as a species is a key. Adaptation and a vast amount of inner resources are the fuel we mine.

The blush of systemic embarrassment as the Owner's asses get bared, glows bright red across the Globe to illuminate this Holiday season with a flush of realization and an impetus that will make change finally and unmistakeably emerge from the people themselves -- hope being optional as actions ensue and accrue in everyday life, one flexible, thoughtful choice for change at a time. The catalyst is already in circulation.

The information missiles are flying as cable daisy cutters explode at eyes-only level and even Mastercard servers melt in the heat of distributed denial of service napalm from brave hacktivist troops. We may have to reframe and rethink the term, "Off with their heads!" because it has actually taken on a brave, new context.

Dare the people proclaim to themselves, yet, "Carpe Dium!"?

Well we can, at least, thank Anonymous, and Anonymous, etc.

No. 2: "Information. We want information!"

You only think they've got you when only think the thoughts they gave you and think that thinking thoughts is all you have.

[JDPriestly]

4. Back in the Soviet era, Russians circulated secret copies of

banned books like Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Pasternak

The Wikileaks cables have been transmitted in apparently raw form to enough people that we could see an underground communication begin here of primitive hard copies of these documents passed around from person to person, with excerpts scrawled on walls, etc.

The US is really falling for the bait if it tries to suppress the information in those documents. It is a catch 22 situation for our government, a situation of its own making.

When Bush prohibited and limited the freedom of the reporters in Iraq, he set this situation up. Try telling your child that he may not read the books on the top shelf of your bookcase. Leave the house. Chances are your child will have moved a chair over to the bookcase and retrieved at least one of the forbidden books.

Same with internet sites and TV programs. Tell your 13-year old son that he is to stay away from certain sites and programs, and, unless you have persuaded him that your reasons for the warning are very good, your child will be sure to visit those sites at the first opportunity. It is human nature. Remember how we got thrown out of the Garden of Eden?

The challenge to our government is not to catch Assange or even whoever gave him this information but to change its security regulations so that everyone can respect the need for keeping the real secrets secret. When you tell someone that a whole bookshelf of books is off limits, you can count on the fact that those books will become very popular.

My husband reminds me that Henry Miller and Wilhelm Reich also were banned. They even burned Wilhelm Reich's books. That assured an avid group of readers of those authors' books for a long time. The censorship also asusred the immortality of those authors as their names will be mentioned over and over if only as examples of censorship foiled.

[EFerrari]

6. James Joyce. n/t

[JDPriestly]

8. Thanks, EFerrari.

[progressoid]

9. 250,000 of them are spam, Nigerian scams, and porn.

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10. You can bet they will threaten Assange's life to get this stopped ....

who knows what they could be doing to him right now -- ?

Assange is being held without communication -- and in isolation!!!

We need some ideas on what we can do to help -- !!