WikiRapes

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WikiRapes: The VERY unfortunate and rather cynical conflation of WikiLeaks and rape/s or the (repeated) charges of rape/s.... Seems like Sweden (or Julian, ooohhhh...sorry about that!) just can't get enough of serious sex offenses and their related charges of same...


Hugo: Oh, dear God help us, we are going to hell... AZD: No we're not! Doesn't it seem like every time he (Julian) charges the USA with some nefarious activity that Sweden charges him with rape? Hugo: Hmmm...could be a connection there...


FOM: Sweden Reopens WikiLeaks Founder Rape Investigation (from REUTERS News Agency), WikiLeaks Rape Inquiry Reopened (BBC News) and CIA Memo on USA Exporting Terrorism (from WikiLeaks).

Please note: This posting appears simultaneously on our sister publication, The Anti-Zen Dictionary.

Secure Redaction

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Secure Redaction: So you thought you deleted that sensitive or possibly embarrassing information from your documents (WORD and PDFs)? But, the NSA says you may not have. You may have left traces of the sensitive information in your 'redacted document'. Yes, they wrote a brief manual on a suggested procedure. You can link to it here: http://wikileaks.org/w/images/7/75/NSA-redact.pdf


Please note: We found this interesting document while searching for the 'uncrackable insurance file' on Wikileaks. This appears to be the link to the mysterious insurance file.  This posting appears simultaneously in our sister publication, The Anti-Zen Dictionary

Snorting McChrystal (or Snorting Rolling Stones)?

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Snorting McChrystal (or) Snorting Rolling Stones?

Updated: Saturday, August 21, 2010

OK, the whole media world is talking about the sucker coup of Wikileaks (Bravo for them!) and their revelatory Afghan War Diaries leak/s.

The leak took place on or about July 25, 2010.  And blame or responsibility has already been assigned to some, sorry to say, low-level US military personnel.  A-Hem!  Excuse us!  Did everybody miss something here?  Including The Daily Show and The Colbert Report?

What are we talking about?  Hellooooo....  Didn't the US/ISAF General in Charge of the Afghanistan Operations/War just get sent down the tubes about one month ago?  Speaking of tubes, is everybody in the media snorting "McChrystal" or some other finely powdered crystalline Class I narcotic?  (Sorry, we apologize for the drug/humor reference/s, we know it is in poor taste).

Why did everybody else miss this?  Does the world have ADHD?  Is Mr. Derp now running Fox News?

Not to mention, therefore, isn't this all a result of that sh*tty tirade reported by Rolling Stone just this summer/spring?  You be the judge.

What else is funky about this relationship?  We're not saying the general had anything to do with the leaks, but the events are pretty closely related in time.  A little too close.

And, when some top guy goes down for something - they sometimes like to leave behind a little 'Position Paper' on where their major activities stood prior to their departure?  Is this all starting to sound familiar?  Helloooo...

Does anybody remember Abu Ghraib and what happened to all the low-level torture clowns involved there - and then the commanding officer.  You do remember the sequence of events in that scandal, right?  Ahhh, we detect the odor of the same order of sequence here...

Not to mention, we did have a look at the reports that appear on the Wikileaks website.  No, we haven't had time to read all of them.  We're still sorting through the Pentagon Papers for G*d's Sakes!  But, it is starting to look like the Pakistan-Taliban-US$ connection might be a little overblown.  Only 4 known reports appear in the journal concerning finance from Pakistan or anywhere.  As far as "hits" (assassinations) go, those were probably in all likelihood funded by the Taliban (with money from Pakistan or from poppy money - its hard to say for sure...).  There were something like 48 reports on hits.

We have distilled some of the more "important" categories of reports from the Diaries and listed them below.  Approach with caution.  We did this in case Wikileaks runs out of funds (again) or gets mysteriously shut down and disappears...  Meanwhile, our list, enjoy...

Oh, and something else, nothing shows you are winning the war like the number of enemy surrenders.  Ahem, we have FOUR of them.  Oh, and reported Food Distributions and Counter-Terrorism attack numbers were also weak; 4 and 1.  ONE counter-terrorism attack?  That "War on Terror" is going really swell isn't it Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney?

(Oh, don't get us wrong - we love our troops and support those that do honorable service and some not so much, too).

Bit.ly link to this post: http://bit.ly/9Q0XzI

Number of Assassinations reported in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 48



http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/assassination_0.html






Number of Attacks reported in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 2283


http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/attack_0.html



Number of Ambushes reported in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 538


http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/ambush_0.html



Number of Counterterrorism Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 1


http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/counter_terrorism_0.html



Number of Drug Operations Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 8


http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/drug_operation_0.html



Number of (Enemy) Finance Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 4


http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/finance_0.html



Number of Food Distributions Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 4


http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/food_distribution_0.html



Number of IED Ambush Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 350


http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/ied_ambush_0.html



Number of IED Explosions Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 7202


http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/ied_explosion_0.html



Number of IED Found/Cleared Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 8581


http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/ied_found_cleared_0.html



Number of Mines Found/Cleared Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 396


http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/mine_found_cleared_0.html



Number of Mine Strikes Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 321


http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/mine_strike_0.html



Number of Murder Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 100


http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/murder_0.html



Number of Willing Recruitments detained Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 1


http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/recruitment_willing__0.html



Number of Poisonings Reports (attempted) in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 1


http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/poisoning_0.html



Number of Enemy Sabotage Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 6


http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/sabotage_0.html



Number of Enemy/Unknown Surrenders Reports in Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries: 4


http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/afg/sort/category/surrendering_0.html



FOM: False Charges Made Against Mr. Assange?

Turdblossom in the GOPunchbowl

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Turdblossom in the GOPunchbowl: http://bit.ly/aw3yQl  With reference to the recent book by Karl Rove combined with the old saw about "That went over like a turd in the punchbowl". Example: G. W. Bush to Diary - 'Looks like Rove put a Turdblossom in the GOPunchbowl. Hey! I kind of like that! Heheheh...' Also with reference to the lack of finding of WMD's and the plans for war...buy the book... And yet another former staffer rats out the Bushies...

FOM: Karl Rove , Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight and What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception by Scott McClellan

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The White Ale House or The White Public House

The White Ale House / The White Public House: The (unfortunate?) collision of The White House with Public House or Ale House. We know, we know, 'The Beer Summit', 'Beer Diplomacy', we believe we've heard it all too. And, we know 17th century humor doesn't translate well to our time.

References: Obama more bartender than mediator at beer summit, Hopes for 'positive lesson' from beer chat, Ale House or Public House, The White House, Barack Obama, Henry Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates arrest.

Note: This posting also appears in our sister publication, The Anti-Zen Dictionary.

For Saturday, October 18, 2008

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Dear John McCain, its Shining Time Station time! And we need you to start playing Mr. Conductor and start playing some positive notes! Just see the link to George Stepanopoulos's blog below. Let's switch caps and get that Conductor's cap on! Either that or sack half of your campaign staff - with just 17 days to go. What are they advising you to do? Keep snarling? Keep griping? The American public might just get the message that you're a little too cranky, because you're...because you're...John, you're too old. A little more happiness just might appeal to the youth vote, the independents, the undecided, the minority vote, the foreign observers, your peers, and...you know, just about everybody. That's real politics - just act the part. Everybody does it sometimes, you can do it too, John. We repeat - just act the part. Now, even if you do that, will you still win the election? No. But don't get cheesed and stomp off John. Just act the part...you'll still lose, but you won't look like a sore loser and the old guy in the neighborhood ranting at the kids for biking over your front lawn. It's time to get this old train out of the station...and into the sunset.

BBC GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS News, explanation and analysis - full coverage of the global turmoil

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/business/2007/creditcrunch/default.stm

Feds face $1 trillion budget hole

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27247139/

Interactive: Who's to blame for meltdown?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27183355/

Wall Street buzzing about ‘capitulation’

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27241353/

Newsweek: Are we in a recession or depression?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/164211

Recession

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

Depression

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_(economics)

AIG asked for documents on bailout funding

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27242711/

Probe of Lehman collapse escalated: NYT

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre49h0lq-us-lehman-probe/

McCain v Obama: latest polls

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/629/629/7360265.stm

Electoral Map Calculator: You call the race

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/calculator/index.html


Biden hits Palin remark on 'pro-America' areas

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/17/campaign.wrap/index.html

John McCain's Next Move: Go Positive?

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/stephanopoul-12.html

In Chicago, ex-radical better known as a scholar

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/bill_ayers;_ylt=AhyWO_5bwdDHnrCnre55TYMDW7oF

Deep Background: Cindy McCain's tax returns released

http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/17/1562754.aspx

Cindy McCain

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

Voters hit by registration mix-ups

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27247132/

A US election glossary

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7461848.stm

White House Wall of Silence Over 'W.'

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=6039755&page=1

Hawaii Ending Universal Child Health Care

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/17/health/main4527996.shtml

Dying Lawyer's Son, Clintons Beg Biogen to Use Drug

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20081015/pl_bloomberg/ajfbhskp9kae;_ylt=ArpZ8KalhX8Q6pk7qoyrBggPLBIF

Tysabri Natalizumab

http://www.tysabri.com/