Thursday, December 9, 2010
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AFP: Obama should resign if approved UN spying: WikiLeaks founder
AFP: Obama should resign if approved UN spying: WikiLeaks founder: "Obama should resign if approved UN spying: WikiLeaks founder
(AFP) – 16 hours ago
MADRID — President Barack Obama should resign if it can be shown that he approved spying by US diplomatic figures on UN officials, the founder of WikiLeaks said in an interview published Sunday.
'The whole chain of command who was aware of this order, and approved it, must resign if the US is to be seen to be a credible nation that obeys the rule of law. The order is so serious it may well have been put to the president for approval,' Julian Assange told Spanish daily El Pais.
'Obama must answer what he knew about this illegal order and when. If he refuses to answer or there is evidence he approved of these actions, he must resign,' he added during an Internet chat interview published online.
WikiLeaks threw US diplomacy into chaos when it started releasing more than 250,000 classified State Department cables on November 28, creating an international firestorm as American diplomats' private assessments of foreign leaders and politics have been publicly aired.
According to one of the documents, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked for UN personnel's telephones, emails, credit card details and frequent flier numbers.
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(AFP) – 16 hours ago
MADRID — President Barack Obama should resign if it can be shown that he approved spying by US diplomatic figures on UN officials, the founder of WikiLeaks said in an interview published Sunday.
'The whole chain of command who was aware of this order, and approved it, must resign if the US is to be seen to be a credible nation that obeys the rule of law. The order is so serious it may well have been put to the president for approval,' Julian Assange told Spanish daily El Pais.
'Obama must answer what he knew about this illegal order and when. If he refuses to answer or there is evidence he approved of these actions, he must resign,' he added during an Internet chat interview published online.
WikiLeaks threw US diplomacy into chaos when it started releasing more than 250,000 classified State Department cables on November 28, creating an international firestorm as American diplomats' private assessments of foreign leaders and politics have been publicly aired.
According to one of the documents, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked for UN personnel's telephones, emails, credit card details and frequent flier numbers.
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Sunday, December 5, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Woah!… Wikileaks Documents Show Obama Administration Used Spying, Threats & Bribes to Get Support for Copenhagen Accord | The Gateway Pundit
Woah!… Wikileaks Documents Show Obama Administration Used Spying, Threats & Bribes to Get Support for Copenhagen Accord | The Gateway Pundit: "The Obama Administration spied on, threatened and bribed countries to support the Copenhagen Accord. The accord would have devastated American business and manufacturing.
The Guardian reported:
Embassy dispatches show America used spying, threats and promises of aid to get support for Copenhagen accord
Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage.
The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid is used by countries to gain political backing; how distrust, broken promises and creative accounting dog negotiations; and how the US mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the controversial “Copenhagen accord”, the unofficial document that emerged from the ruins of the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009.
Negotiating a climate treaty is a high-stakes game, not just because of the danger warming poses to civilisation but also because re-engineering the global economy to a low-carbon model will see the flow of billions of dollars redirected.
Seeking negotiating chips, the US state department sent a secret cable on 31 July 2009 seeking human intelligence from UN diplomats across a range of issues, including climate change. The request originated with the CIA. As well as countries’ negotiating positions for Copenhagen, diplomats were asked to provide evidence of UN environmental “treaty circumvention” and deals between nations.
But intelligence gathering was not just one way. On 19 June 2009, the state department sent a cable detailing a “spear phishing” attack on the office of the US climate change envoy, Todd Stern, while talks with China on emissions took place in Beijing. Five people received emails, personalised to look as though they came from the National Journal. An attached file contained malicious code that would give complete control of the recipient’s computer to a hacker. While the attack was unsuccessful, the department’s cyber threat analysis division noted: “It is probable intrusion attempts such as this will persist.”
The Beijing talks failed to lead to a global deal at Copenhagen.
It’s a good thing the US media is ignoring this story. It might reflect poorly on the Obama Administration.
They certainly don’t want that to happen.
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The Guardian reported:
Embassy dispatches show America used spying, threats and promises of aid to get support for Copenhagen accord
Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage.
The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid is used by countries to gain political backing; how distrust, broken promises and creative accounting dog negotiations; and how the US mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the controversial “Copenhagen accord”, the unofficial document that emerged from the ruins of the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009.
Negotiating a climate treaty is a high-stakes game, not just because of the danger warming poses to civilisation but also because re-engineering the global economy to a low-carbon model will see the flow of billions of dollars redirected.
Seeking negotiating chips, the US state department sent a secret cable on 31 July 2009 seeking human intelligence from UN diplomats across a range of issues, including climate change. The request originated with the CIA. As well as countries’ negotiating positions for Copenhagen, diplomats were asked to provide evidence of UN environmental “treaty circumvention” and deals between nations.
But intelligence gathering was not just one way. On 19 June 2009, the state department sent a cable detailing a “spear phishing” attack on the office of the US climate change envoy, Todd Stern, while talks with China on emissions took place in Beijing. Five people received emails, personalised to look as though they came from the National Journal. An attached file contained malicious code that would give complete control of the recipient’s computer to a hacker. While the attack was unsuccessful, the department’s cyber threat analysis division noted: “It is probable intrusion attempts such as this will persist.”
The Beijing talks failed to lead to a global deal at Copenhagen.
It’s a good thing the US media is ignoring this story. It might reflect poorly on the Obama Administration.
They certainly don’t want that to happen.
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Clinton snubbed by Iranian foreign minister - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
Clinton snubbed by Iranian foreign minister - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room: "Clinton snubbed by Iranian foreign minister
By Bridget Johnson - 12/04/10 11:47 AM ET
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was snubbed by Iran's top diplomat, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, during a rare encounter at a Bahrain security conference Friday.
'I got up to leave and he was sitting a couple of seats down from me and shaking people's hands and he saw me and he stopped and began to turn away,' Clinton told reporters on her plane returning to Washington on Saturday, according to Reuters.
'I said 'Hello, minister.' He just turned away.'
Clinton was delivering a speech in Bahrain in advance of next week's plans for Iranian representatives to sit down with the P5+1 -- the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany -- to discuss its controversial nuclear program.
Mottaki addressed the conference on Saturday, stressing that Tehran would want the 'Iranian agenda' addressed if the U.S. wants to continue talks, the first in a year.
'We will focus on dialogue. Our agenda will be presented at the meeting,' Mottaki said.
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By Bridget Johnson - 12/04/10 11:47 AM ET
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was snubbed by Iran's top diplomat, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, during a rare encounter at a Bahrain security conference Friday.
'I got up to leave and he was sitting a couple of seats down from me and shaking people's hands and he saw me and he stopped and began to turn away,' Clinton told reporters on her plane returning to Washington on Saturday, according to Reuters.
'I said 'Hello, minister.' He just turned away.'
Clinton was delivering a speech in Bahrain in advance of next week's plans for Iranian representatives to sit down with the P5+1 -- the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany -- to discuss its controversial nuclear program.
Mottaki addressed the conference on Saturday, stressing that Tehran would want the 'Iranian agenda' addressed if the U.S. wants to continue talks, the first in a year.
'We will focus on dialogue. Our agenda will be presented at the meeting,' Mottaki said.
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Republicans Move to Block Ron Paul from Monetary Policy Subcommittee Chair
Republicans Move to Block Ron Paul from Monetary Policy Subcommittee Chair:
The republicans never cease to run a muck with hair brained ideas and are still attempting to keep their good ol boy system in place, while fearing the rEvoLution, and avoiding listening to the tea party whole heartily. Many candidates have stepped up to join the tea party movement, while staying one step away from the rEvoLution, while those who stand to take a lose when the gop falls apart, cling to the old ways in fear of losing their pompous machine of pride boosting pleasure. Who cares what party people cling to? they are merely money making machines, and society shapers.
When the people scream to be free, the big giant heads fear there is no money to be made in freedom, no policies to push, no agency to create, no organization to push money through. Just to be free. The lies they repeat... - that there is a cost to being free, - no there is no cost. There is inherent consequence, but it is well worth the risk.
Don't block Ron Paul from anything! :)
The republicans never cease to run a muck with hair brained ideas and are still attempting to keep their good ol boy system in place, while fearing the rEvoLution, and avoiding listening to the tea party whole heartily. Many candidates have stepped up to join the tea party movement, while staying one step away from the rEvoLution, while those who stand to take a lose when the gop falls apart, cling to the old ways in fear of losing their pompous machine of pride boosting pleasure. Who cares what party people cling to? they are merely money making machines, and society shapers.
When the people scream to be free, the big giant heads fear there is no money to be made in freedom, no policies to push, no agency to create, no organization to push money through. Just to be free. The lies they repeat... - that there is a cost to being free, - no there is no cost. There is inherent consequence, but it is well worth the risk.
Don't block Ron Paul from anything! :)
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