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Government of Iceland has been contacted by US officials over Embassy leaks according to MBL
Originally posted by TwiTcHomatic
How can so many people still believe that this is propaganda being covertly released by the U.S. at this point?
With all the posturing and preemptive apologies that have happened within the last 72 hours ... it absolutely baffles me how this can still be considered.
If this much pre-apologies and warnings about "what you might read" are being sent to everyone.. what can the U.S. possibly stand to gain? Not much except strained relationships.
Brzezinski sets the tone for his strategy by describing Russia and China as the two most important countries - almost but not quite superpowers - whose interests that might threaten the U.S. in Central Asia. Of the two, Brzezinski considers Russia to be the more serious threat. Both nations border Central Asia. In a lesser context he describes the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Iran and Kazakhstan as essential "lesser" nations that must be managed by the U.S. as buffers or counterweights to Russian and Chinese moves to control the oil, gas and minerals of the Central Asian Republics (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan). He also notes, quite clearly (p. 53) that any nation that might become predominant in Central Asia would directly threaten the current U.S. control of oil resources in the Persian Gulf. In reading the book it becomes clear why the U.S. had a direct motive for the looting of some $300 billion in Russian assets during the 1990s, destabilizing Russia's currency (1998) and ensuring that a weakened Russia would have to look westward to Europe for economic and political survival, rather than southward to Central Asia. A dependent Russia would lack the military, economic and political clout to exert influence in the region and this weakening of Russia would explain why Russian President Vladimir Putin has been such a willing ally of U.S. efforts to date. (See FTW Vol. IV, No. 1 - March 31, 2001)
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US diplomats predicted the Coalition Government would be unstable and considered Gordon Brown to be weak and unpredictable, secret documents are set to show.
Downing Street was yesterday warned by US officials that leaked diplomatic messages will soon come to light, revealing American diplomats’ candid private assessments of British politics.
The telegrams and cable messages from the US embassy in London are among thousands of secret documents handed to the Wikileaks website, which is set to publish them within days.
The imminent leak has sparked warnings that America’s relations with its international allies could be badly strained.
Originally posted by oozyism
A much more plausible scenario.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by oozyism
Nah. Not at all likely. I mean yeah maybe the extreme fringe theorist might consider this, but they wouldn't go to all this trouble if they didn't know one would have noticed or ask why they didn't. Also other government wouldn't be fooled into "looking." They would be aware. This is real. There may be agendas, but it is not the agenda of at least the majority of the government. This is going to hurt them.
the_denv@bt:/mnt/usb# openssl enc -d -bf -in insurance.aes256 > out.dec
enter bf-cbc decryption password:
bad decrypt
9005:error:06065064:digital envelope routines:EVP_DecryptFinal_ex:bad decrypt:evp_enc.c:461 :
Originally posted by SLAYER69
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This just gets uglier and uglier by the second...
Wikileaks: US diplomats predicted Coalition would fail
US diplomats predicted the Coalition Government would be unstable and considered Gordon Brown to be weak and unpredictable, secret documents are set to show.
Downing Street was yesterday warned by US officials that leaked diplomatic messages will soon come to light, revealing American diplomats’ candid private assessments of British politics.
The telegrams and cable messages from the US embassy in London are among thousands of secret documents handed to the Wikileaks website, which is set to publish them within days.
The imminent leak has sparked warnings that America’s relations with its international allies could be badly strained.
Originally posted by oozyism
reply to post by SLAYER69
OR
The leak is not a leak, the leak is a dis-info propaganda, with leak wrapped around it.
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All this fuss is used to give credibility to Wikileak, and to put all world attention on Wikileaks, when the documents are released.
A much more plausible scenario.