Prisoners Of The Cave

Zahir Ebrahim:

“I don’t believe that the majority of the American public, which the outside world perceives as self-serving for their self-indulgent pursuits of the “American Dream”, are quite like that. I don’t believe that they are out to get the world, nor do I believe that they “knowingly” turn a blind eye to the machinations of their government, unlike how most of the world’s populations might perceive them.

“I believe that the American public is genuinely deceived, incredibly indoctrinated, and purposely and systematically kept ignorant. And that their condition of “ignorance” is the outcome of their institutional ruling elite finding this to be the most efficient way to conduct the “imperial” business of the state, because otherwise, “democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization”. These are the main assumptions in my book. I guess if you don’t agree with them, then you are only left with the first alternative, that the American public is indeed incredibly self-serving, and consequently morally guilty of war crimes against humanity for their role in knowingly aiding and abetting their government in this fictitious “war on terrorism”. Take your pick.

A “Samson” defense isn’t the prerogative of Israel alone. Especially when this self-defense can also completely destroy their arch enemies. With the oil fields “peaking”, as some fear mongers boldly allege even while Mobil and Chevron et. al. reap in record breaking profits each year, the long lines and 1929 can be brought back just as easily as the coming military draft – be it of economic servitude, skills of the professional, or the precious lives of the youth. Allies today can easily become arch nemesis tomorrow over a shrinking pie. We shall all be collectively punished when the dominoes fall, bystanders and silent spectators and all. The law of unintended consequences is still among the least understood laws of nature!

Self-interest alone dictates immediate atonement and restitution
– before it is too late.”

— Zahir Ebrahim

“In certain societies, perhaps still today, judges would sometimes award the guilty a punishment of such a type, to go humbly serve the family of those whom they have injured, whose bread-winners they killed. When implemented properly, it helped heal both the victim, and most interestingly, also the victimizer. Not too profound when one thinks about it, is it?”

— Zahir Ebrahim

Facebook: 9 Percent Of All Online Visits

Facebook tops all searches, reports Huffington Post:

“According to data from Hitwise, which provides online competitive intelligence, Facebook “accounted for 8.93 percent of all U.S. visits between January and November 2010.”Google.com made up 7.19 percent of visits and Yahoo! Mail ranked third with 3.52 percent of visits. Yahoo! claimed 3.30 percent of visits, and YouTube 2.65 percent.

Facebook has soared in the rankings as its share of visits has more than doubled in the past year. In 2009, it was the third most-visited site, behind Google and Yahoo! Mail, with 4.26 percent of visits. In 2008 it ranked ninth on Hitwise’s list, trailing Google, MySpace, and eBay.

In an odd twist, Google is actually helping to fuel its competitor’s rise by sending search traffic to the social network’s site: For the second year in a row, “Facebook” was the top search term of 2010. In second place was “Facebook login,” with “Facebook.com” and “www.facebook.com” also cracking the list of top 10 most popular queries.

While visits to Facebook have overtaken hits to Google.com, Google-owned properties–which include web video giant YouTube–actually received a greater share of visits, accounting for 9.85 percent of all U.S. visits. TechCrunch observed that Comscore confirmed Hitwise’s findings: “Comscore also shows Facebook.com passing Google.com in visits in November but all Google sites as still having more.

The Nazi Lebensborn Program

From Historical Boys’ Clothing:

“The NAZI domestic Lebensborn program was soon transformed into a much larger and more sinister effort of kidnapping large numbers of racially suitable children in occupied countries. This was valled “Eindeutschung” which I am unsure how to translate. The NAZI description of this is instructive, “Erhaltung und Förderung rassisch wertvollen germanischen Erbgutes”. This translates roughly as the “preservation and promotion of racially valuable Germanic hereditary property”. In other countries Lebensborn homes were established. The NAZI polices in this regard varied greatly from country to country. Probably more than 0.3 million children were kidnapped by the NAZIs. Few were ever to be reunited with their parents. A substantial number were murdered in concentration camps.

Czecheslovakia (1938-45)

Czecheslovakia was seized by the NAZIs in two stages in 1938. First the Sudetenland was handed over to the NAZIs as a result of the Munich Agreement and in March 1939, Hitler ordered the rest of the country seized in direct viloation of Agreement. We have no information on the extent to which the kidnapping of children occurred in Czecheslovakia as was the case in Poland. We do know that after SS Governor Heydrich was killed in 1942, a SS unit exterminated the entire male population of Lidice, a small village. Before doing so, the SS looked over the children and selected 91 as being worthy of “Germanization”. The others were sent to special children camps (i.e. Dzierzazna and Litzmannstadti) and later to extermination camps. Few of these children survived.

Poland (1939-44)

Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 and defeated the Polish Army in a few weeks, introducing the world to Blitzkrieg warfare. They divided Poland woth the Soviet Union which after the German success invaded from the east. The SS frustrated with the minimal births at Lebensborn homes in Germany decided on a more direct appraoch–“Eindeutschung”, the seizure and Germanization of racially suitable children in Poland. The SS kidnapped massive numbers if Polish children children who matched NAZIs racial criteria. A similar effort was made in other countries, but it was in Poland that the program was most extensive. The occupation of Poland was one of the most brutal in European history. Occupation aithorities, especially the SS, were under no legal or moral constraints as regards their conduct and the execultion of occupation policies. Poles had no recourse. The NAZI set out to eliminate the Polish intelgencia and reduce the rest of the country to a vast population of slave labor. It is estimated that a quarter of the populatopn of Poland perished during the occupation. I am not sure how these kidnappings took place and how organized they were and when and where they were carried out. Giving the numbers of children involved, there surely must have been a carefully organized effort by the SS. Some of the children were taken from orphanages. Others were taken from parents involved in the Resistance. I’m not sure to what extent children were seized off the street or from their homes. One source reports, “They kidnapped blond, naive children simply away from the road or removal them to parents, under false promises.” [R. Abe, “Lebensborn e.V.” Shoa.de website, retrieved May 3, 2002] There are reports of parents and siblings of kidnapped children were occasionally murdered or sent to concentration camps. Thousands of Polish children were transferred to special Lebensborn centers in order to be “Germanized”. Most sources estimate over 0.2 million Polish children were kidnapped. They were subjected to a “arische” racial classification using the Arier tables. The most important criterion was the distance between forehead and back of the head. The result determined the child’s fate. The children with highest classifications were adopted by SS families. Those with the lowest classifications were deported to concentration camps. The children at these centers were forced to reject and forget their birth parents. They were given a new German name and had to speak only German or be punished. Himler reasoned that the education process would be relatively easy because the German ideals “would reverberate in the sprit of the children who resemble is racially”. With the younger children, the education process was relatively easy. They were sent to Lebensborn homes. The SS nurses there reportedly persuade the children that their parents had abandoned them. The children 6-12 years of age were sent to boarding schools. The older children were more of a problem. The older children who rejected the NAZI education program were often beaten. These children were not returned home. When it was determined that they would not accept Germinization, they were usually transferred to concentration camps. Other children who upon closer examination were not sufficently Aryan were also sent to concentration camps. The children that proved more receptive were adopted by SS and other German families. The non-SS familes were often not aware of where the children had come from and the circustances under which they had been obtained. As with the German Lebensborn children, the SS normally falsified the child’s birth and other documents.

Denmark (1940-45)

We have no information on Denmark. We doubt if there were organized kidnappings because the occupation was less severe in Denmark. There may have been Lebensborn homes, but we have no information on this yet.

Norway (1940-45)

NAZI authorities considered Norway to be a rich source of Nordic breeding stock. There were no organized kidnappings that we know of, but some sources say that Norway was not imune to occasional NAZI kidnappings. More importantly, there were extensive liasons between German soldiers and Norwegian girls. More than 0.5 million German soldiers were stationed in Norway during the War. Virtually all the off-spring would be racially acceptable. Himmler regarded as direct descendants of the Wikinger, and therefore German soldiers were incouraged to have affairs with Norwegian womem. Lenensborn homes were established throughout Norway. One source suggests that there were nine homes set up, almost as many as in Germany. The homes were very attractive. The women got excellent care and good food. Conditions were very difficult during the occupation and the community would have been very hostile to women having the children of the German soldiers. Thus many Norwegian mothers made use of the homes and were treated as pampered recruits to the ranks of the NAZI master race. They had to agree to turning the baby over to the SS for repatriation to Germany. Records are incomplete, but estimates suggest up to 12,000 babies were born in these homes. [R. Abe, “Lebensborn e.V.” Shoa.de website, retrieved May 3, 2002] After the German surrender, these homes were evacuated and records destroyed. While the rest of the country rejoiced upon liberation, the Lebensorn children were thrust into Mightmare lives”. The mothers and other women who conorted with the Germans were despised and called “Deutschenhuren”. They were treated as criminals and arrested. About 14,000 women were arrested. The children were often left to fend for themseles. They were shunned, taunted or physically abused by bitter and vengeful neighbors, teachers or other members of their local communities. Government doctors, psychologists, church officials and bureaucrats branded the children as everything from mentally retarded to harboring dangerous genes because of their parentage. The director of the Oslo Mental Retardation Home, for example, wrote that the Norwegian women who consorted with the Germans were menntally defective. Thus the children cairred this stigma. One girl tells of being beaten and bullied at school. Then her mother married a former resistance fighter – “a Norwegian patriot who hated me”, she recalls. Then the beating and bullying was part of home life too. [Gerd Fleischer quoted in “Norway’s ‘lebensborn’,” BBC News December 5 , 2001, 16:21 GMT] Often the children were institutionalized. Many of these Norwegian Lebensborn “war children” (krigsbarn) tell of terrible treatment in these instituations. Some of the “war children” in 2001 brought suit against the Norwgian Government, demanding compensation the ill treatment they say they received by Norwegian sosiety and especially by state officials. The plaintiffs claim their lives were ruined and they`re still suffering for the deeds of their parents, because their fathers were viewed as the enmeny and their mothers as traitors.

The Netherlands (1940-45)

The SS had more difficuly setting up Lebensborn homes in the Netherlands than in Norway. As in Norway, the NAZIs saw the Dutch as potentially valuable genetic stock. Reich Commissioner Seyss Inquart was not favorably disposed toward the program. As a result there were no operational Lebensborn homes in the Nertherlands. Dutch women who wanted to participate in the program had to apply to enter the German facilities.

Belgium (1940-44)

The SS opened the Ardennen Lebensborn home iwas opened in March 1943 at Wegimont bei Lüttich. Pregnannt mothers with Germanic blood were accepted as well as children fathered by Fremdlaendi members.

France (1940-44)
There was no organized kidnapping of children in France for Eindeutschung ( Germanisation ) as was the case in Poland and several other countries. The Germans had, however, a large occupation force in France. The inevitable result was a substantial number of children fathered by German soldiers. One estimate suggests 50,000 through May 1943. Himmler thought that the children of a French woman with a German soldier could produce suitable children for “Eindeutschung”. Although not as entusiastic as with the children fathered by German soldiers in Norway, Himmler still saw the French children as “valuable German blood”. The SS opened a Lebenborn home near Chantilly called Westwald. There were disagreements amomg the French as to how to deal with these children. Many were hostile. The widow of French General Huntzinger argued that they should be integrated into the French society. Despite the stigma of having a German boy friend, the women involved reportedly avoided the Lebensborn at Westwald because the SS insisted that the babies be given up for adoption in Germany. Another source of children was the many french prisoners and slave laborers brought from France to work in Germany and Austria. Some French men fathered babies, but these would be cared for by the mother. It was not the same for the women workers. They were obliged to give it up to a German family for adoption.

Yugoslavia (1941-45)

Hitler was forced to invade Yugoslavia in April? 1941 to come to Italy’s aid in their aborted invasion of Greece. This delayed Barbarosa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, until June. Yugoslavia was divided. Some of the resulting states such as Crotia cooperated with the Germams. Other Yugoslav provinces resisted, especially Serbia. Part of Slovenia was actually incorporated into the Reich. I’m not sure to what extent the Lebensorn program was persued in Yugoslavia. There are light complectioned people in Yugoslavia and some of the children would have been of interest to the NAZIs.

Greece (1941-44)

We have no information on the Lensensborn program in Greece. As Greek children tend to be dark complectioned, the NAZIs may not have persued the program in Greece, but we have no information at this time.

The Soviet Union (1941-44)

The Germans could begin the Lebensborn program in October 1939 in Poland. The Soviet invasion did niot take place until June 1941 and by mid 1944 the Red Army had largely liberated the country. Thus the German control over Soviet territory was much shorter than their control over Poland and it was less through as active Polish resistance largely seized after the Government surrendeded. As a result, the conditins to execute the kidnapping of children were more difficult than in Poland. We do not know to what extent these kidnappings were conducted in the Soviet Union. There were, however, large numbers of racially acceptable children. One source estimates that about 50,000 Ukrainian children were kidnapped.

Baltic Republics (1941-44)

We also are unsure to what extent the Lebensnorm kidnappings occurred in the Baltic Republics (Lithianian, Latvia, and Estonia). We suspect that because the occupation was not as harsh in those countries where there was considerable sympathy for the NAZIs that the program was not vigorosly persued. But this may not have been the case. One source suggest that the NAZIs may have kidnapped 50,000 children were from the Baltic states.

Sources

R. Abe, “Lebensborn e.V.” Shoa.de website, (retrieved May 3, 2002).

Jörg Albrecht “Rohstoff für Übermenschen”, Artikel in Zeit-Punkte 3/2001 zum Thema Biomedizin, S. 16-18.

Bleuel, H. P., Das saubere Reich. Theorie und Praxis des sittlichen Lebens im Dritten Reich, Bern u.a. 1972, S. 192.

Catrine Clay, Michael Leapman “Herrenmenschen”, Das Lebensborn-Experiment der Nazis, Heyne-TB (1997, vergriffen)

Marc Hillel and Clarissa Henry, “Of Pure Blood” (1976).

Georg Lilienthal “Der Lebensborn e. V.”, Fischer Verlag (1993, vergriffen)

Dorothee Schmitz-Köster “Deutsche Mutter bist du bereit”, Alltag im Lebensborn, Aufbau-Verlag (1997, vergriffen)

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Conspiracy Theories Linking Israel to WikiLeaks Circulate on the Internet


Posted: December 23, 2010

As the story about WikiLeaks’s release of U.S. diplomatic cables gained media attention around the world, a number of Web sites across the ideological spectrum began to circulate conspiracy theories alleging that Israel was secretly involved in the publication of the cables.

Although the theory that Israel orchestrated the WikiLeaks’ affair is circulating on a relatively small number of Web sites, it has gained traction with those catering to the far right and the left, as well as on some Arab and Islamic sites, and others dedicated to spreading “anti-Zionist” messages like Islam Times and Hezbollah’s Al-Manar Web site.

To date, these sources have promoted two major claims regarding WikiLeaks’s relationship to Israel. One claim is that WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange “struck a deal” with Israel to withhold the cables that were “embarrassing” to Israel. This narrative about Israel negotiating with Assange may have first surfaced in Al Haqiqa, an online publication affiliated with a Syrian opposition group, which was cited as a source by other articles posted in Arabic and English, as well as select press agencies. Others furthered this claim by alleging that Israel’s “deal” with Assange either aimed to undermine the United States or sought to create an opening to attack Iran.

Another theory circulating online is that Assange actually works for Israel as a “spy,” with the alleged evidence being the scarcity of cables related to Israel in the materials that were leaked to the public and the press.

Many of the conspiracy theories about Israel and WikiLeaks are being promulgated by an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist named Gordon Duff on his Web site Veterans Today, which features anti-Israel and Holocaust denial materials. Duff has authored numerous articles and appeared in interviews advancing his allegations that Israel orchestrated WikiLeaks as a public relations campaign. In an undated interview with British-based IQRA TV, Duff even implicated India’s intelligence agency as being part of the conspiracy to bolster Israel’s image.

In another interview with the mainstream the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on December 17, 2010, Duff told the paper that, “WikiLeaks is obviously concocted by an intelligence agency. It’s a ham-handed action by Israel to do its public relations.”

Duff’s articles have also appeared on white supremacist sites, including Stormfront a popular forum for extremists, former Klan leader David Duke’s site, as well as Newsnet14, which re-posted a Duff column under another title: “Wikileaks: Is the Stench Coming from the Jews?”

Aside from Duff’s theories, other allegations against Israel had their origins in the left-leaning Web site Indybay, which furthered the claim that WikiLeaks collaborated with Israel to restrict the publication of cables that could appear damaging to Israel.

Some cartoons featured in mainstream Arab papers echoed this same theme. On December 20, 2010, a cartoon appeared in the Emirati newspaper Al-Ittihad which portrayed Wikileaks as only exposing issues that would embarrass the Arab world while concealing Israel’s alleged actions against peace.

Although they constitute a small minority, a few world leaders have used the WikiLeaks controversy to make anti-Israel statements, alleging that Israel is complicit in the affair or behind some of the cables. On December 1, 2010, Hüseyin Çelik, a deputy leader of AKP, Turkey’s ruling party, hinted that Israel could be responsible for WikiLeaks in comments during a press conference. Çelik reportedly marveled at the fact that Israeli officials seemed to know that the documents wouldn’t hurt the Israeli government: “Israel is very pleased [with the WikiLeaks controversy]. Israel has been making statements for days, even before the release of these documents.”

On December 21, 2010, the Palestinian Fatah party condemned particular WikiLeaks’ cables as “fabrications and lies” by Israel’s security services in order to deepen divisions among Palestinians. Fatah denied a WikiLeaks’ cable that revealed Fatah representatives had asked Israel to attack Hamas in 2007 and said the WikiLeaks revelation was “conspiracy” by the Shin Bet.

The following is a sampling of articles circulating the conspiracy theory that Israel is at the center of the WikiLeaks’ controversy:

  • December 16, 2010: In an article on his Web site titled, “Wiki-Warning – Little Green Men Coming,” Gordon Duff charged that the Mossad, as well as “a Rothschild law firm, the pro-Israel gang at The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel,” removed cables with “dirt” on Israel.

  • December 15, 2010: Gordon Duff published an article on the anti-Semitic site Rense, where he plainly stated, “WikiLeaks is Israel.” Duff alleged that former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski seemed to have arrived at the same conclusion when he was said in an interview on PBS on December 2 that WikiLeaks is the front for an “intelligence agency” and that the material leaked was of a “pointed” nature.

  • December 14, 2010: The Opinion Maker, a Pakistan-based conspiratorial site, published an article titled, “A Missing Leak: All Roads Lead to Tel Aviv,” by Ghayur Ayub. Ayub alleged that Israel is holding back a “missing leak” that would have proven Israel’s culpability in the affair. He wrote, “Here comes the million dollar question. Is there a ‘missing leak’ exposing Israel’s heinous motives despite the leaked documents stating that ‘there is no Israel lobby involvement to involuntarily force US in a war to serve Jewish interests’…?”[Original emphasis retained.

  • December 13, 2010: In another article on Gordon Duff’s Web site, “Turning Our Enemy’s Inherent Decency into the Vehicle of Their Own Demise….Mossad,” he claimed that WikiLeaks was working with the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad to create a false war against Iran. He wrote, “Wikileaks has issued a virtual declaration of war against Iran, part of the Mossad’s ‘war by deception’ of which Wikileaks is a proven component.  Blog after blog followed suit, spreading the same ‘poison,’ Wikileaks again ‘leaks’ false information citing Iran for having a nuclear weapons program long proven not to exist.”

  • December 13, 2010: In an article titled, “WikiLeaks ‘Struck a Deal’ to Keep Away Anything Damaging to Israel,” published on Al Manar, the Web site affiliated with the terrorist group Hezbollah, the author alleged: “A number of commentators, particularly in Turkey and Russia, have been wondering why the hundreds of thousands of American classified documents leaked by the website last month did not contain anything that may embarrass the Israeli government…The answer appears to be a secret deal struck between the WikiLeaks ‘heart and soul’, as Assange humbly described himself once, with Israeli officials, which ensured that all such documents were ‘removed’ before the rest were made public.”

  • December 12, 2010: Islam Times, an online publication whose stated purpose is to produce media “that is not tainted by the Zionist control over the western media structure,” published an article titled, “Is Israel behind WikiLeaks to Crush US Credibility for Potential Talks with Iran? The author, Mnar Muhawesh, alleged that the leak of these documents was of obvious benefit to Israel and the “Israeli lobby,” because it refocused the world’s attention on Iran. Muhawesh cited another article by conspiracy theorist Jeff Gates who suggested that a “forensic analysis” would ultimately find Israel responsible for the WikiLeaks scandal, since Israel had motive to leak the cables. While Muhawesh never overtly states that Israel is responsible, she repeatedly insinuates as much.

  • December 11, 2010: Zuhair Belqurshi (aka Zuhair Najjaah) wrote an article titled, “Wikileaks: in the Service of the Zionists’ Goals,” published in both the Arab Times (of Conroe, Texas) and the Arab Voice (of Paterson, New Jersey). Belqurshi alleged, “I will not discuss the conspiracy theory that has been confirmed in the leaked information, but I will pay close attention to the selectiveness of the published leaks, which serve the interests of the Zionists and the neoconservatives in America, the Zionist Republican Party, to Judaize occupied Palestine and thus Judaizing Jerusalem.”

  • December 10, 2010: Zuhair Belqurshi (aka Zuhair Najjaah) wrote another article titled, “Wikileaks: Who’s Lying about It…Who’s Laughing at It…” published in the Arab Times (of Conroe, Texas) in which he questioned why none of the “known” crimes of Israel are mentioned in the Wikileaks’ cables. He wrote, “And what of Israel’s relationship with this report, which did not mention the genocide practiced by them, using all international banned weapons, contrary to the Geneva Conventions, nor the dirty war it waged on Lebanon, not even the disclosure of the assassinations carried out by the Mossad from Hariri…to Mabhouh assassinated in the UAE.”

  • December 9, 2010: Ramzy Baroud, editor-in-chief of The Palestine Chronicle, published an article in his online publication questioning why Israel had been “spared much of the embarrassment” of the Wikileaks cables. He alleged that this is “particularly suspicious,” in light of the numerous and rather consistent leaks from many different parties who expressed the desire to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program. Alluding to Israel, Baroud wrote, “It seems as if someone, or some entity, wants to enliven the conflict with Iran, and spread it throughout the Middle East.”

  • December 8, 2010: In an article on Gordon Duff’s Web site titled, “Busted! Wiki Leaks Working for Israel,” he claimed, “Reports have come in today, tying Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, directly to Israeli intelligence and “Israel friendly” media outlets. We are told Assange, while at a Geneva meeting, agreed to allow Israel to select or censor all Wikileak output.”  Duff alleged that “Assange ‘the martyr’ now appears to be Assange ‘the Israeli spy.’” Duff also claimed that Assange has ties to Rupert Murdoch and the Fox Network and Newt Gingrich and described all three as “avid Zionists.”

  • December 7, 2010: An anonymous individual named “LikiWeaks” published an article on Indybay.org titled, “WikiLeaks ‘Struck a Deal with Israel’ Over Diplomatic Cables Leaks” in which the author alleged that Israeli officials and WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange made a deal ensuring that documents that were embarrassing to the Israeli government were removed prior to the leak. The article cited the report from Al Haqiqa, a publication affiliated with a Syrian far-Left opposition group, claiming that Israel paid Assange not to release certain documents.

  • December 6, 2010: The online Arabic-language publication Al Haqiqa, also known as “Syria Truth,” affiliated with a Syrian far-Left opposition group, published an article that claimed that WikiLeaks made an agreement with Israel to avoid publication of documents that “may harm Israeli security or diplomatic interests.” According to the article, a former WikiLeaks official alleged that Julien Assange, Wikileaks’ founder, met with representatives of an Israeli secret intelligence agency in Switzerland to carve out the deal. Al Haqiqa identifies the author of the article as Leah Abramowiz, referred to as an Israeli-born journalist and the daughter of Holocaust survivors.

  • November 30, 2010: Conspiracy theorist and anti-Semite Jeff Gates published an article in The Palestine Chronicle, titled, “Wikileaks: The Tel Aviv Connection.” Gates alleged that Israel orchestrated the Wikileaks scandals in order to delegitimize the United States and remove itself from scrutiny. He writes, “Tel Aviv knows that the phony intelligence on Iraq leads to those skilled at waging war ‘by way of deception’—the motto of the Israeli Mossad. Wikileaks are noteworthy for what’s missing: the absence of any material damaging to Israeli goals.” The same article was also published by Veterans Today on December 2 under the title, “Wikileaks and Espionage – Israeli Style.”

  • November 27, 2010: In an article on Gordon Duff’s Web site, “Wikileaks, a Touch of Assange and the Stench of AIPAC,” he alleged that Israel was using WikiLeaks to destabilize the United States. He wrote, “Wikileaks is an intelligence operation to weaken and undermine the American government, orchestrated from Tel Aviv, using dozens of operatives, dual citizens, some at the highest authority levels, spies for Israel. Through leaking carefully selected intelligence along with proven falsified documents, all fed to a controlled press, fully complicit, Wikileaks is, in fact, an act of war against the United States.” Duff also alleged that AIPAC, a Jewish lobbying group, is behind Wikileaks and its actions.

Co-Founder Denies WikiLeaks Struck Israeli Deal

Daniel Domscheit-Berg writes [with permission to publish]:

21 December 2010

I have been notified about the general rumour a few weeks ago, and shortly after about the appearance of me as involved in those allegations. I have never spoken to anyone at syriatruth or that reporter that is making these claims, nor do I know anything about any deals JA has allegedly made with Israelis.

Given what is appearing in the Scandinavian area with the involvement of Shamir and Wahlstrom I wouldn’t actually expect that to happen either. In any case, this latter statement is just my personal judgement.

I once received a test mail from a nizar.nayouf@syriatruth.net, and then a followup regarding OpenLeaks questions. A contact request to him after hearing of the allegations was not replied to.

In the last week or so I have been contacted by Israeli TV about this, as well as French Le Point today. Those are the only media outfits so far that seem to have taken interest. Other than that it seems to be mainly spreading via weird Russian and religious forums, at least from as much as I am aware of.

As I read somewhere that this alleged reporter I allegedly talked to works for Hareetz, I have asked the folks from Israeli TV if they could help find out who that is, and how to contact her. They replied that there doesn’t seem to be anyone by that name. So obviously, which was my gut feeling also, that person does not exist. Why that rumour is circulated, I dont know. I have my feelings about that and think we should give it some more time to uncover itself.

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Sample of many reports of the allegation:

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/308/209/WikiLeaks_Struck_a_Deal_to_Keep_Away_Anything_Damaging_to_Israel.html

Assange Autobiography Deals Worth 1.5 Million Dollars

AFP reports:

WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange said in an interview published Sunday he had signed deals for his autobiography worth more than one million pounds (1.2 million euros, 1.5 million dollars).

Assange told Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper that the money would help him defend himself against allegations of sexual assault made by two women in Sweden.

“I don’t want to write this book, but I have to,” he said. “I have already spent 200,000 pounds for legal costs and I need to defend myself and to keep WikiLeaks afloat.”

The Australian said he would receive 800,000 dollars (600,000 euros) from Alfred A. Knopf, his American publisher, and a British deal with Canongate is worth 325,000 pounds (380,000 euros, 500,000 dollars).

Money from other markets and serialisation is expected to raise the total to 1.1 million pounds, he said.”

Read the rest here.

Gordon Duff: Christmas – A Time To Grow Up

Gordon Duff:

“Our veterans are forgotten as much as our troops.  America is sick of war, sick of hearing about suffering but more than happy to talk about new wars.  We cheer them on, “let’s invade Iran,” but please, not my kids, no, let’s borrow the money from our grandchildren.”

The time is now.  We stop.  We clean up our mess, we pay our bills and we grow up.  We have veterans strewn from one end of America to another, forgotten and abused.  This Christmas is a time to dedicate ourselves to ending this national shame.

It may be time we listen to Jesus and “go and sin no more” (John 8:11)”

Dick Gregory Fasts For 9-11 Truth

Redacted News:

“It was so painful for me as my wife Lil and I watched the events of September 11, 2001 on television. Seeing a plane hit the World Trade Center (WTC) North Tower at 8:46, then a second plane hit the South Tower at 9:02. Shortly, we saw the firefighters and other first responders courageously going into the buildings hoping to extinguish the fires, but it was impossible to foresee what followed.

Then we watched in shock as nearly a dozen people were jumping from the upper floors to their deaths.

We felt profound horror at 9:59 as the South Tower cascaded in freefall into its own footprint, and then 29 minutes later when the North Tower came down in the same impossible freefall way.

The new forensic evidence which is being released today by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth demonstrates the presence of controlled demolition materiel in the World Trade Center buildings One and Two.

His favorite newspaper – just ask him.
Just one week after September 11, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Christine Todd Whitman declared “I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington DC that their air is safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink” and that we “. . . need not be concerned about environmental issues as [we return to [our] homes and workplaces”.

Latest Issue of the CreekYet to this day, at least 900 first responders have since died as a result of the effects of toxic “dust” from the buildings and the some 3,000 human remains that enveloped lower Manhattan and which Mayor Rudolph Giuliani declared “We must clear the rubble”. This “rubble” in fact constituted evidence from a massive crime scene, but was hauled away, first to Long Island, and then was eventually placed on barges and shipped to China.

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One thing I know is that the official government story of those events, as well as what took place that day at the Pentagon, is just that, a story. This story is not the truth, but far from it.

I was born on October 12, 1932. I am announcing today that I will be consuming only liquids beginning Sunday until my eightieth birthday in 2012 and until the real truth of what truly happened on that day emerges and is publicly known.

We are calling on all people here and around the world to pray or meditate everyday at 12:00 noon that the truth comes out.

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An Intelligence Front? The Case Against WikiLeaks, Part III

Note: This piece is now up at Veterans Today:

In my previous articles, I pointed out the most obvious problems I have with WikiLeaks –  the fact that its leaks seem to leave larger Zionist imperial goals untouched; its antagonistic stance to 9-11 truth; it frantic validation and promotion by major media; the falsity of many of its claims of confidentiality for leakers; the implausibility of its achievements absent intelligence or government connections; the contradictions between its public advocacy of transparency and its own secrecy; and the authoritarian tendencies in the writing and personality of its co-founder Julian Assange, tendencies that contradict the anarchist persona presented for public consumption.

In brief, to the question –  What is WikiLeaks?

My answer is –  Whatever it is, it has become a vehicle for disinformation.

Next, the companion question –

Who is behind WikiLeaks?

Here, the answers are less clear.

According to several sources, WL is “run” by a non-profit called the Sunshine Press. Assange is reported to be director and co-founder. According to the WikiLeaks website, the Sunshine Press is an “international non-profit organization funded by human rights campaigners, investigative journalists, technologists, lawyers and the general public.”

This doesn’t make it clear if  Sunshine Press and WikiLeaks are the same thing or two separate outfits.  A little googling gives me three Sunshine presses. None of them is our guy.

The website we want turns out to be Sunshine press.org (dot org, not dot com).

The Facebook page for Sunshine Press.org lists three URLs http://www.sunshinepress.org http://www.wikileaks.org and http://www.collateralmurder.com and clicking on the sunshine press.org link takes you back to WikiLeaks.

According to Sunshine Press’s Facebook page, the two organizations, WikiLeaks and Sunshine press, are the same. This seems to be borne out by the fact that the Sunshine Press Youtube channel consists of only WikiLeaks videos.

Some more googling about sunshinepress.org  yields several IP addresses; various domain names; its server, everydns.net; the location of the host in Sweden; the page rank (7); links (37); and other information.

http://www.robtex.com/dns/www.sunshinepress.org.html

www.sunshinepress.org (“http://www.sunshinepress.org/. Wikileaks. Sunshinepress”) has one IP number (88.80.2.32) , which is the same as for sunshinepress.org, but the reverse is host-88-80-2-32.cust.prq.se. Apple-memory.org, leaks.be, wikileaks.to, sunshinepress.org, apple-memory.de and at least three other hosts point to the same IP.

Sunshinepress.org is a domain controlled by four name servers at everydns.net. All four of them are on different IP networks. The primary name server is ns1.everydns.net. Incoming mail for sunshinepress.org is handled by one mail server at wikileaks.org. We are missing the IP:s of one server: mail.wikileaks.org. www.sunshinepress.org is ranked #514197 world wide as sunshinepress.org and is hosted on a server in Sweden. It has 37 inlinks. The Google Pagerank™ of sunshinepress.org is 7. backorder sunshinepress.org for 49.95 USD.Trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy and child safety of this site is excellent. (more on reputation).It is not listed in any blacklists.

I still couldn’t find a webpage devoted to Sunshine Press itself, although, according to the WikiLeaks site, SP has been in existence since 1996.

Emails referencing WL at Cryptome goes back to October 2006. Sunshine Press (which doesn’t appear in the Cryptome emails) seems to have come into being at the same time and seems to be identical with WL. We can tentatively conclude that there is no separate Sunshine Press. Nonetheless, the latest development is a new limited liability company formed on behalf of WikiLeaks called Sunshine Press Productions, which is registered in Iceland:

“The brand new company registered on behalf of Wikileaks is called Sunshine Press Production – the same as the formal international name of Wikileaks, RUV reports. The chairman of the company is Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and he shares the board of directors with filmmaker Ingi Ragnar Ingason and journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson. The deputy board member is Gavin MacFadyen, a professor of journalism in London. The company is registered at the home address of one of the board members at Klapparhlid in Mosfellsbaer.”

Researching the names mentioned in this paragraph give us some interesting tidbits.

Hrafnsson, an Icelandic investigative journalist formerly with national broadcaster RUV and a staff member of WL since April 2010, is now the public face of WL. Hrafnsson is also an outside advisor to the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI), started by Birgitta Jonsdottir, an anarchist and member of the Icelandic parliament. IMMI seeks to make Iceland a kind of Switzerland for journalistic freedom. Investigative reporter Wayne Madsen has argued that IMMI is a stalking horse for currency speculator George Soros’ interests.

Jonsdottir’s inspiration for IMMI was reportedly a presentation by Assange and WL’s German staffer Daniel Domscheit-Berg in Iceland, just prior to WL’s outing of Iceland’s corrupt Kaupthing bank, which collapsed in August 2009. Other accounts describe IMMI as having been initiated by a Soros spokesman Mark Thompson in May 2009.

(Domscheit-Berg has since fallen out with Assange and left to form his own company, OpenLeaks).

Birgitta Jonsdottir is also, and significantly, a member of International Network of Parliamentarians for Tibet, which “brings together 133 Parliamentarians from 30 Parliaments to advance the Tibet issue in governments worldwide.” according to the activist website Savetibet.org .

Now Tibetan autonomy, as championed by the Anglo-American elite, is reported to be a pretext for encroachment on Chinese sovereignty. Tibet itself is central to ecosystems and desertification in the region, as it provides water for several countries. Its grasslands also act as a carbon sink. Recall that a recent WL leak, trumpeted by the major media, was the reported assertion of the Dalai Lama that climate change trumps political issues in Tibet.

Meanwhile, while Westerners consider the Dalai Lama a benign spiritual guru, not everyone else finds him so warm and fuzzy.  Many in Asia  consider him an ethnic grievance-monger , who wants to segregate Tibetans from Han Chinese. His political positions also fit nicely with Anglo-American imperial ambitions in that region, for which human rights and climate-change are cover for surveillance and control.

Tibet, after all, is a highly strategic and sensitive area.  The Dalai Lama is reported to be financially supported by the National Endowment for Democracy and NED itself receives CIA funding.

Jonsdottir is not the only interesting figure in this group.

Gavin MacFadyen, with whom Julian Assange is now staying, is also someone with strong connections to the financial elites. MacFadyan is a senior producer-director at corporate mainstream outlets,  BBC and PBS, and a director of the NY conference of financial and business journalists at the Columbia Journalism School. He is also the director of the Center for Investigative Journalism, where Assange is listed as a teacher, along with such well-known names as leftist author-activists,  Mike Davis, John Pilger, and Vandana Shiva. Sponsors of the CIJ are George Soros’ Open Society Institute (which, notably, sponsors a number of pro-Tibet projects),  the David and Elaine Potter Foundation, the Ford Foundation (another foundation with ties to the CIA), Park Foundation, City University London and several smaller private trusts.

There’s a third connection to the Anglo-American elites. Assange is staying at the 600 acre  Suffolk manor of Vaughan Smith, a former British army captain, who owns a popular journalists’ club in Paddington in London, called The Frontline Club (along with the related Frontline TV News).

Frontline, it is reported, has sponsored a documentary that “casts doubt on allegations of a massacre at Jenin on the West Bank by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002” and has received funding from George Soros’ Open Society Institute.

On a side note, notice the company Assange keeps. If Assange is a “libertarian,” then, he travels a lot in very government-friendly circles. He is most certainly not the anarchist he’s often portrayed to be and which hackers and computer geeks often really are.

To return to the question of WL’s origins, the first part of this series pointed out that many of WL’s earliest staffers were Chinese dissidents and pro-Tibet activists.

Thus, the Soros connection turns up in six separate WL relationships:

  • Its Chinese and pro-Tibetan volunteers/advisors, some of whom worked at Soros connected Radio Free Asia and National Endowment for Democracy
  • Its connection through Hrafnsson to IMMI, considered by many to be a stalking horse for Soros in Iceland
  • Its connection to Jonsdottir and her Tibetan advocacy, which parallels objectives of Radio Free Asia and OSI
  • Assange’s and MacFadyen’s sponsorship by the Open Society Institute, with its pro-Tibetan positions
  • Frontline Club’s funding by the Open Society Institute
  • Direct requests by WL in 2007 for funding from the National Endowment for Democracy and Freedom House, both CIA connected. (Note: Open Society Foundation denies funding WikiLeaks).
  • In this regard, it’s relevant that the Open Society Institute had no critical comment about Wikileaks until recently, when it suddenly joined the chorus of voices suggesting that WL’s actions could have jeopardized the lives of Afghan informants (WSJ, August 9, 2010. This happened about a week after border security detained WL’s Jacob Applebaum for several hours. (Applebaum is a security researcher and hacker who works for the Tor privacy protection project as well as for WL).

    Next question. Who specifically set up WikiLeaks?

    A little research into the first appearance of WikiLeaks on the web shows that Assange is not the only name associated with it from its inception.

    On the Internet archive  (the Wayback machine) the earliest archived pages for WikiLeaks go back to Jan 14, 2007. There are 60 pages in 2007 for the outfit, 19 for 2008, 0 for 2009, and 87 for 2010.

    A click on January 14 2007, gives us mostly dead links, but the contact page produces two web addresses:  w i k i l e a k s  @ w i k i l e a k s . o r g   &    p r e s s   @ w i k i l e a k s . o r g,  a phone number (a cell number) in Washington DC, +1 (202) 657-6222, and a skype address, wikileaks.

    The  DC cell number turns out to be registered in Adelphi, Virginia, and it traces back 20 miles to Reston Virginia, which seems a bit odd, considering that WL’s professed interests originally were in Asia and Africa and its volunteers were supposedly mostly from the Pacific and Europe.

    Reston is a center for outfits working on US cybersecurity, information technology, and defense, as indeed is the whole DC-MD-Va metropolitan area. Among many similar companies HQ’d there, one finds NCI, whose website announces that it is  “an industry leader and provider of full-spectrum IO (Information Operations) enabling technologies and services to promote and protect our US federal government customers’ information and information systems.”

    IO, electronic warfare (EW) and Cyberwar are its specialties.

    Wondering why I hadn’t come across the Reston cell phone in articles about Wikileaks, I did another search and found that in fact in March 2007 a Columbia Journalism Review intern Dan Goldberg had published something about it, only the piece had been removed from the web.

    This is one angle for further research.

    Next, double-checking the domain information, I did a  whois search for WikiLeaks.org, which pulled up the following information:

    Domain ID:D130035267-LROR Domain Name:WIKILEAKS.ORGCreated On:04-Oct-2006 05:54:19
    UTC Last Updated On:17-Dec-2010 01:57:59 UTCExpiration Date:04-Oct-2018 05:54:19
    UTC Sponsoring Registrar:Dynadot, LLC (R1266-LROR)Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
    Registrant ID:CP-13000Registrant Name:John Shipton c/o Dynadot PrivacyRegistrant
    Street1:PO Box 701 Registrant City:San MateoRegistrant State/Province:CA Registrant
    Postal Code:94401Registrant Country:US Registrant Phone:+1.6505854708

    The address of the registrar, Dynadot, as it appears at page insider is PO Box 1072, Belmont, CA 94002, the email is privacy@dynadot.com  and the phone number is 1-866-652-2039.

    I called, and Dynadot confirmed that it is the current registrar for Wikileaks.

    A Cnet blog article and documents from the Julius Baer court case also confirm that the registrar in 2008 was California LLC, Dynadot, and that the registrant/owner was John Shipton, an Australian citizen resident in Nairobi. This is also confirmed by the notice of intent to appear filed by Shipton and his California law firm, Chadwick, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton. Shipton has a Nairobi address in the notice and Dynadot has its usual San Mateo CA address. 1-650-585-1961.

    Now who is John Shipton? Does he exist in his own right or is he simply a nom-de-plume of Julian Assange? Most likely the second, since it would be grotesquely coincidental to have two Australian nationals resident in Kenya, both involved in human rights activism at the same outfit. Again, more research is in order.

    The original whois information for WikiLeaks appears at Cryptome.org, where the registrant’s name is given as John Young, the owner of Cryptome and a co-founder of Wikileaks. The Cryptome site carries the email correspondence between Young and Wikileaks from a restricted mailing list housed at the collective, rise-up.net, in 2006-07.

    The letters show Young to be first enthusiastic about WL and then increasingly frustrated and annoyed by its methods. He calls the claim of over a million documents exaggerated and the repeated assertions of superior ethics and confidentiality deeply suspect, in the absence of a track-record.

    The final straw comes when WL says it needs $5 million in funding by the summer of 2007 to stay alive. Young erupts with accusations that WL is a CIA “hustle.”

    On the plus side for WL,  the Young correspondence suggests how WL might have got hold of names of activists. Members seem to have been regular readers of Counterpunch, Z Mag, and Mother Jones. I’d written several pieces for Counterpunch in 2005-06, and it’s possible that’s how they got hold of names that way.

    So that is an explanation that does not undermine WL.

    However,  the Cryptome emails note another problem that the review site, Wikileak.com (no S) describes in great detail.

    Wikileaks.org (with an S), it says, makes extraordinary claims about confidentiality and anonymity that are just that – claims. These claims are not justified by an examination of the actual procedures involved in uploading documents to the site, procedures that are often shoddy, incompetent, uncoordinated, or even deliberately misleading, Wikileak.com (no S) notes pointedly.

    [Lila, Dec. 26th, 2010: I made minor stylistic changes to the paragraph above to make it clear that it is not a verbatim quote from the review site, but a paraphrase of its position]

    Anyway, taking all this into account, WL seems to have been founded and registered in 2006 by Julian Paul Assange/John Shipton and John Young OR by a group of activists who for whatever reason let Assange and Young wear the public face of the company.

    Who were these activists?

    The original web entry on the subject (since changed) said WL was the creation of Chinese dissidents and other activists. This is also the claim of an article by Cass Sunstein, Obama’s Information Czar, in The Washington Post in February 2007, “A Brave New Wikiworld.”

    John Young says that the Sunstein article was the first public introduction of WikiLeaks and that WikiLeaks might well be the cointelpro operation to infiltrate conspiracy groups that Sunstein seemed to be arguing for in a later (2008) white paper.

    But this isn’t accurate. WikiLeaks had already been introduced to the public by a Time Magazine story, “A Wiki for whistle-blowers” a month earlier than the Sunstein piece, in January 2007.

    Time, Washington Post – this is pretty high-profile coverage for an outfit that had just begun three months earlier. What’s even more interesting is that the Time piece, like the Post piece, both point out the concurrent start of Intellipedia, the intelligence-sharing project started by US intelligence in October 2006, the month when WikiLeaks began.

    Both articles also explicitly mention rumors about WikiLeaks possibly being a CIA front. This is quite curious. Were these papers simply reporting all the information available to them?  Were they going on Young’s statement at the time, or did they have other sources for this suspicion? If the suspicions were credible, if WL was plausibly an intel operation, why the full-court press? If the suspicions were not credible, why mention them so pointedly?

    Again, it’s impossible to say for sure without first-hand information.

    One explanation of how activists created WL, comes, once more, from John Young.

    In his latest Cryptome posts on the subject, Young talks about Assange as a craven spokesman for WL, seduced by money and the promise of fame to betray the original ideals of the outfit. Those ideals, says Young, grew out of a cypherpunk mailing list going back to 1992 that debated issues around cryptography and privacy. Wikipedia has the list with individual descriptions.

    It’s a distinguished group.

    Besides Assange, who is described as WL’s founder, the inventor of deniable cyptography and the co-author of “Underground,” there are three Bell lab researchers; two elite university professors; the Chief Technical Officer of PGP corporation; the creators of Bit Torrent and other software/technologies; the founders of Anonymizer.Inc., Interhack Corp., HavenCo., C2Net and of Cypherpunk itself; a researcher at Lawrence Livermore labs; the founder and lawyer of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; a former Chief Scientist from Intel;  authors of several books – “Assassination Politics,” “A Cypher Punk’s Manifesto,” “God Wants You Dead,” and “A Crypto-Anarchist Manifesto”; Sun Microsystems employees; and a noted blogger and author on computer security issues.

    These are accomplished activists, no question. And if they were at some point involved with the creation of WikiLeaks, or were aware of it, or promoted it, then it’s no wonder that the project quickly got such a high level of media attention. On the other hand, the involvement of the high-profile cypherpunks lends weight to the notion that intelligence played a hand in the creation of WikiLeaks. It is well-known by now that important American businesses have often been co-opted by the intelligence community.

    Given that, it’s impossible that companies in the vanguard of technological development in encryption, security, privacy, and espionage, especially as it relates to nuclear energy (Lawrence Livermore labs), could have operated without some monitoring or input from the CIA. Ergo, if WikiLeaks were in fact the creation of the cypherpunks, I believe intelligence would have been aware of it and involved in it, as private contractors are deeply involved in Homeland security at every level.

    Of course, I should add that it’s not only US intelligence that is involved in Homeland Security.  Many have seen the hand of the Israeli intelligence and security business in it too.

    Whether WikiLeaks grew out of the cypherpunk list or not, it’s not in dispute that Assange was quickly WL’s public face. In fact, he’s repeatedly and abrasively insisted that he was the “the heart and soul” of the outfit, angering colleagues and eventually leading to public fall-outs with some of them (Young, Domscheit-Berg).

    Besides the cypherpunk list, another group of activists have been treated as the creators of WL -the Chinese dissidents originally named on WL’s website.

    Who were these activists?
    The one mentioned on the webpage originally:
    Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and startup company
    technologists, from the U.S., Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa”

    But there is another list  mentioned in an email dated Dec 9, 2006 from Cryptome.org’s exchanges with Wikileaks which refers to WL’ activists by their work (I have guessed at three of them in brackets).

    1.Retired new york architect and notorious intelligence leak
    facilitator (John Young of Cryptome.org?)
    2. Euro cryptographer/programmer
    3. Pacific physicist and illustrator
    4. A pacific author and economic policy lecturer
    5. Euro, Ex-Cambridge mathematician/cryptographer/programmer
    6. Euro businessman and security specialist/activist
    7. Author of software than runs 40% of the world’s websites (Phil Zimmerman?)
    8. US pure mathematician with criminal law background
    9. An infamous US ex-hacker
    10. Pacific cryptographer/physicist and activist (Julian Assange?)
    11. US/euro cryptographer and activist/programmer
    12. Pacific programmer
    13. Pacific architect / foreign policy wonk

    This doesn’t sound quite like “Chinese dissidents, journalists etc” but
    both lists do refer to technologists. That fact makes it plausible that some or all of the original WL material came from hacking, and not whistle-blowing, a theory that fits with
    a WL letter to John Young on Jan 7, 2007 suggesting that hackers were involved with some of the material, and that WL was gathering so much material it didn’t know where 90% of the material came from or what was in it:

    We are going to fuck them all. Chinese mostly, but not entirely a feint. Invention abounds. Lies, twists and distorts everywhere needed for protection. Hackers monitor chinese and other intel as they burrow into their targets, when they pull, so do we. Inexhaustible supply of material. Near 100,000 documents/emails a day. We’re going to crack the world open and let it flower into something new. If fleecing the CIA will assist us, then fleece we will. We have pullbacks from NED, CFR, Freedomhouse and other CIA teats. We have all of pre 2005 afghanistan. Almost all of india fed. Half a dozen foreign ministries. Dozens of political parties and consulates, worldbank, apec, UN sections, trade groups, tibet and fulan dafa associations and… russian phishing mafia who pull data everywhere. We’re drowning. We don’t even know a tenth of what we have or who it belongs to. We stopped storing it at 1Tb.”

    However you interpret this, one thing is clear, right from the start, Wikileaks was a conduit for a lot of material that they themselves could not identify or source.  If an intelligence agency wanted to plant or seed its own slanted “disclosures” in the welter of documents being dumped on the site, it would be only too easy to do.”

    (To Be Continued in Part IV))