Wikileaks - Page 59

On December 23 2010 18:52 Pyrrhuloxia wrote:
Best article I've seen yet on Wikileaks:
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20101213-taking-stock-wikileaks

The offshore bank account details of 2,000 "high net worth individuals" and corporations – detailing massive potential tax evasion – will be handed over to the WikiLeaks organisation in London tomorrow by the most important and boldest whistleblower in Swiss banking history, Rudolf Elmer, two days before he goes on trial in his native Switzerland.

British and American individuals and companies are among the offshore clients whose details will be contained on CDs presented to WikiLeaks at the Frontline Club in London. Those involved include, Elmer tells the Observer, "approximately 40 politicians".

Elmer, who after his press conference will return to Switzerland from exile in Mauritius to face trial, is a former chief operating officer in the Cayman Islands and employee of the powerful Julius Baer bank, which accuses him of stealing the information.

(CNN) -- Saudi Arabia's oil reserves may have been grossly overestimated and its capacity to continue pumping at current capacity exaggerated, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable sent from the kingdom in 2007.

The cable, obtained by WikiLeaks and published in the British newspaper The Guardian, cited the views of Sadad al-Husseini, who had been in charge of exploration and production at the Saudi state-owned company Aramco for 12 years until 2004.

Saudi Aramco dominates exploration and production in the kingdom.

"According to al-Husseini, the crux of the issue is two-fold," the cable says. "First it is possible that Saudi reserves are not as bountiful as sometimes described and the timeline for their production not as unrestrained as Aramco executives and energy optimists would like."

Al-Husseini is quoted as disagreeing with his former company's estimate of total reserves in Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer.

"He believes that Aramco's reserves are overstated by as much as 300 billion barrels of 'speculative resources.' He instead focuses on original proven reserves."

On April 25 2011 15:39 acker wrote:
Fairly old bump, but there's a thread for Wikileaks stuff, and they just released a whole bunch of Guantanamo information.

http://www.nytimes.com/guantanamo-files/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-files-lift-lid-prison

Released first to The Washington Post, the McClatchy Company, El Pais, the Telegraph, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, Aftonbladet,La Repubblica, L’Espresso, and Andy Worthington.

On April 25 2011 17:39 scouting overlord wrote:


This might look incriminating friends, but remember, we need to keep the Terrorists in the literal torture camp to protect Our Freedoms, and by extension, Freedom itself. If anything, the real criminals are the biased "journalists" who want to condemn the U.S. by making public how the U.S. operates. Look, this information is only meant for serious people to look at, like people with uniforms or suits maybe, with fancy job titles, NOT some liberal arts journalist or the general American public. They just won't understand the situation like a torture camp operator can.

Here's a press statement from Our Beneficiaries, the U.S. military industrial complex, condemning this illegal leak of highly 'sensitive' (please stop hurting its feelings, it's very sensitive) information.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/world/guantanamo-files-us-government-statement.html?_r=1

On April 25 2011 17:41 On_Slaught wrote:
I honest to god can't tell if the above post is a troll (good one if so) or not. I really hope it is.

Here's a press statement from Our Beneficiaries, the U.S. military industrial complex, condemning this illegal leak of highly 'sensitive' (please stop hurting its feelings, it's very sensitive) information.

On April 25 2011 17:51 Starfox wrote:
Hooray for the amerifa..cans and their land of the free.
Also http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/04/22/obama-on-manning-he-broke-the-law-so-much-for-that-trial/
Congratulations Obama, you, as the president of your country, just said he is guilty before he had his fair trial. (Which now of course he can't have, because the fucking president said he is guilty beforehand) USA calling itself a "constitutional state" is just a disgrace.

On April 25 2011 18:26 Electric.Jesus wrote:


Putin did the same thing with Chodorkowsky. A sad day for the US when they lower themselves to the democratic level of Russia. On the other hand, a German media outlet suspected that this could be a brilliant move by Obama aiming towards freeing manning. His statement kinda makes a fair trial impossible and maybe judges could use that as a argument to drop the charges alltogether.

On April 25 2011 17:41 On_Slaught wrote:
I honest to god can't tell if the above post is a troll (good one if so) or not. I really hope it is.

On April 25 2011 17:39 scouting overlord wrote:


This might look incriminating friends, but remember, we need to keep the Terrorists in the literal torture camp to protect Our Freedoms, and by extension, Freedom itself. If anything, the real criminals are the biased "journalists" who want to condemn the U.S. by making public how the U.S. operates. Look, this information is only meant for serious people to look at, like people with uniforms or suits maybe, with fancy job titles, NOT some liberal arts journalist or the general American public. They just won't understand the situation like a torture camp operator can.

Here's a press statement from Our Beneficiaries, the U.S. military industrial complex, condemning this illegal leak of highly 'sensitive' (please stop hurting its feelings, it's very sensitive) information.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/world/guantanamo-files-us-government-statement.html?_r=1

On April 25 2011 18:32 UniversalSnip wrote:


a government is implicitly claiming somebody is guilty when they prosecute them

hurrr

On April 25 2011 18:32 UniversalSnip wrote:


a government is implicitly claiming somebody is guilty when they prosecute them

hurrr

On April 25 2011 23:45 Krikkitone wrote:


No they are begioning the process them. The "Government" does not claim someone is guilty except by a trial. Part of the government (ie exceutive branch) starts the process of Finding out if the government will claim that they are guilty.

The simple and standard method is to add "alleged"/"accused" ie "his alleged actions broke the law" or "he is accused of breaking the law", etc.