WikiLeaks about to hit the fan

Yes, they were kind enough to pay over $61 billion since 1951 when most economies were still struggling to make ends meet after WWII.

Sorry the government we set up after the war in West Germany paid us back the remaining Nazis was too busy running and hiding in South American to pay us back.

BillRM wrote:

Sorry the government we set up after the war in West Germany paid us back the remaining Nazis was too busy running and hiding in South American to pay us back.

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Yes the government or the descended of the government we set up pay us back.

It was a valid statement no matter what the details of the evolution of the German state was after WW2.

And the first German governmen (in "West Germany") was elected in 1949. Neither set up by the USA nor a descendent of the US-Zone Military Government.

So are we are (were) we vassals or a colony of the USA?

And did that finally end in 1991 or is it still the fact?

At least, I've now an answer why we'd got conservative governments until 1969.

But wait: why didn't you manipulate the Brandt election, too?

I do not think that the West gave a **** about the details of how you govern yourself as long as you did not show signs of going toward the madness of the 1930s once more.

BULLSHIT no West Germany Government was allowed to be set up without the permission and the input of the Western powers.

Look my silly friend after ww2 for some strange reason we did not trust the German people to rule themselves and we watch you like a Hawk for decades.

WASHINGTON — The State Department is warning hundreds of human rights activists, foreign government officials and businesspeople identified in leaked diplomatic cables of potential threats to their safety and has moved a handful of them to safer locations, administration officials said Thursday.

The operation, which involves a team of 30 in Washington and embassies from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, reflects the administration’s fear that the disclosure of cables obtained by the organization WikiLeaks has damaged American interests by exposing foreigners who supply valuable information to the United States.

Administration officials said they were not aware of anyone who has been attacked or imprisoned as a direct result of information in the 2,700 cables that have been made public to date by WikiLeaks, The New York Times and several other publications, many with some names removed. But they caution that many dissidents are under constant harassment from their governments, so it is difficult to be certain of the cause of actions against them. More

For human rights activists in this country, disclosures by WikiLeaks, which was founded in 2006, have been a decidedly mixed development. Amnesty International gave WikiLeaks an award in 2009 for its role in revealing human rights violations in Kenya. Human Rights Watch wrote to President Obama last month to urge the administration not to pursue a prosecution of WikiLeaks or Mr. Assange.

But they are concerned that the cables could inflict their own kind of collateral damage, either by endangering diplomats’ sources or discouraging witnesses and victims of abuses from speaking to foreign supporters.

Sam Zarifi, director of Amnesty International’s operations in Asia, said the cables had provided valuable “empirical information” on abuses in several countries. “This is a new way to distribute information,” Mr. Zarifi said. “We just want to make sure it has the same safeguards as traditional journalism.”

But have they released anything in this latest go-round that hasn't been released through regular media outlets first? I thought that was Assange's point of sharing everything with mainstream media and the coordinated release of documents. He's having them apply tradition journalistic methods.

Or do I have that wrong?

WikiLeaks’s founder, Julian Assange, has said the group will continue to release additional cables on its own Web site as well, though to date it has moved cautiously and has reproduced the redactions made by newspapers publishing the cables.

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WikiLeaks’s founder, Julian Assange, has said the group will continue to release additional cables on its own Web site as well, though to date it has moved cautiously and has reproduced the redactions made by newspapers publishing the cables.

Apparently they are publishing cables on their own website. It seems that they are later redacting names, if they see one of the newspapers doing that. This seems dangerous. WikiLeaks is relying on the news organizations to do the redacting.

The article also mentions, "...Taliban had said it would study the WikiLeaks documents to punish collaborators with the Americans."