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MasterCard users unable tomake payments as a result

Revenge attack follows similaroperation against Swiss Bank

Hackers promise to target Twit-ter over claims WikiLeaks com-ments are being censored

PayPal executive admits U.S.State Department pressured siteto stop WikiLeaks payments

MasterCard users were todayfacing problems with payments afterWikiLeaks supporters hacked intothe site in revenge for the cardcompany's decision to stop pro-cessing donations.

Online activists calling them-selves Anonymous have launched'Operation: Payback' following themove yesterday to cut off donationsto the whistleblowing website.

They appear to have staged a'distributed denial of service' attack

and brought down the site, whichwas unavailable this lunchtime.There were reports today that

MasterCard users have been una-ble to make payments. MasterCardthis afternoon confirmed a 'servicedisruption' message on Twitter from@Anon_Operation, read: 'WE ARE

GLAD TO TELL YOU THAT http://www.mastercard.com/ is DOWNAND IT'S CONFIRMED! '#ddos#wikileaks Operation:Payback (is ab****!) #PAYBACK'

Another, from AnonyWatcher,added - in a play on MasterCard'sadvertising: 'There are some thingsWikiLeaks can't do. For everythingelse, there's Operation Payback.'

There were also unconfirmedreports that the group would alsotarget Twitter over claims the#WikiLeaks tag was not being up-dated properly.

WikiLeaks Europe - also on Twit-ter - declared it was 'cyberwar'.The organization said: 'Group ThatTook Down Swiss Bank Site HaveNow Taken Down Mastercard.com.'This type of attack, which is illegal,involves flooding a website with somany requests that it becomesoverloaded and stops working.

PayPal, PostFinance and theSwedish prosecutors office - whereWikiLeaks founder Julian Assangefaces sex allegations - also appearto have been targeted.

The Anonymous group said in astatement: 'While we don't havemuch of an affiliation with Wik-

iLeaks, we fight for the same rea-sons.

'We want transparency and wecounter censorship... This is whywe intend to utilize our resources toraise awareness, attack thoseagainst and support those who arehelping lead our world to freedomand democracy.'

It is the latest development in atechnological war and comes afterMasterCard's move on Monday tono longer process donations.

At the time, the credit card firmsaid: 'MasterCard rules prohibitcustomers from directly or indirectlyengaging in or facilitating any actionthat is illegal.' PayPal has alsostopped processing payments toWikiLeaks. Yesterday a PayPalexecutive admitted the firm stoppedprocessing WikiLeaks' paymentsafter being pressured by the USState Department.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assan-ge was refused bail yesterday by aLondon court pending an extraditioncase over alleged sexual assaults inSweden.

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PAKISTAN: As many as 18 peoplelost their lives, while 31 others sus-tained injuries, in the first suicideattack during the commencement ofthe Islamic month Muharam-UL-haram in the Tirah Valley of theKohat district located almost 150kilometers away from capital Islam-abad on December 8.

The suicide bombing tookplace at the busy bus terminal inmain Tirah bazaar, Kohat policechief Dilawar Bangash said.Local police spokesman FazalNaeem said the bomber ap-proached the door of a buscarrying passengers and deto-nated his explosives.

While talking to media, theKohat police chief also said thatthe suicide bomb carried morethan 10 kilograms (22 pounds)of explosive material and thatthe suicide bomber appeared to

be about 17 years old and fromthe tribal areas. Earlier it ap-peared that the bomb was in-

stalled in a vehicle parked at themain bus stand, but Bangash said,"Now we have found the head andlegs of the suicide bomber." Thebody of the suicide bomber wasshifted to the hospital for a postmortem under the guard of securityforces.

Security in the area was steppedup to prevent any other terror at-tempt, and a search operation waslaunched for capturing suspectedhandlers of the suicide bomber,added the Kohat police chief.

By Khalid Khan | Contributor

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (above) leads the poll for Timemagazine's 'Person of the Year'

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LA(id) Realationship AdviceTodays payroll report severelydisappointed on the downside andleft economists scratching theirheads to explain the weakness.The explanation, however, isplain as day. As I have been say-ing for years, the US economy willnot create jobs as long as the Fedkeeps interest rates artificially low,and Congress keeps stimulatingspending and consumer debt, pun-ishing employers with mandates,

regulations, and taxes, crowdingout private investment with massivegovernment borrowing, and pre-venting market forces from restruc-turing our out-of-balance economy.

As new data comes in that con-tinues to bolster my hypothesis, thepoliticians in Washington continueto follow the wrong diagnosis, whileignoring evidence that their policyprescription has failed. Rather thanreassessing the effectiveness oftheir remedy, they are merely pre-scribing more of the same.

No doubt the 9.8% unemploy-ment rate (17% when counting theunder-employed or discouragedworkers) will spark another exten-sion of unemployment benefits,which will provide yet additionalincentives for the unemployed notto work. In addition, we will likelyget another round of stimulus paid for with higher budget deficits

that will further hinder the capitalinvestment and business formationnecessary to produce sustainable

jobs. Then, the inflation created bythe Fed to finance those deficits willsend consumer prices higher, mak-ing life that much harder for allAmericans, regardless of theiremployment status.

All the talk in Washington thatdemand must be stimulated tocreate jobs is farcical. The newsreports of mobs of shoppers tram-pling over each other to fill theircarts shows there is plenty of de-mand. What is truly lacking in oureconomy is supply. Those mobsare still filling their carts almostexclusively with imported products.If it were true that demand creates

jobs, we would be at full employ-

ment right now, but the truth is thatdemand is meaningless without theproductive means to supply thegoods.

Its ironic that extending unem-ployment benefits, one of the rea-sons unemployment remains sohigh in the first place, is actuallybeing touted as a jobs bill. Keynes-ian proponents argue that givingmoney to unemployed people willcreate jobs wherever they spendtheir government cheese. This isutter nonsense.

If printing money and dolling itout to the unemployed could creategrowth and jobs, why hasnt it al-ready worked? After all, we havealready extended benefits to 99weeks. Where are all the jobs?Also, if every dollar of unemploy-ment benefits generates two dollarsof growth, as our legislators claim,why not double or triple the bene-

fits? In fact, why limit them to theunemployed? Just give the benefitsto everyone then we will really getthis economy going.

Politicians cannot create eco-nomic growth at will simply by dol-ing out money. If it could, the Sovi-ets would have won the Cold War.Handing out cash does not create

additional production, it merelychanges who benefits from existingproduction. Transferring purchasingpower from producers to consum-ers undermines economic growthand destroys jobs.

For now, production is beingsupplied from abroad. But thisdynamic merely worsens our tradeimbalance, putting our nation deep-er into debt. As the dollar lossespurchasing power, foreign goods

will become more expensive andAmerican living standards will plum-met.

What will it take for our l eaders torealize that their solution is exacer-bating the problem they are tryingto solve? Unfortunately, I doubtthey will learn until the situationbecomes intolerable for the majorityof voters. These jobs numbersbring us one step closer to thatcritical mass.

Unless politicians can be rousedfrom their stupor, we will soonconfront an imminent sovereigndebt and currency crisis that willmake the credit crisis of 2008 looklike a happy interlude. Hopefully,when the first major shock strikes inthe US, as is currently happening inIreland and Portugal, it will finallyprovoke a 180-degree change ofpolicy in Washington. Hopefully, itwon't be too late to spare millions

from a life of subsistence, or worse.These are my hopes, but my fear isthat we are on the cusp on thelargest economic downfall in mod-ern history.

By Peter Schiff | President of EuroPacific Capital and host of ThePeter Schiff Show

EDITORIAL: MORE STIMULUS MEANS FEWER JOBS

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Science has taught us, against allintuition, that apparently solidthings, like crystals and rocks, arereally almost entirely composed ofempty space. And the familiar illus-tration is the nucleus of an atom is afly in the middle of a sports stadiumand the next atom is in the nextsports stadium. So it would seemthe hardest, solidest, densest rock

is really almost entirely emptyspace, broken only by tiny particlesso widely spaced they shouldn'tcount. Why, then, do rocks look andfeel solid and hard and impenetra-ble? As an evolutionary biologist I'dsay this: our brains have evolved tohelp us survive within the orders ofmagnitude of size and speed whichour bodies operate at. We neverevolved to navigate in the world ofatoms. If we had, our brains proba-bly would perceive rocks as full ofempty space. Rocks feel hard andimpenetrable to our hands preciselybecause objects like rocks andhands cannot penetrate each other.It's therefore useful for our brains toconstruct notions like "solidity" and"impenetrability," because suchnotions help us to navigate ourbodies through the middle-sizedworld in which we have to navigate.Moving to the other end of the

scale, our ancestors never had tonavigate through the cosmos atspeeds close to the speed of light. If

they had, our brains would be muchbetter at understanding Einstein.

May I introduce Major GeneralAlbert Stubblebine III, commanderof military intelligence in 1983. Hestared at his wall in Arlington, Vir-ginia, and decided to do it. As fright-ening as the prospect was, he wasgoing into the next office. He stoodup, and moved out from behind his

desk. What is the atom mostlymade of? he thought, Space! Hestarted walking. What am I mostlymade of? Atoms! He quickened hispace, almost to a jog now. What isthe wall mostly made of? Atoms! AllI have to do is merge the spaces.Then, General Stubblebine bangedhis nose hard on the wall of hisoffice. Stubblebine, who command-ed 16,000 soldiers, was confoundedby his continual failure to walkthrough the wall. He has no doubtthat this ability will, one day, be acommon tool in the military arsenal.

That's from an article in Playboy,which I was reading the other day.(Laughter). I have every reason tothink it's true; I was reading Playboybecause I, myself, had an article init. (Laughter)

In a desert plain in Tanzania, inthe shadow of the volcano OlDonyo Lengai, there's a dune made

of volcanic ash. The beautiful thingis that it moves bodily. It's what'stechnically known as a barchan,

and the entire dune walks acrossthe desert in a westerly direction ata speed of about 17 meters peryear. It retains its crescent shapeand moves in the direction of thehorns. What happens is that thewind blows the sand up the shallowslope on the other side, and then,as each sand grain hits the top ofthe ridge, it cascades down on the

inside of the crescent, and so thewhole horn-shaped dune moves.Steve Grand points out that you andI are, ourselves, more like a wavethan a permanent thing. He invitesus, the reader, to "think of an expe-rience from your childhood -- some-thing you remember clearly, some-thing you can see, feel, maybe evensmell, as if you were really there.After all, you really were there at thetime, weren't you? How else wouldyou remember it? But here is thebombshell: You weren't there. Not asingle atom that is in your bodytoday was there when that eventtook place. Matter flows from placeto place and momentarily comestogether to be you. Whatever youare, therefore, you are not the stuffof which you are made. If thatdoesn't make the hair stand up onthe back of your neck, read it againuntil it does, because it is im-

portant."-Transcript from a speech given byDr. Richard Dawkins (Oxford)

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Realpolikrefers to a brand ofpolics in which real-me cir-cumstances and pragmac ap-

proaches form the bases of deci-sion making. The approachstands in apposite to ones basedon a stern commitment to anideological view on how theworld shouldoperate.

Leaving aside those leakedcables which reveal U.S. naonalsecurity vulnerabilies, the dip-lomac cables disseminated byworldwide media outlets to datereveal unhedged analysis ofnumerous naon-states devel-opment, straight-talk about theirdiplomac representaves and,of course, back-room only opin-ions on their leaders, most ofwhom are publicly addressed byAmerican heads of state in quitedifferent tones.

The following explores a di-versity of internaonal policaltopics which have surfacedthrough the leaked cables thusfar. The cables, candid as they,present a refreshing view of theworld from a realpolikperspec-ve.

AFGHANISTAN

Cables revealed that U.S. offi-cials are fully aware of Afghani-stans corrupon, and its perme-aon from President Hamid Kar-zais office down to provincial

governors and beyond. In a De-cember 27, 2009 cable, the U.S.Embassy privately accused Pak-a Governor Khan Hamdrad ofarresng contractors and prem-ising their release upon a bribe.Hamdrad then funneled some ofthe bribe money to local insur-gent groups, which the Embassynoted as acvely underminingthe Afghans counterinsurgencypolicy.

The Afghan hawala system an honor based means of moneytransfer facilitates moneyconveyances for bribes and nar-co-trafficking, for example. Bypaying a small commission, aperson in one city can depositmoney at one hawala with in-

strucon for its disposion atanother hawala, and lile to noaccounng for the monies isrequired at either locaon.

In a single day leading up to

the Afghani presidenal elec-on in July 2010, transfers total-ing USD 75-million were pur-

portedly made from Afghani-stan to Dubai, U.A.E. Dubaifrequently serves as a financialsafe haven or back-up residencefor state bureaucrats and lead-ers in unstable parts of the sub-connent, southwest Asia andthe Middle East.

Around the same me, then-Afghan Vice-President AhmadZia Massoon entered U.A.E. withUSD 52-million cash. He was not

required to reveal the source orfinal desnaon of the cash andretained it almost in its enrety.Total, in a period of three andone half years, the Afghan Fi-nance minister reported earlierthis year that approximately USD4.2 billion had been transferredout of Afghanistan through itsKabul airport halawa, alone.

In other cables, the U.S. Am-

bassador noted that PresidentKarzai to be insecure and aparanoid and weak individual.He connued, Indeed his ina-bility to grasp the most rudi-

mentary principles of state-building and his deep seated

insecurity as a leader combineto make any admission of fault

unlikely, in turn confoundingour best efforts to find in kind aresponsible partner.

In response to these cable,one pundit stated that the U.S.must take this opportunity to

distance itself from Karzai, andeven begin to threaten to public-ly call him out on his poor lead-ership. Contemporaneously, theU.S. must develop a moderateleader with the wherewithal toconfront corrupon in Afghani-stan not benefit from it. TheU.S. must deploy its own re-sources to balance those of Kar-zais corrupt aristocracy, anddemonstrate to Afghanis thatdemocracy is in fact beer thanrule by the Taliban. To date,Afghanis cannot be blamed ifthey have not yet bought intoKarzais illusory democracy.

SAUDI ARABIA&

KUWAIT

In March 2010 discussionsregarding what to do with Guan-tanamo bay inmates from Per-sian Gulf states, Saudi King Ab-dullah suggested to Obamaadministraon counter-

terrorism chief John Brennanthat the U.S. implant[] detain-ees with an electronic chip con-taining informaon about themand allowing their movements

to be tracked with Bluetooth,

one cable stated, This wasdone with horses and falcons.

Brennan replied, Horses donthave good lawyers and ex-plained the legal obstrucons tosuch a proposal.

The cables reveals perplexityfaced by Middle Eastern states indealing with insurgents thatwould-be returned to their na-ve lands under the proposedGuantanamo closure. Recall,many Iraqi and Afghani insur-gents emigrated from othernaons to carry out jihad inthose countries.

In a February 2009 meengKuwaits Interior Minister im-plored the U.S. Ambassador,You know beer than I that we

cannot deal with these people. Icant detain them . . . If they areroen, they are roen and thebest thing to do is get rid ofthem. You picked them up inAfghanistan; you should dropthem off in Afghanistan, in themiddle of the war zone.

Kuwaits concerns were notmeritless. On November 3,2005, one Abdullah al-Ajmi(Internment Serial No. 220) wasrepatriated to Kuwait fromGuantanamo Bay. There, he wasacquied on all charges. In April2008, according to the DefenseIntelligence Agency, Al-Ajmicarried out a suicide aack inIraq which killed seven people.Fingerprints collected from a

dismembered hand matched upto those recorded off Al-Ajmi atGuantanamo Bay.

YEMENYEMENYEMENYEMEN

Two cables in parcular ap-pear to pose the greatest threatof srring up the leadership of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula(AQAP). That branch of the ter-rorist group is most notoriousfor the recently aempted cargo-bombing and Christmas-dayunderwear bomb on U.S.-boundairplanes.

One cable from January 2010

evidences U.S. General DavidPetraeus and Yemeni PresidentAli Abdullah Saleh discussion

regarding a recent airstrike onAQAP in Yemen, which uninten-onally brought about civilian

collateral damage. The Yemenigovernment carried out theairstrike according to public

reports. During their conversa-on, Saleh is quoted as saying

to Petraeus, Well connuesaying the bombs are ours, notyours. The cable also reportsthat Salehs aid interrupted witha joke about Saleh lying to hisown parliament about the airassault.

In a second cable, summariz-ing an exchange between Salehand Brennan, Saleh expresseshis concern regarding the illegalflow of drugs and weapons fromneighboring Djibou, but notwhiskey, provided its goodwhiskey. Islam forbids the con-

sumpon of alcohol. In 2009,AQAP executed a Yemeni gov-ernment official who they dis-covered had smuggled whiskeyinto Yemen.

RUSSIA

State Department cables re-veal pervasive corrupon in Rus-sia, and also the adeptness ofU.S. diplomac analycal capa-bilies. The wires describe athree-ered structure in Mos-cows crime circuit with (i) theMayor at the top, (ii) the policeand intelligence officials at the

second er, (iii) and ordinarycriminals and corrupt inspec-tors at the boom.

Moscow business ownersunderstand that it is best to getprotecon from the MVD[Interior Ministery] and FSB[federal intelligence service](rather than organized crimegroups) since they not only havemore guns, resources and powerthan criminal groups, but theyare also protected by the law.One cable noted that organizedcrime groups are no longer inhigh demand.

Diplomac correspondencealso documented the thenmayor of Moscow, Yuri M. Lu-zhkovs growing influence and

corrupon. On the one hand,the Mayor provided a largerbase for the ruling party, chairedby President Medvedev andPrime Minister Vladimir Pun.On the other hand, The NewYork Times reports that his cor-rupon was so profligate thatwitnesses saw suitcases, pre-sumably full of cash, being car-ried into the Kremlin underguard.

One note from the U.S. Em-bassy concluded, Ulmately,the tandem [Medvedev andPun] will put Luzhkov out topasture. Shortly thereaer,President Medvedev dismissedLuzhkov from his post. Othercables described rumors in the

presidenal administraon re-garding P.M. Puns loss of con-trol, esmang that approxi-mately 60 percent of his orderswere not being followed by sub-ordinates.

U.K.

State Department cables derided

the United States closest ally,the United Kingdom, regardingits efforts or lack thereof in the

Helmand Province of Afghani-stan. Helmand Governor Man-gal described his disappoint-

ment: I do not have anythingagainst them (the Brish) theymust leave their bases and en-

gage with the people. General-ly, the Mangal and the U.S. cri-

cized the U.K. for not buildingon U.S. achievements in Hel-mand by further expanding the

previously established securityzones.

The cables also highly embar-rass the U.K.s staffing model:the U.K. had only 4,000 troopsin Afghanistans largest province,equaling one-third of the troopdensity of RC East. It proceeds,the Brish were aiming forgood enough. (this is thephrase that is being used moreoen by the UK civilian and mili-

tary leadership.)

NIGERIA

In the most recently releasedcables, from October, 2009 ShellOil V.P. in Africa Ann Pickarddiscussed the Dutch companysfear of China and Russia intrud-ing on their dominion in Nigeria.Pickard expressed disappoint-ment that Nigerian ministrieswere revealing Shells oil figures,and appezing Chinese and Rus-sian competors. Pickard statedshe knew all that took place inthe government because theCompany seconded people toall the relevant ministries.

Johnny Carson, a senior U.S.diplomat to Africa shared Pick-ards concern and relayed toD.C., China is a very aggressiveand pernicious economic com-petor with no morels . . . [and]is not in Africa for altruisc rea-sons. China is in Africa for Chinaprimarily.

One cable from the U.S.sNigerian Embassy expressly

states, Pickard has repeatedlytold us she does not like to talk

to [American] officials because

the [U.S. Government] isleaky. She called it, and yetdidnt.

TURKEY & ISRAEL

Turkish-Israeli relaons, souralready, worsen aer leaks.Cables revealed claims by Israelthat Turkey permied weapons-related material for Irans nucle-

ar program [. . .] transit Turkey,with prime minister [Recep Tay-yip] Erdogans full knowledge.The claims, however, were rela-vely unsubstanated at theme.

Israels ambassador to Turkeystated to then U.S. AmbassadorEric Edelman, [Erdogan] is afundamentalist. He hates usreligiously. These claims wereconfirmed to the U.S. by sourcesinside and outside the Turkishgovernment who know Erdogan.Edelman wrote to D.C. in 2004that Erdogan has Islamisttendencies and described theP.M. as suscepble to Islamisttheories.

Edelman also remarked that

Erdogan has overbearingpride, an unbridled ambionstemming from the belief Godhas anointed him to lead Tur-key, an overweening desire tostay in power, and a distrust ofwomen.

Due to the Turkish-Israelienmity srred by the cables,Israel now looks to Greece for

joint military exercises, with onesenior military official com-menng to McClatchy Newspa-pers, In the days of beer rela-ons, we held a number of exer-cises in Turkish waters and intheir airspace. Historically,

Israeli operaons in Turkish air-space have been understood asdress rehearsals for any future

strikes on Iran.Per senior foreign Turkish

officials, it appears that the twocountries relaons will remainin a state of detriment unl Isra-el apologizes for its May 31 flol-la raid which killed Turkish civil-ians. Israeli commandos per-ceived the civilians to be armed.Since that me, Turkey has re-called its ambassador to Israel.

Finally, the cables raised seri-ous quesons about Erdoganssources of income and overseasbank accounts.

Last week, Erdogan demand-ed an apology from the U.S. forall of the aforemenoned accu-saons, stang The U.S. is re-sponsible in the first degree for

the slanders its diplomats makewith their incorrect interpreta-ons. There are lies and incor-rect informaon in [the cables].

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Imagine this: You visit a dulylicensed medical doctor who as-sures you that all medical infor-mation shared or revealed duringyour treatment period will be privi-leged; that is, it will not be revealedto anybody, including a court, unlessyour medical history is at issue in alegal case or you apply for newhealth insurance coverage.

The doctor issues a caveat: ifyou test positive for Human Immu-nodeficiency Virus (HIV) during yourblood work, your name and testresults will be sent to a state dis-ease prevention control agency (asis common in many states) chargedwith monitoring the spread of HIV/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syn-

drome (AIDS). That agency willallocate resource towards aware-ness and prevention programsbased on the states infection rate.

You test positive for HIV. Thetest results, accurate or erroneousbecause your label was placed onsomeone elses vile, are attached toyour personal information and sentto the state agency. The doctorassures you that your medical priva-cy remains protected.

An employee at the state agency perplexed by the continued spreadof HIV/AIDS decides to act in whathe believes is in the public interest.He downloads the personally-identifying information of all personswith HIV/AIDS and disseminates thelist to a major media source. Hismotive: if everybody knows theidentities of those with HIV/AIDS,then all will be on notice to not en-gage in unprotected sexual relationswith those persons.

The major media source, sympa-thetic to the employees goal, pub-lishes the list across the world.Those on the list are powerless,embarrassed and uniquely identifiedby their infection in their workplace,at home and amongst friends.*****************************************

Many reading the foregoingpassage would readily admit that themajor media source should not havemade the list public. Some wouldeven find their actions culpable eventhough all that the media source didwas publish something it received.Nevertheless, a cord inside usstrikes as wrong because the infor-mation was stolen and violatesanothers right to privacy.

The recent Wikileaks releases ofcables has challenged our princi-ples, and internally conflicted manyof us regarding a long-heraldedunalienable right freedom ofspeech. Like the unauthorizeddissemination of private medicalinformation, however, the worldwided i s s e m i n a t i o n o f C a b l e09STATE15113, more commonlyknown as Critical Infrastructure andKey Resources Located Abroad, iswrongful because the informationcontained therein was stolen and,furthermore, its disclosure creates aterror target list. The publication ofthat cable and others has nothing todo with freedom of speech.

Like many, when the story re-garding the leak of U.S. State De-partment cables first broke, I foundArmy Pfc. Bradley Manning culpa-ble, but had no serious disdain forWikileaks publisher Julian Assange.I felt refreshed that the initial release

of cables could usher in a new eraof realpolitik, wherein the U.S. would

just say it straight to the world.Despite the botch-up that permittedthe leaks in the first instance, I feltassured that the entire world com-munity still looked to the U.S. foressential decision making and prob-lem solving.

Then, the aforementioned cabledisclosed the location and suscepti-bility of every U.S. national interestacross the globe to N. Korea, Iranand jihadists alike. That disclosureseverely compromised and contin-ues to compromise the work ofmillions of armed servicepersonsand diplomats who over the lastcentury have sacrificed their lives to

provide not only Americans with ourpresent quality of life, but also thescores if not hundreds of developingnations that our country assistsevery day.

Now, locations including whereoceanic cables make landfall, ananti-snake venom factory in Austral-ia, key satellite communicationsites, important water infrastructureand more sites which are essentialto our global communities well-being are open targets to worldculprits.

Wikileaks has declared new typeof war on the United States. Whywould anybody think that any Ameri-can response should be temperedby notions of freedom of speech?

The author isJames Clark, a re-nown nationally-syndicated column-ist with the Professional Express.

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WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE WORLD NOW?Leaks In Review A solemn summation of revelations from leaked State Department cables By Zein E. Obagi, Jr. | International Columnist

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Like sandsin the hour-glass . . .

It is only a

matter oftime beforeMr. Assangefinds hisass in aUnited

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