NOVEMBER 30, 2010
The WikiLeaks information has caused a firestorm within our government. All official responses have been to condemn WikiLeakjs, completely ignoring the fact this information exists, ignoring the fact we do the things the leak exposes and not mentioning that someone in our government is the real traitor in this situation. I particularly like the following quote:
U.S. officials have angrily condemned the release by WikiLeaks of hundreds of confidential diplomatic messages, with the White House calling the whistle-blowing site's online disclosure of leaked government cables "reckless and dangerous" actions that "put at risk our diplomats, intelligence professionals and people around the world who come to the United States for assistance in promoting democracy and open government."
Republican Rep. Peter King, the ranking GOP member on the House Homeland Security Committee, urged the State Department to designate WikiLeaks a "foreign terrorist organization," saying in a statement that it "posed a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States." And Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, dismissed WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange's claim to be acting in the public interest, calling the release a "reckless action which jeopardizes lives.
Republican Rep. Peter King, the ranking GOP member on the House Homeland Security Committee, urged the State Department to designate WikiLeaks a "foreign terrorist organization," saying in a statement that it "posed a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States." And Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, dismissed WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange's claim to be acting in the public interest, calling the release a "reckless action which jeopardizes lives.
Wikileaks is putting at risk “our diplomats, intelligence professionals and people around the world who come to the United States for assistance in promoting democracy and open government.” NOW HOW ARE WE PROMOTING OPEN GOVERNMENT WHEN WE HAVE MILLIONS OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS? That does not appear to be “open government” to me.
Gadaffi or Gaddafi, it is spelled many different ways, has a 38 year old voluptuous blonde nurse who must travel with him, presumptively for medical reasons. Hard to complain about that what gaddafi does since the United States killed his wife during an air raid under Reagan Administration.
In the middle seventies, my family owned a resort in Marinette, WI for less than two days as part of a real estate transaction. The resort was on Green Bay, on the border with the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Yesterday afternoon, around 3:00 p.m., an armed student took 23 other students and a teacher hostage at the local high school, which has an annual enrollment of 800 students. in the town of around 12,000 people. Police were called and with the help of the teacher being held hostage and perhaps with the hostage takers parents’ help, the student was talked out of the situation and everyone was released unharmed, except the hostage taker who was taken into custody. No shots were fired. Nice ending.
A new book claims Christopher Columbus was from Genoa or Italy but was the son of an exiled Polish King, who lied about who he was to prevent the facts from being an impediment to his goals. This seems like the type of claim a historian can make and never be proved wrong. Of course, he cannot conclusively prove he is correct, either. Personally, I don’t care but somebody does.
271 paintings, sketches and other works of art by Pablo Picasso were recently discovered in the garage of a home occupied by a 71 year old man. French police arrested the 71-year-old when they discovered the cache of sketches and paintings worth £50m at his Riviera home.
Mr Le Guennec claims that he was given the collection by the artist when he worked for him doing odd-jobs over the years. The children of Picasso think the art was stolen by Mr. Le Guennec. Part of the reason art becomes valuable is because it is limited in number. This will surely adversely affect value of the Picasso art known to exist. Adding 171 unknown pieces to the collection can only dilute the pool of artwork, thereby reducing its value. If I had a large Picasso collection and the money, I would buy the newly discovered art and destroy it, thereby maintaining the value of the remaining art.
My father told me once that if you ever had one of two things that exist in the world, buy the other one and publicly destroy it. The value of the newly created one-of-a-kind you now own would be worth more than the two combined. I have never been in a position to test this theory but I would like to be.
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