@Mr. Divine

I don't understand your logic of total transparency; total transparency of governmental affairs and private citizens are entirely different matters. Not totally surprised though, seeing the assumption you made about Assange without having any factual evidence.

I'm glad that an intelligent man like Assange is trying to make a difference compared to the society-slaves that are willing to believe any subjective information and make assumptions like yourself.

Nice trollin bro.

@Mr Divine, call it what you want "misrepresent"/"lie", it amounts to the same thing.

But I do endorse your attempt to obscure what I said with your lies. As said, it is necessary to obscure the truth, including presenting false information because you and anyone else cannot handle it. So well done! :)

This is why Assange needs to be stopped, and smeared with rape charges.

@Mr. Divine, Assange will never tell the truth, all he can do is present classified documents. Whenever Assange makes truth claims, he is being as disingenuous as you and I.

Someone called "anonymous" - without any sense of apparent self or irony - slags off another commenter for demanding the Assange vision of transparency (i.e. the end to all privacy, on his despotic terms).

That's yer ball game, right there.

@ Hans Castrop - 06 April 2011 at 11:18: Transparency is about everyone seeing what's happening. You only need secrets if your ashamed of what your doing. There's your real ball game, right there....

"What you must realise is that most of these people are so inured, so dependant on that system that they are not ready to be unplugged"

Words from a Si Fi Movie maybe, but very real words none the less.

People are dependant on an economy that is based on trading in oil. A system that has been created by devaluing the dollar, and replacing that value with the assumed value of trading in US dollars to boy up the economy [The dollar is based on something like a 18th of the actual amount of gold in any US repository - this is a verifiable fact].

Saddam Hussain has no WMDs, that part has been undeniably established [Also a verifiable fact].

So why would the US create a war if that where not true? Simple, to keep the oil trading nations trading in dollars.

It's a documented fact that just prior to the war Saddam told the world he was considering trading in Euro's [Again a verifiable fact].

If that had happened, and OPEC had followed [because it would have been cheaper for them - again a verifiable fact] the US economy would have gone into meltdown [also a verifiable fact].

That's the reason that the US invaded the oil producing nations, it has nothing to do with anyone harbouring nut jobs who exist despite all the so called "War on terror". [After the bombings in London the government put tanks into airports - fact - Tanks can not prevent a suicide bomber].

You are all being held to ransom by fear created by your own government to prevent you questioning why your sons and daughters are dying overseas.

Why do you think there has been such resistance to women in the army [There is a report that was commissioned by the pentagon on the possible effects of that women dying overseas would have on the American economy - Just search the net].

Because the idea of MEN dying in combat is an established so called "TRUTH" that everyone blindly accepts. The idea of someone's wife or mother dying in combat is something that your government fears would make you question these wars.

Houdini - "You can hide an elephant in plain sight by simple misdirection".

The secrets that are being kept from you are not about national security, not because they are important for your safety, but because it's important that you don't understand what your government is doing to keep you in cheap consumer goods, in case you don't agree that the means justifies the ends. They are banking on the fact that you are such cowards that you'd chose your standard of living over a free and actually democratic world. That you would rather not know the atrocities done in your name so you can buy oil at a stupidly cheap rate, and carry on destroying the world's eco system.

If that is the hight of intelligence in the USA then we are all doomed.

We are ANONYMOUS,
WE are LEGION,
WE do not FORGET,
WE do not FORGIVE,
EXPECT US,
SOON....

No it's not, what's yours, some sort of cover for halfwit who thinks he's clever? My comment was idiotic, like yours but never got a posting!

Who has had more effect in the last couple of years in this country? The Telegraph exposing MPs, another going down very shortly, or Wikileaks? I don't think the Telegraph leaves its sources to be locked up in inhuman conditions. I could be wrong of course.

censored in my reply as well.

you have joined the dark side; will never read your strak again.

People in the know get a perverted joy with keeping things from the people, with patronising us constantly.

And wikileaks is a sign of the times, with the communication explosion we are living in. It is very exciting, but not for those perverts who play games with peoples lives, in dark rooms.

The CIA is nothing but an extremely powerful criminal organization.
I don't know who they serve but it definitely isn't the people.

Thank God for Wikileaks and those who support their efforts.

Is there a legacy of a luminary historical figure that this deluded little twerp and monomaniac peddler will not rape in order to aggrandise himself?

Once an organisation or political party for that matter has too many obligations......then their freedom to speak truths tend to become eroded.

The question is, why do these organisations lead such complex lives.....quite simply, for power and money. Good principles and ideology then slip back into the books from whence they came and stay trapped on some dusty shelf.

How's about an interview with Bradley manning... or is that a bad idea... ?

just ask Jefferson. if not, there is no informed consent nor real democracy. but since this is a time of universal deceit, it's logical that telling the truth is now a revolutionary act. no other press is as beholden to the people, so much as the profiteers. those who balk at too much truth must prefer the neat silence of totalitarian regimes.

re the $ problem: could wikileaks create their own protected channel for accepting donations??

I applaud Julian Assange and WikiLeaks for bringing more of the Awful Truth to the World.

However we must not forget that Mainstream media (and academic and politician) censorship and lying by omission involves not just massive, deliberate investigative failure (as now revealed by the secret documents exposed by WikiLeaks) but also deliberate refusal to publish already well-documented, Elephant-in-the room Awful Truths.

Thus everyone, of course, knows about the Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million Jews killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) but there is vanishingly minmimal reportage of the WW2 Holocasut of which it was a part (30 million Slavs, Jews and Gypsies murdered) to the extent that (largely due to the genocidal racist Zionists) Holocaust has become synonymous with the Jewish victim part of the 30 million victim whole and the well-documented racist Zionist(RZ) collaboration with the Nazis and complicity in the Jewish Holocaust is ignored by Mainstream media (MSM)(e.g. see: https://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/brand-joel-exposi... and https://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/brenner-lenni-exp... ).

Indeed the first WW2 atrocity to be described in a book as a "Holocaust" (in 1944 by N.G. Jog in "Churchill's blind-spot: India")was the 1943-1945 Bengali Holocaust in which 6-7 million Indians were deliberately starved to death by the British for strategic reasons. For a belated BBC expose involving myself, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, UK medical historian Dr Sanjoy Bhattacharya and other scholars see: http://www.open2.net/thingsweforgot/bengalfamine_programme.html. For a detailed and documented account of this and other British atrocities see the 1998 or 2008 editions of my huge book "Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History": http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ .

Yet, for example, a search for the term "Bengali Holocaust" in the entire site of the cowardly, unethical, lying and Zionist-infested ABC (Apartheid Australia's equivalent of the BBC) yields zero (0) results and a search for "bengal famine" yields a mere 10 results (4 due to me) while searches for "jewish holocaust" and "holocaust" (i.e. Jewish Holocaust) yield 127 and 2,997 results, respectively: http://search.abc.net.au/search/search.cgi?query=%22bengali+holocaust%22... .

Many, many more examples can be given - They are lying to you. WikiLeaks has made a small hole in the Mainstream media Wall of Silence.

@ Zenopus, there is no evidence that religion, superstition, and general stupidity is in decline. Christianity may be decreasing in Europe and the US, but its being replaced by equally stupid ideas, cults, conspiracy theories and alternative religions. People don't want to know the truth. If they did, wikileaks wouldn't be a threat. The truth provokes people to anger and violence. The truth should be suppressed.

This man must be protected at all costs.

Julian Assange is a threat to civilization. Human beings by their nature cannot handle truth. It is devastating to their psyche, which is why religion is needed to propagate lies about reality. Truth needs to be obscured, and in most cases withheld for a stable society to exist.

Mr Divine says "Religion for one is declining as you readily admit." But Mr Divine misrepresented me. The truth of the matter, I said:

"Christianity may be decreasing in Europe and the US, but its being replaced by equally stupid ideas, cults, conspiracy theories and alternative religions."

Mr Divine has demonstrated my point that people don't want to know the truth and willingly obscure and hide it. As he has done by lying about what I "admit".

@ThinkTank: I haven't lied to what you have admitted. I've just misrepresented what you have said. But you have to admit that religion per head is in world-wide decline.

This man is a hero and a liberator, revealing all the corruption that has taken place withing our government, and others. We, the people, are being kept down by the corporatocracy and hes hes showing us how they have manipulated the world. Ecuador, the middle east, our taxes, our wars, all on behalf of private interests. you are a fool if you think this man is in it for glory or money.a fake. educate yourselves. Enlighten others.

@Richard Mellor: Is that your real name? I doubt it. And if you're so in favour of total transparency what is your income and where exactly do you live?

We all want to know the truth except those in power whom it will damage.