By Alison@Creekside An embassy cable written by US Ambassador David Wilkins the day the Cons were first elected in 2006 suggests Harper would be useful in advancing the US agenda for Canada and that giving him ” a success story” like the softwood lumber deal would “shore up” his ability to stay in office without appearing to “sell out to […]
Wikileaked: The “incremental approach” to CanAmerica
By Alison@Creekside I guess everyone has their favorite US Ambassador to Canada. Mine has always been Paul Cellucci, who once suggested building huge aqueducts to carry Canadian water to the US and worried in 2008 that the election of Obama would “imperil the future economic integration of the continent.” Last month WikiLeaks released one of Cellucci’s […]
WikiLeaks’ Canadian secrets not all that secret
By Frank Moher I can tell from our logs that a lot of people are still looking to find out what Wikileaks’ purloined cables have revealed about Canada, but the answer remains: Not a whole lot. Little enough, in fact, that it’s possible to run the Canadian content all in one place, as I’ve done […]
A little 4Chan justice for Mastercard
By Frank Moher So 4Chan has finally found something useful to do with all its suppressed testerone and brought down the Mastercard site, in retaliation for the credit card company’s decision to stop processing donations to WikiLeaks. They’ve also apparently done some serious damage to PayPal (for the same reason), and Amazon could be next. […]
WikiLeaks cache slim on Canadian content, so far
By Frank Moher Early pickings for Canadians eager to find out what U.S. diplomats think of us, thanks to WikiLeaks’ latest release of documents, labelled “cablegate,” have been slim to none. Make that none. [Editor’s note: See update here.] So far, just 220 of 251,287 files have been released, and none feature the American ambassador […]
DND on friendly fire: Wikileaks, US don’t know squat
By Alison@Creekside One of the Wikileaks war logs released yesterday contained a friendly fire report filed by the 205th RCAG U.S. military unit which states four Canadian soldiers were killed and seven other Canadians and an interpreter were wounded on Sept. 3, 2006, when a fighter jet dropped a guided bomb on a building they […]
AK47 and RPG Spotting in the WikiLeaks video: 101
By Eric Pettifor There seems to be some confusion as to whether or not AK47s and RPGs (rocket propelled grenade) were present in the video released by WikiLeaks of the slaughter of civilians, including two Reuters news staff, by the crew of an Apache helicopter in Baghdad in 2007. Consequently, I present here a brief […]
WikiLeaks’ truth, Reuters’ “truth”
By Frank Moher We now know, thanks to WikiLeaks, that the US military lied about the killing of 11 Iraqi civlians, including two Reuters reporters, in 2007. “There is no question that coalition forces were clearly engaged in combat operations against a hostile force,” said its spokesman at the time. But the classified video released […]
The WikiLeaks video: arms-length slaughter
By Eric Pettifor An important story over at WikiLeaks concerns what appears to be the slaughter of innocent civilians by American forces, including two Reuters news staff, in Iraq . I should warn you that the video is very disturbing, taken as it is from the Apache helicopter doing the firing. I’ll leave it to […]
