Feb 4th, 2011 at 8:00AM: That the Sea Shepherd's and Japanese whalers are skirmishing again -- a recent tête-à-tête included the sling shotting of stink bombs (by the Shepherds) and false attempts to ram (by the Japanese) -- the bigger news was the Wikileaks release of conversations between representatives of the U.S. government and their Japanese counterparts about how to shutdown the increasingly ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Whale Wars continue -- despite Wikileaks
Feb 4th, 2011 at 8:00AM: That the Sea Shepherd's and Japanese whalers are skirmishing again -- a recent tête-à-tête included the sling shotting of stink bombs (by the Shepherds) and false attempts to ram (by the Japanese) -- the bigger news was the Wikileaks release of conversations between representatives of the U.S. government and their Japanese counterparts about how to shutdown the increasingly ...Wikileaks Outs Chagos Island Conservation Deal
Jan 9th, 2011 at 1:00PM: It was big news last April when the U.K. announced – backed by nine prominent international environmental groups – that it was turning its Chagos Island group in the Indian Ocean into the world's largest marine reserve.
But a cable included in the Wikileaks dump suggests that reasons other than "environmental protection" may have been the impetus for the set aside.
Known as "the ...Five travel suggestions for Julian Assange of Wikileaks
Dec 14th, 2010 at 1:30PM:
If you were just let out of solitary confinement after having wandered the globe, where would you go? Now, let's make it complicated: what if you were one of the most controversial figures on the planet?
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is now out on bail, ...Ten ways to travel like Qadhafi, according to Wikileaks diplomatic cables
Nov 29th, 2010 at 2:00PM:
So, if you were a Middle Eastern strongman leader, how would you hit the town in New York City? I don't know about you, but I'd want to do it with a real looker on my arm (and everywhere else). Apparently, that's what Muammar al-Qadhafi has in mind. According to confidential diplomatic cables recently unearthed by Wikileaks and published by the NY Times, the Libyan leader prefers to travel in ...
