Advantage of being Abroad

Can you view this website...??

http://www.wikileaks.cx/wiki/Main_Page


From a story I just heard, the above website is being shut down in the
U.S. Outside the U.S. the document can still be viewed.

Here is an explanation from Time magazine on all the fuss:

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1714980,00.html

Here is a lengthy discussion on wiki leaks that is fairly skeptical,
from the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6443437.stm

And here is an excerpt from Wikileaks that I am able to view since I'm
outside the US restrictions:

"Bulk cash counters

From the invasion of Iraq in April 2003 until June 2004, the US Army
shipped nearly US$12,000,000,000 in cash, weighing 363 tonnes, to
Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Of
this over $9,000,000,000 went missing. [12]The funds were drawn from
the Iraq Development Fund, which had been formed from US seized Iraqi
assets. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a
month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days
before the legal handover of the fund to the new Iraqi government.
[13] The cash payment system has continued as there is no functional
Iraqi banking network. With so much cash flowing into the country it
comes as no surprise to find that the US Army has deployed 39
automatic cash counting machines."

12# ↑ Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Billions over Baghdad',
Vanity Fair October 2007,
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/10/iraq_billions200710
report
13# ↑ See David Pallister Thursday February 8, 2007 The Guardian: How
the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2008189,00.html


Freedom of information is under attack in the U.S. So much for the US
being "Freeeedum Lovers". Now being outside the U.S., I am convinced that the U.S. media and news organizations are terrible. Just watch your local news and see how little you actually learn about the rest of the world. But at least you were informed about the kittens rescued from a tree and the traffic flow on I-435. And regardless of how critical the BBC article is on wikileaks, in my short time browsing it, there are many "leaks" that are easily confirmed by internet searches. Follow the links that back up the short excerpt I posted. Vanity Fair and The Guardian aren't just some conspiracy theorist bloggers operating out of a basement.