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		<title>The US Must End Its War on Whistleblowers</title>
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			<title>reiverpacific says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ So go along like a predictable cypher for the lying power class status quo. Coward!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>reiverpacific</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:14:57 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>noitall says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Without oversight by the People, there is no democracy. Benevolent dictator? Not so far as I can see; I can see a lot of effort to support a dictatorial reign by the super rich but without citizens with conviction and balls, we and America will be lost. Demand that Manning be freed and support justice for ALL whistleblowers.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>noitall</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:57:04 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>noitall says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ignorance may be bliss to you but to a democracy, it is death. Do you think the German people supported Hitler up to the point where they had no choice? Shit happens when you're out of the loop and before you know it, you're knee deep in it and can't walk out of it.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>noitall</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:51:54 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>noitall says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ What are you saying? to be a "true whistleblower" one must only divulge one crime at a time? Where did you get this definition from the Fox dictionary? Assange has blown the whistle on a specific circumstance, if it makes you feel better, the covert distruction of our democracy!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>noitall</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:47:10 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>pernsey says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The US Must End Its War on Whistleblowers. ..Absolutely they should. There is no accountability, the media, reporters, and whistleblowers are what used to keep them honest.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>pernsey</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:36:26 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>pbbrodie says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Since they are printing these comments of yours, you evidently used some offensive language, worse than cowards, and it was deemed inappropriate for posting. Try rewriting your comment, sans nasty language, and I feel sure they will post it for you. I have read many comments on this site that run contrary to the vast majority and seriously doubt anything you wrote was withheld for any reason other than inappropriate language and certainly not because it is in disagreement with anything else posted here.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>pbbrodie</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:36:40 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>reiverpacific says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Tony Blair is a materialistic, greedy, ambitious and self-aggrandizi ng patsy for Dimwits Bush and Cheney. And many Mexicans and others are now leaving due to the almost doubling of immigration application fees, mean-spiritedne ss and diminishing opportunities as the job market, even at slave wages, offers little incentive to pay Coyotes, dodge the Border Patrols and even more zealous minute men and other "Guardian militias" or thugs on the border to make it safe for white supremacists. "Ameri(k)ca, love it or leave it" is the totally predictable and as you yourself put it "childish" fallback of every Redneck ignoramus I ever met. My own response? "I'll go when and where it's MY idea Bubba"!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>reiverpacific</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:56:46 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>pamitty says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[OK, some times I hate what Obama has done, but he is way better than the alternative, R&R who will cut taxes on the rich by 12% and raise taxes on the middle class to $2,000. a family each year to pay for it. America is not like Nazi Germany yet, but we are heading that way more and more. We are considered guilty until proven innocent, we don't give speedy trials. Half of us demonize the gays, we are forcing women to carry a bay to full term even if it risks her life. We don't dare disagree with a GOP speaker or we might be hauled to the ground, arrested , taken from the site like that 71 YO man that dared argue about that he PAID into social security and medicare all his working life. We have become a nation ruled by a very few 1%or .1% of the people who are buying our government, a president, congress, and then the rest of us a big chunk who believe if fox said it, then it must be true. And these same folks will not listen to reason or the truth.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>pamitty</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:47:05 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>xflowers says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Assange is not a whistle-blower. He is a journalist publishing what whistle-blowers give him that Wikileaks thinks the public has a right to know. Apparently, The New York Times did too along with other media outlets when they made the decision to publish a lot of this material. These were not state secrets in any true sense of the word. They were not the formulas for chemical weapons or the location of the secret bomb installations. No, they were comments diplomats would have rather kept quite or shootings of civilians the military would have preferred no one knew about. How much else goes on that we don't know about? And what kind of a world can we expect if the First Amendment no longer means anything and investigative journalists fear they will be hunted down and jailed for printing the truth?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>xflowers</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:23:23 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Majikman says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Were I living in London I would have found it absolutely necessary to walk my dog at 1am until dawn by the Ecuadorian embassy. You go Julian!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Majikman</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:21:53 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>RightForAReason says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Manning is a traitor. There is a death penalty for Treason. I hope Assange sleeps well, knowing his actions resulted in people being killed. Eventually Ecuador will get tired of him. In the mean time he has a self-imposed prison sentence. Enjoy the air mattress tool bag.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>RightForAReason</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:37:07 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>ritaague says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[What a brave beyond belief and determined truthteller Julian Assange is, and Brad Manning, the plaintiffs in Hedges, et. al. v. Obama, et. al. (Google same on Justia). Our Occupy Wall Streeters have it right: WHAT'S THE SOLUTION? GLOBAL REVOLUTION! And, here's a suggestion for another solution: no more Nobel Peace Prizes to (sorry to say) failures in peacekeeping and justice demanding like Pres. Oh Bomb Ah. True Peace and Justice advocates such as Assange and Manning are the ones who have earned, and then some, such prizes.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>ritaague</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:35:57 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>JackB says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Is America with a "K" your childish way of suggesting this country is like Nazi Germany? if so, why do you torture yourself? If, as you suggest, Chavez et al are governing Gardens of Eden in South America why don't you vote with your feet & go to one? You would undoubtedly be leading a happier life & you could still be in conversation with your Swedish national who lives in Sweden. Tony Blair once observed that the best way to judge a country was to compare the number of people trying to get in with the number of people trying to get out. If America is the pits as you & many others on this blog suggest then perhaps you could provide a list of the Paradises with a greater illegal alien problem.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>JackB</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:24:59 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>RightForAReason says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Any point of view respected, as long as it is your party line. Cowards.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>RightForAReason</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:46:39 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>MidwestTom says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You are forgetting that with the NDAA we are no longer a nation run by laws. In fact a Federal judge ruled against Section 1021 of the act which allows for unlimited detention of uncharged American Citizens, and the Obama Administration immediately filed an appeal. Under MDAA they can simply make whistleblowers disappear.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>MidwestTom</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:39:39 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>RightForAReason says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I see you didn't print my earlier comment. Cowards.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>RightForAReason</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:27:18 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Doubter says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thank you RSN for this wonderful video of one of my favorite heroes.(the other is Bradley Manning) I actually shed a couple of tears; mostly from feeling the loss of freedom and decency highlighted by the blind persecution of these two by the unleashed reactionary forces of this martyred planet.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Doubter</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:08:04 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>reiverpacific says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Assange and others are simply affirming the old saw that "All governments lie", especially the current crowd in the UK and the US with their huge propaganda machines and in the case of the US, a hugely opiated and ignorant populace, which is why they are so bent on their own denial and hatred of anybody that exposes their raw nerved-lying and power-seeking rogue-state collaborations! Thank goodness that most of the now-progressive Latin American nations that have managed to extirpate the overwhelmingly right-wing domineering of the US are circling the wagons in support of liberty and justice for Assange. Bradly Manning has the bad luck to be on trial IN the USA and subject to the vengeful and ruthless non-justice system here. I hope that the UK's Cameron-patsy see some illumination in this respect but ain't holding my breath.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>reiverpacific</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:11:40 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>indian weaver says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I agree. Consider Hugo Chavez et. al. who are the serious people governing many south american nations. At present, this is a humiliating situation for amerika, england and sweden. but this country may well have something up its sleeve to ameliorate the international growing awareness of the Assange case. Very important is that Assange now has a world stage for speaking which is more impact than having news organizations speak for him, and amerika, england and sweden have put him there and created this international discussion - a classic case of "blowback", or unforeseen consequences. I'm in discussion with a Swedish national living in Sweden. His comments to me are revealing re: Sweden's agenda - that their leader is a former member of RAND corporation. That alone says a lot about Sweden's political orientation, and its plans for Assange if Assange ever gets there. It seems doubtful Assange will make it to Sweden now - we hope. The OAS having a meeting Friday to discuss the situation is heartening and significant.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>indian weaver</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:46:29 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>df312 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Assange is not a whistle-blower. A whistle-blower is concerned with very specific circumstances or cases. Assange's "leaks" are no less than vandalism and possibly espionage. I'm all for a true whistle-blower, but this case doesn't fit.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>df312</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:26:38 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Gizmo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm thinking that there is something lurking behind this Assange situation that has the Brits and the Americans scared shitless-- the possibility that if they took Assange, the people of South and Latin America would go batshit and our embassies down there would be in trouble. They don't mess around in those countries, they are not the obedient sheep that we have become.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Gizmo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:16:37 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Edwina says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It is interesting that other sites carrying articles about WikiLeaks or Assange do not seem available for comment (error on page) -- except by people in support of the U.S. government's position. They mostly vent a la FOX News. We should all hope Assange wins this fight for freedom of information. Not just freedom of opinion.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Edwina</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:06:54 -0800</pubDate>
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