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Sicko was not banned in Cuba, unlike leaked cables suggest (michaelmoore.com)
10 points by kilian on Dec 18, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



So here you have WikiLeaks, who have put themselves on the line to find and release these cables to the press -- and traditional journalists are once again just too lazy to lift a finger, point and click their mouse to log into Nexis or search via Google, and look to see if Cuba really did "ban the film."

This is really interesting. It goes to underscore the importance of actually checking the leaked cables since it appears the US government is actually lying to itself in secret cables.


Well, it means the cables should be verified like any other source and not just taken at face value.

But the likelihood that governments may be lying to themselves in secret may be the most disruptive and shocking truth of all. Though a moment's thought would lead you to be shocked if it were otherwise.


This is a clear example of the communication system highlighted in Assange's own writings. :http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf: from :http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/julian-assange-an...:

_if the conspiracy must operate in secrecy, how is it to communicate, plan, make decisions, discipline itself, and transform itself to meet new challenges? The answer is: by controlling information flows._




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