Recent times are crazy and everything else is “crazy along”. I seat back and wonder whether the “end of times” is already here with us or mad cow disease has long lasting effects which were never envisaged before in human beings.
In this age and era, information is “King” and this means that people, states, nations and continents scramble to first in the information pack. Information, however, is information if acted upon within a mostly short and specific time; otherwise it becomes sterile or become public.
These two scenarios condemns once perceived information to being useless, since holder won’t benefit from the trouble of holding such nor derive any particular competitive advantages.
As recent as a few weeks ago, USA was spending billions of dollars courting a dead horse (read North Korea), all entangled in acts of intimidation and circum-speculation, until one Julian Assange leaked the vine through his now officially classified terrorist organisation (read wikileaks).
What we knew was that China and USA were at war and the Korean peninsula was the battle ground, taking a sizable count of casualties in the unenviable role of battle ground provider. The former’s influence on Kim dynasty family of North Korea is public knowledge (why they named every male in the family Kim is bewildering) and as good as SA’s influence on uncle Bob.
This Assange oak started a revolution and no country was spared, even if it means being mentioned in a one liner. The corruption in east Africa, to zero politics in Zimbabwe, all makes for an interesting reading.
The iconic Nelson Mandela was a victim of the leaks too. Mandela doubted the IQ level of George Bush and this is really interesting especially considering that Mandela himself was a university dropout, and this guy obtained a masters degree. Ok I get it; jail made him clever, although some would argue that the old man is also out of sync with reality, nowadays and runs the risk of being irrelevant in his own life time.
This Assange dude hails from Australia and is a wanted criminal, for raping two women in Sweden. Definitely something is terribly wrong with this guy, but the silence of the leaks on Australia is deafening and eye popping. Why did he spare his own country, or did he edit the entire leak before publishing it?
Surely the diplomatic core has been working overtime to avoid long lasting high level damage to individuals and countries, but one country hasn’t been slightly bothered by Julian and thus China. In China it’s business as usual and it seems that attitude is that if anyone does have grievances with China, they can go hang.
Besides, China stands to benefit more than any other country should USA’s credibility be damaged beyond repair by these leaks. Is Julian working for the communists? China has been fighting for ages with USA over internet access and on curbs on internet and right now the Yankees wish they had listened to little Moas.
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