Rubaiat`s Blog: November 2010

Monday, November 29, 2010

WikiLeaks: Cable Gate

The Secret U.S. Embassy Cables

WikiLeaks

http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/ or http://wikileaks.ch/cablegate.html

"Wikileaks began on Sunday November 28th publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain. The documents will give people around the world an unprecedented insight into US Government foreign activities.

The cables, which date from 1966 up until the end of February this year, contain confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries throughout the world and the State Department in Washington DC. 15,652 of the cables are classified Secret."

The cache of embassy cable documents can also be accessed on The Guardian`s website on their comprehensive US Embassy Cables page, featuring an interactive database and commentaries.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

On the Trail of the JFK Assassins by Dick Russell

On the Trail of the JFK Assassins

By Dick Russell (excerpt from his book On the Trail of the JFK Assassins)

(Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald) (Popperfoto/Getty Images

Investigative reporter Dick Russell has been studying the mysterious assassination of President John F. Kennedy for more than 35 years. In his research, Russell has discovered unbelievable evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald was not only a "patsy," as he had proclaimed himself to be, but possibly even a brainwashed "Manchurian candidate," controlled lock, stock and barrel by the CIA. And Oswald may not have been the only mind-controlled puppet on the playing field; evidence has surfaced that may implicate Jack Ruby—Oswald's killer—and Luis Castillo, who may have been one of the real assassins in Dallas that fateful day.