 |
|
|
Digvijay stands by Karkare remarks
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
SC: Govt can’t review
decision in graft cases
Plight of transgenders in Andhra Govt may limit RTI pleas to 250 words Jantar
Mantar Beware! Terrorists may use your WiFi Uma okay with returning to BJP 71-day Kisan Swaraj Yatra concludes
BJP hits out at PM over House logjam Army contests report 70 pc seats for
Dalits, ST students in 3 new UP colleges Mild intensity quake jolts parts of North-East
|
|
Digvijay stands by Karkare remarks New Delhi, December 12 The BJP demanded that the Congress should force Digvijay to resign from the party for his "absurd" remarks that Hemant Karkare had told him hours before the 26/11 strike he feared for his safety from Hindu extremists in the wake of the Malegaon blast probe. Calling the remarks as "stupidity and idiotic", senior BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu said the comments would only "please" Pakistan. Targeting the BJP, the Congress General Secretary said "I want to ask (LK) Advaniji and Rajnathji why they went to meet the PM after Sadhvi Pragya was arrested after the Malegaon blast. Why did Rajnathji go to the jail to meet her? BJP has to answer these questions before they ask some to my Prime Minister." Asserting that he had never doubted the role of Pakistani elements in Mumbai strikes, he said, "I also never said that right-wing activists were behind the terror attacks. But, it is a fact that I am on record saying that he (Karkare) was being threatened by some right-wing activists." Trying to disassociate Congress party from the issue, Singh said, "its not a Congress party issue... the issue was a conversation between Digvijay Singh and Karkare". Yesterday, Congress distanced itself from Digvijay's statement said the matter was "a conversation between two individuals". Congress spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed said it is for Singh to elaborate or it is for him to confirm or deny. Senior Congress leader Anil Shastri suggested that the purported hone call between Digvijay Singh and Karkare must be "probed" for the sake of national security. "It is necessary for national security to probe telecon between Digvijay Singh and Karkare even though latter was killed by Pakistani terrorists," Shastri tweeted. Earlier, the BJP said the Congress should apologise to the nation for Digvijay Singh's remarks. "The Congress had merely distanced itself from Digvijay's statement but that was neither enough nor satisfactory. The ruling party should also tender an apology and remove Digvijay from the post of general secretary. Otherwise, it would be seen as instigating Digvijay to make such remarks for causing communal tension," BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain told reporters. Senior BJP leader M M Joshi asked the Congress leadership to explain how a person like Digvijay Singh was holding the post of the general secretary in the party. VHP 's Praveen Togadia said Digvijay Singh's remarks only amounted to him functioning as an 'agent of Pakistan'.
|
|
Centre Stage
He uses encrypted cell phones to stay in touch, travels under false names, wears disguises, uses cash instead of credit cards, and stays out of touch for days, has trysts with beautiful women, but instead of being in Her Majesty's Secret Service, like James Bond, he is lodged in Her Majesty's Prison, Wandworth, Britain's largest. Why is he in prison? Because the judge refused him bail, in spite of support from a raft of celebrities that included Jemima Khan, former wife of Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, well-known journalist John Pilger and filmmaker Ken Loach. They may not have met him, but wanted to show solidarity with the 39-year-old Australian, as do so many the world over. Like Ian Fleming's character, women seem to be Julian Paul Assange's Achilles' heel and led to his arrest in London where he is being held, pending extradition to Sweden. Two women he had dated while in Sweden earlier alleged that he sexually assaulted them. According to one version, the women wanted to get in touch with him after the event, but couldn't, and then finally went to the police. Others dismiss the whole thing as a conspiracy to shut up WikiLeaks and its founder. Assange does not deny the encounters, but claims they were consensual, and points out that the two women continued to interact with him. No formal charges have been filed, but he is wanted for questioning by the police in Sweden. According to Swedish law, a sexual encounter can begin as a consensual act but can become "non-consensual" if the woman objects at any point of time. Then, there is the issue of use of force and two charges of unprotected sex without a condom, despite the women's insistence that he use one. The Swedes are known for having a tough attitude towards sexual crimes and have broader definition of what constitutes such crime. The world waits, and so do many governments, to see if WikiLeaks will release embarrassing documents in retaliation. He has already significantly undermined the credibility of the American diplomatic efforts by releasing, for the past two weeks, thousands of classified messages from US embassies around the world. Significantly, WikiLeaks has more than two-and-a-half-lakh messages in its kitty, and is leaking out dribbles just yet. It is entirely appropriate, and in some ways understandable, if the man who founded WikiLeaks has a mysterious past. It's not clear where the surname Assange comes from, although it is said to have a Chinese origin. However, his maternal ancestors emigrated to Australia from Scotland and Ireland. He did not attend school, although he studied at University of Melbourne later, and his childhood was certainly different from the norm, Julian Paul Assange had to move home 37 times before he was 14 years old, and he still has no home address, since he keeps on moving frequently. So does his website, WikiLeaks, which has recently been hopping from one server to another, as it is chased and attacked by various "forces of establishment". Assange was born in 1971 in Townsville, Australia, spent most of his childhood with his mother, Christine, and schooled at home, actually, many homes. In the exhaustive interview with him, published in The New Yorker, he romanticised his early childhood and said it was spent like Tom Sawyer, the character made immortal by Mark Twain. Said he: "I had my own horse, I built my own raft and I was going down mines and shafts...." His parents also led a nomadic life, with his father, who was a theatre director, taking the show from one place to another. His mother re-married when he was only eight, but separated from her abusive husband three years later. He was bright in maths, and his mother was supportive enough to buy him a Commodore 64 computer in 1987. Since it was the pre-www era, the naturally curious Assange started exploring the networks around him, and thus started a lifelong hide-and-seek in cyber space. He married when he was 18 and has a son Daniel, but his wife and son left him in 1991 when police raided their house and accused him of hacking into the computer system of Nortel, a telecommunication company. He was arrested and convicted, but did no jail time. He worked as a researcher with Suelette Dreyfus, an academic, and assisted her with her 1997 book Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier. In a published interview, she has described him as a "very skilled researcher" who was "quite interested in the concept of ethics, concepts of justice, what governments should and shouldn't do". Assange also did a course in physics and maths at Melbourne University. He started WikiLeaks in 2006. In one of the essays on it, he wrote: "To radically shift regime behaviour we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in which our forebears could not." WikiLeaks became a place where anonymous whistleblowers could send in information with the conviction that it would be shared with the world, and the anonymity of the sources would be protected. The organisation is voluntary and it is run with funds provided by donations, and like many others, Asange is an unpaid volunteer. Asange is a lonely and restless soul. He has lived a crowded life, having motorcycled across Vietnam, camped in Iceland to complete projects for WikiLeaks in secrecy and delivered lectures all over the world. WikiLeaks has documented extra-judicial killings in Kenya. It published a report on toxic waste dumping on the African coast, and revealing documents like Church of Scientology manuals and Guantanamo Bay procedures. It exposed a video taken by a US Apache helicopter in 2007 that showed it shooting civilians in Iraq. The video evoked tremendous response and caused much embarrassment to the US establishment. WikiLeaks received more than two lakh dollars in donations after the video was released. Assange calls himself Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks and an Internet activist. He was given the International Media Award in 2009 by Amnesty International. Ironically, much of his life remains private, as does the functioning of WikiLeaks. In July this year, it published 90,000 secret documents about the war in Afghanistan. In October, WikiLeaks exposed the Iraq War, as seen through classified documents, and then came the 2.5 lakh diplomatic cables. The US has declared war on WikiLeaks, and US politicians say that WikiLeaks should be designated a terrorist organisation and its founder be charged under the Espionage Act. There are hardly any takers internationally for such an extreme position, but WikiLeaks is being examined with a microscope and powerful forces are creating hurdles in its functioning. As yet, it has emerged triumphant in the cat-and-mouse game it is playing with authorities worldwide, in spite of persistent attacks, both technical and financial. Assange is a complex man, brilliant and unconventional, according to everyone who has met him. His arrest in London is just one chapter in the life of a man who has the world at the edge of its seat, wondering what he can unleash, which secrets he can expose and who he is going to embarrass next. The world waits for further revelations even as Wikileaks threatens to change the way governments, media and diplomats function.
|
|
The defence Julian Assange defended
himself and Wikileaks in an article he wrote this month for The
Australian. Here are excerpts of some of the points he made His observation perhaps
reflected his father Keith Murdoch's expose that Australian troops were
being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the
shores of Gallipoli. The British tried to shut him up but Keith Murdoch
would not be silenced and his efforts led to the termination of the
disastrous Gallipoli campaign. Nearly a century later, WikiLeaks is
also fearlessly publishing facts that need to be made public. The idea
is to use internet technologies in new ways to report the truth. WikiLeaks
coined a new type of journalism: scientific journalism. We work with
other media outlets to bring people the news, but also to prove it is
true. Scientific journalism allows you to read a news story, then to
click online to see the original document it is based on. That way you
can judge for yourself: Is the story true? Did the journalist report it
accurately? People
have said I am anti-war: for the record, I am not. Sometimes nations
need to go to war, and there are just wars. But there is nothing more
wrong than a government lying to its people about those wars, then
asking these same citizens to put their lives and their taxes on the
line for those lies. If a war is justified, then tell the truth and the
people will decide whether to support it. WikiLeaks is not the only
publisher of the US embassy cables. Other media outlets, including
Britain's The Guardian, The New York Times, El Pais in Spain and Der
Spiegel in Germany have published the same cables. Yet it is WikiLeaks,
as the co-ordinator of these other groups, that has been at the
receiving end of the most vicious attacks and accusations from the US
government and its acolytes. I have been accused of treason, even though
I am an Australian, not a US, citizen. There have been dozens of serious
calls in the US for me to be "taken out" by US special forces.
Sarah Palin says I should be "hunted down like Osama bin
Laden", a Republican bill sits before the US Senate seeking to have
me declared a "transnational threat" and disposed of
accordingly. An adviser to the Canadian Prime Minister's office has
called on national television for me to be assassinated. An American
blogger has called for my 20-year-old son to be kidnapped and harmed for
no other reason than to get at me. Every time WikiLeaks publishes the
truth about abuses committed by US agencies, politicians chant a
provably false chorus with the US State Department: "You'll risk
lives! National security! You'll endanger troops!" Then they say
there is nothing of importance in what WikiLeaks publishes. It can't be
both. Which is it? It is neither. WikiLeaks has a four-year publishing
history. During that time we have changed whole governments, but not a
single person, as far as anyone is aware, has been harmed. But the US,
with Australian government connivance, has killed thousands in the past
few months alone. US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates admitted in a
letter to the US congress that no sensitive intelligence sources or
methods had been compromised by the Afghan war logs disclosure. The
Pentagon stated there was no evidence the WikiLeaks reports had led to
anyone being harmed in Afghanistan. NATO in Kabul told CNN it couldn't
find a single person who needed protecting. In its landmark ruling in
the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said "only a free
and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in
government". The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces
the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth.
|
|
What have they exposed ?
Where do the leaks come from?
Where are the leaks published?
Does the site face threats ?
Who's behind WikiLeaks?
When did it start?
How credible is Wikileaks ? Only time will tell. But WikiLeaks denies being a front for any government or intelligence agency. They maintain they're a group of independent professionals who believe in free press.
|
|
Would ignorance be bliss ?
Critics have trashed Wikileaks on two grounds. While they have sought to dismiss the leaks as meaningless trivia and gossip, they are also alarmed enough to warn that the leaks pose a threat to stability and, worse, to the lives of people on the ground. It is worth looking at some of the revelations made by the diplomatic cables during the past two weeks in order to weigh the criticism.
While this is not an exhaustive list, they pretty much sum up the kind of information that US diplomats exchanged, information which apparently was available to
several thousand officials of the US government. Should ignorance be bliss ? Or, as Assange claims, people have the right to know how governments and companies function ?
|
|
SC: Govt can’t review
decision in graft cases New Delhi, December 12 “It is not permissible for the sanctioning authority to review or reconsider the matter on the same materials again” under Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, a Bench comprising Justices Aftab Alam and RM Lodha held. Allowing such a review would result in endless reopening of corruption cases against employees every time there was a change of government or the person authorised to exercise the power of sanction, the Bench explained in the December 9 verdict written by Justice Lodha. “The opinion on the same materials, thus, may keep on changing and there may not be any end to such statutory exercise. In our opinion, a change of opinion per se on the same materials cannot be a ground for reviewing or reconsidering the earlier order,” it said. However, the sanctioning authority could review its decision in the light of fresh material collected and submitted by the prosecuting agency, the Bench clarified. At the same time, the legality or validity of the order granting or rejecting sanction would be subject to review by the criminal courts. However, the judiciary had no power to direct the sanctioning authority either to grant permission for prosecution or reject the plea for sanction. The Bench issued the clarifications while rejecting an appeal by the Himachal Pradesh government in a corruption case against a drug inspector. The anti-corruption cell of the state police had laid a trap for the inspector and caught him red-handed in May 2005 while accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 for allowing the functioning of a hospital without subjecting it to any check. The Principal Secretary (Health), however, rejected the plea for permission to prosecute him, citing lack of material as the reason. In less than four months, she reconsidered her decision and granted permission in March 2008 and this kicked off a litigation that ultimately came up to the apex court.
|
|
|
Plight of transgenders in Andhra
The transgender community in Andhra Pradesh finds itself in an existential dilemma as no government department is willing to include them among beneficiaries of welfare schemes and provide necessary social and legal support to them. A file relating to promoting awareness about transgenders and their welfare is being shunted from one department to the other as none of them is ready to own up the welfare of sexual minorities. “After vehement opposition from some Muslim organisations, the subject of transgender welfare has been removed from the purview of Minorities Welfare Department. The Women and Child Welfare Department has also refused to include it among its subjects. At present, the issue is just hanging fire,” a senior official said. There are an estimated 1.2 lakh gays and transgenders in Andhra Pradesh and a majority of them are forced into flesh trade. “We have been struggling for our rights for the last two decades. We need equality in society. Though educated, the community people do not get employment and are forced to get into sex trade," said G Krishna, a gay and transgender activist of Suraksha Society, an NGO working for their welfare. In a first step towards addressing the problems of transgender community, the government had issued a GO last month bringing them under the purview of Minorities Welfare Department. It was supposed to serve as a nodal agency to look into issues pertaining to the community, including their protection, welfare and promoting awareness for social acceptance. However, angry protests by religious minority groups forced the government to backtrack on its decision. “Minority welfare is a religious department. Following serious objections raised by my community leaders, I took up the matter with Chief Minister. It has been decided to correct the mistake,” Minority Welfare Minister Ahamadullah said. The AP Legal Services Authority first wrote to the government a few months ago, requesting it to help transgender community find acceptance in society by promoting awareness and also providing social and legal identity. Following this, Chief Secretary SV Prasad allotted the transgender file to the Women and Child Welfare Department and directed the officials to take up awareness campaign. But, the officials of the ministry refused to take up the subject on the ground that it did not come under their purview. They suggested that since transgenders were categorised as “sexual minority”, the subject could be allotted to the Minorities Welfare Department. The government then transferred the subject accordingly. However, the file was sent back to the Chief Secretary’s office after it was decided to cancel the GO that sought to bring transgender welfare under the purview of Minorities Welfare Department.
|
|
Govt may limit RTI pleas to 250 words New Delhi, December 12 But, even more surprising is the fact that RTI applicants will have to pay the “actual amount” spent by public authority on hiring a machine or any other equipment, if any, to supply information. According to proposed amendments in the RTI rules, the DOPT, nodal body for implementing the Act in the country, has said each application will be limited to 250 words excluding the address of the public authority and applicant. It will also be limited to only one subject matter. The rules will be a modification of the present RTI (regulation of fee and cost) rules, 2005, and the central information commission (appeal procedure) rules, 2005. The DOPT has sought the comments on these changes from public on email id "usrti-dovt@nic.in" by December 27, 2010. Notably, the rules have resulted in furore among RTI activists who say that they will be of no good to semi-literate and illiterate people who are the main users of the law. RTI activist Commodore (Retd) Lokesh Batra said people from rural areas who do not have internet access will be devoid of sending their views on the subject. “Putting a word limit of 250 words will obstruct the Right to Information. There was very minute number of people who misused the provisions of RTI applications by asking large number of questions but there are enough powers to reject such applications. There was no need for such limits on word usage," said Subhash Agrawal, another RTI activist. “The new rules widen the ambit of discretionary use by the Public Information Officer concerned who can reject the applications summarily,” Venkatesh Nayak of Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative said. He asked how could the government set a limit of words, especially when the same set of questions in different languages would require different word usage. — PTI
|
|
Gadkari on course Anita katyal Whatever else he may or may not be doing, BJP president Nitin Gadkari is certainly not lagging behind in keeping alive at least one legacy of his seniors — of forging ties with Israel. Gadkari is heading a delegation of senior party functionaries on his first visit to Israel this week after he took over as BJP president. He apparently is so excited about this trip that he is planning to send a series of party delegations to Israel in the coming year. The BJP has never shied away from pressing for stronger ties with Israel and it was ex-PM Atal Behari Vajpayee and his deputy LK Advani who really pushed this agenda. Gadkari’s planned engagement with Israel, therefore, is in keeping with the party position. But party insiders maintain that Gadkari has another reason for pursuing the Israel connection: he has apparently been told there is a large population of Maharashtrians settled there. Comrades-in-arms
Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh may have had a misunderstanding in the past but the two are clearly on the same page when it comes to environmental issues. Taking a cue from Ramesh, the 2011 calendar brought out by the DAVP (under Soni’s ministry) focuses on “India’s endangered species”. The species covered each month separately include tiger, vulture, elephant, one-horned rhino, Asiatic Lion, Swamp Deer (barahsingha), Black-Necked Crane, Western Tragopan, Snow Leopard, Oliver Ridley Turtle, Golden Langoor and Red Panda. The minister herself picked the theme and was involved with the production of the calendar, which will be distributed to panchayats, schools and eco-clubs across the country. Releasing the calendar last week, Soni did refer to Ramesh while pointing out that the purpose of bringing out the calendar was to sensitise people about the impact of changing environment and climate change on the country’s endangered species.
|
|
Beware! Terrorists may use your WiFi
The e-mail was sent by Akhil Talreja’s unsecured WiFi connection, minutes after the blast. Later, it was found that his connection, which did not require a password, was hacked into by IM terrorists and used for the purpose. Akhil and his brother Nikhil were detained and questioned for hours. According to cyber experts, one must secure his or her connection by keeping a password or any hacker can use it for wrong purpose, putting the subscriber in trouble. “Terrorists do not have much time to crack passwords because security agencies immediately start investigating the terror attacks. So they use WiFi connections which are available to them easily,” Mumbai-based cyber expert Ashish Sharma told PTI ‘Bhasha’. He said laptops and many phones are WiFi enabled and if terrorists detect any unsecured connection, not requiring a password, they might send terror message by a recently procured e-mail ID and then leave the spot immediately. An Indore-based programmer, who claims to have hacked into websites of many firms, said “The is a default security option in WiFi connections. The first step is to protect it with a password. Even do not allow any one to use your computer, because your system could be used to access others in the network area.” To protect your WiFi connection, first install a software called ‘Firewall’ as it makes hacking difficult, he said, adding that people should always take help of cyber-security experts to secure the service. He also said people should chose the connection from those service providers who have ISP (internet service provider) address. — PTI
|
|
Uma okay with returning to BJP
New Delhi, December 12 Later, in a press release in Bhopal, she said she needed some more time to take a decision on her future political life and that there was also an option before her to contribute to the welfare of the country by taking up apolitical issues. In his blog, Advani had yesterday indicated that Bharti would return to the party soon to firm up the organisation in Uttar Pradesh and contest elections from the state. "Advani ji has mentioned about UP in his blog. It will be a big challenge. If he feels I can take up this challenge then I also will find out some way to do it. I am only 50 years old and so I have both the time and ability to take up any responsibility," Bharti said. "I will always see Advaniji as my leader as there are very few honest leaders like him in the country today. Gadkariji is also an honest leader," she said.
— PTI
|
|
71-day Kisan Swaraj Yatra concludes New Delhi, December 12 Later, a yatra delegation met Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who, as per a statement issued by the organisers, assured them of government support for ending the “sufferings” of farmers and examining the proposals for a Kisan Swaraj policy. Notably, the yatra tried to bring together people from all sections of the society on the issue of sustainability in Indian farming. There were interactions, including with farmers, in 100 districts of 20 states, besides public meetings, field visits and citizen forums. A dialogue was struck with nearly 25,000 people, including farmers, consumers, agriculture scientists, political parties and governments, said organising body Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA). The yatra is calling for a comprehensive new path for Indian agriculture -- a path that will provide livelihood and food security for farmers, keep our soils alive, and our food and water poison-free.
|
|
|
BJP hits out at PM over House logjam
“The Prime Minister has spoken on the Parliament impasse outside the country. But he never made any attempt to resolve the issue when he was in Delhi and never opened his mouth in Parliament on the issue,” BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain told reporters here at his residence. "The responsibility for corruption in the UPA Government has to be collective, as it was the members of Manmohan Singh's Council of Ministers, who have been caught indulging in corruption," he said. — PTI
|
|
|
Army contests report Chandigarh, December 12 The Army spokesman Major General Sanjeev Madhok claimed in a correspondence that the officer was found guilty of inviting a lady to his hotel room and not for “molestation or gambling”. The spokesman also maintained that no action was recommended against the other two colonels who attended the court of inquiry as witnesses. Nor was the tour cut short as reported and the name of the inquiry officer was wrongly mentioned as Brigadier Siwach, he stated. The inquiry was actually conducted by Brigadier R. Jamwal.
|
|
70 pc seats for
Dalits, ST students in 3 new UP colleges Lucknow, December 12 A decision in this regard was taken by the Mayawati Government, who has decided to run these colleges under the Special Component Plan (SCP) meant for Dalit welfare. As per earlier plans, these institutes were to be run on public-private partnership. According to an official spokesperson, the decision to this effect was taken by Chief Minister Mayawati to fulfil the objectives of the SCP plan and to ensure better medical facilities to the poor among the ‘sarv samaj’, including Dalits. Accordingly, Mayawati has directed the college officials to get recognition from the Medical Council of India.
|
|
|
Mild intensity quake jolts parts of North-East
Shillong, December 12 The earthquake occured at 7.10 am and lasted for around 10 seconds, according to the Regional Seismological Centre here. The epicentre of the quake was Manipur-Tamenglong-Assam border, it said. Official sources said there was no report of any loss of life or property. Seismologists consider the seven North-Eastern states to be the sixth most earthquake-prone belt in the world. — Agencies
|
Jawan kills colleague, self
|
| HOME PAGE | |
Punjab | Haryana | Jammu & Kashmir |
Himachal Pradesh | Regional Briefs |
Nation | Opinions | | Business | Sports | World | Letters | Chandigarh | Ludhiana | Delhi | | Calendar | Weather | Archive | Subscribe | Suggestion | E-mail | |
As he came under fresh criticism from the BJP, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh today stood by his remarks that the Maharastra ATS chief's life was under threat from right-wing groups but clarified he never doubted the role of Pakistani elements in Mumbai attack.
After senior BJP leader L K Advani indicated that she would return to the party soon, Hindutva leader Uma Bharti today said she was willing to consider rejoining BJP and taking the responsibility of strengthening it in Uttar Pradesh as suggested by him.
Bharti, who was expelled from BJP in 2005 and went on to form her own Bhartiya Janshakti Party, said 11 months ago, party chief Nitin Gadkari and Advani had asked her to return to BJP and take up a post but she had decided then to take a break from politics for one year due to personal reasons. Now she was willing to accept the suggestion of Gadkari and
Advani, she told PTI-Bhasha.
Rebel or a revolutionary, insane or an insurgent, 39-year-old
In
1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide's The
News, wrote: "In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems
inevitable that truth will always win."
Democratic societies need a strong media and WikiLeaks is
part of that media. The media helps keep government honest. 
WikiLeaks is a voluntary, non-profit media organisation which allows 'sources' to remain anonymous and drop secret or classified documents into the electronic drop-box in order to expose the inner workings and double standards of governments, banks, large companies and religious organisations.
Hyderabad, December 12
New Delhi, December 12
New Delhi, December 12
