Michael Moore offers his servers to host Wikileaks docs, posts $20,000 bail

It is hard to say who is winning the info wars. Julian Assange remains in jail, but the diplomatic cables keep dribbling out. Wikileaks now has more than one million three hundred thousand friends on Facebook. But the majority of the U.S. public thinks Assange has harmed the U.S. public interest. The U.S. leaders and their propaganda arms must be chuckling. Wikileaks helps the U.S. public. But as usual the U.S. public are so freaking dumb they oppose it. Too many boxing day sales to think about. No time to worry about freedom of speech. Or justice. Peacenik is glad Michael Moore is trying to do something.

If Amazon.com won't host leaked diplomatic cables posted by the website WikiLeaks, Michael Moore will.

The liberal filmmaker and author announced in a web posting Tuesday that he had donated $20,000 to the cause of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' embattled chief who is being held in the United Kingdom on sexual offense charges and is seeking to be released on bail.

"I support Julian, whom I see as a pioneer of free speech, transparent government and the digital revolution in journalism. His commitment to exposing the follies of government and business offers the greater society a chance to protect itself from these follies," Moore wrote in a web posting Tuesday.

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Michael Moore & Paul Laverty criticize the Harper government's treatment of U.S. Iraq War resisters

punditman says...Polls indicate most Canadians would welcome US war resisters into Canada. The Canadian government should allow them to apply for citizenship rather than sending them back where they face potential prison sentences. Shame on Stephen Harper and his government for lacking an ounce of common decency. Americans who have deserted from this criminal war are great Americans.

How the Democrats Can Blow It ... in Six Easy Steps

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By Michael Moore

www.michaelmoore.com

A blueprint for losing the most winnable presidential election in American history

For years now, nearly every poll has shown that the American people are right in sync with the platform of the Democratic Party. They are pro-environment, pro-women's rights and pro-choice. They don't like war. They want the minimum wage raised, and they want a single-payer universal health-care system. The American public agrees with the Republican Party on only one major issue: They support the death penalty.
So you would think the Democrats would be cleaning up, election after election. Obviously not. The Democrats appear to be professional losers. They are so pathetic in their ability to win elections, they even lose when they win! So when you hear Democrats and liberals and supporters of Barack Obama say they are worried that John McCain has a good chance of winning, they ain't a-kidding. Who would know better than the very people who have handed the Republicans one election after another on a silver platter? Yes, be afraid, be very afraid.

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Peacenik continues to feel queasy as he watches what passes for an election in the U.S. The Swiftboat liars are back with a new book, Obama Nation. Go to Media Matters for a honest deconstruction of this pack lies, distortions and misrepresentations. And yet the MSM treats the book and the author as if he is making an honest contribution to the democratic process.

On the foreign affairs front, the media is falling all over itself in declaring McCain a winner in the Russia - Georgia war. If the public is swayed by McCain's tough talk it is simply another confirmation that the public has been completely brainwashed by 30 years of conservative dominance of the political debate. A candidate can't even admit to being a liberal forchrissakes. Let alone a progressive. The process is broken. It is corrupt. And it breaks and corrupts those that take part in it. But in spite of Peacenik's queasiness he summoned up the fortitude to read and recommend Michael Moore's article on 6 ways Obama can lose the election.

An Open Letter to Michael Moore: Why Didn't You Say It?

By PAUL KRASSNER

www.counterpunch.org

Dear Michael,

I was slightly stunned at the irony of this paragraph in your endorsement of Barack Obama:

"Finally, I want to say a word about the basic decency I have seen in Mr. Obama. Mrs. Clinton continues to throw the Rev. Wright up in his face as part of her mission to keep stoking the fears of White America. Every time she does this I shout at the TV, 'Say it, Obama! Say that when she and her husband were having marital difficulties regarding Monica Lewinsky, who did she and Bill bring to the White House for "spiritual counseling?" THE REVEREND JEREMIAH WRIGHT!'"

I am at a loss to understand why you wanted Obama to say that, and yet YOU didn't take the opportunity to mention it yourself on Larry King Live when he gave you a perfect opening. In fact, I shouted at my TV set, "Say it, Michael, say it now!"

punditman says...Good point! And gee willikers...I learn something new about the corruption and dishonesty of Hilary Clinton everyday!