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Chinese officials rarely praise western culture. But Xi is said to have pointed out that Chinese moviemakers neglect promoting values, while the good usually prevails in American movies.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/It-s-Hollywood-films-over-home-movies/Article1-634852.aspx

It has failed to use the leaked diplomatic cables in order to prevent a recurrence of such non-diplomatic practices, or to hold the perpetrators to account. WikiLeaks has essentially done little more than provide documentation for what we already know.
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=23278

Criminal charges should be be filed against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Senate Minority Mitch McConnell said on Sunday. “The man is a high-tech terrorist,” McConnell said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “He’s done enormous damage to our country, and I think he needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and if it that becomes a problem, we need to change the law.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/1210/McConnell_open_to_new_laws_that_target_WikiLeaks.html?showall

Wikileaks has seen multiple Internet related accounts terminated, such as its Amazon EC2 account and its PayPal account. Many of these “outages” have used Terms of Service (ToS) or concern over other customers as their reasoning, which leads many to wonder why Twitter still hasn’t done anything with Wikileaks’ account.  
http://www.examiner.com/technology-in-national/wikileaks-prepares-for-possible-twitter-account-termination

Philip J. Crowley, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, told CTV’s Question Period Sunday that the Internet whistle-blower site has harmed the careers and even the safety of innocent people. “Julian Assange is wrong and has really done great damage … in exposing these classified documents he is putting (our) sources at risk,” Crowley said.
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20101205/eu-wikileaks-afghanistan-101205/

“Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack. In order to make it impossible to ever fully remove Wikileaks from the Internet, we need your help,” the site told followers Sunday. The message was followed by instructions on how website operators could set up mirror sites that would distribute the documents as WikiLeaks released them. On the microblogging site Twitter, supporters have rallied by offering their sites or by posting links to other mirrors. In an echo of “Spartacus,” the 1960 film classic about a slave revolt against ancient Rome, many adopted the hashtag #imwikileaks.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/12/05/wikileaks/

A senior Saudi royal demanded on Sunday that the source of U.S. embassy cables published by WikiLeaks be “vigorously punished” and suggested the credibility of America’s diplomats had been hurt by the disclosures.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6B41VA20101205

It’s our government’s job to keep the secrets and that’s what the Obama administration should emphasize as the WikiLeaks scandal goes forward. But let’s not overreact.
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20101205/NEWS/101209717/1029&parentprofile=1061

Columbia University students eyeing careers in diplomacy are being warned to avoid linking to or posting comments about secret US documents released by the WikiLeaks website.
The e-mail said online discourse about the documents “would call into question your ability to deal with confidential information.”
http://www.ndtv.com/article/wikileaks%20revelations/no-jobs-if-you-link-to-wikileaks-columbia-warns-students-70668

“This [WikiLeaks story] does lift the curtains on the American mentality, on America’s fundamental intellectual incapacity to deal with the outside world in any other way than by dividing it up into good guys and bad guys. For me it is a message, that there is an incredibly immature and, frankly, dangerous attitude on the part of American diplomats to categorize the world only in terms of whether people are friendly towards America and whether countries want to be like America”
http://www.eurasiareview.com/world-news/world/10236-wikileaks-lift-curtains-on-us-political-autism-expert

The proper response to WikiLeaks should be a national conversation about what material should be kept secret — and to keep that at an absolute minimum.
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_16762752?source=rss

When I was a young man, I loved Moliere’s “The Misanthrope.” Alceste, the hero (or rather, comic antihero) of the play, fed up with the artifice and false manners of 17th century Paris, resolves to tell everyone exactly what he thinks, whether or not the truth-telling serves his own interests.

Which, of course, it never does, the lesson being that for people to get along — and, by extension, for society to function — one can’t simply blurt out what one thinks without regard for the consequences. Young people don’t like to concede that the world is badly made. With the limitless energy of youth, they see imbalances and injustices as correctable. And the first part of solving a problem is admitting you have one, right?

The answer to this seemingly intractable tug-of-war between untellable truth and need for honesty has been with us for millennia: diplomacy, the art of handling matters without arousing undue hostility. As an adult, I see the wisdom of diplomacy, but as a young man, I preferred to deliver doses of unburnished truth. Truth, like whiskey, was best served neat. The burning sensation that often followed was just the good stuff starting to do its work.

There’s a place for whistle-blowing. But there’s also a place for diplomacy — private diplomacy. Robbing the world of this precious tool may be a victory for truth-tellers, but it’s a step backward for the nations of man.

Much more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bs-ed-wikileaks-truth-20101205,0,7456303.story

Assange warns that any government that tries to curtail his activities risks triggering a new deluge of state and commercial secrets

The U.S. Department of Defense says it is aware of the WikiLeaks insurance file, but has been unable to establish its contents. It has been available for download since July.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/12/05/wikileaks-ready-release-massive-insurance-file-shut/Shorten%20Links%20Here

Previously:

WikiLeaks Urges Public to Download ‘Insurance’ File
http://erictric.com/2010/11/25/wikileaks-urges-public-to-download-insurance-file/