WikiLeaks May Have Just Confirmed That Peak Oil Is Imminent. It's getting more and more difficult to deny that an oil supply crunch is just a few years down the road, especially now that WikiLeaks has released cables revealing that Saudi Arabia's oil reserves have been exaggerated by as much as 40%, or 300 billion barrels. Saudi Arabia is the world's largest oil exporter. Peak oil, or the point when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction has been reached and is about to enter terminal decline, is no longer the fringe theory it was just 10 years ago. Even Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, has admitted that oil supply may no longer keep up with demand by 2015. But the just-released cables, which detail a back-and-forth between the U.S. consul general and geologist Sadad al-Husseini, the former head of exploration at Saudi Aramco, confirms that the situation is serious. Here's an excerpt from one cable:
Former WikiLeaks Colleagues Forming New Web Site, OpenLeaks. 180 NATO Nukes. I kind of figured that the Wikileaks cables would reveal a lot about so-called tactical nuclear weapons — like how many the US has in Europe or the current US estimates of the Russian stockpile. One cable, drafted by Ivo Daalder, that details a briefing by PUSD(P) Jim Miller to NATO Permreps and Milreps on 16 July 2009 contains both, as well as other goodies. It’s 180 NATO nuclear weapons and 3,000-5,000 Russian non-strategic nuclear weapons. Oh, and the US can go as low as 1300 warheads against current Russian (and Chinese) strategic forces. Really, it was a great briefing. I am glad that we all have acceess to Ivo’s notes, even if Ivo isn’t. (It is a very well-written cable.) The juicy bits are below the jump.
On current and projected strategic and non-strategic forces: On the disparity between NATO and Russian non-strategic nuclear weapons: Norway asked Dr. On requirements for deterrence. Insurance.aes256", l'assurance-vie de Julian Assange. International : WikiLeaks publie une liste de sites sensibles à protéger. Le site a dévoilé une liste secrète d'installations sensibles à travers le monde, que les Etats-Unis veulent protéger d'attaques terroristes. Plusieurs infrastructures françaises sont concernées. Pour Londres, il s'agit de fuites «préjudiciables à la sécurité nationale» de plusieurs nations occidentales. Le site WikiLeaks a publié une liste secrète d'installations sensibles à travers le monde, que les Etats-Unis souhaitent protéger d'attaques terroristes, car leur perte «affecterait de manière significative» la sécurité américaine.
Le document diplomatique du département d'Etat datant de février 2009 demande aux représentations diplomatiques américaines de recenser les «infrastructures sensibles et ressources clés» à l'étranger «dont la perte affecterait de manière significative la santé publique, la sécurité économique et/ou la sécurité nationale des Etats-Unis». Plusieurs sites français cités. Des fuites sur tout, tout le monde, et partout. L'Iran, Sarkozy, Merkel, Berlusconi... ce que WikiLeaks révèle. Leaked Australian blacklist reveals banned sites - Technology - smh.com.au. The Australian communications regulator's top-secret blacklist of banned websites has been leaked on to the web and paints a harrowing picture of Australia's forthcoming internet censorship regime.
Wikileaks, an anonymous document repository for whistleblowers, obtained the list, which has been seen by this website, and plans to publish it for public consumption on its website imminently. Wikileaks has previously published the blacklists for Thailand, Denmark and Norway. University of Sydney associate professor Bjorn Landfeldt said the leaked list "constitutes a condensed encyclopedia of depravity and potentially very dangerous material". He said the leaked list would become "the concerned parent's worst nightmare" as curious children would inevitably seek it out. "It seems to me as if just about anything can potentially get on the list," Landfelt said.
The blacklist is maintained by ACMA and provided to makers of internet filtering software that parents can opt to install on their PCs.