via reddit via wonkette:
US TO HOST WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY IN 2011 (this is not snark)
The theme for next year’s commemoration will be 21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers. The United States places technology and innovation at the forefront of its diplomatic and development efforts. New media has empowered citizens around the world to report on their circumstances, express opinions on world events, and exchange information in environments sometimes hostile to such exercises of individuals’ right to freedom of expression. At the same time, we are concerned about the determination of some governments to censor and silence individuals, and to restrict the free flow of information. We mark events such as World Press Freedom Day in the context of our enduring commitment to support and expand press freedom and the free flow of information in this digital age.
Ha!
There's not much I can add to the deliciousness of the irony here. I posted yesterday about the revelations (if that is even an appropriate word for a drug war that failed decades ago) regarding the war on drugs/poor.
Wikileaks has helped expose the war on drugs
In Spain they are reporting that :
According to one of the released cables which appeared on the website of Spain's El Pais newspaper: "Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas have regularly received money to finance [his party] FSLN electoral campaigns from international drug traffickers, usually in return for ordering Sandinista judges to allow traffickers caught by the police and military to go free." Furthermore, it says: "In 1984, Daniel Ortega negotiated a deal with Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar whereby Escobar received refuge for several months in Nicaragua after he had ordered the killing of the Colombian minister of justice." In return, Mr Ortega and his party, the FSLN, received large cash payments from Pablo Escobar, it adds.
Of course there are many much more explosive cables than the ones in prior diary or quoted above, but those who fear wikileaks the most are mostly those who fear truth.
Having just found out this week that my taxes will go up even though I make less than 20k a year, and rich people will get a tax cut....this news here was a laugh I needed. Maybe a few of you need a laugh as well.