Good morning on this Saturday, December 11th. What an interesting series of revelations we have experienced with the successive releases of the United States State Department classified cables leaked by WikiLeaks. Like so many others I am shocked that these secret cables were so poorly secured and easily accessible to the media. It certainly does not inspire confidence in our government's ability to protect classified information! Some of the more interesting revelations contained in the various files include:
(1) The fledgling democracy experienced under Yeltsin in Russia has vanished. Putin's regime has squashed former freedoms and instituted a fascist control over the country.
(2) The Arab states in the Middle East are equally disturbed about Iran's quest for a nuclear weapon and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah repeatedly urged us to attack Iran to prevent it at any cost. We also learned that North Korea has supplied Iran with advanced missiles capable of long-distance strikes.
(3) The Chinese government was behind the cyberattacks on Google's computer network earlier this year. It was described as a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage engineered by Chinese government operatives.
(4) Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice, ordered our diplomats to spy on United Nations Security Council members by obtaining their credit card numbers, frequent-flier data, schedules, e-mails, cell phone information, and even samples of their DNA. This revelation is particularly embarrassing since it is now publicized for all the world to see. The 1946 U.N. Treaty bans such activity on United Nations' property.
(5) The Karzai government in Afghanistan is rife with corruption. It has been receiving money from Iran among others. The Afghan V.P., Massoud, was caught by the Drug Enforcement Agency of the United Arab Emirates with $52,000,000 cash in a briefcase. No explanation was given of the origin or destination of the cache of cash.
We'll follow up on this and other significant information in our next Blog.
Tomorrow's sermon will be the final message in the series on Revival.
I hope to see you in church tomorrow.
Mel Brown