Wikileaks is a website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational, or religious documents, while attempting to preserve the anonymity and untraceability of its contributors.
Within one year of its December 2006 launch, its database had grown to more than 1.2 million documents, leading to many front-page newspaper articles and political reforms. …
It’s a place where whistle blowers can post incriminating evidence about just about anything, anonymously.
This is EXACTLY how the internet can make the world a better place. More transparency. Less corruption and injustice.
Notable leaks include:
Daniel arap Moi family corruption
Swiss Bank – Julius Baer law suit
Guantánamo Bay procedures
Scientology documents
Hack of Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account
far-right British National Party membership list
Climate Research Unit email
Toxic dumping in Africa: The Minton report
Sadly, due to financial constraints, the site has currently suspended all operations other than submission of material.
Understandably, organizations that have something to hide hate this site. The rest of us should encourage and support it. Hopefully they will find some financing from those who want to improve the world.
Rick McCharles 
I read the bit about postal “franchises” charging more than the “official” post office. I was going to write about it in an ethnic newspaper out of Toronto as many of its readers send packages to Europe. But I decided to verify the facts first. Today, Monday, Feb.1st, 2010 I took a little package to Shoppers Drug Mart at The Pen Centre in St.Catharines, near my home, telling them I wished to send it to Slovakia. The charge was $13.00 air mail and about $9.00 surface Mail. I pretended I forgot to put something in the package, left and drove to the Canada Post Office on Queen Street in St.Catharines. The exact same package, 10 minutes later, the cost?
$9.60 air mail and $6.51 surface mail.
I would say that is a significant discrepancy. I could understand a $0.25 difference, allowing for effects atmospheric pressure and ambient temperature may have on the scale, but not three or four dollars.
Feel free to use my experience in any conversation you may have with the ombudsperson if s/he ever materializes. I suspect that naive Veronika unwittingly let the cat out of the bag. If she is suddenly posted to Tuktayuktuk or Baffin Island, or her remains are found in the dead letter secion of the Post Office in Papua New Guinea, then we’ll know she was closest to the truth.
I await the results of your contact with the Canada Post ombudsman before I write anything in the paper.
Will the truth set us free??
steve reistetter