WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected,[…]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.

sate, obs. imp. form of to sit

Love and my ſighes thus intertalk't

By the sheer force of his powerful mind--powerful, that is, compared to the nits who bought his line of booshwa.