http://www.google.com/trends?q=wikileaks

Lying, scheming for war, regime change, stealing, supporting despots, has that effect. .. 

at least we now know that the people will start eating those treasonous, corrupt puppets alive. Real democracy in motion.

Most people knows who is who. Just need confirmation.



http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g5oTsVMf9oWk10n-ki3cb8dc4vBw?docId=CNG.7936abe2aac85ef50ca11a2d6b6c031b.121



The United States is planning a major reshuffle of diplomats, military officers and intelligence operatives who have been compromised by the WikiLeaks scandal, a report said Sunday.

US news website The Daily Beast wrote that the WikiLeaks disclosures may have made it "dangerous" if not impossible for those found to have been strongly critical of corrupt or incompetent governments to do their job.

"We're going to have to pull out some of our best people... because they dared to report back the truth about the nations in which they serve," a senior US national security official told the website.

The nation has just been reduced to "another tin pot despotic banana republic "

IFJ and Reporters Sans Frontières?  Congratulation Obama administration. You won the big one.  Onion press will be on next for sure.

Somebody should set up a trap on norwegian and swedish cable, while proposing wikileaks for nobel peace price. The reading material that will come out of US pressure and gaming will make endless entertainment online.

http://wlcentral.org/node/502

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the political backlash being mounted against the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and accused the United States of attacking free speech after it put pressure on the website's host server to shut down the site yesterday.

The website's host Amazon.com blocked access to WikiLeaks after United States officials condemned the torrent of revelations about political, business and diplomatic affairs that has given people around the world unprecedented access to detailed information from United States sources, much of it embarrassing to leading public figures.

"It is unacceptable to try to deny people the right to know," said Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary. "These revelations may be embarrassing in their detail, but they also expose corruption and double-dealing in public life that is worthy of public scrutiny. The response of the United States is desperate and dangerous because it goes against fundamental principles of free speech and democracy."

The IFJ has taken no position on the justification for the release of hundreds of thousands of internal documents which have made headlines around the world in the last few days, but it has welcomed the decision of WikiLeaks to use respected channels of journalism including Der Spiegel, The Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde and El Pais to filter the information.

 

http://wlcentral.org/node/484

Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders) issued an official statement on WikiLeaks and Cablegate. The French version is available here.

"Reporters Without Borders condemns the blocking, cyber-attacks and political pressure being directed at cablegate.wikileaks.org, the website dedicated to the US diplomatic cables. The organization is also concerned by some of the extreme comments made by American authorities concerning WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.

Earlier this week, after the publishing several hundred of the 250.000 cables it says it has in its possession, WikiLeaks had to move its site from its servers in Sweden to servers in the United States controlled by online retailer Amazon. Amazon quickly came under pressure to stop hosting WikiLeaks from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and its chairman, Sen. Joe Lieberman, in particular.

Wikileaks: Saudis 'chief funders of al-Qaeda'



Private individuals in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states friendly to the United States are the chief source of funding for al-Qaeda, the Taliban and other terrorist groups, according to leaked US diplomatic cables.



However, it claimed that "Riyadh has taken only limited action" to interrupt the flow of money to Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba and associated groups which have launched attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. It believed that private funds from Arab states were the Taliban's greatest source of income, above revenues from the opium-poppy trade.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8182847/Wikileaks-Saudis-chief-funders-of-al-Qaeda.html



Old news. Taliban == Reagan's Freedom fighters. But somebody forget to shut down the program and ISI and saudi keep them going. And now it's out of control, cause you know... saudi is eaten alive by their own hardline jingle.  The new Petro dollar cycle, like the old one, but with security industry and political lies instead of cold war dogma.







http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujahideen

The mujahideen were significantly financed and armed (and are alleged to have been trained) by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the administrations of Carter^[7] and Reagan, and also by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan under Zia-ul-Haq, Iran, the People's Republic of China and several Western European countries. Pakistan's secret service, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), was used as an intermediary for most of these activities to disguise the sources of support for the resistance. One of the CIA's longest and most expensive covert operations was the supplying of billions of dollars in arms to the Afghan mujahideen militants. The arms included Stinger missiles, shoulder-fired, antiaircraft weapons that they used against Soviet helicopters and that later were in circulation among terrorists who have fired such weapons at commercial airliners. Between $3–$20 billion in U.S. funds were funneled into the country to train and equip troops with weapons, including Stinger surface-to-air missiles.^[8][9] Some media reports claim up to $40 billion.^[10]

Osama bin Laden was allegedly among the recipients of U.S. arms.^[11]

 

WikiLeaks Attempts to Expose Palin's Thoughts, Finds Nothing

-- WikilLeaks has finally met its match.

That's the bombshell from fugitive founder Julian Assange, who said that after months of hacking former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's brain, WikiLeaks has come up empty.

"I challenge the best hackers in the business to have a look inside," he said, speaking from an undisclosed location. "There's nothing there."

Mr. Assange, still on the run from authorities, said that once his team of hackers gained access to Gov. Palin's brain, "What little we found there was so encrypted it bore no resemblance to any recognizable language."

The WikiLeaks founder said that his discovery about Gov. Palin's brain is good news for her political future: "Most politicians have to worry about their private thoughts coming back to haunt them, but that clearly isn't going to be a problem for her."

For her part, Gov. Palin seemed to be relishing her role as the one politician in the world who has nothing to fear from WikiLeaks.

On Twitter, she addressed the following message to Mr. Assange: "How's that Wiki-Leaky thing workin out for ya?"



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/wikileaks-attempts-to-exp_b_792253.html

The supposedly "moderate" Arab regimes that are allies of the United States are thus all ruled by unpopular regimes that are dictatorial, even autocratic. Their rulers say one thing about Iran in public and the opposite in private because they are afraid of their own citizens.

The mainstream media also fails to mention that an extensive poll released by the Brookings Institution in August clearly indicates that, contrary to their dictators' sentiments, the Arab masses support Iran and its nuclear program. They even support Iran's attainment of nuclear weapons and consider that possibility as positive for the Middle East. They reject the narrative that it is Iran that is the source of all of the Middle East's problems. In fact, the vast majority of Arabs consider Israel and the United States as the main threats to peace and stability in the region. Only a tiny minority holds such a view of Iran.

In using the WikiLeaks documents to advance the War Party/Israel lobby narrative, the mainstream media has also completely forgotten that one of the main reasons for the terrorism committed by Middle Eastern radicals against the West, and the United States in particular, is the West's close association with those corrupt Arab regimes. The mainstream media fails to point out

 

No, the mainstream media has no interest in pointing out these irrefutable facts, because they would destroy the narrative of war with Iran. It is instead interested in one and only one subject: advancing the war narrative against Iran in exactly the same way that it sold George W. Bush's outrageous lies about Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction and convinced the public that it should support the illegal -- many would say criminal -- invasion of Iraq.

All of this does not imply that Tehran's hardliners are innocent of wrongdoing. Of course, they are not. The confrontation between the Islamic Republic and the United States has been going on for 30 years, and the hardliners bear their share of blame, the extent of which we will not know fully until Iran becomes a democracy. This is particularly true since 2005, when Ahmadinejad assumed the presidency. His reckless and aggressive foreign policy -- if it can be called a policy -- particularly his rhetoric regarding Israel, has made him a popular man among the Muslim masses, but has also provided the perfect excuse for Israel and its U.S. lobby, the neoconservatives, and the War Party to aggressively advance their Iran war narrative.

But that is not the central point here. Rather, it is that the mainstream media's fueling of the war narrative, based on what some corrupt Arab leaders have said privately -- while they lack the courage to say the same things to their own people and while their dictatorial rule and close connections with the United States have contributed mightily to violence in the Middle East -- is simply beyond the pale. Again, the bankruptcy of the American mainstream media has been conclusively demonstrated.

The mainstream media has also inexcusably failed to educate the public about the nature of a possible war with Iran -- the war that Israel and the supposed Arab allies of the United States have been urging her to undertake. It fails to point out that, just like the war in Iraq, any war with Iran would be totally illegal, so long as the Islamic Republic has neither attacked nor plainly threatened the United States. The mainstream media has failed to make clear that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will seem relative child's play compared to a war with Iran. The Islamic Republic has placed many assets throughout the Middle East; if attacked, Iran's military will not hesitate to use both its own resources and those assets to quickly spread the conflict -- via asymmetrical warfare, in particular -- throughout the Middle East and quite possibly the entire Islamic world. The mainstream media does not wish to tell the American people the unpleasant truth that a war with Iran will destroy the economy of the West, and may ultimately lead to World War III.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/12/using-wikileaks-to-advance-the-narrative-of-war-on-iran.html?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=feeds&utm_source=feeds

Anna Ardin (the official complainant) is often described by the media as a “leftist”. She has ties to the US-financed anti-Castro and anti-communist groups. She published her anti-Castro diatribes (see here and here) in the Swedish-language publication Revista de Asignaturas Cubanas put out by Misceláneas de Cuba. From Oslo, Professor Michael Seltzer points out that this periodical is the product of a well-financed anti-Castro organization in Sweden. He further notes that the group is connected with Union Liberal Cubana led by Carlos Alberto Montaner whose CIA ties were exposed here. Note that Ardin was deported from Cuba for subversive activities. In Cuba she interacted with the feminist anti-Castro group Las damas de blanco (the Ladies in White). This group receives US government funds and the convicted anti-communist terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is a friend and supporter.  Wikipedia quotes Hebe de Bonafini, president of the Argentine Madres de Plaza de Mayo as saying that “the so-called Ladies in White defend the terrorism of the United States.”



http://www.counterpunch.org/shamir09142010.html

Ardin is apparently involved with a “Christian” Social-Democrat group. The Swedish church has a precious few male priests: what was once the struggle for female equality has ended up with men being effectively removed from service. Nowadays very few Swedish male-female couples marry in the church, or get married at all; most Swedish gay couples, however, are proud to become “man and wife” in the church. This is all good news for wealthy Swedes: deserted churches sell their properties (once enjoyed by the community) to be fenced off by the nouveau riche created by the latest privatization wave. So much for Swedish social democracy!

The second accuser, Sofia Wilen, 26, is Anna’ friend. Here is a video of an Assange press conference where one can see the girls together. Those present at the conference marveled at her groupie-like behavior.  Though rock stars are used to girls dying to have sex with them, it is much less common in the harsh field of political journalism. Sofia worked hard to bed Assange, according to her own confession; she was also the first to complain to police. She is little known and her motives are vague. Why might a young woman (who shares her life with American artist Seth Benson) pursue such a sordid political adventure?

.MY question... what is with Sweden and Cuba? lol (There are 2 characters already online. How many more? can we trace and see if there are any more of them around?  .. couldn't be that hard. How many swedish are there in the world? They stick out like sore thumb.)



There  must be list of all swedish that has been to cuba. (must be c 1@ standard training curriculum or something.)



Maybe wikileaks should put advertisement instead. wanted. swedish gal who's been to cuba. make sure you bring your spook cred. card. Can we have your password? lol.

Wikileaks "takedown" fiasco underscores pathetic state of internet "journalism"

I've commented before that I'm amazed at how fast bad information travels on the internet, but this morning it got pretty ridiculous.

Looks like wikileaks was the subject of a DOS attack last night, and their DNS provider who was everyDNS.net and not easyDNS, took the website down.

I'm not sure who the Pulitzer candidate was who started it, but somebody wrote that Wikileaks had been taken down by us, easyDNS. By the time I woke up this morning I was inundated with emails and comments.

The incorrect info rippled through twitter like a zombie horde. Not only did people mindlessly hit the "retweet" button and perpetuate bad information: some took the time and care to email us, or search for our blog (why couldn't they do a whois lookup while they were at it?) and post comments about our "cowardice".

In the old bricks and mortars world, reporting 101 dictates that no statement should be published until said reporter verifies it via 3 separate sources. Out here on the internet, all it takes is a simple whois lookup to realize that easyDNS was not the DNS provider for this domain.

Having said that, I would like to direct people's attention to my previous comments about DNS providers and DOS attacks. Having been there personally, I know how hard it is to face a DOS attack, and speaking for ourselves, any decisions made while a full-on shitstorm is being targeted at one's company and business are not political ones, they are ones of survival. I challenge anybody sitting in the comfort of their cozy little bubble existence at home, to sit on the receiving end of a full on DOS attack directed at themselves and then pontificate about "cowardice" or anything else. Armchair quarterbacks.

So here's the honor role of half-wits who should know better who should immediately cease trying to pass themselves off as any kind of legitimate "news source", or at the very least: Correct your story and issue an apology to us.

1. ZedoMax: WikiLeaks OUSTED by Amazon and EasyDNS! (The priceless excerpt here: "Do I support Wikileaks?  Let’s just say that I am a blogger, I pass on information, that’s my job." Hahaha. And a bang up job at that!)
2. shortformblog.com: EasyDNS knocks Wikileaks' main DNS offline
3. Gawker: At least they corrected their story. But they sent us this: "We will fix. You do not get a tweet or correction. Now stop emailing and calling us, please."
4. Techdirt.com:  [They got it right, we got it wrong. They shouldn't be in this list.]
5. And finally: Lucian Parfeni: "journalist" of the year who wrote: "But the biggest damage to WikiLeaks was done by EasyDNS.net, the site's DNS provider. "
6. Belatedly: GigaOm: aren't you guys supposed to be like the pinnacle of tech reporting? Gee, thanks. At least you changed it with an overstrike over our name.
7. [Dec 4th] It Gets Worse: After posting last night that I believed the worst was behind us and I just wanted to move on, The New York Times picks up the misinfo this morning and runs with it. Here we go again…..

http://blog.easydns.org/2010/12/03/wikileaks-takedown-fiasco-underscores-pathetic-state-of-internet-journalism/

Say goodbye to  australia. China is going to slice and dice their economy. Rudd and hills are chatting as if china is some sort of colony to be managed instead of $2.85T reserve holder.  I for one don't think Obama can now pull US out of the recession. It will take a miracle to make china do anything to support US interest. Oooh, I reallly want to be around when hillary trying to bullshit the chinese on some of their own history and writers...man, that would be serious entertainment.



Rudd, was out of his post so fast after saying that 'rat fuck" comment, his head was still spinning before he knows what hit him when he land on the bottom of pecking order. Gillard was given a ceremonious one finger salute in Malaysia too. Bunch of ass wipe.



http://www.wikileaks.ch/cable/2009/03/09STATE30049.html



(C/Rel Aus) Calling himself “a brutal realist on China,” Rudd argued for “multilateral engagement with bilateral vigor” -- integrating China effectively into the international community and allowing it to demonstrate greater responsibility, all while also preparing to deploy force if everything goes wrong. Rudd said the Australian intelligence community keeps a close watch on China’s military modernization, and indicated the forthcoming Australian Defence White Paper’s focus on naval capability is a response to China’s growing ability to project force. Rudd would send the Secretary a copy of his April 2008 speech at Peking University in which he had argued that China’s idea of a harmonious world, based on the philosophy of Kang Youwei, and the West’s concept of a responsible stakeholder were not incompatible.





(C/Rel Aus) Reviewing recent Chinese leaders, Rudd assessed that Hu Jintao “is no Jiang Zemin.” No one person dominated Chinese leadership currently, although Hu’s likely replacement, Xi Jinping, had family ties to the military and might be able to rise above his colleagues. Rudd explained that the Standing Committee of the Politburo was the real decision-making body, which then passed decisions for implementation by the State Council.

¶10. (C/Rel Aus) Rudd noted Chinese leaders were paranoid about both Taiwan and Tibet, but with subtle differences; leaders’ reactions on Taiwan were sub- rational and deeply emotional, whereas hard-line policies on Tibet were crafted to send clear messages to other ethnic minorities. Rudd indicated that he had suggested to Chinese leaders that they consider a “small ‘a’ autonomy deal with the Dalai Lama.” While giving little prospect of success, Rudd contended the best chance would be if someone of the Secretary’s stature had “a quiet conversation” with the Politburo Standing Committee member responsible for Tibet sometime after the furor over the 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s exile subsides, and suggested a “third track discussion” of the long-term modalities for how such an autonomy deal could work.



http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/connectasia/stories/201012/s3085820.htm



LAM: And has the Australian Government responded to the latest Wikileaks revelations?



MOTTRAM: Mr Rudd's office is officially declining to respond to them, that has been the Gillard Government's position from the beginning of these leaks. But before this latest leak a couple of days ago, I did speak to Kevin Rudd who's currently travelling internationally and I asked him about the Wikileak's revelations in general terms.



RUDD: Well firstly, the position of the Australian Government is that we universally condemn the release of sensitive, confidential, diplomatic communications and documents because that undermines the essential principles of diplomacy. Secondly, we, the Australian Government together with other governments are not commenting on the substance of these individual reports, that does not help one bit. And thirdly, our view, and that of the United States and other government and foreign ministers I have spoken to is that we must get on with the business of diplomacy because the problems and challenges and opportunities we're confronting today are no different to the ones we confronted a week ago or two weeks ago prior to these leaks. The important thing is to get on with the job of dealing with the essential tasks of diplomacy and we intend to do that.



http://www.smh.com.au/national/leak-wont-hurt-china-ties-rudd-20101206-18mlm.html



Leak won't hurt China ties: Rudd



Foreign Affairs Minister Kevin Rudd has dismissed concerns that Australia's relationship with China has been damaged by a leaked US cable, saying Australia has a "robust relationship" with China.



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"must get on"? get on where? won't hurt? lololol.....you are rat fucked now kevin. I can tell you that much.



I can't wait till the real juicy leaks when these weasles get caught saying two contradictory things. Heads are going to pop for sure. A huge number of these people will have no place to hide their face for decades without people laughing while reading wikileaks outloud from a smartphone screen on their face. 

The reliance on propaganda, for instance, has become so pervasive that the notions of truth and honesty have been hollowed out. Nobody expects the President or Ben Bernanke to speak honestly, as the truth would shatter an increasingly fragile status quo. But this reliance on artifice, half-truths and propaganda has a cost; people are losing faith in government , in all levels of authority, and in the Mainstream Media—and for good reason.

The marketing obsession with instant gratification and self-glorification has led to a culture of what I call permanent adolescence. Politicians who promise a pain-free continuation of the status quo are rewarded by re-election, and those who speak of sacrifice are punished. An unhealthy dependence on the State to organize and fund everything manifests in a peculiar split-personality disorder: people want their entitlement check and their corporate welfare, yet they rail against the State's increasing power. You can't have it both ways, but the adolescent response is to whine and cajole Mom and Dad (or the State) for more allowance and more “freedom.” But freedom without responsibility and accountability is not really freedom; it's simply an extended childhood.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/charles-high-smith-explains-chris-martenson-why-status-quo-unsustainable

A constitutional democracy comprised of free and well-informed citizens is priceless. For everything else, there's MasterCard™.



http://jotman.blogspot.com/2010/12/mastercard-declares-war-on-wikileaks.html



Financial industry can now decide what is legal or illegal globally without court order or clear statement. Nice to be at the top, plus free money perk.

One of the core complaints against WikiLeaks is a lack of accountability. It has set up shop in multiple countries with liberal press protections in an apparent bid to stand above the law. It owes allegiance to no one government, and its interests do not align neatly with authorities’. Compare this, for example, to what happened when the U.S. government pressured The New York Times in 2004 to drop its story about warrantless wiretapping on grounds that it would harm national security. The paper withheld the story for a year-and-a-half.

WikiLeaks’ role is not the same as the press’s, since it does not always endeavor to vet information prior to publication. But it operates within what one might call the media ecosystem, feeding publications with original documents that are found nowhere else and insulating them against pressures from governments seeking to suppress information.

Instead of encouraging online service providers to blacklist sites and writing new espionage laws that would further criminalize the publication of government secrets, we should regard WikiLeaks as subject to the same first amendment rights that protect The New York Times. And as a society, we should embrace the site as an expression of the fundamental freedom that is at the core of our Bill of Rights, not react like Chinese corporations that are happy to censor information on behalf of their government to curry favor.

WikiLeaks does not automatically bring radical transparency in its wake. Sites like WikiLeaks work because sources, more often than not pricked by conscience, come forward with information in the public interest. WikiLeaks is a distributor of this information, if an extraordinarily prolific one. It helps guarantee the information won’t be hidden by editors and publishers who are afraid of lawsuits or the government.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/wikileaks-editorial/

This sounds like there no adult is in charge of that department. 

War is not immoral so much as amoral.   Politics, however, ought to be an ethical enterprise.  If it isn't, it ought to be.  We worked very hard here on dKos to elect someone who promised an open, ethical government.   If that promise has not been kept, it should have been.

Daniel Ellsberg once said "Don't do what I did. Don't wait until the bombs are falling in Iran. Don't wait until people are dying. Go to the press and reveal."

I knew and did nothing.   Don't ask me to explain stuff away that happened before Bush43 got out of grade school and everything I've seen since.   The US State Department is a snake's nest, bureaucratic evil at a level most people can't comprehend.  

http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2010/12/6/164220/828/268#c268

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/12/6/926161/-Greenwald-nails-it-on-Wikileaks.-Wikileaks-soars-on-Facebook

 

this is an effing hilarious list. I mean there is no way one can read it except a laundry list of industrial subsidy grab fest, with no connection to reality whatsoever. not even scarcity. It's one big joke to anybody who even remotely know these sites or global supply pattern.  It's about as much sense as worrying a terrorist attack on Idaho potato field that will lead to collapse of potato industry. (eg. It's friggin potato farm subsidy grab) Critical to national security my ass. This should be a national scandal. department wide audit/contract investigation sort of scandal.



cobalt mine in congo? palladium SA. Bauxite in new guinea???   tin mine? (why not pennsylvania pancake too? lololol. bunch of fuckers)  BTC pipe? (oh yeah, pipeline with no oil supply. and nobody in that area wanted except Bush and friends during georgian war. ....hailarious. not a single drip of oil in there. actually there is small amount of Azeri oil passing there recently. highly underutilized pipe. Any self respecting terror group would make sure the pipe stay up and undisturb, cause it's bleeding money like crazy!)



I am willing to bet each and every single one of the name in the list is owned by very small group (BAE, Carlyle, telcos, rio tinto, large pharma) The usual corrupt gang. 





eg Russian list: (not a single traditional russia terrorist attack. train! school, city building. But Palladium and Rhodium? heh .. anybody ever seen a rhodium mine?



Russia: Novorossiysk Export Terminal Primorsk Export Terminal. Nadym Gas Pipeline Junction: The most critical gas facility in the world Uranium Nickel Mine: Used in certain types of stainless steel and superalloys Palladium Mine and Plant Rhodium



http://wikileaks.nl/cable/2009/02/09STATE15113.html

absolute. massive. corruption.

This list is epic comedy. 
These people should be in jail, just because their corruption skill is so lame.
The only secret in this list they have to worry: they are too stupid and corrupt.

I am thinking slush fund here. hmmm...

"Will it make it easier on you now?"
"You got someone to blame."
"Have you come here to play Jesus?"
"To the lepers in your head."
"One"

I told you sooner or later they gonna do chinese trick .... ALL DESPOT REGIME does that.

WikiLeaks' Facebook account won't be shut down [Updated]

Facebook isn't planning to shut down WikiLeaks' account, despite a growing backlash against the controversial document-sharing website.

Over the last few days Amazon has stopped hosting WikiLeaks, MasterCard stopped accepting payments for the site, PayPal dumped it and founder Julian Assange's bank accounts have been frozen.

Facebook and Twitter Stand By Wikileaks…For Now

http://blogs.forbes.com/mikeisaac/2010/12/07/facebook-and-twitter-stand-by-wikileaks-for-now/?boxes=Homepagechannels







WikiLeaks left off Twitter trends? Washington Post (blog)

"Love rescue me"
"Come forth and speak to me"
"Raise me up"
"No man is my enemy"
"My own hands imprision me"

horiworld #WIKIL33KS please visit the WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY 2011 on FACEBOOK : comment, they removing comments!!!!! RT PLEASE #imwikileaks

Well, they got him at last," writes Chris Floyd at Counterpunch. "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the target of several of the world’s most powerful governments, turned himself into British authorities today and is now at the mercy of state authorities who have already shown their wolfish - and lawless - desire to destroy him and his organization."

It has been, by any standard, an extraordinary campaign of vilification and persecution, wholly comparable to the kind of treatment doled out to dissidents in China or Burma. Lest we forget, WikiLeaks is a journalistic outlet - just like The New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel, all of whom are even now publishing the very same material - leaked classified documents -- available on WikiLeaks. The website is also a journalistic outlet just like CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox and other mainstream media venues, where we have seen an endless parade of officials - and journalists! - calling for Assange to be prosecuted or killed outright. Every argument being made for shutting down WikiLeaks can - and doubtless will - be used against any journalistic enterprise that publishes material that powerful people do not like.

[snip]

What is perhaps most remarkable is that this joint action by the world elite to shut down WikiLeaks - which has been operating for four years - comes after the release of diplomatic cables, not in response to earlier leaks which provided detailed evidence of crimes and atrocities committed by the perpetrators and continuers of Washington’s Terror War. I suppose this is because the diplomatic cables have upset the smooth running of the corrupt and cynical backroom operations that actually govern our world, behind the ludicrous lies and self-righteous posturing that our great and good lay on for the public. They didn’t mind being unmasked as accomplices in mass murder and fomenters of suffering and hatred; in fact, they were rather proud of it. And they certainly knew that their fellow corruptocrats in foreign governments - not to mention the perpetually stunned and supine American people - wouldn’t give a toss about a bunch of worthless peons in Iraq and Afghanistan getting killed. But the diplomatic cables have caused an embarrassing stink among the closed little clique of the movers and shakers. And that is a crime deserving of vast eons in stir - or death.

[snip]

...how many thousands of people, how many tens of thousands, have been killed by our bipartisan Terror Warriors in the four years of WikiLeaks’ existence? How many millions have been “harmed” not only by the direct operations of the Terror War, but by the ever-widening, ever-deepening violence, hatred and turmoil it is spreading throughout the world? (Not to mention the accelerating collapse of American society, which has been financially, politically and morally bankrupted by the acceptance of aggressive war, torture, elite rapine and authoritarian rule.)

But none of the perpetrators of these acts, past or present, are in jail, or have even been prosecuted, or investigated, or inconvenienced in any way. Yet Assange is in a British prison tonight - and it is certainly not for the “sexual misconduct” charges that were filed against him in August, which then became the basis of an unprecedented worldwide arrest order of the type ordinarily reserved for war criminals - for those, in fact, accused of aggressive war, torture, elite rapine and authoritarian rule. The judge refused to grant bail, saying that Assange had “access to financial means” and could flee the country - perhaps a bitter joke on milord’s part, aimed at a man whose means of financial support are being systematically shut down by the most powerful government and corporate forces in the world.

Take the time to read the whole thing, to the bitter end. It won't do your blood pressure any good, but the truth almost never does.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2010/12/amen-brother-ii.html

The website of the Swedish prosecutor's office pursuing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange came under cyber attack on Tuesday in the latest salvo by his online supporters.

PandaLabs, the malware detection laboratory for computer security firm Panda Security, said the prosecutor's website, aklagare.se, was brought down by members of the "cyber hacktivist" group called "Anonymous."

Attempts by AFP to connect to the aklagare.se website around 5:00 pm (2200 GMT) were unsuccessful.

The attack on the Swedish prosecutor's website came as Assange was refused bail on Tuesday by a British judge over charges of sex crimes in Sweden.

http://www.france24.com/en/20101208-swedish-prosecutors-website-under-cyber-attack

Well, this is going to get nasty. people will start unplugging countries from grid. happened in estonia in 2007.

http://harpers.org/archive/2010/12/hbc-90007838

The disclosure of the State Department’s cable traffic shows that behind the façade of diplomacy was a brutal frankness in the assessment of foreign officials. (Read more serious coverage of WikiLeaks from my more serious colleagues.) That lesson may shock some, but it’s old news to New Yorker cartoonists such as Bob Weber, who drew this in 1986:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonists/2010/12/diplomats.html

Well, the world is certainly watching the British legal system now. I know I do. The bigger the media attention, the better, even if it's the superficial circus, because sooner or later people will actually read and find the truth after the circus novelty is gone.



Come on UK press. It's now your turn to shine! make it a huge euro size paparazzi!












RickiOgston There are now 1005 official mirrors of WikiLeaks on the internet. http://me.lt/39e8 Spread the word! #imwikileaks #wikileaks #cablegate



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mirror size double overnight. should be large enough to withstand any global effort to shut down by the time the release that Bofa leak.