As I hope you know, accused WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning was transferred to Fort Leavenworth and is now reportedly being treated like other prisoners, no longer singled out for various tortures and degradations. This improvement was the dire…
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Dead Wild Roses: WikiLeaks – What Media Should be Like
Upset about troop movements and diplomatic cables being exposed to the public? Accountability and public oversight is *such* a pain. Notice how much coverage Wikileaks has been receiving from the media as of late, close to zero-ish, by my accounting and it is not accidental. Reporting actual news and happenings is dangerous and requires […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: Banking Blockade
You’ll probably want to watch this short ad about WikiLeaks. It’s “priceless”.
What Does it Cost to Change the World? from WikiLeaks on Vimeo.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: Assange Breaking Ground While Governments Break Laws
Assange points out that there were illegal attacks on WikiLeak’s technical infrastructure, especially since it’s a legal, media organization and not an illegal group as some extreme critics suggest. == Meanwhile, the Main Stream Media is picking “bloogers” for stories. “It’s not approved, not allowed, and it’s not awesome”. – artist and blooger Kal Barteski. […]
Continue readingOh Laur-rie Hawwnn! Me Thinks You Got Some ‘Splainin’ To Do!!
Yes, nice to know that the military industrial complex is still very much a concern on the feeble minds of certain yahoo Harpercons. According to a cable released by Wikileaks to APTN, it would appear that the now demoted esteemed redneck of Edmonton-Center, Laurie Hawn is a tad disappointed these days. He was . . . → Read More: Oh Laur-rie Hawwnn! Me Thinks You Got Some ‘Splainin’ To Do!!
Continue readingwmtc: tomorrow, june 4: stand in solidarity with bradley manning
The Bradley Manning Support Network has been very busy raising both funds and awareness in support of the accused Wikileaks truth-teller.
Tomorrow, supporters of peace and conscience will gather in Leavenworth, Kansas, outside the military prison whe…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Bradley Manning: The Angry Gay Soldier
On Thursday it will be one year since Bradley Manning was arrested by the U.S. military and accused of leaking classified documents and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks.The massive leak revealed war crimes, embarrassed the rich and the powerful, and is c…
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: Tory Impressed U.S. DiplomAnts: WikiLeaks
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/05/18/baird-wikileaks-minister-environment.html
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Does WikiLeaks oopsie reveal secret Tory scheme to soak Alberta taxpayers to enrich private utility companies? Oh, probably
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to … transmit electricity. Below: Brian Mason, Murray Smith.A good rule in public relations is never to let the story you tell one group stray too far from the story you tell another.A government…
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: Interview with Birgitta Jonsdottir, Icelandic member of parliament and ex-WikiLeaks
Original post at CRYPTOME – March 2, 2011 http://cryptome.org/0003/jonsdottir-wl.htm “Birgitta Jonsdottir, ex-WikiLeaks, Crusades for Freedom of Information” De Standaard Online [Belgian news outlet] – March 2, 2011 – by Dominique Deckmyn in Ghent, Belgium OSC Translated Text [OSC is the CIA’s Open Source Center.] Icelander Birgitta Jonsdottir – poet, author,
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture 2011-03-04 00:49:00
Former Head of MI6, the British Secret Intelligence Service, off-the-record speech ends up on YouTube – March 2, 2011 RAWREPLAY – March 3, 2011 – By Stephen C. Webster http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/03/former-mi6-chief-credits-wikileaks-with-revolutions/
Continue readingpunditman: WikiLeaks’ Assange can be extradited to Sweden: judge
Has Sweden offered any assurances that Julian Assange will not be extradited to the U.S.A? Sweden has already shown itself to be a big secret supporter of U.S. foreign policy. And now for the first time someone has been extradited for sex charges in the European Union. Peacenik doesn’t trust
Continue readingpunditman: WikiLeaks’ Assange can be extradited to Sweden: judge
Has Sweden offered any assurances that Julian Assange will not be extradited to the U.S.A? Sweden has already shown itself to be a big secret supporter of U.S. foreign policy. And now for the first time someone has been extradited for sex charges in the European Union. Peacenik doesn’t trust
Continue readingpunditman: WikiLeaks’ Assange can be extradited to Sweden: judge
Has Sweden offered any assurances that Julian Assange will not be extradited to the U.S.A? Sweden has already shown itself to be a big secret supporter of U.S. foreign policy. And now for the first time someone has been extradited for sex charges in the European Union. Peacenik doesn’t trust Sweden in this matter, nor Britain, nor the U.S.A. Peacenik hopes Julian Assange will have his own security. Meanwhile has anyone noticed a lack of news from Wikileaks. The efforts to marginalize and intimidate and bankrupt Wikileaks seem to be having an effect. Peacenik says release the Doomsday File now. Lets see the Bank of America documents. And free Julian Assange.
LONDON — Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden in a sex crimes inquiry, a British judge ruled Thursday, rejecting claims by the WikiLeaks founder that he would not face a fair trial there. Assange’s lawyer said he would appeal.
Judge Howard Riddle said the allegations of rape and sexual molestation by two women against Assange meet the definition of extraditable offenses and said the Swedish warrant had been properly issued and was valid.
Assange, 39, a key figure in the release of tens of thousands of secret U.S. government and military documents, has been out on bail during the extradition fight. He has seven days to appeal the ruling in British courts.
After hearing three days of testimony this month, Riddle concluded “there is simply no reason to believe there has been a mistake” about the European Arrest Warrant issued by Swedish authorities.
Amnesty International concerned about Bradley Manning
Amnesty International has taken up the case of Bradley Manning. In an open letter addressed to Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, the organization expresses its concern regarding the treatment of Manning: The harsh conditions imposed on PFC Manning also undermine the principle of the presumption of innocence, which should be taken into account in […]
Continue readingPersonal Privacy (Assange, Fox News and the PM’s marriage)
Privacy has been on my mind a lot lately. I think this is the natural side effect of the Wikileaks story. But the more I have been thinking about privacy, the more I think we need to give some serious thought to how we are going to address this issue in the age of free […]
Continue readingPersonal Privacy (Assange, Fox News and the PM’s marriage)
Privacy has been on my mind a lot lately. I think this is the natural side effect of the Wikileaks story. But the more I have been thinking about privacy, the more I think we need to give some serious thought to how we are going to address this issu…
Continue readingTechnology and Privacy
A response to a blog entry by @OwenGreaves found at http://blog.owengreaves.com/thoughts-from-owen.
I have begun to believe that in a world of free information flow created by the internet and other technologies that we need to seriously increase th…
Continue readingMonitoring North America
In a way, it is with relief that I find I am not one of the "tinfoil hat" paranoid/conspiracy theorist crowd, yet at the same time feel dismay at being proven right yet again.
Pertaining to what, you ask?
Why, that Big Brother has not only arrived, but that he has been here for quite a while at that.
Case in point, today’s expansive article in the Washington Post by Dana Priest and William M…
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