IQ.ORG. The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another....We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men. Gustav Landauer, Schwache Stattsmanner, Schwacheres Volk! , June, 1910 Wed 29 Aug 2007 : Iirrationality in argument The truth is not found on the page, but is a wayward sprite that bursts forth from the readers mind for reasons of its own. Often we suffer to read, "But if we believe X then we'll have to Yet just as we feel all hope is lost and we sink back into the miasma, back to the shadow world of ghosts and gods, a miracle arises; everywhere before the direction of self interest is known, people yearn to see where its compass points and then they hunger for truth with passion and beauty and insight. Sat 16 Jun 2007 : Nataliya (with apologies) link.
Rubberhose cryptographically deniable transparent disk encryption system. Julian Assange. Early life Assange was born in Townsville. Hacking In September 1991, he was discovered hacking into the Melbourne master terminal of Nortel, a Canadian multinational telecommunications.[9] The Australian Federal Police tapped Assange's phone line (he was using a modem), raided his home at the end of October,[36][37] and eventually charged him in 1994 with thirty-one counts of hacking and related crimes.[9] Trax and Prime Suspect were each charged with a smaller number of offences.[38] In December 1996, he pleaded guilty to twenty-five charges (the other six were dropped), and was ordered to pay reparations of A$2,100 and released on a good behaviour bond,[9][34][39][40][41][42] avoiding a heavier penalty due to the perceived absence of malicious or mercenary intent and his disrupted childhood.[39][40][43][44] Programming WikiLeaks Assange, c. 2006 After his period of study at the University of Melbourne, Assange and others established WikiLeaks in 2006.
U.S. legal position. Going After the Wrong People. What does it say about the the American government, its president, and its military today, that the the largest military/intelligence organization in the history of mankind has launched a global manhunt for Julian Assange, head of the Wikileaks organization? And what does it say about corporate American journalists that they attack the only real journalist in the White House press corps, when she alone has shown the guts to speak truth? The Hunt for Julian Assange Consider first the case of Wikileaks founder Assange, whom Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, warns is in danger, if found, of being snuffed by the Pentagon’s search teams. First of all, let’s be clear here: he is “guilty” of no crime, but only of doing what American journalists should have done long ago: exposing the crimes of the US government. I’m not sure which is the bigger scandal here: the Pentagon’s grotesque misallocation of resources, or the media’s unwillingness to point it out.
Hands off WikiLeaks! 14 June 2010 Pentagon officials have announced the detention of Army private Bradley Manning, as well as stepped-up efforts to locate Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks web site, in a security crackdown sparked by the release of politically damaging video of a US military massacre in Iraq. On June 7, Defense Department officials confirmed that Manning was in confinement in Kuwait “for allegedly releasing classified information.” Three days later, Pentagon investigators told the web site Daily Beast that they were looking for Assange in connection with the Manning investigation.
The Australian-born WikiLeaks founder had scheduled speaking engagements in New York City and Las Vegas last week, but canceled them, citing “security considerations.” The video and the accompanying voiceover of radio traffic, in which American soldiers joked about exterminating Iraqis, sparked widespread international outrage and a furious counterattack by the American military/intelligence apparatus. No Secrets TheNewYorker. The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic. The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in.
This was the case on the morning of March 30th, when a tall Australian man named Julian Paul Assange, with gray eyes and a mop of silver-white hair, arrived to rent the place. Assange was dressed in a gray full-body snowsuit, and he had with him a small entourage. “We are journalists,” he told the owner of the house. Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts. Iceland was a natural place to develop Project B. Assange also wanted to insure that, once the video was posted online, it would be impossible to remove. Assange typically tells would-be litigants to go to hell. In his writing online, especially on Twitter, Assange is quick to lash out at perceived enemies. “That’s for you,” she said. “Someone?” Splendide Mendax. Profile:Julian Assange, the man behind Wikileaks - Times Online. Vreest niet voor leven | nu.nl/internet.
BRUSSEL - Wikileaks-oprichter Julian Assange vreest niet voor zijn leven. Vorige week waarschuwde de bekende Amerikaanse klokkenluider Daniel Ellsberg dat Assange in gevaar zou zijn. Foto: ANP De Australiër heeft naar eigen zeggen wel besloten om een aantal landen, waaronder de Verenigde Staten, voorlopig niet te bezoeken. Dat stelt Assange in antwoord op vragen van NU.nl op een persconferentie in het Europees Parlement. Vorige week zei klokkenluider Daniel Ellsberg zich zorgen om Assange te maken. Ellsberg lekte in 1971 gevoelige documenten over de Vietnamoorlog naar een aantal Amerikaanse kranten.
Volgens Assange valt dat echter wel mee. Geen bezoek aan VS Wel geeft Assange aan voorlopig een aantal landen te mijden. Toch vreest de Wikileaks-voorman geen actie van de Amerikanen. Assange maakte bekend meerdere advocaten te hebben ingehuurd om een Amerikaanse soldaat te ondersteunen, die in Koeweit vast zit op verdenking van het lekken van de oorlogsvideo. Julian Assange - Oslo Freedom Forum 2010 (Part 1 of 2) Sam Adams Award. The Sam Adams Award is given annually to an intelligence professional who has taken a stand for integrity and ethics. The Award is given by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence[1] , a group of retired CIA officers.
It is named after Samuel A. Adams, a CIA whistleblower during the Vietnam War, and takes the physical form of a "corner-brightener candlestick".[2] Ray McGovern established the Sam Adams Associates "to reward intelligence officials who demonstrated a commitment to truth and integrity, no matter the consequences The 2012, 2013 and 2014 Awards were presented at the Oxford Union.[4][3] Edward Snowden receiving the Sam Adams Award in October 2013 Recipients[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
Honoring a Whistleblower in the Sam Adams Traditi. Julian Assange: the whistleblower | Media. Everything about this is odd. Julian Assange, the founder, director, frontman, guiding spirit of global whistleblowing service WikiLeaks looks a bit odd for a start. Tall, cadaverous, dressed in ripped jeans, brown jacket, black tie, battered trainers. Somebody says he looks like Andy Warhol with his prematurely white hair, but I can't remember who, which will bother the hell out of him because accuracy is everything. He detests subjectivity in journalism; I fear that part of him detests journalists, too, and that WikiLeaks – which describes itself as an "uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking" – is essentially a way of cutting out subjectivist idiots such as me.
"Journalism should be more like science," he tells me in the restaurant. "As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. So the thesis. The danger of penetration by the security services is acute. Julian Assange | MediaGuardian 100 2010 | Media. Job: founder, WikiLeaksAge: born 1971Industry: digital mediaNew entry Julian Assange is the undercover force behind WikiLeaks, the self-styled "intelligence service of the people" that has published more than a million confidential documents from top secret military information to the hacked emails of Sarah Palin. Launched at the beginning of 2007 and with a mission to change the world by abolishing official secrecy, the website has posted the text messages of people killed in the September 11 attacks, controversial correspondence between climate change researchers at East Anglia University and the so-called "Collateral Murder" video of American forces killing unarmed civilians in Baghdad.
At the cutting edge of digital journalism, it has "more scoops in three years than the Washington Post has had in 30", according to the internet guru Clay Shirky. Unlike traditional media, WikiLeaks has so far escaped censure by basing itself in Sweden, which has strong laws to protect whistleblowers. TEDGlobal: Julian Assange Blog: Surprise speaker at. At the start of Session 12 of TEDGlobal 2010, Chris Anderson announced a mystery guest. “There’s a site some of you may know, called WikiLeaks.” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange steps onstage for a surprise appearance at TEDGlobal 2010, in a Q&A with Chris. We learned how WikiLeaks works: “We’re using state-of-the-art encryption and anonymizers to get information.
And we get submissions by mail, regular postal mail. If we happen to find out the identity of a source, we destroy that information.” [Corrected quotes from TED's official transcript follow] Chris asked about the recent controversy over leaked diplomatic cables. Why? Watch now on TED.com: Julian Assange’s Q&A with Chris Anderson. After he spoke, Assange spoke briefly to attending press. Forbes: “Julian Assange of Wikileaks Surfaces in Oxford” CNN.com: “WikiLeaks founder: Site getting more ‘high caliber’ disclosures” Design Mind: “Julian Assange of WikiLeaks: Troublemaker or Hero?” Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks. Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks.