Sweden Blocking Assange/WikiLeaks Smear Documentary — Rixstep Industry Watch. Home » Industry Watch (» The Technological) (» Hall of Monkeys) (» Heroes Banquet) Can't be shown outside the duck pond - 'legal restrictions'. STOCKHOLM (Rixstep) — The Swedish government's carefully orchestrated 'show trial' piece on national television on Thursday evening - already universally condemned in the blogosphere and on Twitter - will not be available for viewing outside Sweden.
The official explanation is that there are unspecified 'legal restrictions' that of course won't ever be cited. The real reason of course is the cowardly Swedish government doesn't want the world at large to see what they're up to. Contempt of Court Trying tricks like this results in a ruling of 'contempt of court' or even 'mistrial' in most civilised countries. But it's obvious to everyone by now that Sweden can't even spell 'rule of law'. √ The piece was put together by Oskar Lindell.
. √ Not a single voice of support for either Assange or WikiLeaks was brought in to comment. Smearing a Hero And so forth. Wikileaks Free Speech Forum Melbourne - Part Three. The Europe roundup: The Future of Wikileaks. 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable. How Free is our Press? WikiLeaks promises their anonymous, whistle-blowing sources that they will work for “maximum political impact.” Like them or not, they keep their word. The transnational transparency-advocating journalists stormed American and international discourse by publishing secret diplomatic cables. America responded. Some consider WikiLeaks heroic, daring to speak truth to power, and some consider the organization terroristic, threatening to undermine American diplomacy worldwide. Constitutional lawyer and civil liberties writer Glenn Greenwald, for Salon.com , finds public reactions quite disturbing.
An extensive study finds instructive and potentially perilous similarities between the way the U.S. government and American news media have responded. Beginning on November 28, 2010, WikiLeaks and collaborating media outlets began releasing perhaps the organization’s most stunning and divisive document dump yet: a quarter million U.S. Rep. Rep. Sen. Announcing the 2011 Payne Awards for Ethics in Journalism ? School of Journalism and Communication. MY TWITTER CASE AND “THOUGHTCRIME” All of who care for freedom of information, speech and expression should be thankful for the recent ruling in my Twitter case. Thankful because it exposes the reality in which we live, at least according to the U.S. Department of Justice and one U.S. judge. The judge’s ruling exposed the blatant truth: that as the U.S.
DOJ sees it, and at least according to this first judge, users of the Internet and social media sites hosted in the USA do NOT have any rights as individuals to defend themselves against the tyranny of authorities wanting to use the often sensitive information about us collected by services like Twitter. This includes critical information about the location, timing and recipients of our emails, conversations, messaging and social networking that are now fair game for the “thought police.” We are at critical point when it comes to freedom of information and speech. If we don’t act now it might be too late in a years’ time. Anonymous spots Adrian Lamo location info; Guardian "news" on sock puppets weeks old. Earlier in the week we noted that the Guardian’s David Leigh, whose initial enthusiasm for and then bitter falling out with Julian Assange and Wikileaks is chronicled, like a lover’s diary entries, in his Twitter account, had suggested Bradley Manning would now be free if he’d come to Leigh.
Manning’s error, apparently, had been to go to “Wikileaks donor Adrian Lamo” rather than an old mainstream media hand like Leigh. The subsequent elevation of Leigh into an internet meme didn’t amuse the veteran journalist, who started patronising “the kids” mocking him. Leigh had further adventures overnight. He tweeted the link to a new Guardian story on sock puppet software being developed by the US military. The story was fine as far as it went, except neither The Guardian nor Leigh revealed that the precise story had been broken several weeks ago by the Raw Story website’s Stephen C.
Webster. Japan syndrome shows why we need WikiLeaks. The damaged third and fourth reactors of the Fukushima No1 power plant. Source: AFP IN December 2008, an official from the International Atomic Energy Agency pointed to "a serious problem" with nuclear reactors in areas of Japan prone to earthquakes. Recent earthquakes "have exceeded the design basis for some nuclear plants", he told a meeting of the Nuclear Safety and Security Group of the Group of Eight countries.
Moreover, safety guides for seismic activity had been revised only three times in the past 35 years, he added. The information was recorded in a US diplomatic cable and comes to us courtesy of WikiLeaks. So do other cables, including one two years ago in which American officials described Tomihiro Taniguchi, a senior IAEA nuclear safety official and former head of the Japanese agency responsible for nuclear plant security following earthquakes, as "a weak manager and advocate, particularly with respect to confronting Japan's own safety practices".
Julian Assange grills Julia Gillard on live television. Streams of WikiLeaks • Julian Assange grills Julia Gillard on live television. Balkinization. Bradley Manning, Barack Obama and the National Surveillance State In 2006, Sandy Levinson and I predicted that the next president, whether Democratic or Republican, would ratify and continue many of President George W. Bush's war on terrorism policies. The reason, we explained, had less to do with the specific events of September 11th, and more to do with the fact that the United States was in the process of expanding the National Security State created after World War II into something we called the National Surveillance State, featuring huge investments in electronic surveillance and various end runs around traditional Bill of Rights protections and expectations about procedure. Barack Obama has largely confirmed these expectations, much to the dismay of many liberals who supported him. One might have hoped that,given his campaign pronouncements, an Obama Administration would have implemented a framework that is closer to the values of civil liberties.
Nor should this be surprising. Congress Asks to Review DoD and NSA Contracts With HBGary | Threat Level. Update: This story was updated with comment from the House Armed Services Committee and Johnson’s office March 17, 2011 at 2 p.m. PDT. Anonymous’ recent exposure of a federal contractor’s plan to take down WikiLeaks has led to a congressional probe seeking data on contracts the company and its partners hold with the U.S. military and intelligence agencies. The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities on Wednesday asked the Defense Department and its intelligence arm — the National Security Agency — to hand over copies of any contracts they may have signed with HBGary Federal, Palantir Technologies and Berico Technologies.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Georgia) grilled Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the NSA and commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, and Dr. Miller replied that he would have to check with the Defense Department’s general counsel to “make sure that the provision of that type of information is allowed contractually.” Last month, Rep. Gen. See also.
Booz Allen Hamilton: A Strategy and Technology Consulting Firm. Anonymous To Release Documents Showing ‘Virtual Armies’ Used To Identify Dissidents - Parmy Olson - Disruptors. Turkish Paper Gains Access to WikiLeaks Cables. Japan earthquake: Japan warned over nuclear plants, WikiLeaks cables show. Next #PdFLeaks Event: "WikiLeaks and the Law" Monday March 21. Is Julian Assange a journalist? How does Bradley Manning compare to Daniel Ellsberg? How far does the First Amendment go in protecting the press when publishing classified information? These are just some of the many questions we'll grapple with next Monday night when The Institute of Information Law & Policy & The Program in Law and Journalism at New York Law School and Personal Democracy Forum present the latest in our series of symposiums on the issues raised by WikiLeaks.
We have a great panel of experts speaking: * Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society * James Goodale, Former General Counsel of the New York Times during the Pentagon Papers case * Gabriel Schoenfeld, Author of "Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law" & Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute * Geoffrey R. Stone, Edward H. James Goodale, "Is Assange on his way to the U.S.? " Bank of America's Con Game. Banking Cons Brought to you by Bank of America The first round of Wikileaks email dumps from Bank of America support accusations that BofA deliberately mismanaged mortgages it was servicing in order to generate higher fees and cheat mortgage owners.
Here’s how it works: First, say you bought a house through Bank of America. Bank of America sold the loan to the secondary market, where it was bundled into a mortgage investment and sold to investors, but BofA continues to service the loan. As a person with a mortgage, you are required to have homeowners insurance in case your home is damaged. You pay the premium a little each month as an add-on to your house payment. As the mortgage servicer, Bank of America sets aside the homeowners insurance premium and pays the insurance company when the premium comes due. These emails document BofA deliberately not paying the premium, (leading, of course, to cancellation) and buying alternate insurance from its own subsidiary, Balboa Insurance. How? Why? 1. Assange Affair: So Proud, So Proud — The Technological (Because You're Stupid) Home » Industry Watch » The Technological (» Hall of Monkeys) (» Heroes Banquet) The media in Sweden are trying to convince their sheeple that everything's OK.
STOCKHOLM (Radsoft) — Word of the international outcry about what Julian Assange called 'a complete circus' has even reached the sheltered world of the Swedish duck pond. But the version related by the media is far from the truth. Lena Sundström - Lena Amalia Sundström - is a so-called 'social commentator' working for Aftonbladet, TV4, and even appearing on celebrity game shows.
Sundström studied media and communications science and later attended a school of journalism. Sundström has no legal credentials whatsoever. Swedes have become increasingly worried about their international image. Obviously it's time for damage control. TV4's morning news programme Nyhetsmorgon therefore call in Lena Amalia Sundström to settle the matter once and for all. Following is an abridged account of the one minute fifty second exchange.
Dear Ms Ny,
Assange Avoids Leaks. Julian Assange insists on a media blackout on his talk today. Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, has requested that his talk at the Union today take place behind a media blackout. The elusive Aussie, who is facing extradition on charges of sexual assault, is expecting to draw the largest crowd of the term to the Union, and news of his talk has reached the national papers after being exclusively announced on The Tab.
Julian Assange President Lauren Davidson said that this press blanket is the norm for the Union. Speaking to The Tab, Davidson said: “A lack of press presence is our default position, as opposed to the other way round.” Under the blackout, only local news sources will be allowed into the chamber, and there will only be an official recording made by the Union. Davidson added: “We are a private members’ club, and we aim to give our members the opportunity to engage with the most interesting and influential figures in today’s society. “Dr. James Goodale is Assange on his way to the USA? WikiLeaks:Big picture - WikiLeaks. From WikiLeaks Justice is a product of revelation. Only revealed injustice can be addressed. Introduction Take off your journalists hat for a moment and think like a physicist.
I will provide you with a useful analogy to understand what we are doing. Here we make the following claims. Journalism (investigative) has a substantial positive effect on the world. Journalism can be seen as analogous to a series of connected systems. Reality -> observation -> non-linearity (cognition) -> action -> reality 1 2 3 4 5 Journalists, the writing process, and their immediate collaboration with each other and their research tools form the cognitive processes at 3. Since 1 and 5 are connected through time, there is a potential feedback loop — the state of reality can change over time. We are interested in a property of reality, I will call justice although there are many passionate definitions from liberté, egalité, fraternité to least suffering to the greatest number. A1. A2. A3. A4. A5. B1. B2. B3. B4. The State Department spokesman and the Prisoner in the Brig | Philippa Thomas Online.
I just heard an extraordinary remark from State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley. He was speaking to a small audience at MIT on “the benefits of new media as it relates to foreign policy”, an event organised by the Center for Future Civic Media. Around twenty of us were sitting around the table listening to his views on social media, the impact of the Twittersphere, the Arab uprisings, and so on, in a vast space-age conference room overlooking the Charles River and the Boston skyline. And then, inevitably, one young man said he wanted to address “the elephant in the room”.
What did Crowley think, he asked, about Wikileaks? About the United States, in his words, “torturing a prisoner in a military brig”? But still, he’d said it. A few minutes later, I had a chance to ask a question. Like this: Like Loading... Author: philippathomas I've been a BBC news correspondent for two decades: reporting from the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Australia. WikiLeaks: As AIG crumbled, China stepped in as broker.
Swedish Assange Case Inspector Outed — Radsoft News. Home » News (» Roundups) 'OMFG what a smell from Sweden! ' KRONBORG (Rixstep) — The olfactory senses of people visiting Hamlet's castle today were hit by another whiff of the corrupt. But they've learned by now it's not something rotten in Denmark - the stench comes from their neighbour to the east. Sweden. Things began calmly enough when Sweden's premier jackal reporter Niklas Svensson (he who'd stolen the original Assange story from his colleagues) announced a 'world scoop' that was anything but. The story? But this has been known for months - data's been leaking to Flashback from the police all along. Irmeli Krans hangs out in the same circles as Anna Ardin, is a somewhat more successful Social Democrat politician than Anna Ardin, and guested her friend's lesbian nightclub on at least one occasion.
So Niklas Svensson's and Expressen's 'world scoop' was anything but. 'Assange - a overhyped balloon ready to burst.' - Irmeli Krans Then when she heard the Belmarsh verdict on 24 February. The liberal game of silencing the messenger. As the US and Britain look for an excuse to invade another oil-rich Arab country, the hypocrisy is familiar. While Colonel Gaddafi is "delusional" and "blood-drenched", the authors of an invasion that killed a million Iraqis, who have sanctioned kidnap and torture in our name, are entirely sane, never blood-drenched and once again the arbiters of "stability". But something has changed. Reality is no longer what the powerful say it is. Of all the spectacular revolts across the world, the most exciting is the insurrection of knowledge sparked by WikiLeaks. This is not a new idea. In 1792, the revolutionary Tom Paine warned his readers in England that their government believed that "people must be hoodwinked and held in superstitious ignorance by some bugbear or other".
The ordeal and courage of Tom Paine were cited by the Sydney Peace Foundation, in its awarding of Australia's human rights gold medal to Julian Assange. Black farce Under siege. How The So-Called Guardians Of Free Speech Are Silencing The Messenger by John Pilger | ZSpace. Bc.msn. Julian Assange police investigator a friend of sex assault accuser | Media. Interrogator in the Assange case friend with woman accusing Wikileaks founder - Expressen avslöjar - Senaste nytt | Expressen - Nyheter Sport Ekonomi Nöje. Assange case officer 'friend' of accuser: report. The Guardian’s hatchet job on Julian Assange. WikiLeaks Cables Recount How U.S. Pressured Allies : Information Clearing House: ICH. Anonymous Hackers Target Alleged WikiLeaker Bradley Mannings? Jailers - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall. WikiLeaks' Threat and Other Tales from the Dark Side.
WikiLeaks and the Law. This House believes the world is better off with Wikileaks.
U.S. Central Command 'friending' the enemy in psychological war. WikiLeaks: Stop the crackdown. @exiledsurfer interviews Daniel Domscheit-Berg of OpenLeaks. Uleak.it. Interstitial. Spielberg lines up WikiLeaks film based on Guardian book | Film. An Anonymous storm is gathering - Let it rain. WikiLeaks Is Up for a Nobel Peace Prize. Democrats call for an investigation of law firm, 3 tech companies. WikiLeaks Shames the Old News Media. Anonymous Hacks The Colbert Report - The Colbert Report - 2/28/11. Glenn Greenwald on the Assange Extradition Ruling, the Jailing of Bradley Manning, and the Campaign to Target WikiLeaks Supporters. Hillary Clinton champions Internet freedom, but cautions on WikiLeaks. Hillary Rodham Clinton; Feb. 15, 2011. Anonymous vs HBGary. Www.StopTheChamber.com.
Spy vs. Spy As Hackers Square Off Over DC Dirty Tricks | Connecticut Watchdog. Notes From a Father of the Open Internet, 15 Years On. WikiLeaks and Online Civil Disobedience, Hosted by Personal Democracy Forum Part 2 on Social Media Week NY (Hearst) _Response_v6. Spy games: Inside the convoluted plot to bring down WikiLeaks. More facts emerge about the leaked smear campaigns - Glenn Greenwald. HBGary Execs Run For Cover As Hacking Scandal Escalates - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall. Anonymous: US security firms 'planned to attack WikiLeaks' | Media. HBGary CEO Also Suggested Tracking, Intimidating WikiLeaks’ Donors - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall. U.S weaves tangled Web policy - Josh Gerstein and Laura Rozen. Alan Dershowitz Joins Team WikiLeaks. Berico Technologies. Key Players in Operation Ratf%!k. From the ChamberPot: A Carefully Worded Nondenial Denial.
Hunton & Williams. Julian Assange – U.S. International Extradition and Alternatives to Extradition « International Extradition Blog. Assange lawyer: 'interference' by Sweden PM could wreck case. Algeria Protest Map. Palantir sorry for WikiLeaks sabotage plan | San Francisco Business Times - WikiLeaks Tsunami. Hackers Reveal Offers to Spy on Corporate Rivals. EXPOSED: Attack on Wikileaks. Wikileaks Useless Without Greenwald? Obsessed With The Cult Of Cars. AnonLeaks.ru - Teaser. HBGary wanted to suppress Stuxnet research. BofA denies connection to proactive tactics to silence WikiLeaks. US told to drop Assange pursuit. The Headlines of 2011 - Peter Hoekstra. Julian Assange: The spy who billed me twice.
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