AnonOps Communications. One account. All of Google. Sign in to continue to Blogger Find my account Forgot password? Sign in with a different account Create account One Google Account for everything Google. | Headlines for January 28, 2011. Inhumane Treatment of WikiLeaks Soldier Bradley Manning. US Private Bradley Manning is accused of leaking information to Wikileaks. © APGraphicsBank US authorities must alleviate the harsh pre-trial detention conditions of Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking information to Wikileaks. The US army private, 23, has been held for 23 hours a day in a sparsely furnished solitary cell and deprived of a pillow, sheets, and personal possessions since July 2010. Amnesty International last week wrote to the US Defence secretary, Robert Gates, calling for the restrictions on Bradley Manning to be reviewed. In the same week, the soldier suffered several days of increased restrictions by being temporarily categorized as a ‘suicide risk’.
We’re concerned that the conditions inflicted on Bradley Manning are unnecessarily severe and amount to inhumane treatment by the US authorities. Manning has not been convicted of any offense, but military authorities appear to be using all available means to punish him while in detention. M.guardian.co.uk. The offshore bank account details of 2,000 "high net worth individuals" and corporations – detailing massive potential tax evasion – will be handed over to the WikiLeaks organisation in London tomorrow by the most important and boldest whistleblower in Swiss banking history, Rudolf Elmer, two days before he goes on trial in his native Switzerland.
British and American individuals and companies are among the offshore clients whose details will be contained on CDs presented to WikiLeaks at the Frontline Club in London. Those involved include, Elmer tells the Observer, "approximately 40 politicians". Elmer, who after his press conference will return to Switzerland from exile in Mauritius to face trial, is a former chief operating officer in the Cayman Islands and employee of the powerful Julius Baer bank, which accuses him of stealing the information. Elmer says he is releasing the information "in order to educate society". The bank also accuses Elmer of threatening colleagues. | Headlines for January 04, 2011. Banks and WikiLeaks. UN rights boss concerned at targeting of WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks founder Assange refuses extradition, denied bail. [Updated at 10:05 a.m.] Julian Assange has been refused bail by a U.K. court and remanded until December 14th. [Updated at 9:46 a.m.] WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange refused in court Tuesday to give his consent to be extradited to Sweden.
[Posted at 8:32 a.m.] WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested Tuesday on a Swedish warrant, London's Metropolitan Police said. Assange was arrested at a London police station at 9:30 a.m. and will appear at the City of Westminster Magistrate's Court at 2 p.m., police said. At court, Assange will be able to respond to the arrest warrant, and the court will then have roughly 21 days to decide whether to extradite him, said Mark Ellis, executive director of the International Bar Association. Even though the Swedish warrant is a European arrest warrant designed for easy transfer of suspects among European states, Assange may still choose to fight it - something his London lawyer has promised to do, according to the Press Association. A daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 900 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S.
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Money Bookers URL: Paymate OboPay E-Junkie Kagi. WikiLeaks cables: Secret deal let Americans sidestep cluster bomb ban | World news. British and American officials colluded in a plan to hoodwink parliament over a proposed ban on cluster bombs, the Guardian can disclose. According to leaked US embassy dispatches, David Miliband, who was Britain's foreign secretary under Labour, approved the use of a loophole to manoeuvre around the ban and allow the US to keep the munitions on British territory. Unlike Britain, the US had refused to sign up to an international convention that bans the weapons because of the widespread injury they cause to civilians. The US military asserted that cluster bombs were "legitimate weapons that provide a vital military capability" and wanted to carry on using British bases regardless of the ban. Whitehall officials proposed that a specially created loophole to grant the US a free hand should be concealed from parliament in case it "complicated or muddied" the MPs' debate.
The US had stockpiles of cluster munitions at bases on British soil and intended to keep them, regardless of the treaty. An Interview With WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall. Democracy Now! US embassy cables leak sparks global diplomatic crisis | World news. The United States was catapulted into a worldwide diplomatic crisis today, with the leaking to the Guardian and other international media of more than 250,000 classified cables from its embassies, many sent as recently as February this year.
At the start of a series of daily extracts from the US embassy cables – many designated "secret" – the Guardian can disclose that Arab leaders are privately urging an air strike on Iran and that US officials have been instructed to spy on the UN leadership. These two revelations alone would be likely to reverberate around the world.
But the secret dispatches, which were obtained by WikiLeaks, the whistleblowers' website, also reveal Washington's evaluation of many other highly sensitive international issues. These include a shift in relations between China and North Korea, high-level concerns over Pakistan's growing instability, and details of clandestine US efforts to combat al-Qaida in Yemen. The most controversial target was the UN leadership. Iranian Lawmakers Move to Impeach President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are trying to repurpose the Republicans as the party of the middle class. Can they do that with the Koch brothers’ millions? A Harvard-trained lawyer and the son of a congressman hardly seem the ideal messengers for a political party looking to make inroads with the unemployed, young and minority voters.
But when the pitchmen are Rand Paul and Ted Cruz and the party is the GOP in 2014, it all starts to make a little more sense. Cruz and Paul brought a new, aggressive version of Republican populism into focus this weekend at the first “Freedom Summit” in Manchester, N.H., where they, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich and other right-of-center favorites took the stage in the all-important first-in-the-nation primary state. While all of the speakers came armed with their own plans for how the GOP can win over Americans and retake the White House in 2016, Cruz and Paul in particular took noticeably populist paths to get there. “It’s young people. But Sen. BLOGGING THE WIKILEAKS RELEASE: Return Here All Day for Updates. ‘Chipped’ Detainees, Iran Mega-Missiles And More in Latest WikiLeaks | Danger Room. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia told a senior White House official to consider surgically implanting homing devices under Guantanamo Bay detainees’ skin. That’s one of the many potentially embarrassing comments from diplomatic back rooms now being made public by WikiLeaks.
During a March 2009 meeting with John Brennan, President Obama’s closest counterterrorism adviser, Abdullah proposed shooting electronic chips into the residual Guantanamo population, “allowing their movements to be tracked with Bluetooth.” Abdullah appears to have come up with the idea on the fly during their meeting — “I’ve just thought of something,” the cable quotes him saying — and considered forced subcutaneous chip implantation uncontroversial, since it’s already “done with horses and falcons.” Perhaps the most worrisome news to come out the diplo doc dump is that North Korea secretly gave Iran 19 powerful missiles with a range of 2,000 miles. We’re still poring through the revelations from the WikiLeaks trove. Letters between Wikileaks and the U.S. Government. Letters between Wikileaks and the U.S. Government. WikiLeaks Archive — Iran Armed by North Korea.
WikiLeaks: Yemen covered up US drone strikes. Amid public distrust of the US in Yemen, officials in both countries have stated publicly that the Yemeni government is leading the fight against Islamist militants. On Nov 16, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said providing equipment and training to Yemeni security forces was the best way to counter the threat posed by jihadists. But, according to a leaked document from January, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh told Gen David Petraeus, then commander of US forces in the Middle East, that: "We'll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours. " The conversation was reported in a diplomatic cable sent back to Washington by a US diplomat in Yemen. Its details were published today by the New York Times.
According to the cable, the president's remark prompted Yemen's deputy prime minister to "joke that he had just 'lied' by telling Parliament" that Yemeni forces were responsible for strikes carried out by the US. Wikileaks: US diplomats predicted Coalition would fail. Cryptome Back-Up Site. Embassy cable tells of elderly American's escape from Iran | World news. Hossein Ghanbarzadeh Vahedi's horseback crossing of the mountainous Turkey-Iran border stunned American consular officials. Photograph: Murad Sezer/AP When Hossein Ghanbarzadeh Vahedi, a 75-year-old American of Iranian descent, decided to visit relatives in Tehran in May 2008, he took a flight from Los Angeles in the normal way.
When he returned home, his means of transport was somewhat less orthodox. After seven months in which he was prevented from leaving Iran, had his passport confiscated and saw his appeals ignored by the revolutionary courts, Vahedi took matters into his own hands. In a daring escape, he mounted a horse, hired two guides, and began a perilous 14-hour overnight climb across the freezing mountains of north-western Iran into eastern Turkey. After that he took a bus. On 9 January 2009, Vahedi turned up at the consular section of the US embassy in Ankara and asked for assistance. Even when he reached the other side of the border, Vahedi's ordeal was not over.