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Wikileaks and the Long Haul

Wikileaks and the Long Haul
Like a lot of people, I am conflicted about Wikileaks. Citizens of a functioning democracy must be able to know what the state is saying and doing in our name, to engage in what Pierre Rosanvallon calls “counter-democracy”*, the democracy of citizens distrusting rather than legitimizing the actions of the state. Wikileaks plainly improves those abilities. On the other hand, human systems can’t stand pure transparency. And so we have a tension between two requirements for democratic statecraft, one that can’t be resolved, but can be brought to an acceptable equilibrium. As Tom Slee puts it, “Your answer to ‘what data should the government make public?’ If the long haul were all there was, Wikileaks would be an obviously bad thing. This intellectual and political victory didn’t, however, mean that the printing press was then free of all constraints. Unlike the United States’ current pursuit of Wikileaks I don’t think such a law should pass.

State Department To Columbia University Students: 'DO NOT Post' WikiLeaks On Facebook, Twitter UPDATE: On Monday, John H. Coatsworth, the SIPA Dean, reversed the university's earlier position, affirming that students "have a right to discuss and debate any information in the public arena...without fear of adverse consequences." Wired obtained the email: Freedom of information and expression is a core value of our institution. Thus, SIPA's position is that students have a right to discuss and debate any information in the public arena that they deem relevant to their studies or to their roles as global citizens, and to do so without fear of adverse consequences Talking about WikiLeaks on Facebook or Twitter could endanger your job prospects, a State Department official warned students at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs this week. An email from SIPA's Office of Career Services went out Tuesday afternoon with a caution from the official, an alumnus of the school. Philip J. This is not true. Stephen D.

La philosophie politique de Julian Assange À titre de document et de contribution au débat, Contretemps publie un texte écrit par Julian Assange en 2006, au moment de la fondation de Wikileaks. Ce texte théorique éclaire rétrospectivement sa visée stratégique. Contrairement à ce qu’une lecture hâtive peut laisser penser, ce qui est proposé ici n’est pas tant une théorie du complot – du moins pas sous la forme classique de la dénonciation paranoïaque – qu’un usage heuristique du modèle organisationnel de la conspiration : un réseau de pouvoir dont on peut tracer la carte. Assange est un hacker. Ce moyen, ce contre-dispositif, il l’entrevoit dans ces lignes. Préambule : Des effets non-linéaires des fuites sur les systèmes de gouvernance injustes Il se peut que vous lisiez La route d’Hanoï ou La conspiration comme mode de gouvernance, un texte d’orientation obscur, à peu près inutile tiré de son contexte, et peut-être même dès le départ. La conspiration comme mode de gouvernance Introduction Scinder une conspiration

Everyone at Le Web is Wrong: Wikileaks Should be Condemned not Celebrated Le Web. I’m still unclear on the unique selling point of Europe’s “leading technology conference”, and yet here I am, for the third year in a row, hanging out in a snow-bound venue four hundred miles from the centre of Paris, watching a succession of American entrepreneurs being interviewed – in English – by journalists who have flown in specially from California. I’ll say this, though: the food is good this year – really good. Now, having satisfied my annual obligation to be snarky about Le Web, I’m free to talk about what passes for the big story of the conference, and indeed the biggest story of the world right now. Wikileaks. Specifically, the continuing DOS attacks against companies who are perceived as enemies of Wikileaks. Judging by the hostile reaction to Paypal’s Osama Bedier yesterday, the audience here in Paris is of a single mind on the subject. And then there’s me. I hate Julian Assange. Also, I hate his hair.

WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange 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 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. In private, however, Assange is often bemused and energetic. Sitting at a small wooden table in the Bunker, Assange looked exhausted. “That’s for you,” she said. “Someone?”

Wikileaks: la première Infowar a commencé Il faut se rendre à l'évidence: Les gouvernements du monde entier se sont ligués pour faire taire Wikileaks. C'est la première Infowar: pour la première fois, une tentative de censure est à l'oeuvre à une échelle mondiale sur Internet. Pour la contrer, les défenseurs de la liberté du Net vont se liguer dans le monde entier. Les forces sont inégales: d'un côté les pouvoirs d'Etat, les agences de renseignement prêtes à tout pour réduire Assange au silence. Cette guerre de l'information sera fondatrice. J'attends avec intérêt que les journaux qui ont bénéficié des fuites de Wikileaks, comme Le Monde en France, prennent clairement parti pour ou contre la censure des gouvernements et les méthodes barbouzardes. Le fond du débat c'est: est-ce que les gouvernements peuvent légitimement censurer la diffusion d'informations qui leur déplaisent? D'abord, salir, et paralyser. Ensuite, bloquer. Eliminer. Expulser. Nous sommes tous des Julian Assange! PS2: plus d'infos Illustration: Geoffrey Dome

Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange December 14th, 2010 6:23 AM By Michael Moore Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail. Furthermore, I am publicly offering the assistance of my website, my servers, my domain names and anything else I can do to keep WikiLeaks alive and thriving as it continues its work to expose the crimes that were concocted in secret and carried out in our name and with our tax dollars. We were taken to war in Iraq on a lie. So why is WikiLeaks, after performing such an important public service, under such vicious attack? **Sen. **The New Yorker's George Packer calls Assange "super-secretive, thin-skinned, [and] megalomaniacal." **Sarah Palin claims he's "an anti-American operative with blood on his hands" whom we should pursue "with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders." **Rep. P.S. P.P.S.

zerwas2ky's Channel Hörbuch. Aus der Beschreibung zum Hörbuch: Englische Zeitungen sahen in ihm den "neuen Einstein". "Steht den Deutschen ein neues Weltbild bevor?" Heim vollendet Einsteins Ansätze zu einer einheitlichen Feldtheorie. In Heims Theorie lassen sich alle Elementarteilchen als dynamische, quantisierte geometrische Strukturen angeben. Ein Urknall findet im kosmologischen Modell Heims nicht statt. Durch die Einführung einer aspektbezogenen Logik gelingt in Heims 6-dimensionalem Weltbild die einheitliche Beschreibung physikalischer, biologischer und psychischer Prozesse und somit die Lösung des Leib-Seele Problems. Das Hörbuch will auf die Bedeutung, die das neue moderne Weltbild für jeden Einzelnen von uns hat, aufmerksam machen. Mit zahlreichen Interviews und Vorträgen von Burkhard Heim. Sprecher: Detlef Kügow Erhätlich bei Amazon:

Assange Accuser Worked with US-Funded, CIA-Tied Anti-Castro Group Yesterday Alexander Cockburn reminded us of the news Israel Shamir and Paul Bennett broke at Counterpunch in September. Julian Assange’s chief accuser in Sweden has a significant history of work with anti-Castro groups, at least one of which is US funded and openly supported by a former CIA agent convicted in the mass murder of seventy three Cubans on an airliner he was involved in blowing up. 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. Quelle surprise, no? In Cuba she interacted with the feminist anti-Castro group Las damas de blanco (the Ladies in White). Who is Luis Posada Carriles? Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles (born February 15, 1928) (nicknamed Bambi by some Cuban exiles)[1] is a Cuban-born Venezuelan anti-communist extremist. Luis Posada Carriles is so evil that even the Bush administration wanted him behind bars: Small world, isn’t it?

Julian Assange Interview: WikiLeaks Founder On 'Today' Show The Today show interviewed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday after his release from prison on bail Thursday afternoon. During the interview, he described his recent court appearances as "not the beginning of the end, rather it is merely the end of the beginning." Assange confirmed that he has heard there will be espionage charges filed against him in the U.S., and denied knowing Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army intelligence analyst accused of providing WikiLeaks with information. The U.S. is allegedly putting together a case against Assange on conspiracy charges. The beleaguered founder also spoke about the rape charges filed against him in Sweden, for which he was recently imprisoned in England. Despite spending over a week "in the basement of a Victorian prison," as Assange put it, the Internet activist remained defiant and seemed confident throughout the interview. Watch the entire exchange: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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