“We feel that Wikileaks has become more than just about leaking of documents, it has become a war ground, the people vs. the government“ Coldblood, Anonymous PS: The Empire did strike back fast – the website anonops.net is now only displaying a blank, ‘suspended’, page.
Following up on my previous ‘random thoughts‘ about Wikileaks and Assange, I want to share with you some tentative conclusions to which I have come about the Wikileaks & Assange topic. First, and most importantly, I have come to the conclusion that these are real leaks, not some kind of disinformation, strategic psyop, or propaganda operation. As of this moment, 1095 documents have been released and, to paraphrase Hegel, this
by John Naughton for The GuardianWestern political elites obfuscate, lie and bluster – and when the veil of secrecy is lifted, they try to kill the messenger‘Never waste a good crisis” used to be the catchphrase of the Obama team in the runup to the presidential election. In that spirit, let us see what we can learn from official reactions to the WikiLeaks revelations.The most obvious lesson is that it
From Informationclearinghouse: Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack. In order to make it impossible to ever fully remove Wikileaks from the Internet, you will find below a list of mirrors of Wikileaks website and CableGate pages. wikileaks.as50620.net wikileaks.tard.is ipv6 freeus.jsdev.org wikileaks.enzym.su freeus.jsdev.org wikileaks.cellue.de wikileaks.kafe-in.net ipv6 wl.opsec.eu ipv6 wl.donatepl0x.com wikileaks.challet.eu wikileaks.kister.org wl.gernox.de wikileaks.morningtime.com wikileaks.renout.nl wikileaks.fdn.fr wikileaks.gonte.se wikileaks.kaptenkong.se wikileaksmirror.proxelsus-hosting.de ipv6 leaks.gooby.org wikileaks.dubronetwork.fr ipv6 wikileaks.perry.ch wikileaks.sbr.im wikileaks.u0d.de wikileaks.81-89-98-125.blue.kundencontro… www.fuckip.de wikileaks.psytek.net wl.mrkva.eu wikileaks.joworld.net www.wlmirror.com
Josh Halliday for the GuardianWikiLeaks received a boost tonight when Switzerland rejected growing international calls to force the site off the internet.The whistleblowers site, which has been publishing leaked US embassy cables, was forced to switch domain names to WikiLeaks.ch yesterday after the US host of its main website, WikiLeaks.org, pulled the plug following mounting political pressure.The site’s new Swiss host, Switch, today said there was “no reason” why it
by Steve Ragan for the Tech Herald It’s been a long week for the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. Problems started to mount after Amazon and EveryDNS forced them to shuffle their hosting. While this was happening, they also had to face political posturing and arrest warrants. The truth can be a dangerous and wonderful thing. [Update: PayPal has frozen WikiLeaks’ donation account. More informaion is here.] WikiLeaks had moved to Amazon
Agence France Press is reporting that, very predictably, PayPal has now caved to the pressure of Uncle Sam and has blocked any money transfers to Wikileaks while the Australian goverment is considering voiding Assange’s passport. The Australian authorities have declared that they will “provide every assistance to United States law enforcement authorities.” Yeah – the Echelon-countries are all doing uncle Sam’s bidding; not exactly a surprise. The more I think
Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism (“Fascism Anyone?,” Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The excerpt is in accordance with the magazine’s policy. The 14 characteristics are: Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
A Legal Analysis by Corynne McSherry for the Electronic Freedom Foundation Over the past few days, the U.S. Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security and nine U.S. Attorneys’ Offices seized 82 domain names of websites they claim were engaged in the sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and illegal copyrighted works. Setting aside the due process concerns inherent in seizing any website without notice or appropriate recourse for the
Lieberman, GOP team up for anti-WikiLeaks bill Lawyer: Sweden investigating Assange for sex without a condom This rather surreal, is it not?
According to the BBC, Wikileaks has been forced to change domain after being dropped by EveryDNS.net following “massive cyber attacks”. The domain ‘Wikileaks.ch’ is, so far, still up. Stay tuned.
For most of its history, Hanukkah has been a rather minor holiday. But in the late 19th century it began to gain popularity and today it is one of the most celebrated Jewish holidays (neck-and-neck with Passover, according to one source). This change seems to be due in part to the increasing popularity of Christmas gift-giving in the late 19th century, and the corresponding wish to offer an alternative, especially
I just finished reading Wikipedia’s entry about Julian Assange and I was quite surprised by its length. For somebody which the corporate media describes as “mysterious” or a person “about which very little is known”, Assange’s entry in Wikipedia has a lot of information indeed. The second thing which surprised me that it turns out that Assange has for many years been a developer of free software with a clear
There we go, Google uses it power to police the Internet on behalf of the US MAFIAA.
by Rachel Slajda for Business Insider Early this week, after hacker attacks on its site, Wikileaks moved its operation, including all those diplomatic cables, to the greener pastures of Amazon.com’s cloud servers. But today, it was down again and mid-afternoon we found out the reason: Amazon had axed Wikileaks from its servers. The announcement came from Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. Lieberman said
Stuff is happening fast. First, Interpol has now issued a “red notice” to have Julian Assange arrested, and now Wikileaks is loosing its main website and mirrors. I still have no opinion about whether Wikileaks and Assange are for real or not, but if they are, the White House is being very very dumb about how it deals with this issue. If Assange and his friends thought this thing through,
Dear friends, This is the fourth installment of my series “Surviving in a world of zombies” (for the previous parts, see here, here and here). Today, I am going to discuss “ebook readers”. Over the past years several of you have commented that the speech transcripts of Hassan Nasrallah I post here are very long. Well, compared to a typical article or blog post, they are indeed. Compared to listening
I Take refuge in Allah from the stoned devil. In the Name of Allah, The Compassionate, The Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, The Lord of the World. Peace be on our Master and Prophet – The Seal of Prophets – Mohammad and on his Chaste Household, chosen companions and all prophets and messengers. Brothers and sisters! Peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessing. First, I would like
