Earlier today it was announced that in lieu of a physical arrest, Julian Assange is currently undergoing a liquidity one, after earlier today first Swiss NZZ and subsequently the WSJ reported that the Australian's funds in Swiss PostFinance bank have been frozen: "In a statement Monday, WikiLeaks said there was €31,000 in the
PostFinance account, belonging to the defense fund and to Mr. Assange
personally. WikiLeaks described this money as "frozen." But €31k may be a small price to pay knowing that very soon Assange will most likely succeed Ben Bernanke as the magazine's Person of the Year.
From the Julian Assange profile on Time magazine:
He
is a new kind of whistle-blower: one made for the digital age. Those
before him (like Daniel Ellsberg) were limited in the ways they could go
public with their information. But in founding WikiLeaks.org, Julian
Assange gave himself the freedom to publish virtually anything he wants,
whether it's the true nature of Iraqi prisoner abuse, the double role
Pakistan plays in Afghanistan or the personal e-mails of Sarah Palin.
Assange's site, which he started four years ago, has made public a trove
of secret and classified documents — close to 500,000 pages on the Iraq
and Afghanistan wars alone. But in the process, governments he has
targeted (like the U.S.'s) claim he has put the lives of informants and
soldiers in jeopardy. Warranted or not, Assange is convinced that the
governments and intelligence agencies he is unmasking are watching his
every move, and as a result, he finds himself in virtual exile in
Europe.
And based on popular polling, Julian Assange is currently firmly in the lead (ahead of Lady Gaga in third place and Glenn Beck in fifth) in terms of influence. The only question that remains is whether Assange will watch the awards ceremony from a maximum security prison cell somewhere in Europe...
Weird, looking at the vote number, isnt 'Recep Tayyip Erdogan' (whoever the fuck that is) in 1st place?
He's the Prime Minister of Turkey. I had never heard of him before either.
It seems that Erdogan is one of those extremely rare politicians that actually have a set of values. I don't see anything he's done that can be considered extrordinary, but the fact that he believes in something sets him apart from most politicians.
He put the Israelis on notice after the attack on the Mavi Marmara.
He is the guy who stood up against Israel against the Gaza bombing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj_2GuNUdAI
He's been making a name for himself for a while. He actually thinks it's bad to kill people. go figure. (sarc)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrbQsHkVQ_4
Yes, he is a man of principle.
You can give whomever on that list a vote of zero. It will add to the total number of votes but lower their overall score.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuOfyA1bh2M
i vote bernank Mad Magazine idiot of the year!
second that
It must be the Anonymous vote ;)
Threadjack: Let this song get stuck in your head.
When they arrest Assange, it will be the first shot in a new war: the war of world governments on the entire population.
It's interesting how many government officials and politicians are quick to label him a terrorist, the only people he's causing terror amongst are them.
Are average citizens living in fear or changing their lifestyle because of WikiLeaks? Couldn't be farther from the truth. If anything the rabid authoritarian response makes people more fearful of their own government. Switzerland, the bastion of financial and personal privacy, folding like a bad poker hand, the world quickly rushing toward eager cooperation on universal censorship. As it turns out, the one thing that will result in the governments of the world working together is their common interest in defending their own power, and stamping out anyone who dare shine a light into the dark crevices of their operation.
Sounds like an Orwell novel, doesn't it?
Sounds like the V for Vendetta script...
"If you touch me, I will release a 'poison pill', 'doomsday file' which will reveal your assets around the world putting them in physical danger!!"
Yeah, doesn't sound like a terrorist at all.
You mean like the policy of Mutually Assured Destruction that has been a fixture of international diplomatic reality for the last half a century? Assange only has information, not nuclear tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, and yet he's the terrorist? Who is he causing terror to? Are you afraid?
The insurance file is primarily a deterrent, just like the U.S. nuclear arsenal. He is playing chess with super powers, after all. It may give them some pause, it may not, depending on what they think is actually in there. But once you press the red button you can't unpress it, and again similar to M.A.D., it's not an aftermath you really hope for.
The leak today is a list of sites around the world that we've identified as critical to our national security. It reads as a "don't let terrorists get a hold of this list of targets" list.
It does zero good for anyone to release such a list. It does zero good for Assange. Zero good for the US. Zero good for the countries in which these sites are located. Zero good for the first amendment. Zero good for any innocent people who have to work at these newly identified targets. Zero good for anything.
All it does is put actual people in danger of being killed.
If you celebrate that then there is something wrong with your humanity. If you are an American and you celebrate this sort of thing then you are a traitor to your people and you need to get out of my country.
you need to get out of my country.
Spoken like a true moocher. Just be happy with your government cheese already.
Your country? It's my country, I own more of it than you do, I guarantee it. I pay more to keep it running than you do, I guarantee it. I am more concerned about its future and what condition it will be in for future generations than you do, I guarantee it.
So fuck off, sheep.
It's not your country because you have contempt for it. You prefer to lionize some Australian meglomaniac over the national security interests of your own country. Get out.
Your infantile rantings display you know precisely fucking nothing about the principles upon which this country was founded. You're a disgrace to the nation and this forum.
Nowhere in the founding of the nation did we say we wouldn't participate in international diplomacy and espionage like every other country on the planet. You think if Assange gets all our spies killed that other countries will stop spying on us? Out of a spirit of cooperation? You sound like a Democrat and a pussy.
I've never voted Democrat and never will, so shut your ignorant mouth before you say anything else stupid. Assange didn't steal these documents, Pfc Manning did. If you want to get pissed off at someone, get pissed at Pfc Manning or the idiots that allowed him to so easily steal the information, don't get pissed off at the guy that posts the secrets of the world once they are already out.
If you have concern over a list of "sites critical to national security" then you need to stop your raving and think for a brief moment why an army private can fucking download them on to a personal CD and take them home. Read that sentence again. Let it sink in.
If the US Government wants to prosecute Pfc Manning, go for it. He was the one who broke his responsibility to keep documents classified. But Assange should be welcomed and protected in the U.S.. If we act as noble as our politicians tell us we do, we shouldn't need nearly as many secrets as everyone else. Too many secrets in this world, let's see what happens when they all get let out, the truth will set us free. Don't blame the messenger.
Still sounds like unilateral disarmament to me. Maybe you'd be more happy in France.
You'll agree with me sooner or later. Assange will release something that gets it through your thick head.
Quite the opposite, having the truth broadcast to the world is universal armament.
You'll agree with me some day, when you get tired of eating what is spoon fed to you day after day.
I'm always amused by the "france" statement.
What is so bad* about France?
And the only one's putting American lives in danger are the politicians. The imperialist forces are the only threat to the citizens of the US.
*Please don't say anything about WW2, or the fact that they are "lazy." Because that is just silly. And please, please, please, tell me you've at least been there. Or know French people (even French Canadians). Otherwise, don't use that during a debate ever again.
Time for marching in the streets and mass protests.
Kids in Europe are starting up. Hopefully kids in the US will too. They have zero to look forward to as a result of the last 30 years of giving the US away to corporations/special interests. ZERO!!
Isn't that what terrorists do?? They terrorize governments.
The average Beiruter lived with explosions all the time and simply learnt to live with it.
As far as 911 goes, what was the major movement afterwards by governors? CYA. Really they feared electoral reprisal more than they had any human concern for the dead.
We all go to shopping malls and I'm sure I am not the only one thinking how easy it would be to execute a Mumbai attack on a variety of soft targets in this nation. It's only about gd'd obvious and the AQ people know it too. So, are we the people so terrorized with fear that we won't leave the house? No. We go about our lives.
The people in office however fear that some enterprising opponent will blame them for the attack. And therefore they will lose their gravy train. So anyone who threatens status quo is an Enemy of the State and a terrorist.
This is the real truth that people need to wake up to. The only ones paralyzed in fear over terrorism are those who represent the status quo. Assange's "work" poses the same type of threat to someone in office as does a Mumbai or Madrid or 911.
The thing that baffles me, though, is that nobody's head rolled at any point, anywhere, over real terrorism with real mass deaths. So why the fear? I guess they must assume that at some point the electorate may wake up aggressively.
how easy it would be to execute a Mumbai attack on a variety of soft targets in this nation. It's only about gd'd obvious and the AQ people know it too.
The Mumbai attacks were coordinated by an American DEA operative living in Pakistan. He's now in US custody but the American government will not yield to India's request to interrogate him. Make you wonder why...
One fabricates the truth and the other liberates it.
One belongs in jail and the other is going to jail (maybe).
One manufactures accounts and the other has accounts that are frozen.
How do you freeze assets if he hasn't been convicted?
Theyre pretty brave in the new world. What fuking laws?
They're claiming he is a cyber-terrorist. We can thank Bush and his army of thugs for subverting the constitution for the war on terror, and we can thank Obama for doing nothing to fix it.
Thats because neither Bush nor Obama have any control over their puppetmasters.
So subversions of the united states constitution affect funds held by an australian? in a swiss bank?
naw, the rampant use of wiretapping and FBI assets against political opponents dates back to the Clitton administration. It's just that the economy was "booming" so much that nobody could bother to be concerned with the looming storm clouds.
naw, the rampant use of wiretapping and FBI assets against political opponents dates back to the Clitton administration.
Once there was a man named Richard Milhous Nixon...
Losers, charlatans and poseurs in that group far outnumber solid candidates.
Frightening.
This just in;
Julian Assange has started a new blog called "DikiLeaks.org"
"The blog focuses on the pitfalls of broken condoms, one night stands and threesomes in Sweden" said a representative of the blog.
Hell I didn't even know there was such a thing as a sex crime in free-love Sweden
That would be quite a glitch in the system if they allowed Time magazine to elect him man of the year...
Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938.
But then they would need to make Kim Il-Yung man of the year.
Or was that Bang Dae-Ho?
No, that was T-Rex with Bang a Gong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdHkaKGgTcg
http://www.thedailybell.com/1578/Assange-Hero-or-Trickster.html
Time editors reserve the right to ignore the votes and pick their own Person of the Year. My bet: Lieberman.
Who reads Time Magazine except morons. ZH is becoming the new TMZCafe. Sad.
I would say TD for Time Person of the Year, but if he was bestowed this title, I am not sure he would find it flattering.
I hope this guy FUCKS TPTB!
He's trying as HARD as he can. The rest of us need to have his back.
With or without a (broken) condom? :>D
Someone should do a hilarious video with Assange as Max Zorin from the Bond Movie ' A View To A Kill '
.
I wish someone would just put a bullet in his head already.
Who? Bernanke?
Chet is a brave man to advocate putting a bullet in Bernanke's head right out in the open like that.
Doesn't he realize people read this blog? If he wants to advocate murder, he should at least pick on people outside the elite. That way he can live out his sick fantasies and remain safe from prosecution.
No, he should just be fired.
Burning someone at the stake is even more cruel! :>D
That would not stop the craziness that is going on in your head.
Maybe you need a time-out in the corner.
He leads a list of highly qualified peoples. Steve Jobs resolving the world hunger crisis was the greatest achievement of the year. Pailin's "Treaty Concerning International Politics" was well thought out, if not groundbreaking. Lebron James is the world's foremost philosophical mind, maybe behind only Shaq. And Robert Gates should win the Nobel Peace Prize.
That being said, this is a kiss of death from Luce's TIME, no?
Julian is my hero...da man with the brass cojones and a true freedom fighter. Ya know he hit the target by all the squealing. Fighting for the sheeple...not the pigs.
He made two mistakes.
1) He did not protect his sources.
2) He did not adopt a secret identity.
3) He did not expect the Spanish Inquisition.
No wait, he made 3 mistakes.
Manning didn't protect himself. Intentional or not, who knows, but he was bragging to a known snitch.
in his defense, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
in my view, both Erdogan and Assange deserve it...however, my vote goes to Assange.
Market doin the zombie walk thing....brains......neeeeed braaaains....
What a crock of shit.
Note:
The NZZ article describes that
"Swiss Postfinance has given Julian Assange notice to quit his account. To open or maintain a Postfinance account, one needs to have a place of residence within Switzerland."
I can confirm the last sentence, it has always been like that for at least the last ten years.
Nowhere in the original NZZ article is it stated that the account/money would be blocked.
Original source here (english):
http://www.postfinance.ch/en/about/media/press/pressrelease/press101206....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11930488
Britain has received a European arrest warrant from Sweden for the Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange.
The warrant is being processed by the Serious Organised Crime Agency and will be sent to the Metropolitan Police as he is thought to be in the London area.
do they expect that we are too stupid to see what a farce this arrest warrant is?
This guy must be aligned with George Soros, he must be trying to break the US dollar just like the last recipient of the award. If there is to be a one world government under the United Nations with a new international currency controlled only by the bankers and not sovereigns, then the USA must taken down a few notches, right??? Let's see who benefits, which country was happy about the release?
Answer, the best analysis I have seen yet:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/06/gordon-duff-why-wikileaks-doesnt-add-up/
Time is part of the establishment along with almost all the main stream newspapers and networks. As William Colby, former CIA Director, stated, "The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media." so if he wins you will know J.A. is as well. The disclosure that Hillary wanted to spy on the U.N. would not be the same as a disclosure that they are investigating Ron Paul.
The United Nations is a darkly sinister organization associated with satanism, beyond the occult new age and mystery religions. The Lucis trust is the sole publishing arm of the UN and was changed from Lucifer trust to Lucis trust because the previous name was too obvious. Their form of world government is not a republic, but top down authoritarian control - the Rockefellers provided the land for it so hopefully everyone can grasp the international banker angle. You have heard of the dangers of secret societies from J.F.K. himself - he was talking about upper levels of a number of front organizations including freemasons. Much of the new age, occult, witchcraft, and its practice concealed in secret by certain individuals that infiltrated organizations including established religions (these are groups within groups, not everyone in the lower levels are evil, and some are actually good people).
They want a micro-chipped controlled population per the Aaron Russo interview detailing Rockefellers plan (google it). I find it interesting that only a short time after Jay Rockefeller stated they never should have invented the internet (because too much information is shared since it isn't just a top down controlled medium like the media empire) that we have this Wikileaks dump TV show to illustrate that the internet needs to be controlled - P.R.S. Problem, Reaction, Solution choreographed. Just as the Patriot Act was written before 9/11, I am sure we could see some electronic internet patriot act dusted off the shelf and used. Wikileaks may be the excuse for net censorship.
Like the hitler parody videos, this one is even better at nailing the elites and explains why they need to shut down the internet since their plans aren't working:
http://www.youtube.com/user/infomaticfilms#p/a/u/0/w9hl__A1BOA
Check out Agenda 21 and the depopulation plan. It really doesn't matter if you personally believe in heaven/hell God/Devil it just matters that many of these leaders do, and you can see pictures of leaders around the world giving the devil horn salute. If they can't control the world, they will try to destroy the population. It is easier to control a smaller population.
This is a very thought provoking article on geo-engineering related to global warming and carbon credits, if at first you don't succeed try again:
http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2010/12/geoengineering-climate-ghouls-plan-b.html
I read that Negrponte's brother was wired heavily into Wired Magazine, which was the only magazine close to the hacker that busted the US military kid who was working with Assange.
I read some allegations that piratecove and Tor privacy browser were created by the American kid at Wikileaks. But, Tor got U.S. government funds for development. Yet, it is the privacy browser of choice promoted around the world for dissidents? Interesting, for sure. The American Tor-Wikileaks kid was never arrested either. He walks around everyday in the USA without problem, yet he works with Wikileaks. Why would the USG not arrest him yet pretend that the would arrest his co-worker?
The hacker that dropped the dime on the military leaker was working on an NSA project and spent time in a mental hospital before the "bust"? weird. Wired covered that whole story too.
Seems to me that most hackers that get arrested at some point in their life end up doing a deal with the U.S. instead of jail time. I read that Julian was arrested and did no jail time.
It's all interesting and an entertaining read. But, who knows. Not me.
Brilliant youtube video animation. Thanks!
Efff "Time Magazine", please...
Man of the Year just another establishment echo chamber. If Julian wins, you better take a closer look at..Julian.
And...
On Assange's old website, he's fascinated with Iran. http://web.archive.org/web/20070903025028/http://iq.org/#Strangersonatrain
Piratebay started a "protest Iran" project seemingly out of the blue. Julian and Piratebay both started their protest street cred by attacking Scientology. (easy target).
Then, on to Iran. Yet, he's sitting on "5GB" of bank records for a year?! Hmmm
The recent leaks heavily focuses on Iran. Out of 250,000 cables, he chose the Iran cables first. That's a serious editorial choice. But, he sits on bank info for over a year.
Julian calls for the resignation of Obama and Clinton while celebrating Israeli PM Netanyahu and quoting him?
That honestly seems a little peculiar.
It smells like Iran war propaganda to me, from at least 2006 forward.
On Julian's website, he links to a Bikini Protest website against radical Islam in Australia (big problem there?). He and his mom later claimed to organize it, proving he does have a political background.
I think this all adds up to one reasonable theory that he has clients or an ax to grind.
And no, it doesn't appear to be against banks. Why sit on 5GB's for a year and rush Iran propaganda out?
They are going crazy because there is alot more that haven't came out and/or gotten too which may show even more damning things.
Julian really should have been smart enough to keep all his financial assets in physical silver and gold.
Hey Julian, get with the program!