Showing posts with label Assange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Assange. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Wikileaks released scathing huge documents


US scandal just releases Wikileaks

The mega controversial whistleblower website Wikileaks has released a cache of 250,000 secret messages sent by US diplomatic staff.

Wikileaks has published on its site 220 of 251,287 of what it describes as US "cables"; it has given the files in full to five media groups, including the New York Times and Guardian newspapers.

German citizen was snatched in Macedonia and allegedly taken to a secret prison by the CIA. Agents had apparently mistaken him for an al-Qaeda suspect.

In 2007 cable from the US embassy in Berlin details the efforts the US made to persuade Germany not to issue international arrest warrants for the CIA agents accused of involvement. In an account of a high-level meeting between US and German officials, the cables states that US diplomats "pointed out that our intention was not to threaten Germany, but rather to urge that the German government weigh carefully at every step of the way the implications for relations with the US".

US and South Korean officials have discussed plans for a united Korea, should North Korea collapse. The US ambassador to Seoul said South Korea would consider offering commercial incentives to China to "help salve" Beijing's "concerns about living with a reunified Korea".

The cables appear to reveal discussions between various countries on whether they would take prisoners released from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Slovenia is offered the chance to meet President Barack Obama if it takes a prisoner, while Kiribati, in the South Pacific, is offered millions of dollars of incentives. Brussels is told taking prisoners could be "a low-cost way for Belgium to attain prominence in Europe".

Sunday, October 24, 2010

WIKILEAKS FOUNDER "JULIAN ASSANGE" IS A MIRROR OF REALITY



Go ahead Julian Assange 


Julian Assange born in 1971 is an Australian internet activist and journalist best known for his involvement with Wikileaks, a whistle-blower website. Assange was a physics and mathematics student, a hacker and a computer programmer, before taking on his current role as spokesperson and editor in chief for Wikileaks. Julian Assange has said that "you can’t publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism".


Wikileaks founder “Julian Assange always try to a hunted real fact. Julian Assange pitches his voice barely above a whisper to foil the Western intelligence agencies he fears.
Julian Assange demands that his fewer in number of loyalists use expensive encrypted cell phones and swaps his own as other men change shirts. He checks into hotels under false names, dyes his hair, sleeps on sofas and floors, and uses cash instead of credit cards, often borrowed from friends.
In his remarkable journey to notoriety, Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowers' Web site, sees the next few weeks as his most hazardous. Now Assange is making his most brazen disclosure yet: 391,832 secret documents on the Iraq war. He held a news conference in London on Saturday, saying that the release "constituted the most comprehensive and detailed account of any war ever to have entered the public record."
About three months ago, Assange posted on his organization's Web site some 77,000 classified Pentagon documents on the Afghan conflict.
Much has changed since 2006, when Assange, a 39-year-old Australian, used years of computer hacking and what friends call a near genius IQ to establish WikiLeaks, redefining whistle-blowing by gathering secrets in bulk, storing them beyond the reach of governments and others determined to retrieve them, then releasing them instantly, and globally.
Now it is not just governments that denounce him: some of his own comrades are abandoning him for what they see as erratic and imperious behaviour, and a nearly delusional grandeur unmatched by an awareness that the digital secrets he reveals can have a price in flesh and blood.
Assange is also being investigated in connection with accusations of rape and molestation involving two Swedish women. Assange has denied the allegations, saying the relations were consensual. But prosecutors in Sweden have yet to formally approve charges or dismiss the case eight weeks after the complaints against Mr. Assange were filed, damaging his quest for a secure base for himself and WikiLeaks. Though he characterizes the claims as "a smear campaign," the scandal has compounded the pressures of his cloaked life.
In early October, Assange left Stockholm for Berlin. A bag he checked on the almost empty flight disappeared, with three encrypted laptops. It has not resurfaced; Assange suspects it was intercepted. From Germany, he travelled to London, wary at being detained on arrival. Iceland, a country with generous press freedoms, has also lost its appeal, with Assange concluding that its government is too easily influenced by Washington.
After the Sweden scandal, strains within WikiLeaks reached a breaking point, with some of Assange's closest collaborators publicly defecting. The New York Times spoke with dozens of people who have worked with and supported him in Iceland, Sweden, Germany, Britain and the United States. What emerged was a picture of the founder of WikiLeaks as its prime innovator and charismatic force but as someone whose growing celebrity has been matched by an increasingly dictatorial, eccentric and capricious style.
However, Assange activities showed that, the truth never dies. We will have inspired him for his praise-worthy works.