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1. news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8173703/rape-charges-land-assange-on-interpol-list

WikiLeaks chaos continues to spread

19:16 AEST Wed Dec 1 2010



By Shaun Tandon



Interpol on Wednesday issued a global arrest warrant for the shadowy founder of WikiLeaks, as the chaos from its massive dump of secret US cables spread from governments to financial markets.



[color="#0000FF"]The United States suspended the military's access to some sensitive US diplomatic correspondence in a bid to stop new leaks, as the leaders of France and Pakistan were the latest to be stung by cables obtained by the website.



WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a 39-year-old Australian computer hacker, is wanted in Sweden for questioning over the alleged rape and molestation of two women.



Assange has denied the charges.



Interpol, which is based in Lyon, France, said early on Wednesday local time that it had alerted all member states to arrest Assange if he was spotted.



He spends much of his time in Britain and Sweden.



Assange is said to lead a spy-like life of rarely sleeping in the same place twice.[/color]



Ecuador's left-leaning government initially offered Assange residency but President Rafael Correa backtracked on Tuesday.



In one of a series of defiant media interviews, Assange boasted that he was ready with a fresh "megaleak" that could take down a major bank, leading Bank of America shares to tumble more than three per cent on Tuesday on speculation.



Assange told Forbes magazine that the bank leak would "give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms, I presume."



In another interview conducted from an undisclosed location over a Skype internet phone, Assange told Time magazine that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should resign over a cable that appeared to show the United States ordered diplomats to spy on foreign officials, particularly at the United Nations.



State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said that Clinton did not draft the document and that her name was affixed systematically to many cables out of Washington.



Crowley said the State Department had temporarily suspended the Pentagon's access to some of its correspondence, halting a trend to greater information sharing within the US government launched after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.



"Steps are being made ... to correct weaknesses in the system that have become evident because of this leak," said State Department spokesman Philip Crowley, who characterised Assange as an "anarchist".



WikiLeaks and US authorities have not fully explained how the 250,000 sensitive cables managed to go public. But suspicion has fallen on Bradley Manning, a disgruntled 23-year-old ex-Army intelligence analyst.



The Pentagon has faced questions on how it entrusted so much sensitive data to the low-ranking soldier, who was arrested in May after WikiLeaks released a video showing a 2007 US Apache helicopter strike in Baghdad that killed civilian reporters.



The latest revelations include US accounts that Pakistan's army chief has mused about mounting a coup against President Asif Ali Zardari and that French President Nicolas Sarkozy was so pro-US he considered sending troops to Iraq.



China has called on the United States to "properly handle" the leak after cables indicated that Beijing was frustrated with longtime ally North Korea and may accept its collapse and absorption by the US-backed South.



The head of Russia's foreign intelligence, Mikhail Fradkov, said that WikiLeaks "released a treasure trove of analytical material" and made clear that his service will make use of it.



Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu poked fun at a leaked memo's description of him as "exceptionally dangerous," saying that he sees only a smiling face in the mirror.



US Defence Secretary Robert Gates also tried to play down the leak, telling reporters that some reactions have been "significantly overwrought".



"Is this embarrassing? Yes. Is it awkward? Yes. Consequences for US foreign policy, I think fairly modest," said Gates, a former CIA director and intelligence analyst.

2. news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8173913/assange-rape-charge-could-be-a-set-up-wilkie

Assange rape charge 'could be a set up': Wilkie

(We - the global populace - kinda worked that bit out for ourselves. The wheels in our minute brains may be a-turnin' slowly, but turn they do. On occasion.)



16:00 AEST Wed Dec 1 2010

By Martin Zavan, ninemsn



Former intelligence official and independent MP Andrew Wilkie says the rape charges brought against WikiLeaks' Australian founder Julian Assange "could definitely be a set-up".



PHOTOS: WikiLeaks founder wanted by Interpol



Mr Wilkie, who controversially went public with his concerns about the case for going to war in Iraq, said governments tended to overreact when faced with individuals who defied their wishes.



"The organisational response to whistleblowers is pretty predictable. They’re [portrayed as] troublemakers, they don’t know what they’re talking about, they’re mentally unstable," Mr Wilkie told ninemsn.



"When organisations are confronted with people they find they can’t control they often lash out fairly powerfully and savagely."



He said governments responded in a theatrical way to threats because they wanted to send a signal to deter people from speaking out.

(Choosing charges of rape to pin on the guy is specifically to render him wholly unsympathetic. You don't want to be caught condoning let alone championing a guy who's "A Rapist". That makes you guilty by association you know. Nary a quicker way to the block...)



"Of course governments don’t want to be embarrassed. And they will tend to overstate the harm caused by these things."



Mr Wilkie said he did not support WikiLeaks "doing anything that put lives at risk", but said the website had a role to fill if it revealed information that was genuinely in the public interest.

(Is that the same as if the public were interested?)



WikiLeaks this week published of thousands of diplomatic cables sent between US embassies around the world.



US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the leak an "attack on the international community" and said it would put lives at risk.



It was revealed today that international police organisation Interpol had put Assange on its most-wanted list.

(Oh Interpol, do they *have* to be AmeriKKKa's lackeys? Europe really needs to stop slaving away to foreign commandments.)



But supporters of Wikileaks say it has done nothing more than embarrass some government officials.



In the cables, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitri Medvedev are referred to as "Batman and Robin", while French President Nicolas Sarkozy is called "thin-skinned and authoritarian".



Mr Wilkie resigned as an intelligence analyst at the Office of National Assessments in 2003 and went public about alleged manipulation of intelligence in the government's case for invading Iraq.



He subsequently gave evidence to enquiries about the case for entering the Iraq war, before entering Federal Parliament as independent member for the seat of Denison in Tasmania this year.

3. news.ninemsn.com.au/slideshowajax/134543/wikileaks-founder-wanted-by-interpol.slideshow

WikiLeaks founder wanted by Interpol - SLIDESHOW



Slide 1/12: Wanted man

Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is wanted by Interpol over allegations of sexual molestation and rape in Stockholm, Sweden. The international agency issued a "red notice" on Tuesday November 30, to assist with his arrest.



2/12: Humble beginnings

The 39-year-old was born in Magnetic Island in north-eastern Australia, moving to Melbourne as a teenager in the 1990s where he discovered a talent for hacking. But he paid for his actions, being charged and fined for 30 counts of computer crime, including allegedly hacking police and US military computers.





3/12: Idea born

Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006 with around 10 others from the human rights, media and technology fields. The website went live in 2007.



4/12-5/12: Collateral murder

WikiLeaks made headlines on April 5, 2010 when it released a classified US military video showing a dozen people being killed by US army soldiers in Iraq. Two of the people killed were Reuters news staff.

[color="#800080"][And these are the captions to 2 screenshots of archival news footage to which the above applies:][/color]

"Just fuckin', once you get on 'em just open 'em up."

"Good shoot'n."

"Thank you."

(Give it up for the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave."

Yeah, *real* brave.

"Land of opportunity, Liberty, Freedom To Screech" and everything.)



6/12: Arrest warrant

Assange's image was spoiled by allegations he committed sex crimes during a stay in Stockholm in August. Assange denied the allegations but Swedish prosectuors called for an international arrest warrant. (Pictured is Assange's lawyer Bjorn Hurtig)



7/12: Upset

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slammed Assange, saying WikiLeaks' latest dump of confidential US documents was an attack on America's foreign policy interests. Assange responded by saying Clinton should resign. <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



8/12: Anger

Assange has a number of high profile enemies including US Republican Sarah Palin who took to Facebook to say the WikiLeaks founder should be hunted down "like Osama bin Laden".

(Green Day's track "American Idiot".)



9/12: Revenge

Fox News' right wing commentator Bill O'Reilly slammed WikiLeaks as a "despicable wesbite", calling Assange a "sleazeball". "Whoever leaked those State Department documents is a traitor and should be executed," O'Reilly said.

(Great. Yet another "American Idiot". Some mothers do 'ave 'em.

Small thing: Assange can't be a traitor 'cause he ain't AmriKKKan. He's still Australian I think.

Yupp: )



10/12: Local action

Australian Attorney-General Robert McClelland warned Assange's passport could be cancelled and foreshadowed possible legal action against him.

(America's called in some favours from said Australian's own government.)



11/12: Safe haven

But the release of information has also won Assange a number of supporters. On Monday, an Ecuadorian minister invited him to live in the country, saying he could settle there "with no problems and no conditions".

(Ecuador declaring that "The Enemy of my Enemy is my buddy, me old pal." Apparently Not Everyone thinks AmeriKKKa is the land of Liberty and all that other tripe. But the first clipping of this post mentioned that Ecuador reneged on their offer some time thereafter.)



12/12: More to come

In an interview with Forbes magazine on November 11, Assange said the release of Pentagon and State Department documents were just the beginning. Since the leaks, Assange has been constantly on the move. It has been reported that he is living somewhere in Europe.

(Europa, Europa.)

"Age of Dawaganda." <- May have misquoted Green Day's original lyrics there, but my twist is so full of creative poezie, vind ik althans.





Of course, only time will tell (if even time) whether Assange will turn out to be just another "Jesuit Temporal Coadjutor" (common christianist tactic). JTC: think of it as a sort of "double spy": ultimately working for the very side they're pretending to expose, while the temporal coadjutor slowly inches the renegade heretic sheeple back to the true church from their side.

(^ It's a possibility that must be submitted, after all: anything is possible in the great information game that is the race for your mind.)





Ooh, American Idiots/Sarah Palin reminded me. (And here I'd been hoping against better knowledge that Bush Junior's prominent/in-your-face 'genius' would be a one-off malfunction. Can someone please stop the Frankenstein assembly line.... Have these guys heard of Family Planning: "How about none?")



After NK's recent attack on S Korean soil, Miss Talentless came out to do her Act:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/sarah-palin/8159130/Sarah-Palin-in-North-Korea-gaffe.html

Sarah Palin in North Korea gaffe

By Andrew Hough 10:00AM GMT 25 Nov 2010



Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and Tea Party favourite, has been hit by another gaffe after mistakenly declaring the US should stand by its “North Korean allies”.



[...]



“So this speaks to a bigger picture here that certainly scares me in terms of our national security policies.



“But obviously we gotta stand with our North Korean allies.”



When the host immediately corrected her Mrs Palin repeated: "Er yeah. And we're also bound by prudence to stand with our South Korean allies, yes."



While the statement appears to have been a slip of the tongue,

(not even the proverbial Freudian kind I think. Not any sort of 'slip' when her 2nd line is taken into consideration, see above. She's just ignorant, full stop.)

it will likely damage her credibility and fail to shed perceptions that she is weak on foreign policy.

(Oh what an understatement)

Eeek. Ugly AND Brainless. How's that for a winning combination...



More ummm ... "Palinity" follows <- look how I made that up, it's like Palin + inanity and Palin + insanity and Palin + stupidity etc. If you thought that was bad, it still beats the likes of this:

She was widely mocked in July this year when she used the term "refudiate" - an unwitting combination of refute and repudiate - in a Twitter posting about the Ground Zero mosque debate, calling on Muslims to "pls refudiate".

Unwitting? That's cause she is an Unwit. (If you're gonna make up words, you at least have to do it on *purpose* instead of bumbling in your own first and especially sole language...)



Bastardised her own language there. <- Another thing Bush Jr is famous for too.

^ One of the many pitfalls of Mono-lingualism. She has only the one language - I'm guessing it's her only one, I could be wrong - and she *still* manages to nuke it. (As a pre-emptive: now's not the moment to pounce on my own liabilities in the communication quarter. And the mathematical quarter. And the geographical quarter. Etc etc etc.)



Not one to (under)stand correction, she parroted/parodied herself all over again later:

Palin claims conservatives have 'refudiated' the extreme left 03 Nov 2010

Is Femme Mentale aiming to be the Classic Joke?



With brains like these - Bush, Palin - one has got to be wondering (as should America's oppressed populace - oppressed, because they're kept woefully ignorant): Who's Running This (Freak) Show?

Though, more likely, Ze Free Peoplez of Ze World have become less sympathetic over time and over the repeat errors and are now asking Zemselves in Grande Peur "If their leaders are this dumb and dumber and dumberer, what's the AmeriKKKan Joe Public like"? (<- And does this mean that American qualifications should henceforth only be weighted at the same level as those who graduate from The Banana Academy? <- Hmmm, don't look at me: it makes itself Mock-Central.)