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It's the second script in as many weeks for Wikileaks. Last week, the organization dropped what it alleges to be the script of an HBO-funded film on Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, one the leaking organization claims received aid from the governments of the United States and United Kingdom.
Hot off leaking the script to the Benedict Cumberbatch-led Fifth Estate, the Wikileaks account tweeted a link Thursday to a new script, allegedly that of the HBO/BBC project spearheaded by Rowan Joffe, confirmed to have signed on to the project in June.
In another tweet, Wikileaks accuses The Guardian of being in cahoots with HBO, BBC, and the two governments as well.
Neither HBO nor BBC have yet to confirm that the script is, in fact, their work. The script, which Wikileaks posted on the bizarre "experienced studio" website ageispolis.net, opens with Bradley Manning watching the video the world would come to know as "Collateral Murder." It focuses much of its attention on the release and impact of this video, as well as characters within the Wikileaks narrative directly in relation to that video, paramount among them hacker Adrian Lamo.
It also takes its time to develop the character of Julian Assange, and herein one suspects lie most of Wikileaks' objections to the script. It depicts a Julian Assange that starts his journey a wandering dandy, prone to strokes of arrogance and increasingly alarming those around him with his concern that governments want to take him out.
By the time he starts negotiating with larger media organizations, Assange becomes ruthless. At a celebratory dinner with editors from The Guardian, Assange refuses to redact names from the wires they are working on, insulted at the proposition. "This is typical of the bleeding heart middle class hand wringing I've come to expect from the so called liberal press," he tells them, concluding bluntly, "If an Afghan informer gives information to coalition forces he deserves to die."
While the script overall does not paint the most favorable picture of the Wikileaks founder, it also does little to inspire sympathy for its own author. The Assange character in particular criminally abuses clichéd one-liners like "you are either with me or against me!" and "nobody's taking me down," at one point dropping the line, "I'm not a hacker—I'm a journalist" with the sort of hackneyed aplomb normally reserved for David Caruso.
It certainly appears to be a work in progress, no matter whose work it ends up proving to be—Rowan Joffe's, the American government's, or a "leaker" looking to dupe Wikileaks.
Como si en todo un año se hubiera paralizado la vida de Julian Assange, el Gobierno de Rafael Correa ha retomado en los últimos días su estrategia para liberar al fundador de Wikileaks. Assange cumple hoy un año desde que entró en la Embajada ecuatoriana en Londres para evitar ser extraditado a Suecia, donde se le quiere juzgar por violación.
El caso pasó de nuevo a la primera plana de la actualidad cuando Ecuador decidió dar asilo diplomático al hacker australiano el mes de agosto del año pasado. Y desde entonces, la situación no ha cambiado un ápice.
El canciller ecuatoriano, Ricardo Patiño, estuvo los últimos días en Londres para reiterar el apoyo de la pequeña nación sudamericana a Assange, manteniendo la condición de asilo, y haciendo algunas gestiones para que el Reino Unido ceda en su posición, y le conceda un salvoconducto. Solo así podría salir de su encierro voluntario. O entregándose. A todo esto, la posición de los británicos es la misma. La reunión de Patiño con su homólogo William Hague concluyó en la misma negación. Eso sí, se ha creado una comisión bilateral para tratar de llegar a puntos de acuerdo. Un año después. Todo apunta a que la espera de Assange será larga.
La visita de Patiño a Londres se ha producido justo después de que el viernes pasado se aprobara en la Asamblea Nacional ecuatoriana una polémica ley de comunicación, a la que los críticos del Gobierno consideran un ataque a la libertad de expresión.
Campeones de la libertad
En este sentido, el exembajador de Ecuador en Londres Mauricio Gándara tilda de «hipócrita» toda la operación. «Patiño ha viajado a Londres con el objeto de, mientras el mundo critica a su Gobierno por la Ley de Comunicación, presentarse como campeones de la libertad de expresión visitando a Assange, sabiendo probablemente que no iban a conseguir nada. Fue una visita cuidadosamente sincronizada con la aprobación de la ley aquí», aseguró en declaraciones a ABC.
Como dato curioso, esta nueva ley de comunicación condena las filtraciones en el artículo 19: la responsabilidad ulterior es «la obligación que tiene toda persona de asumir las consecuencias administrativas posteriores a difundir contenidos que lesionen los derechos establecidos en la Constitución y en particular los derechos de la comunicación y la seguridad pública del Estado, a través de los medios de comunicación». Esto podría ser aplicable a la práctica de Wikileaks o a las recientes revelaciones sobre la privacidad de los usuarios de Internet por parte del exagente de la CIA Edward Snowden, con quien Patiño se ha solidarizado públicamente. Ecuador también analiza una eventual petición de asilo de este informático estadounidense.
Un «diablo» embotellado
Gándara añade que fue el propio Gobierno ecuatoriano el que fue a buscar a Assange para ofrecerle el asilo y así «participar en la fama buena o mala» del australiano en ese momento. «Se lo fueron a ofrecer para decirle al mundo que son antiamericanos y soberanos», asegura.
El exdiplomático, conocedor del espacio en el que se encuentra Assange desde hace un año, afirma que «debe estar como diablo en botella». Según Gándara, tener a una persona ahí en las condiciones en las que se encuentra el australiano dificulta el trabajo de la embajada. «Mejor haría en entregarse, porque puede estar ahí 40 años», opina.
Los Gobiernos del Reino Unido y Ecuador han acordado este lunes crear un grupo de trabajo para buscar una solución diplomática al caso del fundador de WikiLeaksJulian Assange, refugiado desde hace un año en la embajada ecuatoriana en Londres.
El ministro británico de Exteriores, William Hague, y su homólogo ecuatoriano, Ricardo Patiño, se reunieron en la capital británica para abordar la situación del informático australiano, que pidió asilo a Quito para evitar su extradición a Suecia.
En un comunicado, el «Foreign Office» precisa que, al margen de la creación de esa comisión de juristas, «no hubo avances» en el caso de Assange, quien, según Patiño, ha asegurado que está dispuesto a quedarse cinco años más en la embajada si es necesario. «El ministro británico y el ministro Patiño han acordado mantener los canales de comunicación abiertos, pero no ha habido avances» significativos para permitir la salida del activista, señala el ministerio británico en su nota.
Durante su reunión de 45 minutos, Hague y Patiño acordaron, a propuesta de Ecuador, establecer ese grupo de trabajo, «si bien no hubo progresos sustanciales», incidió el Foreign Office. «El ministro británico dejó claro que cualquier solución debe respetar la legislación británica», agrega el comunicado.
Wikileaks renegade Julian Assange seems to be genetically incapable of staying out of trouble. Holed up now for some five months in the Ecuadorean embassy in London to evade police questioning on sexual assault charges, the self-styled paladin of transparency and free expression appeared on CNN for an interview with host Erin Burnett and wound up insulting his Ecuadorean hosts.
Fumbling about to answer an obvious question on how he reconciled his seeking the political protection of a country whose president, Rafael Correa, has one of the worst track records against a free press in the hemisphere, Assange asserted he did not want to talk about "little things in small countries," and, when Burnett persisted, dismissed the situation of press freedom in Ecuador, because it is "not a significant world player."
Yet even as Assange strained mightily to change the subject from his hypocritical embrace of the Correa government, the latter is showing no signs of letting up on its suppression of critical media, and has even brought its campaign to the United States. Last month, Ecuadorean ambassador to the United States Nathalie Cely and another close Correa crony traveled to Miami to pressure a local Spanish language station not to air a documentary critical of Correa's presidency. (The good news is that the State Department's patience with Correa appears to be wearing thin, with Assistant Secretary Roberta Jacobson recently criticizing his abuse of the Ecuadorean legal system to punish and intimidate the press.)
As far as Julian Assange is concerned, as much as he desperately tries to convince anyone who will listen that his cause is openness and transparency and, now apparently, speaking out against purveyors of strategic surveillance technologies, his alignment with someone like Rafael Correa, who as recently as last month said that control of information should be "a function of the state, like the judiciary," leaves his credibility in shambles. Of course, openness and transparency and the abuses of surveillance technologies should be concerns of anyone living in the 21st century, but if you believe the threats emanate from the United States and Europe and not today's technologically savvy authoritarians, then you are less a prophet than a crank whose audience will remain forever confined to the fever swamps of the rabid, anti-American Left.
Assange's quixotic crusade has led him to a cramped room in Rafael Correa's embassy in London -- with no exit in sight. With his opinions on just how much Assange thinks of their country, the Ecuadoreans got to see a side of him they probably were not expecting. Still, the two sides appear to be locked together out of ideological convenience. Here's to a long and unhappy marriage.
Much of the initial commentary on Julian Assange's surprise bid for political asylum in Ecuador has centered on the question of, why Ecuador? After all, Assange has fashioned himself as a paladin of free speech and government transparency, even as Ecuador's radical populist president Rafael Correa's campaign of intimidation against his own country's free press has been assailed around the world, including his $40 million lawsuit against a leading newspaper and his systematic shuttering of news outlets that don't display an appropriate sympathy for the government line.[[SHARE]]
Yet if one understands Assange not as a paragon of freedom of expression, but simply as an angry, maladjusted individual who has sought to damage the United States, not because of its alleged lack of openness, but because he sees it as the guarantor of an international system from which he is completely alienated, then his bid for asylum in Ecuador makes perfect sense.
Indeed, he certainly would find a home in Ecuador.
For his part, President Correa appears to have his own psychological tics about the United States. Although he received his PhD in economics here, his father was also jailed here for drug trafficking. He has also consistently railed about the "neo-liberal" world economic order, evidently resenting his country's relatively powerless role in it and its relation to Ecuador's recent history of political instability.
Thus, his presidency has been one of conflict with established international institutions and practices of that order, as well as pretending that the traditional determinants of international power and influence no longer apply. He's all South and no North.
In fact, the quixotic, anti-"system" campaigns of Assange and Correa recently converged when the two sat down together for a fawning satellite interview over the news outlet RT TV (funded by the Kremlin). It was a veritable anti-American love-fest, with Correa telling Assange, "Welcome to the club of those who are persecuted!"
So far, the only response from the Obama administration on Assange's Ecuador asylum bid has been a passive statement from the State Department, saying that it was "a matter between Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Ecuador."
That may be an appropriate public response, but privately the administration ought to make it clear to the Correa government that there will be serious repercussions if asylum is granted to Assange. The temptation to grant it will be great for Correa, who will bask in the global attention it would bring, as well as further burnishing his radical credentials. So far, his anti-"system" posturing and preening has come at no cost to him. It's time he learned there are limits to such behavior.
ahora los flema-verracos del mi16 que muy entretenidos con los jubileos de la reina y los juegos olimpicos custodian la embajada ecuatoriana en londres, cuando no debian perderle un ojo a la prision domiciliaria del assange, ya no es necesario; la provocacion al sistema de derecho y los valores occidentales esta brillantemente ejecutada y solo los idiotas tan abundantes en estas latitudes septentrionales no sabran donde se concibio, organizo y ejecuto esta operacion. un refugio en venezuela o cuba hubiera sido muy escandaloso, aunque el baboso en jefe pronto lo invitara a punto cero para presentarlo como un luchador contra el imperialismo. assange se metio en la madriguera de la jauria de los lobos, o siempre formo parte de la manada?
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BBC Mundo/ Matías Zibell
Cuando en abril de este año el presidente de Ecuador,
Rafael Correa, le dio la bienvenida a Julian Assange, pocos podían
adivinar que el fundador de Wikileaks le tomaría la palabra al
mandatario sudamericano.
En realidad, en la entrevista satelital que
ambos mantuvieron Correa no mencionó la posibilidad de que Assange
visitara Quito, sino que, en uno de sus habituales juegos con la ironía,
el presidente le dio la bienvenida al "club de los perseguidos".
La policía custodiaba este martes la Embajada ecuatoriana en Londres.
¿Fue ese diálogo entre un mandatario que se
sentía perseguido por los medios de comunicación de su país y un
periodista que le entrevistaba desde su arresto domiciliario en
Inglaterra el disparador de la solicitud de asilo de Assange en la
embajada ecuatoriana en Londres?
Para Orlando Pérez, director del diario
oficialista ecuatoriano El Telégrafo, la idea de solicitar asilo
político al gobierno de Ecuador nació sin duda en ese momento.
"Nosotros entrevistamos al fundador de Wikileaks
el 10 de abril y él hizo referencias a su admiración por Ecuador, pero
fue en esa entrevista con Correa que se produjo una empatía entre ambos y
ahí creo que se afirma esa posibilidad en la cabeza de Assange", le
dijo Pérez a BBC Mundo.
La solicitud de asilo
El gobierno de Ecuador informó que
el fundador de Wikileaks, Julian Assange, ha solicitado asilo político
en su embajada en Londres.
Assange se enfrenta a su extradición a Suecia desde Reino Unido por presuntos crímenes sexuales.
Él niega las acusaciones y asegura que están políticamente motivadas.
El canciller ecuatoriano, Ricardo Patiño, afirmó que su gobierno está evaluando la solicitud del australiano.
Pero el hecho de que Correa sea el único líder
latinoamericano que apareció en el programa conducido desde abril de
este año por el periodista australiano hace pensar que la empatía era en
realidad anterior.
Filtraciones que fortalecen
En el sitio de internet del programa de Assange,
"El Mundo del Mañana" (The World Tomorrow), emitido semanalmente por la
cadena Russia Today, el mandatario ecuatoriano es definido como "un
populista de izquierda carismático" que se ha convertido "en un
entusiasta vocero de la América Latina del siglo XXI".
Correa fue el sexto entrevistado por el
periodista detrás de personalidades como el líder de Hezbollah Hassan
Nasrallah, el intelectual esloveno Slavoj Zizek y el presidente de
Túnez, Moncef Marzouki.
Correa considera que los cables filtrados por Wikileaks fortalecieron a su gobierno.
Durante ese diálogo, el presidente ecuatoriano
dijo que los cables filtrados por Wikileaks habían fortalecido a su
gobierno, "porque las grandes acusaciones de la embajada de Estados
Unidos eran el excesivo nacionalismo y defensa de la soberanía del
gobierno ecuatoriano".
"Y por supuesto que somos nacionalistas y que
defendemos la soberanía del país", aseguró Correa, quien aprovechó la
entrevista para criticar a los medios privados ecuatorianos, por no
publicar los cables filtrados que los perjudicaban.
Las revelaciones de información confidencial de
las embajadas de EE.UU. por parte de Wikileaks provocaron controversia
en casi todos los países del globo a partir de 2010, pero en pocas
naciones del mundo generaron una medida tan concreta como la adoptada
por el gobierno ecuatoriano.
El 5 de abril de 2011, el ministro de Relaciones
Exteriores, Ricardo Patiño, anunció la expulsión de la embajadora
estadounidense Heather Hodges debido a los cables filtrados de la sede
diplomática sobre la supuesta corrupción policial en el país
sudamericano.
Primer ofrecimiento
"Este gobierno, cuando aparecieron las primeras
filtraciones, se sintió totalmente afectado y no le dio credibilidad a
los cables, eran lo peor del mundo, pero después cambió, empezó a usar
esa información para rédito político y Assange pasó de villano a héroe",
le dijo a BBC Mundo Marlon Puertas, editor general del diario privado
Hoy.
La opinión de Puertas se basa, entre otros
elementos, en un contrapunto de opiniones que se produjo al estallar el
escándalo de los cables filtrados.
El 29 noviembre del 2010, el viceministro de
Relaciones Exteriores del Ecuador, Kintto Lucas, ofreció la residencia
ecuatoriana a Julian Assange "sin ningún tipo de condicionamiento".
Horas después, Correa desautorizó al
funcionario, indicando que esa declaración "fue a título personal", sin
la aprobación del canciller ni del presidente.
Pero en una entrevista posterior con la
periodista colombiana Claudia Gurisati, el mandatario dijo que no se
había ofrecido pero tampoco descartado un asilo a Assange: "Cometió una
ilegalidad pero a la final nos brindó un bien mayor: revelarnos la
política imperial de los EE.UU." opinó el líder latinoamericano.
"El asilo solicitado este martes está sustentado
en la primera invitación de Kintto Lucas que no fue descartada por
Correa", señaló el director de El Telégrafo, Orlando Pérez, quien agregó
que "Assange, aunque criticó la expulsión de la embajadora Hodges,
valoraba la valentía del Ecuador en sus relaciones con Washington".
taringa.net/ Julian Assange entrevista al presidente ecuatoriano Rafael Correa
By msnbc.com news services
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has taken refuge in the Ecuador embassy in London and has asked for political asylum, Ecuador's foreign minister said on Tuesday.
"Ecuador is studying and analyzing the request," Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino told reporters in the capital Quito.
Assange faces extradition to Sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes after Britain's top court said last week that it had rejected a legal request to reconsider his case.
Assange is wanted for questioning in Sweden after two women accused him of sexual misconduct during a visit to the country in mid-2010. His legal struggle to stay in Britain has dragged on for the better part of two years, clouding his website's work exposing the world's secrets. More >>
Is WikiLeaks biased against the West and the US in particular? This news item would tend to indicate so.
Julian Assange
According to Christian Science monitor Moscow correspondent Fred Weir, Kremlin funded media outlet Russia Today, is to hire WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
This despite the fact that Assange remains under house arrest in
Britain, awaiting a Supreme Court decision on his extradition to Sweden
to face sexual assault allegations.
According to Weir:
WikiLeaks founder and controversy magnet Julian
Assange has been driven off the Internet, deprived of funding and placed
under house arrest. Now he will get his chance to strike back, courtesy of the Kremlin. Starting in March, Mr. Assange will host a 10-part series of
interview programs with “key political players, thinkers and
revolutionaries” on Russia Today (RT), a state-funded English-language satellite news network which claims to reach more than 85 million viewers in the US alone. According to a statement on his website, the new Assange series
will explore the “upheavals and revolutions” that are shaking the Middle
East and expose how “the deterioration of the rule of law has
demonstrated the bankruptcy of once leading political institutions and
ideologies” in the West.
“Through this series I will explore the possibilities
for our future in conversations with those who are shaping it… Are we
heading towards utopia, or dystopia and how we can set our paths? This
is an exciting opportunity to discuss the vision of my guests in a new
style of show that examines their philosophies and struggles in a deeper
and clearer way than has been done before.”
According to Fred Weir the Kremlin should be very pleased with this coup:
The network says the series could reach as many as 600 million viewers worldwide. The six-year-old Russia Today, which seems far better
funded than most media these days, has battled accusations that it is a
Kremlin vanity project since its inception. The station tends to tiptoe gingerly around the controversies of Russian politics, but
aggressively applies its own slogan – “Question More” – in its coverage
of Western affairs and particularly the global role of the US. In 2010 it opened a full-time US TV channel, RT America, which
produces independent content on US politics and economics from what it
calls an alternative – critics say anti-American – point of view. Hiring Assange would seem a perfect fit for RT. Worries that WikiLeaks might dump a lot of embarrassing material about the Russian government into Internet never panned out. However, the thousands of US diplomatic cables that it
did release proved to be the gift-that-keeps-on-giving for critics and
rivals of Washington, including the Kremlin. “We liked a lot of the WikiLeaks revelations. It was very
much in sync with what Russia Today has been reporting about the Arab
Spring, and about the duplicitous policies of the US and its allies all
along,” says Peter Lavelle, a senior journalist with RT and host of its Cross Talk public affairs program. “I think the Russian government will be pleased [to see Assange working on RT]. It’s a soft power coup for Russia,” he adds.
Fred Weir
It is interesting that Fred Weir chose, (or was chosen), to break this story in the mainstream media. This is how he profiled himself in a March 2004 article in The Walrus:
I came to Moscow over twenty years ago as a correspondent for the Canadian Tribune, the now defunct weekly newspaper put out by Canada’s Communist Party. I was a third-generation red diaper baby from Toronto, and a long-time member of the party. My uncle, trained at the Lenin School in Moscow in the 1920s as an agent of the Communist International,
spent many years in the USSR. I’d visited a few times, had studied
Russian history up to the graduate level, but never wanted to live there
until Gorbachev came to power in 1985… I grabbed the Tribune job as soon as it was offered to me. My own dispatches to the Tribune were mostly stories about how
well Gorbachev’s plan was working out. I travelled in cramped,
smoke-filled Aeroflot jets across the Soviet Union, from Leningrad to
Vladivostok, and everywhere found people waking up to new possibilities…
Fred Weir is well connected to the new Russian communist/business elite:
Sometime in the spring of 1991… I was invited to a garden party at the country home of Andrei Brezhnev, nephew of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev,
in Zhukovka, an elite dacha settlement outside Moscow. One of the
guests, whom I’d known for years as a functionary of the Komsomol (the
Young Communist League) rolled up in a shiny white Volvo and told me he
was now president of an import-export firm. Another, whom I’d often
dealt with as an official of the Tribune’s fraternal newspaper, the
Soviet Communist Party organ Pravda, boasted that he’d just been hired
at a private bank. A third, even more surprising because he was the son
of renowned Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, leaned over the table and
handed me a card that announced him as an “international business
consultant.”
In a “Statement by Konstantin Preobrazhensky, former Soviet KGB
officer, on the impact and purpose of Russia Today television,” given to
America’s Survival, Inc. organization, led by journalist Cliff Kincaid, released April 1, 2011, the former KGB officer wrote the following about it.
“Russia Today” was founded in 2005 especially for propaganda abroad.
It has been aimed at ‘explaining Russia’s position on the main
international issues and inform foreigners about Russian life’.
According to Gzt.ru, it has been financed totally by the Russian government. In 2005-2006, the government has delivered $30 million annually. i The methods of propaganda are managed by Directorate “A”
of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. The specialty of Directorate
“A” is deceiving world public opinion and manipulating it. It has got a lot of experience over decades of the Cold War. “Russia Today” is only a part of the Russian industry
misinformation and manipulation created recently in the USA by Putin’s
KGB. It is including the utilization of some American think-tanks and
political scientists, their direct work up by Putin at annual
meetings in Russia , putting Russian Americans under Kremlin’s control,
etc. This industry aims at creating an inadequate, adorned image of
Russia, provoking American to make wrong steps in their Russian
politics.
Interestingly, Fred Weir is a contributing editor to Chicago based socialist journal In These Times, where he serves alongside Barbara Ehrenreich, a founder of Progressives for Obama and a member of the US’ largest Marxist organization Democratic Socialists of America. Ehrenreich’s daughter, Rosa Brooks
(named after Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg), is a senior adviser
to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Michele Flournoy.
Barbara Eherenreich also serves as a trustee to the far left Washington DC “think tank” Institute for Policy Studies
– once described by Brian Crozier, director of the London-based
Institute for the Study of Conflict, as the “perfect intellectual front
for Soviet activities which would be resisted if they were to originate
openly from the KGB.”
In These Times, began life as an official project of the Institute
for Policy Studies. Its current board of editors includes such leftist
luminaries as David Axelrod‘s mentor Don Rose and long time Obama allies, former Weather Underground terrorist leaders, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
Moscow’s communist networks spanned the globe and in most cases still exist.
Is WikiLeaks just another chapter in the long running East West propaganda war?
A war the West is losing, because it doesn’t even realize it is still being waged.
A May 24 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Frontline program quoted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as saying he’d never had any contact with Bradley Manning and that he had no information indicating that the former Army intelligence analyst was the source of the classified U.S. intelligence information released by WikiLeaks.
On December 19, Frontline posted this follow-up information, “New Evidence of Assange-Manning Link,” and came clean in acknowledging that the new evidence in the case casts the statements by Assange in serious doubt:
“In an interview last April with Frontline correspondent Martin Smith, Julian Assange flatly denied that he’d ever had any contact with Bradley Manning, the young Army private accused of leaking half a million classified documents to Assange’s WikiLeaks. Asked about the implication in online conversations apparently between Manning and ex-hacker Adrian Lamo that Manning had gone around WikiLeaks’ normal protocols and established a personal relationship with Assange, Assange was adamant, even suggesting that Manning might have been inflating himself to others by claiming a relationship that did not exist. ‘We don’t have sources that we know about. And I had never heard the name Bradley Manning before. I never heard the name Bradass87 before.’”
Manning had used the name “Bradass87” in online chats and bragged about engineering “possibly the largest data spillage in American history.”
The new evidence in the case, disclosed in Manning’s preliminary hearing, established a direct connection between Assange and Manning. Frontline noted that Army digital forensics contractor Mark Johnson, testifying in Manning’s pretrial hearing, “says that he found communications between Manning and a chat user named ‘Julian Assange’ on Manning’s personal computer and a phone number for Assange in Iceland…”
The evidence puts Manning and Assange “in a precarious legal position,” Frontline now acknowledges. In effect, the evidence demonstrates that they were engaged in what amounts to a conspiracy to steal classified information from U.S. Army computers. This is espionage.
As such, Assange may have been lying about his contact with Manning in order to avoid implicating himself in a conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act. The WikiLeaks founder, an Australian and convicted computer hacker, is facing deportation from Britain to Sweden on sex crimes charges. He could eventually face deportation to the U.S., if he is ever indicted by the Obama/Holder Justice Department.
Meanwhile, more statements from Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul defending WikiLeaks, the recipient of the largest release of classified information in American history, are starting to get media attention. These appearances included:
On the Fox Business Network Paul said, “This whole notion that Assange, who’s an Australian, that we want to prosecute him for treason. I mean, aren’t they jumping to a wild conclusion? This is media, isn’t it? I mean, why don’t we prosecute The New York Times or anybody that releases this?”
On the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives he said, “Is there not a huge difference between releasing secret information to help the enemy in a time of declared war, which is treason, and the releasing of information to expose our government lies that promote secret wars, death and corruption?”
Paul went on Twitter to declare that WikiLeaks was providing “truth.” More >>
LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lost his appeal on Wednesday against extradition to Sweden to answer sex crime allegations.
Judges John Thomas and Duncan Ousely said that Assange, who was in London's High Court to hear the verdict, should be sent to Sweden to be questioned over the alleged rape of one woman and the molestation of another in Stockholm last year.
The 40-year-old has denied wrongdoing, and insists the case is politically motivated by those opposed to the work of his secret-spilling organization.
Assange's lawyers said they would appeal the verdict at Britain's Supreme Court, the BBC reported. They have 14 days to do so.
Following the judgment Assange emerged from the High Court and delivered a brief statement before a large crowd of journalists.
He said he was considering his next steps in the days ahead but did not elaborate further. He also slammed the amount of spin surrounding his case.
Assange pointed people to the website swedenversusassange.com "if [they] really want to know what's going on in this case."
An extended interview with Julian Assange recorded during filming of John Pilger’s latest film The War You Don’t See.
The attacks on WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, are a response to an information revolution that threatens old power orders, in politics and journalism.
The incitement to murder trumpeted by public figures in the United States, together with attempts by the Obama administration to corrupt the law and send Assange to a hell hole prison for the rest of his life, are the reactions of a rapacious system exposed as never before.
The US Justice Department has established a secret grand jury just across the river from Washington in the eastern district of the state of Virginia. The object is to indict Julian Assange under a discredited espionage act used to arrest peace activists during the first world war, or one of the war on terror conspiracy statutes that have degraded American justice.
Judicial experts describe the jury as a deliberate set up, pointing out that this corner of Virginia is home to the employees and families of the Pentagon, CIA, Department of Homeland Security and other pillars of American power.
It's the biggest intelligence breach in U.S. history -- the leaking of more than a half million classified documents on the WikiLeaks website throughout 2010. At the center of the controversy stands Bradley E. Manning, the Army intelligence analyst who's charged with handing them over.
Who is Bradley Manning, and what does his story tell us about how and why the secret cache of documents may have been leaked? In WikiSecrets, FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith gains exclusive access to those closest to Manning -- including his father, close friends and his Army bunkmate -- and uncovers video of Manning taken around the time of the alleged handover of classified information. Read more »
The American ambassador to the UK Louis Susman talks about the Wikileaks Julian Assange case and how desperate the US are to get Assange, while the rest of the world reject the USA and their puppet politicians.
Recorded from BBC's Andrew Marr Show, 20 February 2011.
¨Saturno jugando con sus hijos¨/ Pedro Pablo Oliva
Seguidores
Carta desde la carcel de Fidel Castro Ruz
“…después de todo, para mí la cárcel es un buen descanso, que sólo tiene de malo el que es obligatorio. Leo mucho y estudio mucho. Parece increíble, las horas pasan como si fuesen minutos y yo, que soy de temperamento intranquilo, me paso el día leyendo, apenas sin moverme para nada. La correspondencia llega normalmente…”
“…Como soy cocinero, de vez en cuando me entretengo preparando algún pisto. Hace poco me mandó mi hermana desde Oriente un pequeño jamón y preparé un bisté con jalea de guayaba. También preparo spaghettis de vez en cuando, de distintas formas, inventadas todas por mí; o bien tortilla de queso. ¡Ah! ¡Qué bien me quedan! por supuesto, que el repertorio no se queda ahí. Cuelo también café que me queda muy sabroso”. “…En cuanto a fumar, en estos días pasados he estado rico: una caja de tabacos H. Upman del doctor Miró Cardona, dos cajas muy buenas de mi hermano Ramón….”. “Me voy a cenar: spaghettis con calamares, bombones italianos de postre, café acabadito de colar y después un H. Upman #4. ¿No me envidias?”. “…Me cuidan, me cuidan un poquito entre todos. No le hacen caso a uno, siempre estoy peleando para que no me manden nada. Cuando cojo el sol por la mañana en shorts y siento el aire de mar, me parece que estoy en una playa… ¡Me van a hacer creer que estoy de vacaciones! ¿Qué diría Carlos Marx de semejantes revolucionarios?”.
Quotes
¨La patria es dicha de todos, y dolor de todos, y cielo para todos, y no feudo ni capellanía de nadie¨ - Marti
"No temas ni a la prision, ni a la pobreza, ni a la muerte. Teme al miedo" - Giacomo Leopardi
¨Por eso es muy importante, Vicky, hijo mío, que recuerdes siempre para qué sirve la cabeza: para atravesar paredes¨– Halvar de Flake[El vikingo]
"Como no me he preocupado de nacer, no me preocupo de morir"- Lorca
"Al final, no os preguntarán qué habéis sabido, sino qué habéis hecho" - Jean de Gerson
"Si queremos que todo siga como está, es necesario que todo cambie" - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"Todo hombre paga su grandeza con muchas pequeñeces, su victoria con muchas derrotas, su riqueza con múltiples quiebras" - Giovanni Papini
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans" - John Lennon
"Habla bajo, lleva siempre un gran palo y llegarás lejos" - Proverbio Africano
"No hay medicina para el miedo"-Proverbio escoces "El supremo arte de la guerra es doblegar al enemigo sin luchar" -Sun Tzu
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother" - Albert Einstein
"It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office" - H. L. Menken
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented" -Elie Wiesel
"Stay hungry, stay foolish" - Steve Jobs
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert , in five years ther'ed be a shortage of sand" - Milton Friedman
"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less" - Vaclav Havel
"No se puede controlar el resultado, pero si lo que uno haga para alcanzarlo" - Vitor Belfort [MMA Fighter]
Liborio
A la puerta de la gloria está San Pedro sentado y ve llegar a su lado a un hombre de cierta historia. No consigue hacer memoria y le pregunta con celo: ¿Quién eras allá en el suelo? Era Liborio mi nombre. Has sufrido mucho, hombre, entra, te has ganado el cielo.
Para Raul Castro
Cuba ocupa el penultimo lugar en el mundo en libertad economica solo superada por Corea del Norte.
Cuba ocupa el lugar 147 entre 153 paises evaluados en "Democracia, Mercado y Transparencia 2007"
Cuando vinieron a buscar a los comunistas, Callé: yo no soy comunista. Cuando vinieron a buscar a los sindicalistas, Callé: yo no soy sindicalista. Cuando vinieron a buscar a los judíos, Callé: yo no soy judío. Cuando vinieron a buscar a los católicos, Callé: yo no soy “tan católico”. Cuando vinieron a buscarme a mí, Callé: no había quien me escuchara.
Un sitio donde los hechos y sus huellas nos conmueven o cautivan
CUBA LLORA Y EL MUNDO Y NOSOTROS NO ESCUCHAMOS
Donde esta el Mundo, donde los Democratas, donde los Liberales? El pueblo de Cuba llora y nadie escucha. Donde estan los Green, los Socialdemocratas, los Ricos y los Pobres, los Con Voz y Sin Voz? Cuba llora y nadie escucha. Donde estan el Jet Set, los Reyes y Principes, Patricios y Plebeyos? Cuba desesperada clama por solidaridad. Donde Bob Dylan, donde Martin Luther King, donde Hollywood y sus estrellas? Donde la Middle Class democrata y conservadora, o acaso tambien liberal a ratos? Y Gandhi? Y el Dios de Todos? Donde los Santos y Virgenes; los Dioses de Cristianos, Protestantes, Musulmanes, Budistas, Testigos de Jehova y Adventistas del Septimo Dia. Donde estan Ochun y todas las deidades del Panteon Yoruba que no acuden a nuestro llanto? Donde Juan Pablo II que no exige mas que Cuba se abra al Mundo y que el Mundo se abra a Cuba? Que hacen ahora mismo Alberto de Monaco y el Principe Felipe que no los escuchamos? Donde Madonna, donde Angelina Jolie y sus adoptados around de world; o nos hara falta un Brando erguido en un Oscar por Cuba? Donde Sean Penn? Donde esta la Aristocracia Obrera y los Obreros menos Aristocraticos, donde los Working Class que no estan junto a un pueblo que lanquidece, sufre y llora por la ignominia? Que hacen ahora mismo Zapatero y Rajoy que no los escuchamos, y Harper y Dion, e Hillary y Obama; donde McCain que no los escuchamos? Y los muertos? Y los que estan muriendo? Y los que van a morir? Y los que se lanzan desesperados al mar? Donde estan el minero cantabrico o el pescador de percebes gijonese? Los Canarios donde estan? A los africanos no los oimos, y a los australianos con su acento de hombres duros tampoco. Y aquellos chinos milenarios de Canton que fundaron raices eternas en la Isla? Y que de la Queen Elizabeth y los Lords y Gentlemen? Que hace ahora mismo el combativo Principe Harry que no lo escuchamos? Donde los Rockefellers? Donde los Duponts? Donde Kate Moss? Donde el Presidente de la ONU? Y Solana donde esta? Y los Generales y Doctores? Y los Lam y los Fabelo, y los Sivio y los Fito Paez? Y que de Canseco y Miñoso? Y de los veteranos de Bahia de Cochinos y de los balseros y de los recien llegados? Y Carlos Otero y Susana Perez? Y el Bola, y Pancho Cespedes? Y YO y TU? Y todos nosotros que estamos aqui y alla rumiando frustaciones y resquemores, envidias y sinsabores; autoelogios y nostalgias, en tanto Louis Michel comulga con Perez Roque mientras Biscet y una NACION lanquidecen? Donde Maceo, donde Marti; donde aquel Villena con su carga para matar bribones? Cuba llora y clama y el Mundo NO ESCUCHA!!!
An extended interview with Julian Assange recorded during filming of John Pilger’s latest film 
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