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I am currently searching through CableGate, preparing for Whistleblowing Wednesday.
I'm also searching for recent leaks and government documents.
Here's a preview of what's to come:
'Secret' National Security Agency located in San Antonio
*DO NOT REBLOG THIS*
A journalist at Current was supposedly detained and interrogated for taking photos of the building. Source
I encourage my followers to search through Cable Gate and post anything interesting you come across.
Chicken Soup (Boney M Goes Club) - Who The Fuck Is #Wikileaks - #Anonymous #AntiSec #CableGate #Revolution #NP
[edit: a needed re-post!]
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The U.N. Declares Internet Access a Human Right
The United Nations counts internet access as a basic human right in a report that bears implications both to on-going events in the Arab Spring and to the Obama administration's war on whistleblowers. Acting as special rapporteur, a human rights watchdog role appointed by the UN Secretary General, Frank La Rue takes a hard line on the importance of the internet as "an indispensable tool for realizing a range of human rights, combating inequality, and accelerating development and human progress." Presented to the General Assembly on Friday, La Rue's report comes as the capstone of a year's worth of meetings held between La Rue and local human rights organizations around the world, from Cairo to Bangkok. The report's introduction points to the impact of online collaboration in the Arab Spring and says that "facilitating access to the Internet for all individuals, with as little restriction to online content as possible, should be a priority for all States."
The UN report overwhelmingly supports the internet as a communication platform, a boon to all democratic societies, but it also warns how the internet's unique architecture threatens power brokers in those societies:
The vast potential and benefits of the Internet are rooted in its unique characteristics, such as its speed, worldwide reach and relative anonymity. At the same time, these distinctive features of the Internet that enable individuals to disseminate information in "real time" and to mobilize people has also created fear amongst Governments and the powerful. This has led to increased restrictions on the Internet through the use of increasingly sophisticated technologies to block content, monitor and identify activists and critics, criminalization of legitimate expression, and adoption of restrictive legislation to justify such measures.
La Rue's mention of reach and anonymity celebrates Twitter and Facebook role in Egypt as much as it validates WikiLeaks in the United States. The Electronic Freedom Foundation says that the UN's support for anonymous expression and the protection it affords should inform how governments regulate security and surveillance. Forms of online surveillance--be it Facebook's privacy policy or the United States government's expanding treason law to document leaks--"often [take] place for political, rather than security reasons in an arbitrary and covert manner," La Rue argues. In short, broad surveillance powers or the erosion of privacy online endanger anonymity's ability to protect dissenters and journalists alike when they speak out.
Stacked against the administration's assault on whistleblowers, La Rue's warnings are condemning:
The Special Rapporteur remains concerned that legitimate online expression is being criminalized in contravention of States' international human rights obligations, whether it is through the application of existing criminal laws to online expression, or through the creation of new laws specifically designed to criminalize expression on the Internet. Such laws are often justified as being necessary to protect individuals' reputation, national security or to counter terrorism. However, in practice, they are frequently used to censor content that the Government and other powerful entities do not like or agree with.
La Rue acknowledges the logistical barriers that some nations face when it comes to delivering internet service. Without the proper infrastructure, some nations simply can't engage the internet as the "revolutionary" and "interactive medium" it's proven itself to be. However, all nations should make plans to offer universal access and also maintain policy that won't limit access for political purposes. In doing so, La Rue calls on governments to decriminalize defamation, do away with real-name registration systems--including the parameters in Facebook's terms and conditions that allows governments to collect users' names and passwords--and restrict rights only in the face of an imminent threat.
The United Nations' strong position on anonymity online reads like a hat tip to WikiLeaks and its campaign for transparency, but it also sounds scolding towards governments like the United States' that have waged wars against transparency. Likening the Obama administration's increasing number of convictions using old treason laws against information leakers is censorship in no uncertain terms, the UN seems to say. And the government's bad track record of protecting this type of free expression is ideologically just as bad as shutting the internet down altogether.
Sources
United Nations report: Internet access is a human right, Nathan Olivarez-Giles, Los Angeles Times
U.N. Special Rapporteur Calls Upon States to Protect Anonymous Speakers Online, Katitza Rodriguez, Electronic Freedom Foundation
Reports have emerged over efforts by the Obama administration to chastise the San Francisco Chronicle, and in particular its reporter, Carla Marinucci, for reporting on a protest staged during an Obama fundraiser in support of incarcerated whistleblower, Bradley Manning.
Marinucci was present during the San Francisco fundraiser on April 21st when several Obama supporters stood to address the president with a protest song written specially for such occasions.
Along with other attendees at the event, the SF Chronicle reporter used her video-capable phone to record the event. She later posted the video in her report on the episode.
This action, by staunch supporters of the president, all of whom payed at least the minimum of $5000 to attend the event, was a stark indicator of how the administration's inhumane treatment of Bradley Manning is beginning to alienate the president's base, as he faces into his reelection campaign.
Marinucci's footage was not the only footage that made it online. It was apparently, however, the only footage released by an official news outlet. The SF Chronicle was present at the event as part of the "print pool" - a common arrangement used by the White House when the full press corps is not able to attend. The conditions for this arrangement are that reports on the event remain textual, and that the report is submitted to the White House for redistribution to reporters who were not able to attend.
These conditions are now being used as a pretext to exclude Carla Marinucci from the 'print pool' for further events in the Bay Area. This is a clear demonstration of how authorities exert control over the media through the use of soft power - under the threat of removal of access and privileges when journalists start doing journalism.
Besides encroaching on the freedom of the press to report on matters of high public interest embarrassing to the president, the move would appear to be redundant, since Marinucci was not the only party to the event who recorded footage, nor was she the only person to post that video on the internet.
ABC 7.30 Interview with Julian Assange (April 2011) (by ffourfingerzz)
ABC 7.30 speaks to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. http://LeakSource.wordpress.com
April 8, 2011
Hello Citizens of the World
This is a message from Anonymous Operation Want.
It has come to our attention that many people including journalists, wish to understand the relationship between the attacks on Julian Assange, publisher of Wikileaks, and the knowledge that Operation Want (Op Want) has recently provided to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (U.S. SEC) on April 1st, 2011 concerning the Wallenberg family and NASDAQ OMX.
Let us first note, we are aware that our information may be considered by some as mere coincidence. However, when coincidences pile up in numbers, patterns form that evolve into circumstantial evidence, thus making it difficult to deny the machinations of the rich and powerful are at play.
When it comes to the issues surrounding Assange and Wikileaks providing free and accurate information to the citizens of the world about wars, war crimes, government and banking corruption and the lack of said transparency, one must understand the opponents include some of the most wealthy and politically powerful players of the military industrial complex. This is where Sweden's Wallenberg family comes into play. The Wallenbergs have an immense vested interest in the global war machine.
Anonymous independent researchers worldwide assembled data over the past four months for Operation Want. Examination of the Op Want data was based primarily on who in Sweden has the means and motives to bring Assange to Sweden from the U.K. via a smear campaign against him and Wikileaks, then ultimately extradite Assange to the United States for possibly the prosecution of alleged espionage. The Anonymous Want letter to the U.S. SEC is in opposition to their creating a new board seat for Sweden's Wallenberg cartel on NASDAQ. The new seat would help give the Wallenberg's further control over NASDAQ OMX, what appears to be in exchange for Assange's extradition to the U.S.
Anonymous use of legal advice was for review, editing and filing the letter to the U.S. SEC. Therefore, this letter did not get into the issue of Assange and WikiLeaks, because that is not the issue before the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The letter to the SEC is about seven pages with twenty pages of backing exhibits.
Furthermore, below are dates associated with Assange which may help to understand the Wallenberg motivations in using their influence to extradite Assange to Sweden, then to the U.S. for questioning and prosecution. Each time Julian Assange was detained, and his personal freedom to travel taken away, Wallenberg's received something that they really wanted from the U.S. Department of Justice and Government of Dubai.
If the U.S. SEC approves the requirement by NASDAQ OMX to change laws to benefit Sweden's Wallenberg business cartel, it will be one more gift from the United States Government. And what does Sweden have that the US wants in return?
Dates:
December 8, 2010
· As arranged with UK authorities Assange gives himself up to London police and is taken to an extradition hearing at a Westminster court. He is remanded in custody pending another hearing on 14 December.
· ABB and Baldor Electric Company announced today that ABBs subsidiary, Brock Acquisition Corporation, is commencing the previously announced cash tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Baldor.
December 16, 2010
· Assange has an electronic monitor put on him and, his freedom to travel taken away.
· Ruler of Dubai (Borse Dubai) releases over eight million shares of NASDAQ OMX to Wallenberg (Investor AB) through an agreement with Nomura.
January 11-12, 2011
· Wallenberg's "ABB," a core business under Investor AB, has been trying to get the US Department of Justice (DoJ) to approve the acquisition of Baldor. The DoJ had launched an investigation into Anti-Trust matters and twice the DoJ gave ABB extensions. The last extension was scheduled to be over at midnight on January 11th.
· Julian Assange goes to court that day and is told that he still does not have his freedom.
· Wallenberg's ABB get's a third extension of time by the US DoJ to February 7th. Assange goes back to court and Wallenberg's get the ABB Baldor purchase approved by DoJ.
February 3, 2011
· NASDAQ OMX sends a proposal to the US SEC requesting permission to have laws changed for Wallenberg's Investor AB to acquire a seat on the NASDAQ OMX board of directors.
February 23, 2011
· NASDAQ OMX press release announcing Borje Ekholm, CEO of Investor AB, as a new board member, before the end of public comment and US SEC approval.
February 24, 2011
· District Judge Riddle ordered that Julian be extradited to Sweden.
April 1, 2011
· Attorney for Anonymous Operation Want, World Citizens for Truth and Freedom of Information, and the Prosperity Agenda file complaints against the NASDAQ OMX Group and Wallenbergs with the US SEC.
We are Anonymous.
Anonymous is Everyone.
Anonymous is Everywhere.
We do not forget.
We do not forgive.
Anonymous is Legion.
Expect us.
4.1.11 Letter of opposition sent to the SEC https://wikispooks.com/w/images/0/09/Anonymous-Operation_Want.pdf
4.3.11 Press Release
http://open.salon.com/blog/anonymous_operation_want/2011/04/04/4311_anonymous_news_release
Hello Poker, Husky and Juju.
Would you like to have OMX back under your control?
We understand more than you think. It appears more than a coincidence that the U.S. Department of Justice gave ABB all thoses extensions on the Baldor acquisition during the same time of the Swedish EAW and London court dates. Certainly looks like ABB got out of some Anti-Trust matters?
December 16th! Jacob,What happened on that day?
Julian Assange had an electronic monitor placed on him and his freedom to travel stolen.
Jacob Wallenberg,
What did you get? You got the Ruler of Dubai to give you over 8 millions shares of NASDAQ OMX at half price. Did you think nobody would notice these arrangements?
Then before the public has commented on the NASDAQ OMX proposal to have the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission change laws to your benefit and put your INVESTOR AB on the Board, it is announced in the press that it has already been done.
Why are you so sure that the U.S. SEC is going to change laws just for your benefit? Do you see Julian Assange as a trade commodity? Have you made a transfer deal with the U.S.? Is the Hillary and Holder helping you get your OMX baby back, so long as you can give them Julian Assange?
We are Anonymous.
Anonymous is Everyone.
Anonymous is Everywhere.
We do not forget.
We do not forgive.
We are Legion.
Expect us.
Friday, April 1st, 2011 -
Anonymous Operation Want, World Citizens for Truth and Freedom of Information, and the Prosperity Agenda took on NASDAQ OMX Group and Sweden's elite Wallenberg Family.
Press Release from Anonymous http://issuu.com/ophiomorphos/docs/opwant
Copy of the legal opposition letter filed with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
http://issuu.com/anonopwant/docs/anonopwants?mode=a_p
Video????.? Introduction to Anonymous Operation Want http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNgJsTIbIDA
A message From #Anonymous #Wikileaks 2011 (by Ithatitastixil)
Tuesday the Pentagon acknowledged fears of an attack by the Internet activist group Anonymous. The Pentagon is worried about what has been dubbed "Operation Bradical" - threats made in the name of the hactivist group Anonymous against the Quantico Virgina base where suspected Wikileaks whistle-blower Private Bradley Manning is currently being held.
The Pentagon fears the loose Internet collective known as Anonymous will stage some sort of cyber attack (Operation Bradical) against those responsible for detaining Manning in a Quantico military brig, keeping him in solitary confinement and forcing him to strip nightly and stand at attention naked each morning.
Private Bradley Manning is a US soldier suspected of giving documents to WikiLeaks. Manning is charged with stealing classified files and is suspected as the source for numerous secret documents published on the WikiLeaks website in recent months.
The WikiLeaks incident has infuriated and embarrassed US officials. Many feel Manning is being treated in a cruel and inhumane way by U.S. authorities because of the embarrassing and damning revelations made possible by Manning's alleged contributions to WikiLeaks
Andy Greenberg at Forbes reports:
In a crowdsourced document used to coordinate the group’s actions, Anonymous hackers name Department of Defense Press Secretary Geoff Morell and chief warrant officer Denise Barnes as targets and call on members to dig up personal information on both, including phone numbers, personal histories and home addresses. The goal of the operation, for now, is to “dox” the two officials, the typical Anonymous method of publishing personal information of victims and using it for mass harassment.
“Targets established,” reads the document, before naming Morell and Barnes. “We’re in the ruining business. And business is good.”
