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Category Archives: Politics
Assange Threatening to Release “Poison Pill”
Julian Assange is trying to keep himself out of police custody by threatening to release a “poison pill” cache of uncensored documents that have been locked in an encrypted volume since last summer. The archive, which is often referred to as “insurance”, is said to contain documents related to BP, Guantanamo Bay, civilian deaths in Afghanistan, and Bank of America. If released, they would undoubtedly cause yet another international frenzy.
Of course, if Assange were really interested in the idea of open government and corruption free business, he would have released these documents as soon as he obtained them. Then again, he’s facing some rather dire circumstances so it’s hard to blame him for being such a chicken shit about things these past few weeks.
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Wikileaks Publishes Cable Disclosing Key U.S. Security Weaknesses, Swiss Freeze Assange’s Bank Account
Wikileaks took things a step further this morning by publishing a secret cable disclosing a list of key U.S. security weaknesses. Hours later, a Swiss bank at which Julian Assange has an account announced that it has shut him out. Assange is believed to have had at least €31,000 in the account. Another $60,000 was seized by PayPal just days ago.
Assange is believed to be hiding somewhere in southeast England. Authorities in several countries are looking for him. It will be a matter of days before he’s brought in at this rate.
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Former Wikileaks Members to Launch New Website
A group of former members of Wikileaks is getting ready to launch a new whistleblower site sometime later this month, according to German newspaper Die Tageszeitung. The group says that Julian Assange’s group is too focused on what the United States is doing wrong and that their intent is to look at the larger picture.
Spiegel Online has more details, if you’re interested.
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PayPal Shuts Down Wikileaks’ Account
PayPal has joined Amazon in suspending service to controversial whistleblower website Wikileaks. In doing so, they’re taking a clear stance on the Cablegate issue. Here’s what they had to say on their official blog regarding the subject:
PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity. We’ve notified the account holder of this action.
At least they’re not leaving anything open to interpretation.
South Korea Threatens Air Strikes
South Korea has endured aggression from the North with the patience of a saint – until yesterday, that is. The country’s new defense minister, Kim Kwan-jin, says that he’s not going to hold anything back the next time North Korea makes a military move against the South. He’s talking full-scale air strike – the sort that wouldn’t leave much behind.
If he’s not blowing smoke out of his ass, this could become a very ugly situation.
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EveryDNS.net Kills Wikileaks Domain, Assange to Be Arrested
Citing danger to other customers’ level of service, EveryDNS.net has effectively killed the Wikileaks website today by removing support its domain name.
But that’s the least of Julian Assange’s concerns right now. Scotland Yard claims to be just a few hours away from making an arrest. Meanwhile, Senator Joseph Lieberman has introduced new legislation that would make it a federal crime for anyone to publish the name of a U.S. intelligence source.
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Wikileaks: The Saga Continues
Cablegate is really starting to get interesting – for all the wrong reasons. For the past two or three days, Wikileaks has been fighting a DDoS orchestrated by a hacktivist who goes by the handle “Jester”. In an effort to thwart the attack (which has reached 10gbit/sec), the whistleblower site moved to a cloud hosting solution provided by Amazon.
Under pressure from federal lawmakers, however, Amazon quickly removed the site from their servers with no warning. Of course, it was their right to do so – and probably the best move they could have made considering the possible sanctions they could otherwise face.
Wikileaks quickly fired back at Amazon with a pair of tweets. Considering that at least one foreign authority is calling for Julian Assange to be assassinated, however, I’d say that a hosting issue is the least of their concerns.
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Striking Resemblance
This was posted on Reddit yesterday. I have to agree with the creator.
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Bank of America Rumored Wikileaks Target
Bank of America stock took a sharp dive yesterday after rumors circulated that they’re the target of the next Wikileaks release. Julian Assange told Forbes magazine during an interview published yesterday that the disclosure would be as ugly as the Enron case.
Of course, Bank of America denies that they’ve done anything wrong and dismisses rumors as just that – hearsay. I guess we’ll find out for sure next month.
In related news, Interpol has issued a “wanted” notice for Julian Assange.
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