In an attempt to copy our brethren from New York, a collective of people from across the UK attended a rally in London yesterday under the tag of “Occupy the London Stock Exchange”. This was supposed to be in response… Read More ›
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US Govt demand details from Wikileaks’ Twitter account
It has just become evident that the US Govt has issued a subpoena to Twitter to provide details going back to November 2009 of access, location, IP addresses and tweets on Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and the Icelandic MP, Birgitta Jonsdottir…. Read More ›
Bradley Manning: Is the alleged Wikileaks scapegoat being tortured?
Private First Class Bradley Manning Bradley Manning , who has just turned 23, is the US Army Office who was charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) for “transferring classified data onto his personal computer and adding unauthorized… Read More ›
Julian Assange: dirty tricks or heroic leaking?
An interesting interview with David Frost on al Jazeera (English) with Julian Assange of Wiklieaks goes further to expose the continuing inconsistency and intellectual hair-splitting that Assange is masterful at. Before analysing that, I am puzzled by the use of… Read More ›
Julian Assange – narcissist who just “likes” women?
In his interview in the Times, Julian Assange is quoted as saying “I’m not promiscuous I just really like women”. This is almost as disingenuous and designed to obfuscate as Bill Clinton’s now classic comment about his intimacy with Monica… Read More ›
One-Liner Week 19 December 2010
Richard Holbrooke, US Diplomat dies – most notably responsible for brokering the end of the Balkans way in mid-90’s. Councils announce cuts of between 5-10% in spending following the Spending Review Julian Assange of Wikileaks allowed out of Wandsworth Jail… Read More ›
No leaks please I’m Julian Assange!
The recently released Julian Assange gave an interesting interview to Kirsty Wark on Newsnight (16 December 2010) and did his best to avoid answering some simple questions; all very disappointing from someone who is the apostle of free speech –… Read More ›
Julian Assange: Wikileaks, Anonymous and Sex
There is something not quite right about this whole story, it bothers me but I can’t quite put my finger on it – time will tell and hopefully it will render some of the confusion with some clarity. It starts… Read More ›
One-Liner Week 12 December 2010
Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks is arrested on the grounds of sex charges brought by the Swedish authorities. He is in prison in the UK. Unlike the UK which is experiencing extremely low temperatures, Israel prays for rain after months… Read More ›