Wikileaks Julian Assange Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Just like Arafat and others who never gave a damn about peace for anybody, the fabricating, video falsifying, terrorist supporting person who gave the world this big lie -

Wikileaks Julian Assange Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize - ABC News:

"A Norwegian parliamentarian has nominated Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, saying his publication of thousands of secret government documents has helped to promote human rights, democracy and freedom of speech.

'Most recently, by disclosing the economic arrangements by the presidential family in Tunisia, Wikileaks have made a small contribution to bringing down a 24-year-lasting dictatorship.'

Valen acknowledged the controversy surrounding Wikileaks' actions but insisted the whistleblower organization was working for the public interest."

Before the Mideast unrest is over, expect representatives from CAIR/Muslim Brotherhood to be in competition with Assange, along with Bradley Manning.

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BradAss1987 is UK citizen and needs protection, government told by Amnesty International

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That Creepy Charmer Julian Assange

The Creepy, Lovesick Emails of Julian Assange via Gawker:

"'I started talking to him and he just seemed kind of quiet and nerdy,' she told us in a phone interview. 'I didn't think he was sexy or anything. Just strangely alluring for a 19-year-old girl.' Assange flirted with her, showing off by explaining complex equations and joking about her mathematical ignorance."

Read more about the Assange version of courting, that most would call stalking, at the link.

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WikiLeaks did NOT bring 'Climategate' to the world.

Correcting history: The Air Vent released the Climate Gate emails and The Air Vent is not WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks did not release the climategate files first, The Air Vent did. The narrative that Assange is "fair" because he and his friends released the Hockey Stick emails, as well as the notion that his doctored, slanderous video of US Army pilots makes him a 'hero' is false, at best. It smacks of another media lie to prop up their narrative.

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Ecuador alters refuge offer to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

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Ecuador alters refuge offer to WikiLeaks founder - WikiLeaks - Salon.com:

"Ecuador appears to be modifying its offer of unconditional residency to the embattled founder of the online whistle-blower WikiLeaks.

Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said in a TV interview Tuesday that the possibility 'will have to be studied from the legal and diplomatic perspective.'"

They really are "Venezuela lite" aren't they? Why would any country offer this person asylum?

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Althouse: A case of the Vapors over calling Julian Assange a Sissy

Julian Assange — "He's a sissy; he's a waif, purely and simply an Internet creation."

That's how Rush Limbaugh talked about Julian Assange on his show yesterday. What I'm interested in here is not Assange per se or what Limbaugh thinks of him. I'm interested in the gratuitous disparagement of men whose looks and personal style fail to track the masculine stereotype:

Read it all on her blog.  The thing is, Assange is a total pansy and the stupid shit he pulls on the internet only supports that.  Things like editing video from US Army attack helicopters to make it appear as if the pilots committed atrocities.  When Limbaugh talked about Althouse's post on the air, he pointed out that he never called G. Gordon Liddy a sissy and mentioned some others.

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Ann Althouse has a history of being overly sensitive.  A few years ago, the 'bruits' at Reason magazine (if you question the sarcastic quotes, go to one of their parties and see for yourself) brought her to tears, imposing on herself a level of public torture rarely seen outside of a Kubrick film.  The issue? Apparently what so offended Althouse is that anyone could possibly believe that a private business owner should be permitted to privately discriminate on the basis of race.  Her response here.

On the subject of WikiLeaks, Limbaugh mentioned this story from The Register:  WikiLeaks re-taunts feds with US Amazon mirrors

According to NetCraft's records, the whistle-blowing website is mirroring the diplomatic cables on Amazon's US-based EC2 service and France-based servers operated by French ISP Octopuce. The main WikiLeaks site is mirrored on Ireland-based Amazon servers.

WikiLeaks also uses a US-based domain name registrar (Dynadot) and a US-based DNS service (EveryDNS).

See Amazon's EC2 site for more details.  Rush observed, as I have, that if this wuss has all of his classified documents hosted and mirrored by Amazon, the government could take the domain away with a few keystrokes.  Rush said it better, "if only WikiLeaks had pirated songs, Obama would shut them down overnight" (not an exact quote).  That is the truth too.  If this administration gave one hoot about classified military information, Assange would already be behind bars or worse.

The Obama regime only sounded alarmed after State Department memos were released by WikiLeaks, with the 'monumental, damaging revelation' that US diplomats were "spying" on their UN counterparts.  Don't believe me?  Electron-slinging, Leftist leader, David Corn wants Hillary Clinton to resign over this issue.  Foror failing to protect national secrets,?  Nope.  For spying on UN diplomats.  The extent of the "spying" so far appears to be observing what they do.  Not even sexy enough to get into one of my novels!


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Wikileaks Iraq: data journalism maps every death | News | guardian.co.uk

Update to my 10/21/2010 post.

At least the Guardian is being marginally more responsible than WikiLeaks. They are not publishing the "summary field" from the data, in an effort to protect people from reprisal.  They used Google Fusion Tables to map the locations where people were reported killed.

Wikileaks Iraq: data journalism maps every death | News | guardian.co.uk:

"Data journalism works best when there's a lot of data to work with. Wikileaks' Iraq war logs release has dumped some 391,000 records of the Iraq war into the public arean. We've had them for a few weeks - what have we found out?

This is in a different league to the Wikileaks Afghanistan leak - there's a good case for saying the new release has made the war the most documented in history. Every minor detail is now there for us to analyse and breakdown but one factor stands out: the sheer volume of deaths, most of which are civilians." 

From WikiLeaks Greatest Hits, Collateral Lies:




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Wikileaks Task Force Prepares for New Document Dump

Terrorist supporter Julian Assange

Wikileaks apologists and propagandists keep saying that Wikileaks is "fair" because they leak documents from all sides. Where are the Hamas/Hezbollah/Iranian/Syrian documents? There is nothing "fair" about what they do, unless you think supporting terrorists is what "fairness" is all about.

Hit & Run did the pre-story fanfare coverage last week with this puff piece on the WikiLeaks underground data hideout.

Pentagon's 120-Member Wikileaks Task Force Prepares for New Document Dump:

"The new set of documents from the Iraq War, which are low-level reports of violent incidents across the country over a span of several years, are said to total some 400,000 pages in all and will be released soon. And the Pentagon is preparing itself in the event that Wikileaks does not redact the names of Iraqis who have worked for, or have had any sort of contact with American forces in the country. 'We are prepared to take steps to notify people named in the documents,' one Pentagon official told the Wall Street Journal. 'There are a lot of names [in the documents]. We can't chase every single person. And we have to see what happens. Maybe no one's name will be released.'"

From WikiLeaks greatest hits: Collateral Lies exposes them for what they are.



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Assange asks for new lawyer

Assange asks for new lawyer • The Register:

"Julian Assange has requested a new lawyer to represent him during a rape investigation in Sweden because his previous brief, Leif Silbersky, was not engaged enough with the case.

Assange wants Bjorn Hurtig to represent him as authorities continue to investigate the allegations, according to AP."

The article goes on to say that Assange denies that he said the CIA was behind these accusations. Which is something I never read a quote of either. What he did do was repeat that WikiLeaks was warned that the Pentagon would try dirty tricks. He would repeat that every time the rape and molestation charges were mentioned.




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WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down

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"A member of Iceland's parliament and prominent organizer for whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks has turned on the site's spokesman, Julian Assange, urging him to step down over rape allegations made against him in Sweden. Birgitta Jonsdottir told news site The Daily Beast that she did not believe Assange's repeated assertion that the allegations of rape and molestation made against him were part of a US-backed smear campaign to distract attention from documents posted on the site laying bare US involvement in the war in Afghanistan and further promised revelations."

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Wikileaks Founder's Molestation Police Report Leaked: His Top-Secret Moves Revealed

Wikileaks Founder's Molestation Police Report Leaked: His Top-Secret Moves Revealed:

The report certainly supports the "Julian Assange Banged His Groupies" theory over the "Pentagon smear campaign" explanation of his recent sex scandal. We've already heard about Assange's fling with Anna Ardin, the leftist politician who helped bring him to Sweden. The Daily Mail elaborates on the second, younger woman, "Woman B." The 20-something became fascinated with Assange after hearing of Wikileaks' huge Afghanistan war documents leak. According to the Mail, "over the following two weeks she read everything she could find about him on the internet and followed news reports about his activities."

Woman B?

See the rest at the link above. Gawker is such fun!
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Assange Rape Case Reopened

Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Assange Rape Case Reopened:

"'Wikileaks' Julian Assange had a warrant issued for his arrest in Sweden on the charges of rape. But it was withdrawn shortly thereafter. Now the case has been reopened to investigate 'molestation charges.' On top of that, a new site (parody?) called wikileakileaks.org has been launched by the chief editor of Gawker to give Wikileaks a taste of its own medicine. You can find links to details on the molestation charges there.'"

Wikileaks is the organization behind this bit of deception: Collateral Murder

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A Home Run at Reason: The Boring Truth About Those Julian Assange Smears

Hit the link to read the whole thing. The article is hyperlinked well to additional information.

The Boring Truth About Those Julian Assange Smears - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

. . . for the wild-eyed, spittle-flecked conspiracists bloggers—and Assange himself—the charges reeked of a U.S. government plot. And sure, one only need to read the Church Commission report to realize that such dirty tricks have a long pedigree in American intelligence circles. But even a cursory look at the case would suggest that while it appears that Assange’s name is being dragged through the mud, it isn’t by the CIA.

. . . Assuming that Assange knew the identity of his accusers when contacted by prosecutors, he nevertheless told any reporter within earshot that “we have been warned that the Pentagon, for example, is thinking of deploying dirty tricks to ruin us. And I have also been warned about sex traps.” After expressing skepticism that it was an American intelligence job, Harpers magazine nevertheless warned that “as this incident makes clear, the war on WikiLeaks will be fought with unconventional tools and those following the story are advised to accept nothing at face value.”

Amazingly, the bumbling fools in American intelligence managed to flip Anna Ardin, the left-wing feminist (often described in the Swedish blogosphere as a “radical feminist”) spokeswoman for Broderskapsrörelsen, the liberation theology-like Christian organization affiliated with Sweden’s Social Democratic Party (she is not, as I have seen written, a “Christian Democrat”). If any of these subliterate bloggers knew anything about the kristen vänster (but why should you know anything at all, when a simple, ideology-validating conspiracy is so much more satisfying?), they would probably have guessed that Assange's accuser was, as is common in Sweden, operating off of a very broad definition of rape and “sexual molestation.”

. . . Expressen is not a tabloid-style newspaper, but an actual tabloid. Nor is it, as Assange claimed, "right wing." So who would have leaked this information to Expressen? A bit of legwork here too would have revealed that Ardin interned for the editorial page of GT, the Gothenburg edition of Expressen. While there is no evidence to suggest that Ardin herself leaked the material to her former employer, it is certainly more plausible than fingering the Pentagon. But again, why bother doing any research when the sinister conspiracy is more ideologically satisfying?

If you, like many of the conspiracists, are confused as to how the Swedish authorities could issue and then, in less than 24 hours, withdraw a warrant for Assange’s arrest, then you don’t know the Swedish authorities. Just ask the families of Anna Lindh and Olaf Palme for details. Indeed, when one prosecutor overruled the conclusions of another, more junior, prosecutor, she explained to Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter that “My decision doesn’t mean that her decision was wrong.” And to Aftonbladet, she dug in her heels: “That I changed the decision doesn’t mean that her decision was wrong.” Translation? Amateur hour at the prosecutors office.

Moynihan concludes with a well-advised caution about using Google Translate when passing on reports from foreign language news sources.
Sorry, conspiracy gang, it is not a Pentagon setup.  It is a disagreement between individuals on the fringe.

If you want to see some serious tinfoil-hat action, peek at #WikiLeaks or #Assange on Twitter.Com.

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Assange: Swedish charge still unclear - CNN.com

Assange: Swedish charge still unclear - CNN.com:

"(CNN) -- The founder and editor of whistle-blower website WikiLeaks says Swedish authorities still haven't given him details of the crime he is alleged to have committed.
'The present investigation of issue (there are no charges), is one alleged non-sexual 'harassment,'' Julian Assange wrote Thursday in an e-mail to CNN. 'I have no idea what this is and no details have been provided to us.'

Swedish authorities arrested Assange 'in absentia' over the weekend on two charges -- rape and molestation, a non-sexual charge that is similar to harassment.

The chief prosecutor has since revoked the arrest warrant and dropped the rape charge, though Assange still faces the molestation allegation."

This story is less and less of a tie-in to the Suki series every day.  John and Suki really don't like the courts that much.

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Assange: The Pentagon Did It

Julian Assange has a story and he is sticking to it.

“I don’t know what is behind all this, but we have been warned that, for example Pentagon, would use dirty tricks to destroy things for us,” Assange told Aftonbladet. “And, I have also been warned about sex traps.”

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WikiLeaks + Julian Assange and a Victim Quote = Crazy Twitters* Action

I won't assume this tweeter was drunk or something during this exchange:

(I sent this tweet) Quote from #WikiLeaks #molestation accuser "has problem with taking no for an answer" http://goo.gl/b/Opso #tcot#twisters #tlot #mil
A few hours later, I saw this response: 

DeClack 

  

@JohnTagliaferro Is you who gave the advice to fuck with assange?If not .Explain. Because the woman has a long picture story withe you ?

Took me a while to formulate a response to the whole thing. What does "Is it you who gave the advice to fuck with assange (sic)?" even mean? How do I "explain" "If not"? What does "the woman has a long picture story with you?" mean?


So many deep questions that only a COBOL programmer and a fifth of Tequila could formulate (sorry, had to start theorizing).

In the interest of all people who have the real name John Tagliaferro and all of us who use it as a pen name, and as a service to all of those who share the same names as the fictional characters in my book, I responded with a confession:

@DeClack yes, on my command Slate ran the story quoting her so my blog partner could post it. #lol #tlot#mil 

Should have been Salon, my mistake.  Hope this does not mess up your Global Conspiracy Theory.

There was an earlier responder, @rixstepnews who accused the woman making the molestation complaint of being a radical or militant feminist, apparently meaning Anna Ardin, one of the rape accusers who also generated the molestation complaint. The Guardian has more on that.  I blocked that account, still looking forward to more from the drunk COBOL guy and will update right here if I do.

Assange is sticking by his "the Pentagon did it" story.

Pretty surprised, actually. We didn't get much traffic from Twitter on this particular story. Avatar is still beating it.

*Twitters: as pronounced by Barry Hussein Obama.

  

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A Man who has a Skewed Attitude to Women and a Problem Taking No for an Answer

Assange: The Aftermath Begins

WikiLeaks rape case: Bad news for women - Broadsheet - Salon.com:

"Assange has implied on Twitter that the allegations were payback for his part in WikiLeaks' publishing several tens of thousands of classified Afghan war documents: 'We were warned to expect dirty tricks. Now we have the first one.' His conspiracy theorizing was echoed by the likes of Gavin MacFadyen, director of the Center for Investigative Journalism, who told the New York Daily News, 'A lot of us who had any notion of what he was doing expected this sort of thing to happen at least a week ago,' said 'I'm amazed it has taken this long to get it together.' Meanwhile, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet interviewed the woman who leveled the molestation claim: 'The accusations against Assange are of course not orchestrated by the Pentagon or anybody else. Responsibility for what happened to myself and the other girl lies with a man who has a skewed attitude to women and a problem taking no for an answer.'"

Did you forget this is the "Collateral Murder" hoaxer too? (More like "Collateral Lies")



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Sweden Defends Assange Warrant Decisions: Mistake? What mistake?

Update to previous stories:

SkunkPost.com || Mistake? What mistake?:

KARL RITTER, Associated Press Writer

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish prosecutors defended their handling of a rape allegation against the founder of WikiLeaks, saying Sunday that they had made no mistakes in issuing an arrest warrant and withdrawing it less than a day later.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said the short-lived warrant had damaged his group nonetheless.

The Swedish Prosecution Authority said an 'on-call' prosecutor issued an arrest warrant for Assange late Friday only to see it revoked the next day by a higher-ranked prosecutor, who found no grounds to suspect him of rape.

'The prosecutor who took over the case yesterday had more information, and that is why she made a different assessment than the on-call prosecutor,' said Karin Rosander, a spokeswoman for the authority.

She declined to specify what the new material was, but said there was 'absolutely nothing' that suggested errors had been made by either prosecutor.

Slashdot is covering this now (Sunday August 22, @01:27PM).


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Sweden withdraws arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange - Winnipeg Free Press

Update to previous post:

Sweden withdraws arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange - Winnipeg Free Press:

"STOCKHOLM - Swedish prosecutors withdrew an arrest warrant for the founder of WikiLeaks on Saturday, saying less than a day after the document was issued that it was based on an unfounded accusation of rape.

The accusation had been labelled a dirty trick by Julian Assange and his group, who are preparing to release a fresh batch of classified U.S. documents from the Afghan war.

Swedish prosecutors had urged Assange _ a nomadic 39-year-old Australian whose whereabouts were unclear _ to turn himself in to police to face questioning in one case involving suspicions of rape and another based on an accusation of molestation.

'I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape,' chief prosecutor Eva Finne said, in announcing the withdrawal of the warrant. She did not address the status of the molestation case, a less serious charge that would not lead to an arrest warrant.
Prosecutors did not answer phone calls seeking further comment."

What are the Swedes doing tossing about warrants like this for?


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WikiLeaks founder charged with rape, molestation in Sweden

UPDATE: Charges withdrawn.

This appears to be the "perfect defense" from the hard-core extremes of the spectrum. Claim the government is setting you up every time you get caught violating the rights of others. See the recent revelations about Bill Ayres, or the Peruvian adventures of Van der Sloot, for a less political version.

In this case, WikiLeaks got a little in front with their "defense": We were warned to expect "dirty tricks". Now we have the first one:http://bit.ly/bv5ku9

Next, make an attack on the page format of the news source breaking the story: Expressen is a tabloid; No one here has been contacted by Swedish police. Needless to say this will prove hugely distracting.

See the most recent tweet from them (as of this post time) below.

Time will tell on this one.

WikiLeaks founder charged with rape, molestation in Sweden - CNN.com:

"Stockholm, Sweden (CNN) -- The founder and editor of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has been charged in Sweden with rape and molestation, a spokeswoman for the Swedish prosecutor's office told CNN Saturday. 

Spokeswoman Karin Rosander said the charges were filed Friday night, but she didn't have further details. 

Assange denied the charges in a posting Saturday on the WikiLeaks Twitter page, saying, 'The charges are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing.'
Assange was in Sweden last weekend, but Rosander said it's not clear whether he is still in the country. She said police have been unable so far to make contact with Assange."

From the WikiLeaks Twitter Page: Julian Assange: the charges are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing.

Slashdot coverage:

mpawlo was one of many readers who have sent news that a warrant has been issued in Stockholm, Sweden for WikiLeaks founder and spokesman Julian Assange. The investigation apparently involves "one report of rape and one report of harassment." The story was broken bySwedish tabloid Expressen (original in Swedish), and later picked up by more reputable sourceslike CNN and the BBC, who say the warrant has been confirmed by Swedish authorities. The WikiLeaks Twitter feed has commented three times about the charges so far, first saying they were warned of 'dirty tricks,' then that theyhadn't been contacted by Swedish police, and then a statement from Assange saying the charges are without basis.

Update: Slashdot has updated their story:

Update: 08/21 15:58 GMT by S : Multiple sources are now reporting that the warrant for Assange's arrest has been withdrawn. Aftonbladet has coverage in Swedish. Chief prosecutor Eva Finne said, "I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape."

For the most part, the Slashdot bunch takes to defending Assange in humorous ways, from the Whoopi-esque "it wasn't rape, rape" versions, because of the broadness of Sweden's laws, to the USA is making a bigger effort in this case than they are for bin Laden.  At least one directly notices the Roman Polanski parallel.

Now for something really funny. If you thought the Slashdotters knee-jerk accusations that the victims are part of a US plot was good, CNN has a new blog story and all of their primary sources are bloggers and media speculators.

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