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Julian Assange by Seamus Murphy - World Press Photo 2011, Amsterdam
This network, of pedophiles, is of a highly dangerous nature. At the risk of sounding like conspiracy theorists, it is also likely, that this group has direct connections, to Bohemian Grove, due to their geographic location, and highly placed, Satanic priests, within the intelligence community. Our source has come to us, at great risk, with this information, but does not have, the proper computer skills, to gather the information needed, to bring these criminals to justice. Our source requests, that all Anons, as well as police officers and intelligence officers, with the necessary computer skills, investigate this matter, gather the information needed, share it publically, and bring these vile, degenerate criminals to justice.
Expect us.
me encariñé con esa mirada...
llovía, sus lentes, mis contactos y la cámara estaban bajo agua
intenté explicarle que yo con los servicios secretos de los eeuu ... ni ahí ! que nada tenía yo que ver con aquellos documentos desclasificados...
le hablé, le argumenté... pero sólo lo convencí a medias
empezó diciembre y mi humor negro va en aumento
Portait painted of Julian Assange wikileaks at the Abode of Chaos
Wall-paint by Thomas Foucher @ the Abode of Chaos
Tribute #1 to Julian Assange
(Creative Commons Paternity) original version free on Flickr 2592 x 3872
For those who have just arrived on Planet Earth, let me remind you that what we are experiencing since last Sunday evening is the “Pearl Harbor of Global Democracy” according to Hilary Clinton and the “9/11 of American Diplomacy” according to Barak Obama and his advisors. After 400,000 secret documents on the operating methods of the US army in Iraq, Assange has broken the sound barrier since Sunday with 250,000 diplomatic cables that concern 179 countries! Le Monde, Der Spiegel, El País, the Guardian and the New York Times… according to the latter, more than 1,200 journalists are picking their way through roughly half a billion words of extremely contemporary cables, the most recent of which dates from March 2010. For historians who normally have to wait 50 years before getting access to such material, this is a dream come true. In this case the diplomatic cables are not much older than 7 months. Their scope is colossal. Hence the US State Department’s cry of “murder”…
My dear little wolves and she-wolves, in truth, I tell you, Sunday night tens of thousands of writers put an end to their lives … Imagine you were a Sci-Fi or Anticipation writer, director of Sci-Fi – Fantasy Collection at Pocket, Denoël or Rivages.
According to Laurent COURAU, the mythical founder of the Spirale who is postponing his suicide, “Assange and Wikileaks have definitively relegated fiction to beneath reality and we are seeing a veritable incarnation of the cyber-punk imagination right now in this early 21st century”.
As I see it, Julian Assange is the natural son of Lorenz (Edward Norton), he is quite simply the “Black Swan” of the beginning of this century… he is breaking the seals one by one in the agora of the ethers that is Internet.
Last precaution: Julian Assange has placed a small encrypted file entitled Insurance History on the Swedish Server of Pirate Bay (specialist in the illegal download of music and film music). On Twitter, he recommends that his followers download the file and await his instructions…
thierry Ehrmann, www.ehrmann.org/en/propaganda.html
Abode Of Chaos / Demeure du Chaos 2010
Mur peint par Thomas Foucher @ la Demeure du Chaos
Hommage numéro 1 à Julian Assange . Wikileaks
Hommage numéro 2 à Julian Assange . Wikileaks
Hommage numéro 3 à Julian Assange . Wikileaks
Peinture: Thomas Foucher photo Abode of Chaos (creative communs)
©2010 www.AbodeofChaos.org
courtesy of Organ Museum
Pour ceux qui arriveraient sur la planère Terre, je leur rappelle que, ce que nous vivons depuis dimanche soir, est le « Pearl Harbor de la Diplomatie mondiale » cqfd Hillary Clinton et selon Obama et ses conseillers le « 11 septembre de la diplomatie américaine ». Après 400 000 documents confidentiels, relatifs au mode opératoire de l’armée américaine en Irak, il passe le mur du son avec depuis dimanche soir, 250 000 dépêches diplomatiques qui frappent plus de 179 pays ! Le Monde, Der Spiegel, El PAis, the Guardian et New York Times. Selon ce dernier, plus de 1 200 journalistes sont jour et nuit sur une base de données de près d’un demi milliard de mots… sur des dépêches diplomatiques ultra-récentes donts les dernières datent de mars 2010. C’est le rêve de l’historien qui doit normalement patienter jusqu’à 50 ans pour pouvoir accéder à de tels trésors. Ici les dépêches diplomatiques ont à peine plus de 7 mois. Tout y passe. D’où le département d’état américain qui hurle à l’assassin…
Mes p’tits loups, mes p’tites louves, en vérité, je vous le dis, dimanche soir des dizaines de milliers d’écrivains se sont donnés la mort… Imaginez une seconde que vous soyiez écrivain de SF ou d’Anticipation, directeur de Collection SF – Fantasy chez Pocket, Denoël ou Rivages.
Selon Laurent COURAU, fondateur mythique de la Spirale qui repousse son suicide, il déclare : « Assange et Wikileaks relèguent définitivement la fiction loin derrière la réalité et l’on assiste à la véritable incarnation de l’imaginaire cyber-punk dans ce début de XXIème siècle ».
A mes yeux, Julian Assange est le fils naturel de Lorenz (Edward Norton), il est tout simplement le « Cygne Noir » du début de ce siècle, il brise les sceaux un par un dans l’agora des éthers qu’est l’Internet.
Avec la globalisation d’Internet, il faut s’attendre, selon mon vieux maître Paul Virillio à un accident général, un accident jamais vu, aussi étonnant que le temps mondial, ce temps jamais vu. Un accident général qui serait un peu ce qu’Epicure appelait « l’accident des accidents ».
Ce jour fut le 28 novembre 2010 où Internet est devenu l’incarnation de l’information à l’état brut, c’est aussi le jour où les citoyens du village “Glocal” de Mc Lhuan ont eu à leurs dispositions l’histoire en temps réel, apanage jusqu’à présent des puissants. C’est aussi la révélation de la phrase de Mathieu(x26) qui prends son plein sens “car il n’y a rien de caché qui ne doit être découvert ni de secret qui ne doivent être connu” …(page 183 Opus III Abode of Chaos Spirit)
Ultime précaution : Julian Assange a placé sur le serveur suédois de Pirate Bay (spécialisé dans les téléchargements illicites de musique et de films), un petit fichier crypté mystérieux, baptisé »Assurance historique ». Sur Twitter, il recommande à ses partisans de le télécharger et d’attendre les instructions.
thierry Ehrmann www.ehrmann.org/propaganda.html
DemeureduChaos.org
thierry Ehrmann blog.ehrmann.org/
The Abode of Chaos from Above,/La Demeure du Chaos vue du ciel:
www.flickr.com/photos/home_of_chaos/sets/72157624460145909/
Preview 2011 Borderline Biennial at the Abode of Chaos adult only version EN/FR
At one time rumors have speculated that Julian Assange was missing, but a couple weeks later they said he is not dead, but no one has actually seen him and talked to him. Keep me posted if you have any news about him.
5 Signs Julian Assange might be Dead or Missing
Julian Assange has not been seen alive in public or on video since October 4, 2016.
These 5 strange pieces of evidence suggest that he may be dead or missing and that WikiLeaks may be under attack by the US government or an unknown hostile actor.
Published on Nov 22, 2016
WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organization dedicated to bringing important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for independent sources around the world to leak information to our journalists. We publish material of ethical, political and historical significance while keeping the identity of our sources anonymous, thus providing a universal way for the revealing of suppressed and censored injustices.
re-publica.de/10/event-list/wikileaks-history-is-the-only...
Daniel Schmitt: "Through its publications as the world’s only functioning whistleblowing platform, WikiLeaks has exposed corruption, political murder, torture as well as abuse of power on all continents.
But not only is WikiLeaks publishing the unpublished. Increasingly WikiLeaks has to preserve investigative stories that classic newsmedia cannot defend against those abusing legal systems in order to stiffle freedom of speech and supress critical voices.
According to the press, the platform has in its short existance produced more scoops than the Washington Post in the past 30 years. It has been called the most successful journalist operation in the world, and its internet address been said to be the home of free speech.
Besides offering the most sophisticated legal and technical infrastructure for the protection of the press and its sources, the recipe for this success is very simple: WikiLeaks is upholding its principles, no matter what.
Join us for a session about the state of the media, possibilities to defend our historic record and requirements for the future to preserve the 4th estate as an independent mechanism to control those in power."
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in Philadelphia, 1776. Independence Hall. © Diana Yakowitz all rights reserved.
NEW COMMENTARY 09/11/2011
******** The above was my original commentary on this image which was my July 4 post last year. Today I am reposting since this was the image on page 11 (as I see them) of my stream with the least comments of the fully public images there. How appropriate that it is now 9/11, ten years after a disaster that led to the stripping away of our rights by our own government and an unnecessary war in Iraq, a country not even responsible for the disaster, to compare what happened in the last 10 years to the necessary war decided in the place of this image, unanimously, by the colonies, and for all the right reasons. How far from the thinking of our founders who were adamant about protecting us from corporations (like the East India Tea Company which the original Tea Party was protesting) to now our Supreme Court treating corporations not just like people but like super-people - I can not even donate $5 to a political party with out making my name public, but they can donate unlimited anonymously now and we don't even know if it is from a foreign country really! Read the dessent on that decision please. I include the closing lines of the dissent here:
"At bottom, the Court’s opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics." Justice J. Stevens, US Supreme Court.
Additional Commentary 09/01/2012
Another freedom being attached take a look at this opinion piece in NY Times
on Wikileaks www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/opinion/wikileaks-and-the-glob...
And this great piece on the "The Incoherence of Antonin Scalia"
www.tnr.com/article/magazine/books-and-arts/106441/scalia...
Information is the currency of democracy.
-Thomas Jefferson
WIKILEAKS
Julian Assange answers your questions
www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/julian-assange-...
President John F Kennedy Secret Society Speech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhZk8ronces
Since 9/11, the US government, through Presidents Bush and Obama, has
increasingly told the US public that "state secrets" will not be
shared with citizens. Candidate Obama pledged to reduce the use of
state secrets, but President Obama continued the Bush tradition. The
courts, Congress and international allies have gone meekly along with
the escalating secrecy demands of the US Executive......
An Assange supporter outside the High Court in London appeals to passing motorists.
The photo taken shortly before Julian Assange's defence team won the right to take his extradition case to the UK's Supreme Court.
When Julian Assange's fiancée, Stella Morris, left the building she gave a brief speech to a crowd of supporters and the press -
'Make no mistake,' she declared, 'We won today in court,' but then added, 'but let's not forget that every time we win, as long as this case is not dropped, as long as Julian is not freed, Julian continues to suffer.'
While Assange's defence team have been granted the right to apply for a hearing at the Supreme Court, it will be up to Britain's highest court to decide whether to agree to consider his case. That decision on a possible Supreme Court hearing is expected sometime in the next two to three months.
Unfortunately, the remit of the appeal has been restricted to examining the United States' claimed legal promises on how Assange will be treated, rather than to the wider issues of freedom of speech, the CIA plot to assassinate him, the extent to which the evidence against him has obviously been fabricated or as to whether his treatment in Belmarsh Prison has amounted to torture.
If convicted in the United States on the charges of espionage for exposing US war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as other wrongdoing by the United States and other governments, he faces up to 175 years in prison.
Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, leaving Royal Court of Justice on July 13th, 2011
after losing all appeals in UK Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden and to be held in custody there before trial (upd: he was granted asylum in Ecuador but it's still unclear how he will be able to leave UK)
DONATE to Julian Assange Defence Fund justice4assange.com/Donate.html
WikiLeaks release Highly Classified Security Camera photograph of the escape from a Research Laboratory of a juvenile Triffid Plant. Authorities deny any knowledge of this event.
DANGER if seen do not approach, highly dangerous species!
The triffid is a highly venomous plant species,
From: www.connectedaction.net
Connections among the Twitter users who recently mentioned wikileaks when queried on December 10, 2010 scaled by numbers of followers.
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The book, Analyzing social media networks with NodeXL: Insights from a connected world, is available from Morgan Kaufmann and from Amazon.
The horrifying events that happened in the world were once famous conspiracy theories. From murdering Adolf Hitler to experimenting mosquito attack in Florida and Georgia, it all happened.
In the middle of all this conspiracy theories is America. One of the darkest test done by the US government...
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Julian ASSANGE arrested . Wikileaks
Wall-paint by Cart'1 @ the Abode of Chaos (Creative Commons Paternity)
Portait wall-painted of Julian Assange wikileaks at the Abode of Chaos (Creative Commons)
original version free on Flickr 2592 x 3483
As I see it, Julian Assange is the natural son of Lorenz (Edward Norton), he is quite simply the “Black Swan” of the beginning of this century… he is breaking the seals one by one in the agora of the ethers that is Internet. Further read >>>
thierry Ehrmann, www.ehrmann.org/en/propaganda.html
Abode Of Chaos / Demeure du Chaos 2010 2011
thierry Ehrmann blog.ehrmann.org/
CC.2010 www.AbodeofChaos.org - courtesy of Organ Museum
Arrestation de Julian/Julien Assange . Wikileaks
Mur peint par Cart'1 @ la Demeure du Chaos (Creative Commons Paternity)
Hommage numéro 2 à Julian Assange . Wikileaks
Hommage numéro 1 à Julian Assange . Wikileaks
Hommage numéro 3 à Julian Assange . Wikileaks
A mes yeux, Julian Assange est le fils naturel de Lorenz (Edward Norton), il est tout simplement le « Cygne Noir » du début de ce siècle, il brise les sceaux un par un dans l’agora des éthers qu’est l’Internet. Lire la suite >>>
The Abode of Chaos from Above,/La Demeure du Chaos vue du ciel:
www.flickr.com/photos/home_of_chaos/sets/72157624460145909/
Preview 2011 Borderline Biennial at the Abode of Chaos adult only version EN/FR
You can zoom into the diagram [produced by Declassified UK twitter.com/declassifiedUK/status/1530092262956359680 ] and will probably be shocked by the extent to which key members of the British establishment appear to be linked to organisations, people and interests favouring or committed to extraditing Julian Assange to the United States to face, on conviction, decades in prison.
On 25 May 2022, Declassified UK tweeted - 'Almost nothing in our graphic has been reported in the UK national media. Establishment journalists have never been interested in showing the nexus behind the persecution of a publisher - even when their own profession is under attack.'
Declassified UK have published several in-depth articles looking at the injustice and crucial conflicts of interest in the case against Julian Assange - including -
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-11-14-julian-assange...
declassifieduk.org/julian-assanges-judge-and-her-husbands...
declassifieduk.org/uk-executive-is-wining-and-dining-with...
declassifieduk.org/julian-assange-posed-pr-problem-for-uk...
On Saturday 2 September, Assange solidarity activists worldwide held an Australian Embassy Day appealing to the Australian government to intervene in the politically driven case against Julian Assange. In London they gathered initially outside Australia House on the Strand between 3 and 5 pm before continuing the protest at Piccadilly Circus from 4 to 6 pm.
They were also demonstrating against the continued imprisonment of Julian Assange and the US extradition proceedings, for revealing the truth about US, UK and other Western war crimes, the mass surveillance of their populations and other crimes.
Meanwhile, the war crimes themselves go largely ignored and the political leaders responsible for them are not only immunized against prosecution, but several are growing wealthy on the basis of their contacts with their overseas accomplices across the Middle East and elsewhere.
Apart from last Saturday's protest, there are also weekly protests in solidarity with Assange outside Australia House in London every Wednesday between 3 and 5 pm.
There are many good reasons why Assange should be released, but arguably the three most important are as follows -
Freedom of Speech: Assange's case raises important concerns about freedom of the press and whistleblowers' rights, which are crucial for a transparent society.
Health Concerns: Julian Assange's physical and mental health deteriorated in prison. Releasing him could provide access to better medical care and reduce the risk of serious health issues.
Human Rights: His prolonged detention without trial or conviction goes against fundamental human rights principles.
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¿Cambiamos el entorno para dar soluciones y después nos adaptamos al cambio, o cambiamos sólo porque somos capaces de adaptarnos, descubriendo en el proceso las soluciones que podríamos estar creando?
Do we change our environment to give solutions and then adapt to change, or do we change just because we’re able to adapt, discovering during the process the solutions we might be creating?
Part of the upcoming YSE #26's concept and part of Instant compositions instants, Organics are strange animals.
Keith W. Downey, one of the (in)famous "PayPal 14" (Wikipedia) was visiting Hackerspace Hack42 for an interview by Dr. Vera K. Wilde (PhD PoliSci).
She interviewed Keith on his involvement in Operation Payback/Operation Avenge Assange, hacktivist collective Anonymous, whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks, and his interactions with the U.S. government prior and after his arrest.
Being a hackerspace with access to...err "obscure" hardware and "special" tools, we just *had* to do a couple of shots with the L-3 Communications "STE" phone. An NSA certified telephone for making encrypted phone-calls, used by American embassies, government agencies and POTUS himself, of course.
Rally to Free Julian Assange and support the wikileaks website from government persecution arising from Cablegate - the progressive release of 250,000 US diplomatic cables, incombination with major newspapers. Protest gathered on the lawns of State Library in Melbourne at 5.30pm December 14. Julian Assange second bail hearing will soon be heard in a London Court.
The rally heard from Jacob Grech from Victorian Trades Hall, Adam Bandt, member for Melbourne and Assange's elected representative in Federal House of Representatives, a union official from the Media and Entertainment Alliance, Colin Jacobs from the Electronic Frontiers Australia, and Rob Stary, Julian's Australian lawyer.
With over a thousand people at the rally there was a call to march on the British Consulate in Collins Street.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and TCU’s Schieffer School of Journalism host the a session of the CSIS-Schieffer Series Dialogues On Wikileaks: Impact on Public Policy and Journalism. This event was moderated by Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News; and Anchor, CBS News’ “Face the Nation.” The panelists were Dr. John Hamre, President and CEO, CSIS; Karen DeYoung, Associate Editor, The Washington Post; and Scott Shane, National Security Correspondent, The New York Times. Find more including full audio and video at csis.org/event/wikileaks-impact-public-policy-and-journalism
Julian Assange at Too much information? Security and censorship in the age of Wikileaks, Sep 30, City University
Freedom and Truth amidst Wikileaks
We are Born Free, and Everywhere We are In Chains - Rousseau, slightly paraphrased.
Phoenix, 30.12/10 - in Studio pre-installation.
To reveal the truth is to find yourself under attack as WikiLeaks now find itself. Rep. Peter King is pushing for the website to be declared a Foreign Terrorist Organization. It is now clear what the United States is desperately trying to hide from the American People and the world.
The WikiLeaks website today said that it was under a forceful internet-based attack with the site inaccessible to users in U.S. and Europe.
The site, which just distributed a trove of U.S. diplomatic documents, said in a Twitter message on that it is under a 'distributed denial of service attack,' a method commonly used by hackers to slow down or bring down sites.
WikiLeaks was also under attack on Sunday - but the latest assault - believed to come from China - appears to be more powerful.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334232/WikiLeaks-websit...
Whistleblower WikiLeaks said today its Web site has been targeted by a massive computer attack, just hours before an expected release of classified U.S. documents.
"We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack," WikiLeaks said on its Twitter feed. Efforts to reach the page as of this writing were unsuccessful.
The site released 75,000 confidential files on the war in Afghanistan in July and defied a series of warnings from the Pentagon and other government officials by releasing nearly 400,000 secret files from the Iraq war last month. In a Twitter post last week, the whistleblower site announced it was preparing to release its largest cache of classified documents.
"Next release is 7x the size of the Iraq War Logs. Intense pressure over it for months," WikiLeaks said last week.
In a follow-up Twitter post today, WikiLeaks said newspapers such as El Pais, Le Monde, Der Speigel, The Guardian, and the New York Times would post the files, even if its site was inaccessible. (Update at 1:30 p.m. PT: The files have since been released, revealing among other things that the U.S. ordered surveillance of U.N. leaders.)
The White House has condemned the leaks, saying they put lives at risk, and conservative commentators argued that Wikileaks.org should be shut down by any means necessary.
The WikiLeaks Web site has in the past been proposed as the first public target for a U.S. government cyberattack. One Washington newspaper argued that WikiLeaks' offshore Web site should be attacked and rendered "inoperable" by the U.S. government. A State Department adviser who served under President George W. Bush wrote a column calling on the U.S. military to "electronically assault WikiLeaks and any telecommunications company offering its services to this organization."
Bradley Manning, an Army intelligence specialist, is suspected of being a source for the document-sharing Web site and was charged in June with obtaining "more than 150,000 diplomatic cables" from the State Department.
Update November 29 at 6:24 a.m. PT: CNN reports that a hacker named "the Jester," who claims to have been involved with U.S. Special Forces, is claiming responsibility for the attack on the Wikileaks site "for attempting to endanger the lives of our troops, 'other assets' & foreign relations."
This is a graph showing the distribution of the 255,000+ cables included in the #cablegate release.
I rendered this out to give me a better idea of the time-wise distribution of the cables in the database. Even though there are scattered cables that occur as early as 1966, the vast majority of cables begin around 2004.
Sources (typically embassies and consulates) are sorted into columns right to left. Time is on the vertical axis, running from 1966 at the top to 2010 at the bottom.
As you can see, the vast majority of cable activity (at least in the releases) occurs well after 9/11 (the red line).
There are some notable sources which show increased activity before 9/11 (for example the embassy in Harare), but most sources increase after that event - typically starting around 2004 or 2005.
This bottom-heavy distribution was not what I expected when I started pursuing the idea I had for animated comparisons of terms over time - and forces me to reconsider the feasibility of that approach (though it could simply mean using a shorter time period for focus).
Poster for Wikileaks.org
Wikileaks is doing some of the most important work in the world today. Exposing the idiocy of governments, and showing the truth of corporate and government actions to the world.
Keith W. Downey, one of the (in)famous "PayPal 14" (Wikipedia) was visiting Hackerspace Hack42 for an interview by Dr. Vera K. Wilde (PhD PoliSci).
She interviewed Keith on his involvement in Operation Payback/Operation Avenge Assange, hacktivist collective Anonymous, whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks, and his interactions with the U.S. government prior and after his arrest.
While I was shooting a few formal portraits of Keith, my friends Lurwah and BugBlue were busy converting a screenshot of the Low Orbit Ion Cannon software to be able to plot it on our ancient Tektronix 4002A graphic computer terminal.
Why is it that calling things as they are and pointing out a grievance with a wagging finger is still tabooed nowadays? Don´t demand transparency and then turn a blind eye to all the disgust you might be confronted with. Show your respect to Mr. Assange and support wikileaks!
After a speech and introduction by respected Australian journalist and film maker John Pilger, English rock musician Roger Waters, of Pink Floyd fame, performs outside the UK Home Office accompanied by Andy Fairweather Low at a rally against deportation of imprisoned Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange, who is currently detained at the high security Belmarsh prison following conviction for breach of bail.
Assange's supporters fear he will be deported to the U.S. and face life in prison for publishing information which includes incriminating evidence the U.S. and UK engaged in possible war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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