Tuesday, December 7, 2010

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested & jailed in UK


uhoh, now it really gets interesting..~jg

By CASSANDRA

VINOGRAD and RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Cassandra Vinograd And Raphael G. Satter, Associated Press 12 mins ago



LONDON – A British judge jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday, ordering the leader of secret-spilling website behind bars as his organization's finances came under increasing pressure.

Assange showed no reaction as Judge Howard Riddle denied him bail in an extradition case that could see him sent to Sweden to face allegations of rape, molestation and unlawful coercion.



Assange denies the accusations and has pledged to fight the extradition, while a spokesman for his organization said the U.S. diplomatic secrets would keep on flowing — regardless of what happened to the group's founder.

"This will not change our operation," Kristinn Hrafnsson told The Associated Press ahead of Assange's hearing. As if to underline the point, WikiLeaks released a cache of a dozen new diplomatic cables, its first publication in more than 24 hours.

Assange appeared at before City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in London after turning himself in to Scotland Yard earlier Tuesday, capping months of speculation over an investigation into alleged sex crimes committed in Sweden over the summer.

Assange and his lawyers claim that the accusations stem from a "dispute over consensual but unprotected sex" in Sweden in August, and have claimed the case has taken on political overtones. Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny has rejected those claims.

Riddle asked the 39-year-old Australian whether he understood that he could consent to be extradited to Sweden. Assange, dressed in a navy blue suit, cleared his throat and said: "I understand that and I do not consent."

The decision to fight the extradition could be difficult. Extradition experts say that European arrest warrants like the one issued by Sweden can be tough to beat, barring mental or physical incapacity. Even if the warrant was defeated on a technicality, Sweden could simply issue a new one.

Assange's website, meanwhile, came under increasing financial pressure Tuesday — with both Visa and MasterCard saying they would block payments to the controversial website.

In a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press, Visa Inc. said it was taking steps "to suspend Visa payment acceptance on WikiLeaks' website pending further investigation into the nature of its business and whether it contravenes Visa operating rules."

MasterCard sent a similar statement, saying it would suspend payments "until the situation is resolved."

The move chokes off two important funding avenues for WikiLeaks, a loosely knit group of activists who rely on individual donations to fund their operations.

PayPal Inc., a popular online payment service, has already cut its links to the website, while Swiss authorities closed Assange's bank account on Monday, freezing several tens of thousands of euros, according to his lawyers.

WikiLeaks is still soliciting donations through bank transfers to affiliates in Iceland and Germany, as well as by mail to an address at University of Melbourne in Australia.

35 comments:

  1. Repent Harliquin Said The Tic-Toc Man [Harlan Ellison]

    A fill court press by the corporatists...yes, now it gets interesting.


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  2. What is truly bizarre is that this woman that Assange supposedly "raped" had consentual sex with the man--that much is already admitted.
    It is now known that she has Intel connections. An OBVIOUS set up.

    What is the greatest concern to all here is what effect this is going to have on the Internet--the whole scenario is obviously meant to shut down free speech--whether Assange is a Mossad agent or the geniune Harlequin makes no difference in the way the affair will be manipulated.

    I fear our days of freewheeling dialog are coming to an untimely end my friends...
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  3. I have now been censored from commenting of certain blogs through my IP address. Our days are numbered indeed.

    As to Assagne I can't help but feel its a set-up for him and us. They're play him and they'll use this to quell free speech.

    Last year at this time I was giving doomsday predictions to this year, this year I double my bet.

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  4. http://www.rense.com/general92/goes.htm

    Assange:
    They are simply seeking to interrogate him and one of the strangest and most interesting aspects of all this, is that it's extremely unusual for Interpol the international police agency used in Europe and other places to be used in this manner and I mean he was put on the Most Wanted, list even though as I just said he's not charged with any crime.~Kirwan

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  5. Mr. M,

    I have found 'Doomsday' to be rather like that movie, GROUND HOG DAY.

    Everyday I wake up it is still Doomsday...and the next morning, and the next....
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  6. Because of his statements regarding 9/11, I cannot consider Assange an innocent patsy in all this. I think this whole arrest and imprisonment and the trumped up sex charges (he didn't use a condom??!!) is all part of the script he was given. The fact that they let him roam free for so long without "capture" is a joke. Come on now. Do any of us really believe they couldn't have stopped him dead in his tracks if they had a mind to? Dead being the keyword here.

    Yep, they are going to use this to take over the net. Strictly for security reasons of course ...wink wink

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  7. Oh M, they just can't handle the truth....

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  8. Yep...it is all theater, Jersey...Punch and Judy, a distraction as old as states and government.
    I'd rather watch a real chariot race--Now that would be exciting. Then go hiking on Mt. Vesuvius {grin}...but we are all doing that in allegory now.

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  9. "The Man from Mars who saw how men suffered in the last war and how frantically they are preparing for the next war, which they know will be worse, would come to the conclusion that he was looking at the denizens of a lunatic asylum."
    ~Norman Thomas wrote in 1935

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  10. i feel for assange in all this but this is what happens when you play with the big boys. still...

    what bothers me the most about all this, though the internet loss would be incalculably bad, is simply the whole poorly and obviously scripted, staged, evil charade that is the trademark of our governments. this movie they have put together for the people will be seen as other than fiction by many. and these government movies are always big-budget projects.

    with an illegal alien usurper in the white house and a famous war criminal making money by selling his signed confession to the citizens upon whom he committed his crimes - these are just the first two that come to mind - this freak show episode capture of assange on the world stage paid for by the audiences of the involved nations is more utter travesty than i can contain. (which is now mildly defused - thank you) and that being said, this article has aroused a subtle new level of resolve.

    i have a feeling of certainty that they are about to screw up big time. as in exposure that they would not have wanted. it is overdue.

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  11. Assange threatened a super dump of real nitty gritty if arrested...let's see if he follows through.
    He's still got the kiddies back at the farm sitting on this.

    Either way, I feel you are right Arcadia, for those tuned in this is the apacolypse, an unprecidented unveiling of truths from many directions--Hubris is stalked by the hounds of Hell.

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  12. Off Topic here but this is a brain slammer. It looks like our lookie Amerikans are going to be tested to the limits by this police state--full cavity searches at security checkpoints ala airports first of course. This was raised as a "humorous" during the recent TSA brawl over Thankyousomuchforgiving holiday.
    Viddie this and viddie well my brothers and sisters:

    'Frankenbombers': Al Qaeda hatches plot to implant explosives into suicide bombers
    By James White
    Last updated at 5:28 PM on 6th December 2010
    Comments (52) Add to My Stories Al-Qaeda fanatics may be planning a horrific 'Frankenbomber' suicide attack by implanting explosives into a human body.
    Defence analysts logged conversations between users of a online forum in which Muslim extremists debate terrorism methods which could beat new US aviation security checks.
    The alarming posts included one by a user who claimed to be a surgeon, promising a 'new kind of terrorism'.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336113/Al-Qaeda-Frankenbomber-plot-implant-explosives-suicide-bombers.html#ixzz17TOnSeOl

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  13. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has won an award from The Economist magazine, a financial publication controlled by the Rothschild banking family, and he has also featured on an “Economist” video clip, raising questions about conflicts of interest.
    To grasp what a connection to the Economist means, Nimmo's following article gives a good explanation

    http://www.infowars.com/rothschild-and-cia-publications-attack-constitution-worshipers/
    Kurt Nimmo writes that The Economist is owned by members of the Rothschild banking family of England. It is run by the Economist Group, a known CIA front...

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  14. Jersey said "they can't handle the truth" as said by Jack Nicholson playing Colonal Nathan Jessup.

    Remember Morris K Jessup? Philadelphia Experiment?

    Wikipedia

    Jessup attempted to make a living writing on the subject of UFOs, but his followup books did not sell well and his publisher rejected several other manuscripts. In 1958 his wife left him, and his friends described him as being somewhat unstable when he traveled to New York. After returning to Florida, he was involved in a serious car accident and was slow to recover, apparently increasing his despondency. On April 19, 1959, Jessup contacted Doctor Manson Valentine and arranged to meet with him the next day, claiming to have made a breakthrough regarding an event known as the Philadelphia Experiment. However, on April 20, 1959, Jessup was found dead in a Dade County, Florida, with a hose between the exhaust pipe and a rear window of the vehicle, filling the car with toxic exhaust fumes. The death was ruled a suicide. Some people believed that "The circumstances of Jessup's apparent suicide remain mysterious"[7] and conspiracy theorists contended that it was connected to his knowledge of the "Philadelphia Experiment".[8] Although some friends claimed that he possibly had been driven to suicide by the "Allende Case,"[9] other friends said that an extremely depressed Jessup had been discussing suicide with his friends for several months before his act.[10]

    Bluebeam is coming. I was two years old in Dade County then. I bet I poo-poo'd my little coto diapers that day.

    Holyrood is so slick.

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  15. “they can’t handle the truth” as said by Jack Nicholson playing Colonal Nathan Jessup."

    Great scene, great actor.

    The other guy was a real person...I don't like real people, they give me the creeps
    {grin}...scuze me, I was just reading a long article on psychopathy...about two and a half percent of the population. Now that is substantial, we be talking millions of "people".
    Then, you go to the science of ponorology, the precept that psychopaths recognise one another and bond for power and structures of power, and you have the basis for history as a story of insane tyrannical monsters hacking their bloody way through societies for more than 3.000 years.
    Which brings us to today...status quo historically.
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  16. w - i have read up on ponerology. it is fascinating and informative - and the info is of a practical nature. readily applicable. i highly recommend it to all.

    "when humanity manages to incorporate this knowledge into its natural worldview, it will have defensive potential as yet unrealized"

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  17. Georgie Jr and Chainmailedfist were perhaps two of the most obvious pure unmitigated psychos to grace the marble halls of DC in current times.
    But Bush has the unfortunate combo of being an idiot level IQ, which gets Caligula-scary. Were talking crazy as a shithouse rat with that boy.

    I have to wonder if there will be a future, where this history is all told out from that wider perspective.
    Seems the chances grow slimmer each passing day...for a future of this "civilization".

    "Blown by wind
    Kissed by snow
    all is lost our dark has come..."

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  18. This is us, folks. This man has committed NO CRIME.

    If we take this punch without a vigorous and precise counterpunch, we're all going to be locked up. Or covered up. With and without lye powder.

    We have to assume that they are expecting open rebellion. They are smoking out the revolutionaries in advance of their Final Solution.

    If you don'tt think they're fixing to rid the world of 4 billion excess head of cattle, you are confused by the scale of the traumatic abuse we have undergone since 2001.

    Get your shortwave radios online and publish your frequencies before it's too late. We need to eyeball one another BEFORE we get cut-off from travel over any significant distance.

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  19. "Get your shortwave radios online and publish your frequencies before it’s too late. We need to eyeball one another BEFORE we get cut-off from travel over any significant distance."~Volaar

    Great idea, I'll have to buy one, but I think it makes perfect sense to do this and quickly.

    VIVA la.....reveratlatnebibs thingy

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  20. The hope here is that this overreaction by the establishment will backfire.

    But all of this is accomplishing the goal for the PTB of taking the attention off of what Assange has exposed and put it on him.

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  21. I keep hoping against hope that perhaps our predictions, premonitions, prophesies and visions of doom can be proven wrong, that we haven't already contaminated, polluted, and poisoned ourselves into an unnaturally early extinction.

    I want to believe this is not over, that perhaps there is a chance that there's something I'm missing that would nurture this dying hope.

    Is WikiLeaks the Rosa Parks moment, along with TSA and Up-Against the Wal-Mart? Or are they to just happenings to be set-up, manipulated and than later to be suppressed? I think of so many other lines we've crossed, so many other atrocities that hardly raised anyone's eyebrow, let alone have them marching in the streets with pitchforks and torches. Why should this be any different? Most of the people have become victims of the system and are so brainwashed as to be reduced to giggling idiots when exposed to the truth.

    Despair is not pretty in private but in public it becomes the truth that can't be handled. And this is it, this is what we are. We're the kids that keep pointing at the king and shouting out that he's naked. Is it any wonder having these views might be considered brave by some, but it nonetheless will drive you mad. And it doesn't get you invited back to many dinner parties.

    I don't know if it makes it any better or worse to have been able to have lived long enough to have witnessed what this world once was and had the promise of being, while all along witnessing its destruction and promise morph into madness.

    Ah, musings of a cynical romantic, or is that an oxymoron?

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  22. "Thou that hast sown the wind with conquest, shall reap the harvest and the whirlwind of desolation."~From Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii

    M, I don't know if you are familiar with the book quoted above, but you are there. In that allegorical situation.

    Hope is going to have to come from inside, and it is going to have to help you forge the courage to meet a future that is unpleasant straight on without any rose colored glasses, because you are going to have to think on your feet, and need the clearest vision you can muster.

    I cannot offer any remedies, the die is cast, the momentum is very much a physical force.
    What is happening is the fruition of a long laid plan. None of this is a mistake, or happenstance.
    Looking for hope or succor to the ones that put us in this trap is the biggest mistake of all.

    All things must pass. You are here at this time for a reason, we all are. Figure that out personally.
    After all, our time here is but a flash in the pan to our immortal souls.

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  23. In case anyone wants to visit wikileaks for themselves here is one of the mirrors that is still up:

    http://wikileaks.spurious.biz/ Mirror site.

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  24. By the way, The City of London, UK visited COTO last night in the wee hours.
    Tel Aviv is here quite often as well. And keep an eye out for Langly VA...cause they are keeping an eye on you.

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  25. Here's a really good article on Assange and the Rothschilds that Rady posted on COTO2 a few days ago:

    http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-has-close-links-to-the-economist-controlled-by-the-rothschild-banking-family/

    Assange's legal reps are City of London banker attorneys. Funny how a supposedly grassroots organization finds the scratch when others go begging. And a BANKER'S attorney????
    Once they aquit Assange he can write a book for big money. Apparently alot of dupes worship this phony dude. Ellsberg cashed in pretty good on a similar script.
    I would feel sorrier for Noriega, actually, but only cuz he got double crossed by pappy Bush and that's a class action.

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  26. Noriega...yea Mary, he's still rotting in the pen for Corn Flour...passed of as coke.
    What a joke..."Iv'e got George bush by the cajones"...that was his biggest mistake.

    Still, the reason for this whole flap is to densor the web. Assange is just the pussyboy for magazine covers. The real war should be against the draconian state reaction to this. This is an Hegelian double digital dialectic pincer for sure.

    Keep your tongues waggen and stomp your feet.

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  27. Nicely said, Will.

    It is a helluva situation, long in planning. And like you said, it's best not to go forward blindly or with rose colored glasses. US, British and Israeli government terrorists can use extra-lethal methods, brute force, shock and awe, and the old double cross as they have so many times in the past. I hope we all survive even the next state FF or Phonywar. I don't think our genome will survive whole much more soft kill, certainly not generational war as they demand from us today. We've already been mutated. Cognition has obviously been declining for decades when half the global population is too stupid to even suspect their own betrayal on 9/11.

    According to the Protocols, the nations of the world must be brought to their knees through war, debt and propaganda. Mission halfway accomplished, but now what? This is the game theory problem, they have alot of submission already and it is not working out that hot for them, they are in fact very neurotic, desperate even. They are killing the host, a crux error. And they should know better from study of past failures. They are not the chosen people or even masters of their own destiny. They have not even spared themselves in this. Nature has one consistent answer for them. Failure!

    I don't want to go down with them. It's not a destiny anyone would want.

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  28. Assange getting arrested is not about truth at all, other than setting up a bogus 'secret government disclosures' drama to slander the net's growing truth community, which he did a pretty good job of. He's no hero and will probably come out of it well paid for his dubious services to the state. It's his frikkin problem not mine.

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  29. This, it should be understood, is propaganda. Yet, we need to properly refine our understanding of propaganda in order to assess what is specifically propagandistic about these stories. While one should remain skeptical of sources and disinformation campaigns (as those who critically analyze the media have known take place time and time again), one must also consider the personal perspective of the source and decipher between authenticity and analysis. These documents, I truly believe, are authentic. In this sense, I do not adhere to the notion that these are a part of a psychological operation (psy-op) or propaganda effort, in terms of the actual release of the documents. We must keep in mind that the sources for these cables are U.S. diplomatic channels, and thus the statements within them reflect the perspectives and beliefs of U.S. diplomatic personnel. The documents are an authentic representation of their statements and beliefs, but that does not imply that they are an accurate representation of reality.

    This is where the media comes in to propagandize the information within the leaks. The two above examples claim that the leaks show that there is a “consensus” on Iran, and thus, that the U.S. and indeed Israeli positions on Iran for the past several years have been “vindicated,” namely in that they fear Iran is making nuclear weapons. This is nonsense. The media has essentially read and propagated the documents at face value, meaning that because U.S. diplomats, Middle Eastern and Arab leaders all agree that Iran is a “threat” and is trying to make a “nuclear weapon,” it therefore must be true. This is a non sequitur. If a military general tells several soldiers to commit a raid on a house because there are “suspected terrorists” inside, the fact that the soldiers carry out the raid – and that they believe there are terrorists inside – does not make it so. In contextualizing this example with the current Wikileaks release, just because Middle Eastern and Arab leaders see Iran as a threat, does not make it so.

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22278

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  30. Point taken, Will, but Wiki still looks like a classic psyop from many angles.

    http://www.infowars.com/wikileaks-corrupted-oracle-or-a-cointelpro-asset-of-the-establishment/

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  31. Yes...but the point is context. It is of smaller matter WHO Assange is, than to take advantage of information available in our own analysis.

    Read the whole article and let it settle in.

    Tarply's view that Assange is an MK Ultra, and there are links to that Australian MK group.

    Botom line...we know the general drift of where the NWO is going and how they are going to pull it off. Let's face it; just reading MSM withour blinders can give you the real story by deconstructing the subtext.

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  32. ...And it is so annoying to try to listen to Tarpley with Foghorn-Jones blaring all over Tarpleys words, dammit.

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  33. The Abominable Golem is stalking me. Spooks, Goons and Ghouls—psychopaths wanting to eat my brains. It is the Planet of Terror. All our dreams turned to nightmares. They are creeping around out there in the dark night, evil spirits drifting through the ether, demons from Hell.

    So...I give'm da finger.

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  34. Mr M,

    look for, read about and try Tor-browser. It's easy, free, legal and it works.

    curt

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