The last refuge of the witless poster - to play on someone's real, or Forum name.Texpat wrote:Why is Assmange hiding?
You really need to lift your game Tex, if you are seeking even a modicum of credibility.
The last refuge of the witless poster - to play on someone's real, or Forum name.Texpat wrote:Why is Assmange hiding?
WikiLeaks' Assange complains he's victim of leaks
LONDON (AP) — It has come to this: Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is complaining that someone leaked a Swedish police report on his alleged sexual offenses.
Original article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... a2e044adcb
why do people think that putting more than one smiley, full stop or question mark will make the point more. One is enough or it makes you look like a div. It's not even english, is it?cookie wrote:1) and here we have Jimbo again at his best:
trying to compare Public vs. personal;
Apples vs. oranges.
2) irony indeed that some people still don't get it or try to pull you away from the story:
The leaks are the story not Assange.
of course they will try to do whatever they can to shoot the messenger
and try to forget the message itself as soon as possible....little hypocrite isn't it.
Incredible how the media insists on a soap opera about his life,
not the evil that governments do behind closed doors.
one wonders where the interests of this media is????
Wiki Leaks is trying to get the journalists of the world to do their job
and demand better from those who control things ( Multinational corporations, corporate media, governments,...)
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again, can't wait for the secret information of the Banks (Bank of America and Co.)
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/12/25/1 ... -stop.htmlWikiLeaks: How U.S. tried to stop Spain's torture probe
Obama, The USA,....— It was three months into Barack Obama's presidency, and the administration -- under pressure to do something about alleged abuses in Bush-era interrogation policies -- turned to a Florida senator to deliver a sensitive message to Spain:
Don't indict former President George W. Bush's legal brain trust for alleged torture in the treatment of war on terror detainees, warned Mel Martinez on one of his frequent trips to Madrid. Doing so would chill U.S.-Spanish relations.
but:. A telecommunications company, for example, may not refuse phone or broadband service to an organization it dislikes, arguing that it amounts to risky business.
a bank’s ability to block payments to a legal entity raises a troubling prospect
the arrogance of these corporations is without limitsThe whistle-blowing Web site WikiLeaks has not been convicted of a crime. The Justice Department has not even pressed charges over its disclosure of confidential State Department communications. Nonetheless, the financial industry is trying to shut it down.
Visa, MasterCard and PayPal announced in the past few weeks that they would not process any transaction intended for WikiLeaks. Earlier this month, Bank of America decided to join the group, arguing that WikiLeaks may be doing things that are “inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments.”
Every day more and more proof that the Government is working for the Corporations, and not for the People!!"What would happen if a clutch of big banks decided that a particularly irksome blogger or other organization was 'too risky'?" they asked. "What if they decided — one by one — to shut down financial access to a newspaper that was about to reveal irksome truths about their operations? This decision should not be left solely up to business-as-usual among the banks."
Tilo I assume the Toronto Star and Toronto Daily Star are one and the same.Laan Yaa Mo wrote:Jack, the Globe and Mail would be in the centre with the National Post on the right, the Toronto Daily Star left of centre ..........................
Thailand’s deposed Prime Minister relaxes and waits
Published On Thu Jan 06 2011
Tracey Tyler Legal Affairs Reporter
Life in self-imposed exile is pleasantly laid back and far from lonely, says Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand’s deposed prime minister, who remains a hero to many in that country’s “Red Shirt” movement.
The 61-year-old former leader has kept a low profile since being ousted in a military coup Sept. 19, 2006, but spoke to the Toronto Star in an exclusive interview from his Mideast exile.............
Thaksin, a former billionaire businessman, distanced himself Thursday from direct involvement in any political movement.
He insisted he is not advising members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), the formal name for the Red Shirts, who enjoy wide support among Thailand’s rural poor and working class.
“I don’t know them,” he said............
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/917 ... -and-waits
Learned that a long, long time ago, when after moving to Atlanta was refused a checking account, even with a large deposit and a current checking account in Boston. Had some strange idea that it was illegal, it was a good wakeup call. Now I understood how and why those check cashing ripoff places existed.cookie wrote: the arrogance of these corporations is without limits
No corporation should have ANY right to deny the People rights to free speech =D> =D>
where is the rule of law?
are corporations now the police, judge and jury at the same time???
WikiLeaks Promises To Reveal Swiss Banking Secrets
By the CNN Wire Staff
January 17, 2011 -- Updated 1527 GMT (2327 HKT)
London (CNN) -- A Swiss whistle-blower Monday handed over what he said were secret Swiss banking records to WikiLeaks, the website dedicated to revealing secrets.
Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer handed two discs to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at a news conference in London.
WikiLeaks could release the secret Swiss banking records in "a matter of weeks" if it can process them quickly enough, Assange said.
Elmer said he would not reveal the names in the records and said he was unable to say how many people were involved.
He said about 2,000 clients' records were included, but that because of the way trusts and corporations are set up, he could not determine how many individuals were involved.
Elmer describes himself as an activist/reformer/banker.
"I think, as a banker, I do have the right to stand up if something is wrong," he said Monday, explaining why he was giving the documents to the website.
Elmer is due to go on trial Wednesday in Switzerland for violating the country's banking secrecy regulations.
He said he wanted "to let society know what I do know and how this system works because it is damaging our society in the way that money is moved" and hidden in offshore jurisdictions.
He began looking into the issue when he was a banker in the Cayman Islands, he said.
When he first looked into the problems of offshore banking he said it looked like "a mouse tail," but as he investigated in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland, it became a "dragon's tail," and finally a many-headed dragon.
Speaking at the same news conference, lawyer Jack Blum said it was not always possible to determine who, if anyone, had engaged in "criminal tax evasion."
Elmer aims to "challenge Swiss Bank Secrecy at the European Court of Human Rights and the Swiss courts," he says on his website. He has worked at six offshore banking centers, he says.
He has been engaged in a long-running battle with Swiss banks over secrecy, he said.
He said he had approached tax authorities and universities with his data, but that no one was interested. He was about to give up, he said, when he learned about WikiLeaks from a friend.
He said he was "grateful" to WikiLeaks for helping him "send the message which I wanted to send," but that he was not trying to use it for "protection" as he faced prosecution.