Assange Amazing Adventures of Captain Neo in Blonde Land.

[vanlose kid]

Inmates at Wandsworth Prison are pushing notes of support under the cell door of WikiLeaks founder


Julian Assange, being held over alleged sex offences in Sweden, was refused bail at an extradition hearing earlier this week.
He could be in jail until at least his next appearance in court on Tuesday.

Assange was arrested as WikiLeaks continues to release secret cables from US embassies.
A source at the prison said, among several notes Assange received, are ones saying: "Hi Julian- good luck," "Sorry you're in here - it's wrong" and "We are one within here - Merry Christmas".

Assange could be extradited to Sweden
Another said: "Dear Julian, welcome to the real Frontline Club," referring to the journalists' club in London where he was staying before his arrest...

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-New ... ources_Say

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[seemslikeadream]

The Web will eat itself over WikiLeaksJournalism as we knew it is over. No more trade-offs between revealing some things while keeping other information private, of choosing between the necessary secrets governments must keep and the public's right to know -- it's now a free-for-all.

[vanlose kid]

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[justdrew]

of course it keeps on publishing, they've only got their hands on ONE of the Julians

[JackRiddler]

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Breaking: Here is a new long timeline of the case that I believe redefines "too much information."

Assange: Aftonbladet's 'Inside Story'

A timeline including excerpts of case testimony.


STOCKHOLM (Radsoft) — Aftonbladet claim to have a copy of the Assange case files. They've published a special supplement to their hardcopy edition with details of the Assange case they've not revealed online.

Aftonbladet is a tabloid - meaning they arbitrarily mix truth with fiction and hyperbole. Their articles are at best 'hearsay of hearsay' - the testimony of the girls is not corroborated and Aftonbladet's version isn't corroborated either.

That being said, one can construct a timeline based on the Aftonbladet supplement.

GO THERE IF YOU REALLY WANT TO READ THE WHOLE THING...
http://rixstep.com/1/20100914,00.shtml

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[JackRiddler]

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Message to Posterity: Wikileaks Threads on RI

In November and December 2010, the Rigorous Intuition board saw the near-simultaneous creation of many threads approaching the Wikileaks phenomenon from different angles. Long discussions developed organically in several of these, and sometimes seemed to be held in radically alternate realities. As an aid to your historical research, this notice is being posted in six of those threads on Dec. 10 to remind you of the others.

Here are the current top-of-the-board discussions, with start author and date, in order of the number of posts as of Dec. 10:

The Wikileaks Question
by JackRiddler » Sun Nov 28, 2010 4:10 pm (27 pages)
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=30362

Assange Amazing Adventures of Captain Neo in Blonde Land.
by seemslikeadream » Fri Aug 27, 2010 3:29 pm (9 pages)
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29320

Questioning WikiLeaks Thread
by Montag » Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:50 pm (7 pages)
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29933

Cryptome founder/Wikileaks co-founder:"Wikileaks is a fraud"
by lupercal » Wed Dec 08, 2010 5:19 am (5 pages)
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=30479

The rush to smear Assange's rape accuser.
by barracuda » Wed Dec 08, 2010 3:17 pm (3 pages)
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=30485

Cables Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels WIKI!
by seemslikeadream » Sun Nov 28, 2010 1:29 pm (2 pages)
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=30359

EDIT:

JackRiddler, you missed the seminal thread on the Swedish issue:

Julian Assange wanted in Sweden for alleged rapes
by jingofever » Sat Aug 21, 2010 10:09 am (5 pages)
http://rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29246

Some pretty relevant information in that thread, already in August-September.

PS, Posterity: There are other shorter current ones as well as some older ones, so be sure to prompt Skynet to do a date-delineated search for you. Hope you are enjoying your flying cars and conveyer belts, cool jumpsuits, jauntes to Jovian moon colonies, casual sex changes and group marriages, and governing your Galactic Federation of Sentient Species by means of the Universal Metamind Congress. How's immortality treating ya? Do you still "get" irony? Do you trust Starfleet?

[wintler2]

Open letter: To [Australian PM] Julia Gillard, re Julian Assange

The authors write: We wrote the letter below because we believe that Julian Assange is entitled to all the protections enshrined in the rule of law – and that the Australian Government has an obligation to ensure he receives them.

The signatures here have been collected in the course of a day-and-a-half, primarily from people in publishing, law and politics. The signatories hold divergent views about WikiLeaks and its operations. But they are united in a determination to see Mr Assange treated fairly. ..

5186 signatories at present, including Noam Chomsky, Peter Singer, Julian Burnside QC, Rob Stary (defended David Hicks), Senator Bob Brown, etc.

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There was a support demo in Melbourne on Friday afternoon, a few hunded souls blessed by live performance from Rap News crew, and the distribution of leeks to the crowd (the side with a sense of humor always wins). The public meeting at Law Society on Thurs eve overflowed the room and building alotted.

[seemslikeadream]

Julian Assange supporters plan protests worldwideDetention of WikiLeaks founder is focus of demonstrations today as speculation grows over legal move by US authorities



People hold images of Julian Assange in front of their faces at a demonstration in Brisbane, Australia. Photograph: Steve Gray/EPA

Protests will be held around the world today against the detention of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.

Demonstrations are planned in the capitals of Spain, the Netherlands, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico and Peru to demand Assange's release, the re-establishment of WikiLeaks domain name and the restoration of Visa and Mastercard credit services to allow supporters to donate money to the whistleblowing site.

A statement on the Spanish-language website Free WikiLeaks said: "We seek the liberation of Julian Assange in United Kingdom territory." The website called on protesters to gather at 6pm (17.00 GMT) in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Seville and three other Spanish cities.

It also calls for "the re-establishment of the WikiLeaks (wikileaks.org) internet domain," and the restoration of Visa and MasterCard credit card services to enable the "freedom to move money" because no one has "proved Assange's guilt", nor charged WikiLeaks with any crime.

Assange is in Wandsworth prison in south London after being refused bail on Tuesday. Sweden is seeking his extradition over allegations of sexual assault.

His lawyers said yesterday they are preparing for a possible indictment by the US authorities.

Jennifer Robinson said her team had heard from "several different US lawyers rumours that an indictment was on its way or had happened already, but we don't know".

According to some reports, Washington is seeking to prosecute Assange under the 1917 act, which was used unsuccessfully to try to gag the New York Times when it published the Pentagon Papers in the 1970s. However, despite escalating rhetoric over the past fortnight, no charges have yet been lodged, and government sources say they are unaware any such move is being prepared.

Robinson said Assange's team did not believe the US had grounds to prosecute him but understood that Washington was "looking closely at other charges, such as computer charges, so we have one eye on it".

Earlier this week, the US attorney general, Eric Holder, said the US had been put at risk by the flood of confidential diplomatic documents released by WikiLeaks and he authorised a criminal investigation.

[aimless]

Sorry if this was posted in one of the other threads - I really haven't been keeping track:

Julian Assange's OKCupid profile found

I was never someone who, as a teenage girl, developed ridiculous celebrity crushes on actors or musicians. No Bieber fever. Julian Assange was sort of my first celebrity crush (a bit of a late blooming weirdo I am). I mean - that brain. That naturally silver hair. That total disregard for authority. Hottt.
The charges sort of brought it down to earth for me - though since they seemed CIA it was sort of whatever. But damn did this ever kill it:

I like women from countries that have sustained political turmoil.

an apt comment: "Gayatri Spivak called; she wants you to fucking die"

Actually, it was the myspacesque photos that really fucked it up.

[Plutonia]

The actual profile page is here, but it seems like a fake to me.

"I'm really good at:
A gentleman never tells."


Orly?

[AhabsOtherLeg]

I wonder what John Young's is like.

[Plutonia]

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been elected Rock Star of the Year by the Italian edition of US music magazine, Rolling Stone.

Rolling Stone Italia did not mention musical merits in its statement yesterday on why it had chosen Assange, whose whistle-blowing site has embarrassed governments around the world.

But it did compare the Australian-born hacker to David Bowie, describing Assange's resemblance to the British pop star in the 1976 movie The Man Who Fell to Earth as "simply amazing".

The magazine said Assange was "the exterminator angel of every power-hidden secret". The information technology "rock 'n roll of silver-hair Assange will happily be with us" all of next year.

Assange is being held in custody in Britain on an arrest warrant issued in Sweden, where prosecutors are investigating allegations against him of sex crimes.

"Assange is an icon like Che Guevara on T-shirts or Mao for Andy Warhol. He is the pop leader of the end of diplomacy and imperial security," Rolling Stone Italia said.

Bizarro

[justdrew]

FFIW... Looks like Julian is a Stainless Steel Rat fan...

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/14/julian-assanges-couc.html
Adrian Chen of Gawker just "leaked" what is purported to be Julian Assange's couchsurfing.com profile. No way to fully validate it at this time. Last login 2008

[anothershamus]

From Zero Hedge: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/julian-assange-has-been-freed-bail-uk-court
I couldn't find the direct twitter feed.

And in the FWIW department, The Stainless Steel Rat was a terrific book, love Harry Harrison although he did too many of the series and they got overdone.

Julian Assange Has Been Freed On Bail By UK Court
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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/14/2010 10:23 -0500


As part of his £200,000 bail, Assange has a 10pm curfew, passport surrender and an electronic tag. Unclear if he is allowed to use a computer. So how about that AES 256 key already?

Keep up to speed on the most recent development courtesy of the Guardian:

3.50pm: Here's our story on today's decision.

3.46pm: More on the bail conditions.

• Surety of £240,000, according to BBC News
• Curfew from 10am-2pm and 10pm-2am
• Assange must report to the police station every day at 6pm

3.36pm: Hang on. Swedish prosecutors plan to launch an appeal against the decision to grant Assange bail. They have two hours to do lodge an appeal. Assange will not be freed until that process is over.

A lawyer for Assange predicted that the he won't be released tonight, according to Mostrous.

3.34pm: Assange's bail conditions include surrendering his passport, a curfew, and an electronic tag.

3.31pm: Assange's next court appearance will be January 11 2011. (Sorry about the technical problems in the last few minutes).

3.25pm: Assange has been granted bail, to cheers from inside and outside the court.

3.00pm: We doubt whether this actual category of rape would be rape under English law, Robertson told the court, according to Mostrous. (This is the weirdest way to report court proceedings. Why don't they televise it and have done with it?)

2.57pm: Sarah Saunders, a restaurant designer and friend of Assange, signs document offering £150,000 as surety, writes Vikram Dodd from the court. She says it is almost all the money she has.

2.51pm: It looks likely that Assange will be granted bail, Vikram Dodd predicts from the court.

He adds: "Over £200,000 offered in surety for bail. Court told ten international public figures also offering surety. Court asks one of them to sign [bail] document."

2.46pm: Vaughan Smith, from the Frontline club, has been put forward as someone offering surety. As expected Assange's barrister Geoffrey Robertson says an electronic tag could be placed on Assange if he is bailed. He also offers a curfew, and travel restrictions, according to Mostrous.

Robertson jokes that Assange would be under "mansion arrest" if he was bailed to Vaughan Smith's house, Mostrous tweets.

2.34pm: Unfortunately we can't set up an automatic feed for Alexi Mostrous's Twitter feed. Unlike Heather he works for someone else.

[barracuda]

Oh shit! This means Vaughn Smith is in on the scam!!!



And John Pilger as well.