That’s a Socialist with a big ‘S’.
I support Hugo Chavez. My condolences regarding recent Oil refinery events.
I’ve been reading David McCann (edit: try searching for trapped in) which I recommend to you. He’s not that good with apostraphes, there is repetition and he tends to cast his net wide but I suggest that he is not far from the mark!
While I am supporting Wikileaks and Julian Assange …
It occurs to me that there may be other political activists and dissidents that need supporting by a capable band of encrytption and associated capable people.
It is not only Assange that has made a stand and expressed himself.
While having no intention to diminish the treatment of Assange, there are others that have similarly confronted injustice and been subjected to similar treatment,
To be an out there dissident – an (effective, on the web) vocal opponent – of Fascist agenda and policies – means that you (me) are targetted by the powers that shouldn’t be in all sorts of *nasty* ways.
I would welcome some Wikileak activists, especially encryption experts to research for themselves – of course if that is not already apparent – about the activities of the New Labour government, the murder of Brizzlian Jean Charles de Menezes and the following murders by UK police. Were these murders identifying one particular person?
Ian Blair’s statements (particularly the Dimbleby lecture) but I can give you lots of info re: statements in the immediate aftermath of the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes. I would particularly like confirmation of the foreign – right-wing death squad – that murderd Jean Charles de Menezes i.e. it was not Met Police.
edit: Ian Blair, Tony Blair & John Reid’s statements.
(4am BST edit: Of course if Jean Charles de Menezes (because of his name) murder identified some particular person then – of course – it was pre-meditated. Were further murders (and other confrontations) about identifying a particular person?
Riz Ahmed. Riz Fucker.
edit: j7
The editor of one of the internet’s biggest sources of classified government information says there is strong evidence to suggest that video footage of an alleged US attack on Iraqi civilians is genuine.
Julian Assange, the editor of WikiLeaks.org, told Al Jazeera that the footage, released on Sunday, corroborates witness testimony.
The video is believed to show a US helicopter firing at civilians in Iraq in 2007, during an attack in which 12 civilians were killed, the website said.
Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows
Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache shoots and kills them in a public square in Eastern Baghdad. They are apparently assumed to be insurgents.
After the initial shooting, an unarmed group of adults and children in a minivan arrives on the scene and attempts to transport the wounded. They are fired upon as well. The official statement on this incident initially listed all adults as insurgents and claimed the US military did not know how the deaths ocurred. Wikileaks released this video with transcripts and a package of supporting documents on April 5th 2010.
Craig Murray has named one of Julian Assange’s accusers as Anna Ardin on the BBC2 (UK state media) news programme Newsnight. This has caused controversy in UK where the name was not – and is not – widely known.
Craig Murray defends his actions on his blog and proceeds to quote from the transcript of an Australian documentary, Sex, Lies and Julian Assange.
Read Craig’s post. Here’s a small taster of the transcript
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In the past 24 hours, Ardin had worked closely with Assange, had sex with him, organised a crayfish party on his behalf – and, according to one witness, turned down alternate accommodation for him. It is during this same period that police will later investigate whether Assange coerced and sexually molested Anna Ardin.
PER E. SAMUELSON: Well, if you send text messages like that, “I’ve just spent some time with the coolest people in the world”, the night after you then say you were raped – I mean you shouldn’t write such text messages if you had been raped by that person the night before.
ANDREW FOWLER: Your client described Julian Assange as a “cool man”. I think, one of the “coolest men in the world” that she’d had in her bed.
CLAES BORGSTROM: I will argue in court. I have of course arguments concerning exactly what you’re talking about now, but I will not tell any media of how I am going to represent the women in in court. I’m sorry.
ANDREW FOWLER: But can you see how that looks as though…
CLAES BORGSTROM: Yes, of course I can.
ANDREW FOWLER: …it’s a fit up. It looks as though they are in fact setting him up.
CLAES BORGSTROM: I’m quite aware of that.
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