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More Wikileaks

Ellsberg: “EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.”

Currently released so far... 1112 / 251,287

They've now managed to cut off Visa, Mastercard and Paypal payments to Wikileaks, as well as their Swiss bank account.
and anonymous is pissed

December 6 post

A quick link:  

"One more time just for clarity: Sex you have with someone without their permission is rape"

And I'll say one more thing on the subject. Assange may be doing very good work on Wikileaks. That doesn't mean that I'll defend him if the charges are true. Whether or not the charges are true is not relevant to whether WikiLeaks is a force for good or bad. There are sexist dirtbags in every single organization on the planet, from the Pentagon to Earth First!.

I've said from the start of this thing that the remarkable thing isn't that a famous person may have committed a sexual assault. The remarkable thing is that the women are getting listened to. That a sexual assault of this nature gets the accused put on top of Interpol's most wanted list.

The sad part is that, assuming the charges are true, Assange may not even realize that he is guilty of sexual assault. Far too many men still don't get the idea that sex you have with someone without their permission is rape, and that a sexual partner can remove their permission AT ANY POINT. Period. Full Stop.

Wikileaks

http://46.59.1.2/ is the actual location of wikileaks. Spread it around. Now that their DNS is down, this is the best way to reach them.

No more Amazon for me

So, I've just deleted my Amazon wish list. I won't deal with a book seller that won't fight censorship. Period. Their cowardice on the wikileaks file makes them dead to me.

I was a teenage anarchist

Here's what protests look like with the black bloc:

Here's what protests look like without the black bloc:

Back in the late 80's, I was involved in a few protests when the Black Bloc form of protest was in it's infancy in North America. The concept as we understood it back then was that we would form a Bloc that would protect the protesters who weren't willing or able to face police brutality. In the second video, the Black Bloc would form a line facing the police and basically face the faceless cops on their own terms, and fight back. A couple of hundred protesters would be sufficient to stop the cops from starting police riots. Make no mistake, I'd seen the cops in Toronto and Ottawa provoke confrontations on more than one occasion.
I was young, angry and had very little to lose if I got arrested.
I'm not going to join a Black Bloc today, but I certainly do understand why young people, when faced by cops who are hell bent on intimidating peaceful protests, might decide to respond in kind.


http://maggieknight.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/the-world-is-watching-g20-media-summary-to-date/

Don't unite the centre.

Apparently some idiots are proposing to unify the Liberal Party of Canada with the NDP. Words do not describe how bad an idea that would be. Warren Kinsella has sworn an affidavit that there are talks going on.

There are two parties for a reason. The Liberals are the Canadian establishment, taking most of their income from corporations and people who have large holdings in those corporations. They are somewhat socially liberal, as far as the corporate hegemony in this country feels that social welfare saves them money.

The NDP is nominally a socialist party. They are supported by Union donations, and by small donations from supporters. They have traditionally been the conscience on Parliament Hill.

I have trouble supporting them, given that I don't really support any group that wants to hold power over people, but most of the time they are on the right side of any given issue.

As far as I can tell, this is a poison pill that the Liberals are trying to make the NDP swallow. The NDP is on the brink of becoming the number two party in the country as the Liberals continue to spiral downwards. By offering this poisoned chalice, the NDP would destroy any chance that the country will find a political balance that is anywhere near the left. It will put the battleground between the Liberals very centrist position and the CPC's right wing stance. Gone will be the balance of the NDP's moderate left position. That is very bad for the country, and especially the people whose voice will be silenced.

Bad idea.