Everyone can hack if they know how, but it is only government intelligence agencies that are afforded true anonymity to do so. If as an individual or group, you have done the right thing by shining the light on crime, corruption, or any backdoor business that is potentially harmful to people or the environment, you deserve help if you get into trouble for doing that. If you have acted in the public interest, communities will most likely support you – and you may have a case that will change history! All you need is a voice…

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Anonymous FreeAnons Press Release

The Anonymous Solidarity Network exists to provide legal, financial and moral support for activists facing prosecution for involvement, alleged or otherwise, in Anonymous actions. The use of information networks to perform community acts of protest is neither a crime nor an act of conspiracy, and should not be prosecuted as such.

When internet activists are getting longer prison sentences than rapists you have to wonder what kind of world we’re leaving for our kids. A world where we see every day how governments, banks and corporations strip away our privacy and freedoms in the name of greed, power and control.

Read about the case of Jonathan Moylan and the #standwithjono campaign

The storm has yet to pass and what ships remain out at sea are desperately seeking refuge from the relentless waves of prosecution but there is one ship sailing alongside these troubled waters…

We are the Anonymous Solidarity Network. We are a collective of Anons and the friends and family of Anons facing prosecution for alleged involvement in Anonymous activities.

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Check your local Anonymous postings for where to meet on November 5th…
Anonymous Sydney will assemble at Martin Place, 2pm

Million Mask March Australia stands in solidarity with the global collective movement!

Recently, the largest mass gatherings in the history of the world have occurred globally, yet mainstream media has remained silent on this matter. What little has been reported, has been given political spin, and/or largely discredited, and misrepresented.

WE ARE MARCHING AGAINST MAINSTREAM MEDIA BLACKOUTS, AND WHITEWASHING OF CURRENT WORLD ISSUES, THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD ARE ADDRESSING PEACEFULLY, UNITING AGAINST CORRUPTION!

WE ARE ANONYMOUS!
WE DO NOT SUPPORT TYRANY OR TERRORISM IN ANY FORM!
WE ARE THE HUMANITY THAT IS NOT BEING REPRESENTED.

Each one of us has our own path, but each share the same goal!
A free humanity!

Every being has an in-alienable right to their own ideas and expressions, and censorship of the Internet and Mainstream Media will not be tolerated by the 99%!

In DIRECT NON VIOLENT PEACEFUL RESISTANCE the people of the world wish to restore justice in the rule of law, and stand united in educating and raising awareness against tyrannical ideology, and practices of government agencies and corporations, the organised criminal class.

The power of the people stands against the corrupt corporate actions of the 1%, whom having the combined income of the 99% of humanity, use illegally acquired resources to fund scheming systems that do not benefit humanity as a whole, but have instead indebted the citizens of the world into hunger, wars, poverty, and slavery, while raping and pillaging earth’s natural resources, for the purpose of profiteering.

The purpose of the global Million Mask March is on one hand, to ensure open source social dialogues, free from censorship, helping to inform, educate and raise awareness on a variety of inter-related topics and events that are currently occurring around the globe, and which are being censored by mainstream media, and its corporate agenda.

On the other hand, Anonymous Internet activist culture is no longer confined to a virtual platform and has extended and incorporated performance art into its arsenal on the streets. We wish to familiarise people who have fallen prey to media vilification of dissenters and activists, with the true purpose of Anonymous: peace and unity.

We are not an official organisation! We are a collective and a movement! We are an ‘Idea’ that is freely shared and supported by humanity, whose solidarity lies within Love, Peace, Equality, Freedom and Justice for all!

The Million Mask March will high-light the following injustices that have and are still taking place:

Mainstream Corporate Media, working with its own corporate agendas, censoring and creating media black outs concerning serious world issues that impact the lives of the majority of humanity, the 99%!

Genocide of all indigenous cultures around the globe, whose sacred land we walk on. We stand against the continual white-washing of such history, and the continual injustices indigenous people face today, as voiced by the current movement ‘IDLE NO MORE’!

WAR in all forms from all sanctions! The military industrial complex and its subversive actions, that have no transparency; whose lies and false intelligence serve to protect corrupt corporate government tactics, orchestrated military invasions and sanctions that are killing innocent civilians globally for the purpose of profit, and stealing resources.

The illegal detention and mistreatment of WHISTLE-BLOWERS, such as Chelsea Manning and others who have sought to expose illegal operations.

Banking Cartels and Austerity measures that turn us into debt slaves, while being protected by government bail-outs when they fail.

Inflicted Homelessness, as a direct result of Austerity measures, and crippling debt structures, designed to fail.

Monsanto patenting of nature’s seed banks, attacks on farmers, stealing their lands, manipulation of our foods via G.M.O., chemical technologies and pesticides that are a health hazard and threaten extinction of nature’s plants, foods, and bees.

The N.S.A. and PRISM government programs that spy on citizens globally, taking away all privacy rights via warrant-less searches, and infiltration of the people’s use of the Internet and social media.

Police corruption and brutality! Police now operate in ‘Asymmetrical Policing’, no longer protecting the rights of the people but of corporate interests. They support schemes designed to raise revenue and profits. They engage in the racial profiling of minorities and activists in general, and interfere with the political rights of protestors and movements, by following a corrupt chain of command!

The T.P.P.A, or Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, that takes away people’s rights and powers, by supporting a large variety of controversial topics, related to the aforementioned points, but also, the patenting of medicine and censorship of Internet. It is nothing more than a corporate bill of rights that allows international signatories to hold power over any country, and dictate industry markets according to the 1%

The Coalition’s ‘War on Terror’, and the extended use of the word “Terrorism’, in order to portray and discredit any individual or entity that dissents against government and corporate criminal actions, which are nothing short of terrorist actions themselves! The people have long demanded a real investigation and inquiry into the actions that have been used to justify invasions, wars, and the cultural profiling of dissenters as terrorists.

These are issues a citizen cannot fight alone. These are issues that citizens of every country must battle together, as one unified voice: Anonymous, to save our eco-system; Anonymous, to protect Human Rights; Anonymous, for the rule of law; Anonymous, for UNITY, EQUALITY AND PEACE on Earth.

Join the Million Mask March on November 5th, and let the 1% see just how much they can…

EXPECT US!

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It’s July 2011, and apparently the parties don’t know that Sabu has recently been arrested by the FBI and is reporting on all he sees… Our author, Parmy Olson is allegedly not present but reporting Topiary’s recollections of the events after his arrest.

Strangely enough, a published extract starts with direct speech from a Bond-like user name, ‘q’ (in French, “cul”?) who is apparently on the Wikileaks end. Or is it “q”? The name they can see in the chat room is “Dancing Balls” – also translatable to the French as “cul”. I’m getting confused but mildly titillated already… Q or Dancing Balls says:

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It is hypothesised that q, who at all times henceforth speaks on Assange’s behalf, is “reaching out” for LulzSec’s help in “infiltrating several Icelandic corporate and government sites”.

Why, is not made clear but rather speculated upon by the author. One lingers over the alleged target country… Iceland? Really? Trying to stop the flow of Wikileaks information? A long history of camaraderie between the two makes me ponder longer, as does the phrase “Q and Assange said…“. My picture is that it’s just text on screen now, and neither of those names are appearing on it. More confused than ever, I read on…

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There is talk of Wikileaks rewarding Lulzsec with a file called RSA 128. Not the morning after pill… but the smoking gun! But alas… it was not handed over. What a shame.  And alas, an alleged video that Assange made to prove his identity was also deleted. So what evidence is there LulzSec were seeing anything but Dancing Balls, or if the event happened at all? There’s mention of screen shots, for what they’re worth… Gawker.com who recently covered the story, issue a caveat at the end:

“… it’s impossible to say with certainty who LulzSec spoke with at the time. In her book, Olson points out that q is a controversial figure; some claim he’s a rogue agent impersonating a Wikileaks insider, while others assert he’s a true member of Assange’s inner circle.”

Damning revelation of Assange in conspiracy with black-hat hackers, or entertaining spy-thriller, strictly for the lulz, whose script could do with one last revision? I would like to offer my commentary, as a 23 year veteran in video post production, to the description of the video, because that’s where I spotted some real flaws in the story.

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Topiary, who is initially alone in the IRC room with “Dancing Balls”, and already skeptical because it has been named “wikilulz”, is not at all convinced that Assange is on the other end. We are told:

“Within five minutes, he pasted a link to YouTube into the IRC chat, and he said to look at it quickly. Topiary opened it and saw video footage of a laptop screen and the same IRC chat they were having, with the text moving up in real time. The camera then panned up to show a snowy-haired Julian Assange sitting directly opposite and staring into a white laptop, chin resting thoughtfully in his hand. He wore a crisp white shirt and sunlight streamed through a window bordered with fancy curtains. q deleted the twenty-two-second video moments later. Also in the IRC channel with Topiary and q was [LulzSec leader] Sabu, now likely with very interested FBI agents monitoring the discussion.”

And later:

“The following day, q and Assange wanted to talk to LulzSec again. Perhaps sensing that Topiary was still skeptical, q insisted on uploading another video. It again showed his laptop screen and the IRC chat they were having being updated in real time, then a close-up of Assange himself, head in hand again, but this time blinking and moving the track pad on his laptop, then him talking to a woman next to him. The camera was then walked around Assange before the video ended. The video had been filmed and uploaded in less than five minutes. Topiary, who was experienced with Photoshop and image manipulation, calculated that doctoring the IRC chat and Assange in the same video image within such a short space of time would have been incredibly difficult, and he veered toward believing this was all real.”

Where I don’t connect with this scenario begins with the onscreen text in the video being described, on both occasions, as being in real time on YouTube, I immediately think wow, more James Bond stuff, and many would say “no way…”, but of course it’s possible to broadcast live if you’re a YouTube Partner and have at least 10 videos with over 300 views and passed a rigorous vetting by YouTube over one week. That could happen… I guess?

But why then does Topiary, the media guy, and only on the second day, “think” about the time it would have taken to composite Julian into the image (to produce a pre-recorded and doctored video)? Olsen’s mention that he’s an expert in determining “what’s real and what’s doctored” lends credibility to his projected musings, but this whole soliloquy is incoherent with what’s been clearly established by her, through him, before – it’s live!

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She (Olsen) / he (Topiary) says the camera on both occasions is initially framed on their current chat with the text rolling in real time. Olsen describes the camera as panning continuously between this and Julian. Experience tells me that if it’s live at the beginning of the pan, it must be live at the end of the pan, since footage from “now” wouldn’t have been available yet to incorporate as a pre-recorded background video behind Julian. Not “difficult” Parmi, but impossible.

I can’t imagine this being Topiary’s reasoning at all. More likely it’s the words of someone who does not understand video technology at all; is trying to remain consistent but fails, and who doesn’t realise that Photoshop is not what someone skilled in video image manipulation would use. That would be more useful for the screen shots…

Casting no aspersions on Topiary whatsoever. Just stale of the tall tale, told by an idiot.

My name is Nozomi Hayase. I am a writer at World Beyond Borders and WikiLeaks Central. I am one of those ordinary people whose life was changed by the Collateral Murder video.
This film shot WikiLeaks into public awareness and I think in a way, its release embodies what the organization is really about. It was an invitation, a call to participate in the unfolding of history. I remember how I discovered RapNews around that time with their creative effort to combat the US propaganda on WikiLeaks. I was struck by their statement: “History is happening” I thought -Yes, history is not just something to study at school. We can actively engage in its making.

It is clear that Collateral Murder helped reveal to the world the true face of modern war. But, I say the real significance of this video lies in the impulse behind putting it out into the world. It was like a small sliver of light shining through a blanket of darkness.
We live in a corporate state, and are implicitly told who to be and how to think. Our own views don’t count. Justice and politics have become the territory of professionals. The corporate media has become the gatekeeper of power and privilege. Western society worships expert knowledge of lawyers, journalists and academia, while discrediting individual knowing based on one’s own experience. WikiLeaks shook up the shield of professionalism by revealing the false authority of governance. This act ripped open the veil of secrecy. They reminded us of our dignity and the ability to take charge of our own lives.

I am sure I am not the only one that has felt this way. The Collateral Murder release was like an invitation. Like someone was asking; “What do you think? I want your opinion.” The message was that we really do matter. We are worthy of real dialogue and making important decisions that effect the course of our lives. One could say the bold actions of WikiLeaks revealed simple faith in ordinary people. I go further to say this is love; simple love for ones fellow human beings. I see this faith in people as the engine for Wikileaks. And since then, from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement people are awakening to their own significance.

I believe the success of WikiLeaks has a lot to do with the kind of person Julian Assange is, especially in his tenacity and commitment to justice. While most people grow up corporate and give up virtues such as compassion, creativity and conscience along the way, Assange never compromised his courage and conviction that ordinary people are the source of all power.

For many around the world, this made him a kind of hero. At the same time he has been called an enemy of the State by the power. It seems that now an enemy of the corporate state is any person who strives to be free from an imposed identity from outside, to freely speak and associate with others of like mind, especially if they appear to question the current structure of power.

The US government’s attacks on Assange and WikiLeaks supporters are really an assault on all people’s exercise of freedom, something that is fundamental for any real democracy. The extradition of Assange is a subversion of criminal process for desperate political aims. What is happening to Julian can happen to any one of us.

“First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.”

If standing up for justice makes a person an enemy of the State, a traitor or terrorist, I say so be it. But, I will not support a society that outlaws the very thing that makes us human.
First they came for WikiLeaks, and Anonymous stood up because WikiLeaks stood for freedom of speech. Then they came for Bradley Manning and around the world people stood up because whistle blowing is a heroic deed. Then they came for Julian Assange and I am standing up because he stood up for all of us. Now, it’s time to stand up for one another. When people are truly united, there is no need for anyone else to stand up for us.

We are all we need.

Nozomi Hayase is a writer at WL Central and World Without Borders

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