Monthly Archives: December 2012

DID YOU HAVE ANY IDEA? with Daniel ELLSBERG

Daniel Ellsberg on the importance of leaking and how so few people do, even when they should, from a moral or legal standpoint. Whether bound by contract, oath, fear, loyalty, kinship or simply the herding instinct – the tendency to … Continue reading

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TALES OF A CITIZEN JOURNALIST – Part 2: Christine Assange

“The Wikileaks Tapes” is a labour of love and it was a very unexpected adventure which began the day I met Christine Assange. She had been consulting my blog at thing2thing.com and I guess she trusted that I was willing … Continue reading

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Christmas at DFAT

Even though the forensic exculpatory evidence has been available for well over two years, the British appeal process has excluded the details of the case as irrelevant, and Assange’s defence has had to focus only on the legality of the European Arrest Warrant paperwork. Australian Diplomats continue to advise Julian to “Just go to Sweden” (and hopefully get it over with), while claiming no knowledge of a US Grand Jury, cables they received describing an investigation “unprecedented in scale and nature”, and a sealed indictment that awaits only Asange’s placement in custody – anywhere – to be opened. Continue reading

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Look out “Unelected Senator”

“In Australia, an unelected Senator will be replaced by one that IS elected.” Continue reading

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The Freedom of the Press Foundation

Today sees the launch of the Freedom of the Press Foundation − a new initiative inspired by the fight against the two-year-long extra-judicial financial embargo imposed on WikiLeaks by U.S. financial giants including Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and the Bank of America. Continue reading

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The Wikileaks Christmas Party

Fondness to you Julian at Christmas, and congratulations on a great year of Wikileaks revelations.
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TALES OF A CITIZEN JOURNALIST – Part 1: Daniel Ellsberg

Cathy Vogan talks about her adventures around the world as a citizen journalist and the making of “The Wikileaks Tapes”: 24 films about the organisation that changed the world. Featuring Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, Julian Morrow, Mary Kostikidis, John Pilger, … Continue reading

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Commemorating 2 years of Julian Assange’s confinement, without charge

December 7th 2012 marks the 2nd anniversary of Julian Assange’s confinement without charge. We were looking for a place to screen “Collateral Murder”, the Wikileaks film that revealed civilians being massacred by an Apache helicopter. The Crown, the Roo and … Continue reading

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Spin Control on the Bradley Manning Case

The world must know, since we just learned it, that Manning’s cage in Kuwait was a real cage, and very, very small – about 8 cubic feet! It was normally used for animals, and located inside a tent. He was kept there all the time, except 20 minutes per day, and even fed there. He was forced to be awake at night and sleep during the day, from 1pm onwards, with average temperatures rising to 101 F. Manning had almost no human contact for 2 months and he had no idea of what was going to happen to him. That’s when he felt like his “world had shrunk”. His living space and perception of the world quite literally had shrunk. It was at this time he thought of suicide. Continue reading

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