Friday 23 August 2013

The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis

Jeremy Hammond on Sabu’s Sentencing

I write this in advance of the sentence of Hector Monsegur, aka “Sabu” – a former Anonymous comrade turned FBI informant – scheduled to take place on August 23, 2013. It is widely known that Sabu was used to build cases against a number of hackers, including myself. What many do not know is that Sabu was also used by his handlers to facilitate the hacking of targets of the government’s choosing – including numerous websites belonging to foreign governments. What the United States could not accomplish legally, it used Sabu, and by extension, me and my co-defendants, to accomplish illegally. The questions that should be asked today go way beyond what an appropriate sentence for Sabu might be: Why was the United States using us to infiltrate the private networks of foreign governments? What are they doing with the information we stole? And will anyone in our government ever be held accountable for these crimes?
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Two brave decisions by Chelsea Manning. How many have YOU done?

Accepting Chelsea Manning

Prison will not be kind to Chelsea Manning

...and this is the most offensive article you will read today

Here's What the White House's 'Secret' Plan to Close Guantanamo Looks Like
Land of the Free: Don’t Fly During Ramadan

Kristinn Hrafnsson discusses Manning, Snowden and Miranda


What Ever Happened to the Best Music Writing Series?

UK terror law watchdog promises rapid report on David Miranda detention

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007)


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Treated myself to this the other day...

Interestingly with postage from America and with an extra tee shirt bought it was still fifty bux cheaper than the price it is going to sell in Melburn's cheapest CD store (JB HiFi)

Taking down 'the largest child pornography conspiracy ever prosecuted'

Thursday 22 August 2013

Chelsea Manning's full statement

Subject: The Next Stage of My Life
I want to thank everybody who has supported me over the last three years. Throughout this long ordeal, your letters of support and encouragement have helped keep me strong. I am forever indebted to those who wrote to me, made a donation to my defense fund, or came to watch a portion of the trial. I would especially like to thank Courage to Resist and the Bradley Manning Support Network for their tireless efforts in raising awareness for my case and providing for my legal representation.
As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition. I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility). I look forward to receiving letters from supporters and having the opportunity to write back.
Thank you,
Chelsea E. Manning

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Daft Punx Get Lucky

Daft Punk’s photo shoot with Milla Jovovich for CR Fashion Book

The NSA Has No Idea What 'Transparency' Means

Secret Court Rebuked N.S.A. on Surveillance

Julian Assange says focus on Edward Snowden led to WikiLeaks implosion

Photos from Bradley Manning's childhood

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Tony Abbott looking at things



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Tony Abbott's old school hits out at asylum seeker stance as 'betraying moral values'

From 1983. Read the last paragraph
President Obama, THIS is why whistleblowers don't follow the route that you would prefer they took

Bradley Manning: a sentence both unjust and unfair

One Camera One Life


Leica Freedom Train

♪♫ Demdike Stare - Secret Thirteen Mix 083

Tracklist:
1. Bernard Parmegiani – Accidents / Harmoniques [INA-GRM, 1975]
2. Fabio Fabor – Monsieur Mysterious [Orly, 1973]
3. Bernard Parmegiani – Geologie Sonore [INA-GRM, 1975]
4. Experimental Audio Research – Untitled [Mille Plateaux, 1997]
5. Oliverwho Factory – Together [Madd Chaise Inc, 2003]
6. No Hassle From The Man – No Hassle From The Man [Not On Label, 1990]
7. Philippe Doray / Asociaux Associés – Clair Et Net [Scopa Invisible, 1980]
8. The Tony Williams Lifetime – Once I Loved [Polydor, 1970]
9. Pedro Iturralde Quintet Featuring Paco De Lucia – El Vito (edit) [SABA, 1968]
10. Pierre Henry – Communion [Philips, 1970]
11. Traktor – Traktor Artists [Not On Label, 1995]
12. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – M’Bondo [Type, 2013]
13. Wolfgang Dauner/Eberhard Weber/Jürgen Karg/Fred Braceful – (excerpt 1) [Calig, 1969]
14. Wolf Eyes – Stabbed In The Face [Veglia, 2003]
15. Egisto Macchi – Siberia [Cometa Edizioni Musicali, 1983]
16. Nigel Mazlyn Jones – From Ship to Shore [Isle Of Light, 1976]
17. Folke Rabe – Was ?? [WERGO, 1970]
18. Wolfgang Dauner/Eberhard Weber/Jürgen Karg/Fred Braceful – (excerpt 2) [Calig, 1969]
19. Mecanica Popular – Baku: 1922 [Grabaciones Accidentales, 1987]
20. Michel Redolfi – The Underwater Park At Sunset [INA-GRM, 1980]
21. Reagenz – Ü [Reflective, 1994]
22. Doctor Rockit – Ready To Rockit [Clear, 1995]
23. Giampiero Boneschi – Caldo Caldo [Fonit, Year Unknown]
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Wednesday 21 August 2013

The whistleblower's mad moral courage

♪♫ MIA - UNBREAK my Mixtape


WikiLeaks Party of Australia self implodes a week before the election

Julian Assange's WikiLeaks Party running mate Leslie Cannold quits

Daniel Matthew's resignation statement (in which Julian Assange does not come out well)

Adam Curtis: Bugger

Maybe the real state secret is that spies aren't very good at their jobs and don't know much about the world

I Always Feel Like Obama's Watching Me


SERIOUSLY WTF???

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Immigrants Against Immigration

♪♫ The Rockingbirds - Live @The Diorama London


Elmore Leonard on Film

Elmore Leonard R.I.P.

Kazakh side sacrifice sheep ahead of Celtic clash

Tuesday 20 August 2013


Whom 
to Detain 

HA!

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(Thanx Bella!)

Quinn Norton: Bradley Manning and the Two Americas

♪♫ Roxy Music - Pyjamarama (1973)


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Ad Break: You're Never Alone With A Strand (1959)

Seem to recall a photo of Peter Gabriel when he left Genesis in Melody Maker adopting the lighting cigarette pose with the caption 'you're never alone with a band'

The Best of IceBridge Arctic '13 (NASA)

The views from the cockpit of NASA's P-3B aircraft on an Operation IceBridge campaign are truly stunning. The mission doesn't travel to both ends of the Earth for the scenery of course -- the airborne mission is there to collect radar, laser altimetry, and other data on the changing ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice of the Arctic and Antarctic. But for those of us who aren't polar pilots, here's a selection of some of the best footage from the forward and nadir cameras mounted to the aircraft taken during IceBridge's spring deployment over Greenland and the Arctic Ocean

Are the NSA Revelations Changing How We Use the Internet?