Julian Assange Mother To Protest Obama's Australia Visit

By BOB Goswami

November 09, 2011

Mother of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, says she will be participating in the protest of against the Barack Obama's visit on November 17 outside the Australian parliament.

Christine Assange told to media, "I'll get as close as I can."

On the day Obama will be addressing a special sitting of the parliament.

The 40-year-old Julian Assange said, "I'm asking Australians around the country on November 17th to refuse to celebrate the Obama visit and instead replace it with a day of support for Julian."

The WikiLeaks, anti-secrecy website of Assange, has enraged governments around the world by leaking thousands of United States diplomatic cables on the Internet.

Recently Assange lost his extradition fight from Britain to Sweden. His mother fears he will be rendered to the US.

Until now Australia has been giving consular support to Assange, but it has made it clear to Britain and Sweden that the government will not intervene directly in the legal processes of other countries.

As a US president, this is the first visit of Obama to Australia. Last time George W Bust, the then US president visited the country in 2007 in Australia for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.

Two previous trips of Obama was canceled due to Gulf of Mexico oil spill and oversee passage of domestic health reforms.

This visit of Obama will mark the 60th anniversary of military alliance between the two countries.

Afterwards, Obama will attend the Indonesian resort island of Bali for East Asia summit.

US President Barack Obama with Australia PM Julia Gillard

Julian Assange

Australian parliament building

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WikiLeaks Memorabilia Goes On Sale To Raise Funds

By CITIJEN Journalist (CJ)
September 19, 2011

WORLD NEWS - Do you want the Whistleblower WikiLeaks’ laptop computer that was the "Cablegate" compiling uncountable numbers of secret cables of government across the world and embarrassed Obama and many leaders of several nations?

Yes, roll up - roll up! The memorabilia of the Assange cult has begun, just begun getting auctioned on eBay.

At £6,000 the laptop is on sale on eBay, and at £2,100 a signed version of those famous diplomatic cables can be yours. There are more it has been heard. At £240 a sachet of prison coffee is being sold. It is the same coffee that once purloined by Julian Assange.

WikiLeaks, which is funded by donations, announced last Friday that the auctions on eBay have begun to raise money. It said that this is an effort by the Whistleblower to replace cash lost during an "unlawful financial embargo" that included refusal of payments process to its accounts by Bank of America, Mastercard, Visa, Western Union and PayPal.

The auction offered by WikiLeaks are:

CableGate preparation computer

This is the same database machine that allowed its team to search full set of cables and extract it to be sent to the media organisations throughout the world in encrypted form.

Signed and fingerprinted Julian Assange's prison coffee sachet

This is a scarce item of memorabilia, which was used by Julian Assange in prison before going under house arrest in Norfolk. Assange smuggled these three coffee sachets after leaving the prison. All the three sachets are unopened.

Signed and fingerprinted cable on UN spying

This cable reveals Hillary Clinton asking her diplomats to spy on UN officials, including Ban Ki-moon's DNA. On the cable Assange has also written the slogan of WikiLeaks: "Courage is Contagious."

Julian Assange's signed photograph

This is the exclusive photograph of Julian Assange sized 13cm x 18cm. The photo of the WikiLeaks founder was taken at Ellingham Hall where he was under house arrest.




Julian Assange Photo Gallery

Julian Assange Poster

Julian Assange in a press conference

Julian Assange with lawyer Jennifer Robinson

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