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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November 09, 2011 | 0 comments

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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September 19, 2011 | 0 comments

INVESTIGATION: U.S. Lobbies For Low Haiti Wages So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

By STAFF Writer
July 18, 2011

HAITI NEWS: The Barack Obama Administration fought to lower the slave wages in Haiti to as low as 31 cents an hour, according to The Nation publishing Wikileaks post recently.

The article in The Nation stated that such things started when Haitian law was passed about two years ago to raise the minimum wage of workers in the country to 61 cents an hour.

The embassy cable reads the following:

This infuriated American corporations like Hanes and Levi Strauss that pay Haitians slave wages to sew their clothes. They said they would only fork over a seven-cent-an-hour increase, and they got the State Department involved. The U.S. ambassador put pressure on Haiti’s president, who duly carved out a $3 a day minimum wage for textile companies (the U.S. minimum wage, which itself is very low, works out to $58 a day).

Haiti has about 25,000 garment workers. If you paid each of them $2 a day more, it would cost their employers $50,000 per working day, or about $12.5 million a year ... As of last year Hanes had 3,200 Haitians making t-shirts for it. Paying each of them two bucks a day more would cost it about $1.6 million a year. Hanesbrands Incorporated made $211 million on $4.3 billion in sales last year.


A small newspaper in Haiti, Haiti Liberte, with offices in New York City and Port-au-Prince highlighted the issue.

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July 18, 2011 | 1 comments

Burma Involves In Nuclear Program, Helping By North Korea: Wikileaks

By MALILA Harris

BURMA NEWS - According to secret US cables released by Wikileaks, North Korea supports Burma to develop missile and nuclear sites. A witness says Burma constructa an underground bunker in a remote forest with the help of North Korean workers.

Although Burmese military regime denied any involvement in nuclear program but the secret documents affirmed that the regime might be trying to build a nuclear weapon, despite denials.

The report was prepared over the past six years, confirming dockworkers and foreign traders had witnessed the speculating site where Burma might develop the proposed sites.

The report dating from August 2004 cited an eye witness, a Burmese officer in an engineering unit, saying a site in a town called Minbu in west-central Myanmar where with the help of North Korea Burmese government was building surface-to-air missile.

The cable reads, an underground concrete structure has been built that is 500ft from the top of the cave to the top of the hill above', is a probable place for nuclear program. The site is maintained by Burmese government and supported by North Korea. It is speculating that about 300 North Korean workers were working at the site.

Wikileaks has so far released more than 1,100 of 251,000 diplomatic cables.

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December 11, 2010 | 0 comments

Two Big Names Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang In Whistle Blower Cable

Xi Jinping

By ONE Liners Agency

China News - Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang - would be China's next president and premier, have now under the cover of whistle blower cable site WikiLeaks, which revealed the attitudes and concerns of two high profile Chinese political leaders, expecting to lead China from 2012.

The cable revealed that both had separate dinners with US Ambassador Clark Randt in March 2007, proudly proclaimed their development in their regions. Mr. Xi said he was a big fan of US war movies, while Mr. Li told the worry the corruption.

Mr Xi was Communist Party secretary in Zhejiang province and Mr Li held the same position in Liaoning at that time.

According to the cable, Xi Jinping frank and friendly conversation with Mr. Randt much concern on economic development in his region. He said the resident of the region were more troubled with education, costly housing and healthcare. Mr. Xi also raised question mark on the working style of the government and party officials. However, he said in such a large party where there were about 70 million party members, there bound to be some problems.

It is reported that he was a big fan of Hollywood movie, praising Spielberg film Saving Private Ryan, describing them as "grand and truthful". He said US movie makers were moral and good always prevail, while lamented that some Chinese movie makers ignore the value.

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December 08, 2010 | 0 comments

Google Quit China For Political Reason: Wikileaks

Google China War

By ONE Liners Agency

CHINA NEWS - Yet another embarrassing revelation released by whistle-blowing site Wikileaks, cites a well placed source as saying the hacking of Google earlier this year, which forced the internet giant to quit China was “100% political.”

The leak US cables suggest that senior Chinese political men were behind the much controversial Google hacking story, though the cable denies any proof of top leaders to be involved in the incident.

It is reported that Beijing has been alarmed by Google’s high resolution satellite imagery, Google Earth.

Earlier this year, Google blamed China to attack the company by sophisticated cyber technology. It is said the email accounts of human right activists were among those hacked.

China also censored Google in its country, and to avoid increasing conflict, Google the country and moved its Chinese-language operations to Hong Kong.

The source who is oblivious and name is deleted from the text said the operations against Google this year from Chinese government were absolutely 100% political in nature, and not an attempt of common perception to boost domestic search engines such as Baidu.

However, the writer says it’s still in doubt whether President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao were aware of government’s ulterior action against the search engine.

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December 05, 2010 | 0 comments