The Street | In its latest perception battle, Bank of America (BAC_) is up against an international man of mystery who appears to have a loaded publicity gun.
Forbes published an interview with Assange in which he claimed to have damning information about a large U.S. bank.
Assange declined to name the bank, though adept Google searchers were able to find a reference to Bank of America in another interview with the ashen Web pirate last year. In that October 2009 Computer World article, Assange said he had 5 gigabytes of data from the hard drive of a Bank of America executive and was determining how to present it in the most effective way.
It's hard to tell what Assange could have up his sleeve -- and that's exactly the reason Bank of America's stock is selling off so hard.
Saman Mohammadi | There is a peaceful global revolution against the private global banking cartel, and it can’t be stopped.
The reaction to WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange tells us all we need to know about the total corruption of our “modern” world, which in fact is a throwback to the Dark Ages.
The reaction to WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange tells us all we need to know about the total corruption of our “modern” world, which in fact is a throwback to the Dark Ages.
Some member of the United States government released to WikiLeaks the documents that are now controversial. The documents are controversial, because they are official US documents and show all too clearly that the US government is a duplicitous entity whose raison d’être is to control every other government.
The media, not merely in the US but also throughout the English speaking world and Europe, has shown its hostility to WikiLeaks. The reason is obvious. WikiLeaks reveals truth, while the media covers up for the US government and its puppet states.
Why would anyone with a lick of sense read the media when they can read original material from WikiLeaks? The average American reporter and editor must be very angry that his/her own cowardice is so clearly exposed by Julian Assange. The American media is a whore, whereas the courageous blood of warriors runs through WikiLeaks’ veins.
Just as American politicians want Bradley Manning executed because he revealed crimes of the US government, they want Julian Assange executed. In the past few days the more notorious of the dumbshits that sit in the US Congress have denounced Assange as a “traitor to America.” What total ignorance. Assange is an Australian, not an American citizen. To be a traitor to America, one has to be of the nationality. An Australian cannot be a traitor to America any more than an American can be a traitor to Australia. But don’t expect the morons who represent the lobbyists to know this much.
Mike Huckabee, the redneck Baptist preacher who was governor of Arkansas and, to America’s already overwhelming shame, was third runner up to the Republican presidential nomination, has called for Assange’s execution. So here we have a “man of God” calling for the US government to murder an Australian citizen. And Americans wonder why the rest of the world hates their guts.
The material leaked from the US government to WikiLeaks shows that the US government is an extremely disreputable gang of gangsters. The US government was able to get British prime minister Brown to “fix” the official Chilcot Investigation into how former prime minister Tony Blair manipulated and lied the British government into
being mercenaries for the US invasion of Iraq. One of the “diplomatic” cables released has UK Defense Ministry official Jon Day promising the United States government that prime minister Brown’s government has “put measures in place to protect your interests.”
Other cables show the US government threatening Spanish prime minister Zapatero, ordering him to stop his criticisms of the Iraq war or else. I mean, really, how dare these foreign governments to think that they are sovereign.
Not only foreign governments are under the US thumb. So is Amazon.com. Joe Lieberman from Connecticut, who is Israel’s most influential senator in the US Senate, delivered sufficiently credible threats to Amazon to cause the company to oust WikiLeaks content from their hosting service.
So there you have it. On the one hand the US government and the prostitute American media declare that there is nothing new in the hundreds of thousands of documents, yet on the other hand both pull out all stops to shut down WikiLeaks and its founder. Obviously, despite the US government’s denials, the documents are extremely damaging. The documents show that the US government is not what it pretends to be.
Assange is in hiding. He fears CIA and Mossad assassination, and to add to his troubles the government of Sweden has changed its mind, perhaps as a result of American persuasion and money, about sex charges that the Swedish government had previously dismissed for lack of credibility. If reports are correct, two women, who possibly could be CIA or Mossad assets, have brought sex charges against Assange. One claims that she was having consensual sexual intercourse with him, but that he didn’t stop when she asked him to when the condom broke.
Think about this for a minute. Other than male porn stars who are bored with it all, how many men can stop at the point of orgasm or when approaching orgasm? How does anyone know where Assange was in the process of the sex act?
Would a real government that had any integrity and commitment to truth try to blacken the name of the prime truth teller of our time on the basis of such flimsy charges?
Obviously, Sweden has become another two-bit punk puppet government of the US.
The US government has got away with telling lies for so long that it no longer hesitates to lie in the most blatant way. WikiLeaks released a US classified document signed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that explicitly orders US diplomats to spy on UN Security council officials and on the Secretary General of the United Nations. The cable is now in the public record. No one challenges its authenticity. Yet, today the Obama regime, precisely White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, declared that Hillary had never ordered or even asked US officials to spy on UN officials.
As Antiwar.com asked: Who do you believe, the printed word with Hillary’s signature or the White House?
Anyone who believes the US government about anything is the epitome of gullibility
Arrest Assange? Arrest the Banksters Instead
Kurt Nimmo | Assange’s supposed crimes pale in comparison to the unprecedented grand theft larceny pulled off by Wall Street, the banksters, and the global financial elite.
So-called “fiscal conservative” radio talk show host Todd Schnitt a socilaist wantabe terrorist has posted a $50,000 reward for information leading to the capture of “WikiLeaks menace” Julian Assange. Schnitt, who hosts a radio show in Tampa, Florida, says Assange is a terrorist and an enemy combatant “who needs to be treated as such,” according to a wanted poster on Schnitt’s website.
In other words, Schnitt believes Assange should be kidnapped, thrown in a CIA aircraft and flown to a dungeon in Eastern Europe or sent Camp Gitmo, and tortured for posting negligible government information.
Meanwhile, other faux conservatives have called for murdering Assange. A few days ago Fox’s Bill O’Reilly said he’d like to see the globe-trotting WikiLeaks founder killed by a Hellfire missile fired from a CIA drone (see O’Reilly’s comments here).
Watergate break-in criminal G. Gordon Liddy has also called for assassinating Assange. Liddy has compared Assange to the patsy handler and Pentagon dinner guest Anwar al-Awlaki. He wants Assange placed on the same kill list as al-Awlaki. A few months ago Barry Obama and crew signed off on a plan to kill the American-born cleric.
In August, it was discovered that the Obama administration pressured Britain, Germany, Australia, and other allied Western governments to consider opening criminal investigations of Assange and to severely limit his travel across international borders.
Earlier this year, Pentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg said he feared Assange would be assassinated for revealing information on U.S. policy in Iraq. Asked by The Daily Beast if he thought Julian Assange’s life is in danger, Ellsberg said: “Absolutely. On the same basis, I was… Obama is now proclaiming rights of life and death, being judge, jury, and executioner of Americans without due process.”
Schnitt, O’Reilly, Liddy, and the corporate media rightwingers – as a manufactured counterpoint to the corporate media leftwingers – are not calling for the banksters to be arrested or assassinated. Assange’s crimes pale in comparison to the massive and unprecedented grand theft larceny pulled off by Wall Street, the banksters, and the global financial elite.
The CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post, reports this morning that the Federal Reserve, the criminal organization owned by offshore banksters, “rushed trillions of dollars in emergency aid not just to Wall Street but also to motorcycle makers, telecom firms and foreign-owned banks in 2008 and 2009.”
Billions went to foreign banks, including Barclays, Dexia, the Bank of Scotland, UBS, and others. “We’re talking about huge sums of money going to bail out large foreign banks,” said an outraged senator Bernie Sanders. “Has the Federal Reserve of the United States become the central bank of the world?”
“From huge multinationals such as Citigroup and General Electric to small funds and Germany’s Landesbanken, the list of participants to the six Fed programs is a who’s who of modern finance,” explains the Financial Times.
On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve released selective data on 21,000 transactions from $3.3 trillion in what we were told was emergency lending to stem the financial crisis. The Dodd-Frank law requires the Fed to disclose the names of borrowers, the size and interest rates of loans, and “information identifying the types and amounts of collateral pledged or assets transferred,” but the Fed has withheld details on individual securities pledged as collateral by recipients, according to Bloomberg.
The Treasury Department encouraged banks to use the bailout money to buy their competitors and pushed through an amendment to the tax laws which rewards mergers in the banking industry. It went to the very people who engineered the crisis – bankster Ponzi schemers and Wall Street and derivatives traders. “But the TARP bailout is peanuts compared to the numerous other bailouts the government has given to the giant banks,” writes Washington’s Blog. “There are many other bailout programs as well. If these bailouts and subsidies are added up, they amount to many tens – or perhaps even hundreds — of trillions of dollars.”
Trillions absconded by the bankers and their cronies with the assistance of the Federal Reserve – including European banks and corporations – and yet you rarely hear so-called “conservatives” calling for the arrest or assassination of bankers. In fact, it is like pulling teeth to get many conservatives to call for auditing the Federal Reserve.
Instead, they rant about the leftist fall guy Julian Assange who may or may not be a dupe for the CIA and Mossad.
Talk about screwed up priorities.