Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, is attempting to trademark his name for use in “public speaking services” and “entertainment services.” Personally I’d exercise a little more energy on the whole ‘I’m being extradited to Sweden for charges of rape and sexual assault,’ thing, but maybe this is more important.
While the Libyan leader stubbornly clings to power amidst the uprisings that are sweeping his country, we thought we would take the time to remind you just how crazy he is. And let’s just say, as far as tyrannical African dictators go, he’s up there with the best of them.
According to a United States Embassy cable obtained by City Press, the ANC is a “complete mess”. I could have told you this to be completely honest, but apparently you need “evidence” to prove things these days.
If you’re big into conspiracy theories about how the United Stated government spends its time covering up the dastardly deeds that it commits, perhaps it’s time for a rethink. It appears that the US government can’t even keep secret their plan to stop their secrets from getting leaked.
Pakistan’s relations with the U.S. were talked up pretty heavily in the latest Cablegate leaks; further, false leaks with heavy anti-Indian sentiment were spread around the country by major national newspapers. So it’s nice to see the Pakistani advertisers make the most of an awkward situation.
Increasingly it seems like Assange is proving to be a bigger story than the cables he most recently to be released – HiLoBrow artist, Joe Alterio, tries to put that right with his series of illustrations paired with the more bizarre political activities revealed in the latest batch of Wikileak cables. Expect dirty dancing and ninja assassins.
Julius Assange has been arrested and denied bail. Incidentally, it’s the same jail which held Shrien Dewani before he was granted bail. Some of you will be aware that Assange has not been arrested for hacking the US government, but rather sex-related charges. Turns out our boy is a bit of a heartbreaker..
We live in a world where business ethics trump their moral counterparts with ease, so perhaps we shouldn’t get too upset about this.
You may well remember that Amazon.com abandoned WikiLeaks after suffering less than subtle diplomatic pressure from the United States.
While disappointing, that kind of move was inevitable, perhaps even understandable. If the negative attention damaged the brand, Amazon has since committed public relations hara kiri. Cue global brandfail for Amazon.com in three, two, one…
Watch the video – it should bring you up to speed. Oh, animated Taiwanese news clips. You educate, you entertain, you sort of fail to make sense despite sticking to the facts. What can’t you do? Are you free for lunch some time? Coffee, maybe?
PayPal, the online payments service that recently bitched out and froze the account of Wikileaks, citing terms of use violations completely unrelated to the recent US diplomatic cables leaks, has some interesting clientelle that it hasn’t dropped yet – the KKK, for instance.
So a bunch of new information came to light with the recent Wikileaks release, blah blah everybody’s a spy, they’re planning on reunifying Korea, the U.S.is failing to prevent Syria arming Hezbollah, big deal. But apparently Russia’s badass PM Vladimir Putin and Italy’s pimp-daddy PM Silvio Berlusconi are fist-pumping bros!
In case you haven’t heard, everyone hates Julian Assange. And more to the point, everyone hates WikiLeaks in general. And by “everyone”, I of course mean people with secrets to keep. Namely governments and multinational corporations. Now that’s absolutely no reflection on the merit of WikiLeak’s work, and the job that they fulfill of making […]
WikiLeaks founder and destroyer-in-chief of American military credibility, Julian Assange, is not a very well-liked chap. Last week he leaked literally tens of thousands of US Military Afghan War Logs to the press after posting them on WikiLeaks.org. The logs detail the nitty gritty details of the nine-year US occupation of Afghanistan. Assange himself claims […]