[LINK] Julian Assange's Defense Fund Was Just Frozen ... and more

[Kim Holburn]

http://www.businessinsider.com/julian-assanges-defense-fund-frozen-2010-12

> Julian Assange's Defense Fund Was Just Frozen
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> This was just announced by Wikileaks... the noose tightens:
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> PRESS RELEASE
> Tue 7 Dec 15.55 GMT
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> Julian Assange Defense Fund frozen.
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> The Swiss Bank Post Finance today issues a press release stating that it had frozen Julian Assange's defense fund and personal assets (31K EUR) after reviewing him as a "high profile" individual.
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> The technicality used to seize the defense fund was that Mr. Assange, as a homeless refugee attempting to gain residency in Switzerland, had used his lawyers address in Geneva for the bank's correspondence.
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> Late last week, the internet payment giant PayPal, froze 60Keur of donations to the German charity the Wau Holland Foundation, which were targeted to promote the sharing of knowledge via WikiLeaks.
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> WikiLeaks and Julian have lost 100Keur in assets this week.
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> One of the most fascinating aspects of the Cablegate exposure is how it is throwing into relief the power dynamics between supposedly independent states like Switzerland, Sweden and Australia.
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> WikiLeaks also has public bank accounts in Iceland (preferred) and Germany.
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> Please help cover our expenditures while we fight to get our assets back.


http://www.businessinsider.com/the-bank-that-froze-julian-assanges-bank-account-has-now-been-taken-down-by-hackers-2010-12

> Payback: Bank That Froze Julian Assange's Bank Account Has Now Been Taken Down By Hackers
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> Joe Weisenthal | Dec. 6, 2010, 5:11 PM | 29,960 |   25
> It's war!
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> Earlier today we noted how the Swiss bank Switzerland Post Finance (a bank associated with the Swiss post office) had frozen Julian Assange's bank account for his defense fund.
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> Well, payback.
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> As NYT reports, their site has now been taken offline, and a group calling itself Operation Payback on Twitter claims credit for the DDOS.


http://www.businessinsider.com/swedish-royal-family-scandals-2010-12

> Sweden Goes After Assange For Sex-Without-A-Condom, While Royal Family Battles Sex And Nazism Scandals
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> Joe Weisenthal | Dec. 6, 2010, 12:52 PM | 2,110 |   7

> Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is somewhere in the UK, waiting for Scotland Yard to (in all likelihood) serve him with an arrest warrant and deport him to Sweden where he's wanted on sex crimes.
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> No, he's not wanted for rape, as was initially reported. His crime has to do with having sex without a condom, or something similarly un-Interpol-worthy.
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> From the beginning it always seemed weird that of all countries it would be Sweden that would pursue him. Sweden, isn't that like the cradle of human rights and liberalism or something? Don't they love rebels like Assange?
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> Well, the seemingly bald-faced politically-motivated pursue of Assange comes at a convenient time for Swedish authorities, who are  under siege with their own scandals.
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> It hasn't gotten tons of press in the west, but Swedish King Gustav is embroiled in new revelations regarding his sex life, and a possible affair with curvy Swedish singer Camilla Henemark...



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