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WikiLeaks announced on Friday evening that it and service provider Datacell intend to sue Visa and MasterCard in Europe "for engaging in an unlawful, U.S. influenced, financial blockade."
The two credit card services blocked all payments to WikiLeaks last December, claiming that their “rules prohibit customers from directly or indirectly engaging in or facilitating any action that is illegal.” They have maintained this claim, even though it is has never been determined that WikiLeaks is guilty of any crime.
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Assange is an Australian journalist born in 1971 and is now a programmer and Internet activist, best known for his involvement with Wikileaks, a whistleblower website that is quickly becoming the United States' government's biggest threat to the legitimacy of its so-called War on Terrorism.
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Vendetta against Wikileaks and Julian Assange
In December 2010, prior to Julian Assange's court hearing in London, David Leigh published an article that relied on leaked information coming either from the Swedish police or intelligence services.[2] It was a rather unflattering article focusing on the sexual allegations against Assange. Then on 1 February 2011, David Leigh published some extracts of his upcoming book[3] attacking Wikileaks and Julian Assange. Therein he claims that Wikileaks paid a "holocaust denier", "anti-semite", and a "pro-Lukashenko propagandist", and entrusted that person to distribute all Russian-related materials and those about "the Jews". Leigh claims that Wikileaks relationship with Israel Shamir brought the nature of Wikileaks into disrepute [4]. Israel Shamir's take on David Leigh's (and John Sweeney) reportage: [5]http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Anonymous
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Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is an Internet meme originating 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many on-line community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain.[1] It is also generally considered to be a blanket term for members of certain Internet subcultures, a way to refer to the actions of people in an environment where their actual identities are not known.[2]
In its early form, the concept has been adopted by a decentralized on-line community acting anonymously in a coordinated manner, usually toward a loosely self-agreed goal, and primarily focused on entertainment. As of 2008, the Anonymous collective has become increasingly associated with collaborative, international hacktivism, undertaking protests and other actions, often with the goal of promoting internet freedom and freedom of speech. Actions credited to "Anonymous" are undertaken by unidentified individuals who apply the Anonymous label to themselves as attribution.[3]
Although not necessarily tied to a single on-line entity, many websites are strongly associated with Anonymous. This includes notable imageboards such as 4chan and Futaba Channel, their associated wikis, Encyclopædia Dramatica, and a number of Internet forums.[4] After a series of controversial, widely-publicized protests and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks by Anonymous in 2008, incidents linked to its cadre members have increased.[5] In consideration of its capabilities, Anonymous has been posited by CNN to be the successor to WikiLeaks.[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan
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The site's Anonymous community and culture have often provoked media attention. For media planners, this enterprise is "further proof that creativity is everywhere and new media is less accessible" to advertisement agencies.[4] Journalists looked at how an Internet destination was hijacked for a prank, so that images of Rick Astley appeared instead of the page that was searched for; the coordination of attacks against other websites and Internet users; and covered the reaction to threats of violence that have been posted on the site. The Guardian once summarized the 4chan community as "lunatic, juvenile... brilliant, ridiculous and alarming."[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futaba_Channel
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Futaba Channel (ふたば(双葉)☆ちゃんねる Futaba Channeru, lit. "Double Leaf Channel, Two Leaf Channel"), or Futaba for short, is an internet forum in Japan. It is a popular Japanese imageboard dealing in otaku and underground culture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Dramatica
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2channel
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)
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The LulzBoat has anchored at a safe Anonymous harbor. It is enjoying rum and classy cigars. It may set sails again, who does know? In the meantime, a flotilla or befriended hackers are venruring out, so seek Lulz and fighting corruption in Goverments and Lobbyists. Arrr, and a bottle of rum!
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