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Does Australia Suck? (pg. 58)
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The Australian founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks had his passport confiscated by police when he arrived in Melbourne last week.
Julian Assange, who does not have an official home base and travels every six weeks, told the Australian current affairs program Dateline that immigration officials had said his passport was going to be cancelled because it was looking worn.
However he then received a letter from the Australian Communication Minister Steven Conroy’s office stating that the recent disclosure on Wikileaks of a blacklist of websites the Australian government is preparing to ban had been referred to the Australian Federal Police (AFP).
Last year Wikileaks published a confidential list of websites that the Australian government is preparing to ban under a proposed internet filter – which in turn caused the whistleblower site to be placed on that list.
Mr Assange, 37, told The Age newspaper that half an hour after his passport was returned to him an AFP officer searched one of his bags and questioned him about a previous criminal record for computer hacking offences when he was a teenager.
He was then told his passport status was classified as “normal” on the immigration database
In 1991 Mr Assange, described by Wikileaks as “Australia’s most famous ethical computer hacker”, was charged with 30 offences over the alleged hacking of police, Telco’s and US military computers. He admitted to 24 charges and was fined and placed on a good behaviour bond.
Mr Assange told the Dateline program that Australia is one of a few countries he is wary of travelling in as a result of documents published on the Wikileaks website.
“There are places … Dubai, who is trying to have us arrested, Switzerland under the bank secrecy laws, Cayman Islands,” he said. “Australia had the federal police in relation to its censorship list so there are some jurisdictions that from time to time it wouldn’t be sensible to go there.”
Wikileaks, which publishes anonymously sourced confidential documents from governments and corporations, was launched in January 2007.
The site has since exposed secrets about corruption in Kenya, Nato’s plans for the war in Afghanistan and the operations manual for the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay.
Last month Wikileaks created international headlines when it published classified US military footage of an American attack helicopter gunning down Iraqi civilians and a Reuters photographer in 2007.
Until recently Mr Assange has kept a very low profile, rarely granting interviews or making public appearances.
He is believed to have boltholes in Iceland, Sweden and Kenya, but does not have an official home base. He says he travels every six weeks, running his Wikileaks empire from a laptop and a backpack while on the road.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ne...icle7128506.ece
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| Yohan |
| I plan on nuking Adelaide when I visit oz next month. good idea? |
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| Fledz |
| Well you are from North Korea so I guess it would be appropriate. |
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| Trance Nutter |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yohan
I plan on nuking Adelaide when I visit oz next month. good idea? |
nah, waste of a perfectly good nuke. |
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| narcism |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yohan
I plan on nuking Adelaide when I visit oz next month. good idea? |
Are you coming to melbourne? I'll shout you a beer or two :p |
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| Yohan |
| quote: | Originally posted by narcism
Are you coming to melbourne? I'll shout you a beer or two :p |
we already had discussions on this. june 28 to jul 18 :p
though i'm thinking of nuking auckland and wellington so oz portion of the visit might be shorter |
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| Renzo |
The sounds of Pac-Man turn their whole world upside-down.
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Didn't expect the sound, lol. It freaked me out early this morning when I just got up, and I just closed the browser as a reaction to it :stongue: |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Renzo
The sounds of Pac-Man turn their whole world upside-down. |
:stongue:
I'd literally just got out of bed! ing was unexpected. |
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| Lilith |
This is why Sydney is better than all your little towns...
| quote: | Men in black are the white knights of the night
He looked like an easy target: a medical student sitting alone on a late-night train.
The three men sidled up to the German student and told him to hand over his wallet. When he refused, they followed him off the train, trailing him as he walked past the hotel and pizza joint on Bringelly Road, Kingswood, in the city's west.
When the student, who has asked not to be identified, turned down a dimly lit alley his pursuers thought their moment had come.
It had, but not in quite the way they expected.
The men tripped the 27-year-old student, kicking him as he lay on the ground and grabbing his mobile phone and iPod.
What the assailants did not realise was that they were standing outside Ninja Senshi Ryu - western Sydney's ninja warrior school.
They also failed to notice a ninja, Nathan Smith, standing in the shadows outside the dojo. Mr Smith immediately alerted his sensei, or teacher.
Kaylan Soto, a sensei with 30 years' Ninjutsu training, and three of his students raced out of the dojo towards the startled attackers. All five crusaders were clad in the ninja's traditional, all black uniform.
''We would have been just a silhouette,'' one of the ninjas, Steve Ashley, said. ''It was probably the worst place in Sydney where they could have taken him.''
Mr Soto said it took the three assailants a few moments to realise what was going on. When they did, they shot off. ''You should have seen their faces when they saw us in ninja gear coming towards them,'' he said.
The ninjas gave chase, but the men escaped. Police yesterday said they had made arrests in relation to the attack.
The medical student, who has been in Sydney for eight weeks on an exchange program, was left shaken but suffered only minor injuries.
As for the ninjas, they were back in training last night.
SMH
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Ninjas!
YEAH! |
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| Omega_Blue |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
This is why Sydney is better than all your little towns...
Ninjas!
YEAH! |
as if anyone is going to take a ninja named steve ashley seriously :o |
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