The award is judged by a group of retired senior US military and intelligence personnel, and past winners. This year the award to Julian Assange was unanimous.
Previous winners and ceremony locations:
Coleen Rowley of the FBI; in Washington, D.C.
Katharine Gun of British intelligence; in Copenhagen, Denmark
Sibel Edmonds of the FBI; in Washington, D.C.
Craig Murray, former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan; in New York City
Sam Provance, former sergeant, U.S. Army, truth-teller about Abu Ghraib; in Washington, D.C.
Frank Grevil, major, Danish army intelligence, imprisoned for giving the Danish press documents showing that Denmark’s prime minister disregarded warnings that there was no authentic evidence of WMDs in Iraq; in Copenhagen, Denmark
Larry Wilkerson, colonel, U.S. Army (retired), former chief of staff to Secretary Colin Powell at the State Department, who has exposed what he called the “Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal”; in Washington, D.C.
http://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2010/08/15/can-wikileaks-help-save-lives/
Not sure yet where this year’s award ceremony will be held, but I’ll be there.
I note Index is partnered to ACLU – Bravo
Ruth,
bandarbush.co.uk – coming soon – thanks for the bit from Buratha news agency, I can use that.
Ruth,
Google found this link near the top of its listing, searching on ‘Buratha news agency’ (without quotes):
http://forum.pakistanidefence.com/lofiversion/index.php/t89071.html
I have no idea who either of these sites really are, but I had a go with a ‘whois’ lookup. Buratha news agency is registered to a PO box in the Netherlands, and the registrant’s name is hidden by “privacyprotect.org”. The Pakistani Defence Forum is registered to a PO box in Vancouver, US, and the registrant’s name is shown as ‘NAMESDIRECT’.
Mark Golding,
I don’t understand. ACLU is the American Civil Liberties Union, but what is ‘Index’ that you referred to?
Didn’t PressTV misquote Ahmadinejad as saying that the US used Haarp to create the earthquake in Haiti, and then issue a retraction?
Index on censorship Clark – http://www.indexoncensorship.org/ Britain’s aspiring ACLU I guess bt without the teeth.
HAARP or High Frequency Active Auroral Research Programme has one purpose despite all the theories and scientific mumbojumbo, that is to disrupt communications by using Giga Watts of high frequency radio waves concentrated on the ionosphere. In my book it is a weapon and nothing to do with so called scientific research.
Talons open, tentacles multiple. Mixed metaphors to describe Israel, active even in Latin America. When will they crawl away under the stone in the dark cave?
I was looking for this info in reply to a troll on another site who was denying any Israeli influence in the attempted coup on Correa. The same troll often comes on to denigrate Castro and Cuba.
http://milfuegos.blogspot.com/2010/09/obama-administration-fingerprints-on.html
Last night I went to a concert and heard magificent performances of a Beethoven piano concerto and his 7th Symphony. At one stage, as the players in the orchestra were all working together in complete harmony to create beautiful and thrilling music, I was thinking why are our lives blighted by war and other evil like that described in the link above, and our livelihoods threatened by the effects of the banksters’ frauds. The BBC are assiduous in preparing us for the coming of the ConDems cuts.
Concern That Terror Teams Have Selected Targets, Ready to Strike in Europe.
A comment follows I found in response to the head-line above and other BBC warnings.
‘A short speech has been prepared to be read to the masses after these hideous attacks have been carried out.
My fellow (fill in your nationality here). Today was one of the most heinous criminal acts ever to be witnessed by ourselves and our brothers and sisters around the world. It is important that we recognise that terror not only effects us, but also all peoples and all nations. Terrorism is a global threat. It is a threat against humanity. It is a threat against liberty. It is a threat against civilization itself. It is because of this threat that we must work together as one world and one people to bring peace and security to us all. I have been in close talks with the leaders of all nations. We have agreed to work together to end the threat of terrorism and to secure our future and the future of our children. This is why I am asking (fill in your legislative branch here) to act quickly to authorise new security measures. Among these security measures will be, authorisation for a global solution to this problem, since this is not just our problem, but the problem of all nations and all people. We can no longer afford to act separately on these matters, but must do so together in order to prevent the destruction of our way of life. I call on (fill in legislative body here) to greatly expand the capacity and the powers of (fill in institution associated with your nation’s international anti-terrorism treaties here), so that we may once and for all defeat the threat of global terrorism. We must not tolerate hate. We must not tolerate prejudice. We must not tolerate the hinderance of progress. In order to protect our way of life we must become one people, one family, one race of humanity united against hatred, bigotry, and the hinderance of progress. That is why I am asking you to support me and to support the freedom and progress of all humanity. Thank you.’
I leave you to ponder?
Has Ahmadinejad’s speech triggered a ‘final solution’ – is the West in panic mode?
If a scientific world body investigated 9/11 thoroughly – would that be the end of civilisation as we know it?
Are you being pathetic and delusional Mark?
Clark – “There is already a possible Russian connection”.
Yes, but I haven’t seen any suggestions that they wrote the code (yet). (Mapping the chars as Russian, there are also things that look like the old dos ‘line-art’ symbols, and possibly some maths. It may just be that the codepage Firefox picked reuses the empty spaces ?)
me – “Not a lot you could build a good conspiracy-theory on, right enough …”
Including the bit that the much-quoted theory is built on, wry smiley. I’ll wait till more info emerges, I think. (I have also searched my copy of the Bible. “Myrtle”, in English, has only a few references, mostly good-vibes ones).
Yet Another Theory – http://antivirus.about.com/b/2010/10/02/debunking-the-bunk-of-stuxnet.htm
The suggestions in the last para. seem to make at least as much sense as any other on offer.
From the Guardian
‘UK upgrades Europe travel advice over terror threat’
I reckon they’ve got a two in one job in hand. An atrocity causing terrible casualities with the perpetrators linked to Iran followed by a massive curtailment of civil rights across Europe to to stem the economic demonstrations. And, of course, a step nearer to all out war with Iran
Richard Robinson,
you’re obviously enjoying this. Go on, take the plunge! E-mail me and I’ll send the whole thing.
Richard Robinson,
good article. The two domains that Stuxnet contacts, mypremierfutbol.com and todaysfutbol.com, are both registered in Arizona, and both hosted in Dublin. I thought I’d read differently elsewhere, though…
Clark – thanks, but I think I’ve reached my limit with it. I’m sort of reluctantly enjoying getting annoyed at the tenuous over-excited [enough, you did that one already – ed] but I don’t have enough knowledge/time/energy to take it further, and anyway I have “useful” things to do …
I’m just doing “how do we know we know that, how sure are we and why ?”, trying to separate the good analysis from the hand-waving, while remembering that any report can contain a mixture of both.
Something possibly weird; those two domains are all that is hosted on that Dublin server.
The server in Dublin Clark (193.95.161.220) can be pinged and the admin anner international seems valid:
Anner Media Group
Contact Andy Ruane CEO
Address 50 Upper Mount Street
–
Dublin 2
Ireland
but has an unreachable web address:
http://www.annerinternational.com
Schneier’s security blog is well worth a look today:
http://www.schneier.com/
Article “Me on Cyberwar”:
“And so the threat of cyberwar is being grossly exaggerated and I think it’s being done for a reason. This is a power grab by government. What Mike McConnell didn’t mention is that grossly exaggerating a threat of cyberwar is incredibly profitable”.
The article “Wiretapping the Internet” is good, too.
Mark,
The Anner Media Group is a dissolved company
Mark,
This link’s got so much interesting info
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread615788/pg1
Ruth,
well found. I have a feeling that I’ve heard of Serco in connection with something dodgy before.
You might like this article, too. The interesting sources wished to remain anonymous, unfortunately. Those bits start near the end of page three:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/1003/Stuxnet-worm-Private-security-experts-want-US-to-tell-them-more
Yep, dodgy as hell. “The biggest company you’ve never heard of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serco_Group
Outsourcing and consultancy. Doing very well in these hard times. Fingers in pies all over the world. Formerly RCA:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11084819
I knew I’d heard of Serco somewhere before:
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2007/08/more_lord_scumb.html
Mark Golding:
“HAARP or High Frequency Active Auroral Research Programme … In my book it is a weapon and nothing to do with so called scientific research.”
Mark, this is one of the reasons that Craig Murray refers to you as a conspiraloon. There’s plenty of information out there that refutes every single HAARP conspiracy claim.
Once again, you’re showing how easy it is for you to be manipulated by American right-wing nutjob Tim McVeigh types.
Serco is part of the CIA Wackenhut global empire.
Serco run most if not all of the immigration removal centres.
corporatewatch.org/?lid=3534
If the government wants to spy on you they use Serco.
Careful – this site may damage your mind:
http://www.ethosjournal.com/
I believe that HAARP was originally designed to communicate with with submarines whilst underwater, but it can undoubtedly also be used to disrupt communications, as Mark Golding said above, October 3, 2010 1:39 PM.
abovetopsecret.com = right-wing American insanity.
Of course the left in Britain latches on.
Global warming denial? abovetopsecret.com
Tim McVeigh was innocent? abovetopsecret.com
America is the best country in the world?
abovetopsecret.com
Mark Golding runs a phony charity, and pockets all donations. In other words, he makes money off of the suffering of the Iraqi people.
Mark Golding is a fraud.
Sue me, Mark Golding, you fraud.
And you people are sick for enjoying his pictures depicting the results of Islamic jihadism.
It appears or shall I say Larry appears when we touch on something sensitive. Larry, you can’t be anything else than a government hack.