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WikiLeaks, Anonymous Join Forces

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Posted on Feb 27, 2012
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Their missions are aligned in many ways, but WikiLeaks and the group of international cyberpunks known collectively as Anonymous made it official in a joint effort, posted by WikiLeaks late on Sunday, consisting of quite a few internal emails from an intelligence company Anonymous targeted over the holidays last year.

Gawker:

Last night, Wikileaks began publishing a cache of 5.5 million emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor, handed over to it by Anonymous members who stole them last Christmas Eve. The contents are only important if you have some perverse fascination with snooping on other peoples’ boring intra-office emails. Stratfor sells itself as having access to super-secret sources and material, but the majority of its work comprises publishing newsletters and reports about world events that are a little more informative than a Wikipedia article and about as well-written.

Accordingly, these emails so far contain such bombshells as a Stratfor analyst asking for “all the information our talented interns can dig up” on PETA, and some bizarre paranoid ramblings about how “black Dems were caught stuffing the ballot boxes” during the 2008 election. The best document so far is this entertaining glossary of terminology Stratfor employees use to make them feel like they’re doing actual spy work.

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PatrickHenry's avatar

By PatrickHenry, March 1, 2012 at 4:52 am Link to this comment

I looked it up and posted it moron, you obviously didn’t look.

It doesn’t pertain to what I posted about Wikileaks uniting with Anonymous to become a news or investigative journalistic entity.

You are thick.

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By heterochromatic, February 29, 2012 at 8:09 pm Link to this comment

Patsy, wouldn’t want you to be under my tuition…...look it up your own self.


try the California or other civil code

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By OzarkMichael, February 29, 2012 at 7:51 pm Link to this comment

This is the transcript of Anonymous. Bold type is added by me for emphasis.

We are not calling upon the collective to deface or use a distributed denial of service attack on a United States government agency website or affiliate. We are not calling upon the people to occupy a city or protest in front of a local building. This has not brought on us any legislative change or alternate law. It has only brought us bloodshed and false criticism. For the last 12 years, voting was useless. Corporations and lobbyists are the true leaders of this country and are the ones with the power to control our lives. To rebuild our government, we must first destroy it.

Our time for democracy is here.
Our time for real change is here.
This is America’s time, to have its own revolution.

Therefore, Anonymous has decided to openly declare war on the United States government. This is a call to arms. We call upon the Citizens of the United States to stand beside us in overthrowing this corrupted body and call upon a new era. Our allegiance is to the American people, because they are us, and we are them.

Operation V, engaged.

We are Anonymous.
We are Americans.
We never Forgive.
We never Forget.
To the United States government, it’s too late to expect us.

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By PatrickHenry, February 29, 2012 at 7:05 pm Link to this comment

You sure are not the one to teach it.

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By heterochromatic, February 29, 2012 at 7:02 pm Link to this comment

actually it does, but no biggie, Patsy you aren’t
likely to learn anything about the law anyway.

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By PatrickHenry, February 29, 2012 at 6:51 pm Link to this comment

It doesn’t apply to my comment moron.

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By heterochromatic, February 29, 2012 at 6:41 pm Link to this comment

try looking at law in the US, Patsy.

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By PatrickHenry, February 29, 2012 at 6:29 pm Link to this comment

Spamatic,

As usual you are incorrect in your reply, blathering nonsense touted as fact.

http://legalservicesindia.com/article/article/trespass-tortious-liability-202-1.html

It is no wonder you don’t have a job, knowing as much as you think you do.

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By heterochromatic, February 28, 2012 at 7:17 pm Link to this comment

Blue——no Pat is,as usual, incorrect, it is just what
it used to be called, tortious trespass.

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By Blueokie, February 28, 2012 at 6:56 pm Link to this comment

PatrickHenry is correct, this seems like an obviously good idea.

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By vector56, February 28, 2012 at 1:51 pm Link to this comment

“WikiLeaks and the group of international cyberpunks known collectively as Anonymous made it official in a joint effort,”

“cyberpunks known collectively as Anonymous”

Do you get the idea that the writer of this post is somewhat hostile toward whistle blowers?

Sub contractors like Blackwater (XE)  and Stratfor are used by the CIA and NSA to spy on domestic organizations that threaten the ill-gotten-gains of the 1%.

In the age of private prisons, mercenaries, and secret subcontractor Police framing WikiLeaks, or Anonymous as the bad guys only serves to solidify the foundations of the “Police State”.

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By MondoBizarro, February 28, 2012 at 10:14 am Link to this comment
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Gawker couldn’t be more wrong about the significance of this:

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2012/02/stratfor-wikileaks-goldman-sachs-
and.html

If the above link isn’t hot, copy/paste it into your browser.

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By basho, February 28, 2012 at 5:57 am Link to this comment

well, that’s good news.

Stratfor intelligence = oxymoron
(after having read some of their ‘intelligence reports’.)

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By vector56, February 27, 2012 at 8:37 pm Link to this comment

“Slightly off topic, but didnt Anonymous just come and out issue a declaration of war against the US government?”


OzarkMichael:

To your above question the answer is NO!  Anonymous has declared “war” on America’s Domestic Enemies. You know the ones most government workers take an oath to defend against.

Don’t make the mistake of confusing “contractors” with a government “of the people”.

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By PatrickHenry, February 27, 2012 at 7:04 pm Link to this comment

Wikileaks + Anonymous.

It use to be called the news and investigative journalism.

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By gerard, February 27, 2012 at 6:52 pm Link to this comment

Heterochromatic:  It’s a toss-up between stupidity and stubbornness—yours and mine along with everybody else’s.  Thanks for asking.

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By heterochromatic, February 27, 2012 at 6:32 pm Link to this comment

gerard—- what’s the thing about which you’re most
ashamed?

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By OzarkMichael, February 27, 2012 at 6:25 pm Link to this comment

Slightly off topic, but didnt Anonymous just come and out issue a declaration of war against the US government?

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By gerard, February 27, 2012 at 5:36 pm Link to this comment

Well, the plot thickens.  I still think it’s better to err on the side of openness.  “Honesty is the best policy” as they used to say when I was a kid.

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