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>>>> Wikileaks: Swiss bank freezes Julian Assange's account
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>>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11929034
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>>>> Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
>>>> Om Shanti
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>>> Interesting. The Swiss banks held stolen Jewish gold and money and hid
>>> the wealth of infamous nazis for several decades after WW2 with
>>> apparently no concern. But the moment Julian Assange says he's about to
>>> release information that will bring down a few banks, they decide to
>>> freeze his accounts!!!
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>> Malcolm Rifkind, a former British defence secretary and chairman of the
>> Commons intelligence and security committee, said WikiLeaks' actions were
>> "irresponsible, bordering on criminal.  This is the kind of information
>> terrorists are interested in knowing."
>>
>> WikiLeaks has defended the release.  "While this cable details the
>> strategic importance of assets across the world, it does not give any
>> information as to their locations, security measures, vulnerabilities or
>> any similar factors," said Kristinn Hrafnsson, a spokesman for the
>> website.
>>
>> He said the US document had undermined Washington's claims that its
>> diplomats do not play an intelligence-gathering role.
>>
>> Strategic analyst Hugh White said the Australian assets on the list
>> indicated that US diplomats had not taken their task seriously.
>>
>> 'Sue the PM'
>>
>> Meanwhile Mr Assange's lawyers last night revealed they were considering
>> defamation action against Julia Gillard after she accused the embattled
>> Australian of "illegal" conduct over his mass leaks.
>>
>> Mr Assange's British solicitor, Mark Stephens, told The Australian his
>> client would today seek formal consular assistance from Australian
>> authorities in Britain and Sweden.
>>
>> Mr Stephens declined to say where his client was, but added that both
>> British and Swedish authorities could contact him for questioning any
>> time they chose.
>>
>> Mr Stephens criticised the Prime Minister, who last week accused Mr
>> Assange of acting illegally, without specifying precisely what he had
>> done.
>>
>> Those comments, made outside parliament and hence not subject to
>> parliamentary privilege, were now being examined by Mr Assange's legal
>> team, Mr Stephens said.
>>
>> The accusations came as Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd defended Canberra's
>> diplomacy with China, following disclosures he had warned the US that the
>> world must be prepared to "deploy force" against China, if the rising
>> power could not be peacefully integrated into the international system.
>>
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>>
>> Read more:
>> http://www.news.com.au/world/wikileaks-cables-reveals-australian-terror-targets/story-e6frfkyi-1225966699674#ixzz17NFX8HfK
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> http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/australian-snakebite-supplier-identified-in-wikileaks-disclosure-of-suspected-terror-targets/story-e6freon6-1225966638057
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> A MELBOURNE snakebite antivenom supplier has been listed by the US as
> critical strategic infrastructure in a diplomatic cable published by
> WikiLeaks.
> This is one of a long list of sites around the world that the US thinks
> could pose a critical danger to its security if they come under terrorist
> attack.
>
> It ranks alongside giant projects such as the Panama canal and Russian oil
> pipelines.
>
> The Melbourne-based pharmaceutical group Mayne Pharma is the only producer
> of the Crotalidae Polyvalent Immune Fab snake antivenom.
>
> Known as CroFab, the antivenom works against bites from rattlesnakes,
> copperheads and other US snakes.
>
> Along with a major telecommunications cable that links the Pacific and
> East Asia with the US, metals found in Australia like nickel and manganese
> were also listed as critical.
>
>
> The newly released cable threatens to be the most explosive yet out of
> many divulged by the whistleblowing website.
>
> It emerged as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he had received death
> threats from US military supporters.
>
> The fugitive Australian told Spanish newspaper El Pais of his fears for
> the safety of his family and his lawyers after recently receiving threats.
>
> ``These threats now extend (to) our lawyers and my children,'' he said.
>
> Assange's son Daniel, 20, is a software designer in Melbourne, who said on
> his website that he had ``much respect for my father and his cause''.
>
> Assange is believed to be hiding near London after an Interpol arrest
> warrant was issued over claims he raped two women in Sweden
>

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/rudd-is-control-freak-us-cable/story-e6frf7l6-1225967381242

THE US thinks Kevin Rudd is a "control freak" who presided over a series of
foreign policy blunders during his time as prime minister and foreign
affairs minister, diplomatic cables reveal.
The cables, leaked by WikiLeaks, also reveal that Mr Rudd snubbed then-US
president George W. Bush by pushing to meet him then cancelling the meeting
two days later, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

They also show that in 2006 Labor had promised Australian troops to the US
in the event of a war with China.

The revelations come from hundreds of US State Department cables relating to
Australia - obtained by Fairfax newspapers - many of which were written by
former US ambassador to Australia Robert McCallum.

The cables mention Mr Rudd's "control freak" tendencies and "persistent
criticism from senior civil servants, journalists and parliamentarians that
Rudd is a micro-manager obsessed with managing the media cycle rather than
engaging in collaborative decision making".