Anon ops manifesto

Their website is currently down.  Here is their manifesto, dated 12/9/2010:

Obama and Bernanke destroy the Sovereign credit of the United States

"Mr. President, you, in re-nominating Bernanke and not putting a stop to both the outrageous deficit spending and allowing Bernanke to back himself into this corner without removing him, have destroyed the sovereign credit of the United States.

You may not recognize it yet, and neither has the market in the main, but I assure you that recognition will come, and precisely where the "tipping point" happens to be where you no longer have any meaningful degree of control over the situation is not determinable in advance."

Karl Denninger calls it like it is.

Walter Williams on Moral vs. Immoral government

"Do farmers and businessmen have a right to congressional handouts? Does a person have a right to congressional handouts for housing, food and medical care?

First, let's ask: Where does Congress get handout money? One thing for sure, it's not from the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus nor is it congressmen reaching into their own pockets. The only way for Congress to give one American one dollar is to first, through the tax code, take that dollar from some other American. It must forcibly use one American to serve another American. Forcibly using one person to serve another is one way to describe slavery. As such, it violates self-ownership."

New column at Townhall.com

Suggested further reading is Frederic Bastiat's classic The Law

It opened my eyes.  Impeccable logic.  

Denial of Service cyber attacks continue apace over Assange

"The website of the Swedish prosecutor's office pursuing WikiLeaksfounder Julian Assange came under cyber attack on Tuesday in the latest salvo in a campaign by online supporters who have also struck PayPal and the Swiss Post Office bank."

Full article in English language Swedish newspaper here.

Quote of the day 12/8

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Edmund Burke

Double Standard trap: MSM condemns Assange (or is complicit), but runs his stories...

 ...but Assange is also a journalist...with the initial scoop...not the source of the leak, remember?

11.15pm: The New York Times has responded to Senator Joe Lieberman, from Robert Mackey's top-notch WikiLeaks live blog:

A spokeswoman for The New York Times has responded to a suggestion by Sen. Joe Lieberman on Tuesday that the news organization, and others that published American diplomatic cables obtained and distributed by WikiLeaks, might be subject to criminal investigation.

"We believe that our decision to publish was responsible journalism, legal, and important to a democratic society," Danielle Rhoades Ha, the communications director of The Times Company, said.

The Truth in Chains

Great article

"It has been, by any standard, an extraordinary campaign of vilification and persecution, wholly comparable to the kind of treatment doled out to dissidents in China or Burma. Lest we forget, WikiLeaks is a journalistic outlet – just like The New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel, all of whom are even now publishing the very same material – leaked classified documents -- available on WikiLeaks. The website is also a journalistic outlet just like CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox and other mainstream media venues, where we have seen an endless parade of officials – and journalists! – calling for Assange to be prosecuted or killed outright. Every argument being made for shutting down WikiLeaks can – and doubtless will – be used against any journalistic enterprise that publishes material that powerful people do not like."

But before Assange was taken into custody, he fired off one last message to the world, in The Australian, a newspaper in his native land. With supreme irony, he tied WikiLeaks’ operation to the roots of the Murdoch media empire, which began by speaking truth to murderous and wasteful power – and now, of course, is one of the most powerful and assiduous instruments of murderous and wasteful power itself.

Update: Cyberwar on behalf of Assange continues

Piratebay.org, the site that is a global hub for hackers and "free film" aficionados everywhere has officially joined the Eric Cantona plea for a bank run, which Zero Hedge first broke over three weeks ago, however compounding the initial premise with that of PayPal lock out. The reason: suddenly Assange has become the martyr saint of the global hacking community, which in the past 24 hours has manage such exploits as crashing the web site of the Swiss bank that supposedly froze Assange's account.

Egypt jumps the shark

...if you'll pardon the pun.

This article, mentioning that Egypt "wont rule out" a Mossad plot as the cause of several shark attacks at the southern tip of the Sinai, a resort community called Sharm el Sheikh...

It reminded me of this story from a book called The Siege, a sympathetic history of modern Israel:

Over time, he (Conor Cruise O'Brien, Irish representative to the UN, 1960's--seated in alphabetical order next to the Israeli representative) struck up a friendship with both his adjoining delegates.  He recounted this vignette of a moment during a particularly bad speech by Adlai Stevenson, denying any American involvement in the Bay of Pigs:

While this performance dragged on, Gideon Rafael [of Israel], in the chair beside me on my right, was doodling on his pad, his face impassive.  The Caribbean is not a region of the highest priority for Israel.  When the time came, Gideon would cast his vote with the United States, keeping his personal opinion about the Bay of Pigs to himself.

Adlai’s peroration was even more embarrassing than the rest of his speech.  “I have told you,” he said, “of Castro’s crimes against man.  But there is even worse:  the record of Castro’s crimes against God.”

Several delegates looked faintly sick.

“Fidel Castro has” – Adlai here turned his page and peered at the new one – “Castro has . . . circumcised the freedoms of the Catholics of Cuba . . .”

Gideon looked up sharply and turned to me.  “I always knew,” he said, “that we should be blamed for this, sooner or later.”

The Mossad must have gotten the idea for this shark attack thing from Germany, who undoubtedly were behind the rash of shark attacks in New Jersey in the summer of 1916 , trying to intimidate the Americans to stay out of World War I.

Nefarious plots!!! ;-)

rothbard on wikileaks and government transparency

Rothbard on WikiLeaks

Posted by Michael S. Rozeff on December 6, 2010 02:58 AM

From “The Ethics of Liberty” (1982):

“In some areas, a radical distinction between private persons and government officials is acknowledged in existing law and opinion. Thus, a private individual’s ‘right to privacy’ or right to keep silent does not and should not apply to government officials, whose records and operations should be open to public knowledge and evaluation. There are two democratic arguments for denying the right to privacy to government officials, which, while not strictly libertarian, are valuable as far as they go: namely (1) that in a democracy, the public can only decide on public issues and vote for public officials if they have complete knowledge of government operations; and (2) that since the taxpayers pay the bill for government, they should have the right to know what government is doing. The libertarian argument would add that, since government is an aggressor organization against the rights and persons of its citizens, then full disclosure of its operations is at least one right that its subjects might wrest from the State, and which they may be able to use to resist or whittle down State power.”

(emphasis added)

Hackers take down bank website that cancelled Assange's account

Operation: Payback

anonymous hackers out for justice...

December 7 is the Unofficial Paneuropean Bank Mutiny Day

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/december-7-unofficial-pan-european-bank-mutiny-day

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/soccer-legend-calls-for-run-on-banks/article1827349/

Quote of the day 12/7

"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion."
Demosthenes

Jobless Report Is Death of Keynesianism

"Seventeen months into this recovery, private-sector job growth is decelerating when it should be galloping ahead. Despite rosier economic news, companies are still unwilling to boost hiring. Why? There's nothing incentivizing them to risk it."

Article here .

Assange believes in free markets, and free flow of information

Assange: I'm Influenced by "American libertarianism, market libertarianism"

"WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical."

Assange: I'm Influenced by "American libertarianism, market libertarianism"

Quote of the day 12/6

"WikiLeaks has a four-year publishing history. During that time there has been no credible allegation, even by organisations like the Pentagon that even a single person has come to harm as a result of our activities. This is despite much-attempted manipulation and spin trying to lead people to a counter-factual conclusion. We do not expect any change in this regard."


--Julian Assange

Wikileaks' "insurance file"

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Sun Tzu


"Never stand and take a charge...charge them, too..."
Nathan Bedford Forrest


Wikileaks has more "goods" on the powers that be, including the US government, BP, Bank of America, and Gitmo, or so the rumors go.


The leaked data is stored behind an unbreakable 256 character randomly generated password.


If Assange is detained, the password will be released, and the poison pill disbursed.

So I guess my question the U.S. Government is:  Do you feel lucky?  Well do you,...punk? 

Buy Silver!

Apparently JP Morgan has such a tremendous amount of capital invested in selling silver short (in their effort to manipulate the market as a whole, keeping the price artificially low so that they can make money in the forex market) that they are exposed to the degree that they can be sent into bankruptcy by a significant increase in the price of silver:

"On my show, Keiser Report, I recently invited Michael Krieger, a regular contributor of Zero Hedge (the WikiLeaks of finance). We posited that if 5% of the world's population each bought a one-ounce coin of silver, JP Morgan would be forced to cover their shorts – an estimated $1.5tn liability – against their market capital of $150bn, and the company would therefore go bankrupt. A few days later, I suggested on the Alex Jones show that he launch a "Google bomb" with the key phrase "crash jp morgan buy silver".

Within a couple of hours, it went viral and hundreds of videos have been made to support the campaign.

Right now, silver eagle sales for the month of November hit an all-time record high and the availability of silver on a wholesale level is drying up. The most important indicator is the price itself – holding just under a 30-year high. With each uptick JP Morgan gets closer to going bust or requiring a bailout."

...As more individuals buy silver and gold, all attempts to replenish the system with more paper money will only cause the purchasing power of the silver and gold to increase – thus prompting more people to buy more. Any attempts to bail out JP Morgan would have the same effect."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/02/jp-morgan-silver-short-selling-crash

Quote of the day 12/5

As Ron Paul notes, “in a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. When truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble.”