Iceland
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Video: Iceland's Pirate Party Wins Big Gains in Parliamentary Election
The Reykjavik Grapevine’s Paul Fontaine discusses the possible outcomes after Saturday’s parliamentary vote Continue reading
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Iceland Congress puts forward bill to grant Snowden citizenship By Patrick Henningsen
One day before members of the Icelandic Parliament are due to break for summer vacation, leaders of three political parties have submitted a special piece of legislation which would make NSA whistleblower and fugitive, Edward Snowden, a citizen of Iceland. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks volunteer spied for the FBI
According to an article published Thursday by Wired’s Kevin Poulsen, Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson, now 20, approached the Federal Bureau of Investigation in August 2011 and offered to provide American intelligence with information about the antisecrecy website that he had been assisting with for the previous year and a half. Continue reading
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Tracking Edward Snowden: Chartered Russian Jet lands in Reykjavík, Iceland
Yesterday evening June 26th, at approximately 3:00am Iceland time, an in-bound Russian Sukhoi Super Jet 100-95 chartered flight landed at Keflavik International Airport, after being held in a holding pattern for approximately 45 minutes while circling the airport. Continue reading
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Snowden on his way to Iceland?
27 June 2013: Further Update also from 21st Century Newswire: REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Yesterday evening June 26th, at approximately 3:00am Iceland time, an in-bound Russian Sukhoi Super Jet 100-95 chartered flight landed at Keflavik International Airport, after being held in a holding pattern for approximately 45 minutes while circling the airport. Continue reading
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Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 21 June 2013
21 June 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks plane ‘ready’ to bring Snowden to Iceland Times of India REYKJAVIK: A chartered private jet is ready to bring US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden to Iceland from Hong Kong, a businessman connected to whistleblowing website WikiLeaks said on late Thursday. “Everything is ready on our side and the plane … http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/WikiLeaks-plane-ready-to-bring-Snowden-to-Iceland/articleshow/20693314.cms Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 20 June 2013
20 June 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks Says It Is Working to Negotiate Asylum in Iceland for Snowden New York Times WASHINGTON — WikiLeaks activists in Iceland are discussing with government officials there the possibility of asylum for Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who disclosed hundreds of classified documents on N.S.A. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 6 May 2013
6 May 2013 — williambowles.info Listen: Chris Hedges Interviews Julian AssangeTruthdigIn these audio excerpts from their extended conversation in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Chris Hedges asks Julian Assange about legal strategy and the WikiLeaks founder’s thoughts on Pfc. Bradley Manning. For much more, including an in-depth …http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/listen_chris_hedges_interviews_julian_assange_20130505/ Continue reading
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Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 4 May 2013
4 May 2013 — williambowles.info Government-operated spyware on the rise around the world – report RT More and more regimes across the world are using Western-made ‘lawful intercept’ software to spy on their own citizens, a brand new report has revealed. Citizen Lab, a digital research unit at the University of Toronto, says that Continue reading
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Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 3 May 2013
3 May 2013 — williambowles.info ‘We Steal Secrets’: WikiLeaks and the US intelligence-industrial complex The Seattle Times (blog) Into this stew marched WikiLeaks and Assange in 2010. Despite antipathy for Assange himself, I admire his vision and skill at piercing the shadow world of government secrecy. As the film notes, WikiLeak’s first big expose Continue reading
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Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 1 May 2013
1 May 2013 — williambowles.info Pirate Party gains three seats in Iceland’s parliament CBS News Physically isolated near the Arctic Circle, it is one of the world’s most wired countries and has been a hub for the online secret-spilling group WikiLeaks. Jonsdottir has worked with WikiLeaks in the past. In 2011 the country announced it would crowd Continue reading
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Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 29 April 2013
29 April 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks to release more records – The Frontier Post Frontier Post LONDON: Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks was on Monday to publish more than 1.7 million US diplomatic and intelligence documents from the 1970s, founder Julian Assange revealed. The website has collated a variety of records including cables, … http://www.thefrontierpost.com/article/4152/ Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2013 By Birgitta Jónsdóttir
February 1st 2013 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement in the Icelandic Parliament, the Pirates of the EU; representatives from the Swedish Pirate Party, the former Secretary of State in Tunisia for Sport & Youth nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. Continue reading
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Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 1 February 2013: Bookies think Assange could win seat
1 FEbruary 2013 — williambowles.info Iceland Kicked Out FBI Agents Who Flew in Unannounced to Investigate … Cleveland Leader According to the RUV, the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, FBI agents landed in Reykjavík in August 2011 without prior notification in an attempt to investigate WikiLeaks operations within the country. However, their plan was interupted when … http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/20013 Continue reading
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The BBC’s Coverage of Southern Europe by Dan Hind
Yesterday’s main news bulletin on BBC 1 somehow managed to miss another large demonstration against austerity in Lisbon, where tens of thousands gathered in the capital’s Praca de Comercio square. The bulletin also didn’t find time for yet more protests in Madrid. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 18 February 2012: Millions of Christians Want to Start WWIII
18 February 2012 — Information Clearing House Another March to War? By Matt Taibbi You can just feel it: many of the same newspapers and TV stations we saw leading the charge in the Bush years have gone back to the attic and are dusting off their war pom-poms. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30576.htm Continue reading
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Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But is Not By Deena Stryker
As one European country after another fails or risks failing, imperiling the Euro, with repercussions for the entire world, the last thing the powers that be want is for Iceland to become an example. Here’s why: Continue reading
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Why Iceland Voted ‘No” to the Diktats of the Creditor Banks
About 75% of Iceland’s voters turned out on Saturday to reject the Social Democratic-Green government’s proposal to pay $5.2 billion to the British and Dutch bank insurance agencies for the Landsbanki-Icesave collapse. Every one of Iceland’s six electoral districts voted in the ‘No’ column – by a national margin of 60% (down from 93% in… Continue reading
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