From an interview of Julian Assange by Hans Ulrich Obrist sometime last month.
http://e-flux.com/journal/view/232 (for part 1)
http://e-flux.com/journal/view/238 (for part 2)

"In 2008, one of the richest men in the UK, Nadhmi Auchi—an Iraqi who grew rich under one of Saddam Husain’s oil ministries and left to settle in the UK in the early 1980s—engaged in a series of libel threats against newspapers and blogs. He had been convicted of corruption in France in 2003 by the then magistrate Eva Joly in relation to the Elf Aquitaine scandal.

HUO: She was the investigating judge. I remember reading about it when living in France at the time. It was in the daily news every day.

JA: Right. So Nadhmi Auchi has interests all over the world. His Luxembourg holding company holds over 200 companies. He has companies under his wife’s name in Panama, interests in Lebanon and the Iraqi telecommunications market, and alleged involvement in the Italian arms trade. He also had a $2 billion investment around Chicago. He was also the principle financier of a man called Tony Rezko, who was one of Obama’s most important fundraisers, for his various pre-presidential campaigns, such as for the Senate. Rezko was also a fundraiser for Rob Blagojevich, the now disgraced Governor of Illinois. Rezko ended up being convicted of corruption in 2008. But in 2008, Barack Obama was involved in a run against Hillary for the presidential nomination, so the media turned their attention to Barack Obama’s fundraisers. And so attention was turned to Tony Rezko, who had been involved in a house purchase for Barack Obama. And attention was then turned to where some of the money for this house purchase might have come from, and attention was then turned to Nadhmi Auchi, who at that time had given Tony Rezko $3.5 million in violation of court conditions. (my emphasis)Auchi then instructed Carter-Ruck, a libel firm in the UK, to go after stories mentioning aspects of his 2003 corruption conviction in France. And those stories started to be removed, everywhere.

HUO: So they were literally erased from the digital archive?

JA: Yes. The Guardian pulled three of the stories. The Telegraph pulled one. And there are a number of others. If you go to the former URLs of those stories you get a “page not found.” It does not say that it was removed as the result of a legal threat. As far as we can tell, the story not only ceased to exist, but ceased to have ever have existed. Parts of our intellectual record are disappearing in such a way that we cannot even tell that they have ever existed."

"In the cases of these Nadhmi Auchi stories, there were eight that were removed, but actually this removal of material as a result of political or legal threats, it’s happening everywhere. This is just the tip of the iceberg. And there are other forms of removal that are less intentional but more pernicious, which can be a simple matter of companies going under along with the digital archives they possess. So we need a way of consistently and accurately naming every piece of human knowledge, in such a way that their name arises out of the knowledge itself, out of its textual, visual, or aural representation, where the name is inextricably coupled to what it actually is. If we have that name, and if we use that name to refer to some information, and someone tries to change the contents, then it is either impossible or completely detectable by anyone using the name."

@dotymed, as I read your comment, your family is truly patriotic and no one should ever drop health care for our veterans because they need the money so they can keep fighting in endless wars. Thank your family for me!!!!!

Join the military, see the world and kill interesting folks. From your words I sense your frustration about war. War does not resolve problems but it creates more problems. I shared a comment on Depleted Uranium and its life expectancy is four billion years. As we keep using biological and chemical weapons, we are contaminating our planet and the contamination will reach a point when all human life on this planet will cease.

IMO, we have a "Volunteer Military" that happens to be much like the draft. If you are poor, undereducated (you want to go to College) and your aspirations are higher than a McJob can take you. Join the military, see the world and kill interesting folks..

My Father was a Viet Nam vet. My cousin spent 30 years in the Army band and was recently recalled to do intelligence work. My daughter is military and after High School, my son wants to be a SEAL...

I grew up knowing war. My Father taught at Ft. Benning, School of the America's for awhile after Nam. When I was a child he was a Drill Instructor at Ft. Campbell, Ky. He eventually became a progressive before he passed. Kind of like Smedley Butler, he realized.

Since we have a Democratic President who is "to the right of Nixon", it makes perfect sense. The rethugs are even worse.

Necessity has proven to us (as has our death spiral,- aka - Roman Empire II) that WE MUST , from the grassroots level up, "reinvent the election wheel." We must field more Parties. Hell, we currently have two RW parties to choose from. The rethugs are as disenfranchised as we are.

The majority of the electorate want a candidate who is for the majority of the electorate. I worked my ass off for candidate Obama. President Obama has proven to me that he is a "corporate candidate", just like the rethugs have.

Speaking of numbers I wonder just how many troops, tanks, unmanned drones, manned aircraft, satellites and all other fighting resources the Taliban actually has to justify all the vast resources we expending to fight them. Just how big is the Talibans Army?

"So is that our new strategy in Afghanistan – capture innocent people just to boost numbers?"

Well it is the same strategy used by police in America, so why not? You can even be unarmed, mentally ill and killed by police and it's no big deal.

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IPS ? who and what are they and why should we trust this info ? I am a true skeptic

Depleted Uranium

Scientists are going to study depleted uranium and its effect on the American population. As depleted uranium filters into Iraqi oil, many gallons of Iraqi oil will be brought to America to help America continue her gluttonous ways.

As the depleted uranium is let out through exhaust fumes, it will be in the air and on land for 4 billion years causing many, many health problems in the years to come. Americans will die, become sick, and babies will be born deformed. America’s environment will be deadly for 4 billion years.

Insurance companies will be happy because there will be no need for insurance. Born in America will mean that you have a pre-existing condition and you are not entitled to health coverage.

America’s attack upon Iraq will bring forth unintended consequences. Terrorism will come to America through Bush’s policies and exhaust fumes from Iraqi oil. Bush’s non-scientist board will say to not worry about Iraqi oil. It is safe. Right!

Project for a New American Century will be elated because their goal of a planet with only 500 million people will be well underway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7FbycDXxXk

Pride

Americans are a proud people. They believe that they are right and they cannot do any wrong. Pride is a cardinal sin. It is one of seven cardinal sins. Americans are also angry, greedy, impure, and intemperate.

I do not consider Americans lazy or gluttons. The medical field says that Americans are too fat. I do not believe that they are fat by choice. For most Americans food is the only enjoyment that they have in life. They do not have the money to belong to a spa, a gym, play golf, play tennis, etc. that would help them to exercise more because they do not have the money for many enjoyable activities. Food is their major enjoyable activity.

America has a lock on 5 cardinal sins. Americans have abused seven of Ten Commandments. They have abused 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10. As you can read Americans have a lock on 5 cardinal sins and abusing 7 of the commandments. Is America an evil and sinful place?

Ignorance

St. Jerome said, “Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.” Bush, the neoconservatives, the kkkevangelicals, many in today's Supreme Court justices, politicians, and the current administration are ignorant of the Scriptures and so they are ignorant of Christ. The Scriptures reveal God’s love. The cabals from Ronald Reagan to the present reveal hatred, killing, torture, wars corruption, and lies.

The cabals have decreed the death of God and they and their minions have set themselves up as judge and judges of what is good or evil. The primary good is life but the cabals' domestic and foreign policies reveal evil ways to Satan's delight!

God must be at the center of our life, not money, nuclear weapons, and false prophets, like Bush who said that God speaks to him. God and man walk together in life and throughout history, past, present, and future.

Thanks for that link, I love looking back in history to see who was prophetic and how right they were.

Palindromedary - POWER CORRUPTS was censored by Louise Hartmann who also deleted the user ID from the site. So I created this ID just to answer your question and let you know who is doing the censoring. WTF is wrong with what I said!?