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Old 12-16-2010, 11:48 AM   #196
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Wikileaks' Julian Assange to stay at Norfolk house


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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will move from a prison cell in Wandsworth
to a country retreat in Norfolk when he is released from custody.
Ellingham Hall is a 10-bedroomed property set on 600 acres of land near Bungay on the Norfolk-Suffolk border.
The estate is owned by Vaughan Smith, a Wikileaks supporter who served in the British Army
before founding London's Frontline journalists' club.
Mr Assange must stay there as part of his bail conditions,
granted on Thursday by Mr Justice Ouseley at the Royal Courts of Justice.
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Old 12-16-2010, 01:29 PM   #197
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Can someone bail me out of my parents' house so I can stay there too?
No incredibly subtle biting satire intended - I'd just like a break in a 10 bedroomed house in Norfolk to watch the snow come down.
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Old 12-16-2010, 01:36 PM   #198
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A charming English cottage would do. The rates per week seem reasonable.
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Old 12-16-2010, 01:40 PM   #199
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A charming English cottage would do. The rates per week seem reasonable.
(If you're not paying tax and utilities maybe...)

I'll tell you what Sky - you rent a cottage any time you like, and I'll be your free driver, housekeeper and tourguide.
Well, when I say anytime, that will mean outside of term-time fairly quickly.
Get in soon for a real bargain!

Come now and we might even give you some snow
Ah soddit - come next week and have Christmas right here. We're not charming - at least our house isn't - but we're definitely English.
I've checked the freezer - we have enought to feed at least ten people. Twenty your size!
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Old 12-16-2010, 01:45 PM   #200
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Can someone bail me out of my parents' house so I can stay there too?
No incredibly subtle biting satire intended - I'd just like a break in a 10 bedroomed house in Norfolk to watch the snow come down.
It looks drafty and cold there.
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Old 12-16-2010, 01:48 PM   #201
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geez, I will take you up on that during my retirement years. Except, you'll be married with babies by then and I'll be an old lady. I promise. I won't be a biddie or wear attends. I just need a tour guide lively enough to keep both of us entertained. You'll do.

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It looks drafty and cold there.
It can't be any draftier than where I live.
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Old 12-17-2010, 10:06 PM   #202
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Maybe we can get the CIA to send in a Drone Strike.....
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Old 12-18-2010, 12:13 AM   #203
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A drone strike on SG? Because you didn't get a piece of the cake?
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Old 12-18-2010, 12:38 AM   #204
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yea, sure, that was it.... "Let them eat cake"
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Old 12-19-2010, 10:20 AM   #205
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More good news...

Bank of America Suspends Payments to WikiLeaks

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/bu...9bank.html?hpw
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Old 12-19-2010, 10:30 AM   #206
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WikiLeaks needs to target B of A anyway so action was just a matter of time. I'm not keen on the wholesale dumping of information but WikiLeaks does have a positive role to play in our increasingly closed corporate and government cultures.
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Old 12-19-2010, 10:40 AM   #207
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I would say that there is value which may be gained from whistleblowers in closed corporate and government circles when it does not deal with stolen and classified data being dumped wholesale onto the world stage. Wikileaks is a criminal organization and should be treated as a form of internet terrorists.
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Old 12-19-2010, 10:46 AM   #208
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I would suggest that way too much content is classified as shown by the hum drum nature of the bulk of the leaks.
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Old 12-19-2010, 10:58 AM   #209
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I would suggest that way too much content is classified as shown by the hum drum nature of the bulk of the leaks.
I would agree. But it is not the job of the these criminals to make such determinations. Often the most innocuous bits of information pieced together gives the clear picture. By leaving out various bits your enemy can never get a clear picture about what you know or what you think. This is not the role of some fools who think they know better. So we are stuck with what we have at this point. If we need to make changes from this point forward, so be it. We can make changes.
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Old 12-19-2010, 11:00 AM   #210
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I just realized Assange looks like Neil Patrick Harris. I keep expecting him to say: these leaks, they will be LEGEND....wait for it...ARY.
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