See my (jj apple) 12/07 7:16 pm post under the CD article of today:
WikiLeaks To Keep Posting Cables Despite Assange Arrest.

If you think it's important to keep Wikileaks from being totally crushed out of visible existence by the colluding PTB, then understand that it needs minimum money to keep operating; and that its current address in Iceland may be quickly the only remaining safe place for sending donations -- and, too, that any donations should be in the form of personal checks or money orders, snail-mailed to its ground address in Reykjavik.

But I'd also suggest that you send no donations to this Iceland ground address(Sunshine Press Productions.ehf/Skulagotu/101 Reykjavik,Iceland) until you've had verified by email, phone call, or via regular post, that your (check/MO) donation is still officially receivable there, and that you will receive an official receipt for any donation, or otherwise until Sunshine Press Productions website is officially www-activated.

I recently sent a check to WikiLeaks/Iceland c/o Sunshine Press, only after having conferred with a trusted Iceland resident/friend, who's a volunteer in this Reykjavik office of wikileaks, and who said that it was safe to do so in terms of the checks being received and cashed there exactly by Sunshine.

But it's still unclear to me as of this writing what the fugg is going on via US government attempts to thwart USA-based donations to various wl international addresses, whether they're by email credit cards, or ground posted USPS parcels to wl ground addresses.

If my check to wl/Sunshine/Iceland arrives and is successfully cashed in Reykjavik, then I'll post that fact here, asap. Assange earlier vetted this Iceland office of wikileaks, but at this point I'm proceeding with double caution.

Many of My Heroes

Emerged from the hard colors of the stones
rattling in the berm of the cold sweet sea
and even the birds came down slowly
to nest in these places
where the truth holds court
before the winter comes
and all the slight dim stinking rooms of torture
the shadows burned on the walls of Hiroshima
shout the songs of the last echoes of the innocent and right while the stinking warlords
have mortified their flesh with oil and gold and compromises to the gluttons.

I have watched my Heroes taken
under the wash of these seas, down by the keels
of freighters washed up
on the sandstone reefs and splayed
by so many fat politicians
finally careened into the wreckage
of their blindness and still they rise up,
those heroes, like a memory of symphonies, like the authentic hope,
like another lost and undiscovered mammal in the deepest
green woods of the evolution of the soul.

We cannot die with this spark in our sleep
lighting our first waking: take them away
one by one, splatter their blood on the carseats
and over the railings of the balconies,
make their graves lonely but full
of the chorus of workers who have leapt into greatness
just making another day turn
embracing them in the dirt of their eternity.
Tell your children this story:

That once, not so long ago
in a place we have all loved that some devil
robbed from us there was a man,
there was a woman,
there was a queer,
there was a farmer,
there was a seamstress,
there was a woman who loved birds and saved them,
there was a doctor,
there was a minister ankle deep in
the offal of those he could do nothing but save
There was a girl. There was a boy.
There was a miner
They was a soldier
there was a fool
and there was a poet

and they moved the world they dreamt
in the hottest rooms of their hearts
they took the stars as their story,
they made the worst of the liars
their target and they won, even if they died,
even as they died,
even as they were taken away,
even as they were unable to sleep
in their tomb of a cell, even as the island dogs
bit their hands and the acid of the oligarchs
blinded their far reaching vision even then
they outlasted the thieves
they outperformed the devil's diseased handmaidens
they gave away bright dreams for our children
that have kept us all alive
and they were the right dreams,
given small flames to our dark dark nights

Theirs are the stories of our good.
Without them we are nothing.

This is an absurd situation, worthy of Kafka. Following the surreal logic of that author's best tales and after interminable examination of whether it is allowable under Swedish Law, or not; Assange might then bring a private prosecution against both these women alleging, jointly or severally: A. Soliciting for sexual purposes. B.Conspiracy to solicit for sexual purposes.C. Blackmail by threats of defamation.
Following due procedure, both women might then be arrested and imprisoned without bail and without presentation of prima facie evidence, pending extradition to the UK or Australia to face possible charges. Upon which, further and equally interminable proceedings to determine the legality of the case would ensue, while all parties remained in solitary confinement, pending determination, on the basis that the evidence for the cases under which they were being held has not yet been presented; because it is not allowed to be presented. The legal absurdities by which the purported events in this case are being manipulated could then be held up to universal ridicule - and dismissed. Only for another round of private prosecutions, this time initiated by the women, to start up the whole farago all over again: and then another etc. By which time it could be 2050 and Wikileaks only a memory of the point in time when politicians at last and for the first time in history, began to be held to account by a revolutionary form of investigative journalism.'

Its bad when we are down to slogans and quotes.

The truth will always win.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing .., after they've tried everything else.

So far the anti-Wikileaks assault war,
seems like a very sophisticated entrapment strategy,
directed personally at Julian Assange,
with an awful lot of money and resources behind,
with a very active cyber warfare department of the CIA,
plus lots of arm twisting and threats against corporations,
and individuals.

I would not count on the impartiality of a single member of the various justice departments involved. As wikileaks has shown, the Americans will have tags on and blackmail details on any important person who might be involved.

This is the standard espionage approach of powers that want to get their own way, and the scale and size of their operations involves world wide monitoring of banks, credit cards and voice and internet communications.

This means total war.
I am sure this web site is monitored too, so make sure every one speaks up.

Journalist Assange could face espionage trial in US.
How does that sound to you or the other journalists around the world?

For me it is chilling. Shall we allow this to happen? If we do allow this, what does it say about us?

Maybe there is something to that Mayan 2012 calendar thing after all. I certainly have a feeling that something climacteric is going to happen soon that will turn our world upside down. I hope it all turns out for the good.

Vote for Julian Assange as Time's Person of the Year:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2028734_2029036_2029037,00.html

And post this address wherever you can.

He's already blowing away the competition. Time makes it clear they reserve the right to ignore the voting results. But if these numbers get big enough, it will be difficult for them to ignore.

The powers that be are now showing their true colors; "you step out of line, the man come take you away".
Perhaps this the most important fact to come out.

Thank you all for all of the above comments, which together serve to teach and enlighten as well as comfort and support.
Your observations and information are invaluable, as is Common Dreams itself.
When CD fails, we know that the light has surely gone down, but until then, we owe it to ourselves and to the rest of humanity to stand up and keep on fighting.
We will not have this opportunity again.

Just checking something, sorry.

Yep, there it is...see for yourselves. Add your comment. Damn it all.

The value of Jon Stewart's mall rally was more in terms of hope for liberals and the left. The message of "us all play nice" was stupid. But it did help lift paralyzing fear of use to no one and let the crowds see they were not alone.

*Too bad Stewart and Leno have failed us on this.*

Boycott Visa, MC, and PayPal!!?? How, really, does one do that completely? Here we run into the obvious problem of protest outside the preplanned channels for us. As a practical matter I can not boycott all of these three -- I could not buy supplies I need or get paid.

I will, however, buy as much as I can with cash money and from local neighborhood stores and sources.

-- Zagone

Why did Wikeleaks release a bunch of State Dept emails when he had far more damaging emails on Bank of America. Did he think the options of a bunch of embassy types was more important than the criminality of a Wall Street bank? Yes, he has shown the corporate compliant goverment for the thugs that they are. But why hold back the really powerful stuff? We need another Enron style investigation, only this time of Wall Street.
Yes, the sex charges are a setup. They give them an excuse to pick him up. Will he release the info on Bank of America, or is stifling that the price of his freedom?

I find it a striking "coincidence" that as soon as Wikileaks indicated it would fire volleys against the real power base of the world -- the banks -- the character assassination kicked into high gear. Although the charges apparently began in August of this year, they were originally dismissed. Further, I suspect that the insiders knew that Wikileaks was getting ready to release massively incriminating documents against Bank of America, among others, and probably disclosing the intricate financial web of power.

Remember JFK? He was assassinated quickly after signing an executive order which would have undercut the Federal Reserve's control of the money supply in the United States. Has the International Banking cartel become the electrified third rail -- touch it and you die?