Julian Assange: The Wikileaks Manifesto

Julian Assange: The Wikileaks Manifesto

Creator: Julian Assange is the editor in chief of Wikileaks, a “whistleblower website that publishes news leaks”. (Wikipedia)

Purpose: To shift regime behaviour and create open governments.

Wikileaks Manifesto – Introduction plus Headlines

Introduction

To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us, and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in which our forebears could not.

Firstly we must understand what aspect of government or neocorporatist behavior we wish to change or remove. Secondly we must develop a way of thinking about this behavior that is strong enough carry us through the mire of politically distorted language, and into a position of clarity. Finally must use these insights to inspire within us and others a course of ennobling, and effective action.

Headlines

Authoritarian power is maintained by conspiracy

Terrorist conspiracies as connected graphs

Separating a conspiracy

Some conspirators dance closer than others

Conspiracies are cognitive devices. They are able to out think the same group of individuals acting alone

What does a conspiracy compute? It computes the next action of the conspiracy

Can we find a value that describes the power of a conspiracy?

Total conspiratorial power

If total conspiratorial power is zero, there is no conspiracy

Separating weighted conspiracies

How can we reduce the ability of a conspiracy to act?

An authoritarian conspiracy that can not think efficiently, can not act to preserve itself against the opponents it induces

 

Source

Complete Manifesto as Article on TheCommentFactory.com – 1st August, 2010

Julian Assange on Wikipedia

 

 

 

Midnight Oil: Beds Are Burning

Midnight Oil: Beds Are Burning

Creator: Song written and performed by Australian band Midnight Oil composed of James Moginie, Robert Hirst, Peter Gifford and Peter Garrett, released in 1987.

Purpose:

“Beds Are Burning” is a political song about giving native Australian lands back to the Pintupi, who were among the very last people to come in from the desert. (Wikipedia). The song was also used as the first ever global music petition for Climate Change in 2009 as the “Tck Tck Tck, Time for Climate Justice” campaign.

 

Song Manifesto: Beds Are Burning

© Midnight Oil 1987

 

Out where the river broke

The blood wood and the desert oak

Holden wrecks and boiling diesels

Steam in forty five degrees

 

The time has come

To say fair’s fair

To pay the rent

To pay our share

 

The time has come

A fact’s a fact

It belongs to them

Let’s give it back

 

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning

 

The time has come

To say fair’s fair

To pay the rent, now

To pay our share

 

Four wheels scare the cockatoos

From Kintore East to Yuendemu

The western desert lives and breathes

In forty five degrees

 

The time has come

To say fair’s fair

To pay the rent

To pay our share

The time has come

A fact’s a fact

It belongs to them

Let’s give it back

 

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning

 

The time has come

To say fair’s fair

To pay the rent, now

To pay our share

The time has come

A fact’s a fact

It belongs to them

We’re gonna give it back

 

How can we dance when our earth is turning

How do we sleep while our beds are burning

 

Source

Official Midnight Oil Website

Song Lyrics from sing365.com

Official Midnight Oil Music Video from YouTube

Beds are Burning Background on Wikipedia

Midnight Oil on Wikipedia

LuluSec and Anonymous: Operation Anti-Security

LuluSec and Anonymous: Anti-Security Manifesto

Creator: LuluSec and Anonymous, two high-profile hackers groups.

Purpose: Expose the secrets of the world’s governments – in the spirit of WikiLeaks.

Manifesto: Operation Anti-Security

Salutations Lulz Lizards,

As we’re aware, the government and whitehat security terrorists across the world continue to dominate and control our Internet ocean. Sitting pretty on cargo bays full of corrupt booty, they think it’s acceptable to condition and enslave all vessels in sight. Our Lulz Lizard battle fleet is now declaring immediate and unremitting war on the freedom-snatching moderators of 2011.

Welcome to Operation Anti-Security (#AntiSec) – we encourage any vessel, large or small, to open fire on any government or agency that crosses their path. We fully endorse the flaunting of the word “AntiSec” on any government website defacement or physical graffiti art. We encourage you to spread the word of AntiSec far and wide, for it will be remembered. To increase efforts, we are now teaming up with the Anonymous collective and all affiliated battleships.

Whether you’re sailing with us or against us, whether you hold past grudges or a burning desire to sink our lone ship, we invite you to join the rebellion. Together we can defend ourselves so that our privacy is not overrun by profiteering gluttons. Your hat can be white, gray or black, your skin and race are not important. If you’re aware of the corruption, expose it now, in the name of Anti-Security.

Top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation. Prime targets are banks and other high-ranking establishments. If they try to censor our progress, we will obliterate the censor with cannonfire anointed with lizard blood.

It’s now or never. Come aboard, we’re expecting you…

History begins today.

Lulz Security,

Support: http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html

Support: http://www.youtube.com/user/thejuicemedia

Support: http://wikileaks.ch/

Support: http://anonyops.com/

 

Source

Pastebin Blog Post: Operation Anti-Security

Background Article from Tech News World

 

Nazi Swastika

Creator: The NAZI Party of Germany adopted the swastika in 1920.

Purpose: The swastika was used by the NAZI party to represent racial purity. It was chosen because of its long history and reference to the Aryans of India. The Nazi’s believed the Aryan culture as the pre-eminent race on the planet.

Note: The Nazi Swastika is rotated 90 degrees from the Hindu Swastika.

Icon Manifesto

Nazi Swastika

Source

Wikipedia and the Swastika

AusFlag: A New Australian Flag

Creator: Ausflag is an apolitical, non-profit organisation.

Purpose: The AusFlag manifesto aims to secure the popular support of the Australian people for the adoption of a truly Australian flag, anthem and colours.

Manifesto

Ausflag: A New Australian Flag

Source

Ausflag the Organization and the history of the Australian flag

Wikipedia and the Australian Flag Debate

 

 

 

Australian Flag

Creator: The Australian Flag design was the result of a national competition in 1901. Five people submitted similar designs and were all declared equal designers.

Purpose: The flag competition was commissioned shortly after the federation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901 and is a public identity symbol of this country.

Icon Manifesto

Australian Flag

Source

A Wikipedia background to the Australian Flag

A deeper history of the Australian Flag

Gerald Holtom: Peace Symbol

Creator: British designer Gerald Holtom, created the Peace Symbol in 1958.

Purpose: This image was originally designed to represent the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. The design is an iconic version of the flag semaphore alphabet for the letters ‘N’ and ‘D’ representing Nuclear Disarmament.

Icon Manifesto

Gerald_Holtom_Peace_symbol

 

Source

The story behind the Peace Symbol design at Wikipedia

Wikipedia and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Les Miserables: Do You Hear the People Sing?

Creator: French composer Claude-Michel Schonberg created the song as part of the musical Les Miserables.

Purpose: The story is based on the novel Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and the song reflects the desire to spark the French Revolution.

Song Manifesto

Les Miserable Song manifestoDo You Hear the People Sing?

ENJOLRAS
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

COMBEFERRE
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Courfeyrac:
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!

ALL
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

FEUILLY
Will you give all you can give
So that our banner may advance
Some will fall and some will live
Will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France!

ALL
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

Source

Wikipedia and Songs from Les Miserables

Wikipedia and Les Miserables

YouTube Song Video: http://youtu.be/x6-5g78Nr6Q

Rousing alternative YouTube Video with slightly different lyrics to above: http://youtu.be/FmaTNf4YhEs

Thanks to Bill Jennings for suggesting this one

 

The Euston Manifesto

The Euston Manifesto Launch

Creator: Norman Geras, Damian Counsell, Alan Johnson, Shalom Lappin and 2844 others in 2006.

Purpose: “For a Renewal of Progressive Politics.”

The Euston Manifesto

The Manifesto consists of four sections:

1. Preamble

2. Statement of Principles

3. Elaborations

4. Conclusion

The following are the headings in the Statement of Principles Section:

1. For democracy

2. No apology for tyranny

3. Human rights for all

4. Equality

5. Development for freedom

6. Opposing anti-Americanism

7. For a two-state solution

8. Against racism

9. United against terror

10. A new internationalism

11. A critical openness

12. Historical truth

13. Freedom of ideas

14. Open source

15. A precious heritage

Source

Complete Manifesto: http://eustonmanifesto.org/the-euston-manifesto/

General: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euston_Manifesto

Photo: The launch of the Euston Manifesto

The October Manifesto

The October Manifesto

Creator: Written by Sergei Witte and Alexis Obolenski in early October 1905 and presented to Tsar Nicholas 11 of Russia on 17 October 1905.

Purpose: It was written as a response to the Russian Revolution of 1905. Later, it became the precursor for the first ever Russian Constitution.

The Manifesto on the Improvement of the State Order

(Excerpt)

We require the government dutifully to execute our unshakeable will:

(1.) To grant to the population the essential foundations of civil freedom, based on the principles of genuine inviolability of the person, freedom of conscience, speech, assembly and association.

(2.) Without postponing the scheduled elections to the State Duma, to admit to participation in the duma (insofar as possible in the short time that remains before it is scheduled to convene) of all those classes of the population that now are completely deprived of voting rights; and to leave the further development of a general statute on elections to the future legislative order.

(3.) To establish as an unbreakable rule that no law shall take effect without confirmation by the State Duma and that the elected representatives of the people shall be guaranteed the opportunity to participate in the supervision of the legality of the actions of Our appointed officials.

We summon all loyal sons of Russia to remember their duties toward their country, to assist in terminating the unprecedented unrest now prevailing, and together with Us to make every effort to restore peace and tranquility to Our native land.

Source

General: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Manifesto

Full Text: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/October_Manifesto