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Sooz
31st July 2014, 11:18
Australian media outlets have been gagged not to discuss a massive banknote scandal, involving the Australian Reserve Bank and several Asian countries.

I watched this unfold this morning. Of course MSM is not uttering a peep. I have decided not to add the link, because it's been cautioned that even if you spread this via social media you can end up being arrested, according to our Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. So much for free speech.

So erring on the side of caution, you will have do search for yourselves. It's easy to find.

Outside Australia it's being widely reported and name names. There is also an informative thread on ATS.

As it involves Malaysia and their elites I'm wondering if there is a connection between MH370 and MH17. Retribution? Payback? A warning?

I won't say any more. Interesting that after I sent a link to a friend, a red screen came up from Microsoft saying the page I was on was suspect and could I please report it to Microsoft. I pressed the 'do not send' button. I hope that protected me. I have never encountered that before.

Apparently it's fine for everyone else in the world to read and report on this, but not us here in Oz. Funny old world eh?:whstl:

Must be a hell of a big story to put a media gag order on it.

Sooz
31st July 2014, 11:32
This has just appeared in MSM here in Oz:

Indonesia demands an explanation from Australia over court order gag published by wikileaks. Uh oh...

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/indonesia-demands-explanation-from-australia-over-wikileakspublished-court-order-20140731-zz75y.html

Sooz
31st July 2014, 12:26
More here, reported by infowars:

http://www.infowars.com/australian-govt-blindfolds-citizens-with-unprecedented-media-gag-wikileaks/

Australian govt blindfolds citizens with ‘unprecedented’ media gag – WikiLeaks

The media gag bans Australian news outlets from reporting on a multinational corruption case for reasons of "national security"

Australian govt blindfolds citizens with ‘unprecedented’ media gag - WikiLeaks
Image Credits: Mutant669 / Wiki
by RT | July 30, 2014


WikiLeaks has accused the Australian government of blindfolding the public with the worst suppression order in “living memory.” The media gag bans Australian news outlets from reporting on a multinational corruption case for reasons of national security.

The whistleblowing organization published the details of the “unprecedented” gag order issued by the Australian government on Wednesday. The super injunction passed by the Supreme Court of the state of Victoria prohibits Australian media organizations from publishing material on a multi-million-dollar graft case involving high-ranking officials from Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).

WikiLeaks has accused the Australian government of blindfolding the public with the worst suppression order in “living memory.” The media gag bans Australian news outlets from reporting on a multinational corruption case for reasons of national security.

The whistleblowing organization published the details of the “unprecedented” gag order issued by the Australian government on Wednesday. The super injunction passed by the Supreme Court of the state of Victoria prohibits Australian media organizations from publishing material on a multi-million-dollar graft case involving high-ranking officials from Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).

“The gag order effectively blacks out the largest high-level corruption case in Australia and the region,” said a statement published on WikiLeaks’ website.

The case pertains to RBA subsidiaries Securency and Note Printing who bribed the officials to secure lucrative contracts to supply bank notes to their governments. The gag order was issued after the secret indictment of seven senior executives from the RBA subsidiaries on June 19, writes WikiLeaks.

The Australian government justifies the order as being in the interests of national security and prevention of “damage to Australia’s international relations.” However, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange argues such an act of “unprecedented censorship” is unjustifiable.

“With this order, the worst in living memory, the Australian government is not just gagging the Australian press, it is blindfolding the Australian public,” said Assange in a statement published on the WikiLeaks website.

He called on Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to explain “why she is threatening every Australian with imprisonment in an attempt to cover up an embarrassing corruption scandal involving the Australian government.”

“Corruption investigations and secret gag orders for ‘national security’ reasons are strange bedfellows. It is ironic that it took [Prime Minister] Tony Abbott to bring the worst of ‘Asian Values’ to Australia,” said Assange.

Lawyers have suggested that media outlets may not be the only targets of the gag order, arguing that social media users who post links to the WikiLeaks statement could be subject to prosecution. Media lawyer Peter Bartlett told the Age newspaper that using the hashtag WikiLeaks did not violate the order, but any mention of the contents of the statement is prohibited.

According to WikiLeaks, the last blanket suppression order was issued in 1995 to stop Australian news outlet Fairfax Media from publishing information about a US-Australian spying operation on the Chinese Embassy in Canberra.

WikiLeaks founder Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for over two years after being granted political asylum. UK police have resolved to arrest the whistleblower if he sets foot outside the embassy building and comply with an extradition order to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of sexual assault.

Assange believes his extradition will lead to his eventual transfer into American custody where he will be tried for publishing thousands of classified, US government files on the WikiLeaks website

ronin
31st July 2014, 12:29
Hi Sooz just copy and paste the link to one of us and we will post it,:victorious:

ronin
31st July 2014, 12:42
yes i was going to mention half your links are dead.
but just received this from a anon.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/m...injunction-say

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/m...injunction-say

strange,the link works in the message box but not on this page????

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/najib-pak-lah-and-mahathir-also-named-in-banknote-graft-case-injunction-say

weird one and two do not work but the third one does?

Sooz
31st July 2014, 12:45
yes i was going to mention half your links are dead.
but just received this from a anon.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/m...injunction-say

Really? Gee, the great Oz firewall is working overtime! Thanks, the Malaysian one (above) was the one I was looking for. It was on the net this morning here in Oz, but not there now. Interesting eh?

Thanks ronin.

Cheers,
Sooz

Sooz
31st July 2014, 12:49
Can someone go to the ATS site and see if you can see the thread there? I probably can't access it here, everything is being scrubbed real fast.

I should have got screenshots when I saw everything this morning. (It's late at night here now).

ronin
31st July 2014, 13:03
http://www.smh.com.au/national/wikileaks-publishes-unprecedented-secret-australian-court-suppression-order-20140730-zyc6m.html

WikiLeaks has struck again, releasing the text of a secret court order that cannot be published in Australia.
The anti-secrecy group has this morning published a Victorian Supreme Court suppression order that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange describes as “unprecedented” in scope.
The suppression order is itself suppressed. No Australian media organisation can legally publish the document or its contents.
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In a statement provided to Fairfax Media, Assange said it was “completely egregious to block the public's right to know and suppress the media in any instance, and especially in cases of international corruption involving politicians and subsidiaries of a public organisation”.
“Despite the legal implications WikiLeaks publishes this suppression order, as it will others, to uphold our values of freedom of information and transparency of government - the Australian people have a right to know, we work to ensure this right for them, even when their government tries to obstruct it."
WikiLeaks suggests there has not been a comparable “blanket suppression order” since 1995 when the Australian government sought to suppress publication by Fairfax Media of details of a joint US-Australian espionage operation to bug a new Chinese embassy in Canberra.
Assange argues that the suppression order, together with the Australian government's recent introduction of legislation to criminalise reporting on certain types of intelligence operations, is part of “an increasing trend in Australia of suppressing press freedoms for the sake of politics".
"The Australian government is not just gagging the press, it is blindfolding the Australian public," Assange said.
Since June 2012 Assange has resided at Ecuador's London embassy, where he has been granted political asylum by Ecuador on the grounds that he is at risk of extradition to the US to face conspiracy or other charges arising from the leaking of hundreds of thousands of secret US military and diplomatic documents by US soldier Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning.
British police are on guard outside the embassy 24 hours a day, waiting to arrest Assange so he can be extradited to Sweden to face questioning about sexual assault and rape allegations that were first raised in August 2010. The cost of the police presence has now exceeded £6.9 million ($12.5 million).

The British and Swedish governments have declined to provide assurances that Assange would not be extradited to the US.

WikiLeaks has continued to publish leaked documents including, over the past year, secret draft treaty texts from the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership and Trade in Services Agreement negotiations.
Head of La Trobe Universtiy's Law School, Patrick Keyzer, did not doubt the Supreme Court had legitimate reasons for issuing the order: "There's always a risk with an order as wide as this that some may view it as suppressing freedom to engage in political discussion. Of course that is it's purpose in a sense, but it's important for the courts to strike a balance between protection of confidential information and preservation of freedom of speech."
Mr Keyzer, an expert on social media and the law, questioned the order's effectiveness, given Wikileaks' reputation for publishing confidential documents online: "Supression orders...were born and developed in the age of the print media. It's very difficult to harness digital media and damn near impossible to harness social media."
He said: "Given that Wikileaks is an organisation that is notoriously and specifically dedicated to the reversal of suppression it only make sense that this is the sort of exercise that will advance interest in the information and cause people to conduct searches for the material."
Mr Keyzer said the disclosures may not be protected by the freedom to discuss political and governmental affairs, depending on how they were sourced.
- With Jane Lee


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/wikileaks-publishes-unprecedented-secret-australian-court-suppression-order-20140730-zyc6m.html#ixzz393DPGz00

norman
31st July 2014, 13:04
Is this the thread?

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1024183/pg2&mem=

ronin
31st July 2014, 13:07
sorry double post.

norman
31st July 2014, 13:10
Why is Malaysia in the news so much these days?

Sooz
31st July 2014, 13:16
Is this the thread?

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1024183/pg6&mem=

Hi Norman, yep that's the one. The first few pages are nothing but then there are several posts where it goes indepth with names.

Strangely enough, the thread seems to have come to a sudden halt. Funny that.

Could be a good idea to get some screenshots of the actual posts that name the names and that gets into the nitty gritty.

Sooz
31st July 2014, 13:19
Why is Malaysia in the news so much these days?

I don't know, but there is something going on. Like I said before, does this whole thing may have something to do with Malaysian Airlines and the missing aircraft and the one shot down? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think MAS is majority owned by the Malaysian government.

Strange days have found us.

jcocks
31st July 2014, 13:21
The funny thing about the stupid gag order is that the info on this court case has been available for quite a while. It must only be very recent that they started gagging the media on this. I blame our "esteemed" Liberal government - They're about as opaque as a glass full of untreated sewerage (and have the same lovely stench to them as well).

ronin
31st July 2014, 13:24
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2013/09/30/3857148.htm

Sooz
31st July 2014, 13:29
The funny thing about the stupid gag order is that the info on this court case has been available for quite a while. It must only be very recent that they started gagging the media on this. I blame our "esteemed" Liberal government - They're about as opaque as a glass full of untreated sewerage (and have the same lovely stench to them as well).

I remember reading about this stuff a few years ago, it's the same story - about the polymer (plastic) notes for printing and bribery of people at the Reserve Bank of Australia and people in high places, etc etc. It's been around for years. But suddenly now it's a hot potato. Wonder Why.

Sooz
31st July 2014, 14:01
Just a thought...perhaps there was more on board the Malaysian planes than mangosteen and lithium. Maybe lotsa polymer banknotes. Just thinking out loud.

I should quit being a conspiracy theorist.:crazy:

norman
31st July 2014, 14:06
Just a thought...perhaps there was more on board the Malaysian planes than mangosteen and lithium. Maybe lotsa polymer banknotes. Just thinking out loud.

I should quit being a conspiracy theorist.:crazy:

Where's Ben Fulford when you need him :)

Lord Sidious
1st August 2014, 02:14
Strange that the Supreme Court of Victoria issued the order when it is a federal matter.
Even sitting cross vested, the whole thing is strange.
The court is only a few hundred metres from the Federal Court anyways.
No idea how they think the Victorian court can bind other states?
I read the order on wiki leaks.