A new business which has been founded in Iceland by the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, is registered to a block of flats in the Mosfellsbaer municipality near Reykjavik. A Wikileaks spokesperson says that, as yet, the company is not involved in any activity and has no turnover.
The brand new company registered on behalf of Wikileaks is called Sunshine Press Production – the same as the formal international name of Wikileaks, RUV reports. The chairman of the company is Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and he shares the board of directors with filmmaker Ingi Ragnar Ingason and journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson. The deputy board member is Gavin MacFadyen, a professor of journalism in London. The company is registered at the home address of one of the board members at Klapparhlid in Mosfellsbaer.
Kristinn Hrafnsson told RUV that the company is not engaged in any economic activity in Iceland yet and it is not clear what it will eventually do to make money. No staff have yet been hired and no premises rented or purchased.
In the description of the business held by the national register of companies, Sunshine Press will work, among other things, in the production and distribution of multimedia material, pictures, printed and press material.

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>I hope that ISNIC registrar of .is domains++ will have same attitude as .ch registrar
>and will keep up the rights of the registrants to keep their domain name unmolosted.
I missed posting this back in Decebmer :
http://www.isnic.is/en/ 20/12/2010 – Wikileaks.is
” Wikileaks.is
Under what circumstances would ISNIC close or delete the domain wikileaks.is based on the contents of their website?
The answer is simple, such an action would require a formal court order from an Icelandic court. ISNIC has never been handed such a verdict about any .is-domain during its close to 25 years of history.
ISNIC is not responsible for the registrant’s usage of his/her domain, the contents of email sent from the domain’s email addresses (e.g. wikileaks@wikileaks.is) or the content of the domain’s web pages (e.g. http://www.wikileaks.is). It is ISNIC’s duty and prime function to maintain uninterrupted service to all .is-domains, at all times, anywhere in the world. Only Icelandic authorities, armed with a court order, can order ISNIC to delete or close down a particular .is-domain. This has, as said before, never happened.
Registrants (who’ve read our Rules and FAQ) know however that domains may be closed for two main reasons. Once closed, the system will delete a domain automatically pending a 60 day grace period. During this process the domain’s contacts receive multiple notices and warnings. The reasons for closing a domain are: non-payment of the domain’s fees, or if the domain’s registration or technical setup is not according to ISNIC’s specifications, rules and regulations. So, in short, the only way wikileaks.is would be closed (and eventually deleted) by ISNIC is if its registrant would not renew the domain or if its technical DNS setup and/or whois registration would no longer be according to ISNIC’s registration rules. “
A) Wikileaks is doing good.
B) Wikileaks is not committing any criminal act whatsoever.
B) There is the entire US military/industry making profit from criminal acts such as invading Iraq, bombing other countries without even declaring war, providing 100billion dollars in weapons to Israel’s illegal occupation and assassinations around the world.
Contrary to what has been lied to the world, by the organization named WikiLeaks, that organization is a non profit organization, there is so far no single address of the non profit organization WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks is just a trade name for the company incorporated for profit in Iceland, named SUNSHINE PRESS PRODUCTIONS EHF, being a Limited Liability Company.
WikiLeaks operates under the supposed “image” of a non-profit organization, but they de-facto receive “donations” to the SUNSHINE PRESS PRODUCTIONS EHF, and thus the company SUNSHINE PRESS PRODUCTIONS EHF is one of the responsible companies for the illegal leaks.
Certificate of Incorporation of WIKILEAKS aka SUNSHINE PRESS PRODUCTIONS EHF:
http://www.wikileakscriminalorganization.com/for-profit-incorporated-wikileaks/
ment to say SVT :)
A documentary about Wikileaks from SVP
http://svtplay.se/v/2264028/wikirebels_the_documentary
>raising production from a trickle before the occupation, to a flood afterwards
Hardly. Going by Wiki at its worst output did double, but it was hardly a trickle before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan
That’s what happens when you swan around invading more than one country at a time. Especially one like Afghanistan.
Yes the rhetorical question is often asked
who are the real terrorists?
Wikileaks on the UK armed forces ‘charity’ mission in Helmand province to provide support for (cough) local entrepreneurs in market gardening.
there had been a lot of action on counter-narcotics, but little progress. He was particularly dismayed by the British effort. They had made a mess of things in Helmand, their tactics were wrong, and the deal that London cut on Musa Qala had failed. That agreement opened the door to narco-traffickers in that area, and now it was impossible to tell the difference between the traffickers and the insurgents. The British could do a lot more, he said, and should, because they have the biggest stake.
The result of UK policy in Helmand has ensured that Afghanistan has regained its place as leader in heroin supply, raising production from a trickle before the occupation, to a flood afterwards.
On another, rather more humourous topic.
The US military has been charging its allies a 15% handling fee on hundreds of millions of dollars being raised internationally to build up the Afghan army. Germany has threatened to cancel contributions.
According to a protest to the US from Germany’s ambassador to Nato this year, Berlin raised questions about the fate of €50m (£42m) it dispensed last year as the biggest contribution to a “trust fund” for the Afghan national army.
The US ambassador added that the German protest may be “inaccurate” since the 15% was probably a “contingency” rather than an “administrative” fee.
>They are not the only people in the world who stand up for human rights, free press is something every one should have access to.
I see you dodge the point about responsible journalism.
>Iceland was put on a list of terrorist countries, number 9, N-Korea was #10, the list has now been removed.
Convenient. So There was a list with Iceland on it which would support your statement, but you can’t show it to anyone?
On the other hand, from that link that you do supply, we have:
“A [British] Treasury spokesman said the government did not consider Iceland or its banks as terror regimes.”
“Landsbanki [not Iceland] was listed on the Treasury website as a proscribed regime alongside al Qaeda, the Sudan and Lebanon.”
Again, not a single non-Icelander has suggested that Iceland is a terrorist state. Well, a load of pissed-off depositors vented, but no one in authority.
“Strange, because Amnesty is often thought of as the Human Rights people”
They are not the only people in the world who stand up for human rights, free press is something every one should have access to.
“Yes. Every single one of those people were Icelandic, as no one outside of Iceland has seriously suggested this.”
Iceland was put on a list of terrorist countries, number 9, N-Korea was #10,
the list has now been removed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7688560.stm
It is interesting how emotions sentiment control much of our lives, like the finacial markets, stocks, bonds, currency etc, swing up and down, not because of some logic or common sense but because of sentiment and volatility,
this makes those who own or control the media very powerful, because they can control the news and our lives at the same time,
the media in Iceland is a perfect example of this,
also interesting is how people are put into categorys, black, white, middle class, working class, religion, gay or straight etc,
as far as i can see there are only 2 types of people,
the elite who are ca 1% of the population and everyone else,
the masters and the slaves.
>some people have branded Wikileaks as a terrorist organisation for standing up for human rights and free press
Strange, because Amnesty is often thought of as the Human Rights people. Bet they wish they’d not encouraged Assange a while back :) .
“The groups, which include Amnesty International, say Afghans identified as suppliers of information to the US military could face reprisals.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10934113
It’s not hyperbole to say that those people mentioned, as well as any of their families, were in grave danger of being killed.
This gives an example of how responsible media deal with this sort of thing:
“The Guardian, the New York Times and the German weekly Der Spiegel were shown the documents before they were leaked and published edited extracts with details of the individuals removed. Yesterday the readers’ editor of the Guardian, Chris Elliott, explained the steps the paper had taken before publishing extracts of the documents.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/10/afghanistan-war-logs-wikileaks-human-rights-groups
>people of similar caliber branded Iceland a terrorist state not long ago for refusing to pay the debts of criminal bankers.
Yes. Every single one of those people were Icelandic, as no one outside of Iceland has seriously suggested this.
Gummi said
“Learn from us. We stand against the oppressors! Now that they’ve left Keflavik and there’s no more profit to be had, there’s no reason to be nice to them.”
No one has anything against American people or the US base when it was in Keflavik, actually they were quite popular, some of them like the USAF helicopter search and rescue team were even seen as super heros because of all the Icelandic lives they saved,
one of the greatest rescue opperation in Icelandic history was done by them in Dec 7 2001 when the Icelandic trawler Svanborg SH 404 was hit by a huge wave which took out its electrical system and shut down the main engine, as she was being smashed against huge rocks in a storm where the wind was over 40 m per sec, SSgt Jay Lane grabbed the only fisherman who survived as he was hanging at the top of the the mast, Lane was given a gold medal from the state for bravery.
I saw a night vision video shot from the helicopter while the rescue took place, not many people would have dared to do what this crew did.
http://forseti.is/Verdlaunogvidurkenningar/Afreksmerkihinsislenskalydveldis/Handhafarafreksmerkis/
DataCell has taken up legal action against Visa and Mastercard
http://www.datacell.com/news.php
Ólafur V. Sigurvinsson founder and boardmember of DataCell is saying donations to Wikileaks have been increasing in the last few days and they have processed over 2000 donations today.
http://wikileaks.is/support.html
Wikileaks in Iceland will not be shut down, they have done nothing illegal and have the support of the entire nation behind them,
some people have branded Wikileaks as a terrorist organisation for standing up for human rights and free press,
people of similar caliber branded Iceland a terrorist state not long ago for refusing to pay the debts of criminal bankers.
The finacial and political elite that who are attacking Wikileaks are the real terrorists, that should be clear by now to anyone who wants to see it.
Fisy says: Datacell ( IceCell ehf ) site that has taken donations for Wikileaks is standing up against the weak knees at Mastercard and VisaW
Well said cousin Fisy!
I am with you 1,000%!
We Icelanders are the only strong-kneed men left in the world! An example to all weak-kneed foreigners. Learn from us. We stand against the oppressors! Now that they’ve left Keflavik and there’s no more profit to be had, there’s no reason to be nice to them.
Datacell ( IceCell ehf ) site that has taken donations for Wikileaks is standing up against the weak knees at Mastercard and Visa :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11945875
.. and anonymous just did DDoS against Mastercard.com bringing it to its knees.
+http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2010/12/01/wikileaks-founder-rape-warrant-appeal-rejected/#comment-424373
wikileaks.org is toast for now. But now there are 700+ mirrors.
December 7, 2010 at 12:53 am
http://wikileaks.is/mirrors.html
” Wikileaks Mirrors
Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack.
In order to make it impossible to ever fully remove Wikileaks from the Internet, you will find below a list of mirrors of Wikileaks website and CableGate pages. ”
I hope that ISNIC registrar of .is domains++ will have same attitude as .ch registrar and will keep up the rights of the registrants to keep their domain name unmolosted.
++http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2010/08/02/president-obama-should-take-wikileaks-on-directly-with-or-without-the-help-of-the-icelandic-government/#comment-222695
Kman:
You’re right, we don’t know if Wikileaks has or has not harmed people.
You say “We are fighting a war against what will be the greatest threat to mankind if the Taliban win in Afghanistan and help the Pakistan Taliban overthrow the already shaky Pakistani Government.” Those are not facts. They are will’s and if’s, things that might happen or might not. Things that we don’t know.
There’s only one thing we know here. And it is that the U.S has harmed and is still harming thousands of people around the world. All around. In the East, in the Middle East and also in the West (unless you consider that the banana republics in Central and South America, such as the one I live in, are not in the West).
So, yeah, I do believe it’s necessary and beneficial that Wikileaks exposes those truths.
wat says
“Wikileaks has not harmed anyone nor has anyone come to harm because of its actions. If you gave the situation some thought, some clear, critical, unbiased thought, you might come to realize something along these lines: Only liars fear the truth. ”
Well with your clear, critical, unbiased though, maybe you you might come to realize something along these lines: – How the hell would you know if Wikileaks has or not hurt anyone?
“I also want to point out that you clearly are just spewing out garbage and not researched fact–”
Speaking of garbage wat you also wrote “One last thing I want to point out, because I could really spend all night here tearing your little rant to shreds, Wikileaks has exposed injustice in over 100 countries.”
100 countries? Go ahead name them.Tear my little rant to shreds.Let’s see how YOUR facts add up.
“It makes sense when your biggest adversary is the most powerful entity in the world”
Adversary?
I repeat that the US has safeguarded his freedom since he was born allowing him to attack and undermine the very country that has allowed him the freedom to do so. Why should the US be his adversary?
“You speak as if Wikileaks is promoting terrorism, you REAK of fear of it, and thus you speak complete nonsense”
I said that “It . is absolutely insane that western defence and intelligence can be held hostage to the PC whims of this group of left wing ex hackers.”If that reaks of Wikileaks promting terrorism so be it.
“Wikileaks is not leaking national secrets, they are leaking information that is due to the world”
Oh so you believe that these cables are not national secrets- And why are these US cables due to the world? What absolute rubbish. What right do you living in Iceland need to know what the secret or non-secret cables of the country that has kept your Icelandic butts free from the Soviets, and maintains your defence and the rest of Europe at a cost o $100 billion a year need to know what these private US embassy cables say? If the US cables are DUE to the world why not Icelands or every other country on the planet? Get real! No country in the world can function with the whole world having access to their priveleged information. You really don’t understand how the real world works do you? I suspect you are a pretentious juvenile or someone of very limited intelligence who needs to learn more about the real world before you respond to matters you know absolutely nothing about.
I won’t respond further to your replies because they are just personal attacks containing absolutely no factual substance or reason.
Just to clarify for some of the posters and readers here, it is NOT owned or run by the country Iceland. Statements like “Wikileaks is making Iceland look bad.” are therefore simply not based on real facts.
Granted, there are several Icelandic people are actively involved with WikiLeaks, but those are private citizens doing this for their own personal reasons and at their own time. There are many other people around the world involved with WikiLeaks, many of which are not publicly known.
All this talk in the news about the need to pressure Iceland to “shut down” WikiLeaks, just shows how ignorant most people are regarding how the Web works. After any information has been published on the Web, it is virtually impossible to stop it from spreading. The information on Wikileaks is not stored in one location, but rather it is scattered around the world on multiple servers.
The only real option the U.S. government (and various others that feal threatened by these leaks) potentially have, is to somehow locate and apprehend the Wikileaks leader Julian Assange. Then they can either throw the book at him. If that does not work legally, they can always make him somehow “disappear” :-).
Assange himself of course knows this, so he usually tries to stay hidden most of the time. But apprehending him would not be enough to close down the WikiLeaks web site, but it could potentially scare some of its supporters to run for cover.
Whether people like it or not, WikiLeaks and other sites like it like it are here to stay. As for Iceland, it has played a significant role in publishing information about the banking crash and its aftermath, so most people here are positive about it.
“Is the Middle East more or less stable after this release?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F67JhKT5bxU&feature=related
Wikileaks is making Iceland look bad. Assange and this site are only out for themselves. Dont be fooled by any website or organization acting as if their doing things on the web to help others… They are only out for themselves. What is the benefit of releasing secrete documents that hurts the US, Iceland and other countries?
I have always loved Iceland,but this really makes me mad that this site can let out top secrete documents without any real thought of the damage and problems it can cause. Sometimes people need to think about others before they think about themselves.
I am tired of websites,companies and people only thinking of their own fame, getting in the limelight, over
>I’m not aware of anything particulary new that would affect the Middle East
The negative effects will be more at the domestic level in Arab countries than at the diplomatic level – I imagine Iran already knows exactly how much the Arabs regimes like it.
>” A new business which has been founded in Iceland by the whistleblowing website Wikileaks, is registered to a block of flats in the Mosfellsbaer municipality near Reykjavik. ”
Far easier to see if some one is trying to bug your office if it is a home and people are around most — if not all — the time.
http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2010/03/26/icelandic-authorities-reject-wikileaks-surveillance-claims/
wikileaks represents the 21st century realities of information publishing. Wether we like it or not, confidential information cannot be protected by the courts once one party decide to leak it.
http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2010/02/13/iceland-to-become-journalism-haven/#comment-114973
Bromley, I don’t think Wikileaks can be described as immoral. They have demonstrated the cowardice of media, plus once again shown up the US in their true light. I’m not aware of anything particulary new that would affect the Middle East; The ‘Peace Process’ is a sham, US thinks Iran is trying to get the bomb and Israel send fake ‘facts’ to emphasise it.
According to the Guardian statistics, there are 300 cables from Iceland and 17 reguarding Icesave. I’m trying to find them, no mention of it on mbl.is for instance.
I think/hope the week will see more cables leaked out.
“This is just one more example of how Americans need to look to the example of Iceland to see how to be truly free”
Yeah, free, to the point of not leaking anthing about any of the Nordic countries. We know the US government has warned the Icelandic government about the cables contents but nothing has been released yet. Lets see if Assange is willing to attack countries he might want to use as a bolt hole, I suspect not.
Ha! Run in fear Iceland, as Wikileaks has been exposed as a morally bankrupt and dangerous organisation.
Is the Middle East more or less stable after this release?
As an American I extend my congratulations; this is further evidence that Iceland is truly one of the freest countries on earth. When you got swindled by the banks you stood up and took back your government; our bankers still own ours (and Obama is a shill for them). This is just one more example of how Americans need to look to the example of Iceland to see how to be truly free…
Wikileaks has been very important for Iceland and has helped us alot by supplying information regarding the financial crash, banks, politics, icesave and more.
The information were a base for a greater understanding of what had happened to our country and the threats to our security that followed the crash, Wikileaks have been enormously valuable to us.
I very much look foreward to seeing the Russian files form Wikileaks
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2010/1026/WikiLeaks-ready-to-drop-a-bombshell-on-Russia.-But-will-Russians-get-to-read-about-it
If we are lucky we may find some links to Bjorgolfur Thor Bjorgolfsson or his father Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson who bought and bankrupted one of our banks Landsbanki and are responsible for icesave,
Both spent many years in Russia before coming to Iceland, doing all kinds of work incl running a famous Beer factory in St Petersburg.
KMAN
Wikileaks has not harmed anyone nor has anyone come to harm because of its actions. If you gave the situation some thought, some clear, critical, unbiased thought, you might come to realize something along these lines: Only liars fear the truth.
Wikileaks is not leaking national secrets, they are leaking information that is due to the world.
The image you have of Wikileaks is distorted. You speak as if Wikileaks is promoting terrorism, you REAK of fear of it, and thus you speak complete nonsense.
One last thing I want to point out, because I could really spend all night here tearing your little rant to shreds, Wikileaks has exposed injustice in over 100 countries.
–I also want to point out that you clearly are just spewing out garbage and not researched fact–
One staff member in Wikileaks was suspended, and then later quit. He had a difference in opinion, not a bad guy either, and he has also said that he will start a group much like Wikileaks. His problem was that he thought Wikileaks was spending too much time on US leaks. On the other hand, Julian obviously thought that the US leaks were the most important and made the decision to prioritize them over all others. It makes sense when your biggest adversary is the most powerful entity in the world, that if they pose a threat to you, you’d want to get the most important, historically significant, records available for the world to see before anything else, or you could lose the opportunity to do so.
The main problem is the Democracies around the world are not completely efficient, there are problems with them. Obama said “We must use technology to open up our democracy” and what Wikileaks is attempting to do is create accountability within those democracies and NOT destroy them. It is to allow them to serve their populations better.
Next time, KMAN, do a little research. PLEASE
Assange has lived all his life under the protection of the United States Military as has everyone in the west.We are fighting a war against what will be the greatest threat to mankind if the Taliban win in Afghanistan and help the Pakistan Taliban overthrow the already shaky Pakistani Government.These religious phscopaths will then have control over the countries large stockpile of nuclear weapons and high tech submarines complete with 16 cruise missiles apiece. Any attack with these nukes would probably cause the deaths of millions of innocent people anywhere in the world.
Assange says he wants to expose all the world “injustices ? The only injustices I have seen out of Wikileaks are all “US injustices.” and this has been confirmed by former Wikileaks personel who have quit in disgust at Assange’s hypocrisy.
Assange says “We do have a view that it (the war) should be prosecuted as humanely as possible.” How can the US, Australia and other co-alition countries wage war using Marquis of Queensbury rules against Islamic fanatics who will do anything to win, when fools like Assange undermine our efforts and put allied troops in harms way by selecting what classified documents “they” – a cabal of American hating leftists sitting around determining what documents and information “they” can release to expose to our enemies what “they” consider might be injustices?
If this was 1940. What then would have happened to civilization if a wikileaks was releasing secret documents? – Churchill would have had this treasonous idiot arrested and shot.
It is absolutely insane that western defence and intelligence can be held hostage to the PC whims of this group of left wing ex hackers. Iceland has not hardly contributed anything to the defence of the free world and should immediately refuse entry to this dangerous grandstanding egotistical Daniel Elsberg wannabe.
“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within…”Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Kman. NSW Australia.
Whoa! Bad choice Iceland….bad choice. This fellow spells trouble. Don’t be mislead.