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Video - Wu Tang Clan - Killa Beez CSM | A self-styled and loosely affiliated group of Internet-freedom fighters dubbed "Anonymous" has morphed into a borderless digital militia, slinging Twitter posts and virtual handbills across cyberspace to coordinate digital attacks in defense of WikiLeaks and becoming a new force to be reckoned with on the Internet. In the global furor since WikiLeaks' release of secret US documents and the arrest of the group's founder, Julian Assange, cyber attackers have crippled corporate websites. To do so they have deployed old digital weaponry forged by new social media tools into a novel virtual global attack system that is leaderless, anonymous and powerful. "Operation Payback" is the name that Anonymous has given its cyber-retribution campaign against corporations that have withdrawn support and services from Mr. Assange, who was arrested in Britain this week on a Swedish rape charge. Hackers rally to support WikiLeaks: Top 5 recent attacks As of Thursday, the group's attacks had crippled or brought down with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks at least a half dozen major websites belonging to Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, the Swiss bank Postfinance and others that withdrew services to WikiLeaks. "This is probably the largest attack of its kind," Derek Manky, an Internet security expert at Fortinet, a Sunnyvale, Calif., computer security company. "It's not just one specific audience trying to lau ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: wizbangblog.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Things must be pretty dull in Berkeley if they're looking to honor the a soldier who most likely will be charged with treason. From The Washington Post: BERKELEY, Calif. --... ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.prisonplanet.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
"Non-governmental and governmental organizations should think of ways to help him," a source in the Kremlin administration told RIA Novosti. "Perhaps he could be awarded a Nobel prize." ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.prisonplanet.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
A member of a group of former intelligence professionals that has rallied behind WikiLeaks suggested in a recent interview with Raw Story that the world would be a different and better place had the online secrets outlet come into existence years sooner. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.dailyindia.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
The whistle blower website WikiLeaks is being exploited for propaganda purposes against India by Pakistani newspapers, which have published fake cables attacking the ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: broadbandforum.in --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
 Comments alleged to be from WikiLeaks US embassy cables say Indian generals are genocidal and New Delhi backs militants They read like the most extraordinary revelations. Citing the WikiLeaks cables, major Pakistani newspapers this morning carried stories that purported to detail eye-popping American assessments of India's military and civilian leaders. According to the reports, US diplomats described senior Indian generals as vain, egotistical and genocidal; they said India's government is secretly allied with Hindu fundamentalists; and they claimed Indian spies are covertly supporting Islamist militants in Pakistan's tribal belt and Balochistan. "Enough evidence of Indian involvement in Waziristan, Balochistan," read the front-page story in the News; an almost identical story appeared in the Urdu-language Jang, Pakistan's bestselling daily. If accurate, the disclosures would confirm the worst fears of Pakistani nationalist hawks and threaten relations between Washington and New Delhi. But they are not accurate. An extensive search of the WikiLeaks database by the Guardian by date, name and keyword failed to locate any of the incendiary allegations. It suggests this is the first case of WikiLeaks being exploited for propaganda purposes. The controversial claims, published in four Pakistani national papers, were credited to the Online Agency, an Islamabad-based news service that has frequently run pro-army stories in the past. No j ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.mashget.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
BusinessWeek If the WikiLeaks saga were a comic book, it would be starting to look a lot like the Justice League of America vs. the League of Supervillians-or maybe it's more like Star Wars, with the plucky rebel alliance up against the might of the Empire. As the U.S. government and a variety of corporations , such as Visa and PayPal, keep up the pressure on the document-leaking organization that they see as a traitor and a scofflaw, a rough alliance of supporters have taken it upon themselves to wage a cyberwar in WikiLeaks' defense by attacking the websites of those and other companies. Dubai mulls sale of corporate champions Mizuho Expects More Japan Corporate Bond Gains as BOJ Action Lifts Market Their queries to judge were about corporate money being raised legally Irish corporate tax in focus as bailout deal nears Irish Corporate Tax Rate Increase Isn't a Condition for Aid, Sarkozy Says ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.pcr-online.biz --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
PayPal, MasterCard, Visa, Amazon under attack PC Retail incorporating CTO is the only trade magazine dedicated to home computing. With an emphasis on quality editorial, PC Retail is the one stop shop for news, issues and products in the home computing channel, making it the trade magazine of choice for UK PC retailers, resellers and system builders. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: digg.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
I promise you, there will be no effective Whistleblower Office at the SEC in the foreseeable future ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.indiatalkies.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
The Hague, Dec 10 - A 16-year-old suspected hacker has been arrested in the Netherlands for allegedly having attacked the websites of Mastercard and Visa, Dutch authorities said. The attacks appeared to retaliation against the credit card companies for their refusal to process any more donations to WikiLeaks. According to a report in the Dutch daily De Volkskrant which cited police sources, the young man admitted the crime. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.irishexaminer.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
MORE cyber attacks in retaliation for attempts to block the WikiLeaks website are likely in a "data war" to protect internet freedom, a representative of one of the groups involved warned last night. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: dotseng.wordpress.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
(To increase the font size of this essay – hold down the Ctrl key and keep pressing +) It wouldn't be an exaggeration to state categorically; that if you take a general sweep of the topics in discussion in most gaming forum (especially the underground variety – the talk of the day is: when the [...] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.olsen-twins-news.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
... major issues on the agenda. Elsewhere, hordes of Oprah Winfrey fans flocked to Melbourne's Federation Square to catch a glimpse. She is scheduled to appear on stage at 4.30 this afternoon and will be joined by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu. Based on reports ... ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.israelated.net --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Read this article on the community site Israel Commentary Redacted from Wall Street Journal Online December 6, 2010 Whatever else WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has accomplished, he's ended the era of innocent optimism about the Web. As wiki innovator Larry Sanger put it in a message to WikiLeaks, "Speaking as Wikipedia's co-founder, I consider you enemies of the U.S.—not just the government, but the people." The irony is that WikiLeaks' use of technology to post confidential U.S. government documents will certainly result in a less free flow of information. The outrage is that this is Mr. Assange's express intention. We can't put the Internet genie back in the bottle. Related Videos: What WikiLeaks Means for Cloud Services This batch includes 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables, the kind of confidential assessments diplomats have written since the era of wax seals. These include Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah urging the U.S. to end Iran's nuclear ambitions—to "cut the head off the snake." This alignment with the Israeli-U.S. position is not for public consumption in the Arab world, which is why leaks will curtail honest discussions. Leaks will also restrict information flows within the U.S. A major cause of the 9/11 intelligence failures was that agencies were barred from sharing information. Since then, intelligence data have been shared more widely. The Obama administration now plans to tighten information flows, which could limit le ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: news.chennaionline.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Washington, Dec 10 (AFP) Dockworkers and foreign businessmen have seen evidence of alleged secret nuclear and missiles weapons sites being built deep in the Myanmar jungle, a leaked US diplomatic cable said. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.nigerianinquirer.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
The Hindu WikiLeaks cables: Pfizer took aim at Nigeria AG Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Drugmaker Pfizer hired investigators to find evidence of corruption against the Nigerian attorney general to convince him to drop legal ... WikiLeaks: Pfizer Sought Dirt on Nigerian AG CBS News US embassy cables: Pfizer nears $75m Nigeria settlement The Guardian WikiLeaks' Cable Targets Pfizer Forbes (blog) The Guardian - The Guardian - CNN International all 28 news articles » ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.1913intel.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
US diplomatic cables released by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks add to reports suggesting that Burma could be building a nuclear facility with North Korean help. One leaked cable points to indications that 300 North Koreans are working at a secret missile assembly plant in Burma. BBC News – WikiLeaks: North Korea 'helps Burma build nuclear sites' ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.siliconindia.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
The arrest of Julian Assange and loss of WikiLeaks ' major sources of revenue after various online payment services .... ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.smh.com.au --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
More than 500 people have rallied outside Sydney's Town Hall to protest against the public prosecution of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: bonni.net --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
I found this to be entertaining and clever commentary on the current WikiLeaks situation (which has, I admit, gotten my attention): WikiLeaks samba © Bonni Elizabeth Hall of So anyway... , %%date%%. Videos and stuff , War and Peace and Politics ">Videos and stuff, War and Peace and Politics , politics , video ">politics, video Article published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License Follow me on Twitter | Find me on Facebook ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.foxnews.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Dutch police believe he is part of a larger group of WikiLeaks sympathizers behind the so-called denial-of-service attacks, in which computers flood a server to prevent it from displaying a Web page ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: mathaba.net --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
 Photo: Malcolm Turnbull - a measured and informed response from a Liberal Party veteran politician which contrasts to the gung-ho US-lackey statements of the Labor Party`s Julia Gillard more... | PDA ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: buzz.originalsignal.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
clipped by: foxyarseclipper's remarks: A number of commentators, particularly in Turkey and Russia, have been wondering why the hundreds of thousands of American classified documents leaked by the website last month did not contain anything that may embarrass the Israeli government, like just about every other state referred to in the documents. The answer appears to be a secret deal struck between the WikiLeaks "heart and soul", as Assange humbly described himself once , with Israeli officials, which ensured that all such documents were 'removed' before the rest were made public. Clip Source: www.veteranstoday.comBUSTED!! WikiLeaks STRUCK A DEAL WITH ISRAEL OVER CABLE LEAKSWikiLeaks 'struck a deal with Israel' over diplomatic cables leaks "Assange met with Israeli officials in Geneva earlier this year and struck the secret deal. The Israel government, it seems, had somehow found out or expected that the documents to be leaked contained a large number of documents about the Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza in 2006 and 2008-9 respectively. These documents, which are said to have originated mainly from the Israeli embassies in Tel Aviv and Beirut, where removed and possibly destroyed by Assange, who is the only person who knows the password that can open these documents, the sources added."According to new revelations, Assange had allegedly struck a deal with Israel before the recent 'cable gate', which may explain why the leaks " ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.boingboing.net --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
 If this image is to be believed—and I have no reason not to, other than that I found it on the internet—the rebel squadrons behind Anonymous (attn. "news" hacks - that would be an entirely different group from WikiLeaks and/or Wikipedia) are about to change their approach. So far, as we've witnessed, they have been launching point-and-click distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks at companies perceived as the enemies of WikiLeaks. Those targets included Mastercard, Paypal, and Visa (companies that froze donation funding), and Amazon (which denied hosting services). The new approach suggests more sophisticated thinking. This new mission, apparently, is to actually read the cables WikiLeaks has published and find the most interesting bits that haven't been publicized yet, then publicize them. In my opinion, this action would have far more positive impact. Anonymous often repeats the Orwell quote, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." Looks like they decided to take those words to heart. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.nation.com.pk --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
BEIRUT (AFP) - US diplomatic cables unveiled by WikiLeaks have exposed backstage manoeuvres surrounding a UN investigation into the murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, stoking new controversy around the probe. The cables, which are among some 4,000 secret documents on Lebanon expected to be released by the whistleblower website or its affiliates, reveal UN frustrations with both Syria and France over their level of cooperation with the probe. They also detail ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: windows7forums.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
 UPDATE: As of 12:10am PST on December 9, Paypal.com is widely unreachable according to our own checks and numerous reports on Twitter . We have more information about the attacks here . UPDATE: PayPal, hours after being unreachable, is back online and can be reached following the previously reported downtime. In a reversal of course , PayPal has released funds remaining in an account associated with WikiLeaks according to a post on PayPal's blog. Last week, a statement from PayPal indicated, the company had suspended the account following claims by the U.S. that the activities of WikiLeaks violated the law. According to the report, PayPal acted of their own volition, without being contacted by any government agency. Further, the spokesman for PayPal indicated that the company had "permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity." Now it appears attacks from the supporters of WikiLeaks have caused PayPal to re-think their position. From the PayPal blog post : "While the account will remain restricted, PayPal will release all remaining funds in the account to the foundation that was raising funds for WikiLeaks." "We understand that PayPal's decision has become part of a broader story involving political, legal and free ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: livingstondaily.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
The Obama administration is demonstrating unparalleled incompetence in terms of protecting America's national security information. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: politics.originalsignal.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Again, this is not much of a surprise, but it's still interesting to see what many suspected confirmed. The part that was somewhat of a surprise was the alleged links between Shell and the US government. If you look back at the BP disaster though, it's clear that while we'd like to think the US is above such a death grip by Big Oil, we're kidding ourselves. The connections are not that different.The oil giant Shell claimed it had inserted staff into all the main ministries of the Nigerian government, giving it access to politicians' every move in the oil-rich Niger Delta, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable.The company's top executive in Nigeria told US diplomats that Shell had seconded employees to every relevant department and so knew "everything that was being done in those ministries". She boasted that the Nigerian government had "forgotten" about the extent of Shell's infiltration and was unaware of how much the company knew about its deliberations.The cache of secret dispatches from Washington's embassies in Africa also revealed that the Anglo-Dutch oil firm swapped intelligence with the US, in one case providing US diplomats with the names of Nigerian politicians it suspected of supporting militant activity, and requesting information from the US on whether the militants had acquired anti-aircraft missiles. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: newsblaze.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
While Xipwire remains the only U.S. site accepting funds for WikiLeaks, hackers conducting a DoS attack on Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal are expected to target Amazon next. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: thenextweb.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
 WikiLeaks, whose organizer, Julian Assange , currently sits in a London prison, and who's seen their access to some sites restricted and then restored , with many coming to the site's defense, will soon have whistle-blowing competition according to reports. Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reports that several individuals who defected from the site following conflicts with Assange, will launch a new site, OpenLeaks, as soon as Monday. According to the story , those launching the site, including former WikiLeaks staffer Daniel Domscheit-Berg, while supporting the purpose and goals of WikiLeaks, never the less plan on launching OpenLeaks with the following goals in mind: " Our long term goal is to build a strong, transparent platform to support whistleblowers–both in terms of technology and politics–while at the same time encouraging others to start similar projects," says a colleague wishing to remain anonymous. "As a short-term goal, this is about completing the technical infrastructure and ensuring that the organization continues to be democratically governed by all its members, rather than limited to one group or individual." From what can be gleaned about OpenLeaks, the site does not intend to publish information solely for the public, opting instead to allow other organizations access to OpenLeaks and do with it what they will. The information on the site will be produced and published by partnering organizations. Further, Open ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: thenextweb.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
WikiLeaks, whose organizer, Julian Assange , currently sits in a London prison, and who's seen their access to some sites restricted and then restored , with many coming to the site's defense, will soon have whistle-blowing competition according to reports. Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reports that several individuals who defected from the site following conflicts with Assange, will launch a new site, OpenLeaks, as soon as Monday. According to the story , those launching the site, including former WikiLeaks staffer Daniel Domscheit-Berg, while supporting the purpose and goals of WikiLeaks, never the less plan on launching OpenLeaks with the following goals in mind: " Our long term goal is to build a strong, transparent platform to support whistleblowers–both in terms of technology and politics–while at the same time encouraging others to start similar projects," says a colleague wishing to remain anonymous. "As a short-term goal, this is about completing the technical infrastructure and ensuring that the organization continues to be democratically governed by all its members, rather than limited to one group or individual." From what can be gleaned about OpenLeaks, the site does not intend to publish information solely for the public, opting instead to allow other organizations access to OpenLeaks and do with it what they will. The information on the site will be produced and published by partnering organizations. Further, Open ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: ericpalmer.wordpress.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
When you read through all of this , there is entertainment to be had. Mostly because it shows the U.S. State Department, and others, for what they are; arrogant fools. At the end of the day; the U.S. citizen needs better people to represent them to the world. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.computerworld.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
The main Web site of MasterCard was knocked offline today in a large DDoS attack apparently launched in retaliation for the credit card company's decision to cut off services to WikiLeaks. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: blog.p2pfoundation.net --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Via Forbes : " Peter Sunde, the co-founder of torrent site Pirate Bay and fellow champion of free information recently reminded his Twitter followers that they could still donate money to WikiLeaks through his micro-donation site, known as Flattr . How it works: users put a minimum of 2 euros into a Flattr account each month and can divide that up between content providers who also have an account and put the Flattr button next to their content. Flattr, which was launched in August and is based (rather ironically) in Sweden, takes 10% of all donations received via PayPal or Moneybookers. (Read more about it via A Pirate Comes Clean and Do You Flattr?) WikiLeaks has been on Flattr since August, and to date has received 2,443 Flattr donations for its Afghanistan War Diary. It has not added a Flattr button for its #cablegate pages yet, but if it did rest assured the donations would probably be just as big. A spokesperson for Flattr says there was a spike in Flattr traffic when WikiLeaks' Afghan War Diaries first came online and again when it put a Flattr button on its own pages. So how does Flattr now get WikiLeaks its donations when PayPal (a significant source of revenue for the whistleblower site) has nixed payments to its account? Flattr tells me that as long as it can verify an account holder's identity to comply with anti-money laundering and KYC (know your customer) requirements, it can send over a users' Flattr funds via bank ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.techdirt.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
This should hardly comes as a surprise, but Senator Joe Lieberman has apparently put out a statement, along with Senator Sue Collins, praising companies for following through on their political pressure to try to censor WikiLeaks , calling them "good corporate citizens," and saying that people should support those companies for their willingness to bow down to government pressure. Yeah, okay. Even the press reporting on this seem to think Lieberman is simply making stuff up. Witness this paragraph from Wired: "The WikiLeaks data dump has jeopardized U.S. national interests and the lives of intelligence sources around the world," Lieberman said, though there is no proof or even detailed allegations that the release has endangered any intelligence source. Lieberman apparently wants the world to believe that censorship is okay because "this is no time for business as usual." It appears that Lieberman really wants to go down in history as the Senator who favors censorship of the press and US companies. Quite a legacy. Permalink | Comments | Email This Story ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: twitter.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
hyperlocavore: RT @EmilTin: We want Truth: TIME's Person of the Year poll: #Assange 367k, Obama 26k Keep voting: http://bit.ly/bp9ANR #WikiLeaks ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.reuters.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - The website attacks launched by supporters of WikiLeaks show 21st-century cyber warfare evolving into a more amateur and anarchic affair than many predicted. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Internet giants Amazon and PayPal fended off multiple online attacks yesterday by sympathizers of the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks. The online retailer and the payment service, both of which appeared to function smoothly yesterday, incurred the wrath of hackers who all week have been launching... ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.mcclatchydc.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
BAGHDAD — From the Saudi-Yemen border to lawless Somalia and the north-central African desert, the U.S. military is more engaged in armed conflicts in the Muslim world than the U.S. government openly acknowledges, according to cables released by the WikiLeaks website. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: twitter.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
hyperlocavore: #WikiLeaks is a #feminist issue. #assange #cablegate http://ow.ly/3mT5a (read then comment please) ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: online.wsj.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
A number of companies, prosecutors and banks that have tangled with WikiLeaks and its founder have suffered online attacks, apparently from hackers bent on exacting revenge for the controversial website. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.openhacking.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
That tool is a port of the open source LOIC – Low Orbit Ion Canon – stress testing tool that is freely available in the Sourceforge open source project repository. No, the tool you can find on Sourceforge isn't the one specifically … Excerpt from: WikiLeaks DDOS powered by open source tools? – InternetNews:The … ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cbsnews.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Keep Up to Date with Revelations from WikiLeaks and the Latest News on its Founder, Julian Assange ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cbsnews.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Pharmaceutical Giant Aimed to "Pressure" Nigerian Attorney General to Drop Federal Cases on Alleged Illegal Drug Trial ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.eutimes.net --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
 A study of the U.S. State Department cables so far released by the WikiLeaks showed that there are merely 77 documents which mention Israel and only a handful have material pertaining to Tel Aviv. On its website WikiLeaks says it has so far released "almost 20,000″ of the "251,287 leaked United States embassy cables." The release, however, raised questions as it doe not contain any incriminating or embarrassing document against Israel. "No classified Israeli material was exposed by WikiLeaks," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in November, suggesting that Tel Aviv viewed the release as a positive. An Israeli-born investigative journalist has found evidence that WikiLeaks "struck a deal with Israel," based on which the websites founder Julian Assange would withhold cables incriminating Israel in exchange for money. Lia Abramovitch — an Israeli investigative Journalist born to holocaust-survivor parents — who writes for Syriatruth website, cites former WikiLeaks spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg as her source. Domscheit-Berg says Assange had received money from semi-official Israeli sources and promised them, in a "secret, video-recorded agreement." That explains why there's only one document that touches the issue of Israel's nuclear weapons, albeit indirectly. Cable 08PARIS245, which is a review of a meeting between acting U.S. Undersecretary of State John Rood and his British and French counterparts Mariot Leslie, Ph ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: coincollectingnews.blogspot.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
U.S. government offers deal to trade $500 million treasure for painting looted by the Nazis and currently in Spain. The painting is Camille Pissarro's "Rue St Honoré. Après-midi. Effet de Pluie"... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cbsnews.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Pharmaceutical Giant Aimed to "Pressure" Nigerian Attorney General to Drop Federal Cases on Alleged Illegal Drug Trial ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cnn.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
If you think there's a group of nerdish hackers somewhere hunched over their computers launching cyberattacks 24-7 on companies that have refused service to WikiLeaks, you're wrong. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cnn.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Supporters of WikiLeaks were criticizing Amazon.com on Thursday for refusing to host the controversial site while apparently profiting from a book about it. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: blogs.crikey.com.au --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
 "I can use Visa and Mastercard to pay for porn and support anti-abortion fanatics, Prop 8 homophobic bigots, and the Ku Klux Klan . But I can't use them or PayPal to support WikiLeaks…" – Jeff Jarvis, academic, media guru and überblogger. That remark here . His column WikiLeaks: Power shifts from secrecy to transparency, here . + + + The basic question Jarvis links to the Economist 's Will Wilkinson: With or without WikiLeaks, the technology exists to allow whistleblowers to leak data and documents while maintaining anonymity. With or without WikiLeaks, the personnel, technical know-how, and ideological will exists to enable anonymous leaking and to make this information available to the public. Jailing Thomas Edison in 1890 would not have darkened the night… The basic question is not whether we think Julian Assange is a terrorist or a hero. The basic question certainly is not whether we think exposing the chatter of the diplomatic corps helps or hinders their efforts, and whether this is a good or bad thing … If we take the inevitability of future large leaks for granted, then I think the debate must eventually centre on the things that will determine the supply of leakers and leaks. Some of us wish to encourage in individuals the sense of justice which would embolden them to challenge the institutions that control our fate by bringing their secrets to light. Some of us wish to encourage in individuals ever greater fealty and subm ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.livescience.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Experts point out that online revolts actually have a long history and warn that real cyberwarfare, when it happens, will be much more devastating. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: vivificat1.blogspot.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
A Call to Action Folks, in the past I've condemned and censured the behavior of the infowar-cum-media outfit called WikiLeaks and called for the criminal prosecution of all responsible, from the original person who stole and handed over the documents to said outfit, to all those responsible for their further illegal publication and dissemination worldwide. I did so because the information dump, particularly those documents related to combat methods, tactics, and information collectors, endangers the lives of American personnel in harm's way, as well as those whom we are supporting in the various efforts at nation-building and antiterrorism in Central Asia. I continue to advocate their legal prosecution, starting with WikiLeaks' founder, Julian Assange. WikiLeaks broke a number of Catholic moral principles, a set recognized also by other Christians, Jews, and people of good will, as part of our common moral heritage. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church : IV. RESPECT FOR THE TRUTH 2488 The right to the communication of the truth is not unconditional. Everyone must conform his life to the Gospel precept of fraternal love. This requires us in concrete situations to judge whether or not it is appropriate to reveal the truth to someone who asks for it. 2489 Charity and respect for the truth should dictate the response to every request for information or communication. The good and safety of others, respect for privacy, and ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: legal-sleaze.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
What will Pakistan's elite learn from WikiLeaks? Undoubtedly nothing. And if we're going by the White House's response so far, nor will Washington feel more constrained than it ever has running its informal global empire. Related posts: U.N. official to call for halt of C.I.A. drone strikes in Pakistan New "credible" terror threat has CIA bombarding Pakistan jihadis with drone strikes; Update: Plot "severely disrupted" WikiLeaks Release: US Briefs Allies About Upcoming Revelations ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.expatica.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Dutch police have arrested a 16-year-old who has admitted to staging cyber attacks on opponents of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, the national prosecutor said.Wim de Bruin,... ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.publicradio.org --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Amazon's UK store is selling an e-book containing excerpts from the recent WikiLeaks cables. This after Amazon kicked WikiLeaks off the Amazon servers they were renting last week, citing copyright violations. Amazon says since this e-book has original commentary and excerpts, not whole cables, there's no conflict. Meanwhile, a 16 year old boy in the Netherlands was arrested for taking part in online attacks against Visa.com, mastercard.com and Paypal. Those sites had blocked donations to WikiLeaks. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: libertypundits.net --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
 Authorities have arrested a 16-year-old Dutch teenager for his involvement in "Operation Payback," attacking sites that have cut involvement with WikiLeaks. He is one of many involved. Some of who call this an all-out war "to keep the internet free." Today, several pro-Palin sites have been attacked as well. A day after Palin's SarahPAC was attacked. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.reuters.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - The website attacks launched by supporters of WikiLeaks show 21st-century cyber warfare evolving into a more amateur and anarchic affair than many predicted. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.tmcnet.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
In the latest turn of events with the unfolding WikiLeaks saga, a 16-year-old Dutch boy was arrested by Dutch police for his alleged role in attacks on MasterCard and Visa websites, after they cut off services to the embattled WikiLeaks' site. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.abajournal.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denies, through his legal counsel, that he had anything to do with recent hack attacks on organizations perceived as hostile to his website. And he insists that it is a news publishing site, not a hack site, reports Australian Broadcasting Corporation News. However, the 39-year-old has been transferred to a segregation unit where he will have only limited Internet access as he awaits extradition from Great Britain to Sweden in a sex-crime case, reports the Guardian. It heated up after WikiLeaks dumped some 250,000 secret U.S. State Department cables onto the worldwide web, and Assange's… ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.chron.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Los cables diplomáticos estadounidenses filtrados por WikiLeaks muestran la "decadencia" de sus servicios de inteligencia, al no reflejar con precisión los hechos, consideró el jueves el presidente boliviano Evo Morales. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.csmonitor.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Anonymous hackers are rallying behind Julian Assange, declaring 'cyberwar' on governments and companies that have stopped doing business with WikiLeaks. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: elderofziyon.blogspot.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
In the wake of the WikiLeaks revelations about Saudi princes partying , Saudi desire to destroy Hezbollah and how much the Saudi monarchy hates Iran , I was wondering how the Saudi media are reporting these news items. The answer? They aren't. The English-language Saudi Gazette and Arab News have both limited their WikiLeaks stories to very general issues and have not delved into any of the revelations, especially none that mention the kingdom. (Al-Arabiya, partly owned by the Saudi MBC network but based in Dubai, did a minimal report on one of the cables.) It is easy to forget, when reading English-language Arab media, that there is a wide gulf (pun partially intended) between Western ideas of freedom of expression and those practiced in most of the Arab world. Even though one can find articles in Arab and Arabic media that would not be out of place in any Western publication, it takes a little more effort to realize what is not being covered. There is a glimmer of good news here, though. Since we can see that the Saudi monarchy does not allow any articles to be published that they disapprove of, that means that they specifically allow many recent articles about increasing women's rights in the Kingdom as well as articles that implicitly denigrate the Muttawa, Saudi Arabia's religious police. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: news.sky.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Web anarchists supporting WikiLeaks have attempted to bring down Paypal's website after an effort to bring down Amazon.com failed. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: windowstorussia.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
 MOSCOW, December 9. Itar-Tass. Putin suggested that U.S. critics of Russian democracy "do not moo, and be silent" in connection with the persecution of the founder of Vikiliksa Juliana Assandzha and its website. He said this to journalists after the fifteenth meeting of the Russian-French commission on bilateral cooperation at the level of Heads of Government. "With regard to the information that the site known" Wikiliks. "And what do you yourself think that the American diplomatic service – it is crystal clear source of information?" You think so? ", – Putin said at a question about his attitude to the scandal surrounding the activities of the site and its consequences. – Second, regarding democracy. But if democracy, then the full. Why did Mr Assandzha put away in jail? "Is that democracy? So we know, in the village so they say: Look who's talking, but yours would be silent . So I want our American colleagues to send a feedback puck. " ITAR-TASS. МОСКВА, 9 декабря. / ПРАЙМ-ТАСС /. Путин предложил американским критикам российской демократии "не мычать, а молчать" в связи с преследованием основателя "Викиликса" Джулиана Ассанджа и его сайта. Об этом он заявил журналистам по окончании пятнадцатого заседания Российско-французской комиссии по вопросам двустороннего сотрудничества на уровне глав правительств. "Что касается той информации, которая на сайте известном "Викиликс". А вы что сами считаете, что американская дипломатическая сл ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.firstcoastnews.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
A cyberattack by supporters of WikiLeaks against the MasterCard and Visa websites foreshadows a new generation of increasingly dangerous assaults on the Internet, security experts say. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.turkishpress.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
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If you can't see the subtitles, click on "CC" button in the player and select the English language! ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.globalnews.ca --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
 Internet activists defied efforts to end their online assaults against institutions seen as enemies of WikiLeaks on Thursday, promising more cyber attacks on targets starting with PayPal. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: nasblog.org --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
 Domestic political considerations far surpassed concerns about scientific grounding in negotiations at the Copenhagen climate conference. Charlie Martin describes how the leaks "confirm the dark suspicions of climate skeptics." ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.fox13now.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
LONDON (AP) — Some of the WikiLeaks critics who cheered founder Julian Assange's arrest may want to think again. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.theglobeandmail.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Boy suspected of involvement in online attacks against MasterCard, Paypal ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.businessinsider.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
 A 16 year-old Dutch boy has been arrested in the Netherlands for his part in revenge attacks on websites that crossed WikiLeaks, PC World reports . The teenager has already confessed to his involvement in the attacks on Visa's, MasterCard's, and PayPal's websites. more to come... Join the conversation about this story » See Also: Amazon: Here's Why We're Not Hypocrites For Selling WikiLeaks Book This Backlash Against WikiLeaks Is Bogus And Outrageous -- What Happened To Freedom Of The Press? ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: yahyasheikho786.wordpress.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
WikiLeaks allies launch cyber war – Kavkazcenter.com . ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.whydowork.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
So what do you think? Is it Freedom of speech? Freedom of the press? or Terrorism. OK so this guy Julian Assange created a web-sight called WikiLeaks.com which was basically a site where people who had secret or confidential information that they wanted to release but couldn"t, for fear of retribution, could download their info and stay annonamous. So this site has slowly been leaking out information and now suddenly when a lot of embarrising statements are released the creator is up on, the media tells us, "rape charges". these chardges were filled and dropped back in August and have suddenly resurfaced, is there a link? Is somebody or some people trying to silence WikiLeaks? Tell me your opinion ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.businessweek.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
EBay Inc.'s PayPal business took steps today to guard against an attack from computer hackers trying to bring down the site after it cut off funding for WikiLeaks, the organization that publishes secret documents. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.vanguardngr.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
LIKE a torrential down pour, the series of classified information obtained and leaked by controversial WikiLeaks cable continued yesterday with more exposures on governance in Nigeria. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: online.wsj.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Dutch authorities said they arrested a 16-year-old boy suspected of being involved in attacks on the websites of MasterCard and Visa allegedly mounted by sympathizers of document-leaking Web site WikiLeaks. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www2.tbo.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Documents say the State Department gave Spain documents the company filed on a shipwreck. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.tblog.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Jesus Christ what the fuck is wrong with these Australians? I am all for transparency but does ... more from skumora... ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.theusdaily.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - More cyber attacks in retaliation for attempts to block the WikiLeaks website are likely in a "data war" to protect Internet freedom, a represent ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: twitter.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
davidmoldawer: Symposium on WikiLeaks and Internet Freedom on Sat morning in NYC with a great line-up: http://www.eventbrite.com/s/2pnB see you there ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: in.reuters.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook and Twitter deleted the accounts of cyber activists who targeted Visa and other Internet payment sites that sought to block the WikiLeaks website after its release of U.S. diplomatic cables. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: albuquerque.fwix.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Hackers supporting WikiLeaks were said to be targeting Visa and MasterCard's websites Wednesday as major banks and financial institutions were cutting off the controversial company. Visa's corporate... Dec 9th, 2010, at 4:38pm GMT ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.fpif.org --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Cancun promises to be calm to a fault. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: slashdot.org --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
healeyb writes "CNN is announcing that, starting at 11 AM EST, the hackers (coined Operation Payback) responsible for the DDoS attacks on MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, and PostFinance have promised to commence an attack against Amazon for their revocation of the WikiLeaks EC2 account. — They released a do-it-yourself hacking tool online Thursday so other people can help with the attacks they say took down the websites of MasterCard and Visa..." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: canadafreepress.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Julian Assange is the proprietor, creator, and engineer of WikiLeaks, the incorporeal mechanism for disseminating stolen classified cables, documents, and videos owned by the United States government. Assange is not a journalist, he does not have a story, he does not write commentary, he does not supplement his pilfered images and videos with context; Assange is a computer hacker, thief, nomad, blackmailer, and a world-class nihilist devoid of allegiance to a country. He is an anthropological malignancy. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.techflash.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
A group attacking the websites of companies that suspended WikiLeaks accounts is now turning its attention to Amazon.com. The group, called Anonymous, tweeted its intention to target Amazon a few hours ago as part of "Operation Payback." The group earlier sought to disrupt the websites of Visa , MasterCard , PayPal and others through Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: luishipolito.blogspot.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
LONDON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Canadians and the British aren't quite as strong as Americans in criticizing WikiLeaks' release of U.S. State Department cables, an online survey indicates. Fifty-one percent of U.S. residents asked said they believed WikiLeaks was wrong to release the more than 250,000 government communiques, while 19 percent said they agreed with the actions, an Angus Reid Public Opinion ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.sizlopedia.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
 Don't you get amazed by the things human brain comes up with? An Amazon trader, who obviously is business minded, has come up with a not so decent plan of making some money out of the extremely hot WikiLeaks topic as he has put WikiLeaks Cables (5000 of them) up for sale on the UK Kindle book store. The intention one assumes, behind this move is to make sure that the WikiLeaks cables are available for all even if the official site goes down. Another thing that will raise a few eye brows is that a price tag has been put on the cables which are being circulated and published by WikiLeaks free of cost. People who reviewed this purchase item aren't exactly impressed by it and have made their voice heard as evident in the current rating of the item – 1 out of 5 stars. If my thinking is not wrong, there must be some rule in Amazon's book where a trader isn't allowed to sell a purchase item whose ownership rights are a big question mark. Anyone knows about this? Do share with us. [via The Next Web ] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.techdirt.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Back in October, I wrote a thought-piece on how "the revolution will be distributed," comparing WikiLeaks to Anonymous' "Operation Payback" (whose tactics I disagree with ). I noted that the two were very different, and were focused on very different issues, but that both were essentially about distributed and open systems taking on systems that were centralized and closed -- and that the folks in those centralized and closed systems didn't seem to understand this. Thus, all of their reactions did little to fix the challenges they were facing. It seems that my comparison of the two operations was a bit more prophetic than I expected. In the wake of the latest WikiLeaks saga, Operation Payback is getting attention for pointing its DDoS takedown efforts on Visa and MasterCard for their decision to disallow any payments to WikiLeaks via their cards. I still disagree with the tactics of Operation Payback -- which I fear will be counterproductive and could lead many people to think this is all about some "rowdy kids" rather than people with a serious agenda. However, it is rather telling how much attention they're getting . The folks behind Operation Payback point out that they're not affiliated with WikiLeaks, but: We fight for the same reasons. We want transparency and we counter censorship. The attempts to silence WikiLeaks are long strides closer to a world where we can not say what we think and are unable to express our opinions an ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.chron.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
La vida de un diplomático no se limita al caviar, los cócteles y seguir las intrucciones de otros. Implica asimismo un pescado gomoso en Bruselas, un restaurante giratorio capaz de marear a los comensales en Kazajistán y una boda musulmana de tres días con cantidades generosas de alcohol, mujeres danzando y calderas con vacas enteras hirviendo. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: alethonews.wordpress.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Press TV – December 8, 2010 A study of the U.S. State Department cables so far released by the WikiLeaks showed that there are merely 77 documents which mention Israel and only a handful have material pertaining to Tel Aviv. On its website WikiLeaks says it has so far released "almost 20,000″ of the "251,287 leaked United States embassy cables." The release, however, raised questions as it doe not contain any incriminating or embarrassing document against Israel. "No classified Israeli material was exposed by WikiLeaks," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in November, suggesting that Tel Aviv viewed the release as a positive. An Israeli-born investigative journalist has found evidence that WikiLeaks "struck a deal with Israel," based on which the websites founder Julian Assange would withhold cables incriminating Israel in exchange for money. Lia Abramovitch — an Israeli investigative Journalist born to holocaust-survivor parents — who writes for Syriatruth website, cites former WikiLeaks spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg as her source. Domscheit-Berg says Assange had received money from semi-official Israeli sources and promised them, in a "secret, video-recorded agreement." That explains why there's only one document that touches the issue of Israel's nuclear weapons, albeit indirectly. Cable 08PARIS245, which is a review of a meeting between acting U.S. Undersecretary of State John Rood and his British and French co ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.hispanictips.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Curated by HispanicTips from www.democracynow.org Hispanic & Latino News Redefined. Empower Yourself! ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.newswise.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
The WikiLeaks controversy raises a number of important legal issues about national security and freedom of the press under U.S. law, says Neil Richards, JD, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. Journalists and government officials have suggested that either WikiLeaks or The New York Times (NYT) might face legal liability for publishing the contents of diplomatic cables and other leaked documents. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: sudhan.wordpress.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
 The WikiLeaks US embassy cables reveal just how dangerously involved the Americans are in every aspect of Pakistan's affairs Simen Tsdall, The Guardian , Dec 1, 2010 WikiLeaks cables report the rule of President Asif Ali Zardari (above) was constantly under harsh review by the US. Photograph: Ishara S Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images Pakistan was already under the American hammer before the WikiLeaks crisis blew. But leaked US diplomatic cables published by the Guardian show the extraordinary extent to which Pakistan is in danger of becoming a mere satrapy of imperial Washington. The US assault on Pakistani sovereignty, which is how these developments are widely viewed in the country, is multipronged. At one end of the spectrum, in the sphere of "hard power", US special forces are increasingly involved, in one way or another, in covert military operations inside Pakistan. These troops are being used to help hunt down Taliban and al-Qaida fighters in the tribal areas and co-ordinate drone attacks, as revealed by the Guardian's Pakistan correspondent, Declan Walsh . Their activities come in addition to previous air and ground cross-border raids; and to the quasi-permanent basing of American technicians and other personnel at the Pakistani air force base from which drone attacks are launched. Continues >> ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.foxnews.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Sarah Palin confirmed to Fox News that WikiLeaks supporters were "hacking" into her political action committee account, apparently in retaliation for speaking out against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www2.tbo.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Diplomatic cables contained in WikiLeaks are available for sale on Amazon's U.K. website. It's a twist following the company's refusal to host the WikiLeaks' website. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: pizzamarketplace.com --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
 Hackers today shut down MasterCard Worldwide's website and disrupted cardholders' payments. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.kqed.org --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
Last week, WikiLeaks distributed more than 250,000 classified embassy cables to newspapers around the globe that provide an unvarnished view of U.S. foreign policy. While proponents of WikiLeaks herald the release of the documents as a victory for free speech and open information, critics contend that it undermines national security. We speak with experts on the both sides of the debate. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: 3news.co.nz --- Thursday, December 09, 2010
 Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has waded into the WikiLeaks debate, putting himself at odds with world leaders. ... | | | | | | | | | |  | |  | |  |
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