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 By John O'Driscoll: Senator Mark Arbib of NSW (as well as Michael Danby, MP for Melbourne Ports, and the retiring Senator Bob McMullan) has been exposed as a 'protected source' of the US embassy. He must wonder what 'protected' means when WikiLeaks is getting him more coverage than any other action of his career. Still touted as a rising star, but severely tarnished by the abysmal showing of the ALP in the federal election, as well as the manner and timing of the removal of Kevin Rudd and elevation of Julia Gillard, Arbib's outing as an American agent of influence should render his position untenable. In the immediate aftermath, however, his allies in the ALP closed ranks around him, claiming there was nothing in this revelation, everyone does it. Arbib issued a statement; "I, like many members of the federal parliament, have regular discussions about the state of Australian and US politics with members of the US mission and consulate." In a sane world his political career would be over, but in the 51st state we'll just have to wait and see. Section 44(i.) of the Australian constitution states: "Any person who [is] under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights & priveleges of a subject or citizen of a foreign power: or [ disqualifiers(ii. to v.) ] shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a senator or a member of the House of Rep ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: samibengharbia.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Nawaat relaye , en exclusivité, une partie des documents secrets qui concernent la Tunisie dévoilés par WikiLeaks . Le site qui a déjà été à l'origine de la fuite de milliers de documents sur l'engagement américain en Irak et en Afghanistan. Les documents sont issus du réseau SIPRNet (Secret Internet Protocol Router Network) de l'administration américaine utilisé pour la transmission de mémos diplomatiques et autres documents secrets. Tous les documents relatifs à la Tunisie sont classés secrets : (Classification SECRET//NOFORN). « Noforn », qui est une restriction supplémentaire, signifie « Not releasable to Foreign Nationals », autrement dit « non diffusable aux étrangers ». Cette première partie, que nous avons nommée TuniLeaks , est composée de 17 20 documents qui révèlent la teneur des échanges entre l'ambassade US en Tunisie et le département des Affaires étrangères américain. Lesdits rapports sont relativement récents et ont été transmis entre le 28 Mai 2008 3 Mars 2008 et le 9 février 2010. Parmi les 17 20 rapports, 2 sont rédigés par l'actuel ambassadeur des États-Unis d'Amérique à Tunis Gordon Gray, et 15 18 par son prédécesseur. Cette première partie de câbles diplomatiques entre l'ambassade US à Tunis et Washington sera suivie par d'autres parties que nous publierons au fur et à mesure. Il est important ici de signaler qu'il s'agit donc des câbles du pouvoir civil par opposition aux instances militaires. Pour le cas des ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: womenborntranssexual.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/WikiLeaks-uk-frightened-papal-appeal/ By Agence France-Presse Friday, December 10th, 2010 — 8:32 pm LONDON — Britain's ambassador to the Vatican feared the pope's invitation for disgruntled Anglicans to switch to Catholicism might spark anti-Catholic violence at home, a leaked US diplomatic cable revealed Saturday. Ambassador Francis Campbell told US diplomats that "Anglican-Vatican relations were facing their worst crisis in 150 years as a result of the pope's decision", according to the cable dated November 30, 2009. The cable sent to Washington added: "The crisis is also worrisome for England's small, mostly Irish-origin, Catholic minority, Campbell said. "There is still latent anti-Catholicism in some parts of England and it may not take much to set it off. The outcome could be discrimination or in isolated cases, even violence, against this minority." Continue reading at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/WikiLeaks-uk-frightened-papal-appeal/ ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: in.reuters.com --- Friday, December 10, 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.nipuninfotech.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
WikiLeaks Archive – Cables Show Vatican Tensions and Diplomacy Documents reveal the Holy See's reactions to sexual abuse scandals and involvement in political issues. Read more on New York Times ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: thedailyconservative.net --- Friday, December 10, 2010
[This is the first in a series of three articles that will be devoted to the subject of WikiLeaks , secrecy, the state, and transformation. This is intended as a survey of some of the opinions I have found most interesting.] … Read the rest here: The WikiLeaks Revolution « ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.reuters.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - What started out as a small group of activists operating a clearing house for leaked secret documents, WikiLeaks looks like turning into an international grass roots movement that needs no central figure to fight a "data war" in the name of Internet freedom. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.yachtchartersmagazine.tv --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Cloud Computing has been flexing its muscles over the past week, much to the discomfiture of the American government and numerous other diplomats worldwide. The ability for Julian Assange and his acolytes to keep the information flowing on the one hand, and to paralyze websites of those that they oppose on the other, demonstrates the original brilliance of the Internet's decentralized structure and protocol. These cyber-gymnastics will, unfortunately, most likely provoke a reaction opposite of that intended by WikiLeaks and its supporters. Rather than bullying governments into a new era of transparency and disclosure, it is likely to unleash an underlying fascism that will manifest itself in increased calls for insane ideas like Internet kill switches, international prior restraint treaties, and strengthened Patriot Act-type nonsense under the guise of anti-terror laws. If you think the American government has acted fascistically in the past, well just wait, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Just as it is now clear that the so-called War on Terror transcends political parties, it will become equally clear that a riled-up donkey is at least as dangerous as an angry elephant. Who Is On Your Side? Well played, laddies! You now have noted democracy icon Vladimir Putin on your side, and somewhere, China's leaders are smiling. It struck me as ironic that many of the world's most technically adept people--ie, geeks--are now telling diplomats ho ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.234next.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
U.S. drugmaker Pfizer hired investigators to find evidence of corruption against Nigeria's attorney general to convince him to drop legal action against the company over a drug trial involving children, the Guardian newspaper reported, citing U.S. diploma... ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.disinfo.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
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WikiLeaks case: United Nations is concerned by the American censorship | Ecommerce Journal . ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: aussgworldpolitics.wordpress.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
National security is usually an overriding reason given by governments to suppress information or persecute those who choose to release these information to the public. Yet, when it comes to defining national security, most officials would have a difficult time, trying to justify the need to classify these information as confidential. For instance, this MSNBC report claims that the recent WikiLeaks cables endangered overseas American interests and security as the locations of factories, ports and fuel companies have been released and are now easy target by potential terrorists. This argument is fallacious for two main reasons. Firstly, various key U.S. facilities abroad are already searchable within the public domain. For instance, the locations of US military bases overseas such as Pine Gap in Australia or Diego Garcia controlled by Great Britain. Moreover, the release of the list of these facilities raises another important question on the need for U.S to use 'apparently innocuous' places for its covert operations. This can be glimpsed from the identified critical infrastructure which include a Danish insulin plant, an Australian anti-snake venom company and a DRC cobalt mine. Other released cables reveals information that have significant public interest. For instance, it was disclosed that terrorist groups have managed to attack nuclear weapons sites in Pakistan. According to a Washington expert, this is counterproductive for t ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: digg.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Wired is reporting that the Air Force commander of Network Operations has issued a new directive seemingly in response to the leak of classified data to whistleblower site WikiLeaks. The Dec. 3 Cyber Control Order calls on the Air Force to immediately cease use of removable media on all systems, servers, and stand alone machines residing on SIPRNET." SPIRNET is the Defense Department's secure computer network. The data being released by WikiLeaks was taken from SPIRNET by Pfc. Bradley Manning, who smuggled them out on a CD labeled "Lady Gaga". The new directi ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.myce.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
 The stereotypical depiction of a hacker is generally a young male with impaired social skills who spends most of his time on his computer in his parent�s basement. While this week�s arrest of a... ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: twitter.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
MoneyEnergy: True; if the #WikiLeaks are so illegal, damning & unconstitutional, why isn't Amazon being shut down & prosecuted for selling the #wikibook? ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.myantiwar.org --- Friday, December 10, 2010
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Republikein Ron Paul is nooit bang een afwijkende mening te hebben of lastige vragen te stellen. Hier gaat hij in tegen de roep in de VS om Julian Assange te berechten. Waarom is de vijandigheid niet gericht tegen de regering, die de informatie niet binnenboord kon houden? Moet de New York Times, die de informatie afdrukte, dan niet ook vervolgd worden? Weet Amerika nog wel dat Daniel Ellsberg, het lek van de Pentagon Papers in 1971, nooit in de gevangenis heeft gezeten? Verdachte WikiLeaks-aanvallen langer vast Onderzoek naar aanval websites OM en politie Jongen (16) bekent WikiLeaks-aanval Eerdere aanvallen op internet 'Site OM platgelegd na arrestatie hacker' Steeds meer mensen hacken voor WikiLeaks 'Aanval op site Mastercard vanuit Nederland' Nederland: geen bemoeienis met Assange Actiegroep: we pakken alle vijanden WikiLeaks ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: robertkyriakides.wordpress.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
People who dissent from authority are usually ill treated by the authority from which they dissent. In England Mr Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, is in prison awaiting conclusion of extradition proceedings to Sweden in respect of rape charges. Mr Assange's organisation has certainly wounded many countries by disclosing documents that those countries had resolved to keep secret. Those who support the "leaking" of secret documents are claiming that Mr Assange's arrest is politically motivated. This year Mr Lui Xiaboo has won the Nobel Peace Prize. He could not collect it because he is in prison in China. As I understand it Mr Lui Xiaboo has not done any work for peace but has worked to establish better human rights protection for the Chinese people, by campaigning for democracy in China. The Nobel Committee say there is a strong link between peace and human rights and I suppose it is for them to define the boundaries of the award that they give. China is very cross about this award because Mr Lui Xiaboo has been sentenced for subverting the state which is a serious charge. China and many of its allies did not attend the award ceremony and have loudly protested at the award. In China Mr Lui Xiaboo's activities were unlawful. In the United States Mr Assange's organisation's activities appear unlawful. Both mr Assange and Mr Lui Xiaboo appear to be motivated by high ideals and their actions, criminal or not, are highly inconvient to the ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.unconfirmedsources.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
(Afghanistan:Border Province) Ucs News: The world's foremost terrorist, Osama bin Laden, leader of a terrorist organization known as Al-Qaeda, has found himself in a rather difficult position. Just days after releasing sensitive U.S. communications, Julian Assange has once again shock the world with a treasure trove Al-Qaeda documents. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: abclocal.go.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Attorney General Eric Holder says the latest WikiLeaks release has put the safety of the American people at risk. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: songlines.org.au --- Friday, December 10, 2010
WikiLeaks – Spread the word A full page ad in The New York Times–amazing! But for it to have maximum impact in the United States, we need to get as many Australian as possible behind the statement. So many Australians are upset about this issue, but they don't know what to do about it. Tell them by using our handy tell-a-friend tool below and through social media with the twitter and facebook tools on the right. It's your voice that builds the movement. http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/WikiLeaks&id=1493 ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: littlegreenfootballs.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com] I'm pretty much done taking WikiLeaks supporters seriously. I've reluctantly listened to all the defenses and arguments from Assange supporters only to arrive back at my original conclusion that WikiLeaks and their apologists have a few screws loose. A glimpse into Assange's thinking can be found here . His goal is to collapse the American government's ability to function. This sentiment was echoed by Barret Brown on LGF earlier today: Anonymous and the Inevitable Fall of the Nation-State . I really liked Barret and was very happy to have him posting on LGF. He's a great personality and a wonderful writer but this misguided philosophy about creating chaos in order to bring about the destruction of "nation states" (namely the US) is not only nutty but unAmerican. Barret made a telling comment here ..... I think I see the world as it is, including our own government and institutions, in a bleaker manner than does 80 or 90 percent of the population, and as such I'm far more excited about the ongoing period of tumult, not being at all wedded to anything that might be broken as a result. The goal of Assange and his supporters is to destroy the America they hate. I will give credit to Barret for a very accurate guess. Only an extremist fringe 22% of the population think WikiLeaks is helpful. This explains why the idea is so appealing to Ron Paul , the anti Israel creeps at anti-war-dot ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: thedailyconservative.net --- Friday, December 10, 2010
WikiLeaks is serious business. So let's make fun of it! Or at least, let's check out Splitsider's look at how The Daily Show, SNL, and (thankfully) Ricky Gervais have brought humor to this somber saga. [Splitsider] Original post: Comedy's Reaction to the WikiLeaks Cables ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: thedailyconservative.net --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Paul Joseph Watson | While the cybersecurity agenda is activated by Assange's arrest, bigger revelations are in the pipeline for WikiLeaks, according to one of its original members. See the article here: WikiLeaks Founder: Bigger Bombshells On The Way ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: moelane.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
I'll be honest: I hesitated to put up this link to what claims to be a Wikileaked cable regarding issues with the US/UK special relationship during the previous administration. I truly did. I have long made it clear that I take our security classification system likely, and I subscribe wholeheartedly to the notion [...] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cnn.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Relations between the Vatican and Ireland deteriorated sharply as the Holy See appeared to ignore a commission looking into complaints of physical and sexual abuse of children by Irish priests, according to U.S. diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: rebeccalando.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Well, it looks like we can add Visa to the list of companies pressured into no longer working with WikiLeaks , following a similar move by MasterCard . At least, unlike MasterCard, Visa isn't already claiming that WikiLeaks was convicted of a crime. Instead, it's just said that it's suspended any work with WikiLeaks "pending further investigation into the nature of its business and whether it contravenes Visa operating rules." As Charles Arthur points out , the Ku Klux Klan's website points you to a site that takes both MasterCard and Visa — suggesting the pure arbitrariness of both credit card companies' decision here. It's a bad idea when firms start making decisions for political reasons. There are all sorts of companies out there that take credit cards to support objectionable (to many) activities. Is it really the credit card companies' job to pick and choose who they find objectionable to work with — and if so, what basis does it use for saying "KKK is okay, but WikiLeaks is not"? This reinforces the point we recently made about the role of corporate intermediaries in being able to aid governments in censorship, even in the absence of a trial or conviction. Either way, this is a really sad statement about both Visa and MasterCard and their willingness to cave to government pressure. -From TechDirt ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.madboxpc.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Asi es, todo el tema de WikiLeaks es un montaje para suprimir la libertad de internet y asi dar a Obama y otros del stablishment como rockefeller el kill switch de internet para cortar la información que delata sus crimenes y que no les conviene. Lamentablemente lo unico que podemos hacer contra esto es alertar e informar. Wikipedia era dueño de la original url de WikiLeaks. Todo es un montaje. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: youedit.info --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Read original… ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.profilactic.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
randomdeanna: Incidentally, my term "chaos enthusiasts" --how I describe Anonymous, in neutral terms--would make a good punk band name #payback #WikiLeaks ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.chicagotribune.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
The 'hacktivists' are a new breed of online protesters ready to engage in acts of cyber-disobedience against corporations, politicians and religious institutions in the name of defending their ideals. Rafix was set to attack. The target was Visa.com. The weapon: a battery of personal computers ready to jam the site with millions of simultaneous log-in requests. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.mashget.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
 The Huffington Post General Hugh Shelton , who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001 of the United States, spoke to Jon Stewart last night about his new book "Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior ." Gen. Shelton told Stewart about a person who made a suggestion to President Bill Clinton to have an American plane fly low and slow so that Saddam Hussein would shoot it down, allowing the U.S. to retaliate. Iraq's President Says He Won't Approve Execution of Hussein Adviser Aziz Jon Stewart's 'Restore' rally not just politics Jon Stewart Rally Attracts Estimated 215000 Jon Stewart rally - live updates Rally To Restore Sanity: Jon Stewart Assesses The Risks ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: nexgadget.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
 Surprise, surprise: WikiLeaks-related headlines continue to explode at the top of the week. Most compelling? The old guard hackers of 2600 magazine condemning Anon kiddies, a Homeland Security employee protesting government access bans, and American spying charges looming over Assange. 2600 vs. Anonymous If there's anyone who knows hacking, it's the crew behind 2600: The [...] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.iloubnan.info --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Le Député Mohammad Raad, Membre du bloc parlementaire de la Fidélité à la Résistance, a indiqué vendredi que les informations publiées sur le site internet WikiLeak... ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.computerworld.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
The retaliatory attacks by pro-WikiLeaks activists are growing in strength as hackers add botnets and thousands of people download an open-source attack tool, security researchers said today. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.computerworld.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
The loosely-knit Anonymous hacker group Friday called its attacks against perceived foes of WikiLeaks a symbolic protest. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.computerworld.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Several top WikiLeaks backers are set to open a rival whistleblower site on Monday because they're growing increasingly frustrated with the state of affairs at WikiLeaks. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.dawn.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
LONDON: WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange was in a segregation unit of a London jail Saturday for his safety, as new secret US diplomatic cables were made public, increasing the embarrassment to Washington. The 39-year-old Australian has been transferred from the main ... ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: news.antiwar.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
A new Marist-McClatchy poll has revealed a disappointingly strong opposition to the notion of a free press in the United States. The poll showed strong support for the notion of censoring WikiLeaks and prosecuting anyone involved in the publication of classified data. In 1971 the US Supreme Court vindicated the right to publish classified data in the public interest as part of the furor surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers. Some forty years later, the poll points to a public in no mood for arguments related to its own right to know . Only 22 percent of Americans thought the releases were a good thing, while some 59 percent believed that anyone involved ought to be prosecuted. Though there is no immediate indication that this is the case, one can hope the methodology of the polling somehow skewed the results. However it must also be considered that the American public has simply changed its mind about the historical notion of a free press and is now firmly in favor of broad censorship on national security grounds. The poll will likely fuel the growing befuddlement of the rest of the world at the Obama Administration's lip service for a free press ( and the State Department's announcement of a May event honoring the notion ) even as they look to prosecute people on the basis of embarrassing publications and as Congress meets with the sole determination to change the law to restrict the right to publish such material even fu ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: sinhale.wordpress.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
The British government promised to protect America's interests during the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, according to a secret cable sent from the US embassy in London. Jon Day, the Ministry of Defence's director general for security policy, told US under-secretary of state Ellen Tauscher that the UK had "put measures in place to [...] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.finance-insurance-loans.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
By Julian Sanchez My onetime professor Jorge Castañeda—later better known as Mexico's foreign minister under Vicente Fox—used to speak with grudging admiration about the "Economy of Repression" practiced by the long-reigning Partido Revolucionario Institucional. He used the phrase in a dual sense: It was repression carried out by economic means, as papers that strayed too far from the PRI line would suddenly find their lucrative government advertising revenue drying up, state-controlled suppliers jacking up prices, and PRI-linked union workers threatening strike. But it was also an economical (that is, a parsimonious)means of repression, operating indirectly and relatively invisibly, and allowing more heavy-handed mechanisms—the censor's pen and the truncheon—to be used more sparingly. Castañeda's phrase has crossed my mind more than once over the past week, as we've witnessed an array of digital intermediaries and financial institutions cutting ties with WikiLeaks in the wake of attacks on the controversial site by prominent politicians . Amazon booted the whistleblowing organization from its hosting service shortly after receiving a concerned call from the office of Sen. Joe Lieberman. Amazon officials say the timing is purely coincidental , but the company still won praise for the decision from a group of prominent senators . Visa and MasterCard—both recent beneficiaries of lobbying by the Obama administration —blocked donations ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: crooksandliars.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Many themes run through the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables released thus far, but only one runs through the heart of all of them. Underneath diplomacy and protocol, the US Chamber of Commerce and its clients around the world have a thumbprint on every single economy, even in countries like Venezuela, where Hugo Chavez is in full control of his own country and remains busy destabilizing others. In a cable dated October 15, 2009 , Ambassador Patrick Duddy relays a basketful of concerns expressed to him by Chevron, Baker/Hughes and the Venezuelan/American Chamber of Commerce. Baker Hughes, XXXXXXXXXXXX shared that doing business in Venezuela is increasingly difficult, noting that where there used to be seven steps required to export a container from Venezuela, there are now over thirty steps imposed by GBRV agencies. XXXXXXXXXXXX confirmed that BHI has removed higher-technology assets from Venezuela. That complaint sounds familiar, doesn't it? They all hate bureaucracy. Chevron, on the other hand, has figured out a way to pull out the profit without investing anything in the country. Guess they're using the lessons they've learned here at home. ChevronXXXXXXXXXXXX told the Ambassador XXXXXXXXXXXX that the company's two Maracaibo joint ventures (JV ) Petroboscan and Petroindependiente) with PDVSA are profitable especially since Chevron is not investing new funds. He confided that although the JVs owe over $100 million to various service c ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: judecowell.wordpress.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Well, this may be the largest Article-Round-Up I've ever posted for your consideration for there's so much going on and situations are fluxxing fast: WikiLeaks Mirrors WikiLeaks is currently mirrored on 1559 websites . Why Are Wars Not Being Reported Honestly? By John Pilger The public needs to know the truth about wars. So why have journalists colluded with governments to hoodwink us? Lebanon Holds its Breath Over Leaked Revelations By Robert Fisk in Beirut The Hezbollah party is using the cables as proof of UN involvement with Washington- and thus, by extension, with Israel – and politicians are desperately denying that they gave intelligence information to the Americans about Hezbollah's secret communications system . WikiLeaks Cables Show Deeper U.S. Military Role in Muslim World By SHASHANK BENGALI 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. What's Behind the War on WikiLeaks By Ray McGovern WikiLeaks has teased the genie of transparency out of a very opaque bottle, and powerful forces in America, who thrive on secrecy, are trying desperately to stuff the genie back in. Espionage Act: How the Government Can Engage in Serious Aggression Against the People of the United States By Naomi Wolf This week, Senators Joe Lieb ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: delong.typepad.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
: Saturday, 12 December 1998, 16:13 S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 02 LONDON 000368 NOFORN SIPDIS DOE FOR GPERSON, CHAYLOCK EO 12958 DECL: 12/12/2018 TAGS EPET, ENRG, PGOV, RS">RS, NI SUBJECT: ENGLAND: RELIABILITY AND LONGEVITY OF UK-US RELATIONSHIP CONFIRMED REF: A. LONDON 365 B. LONDON 366 Classified By: Consul General Robbie Honerkamp for reasons 1.4 (B) and (D ) (S/NF) Summary: We're no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I. A full commitment's what I'm thinking of. You wouldn't get this from any other guy. I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling. Gotta make you understand. (C/NF) Chorus: Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. (S/NF) We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but You're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see (C/NF) Chorus: Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. (C/NF) Chorus: Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. (C/NF) Background Singers: (Ooh, giv ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cnn.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
The U.S. Embassy in Caracas appears to have put in long hours examining President Hugo Chavez's efforts to build a socialist economy in Venezuela. But out of all the dense analysis springs one cable -- about the role of the humble tortilla in building a brave new world. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: feeds.feedburner.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
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 Tom Ramstack – AHN News Correspondent London, United Kingdom (AHN) – International protest is building about the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange this week. Assange is being held in a British jail awaiting extradition to Sweden on rape charges. Meanwhile, the U.S. Justice Department is seeking to extradite him to the United States to face espionage charges after his Web site released more than 250,000 documents that exposed secret State Department communications. However, political leaders in Australia, Brazil, Russia and elsewhere say Assange is a political prisoner who is being punished for exercising rights of the free press. Some of the harshest criticism is coming from Australia, where hundreds of people rallied Thursday in three cities to protest Assange's arrest. Assange is an Australian citizen. Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said Assange was merely doing the job of any journalist by publishing the documents. "The blame for any violations of the law should fall on the persons who gave the documents to WikiLeaks," Rudd said. "The Americans are responsible for that." The State Department communications, called "cables," described Rudd as a "control freak" and said that he made mistakes as Australia's foreign minister. Rudd said he was unconcerned about the criticisms. He also said Australia would offer consular help to Assange. Consular help refers to sending diplomats to meet with a citizen of their own country who is ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.siliconindia.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
While the governments and several companies all around the world are blocking access and severing ties with WikiLeaks, there is a world of people who has come in support for the media organization or its beleaguered founder Julian Assange. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.jasonkitcat.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Acres of words have been written on what Cablegate (the WikiLeaks release of US embassy cables) means, changes and so on. I have tried to avoid any knee-jerk reactions on this blog, whilst watching the debates unfold. A number of misconceptions are taking hold which are influencing discussions in unhelpful ways. Firstly, WikiLeaks did not steal or take the Cablegate cables. Someone passed them to WikiLeaks, that's what a leak is! So whilst the leaker may have broken laws and their terms of employment, WikiLeaks haven't. Neither have the New York Times, The Guardian, El Pais and the other media organisations who also are publishing the cables. So, if you deplore the breach of confidence by the leaker, that's fine — but don't blame WikiLeaks and other media organisations for it, the press can't help but publish good stories that are in the public interest. Again, if you deplore the leaks, then consider the poor security which enabled over 2 million US personnel access to these cables in such a way that they could be downloaded and leaked so readily. This further highlights the risks of centralised databases with wide-scale networked access. The system wasn't cracked, a technical flaw wasn't exploited, someone authorised to use the system just downloaded everything there. Persecuting WikiLeaks only serves to make them more of a rallying point giving them stratospheric profile, and makes them an even more obvious recipient for future l ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.thelivedemo.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Dutch authorities said on Thursday that they have arrested a 16-year-old hacker who was involved in the attacks on the Web sites of MasterCard and PayPal. These attacks were part of the group Anonymous' Operation Payback campaign. Among others, they were paying back MasterCard and PayPal for suspending WikiLeaks' accounts. The arrest was announced by the Dutch National Prosecutors Office, who said that the unnamed teenager was arrested by a high-tech crime unit on Wednesday night. While his identity was not released, it's believed he may be one of the IRC-operators of Anonymous, known by the handle Jeroenz0r. Anonymous has attacked numerous targets, including the Dutch prosecutor's office which is trying to extradite WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange from the U.K. On Thursday, Amazon.com, which kicked WikiLeaks off its EC2 service, was attacked. However, the site showed just why WikiLeaks wanted to use it as a host: it was too robust to be taken down by the DDoS attack. The... [[ To View Full Article, Please Click on the Title or Visit http://www.thelivedemo.com ]] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: digg.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Vatican diplomats also lobbied against Venezuela's Hugo Chvez and wanted 'Christian roots' enshrined in EU constitution ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: nexgadget.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
 WikiLeaks is serious business. So let's make fun of it! Or no less than, let's investigate Splitsider's look at how The Daily Show, SNL, and (thankfully) Ricky Gervais have brought humor to this somber saga. [ Splitsider ] Source ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: makin257.livejournal.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Caving to pressure from supporters, PayPal releases WikiLeaks funds Source: http://thenextweb.com/media/2010/12/09/caving-to-pressure-from-supporters-paypal-releases-WikiLeaks-funds/ ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.whydowork.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
ladybug Wrote: I don't see much difference between him doing it and a reporter doing it. What if some news reporter had gotten the information and printed it? It's been done before. Same thing to me. The embarrassment to whoever is at the other end wouldn't have been any different. I agree, and I really don't want to get political here, but it seems that everyone was on board when Palin's Email hacking contents were published, but now the embarrassment is on the other foot, and it's not acceptable. Wht's good for the goose is good for the gander..... WikiLeaks has been the center of many a scandal and up until now, nothing big was mentioned. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: gadgets.originalsignal.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
WikiLeaks is serious business. So let's make fun of it! Or at least, let's check out Splitsider's look at how The Daily Show, SNL, and (thankfully) Ricky Gervais have brought humor to this somber saga. More » ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: slashdot.org --- Friday, December 10, 2010
cgriffin21 writes "The Pentagon is taking matters into its own hands to prevent the occurrence of another WikiLeaks breach with removable media ban, preventing soldiers from using USB sticks, CDs or DVDs on any systems or servers. The directive prohibiting removable media followed the recent publication of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables, which were leaked to whistleblower Web site WikiLeaks at the end of last month by a military insider." ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: atomicnewsreview.org --- Friday, December 10, 2010
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2010/12/04/shocker-us-state-department-%E2%80%98cleared%E2%80%99-the-release-of-WikiLeaks-documents-published-so-far/ Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: chattahbox.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
(ChattahBox Technology News)—Amazon.com is taking considerable heat for selling a Kindle e-book offering commentary on the stolen U.S. diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks, just days after the company threw Julian Assange's rogue group off of its servers for illegal activity. The download by German author Heinz Duthel, entitled "WikiLeaks documents expose US foreign policy conspiracies," [...] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: chattahbox.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Burma (ChattahBox World News)—Speculation that Burma could be the home of new nuclear and missile facilities has heated up, with word that a new facility is under construction 300 miles northwest of Rangoon, the UK Guardian reports. A Burmese officer said that he witnessed North Korean technicians helping build an underground facility in the Burmese [...] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cbsnews.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Supporters Downloading Increasing Amounts of Spam-Shooting Software to Attack Companies Viewed as Foes ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: passingclouds.cloudyco.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
The Most Damning WikiLeaks Cable You'll Ever Read ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: gigalaw.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Cyber activists attacking organizations seen as foes of WikiLeaks briefly blocked a Dutch prosecution website after a 16-year-old suspected of involvement in the campaign was arrested in the country. The activists also tried to block the website of online payment firm Moneybookers, but denied their attacks were intended to create business turmoil or badly disrupt online Christmas shopping. Read the article: Reuters ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cato-at-liberty.org --- Friday, December 10, 2010
By Julian Sanchez My onetime professor Jorge Castañeda—later better known as Mexico's foreign minister under Vicente Fox—used to speak with grudging admiration about the "Economy of Repression" practiced by the long-reigning Partido Revolucionario Institucional. He used the phrase in a dual sense: It was repression carried out by economic means, as papers that strayed too far from the PRI line would suddenly find their lucrative government advertising revenue drying up, state-controlled suppliers jacking up prices, and PRI-linked union workers threatening strike. But it was also an economical (that is, a parsimonious)means of repression, operating indirectly and relatively invisibly, and allowing more heavy-handed mechanisms—the censor's pen and the truncheon—to be used more sparingly. Castañeda's phrase has crossed my mind more than once over the past week, as we've witnessed an array of digital intermediaries and financial institutions cutting ties with WikiLeaks in the wake of attacks on the controversial site by prominent politicians . Amazon booted the whistleblowing organization from its hosting service shortly after receiving a concerned call from the office of Sen. Joe Lieberman. Amazon officials say the timing is purely coincidental , but the company still won praise for the decision from a group of prominent senators . Visa and MasterCard—both recent beneficiaries of lobbying by the Obama administration —blocked donations ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: axisoflogic.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
December 9, 2010 THE federal government is deeply disillusioned about Australia's engagement in Afghanistan. Officials have described as "hopeless" the key task of training the Afghan national police, reports said last night. US diplomatic cables revealed by the WikiLeaks website show that despite public assurances to the contrary, some of... ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: motherjones.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
From Steve Aftergood's Secrecy News : The U.S. Government insists that the classification markings on many of the leaked documents being published by WikiLeaks and other organizations are still in force, even though the documents are effectively in the public domain, and it has directed federal employees and contractors not to access or read the records outside of a classified network. But by strictly adhering to the letter of security policy and elevating security above mission performance, some say the government may be causing additional damage. "At DHS we are getting regular messages [warning not to access classified records from WikiLeaks]," one Department of Homeland Security official told us in an email message . "It has even been suggested that if it is discovered that we have accessed a classified WikiLeaks cable on our personal computers, that will be a security violation. So, my grandmother would be allowed to access the cables, but not me. This seems ludicrous." "As someone who has spent many years with the USG dealing with senior officials of foreign governments, it seems to me that the problem faced by CRS researchers (and raised by you) is going to be widespread across our government if we follow this policy." "Part of making informed judgments about what a foreign government or leader will do or think about something is based on an understanding and analysis of what information has gone into their own deliberative p ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: techland.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
With all the attention being paid to WikiLeaks lately, organizations supporting similar goals are bound to start showing up in droves over the coming months. One in particular, called OpenLeaks, may start up operations as soon as next week, according to Forbes. What makes OpenLeaks unique is the fact that it's being run by several [...] ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.newsweek.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
What the cables say of the British soldier. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: yahyasheikho786.wordpress.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
BLOGGING THE WikiLeaks for Friday, Day 13 | The Nation . ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.myfox11.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
WikiLeaks supporters on Friday downloaded increasing amounts of the spam-shooting software used to attack companies seen as hostile - a development that could challenge even Internet giants such as PayPal and Amazon.com... ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: yahyasheikho786.wordpress.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Federal Ban of WikiLeaks Website Embroils Librarians | American Libraries Magazine . ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cio.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Takedown attempts against WikiLeaks undermine what the Internet stands for, and those responsible should be tracked down and prosecuted, says the Internet Society, a non-profit group dedicated to the open use of the Internet. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cbsnews.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
WikiLeaks Solicited Funds for Alleged Cable Leaker Bradley Manning's Defense, but has Delayed Delivery by Several Months ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - Cyber activists striking at companies seen as enemies of WikiLeaks sought to block the website of online payment firm Moneybookers on Friday ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: yahyasheikho786.wordpress.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
SAUDI ARABIA: Despite 'Desperate Housewives', media still not free, according to WikiLeaks cable | Babylon & Beyond | Los Angeles Times . ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: madhatters.me.uk --- Friday, December 10, 2010
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Former WikiLeaks supporters at odds with founder Julian Assange will shortly launch OpenLeaks, a rival project aiming to get secret documents directly to media. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.treehugger.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
 Photo: zieak , Flickr, CC The US diplomatic cables revealed by WikiLeaks have produced a wide swath of important information. From unflattering looks into the conduct of US policy, to revelations about the administration's blind eye towards environmental destruction , citizens have been provided with a rare behind the scenes glimpse of state power mechanics. One such revelation concerns the diplomatic grip that Shell Oil holds over the state of Nigeria -- it appears... Read the full story on TreeHugger ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: yahyasheikho786.wordpress.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
WikiLeaks fake cables – Pakistani newspapers admit they were hoaxed | World news | The Guardian . ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.scpr.org --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Our listener response is split between those who see Assange as a hero, who's opening up government and other institutions to the level of transparency they should provide, and those who see him as recklessly damaging America's ability to conduct foreign policy. Regardless of your view, the possibility that Assange will be prosecuted for violating the U. S. Espionage Act makes for fascinating legal debate. Friday morning on AirTalk we heard competing interpretations of the law from professors Scott Silliman of Duke and John Eastman of Chapman. I have the sense we're just at the beginning of a very long process. What do you think about Assange and WikiLeaks? Is he a journalist who should be provided legal protections for his posting of secret information? Are his actions going to improve American government? ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cio.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Prosecuting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for the disclosure of classified State Department cables will pose huge challenges for the U.S. government, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cio.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could soon be indicted on spying charges under the U.S. Espionage Act. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: current.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
 New York Rep. Peter King has exploited the hysteria surrounding the WikiLeaks case to introduce legislation to make it illegal to publish the names of American intelligence sources who provide information to the US military or intelligence community, according to Homeland Security Today. King has called Assange a terrorist and demands Eric Holder and the Justice Department deal with him. HR 6506, called the SHIELD Act (Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination), is a companion bill to a Senate bill introduced earlier this month by senators Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), John Ensign (R-Nev.), and Scott Brown (R-Mass.). Both bills would amend U.S. Code Title 18 Section 798, also called the Espionage Act, to provide legal protections that already apply to communications intelligence to human intelligence sources. "Julian Assange and his cronies, in their effort to hinder our war efforts, are creating a hit list for our enemies by publishing the names of our human intelligence sources," Ensign said in a statement. "Our sources are bravely risking their lives when they stand up against the tyranny of al Qaeda, the Taliban, and murderous regimes, and I simply will not stand idly by as they become death targets because of Julian Assange. Let me be very clear, WikiLeaks is not a whistleblower website and Assange is not a journalist." added by: GLOBALPOLITICAL 7 comments ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: blog.nothingbutsoftware.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
 If you have been following WikiLeaks in the news, you have undoubtedly heard of the cyber attacks launched this week in defense of the site. The group who has taken credit for these attacks, Anonymous, has reportedly released an official statement. Part of the statement reads, "Anonymous is not a group of hackers. We are average Internet Citizens ourselves and our motivation is a collective sense of being fed up with all the minor and major injustices we witness every day." The statement also reads, "We do not want to steal your personal information or credit card numbers. We also do not seek to attack critical infrastructure of companies such as Mastercard, Visa, PayPal or Amazon." If the statement has indeed been issued from the group, it seems they have concerns about how they are viewed and what their motives are. The statement comes just after a suspected member of Anonymous was arrested in the Netherlands on Thursday. The suspect, a 16-year-old boy, was taken into custody by Dutch authorities for suspected involvement in the attacks launched by Anonymous against MasterCard and VISA websites. The hacker group (or, er, Internet Citizens), Anonymous has taken credit for a number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks launched against sites who have denied service or distanced themselves from WikiLeaks. MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, and Amazon are few of the sites that have been hit by attacks and whether or not more attacks ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: themorningsidepost.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Anya Schiffrin is the director of SIPA's International Media, Advocacy and Communications Specialization. She spent 10 years working overseas as a journalist in Europe and Asia, writing for a number of different magazines and newspapers. In addition to serving as director of the IMAC specialization, Schiffrin directs the journalism training programs of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), a global economic think-tank based at Columbia University. She has also taught in Azerbaijan, China, Indonesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, South Africa and Vietnam. ——————————————————– There is no line as to what information should be revealed and what should not. However, I support the newspapers that censored/redacted the cables in order to protect sources whose lives would be endangered if they were known. There is enough interesting news in the cables without having to reveal names of people who did not consciously sign on (as people implicitly do when they are being interviewed by a journalist) for public disclosure of their names and opinions. The WikiLeaks saga reminds us of something we already knew. There is no privacy anymore. The little we had left was taken by technology. Who among us has not paused, while writing an email, to think that it could one day be read by people we don't know or (more embarrassingly) by people we don't want to know what we think of them. This fear of exposure has been with us for more than a ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.buzzstation.net --- Friday, December 10, 2010
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 New York Congressman Peter King believes the Obama Administration has a "liberal ideological bias" that keeps them from protecting the nation by going after the people who do it harm–like The New York Times . Talking today on Fox News, King said the first priority is to go after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange . But after that, King said he'd urge prosecution of the Times . LEE: Some people look at Julian Assange as a freedom fighter, somebody that's providing information so people have a way to hold governments accountable. Others describe him as a cyber terrorist. He got this information illegally and he put it out there, but other news organizations like The New York Times , like The Guardian and several other major newspapers around the world have published it as well–some of it in edited versions, but they did publish this stolen information. How do you go after him and not go after them? KING: Well, in my mind we should go after both. Let's go after Assange first, but I called four years ago for prosecution of The New York Times when they disclosed the SWIFT program, which was absolutely essential to America's anti-terrorist efforts. It caused great harm to the war against terrorism, yet The New York Times went ahead and put it on the front page, was totally irresponsible. Same what they did with FISA, and you know going back to the Pentagon Papers case, in that case I believe five of the judges said even though you cannot s ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.profilactic.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
randomdeanna: Might be going on @CNNi to talk #WikiLeaks tonight. What are your favorite pieces of analysis? (also looking for more women's voices here) ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.ronpaul.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Date: 12/09/2010 Transcript WikiLeaks' release of classified information has generated a lot of attention in the past few weeks. The hysterical reaction makes one wonder if this is not an example of killing the messenger for the bad news. Despite what is claimed, the information that has been so far released, though classified, has caused no known harm to any individual, but it has caused plenty of embarrassment to our government. Losing our grip on our empire is not welcomed by the neoconservatives in charge. There is now more information confirming that Saudi Arabia is a principal supporter and financier of al Qaeda, and that this should set off alarm bells since we guarantee its Sharia-run government. This emphasizes even more the fact that no al Qaeda existed in Iraq before 9/11, and yet we went to war against Iraq based on the lie that it did. It has been charged by experts that Julian Assange, the internet publisher of this information, has committed a heinous crime, deserving prosecution for treason and execution, or even assassination. But should we not at least ask how the U.S. government should prosecute an Australian citizen for treason for publishing U.S. secret information that he did not steal? And if WikiLeaks is to be prosecuted for publishing classified documents, why shouldn't the Washington Post, the New York Times, and others also published these documents be prosecuted? Actually, some in Congress are threatenin ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: blog.humanrightsfirst.org --- Friday, December 10, 2010
The pander-to-fear-du-jour for members of congress is a provision that would prevent the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the US for any purpose, including for prosecution. Passage of this ill-founded measure could effectively put the nail in the coffin of efforts to end the failed Guantanamo experiment, perpetuating its legacy of arbitrary detention and detainee abuse. It would also leave little alternative but to either release people who should not be released, or detain them indefinitely without charge or trial, or try them in the universally discredited kangaroo courts known as military commissions, which have conclusively demonstrated their inability to try their own way out of a paper bag. Human Rights First has correctly labeled this initiative as "tantamount to obstruction of justice." Legislators who oppose the closure of Guantanamo and would support this measure fall in to one of two categories. They are either sincere defenders of national security who are woefully ignorant of the facts or they are insincere Machiavellians attempting to force failure on the administration for political gain, at the expense of national security. A quasi-related bit of news arose from the recent WikiLeaks dump of State Department cables. There, we learned that the US interfered with the judicial process and made veiled and not-so-veiled threats of damage to cooperative relations with Germany and Spain to discourage them from enforcing ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: l2pharma.posterous.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
 Back in November 2008, I investigated allegations that Pfizer conducted an illegal clinical trial on Nigerian children during a 1996 meningitis outbreak. At the time, the Nigerian government was seeking $8.5 billion in restitution and damages as well as jail terms for various Pfizer officials, including former Pfizer chief executive William Steere. Now, a WikiLeaks' cable, published by the Guardian , may provide insight into the discrepancy in settlement amounts. ( Forbes ) Permalink | Leave a comment » ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: pubsubhubbub.appspot.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Shared by aaronb it begins. Time to start hashing the mirror sites? Comments alleged to be from WikiLeaks US embassy cables say Indian generals are genocidal and New Delhi backs militants ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.cnnmexico.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
 Los abogados del fundador de WikiLeaks anticipan que EU consideran inminente que EU entable una denuncia por espionaje ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.postchronicle.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
Here are some answers to questions about potential prosecution of those responsible for the attacks.... More ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: www.earthtimes.org --- Friday, December 10, 2010
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The retaliatory attacks by pro-WikiLeaks activists are growing in strength as hackers add botnets and thousands of people download an open-source attack tool, security researchers said today. ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Source: en.newsxs.com --- Friday, December 10, 2010
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State department republishes WikiLeaks' doc. Will they now try to sue themselves? | http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/116764.pdf ... | | | | | | | | | |  | |  | |  |
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