The New Dark Age

19 January, 2011 — creative-i.info

Nigeria: Wikileaks Set to Name the Country’s Treasury Looters
AllAfrica.com
Rudolf Elmer confirmed that he handed two discs to WikiLeaks founder,
Julian Assange, in London, and that WikiLeaks could release the details in
“a matter …
allafrica.com/stories/201101190407.html

Tax Leak Consequences Depend on Details
New York Times
By LYNNLEY BROWNING The individuals and companies whose offshore account
information may be detailed in Swiss banking documents disclosed to
WikiLeaks could …
www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/business/global/19tax.html?src=busln

Wikileaks Julian Assange Up For “Best Founder” At Crunchies – #WikiLeaks
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Well, Wikileaks isn’t up for Best Startup, but Julian Assange is up for
“Best Founder.” There are currently no comments for this blog entry. …
blog.seattlepi.com/zennieabraham/archives/236194.asp

‘Wikileaks revelation caused less ‘real, lasting’ damage to American diplomacy’
DailyIndia.com
… had seriously damaged American interests with an intention of putting
legal pressure to shut down Wikileaks and bring charges against the
leakers. …
www.dailyindia.com/show/419857.php

Executive Suspended for Criticizing EU Satellite
New York Times
“France is the evil empire stealing technology and Germany knows this,”
Mr. Smutny told American diplomats, according to the WikiLeaks document
published in …
www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/business/global/19galileo.html?src=twrhp

WikiLeaks memo belies Hu’s glossy pitch to US
MiamiHerald.com
The memo was one of hundreds of classified documents released late last
year by the website WikiLeaks. “Strong Chinese economic and export growth
coupled …
www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/18/2021890/wikileaks-memo-belies-hus-glossy.html

WikiLeaks cables: US feared Turkish military backlash in ‘coup plot’ arrests
The Guardian
US diplomats in Turkey feared that a wave of arrests of senior military
officers last year over an alleged plot to topple the country’s
Islamist-rooted …
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/18/wikileaks-cables-turkey-military-arrests

WikiLeaks: US advised to sabotage Iran nuclear sites by German thinktank
The Guardian
The United States was advised to adopt a policy of “covert sabotage” of
Iran’s clandestine nuclear facilities, including computer hacking and
“unexplained …
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/18/wikileaks-us-embassy-cable-iran-nuclear

Tunisia: Don’t Call It a WikiLeaks Revolution
AOL News
Moammar Gadhafi knows what really led the Tunisian people to take to the
streets: WikiLeaks. The Libyan dictator argued in a televised speech this
weekend …
www.aolnews.com/2011/01/18/tunisia-dont-call-it-a-wikileaks-revolution/

WikiLeaks: Costa Rica Is a Willing US Partner in Central America
Huffington Post
As more and more WikiLeaks cables are released, a true cloak and dagger
picture of US foreign policy is emerging. Take, for example, recent
documents …
www.huffingtonpost.com/nikolas-kozloff/wikileaks-costa-rica-is-a_b_809446.html

Rwanda: Wikileaks Did Not Affect Govt’s Standing – Kagame
AllAfrica.com
Urugwiro Village — President Paul Kagame, yesterday, said that the
revelations by Wikileaks have not affected Rwanda’s standing, in any way,
since there …
allafrica.com/stories/201101190285.html

Is Wikileaks driving Bank of America to seize domains?
Center for Investigative Reporting (blog)
One theory is that Bank of America is bracing for a fresh release of
documents from the anti-secrecy site Wikileaks. Founder Julian Assange
claims that a …
www.centerforinvestigativereporting.org/blogpost/20110118iswikileaksdrivingbankofamericatoseizedomains

Swiss banker who turned to WikiLeaks goes on trial
Ynetnews
A Swiss banker who claims to have handed WikiLeaks details of rich tax
evaders goes on trial Wednesday on charges of coercion and breaking
Switzerland’s …
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4015830,00.html

Cayman Finance Cites Transparency as WikiLeaks Threatens Release of Offshore …
PR Newswire (press release)
18 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks
recently announced plans to reveal the names of more than 2000 people with
accounts in …
www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cayman-finance-cites-transparency-as-wikileaks-threatens-release-of-offshore-account-information-114148499.html

Reflections on WikiLeaks
Jamaica Observer
In the past few months WikiLeaks has released hundreds of thousands of
private documents from the classified depositories of the government of the
United …
www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Reflections-on-WikiLeaks_8292350

Another diplomatic scalp for WikiLeaks?
Foreign Policy
Two weeks after a leaked cable cost a US ambassador his job, another
diplomat has found his life suddenly complicated by WikiLeaks — this time
in the …
wikileaks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/01/18/wikileaks_claims_another_diplomatic_scalp

Kensington Strangler Identified and Arrested, Camden Police Layoffs Travesty …
Philly2Philly.com
I have changed my position in regards to Julian Assange since I wrote a
scathing article about his Wikileaks site a few months back. …
www.philly2philly.com/politics_community/the_omelette/2011/1/18/46112/kensington_strangler_identified_and_arrested_camden_

Wikileaks’ Non-Mountainous Non-Bunker
ScienceBlogs (blog)
We’re told that Wikileaks is “partly hosted on a server in Sweden that is
lodged in a former nuclear bunker drilled deep inside the White Mountains”.
…
scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2011/01/wikileaks_non-mountainous_non-.php

Don’t make the WikiLeaks problem worse!
Bellingham Herald
By THOMAS FINGAR AND ROGER GEORGE The WikiLeaks dissemination of US
diplomatic and other candid communications has rekindled debate over how to
balance the …
www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/01/18/1821809/dont-make-the-wikileaks-problem.html

WikiLeaks Reports on PSL Virus Development
The Spoof (satire)
The Top Secret Pint Sized Leader (PSL) Project has been overshadowed by the
Stuxnet computer worm performing a successful cyber attack on Iran’s
nuclear …
www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i89894

WikiLeaks: US attempted to purchase KH-31 missiles in Belarus
Belorusskie Novosti
Below is the full version of the documents provided to the online Naviny.by
newspaper by representative of the WikiLeaks media organization Israel
Shamir. …
naviny.by/rubrics/english/2011/01/19/ic_articles_259_172104

Wikileaks cable about UFOs revealed?
io9
UFO news site All News Web claims to have received a leak from Wikileaks
about that UFO-related cable Julian Assange mentioned in the Guardian
several weeks …
io9.com/5736880/wikileaks-cable-about-ufos-revealed

WikiLeaks Cables Show Obama Sent More Troops to Afghanistan Despite Warnings
truthout
(Photo: Sgt. Brian Kester / US Marines) Secret diplomatic cables recently
released by WikiLeaks show that the Obama administration increased the
United …
www.truth-out.org/wikileaks-cables-show-obama-sent-more-troops-afghanistan-despite-warnings66950

Today’s Top Stories: Apple, Goldman, WikiLeaks and Joan Rivers
Portfolio.com (blog)
(Business Insider) Assange promises that WikiLeaks will publish banking
docs: “There will be a full revelation,” WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange said …
www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/the-mix/2011/01/18/top-news-stories-for-entrepreneurs-and-small-business

WikiLeaks: Galileo boss the latest ‘victim’
Telegraph.co.uk
The candid views of US diplomats and their sources released by Wikileaks in
November are gradually claiming victims around the world. …
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8266506/WikiLeaks-Galileo-boss-the-latest-victim.html

Event: Will Wikileaks Transform American Diplomacy?
MountainRunner.us
The panelists will consider the implications of WikiLeaks’ latest release
for American diplomacy. Have the media played a responsible or even
defensible …
mountainrunner.us/2011/01/will_wikileaks_transform_US_diplomacy.html

WikiLeaks Targets Financial Industry Crime
The Takeaway
A former Swiss Bank employee has given WikiLeaks information on some two
thousand offenders who he claims have evaded taxes and worse; Baby Doc
Duvalier …
www.thetakeaway.org/2011/jan/18/

‘I saved Cape from terror’
Independent Online
In a WikiLeaks document, Rasool says he took a number of “financial,
security and legal measures” during his term of office that prevented
“extremism from …
www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/i-saved-cape-from-terror-1.1013544

WikiLeaks–The 21st Century Washington Post
24/7 Wall St. (blog)
There is another round of outrage among businesses and banks because
WikiLeaks has gotten hold of private documents from bank Julius Baer from
one of its …
247wallst.com/2011/01/18/wikileaks-the-21st-century-washington-post/

Worthy of a Bond Villain: The Bunker Where WikiLeaks Hides Its Secrets [Slideshow]
Co.Design
WikiLeaks is getting ready to drop another mega-bomb, this one about
high-profile tax evaders, which got us wondering: Where does WikiLeaks
actually store …
www.fastcodesign.com/1663046/worthy-of-a-bond-villain-the-bunker-where-wikileaks-hides-its-secrets-slideshow

WikiLeaks and Journalism Lore
White House Chronicle
He is not likely to have endorsed the dumping of hundreds of thousands of
classified diplomatic dispatches by WikiLeaks. As for WikiLeaks founder
Julian …
whchronicle.com/2011/01/wikileaks-and-journalism-lore/

WikiLeaks, Swiss Banks and Alien invasions
Groundviews
It was inspired by the WikiLeaks cablegate controversy, which heralded a
new level of transparency in international relations triggered by a
disruptive …
groundviews.org/2011/01/19/wikileaks-swiss-banks-and-alien-invasions/

Wikileaks Poised to Shatter Swiss Banking Secrecy
By Mike Martin
Bank secrecy is back in the news, this time as former Swiss banker Rudolf
Elmer handed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange two computer discs at a
high-profile news conference on Monday. Tax evaders, nefarious bankers,
shady politicians, …
www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/71667.html

Dylan Ratigan on the Wikileaks-Tax Cheat | The Big Picture
By Barry Ritholtz
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy.
www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/01/dylan-ratigan-on-the-wikileaks-tax-cheat/

Wikileaks Reported Threat Exaggerated — Daily Intel
By Julie Gerstein
So you remember WIkileaks, right? Julian Assange’s world-ending, diplomacy-
smashing series of leaked government documents? It might not be a big deal
after all. Internal government reviews of the documents found that
Wikileaks caused …
nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/01/wikileaks_reported_threat_exag_1.html

Wikileaks to Target Wealthy Tax Evaders Next “ Hot Air
By John Sexton
I don’t know — look at the last group of Wikileaks documents dumped and
who they hurt — Hillary Clinton, Michael Moore, believers in global
warming. That’s why the left suddenly became more receptive to the Swedish
rape charge story …
hotair.com/archives/2011/01/18/wikileaks-to-target-wealthy-tax-evaders-next/

The Stanford Review “ WikiLeaks: Not Open, Simply the New Closed
By Miriam Ellora Marks
On November 28, 2010, WikiLeaks released a number of United States
diplomatic cables, classified documents containing correspondence between
the State Department and its international diplomatic missions. The site
posted the first 220 …
stanfordreview.org/article/wikileaks-not-open-simply-the-new-closed

Swiss Bank Account Owners Handed Over to WikiLeaks
By Flexo
The global financial industry is more powerful than any government entity.
Governments continually create regulations and laws to keep the industry in
check, but the financial industry manages to find ways to skirt rules and
convince …
www.consumerismcommentary.com/swiss-bank-account-owners-handed-over-to-wikileaks/

WikiLeaks – Next On Our Hit List Are Politicians & Companies That …
By Ron Schenone
In steps WikiLeaks with some information that could expose thousands of
individuals and companies who avoid paying taxes. In one recent article it
states that: Rudolf M. Elmer, who ran the Caribbean operations of the Swiss
bank Julius …
www.lockergnome.com/reflections/2011/01/18/wikileaks-next-on-our-hit-list-are-politicians-companies-that-evade-taxes/

WikiLeaks More Embarrassing than Damaging, Officials Admit — News …
By Jason Ditz
The comments further damage the credibility of official lamentations about
the horrors of WikiLeaks revealing truth to the American public, after
Pentagon officials also privately conceded that no one had actually been
killed by …
news.antiwar.com/2011/01/18/wikileaks-more-embarrassing-than-damaging-officials-admit/

Space Politics “ WikiLeaks claims a space casualty
By Jeff Foust
Smutny’s dismissal is linked to comments he allegedly made to US diplomats
in Germany revealed in a leaked cable obtained by WikiLeaks and published
last week by the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. And what did Smutny say
that was so …
www.spacepolitics.com/2011/01/18/wikileaks-claims-a-space-casualty/

Wikileaks Julian Assange Up For “Best Founder” At Crunchies …
By Zennie Abraham
This blogger was the first to openly push for Wikileaks Editor-In-Chief
Julian Assange to receive the “Best Startup Award.” This for Wikileaks
path-breaking impact on World Industrial Culture, showing just how powerful
the Internet …
zennie2005.blogspot.com/2011/01/wikileaks-julian-assange-up-for-best.html

India waits for Wikileaks to name Swiss account holders
By abhishekb
It is quite possible that Wikileaks expose could also cause a upheaval in
Indian politics and hit some bigwigs. The common man in India burdened by
rising prices and general apathy of government is imlporing Wikileaks to
name the …
www.merinews.com/article/india-waits-for-wikileaks-to-name-swiss-account-holders/15840405.shtml

Wikileaks Swiss Bank | 11 News
By 11news
Wikileaks Swiss Bank, After a series of leaks that shook the world powers (
specifically USA), Wikileaks is going to strike again with another major
blow to many many big authority people from all over the world. A former
private banker, …
www.11news.us/01/wikileaks-swiss-bank.html

Wikileaks did not end the United States – Damage limited …
By Nick Farrell
Despite claims that the United States was badly damaged by the leaks of
diplomatic cables by Wikileaks, privately diplomats are admitted that it
really made no odds.Several internal U.S..
www.techeye.net/internet/wikileaks-did-not-end-the-united-states

Resource Tax Rent Australia | Tax Abuse: WikiLeaks engaging in …
By About Andrew Sheldon
The good news is that WikiLeaks need not exist. I would not be surprised to
see it disappear, nor would I miss it. The good news is that it will in all
likelihood be the precursor to a group with a sounder philosophical base
than it . …
tax-abuse.blogspot.com/2011/01/wikileaks-engaging-in-persecution.html

Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks – 3quarksdaily
By Abbas Raza
In one of the diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks Putin and Medvedev
are compared to Batman and Robin. It’s a useful analogy: isn’t Julian
Assange, WikiLeaks’s organiser, a real-life counterpart to the Joker in
Christopher Nolan’s …
www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/01/good-manners-in-the-age-of-wikileaks.html

Wikileaks to Target Wealthy Tax Evaders Next | Verum Serum
By John
Eventually, parts of the Muslim media would connect Wikileaks (as they
connect everything else) to the Jews: Unless you are a reader of Islamist
websites, you’ d probably be surprised to learn that the WikiLeaks trove of
US diplomatic …
www.verumserum.com/?p=20724

U.S. officials privately say WikiLeaks damage limited – Democratic …
A congressional official briefed on the reviews said the administration
felt compelled to say publicly that the revelations had seriously damaged
American interests in order to bolster legal efforts to shut down the
WikiLeaks website …
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102×4701800

Outrage, support pours over Wikileaks documents | The All State
By ashipp
Kaila Sewell | Staff Writer If you are anything like me, you’ve been
hearing about this Wikileaks thing and only briefly wondered what it was
all about.
www.theallstate.org/2011/01/19/outrage-support-pours-over-wikileaks-documents/