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25 January, 2011 — creative-i.info

Bradley Manning-WikiLeaks Connection Not Found: Military Investigators
Huffington Post US military investigators have been unable to find a direct link between jailed Army PFC Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks, reports NBC News. …
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/24/bradley-manningwikileaks-_n_813445.html

Offshore Banks Must Adapt or Die in WikiLeaks Era: Matthew Lynn
BusinessWeek He has handed over a pile of data on about 2000 accounts to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. The material hasn’t been published online yet, …
www.businessweek.com/news/2011-01-24/offshore-banks-must-adapt-or-die-in-wikileaks-era-matthew-lynn.html

Bradley Manning Friend Prevented from Visiting Soldier Over Traffic Violation Wired News (blog)
By Kim Zetter Military officials at the brig where accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning is imprisoned prevented a long-time visitor from seeing the …
www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/manning-visitor-turned-away/

Shell reveals Nigeria’s secrets to US – Wikileaks
Vanguard A CABLE recently released by Wikileaks paints a portrait of the extent to which powerful oil giant, Shell, was involved in the political schemes in Nigeria. …
www.vanguardngr.com/2011/01/shell-reveals-nigeria%E2%80%99s-secrets-to-us-wikileaks/

Canada’s spat with UAE risks key alliance: Wikileaks cables
Toronto Star The US diplomatic cables, revealed by WikiLeaks, highlight the strategic value of UAE as a moderate Arab nation willing to lend unsung support to Western …
www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/927443—canada-s-spat-with-u-a-e-risks-key-alliance-wikileaks-cables

Wikileaks Chief Assange named un-Australian of the Year
Examiner.com Wikileaks chief Julian Assange has been named the Un-Australian of the Year, an annual “honor” bestowed by magazine Zoo Weekly. …
www.examiner.com/technology-in-national/wikileaks-chief-assange-named-un-australian-of-the-year

Opinion: ROTC policy on Wikileaks threatens academic freedom
San Jose Mercury News Charles M. Evans, commanding officer of the 8th Brigade, US Army Cadet Command, “using the classified information found on WikiLeaks for research papers, …
www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_17186268

Shaik knew of Mbeki ousting: Wikileaks Independent Online
The classified cable, dated May 16, 2008, is among those released by Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks. It details a meeting between Shaik and a US embassy …
www.iol.co.za/news/politics/shaik-knew-of-mbeki-ousting-wikileaks-1.1016375

A WikiLeaks Arms Race? New Yorker (blog)
Earlier this month, Al Jazeera launched a new feature on its Web site called the Transparency Unit—the network’s in-house version of WikiLeaks. …
www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/01/transparency-unit-wikileaks.html

Speaker to focus on WikiLeaks case MassLive.com
Now he is offering his perspective on WikiLeaks, whose founder he claims could be charged with the same crime. Meeropol, of Easthampton, is the younger son …
www.masslive.com/springfield/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-32/1295857008158020.xml&coll=1 Overwhelming support for WikiLeaks at Debates Peninsula On-line DOHA: WikiLeaks, the whistle-blowing website, received an overwhelming support from a predominantly Arab audience at the Doha Debates yesterday. …
www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/qatar/140312-overwhelming-support-for-wikileaks-at-debates.html

How much does WikiLeaks matter? Forbes (blog)
Most of those were before WikiLeaks, and two were for acts during the Bush Administration – but which were not prosecuted while Bush was in office. …
blogs.forbes.com/ericsavitz/2011/01/19/wikileaks-why-it-matters-or-maybe-it-doesnt/?boxes=Homepagelighttop

WikiLeaks: No, We Didn’t Hack Iceland’s Parliament Forbes (blog)
By ANDY GREENBERG While some in the US were accusing WikiLeaks of stealing data through peer-to-peer filesharing networks, another, stranger charge was …
blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/01/24/wikileaks-no-we-didnt-hack-icelands-parliament/?boxes=Homepagechannels

WikiLeaked: Is Algeria next? Foreign Policy
While the community of Middle East leak-watchers is focused on Al Jazeera’s release of 1600 documents from the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, WikiLeaks …
wikileaks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/01/24/is_algeria_next

WikiLeaks servers could fire up Stockholm church
The Local.se Heat produced by hard-working WikiLeaks servers housed underground in Stockholm may be used to help warm up a local church, according to a proposal from the …
www.thelocal.se/31630/20110125/

Assange support intensifies on the Coast
ABC Online By Janel Shorthouse It’s a long way from the UK where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange continues his fight against an extradition order to Sweden, …
www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/01/25/3121667.htm

PAGE ONE: A YEAR INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES Review
Collider.com The film’s first major chapter deals with how the Times explores to a WikiLeaks post of air strike footage in Afghanistan. It’s highly entertaining to watch …
collider.com/page-one-a-year-inside-the-new-york-times-review/72456/

WikiLeaks Targeting P2P Networks?
Information Week (blog) According to this Bloomberg news story, WikiLeaks May Have Exploited Music, Photo Networks to Get Data, there is some circumstantial evidence lending to …
www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2011/01/wikileaks_targe.html

The 9 Lessons of WikiLeaks eSecurity Planet
By Chris Null Regardless of how this mess ends up, WikiLeaks has provided everyone some lessons in how the business world and the web continue to evolve. …
www.esecurityplanet.com/features/article.php/3921841/The-9-Lessons-of-WikiLeaks.htm

WikiLeaks: Selective revelations
Salon @wikiLeaks revelation Ford Motor Company is Ruthless to Ford Fire Victims It never fails to amaze me that warlocks, like poster #1, can use the fact that GG …
letters.salon.com/news/feature/2011/01/23/wikileaks_one_percent/view/

Middle East, US on edge as Al Jazeera does a WikiLeaks
Emirates 24/7 Doha-based television news channel Al Jazeera has said the documents released on Sunday are the first batch of 1600 it will disclose on the Middle East …
www.emirates247.com/news/region/middle-east-us-on-edge-as-al-jazeera-does-a-wikileaks-2011-01-25-1.346671

Loaded: WikiLeaks, the movie
CNETTV … on your mobile device, McDonald’s launches a touch-and-go payment system in the UK, and movie execs are pursuing a film about WikiLeaks and its founder.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1_q5-Bx7Cs

Waiting for the WikiLeak dam to break
The Japan Times asks the Slovenian philosopher, who compares WikiLeaks organizer Julian Assange to the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s movie “The Dark Knight,” pulling at the …
search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20110125zg.html

Time for Wikileaks dagblog (blog)
… with some M&A professionals who would have made short shrift of the fable that Comcast was an innocent bystander. Do we have to wait for Wikileaks ? Again?
dagblog.com/reader-blogs/time-wikileaks-8700

WikiLeaks Defector Explains What’s Wrong With WikiLeaks And Why He’s Creating …
The Business Insider Daniel Domscheit-Berg, right, back when he was working for WikiLeaks and pretending to be “Daniel Schmitt”. The founder of a new WikiLeaks-like site called …
www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-defector-explains-whats-wrong-with-wikileaks-and-why-hes-creating-a-new-site-called-openleaks-2011-1

Wikileaks: The Inside Story Lawfare (blog)
by Jack Goldsmith That is the title of a discussion on wikileaks next Thursday evening, February 3, at the Columbia School of Journalism, led by two of the …
www.lawfareblog.com/2011/01/wikileaks-the-inside-story/

Wikileaks: US embassy condemned eviction of Kalahari Bushmen
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Ambassador Joseph Huggins told his bosses in Washington in 2005 that the Bushmen had been ‘dumped in economically absolutely unviable situations without …
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1101/S00423/wikileaks-us-embassy-condemned-eviction-of-kalahari-bushmen.htm

Wikileaks: Jordan offered increased support in Afghanistan in exchange for …
Ammon News By Banan Malkawi AMMONNEWS – A secret cable sent by US Ambassador in Amman, Stephen Beecroft, to Washington earlier last year revealed that Jordanian …
en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleNO=11387

Reason on Red Eye: Nick Gillespie Talking Octo-Mom, Wikileaks, Iran’s Ban on …
Reason Online (blog) Topics included claims by US officials that Wikileaks wasn’t all that damaging, the Iranian government banning Valentine’s Day, Octomom’s foray into fetish …
reason.com/blog/2011/01/24/reason-on-red-eye-nick-gillesp

Neil Patrick Harris, Helen Mirren or Lindsay Lohan: Who Should Play Julian …
PopEater … portray a creepy foreigner on-screen been as interesting as this week when Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s life story was optioned for a biopic. …
www.popeater.com/2011/01/24/julian-assange-wikileaks-casting/

Debates gives leaks stamp of approval
Gulf Times
By Peter Townson Audience members at the Doha Debates gave WikiLeaks the forum’s stamp of approval last night when they resoundingly carried the motion …
www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=411925&version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16

Bradley Manning-WikiLeaks Connection Not Found: Military Investigators
By The Huffington Post News Editors U.S. military investigators have been unable to find a direct link between jailed Army PFC Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks, reports NBC News.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/24/bradley-manning-wikileaks-_n_813445.html

‘The Palestine Cables’: WikiLeaks exposes Egypt, PA cooperation …
By Alex Kane The left-wing publication Counterpunch has obtained eleven U.S.-authored cables “accessed” from WikiLeaks that deal solely with “Operation Cast Lead,” the 2008- 09 Israeli assault on Gaza. Kathleen Christison, a former CIA analyst and …
mondoweiss.net/2011/01/the-palestine-cables-wikileaks-exposes-egypt-pa-cooperation-with-israel-during-gaza-assault.html

Sundance: Universal nabs ‘WikiLeaks’ doc – The Marquee Blog – CNN …
By Katie McLaughlin Universal Pictures has purchased a documentary about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney is set to direct. Gibney is known for getting the subjects of his films to actively participate in the …
marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/24/sundance-universal-nabs-wikileaks-doc/

Biopic Flick In The Works About WikiLeaks Founder | PerezHilton.com
By Perez Hilton It´ll be like The Social Network, but with classified government information! The life of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been optioned for the big screen. The controversial man´s…
perezhilton.com/2011-01-24-vbiopic-flick-in-the-works-about-wikileaks-founder

Pickled Politics “ US government’s case against WikiLeaks falls apart
By Sunny Given this is a post on WikiLeaks, its also worthwhile reading this post at the New Yorker on how Al-Jazeera may have joined the ‘arms race’ by media organisations to become more like WikiLeaks and start soliciting confidential …
www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/11535

Al Jazeera Meets Wikileaks | Taylor Marsh – TaylorMarsh.com – News …
By Taylor Marsh Where Wikileaks was more like several episodes of a soap opera, relatively harmless. It’s hard to think of a destructive enough adjective to use to describe the immediate reaction to the story from Al Jazeera, which hasn’t even released …
www.taylormarsh.com/2011/01/24/al-jazeera-meets-wikileaks/

Elder of Ziyon: Wikileaks: Israeli plans to get restitution from …
By noreply@blogger.com (Elder of Ziyon) Wikileaks: Israeli plans to get restitution from Poland, Arab countries. A Wikileaks cable from 2005 discusses German reparations to Israel for the Holocaust: A GOI working group charged with developing a five-year plan on Holocaust-era …
elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/01/wikileaks-israeli-plans-to-get.html

Discussing Wikileaks | The Empire
By Azi Paybarah Discussing Wikileaks. January 24, 2011 | 8:53 PM | By Azi Paybarah. Leave a comment · Tweet · Share · Link to this post · A fun, and live, conversation about Wikileaks. Mark Penn’s spox: Maddow’s report unfair, outdated and misleading …
empire.wnyc.org/2011/01/discussing-wikileaks/

WikiLeaks, the movie | Loaded – CNET
By podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com)
BlackBerry software will shut your boss out of your personal life on your mobile device, McDonald’s launches a touch-and-go payment system in the U.K., and movie execs are pursuing a film about WikiLeaks and its founder.
cnettv.cnet.com/8301-13991_53-20029289-10391624.html

Wikileaks, Police Spies and Tory Scandal: Why Revelation Doesn’t Work
By Richard The Wikileaks project, however interesting and complex its intentions and intellectual heritage, has become a booming point of capital for news agencies rabidly following every sexy turn. Bradley Manning, it would seem, brings in less …
thethirdestate.net/2011/01/wikileaks-police-spies-and-tory-scandal-why-revelation-doesnt-work/

WikiLeaks: 1 percent of diplomatic docs published | Daily Chronicle
The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange speaks to members of the media as he leaves a police station in Beccles, England, after complying with his bail conditions, Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. The two Swedish women accusing Julian Assange of …
www.daily-chronicle.com/2011/01/23/wikileaks-1-percent-of-diplomatic-docs-published/asxrb17/

p2pnet news “ Blog Archive “ Al Jazeera does a WikiLeaks
By Jon Now it’s doing a WikiLeaks, inviting people in the Arab world and elsewhere to “ submit all forms of content (documents, photos, audio & video clips, as well as ‘story tips’) for editorial review and, if merited, online broadcast and …
www.p2pnet.net/story/48235

War News Updates: No Link Between Accused Army Private And Wikileaks
By War News Updates Editor Update: Bradley Manning-WikiLeaks Connection Not Found: Military Investigators – – Huffington Post My Comment: If true, this puts a monkey wrench in the prosecutor`s case against Army Specialist Bradley Manning. …
warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2011/01/no-link-between-accused-army-private.html

Offshore Banks Must Adapt or Die in WikiLeaks Era – World …
By Newsmaker He has handed over a pile of data on about 2000 accounts to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. The material hasn’t been published online yet, but it’s only a matter of time before it turns up somewhere. It will make fascinating …
financialmarketweblog.com/offshore-banks-must-adapt-or-die-in-wikileaks-era-matthew-lynn-bloomberg/

WikiLeaks Reveals Bush Administration Orders to Spy on Israel …
By Matzav Editor The WikiLeaks website last week leaked a secret State Department cable from October 31, 2008, directing United States officials to spy on Israel. The cable, dated only days before the 2008 American presidentia elections, was signed by …
matzav.com/wikileaks-reveals-bush-administration-orders-to-spy-on-israel

WikiLeaks opens up South Africa | France24
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Twitter WikiLeaks opens up South Africa | France24
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US symposium on WikiLeaks (live video)…
Twitter US symposium on WikiLeaks (live video) |
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Swedish PM refuses to apply easy to use political veto to Assange …
Twitter Swedish PM refuses to apply easy to use political veto to Assange US extradition
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