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26 January, 2011 — creative-i.info

Pentagon Source: No Link Found Between Wikileaks Suspect and Assange
Fox News
“Julian Assange is the CEO of WikiLeaks,” one military official told Fox News on the condition of anonymity. “So it’s unlikely he’s going to be the one …
www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/25/pentagon-source-link-wikileaks-suspect-assange/

New York Times considering WikiLeaks style system for leaked documents
Albuquerque Express
Ever since the whistleblower Web site WikiLeaks began releasing massive amounts of leaked documents, there has been an interest in the news media to develop …
story.albuquerqueexpress.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/736344/cs/1/ht/New-York-Times-considering-WikiLeaks-style-system-for-leaked-documents/

In a Wikileaks Era, Balancing Public and Private
New York Times
With governments and companies around the world shaken by the release of confidential documents via the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks, the issue of …
dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/in-a-wikileaks-era-balancing-public-and-private/

US Wikileaks investigators can’t link Assange to Manning
Register
By Lewis Page • Get more from this author American media are reporting that investigators are unable to prove that WikiLeaks and its colourful figurehead …
www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/25/assange_cant_be_tied_to_manning_says_report/

WikiLeaks servers run so hot they could heat local church
Herald Sun
Jon Karlung, founder of Bahnhof the co that hosts WikiLeaks servers, said: “We use a lot of electricity … [and] the church is right above us, …
www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/the-other-side/wikileaks-servers-can-heat-church/story-e6frfhk6-1225994649615

WikiLeaks Cables Help Uncover What Made Tunisians Revolt
NewsHour
Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images A set of 10 diplomatic cables released by whistleblower website WikiLeaks offers some insight into the recent …
www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/01/wikileaks-reveal-what-made-tunisians-revolt.html

Africa: What Africa Should Learn from WikiLeaks
AllAfrica.com
Addis Ababa — The controversial organisation WikiLeaks has, over the past three years, made a variety of classified documents available online. …
allafrica.com/stories/201101260166.html

WikiLeaks: Royal Dutch Shell machinations over Iran sanctions
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com
Latest leaked diplomatic cable from US Embassy in The Hague confirms Shell exports oil to Iran, yet pressed for imposing broader UN trade sanctions on Iran …
royaldutchshellplc.com/2011/01/26/wikileaks-royal-dutch-shell-machinations-over-iran-sanctions/

No time to think, you say? Just wait until the next Wikileaks release
Washington Post (blog)
The infamous founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, recently claimed that they would soon release damaging documents and proprietary communications from a …
views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/guestinsights/2011/01/no-time-to-think-you-say.html

State of the Union Address Vs. WikiLeaks: Will Julian Assange Have the Most …
Death and Taxes
… Assange exposes through his maligned organization. The State of the
Union is essentially a relic of the past. Wikileaks is just what the doctor
ordered.
www.deathandtaxesmag.com/47085/state-of-the-union-address-vs-wikileaks-will-julian-assange-have-the-most-important-address-response/

WikiLeaks: Erdogan Not in Control of Military
Asbarez Armenian News
The cable, which was recently released by the whistle-blowing website
WikiLeaks, notes that then-Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot was
“disturbed” by …
asbarez.com/92385/wikileaks-erdogan-not-in-control-of-military/

BC-AP News Digest 4:00 pm
Los Angeles Times
WIKILEAKS MEDIA — AP Interview: WikiLeaks founder says some 60 media
organizations could have secret files. — BUSH-2006-CAMPAIGN— Government
report says …
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-bc-apnewsdigest400pm,0,882337.story

Sundance film review: documentary “Page One”
Reuters
WikiLeaks, for instance: After the Times publishes leaked documents
concerning the war in Afghanistan, we witness some fascinating debate
around the Media …
www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70O7CY20110125

WikiLeaks, Swiss bank accounts, and Israelis
Globes
Two CDs may contain the names of Israeli residents with unreported bank
accounts in Switzerland. Should they be concerned? WikilLeaks recently said
that a …
www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000618235&fid=1725

Leaky Diplomacy and Arab Anxiety
OUPblog (blog)
By Dana H. Allin and Steven Simon The Wikileaks trove of diplomatic
documents confirms what many have known for a long time: Israel is not the
only Middle …
blog.oup.com/2011/01/wikileaks-iran/

Plenty of Hideouts for Rupert Murdoch If Things Go Down Under
Curbed National
Earlier this month, WikiLeaks founder and talking head Julian Assange
revealed that his “insurance file”—an encrypted set of documents
available for …
curbed.com/archives/2011/01/25/plenty-of-hideouts-for-rupert-murdoch-should-things-go-down-under-1.php

Indonesian uses Twitter as WikiLeaks
Penn Olson
It makes housewives like myself happy, I get more reading material and more
knowledge.” Interestingly, Benny didn’t need to go through WikiLeaks. …
www.penn-olson.com/2011/01/26/indonesian-uses-twitter-as-wikileaks/

Wikileaks is ”nihilistic”, says Baume
Public Service
Wikileaks has been branded as a “nihilistic” and “anti-democratic”
organisation that is attempting to bring down western political systems, by
the general …
www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=15295

A Wild West Without Sheriffs: Wikileaks Forum At Kimmel Reveals Much …
NYU Local
By Ari Lipsitz on January 25th, 2011 (12 hours ago) The Personal Democracy
Forum held a symposium last night in Kimmel over Wikileaks, the latest
innovation …
nyulocal.com/national/2011/01/25/a-wild-west-without-sheriffs-wikileaks-forum-at-kimmel-reveals-much-recommends-little/

The Legal Maneuverings of Leakers and Governments
Nextgov
By Dawn Lim 01/25/11 06:43 pm ET WikiLeaks is ushering in an era of
“globalization of citizen oversight” in which whistleblowers, leakers and
publishers are …
cybersecurityreport.nextgov.com/2011/01/the_legal_manoeuvrings_of_leakers_and_governments.php?oref=latest_posts

indecent exposure
Independent Online
Although US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s remarks detailed in
WikiLeaks are potentially damaging, she is only human and like anyone who
faces complex …
www.iol.co.za/business/opinion/columnists/indecent-exposure-1.1016843

Leaks claim Palestinian ‘collusion’
Aljazeera.net
The documents released by WikiLeaks appear to reinforce the allegations
contained in The Palestine Papers, which describes many instances where the
PA has …
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/201112522018483408.html

WikiLeaks, Guatemalan President Colom Walks a Tightrope Between US and Venezuela
The Guatemala Times (blog)
… Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom has been scrambling to contain the
diplomatic fallout from a US embassy cable published on Sunday by
WikiLeaks. …
www.guatemala-times.com/opinion/blogs/1976-wikileaks-guatemalan-president-colom-walks-a-tightrope-between-us-and-venezuela.html

Gov 2.0: Governments must also be ‘followers’
ZDNet Asia
The likes of Facebook and WikiLeaks have “become so powerful that
organizations are being forced to follow these large groups of people”,
because in today’s …
www.zdnetasia.com/gov-2-0-governments-must-also-be-followers-62206299.htm

Mexico’s president sought US help in Drug War along border
AHN | All Headline News
The documents released by the news investigative Web site Wikileaks were
taken from a secret communication, or cable, sent by the US Embassy in
Mexico to …
www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7022199886?Mexico%E2%80%99s%20president%20sought%20U.S.%20help%20in%20Drug%20War%20along%20border

Annotated Wikileaks cable
The UK Chagos Support Association
A very useful way of comparing the private comments with the public ones,
highlighting the omissions, half truths and deceptions. …
www.chagossupport.org.uk/annotated-wikileaks-cable-1464

Be the next WikiLeaks&get Rs 5cr from Yeddyuarappa
Oneindia
Whistle-blower WikiLeaks has received much attention in all around the
world as it revealed various secret documents at an international level.
…
news.oneindia.in/2011/01/26/yeddyurappa-declares-rs-5cr-for-nailing-netas-aid0101.html

US condemned Basarwa relocation from CKGR
The Bostwana Gazette
FRANCISTOWN: According to leaked United States of America (USA) embassy
cables which were released by WikiLeaks, the USA condemned the forced
relocation of …
gazettebw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8532:us-condemned-basarwa-relocation-from-ckgr&catid=18:headlines&Itemid=2

Report from Riyadh: The Winners Are the Doers
Huffington Post (blog)
… from the popular uprising in Tunisia on January 14 that sent ripples
into several neighboring countries, to the continued WikiLeaks fall-out,
…
www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-attias/report-from-riyadh-the-wi_b_814075.html

World news briefs
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
WikiLeaks hopes to enlist as many as 60 news organizations from around the
world in a bid to help speed the publication of its secret US diplomatic
memos, …
www.stltoday.com/news/national/article_13676f71-ab17-5bc6-9a4b-6eb7b4c3c100.html

UK tech retailers are rubbish
Register
This revelation comes not from usual source of the bleeding obvious
WikiLeaks but from consumer organisation Which? It made 154 visits to shops
including …
www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/01/26/comet_currys_not_so_good/

New York Times Is So Jealous of Wikileaks
By Hamilton Nolan
The New York Times is working to establish an untraceable electronic “drop
box” that would make it easier and safer for leakers to pass them large
electronic files. Implied: give your stuff to us, not Wikileaks. Please.
[The Cutline]
gawker.com/5742951/new-york-times-is-so-jealous-of-wikileaks

Dispute Over Confinement of WikiLeaks Suspect Echoes Guantánamo …
By By CHARLIE SAVAGE
Claims that the confinement of Pfc. Bradley Manning is unnecessarily harsh
bring to mind similar arguments made on behalf of Capt. James Yee, a Muslim
chaplain at Guantánamo in 2003.
atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/dispute-over-confinement-of-wikileaks-suspect-echoes-guantanamo-chaplain-case/

AP Interview: WikiLeaks seeks more media partners | The Daily …
LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks hopes to enlist as many as 60 news organizations
from around the world in a bid to help speed the publication of its massive
trove of.
dailycaller.com/2011/01/25/ap-interview-wikileaks-seeks-more-media-partners/

AP Interview: WikiLeaks seeks more media partners | The Associated …
By The Associated Press
WikiLeaks hopes to enlist as many as 60 news organizations from around the
world in a bid to help speed the publication of its massive trove of secret
U.S. diplomatic memos, the site’s founder said Tuesday.
www.sfexaminer.com/news/2011/01/ap-interview-wikileaks-seeks-more-media-partners

New York Times Opens Hangover Rooms, Goes WikiLeaks; Rupert …
By Joe Coscarelli
It happens: some mornings you get to work without having been home the
night before and you pull a…
blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/01/new_york_times_25.php

Stephen Zunes: ROTC, WikiLeaks, and Academic Freedom
By Stephen Zunes
If we can prohibit ROTC cadets from reading material from WikiLeaks, what
would stop us from prohibiting students from, for example, reading material
critical of U.S. military actions in Iraq or Vietnam?
www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-zunes/post_1624_b_813656.html

Minding the Gaps: WikiLeaks and Internet Security in the 21st …
By Michael Zimmer
If you’re in Milwaukee on February 4, please join us for this event
organized by UW-Milwaukee’s Center for 21st Century Studies, and
co-sponsored by the Center for Information Policy Research. Full details
here. Minding the Gaps: …
michaelzimmer.org/2011/01/25/wikileaks-and-internet-security-in-the-21st-century/

Difference Between Wikileaks and Wikipedia | Difference Between …
By Ben Joan
Wikileaks vs Wikipedia The huge controversy over the site Wikileaks and the
close proximity of its name to Wikipedia has led many to question what the.
www.differencebetween.net/technology/internet/difference-between-wikileaks-and-wikipedia/

US Case Against Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Collapses – ProgressOhio
By Dave
wikileaks.jpg. The US government now admits that it cannot tie Pfc. Bradley
Manning to Wikileaks leader Julian Assange according to NBC correspondent
Jim Miklaszewski. The military also admitted that Manning was put on
suicide watch …
www.progressohio.org/blog/2011/01/us-case-against-wikileaks-julian-assange-collapses.html

WikiLeaks: Costa Rica Is a Willing U.S. Partner in Central America …
By tamara
As more and more WikiLeaks cables are released, a true cloak and dagger
picture of U.S. foreign policy is emerging. Take, for example, recent
documents pertaining to Central America, where the Bush administration
sought to bolster its …
venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/5957

Wikileaks will help reshape American diplomacy- Guyana’s President
By demerarawaves@gmail.com (Staff)
Demerara Waves- Guyana’s Premier Source for Online Daily News Updates and
Breaking News.
www.demerarawaves.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=586:wikileaks-will-help-reshape-american-diplomacy-guyanas-president&catid=20:periscope-on-politics&Itemid=73

WikiLeaks vs. Facebook :: News From Underground
By MCM
WikiLeaks vs. Facebook. Related Posts: Hold Breitbart accountable! Clint
Curtis rides again! Look who’s talking! (BP!) Our “watchdog press,” and
how it danced in Firdos Square · 15 charts that will blow your mind (if
you still have one) …
markcrispinmiller.com/2011/01/wikileaks-vs-facebook/

Tulane University – Wikileaks Exposes Ethical Dilemma for Media
By Tracey Odonnell
Media expert Paul Greenberg discusses why Wikileaks should be viewed
through a skeptical lens.
tulane.edu/news/newwave/012511_wikileaks.cfm

WikiLeaks XXXIII: Algeria’s Youth Too Dazed and Confused to Even …
The best and brightest attempt to leave the country.
www.fpif.org/blog/wikileaks_xxxiii_algerias_youth_too_dazed_and_confused_to_even_become_terrorists

CNN retracts story about Wikileaks suspect’s treatment | Mia Dolce …
By CNN.com – Crime
CNN has retracted a story dealing with questions surrounding the treatment
of Pfc. Bradley Manning at the Marine Corp Base Quantico in Virginia.
Pentagon spokesman Col. David Lapan said Tuesday that there is no
investigation into the …
todakuaba.com/crime-watch/cnn-retracts-story-about-wikileaks-suspects-treatment

Remember WikiLeaks? – Planet Waves
By Amanda Painter
Apparently anonymous Pentagon sources have told NBC news that they are
failing to find any evidence of direct contact between Pvt. Bradley Manning
and Julian.
planetwaves.net/pagetwo/2011/01/25/remeber-wikileaks/

US Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act: ask your senator “did …
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