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30 January, 2011 — creative-i.info

Is WikiLeaks leaking? Norwegian paper scoops Assange
AFP
OSLO — As if there isn’t enough intrigue around Wikileaks and its enigmatic founder, a Norwegian daily that laid hands on the same US classified documents …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iun4mKBiY0IZhTr1FRQOxJi6RL3w?docId=CNG.86ad1b48f113d8d1b670823a5c2976ff.411

Wikileaks Cables Shed Light on Egypt’s New VP
ABC News (blog)
Three cables from the US Embassy in Cairo to the State Department,
published by Wikileaks, shed some light on Egypt’s new Vice President Omar
Suleiman. …
blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/01/wikileaks-cables-shed-light-on-egypts-new-vp-.html

FBI Raids Georgia Tech Student’s Dorm over Wikileaks Chat Room
Atlanta Progressive News
… Paypal, RIAA, Visa, and US Copyright Office, after these sites refused
to process donations for Wikileaks or otherwise adversely impacted
Wikileaks. …
www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/interspire/news/2011/01/29/fbi-raids-georgia-tech-students-dorm-over-wikileaks-chat-room-(update-1).html

Wikileaks helped spark Tunisia revolt : FP
International Business Times
Wikileaks, by releasing damning cables from the US ambassador to Tunisia,
impacted the country’s decision to revolt, according to Foreign Policy. …
www.ibtimes.com/articles/106613/20110129/wikileaks-helped-spark-tunisia-revolt-fp.htm

WikiLeaks Egypt: paranoids sees neocon conspiracy
World War 4 Report
The WikiLeaks revelations on Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak regime provide an
interesting political Rorschach test—viewed either as evidence that the
US backs …
www.ww4report.com/node/9398

WikiLeaks, Al Jazeera expose how Israel, US block justice
Green Left Weekly
By Tony Iltis Papers leaked to Al Jazeera, as well as secret US cables
published by WikiLeaks, have exposed how Israel and the United States have
used the …
www.greenleft.org.au/node/46553

5 Hackers Arrested in the UK; Associated With Wikileaks
Tech2
Anonymous is a group behind the recent attacks on individuals and companies
trying to impede the work of Wikileaks. The men were between the ages of 16
and …
tech2.in.com/india/news/general/5-hackers-arrested-in-the-uk59-associated-with-wikileaks/189752/0

Wikileaks Not Only About Countries
eWire Informer
Whistleblowing has skyrocketed to a whole new level overnight with the
advent and now increasing popularity of Wikileaks.org. …
ewireinformer.com/wikileaks-not-only-about-countries-341505.html

Julian Assange Now Owns WikiLeaks.com
Domain Name Wire
Founder of controversial WikiLeaks organization now owns Wikileaks.com
domain name. Last week I wrote about how the domain name wikileaks.com had
expired. …
domainnamewire.com/2011/01/29/julian-assange-now-owns-wikileaks-com/

WikiLeaks Founder Enjoys Making Banks Squirm
OzarksFirst.com
(New York, NY) — The founder of WikiLeaks says he enjoys seeing banks on
edge, thinking they may be the next targets of his website. …
ozarksfirst.com/fulltext?nxd_id=395316

WikiLeaks exposes secret lives of Malema and Kriel
Times LIVE
Political officer met with Kriel at Krugersdorp Wimpy where the subject
ordered two double cheeseburgers as a starter and a mixed grill for
dessert. …
www.timeslive.co.za/sundaytimes/article881415.ece/WikiLeaks-exposes-secret-lives-of-Malema-and-Kriel

WikiLeaks: counting the costs and consequences
Times Higher Education
The most recent WikiLeaks disclosures, consisting of tens of thousands of
reports and analyses made by US embassies and diplomatic missions around
the world …
www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=415008&c=1

Venezuela: WikiLeaks confirms US plans
Green Left Weekly
A fair portion of the more than 1600 United States State Department
documents WikiLeaks had published by mid-December referred to the ongoing
US efforts to …
www.greenleft.org.au/node/46551

Opinion navigator: Norway’s socialism, Sputnik moments, WikiLeaks’ wacky …
Syracuse.com (blog)
… and volatile” Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, as the paper prepared
stories based on reams of classified State Department cables in WikiLeaks’
possession. …
blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2011/01/opinion_navigator.html

Wikileaks and p2p Sharing
P2P File Sharing (blog)
Recently, it was discovered that Wikileaks has been acquiring private and
classified information via p2p sharing networks. The news was uncovered by
…
www.p2p-weblog.com/86570237/wikileaks_and_p2p_sharing.php

Hobart defends WikiLeaks
Green Left Weekly
By Susan Austin, Hobart About 40 people attended a ‘Hands off WikiLeaks’
rally held in Franklin Square, Hobart on January 29. Speakers from the
Greens, …
www.greenleft.org.au/node/46539

WikiLeaks Milestone: 1% of State Department Cables Released
AllGov
For all the hoopla about the huge dump of State Department cables by
WikiLeaks, you’d think that they had flooded the Internet with hundreds of
thousands of …
www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/WikiLeaks_Milestone__1_Percent_of_State_Department_Cables_Released_110129

Anonymous Internet Users Team Up To Provide Communication Tools For Egyptian …
Huffington Post
At first, they sent out Wikileaks cables to these numbers, but then they
determined the Egyptians didn’t need additional motivation. …
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/29/anonymous-internet-egypt_n_815889.html

Wikileaks Preparing Disclosure on US Bank Data (NYSE:XLF), (NYSE:BAC), (NYSE …
The Market Financial
Many investors, especially the bears that have been hiding for much of late
2010 and into 2011 will be smiling at the thoughts of a possible Wikileaks
…
www.themarketfinancial.com/wikileaks-preparing-disclosure-on-us-bank-data-nysexlf-nysebac-nysegs-nysejpm-nyseaig-nysewfc/124802

WikiLeaks Rival Goes Live As Editors Turn On Assange, Guardian’s Role In The …
Press Release Mag (press release)
Mr Domscheit-Berg resigned from WikiLeaks after it released almost 400000
classified US documents relating to the Iraq war. He and other WikiLeaks
members …
www.pressreleasemag.com/2011/01/29/wikileaks-rival-goes-live-as-editors-turn-on-assange-guardians-role-in-the-biggest-leak-in-the-history-of-the-world/

St. Albans Teen Arrested in Connection with WikiLeaks Hacking
Stalbans People
Wikileaks, which came to prominence after publishing leaked documents,
including never seen before recordings taken by an American helicopter
operating in …
www.stalbanspeople.co.uk/crime/St-Albans-Teen-Arrested-Connection-WikiLeaks/story-10631313-detail/story.html

Biz Stone blog asserts that Twitter is a human right
GlobalPost
A Twitter blog entry co-authored by Biz Stone alludes to Egypt and
WikiLeaks in a call for freedom of expression. By News Desk — GlobalPost
Editors A …
www.globalpost.com/dispatch/africa/110129/biz-stone-twitter-human-right

David Little: It’s hard to keep a secret
Enterprise-Record
By DAVID LITTLE As WikiLeaks has shown, there are no confidential documents
anymore. The surest way to guarantee wide distribution is to send an e-mail
to …
www.chicoer.com/opinion/ci_17240352

Blair’s continued cover-up to Chilcot is a disgrace
The Guardian
… of the unanswered questions relating to the lead-up to the Iraq
invasion (”If Chilcot is our finest inquisitor, thank heavens for
WikiLeaks”, Comment). …
www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2011/jan/30/observer-letters

If Assange is a terrorist, what is Posada?
Green Left Weekly
By Jean Guy Allard The trials of the creator of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange,
and of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles began with less than a
…
www.greenleft.org.au/node/46549

Miriam rallies youth
Manila Bulletin
… Miriam Defensor Santiago said on Saturday that a Philippine version of
WikiLeaks can help expose corruption in government and protect
whistleblowers. …
www.mb.com.ph/articles/301418/miriam-rallies-youth

Are Soccer Fans the Unsung Heroes of Egypt’s Uprising?
Gawker
Everyone from the Muslim Brotherhood, to labor unions, to Wikileaks are
being credited for contributing to Egypt’s uprising. But what about
hardcore soccer …
gawker.com/5746811/are-soccer-fans-the-unsung-heroes-of-egypts-uprising

The Most Dangerous Man in America
Patch
This story parallels Wikileaks.” That is exactly why Readers’ Services
Librarian Lisa Jones decided the movie needed to be seen by library
patrons. …
syosset.patch.com/articles/the-most-dangerous-man-in-america

Many Americas
The Atlantic
They are embedded in free software “brain circulation” networks, the
WikiLeaks movement, social enterprise networks, increasingly cosmopolitan
evangelical …
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/many-americas.html

Pajamas Media “ WikiLeaks: Catty Embassy Gossip Directed at …
By Norma Zager
WikiLeaks: Catty Embassy Gossip Directed at Azerbaijan’s First Lady. A
misogynistic attack on Mehriban Aliyeva, an accomplished, independent woman
who serves as a stylish role model for young Muslim girls. …
pajamasmedia.com/blog/wikileaks-catty-embassy-gossip-directed-at-azerbaijans-first-lady/

egypt democractic transformation strategy – wikileaks “ propaganda …
By nelly avila moreno
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10/09/2017 …
propagandapress.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/egypt-democractic-transformation-strategy-wikileaks/

Greg Mitchell: WikiLeaks Is Holding Me Hostage
By Greg Mitchell
Before choosing Collateral Murder as the name for his Iraq video, Assange
told a colleague, “We want to knock out this ‘collateral damage’ euphemism,
and so when anyone uses it they will think, ‘collateral murder.’”
www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/wikileaks-is-holding-me-h_b_815759.html

WikiLeaks Rivalled | The Sunday Leader
By admin
In a further twist, OpenLeaks has stated that it would not have released
250000 State department cables. Members of the website explained that due
to their intentions they do not envisage as much political pressure as
WikiLeaks is …
www.thesundayleader.lk/2011/01/30/wikileaks-rivalled/

International Crackdown WikiLeaks Sympathizers with Atlanta …
The group is a loosely formed web of hackers around the globe sympathetic
to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and has been going after anyone who has
gone after him or his funding, including Sarah Palin. …
www.11alive.com/rss/rss_story.aspx?storyid=175382

Wikileaks Report: New Egypt Vice President, Omar Suleiman and …
By MyWeku
Wikileaks Report: New Egypt Vice President, Omar Suleiman and Presidential
succession in Egypt. Posted on January 29, 2011 under OMAR SULEIMAN EGYPT,
wikileaks omar soliman · Share. THE MOST LIKELY CONTENDERS ARE
PRESIDENTIAL SON GAMAL …
www.myweku.com/2011/01/wikileaks-report-new-egypt-vice-president-omar-suleiman-and-presidential-succession-in-egypt/

Bombshell: WikiLeaks Fronts For CIA–Reports Alleged | Republic Report
By Republic Report New York
New York WASHINGTON—United States government under President Barack Obama
wants to extricate US from international hostilities, break new boundaries
away from battle-fronts of conventional wars by turning to new-digital …
www.republicreport.com/bombshell-wikileaks-fronts-for-cia-reports-alleged/

WikiLeaks should propel less secrecy at the top on foreign policy …
By John McCarthy
Author: John McCarthy, AIIA During the festive season we were entertained
by the United States’ diplomatic mail and by Julian Assange’s alleged.
www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/01/29/wikileaks-should-propel-less-secrecy-at-the-top-on-foreign-policy/

[H]ard|OCP – Banks to Be Targeted by Wikileaks?
In a transcript of an upcoming 60 Minutes interview, Wikileaks founder
Julian Assange said that banks will probably be targeted this year by
internal document releases and admitted he liked to watch the banks squirm
under the scrutiny. …
www.hardocp.com/news/2011/01/29/banks_to_be_targeted_by_wikileaks63/

Wikileaks Defender – iPhone Apps, iPad apps & iPod touch App …
By appSafari.com
Wikileaks Defender Destruction is always fun and entertaining, and with
Wikileaks Defender from Super Boise, you have a new target: top secret
government files that are about to be leaked to the public by Wikileaks, a
controversial …
www.appsafari.com/games/15266/wikileaks-defender/

Difference Between Wikileaks and Openleaks | Difference Between …
By Ben Joan
Wikileaks vs Openleaks Leaks have always brought issues to the forefront
with documents that are supposed to be hidden from the public’s eyes.
Wikileaks is.
www.differencebetween.net/technology/internet/difference-between-wikileaks-and-openleaks/

H5N1: Wikileaks: Why the US supports MINUSTAH
By Crof
Via Ansel Herz’s Mediahacker blog: Wikileaks: US Embassy Makes Its Case for
MINUSTAH – Mediahacker. Excerpt (with his bolding): An October 2008 cable
just released by Wikileaks called “Why We Need A Continuing MINUSTAH
Presence in …
crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2011/01/wikileaks-why-the-us-supports-minustah.html

What State Wanted Withheld from WikiLeaks Publication | Emptywheel
By emptywheel
There are now four versions of the cooperation between WikiLeaks and its
journalistic “partners:” Vanity Fair, NYT, Guardian, and Spiegel. A
comparison of them is more instructive than reading any in isolation.
emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/01/29/what-state-wanted-withheld-from-wikileaks-publication/

WikiLeaks Egypt: paranoids see neocon conspiracy | World War 4 Report
By Bill Weinberg
Do WikiLeaks revelations on Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak vindicate fears that
neocon conspiracies are behind the current wave of unrest? No, but that
hasn’t kept William Engdahl form mouthing off.
ww4report.com/node/9398

Is WikiLeaks leaking? Norwegian paper scoops Assange | http://www.bullfax.com
By marketmaker
As if there isn’t enough intrigue around Wikileaks and its enigmatic
founder, a Norwegian daily that laid hands on the same US classified
documents says it has infuriated Julian Assange by playing his own game.
…
www.bullfax.com/?q=node-wikileaks-leaking-norwegian-paper-scoops-assange

WikiLeaks detractors talk at Colombia Feb 3 www.journalism …
Twitter
WikiLeaks detractors talk at Colombia Feb 3
twitter.com/wikileaks/status/31543887839367168

“Omar Soliman keeps the domestic beasts at bay, and Mubarak is not …
Twitter
“Omar Soliman keeps the domestic beasts at bay, and Mubarak is not one to
lose sleep over his tactics.”
twitter.com/wikileaks/status/31521079356817408

Yes, we may have helped Tunisia, Egypt. But let us not forget the …
Twitter
Yes, we may have helped Tunisia, Egypt. But let us not forget the elephant
in the room: Al Jazeera + sat dishes
twitter.com/wikileaks/status/31448923629420544

Swiss tax whistleblower to give WikiLeaks new data: report | Reuters
ZURICH (Reuters) – A former Swiss private banker who was one of the first
whistleblowers to use WikiLeaks by publishing internal bank documents on
the site …
www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/16/us-wikileaks-swiss-idUSTRE70F0TF20110116

Twitter / WikiLeaks: NYTimes does another self- …
NYTimes does another self-serving smear.Facts wrong, top to bottom.Dark day
for US journalism.is.gd/hZ9i3J.
twitter.com/wikileaks/status/30359666491920385

Press Freedom Under Threat in Age of Wikileaks – IPS ipsnews.net
Freedom of the press could be seriously impacted across the world in the
wake of the ongoing political revelations brought about by whistle-blowing
websites …
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54245