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22 February, 2011 — creative-i.info

WikiLeaks: Japan’s New Spy Agency Targets North Korea And China
Culture Clash Daily
Yet yesterday WikiLeaks released a cable issued by the US State Department
acknowledging the existence of an agency with espionage capabilities and
it’s purpose. With tensions mounting between North and South Korea it may
be no surprise that Japan is …
www.cultureclashdaily.com/page1111457.php

WikiLeaks cables: A guide to Gaddafi’s ‘famously fractious’ family
The Guardian
The leader of the Libyan revolution presides over a “famously fractious”
family that is powerful, wealthy, dysfunctional and marked by internecine
struggles, according to US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. The
documents shed light on how his …
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/21/wikileaks-guide-gaddafi-fractious-family

Transparency and Secrets
MIT Technology Review
WikiLeaks wants to undermine states and corporations by interfering with
their ability to “think.” It may not survive, but its innovations will be
imitated. By Jason Pontin The insurrectionist: Julian Assange outside a
London court in January. …
www.technologyreview.com/communications/32404/

WikiLeaks: It’s a judgement call
TODAYonline
Mr Janadas Devan pointed out the cables’ content was leaked exclusively by
WikiLeaks to Australia’s Fairfax Media group in the South-east Asian
region. Elsewhere, WikiLeaks worked with other newspapers – such as The New
York Times, The Guardian and Der …
www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC110222-0000172/WikiLeaks—Its-a-judgement-call

Donald Rumsfeld on War in Iraq, WMD, WikiLeaks and the Media
Right Side News
Regarding WikiLeaks, he is concerned that “one of the effects is that
people are going to be very reluctant to put things on paper, I think
people are going to be very reluctant to communicate honestly and
accurately what they really believe unless it …
www.rightsidenews.com/2011022112898/editorial/us-opinion-and-editorial/donald-rumsfeld-on-war-in-iraq-wmd-wikileaks-and-the-media.html

WikiLeaks cable identifies Mexico’s richest businessmen
El Paso Times
… in Mexico – a country where more than 40 percent of the population
lives in poverty – represents roughly 10 percent of the country’s GDP
(gross domestic product),” according to a confidential US document
disclosed by online whistleblower Wikileaks.
www.elpasotimes.com/ci_17442608?source=most_viewed

Colombia ‘not worried’ by WikiLeaks revelations
Colombia Reports
Minister German Vargas Lleras said that Sunday’s WikiLeaks revelations
relating to Colombian politics do not worry the government. Justice and
Interior Minister German Vargas Lleras told El Tiempo on Sunday evening
that the government “doesn’t care …
colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/14505-colombia-not-worried-by-wikileaks-revelations.html

Wikileaks to Publish US Cables on Finland
YLE News
Whistleblowing website Wikileaks is to begin publishing the US diplomatic
cables concerning Finland it has in its possession. The cables will be
available to read on the Wikileaks website, the organisation’s press
officer Kristinn Hrafnsson said at the …
www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2011/02/wikileaks_to_publish_us_cables_on_finland_2379230.html

Ambassador breaks WikiLeaks silence
Views and News from Norway
He thinks the paper’s use of WikiLeaks documents is inappropriate. White
has been unhappy over coverage in Aftenposten and a vast array of other
Norwegian media about everything from the embassy’s controversial
surveillance program to its pending move …
www.newsinenglish.no/2011/02/21/ambassador-breaks-wikileaks-silence/

Tableau revamps data policy after WikiLeaks controversy
TechFlash (blog)
Tableau Software has revamped its public data policy, a move that comes a
little more than two months after the Seattle software company took some
heat for removing data created by WikiLeaks. “During a recent WikiLeaks
posting of diplomatic cables, …
www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/02/tableau-revamps-data-policy-after.html

El Espectador to publish WikiLeaks cables weekly
Colombia Reports
The director of Colombian newspaper El Espectador, Fidel Cano, spoke with
La FM. on Monday about receiving 16000 cables from WikiLeaks. Cano
confirmed El Espectador’s report on Sunday that he now has in his
possession diplomatic cables relating to …
colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/14495-el-espectador-to-publish-wikileaks-cables-on-wednesdays.html

Westboro Baptist Church invites a DDoS attack from Anonymous
International Business Times
Anonymous gained limelight in December 2010 for undertaking high profile
DDoS attacks against major websites like PayPal in support of the
whistleblower site Wikileaks under its “Operation Avenge Assange”.
Anonymous which called itself “the collective …
uk.ibtimes.com/articles/114563/20110221/anonymous-westboro-baptist-church-ddos-wikileaks.htm

SNP were prepared to consider referendum without independence option
Left Foot Forward
In an exclusive, the paper’s Scottish Political Editor, Tom Gordon, has
quoted extensively from leaked material from the WikiLeaks website,
detailing the content of a memo from the US Embassy to Washington shortly
after the first minister hosted a …
www.leftfootforward.org/2011/02/alex-salmond-snp-wikileaks-revelations/

Farc guerrilla looked to France for Betancourt deal, Wikileaks
RFI
By RFI New diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks reveal that a Colombian
guerrilla leader had looked to make a deal for a safe passage to France in
return for the release of Ingrid Betancourt, the Franco-Colombian woman who
was then held hostage by …
www.english.rfi.fr/americas/20110221-farc-guerrilla-looked-france-betancourt-deal-wikileaks

Do Social Media platforms deserve nobel prize for facilitating pro-democracy …
International Business Times
By Samyuktha Krishnappa | February 22, 2011 3:51 AM EST Even as the
discussion over whistleblower website WikiLeaks’ 2011 Nobel Prize run
continues, there seems to be another internet-based contender emerging
strong for the next year’s Peace Prize race …
www.ibtimes.com/articles/114814/20110222/social-media-nobel-peace-prize-internet-pro-democracy-protests-iran-egypt-tunisia-china-government-j.htm

Nothing to See Here
Foreign Policy
What if the big message of the WikiLeaks cables is that there is no
message? BY FOUAD AJAMI | MARCH/APRIL 2011 Neil Sheehan, the legendary
reporter who acquired the Pentagon Papers for the New York Times, tells us
that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara …
www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/22/nothing_to_see_here

State Department cables detail US links to Bahrain
Washington Post
The cables released by WikiLeaks also show that US military, intelligence
and diplomatic relationships with Bahrain run much deeper than the presence
there of 5th Fleet headquarters and the Naval Support Activity base, which
also serves as home for …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/21/AR2011022104313.html

Written by Ines Gruber
Budapest Times
David McCraw, vice-president and assistant general counsel (above) of The
New York Times Company, spoke about whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks,
developments in press freedom and the future of freedom of information at
the Open Society Archive of the …
www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16841&Itemid=219

WikiHunt and the (in)visible handshake
The Guatemala Times
The second wave of anti-WikiLeaks measures has recruited the private sector
in a manner that calls for an urgent re-think of constitutional safeguards
for civil liberties. The global hunt for WikiLeaks in the past few months
has taken an interesting …
www.guatemala-times.com/opinion/columns/2059-wikihunt-and-the-invisible-handshake-.html

Pentagon Issues New Restrictions on Stars and Stripes Journalists
Editor & Publisher
As part of an effort to tighten security in the wake of the WikiLeaks
snafu, the Pentagon has re-issued restrictions on government employees’
abilities to access classified information – even if that information has
already entered the public domain. …
www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/pentagon-issues-new-restrictions-on-stars-and-stripes-journalists-64276-.aspx

Assange Nobel nomination does not shock
The Collegian online
This year, that trend continues: one nominee is WikiLeaks co-founder Julian
Assange, a runner-up in Time Magazine’s most recent race for Person of the
Year (Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook fame snatched that title). In his will,
Alfred Nobel called for the …
www.utulsa.edu/collegian/article.asp?article=4987

US defends free and open Internet
Malaysia Sun
Now, I know that government confidentiality has been a topic of debate
during the past few months because of WikiLeaks, but it’s been a false
debate in many ways. Fundamentally, the WikiLeaks incident began with an
act of theft. …
story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/747207/cs/1/ht/US-defends-free-and-open-Internet/

The Truth Is Out There—Right?
New Republic (blog)
[T]hat’s what we learned in WikiLeaks over three years, that sometimes if
you look at raw, unfiltered information, not a write-up by a media
organization but a genuine document, then the truth is very blunt, and that
is something that has a completely …
www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/83911/the-truth-out-there-right

DDoS attacks: coming to a network near you
ComputerWeekly.com (blog)
By Fran Howarth on February 21, 2011 11:31 AM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
There has already been much fallout from the recent massive release of
information by the WikiLeaks organisation—including attacks on WikiLeaks
itself by those angered by its …
www.computerweekly.com/blogs/Bloor-on-IT-security/2011/02/ddod-attacks-coming-to-a-network-near-you.html

The BJP Task Force Report on black money is a valuable document
Organiser
Wikileaks mocks at us in terms of revealing the names of our current icons
as men who plundered. It is possible that foreign spy agencies know the
names. Our leadership may be under blackmail and our policy formulations
may have been compromised”. …
www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=386&page=3

US Agent’s Killing Hints at Drug-War Tensions
TIME (blog)
But as revealed in WikiLeaks cables and offhand comments by officials on
both sides of the border, tensions are growing. US officials complain that
they cannot completely rely on Mexico’s institutions — and this concern
is exacerbated when their lives …
www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2052944,00.html

US extending eye on Pacific to help cut illegal fishing
New Zealand Herald
Greater co-operation between the defence forces of the US and New Zealand
has been occurring since 2007 under an agreement the Americans wanted kept
secret and revealed only by the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables. Asked about
the restoration of the …
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10707891

Egypt ETF Gains in Post-Mubarak Era Hobbled Without Free Market
Bloomberg
23, 2008 that was disclosed by the anti- secrecy group Wikileaks. Egypt’s
caretaker civilian ministers insist they will shrink the state’s role in
the economy. “There is no rolling back of reform,” Finance Minister
Samir Radwan, a London-educated …
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-22/egypt-etf-signals-gains-in-post-mubarak-era-seen-lame-without-free-markets.html

Tableau Announces New Data Policy & Advisory Board
VizWorld.com
Tableau took some heat when they unexpectedly took down the
publicly-created visualizations of the WikiLeaks cables. Realizing that
perhaps that wasn’t the best solution to the touchy subject, they’ve spent
some time working on a better solution. …
www.vizworld.com/2011/02/tableau-announces-data-policy-advisory-board/

Cables show China used debt holdings to press US
AFP
An October 2008 cable, released by WikiLeaks, showed a senior Chinese
official linking questions about much-needed Chinese investment to
sensitive military sales to Taiwan. Amid the panic of Lehman Brothers’
collapse and the ensuing liquidity crunch, …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h-38wsWDlg6gksgnaXzkrOZQ0tGA?docId=CNG.ae2d2f54b4997246bb7b180d2736bac1.e1

Cable: Former Calderon guard fed info, supplied weapons to cartels
El Paso Times
The document, disclosed by online whistleblower WikiLeaks, said “the
cartels were using the information to avoid heightened security around the
president, not to target him personally. “The arrest represents the most
serious security breach to date but …
www.elpasotimes.com/ci_17442613?source=most_viewed

Arab world unrest threatens Israel’s chance of neighborly ties
Ha’aretz
From 2008-2009, telegrams from the US embassy in Manama, Bahrain, published
by WikiLeaks (as reported by this newspaper’s Barak Ravid ), show that the
Emir of this small principality was willing to deviate from the official
Arab line and start a direct …
www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/arab-world-unrest-threatens-israel-s-chance-of-neighborly-ties-1.344903

A book has internal tensions WikiLeaks | Entertainment and News
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www.gospress.com/international/a-book-has-internal-tensions-wikileaks.html

Peru: Wikileaks Cable Stirs Electoral Campaign · Global Voices
By Silvia Viñas
Juan Arellano in Globalizado [es] reports on reactions to a 2005 cable
released by Wikileaks, which reveals that “Fernando Rospigliosi, former
Minister of Interior in the administration of Alejandro Toledo, asked for
the collaboration …
globalvoicesonline.org/2011/02/22/peru-wikileaks-cable-stirs-electoral-campaign/

Japan building spy service: WikiLeaks
By Kanna
Japan building spy service: WikiLeaks Japan is setting up its first fully-
fledged post-war foreign spy service, modelled on the CIA and Britain’s
MI6,
www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/94490-japan-building-spy-service-wikileaks.html

Saif Speaks to Libyans: What WikiLeaks Cables Say About His …
By Kevin Gosztola
If one looks through the entire address and then sifts through the many
cables from Libya that have been released by WikiLeaks and leaked to
newspapers by WikiLeaks, it is possible to pull out threads to illuminate
what might happen …
my.firedoglake.com/kgosztola/2011/02/21/saif-speaks-to-libyans-what-wikileaks-cables-say-about-his-address/

Sarkozy admits French language a hoax after Wikileaks exposé …
By Admin1
After yesterday’s Wikileaks revelations, Nicolas Sarkozy has today
confirmed that the “French language” is indeed a one thousand year old
hoax.
www.daily-news-trends.com/news-2/sarkozy-admits-french-language-a-hoax-after-wikileaks-expos/

In Other Words: Reading WikiLeaks | Foreign Policy
How does one make sense of the vast amounts of information found in the
WikiLeaks cables? With so much to read and so few easy ways to understand
the huge data dump, we looked to the experts: scholars, diplomats, and
professional …
www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/22/cable_news

Israel Matzav: Wikileaks: Israel cooperated with Chile to monitor …
By Carl in Jerusalem
Wikileaks: Israel cooperated with Chile to monitor Iranian activity in
South America. I know I’ve been devoting a lot of time to the Arab world
today, especially to Libya, but I have to tell you that most of the Israel
Radio news today …
israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/02/wikileaks-israel-cooperated-with-chile.html

Wikileaks reveals Japanese spy agency | Japanator.com: anime news …
By Japanator Staff
Call me cynical, but I kind of figure that if you don’t assume every
industrialized nation has a spy agency, then you’re a bit naïve. A thread
on FG revealed a link to The Sydney Morning Herald which covers the
Wikileaks revelation that …
www.japanator.com/wikileaks-reveals-japanese-spy-agency-18683.phtml

Donald Rumsfeld on War in Iraq, WMD, WikiLeaks and the Media
By Roger Aronoff
Regarding WikiLeaks, he is concerned that “one of the effects is that
people are going to be very reluctant to put things on paper, I think
people are going to be very reluctant to communicate honestly and
accurately what they really …
www.aim.org/aim-column/donald-rumsfeld-on-war-in-iraq-wmd-wikileaks-and-the-media/

Wikileaks Is A Rothschild Operation?: Rothschilds Use Wikileaks To …
By Truth is Contagious
‘The recent imprisonment of Wikileaks’ Julian Assange strains credulity.
His arrest by Interpol, his incarceration under draconian conditions for
breaking a condom are in themselves highly unlikely events, but the timing
of his …
truthiscontagious.com/2011/02/22/wikileaks-is-a-rothschild-operation-rothschilds-use-wikileaks-to-wound-rival-bank-julian-assange%E2%80%99s-bail-posted-by-rothschilds%E2%80%99-sister-in-law-many-other-links-2

WikiLeaks: A Gaddafi Family Portrait | Middle East news, analysis …
By Crethi Plethi
The Crethi and the Plethi | Middle East News, Opinion, Analysis, and In
depth information. Read the Blog and download documents at
http://www.crethiplethi.com.
www.crethiplethi.com/wikileaks-a-gaddafi-family-portrait/usa/2011/

RSA Survey: No Trust for Cloud Vendors, Wikileaks
By David King
RSA survey to test cloud misuse of privilege knowledge.
blog.beyondtrust.com/bid/56958/RSA-Survey-No-Trust-for-Cloud-Vendors-Wikileaks

Preserving Freedom: The Debate About WikiLeaks
By Jim Rongstad
The Debate About WikiLeaks. A humorous take on the WikiLeaks controversy
and the Governments attempts to silence it. Posted by Jim Rongstad at 11:28
PM · Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to
Google Buzz …
rongstad.blogspot.com/2011/02/debate-about-wikileaks.html

Wikileaks to Publish US Cables on Finland | News | YLE Uutiset …
Whistleblowing website Wikileaks is to begin publishing the US diplomatic
cables concerning Finland it has in its possession. The cables will be
available to read on the Wikileaks website, the organisation’s press
officer Kristinn …
yle.fi/uutiset/news/2011/02/wikileaks_to_publish_us_cables_on_finland_2379230.html?origin=rss

WikiLeaks: riding a Tunisian tsunami | Crikey
By Crikey
In the past two weeks WikiLeaks has released cables at an increased rate as
it seeks to capitalise on unrest in the Middle East, keep its original
release schedule on track, and also to stay ahead of its competitors in
northern Europe, …
www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/22/wikileaks-riding-tunisian-tsunami/

NESARA NOW and REPUBLIC Restore America Operations: Foreclosure …
By John MacHaffie
An overall view of the Bank of America material now held by WikiLeaks
reveals that starting in 2008, the Bank of America acquired Countrywide
Mortgage, a very aggressive mortgage company that specialized in creating
fraudulent loans to …
nesaranews.blogspot.com/2011/02/foreclosure-bank-of-america-vs.html

Sarkozy admits French language a hoax after Wikileaks exposé – New …
By Chris
Sarkozy admits French language a hoax after Wikileaks exposé | NewsBiscuit
· Sarkozy admits French language a hoax after Wikileaks exposé |
NewsBiscuit: “ Nicolas Sarkozy – Sent using Google Toolbar”. Posted by
Chris at 5:40 AM …
new-basement-tapes.blogspot.com/2011/02/sarkozy-admits-french-language-hoax.html

Twitter Wikileaks Court Order | American Civil Liberties Union
Twitter Wikileaks Court Order – ACLU/EFF Motion to Unseal Original Motions
And Court Hearing · download. 1/26/2011 | Free Speech …
www.aclu.org/free-speech/twitter-wikileaks-court-order