28 February, 2011 — creative-i.info
WikiLeaks says US favours Uhuru over Raila
Capital FM
Diplomatic cables released by whistle blowing website Wikileaks indicate that US Ambassador Michael Ranneberger wrote to his superiors in 2009 saying Mr Kenyatta’s ambition should be supported as it could be helpful in pushing the reform process …
www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/Kenyanews/WikiLeaks-says-US-favours-Uhuru-over-Raila-11871.html
Wikileaks-style news portal seeks to expose secrets in higher education
International Business Times
By IBTimes Staff Reporter | February 28, 2011 5:39 AM EST A new online
initiative titled Unileaks – clearly inspired by the radical Wikileaks
organization – has invited contributions that contain “restricted or
censored material of political, ethical, …
www.ibtimes.com/articles/116895/20110228/education-news-university-wikileaks-unileaks-secrets-expose-controversial-documents-us-college-presi.htm
WikiLeaks Fears Over Chinese Nukes
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
Records of secret US-China defense consultations, leaked to WikiLeaks and
provided to Asia Sentinel, have revealed that US diplomats have repeatedly
failed to persuade the rising Asian superpower to be more transparent about
its nuclear forces and …
www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20836
Muammar Gaddafi’s nurse flees Libya for Ukraine
The Guardian
Kolotnytska, 38, was described in US diplomatic cables released by
WikiLeaks in December as a “voluptuous blonde”, one of Gaddafi’s closest
confidantes and possibly his lover. “Libyan protocol staff emphasised to
multiple Emboffs [embassy officials] …
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/27/libya-muammar-gaddafi-nurse-ukraine
Peak Oil. The New York Times’ Op-ed Gets it Right and Wrong
Huffington Post (blog)
On Friday, two weeks after the issue was discussed at length in the
Huffington Post, “WikiLeaks Brings Misguided Joy to Preachers of Peak Oil”
02.10.11 the New York Times found the wherewithal to present us with
Michael Lynch’s Op-ed, “Drilling For an …
www.huffingtonpost.com/raymond-j-learsy/peak-oil-the-new-york-tim_b_828949.html
Wikileaks confirms Egypt’s hostility over Nile water agreements
eTurboNews
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN | Feb 27, 2011 (eTN) – The government of the
fallen “Pharaoh” Hosni Mubarak has now finally been exposed by more
WikiLeaks cables published last week, confirming what East African
countries long suspected and what a Ugandan …
www.eturbonews.com/21415/wikileaks-confirms-egypts-hostility-over-nile-water-agreements
WikiLeaks: Tent Talk in Libya
GC Advocate
by Michael Busch As US embassy cables from Libya continue pouring out of
the WikiLeaks archive with each new day, the whistle-blowing group yanked
the faucet off this afternoon, reducing the deluge to a drip. A single
document, dating from May 2009, …
www.gcadvocate.com/2011/02/wikileaks-tent-talk-with-muammar-qaddafi/
Personal Technology: A WikiLeaks subplot that may run and run
Jakarta Post
A lot of things have been happening in recent weeks, which is why many of
you may have missed an odd sub-plot to the WikiLeaks saga — which happens
to shed light on the Middle East uprisings, and indeed the future of social
movements. …
www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/02/28/personal-technology-a-wikileaks-subplot-may-run-and-run.html
WikiLeaks: Cat’s Cradle in Colombia
GC Advocate
by Michael Busch To get a sense of just how interconnected the formal and
illicit dimensions of international political economy are, take a peek at
this brief cable from the US embassy in Bogota published by WikiLeaks
Sunday. …
www.gcadvocate.com/2011/02/wikileaks-cats-cradle-in-colombia/
AUC allegedly bribed to secure Prosecutor General’s election: WikiLeaks
Colombia Reports
A WikiLeaks cable released on Sunday reveals how rumors began to circulate
in 2008 about paramilitary involvement in the 2005 election of Colombia’s
prosecutor general. At the time these accusations were the first of their
kind and stood alone. …
colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/14616-auc-allegedly-bribed-to-secure-prosecutor-generals-election-wikileaks.html
WikiLeaks’ Chilling Effect on Business-as-Usual in Asia
Asia-Pacific Business and Technology Report
WikiLeaks has made international news for its exposure of several hundred
thousand secret documents on the war in Afghanistan, US diplomatic
communications, and other less well-known scandals. But the organization is
not just doing this for the fun of …
www.biztechreport.com/story/1115-wikileaks%E2%80%99-chilling-effect-business-usual-asia
Wikileaks: Nadia Buari Furious with Ghanaian Blogger, Tries to Shut Site Down …
Peace FM Online
However, certain situations have brought the matter out into the
blogsphere. If you have been sharp-eyed on here, you may have realized by
now that nothing is being posted on Nadia Buari and we would not bother
wasting our space with her. …
showbiz.peacefmonline.com/news/201102/139211.php
Opinion: Prevent confidential leaks as there may not be a cure
The Lawyer
Following the media storm caused by the publication of thousands of US
diplomatic cables, Wikileaks’ ‘whistleblowing’ campaign appears to be
focusing on private entities. Founder Julian Assange has indicated that he
intends to publish further explosive …
www.thelawyer.com/opinion-prevent-confidential-leaks-as-there-may-not-be-a-cure/1007109.article
‘Anonymous’ takes down Americans for Prosperity website
Politico (blog)
The online activist group “anonymous,” which has used coordinated denial of
service attacks — a crude but effective Internet weapon — to temporary
disable sites belonging to foes ranging from Scientology to WikiLeaks foes
— has turned its firepower …
www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0211/Anonymous_takes_down_Americans_for_Prosperity_website.html?showall
Facebook Investor Peter Thiel: Palantir Is The Next Facebook Or Google
Forbes (blog)
But recently, Palantir has found itself in headlines for putting together a
proposal, along with HBGary and Berico Technologies, to launch
cyber-attacks and other “dirty tricks” against Wikileaks and its
supporters, on behalf of Bank of America, …
blogs.forbes.com/oliverchiang/?p=17203
Model UN debates current issues
Mackay Daily Mercury
CYBER-TERRORISM and WikiLeaks will be debated in a United Nations-like
setting during an upcoming youth forum. Students from Years 10 to 12 will
take part in the second annual Mackay Youth Forum – a two-day event which
simulates debate that occurs in …
www.dailymercury.com.au/story/2011/02/28/model-un-debates-current-issues-mackay/
ZeusiLeaks Archives File 004: Earnings Season
Finextra
WikiLeaks, the largest leak of data the world has seen? Nonsense! Trojans
like Zeus and SpyEye lurk on millions of personal, corporate and government
PCs, stealing data 24 by 7. Everything you do online – either private or
work related – is sent to a …
www.finextra.com/community/fullblog.aspx?id=5040
Code For America Bringing Technology to City Politics
The Epoch Times
By Shahrzad Noorbaloochi Iran’s Green Movement, Egypt’s successful regime
change, and the always-controversial case of Wikileaks stand as evidence
that the convergence of web-based technologies and politics is a powerful
concoction. …
www.theepochtimes.com/n2/united-states/code-for-america-bringing-technology-to-city-politics-52080.html
Italian PM has lessons for US president
Irish Times
WikiLeaks extracts, published last weekend in Italian daily L’Espresso,
would beg to differ. US ambassadors in Rome express their concern about Mr
Berlusconi’s apparent attraction for “very assertive leaders” such as
deposed Tunisian president Zine …
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0228/1224291014695.html
New York Times reporter speaks about Egypt turmoil, US military and more
BYU Daily Universe
Because of WikiLeaks, [Defense Secretary Robert] Gates, who is former CIA
director — and a big believer in secrets — has really clamped down on
information. The Obama administration has been pretty tough about leakers.
There’s been a chilling effect, …
universe.byu.edu/node/14284
Thugtatorship: The Highest Stage of African Dictatorship
Huffington Post
According to a Wikileaks cablegram, “International Criminal Court [ICC]
Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told [US] Ambassadors Rice and Wolff on March
20 [2009] that [Ocampo] would put the figure of Sudanese President Bashir’s
stash of money at possibly …
www.huffingtonpost.com/alemayehu-g-mariam/thugtatorship-the-highest_b_828864.html
The physical and the fiscal collide
The Australian
One of the wonderful performers, the slender, light-haired Stefan Stern,
does evoke – undoubtedly coincidentally – something of the WikiLeaks
supremo’s slightly seedy glamour. More pertinently, Trust takes a close
look at how the world operates and …
www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/the-physical-and-the-fiscal-collide/story-e6frg8n6-1226013093786
Man who leaked Pentagon Papers to speak at SU
Syracuse.com
Ellsberg will talk about the similarities between his actions and those of
Wikileaks, a web site that posts classified documents on its web site. The
talk begins at 7:30 pm in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3. The
event is free and open to …
www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/02/man_who_leaked_pentagon_papers.html
SPECIAL REPORT-US cables detail Saudi royal welfare programme
Futures Pros
The cables, obtained by WikiLeaks and reviewed by Reuters, provide
remarkable insight into how much the vast royal welfare program has cost
the country — not just financially but in terms of undermining social
cohesion. Besides the huge monthly …
www.futurespros.com/news/futures-news/special-report-u.s.-cables-detail-saudi-royal-welfare-programme-1000008234
The Cultural Contradictions Of Multiculturalism
Journal of Turkish Weekly
Homosexuals have been able to register civil partnerships since 1995 and
marry since 2009, and the country is one of the most radical in its
understanding of women’s rights – as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can
attest. …
www.turkishweekly.net/news/112151/the-cultural-contradictions-of-multiculturalism.html
Young, angry & Arab
Herald Scotland
WikiLeaks detailed the nouveau-riche excesses of the Tunisian regime. Ben
Ali’s ex-hairdresser wife was popularly referred to as the “Queen of the
Louts”. Libyan cyber-surfers unearthed WikiLeaks reports alleging their
nation’s wealth was being …
www.heraldscotland.com/comment/guest-commentary/young-angry-arab-1.1087441
Open door: Dangerous decisions
The Guardian
Rusbridger said: “We were asked by the British government not to run the
Yemeni cables during the WikiLeaks investigation because it would undermine
the fight against Islamists. We refused. Two months later that looks like
the right decision. …
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/28/open-door-publishing-endanger-life
UK blocked Swazi arms deal amid Zimbabwe sanctions-busting fears : WikiLeaks
African Press Agency (subscription)
… of US$60 million worth of military equipment by Swaziland in 2008 amid
fears that the small kingdom may have acted as an intermediary for
sanctions-ridden Zimbabwe, according to a diplomatic cable released Sunday
by whistleblower website WikiLeaks. …
www.apanews.net/apa.php?page=show_article_eng&id_article=141519
InternetNZ launches Net Talk
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
… international trade treaties including ACTA and TPP. The digital divide
and skills; role of libraries; broadband (fibre, rural, UFB); and e-waste.
Open source and schools; privacy; and a free and open Internet (with
references to Egypt and Wikileaks).
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1102/S00255/internetnz-launches-net-talk.htm
Qaddafi Appears to Lose Steadfast Nurse
New York Times
The American diplomatic memos released by WikiLeaks said Ms. Kolotnytskaya
was constantly by Colonel Qaddafi’s side when he visited New York in 2009
for a United Nations General Assembly meeting. The cables, though, also
described Colonel Qaddafi as a …
www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/world/africa/28nurse.html
Writer Koru: Road to Feb. 28 was paved with murders, assassinations
Today’s Zaman
Does it have anything to do with WikiLeaks, as some claim? It doesn’t have
anything to do with WikiLeaks. I was the Ankara representative of Yeni
?afak and had a lot to say about Eric Edelman, who as US ambassador at the
time was trying to promote the …
www.todayszaman.com/news-236840-writer-koru-road-to-feb-28-was-paved-with-murders-assassinations.html
Why More Anarchists Should Get Involved With Anonymous: Announcing Anonymous …
Infoshop News
I had known about known about Anonymous before that but seeking them out
had never really appealed to me until I saw them in the news for “defending
wikileaks”. It took a while before I was able to navigate to their IRC, but
once I was able to, …
news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20110227173846854
DR Congo coup attempt, six killed
Financial Times
The US considers a cobalt mine in Congo vital to its interests, according
to Wikileaks cables. Mineral-rich Congo faces tense elections in November,
likely to pit Mr Kabila against an array of opposition candidates with
strong support in various parts …
www.ft.com/cms/s/efc38038-4288-11e0-8b34-00144feabdc0.html
This year’s Oscars were another Hollywood snooze-a-thon. Only Ricky Gervais …
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
The Oscar for Best Joke on Twitter goes to the comedian Andy Borowitz:
“BREAKING: WikiLeaks Releases 140000 Pages of Aaron Sorkin’s Original
Acceptance Speech.” The only surprise tonight was Melissa Leo’s dropping
of the F-bomb. As for the hosts, …
blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100077874/the-oscars-2011-was-another-hollywood-snooze-a-thon-only-ricky-gervais-can-save-them-now/
Megrahi threat to reveal truth over Lockerbie
Herald Scotland
“Sir Gus O’Donnell’s report last month and the Wikileaks material have
exposed the previous Labour UK government’s organised hypocrisy for doing
all they possibly could to facilitate Megrahi’s release because they hoped
to profit from commercial deals …
www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/megrahi-threat-to-reveal-truth-over-lockerbie-1.1087516
Rachel Maddow Seizes Her Moment
Newsweek
She touted an item on the website ChristWire urging Sarah Palin to speak
out on Egypt—unaware that it was a satirical blog with such headlines as
ARE FACEBOOK SEX GANGS USING “WIKILEAKS” TO TARGET YOUR TEENS? (Maddow
good-naturedly confessed her error …
www.newsweek.com/2011/02/27/you-were-expecting-olbermann.html
World Tech Update: 28th February, 2011
Australian Techworld
In this week’s show: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange loses a UK court
battle, Intel makes a $5 billion bet on new technology, Motorola launches
the Xoom, Fujitsu has an enterprise tablet and more. The content of this
field is kept private and will not …
www.techworld.com.au/article/378077/world_tech_update_28th_february_2011
Humphrey McQueen: WikiLeaks and the fight for free speech | Green …
By Mat Ward
Hall and Carlile won our right to know what is in WikiLeaks and they won it
against the Murdochs and the Gillards of the 19th century. Of course, the
media will never be truly free until they cease to be businesses. …
www.greenleft.org.au/node/46846
Defending Wikileaks is what matters “ Antony Loewenstein
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CENSORED NEWS: New at Censored News: The Border, Walkers …
By brendanorrell@gmail.com
Wikileaks cable releases in Peru once again revealed how the US Embassy
targeted Indigenous activists in South America, and promoted copper and
iron ore mining. During decades of struggle, Indigenous activists in Peru
have fought hard …
bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-at-censored-news-border-walkers.html
Wikileaks: 16 More Secrets on China to Follow | EYE ON CHINA …
By Matt
The 16 points, some of which would be explosive if true—such as items 3,
6, 8, and 15—some highly recondite or even peculiar—such as 12 and
14—are as.
www.1913intel.com/2011/02/27/wikileaks-16-more-secrets-on-china-to-follow-eye-on-china/
UK blocked Swazi arms deal amid Zimbabwe sanctions-busting fears …
By bulldog
APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) The United Kingdom had blocked the purchase of US$60
million worth of military equipment by Swaziland in 2008 amid fears that
the small.
www.afriqueavenir.org/en/2011/02/27/uk-blocked-swazi-arms-deal-amid-zimbabwe-sanctions-busting-fears-wikileaks/
The Least Revealing WikiLeaks You’ll See Today | Broadsheet.ie
By Niall Murphy
Gawker reports that the New York Times and NBC News have been truffling
through Wikileaks records for cables relating to the world’s favourite
outgoing leader, Muammar Gaddafi/al-Qadhdh?f?/Gadafy/El Kadhafi. …
www.broadsheet.ie/2011/02/28/the-least-revealing-wikileaks-youll-see-today/
Irish Left Review · A Progressive Oppostion
By Vincent Wood
One organiser Smári McCarthy, a former Wikileaks volunteer describes
Wikileaks as the crowbar that has opened the floodgates. “Now I don’t have
to explain that anymore. Now I just have to figure out a way to make it
seem less …
www.irishleftreview.org/2011/02/27/progressive-oppostion/
Tunisia’s president appoints new prime minister – Nation & World …
President Zine el-Abidine ben Ali’s destination was unknown. Secret cables
highly critical of Ben Ali from the U.S. ambassador and released by
WikiLeaks may have fed the unrest. 4 dead in Tunisia after renewed violence
…
www.theolympian.com/2011/02/27/1558966/tunisian-prime-minister-announces.html
The Olympian Online — Nation & World
www.theolympian.com/nationworld/story/1056821.html?mi_pluck_action=comment_submitted&qwxq=1743437
“WikiLeaks Inspires Site on Australian Higher Ed” …
By sitedad
“WikiLeaks Inspires Site on Australian Higher Ed”. Kind of an
interesting piece in Inside Higher Ed: “WikiLeaks Inspires Site on
Australian Higher Ed;” specifically, a site called UniLeaks. There’s not
much there yet, but kind of an …
emutalk.org/2011/02/wikileaks-inspires-site-on-australian-higher-ed/
Glenn Greenwald explains WikiLeaks to Stephen Colbert – War Room …
Salon writer targeted in a conspiracy to silence journalists tells Colbert
what went down.
www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/25/glenn_greenwald_colbert_report_wikileaks
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange to be extradited to Sweden to face rape sex …
The 39-year-old Australian is accused of sexually assaulting one woman and
raping another during a week-long visit to Stockholm in August.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1360211/WikiLeaks-Julian-Assange-extradited-Sweden-face-rape-sex-attack-allegations.html
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