The New Dark Age

4 August 2011 — williambowles.info

Wikileaks: UN discussed dropping #003
Radio Netherlands
United Nations officials discussed shutting down Cambodia’s war crimes tribunal without hearing a politically sensitive case involving two former Khmer Rouge leaders, according to a classified US diplomatic cable disclosed by Wikileaks. …
http://www.rnw.nl/international-justice/article/wikileaks-un-discussed-dropping-003

Mexico hails appointment of new U.S. envoy
Fox News
Pascual resigned in March after Mexican President Felipe Calderon blasted him for comments the envoy made in diplomatic cables obtained and disseminated by WikiLeaks. The ambassador’s messages to Washington included remarks questioning the sincerity …
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2011/08/03/mexico-hails-appointment-new-us-envoy/

A New Kind of Money
Truthdig
Organizations like WikiLeaks use Bitcoin to accept donations. To learn more about Bitcoin, click through to its official site. —ARK Founded in 2009 from a self-published 2008 white paper by developer Satoshi Nakamoto, whose actual identity still …
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/a_revolution_in_digital_economy_20110803/?ln

Assange ‘acts like moody teenager and is hunted by women’
Evening Standard
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange behaves like a moody teenager and is hunted by hordes of women, according to his host and protector. Vaughan Smith, who owns the 10-bedroom Norfolk home where Assange is living as he fights extradition to Sweden over …
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23975572-assange-acts-like-moody-teenager-and-is-hunted-by-women.do

Sony Features Strongly At Pwnie Awards Ceremony
eWEEK Europe UK
The nominees are Anonymous for hacking HBGary Federal, LulzSec for “hacking everyone”, WikiLeaks for posting thousands of classified documents and Bradley Manning for carrying them out on fake Lady Gaga CDs, and Stuxnet for being the first malware to …
http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/sony-features-strongly-at-pwnie-awards-ceremony-35849

Who Should Play Julian Assange in the WikiLeaks Movie?
msnbc.com
It was only a matter of time before WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, made movie magic. Looks like it’s about to happen: Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks studio is poised to oversee a movie about the embattled former hacker based on the book …
http://powerwall.msnbc.msn.com/politics/who-should-play-julian-assange-in-the-wikileaks-movie-9601.gallery

Buzz Out Loud 1523: Global cyber cold war imminent? (Podcast)
CNET (blog)
However when you said that you did not wish to use PayPal anymore because they blocked payment to Wikileaks. I totally agree that is PayPal fault and they totally deserve blame for this. However to be fair you should also stop using Visa and Mastercard …
http://www.cnet.com/8301-19709_1-20087689-10/buzz-out-loud-1523-global-cyber-cold-war-imminent-podcast/

The problem with LulzSec and other ‘hackers’
ABC Online
I have applauded WikiLeaks for some of its revelations based on hacked data, and believe it has performed a great service for the world in some ways. There are shameful stories that need to be made public and WikiLeaks has done so. …
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2824200.html

Page One: Inside The New York Times
ABC Online
Directed by Andrew Rossi, we are invited into the world of the newspaper through the headline grabbing issues of WikiLeaks, the financial loss and closure of other newspapers in the country, and the rise and rise of social media. …
http://www.abc.net.au/local/reviews/2011/08/04/3285617.htm?site=melbourne

Mexican Government Welcomes Wayne as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Bloomberg
The US Senate yesterday approved Wayne’s nomination after previous
Ambassador Carlos Pascual resigned on March 19 after President Felipe
Calderon complained over comments in cables released by WikiLeaks, in which
Pascual expressed concern that Mexican …
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-03/mexican-government-welcomes-wayne-as-u-s-ambassador-to-mexico.html

Tom Chatfield: Two cheers for Twitter and its democratic potential
The Independent
Is Wikileaks a force for truth and justice – or a quasi-terrorist
organisation? Are Google and Facebook benign giants – or data-hungry
profiteers? Is a free press a precious national asset – or a worse
offender against individual rights than many …
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/tom-chatfield-two-cheers-for-twitter-and-its-democratic-potential-2331230.html

The Cable: Out of purgatory: Senate confirms multiple State Department officials
Foreign Policy
Earl Wayne was confirmed as the US envoy to Mexico, replacing Carlos
Pasqual, who had to leave after WikiLeaks revealed that he was critical of
the Mexican government’s drug war. Pasqual was also dating the opposition
leader’s daughter, which couldn’t …
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/08/03/out_of_purgatory_senate_confirms_multiple_state_department_officials

Anarchy in the SC! Posters for Global Revolution Group Anonymous Paper San …
OC Weekly (blog)
As Adam Townsend first reported on Newport Beach Patch, Anonymous has also
been linked to the “hacktivist” shutdown of PayPal and major banking
websites after those sites refused to funnel money to Wikileaks. Anonymous
also supported Wikileaks founder …
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2011/08/anonymous_what_is_the_plan.php

Why is the Media Anti-Hero?
Media Research Center
Another recent case, and one that provides a profound contrast with the
story of Sgt. Giunta, is that of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Assange
attained hero status among his left-wing, anti-American supporters, and the
media fawned as well. …
http://www.mrc.org/cmi/articles/2011/Why_is_the_Media_AntiHero.html

Fleet Street’s Arab Spring
Vanity Fair
So engulfed was the English press in the Murdoch scandal that news of the
fate of last year’s media sensation, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange,
whose extradition appeal hearing over sex charges was going on at the same
time, was relegated to small …
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2011/09/graydon-201109

Choose the issue you desire to read
Executive
July 21: The daily Al Akhbar published a new batch of Wikileaks US
diplomatic cables from 2006 relating to the UN investigation into Hariri’s
assassination, which showed that former UN investigator Serge Brammertz
expressed concern about the “quality …
http://www.executive-magazine.com/getarticle.php?article=14509

WatchDox Expands Portable Document Security For BlackBerrys and iDevices
NetworkComputing.com
Ruppin also alluded to how WikiLeaks and similar recent data breaches
validate the need for documents to be controlled, not only from the access
perspective, but also by who has the ability to print, forward, copy, or
otherwise use them. …
http://www.networkcomputing.com/data-protection/231300074

Massive Cyber Attack Adds to Suspicions of Concerted Chinese Hacking
International Business Times
Earlier this year, Google accused China of hacking into its networks and
stealing source code, and diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks suggested
that the attack was orchestrated by the government, calling it “100%
political. …
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/191690/20110803/cyber-attack-china-cyber-warfare-china-massive-cyber-attack-china-hacking-mcafee-hacking.htm

When Hosni met Louis
The Guardian
I recall a phrase, something like WikiLeaks, but it must have been a bad
dream which came and went in the night.. “Many more black children are
dying under the ANC than they were under apartheid, that is Mandela’s
legacy.” But it’s interesting that you …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/03/hosni-mubarak-louis-revolution

Super-Weeds Clog the Cogs of the GMO Food Factory
Food Integrity Now
Information released by Wikileaks earlier this year revealed that the US
has been actively lobbying other countries in efforts to increase GMO
adoption, even going so far as to penalize countries that did not comply.
To understand this, one need simply …
http://foodintegritynow.org/2011/08/03/super-weeds-clog-the-cogs-of-the-gmo-food-factory/

The summer heats up as friction mounts between Saudi Arabia and its nemesis, Iran
Executive
By April 2008, according to US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks, the
Saudi ambassador in Washington relayed a plea from King Abdullah that
America “cut off the head of the snake”, and last summer The Times
newspaper in London reported the Saudis …
http://www.executive-magazine.com/getarticle.php?article=14505

‘Syrian forces kill four civilians’
Press TV
According to The Washington Post, secret diplomatic cables released by the
WikiLeaks say the US State Department has funded anti-government activities
in Syria with as much as six million dollars. Syria has been experiencing
unrest in past months with …
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/192270.html

Cultures and society
Calcutta Telegraph
From WikiLeaks it is seen that 35 of the Guantanamo inmates had been
radicalized by such rabid preachers in the United Kingdom, and of those
repatriated, several are still considered ‘high-risk’. Muslim spokespersons
in Britain have retorted that …
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110804/jsp/opinion/story_14328560.jsp

Defending the Majority, Not Punishing the Poorest Conference
Venezuelanalysis.com
He said Wikileaks has revealed that the Archbishop of Caracas, Baltazar
Porras, held secret meetings with the US Ambassador in Caracas to call for
US intervention in Venezuela to contain Venezuela’s “regional aspirations”.
…
http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/6401

Global cyber security firm to run courses in Adelaide
Adelaide Now
He said non-government organisations such as WikiLeaks and cyber criminals
were threats to systems. “First and foremost, individuals in Australia or
the US are mostly concerned about: `is my bank account safe, is my personal
information safe’.”
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/cyber-security-courses-to-run-here/story-e6frea6u-1226107814238

NBC News Investigative Producer for Special Projects
msnbc.com
But when you’re reading the WikiLeaks disclosure, when you read embassy
talking points, the nuclear weapons barely figure.” Of course, the main
question is if, in the last resort, the US did attempt to “snatch”
Pakistan’s weapons, would it work? …
http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_nv/more/section/archive?date=2011/8

Metrolife in the city
Deccan Herald
‘DocEdge Documentary Film Festival and Panel Discussion – Documentary
films in the times of Twitter, Facebook and Wikileaks’, will be held on
August 5 and 6 and 12-13 at Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan. The film
package ‘DocEdge’ comprises 11 …
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/181087/metrolife-city.html

Weekly Roundup from Across the Americas
Americas Quarterly (blog)
Four month after the Mexican ambassador to the United States stepped down
amid a dust up over WikiLeaks cables, the US Senate confirmed his
replacement late on August 2. The job goes to Earl Anthony Wayne, a career
diplomat who served both as an …
http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/2729

The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
Seattle Weekly
The latter proved especially apparent in December 2010 when the track
“Rebels in Kontrol,” from the band’s 17th studio album, WTF?!, was streamed
on the band’s website in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The
song garnered 75000 hits in only …
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2011-08-03/music/the-short-list-the-week-s-recommended-shows/

Film Clips: The Smurfs, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Crazy, Stupid, Love …
JohnJohnSaidIt.com
Former crack addict turned columnist David Carr makes an engagingly
curmudgeonly supporting player and Old Media’s staunchest defender in the
face of on-line start-ups eager to write the Times’ obituary. the film
covers the rise of WikiLeaks and the …
http://johnjohnsaidit.com/film-clips-the-smurfs-snow-flower-and-the-secret-fan-crazy-stupid-love-and-more/

Wednesday Comics Review: Ultimate Fallout #4 And Batman Knight Of Vengeance #3
Bleeding Cool News
Hickman and Larocca are bring back Ultimate Mr Fantastic from the dead and
Nick Spencer and Clayton Crain are starting a Wikileaks-style media scandal
over mutants in America, two stories which are less about the fallout of
Spider-Man’s death, …
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/08/03/wednesday-comics-review-ultimate-fallout-4-and-batman-knight-of-vengeance-3/

Wikileaks, the anti-Thaksin army and U.S. cheering | Political …
By thaipoliticalprisoners
In PPT’s continuing series of posts on the Wikileaks cables, we found the
cable attributed to Charge Alex A. Arvizu on 28 July 2006 revealing. For
context, this cable is produced less than two months before the coup. …
http://thaipoliticalprisoners.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/wikileaks-the-anti-thaksin-army-and-u-s-cheering/

KI Media: Wikileaks: UN discussed dropping #003
By noreply@blogger.com (Heng Soy)
United Nations officials discussed shutting down Cambodia’s war crimes
tribunal without hearing a politically sensitive case involving two former
Khmer Rouge leaders, according to a classified US diplomatic cable
disclosed by Wikileaks. …
http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2011/08/wikileaks-un-discussed-dropping-003.html

New Hearsay Culture shows with Prof. Archon Fung and Micah Sifry …
By David Levine
The second show, Show #144, July 20, is my interview with Micah Sifry of
the Personal Democracy Forum, author of WikiLeaks and the Age of
Transparency. Micah has written a wonderful study of Julian Assange,
WikiLeaks and its role in …
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6703

SACSIS: Murdoch, Mugabe, Malema and the Media | Abahlali baseMjondolo
By Abahlali_3
Were it not for the emergence of this open web based media, scandals such
as those exposed by Wikileaks may never have surfaced. The alternative
media directly and constantly challenges the status quo of the mainstream
media. …
http://abahlali.org/node/8210

WikiLeaks: Bush, Obama passed on sanctioning Syrian insiders …
WASHINGTON — Two U.S. administrations declined in recent years to place
sanctions on Syrian officials who now are involved in that country’s harsh
crackdown …
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/03/119333/wikileaks-bush-obama-passed-on.html