The New Dark Age

20 October 2011 — williambowles.info

South Park – Wikileaks, Lemmiwinks and Catatafish
CliqueClack
Catatafish “Wikileaks posted exaggerated things about me too. He posted on his website that I had sex with an underage fish, and that I made her perform bass-to-mouth.” – Catatafish “No! No, see that’s wrong. It’s being exaggerated again. …
http://cliqueclack.com/tv/2011/10/19/south-park-bass-to-mouth/

Government tried to control the media
Sydney Morning Herald
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet raised the possibility of using such a protocol to constrain publication of national security information released by WikiLeaks. The deputy national security adviser, Margot McCarthy, told the Prime …
http://www.smh.com.au/national/government-tried-to-control-the-media-20111019-1m7wq.html

Wikileaks Gets the iSouth Park/i Treatment
Gawker
… has been ruining the lives of everyone in its gossipy path. To combat the problem, the kids set out to expose the person behind the site, later learning it was actually a blonde, wig-wearing gerbil named Wikileaks. Highlights of the episode are above.
http://gawker.com/5851596/wikileaks-gets-the-south-park-treatment

Follow Occupy Wall Street
Salon
Similar charges emerged around the absence of #wikileaks from Twitter’s Trends when the trove of diplomatic cables was released in December of last year, as well as around the #demo2010 student protests in the UK, the controversial execution of …
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/20/sex_at_ows_you_occupy_my_heart/

Diaspora accuses PayPal of blocking donations
PC Pro
PayPal drew criticism – and the unwanted attention of hackers – last year after blocking donations to Wikileaks. The group plans legal action. “Obviously, PayPal’s behavior is unacceptable, which is why we have asked our lawyer to get involved,” it …
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/370624/diaspora-accuses-paypal-of-blocking-donations

Tsvangirai fingered in MDC-T fracas
NewsDay
The insiders said Tsvangirai should put his cards on the table and make known his real position regarding the WikiLeaks disclosures and not hide behind other party members. The MDC-T leader has said the WikiLeaks disclosures were a non-event and his …
http://www.newsday.co.zw/article/2011-10-20-tsvangirai-fingered-in-mdct-fracas

Kirby backs WikiLeaks
Sky News Australia
Former High Court judge Michael Kirby has supported WikiLeaks’ leaking of
documents, saying there is too much secrecy in society. Mr Kirby said his
first reaction to WikiLeaks was that its founder, Julian Assange, was an
amateur who had ‘bumbled into …
http://www.skynews.com.au/national/article.aspx?id=675499&vId=

Diasporans not keen to invest in Zimbabwe
Zim Diaspora
By yaya By Marume By Malume Ndoza By Correspondent ZIMBABAWEANS in the
diaspora are not keen to invest in their own country while ZANU-PF is in
power, according to Wikileaks. This analysis is contained in a diplomatic
cable dispatched by the United …
http://www.zimdiaspora.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6736:diasporans-not-keen-to-invest-in-zimbabwe-till-mugabe-goes&catid=38:travel-tips&Itemid=18

Pluralists, partisans and public discourse
ABC Online
There is strong support for WikiLeaks, freedom of information and
Australia’s Right to Know, because we believe sunlight is the best
disinfectant. Yet, at the same time we are repelled by the News of the
World and its release of intensely private …
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-20/newman-pluralists-partisans-public-discourse/3580890

Obama’s New Executive Order Has More Balance than Initial Post-WikiLeaks Response
Project on Government Oversight (blog)
By ANDRE FRANCISCO The President has issued an executive order (EO) to
prevent future leaks of classified information that addresses many concerns
POGO had with a previous policy memo issued in the wake of several
high-profile WikiLeaks disclosures. …
http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2011/10/obamas-new-executive-order-has-more-balance-than-initial-post-wikileaks-response.html

Apology not accepted
Marshall Independent (blog)
Japanese comedienne Tamayo Otsuke Journalists pouring through the Wikileaks
revelations have recently brought something rather odd to light. President
Obama has in various speeches from Cairo to Latin America gone out of his
way to apologize for …
http://www.marshallindependent.com/page/blogs.detail/display/1593/Apology-not-accepted.html

Twinza Oil faces calls to leave Burma
Ninemsn
Wikileaks cables show Twinza’s Burmese subsidiary, Danford Equities
Corporation, has invested heavily in the Burmese oil and gas sector.
According to documents sent from Australia’s Embassy in Burma’s capital
Rangoon, and revealed by Wikileaks, …
http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/newsbusiness/aap/8362965/twinza-oil-faces-calls-to-leave-burma

The Return of Aaron Barr: Victim of Embarrassing Hacking Now Cybersecurity …
Project on Government Oversight (blog)
By NEIL GORDON If you have been following the twists and turns of the
Wikileaks saga, you might remember the incident earlier this year involving
an IT executive named Aaron Barr and the activist hacker group known as
Anonymous. …
http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2011/10/the-return-of-aaron-barr-victim-of-embarrassing-hacking-now-cybersecurity-chief-at-large-federal-con.html

V for Vendetta masks: Who’s behind them?
BBC News
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrived at the Occupy London Stock
Exchange protest to make a speech wearing one of these masks. He took it
off, reportedly at the insistence of the police. They were thought to have
been used first by the notorious …
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15359735

Economist Debate: The news industry
The Economist
At the same time, the internet enables new models of journalism by
democratising the tools of publishing, allowing greater participation from
readers and making possible entirely new kinds of organisation, such as
WikiLeaks. …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHJ8kT167RI

Tom Brady No. 42 on most influential list
SportingNews.com
42, sandwiched right between director Christopher Nolan and WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange. It’s a big drop from last year’s top NFL ranking.
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees was No. 6 on the list in 2010.
Tom Brady’s shaggy look apparently …
http://aol.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2011-10-19/tom-brady-no-42-on-most-influential-list

VMworld: Durham college employs virtualisation to drive cost savings
ComputerworldUK
Apple unveils Jobs memorial pagePosts some of the million messages it
received from customers and others since Jobs’ Oct. 5 death Wikileaks –
fearless whistleblowers or irresponsible nuisances? Keep up to date with
the latest developments. …
http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3312169/vmworld-durham-college-employs-virtualisation-to-drive-cost-savings/

A Stone’s Throw
Aspen Times
I was (and still am) generally a fan of WikiLeaks, that “treasonous”
organization that exposed a relative handful of the almost infinite lies
that our government regularly tells us. (And, of course, high on the list
of lies is the lie that insists that …
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20111019/COLUMN/111019827/1021&parentprofile=1061

Clegg courts Egypt with aid package
Politics.co.uk
Life in London is very similar to that under Hosni Mubarak in Egypt,
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said yesterday. Read Nick Clegg’s Arab
Spring speech in full on politics.co.uk. Read Douglas Alexander’s speech on
the Arab Spring in full on …
http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2011/10/20/clegg-courts-egypt-with-aid-package

In Egypt, corruption cases had an American root
Washington Post
… as the economic think tank is known, they expressed concerns in
confidential cables that privatization efforts could lead to high-level
corruption, according to a review of hundreds of WikiLeaks documents by The
Washington Post. …
http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-egypt-corruption-had-an-american-root/2011/10/07/gIQAApWoyL_story.html

As Twitter Hits New Milestone, CEO Talks Google, Search, Apple, IPO, Privacy
Search Engine Watch
The four accounts in question were related to a WikiLeaks investigation,
with the court order obtained under the Electronic Communications Privacy
Act, which prevents the company from notifying the user that their account
has been investigated. …
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2118487/As-Twitter-Hits-New-Milestone-CEO-Talks-Google-Search-Apple-IPO-Privacy

2 Big OMB Events: Media and Democracy Panel, Fri., 7 pm; Media/Tech Conference …
Open Media Boston
Global Action, MIT Comparative Media Studies, MIT Center for Civic Media
and Open Media Boston with support from Participant Media *Wikileaks at the
Local Level, What Would a City-wide Wikileaks Look Like and Achieve?
Admission to the SM/DR Conference …
http://www.openmediaboston.org/node/2064

Iraqi Jews yearn for lost homeland
AFP
Last month, a leaked US diplomatic cable released by whistleblower website
Wikileaks quoted a woman who spoke with a US embassy staff member in
October 2009 as saying “there are now eight remaining members of the Iraqi
Jewish community in Baghdad,” …
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ha9QLXCenWfyF1XGhmueVG8l68uQ?docId=CNG.2a93a00549e6f5194e9a5baa31122bc9.4a1

Digital data privacy rules turn 25
Politico
Only last week, reports surfaced that the DOJ secretly sought at least one
individual’s email contacts as part of a federal investigation into
WikiLeaks — an activity permitted under the ECPA, though one that led
critics to argue for revisiting its …
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66405.html

George W. Bush visits Denver to talk with education leaders, promote principal …
The Republic
Bush was going to visit Denver in February but he canceled because
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (ah-SAHNJ’) was invited to speak to
another event that Bush would have attended, the Young Presidents’
Organization Global Leadership Summit.
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/493b330b281144a282f30b1c0eac0951/CO—Bush-Denver/

Occupation in London enters fifth day
Wikinews
Julian Assange from Wikileaks also joined the protest to address the
activists. A flag flies over the occupation showing the ‘Anonymous’ logo of
a headless man in a black suit. At around 9:30am Wednesday, many campers
were still asleep, …
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Occupation_in_London_enters_fifth_day?dpl_id=292550

Greece scraps ‘academic asylum’ laws to curb abuse
Times Higher Education
But in one of the huge haul of diplomatic cables leaked to WikiLeaks in
2010, Daniel V. Speckhard, the former US ambassador in Athens, said the law
was “nothing more than a legal cover for hoodlums to wreak destruction with
impunity” and “threatens the …
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417826&c=1

I hear America painting
Aspen Times
Last October, President Obama promised the end of the military’s “Don’t
ask, don’t tell” policy regarding gays; Wikileaks disclosed secret
records regarding US commanders allowing torture during the Iraq war; and
regulators launched an investigation …
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20111020/NEWS/111019791/1077&ParentProfile=1058

UNAFF: The Mother of All Documentary Film Festivals
Patch.com
The festival then continues in San Francisco, the Cantor Museum, and venues
throughout Palo Alto, which films touching on everything from the world’s
largest garbage dump to modern revolutions to an intimate portrait of
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks …
http://paloalto.patch.com/articles/unaff-the-mother-of-all-documentary-film-festivals

Vormetric Hosts Webinar featuring Independent Research Firm on Enterprise …
MarketWatch (press release)
WHAT: 2011 has highlighted the importance of data security – with Wikileaks
exposing government secrets and RSA, Sony and others experiencing the sting
of sophisticated cyber-attacks by cyber gangs and nation-states. When
threats are coming from the …
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/vormetric-hosts-webinar-featuring-independent-research-firm-on-enterprise-encryption-in-the-cybercrime-era-2011-10-19

Sen David and David Boyle
Phnom Penh Post
… Supply company as well as a resort, a toll bridge and a sugar
plantation amongst other assets in the province and was dubbed the “King
of Koh Kong” in a cable from the United States Embassy released by
anti-secrecy organisation WikiLeaks this year. …
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011102052249/National-news/dredging-ends-effects-linger.html

The Son of Africa claims a continent’s crown jewels
New Statesman
As WikiLeaks cables and the US National Strategy for Counter-terrorism
show, American plans for Africa are part of a global design in which 60000
special forces, including death squads, operate in 75 countries. As the
then defence secretary Dick Cheney …
http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2011/10/pilger-china-obama-africa

10 Stupidest Hacks of All Time
eWeek
The Low Orbit Ion Cannon allowed users to form a voluntary botnet to launch
distributed denial of service attacks against companies severing times with
WikiLeaks. The tool did not conceal the user IP address. “Hackers broke the
No. …
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/10-Stupidest-Hacks-of-All-Time-201087/

Fed, BofA conspire to steal a trillion bucks
Beacon Equity Research
The tin-foil hats were right all along about the JP Morgan manipulation of
the gold price, thanks to GATA and a WikiLeaks cable about China’s
knowledge of the JP Morgan scheme, and now, in the face of OWS protests
spreading across the globe, …
http://www.beaconequity.com/smw/13568/Fed-BofA-conspire-to-steal-a-trillion-bucks

The government has it wrong on Anonymous and critical infrastructure
SC Magazine US
Thus it’s in the government’s best interest to stamp the group as some
purposeless band of radicals, much in the same way you can’t blame the
Department of Justice for going after whistleblowers like WikiLeaks, which
published a trove of documents …
http://www.scmagazineus.com/the-government-has-it-wrong-on-anonymous-and-critical-infrastructure/article/214702/

Brutal Gadhafi Regime Fights On in Western Libya
The New American
“[US Senator Joe] Lieberman called Libya an important ally in the war on
terrorism,” the WikiLeaks cable noted, describing a meeting between the
American delegation and the Libyan regime. Former GOP presidential
candidate Senator John McCain, …
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/africa-mainmenu-27/9429-brutal-gadhafi-regime-fights-on-in-western-libya

zenpundit.com » Blog Archive » WikiLeaks (and a kiss stolen in the …
By Charles Cameron
I don’t think there’s much doubt that WikiLeaks has had some impact in many
areas of our complex world — but as I was watching the film the other
day, I found myself wondering just how small its cumulative impact is, in
comparison to that …
http://zenpundit.com/?p=4413

Former High Court judge backs WikiLeaks – wikileaks, Michael Kirby …
By AAP
WikiLeaks has made the world a more open and transparent place, former High
Court judge Michael Kirby, says.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/404755/former_high_court_judge_backs_wikileaks/

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US Punishes “We Meant Well”
By Administrator
Before there was Wikileaks, there was Cryptome, online since 1996
publishing government documents from around the world. Stubbornly clinging
to a web design that looked old-fashioned in 1996, Cryptome especially
features documents …
http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2011/10/19/us-punishes-we-meant-well/

Julian Assange: Champion of Freedom of Expression or Criminal?
By Nick M
The “Wikileaks controversy” is a great example of the tension between
this freedom of expression and censorship. Wikileaks (NOT TO BE CONFUSED
WITH WIKIPEDIA) is the name of an international non-profit organization run
by founder, …
http://www.yalelawtech.org/free-speech-online/julian-assange-champion-of-freedom-of-expression-or-criminal/