Wikileaks Newslinks 19 April 2013

19 April 2013 — williambowles.info

 

Julian Assange’s secret chat with Google’s chairman

CNET

Eric Schmidt met with the WikiLeaks founder for five hours in 2011 for material for a book expected to be released next week. Steven Musil. by Steven Musil. April 18, 2013 10:38 PM PDT Follow @stevenmusil. Julian Assange speaks to the public while …

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57580383-93/julian-assanges-secret-chat-with-googles-chairman/

 

Goa beaches were targets for Lashkar in 2008: WikiLeaks – Zee News

Zee News

Goa beaches were targets for Lashkar in 2008: WikiLeaks Panaji: Goa’s

beaches were in the cross hairs of suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba terror suspect

Nasir Raizuddin, being tried for the 2008 Bangalore serial blasts,

WikiLeaks has claimed citing a recently …

http://zeenews.india.com/news/goa/goa-beaches-were-targets-for-lashkar-in-2008-wikileaks_843198.html

 

WikiLeaks publishes five-hour conversation between Eric Schmidt and Julian …

The Verge

Google chairman Eric Schmidt and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange secretly

met in 2011 and held a lengthy interview, according to a transcript

published on the whistleblowing site. The leak is surprisingly timely —

Schmidt was apparently conducting …

http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/19/4241486/eric-schmidt-and-julian-assange-conversation-published-on-wikileaks

 

Wikileaks Documentary At Wesleyan University, Free, One Night Only

Hartford Courant

A documentary about Wikileaks directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex

Gibney (“Taxi to the Dark Side”) will get a special pre-release

presentation on Thursday, April 18, at the Goldsmith Family Cinema at

Wesleyan University, 301 Washington Terrace in …

http://www.courant.com/entertainment/movies/hc-wikileaks-documentary-at-wesleyan-university-free-one-night-only-20130418,0,6454976.story

 

Bradley Manning Trial Secrecy Upheld By Military Court, Lawyers May Appeal

Huffington Post

… decision on Tuesday that media organizations and the public have no

right to access court documents, like transcripts and court orders, in the

high-profile trial of Bradley Manning, the Army private who admitted to

sending sensitive documents to …

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/18/bradley-manning-trial-lawsuit_n_3109822.html

 

Chagossians suffer blow in fight to go home as court rejects WikiLeaks cable

Media Guardian

To avoid confirming the WikiLeaks cable’s authenticity, Steven Kovats QC,

counsel for the Foreign Office, said the government would stick to a policy

of “neither confirm nor deny” anything about the documents. The policy is

known in Whitehall as NCND.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/18/chagos-islanders-court-rejects-wikileaks-cable

 

Indian newspaper says Wikileaks cables show US government contradicts Dow …

HazardEx

The Times of India (ToI) claims leaked cables made public by Wikileaks show

the US government’s assessment of the casualties caused by the leak of

methyl isocyanate (MIC) leak from the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL)

pesticide plant in Bhopal in …

http://www.hazardexonthenet.net/article/57736/Indian-newspaper-says-Wikileaks-cables-show-US-government-contradicts-Dow-on-Bhopal-deaths.aspx?AreaID=2

 

Bhutto tried to bring Kissinger to Peshawar: Wikileaks

PakistanToday.com.pk

Secret diplomatic messages, released recently by WikiLeaks, show how the

Americans handled the issue. On July 13, 1976 former US ambassador to

Kabul, Theodore L Eliot, sent a letter to the then US ambassador in

Islamabad, Henry A. Byroade, saying, …

http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/04/19/news/national/bhutto-tried-to-bring-kissinger-to-peshawar-wikileaks/

 

Guardian News & Media appoints new data editor

The Guardian

He is a brilliant journalist who has already been centrally involved in

some of the biggest data stories, both at the Guardian and before that at

WikiLeaks and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. I’m confident that he

will keep the Guardian at the …

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gnm-press-office/guardian-news-and-media-appoints-new-data-editor-2013

 

Something fishy about offshore hacking scandal

RT

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists says they hold

leaked secret data on offshore banking customers from 170 countries,

“bigger than Wikileaks,” but how they got such information casts a huge

shadow on the whole story. The website …

http://rt.com/op-edge/icij-leaked-offshore-fishy-055/

 

‘Cartoonish form of despotism’ – Assange on Bahrain activist Rajab’s imprisonment

RT

In an interview with RT, the WikiLeaks founder called Rajab the most

prominent voice in the Bahraini Spring. Anti-government protests have been

breaking in Bahrain since February 2011, resulting in dozens arrested and

over 80 people killed. The …

http://rt.com/news/assange-rajab-bahrain-protests-087/

 

China FTA abandoned

The Australian

For $100, you can get a WikiLeaks “organic T-shirt”. WikiLeaks hoodies are

selling for $150 each. A WikiLeaks coffee cup will set you back $40.

Assange needs every dollar he can get to for his legal fees and his

campaign for an Australian Senate seat.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/capital-circle/china-fta-abandoned/story-fn59nqgy-1226624005824

 

NGOs: India bowed before US on Bhopal gas tragedy

Arab News

Addressing a press conference here yesterday the representatives of the

NGOs, while citing recently released documents from Wikileaks’ “Kissinger

Cables,” said former Commerce Minister Kamal Nath and Planning Commission

Deputy Chairman Montek …

http://www.arabnews.com/news/448611

 

Twitter / wikileaks: #Assange: “You’re not providing …

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https://twitter.com/wikileaks/statuses/325097141221617665

 

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