Spies-R-Us
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Wikileaks Newslinks 11 August 2011
11 August 2011 — williambowles.info Shmoop Snoops the Facebook Profiles and Email Inboxes of the Gods, Launches … San Francisco Chronicle (press release) @shmoop went all WikiLeaks on us… mere mortals are all up in our Olympian business. SOCTLB* According to an anonymous Valhalla-based publicist, Shmoop’s team of private investigators infiltrated some seriously personal files… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 9 August 2011
9 August 2011 — williambowles.info ‘Watchmen’ Author Supports WikiLeaks Whistleblower PCWorld Manning is the GI accused of leaking classified US government documents to WikiLeaks. “With any legitimate trial of whistleblower Bradley Manning still being at an unspecified date in the future, it would seem that what is presently on trial here is … http://www.pcworld.com/article/237520/watchmen_author_supports_wikileaks_whistleblower.html Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 5 August 2011
5 August 2011 — williambowles.info In our WikiLeaks, Cyber-Hacking Era, a Time Travel Video Game May Be a New … Kotaku One assumes members of the government in the age of hacking and WikiLeaks might want to get their hands on any tools that could help them guard against the problems of leaks. Hazard knows… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 4 August 2011
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 Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 4 August 2011
4 August 2011 — williambowles.info To Party Hack Rep. Nydia Velázquez, War and Liberties Are Political Weapons Antiwar.com (blog) Many times as editor of my local newspaper, The Bushwick News, I have tried to get our local representative in the House, Nydia Velázquez, to give her opinions on WikiLeaks and whistleblower Bradley Manning. It didn’t… Continue reading
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Firm holds 1 million on anti-terror list
U.S. security firm Regulatory DataCorp says it has more than 1 million people and groups on its anti-terror database that it wants to market to government and private-sector clients worldwide. Continue reading
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Report your local anarchist: Network for Police Monitoring
For the time being, holding anarchist sympathies is not a crime – although presumably any gossip, however dubious and ill-informed, will be passed on by borough-level SO15 Counter Terrorism Liaison Officers to the feverish data collectors at the National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit. Are the Metropolitan Police simply starting to run low on ‘Islamists’ to… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 1-3 August 2011
3 August 2011 — williambowles.info 3 August 2011 Bradley Manning, the Wikileaks forgotten man ABC Technology and Games Former US Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning is, in many respects, the forgotten man of the Wikileaks saga. Private First Class Manning has been in prison for 14 months, much of it in solitary confinement, accused but… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 3 August 2011
3 August 2011 — williambowles.info Mexico: American Ambassador Is Confirmed New York Times The former ambassador, Carlos Pascual, resigned in March after a public dispute with President Felipe Calderón of Mexico over embassy documents released by WikiLeaks. The documents showed him and other American officials criticizing Mexican authorities … http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/world/americas/03briefs-Mexico.html Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 1 August 2011: UK: Report your local anarchist
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org UK: Report your local anarchist EU: Small steps to big brother: the development of the Visa Information System and SIS II EU-COSI: Council: Standing Committee on operational cooperation on internal security for the period January 2010 – June 2011 EU: TURKEY: UK Home Affairs Select Committee: Implications for the Justice… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 2 August 2011
2 August 2011 — williambowles.info Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in Sydney for Dangerous assignment Cumberland Courier Newspapers They will join others and the audience in negotiating a range of dangerous ideas including, that: Wikileaks has not gone far enough; Footballers are Barbarians not role models; Psychopaths Make the World Go Around; Ecstasy is No More… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 30 July 2011
30 July 2011 — williambowles.info Zimbabwe: Wikileaks – Zuma Pushing for Commonwealth Readmission AllAfrica.com SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma used his facilitation role to push hard for Zimbabwe’s readmission to the Commonwealth at the 2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) held in Port of Spain, Trinadad and Tobago, according to a WikiLeaks … Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 29 July 2011
29 July 2011 — williambowles.info Feds Defend Seizure of WikiLeaks Supporter’s Laptop Wired News (blog) By Kevin Poulsen The Justice Department on Thursday fired back against a lawsuit filed by a WikiLeaks supporter and friend of accused leaker Bradley Manning over the warrantless seizure of his laptop, arguing that they held onto the machine for… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 29 July 2011
29 July 2011 — williambowles.info Anonymous Fantasizes it was Responsible for EBay Stock Drop DailyTech (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Anonymous calls Paypal “corrupt” for refusing to support Wikileaks and cooperating with the FBI in arresting members associated with the attacks. (Source: Furious Fanboys) Anonymous takes credit for an eBay stock drop, … http://www.dailytech.com/Anonymous+Fantasizes+it+was+Responsible+for+EBay+Stock+Drop/article22276.htm Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 28 July 2011
28 July 2011 — williambowles.info Black Hat Pwnie Award winner will be a criminal ITworld.com Bradley Manning is charged with stealing and turning over to WikiLeaks thousands of US diplomatic messages and footage of a US airstrike in Iraq. If Manning didn’t do it, whoever did will be of interest to law enforcement. … http://www.itworld.com/security/186735/black-hat-pwnie-award-winner-will-be-criminal Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 28 July 2011
28 July 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks angry that PayPal supports anti-Muslim organization Washington Post (blog) By Elizabeth Flock WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks during a news conference in London in 2010. (Lennart Preiss – AP) Updated 8:09 pm The man behind the attacks on Norway last Friday has boasted of being a part of several… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Cables Show Haiti as Pawn in U.S. Foreign Policy By Katie Soltis
The U.S. tried to undermine Haiti’s oil deal with Venezuela in order to protect the vested interests of U.S. oil corporations. Under the Obama administration, the U.S. embassy worked with major textile companies to cap the minimum wage in Haiti at 31 cents per hour. Election monitors from the U.S. and the international community knowingly… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 27 July 2011
27 July 2011 — williambowles.info Antisec goes after Paypal Inquirer The payment firm has already been targeted for stopping payments to Wikileaks, and in a separate and apparently random attack, had its Twitter feed taken over in the UK, but this latest attack – for want of another word, aims to hit it right at… Continue reading
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The Development of “Privacy Killing Technologies”: A Link to the Murdoch Scandal? By Tom Burghardt
Following revelations earlier this year by The Tech Herald that security firms with close ties to the Pentagon ran black ops for major U.S. banks and corporations, it became clear that proprietary software developed for the military and U.S. intelligence was being used to target Americans. Continue reading
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The Development of "Privacy Killing Technologies": A Link to the Murdoch Scandal? By Tom Burghardt
Following revelations earlier this year by The Tech Herald that security firms with close ties to the Pentagon ran black ops for major U.S. banks and corporations, it became clear that proprietary software developed for the military and U.S. intelligence was being used to target Americans. Continue reading
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