Spies-R-Us
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Wikileaks Newslinks 25-26 July 2011
26 July 2011 — williambowles.info UNLV student arrested by FBI for hacking in support of Wikileaks UNLV The Rebel Yell The indictment also stated that Anonymous’ attack on PayPal was meant to avenge PayPal’s cancellation of its WikiLeaks account because of an alleged breach of PayPal’s terms of service. WikiLeaks, founded by Julian Assange on… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 24 July 2011
24 July 2011 — williambowles.info Norway Unprepared for Terror Acts: WikiLeaks International Business Times According to diplomatic cables uncovered by WikiLeaks; as recently as 2009, one US official derided Norway’s security apparatus as being “in over its head” and that “it simply cannot keep up.” Other diplomatic documents noted that Oslo officials … http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/185680/20110723/norway-terroristm-wikileaks-cables-us.htm Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 23 July 2011
23 July 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks files show Norway unprepared for terror attack Telegraph.co.uk Norway’s intelligence service had previously been criticised for its failure to keep track of suspected terror cells and the country was felt to be complacent about the prospect of a terror attack, secret cables from the WikiLeaks files reveal. … http://www.telegraph.co.uk/8655964/WikiLeaks-files-show-Norway-unprepared-for-terror-attack.html Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 21-22 July 2011
22 July 2011 — williambowles.info Hacking groups say they are back after FBI arrests Reuters WikiLeaks supporters wear masks of the ”Anonymous” internet activist group and a mask of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (R) during a demonstration calling for the release of Assange, in Malaga, southern Spain December 11, 2010. … http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/21/us-cybersecurity-response-idUSTRE76K66G20110721 Continue reading
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ECHELON: The Global Eavesdropping Scheme Dwarfs Murdoch’s “News of the World” By Sherwood Ross
As eavesdroppers go, next to Uncle Sam and John Bull, Rupert Murdoch, the moral force behind Fox News, is an amateur. That’s because a global eavesdropping scheme being run today by the United States and Great Britain dwarfs anything that Rupert Murdoch’s editors at The News of The World (TNTW) ever dared attempt. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 14 July 2011
14 July 2011 — williambowles.info Wikileaks’ Julian Assange: ‘I want to make you pregnant… I prefer virgins’ Daily Mail By Rebecca Camber Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told a woman he stands accused of raping that he wanted to impregnate her and other ‘virgins’, a court heard yesterday. The 40-year-old is said to have told his… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, No 2 of 2: 13 July 2011 (19/11)
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org ITALY: Statewatch Analysis: Italy: Series of defeats in court for the ‘security package’ UK: Still spooked – Greater emphasis on the Channel project in the revised Prevent strategy gives much cause for concern EU: Statewatch Analysis: ?The Dialogue for Migration, Mobility and Security with the Southern Mediterranean countries EU: Council… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 13 July 2011: WikiLeaks’ Founder Julian Assange in U.K. Court for Extradition Appeal
13 July 2011 — williambowles.info Assange Presses Appeal to Head Off Extradition Wall Street Journal By JEANNE WHALEN LONDON—WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange unveiled a narrower set of legal arguments in a UK court on Tuesday as he continued his fight to avoid extradition to Sweden to face a sexual-assault investigation. Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated … http://europe.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303812104576441462672745124.html Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, No 1 of 2: 13 July 2011 (18/11)
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU: Statewatch Analysis: The Frontex Regulation – Consolidated text after 2011 amendments EU “SMART BORDERS”?: Frontex Call for Tender: “Rapid Deployment Unattended Ground Sensor systems for Land border surveillance” EU: Council of the European Union: ECRIS and Prum EU: Member States to be bound by new security rules, Parliament adopts… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 12 July 2011
12 July 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in court for extradition hearing Telegraph.co.uk WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrived at the High Court today for an appeal against being extradited to Sweden over sexual assault allegations. Julian Assange is challenging a ruling by District Judge Howard Riddle at Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court in … http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8631859/WikiLeaks-founder-Julian-Assange-in-court-for-extradition-hearing.html Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 11 July 2011
11 July 2011 — williambowles.info Visa starts then halts Wikileaks donations acceptance Inquirer By Dave Neal PAYMENT FIRM Visa has explained why it briefly accepted donations made to Wikileaks and then promptly stopped. The firm was discovered to have dropped its embargo at the end of last week when Datacell, its Iceland-based hosting company …… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 9 July 2011
9 July 2011 — williambowles.info Visa again blocks funds for WikiLeaks USA Today By Raphael G. Satter, AP LONDON — Visa said Friday it has closed a donation channel to WikiLeaks after a payment processor briefly accepted money transfers to the anti-secrecy site. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange attends a debate on the subject of …… Continue reading
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Exclusive: Julian Assange of WikiLeaks and Philosopher Slavoj Žižek in Conversation With Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: “In one of his first public events since being held under house arrest, WikiLeaks Editor-In-Chief Julian Assange appeared in London Saturday for a conversation with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, moderated by Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman. They discussed the impact of WikiLeaks on world politics, the release of the Iraq and Afghanistan… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 8 July 2011
8 July 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks’s Partner Says Visa, MasterCard Lift Payment Block Bloomberg By Aoife White and Donal Griffin – Thu Jul 07 22:35:05 GMT 2011 WikiLeaks’s payment provider, DataCell, said it’s again able to accept credit-card payments seven months after Visa Europe Ltd. and MasterCard Inc. (MA) blocked donations to the website. …… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 30 June 2011
30 June 2011 — williambowles.info Foreign Affairs quick to launch WikiLeaks team Vancouver Sun By Jordan Press, Postmedia News June 30, 2011 2:07 AM It took just a day for a WikiLeaks war room to be set up at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Ottawa. The war room at first included more than 20… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online,30 June 2011 (17/11)
30 June 2011 — Statewatch – e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU: Statewatch Analysis: “Network with errors”: Europe’s emerging web of DNA databases 2. UK: Statewatch Analysis: Review of counter-terrorism powers fails to deliver definitive change 3. ECHR-UK: JUDGMENT: UK would violate human rights of two Somali nationals if it returned them to Mogadishu Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 24 June 2011
24 June 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks Sheds Light on Legal Standstill Over ‘Well Regarded’ Fugitive on … New York Times But new insight into the international tug of war over Pluimers can be found in a diplomatic cable released earlier this year by the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks. That cable, written in 2006 by officials at… Continue reading
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European Conference marking Statewatch’s 20th anniversary
STATEWATCHING EUROPE – Civil liberties, the state and the EU – European Conference marking Statewatch’s 20th anniversary – Saturday 25 June 2011, 10.00 am 17.30 pm Continue reading
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Wikileaks 20 June 2011
20 June 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks critical of NYT, Guardian Business Spectator WikiLeaks believes it is changing the fundamental nature of journalism, spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson has said, according to a report on Technology Spectator. Speaking at an event hosted by the University of Sydney and Sydney Ideas on Friday, … http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Wikileaks-critical-of-NYT-Guardian-pd20110620-HYVE7?OpenDocument&src=hp9 Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 19 June 2011
20 June 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: Few Cubans can name US-backed dissidents MiamiHerald.com Yet respondents identified an average of only 1.5 of the seven dissidents on the list, or fewer than one in four, according to the dispatch, which is part of the huge cache of State Department documents obtained by WikiLeaks and passed to… Continue reading
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