Spies-R-Us
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Wikileaks News Roundup 2 December, 2010
2 December, 2010 — creative-i.info WikiLeaks reports on Putin’s wealth “nonsense” – spokesman WikiLeaks lift curtains on American political autism – expert WikiLeaks founder’s plea rejected WikiLeaks Shows Diplomats Lie to Themselves Before They Lie to Journalists URUK Net Newsletter 30 November, 2010: Wikileaks : US Cable Confirms US Killed Women and Children In Yemen… Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup 1 December, 2010
1 December, 2010 — creative-i.info Ho Hum: More Wikileaks “Chickenfeed” Interpol issues arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder American Racism on Display in Wikileaks Iran Cable Whose Core Interest Is It Anyway? VIDEO: Top Canadian Advisor Calls for Assassination of Wikileaks Director Why Might a Saudi King Want the US to Attack Iran? The folly of… Continue reading
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Wikileaks and State Department correspondence
Index on Censorship has obtained copies of correspondence between whistleblowing website Wikileaks and the US embassy in the United Kingdom, which took place between Friday and Sunday. They reveal Wikileaks editor in chiefs last-minute attempt to seek the cooperation of the United States government in redacting information from the latest controversial release of documents. Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup for 30 November, 2010
30 November, 2010 — creative-i.info Richard Cohen Nails That Lying George W. Bush US ambassador: Leaks not damaging WikiLeaks on Public TV: Defending the ‘Interests of the West’ Leaks reveal Pakistan arms fears Wikileaks and the New Global Order: America’s Wake-up Call No-Longer Secret US Embassy Cables – Fulltext Search No-Longer Secret US Embassy Cables… Continue reading
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Wikileaks and the New Global Order: America’s Wake-up Call By Jonathan Cook
The new disclosures do provide a useful insight, captured in the very ordinariness of the diplomatic correspondence, into Washington’s own sense of the limits on its global role — an insight that was far less apparent in the previous Wikileaks revelations on the US army’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, No 2: 30 November 2010 (21/10)
30 November, 2010 Home page: www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU: Amnesty International: Open Secret: Mounting Evidence of Europe’s complicity in rendition and secret detention 2. EU: European Data Protection Supervisor: Data protection reform strategy 3. EU: European Commission: Taking on the Data Retention Directive – a discussion paper 4. EU: Article 29 Working Party on… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 30 November 2010 (21/10)
30 November, 2010 Home page: www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EUROPE: Border Monitoring Project Ukraine: Access to Protection Denied 2. ECCHR: Blacklisted: Targeted Sanctions, Pre-emptive Security and Fundamental Rights 3. EU: Commission: Study on the feasilibty of establishing a mechanism for the beneficiaries of international protection 4. EU-USA TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA: European Parliament’s Civil Liberties… Continue reading
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National Outcry Over TSA Body Scanners and Invasive Pat-Downs
As one of the busiest travel seasons of the year approaches there is a public outcry over new airport security measures that include full-body scanners and invasive police-style pat-downs. We speak with the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the American Civil Liberties Union, as well as New York City Councilman David Greenfield, who introduced a… Continue reading
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Which would you choose: a full-body scan or a pat-down?
Airline passengers who object to any type of physical screening are not going to fly anywhere, the head of the Transportation Security Administration told a congressional committee Tuesday. Continue reading
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Reaction to Wikileaks in Iraq
28 October, 2010 — The Real News Network Sahar Issa: Iraqis scoff at notion that only 100,000 civilians died in war Reaction to Wikileaks in Iraq Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 26 October 2010 (19/10)
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU: European Commission: Data protection proposals EU-GREECE: EU sends border guards to Greece UK: New rights to protect Britons abroad European Commission: Report on third country nationals and trafficking European Parliament: Strengthening democratic scrutiny over EU external affairs EU: Rightwing parties plan opposition to EU centralisation and immigration USA: Electronic… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walks out on CNN interview By Stephen C. Webster
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walks out on CNN interviewIf you want an interview, it’s unwise to ask WikiLeaks founder and former hacker Julian Assange about charges of sexual impropriety, as CNN correspondent Atika Shubert found out recently. Continue reading
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The Iraq War Logs by Daniel Ellsberg
DANIEL ELLSBERG: Four hundred thousand documents, allegedly. It is, of course, a leak on a scale that I couldn’t have done forty years ago without scanners and digital capability. I used the most advanced technology at that time, Xerox, and I couldn’t have done what I did ten years before that. Continue reading
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Defending Iraq War Logs by Julian Assange
23 October, 2010 — ZCommunications Founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange has defended the release of hundreds of thousands of secret US military files, the “Iraq War Logs” which suggest numerous war crimes were committed on a regular basis. http://www.zcommunications.org//swf/player.swf Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 159 – 11th October 2010
+ DOUBLE BILL + As the rest of the Newsletter shows, the database state is still far from dead. But the fight against it needs a new strategy to deal with the new situation. We have been taking advantage of the honeymoon period of the coalition to try and formulate the way forward, and are… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 6 October 2010 (18/10): France-Roma controversy
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU: Council: France-Roma controversy – proposing the targeting of “mobile (itinerant) criminal groups”: “itinerant”=travellers=Roma EU-LIBYA: EU signs up to ‘unclear’ migration pact with Libya EU-PNR: Mandates: Council of the European Union EU: Council of the European Union: “State of play”: exploitation of children EU-USA: SWIFT-TFTP agreement: Question to European Commission… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 1 October 2010 (17/10)
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU: Parliaments to have no say over the “harmonisation” of national ID cards EU: Schengen Information System: SIS II to hold 100 million records EU-FRONTEX: AI and ECRE: Briefing on Commission proposal USA: Government Accountability Office: Fusion centres UK: European Commission: Refer UK to Court over data protection EU: “State… Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 158 – 23rd September 2010: Identity Documents Bill passes 3rd Reading
Challenging the authoritarian thinking behind the ID scheme was always going to be much tougher than defeating ID cards. Repealing the Identity Cards Act is essential, but has not killed the database state. We are still seeing ‘new’ bureaucratic project that simply re-package the same mass-surveillance concepts. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 20 September 2010 (16/10): European Parlianment Resolution passed by 337 votes to 245 calling on France to ‘immediately suspend all expulsions of Roma’, saying that they ‘amounted to discrimination’
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org In 2010 an average of 432,649 pdf documents have been downloaded each month (January-August) from the Statewatch website: Researchers, NGOs, activist groups, lawyers, academics, students (completed dissertations), journalists – if you would like to get wider distribution for your work (articles, features, reports, studies) on civil liberties and justice and… Continue reading
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