WikiLeaks
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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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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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Bradley Manning Newslinks 13 July 2011: UN torture official accuses US of rule violations
13 July 2011 — williambowles.info Manning visits ‘breach UN rules’ BBC News UN special rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez said the US had has broken rules by insisting on monitoring conversations with Pte Bradley Manning. Mr Mendez says he needs unrestricted access to Pte Manning to do his job. Pte Manning, 23, is being held… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 12 July 2011: UN official says US breaks rules in torture probe
12 July 2011 — williambowles.info The Conscience & Agency of Bradley Manning Firedoglake With previously unreleased instant message chat logs, Steve Fishman for New York Magazine published a feature story July 3, 2011, that further examined the accused whistleblower to WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning. It looked at his family life before going … http://my.firedoglake.com/kgosztola/2011/07/11/the-conscience-agency-of-bradley-manning/ 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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Bradley Manning Newslinks 8 July 2011: Conversations with Bradley Manning
8 July 2011 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning Chats About His Political Ambitions and His Boyfriend Gawker Adrian Chen —Months before he was accused of leaking thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks, Bradley Manning had a series of instant message conversations with transgendered videoblogger Zinnia Jones. In newly-published logs of their … http://gawker.com/5819102/bradley-manning-chats-about-his-political-ambitions-and-his-boyfriend 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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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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Media Lens: Three Little Words: WikiLeaks, Libya, Oil
‘Libya has some of the biggest and most proven oil reserves — 43.6 billion barrels — outside Saudi Arabia, and some of the best drilling prospects.’ So reported the Washington Post on June 11, in a rare mainstream article which, as we will see, revealed how WikiLeaks exposed the real motives behind the war on… 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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Bradley Manning Newslinks for 17 June 2011
17 June 2011 — williambowles.info News in Brief: Manning Supporter Silent Before Grand Jury, and More … truthout David House, a computer expert and Bradley Manning supporter, evoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer any questions beyond providing his name and address before a federal grand jury in Arlington, Virginia, yesterday, according to Bloomberg.… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 17 June 2011: Win a date with WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange?
17 June 2011 — williambowles.info BofA says Wikileaks threat details still unknown Reuters …still doesn’t know exactly what damaging documents Wikileaks could have about it, the largest US bank’s chief information officer said on Thursday. “We don’t know what it is,” Bank of America’s Marc Gordon said during a panel discussion about … http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/17/bankofamerica-wikileaks-idUSN1625228420110617 Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 15 June 2011: Wikileaks Haiti cables show US deployed troops after the earthquake before Haiti granted permission
15 June 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks Asks For Anonymous Bitcoin Donations Forbes (blog) By ANDY GREENBERG WikiLeaks was built on the idea of anonymous, untraceable transfers of digital information. Now it wants to fill its coffers with equally untraceable injections of digital cash. On Tuesday the secret-spilling group announced via … http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/06/14/wikileaks-asks-for-anonymous-bitcoin-donations/ Continue reading
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ColdType June-July 2011 Issue
14 June 2011 — Coldtype Download in pdf format at http://www.coldtype.net 1. Back to the, er, past . . . This month we’ve changed our name from The ColdType Reader back to the original, and simpler, title of ColdType. It’s the third time we’ve changed our name: the first incarnation of ColdType was in tabloidprinted… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 14 June 2011
14 June 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks cables show worry about Saudi oil security MiamiHerald.com Secret US State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks and shared with McClatchy Newspapers and other news organizations show otherwise. Even though 70 percent of Saudi Arabia’s oil exports flow through the Abqaiq facility, Saudi security forces were … http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/13/2264843/wikileaks-cables-show-worry-about.html Continue reading
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