Mbeki helped draft Cope policy - Mail & Guardian Online
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2011-01-13-wikileaks-mbeki-helped-draft-cope-policy
Ousted president Thabo Mbeki was involved in the formation of the African National Congress (ANC) breakaway party, the Congress of the People (Cope), according to a secret United States (US) diplomatic note obtained by Media24, Beeld reported on Thursday.
These claims have been denied
C’est le quotidien libanais #Al-Akhbar qui avait sorti, en premier, les câbles diplomatiques concernant la Tunisie. Début décembre, le Guardian publiait cet article :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/07/wikileaks-tunisia-first-lady?INTCMP=SRCH
US embassy warns Tunisian anger over corruption and unemployment, as well as ’intense dislike’ for president’s wife, threaten country’s stability
Privacy Lives » Blog Archive » IP addresses and user identification in the WikiLeaks case
http://www.privacylives.com/ip-addresses-and-user-identification-in-the-wikileaks-case/2011/01/10
effacer les adresses IP le plus vite possible permet de protéger juridiquement tout le monde
Les entreprenautes de TechCrunch ont le plaisir de vous faire savoir, avec subtilité, tout le mal qu’ils pensent de Julian Assange :
http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/08/julian-assange-nominated-for-a-crunchie-oh-bad-luck-kim-jong-il
For example, it would be hugely inappropriate for me to suggest that nominating a creepy, egotistical, criminally negligent alleged rapist as “best founder” sends out an astonishingly messed-up message to other entrepreneurs.
Pas mieux sur TechCrunch France :
http://fr.techcrunch.com/2011/01/10/julian-assange-nomine-pour-un-crunchie-paul-carr-nous-suggere-des-rem
La nomination de Julian Assange en tant que fondateur de l’année risque de faire passer un mauvais message aux autres entrepreneurs.
Pourquoi ces messages, au juste ? Parce que ce sont les lecteurs de TechCrunch qui ont voté pour Assange. TechCrunch insulte donc ses propres lecteurs.
Les entreprenautes, ça a toujours été une certaine idée de l’internet...
US tells #Twitter to hand over #WikiLeaks supporter’s messages | Media | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/08/us-twitter-hand-icelandic-wikileaks-messages
“Birgitta Jonsdottir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, said last night on Twitter that the "usa government wants to know about all my tweets and more since november 1st 2009. Do they realize I am a member of parliament in Iceland?" She said she is starting a legal fight to stop the US getting hold of her messages. She wrote: "department of justice are requesting twitter to provide the info – I got 10 days to stop it via legal process before twitter hands it over."”
The U.S. Justice Department is seeking a court order directing Twitter to turn over information about the accounts of activists with ties to Wikileaks, including an Icelandic politician, a legendary Dutch hacker, and a U.S. computer programmer.
ça veut dire que si Julian Assange ouvre un compte seenthis, on aura l’Administration US sur le dos ?
la différence c’est que twitter est une boîte US ; toi tu risques plutôt d’avoir à te coltiner Eric Besson
#patriot_act
Vanity Fair portrays WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a shrewd negotiator and master shape-shifter. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
http://img.slate.com/id/2280157
More than anything, journalists expect a combination of trust and servility from their leakers. (...) The #Assange lesson is that if a source has the brains, the guts, and the leaks, he can take the driver’s seat and tell reporters to ride in the trunk.
COMMENT: This biased portrait reminds us of the CIA’s depiction of Mossadegh as a Communist before the coup that overthrew him. — There is abundant evidence testifying to facts that contradict Ellison’s account: — (1) Assange is not an anarchist; — (2) The organization has had a remarkable record of successes over its four year life that are never mentioned by Ellison; — (3) The notion that it “dumps raw material,” using “no standards,” is a myth; — (4) Simply maintaining the cablegate material online is a remarkable triumph in the face of a cyber-onslaught by a superpower (never mentioned by Ellison) waged in a terroristic climate in which American politicians are calling for Assange’s assassination (also never mentioned by Ellison). — Vanity Fair, it should be noted, is owned by Condé Nast, which is in turn owned by Si Newhouse’s Advance Publications, “the exemplar [of the] concentration of media ownership [that] has perverted the free flow of information in the United States,” according to the American Journalism Review. — And, as if to demonstrate that she is utterly shameless, Ellison tries to turn George Orwell’s Animal Farm against Assange at the end of her article!
Half-formed thought on Wikileaks & Global Action « Clay Shirky
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/12/half-formed-thought-on-wikileaks-global-action
#WikiLeaks peut-il être jugé à l’aune des Pentagon Papers ?
the Pentagon Papers case [is] the obvious precedent, but (...) Wikileaks is so different that the meaning of that case isn’t clear in the present situation.
Wired’s refusal to release or comment on the Manning chat logs - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/29/wired_1/index.html
I’m going to do everything possible here to ensure that the focus remains on what matters: the way in which Wired, with no justification, continues to conceal this evidence and, worse, refuses even to comment on its content, thus blinding journalists and others trying to find out what really happened here, while enabling gross distortions of the truth by Poulsen’s long-time confidant and source, the government informant Adrian Lamo.
Why American journalists have failed to support #WikiLeaks | Media | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/jan/05/wikileaks-us-press-publishing
Le gag du moment : #Judith_Miller accuse #Julian_Assange de ne pas vérifier ses sources.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/judith-miller-criticizes-julian-assange-not
Judith Miller (now “Judy” for Fox News) makes a crack about Wikileaks’ Julian Assange being a “bad journalist” because —wait for it—
“JUDITH MILLER:... because he didn’t care at all about attempting to verfiy the information that he was putting out or determine whether or not it would hurt anyone.”
That’s very interesting coming from Miller, an instrumental component in taking us into the Iraq War, and the subsequent deaths of tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and 4430 American troops.
James Richardson, dans le Guardian, accuse Wikileaks d’avoir sorti un câble qui met en danger la vie de Morgan Tsvangirai au Zimbabwe :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/03/zimbabwe-morgan-tsvangirai
Un tweet émanant du compte officiel de Wikileaks signale qu’il n’est pas acceptable que le Guardian accuse Wikileaks de la publication d’un câble qu’il a lui-même sélectionné et publié :
http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/22138391466344449
Explication sur WL central :
http://wlcentral.org/node/820
Le Guardian s’excuse platement (on était en vacances et on est incompétents) http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2011/01/13/guardian-forced-to-print-embarrassing-correction-over-wikileaks-
#Germany planning secret #satellite recon ? | WikiLeaked
http://wikileaks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/01/03/germany_planning_secret_satellite_recon
Since the cable’s release, the German Aerospace Center has denied that HiROS is a “spy satellite, nor a secret project” and suggested that it would instead be used for “crisis management during natural catastrophes and for scientific uses.” But that wasn’t the impression U.S. officials got after the 2009 meeting:
The BND stressed that having their own national space-based reconnaissance assets will enable them to be a better partner with the USG by bringing more unique value to the table. The BND indicated that they are anxious to precede with additional high value substantive joint projects with the USG and hope that through a closer imagery exchange relationship, Germany could fill some of their collection gaps by gaining access to US imagery covering Iran, North Korea, China, and the Haqqani Network in the AFPAK region. Also of note, the BND also wants to work with the USG on GEOINT issues of mutual interest in Africa.
Germany Denies It Plans Secret Spy Project With US
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=132619557
The Great WikiLeaks 3-D Pile-on continues | eats shoots ’n leaves
http://richardbrenneman.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/the-great-wikileaks-3-d-pile-on-continues
Transforming WikiLeaks and Assange from journalists to practitioners of espionage invokes the grisly stench of the executioner’s abattoir
Shoot the Messenger | Middle East Online
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=43325
#WikiLeaks to publish #Israel cables on Second Lebanon War, Dubai assassination - Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/wikileaks-to-publish-israel-cables-on-second-lebanon-war-dubai-assassinatio
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Wednesday that his website is due to release thousands of documents related to Israel, particularly dealing with the Mabhouh assassination in Dubai and the Second Lebanon War, Channel 10 reported Thursday.
WikiLeaks partners with Russian paper for Kremlin corruption dump | WikiLeaked
http://wikileaks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/12/22/wikileaks_partners_with_russian_paper_for_kremlin_corruptio
“Assange said that Russians will soon find out a lot about their country(...) #corruption at the top tiers of political power. No one is protected from the truth.
18 mois avant la catastrophe du Golfe du Mexique, #BP a déjà eu un accident similaire au large de l’#Azerbaïdjan.
WikiLeaks cables : BP suffered blowout on Azerbaijan gas platform | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/15/wikileaks-bp-azerbaijan-gulf-spill
Striking resemblances between BP’s Gulf of Mexico disaster and a little-reported giant gas leak in Azerbaijan experienced by the UK firm 18 months beforehand have emerged from leaked US embassy cables.
The cables reveal that some of BP’s partners in the gas field were upset that the company was so secretive about the incident that it even allegedly withheld information from them. They also say that BP was lucky that it was able to evacuate its 212 workers safely after the incident, which resulted in two fields being shut and output being cut by at least 500,000 barrels a day with production disrupted for months.
Les américains s’inquiètent alors plus de la mauvaise image qu’est en train de se forger BP en Azerbaïdjan, plutôt que de savoir si ces méthodes opérationnelles n’entraîneraient pas des risques ailleurs :
The cable continues: “At least some of BP’s ACG partners are similarly upset with BP’s performance in this episode, as they claim BP has sought to limit information flow about this event even to its ACG partners. Although it is too early to ascertain the cause, if in fact this production shutdown was due to BP technical error, and if it continues for months (as seems possible), BP’s reputation in Azerbaijan will take a serious hit.”
Un commentaire intéressant dans le forum de l’article:
“Interesting that when the Gulf spill was in full swing and BP was blundering away in its approaches to fix it not one US official mentioned anything along the lines of ‘again’ or ‘happened before’... does the US govt. not read it’s own cables?”
“Months before the BP disaster, some Congressional officials were pressing federal regulators behind the scenes about numerous safety concerns related to offshore drilling [in the Gulf], potential oil spills and BP itself, but they complained that they were rebuffed, previously undisclosed documents show.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/us/politics/17drill.html
U.S. Air Force blocks NYT, Guardian over WikiLeaks | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BD6CI20101214
The U.S. Air Force has blocked employees from visiting media websites carrying leaked WikiLeaks documents, including The New York Times and the Guardian
Unpublished Iraq War Logs Trigger Internal WikiLeaks Revolt | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/wikileaks-revolt
Daniel Domscheit-Berg vs Julian Assange
#internet #iraq #wikileaks #wired