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U.S. military officials tell NBC News that investigators have been unable to make any direct connection between a jailed army private suspected with leaking secret documents and Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. Sounds like they have no case against Assange. And I suspect the reason they are refusing visitors to Manning [...] The list contains 2,000 names of people, some of them prominent, who hid their money in Swiss banks presumably to avoid paying taxes. A former Swiss banker will hand the data over to Wikileaks on Monday, who will vet the data before publishing it. I suspect there are some mighty uneasy folks around the world [...] Assange also confirmed that WikiLeaks was holding a vast amount of material about Bank of America which it intends to release early next year. “We don’t want the bank to suffer unless it’s called for,” Assange told The Times. “But if its management is operating in a responsive way there will be resignations,” he said, [...] VP Biden says Assange is a “high tech terrorist.” Really? Terrorism is generally understood to include the deliberate targeting of civilians and noncombatants for death or injury. Thus, Assange is not even remotely a terrorist by any definition and Biden should be ashamed of himself, if he’s capable of it, which is doubtful. Plus, only [...] Andy Carling writing for New Europe on the US State Department announcing World Press Freedom Day in D.C. next May. They bill it as a celebration of empowered citizens reporting news even if doing so could embarrass or anger governments, saying “we are concerned about the determination of some governments to censor and silence individuals, [...] The political establishment in the United States was quick to frame the Wikileaks Cablegate release as an act of war. In response, many advocates of transparency in government and internet freedom have begun to argue that employing even the metaphorical language of war and warfare to describe the ongoing fallout from and response to [...] “This is starting to remind me a little bit of Robert Anton Wilson. Even the squirrels in the trees are in on the conspiracy. What conspiracy? You know, the conspiracy” (from the comments at Chicagoboyz) Wikileaks as US or Israeli psyops. Glenn Beck implicates Sarah Palin in his WikiLeaks conspiracy theory The CIA [...] Then I guess they’ll have to indict the New York Times too. The US appears bound and determined to keep Wikileaks front page news for months to come. Meanwhile, former Wikileaks staff are starting OpenLeaks, which will vet leaked documents first and allow other publishers, like newspapers to review them too, before publishing them. [...] This change in tactics shows increasing sophistication and could actually hit much harder than symbolic shutting down of websites. LOIC is “Low Orbit Ion Cannon,” which is open source software used in DDOS attacks. Boing Boing This new mission, apparently, is to actually read the cables Wikileaks has published and find the most [...] Click to listen on BlogTalkRadio From the discussion: Maybe we should call what Wikileaks is doing ’4G protest’ rather than ’4G warfare’, because it’s not warfare and saying it is could provoke governments into over-reacting (not that they’d need much help doing this.) Maybe Wikileaks is something new, a digital form of protest, and [...] |  | ||||
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