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TEDGlobal 2010: Why the world needs WikiLeaks by Julian Assange

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The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who’s reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED’s Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished — and what drives him. The interview includes graphic footage of a recent US airstrike in Baghdad.

WikiLeaks is currently under heavy attack. In order to make it impossible to ever fully remove WikiLeaks from the Internet, you will find below a list of mirrors of WikiLeaks website and CableGate pages. If you want to add your mirror to the list, see this Mass Mirroring WikiLeaks page.

Wikileaks is currently mirrored on 1885 sites (updated 2010-12-12 11:54 GMT)

127 Reacties

1. Erik van Erne zegt:

   26 juli 2010 om 10:37 | Permalink

   In Disclosing Secret Documents, WikiLeaks Seeks ‘Transparency’ by New York Times

   WikiLeaks, the online organization that posted tens of thousands of classified military field reports about the Afghan war on Sunday, says its goal in disclosing secret documents is to reveal “unethical behavior” by governments and corporations. Read more at New York Times

   Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation by The Guardian

   A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban attacks have soared and Nato commanders fear neighbouring Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency.

   The disclosures come from more than 90,000 records of incidents and intelligence reports about the conflict obtained by the whistleblowers’ website Wikileaks in one of the biggest leaks in US military history. Read more at The Guardian

2. Erik van Erne zegt:

   23 oktober 2010 om 12:27 | Permalink

   WikiLeaks: Leaked Documents Shed Light on Iraq War Abuses

   US forces often failed to follow up on credible evidence that Iraqi forces mistreated, tortured and killed captives in the battle against insurgents, according to accounts contained in what was purportedly a historic leak of secret information. See: WikiLeaks

3. Erik van Erne zegt:

   23 oktober 2010 om 14:45 | Permalink

   WikiLeaks to publish 15,000 more Afghan war papers

   At a news conference in London on Saturday, WikiLeaks said it would soon publish 15,000 additional secret Afghan war documents. The group has already published some 77,000 U.S. intelligence reports about the war in Afghanistan in addition to the almost 400,000 alleged secret U.S. documents about the Iraq war. Source: Physorg

4. Erik van Erne zegt:

   29 november 2010 om 05:56 | Permalink

   Cablegate: WikiLeaks Releases Diplomatic Cables

   WikiLeaks was forced Friday December 3th to switch over to a new Swiss domain name, after a new round of hacker attacks on its system prompted its American domain name provider to withdraw service. WikiLeaks’ U.S. domain name system provider, EveryDNS, withdrew service to the wikileaks.org name late Thursday, saying it took the action because the new hacker attacks threatened the rest of its network.

   The whistleblower website WikiLeaks has released scores of electronic cables sent between headquarters in Washington and embassies and consulates around the world. The leaked documents include confidential views about major allies and partners, including worries about security at a Pakistan nuclear facility and concerns about alleged links between the Russian government and the mafia. See Cablegate WikiLeaks

   See also: New York Times Cables Obtained by WikiLeaks Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels

5. Erik van Erne zegt:

   29 november 2010 om 07:36 | Permalink

   Cablegate: WikiLeaks onthult geheimen VS wereldpolitiek

6. Erik van Erne zegt:

   2 december 2010 om 10:31 | Permalink

   World reacts to WikiLeaks release

   The world reacts to the release of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.

7. Erik van Erne zegt:

   3 december 2010 om 13:11 | Permalink

   Heads start rolling in WikiLeaks affair

   The WikiLeaks affair has claimed its first victim after Germany’s vice-chancellor Guido Westerwelle on Thursday (3 December) sacked his chief of staff for spying for the Americans. Italy’s Prime Minister has also been put in a pickle ahead of a confidence vote in parliament, and reports indicate that WikiLeaks mastermind Julian Assange is himself to be arrested shortly by UK police.

   Mr Westerwelle’s chief of staff, Helmut Metzner, admitted that he gave regular information to the US embassy in Berlin, and has been “relieved from his duties,” a spokesman for the Liberal Free Democrats (FDP) said in a statement.

8. Erik van Erne zegt:

   4 december 2010 om 09:59 | Permalink

   Joop start Actie Asiel voor WikiLeaks Julian Assange in Nederland

   PETITIE

   Wij internetgebruikers van Nederland constateren

   dat het voortbestaan van de site WikiLeaks ernstig wordt bedreigd. De oprichter en drijvende kracht achter deze site, Julian Assange, kan ieder moment gearresteerd worden zonder dat duidelijk is hoe verstrekkend de gevolgen daarvan zullen zijn. Nederland is van oudsher een land dat onderdak biedt aan mensen die zich inzetten voor de vrijheid van meningsuiting. Wij willen dat Nederland hem en zijn site beschermen.

   en verzoeken premier Mark Rutte
   1. te beloven dat WikiLeaks in Nederland onderdak kan vinden en dat de site beschermd wordt tegen pogingen om deze uit de lucht te halen.
   2. te beloven dat de Nederlandse politie- en opsporingsdiensten het internationale arrestatiebevel negeren.
   3. politiek asiel aan te bieden aan Julian Assange zodat hij zich hier vrij kan vestigen en tot in de hoogste instanties kan procederen tegen eventuele veroordelingen.

   Onderteken de petitie Red Wikileaks (en bevestig vervolgens per email)

   Al 2.646 ondertekeningen, zaterdag 4 december 2010 om 10:10 uur
   Al 4.561 ondertekeningen, zondag 5 december 2010 om 13:00 uur
   Al 5.187 ondertekeningen, zondag 5 december 2010 om 19:00 uur
   Al 6.870 ondertekeningen, dinsdag 7 december 2010 om 07:00 uur
   Al 7.997 ondertekeningen, donderdag 9 december 2010 om 20:00 uur
   Al 8.427 ondertekeningen, woensdag 19 januari 2011 om 22:22 uur

   Rutte, Save Wikileaks!
   We require:
   Safe shelter for Wikileaks in the Netherlands;
   Dutch police arrest warrant to ignore political asylum in the Netherlands Julian Assange

   PETITION

   We
   Internet users in the Netherlands (the World)
   note
   that the survival of the site Wikileaks seriously threatened. The founder and driving force behind this site, Julian Assange, any moment be arrested without making clear how far reaching the consequences will be.
   Netherlands has traditionally been a country that accommodates people who are committed to freedom of expression. We want the Netherlands to protect him and his site.

   and requests
   Prime Minister Rutte
   1. promise that Wikileaks could find shelter in the Netherlands and the site is protected against attempts to remove it from the air.
   2. promise that the Dutch police and investigative services to the international arrest warrant ignore.
   3. to offer political asylum to Julian Assange so he is free to settle here and to the highest authorities can sue any convictions.

   I,
   residing in

   sign the petition “Rutte, Save Wikileaks”.

   Yes, my name and address may be visible under the public petition.
   Your information will not be passed to third parties and remain in the management of the Foundation Petities.nl.
   For more information on our privacy statement.

9. Mikhail Khlebalov zegt:

   4 december 2010 om 11:06 | Permalink

   I would like to sign this petition and wish Julian Assange and his web site to find safe shelter as soon as possible

10. Erik van Erne zegt:

    4 december 2010 om 11:15 | Permalink

    EU officials give first analysis of WikiLeaks impact

    More investment in European External Action Service (EEAS) security, loss of goodwill in the EU’s special relationship with the US and heightened tension in the Middle East are all likely consequences of the WikiLeaks scandal, EU insiders say.

    WikiLeaks is a no-go area in on-the-record press briefings in Brussels, with EU spokespeople saying they do not comment on leaks or trying to brush them off as a distraction to real business. But senior EU officials interviewed on an anonymous basis by EUobserver in the wake of the publications say it will have practical and political implications for EU foreign-policy-making.

    EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton is set to face pressure to spend more money on cyber security and counter-espionage measures in the EEAS’ hub and its foreign delegations. The scandal comes just as a special Ashton taskforce is finalising plans for the physical security of the EEAS headquarters in Brussels and installing new encryption systems for sending cables back-and-forth to its 136 foreign embassies.

    European Commission delegations in the past mostly cabled on mundane issues, such as distributing aid. But EEAS appointments of senior politicians to head missions in, for example, Tbilisi and Beijing, indicate the cables will be more spicy in future. Security specialists in Brussels are “shocked” and “astonished” that a 23-year-old official, the suspected source of the US breach, had access to verbatim transcripts of ambassadors’ conversations in top foreign postings. Source: EU Observer

11. Erik van Erne zegt:

    4 december 2010 om 11:40 | Permalink

    PayPal Announces It Will No Longer Handle Wikileaks Donations

    In the latest in a series of blows to Wikileaks, PayPal says it will no longer support money transfers to the whistleblower site. PayPal has posted a (late-night) statement to its website, saying: “PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity. We’ve notified the account holder of this action.” Source: Read Write Web

    Bad action. Time to stop my PayPal Account

    See also: LeWeb Conference 2010: PayPal VP On Blocking WikiLeaks: State Department Said It Was Illegal

    Presseerklärung der Wau Holland Stiftung zur Sperrung ihres Account bei PayPal
    Die gemeinnützige Wau Holland Stiftung hat mit großem Befremden die unangekündigte Sperrung ihres PayPal-Accounts zur Kenntnis genommen. Durch diese willkürliche Entscheidung der Firma PayPal hat die Stiftung zur Zeit keinen Zugriff auf eingegangene Spenden der letzten Tage; dies betrifft insgesamt rund 10.000 Euro, die von Spendern weltweit vom vergangenen Freitag auf Samstag für das Projekt WikiLeaks gespendet wurden.

    Zudem stellt die von PayPal veröffentlichte Behauptung, die Wau Holland Stiftung unterstütze und fördere “illegale Aktivitäten”, eine Verleumdung dar, gegen die sich die Stiftung in aller Form verwehrt.

12. Erik van Erne zegt:

    4 december 2010 om 11:53 | Permalink

    WikiLeaks cablegate reveal how US manipulated the Copenhagen Climate Accord

    The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid is used by countries to gain political backing; how distrust, broken promises and creative accounting dog negotiations; and how the US mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the controversial “Copenhagen accord”, the unofficial document that emerged from the ruins of the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009.

    The accord turns the UN’s top-down, unanimous approach upside down, with each nation choosing palatable targets for greenhouse gas cuts. It presents a far easier way to bind in China and other rapidly growing countries than the UN process. But the accord cannot guarantee the global greenhouse gas cuts needed to avoid dangerous warming. Furthermore, it threatens to circumvent the UN’s negotiations on extending the Kyoto protocol, in which rich nations have binding obligations. Those objections have led many countries – particularly the poorest and most vulnerable – to vehemently oppose the accord.

    Getting as many countries as possible to associate themselves with the accord strongly served US interests, by boosting the likelihood it would be officially adopted. A diplomatic offensive was launched. Diplomatic cables flew thick and fast between the end of Copenhagen in December 2009 and late February 2010, when the leaked cables end. Read more at the Guardian

    Todd Stern Refuses to Answer Questions on CableGate at COP16 Climate Conferenmce

13. Erik van Erne zegt:

    4 december 2010 om 19:20 | Permalink

    Voor het eerst is zaterdag een document van de Amerikaanse ambassade in Den Haag verschenen op klokkenluiderssite WikiLeaks. Het ambassadebericht gaat over de steun van Nederland aan het Kopenhagenakkoord, dat op de klimaattop in de Deense hoofdstad eind vorig jaar werd overeengekomen.

    Het stuk dateert van eind januari dit jaar en gaat onder meer over een gesprek met de toenmalige minister van Milieu Jacqueline Cramer. Zij bood de Amerikanen haar hulp aan bij de onderhandelingen over het klimaat en pleitte voor een meer pragmatische opstelling. Bron: PowNed

14. Lars Riber zegt:

    4 december 2010 om 20:05 | Permalink

    @Erik van Erne…
    Thanks for sharing. Petition is signed and my Paypal and Amazon accounts are now closed !

15. Nora Brill zegt:

    4 december 2010 om 22:21 | Permalink

    The world needs more transparency and accountability. Don’t surpress WikiLeaks!

16. David Shearer zegt:

    5 december 2010 om 13:54 | Permalink

    I am an american citizen and I am proud someone in a position to actually make a difference in the way the US government is perceived,especially by it’s citizens is doing something to shed a little light on what our government is up to. For way to long and even now a lot of the people in our country are of the opinion that our country can do no evil–yet our country seems to be in the lead when it comes to doing just that. Our country has been taken over by corporations and banks that realize our military is the strongest on earth and our people are one of the most malleable on earth.

17. Erik van Erne zegt:

    5 december 2010 om 14:43 | Permalink

    WikiLeaks shows why China raised heat on Google

    As China ratcheted up the pressure on Google to censor its Internet searches last year, the U.S. Embassy sent a secret cable to Washington detailing one reason top Chinese leaders had become so obsessed with the Internet search company: They were googling themselves.

    The May 18, 2009, cable, titled “Google China Paying Price for Resisting Censorship,” quoted a well-placed source as saying that Li Changchun, a member of China’s top ruling body, the Politburo Standing Committee, and the country’s senior propaganda official, was taken aback to discover that he could conduct Chinese-language searches on Google’s main international website. When Li typed his name into the search engine at google.com, he found “results critical of him.”

    That cable from U.S. diplomats was one of many made public by WikiLeaks that portray China’s leadership as nearly obsessed with the threat posed by the Internet to their grip on power – and, the reverse, by the opportunities it offered them, through hacking, to obtain secrets stored in computers of its rivals, especially the United States. Read more at SF Gate

    See also WikiLeaks documents lay bare vast hacking attempts by Chinese leaders

18. Erik van Erne zegt:

    5 december 2010 om 14:48 | Permalink

    WikiLeaks: Open Letter to Amazon.com by Daniel Ellsberg
    I’m disgusted by Amazon’s cowardice and servility in abruptly terminating its hosting of the Wikileaks website, in the face of threats from Senator Joe Lieberman and other Congressional right-wingers. I want no further association with any company that encourages legislative and executive officials to aspire to China’s control of information and deterrence of whistle-blowing.

    For the last several years, I’ve been spending over $100 a month on new and used books from Amazon. That’s over. I have contacted Customer Service to ask Amazon to terminate immediately my membership in Amazon Prime and my Amazon credit card and account, to delete my contact and credit information from their files and to send me no more notices.

    I understand that many other regular customers feel as I do and are responding the same way. Good: the broader and more immediate the boycott, the better.I hope that these others encourage their contact lists to do likewise and to let Amazon know exactly why they’re shifting their business. I’ve asked friends today to suggest alternatives. I’ve removed all links to Amazon from my site, and I’ll be exploring service from Powell’s Books, IndieBound, Biblio and others.

    So far Amazon has spared itself the further embarrassment of trying to explain its action openly. This would be a good time for Amazon insiders who know and perhaps can document the political pressures that were brought to bear—and the details of the hasty kowtowing by their bosses—to leak that information. They can send it to Wikileaks (now on servers outside the US), to mainstream journalists or bloggers, or perhaps to a site like antiwar.com, which has now appropriately ended its book-purchasing association with Amazon and called a boycott. Source: Daniel Elssberg

19. Erik van Erne zegt:

    5 december 2010 om 19:22 | Permalink

    Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell: WikiLeaks Chief ‘A High-Tech Terrorist’

    McConnell says that the online release of secret diplomat exchanges has done “enormous damage” to the country and to its relationship with its allies. McConnell tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he hopes WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be prosecuted for the disclosures. And he says that if it’s found that Assange hasn’t violated the law, then the law should be changed.

    Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

20. Erik van Erne zegt:

    5 december 2010 om 19:31 | Permalink

    Hunt for WikiLeaks founder ‘politically motivated’

    The pursuit of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange appears to have “political motivations”, his lawyer told BBC television on Sunday. “I’m really rather worried by the political motivations that appear to be behind this,” Mark Stephens said during an interview. His comments came after Swedish prosecutors issued an international arrest warrant for Assange — the elusive boss of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks — on sex assault allegations.

    Assange broke cover on Friday to say in an online chat that he had boosted security after receiving death threats amid the storm that was unleashed by his site’s decision to publish 250,000 US diplomatic cables. Over the past several days, WikiLeaks has published the first of the cables, creating an international firestorm as American diplomats’ private assessments of foreign leaders and politics has been publicly aired. Source: Channel News Asia

    See also: WikiLeaks Server Goes Down, Julian Assange Facing ‘Hundreds Of Death Threats’

    No problems to visit WikiLeaks at the moment. See: WikiLeaks and Cablegate WikiLeaks and here is a Dutch mirror and the Dutch WikiLeaks

    Update 7 december 2010: Byte verzorgt vanaf dinsdagochtend 7 december 2010 9u00 de hosting voor een Nederlandse mirror van Wikileaks: wikileaks.nl

    Voor deze website is een compleet geisoleerde infrastructuur opgezet. Technisch betekent dit: aparte netwerkverbindingen, DNS-servers en een geoptimaliseerd webcluster dat vele miljoenen hits kan verwerken. Door deze opzet heeft bezoek van wikileaks.nl geen invloed op andere sites bij Byte. De benodigde verbindingen zijn in samenwerking met XS4ALL (netwerkleverancier) geinstalleerd en zijn volledig gescheiden van de normale apparatuur en verbindingen. Byte vindt het belangrijk dat er vrijheid van meningsuiting is. De rechterlijke macht gaat over wat wel en niet toelaatbaar is binnen de grenzen van de wet. De Eerste en Tweede kamer gaan over welke wetten er zijn in Nederland. Niet een (buitenlandse) overheid of actiegroep bepaalt wat burgers of bedrijven mogen doen.

21. Corey Mondello zegt:

    5 december 2010 om 22:48 | Permalink

    When all the old white conservative Christians in the USA die off, things will be better.

22. Erik van Erne zegt:

    6 december 2010 om 05:37 | Permalink

    Pentagon Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on Wikileaks Iraq War Docs

23. Erik van Erne zegt:

    6 december 2010 om 06:02 | Permalink

    International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Condemns United States “Desperate and Dangerous” Backlash over WikiLeaks

    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the political backlash being mounted against the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and accused the United States of attacking free speech after it put pressure on the website’s host server to shut down the site yesterday.

    The website’s host Amazon.com blocked access to WikiLeaks after United States officials condemned the torrent of revelations about political, business and diplomatic affairs that has given people around the world unprecedented access to detailed information from United States sources, much of it embarrassing to leading public figures.

    “It is unacceptable to try to deny people the right to know,” said Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary. “These revelations may be embarrassing in their detail, but they also expose corruption and double-dealing in public life that is worthy of public scrutiny. The response of the United States is desperate and dangerous because it goes against fundamental principles of free speech and democracy.”

    The IFJ has taken no position on the justification for the release of hundreds of thousands of internal documents which have made headlines around the world in the last few days, but it has welcomed the decision of WikiLeaks to use respected channels of journalism including Der Spiegel, The Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde and El Pais to filter the information. Read more at IFJ

24. Erik van Erne zegt:

    6 december 2010 om 17:59 | Permalink

    WikiLeaks press release: Julian Assange Defense Fund Frozen by Swiss Bank Post Finance

    The Swiss Bank Post Finance today issues a press release stating that it had frozen Julian Assange’s defense fund and personal assets (31K EUR) after reviewing him as a “high profile” individual.

    The technicality used to seize the defense fund was that Mr. Assange, as a homeless refugee attempting to gain residency in Switzerland, had used his lawyers address in Geneva for the bank’s correspondence. Late last week, the internet payment giant PayPal, froze 60K EUR of donations to the German charity the Wau Holland Foundation, which were targeted to promote the sharing of knowledge via WikiLeaks.

    WikiLeaks and Julian have lost 100Keur in assets this week. One of the most fascinating aspects of the Cablegate exposure is how it is throwing into relief the power dynamics between supposedly independent states like Switzerland, Sweden and Australia.

    WikiLeaks also has public bank accounts in Iceland (preferred) and Germany. Please help to cover expenditures while WikiLeaks fight to get their assets back.

25. Erik van Erne zegt:

    6 december 2010 om 21:16 | Permalink

    Cablegate: EU and US try to outwit poor countries on climate

    Alarmed by increasing co-ordination among emerging nations on the climate dossier, the EU and US agreed earlier this year to synchronise their own efforts, with talks focusing on use of aid to win over reluctant third countries, leaked US diplomatic cables have revealed.

    Released by whistleblower site WikiLeaks over the weekend, one cable describes a meeting between Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change Jonathan Pershing and EU Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard on 11 February, during which Ms Hedegaard reportedly called for greater co-operation to counter the so-called Basic countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China). Ms Hedegaard asked the US whether it would require any creative accounting to produce the necessary climate finance. The two sides discussed the recently-agreed Copenhagen Accord, with the US official describing plans to get as many nations to sign up to the agreement as possible. He also said that promises by some major economies under the deal were “opaque.”

    According to the cable, Ms Hedegaard said China’s submission was open to interpretation, adding that she did not have high expectations for COP 16 meeting in Mexico, currently now underway. As a result, it would be important to downplay expectations, she added. As the two discussed strategies to win over support for the accord, Ms Hedegaard suggested the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis) countries “could be our best allies” given their need for financing.

    The sensitive issue of ‘fast-start’ funding was also approached – $30 billion pledged by rich nations to help their poorer counterparts tackle the immediate effects of climate change. Ms Hedegaard reportedly asked whether the US would need to do any “creative accounting” to produce its slice of the promised money.

    The issue of creative accounting raised considerable controversy last week when the EU outlined details of its own contribution, €7.2 billion between 2010 and 2012, in Cancun, with some questioning how much new money is contained in rich country pledges. Development NGOs and poorer nations also turned on the EU when it emerged that loans rather than grants would make up roughly half of the union’s contribution.

    The cables suggest that earlier this year the EU had been largely considering grants. “$30 billion had been promised, it cannot be lent,” Ms Hedegaard reportedly told the US official. A separate cable describes wide-ranging discussions between deputy national security advisor for international economic affairs Michael Froman and over 25 senior EU officials, including Ms Hedegaard, in Brussels on 27 January.

    The issue of tackling the Basic countries was again discussed during the earlier meeting, with Ms Hedegaard also outlining how Copenhagen left some disappointed by the UN process, but stressing it should not be ditched. The Copenhagen Accord contained a lot of good points, she reportedly said, adding that it should not be wasted. She hoped that the US noted the EU was muting its criticism of the US, to be constructive, says the cable. Source: EU Observer

26. Erik van Erne zegt:

    7 december 2010 om 06:55 | Permalink

    Update: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrested in London

    The founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been arrested by the Metropolitan Police. The 39-year-old Australian denies allegations he sexually assaulted two women in Sweden.

    Scotland Yard said Mr Assange was arrested on a European Arrest Warrant by appointment at a London police station at 0930 GMT. He is due to appear at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court later.

    WikiLeaks Cablegate: Video Julian Assange to talk to British police

    British Court Denies Bail to Assange

    The exchange appeared to have weighed against his bid for bail, which his lawyers had initially seemed confident of securing. The bid was supported by financial guarantees of more than $150,000 from a cast of well-known supporters who appeared in court, including the filmmaker Ken Loach and Jemima Khan, a socialite and political activist.

    There was audible dismay as the judge, Howard Riddle, agreed with Ms. Lindfield that there were “significant grounds” for thinking Mr. Assange posed a flight risk, because of his “nomadic lifestyle,” his lack of ties in Britain, his network of international contacts and his access to substantial sums donated by WikiLeaks supporters. Source: New York Times

    If WikiLeaks founder turns himself in, will cablegate end? Julian Assange, the founder of WikilLeaks, is planning to turn himself into police to face questioning over allegations of rape and other crimes in Sweden. The question is whether that will end the cyber leak war that has been happening for weeks.

    The case is a test of just how far internet freedoms can go, since WikiLeaks has come under fire from governments around the world for making classified documents public on the internet. It’s unclear whether such leaks would continue if Assange is arrested and prosecuted, although Assange has said himself that if anything happens to him, further sensitive documents would automatically go live.

    Newspapers have reported that Assange is expected to hand himself into police as early as Tuesday, after the Swedish authorities issued a European Arrest Warrant. Assange has been hiding in the southeast of England. The development follows news that Swiss authorities have closed down one of Assange’s bank accounts. The 39-year-old Australian has been operating WikiLeaks from secret locations. Source: Venture Beat

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to meet with British police over an arrest warrant and extradition request from Sweden, according to reports from the British press.

    “Late this afternoon after close of business I got a call from the police who said that they had received an extradition request from Sweden,” said Mark Stephens, an attorney for Assange, in an interview with the BBC. “Their request is to interview Julian Assange. He’s not been charged with anything. We are in the process of making arrangements to meet with the police by consent, in order to facilitate the taking of that question and answer that is needed.” See also: WikiLeaks’ Assange To Meet With U.K. Police Over Swedish Warrant

27. Erik van Erne zegt:

    7 december 2010 om 07:51 | Permalink

    WIRED: Why WikiLeaks Is Good for America

    WikiLeaks is not perfect, and we have highlighted many of its shortcomings on this web site. Nevertheless, it’s time to make a clear statement about the value of the site and take sides: WikiLeaks stands to improve our democracy, not weaken it.

    The greatest threat we face right now from Wikileaks is not the information it has spilled and may spill in the future, but the reactionary response to it that’s building in the United States that promises to repudiate the rule of law and our free speech traditions, if left unchecked.

28. Erik van Erne zegt:

    7 december 2010 om 11:22 | Permalink

    Ron Paul: Don’t Blame Wikileaks Blame our Governments

29. Pablo zegt:

    7 december 2010 om 14:48 | Permalink

    Lets send our best hopes to Assange think in “Everything will go fine for him”, “We will know everything”

30. morgan connell zegt:

    8 december 2010 om 13:51 | Permalink

    I have closed my Paypal Account, and would encourage like minded individuals to do the same.

31. Erik van Erne zegt:

    8 december 2010 om 17:37 | Permalink

    AVAAZ petition in support of WikiLeaks: let’s get 1 million voices against the crackdown this week

    Global activist organization AVAAZ has launched a petition titled Wikileaks: Stop the crackdown. The text reads:

    “Whatever we think of WikiLeaks, the massive campaign of intimidation against it is sending a chill through free speech and media advocates everywhere. Top US politicians has even gone as far as calling WikiLeaks a terrorist organization and suggested assassination of its staff, and the organization has come under massive corporate attack to shut it down.

    Right now, dozens of governments and corporations are being heavily pressured to join the crackdown — we urgently need the public to take a stand and make sure our governments protect our democracies and rule of law. Sign the petition to stop the crackdown below and forward this email to everyone — let’s get 1 million voices against the crackdown this week!”

    “To the U.S. government and corporations linked to Wikileaks:

    We call on you to stop the crackdown on Wikileaks and its partners immediately. We urge you to respect the democratic principles and laws of freedom of expression and freedom of the press. If Wikileaks and the journalists it works with have violated any laws they should be pursued in the courts with due process. They should not be subjected to an extra-judicial campaign of intimidation.”

    618,065 have signed – over 300,000 in 24 hours! Let’s reach 1,000,000

32. Erik van Erne zegt:

    8 december 2010 om 17:58 | Permalink

    The Bolivian government is now hosting WikiLeaks Cablegate documents on its official servers

    “The Vice President of the State of Bolivia and the President of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, seeking to democratize access to information available to the public, are making available the documents of the Department of State of the United States, published by Wikileaks, which refer to Bolivia. All of them are available in their original language (English) and those that contain information relevant to the country, beyond simple references are translated into Castilian or being in the process of being translated, a situation in which we ask for your patience.

    The search engine offers search alternatives according to the relevance of the document, its creation date, language of the source institution, etc. We firmly believe that this site will expand access to this vital information and facilitate the work of many citizens.”

    See: http://wikileaks.vicepresidencia.gob.bo/

33. Erik van Erne zegt:

    8 december 2010 om 18:10 | Permalink

    Australian Minister Kevin Rudd fires back at US over WikiLeaks: it’s your fault

    Foreign minister Kevin Rudd today blamed the United States, not the WikiLeaks founder, for the unauthorised release of about 250,000 secret US diplomatic cables – some of which reflected badly on him. Source: SMH

34. Erik van Erne zegt:

    8 december 2010 om 18:24 | Permalink

    Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, in jail: World Press Freedom Day in the US announced by State Department

    The same day that Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) said the New York Times and WikiLeaks may be investigated for espionage, the U.S. State Department announced it would be hosting the World Press Freedom Day in 2011.

    The theme for next year’s commemoration will be 21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers. The United States places technology and innovation at the forefront of its diplomatic and development efforts. New media has empowered citizens around the world to report on their circumstances, express opinions on world events, and exchange information in environments sometimes hostile to such exercises of individuals’ right to freedom of expression. At the same time, we are concerned about the determination of some governments to censor and silence individuals, and to restrict the free flow of information. Source: BoingBoing

35. Erik van Erne zegt:

    8 december 2010 om 18:56 | Permalink

    TIME: Why WikiLeaks Is Winning Its Info War

    There was a time when WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s voluntary surrender to the British authorities might have put an end to the crisis created by the Internet provocateur’s dissemination of tens of thousands of state secrets. But in the upside-down world of transnational crowdsourcing unleashed by WikiLeaks, in which thousands of activists around the globe can be rallied to defend and extend its work, Assange’s arrest is a win, not a loss, for his organization.

    The asymmetrical info war initiated by the WikiLeaks dump of diplomatic cables is all about spectacle — the more Assange is set up by world powers, the more powerful his own movement becomes. “The field of battle is WikiLeaks,” wrote John Perry Barlow, a former Grateful Dead lyricist and founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the First Amendment advocacy group, in a message to his followers. “You are the troops.” WikiLeaks admiringly forwarded the post to 300,000 of its own followers. As the U.S. and other governments attempted to close down WikiLeaks over the past week, those “troops” have fought back. And so far, it doesn’t look like much of a contest. Read more at TIME

    See also: TIME’s Julian Assange Interview

36. Erik van Erne zegt:

    8 december 2010 om 19:14 | Permalink

    Julian Assange jailed as Visa cuts all payments to WikiLeaks

    British judge has denied ball for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who told a London court he intends to fight his extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations. Judge Howard Riddle told Assange that he had “substantial grounds” to believe the 39-year-old Australian wouldn’t turn up for subsequent proceedings. He then put Assange into U.K. custody ahead of an extradition hearing. Mark Stephens, Assange’s British lawyer, has given a brief press conference after the hearing.

    Meanwhile, Visa has suspended all payments to WikiLeaks. The payment processor’s move leaves the website without its main source of revenue, as the whistleblower largely depends on online donations. Popular online payment company http://bit.ly/fGXLL5 ” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>PayPal has already stopped its operations with WikiLeaks. Swiss authorities announced Monday that they closed the new Swiss bank account of the website’s founder Julian Assange, who was arrested Tuesday in London on charges of sexual assault.

37. Erik van Erne zegt:

    8 december 2010 om 21:58 | Permalink

    WikiLeaks Reveals That Military Contractors Have Not Lost Their Taste For Child Prostitutes

    Read the story at the Hufftington Post

38. Erik van Erne zegt:

    9 december 2010 om 09:34 | Permalink

    Get Up! Action for Australia: Petition in support of WikiLeaks

    Sarah Palin wants Julian Assange hunted as a terrorist, among a chorus of American politicians calling for the arrest – and even death – of the Australian chief of Wikileaks.

    If our Government won’t stand up for the rights of Australian citizens, let’s do it ourselves. We’re printing ads in The Washington Times and New York Times. The more Australians who support it, the stronger the message will be. Will you add your name and invite your friends to join too? 24,085 have joined this campaign.

39. Erik van Erne zegt:

    9 december 2010 om 09:39 | Permalink

    WikiLeaks Controversy Sparks Cyber War

    Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, may now be sitting in a UK prison, but it has not stopped his website and supporters from causing more chaos and controversy.

    One of the world’s biggest credit card websites, Mastercard, has been hacked in what appears to be a revenge attack for blocking donations to WikiLeaks, along with a number of other sites that have recently distanced themselves from the whistleblowing website.

40. Ciceroparvus zegt:

    9 december 2010 om 17:15 | Permalink

    Julian Assange ist ein sehr mutiger Mann. Ich hoffe, er bekommt im WEB grosse Unterstützung. Er hat die Grossen dieser Welt angegriffen, um unsere Freiheit zu bewahren und er hat sehr mutige Helfer. Ich verbeuge mich vor ihnen allen. Der Weg von J. Assange ist besser als der Weg der RAF vor ca 40 Jahren.
    Entschuldigt, dass ich nicht Niederländisch schreiben kann.

41. Erik van Erne zegt:

    9 december 2010 om 19:12 | Permalink

    Cyberwar erupts over WikiLeaks

42. Erik van Erne zegt:

    10 december 2010 om 20:15 | Permalink

    Bernanke’s Nightmare: Chairman Ron Paul

43. Erik van Erne zegt:

    11 december 2010 om 11:17 | Permalink

    Libération hosts WikiLeaks mirror

    Prominent French newspaper Libération is now hosting a WikiLeaks mirror. Please find below a translation of the media group’s statement:

    “We have chosen to help prevent the asphyxiation of WikiLeaks at a time when governments and companies try to block its operation without even a legal order. Like thousands of other sites, Libération.fr decided to participate in the support movement that is being put into place on the internet, replicating WikiLeaks content fully. These sites, called mirrors, can be hosted by anyone who has server space available. This is what we did, in order to prevent the disappearance from the public record of WikiLeaks documents selected with partner media organizations. We have therefore opened this site: wikileaks.liberation.fr”

    Update: Danish media group Politiken hosts Cablegate documents
    Prominent Danish newspaper Politiken has joined Owni and Libération as one of the major media organizations to officially mirror WikiLeaks. Politiken is mirroring the curently released Cablegate documents. In an interesting twist, the Danish Computer World site reports that Politiken’s WikiLeaks mirror is currently hosted on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure. Per Palmkvist Knudsen, CIO at the JP / Politiken Hus media group, said that there was no political statement behind it, Amazon being selected only on the basis on its service. “Amazon was fast and easy. But I can see that it would be a great story, if we were expelled from Amazon’s services again, although that’s not our intention,” he added “with a wry smile,” reports Computer World. WikiLeaks Politiken

44. Erik van Erne zegt:

    11 december 2010 om 18:08 | Permalink

    Personal Democracy Forum: WikiLeaks symposium today

    PdF Live: A Symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom. As previously announced, the Personal Democracy Forum will be hosting an event titled “A Symposium on WikiLeaks and Internet Freedom” today from 10am – 2pm ET, in New York City.

    You can tune in live to the event via http://personaldemocracy.com/pdfleakslive
    The discussion will feature Emily Bell, Esther Dyson, Charles Ferguson, Jeff Jarvis, Arianna Huffington, Gideon Lichfield Rebecca McKinnon, Marc Pesce, Jay Rosen, Carne Ross, Micah L. Sifry, Dave Winer and more.

45. Erik van Erne zegt:

    11 december 2010 om 18:17 | Permalink

    DWDD: Deugt WikiLeaks?

    Waar zijn Assange en zijn site mee bezig? Zeven manieren om naar het fenomeen te kijken.

46. Greg zegt:

    12 december 2010 om 11:04 | Permalink

    Tell the Truth – You Have no Rights by George Carlin

47. Erik van Erne zegt:

    13 december 2010 om 11:10 | Permalink

    Nederland steunt WikiLeaks

    WikiLeaks Mollie maakt het mogelijk om via iDEAL, SMS, telefoon, Hyves Afrekenen, Rabo SMS Betalen en Wallie een donatie te doen aan WikiLeaks. Door het woord WIKILEAKS naar 1008 te SMS’en kan er een eenmalige kleine donatie van 1,50 EUR gedaan worden. Mollie zelf heeft 5.000 EUR gedoneerd als startschot.

    “WikiLeaks heeft een grondrecht om zichzelf te verdedigen. Daarvoor is geld nodig. Sympathisanten van WikiLeaks in Nederland kunnen daar nu via allerlei betaalmethodes een bijdrage aan leveren” aldus Robert Vis, woordvoerder van het bedrijf Mollie. “Internet is zelfregulerend en open voor iedereen. Dit moet zo blijven.” aldus Adriaan Mol, oprichter Mollie.

    Alle gelden worden via een tussenrekening (Stichting Mollie Payments) doorgestort naar de Duitse stichting Wau Holland Stiftung Foundation. Deze laatste stichting beheert de donaties aan WikiLeaks wereldwijd en stort via een “escrow”-rekening gelden door wanneer WikiLeaks deze nodig heeft. Wau Holland Stiftung Foundation wordt erkent door de Duitse overheid als non-profit organisatie.

48. Erik van Erne zegt:

    14 december 2010 om 08:43 | Permalink

    TIME Magazine: Julian Assange Person of the Year 2010 Readers’ Choice

    TIME magazine has just closed the Person of the Year readers’ poll. Readers voted a total of 1,249,425 times, and the favorite was clear. Julian Assange raked in 382,020 votes, giving him an easy first place. He was 148,383 votes over the silver medalist, Recep Tayyip Ergodan, Prime Minister of Turkey.

    But Assange wasn’t the winner in all aspects — Lady Gaga trounced him on Facebook, receiving 65,417 “likes” on Facebook to Assange’s 45,643. TIME editors’ official choice for Person of the Year will be announced on Wednesday morning on the Today show.

    The TIME Readers’ Choice Top 10
    1.Julian Assange
    2.Recep Tayyip Ergodan
    3.Lady Gaga
    4.Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
    5.Glenn Beck
    6.Barack Obama
    7.Steve Jobs
    8.The Chilean Miners
    9.The Unemployed American
    10.Mark Zuckerberg

    Source: TIME

49. Erik van Erne zegt:

    14 december 2010 om 09:03 | Permalink

    Australian media figures in support of WikiLeaks

    The Walkley Foundation has initiated a letter to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, signed by members of the board, editors of major Australian newspapers and news sites, and news directors of the country’s commercial and public broadcasters.

    The volume of the leaks is unprecedented, yet the leaking and publication of diplomatic correspondence is not new. We, as editors and news directors of major media organisations, believe the reaction of the US and Australian governments to date has been deeply troubling. We will strongly resist any attempts to make the publication of these or similar documents illegal. Any such action would impact not only on WikiLeaks, but every media organisation in the world that aims to inform the public about decisions made on their behalf. WikiLeaks, just four years old, is part of the media and deserves our support.

    Already, the chairman of the US Senate homeland security committee, Joe Lieberman, is suggesting The New York Times should face investigation for publishing some of the documents. The newspaper told its readers that it had ‘‘taken care to exclude, in its articles and in supplementary material, in print and online, information that would endanger confidential informants or compromise national security.’’ Such an approach is responsible — we do not support the publication of material that threatens national security or anything which would put individual lives in danger. Those judgements are never easy, but there has been no evidence to date that the WikiLeaks material has done either.

    There is no evidence, either, that Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have broken any Australian law. The Australian government is investigating whether Mr Assange has committed an offence, and the Prime Minister has condemned WikiLeaks’ actions as ‘‘illegal’’. So far, it has been able to point to no Australian law that has been breached.

    To prosecute a media organisation for publishing a leak would be unprecedented in the US, breaching the First Amendment protecting a free press. In Australia, it would seriously curtail Australian media organisations reporting on subjects the government decides are against its interests.

    WikiLeaks has no doubt made errors. But many of its revelations have been significant. It has given citizens an insight into US thinking about some of the most complex foreign policy issues of our age, including North Korea, Iran and China.

    It is the media’s duty to responsibly report such material if it comes into their possession. To aggressively attempt to shut WikiLeaks down, to threaten to prosecute those who publish official leaks, and to pressure companies to cease doing commercial business with WikiLeaks, is a serious threat to democracy, which relies on a free and fearless press. Source: WL Central

50. Erik van Erne zegt:

    14 december 2010 om 09:11 | Permalink

    WikiLeaks Interactive Atlas by Der Spiegel: A time lapse of 251,287 documents.

    The world map shows where the majority of the cables originated from, and where they had the highest level of classification.

51. Erik van Erne zegt:

    14 december 2010 om 19:42 | Permalink

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange granted conditional bail

    Julian Assange bail decision made by UK authorities, not Sweden. The decision to have Julian Assange sent to a London jail and kept there was taken by the British authorities and not by prosecutors in Sweden, as previously thought

52. Erik van Erne zegt:

    14 december 2010 om 21:48 | Permalink

    Sex, Lies, Iran, Israel and WikiLeaks

53. Erik van Erne zegt:

    15 december 2010 om 00:10 | Permalink

    Who Really Controls America by George Carlin

54. Erik van Erne zegt:

    15 december 2010 om 17:47 | Permalink

    European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso suggests WikiLeaks does not serve public interest

    European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Tuesday said that the European Commission ‘is not a tribunal’ when responding to a question on the arrest of Julian Assange, the Australian journalist behind the headline making Wikilweaks whistle blower site. Earlier in his speech Barroso said that while freedom of Information is important, some information is sensitive and it is not in the public interest that it is widely accessible.

55. Erik van Erne zegt:

    16 december 2010 om 10:05 | Permalink

    Human Rights Watch letter to President Barack Obama

    Human Rights Watch has published a letter to President Barack Obama, urging the US administration not to prosecute WikiLeaks and Julian Assange in conjunction with the publication of the Cablegate documents.

    Dear President Obama:
    We write to express our concern at the prospect that the US government would employ espionage laws against WikiLeaks or its founder for the release of US State Department cables. Regardless of how one views the intentions, wisdom or strict legality of the WikiLeaks release, we believe that resorting to prosecution will degrade freedom of expression for all media, researchers and reporters, and set a terrible precedent that will be eagerly grasped by other governments, particularly those with a record of trying to muzzle legitimate political reporting.

    See: The complete letter to President Barack Obama

56. Erik van Erne zegt:

    16 december 2010 om 10:12 | Permalink

    The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention

    Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months — and for two months before that in a military jail in Kuwait — under conditions that constitute cruel and inhumane treatment and, by the standards of many nations, even torture. Interviews with several people directly familiar with the conditions of Manning’s detention, ultimately including a Quantico brig official (Lt. Brian Villiard) who confirmed much of what they conveyed, establishes that the accused leaker is subjected to detention conditions likely to create long-term psychological injuries.

    Since his arrest in May, Manning has been a model detainee, without any episodes of violence or disciplinary problems. He nonetheless was declared from the start to be a “Maximum Custody Detainee,” the highest and most repressive level of military detention, which then became the basis for the series of inhumane measures imposed on him.

    From the beginning of his detention, Manning has been held in intensive solitary confinement. For 23 out of 24 hours every day — for seven straight months and counting — he sits completely alone in his cell. Even inside his cell, his activities are heavily restricted; he’s barred even from exercising and is under constant surveillance to enforce those restrictions. For reasons that appear completely punitive, he’s being denied many of the most basic attributes of civilized imprisonment, including even a pillow or sheets for his bed (he is not and never has been on suicide watch). For the one hour per day when he is freed from this isolation, he is barred from accessing any news or current events programs. Lt. Villiard protested that the conditions are not “like jail movies where someone gets thrown into the hole,” but confirmed that he is in solitary confinement, entirely alone in his cell except for the one hour per day he is taken out.

    Read more at Salon

57. Erik van Erne zegt:

    16 december 2010 om 16:10 | Permalink

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange granted bail

    A London judge rules that Julian Assange can remain free while fighting extradition to Sweden. Conditions of bail are expected to be stringent. Assange is wanted for questioning in connection with molestation and rape allegations, which he says are politically motivated. Justice Duncan Ouseley agreed with a decision by City of Westminister magistrates court earlier in the week to release Assange on strict conditions: £200,000 cash deposit, with a further £40,000 guaranteed in two sureties of £20,000, and strict conditions on his movement.

58. Erik van Erne zegt:

    16 december 2010 om 20:26 | Permalink

    Julian Assange FREE on Bail: His Statement

59. Erik van Erne zegt:

    17 december 2010 om 19:27 | Permalink

    EU digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes: WikiLeaks will increase government transparency

    The WikiLeaks disclosure of US diplomatic cables highlights the need to secure networks and individuals from hackers, EU digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes has said. At the same time, the phenomenon stresses the need for governments to be “as transparent and open as possible,” which entails the “practical advantage” of reducing the amount of information that needs to be secured, she declared.

    Speaking out almost three weeks after the whistleblower started publishing the leaked US cables, Ms Kroes on Thursday (16 December) during a joint US-EU cybersecurity event in Washington drew the first lessons for the EU from the Wikileaks phenomenon.

    The 69-year old Dutch politician distinguished between three security incidents regarding WikiLeaks: first, the leak itself, believed to be acquired by a 22-year old US army soldier who copied all the documents onto a CD which he allegedly brought into his office to listen to pop singer Lady Gaga.

    “From a cyber-security angle, this highlights the need for all organisations and individuals to protect themselves against threats to steal confidential information,” Ms Kroes said. But she also stressed the need for governments to be “as transparent and open as possible.” “I think that is an important value, but it also has a major practical advantage: it reduces the amount of information that requires special protection,” the Dutch Liberal said. Source: EU Observer

60. Erik van Erne zegt:

    17 december 2010 om 20:54 | Permalink

    Julian Assange Interview: WikiLeaks Founder On Today Show

    The Today show interviewed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday after his release from prison on bail Thursday afternoon. During the interview, he described his recent court appearances as “not the beginning of the end, rather it is merely the end of the beginning.”

    Assange confirmed that he has heard there will be espionage charges filed against him in the U.S., and denied knowing Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army intelligence analyst accused of providing WikiLeaks with information. The U.S. is allegedly putting together a case against Assange on conspiracy charges. Source: Hufftington Post

    Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

61. Erik van Erne zegt:

    17 december 2010 om 21:52 | Permalink

    WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Fears U.S. Indictment

62. Erik van Erne zegt:

    18 december 2010 om 10:17 | Permalink

    Bank of America Refuses to Process Transactions That May be Destined for WikiLeaks

    The Bank of America has joined MasterCard, PayPal, Visa and Swiss bank PostFinance in refusing to process transactions “of any type” that it believes is intended for Wikileaks. No word on what will form the basis for that belief. “This decision is based upon our reasonable belief that WikiLeaks may be engaged in activities that are, among other things, inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments.”

    In a recent interview with Forbes magazine, Julian Assange stated that he planned to release information on a major bank early next year. It has been widely speculated in the US media that the bank in question is the Bank of America.

63. Erik van Erne zegt:

    18 december 2010 om 10:20 | Permalink

    ZEMBLA: De rebellen van WikiLeaks

    ‘De rebellen van WikiLeaks’ is zaterdag 18 december 2010 om 22.30 uur te zien bij de VARA op Nederland 2.

64. Erik van Erne zegt:

    21 december 2010 om 06:48 | Permalink

    Watch How WikiLeaks’ Mirrors Spread Around the World: Visualizing WikiLeaks Mirrors Spread in Google Earth

65. Erik van Erne zegt:

    21 december 2010 om 07:09 | Permalink

    WikiRebels The Documentary

    Exclusive rough-cut of first in-depth documentary on WikiLeaks and the people behind it! From summer 2010 until now, Swedish Television has been following the secretive media network WikiLeaks and its enigmatic Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange.

    Reporters Jesper Huor and Bosse Lindquist have traveled to key countries where WikiLeaks operates, interviewing top members, such as Assange, new Spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson, as well as people like Daniel Domscheit-Berg who now is starting his own version – Openleaks.org

    Where is the secretive organization heading? Stronger than ever, or broken by the US? Who is Assange: champion of freedom, spy or rapist? What are his objectives? What are the consequences for the internet?”

66. Erik van Erne zegt:

    22 december 2010 om 03:28 | Permalink

    Apple removes WikiLeaks app after just three days in App Store

    Apple on Tuesday confirmed that it had removed from its online store an iPhone and iPad app that let users view the content on the WikiLeaks site and follow the WikiLeaks Twitter account.

    Trudy Muller, an Apple spokeswoman, said the company had removed the app “because it violated our developer guidelines.” Ms. Muller added: “Apps must comply with all local laws and may not put an individual or group in harm’s way.”

    The $1.99 WikiLeaks App was taken down on Monday after being available for just three days. It is not clear how popular it was. Its developer promised to donate $1 for every download to organizations that “promote the future of online democracy. ” It had received only three reviews, according to the Huffington Post. Two of those reviews were negative.

    Apple is the latest company to cut off services that in some way support WikiLeaks or channel money to the organization. In recent weeks, Amazon stopped hosting WikiLeaks content and PayPal, Visa and Mastercard stopped processing payments to the organization. Source: New York Times

67. hal durant zegt:

    22 december 2010 om 03:41 | Permalink

    Keep up the good work…perpetual war is not the avenue to prosperity, but the road to ruin…hal

68. Erik van Erne zegt:

    22 december 2010 om 17:49 | Permalink

    WikiLeaks: W.T.F.

    The CIA has launched a new task force to assess the impact of Cablegate. The Wikileaks Task Force, apparently termed W.T.F., will focus on media exposure and the repercussions of the newest cable releases.

69. Erik van Erne zegt:

    22 december 2010 om 18:15 | Permalink

    The Listening Post: WikiLeaks Cyber Warriors

70. Erik van Erne zegt:

    24 december 2010 om 19:47 | Permalink

    Frost over the World: Julian Assange

71. Erik van Erne zegt:

    30 december 2010 om 22:26 | Permalink

    Many Arab officials have close CIA links: Assange

    Top officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA, and many officials keep visiting US embassies in their respective countries voluntarily to establish links with this key US intelligence agency, says Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks. “These officials are spies for the US in their countries,” Assange told Al Jazeera Arabic channel. Read more at The Peninsula

72. Erik van Erne zegt:

    31 december 2010 om 04:13 | Permalink

    Julian Assange named The Nation’s Person of the Year

    After a recent readers’ poll which didn’t determine but helped define the choices, Time magazine named Mark Zuckerberg its Person of the Year for 2010 for “changing how we all live our lives.” (Time readers, not the most radical bunch, picked Julian Assange as the winner and had Zuckerberg ranked 10th.) Time’s runner-ups included Assange, Hamid Karzai and Sarah Palin.

    Since we here at The Nation consider our readership the most politically informed and intelligent of any publication in the country, we thought it would be informative to conduct a Nation readers’ poll to determine the Person of the Year for our own community.

    The response was strong and, interestingly, WilkiLeaks founder Assange was also our clear-cut winner because, as Lorna Singh pointed out, “we need to see how we were lied to,” and, as Mike Pribula wrote, “he has reminded us about the importance of integrity in diplomacy and democratic ideals in our republic.” Source: The Nation

73. Erik van Erne zegt:

    31 december 2010 om 04:20 | Permalink

    CNN’s Most Intriguing Person of 2010: Julian Assange

    He’s been called a criminal, a spy and a champion of the First Amendment. Some think he’s a villain. Some see him as a hero. The only thing that’s beyond debate: Julian Assange has more intrigue than the pulp section of a bookstore. WikiLeaks’ mastermind, the guy who everyone loved to hate or loved to defend, got the most first-place votes (25%) on CNN.com’s “Most Intriguing Person” poll for 2010. Following Assange were:

    2. President Barack Obama
    3. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg
    4. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs
    5. Marisol Valles Garcia, a police chief in Mexico
    6. Chilean miner Edison Pena
    7. Kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart
    8. Tony Hayward, the former CEO of BP
    9. Kim Jong Un, presumed future leader of North Korea
    10. Antoine Dodson, whose thoughts about rape went viral on video

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    He’s been called a criminal, a spy and a champion of the First Amendment. Some think he’s a villain. Some see him as a hero.

    The only thing that’s beyond debate: Julian Assange has more intrigue than the pulp section of a bookstore.

    WikiLeaks’ mastermind, the guy who everyone loved to hate or loved to defend, got the most first-place votes (25%) on CNN.com’s “Most Intriguing Person” poll for 2010. Following Assange were:

    2. President Barack Obama
    3. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg
    4. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs
    5. Marisol Valles Garcia, a police chief in Mexico
    6. Chilean miner Edison Pena
    7. Kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart
    8. Tony Hayward, the former CEO of BP
    9. Kim Jong Un, presumed future leader of North Korea
    10. Antoine Dodson, whose thoughts about rape went viral on video

    Maybe Assange’s victory is payback for Zuckerberg edging him out of Time’s Person of the Year? Source: CNN

74. Erik van Erne zegt:

    2 januari 2011 om 05:07 | Permalink

    Wikileaks & The End of Net Neutrality

75. Erik van Erne zegt:

    3 januari 2011 om 02:38 | Permalink

    WikiLeaks: U.S. Diplomats Acted As Salespeople For Boeing Over Airbus

    The king of Saudi Arabia wanted the United States to outfit his personal jet with the same high-tech devices as Air Force One. The president of Turkey wanted the Obama administration to let a Turkish astronaut sit in on a NASA space flight. And in Bangladesh, the prime minister pressed the State Department to re-establish landing rights at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

    Each of these government leaders had one thing in common: they were trying to decide whether to buy billions of dollars’ worth of commercial jets from Boeing or its European competitor, Airbus. And United States diplomats were acting like marketing agents, offering deals to heads of state and airline executives whose decisions could be influenced by price, performance and, as with all finicky customers with plenty to spend, perks. Source: New York Times

76. Erik van Erne zegt:

    5 januari 2011 om 04:23 | Permalink

    Many Journalists Killed In 2010 Covered Corruption

    Of the 44 journalists killed in 2010 for whose deaths a key advocacy group was able to find a motive, almost a third of them covered corruption.

    The Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ, which defends media workers around the world, tracks and investigates the circumstances surrounding the deaths of journalists, and it created an interactive infographic showing where, how and why most were killed last year. Thirteen of the 44, or 30%, were corruption beat reporters. Other top beats of journalists killed included politics, war, culture and crime. Some of the beats overlapped, however, causing the aggregated percentages to go far over 100%. Source: Wall Street Journal

77. Erik van Erne zegt:

    6 januari 2011 om 05:39 | Permalink

    Weathering WikiLeaks Storm: US red-faced over UN ‘spying’

78. Erik van Erne zegt:

    11 januari 2011 om 10:40 | Permalink

    Julian Assange Court Date: WikiLeaks Founder To Fight Sweden Extradition

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due back in court tomorrow to fight extradition to Sweden for questioning about alleged sex crimes. The online activist has been staying at an English mansion after posting bail in December.

    A spokesman for the British courts said, The hearing on Tuesday is to ensure that the real issues in the case are identified and that preparation of the case is progressing in a timely fashion. The hearing, which is mostly procedural, will probably decide the date of the extradition hearing, as well as what documents and witnesses will be used in the proceedings.

    As a precondition to his bail, Assange has been wearing an electronic tag and must obey a curfew in what he has described as “hi-tech house arrest.” Source: Hufftington Post

79. Erik van Erne zegt:

    16 januari 2011 om 11:58 | Permalink

    The Netherlands should know everything about Afghanistan

    the Dutch news organization NOS.nl posted a segment of their interview with Julian Assange. In this brief segment, Mr. Assange elaborates on the philosophy behind the release of several cables concerning Afghanistan troop deployment from the Netherlands. According to the website, the full interview will be posted later today, at which time we will provide an update.

    “We want all the information to be above the table so the press is not restricted and the truth is reflected in the history books. These principles, are in essence, our philosophy.” -Julian Assange

80. Erik van Erne zegt:

    17 januari 2011 om 20:30 | Permalink

    Swiss Banker Hands Tax Evasion Docs to WikiLeaks

    A former Swiss banker hands over documents to WikiLeaks that he alleges detail attempts by wealthy business leaders and lawmakers to evade tax payments.

81. hal durant zegt:

    18 januari 2011 om 00:52 | Permalink

    Great stuff….
    Too bad wikileak cant get some info out, on all the money that was banked in the cayman islands by such corporations as Halliburton, KBR, Custer Battles, and the rest who put money in the Caymans and even paid all their employees with checks drawn on the cayman banks…

82. Erik van Erne zegt:

    19 januari 2011 om 21:48 | Permalink

    WikiLeaks Cablegate: Nederlandse Regering verdedigt Shell tot het uiterste

    De Nederlandse overheid gaat tot het uiterste om de internationale belangen van olieconcern Shell te verdedigen. Zo steunt Nederland sommige VN-resoluties alleen zolang ze Shell niet belemmeren. Dat blijkt uit de Wikileaksdocumenten die RTL en NRC in handen hebben gekregen via de Noorse krant Aftenposten. http://bit.ly/dSMYPD

83. Erik van Erne zegt:

    19 januari 2011 om 22:07 | Permalink

    New Dutch EU ambassador in trouble after WikiLeaks Cablegate Disclosure of Messages

    Top Dutch civil servant Pieter de Gooijer has come under fire after Wikileaks’ disclosure of messages from the United States embassy in The Hague. Dutch newspaper says Labour MP Frans Timmermans is objecting to Mr De Gooijer becoming the Dutch ambassador to the European Union.

    The civil servant was a senior foreign ministry official in 2009 and, according to the Wikileaks documents, asked the US embassy to put pressure on the then Labour leader and deputy prime minister, Wouter Bos. He hoped Mr Bos would be pushed into agreeing to an extension of the Dutch military mission in Afghanistan.

    Last Friday, Mr De Gooijer was named as the top representative of the Netherlands at the EU. Mr Timmermans doubts whether the appointment can go ahead following the Wikileaks disclosure. Labour MPs have asked for an emergency debate on the affair.

    Labour wants to know whether Mr De Gooijer was acting on his own initiative or on instructions from the then foreign minister, Maxime Verhagen, who is deputy prime minister under the present government. Mr Timmermans says, even if acting on instructions from Mr Verhagen, the civil servant was still not expressing the official government position. He doubts whether such a person can be trusted in a position as important as that at the EU. Source: Expatica

84. Erik van Erne zegt:

    20 januari 2011 om 10:26 | Permalink

    Topambtenaar Balkenende adviseerde VS druk op Wouter Bos te zetten

    De hoogste ambtenaar van premier Balkenende heeft de Amerikanen advies gegeven over hoe ze vice-premier Bos moesten overhalen tot een langer verblijf in Afghanistan. Dat blijkt uit documenten die de NOS van WikiLeaks heeft gekregen.

85. Erik van Erne zegt:

    2 februari 2011 om 10:42 | Permalink

    The Future of WikiLeaks by Evgeny Morozov

    In the wake of “cable-gate”, Evgeny Morozov considers a future when WikiLeaks-style organisations could be useful allies of the West.

86. Erik van Erne zegt:

    3 februari 2011 om 06:04 | Permalink

    A Nobel Peace Prize for Wikileaks?

    A Norwegian lawmaker has nominated WikiLeaks for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, saying that its disclosures promote world peace by holding governments accountable for their actions. A Nobel prize expert says a win for the whistleblower is unlikely.

87. Erik van Erne zegt:

    3 februari 2011 om 09:31 | Permalink

    Julian Assange awarded Sydney Peace Medal

    In the estimation of the Sydney Peace Foundation, Australian Wikileaks founder Julian Assange stands alongside the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela.

    As he outrages and embarrasses world leaders by leaking secret US diplomatic cables – and continues to face down allegations of sex offences – Mr Assange has been chosen by the foundation to receive a rare gold medal for peace with justice.

    The honour, previously given only to the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Japanese lay Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda in the foundation’s 14-year history, has been bestowed for Mr Assange’s “exceptional courage and initiative in pursuit of human rights”. Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

88. Erik van Erne zegt:

    4 februari 2011 om 10:50 | Permalink

    Paper Cut: NYT dumps WikiLeaks after cashing in on nobel cause

    The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. The controversial news comes as its founder, Julian Assange, finds himself in yet another scandal – this time with the New York Times. The paper made a fortune off the back of the U.S. diplomatic cables leaked to it by Assange. But, as RT’s Marina Portnaya found out, its gratitude only goes so far…

89. Erik van Erne zegt:

    9 februari 2011 om 01:25 | Permalink

    Trial and Error: ‘Flagrant Injustice’ for Julian Assange?

    The defense team of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange say he’ll face a “secret trial” if sent to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations. He’s now in a London court where the evidence on whether he should be handed over to Stockholm is being heard. Assange says the accusations are part of a conspiracy to punish him for running his whistle-blowing website.

90. Erik van Erne zegt:

    19 februari 2011 om 08:39 | Permalink

    Justice4Assange: Jemima Khan on Wikileaks

91. Erik van Erne zegt:

    24 februari 2011 om 16:01 | Permalink

    Judge: Julian Assange will be extradited to Sweden

    The founder of the controversial whistleblowing website Wikileaks, Julian Assange, will be sent to Sweden to face sex crime charges. A London Court has just ruled that Stockholm’s extradition bid has been successful. Lawyers for Assange have a week to appeal Thursday’s decision.

    The founder of the controversial whistleblowing website Wikileaks, Julian Assange, will be sent to Sweden to face sex crime charges. A London Court has just ruled that Stockholm’s extradition bid has been successful. Lawyers for Assange have a week to appeal Thursday’s decision.

92. Erik van Erne zegt:

    24 februari 2011 om 17:05 | Permalink

    Julian Assange Calls Case Against Him ‘Ridiculous’

    Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, says the case against him is “nonsense” and calls it “ridiculous.” Thursday a judge ruled Assange can be extradited to Sweden in a sex crimes inquiry.

93. Erik van Erne zegt:

    25 februari 2011 om 08:34 | Permalink

    ‘Rubber Stamp’: Full Julian Assange speech after extradition ruling

94. Erik van Erne zegt:

    3 maart 2011 om 19:29 | Permalink

    Julian Assange Launches Appeal Against U.K. Extradition

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has launched an appeal against a ruling that he should be extradited from Britain to Sweden over alleged sex crimes.

    Assange’s lawyers claim he will not get a fair trial in Sweden, as rape cases are held in secret. They criticize the European arrest warrant system used to seek his extradition, and say there are political motivations for the prosecution.

95. Erik van Erne zegt:

    3 maart 2011 om 19:31 | Permalink

    WikiLeaks: The Movie by Steven Spielberg?

    The Guardian confirms that major film studio Dreamworks, led by Steven Spielberg, has bought the rights to two books about WikiLeaks, including one about the newspaper’s stormy relationship with leader Julian Assange as he provided scoops this fall.

    The book, titled, “WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy,” and written by Guardian reporters David Leigh and Luke Harding, has brought on threats of a lawsuit from Assange, potentially based on allegations in the book that he refused to protect the name of Afghan informants, whom he said would “deserve it” if they were killed.

96. Erik van Erne zegt:

    5 maart 2011 om 08:28 | Permalink

    Beyonce’s Qaddafi Problem: Singer Returns Million-Dollar Pay From Libyan

    Beyonce and Mariah Carey are trying to distance themselves from embattled Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi after WikiLeaks reported the singers were paid hefty sums to perform at private events for the Qaddafi family. Beyonce is donating her $1 million paycheck from Qaddafi to earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti, while Carey promises the proceeds from her upcoming single, “Save the Day,” will go toward human-rights charities. Meanwhile, Nelly Furtado tweeted her plans to donate to charity the $1 million she earned from singing at a 2007 Qaddafi birthday party. Other stars linked to Qaddafi performances in the WikiLeaks documents include Usher, Timbaland, and 50 Cent, who have yet to comment on the matter.

97. Erik van Erne zegt:

    17 maart 2011 om 10:47 | Permalink

    Wikileaks cables reveal worry over Japan’s nuclear plants

    Japan was warned in 2008 that some of its nuclear power stations would not survive unscathed if a strong earthquake hit.

    The alert was raised by an official from the International Atomic Energy Agency at a meeting of the G8’s Nuclear Safety and Security Group in Tokyo, according to Wikileaks.

    A US embassy cable said: “He noted recent earthquakes in some cases have exceeded the design basis for some plants, and that this is a serious problem.” Source: Mirror

98. Erik van Erne zegt:

    20 maart 2011 om 21:21 | Permalink

    Julian Assange: The man who leaked the world

    WikiLeaks the dream of an idealist, or a tool to manipulate global politics? Who is the real Julian Assange? He says his dream is a world without secrets. But is that true? Find out in a new XL Report.

99. Erik van Erne zegt:

    12 april 2011 om 12:41 | Permalink

    The 2011 TIME 100 Poll

    Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, innovators, icons and heroes that you think are the most influential people in the world. The winner will be included in the TIME 100. Voting closes on April 14.

100. Erik van Erne zegt:

     18 april 2011 om 11:09 | Permalink

     Row over Wikileaks leaker Bradley Manning treatment

     The treatment of Wikileaks leaker Bradley Manning continues to concern people, with accusations that he is being tortured. In response, the American authorities say it’s standard treatment of all “high risk” detainees.

101. Erik van Erne zegt:

     29 april 2011 om 15:40 | Permalink

     Julian Assange: Worst WikiLeaks cables yet to come

     The man behind WikiLeaks says his website’s revelations are just the tip of the iceberg. In an exclusive interview with RT, Julian Assange said it is only a matter of time before more damaging information becomes known. The publication of confidential cables proved deeply embarrassing for the US and other countries. “If we look at our work over the last 12 moths, think about that. All these stories that have come out actually happened in the world, before 2010, but people didn’t know about it. So what is it that we don’t know about now? There’s an enormous hidden world out there that we don’t know about. It exists there right now.” Assange claims the data released by WikiLeaks is not even the most important and calls on people not to believe that the information they receive from the media is all that is happening. “We only released secret, classified, confidential material. We didn’t have any top secret cables. The really embarrassing stuff, the really serious stuff wasn’t in our collection to release. But it is still out there.”

102. Erik van Erne zegt:

     2 mei 2011 om 21:24 | Permalink

     Wikileaks Julian Assange: Facebook, Google, Yahoo spying tools for US intelligence

     The man behind WikiLeaks says his website’s revelations are just the tip of the iceberg. In an exclusive interview with RT, Julian Assange said it is only a matter of time before more damaging information becomes known.

103. Erik van Erne zegt:

     4 mei 2011 om 18:26 | Permalink

     Wikileaks bomb hits Pakistan

     Pakistan may claim ignorance about Osama’s presence in their country but new evidence leaked by Wikileaks nails that lie as well. Here’s the complete report.

104. Erik van Erne zegt:

     5 mei 2011 om 17:19 | Permalink

     WikiLeaks: Al Qaeda Safehouses in Pakistan

     WikiLeaks shows that Pakistan had many other “safe houses” for the Al Qaeda in Karachi, including a safe house for Osama’s son Saeed bin Laden.

105. Erik van Erne zegt:

     11 mei 2011 om 20:58 | Permalink

     Julian Assange Receives Peace Prize: Gold Medal of Honer of the Sydney Peace Foundation

     WikiLeaks founder and whistleblower Julian Assange accepted a peace award in London on Tuesday (May 10) from the Sydney Peace Foundation (SPF). It awarded him the gold medal of honour what it calls his “exceptional courage in pursuit of human rights”.

106. Erik van Erne zegt:

     15 mei 2011 om 09:09 | Permalink

     Wikileaks reveals Arctic could be the new cold war

     Submarine explorers planting Russian flags under the North Pole. Military tension between NATO and Russia. US diplomats manoeuvring in the wings. Aircraft carriers lurking and strike fighters changing hands. Sound like something from a James Bond plot? Unfortunately it’s not.

     New Wikileaks releases today have shown the Arctic oil rush is not just a threat to the environment and our climate, but also to peace. The documents show how deadly serious the scramble for Arctic resources has become.

     And the terrible irony of it is that instead of seeing the melting of the Arctic ice cap as a spur to action on climate change, the leaders of the Arctic nations are instead investing in military hardware to fight for the oil beneath it. They’re preparing to fight to extract the very fossil fuels that caused the melting in the first place. It’s like putting out fire with gasoline. Source: Greenpeace International

     BBC Newsnight reports on fresh Wikileaks cables which show how countries are scrambling over the resources hidden under the melting Arctic ice – which is disappearing at unprecedented rates. Military tensions are escalating as politicans and countries look to carve out their stake.

107. Erik van Erne zegt:

     16 mei 2011 om 05:22 | Permalink

     FRONTLINE: Preview “WikiSecrets” by PBS

     It’s the biggest intelligence breach in U.S. history—the leaking of more than half-a-million classified documents on the WikiLeaks website in the spring of 2010. Behind it all, stand two very different men: Julian Assange, the Internet activist and hacker who published the documents, and an Army intelligence analyst named Bradley E. Manning, who’s currently charged with handing them over. Private Manning allegedly leaked the secret cables—along with a controversial video—in the hope of inciting “worldwide discussion, debates and reforms.” Assange’s stated mission has been to force the U.S. and other governments into maximum transparency through his whistle-blowing website. Through in-depth interviews with Manning’s father, Assange, and others close to the case, veteran FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith tells the full story behind the leaks. He also reports on the U.S. government’s struggle to protect national security information in a post 9/11 world. Source: PBS

     Full Coverage: “WikiSecrets” by PBS Chapter 1 to 5.

     On 24 May, 2011, 9pm EST, PBS-Frontline will air a documentary “WikiSecrets”. WikiLeaks has had intelligence for some time that the program is hostile and misrepresents WikiLeaks’ views and tries to build an “espionage” case against its founder, Julian Assange, and also the young soldier, Bradley Manning.

     In accordance with our tradition of “scientific journalism” (full primary sources) we release here our, behind the scenes, interview tape between Julian Assange & PBS Frontline’s Martin Smith which was recorded on 4/4/2011. In the tape, Assange scolds Martin Smith for his previous coverage of Bradley Manning and addresses a number of issues surrounding the 1917 Espionage Act investigation into WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning.

     The Frontline documentary will include footage of a number of individuals who have a collective, and very dirty personal vendetta, against the organization. These include David Leigh, Adrian Lamo, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Eric Schmitt and Kim Zetter. While the program filmed other sources, such as Vaughan Smith who provided a counter-narrative, these more credible voices have been excluded from the program presented to the US public.

     Full Coverage: “WikiSecrets” by PBS Chapter 1 to 5.

108. Erik van Erne zegt:

     19 mei 2011 om 12:12 | Permalink

     WikiLeaks Reveals US Wanted to Keep Russia out of Libyan Oil

     Kevin Hall: US wanted to block Italian Eni from acting as “stalking horse” for Gazprom Wikileaks

109. Erik van Erne zegt:

     26 mei 2011 om 08:46 | Permalink

     WikiLeaks Cable: Saudis, Emiratis were Funding Extremists

     US cable says Gulf countries fund Pakistani militancy

110. Erik van Erne zegt:

     5 juni 2011 om 00:05 | Permalink

     WikiLeaks: War, Lies, and Videotape

     This hard-hitting film investigates the website that has given rise to one of the greatest controversies of the last decade.

     WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organization that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks. In late 2010, the website created controversy by publishing hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. Diplomatic cables and Military documents.

     From the site’s inception through to the current conspiracy allegations, this revealing documentary follows the story of the charismatic founder of the website and new enemy #1 of the Pentagon, Julian Assange.

     Directed by award winning investigative reporters Paul Moreira and Luc Hermann from the French press agency Premières Lignes, the film travels to London, Washington, Reykjavik, and Paris to meet the WikiLeaks journalists and hackers who are fighting for transparency and are challenging the all-encompassing rules of Military secrecy.

     The film includes an interview with former #2 and spokesperson of the WikiLeaks team Daniel Domscheit-Berg, before he opens his own whistleblowing website and publishes a novel about “his time at the world’s most dangerous website”. Daniel is now a “dissident” after quitting the company. His claim is that the organization is too centered on the figure of Julian Assange and that there was a rush to unleash big news stories in lieu of steadily building up the organization.

111. Erik van Erne zegt:

     7 juni 2011 om 20:41 | Permalink

     WikiLeaks Cables that Reveal “Secret History” of U.S. Bullying in Haiti http://bit.ly/mF55F0

112. Erik van Erne zegt:

     17 juni 2011 om 10:56 | Permalink

     Julian Assange House Arrest: WikiLeaks Exclusive Insider Video

     In December 2010 Sweden issued two international warrants for Julian Assange’s arrest. He has been detained without charge since. This is a guide to the events, investigations and court proceedings that are connected with his extradition.

113. Erik van Erne zegt:

     9 juli 2011 om 21:18 | Permalink

     The Life and Career of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange

114. Erik van Erne zegt:

     9 juli 2011 om 21:23 | Permalink

     Democracy Now Special: Amy Goodman With WikiLeaks Editor-In-Chief Julian Assange

     Amy Goodman Hosts Discussion With WikiLeaks Editor-In-Chief Julian Assange and Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Žižek in London at the Frontline Club.

     Watch live streaming video from democracynow at livestream.com

115. Erik van Erne zegt:

     9 juli 2011 om 21:31 | Permalink

     WikiLeaks suing Visa & Mastercard

     WikiLeaks sent out a press release through its twitter page saying that the credit card companies have been engaging in a US-backed financial blockade, and then it explains that it’s suing Visa and Mastercard. And in a recent interview with CNet, Mastercard stood by its original reasoning stating that “company rules prohibit customers from directly or indirectly engaging in or facilitating any action that is illegal.”

116. Erik van Erne zegt:

     13 juli 2011 om 00:03 | Permalink

     Visa, MasterCard Block WikiLeaks… Again

     Is it possible? Did Visa and MasterCard lift their ban on processing donations to WikiLeaks? For a couple hours on Thursday, it seemed the answer was yes.

117. Erik van Erne zegt:

     13 juli 2011 om 03:35 | Permalink

     Julian Assange asks court to block extradition in sex case

     WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange has asked an appeals court to block his extradition to Sweden from the United Kingdom to face questioning on sexual misconduct allegations.

     Lawyers for Assange told the court Tuesday that the European arrest warrant on which their client is being held was not a “fair and accurate description” of the facts of the case.

118. Erik van Erne zegt:

     1 september 2011 om 16:08 | Permalink

     More Wikileaks cables on Vatican released

     Wikileaks has released 300 more unedited cables from the US State Department on their diplomacy with the Vatican. There is now 979 such cables available for the public to see. One cable dates all the way back to 1993 to more recent cables in 2010.

119. Erik van Erne zegt:

     3 september 2011 om 17:05 | Permalink

     WikiLeaks posts all US cables unredacted

     WikiLeaks, the whistle-blowing website, has published its entire collection of diplomatic cables on the internet. This is a decision its original media partners have strongly criticised.

     The website said on Friday that the more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables could now be accessed through an internet link without a password.

120. Erik van Erne zegt:

     17 oktober 2011 om 05:42 | Permalink

     Occupy Assange: ‘Corrupt banks, corrupt cash’

     The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, attended the protests in London that are part of a worldwide action against corporate greed and austerity measures. Assange said that he was there to show his solidarity with the Occupy London movement, which was inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests in the US. Assange traveled to London from his friend Vaughan Smith’s country mansion in Suffolk, eastern England. Assange is living there on bail as he fights extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of rape and sexual assault made by two women.

121. Erik van Erne zegt:

     25 oktober 2011 om 16:17 | Permalink

     WikiLeaks could halt operations amid cash crisis

122. Erik van Erne zegt:

     28 oktober 2011 om 22:52 | Permalink

     WikiLeaks Funding Killed By Corporations

     Companies such as PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and Western Union have not let their customers use their services to donate money to the Julian Assange founded WikiLeaks. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks.

123. Erik van Erne zegt:

     28 oktober 2011 om 22:55 | Permalink

     Immense support in India for WikiLeaks: Julian Assange

     WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in an exclusive interview to NDTV talks about the whistleblower site suspending publishing due to lack of funds and how institutions blocking funds to their sites are unlawful. He also talks about setting up a bank account in India to receive donations.

124. Erik van Erne zegt:

     2 november 2011 om 16:18 | Permalink

     WikiLeaks Julian Assange statement after lost battle in UK court

125. Erik van Erne zegt:

     8 januari 2012 om 05:23 | Permalink

     WikiLeaks Wins Major Australian Journalism Prize

     WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accepted the award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism at the 2011 Walkley Award in Australia, an honor akin to the Pulitzer Prize in the United States. Democracy Now! airs an excerpt from Assange’s acceptance speech and gets reaction from constitutional law attorney and Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald. Today also marks the one-year anniversary of “Cable Gate,” when WikiLeaks began publishing a trove of more than 250,000 leaked U.S. State Department cables. In related news, the U.S. Army recently scheduled a Dec. 16 pretrial hearing for Army Private Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of providing the cables to WikiLeaks. Manning “faces life in prison, possibly the death penalty, for what was an act of conscience,” says Greenwald.

126. Erik van Erne zegt:

     5 februari 2012 om 08:32 | Permalink

     Julian Assange in final battle against extradition

     The UK Supreme Court is expected to consider an appeal by the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange against his extradition to Sweden over allegations of sexual assault in August 2010. The future of the world famous whistle-blower is as unclear as ever, with questions being raised over Sweden’s legal system and its ties with the United States.

127. Erik van Erne zegt:

     30 juli 2012 om 19:17 | Permalink

     WikiLeaks Syriagate: Syria Files Exposed – 2.4 Million Emails On War In Syria

     Wikileaks has done it again. This time, approximately 2.4 million emails relating to the war in Syria have been exposed. The contents include email correspondence from Syrian government officials, anti-government rebels, and the companies that are supporting both sides in the civil war. The SyriaFiles have gained global attention to the bloodshed in Syria and the sites founder, Julian Assange, has released a statement regarding the recent date dump.

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