Wikileaks stories

John Pilger: War on WikiLeaks - Assange Interview

http://www.truth-out.org/the-war-wikileaks-john-pilgers-investigation-an...

"Javier Moreno, the editor of El Pais, which published the Wikileaks logs in Spain wrote, 'I believe that the global interest sparked by the WikiLeaks papers is increasing doe to the simple fact that they conclusively reveal the extent to which politicians in the West have been lying to their citizens.'

Crushing individuals like Assange and Manning is not difficult for a great power, however craven. The point is, we should not allow it to happen..."

BUSTED: Anonymous Uncovers Corporate Proposal to Take Down Wikileaks

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Anonymous counter-intelligence operations have uncovered evidence of an effort by Bank Of America (BoA) to disrupt both Wikileaks and Anonymous. Details of BoA's involvement began emerging on February 8th, 2011, during Anonymous' Operation #HBGary.

Operation #HBGary was retribution against (in)security firm HBGary, and its associate company HBGary Federal, for threatening to release innacurate and fallacious information about Anonymous. During the operation, Anonymous double-penetrated HBGary's corporate network, compromised the personal email and social networking accounts of several HBGary employees (evidence of which is still online at the time of this document's creation), retrieved some 50,000 corporate emails, discovered HBGary "product" source code, and wiped Aaron Barr's personal iPad (for shits 'n' giggles).

Among the emails retrieved from HBGary, Anonymous uncovered communications between Bank of America's legal representation, HBGary, Palantir, and BericoTechnologies detailing efforts to weaken Wikileaks through misinformation and targeted cyber attacks.

More Facts Emerged About The Leaked Smear Campaigns  (Update II) - by Glenn Greenwald

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/02/15/palantir/in...

"But the real party here which deserves much more scrutiny is Hunton and Williams -- one of the most well-connected legal and lobbying firms in DC -- and its partner John Woods".

Canadian diplomatic officials in Cairo and the RCMP were probing up to a dozen cases of Egyptian infants being smuggled to Canada in a baby-trafficking ring, according to a U.S. embassy cable published by WikiLeaks.

The network may also have been used as a way to smuggle Egyptian babies to the United States via Canada, said the September 2009 American embassy cable published this week by WikiLeaks.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2011/02/18/egyptian-baby-smuggling.html#ixzz1ELJahduA

'The WikiLeaks Threat' and Other Tales From the Darkside

http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/2011/03/wikileaks-threat-and-oth...

"It all began with news that WikiLeaks would soon shine a spotlight on the thieves dominating the global financial sector, those self-styled 'masters of the universe' reigning over capitaism's Borg hive. Scant months later, as a result of hubris and egomaniacal greed, an enormous window was smashed open and a sharp, merciless light flooded the dark recesses of the dirty world of corporate spying. Last November, Julian Assange told Forbes that WikiLeaks next target would be a 'major American Bank.'

This was no idle threat. Back in January, Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer, a former executive with Switzerland's Bank Julius Baer turned over two CDs to Assange at a London press conference...that purportedly included 'all the back-up data held on Julius Baer's computer server in the Caymans at the time he was sacked, including accounts, correspondence, memos and resolutions dealing with 114 trusts, 80 companies, 60 funds and 1,330 individuals,' according to the Guardian..

'It will give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigation and reforms, I presume,' Assange informed journalist Andy Greenberg. For this, there's only one similar example. It's like the Enron emails."

thetyee wrote:

Albertans' power rates already rising

Although de-regulation allowed oil sands producers to create their own electricity, it has dramatically increased power rates in the province.

Fulton describes the province's transmission mega-project as "so unbelievably dramatic and out of control that people can't believe that the government would be as dumb as it is. But the hard facts just get you."

Unlike Alberta's grandiose plans for $16 billion of new infrastructure, British Columbia has proposed $4.3 billion in transmission upgrades while Ontario has plans for $5.4 billion.

My gawd how much more punishment are they willing to take out there? It's a province with a relatively tiny population, resources up the wazoo,  and nothing in the kitty to show for it. They'll get more of the same.

'The War You Don't See' & John Pilger Interviews Julian Assange (and vid)

http://www.zcommunications.org/the-war-that-you-dont-see-by-john-pilger

"Below is a video of John Pilger's interview of  WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. In this amazing interview, Pilger says to Assange: 'In the great discourse on the shift of journalism and citizen journalism - very little journalism is going on in mainstream journalism', and gives an example of people inside the BBC who have talked with him about the pressure on them by the BBC. Assange reveals that WikiLeaks has support inside the US intelligence community."

Pilger's feature: 'The War You Don't See' can be found here:

http://sarblog.dyndns.tv/2010/12/19/war/