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As the fallout of Cablegate continues to consume column inches, gigabytes, and cabinet meetings across the world, the realisation that this is about more than one man, one organization, and one massive leak seems to be slowly sinking in. While some argue that stories and comment focusing on the process of the leak and the fallout for the organisation only distract from the stories contained within the cables themselves, it is clear that this element is as vital (in the short term at least) as the contents of the cables. We find ourselves in the middle of an unprecedented public debate on Internet freedom and the role of the state online.
Wikileaks and 21st Century Statecraft « P U L S E
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A series of WikiLeaks cables single out for criticism the Council of Europe's British former secretary general Terry Davis, who had attacked American officials on secret renditions. Photograph: Vincent Kessler/Reuters US officials regard European human rights standards as an "irritant", secret cables show, and have strongly objected to the safeguards which could protect WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from extradition . In a confidential cable from the US embassy in Strasbourg, US consul general Vincent Carver criticised the Council of Europe , the most authoritative human-rights body for European countries, for its stance against extraditions to America, as well as secret renditions and prisons used to hold terrorist suspects. He blamed the council for creating anti-US sentiment and hampering the US war on terror.
US criticises court that may decide on Julian Assange extradition, WikiLeaks cables show | Law | The Guardian
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The arm of the CIA that combs the Internet and other public sources for unclassified but insightful intelligence is still in its infancy, its director acknowledges, five years after the Bush administration created the agency to overcome analytical limitations that in 2003 helped bring on the Iraq War. After President George W. Bush sent troops to invade Iraq based in part on what turned out to be flawed information that the country was rebuilding its nuclear capacity, the U.S. government charged a new Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission with recommending steps to improve the nation's intelligence gathering. One such step was the creation of an open source directorate that would apply sophisticated information technology to gather fleeting, online materials for permanent availability across the intelligence community. "We've made progress, but we're still nascent," said Douglas Naquin, who has directed the DNI Open Source Center, based at the CIA, since its inception in 2005.
Open source online intelligence mining still in infancy, official says - Nextgov
"It's just by Tesco," I found myself saying the other day, "I'll be over there now, in a minute." It's amazing how quickly a person can pick up the sayings of a local area. Two years ago I'd have thought you were kidding if you'd told me that I'd one day feel like a true Cardiffian. But just a short time in this city which boasts that it is the best in Wales, and I'm already at home here. I now pronounce all the place names in the proper Cardiff way – names that baffle visitors like Crwys and Llanedeyrn, which we Cardiffians (if you will permit me to call myself that) pronounce in a way that pretty much ignores the rules of both Welsh and English, but suits us fine.
A Cardiff Story: A migrant city | Cardiff | guardian.co.uk
Inside Datasift: A quick review
I managed to get my hands on a alpha preview of Datasift – the tool that I’ve been raving on about since I first saw a preview of the service. Essentially, its like a Yahoo Pipes for social media, allowing you to see a plethora of data that is happening in real-time on the web, and more easily curate, organise and consume that content. From my initial play around with the service I’ve been gradually getting to grips with some of the things that it can do, and I am really impressed with the Twitter feature set alone. The power of this web application has warranted a full review – these guys are going to be a big deal for programmers, as the layer that they’ve provided takes information extraction from the real time web to a whole different level.
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan—Life in troubled Kunduz Province can be summed up in a word: precarious. [see Alissa J. Rubin's Times story Taliban Extend Reach to North, Where Armed Groups Reign]
The Americans are in our House. What will the Taliban Think? - NYTimes.com
The problem with working to change United States foreign policy is that you're never really sure what it's going on behind the curtain. By the time you have submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and the government deems the information you're asking for safe, the present has passed into history. Which raises the question, will WikiLeaks bring us the transparency we need to be able to understand the internal workings of U.S. covert operations?
Using WikiLeaks to Shape History as it Happens
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We are all united: the system that declares unionized workers bad for business is the same system that decides human beings are a commodity. It's also the same system that causes students to graduate college with so much debt that they must chain themselves to a career in something they despise, rather than pursue their passions. It's the same system that sends it's young men and women overseas to fight unjust wars for empire, profit and power. It's the same system that measures the value of people by what they consume and the value of artists by how much they sell.Important, radical ideas have been popularised by cinema: people experiencing movies together, as part of an audience. Today’s protest movements could learn a thing or two by studying old films, and old film movements… Britain’s students.