Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think - Umair Haque. By Umair Haque | 12:06 PM December 8, 2010 Rather than seeing WikiLeaks through the lens of morality or national security, let’s look at it through an institutional lens. To those of you who’ve been reading this blog for a while, that may be second nature. But to the newcomers, let me explain what I mean. Perhaps the most basic economic institution is GDP. And unfortunately, it’s also one of the most in need of radical institutional innovation. So at the Cancun climate talks, one country has already committed to updating it for the 21st century — by including the costs of environmental damage to make the numbers a little more meaningful. When GDP’s updated to reflect environmental costs, so must be corporate income statements — otherwise, the math simply won’t work. Now let’s go back to the much-maligned WikiLeaks.
Consider just how moribund yesterday’s institutions are when it comes to information collecting and sharing. Are you fighting the future — or are you fighting for the future? WikiLeaks: Winning the Info War Despite Assange's Arrest. Fox News' Bob Beckel Calls For 'Ilegally' Killing Assange: 'A Dead Man Can't Leak Stuff' Wikileaks: Stop the crackdown. EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.” [Below is a news release put out by the Institute for Public Accuracy, co-signed by Daniel Ellsberg] Ex-Intelligence Officers, Others See Plusses in WikiLeaks Disclosures WASHINGTON – December 7 – The following statement was released today, signed by Daniel Ellsberg, Frank Grevil, Katharine Gun, David MacMichael, Ray McGovern, Craig Murray, Coleen Rowley and Larry Wilkerson; all are associated with Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence.
WikiLeaks has teased the genie of transparency out of a very opaque bottle, and powerful forces in America, who thrive on secrecy, are trying desperately to stuff the genie back in. The people listed below this release would be pleased to shed light on these exciting new developments. Odd, isn’t it, that it takes a Pravda commentator to drive home the point that the Obama administration is on the wrong side of history. Motivation? There is nothing to suggest that WikiLeaks/Assange’s motives were any different. How to inform American citizens? Johann Hari: This case must not obscure what WikiLeaks has told us - Johann Hari, Commentators. Each of the wikileaks revelations has been carefully weighed to ensure there is a public interest in disclosing it. Of the more than 250,000 documents they hold, they have released fewer than 1000 – and each of those has had the names of informants, or any information that could place anyone at risk, removed.
The information they have released covers areas where our governments are defying the will of their own citizens, and hiding the proof from them. Here’s some examples. The Obama administration has been denying that it has expanded the current “war” to yet another country, Yemen. Now we know that is a lie. Ali Abdulah Saleh, the Yemeni dictator, brags in these cables to a US diplomat: “We’ll continue to say the bombs are ours, not yours.” The US and British governments told us they invaded Iraq, in part, because they were appalled that the Iraqi government tortured its own citizens. For Britain’s politicians, the documents offer a long-needed slap in the face. Here’s what we know. So, Why is WikiLeaks a Good Thing Again?
Amnesty International Australia. Support. WikiLeaks is under attack by the big financial services companies , but there are still ways you can beat them. As a result of exposing U.S. embassies from around the world, five major US financial institutions, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Western Union and the Bank of America, have tried to economically strangle WikiLeaks The attack has blocked over 95% of our donations, costing tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue.
The attack is entirely political. In fact, in the only formal review to occur, the US Treasury found that there were no lawful grounds to add WikiLeaks to financial blockade . Your donations are vital to pay for our fight against this and other kinds of censorship, for Wikileaks' projects, staff, servers and protective infrastructure. We are entirely supported by the general public. To confirm the correctness for larger donations or to report any difficulties please call +44 7554 181 066.
The list of available payment options has been updated for your country Flattr Brasil. Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice | John Naughton. 'Never waste a good crisis" used to be the catchphrase of the Obama team in the runup to the presidential election. In that spirit, let us see what we can learn from official reactions to the WikiLeaks revelations. The most obvious lesson is that it represents the first really sustained confrontation between the established order and the culture of the internet.
There have been skirmishes before, but this is the real thing. And as the backlash unfolds – first with deniable attacks on internet service providers hosting WikiLeaks, later with companies like Amazon and eBay and PayPal suddenly "discovering" that their terms and conditions preclude them from offering services to WikiLeaks, and then with the US government attempting to intimidate Columbia students posting updates about WikiLeaks on Facebook – the intolerance of the old order is emerging from the rosy mist in which it has hitherto been obscured.
Afghanistan is, in that sense, a quagmire in the same way that Vietnam was. Arts in the digital mainstream - News , ArtsProfessional magazine. Sorry, coughing fit. The Tarmo Toikkanen Daily. Killing the Messenger: Corporate Media and Politicians v. Julian Assange and Wikileaks. Not such wicked leaks | Presseurop – English. For the celebrated novelist and intellectual Umberto Eco, the Wikileaks affair or "Cablegate" not only shows up the hypocrisy that governs relations between states, citizens and the press, but also presages a return to more archaic forms of communication. The WikiLeaks affair has twofold value. On the one hand, it turns out to be a bogus scandal, a scandal that only appears to be a scandal against the backdrop of the hypocrisy governing relations between the state, the citizenry and the press.
On the other hand, it heralds a sea change in international communication – and prefigures a regressive future of “crabwise” progress. But let’s take it one step at a time. Embassies have morphed into espionage centres The rule that says secret files must only contain news that is already common knowledge is essential to the dynamic of secret services, and not only in the present century. The same goes for secret files.
So why so much ado about these leaks? A real secret is an empty secret. RT @evgenymorozov: Anyone accusing Assange of wanting to end all secrecy needs to reconcile this view with his work on Rubberhose http:/ ... Rubberhose is a computer program which both transparently encrypts data on a storage device, such as a hard drive, and allows you to hide that encrypted data. Unlike conventional disk encryption systems, Rubberhose is the first successful, freely available, practical program of deniable cryptography in the world. It was released in an earlier form in 1997, but has undergone significant changes since that time. The design goal has been to make Rubberhose the most efficient conventional disk encryption system, while also offering the new feature of information hiding.
Rubberhose is a type of deniable cryptography package. Written in C, Rubberhose supports NetBSD and Linux as a suite of kernel modules and userland programs. Rubberhose was originally conceived by crypto-programmer Julian Assange as a tool for human rights workers who needed to protect sensitive data in the field, particularly lists of activists and details of incidents of abuse. Reinikainen Sauna. Finland's schools flourish in freedom and flexibility | World news. At Meri-Rastila primary school in a suburb of Helsinki, pupils shake the snow off their boots in the corridors, then peel them off and pad into class in socks.
After a 45-minute lesson, they're out in the playground again. The Finnish school day is short and interspersed with bursts of running around, shrieking and sledging outdoors. Children start when they're older, the year they turn seven and there is no pressure on them to do anything academic before then. The Finnish education system contrasts sharply with England. There are no league tables, and no school inspections. Meri-Rastila's principal, Ritva Tyyska, said: "I think it's quite good that they don't rank the schools because we have good teachers, we have a curriculum and we have to obey it. "We have these tests, in the fifth or sixth forms, that are the same tests at each and every school. In Finland, the state decides what should be taught, but not how. Finland's success is due, in part, to the high status of teaching. Exams. James Moore: WikiLeaks and the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity. "Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.
It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air. " ~ Henry Anatole Grunwald There is a very simple reason WikiLeaks has sent a furious storm of outrage across the globe and it has very little to do with diplomatic impropriety. It is this: The public is uninformed because of inadequate journalism. Consumers of information have little more to digest than Kim Kardashian's latest paramour or the size of Mark Zuckerberg's jet. Very few publishers or broadcasters post reporters to foreign datelines and give them time to develop relationships that lead to information.
Consequently, journalism is atrophying from the extremities inward and the small heart it has will soon become even more endangered. So, long live WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. Good government, if such a thing exists, is the product of transparency. RT @eachus: BitTorrent link to download all of the "cablegate" files that WikiLeaks has so far released: WikiLeaks - Mass Mirroring our website.
The US Embassy Dispatches - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News. RT @wikileaks: WikiLeaks strikes back. Cut us down and the stronger we become:... The #WikiLeaks Daily. Unlocking Government. Loz Kaye...or... Mashing up politics. Interview with Loz Kaye, by Politics UK Politics UK: Good Evening. PoliticsUK would like to welcome with Loz Kaye, Leader of the Pirate Party. Loz: Good evening and thanks for this opportunity. I’m looking forward to it. PUK: The Pirate Party was founded on 30 July 2009. Can you tell our users how the Pirate Party came into existence? The Pirate Party movement was founded in Sweden in 2006, focussing on digital rights and intellectual property reform.
This caught the imagination of many worldwide, but also in the UK. PUK: How is the Pirate Party different from the big three UK Parties? The Pirate Party movement is the first genuinely 21st century political movement. As we don’t have delegate conferences, all members have a direct say in policy. We believe that politicians have a duty to be open and accountable. It is clear that it is time to restore faith in UK politics after years of expenses scandals and broken promises.
In any case, it has never been dull! My vision is this. What the attacks on WikiLeaks tell us. The current row over the latest WikiLeaks trove of classified US diplomatic cables has four sobering implications. 1. The first is that it represents the first really serious confrontation between the established order and the culture of the Net. As the story of the official backlash unfolds – first as DDOS attacks on ISPs hosting WikiLeaks and later as outfits like Amazon and PayPal (i.e. eBay) suddenly “discover” that their Terms of Service preclude them from offering services to WikiLeaks — the contours of the old order are emerging from the rosy mist in which they have operated to date.
This is vicious, co-ordinated and potentially comprehensive, and it contains hard lessons for everyone who cares about democracy and about the future of the Net. As I read the latest news this morning about the increasingly determined attempts to muzzle WikiLeaks, my mind was cast back to a conversation I had in the Autumn of 2000 on an island in the Puget Sound. 2. 3. 4. Yep. CableSearch BETA.
Fusion Tables. WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks. Wikileaks challenges journalists: Whose side are you on? A reporter e-mailed yesterday to ask my reaction to the ongoing Wikileaks controversy . My e-mailed response bounced, so I figure I’m not short-stopping anyone’s quote by publishing my response here, instead. Here’s what I had to say: The challenge for journalists reporting on Wikileaks is that, ultimately, you’re reporting someone else’s anonymous sources. Since reporters didn’t collect this information themselves, they don’t know the full story of where this information came from, who had access to it, or how or why it was released to Wikileaks. Obviously, journalists would prefer to have that background information to help inform their decisions about reporting, even if they never reporting that information themselves.
I hope that Wikileaks, at the very least, encourages reporters to be more aggressive in challenging authority and working with sources to get information that officials, in government or industry, would prefer to keep from the public’s eyes. Moving on… Assange Case: Evidence Destroyed Over and Over Again — News. Home » News (» Roundups) Sensational news: extraordinary Internet detective work by Göran Rudling. From 30 September 2010. [UPDATE: Anna Ardin did in fact make the whole story up as part of her 'seven step plan for revenge'.
See here.] One of the women who filed charges against Julian Assange is Anna Ardin. Anna Ardin is christian, feminist, social democrat, animal rights activist, and opponent of abortion on the left political scene. 'A political scientist, communicator, entrepreneur, and freelance writer with special knowledge within faith and politics, gender equality issues, feminism, and Latin America.' On Saturday 14 August at 14:00 she wrote the following on her Twitter account. 'Julian wants to go to a crayfish party, anyone have a couple of available seats tonight or tomorrow? Early on the morning of Sunday 15 August (02:00) she writes again at Twitter. 'Sitting outdoors at 02:00 and hardly freezing with the world's coolest smartest people, it's amazing! Wikileaks. The Zimbabwe Cable « Southern Perlo. Walter Rhett Southern Perlo History’s Invisible Veil Walter Rhett: Trayvon Martin Must Carry Us Beyond Grief and Fear Benanke: Small Business and Entrepreurship President Obama at Oswatomie, on the Economy and Middle Class Tax Cuts Walter Rhett: Resetting Racism The Harvard Business Review: HBR’s Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011 Archives RSS Feed We can't find what you're looking for!
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United States diplomatic cables leak. The United States diplomatic cables leak, widely known as Cablegate, began on Sunday, 28 November 2010[1] when WikiLeaks—a non-profit organization that publishes submissions from anonymous whistleblowers—began releasing classified cables that had been sent to the U.S. State Department by 274 of its consulates, embassies, and diplomatic missions around the world. Dated between December 1966 and February 2010, the cables contain diplomatic analysis from world leaders, and the diplomats' assessment of host countries and their officials.[2] According to WikiLeaks, the 251,287 cables consist of 261,276,536 words, making Cablegate the world's largest release of classified material.[3] The publication of the cables was the third in a series of U.S. classified document "mega-leaks" distributed by WikiLeaks in 2010, following the Afghan War documents leak in July, and the Iraq War documents leak in October.
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