WikiLeaks backers say Zimbabwe websites shut down

Anonymous topples, defaces Zimbabwe government websites
Stumble This! The Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu-PF) website, Zimbabwean government website and Zimbabwean Finance Ministry website were the target of cyber attacks on Thursday by a loose-knit group of online hacktivists known as "Anonymous." The websites were hit with distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks after Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace Mugabe, sued a newspaper for publishing a Wikileaks cable that alleged she was connected with illicit diamond trade. All t...

Anonymous hackers target Zimbabwe government over WikiLeaks
Source: Guardian Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, has become the latest Victim of online attacks by supporters of Wikileaks, it was claimed today. Cyber Activists said they had brought down government websites after Mugabe's wife sued a newspaper for publishing a WikiLeaks cable that linked her with the alleged trade in illicit diamonds . The Zimbabwean government website was unavailable today, while the finance ministry website displayed a message saying it was under maintenance. Anonymous,...

Call for openness after Wikileaks
Ministers should be more transparent and resist any urge to "clam up" after the Wikileaks revelations, according to the information commissioner. Christopher Graham said the government should be more proactive in publishing communications after the release of thousands of secret documents online. He said ministers needed to "wise up" to the fact that almost any official document could now be made public. Mr Graham, who became information commissioner in June 2009, added: &quo...;

Newsweek's Julian Assange Christmas Photos Are Really Quite Magical
One of the many faces of possibly being extradited, via Robert King/Newsweek ​Did anyone ever watch the sentimental, autobiographical Truman Capote short called "A Christmas Memory"? In it, an orphaned boy lives with a group of elderly relatives, one of whom is his best friend, an eccentric, childlike old woman known as "Sook." They gallivant through the hills and dales together, buying whiskey and making fruitcase and chopping down their very own Christmas Tree. That kind of sums up how...

WikiLeaks' Collateral Damage
Source: Wall St Journal Morgan Tsvangirai, the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe and the leader of its democratic opposition, has endured countless indignities at the hands of President Robert Mugabe. In 1997, thugs tried to throw him from the window of his 10th floor office. In 2002 and 2008, he had Elections stolen from him and his party, the Movement for Democratic Change. After that most recent ballot, he had to hide at the Dutch Embassy in Harare for fear of his life. A year later his wife died in...

Poll: Assange 2010's 'Most Intriguing'
Published: Dec. 31, 2010 at 3:30 AM Atlanta-based CNN.com said Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was chosen by visitors as the "Most Intriguing Person" of 2010. UPI/Hugo Philpott ATLANTA, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Atlanta-based CNN.com said Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was chosen by visitors as the "Most Intriguing Person" of 2010. The news organization said Assange received 25 percent of the votes in the online poll, with runners-up including President Barack Obama, Facebook mastermind Mark...

FBI in hunt for pro-WikiLeaks hackers: report
The Wikileaks website. The FBI has joined the hunt for Hackers who took dow... The FBI has joined the hunt for Hackers who took down websites like PayPal, after they stopped processing payments to whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, US media reports said Friday. The Smoking Gun website published five pages of an FBI affidavit, detailing an operation that took US federal investigators to Europe, Canada and back to the United States as they hunted down the "Internet Activists" who launched attacks...

Marc Faber: Treasurys Are A "Suicidal Investment"
in a telephone interview from St. Moritz, Switzerland. “Over time, Interest Rates on U.S. Treasuries will go up. Investors will gradually understand that the Federal Reserve wants to have negative real interest rates. The worst investment is in U.S. long-term bonds.” As for equities, Faber increasingly sees a Zimbabwe outcome: “If you print money, the currency goes down and the S&P 500 goes up. By the end of 2011, people will look at 2012 and think 2012 could be a very bad...

Assange claims Arab officials spy on their own countries for the CIA
In an interview with al-Jazeera's Arabic language network on Wednesday, Wikileaker Julian Assenge claimed to have names of Arab Diplomats who are spying on their own countries for the CIA. “These officials are spies for the U.S. in their countries,” Assange said, according to Qatar's Peninsula newspaper. More: The interviewer, Ahmed Mansour, said at the start of the interview which was a continuation of last week’s interface, that Assange had even shown him the files that contained the

Your pick for Most Intriguing Person of 2010 is ...
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: 10. Antoine Dodson, whose thoughts a...

WikiLeaks reveals flaws of State Dept.'s information-sharing tool
WASHINGTON -- Before the infamous leak, the 250,000 State Department cables acquired by anti-secrecy Activists resided in a database so obscure that few Diplomats had heard of it. It had a bureaucratic name, Net-Centric Diplomacy, and served an important mission: the rapid sharing of information that could help uncover threats against the United States. But like many bureaucratic inventions, it expanded beyond what its creators had imagined. It also contained risks that no one foresaw. Million...

US spying on Iran from Turkey
Something tells me that the Turks will not allow this to continue. A document released by Wikileaks Wednesday says that the U.S. has been using its Embassy in Turkey to gather intelligence on Iran. According to the cable released from the U.S. Embassy in Turkey, the information was gathered through Iranian citizens living in Turkey. The Iranians who were contacted by the Americans were threatened by Iranian agents not to have contact with American Diplomats, the cable said, and the information...

"Many Arab officials are US spies in their own countries"
"... 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 in an interview yesterday. The interviewer, Ahmed Mansour, said at the start of the interview wh...

Montana's "Inquisition" and Wikileaks
So you are a little girl in grammar school in 1917. Your name is Christine Shupp and you live near Melville in Sweet Grass County. Every morning after the pledge of allegiance to the flag, the teacher makes you, alone, kneel down on the floor and kiss the flag. It is because you are German. You are a rancher in Rosebud County and you call WWI "a Millionaire's war" and you are dragged off by neighbors to jail. You're in a saloon and call war time food regulations "a big joke" and you are sentence...

Wise up to WikiLeaks, British govt warned
Britain's freedom of information Watchdog has warned government ministers that the Wikileaks revelations mean they can no longer assume they are operating in private. Information Commissioner Christopher Graham said that rather than "clamming up", ministers needed to "wise up" to the fact that almost any official communication could potentially be made public. "We are strongly of the view that things should be published," he said, according to The Guardian newspaper on Friday. "Where you're open...

The Tea Party is the movement of the decade
If there is one political movement that has truly shaken the foundations of the American political system in 2010, it is the Tea Party movement. In fact I would describe is as the most influential movement in America of the past decade, even of this generation. What started off as a tiny patchwork of local Protest groups has emerged as a mighty political force across the United States, clearly capable of bringing the White House to its knees. The Tea Party played a pivotal role in igniting the...

BitTorrent exploit could be used to stage massive cyber attacks
Stumble This! With the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) treating successful cyber attacks by "Operation Payback" as criminal offenses, a new level of ambiguity is being introduced into the enforcement of cyber crime laws. The FBI was treating efforts by "Anonymous" and "4chan" as an "unauthorized and knowing transmission of code or commands resulting in intentional damage to a protected computer system," according to a search warrant affidavit published online Thursday. Not all distribute...

U.S. dismayed Egypt still views Israel as chief adversary, WikiLeaks cables show
U.S. Diplomats blame Egyptian Military officials for failure to modernize and adapt to new threats....

Just another shocking report
...Polish Air Traffic control in Warsaw confirmed the regular use of the Szymany Air Base by two Aircraft used in the CIA’s extraordinary renditions program, and prosecutors have apparently collected substantial additional evidence that the CIA used the facilities to house and interrogate Prisoners. Public pressure to continue the Criminal Probe is growing. Polish Radio reports that a new billboard has appeared in Poznan featuring a person hooded and bound to a chair with a tattered America...

U.S. frustrated with Egyptian military, WikiLeaks cables show
U.S. Diplomats dismayed that Egyptian Military still views Israel as its chief adversary, 31 years after the Israel-Egypt peace treaty....

WikiLeaks: Egypt focused on Israel as foe
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Despite a decades-old peace treaty, Egypt views Israel as its main Military threat, frustrating U.S. Diplomats, documents released by Wikileaks indicate. The diplomats expressed their annoyance with Egyptian leaders in the communications, saying that Egypt honed in on preparing for war with Israel while ignoring threats such as Terrorism and Weapons Smuggling, Arutz Sheva, Israel's national news Web site, reported Friday. "The United States has sought to interest th...

Hillary Giving Up Secretary Of State?
Is Hillary Clinton about to resign? A growing number of rumors are saying that Hillary Clinton will resign from her position of Secretary of State in the early part of 2011. Clinton was revealed in the Wikileaks Cablegate Scandal as instructing American Diplomats to get Personal Information from United Nations diplomats, which Top Officials at the UN said may be a breach of international laws. A few days later, Clinton soberly told an audience that her position as Secretary of State would be the...

WikiLeaks show US frustrated with Egypt military
Source: AP Cairo (AP) — Egypt's Military, the biggest recipient of U.S. military aid after Israel, is in decline, according to American Diplomats, who blame the Arab nation's top brass for failing to modernize and adapt to deal with new threats. U.S. diplomatic memos leaked this month show previously unknown friction between the two allies over military assistance and strategy. Military cooperation has always been seen as an unshakable link between Egypt and the U.S., even as the political side ...

WIKILEAKS: EGYPT STILL SEES ISRAEL AS AN ENEMY
What can you expect when Islamofascism is still prevalent? Well, as this confirms, Egypt can still be dangerous: Documents revealed by Wikileaks show that Egypt continues to see Israel as its primary Military threat despite a decades-old peace treaty. Egypt and Israel fought against each other in four wars before signing the treaty in 1979. United States Diplomats have been frustrated as Egyptian leaders focus on being prepared for war with Israel while ...

Defectors
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is on cable TV. This got me thinking about defectors. Wendell Potter, another defector and Martin Jay Levitt, author of Confessions of a Union Buster. I call them defectors because like the defectors during the Cold War, the lies and contradictions of their former way of life finally overwhelmed them, and they had to cross over to the other side as it were. Next month we will get another document dump from Wikileaks, probably from Bank of America. It seems some...