Time’s choice for the 2010 Person of the Year. My a**. Cablegate roundup continues

I have nothing to do with Mr. Zuckerberg. This is about Time editors’ cowardice… ********* Time refuses WikiLeaks founder 2010 Person of the Year www.worldbulletin.net American Time magazine’s readers have chosen Julian Assange, the man behind WikiLeaks, in the weekly’s annual poll for Person of the Year, as Turkey’s Prime Mark Zuckerberg Is TIME?s ?Person … Read more

Assange granted bail, Swedish authorities still after him. Cablegate roundup…

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange granted bail from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin 07:00 AM PT: A bail hearing for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is under way as I type this blog post. Assange is being held in the UK on allegations of sex crimes involving two women in Sweden. Journalists in the courtroom have been … Read more

From the cablegate front: CIA’s Wikileaks mirror site, Obama calls PM Erdoğan, Justice for Assange site etc.

Obama calls Turkish PM over leaked cables The Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) ? President Barack Obama called Turkey’s prime minister to mend ties following the release on the WikiLeaks website of US diplomatic cables Obama joins WikiLeaks assault The Australian … action by WikiLeaks, and the two leaders agreed that it would not influence or … Read more

Cablegate roundup!

Nigeria: Wikileaks’ latest leaks focus on Pfizer- Nigeria lawsuit from Global Voices Online by Ndesanjo Macha Brazil: President Lula defends WikiLeaks’ Assange from Global Voices Online by Marta Cooper Brazil: WikiLeaks and the ?Electronic Intifada? from Global Voices Online by Raphael Tsavkko Garcia Predicting the future of WikiLeaks: Follow the media! from Net Effect by … Read more

“Twelve theses on WikiLeaks” and more from the cablegate cyber war

Freedom to Assange and Wikileaks from Genç Siviller We were in front of Consulate General of Sweden, Istanbul Twelve theses on WikiLeaks from Eurozine articles by Geert Lovink, Patrice Riemens Vindictive, politicized, conspiratorial, reckless: one need not agree with WikiLeaks’ modus operandi to acknowledge its service to democracy. Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens see in … Read more

Hackers attack PayPal, PostFinance, Mastercard and more to come. New stage at Cablegate

Hackers Defend WikiLeaks by Attacking PayPal and PostFinance [UPDATE: Mastercard, Too] from Mashable! by Stan Schroeder More than 1000 Wikileaks mirror sites spring up in a week from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza Xeni on Madeleine Brand radio show: Wikileaks, Anonymous, Mastercard DDOS, Operation Payback from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Having DDOsed Mastercard.com to … Read more

Julian Assange arrested, not the Digital Revolution….

I haven’t had time to start with a more proper roundup. here is what I have had collected so far. More to come soon.. Lieberman: New York Times may be investigated for espionage from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza Assange arrested in Britain from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza Clay Shirky’s Nuanced Position on WikiLeaks … Read more

[Turkish] Wikileaks depremi. Türkçe haberler/yorumlar (6)

Bir gizli Amerikan belgesinden Türkiye?ye ve CHP?ye dersler – İsmet BERKAN from Hürriyet Yazarlar BU aralar WikiLeaks?le ve orada açıklanmakta olan gizli Amerikan diplomatik yazışmalarıyla boğuşuyoruz WIKILEAKS DOSYALARI TRT HABER’DE TARTIŞILDI from Medyatava.com TRT Haber’deki Açı adlı programda Faruk Bilgin’e konuk olan akademisyenler Wikileaks dosyalarının ABD’de Bush döneminde yaşanan skandallarla bir hesaplaşma olduğu görüşünde birleşti … Read more

Final part: Part 6: Twitter reactions to #cablegate (mostly) from Turkey

eski dünya düzenine dönüş başladı bile.. aliyev: ben öyle bişey demedim gül: bilmez miyiz, zaten inanmamıştık. al gülüm, ver gülüm — Mirgun Cabas (@MirgunCabas) December 1, 2010 Son "Taraf linci" gösteriyor ki, Taraf'ın "yandaş" olduğuna inanan sadece ulusalcılar değilmiş. Bu "aldatılmış sevgili" ruh hali çok acıklı. — ahmet kılcı (@ahmetkilci) December 2, 2010 Wikileaks devam … Read more

WikiLeaks now mobilizes Twitter supporters while Pay Pal also “betrays” Wikileaks…

Evading a shutdown, WikiLeaks mobilizes Twitter supporters from Wiki Leaks by Blake Hounshell In a bid to stay one step ahead of the governments, companies, freelance hackers trying to shut down its operations, WikiLeaks mobilized its vast base of online support Saturday by asking its Twitter followers to create copies of its growing archive of … Read more

Wikileaks party in Istanbul. Part 5: Turkey related #cablegate news

Everybody Loves Wikileaks! Now it is our time to leak into the night life of Taksim on saturday, 4th of December 19.30 @ Ekvator Cafe! Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu addresses a global security summit seminar on regional security cooperation Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010, in Manama, Bahrain. Senior political and military officials from Arab states, … Read more

Cablegate global roundup continues. WikiLeaks Distributed Data Graphic etc…

WikiLeaks Distributed Data Graphic from Mavi Boncuk by M.A.M 2010-12-04: Cablegate: Roundtable discussions 2010-12-04: New York Times T Magazine: Julian Assange: The Gift of Information 2010-12-03: Rep. Ron Paul defends WikiLeaks 2010-12-03: TIME: Cover story WikiLeaks founder Assange ought to be hiding from America from washingtonpost.com – Op-Ed Columns by Charles Krauthammer Let the world … Read more

[Turkish] Wikileaks’in ilk kurbanı… – Wikileaks depremi. Türkçe haberler/yorumlar (4)

WikiLeaks ilk kurbanını aldı: Belge sızdıran bürokrat görevden alındı from Devrimci Halkın Birliği | Haber Portalı WikiLeaks internet sitesinin ABD Dışişleri Bakanlığı’nın gizli belgelerini açıklaması Almanya’da da yankı yarattı. Almanya’da koalisyon hükümetinin kuruluş aşamasındaki yazışmaları ABD’li bürokratlara sızdıran Hür Demokrat Partili Helmut Metzner görevden alındı. Wikileaks?i En Çok Hangi Ülkeler Ziyaret Ediyor from Webrazzi by … Read more

Julian Assange answers questions at the Guardian, Amazon vs. Wikileaks. Global roundup continues

Julian Assange answers your questions The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, answers readers’ questions about the release of more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables Calling Time on Assange from Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza The other face of Wikileaks: Kristinn Hrafnsson from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Amazon and WikiLeaks – Online Speech is Only … Read more

Amazon “betrays” Wikileaks. Global reactions to Cablegate (4)

Amazon Bans WikiLeaks From Its Servers from Mashable! by Ben Parr MAIN FOCUS: Wikileaks creates a global public sphere | 01/12/2010 from euro|topics China is blocking Wikileaks‘ websites, states fear for their data security and the world learns of a planned coup d’état against Pakistan’s president. While the daily disclosures of further US dispatches are … Read more