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Consumer Spending in U.S. Probably Rose in November on Pent Up Auto Demand
Bloomberg
“The economy has been expanding moderately, notwithstanding some apparent slowing in global growth,” Federal Reserve policy makers said in their latest statement on Dec. 13 following a meeting. “Household spending has continued to advance, but business ...
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WIKILEAKS News, Dec 23, 2011

Bradley Manning's WikiLeaks case: The larger issue
Politico
One former senior military official said that it's a bit odd that Manning is the only person on the hook if the damage caused by WikiLeakswas as severe as some have said. Army Pfc . Bradley Manning is escorted from a courthouse in Fort Meade , Md .
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Politico
WikiLeaks to Blame For Envoy Expulsions
Wall Street Journal
Mr. Goodale omits that the source of the information for all three articles wasWikiLeaks, as each newspaper duly acknowledged. I agree with him WikiLeaksshould not be prosecuted and that if it were, the First Amendment should provide it with a ...
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Wikileaks: Bradley Manning 'Abused Trust' Of US Army By Passing Classified ...
Sky News
Ultimately he aided the enemies of the United States by indirectly giving them intelligence through WikiLeaks." Capt Fein showed parts of instant message conversations between Manning and Wikileaksfounder Julian Assange and a video of an al Qaeda ...
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Sky News
Tunisia: Leaders - Revolution Mainly Due to Youth Discontent, Not Wikileaks
AllAfrica.com
There is a growing consensus among many Tunisians that revelations found in the diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks were not the major cause of the Tunisian Revolution. President Zine Abidine Ben Ali's dictatorship had perfected its system of ...
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Column: Soldier accused in WikiLeaks case not patriot but blame widespread
Daily Journal
Spc. Bradley Manning is accused of delivering thousands of classified documents to an Internet Web site called WikiLeaks, a self-styled crusader for truth and justice whose founder is up to his own neck in legal difficulties and may be of more interest ...
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Julian Assange defends release of Santa's 'naughty list' onWikileaks
NewsThump (satire)
Julian Assange has defended the release of a top-secret 'naughty list' on Wikileaks, insisting the contents are in the public interest. Assange claims the list of names is one-half of a master document with details on most of the earth's population, ...
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NewsThump (satire)
Swedish minister refuses Assange talks
Sydney Morning Herald
The Swedish government has refused to meet with an Australian senator to discuss the future of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. As extradition proceedings against the 40-year-old Australian continue in London, Greens Senator for Western Australia ...
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How the US coaxed Myanmar in from the cold
Firstpost
Embassy cables made public by WikiLeaks suggest China shared Washington's dissatisfaction with Myanmar's pace of reforms. Getty Images by Andrew Quinn and Neil Chatterjee Yangon: Myanmar's generals were looking for a chance to improve ties with the ...
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Firstpost
Analysis: What's the plan if North Korea collapses?
Reuters
"The Chinese are always skittish about these things," he said, adding that the disclosure of secret US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks have made them especially wary of contingency planning. Still, the transition of power in North Korea from the ...
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Today's media stories from the papers
The Guardian
P13 WikiLeaks accused Bradley Manning accused of leaking secrets to enemies. P24 Yahoo set to cash in on Asia with $17bn sale. P46 i 2011: Simon Kelner fell in love with the iPad. P16WikiLeaks accused Bradley Manning accused of leaking secrets to...
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The Guardian
Bureau Recommends: Pick of the year
Bureau of Investigative Journalism
From the analysis of Wikileaks documents to undercover stings, investigative journalists have been hard at work exposing the truth. A high point of the year has certainly been Nick Davies' meticulous work exposing the phone hacking scandal at the News ...
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Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Hadoop challenger LexisNexis wants to add open source developers
ComputerworldUK
Wikileaks - fearless whistleblowers or irresponsible nuisances? Keep up to date with the latest developments. Read more LexisNexis developed the parallel processing data platform to handle the demands of its own data intensive research business. ...
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Technology Forecast 2012: Crystal Ball Predictions and Outlook
International Business Times
Still, as with Army Spc. Bradley Manning, charged with stealing classified material from the US Government and handing it over toWikiLeaks, people are just as important as computers. Manning will be convicted of transmitting classified data and ...
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International Business Times
Newsmaker: Can Pakistan's accidental president survive?
Reuters
In a 2008 diplomatic cable carried by WikiLeaks, then chief of the British Defense Staff Jock Stirrup said Zardari was "clearly a numbskull." The unpopularity of his government may have only served to strengthen Pakistan's generals after Zardari ...
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How the US coaxed Myanmar in from the cold
Reuters India
Interviews with dozens of officials in Yangon, Washington and Southeast Asia, and an examination of diplomatic cables obtained by Wikileaks, show that the United States and Myanmar had started waltzing warily toward each other in the first year of ...
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LinkedIn open source IndexTank search engine
ComputerworldUK
Wikileaks - fearless whistleblowers or irresponsible nuisances? Keep up to date with the latest developments. Read more At the time of the acquisition, LinkedIn indicated that it was interested in using the IndexTank's software, a well as the company's ...
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Obama can't take credit for withdrawal
Green Bay Press Gazette
This information was disclosed following the illegal release of classified information to Wikileaks. This includes a failed chemical attack in May of 2003 in Baghdad that likely would have killed thousands of Americans and Iraqis. ...
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UPI NewsTrack TopNews
UPI.com
23 (UPI) -- US Army Pfc. Bradley Manning chatted online with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while uploading documents to the Web site, military prosecutors said. Manning, the Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking vast amounts of classified ...
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News of the Day From Across the Nation
San Francisco Chronicle
5 WikiLeaks: Military prosecutors Thursday presented new and detailed evidence that they said showed that Pfc. Bradley Manning collaborated with Julian Assange, the founder of the antisecrecy website WikiLeaks, in stealing more than 700000 documents ...
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Uganda: How Top NRM Officials Plotted Bukenya's Fall
AllAfrica.com
"People who are pushing Mbabazi to step down basing on WikiLeaks are not after Mbabazi, but after Museveni. They want to use WikiLeaks to remove me. Mbabazi is going nowhere and Museveni is going nowhere," the President said. Bukenya lost his position ...
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"Team Fiji" Co-opts the 99%
Huffington Post (blog)
Political dissidents in Fiji are regularly kidnapped by the military and taken to barracks to be beaten or otherwise tortured, where some have died; US Embassy cables released by Wikileaks even detail witness reports that Bainimarama himself beat his ...
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The Christmas challenge
Financial Times
7 A 2007 US diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks this year revealed that the North Korean regime had approached the US requesting that a certain guitar god be allowed to play in Pyongyang as an “opportunity to build goodwill”. ...
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Financial Times
US Chamber of Commerce hack shows need for vigilance
BetaNews
The RSA and Sony breaches, attacks by Anonymous and LulzSec, even Wikileaks drove home to the broad marketplace that when it comes to data security, cyber-attackers can take down systems and steal data at will. We must be vigilant in the next ten days ...
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BetaNews
Terrorism and Nigeria's development
Daily Sun
Some of us may be familiar with the embarrassing disclosure by Wikileaks that in early 2008 the government released 18 terror suspects under the State Security Service “Perception Management” programme. The cable alleged that the release of the ...
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Bunker Bombs Requested, Stockpiled for Potential Iran Strike
Aviation International News
Last January, AIN reported on a State Department cable published byWikileaks that revealed the transfer in 2009 of 55 Raytheon-built GBU-28 “bunker buster” bombs to Israel to counter the threat posed by Iran. The 5000-pound, laser-guided GBU-28s ...
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Aviation International News
Mohamed Bouazazi As Man Of The Year, Catalyst For Global Justice & Protests
Examiner.com
Last year, I selected Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks as Man of The Year in view of his activities which put immeasurable and invaluable information concerning wrongdoing and governmental and corporate corrupt practices in the open and ...
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Delta Facing Lawsuit Over Baggage Policy
KAVU
Classified files downloaded to the computer of Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning matched those that later showed up on WikiLeaks. The quarterback of bowl-bound Penn State was taken to hospital after a locker room fight with a teammate. ...
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Thousands of grave markers may have errors
Detroit Free Press
... closing arguments in the preliminary hearing to determine whether Manning should be tried for allegedly sending hundreds of thousands of diplomatic documents and Iraq and Afghanistan war zone field reports to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. ...
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WikiLeaks suspect awaits his fate
. Military Space News ... Now the 24-year-old soldier accused of funneling 700000 US military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks will wait for weeks to find out whether he will face a court-martial. That decision is in the hands of Paul ...
Military Space News, Nuclear...
War News Updates: Did Wikileaks Damage U.S. National Security?
By War News Updates Editor
Bradley Manning Hearing Ends With No Clear Sign Of Harm Done To U.S. -- McClatchy News FORT MEADE, Md. — After seven days of testimony and the submission of more than 300000 pages of documents, a key question remains ...
War News Updates
rs WIKILEAKS::Prosecutors say Manning and ... - Political News Now
By ganesh
Military prosecutors presented new and detailed evidence Thursday that they said showed that Pfc. Bradley Manning collaborated with Julian Assange, the founder of the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks, in stealing more than 700000 ...
Political News Now
Defense Makes Final Plea for WikiLeaks Suspect | Video | wtsp.com
Videos from WTSP.com 10 News. ... 10 News Investigators dissect the pro-Romney ad and fact-check each of its ... Weather · Clearwater Beach Cam · Florida Radar ... Defense Makes Final Plea for WikiLeaks Suspect. Lawyers for Bradley ...
WTSP.com 10 News Latest Video
Wikileaks Soldier 'Abused Trust' - MyPress.SE - Universal News ...
By NewsDesk - Christer Ornestad
Wikileaks Soldier 'Abused Trust' Of US Army. On 2011/12/23, in News, by NewsDesk - Christer Ornestad. US military prosecutors say the private accused of passing classified information to Wikieaks abused the trust placed in him by the army ...
MyPress.SE - Universal News Agency
Accused U.S. WikiLeaks whistleblower in military court - World ...
The civilian attorney for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking classified documents published by the WikiLeaks website, asks the presiding ...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/.../wikileaks-manning-court.htm...
BBC News - Wikileaks: Bradley Manning military hearing bias row
Lawyers for US Army analyst Bradley Manning, accused of leaking secrets toWikileaks, open his military hearing by accusing the chief officer of bias.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16211977
Final Arguments in Pvt. Manning's Wikileaks Case - ABC News
After a week of testimony, Pvt. 1st class Bradley Manning's fate now lies in the hands of a military officer who will determine if he should face a court martial for ...
abcnews.go.com/US/final-arguments-pfc-mannings.../story?...
Hearing concludes for suspected WikiLeaks leaker - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The U.S. Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking classified files to the WikiLeaks website gave ...
news.yahoo.com/hearing-concludes-suspected-wikileaks-leake...
US officials debate charging WikiLeaks' Assange - US news ...
In presenting their case that WikiLeaks' alleged U.S. Army leaker Bradley Manning should face a court martial, military prosecutors this week revealed new ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../us-officials-debate-charging-wikileak...
World News: Prosecution begins in military WikiLeaks trial - thestar ...
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is the accused source for the WikiLeaks website's trove of U.S. military and diplomatic secrets.
www.thestar.com/news/article/1103665
Wikileaks Soldier In Court For First Time - Sky News
Sky News HD - First for breaking news - Sky channel 517 ... is suspected of passing on information to the website WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange....
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16131981
Private Bradley Manning court martial: Wikileaks founder Julian ...
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has been denied a request for full legal access to the US military court where Private Bradley Manning faces court ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Private-Bradley-Manning-court-marti...
Closing arguments in WikiLeaks case - CBS News Video
CBS News video: Closing arguments in WikiLeaks case - A military hearing has ended after prosecutors summed up their case against Army intelligence analyst ...
www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7392601n
Spectators, reporters booted from Pfc. Bradley Manning's WikiLeaks ...
Military prosecutors and defense lawyers tangled Monday over digital evidence against an Army intelligence analyst charged with massively leaking secret U.S. ...
www.nydailynews.com/.../spectators-reporters-booted-pfc-bra...
WikiLeaks investigators 'feared Bradley Manning had links to foreign ...
The Guardian, UK and World news, User comments, Web ... to have been involved in the WikiLeaks case – a former employee of the US department of energy. ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../bradley-manning-wikileaks-investigat...
Manning Judge On Trial At WikiLeaks Case Hearing | Fox News
Pfc. Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old soldier accused of providing hundreds of thousands of secret government documents to the website WikiLeaks, appeared...
www.foxnews.com/.../manning-attends-first-public-hearing-si.
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