Wikileaks Release: Over 5 million Stratfor.com emails leaked

[anthony]

http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html?nocache


Today, Monday 27 February, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods


EMAILS filtering out through this link
https://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks

[Paa]

-I've removed this post-

[anthony]

http://theyesmen.org/stratfor

MASSIVE LEAK REVEALS CRIMINALITY, PARANOIA AMONG CORPORATE TITANS

[white wizard]

Hmmm I am hoping he releases the so called stuff on ufo's might be a turning point he doesn't

have much to loose considering how hard they are trying to make him stop spreading the info.

[anthony]

MASSIVE LEAK REVEALS CRIMINALITY, PARANOIA AMONG CORPORATE TITANS

http://theyesmen.org/stratfor

[anthony]

http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/5509401_re-insight-for-internal-use-only-on-pain-of-agony-.html

Emails filtering through

more

http://www.wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/185945_re-alpha-s3-g3-israel-iran-barak-hails-munitions-blast-in.html

[Kimberley]

Feb. 27, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MASSIVE LEAK REVEALS CRIMINALITY, PARANOIA AMONG CORPORATE TITANS

http://theyesmen.org/stratfor


Dow pays "strategic intelligence" firm to spy on Yes Men and grassroots activists. Takeaway: movement is on the right track!

WikiLeaks begins to publish today over five million e-mails obtained by Anonymous from "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails, which reveal everything from sinister spy tactics to an insider trading scheme with Goldman Sachs (see below), also include several discussions of the Yes Men and Bhopal activists. (Bhopal activists seek redress for the 1984 Dow Chemical/Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India, that led to thousands of deaths, injuries in more than half a million people, and lasting environmental damage.)

Many of the Bhopal-related emails, addressed from Stratfor to Dow and Union Carbide public relations directors, reveal concern that, in the lead-up to the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, the Bhopal issue might be expanded into an effective systemic critique of corporate rule, and speculate at length about why this hasn't yet happened—providing a fascinating window onto what at least some corporate types fear most from activists.

"[Bhopal activists] have made a slight nod toward expanded activity, but never followed through on it—the idea of 'other Bhopals' that were the fault of Dow or others," mused Joseph de Feo, who is listed in one online source as a "Briefer" for Stratfor.

"Maybe the Yes Men were the pinnacle. They made an argument in their way on their terms—that this is a corporate problem and a part of the a [sic] larger whole," wrote Kathleen Morson, Stratfor's Director of Policy Analysis.

"With less than a month to go [until the 25th anniversary], you'd think that the major players—especially Amnesty—would have branched out from Bhopal to make a broader set of issues. I don't see any evidence of it," wrote Bart Mongoven, Stratfor's Vice President, in November 2004. "If they can't manage to use the 25th anniversary to broaden the issue, they probably won't be able to."

Mongoven even speculates on coordination between various activist campaigns that had nothing to do with each other. "The Chevron campaign [in Ecuador] is remarkably similar [to the Dow campaign] in its unrealistic demand. Is it a follow up or an admission that the first thrust failed? Am I missing a node of activity or a major campaign that is to come? Has the Dow campaign been more successful than I think?" It's almost as if Mongoven assumes the two campaigns were directed from the same central activist headquarters.

Just as Wall Street has at times let slip their fear of the Occupy Wall Street movement, these leaks seem to show that corporate power is most afraid of whatever reveals "the larger whole" and "broader issues," i.e. whatever brings systemic criminal behavior to light. "Systemic critique could lead to policy changes that would challenge corporate power and profits in a really major way," noted Joseph Huff-Hannon, recently-promoted Director of Policy Analysis for the Yes Lab.

Among the millions of other leaked Stratfor emails are some that reveal dubious financial practices, including an apparent insider trading scheme with Goldman Sachs Managing Director Shea Morenz, who joined Stratfor's board of directors and invested "substantially" more than $4 million in the scheme, called StratCap. "What StratCap will do is use our Stratfor's intelligence and analysis to trade in a range of geopolitical instruments," wrote Stratfor CEO George Friedman in September 2011. StratCap was designed through a complex offshore share structure to appear legally independent, but Friedman assured Stratfor staff otherwise: "Do not think of StratCap as an outside organisation. It will be integral... It will be useful to you... We are already working on mock portfolios and trades." (StratCap has been due to launch in 2012, though that could now change.)

Other emails show Stratfor techniques of a truly creepy Spy vs. Spy sort: "[Y]ou have to take control of him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control," wrote CEO Friedman recently to an employee, Reva Bhalla, on how to exploit an Israeli intelligence informant providing information on Chavez's cancer. (Stratfor's "confidential intelligence services" clients include, besides Dow and Union Carbide, the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines, the US Defense Intelligence Agency, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon.)

Perhaps most entertainingly of all, the email trove reveals that Stratfor's "Confederation Partners"—an unethical alliance between Stratfor and a number of mainstream journalists—are referred to informally within Stratfor as its "Confed **** House." (Another discovery: Coca Cola was spying on PETA. More such gems are sure to surface as operatives sift through the 5.5 million emails.)

A number of the remaining Yes Men-related emails take the form of reports on public appearances by the Yes Men, such as one that describes one audience comprised of "art students on class assignments and free entertainment." Another notes that "The Yes Men tweeted about the US Chamber of Commerce 'plotting forged emails, documents to trick (AND smear) opponents,'" a reference to an apparent plot to discredit Chamber opponents using forged documents, as revealed when thousands of emails were recently leaked by Anonymous from cyber-security firm HB Gary. Yet another discusses Alessio Rastani, the Wall Street trader widely mistaken for Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum, who proclaimed, live on the BBC, that "governments don't rule the world, Goldman Sachs rules the world."

"Rastani was right," said the real Andy Bichlbaum five months later. "But it's now very clear that it doesn't have to be that way anymore."

The Yes Men and representatives from the Bhopal Medical Appeal will join Julian Assange of Wikileaks at a press conference at noon today, Feb. 27, at the Frontline Club in London.

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http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html



LONDON—Today, Monday 27 February, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods, for example:

"[Y]ou have to take control of him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control... This is intended to start our conversation on your next phase" – CEO George Friedman to Stratfor analyst Reva Bhalla on 6 December 2011, on how to exploit an Israeli intelligence informant providing information on the medical condition of the President of Venezuala, Hugo Chavez.

The material contains privileged information about the US government’s attacks against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and Stratfor’s own attempts to subvert WikiLeaks. There are more than 4,000 emails mentioning WikiLeaks or Julian Assange. The emails also expose the revolving door that operates in private intelligence companies in the United States. Government and diplomatic sources from around the world give Stratfor advance knowledge of global politics and events in exchange for money. The Global Intelligence Files exposes how Stratfor has recruited a global network of informants who are paid via Swiss banks accounts and pre-paid credit cards. Stratfor has a mix of covert and overt informants, which includes government employees, embassy staff and journalists around the world.

The material shows how a private intelligence agency works, and how they target individuals for their corporate and government clients. For example, Stratfor monitored and analysed the online activities of Bhopal activists, including the "Yes Men", for the US chemical giant Dow Chemical. The activists seek redress for the 1984 Dow Chemical/Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India. The disaster led to thousands of deaths, injuries in more than half a million people, and lasting environmental damage.

Stratfor has realised that its routine use of secret cash bribes to get information from insiders is risky. In August 2011, Stratfor CEO George Friedman confidentially told his employees: "We are retaining a law firm to create a policy for Stratfor on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. I don’t plan to do the perp walk and I don’t want anyone here doing it either."

Stratfor’s use of insiders for intelligence soon turned into a money-making scheme of questionable legality. The emails show that in 2009 then-Goldman Sachs Managing Director Shea Morenz and Stratfor CEO George Friedman hatched an idea to "utilise the intelligence" it was pulling in from its insider network to start up a captive strategic investment fund. CEO George Friedman explained in a confidential August 2011 document, marked DO NOT SHARE OR DISCUSS: "What StratCap will do is use our Stratfor’s intelligence and analysis to trade in a range of geopolitical instruments, particularly government bonds, currencies and the like". The emails show that in 2011 Goldman Sach’s Morenz invested "substantially" more than $4million and joined Stratfor’s board of directors. Throughout 2011, a complex offshore share structure extending as far as South Africa was erected, designed to make StratCap appear to be legally independent. But, confidentially, Friedman told StratFor staff: "Do not think of StratCap as an outside organisation. It will be integral... It will be useful to you if, for the sake of convenience, you think of it as another aspect of Stratfor and Shea as another executive in Stratfor... we are already working on mock portfolios and trades". StratCap is due to launch in 2012.

The Stratfor emails reveal a company that cultivates close ties with US government agencies and employs former US government staff. It is preparing the 3-year Forecast for the Commandant of the US Marine Corps, and it trains US marines and "other government intelligence agencies" in "becoming government Stratfors". Stratfor’s Vice-President for Intelligence, Fred Burton, was formerly a special agent with the US State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service and was their Deputy Chief of the counterterrorism division. Despite the governmental ties, Stratfor and similar companies operate in complete secrecy with no political oversight or accountability. Stratfor claims that it operates "without ideology, agenda or national bias", yet the emails reveal private intelligence staff who align themselves closely with US government policies and channel tips to the Mossad – including through an information mule in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Yossi Melman, who conspired with Guardian journalist David Leigh to secretly, and in violation of WikiLeaks’ contract with the Guardian, move WikiLeaks US diplomatic cables to Israel.

Ironically, considering the present circumstances, Stratfor was trying to get into what it called the leak-focused "gravy train" that sprung up after WikiLeaks’ Afghanistan disclosures:

"[Is it] possible for us to get some of that ’leak-focused’ gravy train? This is an obvious fear sale, so that’s a good thing. And we have something to offer that the IT security companies don’t, mainly our focus on counter-intelligence and surveillance that Fred and Stick know better than anyone on the planet... Could we develop some ideas and procedures on the idea of ´leak-focused’ network security that focuses on preventing one’s own employees from leaking sensitive information... In fact, I’m not so sure this is an IT problem that requires an IT solution."

Like WikiLeaks’ diplomatic cables, much of the significance of the emails will be revealed over the coming weeks, as our coalition and the public search through them and discover connections. Readers will find that whereas large numbers of Stratfor’s subscribers and clients work in the US military and intelligence agencies, Stratfor gave a complimentary membership to the controversial Pakistan general Hamid Gul, former head of Pakistan’s ISI intelligence service, who, according to US diplomatic cables, planned an IED attack on international forces in Afghanistan in 2006. Readers will discover Stratfor’s internal email classification system that codes correspondence according to categories such as ’alpha’, ’tactical’ and ’secure’. The correspondence also contains code names for people of particular interest such as ’Izzies’ (members of Hezbollah), or ’Adogg’ (Mahmoud Ahmedinejad).

Stratfor did secret deals with dozens of media organisations and journalists – from Reuters to the Kiev Post. The list of Stratfor’s "Confederation Partners", whom Stratfor internally referred to as its "Confed **** House" are included in the release. While it is acceptable for journalists to swap information or be paid by other media organisations, because Stratfor is a private intelligence organisation that services governments and private clients these relationships are corrupt or corrupting.

WikiLeaks has also obtained Stratfor’s list of informants and, in many cases, records of its payoffs, including $1,200 a month paid to the informant "Geronimo" , handled by Stratfor’s Former State Department agent Fred Burton.

WikiLeaks has built an investigative partnership with more than 25 media organisations and activists to inform the public about this huge body of documents. The organisations were provided access to a sophisticated investigative database developed by WikiLeaks and together with WikiLeaks are conducting journalistic evaluations of these emails. Important revelations discovered using this system will appear in the media in the coming weeks, together with the gradual release of the source documents.

END

[TargeT]

so now we have what.. 3 threads on this same topic?

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?41504-Winning-THE-GLOBAL-INTELLIGENCE-FILES

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?41507-Wikileaks-Release-The-Global-Intelligence-Files-Over-5-million-emails-leaked

[Tenzin]

Wikileak seems to be on a timed release schedule, just after we have been seeing massive resignations of CEOs and politician worldwide, and the clones probably are put out to face the heat. :laugh:

[anthony]

http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/5509401_re-insight-for-internal-use-only-on-pain-of-agony-.html

emails filtering through

[Kimberley]

so now we have what.. 3 threads on this same topic?

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?41504-Winning-THE-GLOBAL-INTELLIGENCE-FILES

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?41507-Wikileaks-Release-The-Global-Intelligence-Files-Over-5-million-emails-leaked


Target and all and mods.... I see the problem so I will leave it to the mods to fix... although I feel the thread name "Headline" is important so mods you chose what headline works best for you....
FYI this is a big news story !!!!

Much love to us all

[ghostrider]

and the poo hits the fan.

[Kimberley]

The Global Intelligence Files - List of Releases

http://www.wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html

[Kimberley]

WIKILEAKS: Something 'Extraordinary' Is About To Be Released, And 25 Media Organizations Are Preparing For It!

http://www.ascensionearth2012.blogspot.com/

[ThePythonicCow]

WIKILEAKS: Something 'Extraordinary' Is About To Be Released, And 25 Media Organizations Are Preparing For It!

http://www.ascensionearth2012.blogspot.com/
There are more details on these Stratfor leaks at http://truthaholics.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/wikileaks-begins-publishing-5-million-emails-from-stratfor/

Back when I was a "right wing conservative" (that was after I was a "left wing liberal" :)), Stratfor.com was one of my favorite intelligence sites.

On this page, http://www.stratfor.com/hacking-news/what-happened, Stratfor CEO George Friedman is blaming anonymous hackers for breaking into their servers and stealing email and customer credit card information in December 2011. He is telling us that the Internet is a dangerous place. The drum beat for controlling the Internet from "dangerous anonymous hackers" continues.

[Kimberley]

And the news just keeps on coming in....

http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/montague-keen-2-26-12/

Montague Keen 2-26-12
Posted on February 26, 2012 by kauilapele


Pardon, everyone. I’m feeling too “drained” after a long 24 hour trip to comment. Here’s Monty.

Montague’s Message for Sunday, 26th February 2012

This has been a stressful week for you, trying to deal with ordinary family matters as well as working with Spirit. Juggling the two roles is not easy. We told you to expect the unexpected but even you did not expect the secrets of the Vatican to be revealed by those who know the truth. Nothing can be hidden anymore, those days are over. The masks will fall and you will see things and people as they really are, not as they appeared to be. Those who have almost destroyed your planet will not be able to hold their shape as the energy changes. Life will become extremely difficult for them.

Bankers are running in all directions, trying to establish safe havens for themselves. Like rats, they are leaving the sinking ship. It will be interesting to see how your governments will handle the lies regarding the wars they still hope to start.

We have managed to block so much. We will continue to do so. As people wake up and refuse to cooperate with the excessive demands being made on them as costs rise, the fear of homelessness is spread to distract you from looking clearly at how the banks tricked you into such situations. We will sort out this problem as soon as possible. Please do not give in to the fear and stress as this is what they want. Our plans are being put into action. We will not abandon you. Learn to trust and ask for guidance when you are unsure. We will do our best. Your world is coming to the end of a very dark period in its history. As each of you awakens, a new light is lit. It acts as a beacon, thus creating the energy to bring about the change that is necessary for the darkness to be removed.

Those of the Cabal are seeking safe passage. How they deserve to be dealt with, is up to mankind. There will be no place for their kind in the Light. Love was what was preached by the ancient Druids; this is what they lived by. Your world is returning to this way of life. The Coptic church is the only relic of those days. There is a whole new way of life opening up for you and there is plenty for everyone when the manipulation and corruption ceases.

There are just a few more bridges to cross, then you will begin to enjoy a life such as you could only dream about until now. All illness will be removed. Most illness is man-made to provide money for the drug companies. It is time to accept that all that you had accepted as good for you, is actually the exact opposite. If you are told that it is bad for you, then be assured that it is good for you. It is all part of their evil plan to control and remove you. But all their plans to reduce the population will fail; these are decisions that cannot be made by them. There is plenty of room for all men to live in harmony.

Everything is coming together nicely. All I ask is that you trust, and refuse to believe their lies. Demand proof or evidence, whenever necessary. Show you are in control. Be not afraid ! It is time to stand up for your rights.

We ask of people only what we believe they can cope with. Everything you are asked to do now, you freely agreed to, before your birth. You each have a mission to fulfil. See it as a labour of love. Listen only to the good people who are speaking out.

You are tired, my dear. Having family to stay is hard work. It is now time to take a well earned rest. We will continue our work later. I will take my leave of you now so that you can rest. I am your adoring husband, Monty.
[Note: Montague Keen's earlier messages may be accessed at http://www.montaguekeen.com/page3.html]

[Kimberley]

Thank you Paul for your info... all I can say/type is WOWOWOWWWOWOWOW this is so interesting and fun to watch play out !!!!

Whoooo Hoooo!!
Much love!!! >3

[jackovesk]

Stratfor’s use of insiders for intelligence soon turned into a money-making scheme of questionable legality. The emails show that in 2009 then-Goldman Sachs Managing Director Shea Morenz and Stratfor CEO George Friedman hatched an idea to "utilise the intelligence" it was pulling in from its insider network to start up a captive strategic investment fund. CEO George Friedman explained in a confidential August 2011 document, marked DO NOT SHARE OR DISCUSS: "What StratCap will do is use our Stratfor’s intelligence and analysis to trade in a range of geopolitical instruments, particularly government bonds, currencies and the like". The emails show that in 2011 Goldman Sach’s Morenz invested "substantially" more than $4million and joined Stratfor’s board of directors. Throughout 2011, a complex offshore share structure extending as far as South Africa was erected, designed to make StratCap appear to be legally independent. But, confidentially, Friedman told StratFor staff: "Do not think of StratCap as an outside organisation. It will be integral... It will be useful to you if, for the sake of convenience, you think of it as another aspect of Stratfor and Shea as another executive in Stratfor... we are already working on mock portfolios and trades". StratCap is due to launch in 2012.

Sooner or Later Goldman Sach’s Sooner or Later, your Going Down..! :lever:

[ThePythonicCow]

so now we have what.. 3 threads on this same topic?
Thanks for noticing :).

I merged the three threads, and named the result "Wikileaks Release: Over 5 million Stratfor.com emails leaked"

[Kimberley]

And here is more...WOWOWOWO!!!!

ItreEs03A2k

[jackovesk]

Great new info, but doesn't this belong in the Wikileaks Updates Section..?

Just saying...:)

:behindsofa:

[ThePythonicCow]

Great new info, but doesn't this belong in the Wikileaks Updates Section..?
Right you are - I had no idea we had such a section :).

One thread move coming up.

[humanalien]

This is probably why all those CEO's/Bankers are jumping ship, not because
of little green men flying around in ufo's....

[ThePythonicCow]

From http://www.zerohedge.com/news/leaked-email-shows-stratfor-ceo-george-friedman-resigned-two-hours-ago-over-latest-breach

Leaked Email Shows Stratfor CEO George Friedman Resigned Two Hours Ago Over Latest Breach

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/26/2012 21:04 -0500

It is only somewhat appropriate that the announcement of the resignation of Stratfor's CEO would come in the form of a leaked email that once again was intercepted by Anonymous.

Via Anonymous:

From: george.friedman@stratfor.com

To: fred.burton@stratfor.com

Subject: Draft

Date: 2012-02-26 19:02:07

It is with great personal disappointment I have to inform you that I will resign from my position as CEO for Stratfor to immediate effect.

Please rest assured that this decision was not an easy. But in the light of the recent events, especially the release of our company emails by WikiLeaks, I have decided that stepping down is in the best interest of Stratfor and its customer base.
Beware: the above "announcement" could be a fake! ZeroHedge might have been mislead. -Paul.

[Kimberley]

Great new info, but doesn't this belong in the Wikileaks Updates Section..?

Just saying...:)

:behindsofa:

However that thread has been dormant for a while now..isn't this new news that deserves its own thread in the news and update place?

[ThePythonicCow]

Great new info, but doesn't this belong in the Wikileaks Updates Section..?


However that thread has been dormant for a while now..isn't this new news that deserves its own thread in the news and update place?
I left temporary links behind in the more popular sub-forums, so people can find this thread various ways for now.

[sandy]

WOOOO HOOOOO!!!!

The SHTF for the right people :) :)

[Solstyse]

So, hands up anyone who is actually reading the e-mails, and not just reading what others tell them about em!
*raises hand

[Calz]

So, hands up anyone who is actually reading the e-mails, and not just reading what others tell them about em!
*raises hand


I verified what sounded the most interesting (posted by Kimberley) at the source suggested (without a link):



According to business insider.com, which is proving itself to be a very reliable source of information for our changing times, is reporting that Wiki leaks has reported that a mystery press conference will be held on Monday, February 27th, 2012, at 12 Noon at the Frontline Club in Paddington, London, England. According to Wiki leaks, over 25 media organizations have been working in silence for months in preparation for tomorrow's press conference. Wiki leaks suggests that everyone interested should follow the Wiki leaks twitter feed closely as extraordinary news should break sometime in the next 96 hours.


... can be found here:


http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-something-extraordinary-is-about-to-be-released-and-25-media-organizations-are-preparing-for-it-2012-2

[modwiz]

And here is more...WOWOWOWO!!!!

ItreEs03A2k

This little speech reminded me of watching 'W' back when he was telling us about terrorists. Minus the Connecticut Yankee Texas twang. This CEO even made sure he wasn't wearing a tie to look like just another guy.

That was a creepy 5+ minutes. I need to shower now.

¤=[Post Update]=¤


From http://www.zerohedge.com/news/leaked-email-shows-stratfor-ceo-george-friedman-resigned-two-hours-ago-over-latest-breach

Leaked Email Shows Stratfor CEO George Friedman Resigned Two Hours Ago Over Latest Breach

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/26/2012 21:04 -0500

It is only somewhat appropriate that the announcement of the resignation of Stratfor's CEO would come in the form of a leaked email that once again was intercepted by Anonymous.

Via Anonymous:

From: george.friedman@stratfor.com

To: fred.burton@stratfor.com

Subject: Draft

Date: 2012-02-26 19:02:07

It is with great personal disappointment I have to inform you that I will resign from my position as CEO for Stratfor to immediate effect.

Please rest assured that this decision was not an easy. But in the light of the recent events, especially the release of our company emails by WikiLeaks, I have decided that stepping down is in the best interest of Stratfor and its customer base.
Beware: the above "announcement" could be a fake! ZeroHedge might have been mislead. -Paul.

It will be interesting when we find out, but it feels right that this rodent feels he needs to tend to personal business. He mentioned the 'perp walk' in one of those emails, so I am sure it is very much on his mind.

[Solstyse]

Stratfor responds.

In December, thieves compromised Stratfor's data systems and stole a large number of company emails, along with other private information of Stratfor readers, subscribers and employees. Those stolen emails apparently will be published by Wikileaks. This is a deplorable, unfortunate — and illegal — breach of privacy.

Some of the emails may be forged or altered to include inaccuracies; some may be authentic. We will not validate either. Nor will we explain the thinking that went into them. Having had our property stolen, we will not be victimized twice by submitting to questioning about them.

For subscribers and friends of Stratfor, we stress that the disclosure of these emails does not mean that there has been another hack of Stratfor's computer and data systems. Stratfor's data systems, which we have worked hard to rebuild since the December hack, remain secure and protected.

As with last year's hack, the release of these emails is a direct attack on Stratfor. This is another attempt to silence and intimidate the company, and one we reject. Under the continued leadership of founder and Chief Executive Officer George Friedman, Stratfor will not be silenced and will continue to publish the geopolitical analysis our friends and subscribers have come to rely upon.

As we have said before, Stratfor has worked to build good sources in many countries around the world, as any publisher of global geopolitical analysis would do. We have done so in a straightforward manner and we are committed to meeting the highest standards of professional conduct.



They need to release more this stuff is amazing!

We should all thank Anonymous.

We are legion.

[Solstyse]

Goldman Sachs going down next. WOOOOOO

Goldman Sachs used Stratfor for insider trading

[Solstyse]

http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/185945_re-alpha-s3-g3-israel-iran-barak-hails-munitions-blast-in.html

email dated Nov 7. 2011 #gifiles: "The Israelis already destroyed all the Iranian nuclear infrastructure on the ground weeks ago. The current "let's bomb Iran" campaign was ordered by the EU leaders to divert the public attention from their at home financial problems. It plays also well for the US since Pakistan, Russia and N. Korea are mentioned in the report. The result of this campaign will be massive attacks on Gaza and strikes on Hezbollah in both Lebanon and Syria

...........
I got shivers, I don't want to read anymore.

[white wizard]

What really interests me is how so many sources are saying the same thing that these

global elite criminals are going down and being exposed for what they did. I've heard it

from people from the GFL to David Wilcock to know Wiki coming out with this. I think its

either one of the biggest psyops I've ever seen or something big is really going on behind

the scenes. Time will tell i guess. :wizard:

[Calz]

http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/185945_re-alpha-s3-g3-israel-iran-barak-hails-munitions-blast-in.html

email dated Nov 7. 2011 #gifiles: "The Israelis already destroyed all the Iranian nuclear infrastructure on the ground weeks ago. The current "let's bomb Iran" campaign was ordered by the EU leaders to divert the public attention from their at home financial problems. It plays also well for the US since Pakistan, Russia and N. Korea are mentioned in the report. The result of this campaign will be massive attacks on Gaza and strikes on Hezbollah in both Lebanon and Syria

...........
I got shivers, I don't want to read anymore.

Have a hard time with that one.

UN nuclear inspectors would have to be in on "it" as well ... not that anything about the UN is all that integrity instilling ...



Iran has expanded sensitive nuclear work: U.N. agency
By Fredrik Dahl | Reuters – Fri, Feb 24, 2012..

http://news.yahoo.com/iran-expanded-sensitive-nuclear-u-n-agency-000007915.html

[Solstyse]

jAaCZWQndqA

¤=[Post Update]=¤



http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/185945_re-alpha-s3-g3-israel-iran-barak-hails-munitions-blast-in.html

email dated Nov 7. 2011 #gifiles: "The Israelis already destroyed all the Iranian nuclear infrastructure on the ground weeks ago. The current "let's bomb Iran" campaign was ordered by the EU leaders to divert the public attention from their at home financial problems. It plays also well for the US since Pakistan, Russia and N. Korea are mentioned in the report. The result of this campaign will be massive attacks on Gaza and strikes on Hezbollah in both Lebanon and Syria

...........
I got shivers, I don't want to read anymore.

Have a hard time with that one.

UN nuclear inspectors would have to be in on "it" as well ... not that anything about the UN is all that integrity instilling ...



Iran has expanded sensitive nuclear work: U.N. agency
By Fredrik Dahl | Reuters – Fri, Feb 24, 2012..

http://news.yahoo.com/iran-expanded-sensitive-nuclear-u-n-agency-000007915.html

You can have a hard time all you like. You linked yahoo. I gave you a personal e-mails. :)

[humanalien]

Is this all of the wiki leaks or is there more to come?

[Solstyse]

Much Much more too come!

Watch.

jAaCZWQndqA

[Calz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAaCZWQndqA&feature=youtu.be

if I knew how to embed it I would. Watch it.

¤=[Post Update]=¤



http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/185945_re-alpha-s3-g3-israel-iran-barak-hails-munitions-blast-in.html

email dated Nov 7. 2011 #gifiles: "The Israelis already destroyed all the Iranian nuclear infrastructure on the ground weeks ago. The current "let's bomb Iran" campaign was ordered by the EU leaders to divert the public attention from their at home financial problems. It plays also well for the US since Pakistan, Russia and N. Korea are mentioned in the report. The result of this campaign will be massive attacks on Gaza and strikes on Hezbollah in both Lebanon and Syria

...........
I got shivers, I don't want to read anymore.

Have a hard time with that one.

UN nuclear inspectors would have to be in on "it" as well ... not that anything about the UN is all that integrity instilling ...



Iran has expanded sensitive nuclear work: U.N. agency
By Fredrik Dahl | Reuters – Fri, Feb 24, 2012..

http://news.yahoo.com/iran-expanded-sensitive-nuclear-u-n-agency-000007915.html

You can have a hard time all you like. You linked yahoo. I gave you a personal e-mails. :)

I cannot watch any video right now behind a firewall but will watch it later.

I have a "hard time" with it simply because *to me* is seems rather hard to believe. In no way am I questioning you or your personal source.

Does it not stand to reason that if that was true Iran would be doing hand stands to get worldwide attention on the subject? Sure the west can block most all mainstream media but certainly there would have been other sources (not least of which many viral youtubes).

IMHO :yo:

[Solstyse]

Talking about said U.N Inspectors from above.


the problem of analysts in the field is that they tend to want to
discuss the topic, which raises the targets awareness, rather than focus
on establishing the control relationship
So from a professional point of view this target knows your affiliation,
understands your interests and you have not established any control
which is defined as a high confidence in his obedience.

So washington is filled with gossip with people whose access is not
established.

Just laying this out so you understand the core challenge. To be
effective your goal is the person and not the subject. Otherwise its
gossip which is information that you cannot definitively confirm.


http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/201031_.html

[Cjay]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAaCZWQndqA&feature=youtu.be

if I knew how to embed it I would. Watch it.[COLOR="red"]

Here it is:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAaCZWQndqA

Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAaCZWQndqA

[Solstyse]

I cannot watch any video right now behind a firewall but will watch it later.

I have a "hard time" with it simply because *to me* is seems rather hard to believe. In no way am I questioning you or your personal source.

Does it not stand to reason that if that was true Iran would be doing hand stands to get worldwide attention on the subject? Sure the west can block most all mainstream media but certainly there would have been other sources (not least of which many viral youtubes).

IMHO

And it is a very valid opinion too. There is no " me " or " my source " Just reading the e-mails. Keeping up on it.

http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23GIFiles

http://twitter.com/#!/YourAnonNews

http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html

I know twitter is silly, but it is the most up to the minutes stuff by the people who are making it happen right now.

:cool:

Thank you Cjay

[ThePythonicCow]

"The Yes Men" (theyesmen.org) website was down earlier tonight, but it's back up, with this interesting article on this Wikileaks Stratfor leak: http://theyesmen.org/stratfor

Here's a sample:
The emails, which reveal everything from sinister spy tactics to an insider trading scheme with Goldman Sachs (see below), also include several discussions of the Yes Men and Bhopal activists. (Bhopal activists seek redress for the 1984 Dow Chemical/Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India, that led to thousands of deaths, injuries in more than half a million people, and lasting environmental damage.)

Many of the Bhopal-related emails, addressed from Stratfor to Dow and Union Carbide public relations directors, reveal concern that, in the lead-up to the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, the Bhopal issue might be expanded into an effective systemic critique of corporate rule, and speculate at length about why this hasn't yet happened—providing a fascinating window onto what at least some corporate types fear most from activists.

"[Bhopal activists] have made a slight nod toward expanded activity, but never followed through on it—the idea of 'other Bhopals' that were the fault of Dow or others," mused Joseph de Feo, who is listed in one online source as a "Briefer" for Stratfor.

[Solstyse]

turkey isn't only using Iran as the cause for the break. look at turkey's public outrage over the Israeli offensive in Gaza

The black Dems were caught stuffing the ballot boxes in Philly and Ohio as reported the night of the election

I am not sure if a lot of what I am reading is fact, or opinions.

[Solstyse]

from a Reva-Peter conversation
that snowballed into a new
Stratfor-Kremlin model... please
add to the list
Keep this to the list of emails
above for now pls
New Additions:
Marko is Kadyrov (scary, but
thinks his race should rule)
Matt is Kiriyenko or Naryushkin
(brilliant, but doesn't try to
take others down with it)
Nate is Serdyukov (understands
that military isn't just about
saying you have weapons)
Meredith is Lavrov (diplomatic,
knows everything, can be
aggressive at the best moments)
Fred is Patryushev (intelligence
& connected)
Laura is Rogozin (ambassador to
Europe, but always says what not
suppose to)
Already assigned:
George is Putin (kingmaker and
pushes decisions through no
matter what... both short & with
a complex)
Peter is Medvedev (more
pragmatic decisionmaker... but
still kinda dorky)
Jeff is Kudrin (brains and
money... who knew a checkbook
could be balanced)
Lauren is Surkov (wants to know
everything, can skin a person in
under 3 minuets, but doesn't
want to be top dog)
Stick is Sechin (has his fingers
in the shadier stuff)
Reva is Ivanov (one of the
decision-makers, willing to
stand up to Putin)

This is just awesome.

[Solstyse]

http://wlcentral.org/node/2475

I should be sleeping.

[Wind]

White hats = Wikileaks? I wonder if this has something to do with the things that David Wilcock has talked about with Ben Fulford.

[Solstyse]

From an E-mail Titled :NSIGHT - CZECH REPUBLIC - BMD, US, Russia, military & more.
Dated : 9/2/11


yea, the CzRs are nervous about someone like McFaul messing it up.
btw, he was at the dinner I went to last night... the Uzbeks were falling
all over themselves to speak with him.
On 9/2/11 2:01 PM, Eugene Chausovsky wrote:

This is fascinating stuff. You can how much the C. Europeans want the
Intermarium to materialize, all with the explicit backing of the US.

The question is how willing with the US be to go along with this F-16
plan...

And that is just the first pharagraph

Read more at
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/117802_re-alpha-insight-czech-republic-bmd-us-russia-military-and.html

Like such gems as

Yes, NATO has lost its focus with the wars, but BMD and such can unite
and refocus NATO once again.

[Solstyse]

White hats = Wikileaks? I wonder if this has something to do with the things that David Wilcock has talked about with Ben Fulford.

It is funny you say white hats, because Anonymous wears a white mask.
Other than that no idea. Did Wilcok or Fulford hack the e-mails? Or did they say Anon was going to in advance?
that's cool!

[Solstyse]

So the plan that CzR is now presenting is for 5 or 6 Central European
countries to go in together and do a mass order of the F-16s in
exchange for a discount by the US. It would be Romania, Slovakia,
Hungary, Bulgaria and maybe more for Poland - for 85 or so F-16s. It
would be interesting because then all of them could train together in
one country and then set up a repair factory in another country. The
countries would be tied together - and tied to the US. The US would
need to have military on the ground to train the CEs. This is the best
sort of security alliance between US and CEs.


Reading on down the line.

McFaul



On McFaul: everyone in CE hates dealing with him. He is deluded. He
believes that Russia can actually be pulled into being an ally with
the US. McFaul wants to use Regan's gameplan. He constantly quotes
Regan. On a sidenote, in McFaul's office there is a large (really
large, like4x3) photo blown up above his desk of McFaul, Obama,
Medvedev and Putin all sitting around the lunchtable smiling. However,
the way I heard it was that McFaul was scared to death of Putin and
stuttered the entire time.



If CzR can't get bmd or the F16 deal, then it is done with any
non-Eurasian commitments to NATO. Period. If CzR can get bmd or the
F16s, then it will pretty much agree to any sort of military
commitment the US wants anywhere in the world. That is the ultimatum

[Lettherebelight]

So, hands up anyone who is actually reading the e-mails, and not just reading what others tell them about em!
*raises hand
Me too!

What if they are counting on most people not being able/wanting to read/understand five million emails. And if we do...what are we gonna do about it?

Is this part of the big 'Reveal'?

But I would like to believe it could all really be coming down....is it?

[Solstyse]

So, hands up anyone who is actually reading the e-mails, and not just reading what others tell them about em!
*raises hand
Me too!

What if they are counting on most people not being able/wanting to read/understand five million emails. And if we do...what are we gonna do about it?

Is this part of the big 'Reveal'?

But I would like to believe it could all really be coming down....is it?

We will have to wait and see. Will there be court cases? World leaders resigning? Cause just a couple of CEO's of some major businesses, stepping down, isn't really going to affect anything all that much.

Anon said another big announcement in a few hours......

[Lettherebelight]

Just look...

Breaking news...'A foiled attempt on Vladimer Putin's life!'

Sounds like a desperate attempt to turn the cameras away from this one....the Oscars just wasn't cutting it?..

False lag?

[Referee]

My heart is beating fast. could this really make a difference I hope so.

I was just at an event and again realized how many people can not see nor wil even look at the problems we all face. I was also made fun of for my opinions. For some it could be a real Shock.

[ViralSpiral]

And here is more...WOWOWOWO!!!!

ItreEs03A2k



UGH!!!

"The internet has become indispensable. but it also enable anonymity and undermines accountability. The technology, powers of people whose identity we don't know whose motives we don't understand and whose ability to cause harm is substantial. Its a new censorship that doesn't come openly from governments but from people hiding from behind masks......"

Even if the resignation proves to be a hoax, his mask is down.... and where there's smoke ya know....
He should take his bundle to Venezuela quietly and gtfo. That place is going to be real crowded, real soon



And from this (http://reason.com/blog/2012/02/26/wikileaks-strikes-again-dumps-hacked-ema)article: Meanwhile, The Atlantic's international editor Max Fisher tweets, "STRATFOR is a joke and so is wikileaks."



To tweet to rue?



http://cdn.techpp.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/twitter-cartoon-03.jpg

[witchy1]

Riveting stuff........however I have this very loud nagging voice in my head....... Problem - reaction - solution - or nothing happens that is not allowed to happen. Is the government about to push thru a nasty bill while attention is diverted?????

Just being the devils advocate - Be alert!

[Rollo]

11/7/11 Chris Farnham states in an email: “Ah, what? Israel has already destroyed the Iranian prog/infra and this is all being engineered by Europeans so people forget about the economy crisis?! Why is that we see the vast majority of the increase in pressure coming from Israel (I mean straight from people’s mouths) and from the US (Such as Albright in the WaPo)? Would anyone actually accept that this could let the Europeans forget about the Euro crisis, something they have been experiencing every day for over a year?!

This part is important to me as I live in Europe to better understand what's going on.
Thank you Anonymous, WikiLeaks!

[modwiz]

http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/185945_re-alpha-s3-g3-israel-iran-barak-hails-munitions-blast-in.html

email dated Nov 7. 2011 #gifiles: "The Israelis already destroyed all the Iranian nuclear infrastructure on the ground weeks ago. The current "let's bomb Iran" campaign was ordered by the EU leaders to divert the public attention from their at home financial problems. It plays also well for the US since Pakistan, Russia and N. Korea are mentioned in the report. The result of this campaign will be massive attacks on Gaza and strikes on Hezbollah in both Lebanon and Syria

...........
I got shivers, I don't want to read anymore.

It looks like continue reading would have shed a very different light on this little nugget you posted here.

The emails run from the bottom of the page up, in chronological order. Right after the email you posted was these two, form the same person, questioning, ( Like Calz the Yahoo poster:p) the veracity of such claims about infrastructure being destroyed:From: "Chris Farnham"

To: "Alpha List"
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 7:22:52 PM
Subject: Re: [alpha] S3/G3* ISRAEL/IRAN - Barak hails munitions
blast in Iran

I think the info that Fred sent in previously needs to be looked
quite seriously here.

The insight seems like quite a stretch however it has been put
out there for some reason or another and is now playing in to
what we are seeing.

Insight below:

Source below was asked to clarify his remarks that the nuclear
infrastructure had been destroyed. Source response:

Israeli commandos in collaboration with Kurd forces destroyed
few underground facilities mainly used for the Iranian defense
and nuclear research projects.

Despite the reports in the media and against any public
knowledge, the promoter of a massive Israeli attack on Syria is
the axis India-Russia-Turkey-Saudi Arabia. The axis
US-Germany-France-China is against such an attack from obvious
reasons. Not many people know that Russia is one of Israel's
largest military partners and India is Israel's largest client.

If a direct conflict between Iran and Israel erupts, Russia and
Saudi Arabia will gain the advantages on oil increasing prices.
On the other hand, China and Europe are expected to loose from
an oil crisis as a result of a conflict. Based on Israeli plans,
the attack on Iran will last only 48 hours but will be so
destructive that Iran will be unable to retaliate or recover and
the government will fall. It is hard to believe that Hamas or
Hezbollah will try to get involved in this conflict.

In the open media many are pushing and expecting Israel to
launch a massive attack on Iran. Even if the Israelis have the
capabilities and are ready to attack by air, sea and land, there
is no need to attack the nuclear program at this point after the
commandos destroyed a significant part of it.

If a massive attack on Iran happens soon, then the attack will
have political and oil reasons and not nuclear. It is also very
hard to believe that the Israelis will initiate an attack unless
they act as a contractor for other nations or if Iran or its
proxies attack first. With the revealed of the new UN report the
Israelis have green light to take care of the Iranian proxies in
Gaza and Lebanon now with the entire world watching Iran. I
think that we should expect escalations on these fronts rather
than an Israeli attack on Iran.

On 11/7/11 8:09 AM, Chris Farnham wrote: Ah, what? Israel has
already destroyed the Iranian prog/infra and this is all being
engineered by Europeans so people forget about the economy
crisis?!

How and when did the Israelis destroy the infra on the ground?

Why is that we see the vast majority of the increase in pressure
coming from Israel (I mean straight from people's mouths) and
from the US (Such as Albright in the WaPo)?
Another one questioning the destruction of Iranian nuclear infrastucure by Israeli's "weeks ago" BTW. I am with these guys and Calz concerning this whole scenario:

From: "Kamran Bokhari"
To: "Alpha List"
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 6:39:07 AM
Subject: Re: [alpha] S3/G3* ISRAEL/IRAN - Barak hails munitions
blast in Iran

How did Israeli commandos get to operate deep inside Iran
without being detected?
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

I am reading the emails as well (Holds hand up). They reveal an elite mindset. A mindset that will be their downfall, if the word will is still the appropriate verb tense here.

[Solstyse]

EVEN WITH ALL THE BEST SECURITY PRACTICES LEARNED FROM THE "RENOWNED WHITE
// HAT HACKERS" WE STILL MANAGED TO STEAL ALL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. UMAD?


From Anon himself, more white hat talk?

[modwiz]

from a Reva-Peter conversation
that snowballed into a new
Stratfor-Kremlin model... please
add to the list
Keep this to the list of emails
above for now pls
New Additions:
Marko is Kadyrov (scary, but
thinks his race should rule)
Matt is Kiriyenko or Naryushkin
(brilliant, but doesn't try to
take others down with it)
Nate is Serdyukov (understands
that military isn't just about
saying you have weapons)
Meredith is Lavrov (diplomatic,
knows everything, can be
aggressive at the best moments)
Fred is Patryushev (intelligence
& connected)
Laura is Rogozin (ambassador to
Europe, but always says what not
suppose to)
Already assigned:
George is Putin (kingmaker and
pushes decisions through no
matter what... both short & with
a complex)
Peter is Medvedev (more
pragmatic decisionmaker... but
still kinda dorky)
Jeff is Kudrin (brains and
money... who knew a checkbook
could be balanced)
Lauren is Surkov (wants to know
everything, can skin a person in
under 3 minuets, but doesn't
want to be top dog)
Stick is Sechin (has his fingers
in the shadier stuff)
Reva is Ivanov (one of the
decision-makers, willing to
stand up to Putin)

This is just awesome.

No link here. Are these code names for people? In some cases, (the first one) it is almost like they are 'races' of beings.

[Solstyse]

My comp is messing up.
I totally misquoted this point.
Reading comprehension is paramount.

Sorry Modwiz.

So I edited it.

[Solstyse]

from a Reva-Peter conversation
that snowballed into a new
Stratfor-Kremlin model... please
add to the list
Keep this to the list of emails
above for now pls
New Additions:
Marko is Kadyrov (scary, but
thinks his race should rule)
Matt is Kiriyenko or Naryushkin
(brilliant, but doesn't try to
take others down with it)
Nate is Serdyukov (understands
that military isn't just about
saying you have weapons)
Meredith is Lavrov (diplomatic,
knows everything, can be
aggressive at the best moments)
Fred is Patryushev (intelligence
& connected)
Laura is Rogozin (ambassador to
Europe, but always says what not
suppose to)
Already assigned:
George is Putin (kingmaker and
pushes decisions through no
matter what... both short & with
a complex)
Peter is Medvedev (more
pragmatic decisionmaker... but
still kinda dorky)
Jeff is Kudrin (brains and
money... who knew a checkbook
could be balanced)
Lauren is Surkov (wants to know
everything, can skin a person in
under 3 minuets, but doesn't
want to be top dog)
Stick is Sechin (has his fingers
in the shadier stuff)
Reva is Ivanov (one of the
decision-makers, willing to
stand up to Putin)

This is just awesome.

No link here. Are these code names for people? In some cases, (the first one) it is almost like they are 'races' of beings.

There is but I am having a hell of a time finding it right now. If I can't tonight I will get it for you tomorrow for sure.

[modwiz]

And here is more...WOWOWOWO!!!!

ItreEs03A2k



UGH!!!

"The internet has become indispensable. but it also enable anonymity and undermines accountability. The technology, powers of people whose identity we don't know whose motives we don't understand and whose ability to cause harm is substantial. Its a new censorship that doesn't come openly from governments but from people hiding from behind masks......"

Even if the resignation proves to be a hoax, his mask is down.... and where there's smoke ya know....
He should take his bundle to Venezuela quietly and gtfo. That place is going to be real crowded, real soon


Here is an email from Friedman. It informs us that he is a master of 'working it'. His video, sans tie, was him trying to 'work' us.

Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 5, 2011, at 9:43 PM, "George Friedman"
wrote:

It does check out with what I heard in caracas but that increases the
chance its gossip.

If this is a source you suspect may have value, you have to take control
od him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control to the
point where he would reveal his sourcing and be tasked. This is
difficult to do when you are known to be affiliated with an intelligence
organization. The decision on approach would not come from you but from
your handler. This is because you're position is too close to the source
and your judgment by definition suspect. Each meeting would be planned
between you and your handler and each meeting would have a specific goal
not built around discussing the topic of interest which would ideally be
hidden but in analyzing him personally and moving toward control.
The justification for the op would be specific classes of information
and on gaining control the first step would be determining his access.
If he failed the test contact would be terminated.

the problem of analysts in the field is that they tend to want to
discuss the topic, which raises the targets awareness, rather than focus
on establishing the control relationship.

So from a professional point of view this target knows your affiliation,
understands your interests and you have not established any control
which is defined as a high confidence in his obedience.

So washington is filled with gossip with people whose access is not
established.

Just laying this out so you understand the core challenge. To be
effective your goal is the person and not the subject. Otherwise its
gossip which is information that you cannot definitively confirm.

This is intended to start our conversation on your next phase.
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

[ViralSpiral]

"It said it would not be cowed under the leadership of George Friedman, Stratfor's founder and chief executive officer. It said Friedman had not resigned as CEO, contrary to a bogus email circulating on the Internet.

Some of the emails being published "may be forged or altered to include inaccuracies; some may be authentic," the company statement said."


Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/27/wikileaks-stratfor-idUSL5E8DR01320120227) article


Discernment, as always

[witchy1]

here is the insurance file.........dont understand torrents otherwise would do something a little more spectactular with it....... sorry. If anyone is interested (linked in from the wl site)

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6049629/Wikielaks.Insurance.File-ANONYMOUS

[Eric J (Viking)]

Phew...geenie ...surely this should hit the mainstream soon ...

This one looks interesting....

"According to business insider.com, which is proving itself to be a very reliable source of information for our changing times, is reporting that Wiki leaks has reported that a mystery press conference will be held on Monday, February 27th, 2012, at 12 Noon at the Frontline Club in Paddington, London, England. According to Wiki leaks, over 25 media organizations have been working in silence for months in preparation for tomorrow's press conference. Wiki leaks suggests that everyone interested should follow the Wiki leaks twitter feed closely as extraordinary news should break sometime in the next 96 hours."

viking

[modwiz]

This little nugget was at the end of an email correspondence:

"these were the main points. will update with more..little fuzzy from
wine right now."

The enemy of mankind at work. Alcohol. Glad to see to it such use amongst the minions to kill the pain if of selling their souls. It helps to balance out all of the losers on our side who drink and drug too much.

[Solstyse]

So do you think it is ok too call out of work, because the world is changing?

[modwiz]

Going to work is a matter of personal integrity. I work with a few places and I tell them if I do not show up for work check emergencies rooms or obituaries.

I'm hard core like that. Me and a handful of other people. LOL

[Eric J (Viking)]

Phew...geenie ...surely this should hit the mainstream soon ...

This one looks interesting....

"According to business insider.com, which is proving itself to be a very reliable source of information for our changing times, is reporting that Wiki leaks has reported that a mystery press conference will be held on Monday, February 27th, 2012, at 12 Noon at the Frontline Club in Paddington, London, England. According to Wiki leaks, over 25 media organizations have been working in silence for months in preparation for tomorrow's press conference. Wiki leaks suggests that everyone interested should follow the Wiki leaks twitter feed closely as extraordinary news should break sometime in the next 96 hours."

viking

Update here ...
press conference will be streamed live from 12 noon

http://inagist.com/frontlineclub/174071971854823424/

http://www.ustream.tv/frontlineclub

~~~~~~~~

viking

[ViralSpiral]

If this has been posted elsewhere (and I may have missed it), please move along

Unesco held a conference 16/17 Feb:- The Media World after Wikileaks and News of the World (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/new_journalism_in_a_digital_world/).
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denounced the conference: ’UNESCO has made itself an international human rights joke. To use "freedom of expression" to censor WikiLeaks from a conference about WikiLeaks is an Orwellian absurdity beyond words. This is an intolerable abuse of UNESCO’s Constitution. It’s time to occupy UNESCO.’



Source (http://wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-denounces-UNESCO-after.html)

AnyhÖÖt, just strolling along, eagerly awaiting the "mystery" press conference in London :)

[Calz]

Phew...geenie ...surely this should hit the mainstream soon ...

This one looks interesting....

"According to business insider.com, which is proving itself to be a very reliable source of information for our changing times, is reporting that Wiki leaks has reported that a mystery press conference will be held on Monday, February 27th, 2012, at 12 Noon at the Frontline Club in Paddington, London, England. According to Wiki leaks, over 25 media organizations have been working in silence for months in preparation for tomorrow's press conference. Wiki leaks suggests that everyone interested should follow the Wiki leaks twitter feed closely as extraordinary news should break sometime in the next 96 hours."

viking

Update here ...
press conference will be streamed live from 12 noon

http://inagist.com/frontlineclub/174071971854823424/

http://www.ustream.tv/frontlineclub

~~~~~~~~

viking

That was the post that got my attention as well ... interesting to see what comes of it.

Sure hope it isn't just hype.

Thanks for the update viking :nod:

[Solstyse]

Anon said he has a big announcement coming at the same time.
after 5 million e-mails.
And now they want a big press conference to announce something, I am exited.

[witchy1]

Here is the confederation spreadsheet - who they have contracts with names business etc

14197http://projectavalon.net/forum4/images/attach/zip.gif (hope this works)

[oddy]

:cheer2:Wikileaks

[modwiz]

Phew...geenie ...surely this should hit the mainstream soon ...

This one looks interesting....

"According to business insider.com, which is proving itself to be a very reliable source of information for our changing times, is reporting that Wiki leaks has reported that a mystery press conference will be held on Monday, February 27th, 2012, at 12 Noon at the Frontline Club in Paddington, London, England. According to Wiki leaks, over 25 media organizations have been working in silence for months in preparation for tomorrow's press conference. Wiki leaks suggests that everyone interested should follow the Wiki leaks twitter feed closely as extraordinary news should break sometime in the next 96 hours."

viking

Update here ...
press conference will be streamed live from 12 noon

http://inagist.com/frontlineclub/174071971854823424/

http://www.ustream.tv/frontlineclub

~~~~~~~~

viking

Well, wherever you are, Noon in London is now a little more than an hour away. My post time will help orient one.

[Eric J (Viking)]

Phew...geenie ...surely this should hit the mainstream soon ...

This one looks interesting....

"According to business insider.com, which is proving itself to be a very reliable source of information for our changing times, is reporting that Wiki leaks has reported that a mystery press conference will be held on Monday, February 27th, 2012, at 12 Noon at the Frontline Club in Paddington, London, England. According to Wiki leaks, over 25 media organizations have been working in silence for months in preparation for tomorrow's press conference. Wiki leaks suggests that everyone interested should follow the Wiki leaks twitter feed closely as extraordinary news should break sometime in the next 96 hours."

viking

Update here ...
press conference will be streamed live from 12 noon

http://inagist.com/frontlineclub/174071971854823424/

http://www.ustream.tv/frontlineclub

~~~~~~~~

viking

Well, wherever you are, Noon in London is now a little more than an hour away. My post time will help orient one.

Yep Modwiz...before you settle down...some more here with this guy here...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZvQmLjwjTQ&feature=youtu.be

viking

[EYES WIDE OPEN]

Im in London.

[EYES WIDE OPEN]

nevermind.

[Wind]

Yep Modwiz...before you settle down...some more here with this guy here...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZvQmLjwjTQ&feature=youtu.be

viking

Ron Van Dyke is a great guy, I have listened him almost daily for half of an year now. Do listen to him!

[Solstyse]

nevermind.

Your not in London anymore?

¤=[Post Update]=¤





Phew...geenie ...surely this should hit the mainstream soon ...

This one looks interesting....

"According to business insider.com, which is proving itself to be a very reliable source of information for our changing times, is reporting that Wiki leaks has reported that a mystery press conference will be held on Monday, February 27th, 2012, at 12 Noon at the Frontline Club in Paddington, London, England. According to Wiki leaks, over 25 media organizations have been working in silence for months in preparation for tomorrow's press conference. Wiki leaks suggests that everyone interested should follow the Wiki leaks twitter feed closely as extraordinary news should break sometime in the next 96 hours."

viking

Update here ...
press conference will be streamed live from 12 noon

http://inagist.com/frontlineclub/174071971854823424/

http://www.ustream.tv/frontlineclub

~~~~~~~~

viking

Well, wherever you are, Noon in London is now a little more than an hour away. My post time will help orient one.

Yep Modwiz...before you settle down...some more here with this guy here...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZvQmLjwjTQ&feature=youtu.be

viking

no need for such a video on this thread.

[EYES WIDE OPEN]

Is anyone else watching the live stream. It seems to be playing a recording of a previous event. I guess it will go live at 12. (24 mins time)

[Solstyse]

I am watching it, yes previous recordings, hopefully will go live soon.

Sorry scratch that footage of a bunch of reporters sitting down.

[Eric J (Viking)]

Is anyone else watching the live stream. It seems to be playing a recording of a previous event. I guess it will go live at 12. (24 mins time)

Yes I'm watching I'll try to keep you posted if anything of any significance pops up...

viking

[witchy1]

says its off line atm - 15 mins to go

[Calz]

Is anyone else watching the live stream. It seems to be playing a recording of a previous event. I guess it will go live at 12. (24 mins time)

Yes I'm watching I'll try to keep you posted if anything of any significance pops up...

viking


That would be great .... still behind a firewall for another 1 1/2 hours so I cannot listen.

Thanks viking :thumb:

[jaybee]

thanks to everyone bringing this to our attention and posting tid bits of the contents so far.....just a black screen on the Upstream site now...hopefully will start ok at 12 ?


edit...just refreshed page and the Syria recorded vid has started again?.....I'm hoping it will just go live soon?

[TheSwede]

Is this all of the wiki leaks or is there more to come?

Only 194 released mails so far according to their count on the site:
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/releases.html

[jaybee]

http://www.ustream.tv/frontlineclub

think it's starting now.


yes it is....

[witchy1]

live now with ja

[EYES WIDE OPEN]

its started.

[Eric J (Viking)]

Assagne about to speak...roll the drums !

viking

[EYES WIDE OPEN]

assange is speaking.

[Eric J (Viking)]

Mainly talking about 'Stratfor' ... http://www.stratfor.com/

About the shannagans goings on with them...ect

viking

[jaybee]

Julian talking about payments to Stratfor informants....that have been revealed.

[Solstyse]

I hope this isn't just a press conference to tell us about the e-mails.

I want ANON

[Lisab]

Can't get livestream on my phone so really appreciate updates guys. Thanks

[D-Day]

Nothing of any substance yet..................

[jaybee]

Journalist from Lebanon just been talking via live link.......activist from Bhopal (at Frontline Club) now talking about being monitored...by Private Intelligence firms...



edit....damn...got to get ready for work and go now. Will catch up later, Cheers everyone.

[Wind]

Wow, let's see if there actually is some useful information!

[ViralSpiral]

Nothing of any substance yet..................


Only if you consider the Bhopal gas tragedy not to be of any "substance"....
All is required

[Eric J (Viking)]

Journalist from Lebanon just been talking via live link.......activist from Bhopal (at Frontline Club) now talking about being monitored...by Private Intelligence firms...

and also suggesting we would like to see these intelligence agencies regulated ...

viking

[D-Day]

Nothing of any substance yet..................


Only if you consider the Bhopal gas tragedy not to be of any "substance"....
All is required

Ok, let me rephrase.
Not telling us anything we didn't already know yet.........................

[Eric J (Viking)]

Gotta go guys...somethings popped up...leave you with Jaybee...

laters...back in a mo...

viking

[Black Panther]

Nothing of any substance yet..................


Only if you consider the Bhopal gas tragedy not to be of any "substance"....
All is required

Ok, let me rephrase.
Not telling us anything we didn't already know yet.........................

I don't need to know more. I want the world to know what we already know.
The livestream is on our Dutch NOS news website : http://nos.nl/op3/artikel/345520-persconferentie-wikileaks-over-stratfor.html

[jaybee]

Gotta go guys...somethings popped up...leave you with Jaybee...

laters...back in a mo...

viking


sorry...I've got to get ready for work and log off now....will catch up later

cheers

.

[D-Day]

Nothing of any substance yet..................


Only if you consider the Bhopal gas tragedy not to be of any "substance"....
All is required

Ok, let me rephrase.
Not telling us anything we didn't already know yet.........................

I don't need to know more. I want the world to know what we already know.
The livestream is on our Dutch NOS news website : http://nos.nl/op3/artikel/345520-persconferentie-wikileaks-over-stratfor.html


I hear ya :)
Sorry if my previous posts came across as a bit negative.
Guess I was just expecting something a little more.... revelatory.
Having said that, Julian (Assange) did just indicate that the "big story" here will not become evident for another 3 or 4 days.
He refused to elaborate further on that statement for the time being.

[Billy]

From http://www.zerohedge.com/news/leaked-email-shows-stratfor-ceo-george-friedman-resigned-two-hours-ago-over-latest-breach

Leaked Email Shows Stratfor CEO George Friedman Resigned Two Hours Ago Over Latest Breach

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/26/2012 21:04 -0500

It is only somewhat appropriate that the announcement of the resignation of Stratfor's CEO would come in the form of a leaked email that once again was intercepted by Anonymous.

Via Anonymous:

From: george.friedman@stratfor.com

To: fred.burton@stratfor.com

Subject: Draft

Date: 2012-02-26 19:02:07

It is with great personal disappointment I have to inform you that I will resign from my position as CEO for Stratfor to immediate effect.

Please rest assured that this decision was not an easy. But in the light of the recent events, especially the release of our company emails by WikiLeaks, I have decided that stepping down is in the best interest of Stratfor and its customer base.
Beware: the above "announcement" could be a fake! ZeroHedge might have been mislead. -Paul.

Well this cannot be from George Friedman as he was assasinated at the end of last year.
http://detroitstreetpress.com/2012/01/17/the-great-thinkers-of-2011-friedman-bell-2/

[witchy1]

JA says their sources are privilaged..........so its all about the emails. No Anon...........is nowhere free of ads!!!!

[modwiz]

From http://www.zerohedge.com/news/leaked-email-shows-stratfor-ceo-george-friedman-resigned-two-hours-ago-over-latest-breach

Leaked Email Shows Stratfor CEO George Friedman Resigned Two Hours Ago Over Latest Breach

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/26/2012 21:04 -0500

It is only somewhat appropriate that the announcement of the resignation of Stratfor's CEO would come in the form of a leaked email that once again was intercepted by Anonymous.

Via Anonymous:

From: george.friedman@stratfor.com

To: fred.burton@stratfor.com

Subject: Draft

Date: 2012-02-26 19:02:07

It is with great personal disappointment I have to inform you that I will resign from my position as CEO for Stratfor to immediate effect.

Please rest assured that this decision was not an easy. But in the light of the recent events, especially the release of our company emails by WikiLeaks, I have decided that stepping down is in the best interest of Stratfor and its customer base.
Beware: the above "announcement" could be a fake! ZeroHedge might have been mislead. -Paul.

Well this cannot be from George Friedman as he was assasinated at the end of last year.
http://detroitstreetpress.com/2012/01/17/the-great-thinkers-of-2011-friedman-bell-2/

I found no mention of his death anywhere in the article. He looked very alive in that video as well. What is going on here Billyji?

[Solstyse]

This stinks I have to go to work. Keep the post coming this is the first place I am coming to when I get off.
Thanks everyone for the diligent work.

I am interested to see how many of my co-workers or customers are going to know what is going on.

[modwiz]

Assange just mentioned the incompetence that thrives in the dark and how this weakens the ability of these types to be as effective as they dream themselves to be. My earlier point about too much wine was alluding to this. Of course, too much wine is just one of the many symptoms of incompetence

[Billy]

From http://www.zerohedge.com/news/leaked-email-shows-stratfor-ceo-george-friedman-resigned-two-hours-ago-over-latest-breach

Leaked Email Shows Stratfor CEO George Friedman Resigned Two Hours Ago Over Latest Breach

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/26/2012 21:04 -0500

It is only somewhat appropriate that the announcement of the resignation of Stratfor's CEO would come in the form of a leaked email that once again was intercepted by Anonymous.

Via Anonymous:

From: george.friedman@stratfor.com

To: fred.burton@stratfor.com

Subject: Draft

Date: 2012-02-26 19:02:07

It is with great personal disappointment I have to inform you that I will resign from my position as CEO for Stratfor to immediate effect.

Please rest assured that this decision was not an easy. But in the light of the recent events, especially the release of our company emails by WikiLeaks, I have decided that stepping down is in the best interest of Stratfor and its customer base.
Beware: the above "announcement" could be a fake! ZeroHedge might have been mislead. -Paul.

Well this cannot be from George Friedman as he was assasinated at the end of last year.
http://detroitstreetpress.com/2012/01/17/the-great-thinkers-of-2011-friedman-bell-2/

I found no mention of his death anywhere in the article. He looked very alive in that video as well. What is going on here Billyji?

I first noticed the assasination comments on this utube video, Go back and you see all his friends saying RIP. He was shot twice, ones in the arm and the second shot got him in the head. Then i googled George Friedman assassinated and all the links came up. Wierder and wierder

ItreEs03A2k

[modwiz]

From http://www.zerohedge.com/news/leaked-email-shows-stratfor-ceo-george-friedman-resigned-two-hours-ago-over-latest-breach

Leaked Email Shows Stratfor CEO George Friedman Resigned Two Hours Ago Over Latest Breach

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/26/2012 21:04 -0500

It is only somewhat appropriate that the announcement of the resignation of Stratfor's CEO would come in the form of a leaked email that once again was intercepted by Anonymous.

Via Anonymous:

From: george.friedman@stratfor.com

To: fred.burton@stratfor.com

Subject: Draft

Date: 2012-02-26 19:02:07

It is with great personal disappointment I have to inform you that I will resign from my position as CEO for Stratfor to immediate effect.

Please rest assured that this decision was not an easy. But in the light of the recent events, especially the release of our company emails by WikiLeaks, I have decided that stepping down is in the best interest of Stratfor and its customer base.
Beware: the above "announcement" could be a fake! ZeroHedge might have been mislead. -Paul.

Well this cannot be from George Friedman as he was assasinated at the end of last year.
http://detroitstreetpress.com/2012/01/17/the-great-thinkers-of-2011-friedman-bell-2/

I found no mention of his death anywhere in the article. He looked very alive in that video as well. What is going on here Billyji?

I first noticed the assasination comments on this utube video, Go back and you see all his friends saying RIP. He was shot twice, ones in the arm and the second shot got him in the head. Then i googled George Friedman assasinated and all the links came up. Wierder and wierder

ItreEs03A2k

Yes it is. I just googled him and the first link is Wikipedia with no mention of his death, just his wife's name, that he has four kids and lives in Texas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Friedman

UPDATE:
Other than that comment with the video I can find no other source to confirm his death. Got any links?

[modwiz]

I seems the site has gone down. No live feed at this time, just the beginning of the original.

[D-Day]

Ok, I'm starting to get a better sense of the big picture here now.
Got too bogged down in the detail, as usual (I have a tendency to do that lol).
I dot think this story is gonna be "going away" any time soon... much to the dismay of Stratfor and it's CEO/Directors/Clients ;)
Once this bad boy hits the MSM it's gonna blow up to be huge! IMO
The implications for Stratfor and its clients/collaborators (once fully realised) has the potential to be quite devastating.
Not to mention the flow on effects for others who are involved behind the scenes but not yet implicated/identified.
It'll be interesting to see how this story develops over the next few days.

[Free Bird]

I seems the site has gone down. No live feed at this time, just the beginning of the original.

Press conference finished just after 1.20pm GMT

[778 neighbour of some guy]

What really interests me is how so many sources are saying the same thing that these

global elite criminals are going down and being exposed for what they did. I've heard it

from people from the GFL to David Wilcock to know Wiki coming out with this. I think its

either one of the biggest psyops I've ever seen or something big is really going on behind

the scenes. Time will tell i guess. :wizard:


Something like this but with a different context you mean, the downfall of the cabal news feels orchestrated. Who benefits is the question as usual.

GME5nq_oSR4

The subject in the video is off topic but its about the scripted media ( the perspective).

[ViralSpiral]

Ok, I'm starting to get a better sense of the big picture here now.
Got too bogged down in the detail, as usual (I have a tendency to do that lol).


Chortle. I did know what you meant.
There were no photographs of hidden caches of gold in the mountains of Peru or exposure to the barnacles on Bernankes butt etc etc ;)
There was however, an air of confidence and lack of fear. Much needed for the times ahead


Onward/forward and thank you Snr. Assange

[Kimberley]

I am watching the re-run of the press conference here http://www.ustream.tv/frontlineclub

[Eric J (Viking)]

Ok, I'm starting to get a better sense of the big picture here now.
Got too bogged down in the detail, as usual (I have a tendency to do that lol).
I dot think this story is gonna be "going away" any time soon... much to the dismay of Stratfor and it's CEO/Directors/Clients ;)
Once this bad boy hits the MSM it's gonna blow up to be huge! IMO
The implications for Stratfor and its clients/collaborators (once fully realised) has the potential to be quite devastating.
Not to mention the flow on effects for others who are involved behind the scenes but not yet implicated/identified.
It'll be interesting to see how this story develops over the next few days.

Back now, anymore info apart from 'Stratfor' ?? not that its of no relevence...

viking

[Billy]

From http://www.zerohedge.com/news/leaked-email-shows-stratfor-ceo-george-friedman-resigned-two-hours-ago-over-latest-breach

Leaked Email Shows Stratfor CEO George Friedman Resigned Two Hours Ago Over Latest Breach

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/26/2012 21:04 -0500

It is only somewhat appropriate that the announcement of the resignation of Stratfor's CEO would come in the form of a leaked email that once again was intercepted by Anonymous.

Via Anonymous:

From: george.friedman@stratfor.com

To: fred.burton@stratfor.com

Subject: Draft

Date: 2012-02-26 19:02:07

It is with great personal disappointment I have to inform you that I will resign from my position as CEO for Stratfor to immediate effect.

Please rest assured that this decision was not an easy. But in the light of the recent events, especially the release of our company emails by WikiLeaks, I have decided that stepping down is in the best interest of Stratfor and its customer base.
Beware: the above "announcement" could be a fake! ZeroHedge might have been mislead. -Paul.

Well this cannot be from George Friedman as he was assasinated at the end of last year.
http://detroitstreetpress.com/2012/01/17/the-great-thinkers-of-2011-friedman-bell-2/

I found no mention of his death anywhere in the article. He looked very alive in that video as well. What is going on here Billyji?

I first noticed the assasination comments on this utube video, Go back and you see all his friends saying RIP. He was shot twice, ones in the arm and the second shot got him in the head. Then i googled George Friedman assasinated and all the links came up. Wierder and wierder

ItreEs03A2k

Yes it is. I just googled him and the first link is Wikipedia with no mention of his death, just his wife's name, that he has four kids and lives in Texas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Friedman

UPDATE:
Other than that comment with the video I can find no other source to confirm his death. Got any links?

No links. I think it is disinfo on the Utube video. i have left a comment there asking for conformation/evidence of their assasination comments. as none exists on the internet as far as i can see.

EDIT. But i found this interesting article as i was searching http://detroitstreetpress.com/2012/01/17/the-great-thinkers-of-2011-friedman-bell-2/

[Eric J (Viking)]

Ok, I'm starting to get a better sense of the big picture here now.
Got too bogged down in the detail, as usual (I have a tendency to do that lol).
I dot think this story is gonna be "going away" any time soon... much to the dismay of Stratfor and it's CEO/Directors/Clients ;)
Once this bad boy hits the MSM it's gonna blow up to be huge! IMO
The implications for Stratfor and its clients/collaborators (once fully realised) has the potential to be quite devastating.
Not to mention the flow on effects for others who are involved behind the scenes but not yet implicated/identified.
It'll be interesting to see how this story develops over the next few days.

Back now, anymore info apart from 'Stratfor' ?? not that its of no relevence...

viking

Ok just listened to the last part of this...and yes it was mostly all about 'Stratfor' ...

Yes Dday, the next few days should be interesting ...

viking

[humanalien]

MSM and Government are doing damage control today on fox news.
The news has been covering yet another school shooting in ohio today.
How convenient that a school shooting happened today....

[jackovesk]

And here is more...WOWOWOWO!!!!

ItreEs03A2k

This guy reminds me of this guy..!

http://ts4.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1591814131447&id=e8a73867756b855012efc04a4d8db34d&url=http%3a%2f%2fs3.amazonaws.com%2freaders%2f2011%2f08%2f18%2findiancobra_1.jpg

The 'Eyes' are a dead giveaway..!

[toad]

There is alot of good stuff here but this isnt even the full list of docs harvested from the stratfor breaches.

[avid]

I watched the presentation, read lots of the pre-prep (with links from here as also elsewhere) - really groundbreaking! RT has broken it. Lots of others too... I was really looking forward to the BBC 'news' after stating to OH that there was an 'eye-opening' piece... (yawn) ... still waiting BBC!!! Rotten to the core as usual. I can smell the singeing 'track-covering' from here!
Maybe tomorrow Julian Assange will be re-re-arrested and sent to pergatory 'elsewhere' - just like that young person with a positive conscience - Bradley Manning. ENOUGH!!! This news is REAL NEWS!! Insider trading! Goldman Sachs integral to vile proceedings!
Oh dear - are we off to spray the whole damn thing with 'Neutradol'... NOT!!! :mad2:
Avid

[TargeT]

I'm still very concerned about "wiki-leaks"

sounds like a defense contractor is getting burned here, not the neccisarily the "military industrial complex" (as a whole) that deserves it.. am I wrong?

[toad]

I don't know why it has taken so long to come around, this breach happened along time ago. The amount of stuff extracted was pretty incredible. Strategic Forcasting should be ashamed and embarassed that they couldnt even securely protect their own servers.

[ViralSpiral]

There is alot of good stuff here but this isnt even the full list of docs harvested from the stratfor breaches.

This perhaps? http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html and the list of releases (http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/releases.html) from today. He did say more tomorrow, me thinks

[grapevine]

Hmmm - not even a mention on BBC News or Channel 4 this evening. I'm shocked that this appears to have been suppressed by the media . . . . but not really surprised. I promised my colleagues at work that they were about to learn what is really going on in the world but it seems that I was premature. Pity . . . but I remain hopeful :)

[ThePythonicCow]

I don't know why it has taken so long to come around, this breach happened along time ago.
The breach was in December 2011 - just a couple months ago. Given the couple dozen or so news agencies at Wikileaks has been working with to publicize this, and the volume of email taken, two months doesn't seem that long ago to me.

[toad]

I don't know why it has taken so long to come around, this breach happened along time ago.
The breach was in December 2011 - just a couple months ago. Given the couple dozen or so news agencies at Wikileaks has been working with to publicize this, and the volume of email taken, two months doesn't seem that long ago to me.

heh ok fair enough, a relatively long time ago. These days yesterday is a while ago.

[Ivanhoe]

I really don't expect to see too much of this in the mainstream media,... after all the PTB control it, but it should go viral on the net.
Thanks for the news and updates folks!

[ljwheat]

And here is more...WOWOWOWO!!!!

ItreEs03A2k

Ya know If Mr. Friedman had not shown up with this Oooooops script, I could have gone with the opinion that Wikileaks could have contrived and manufactured all these E-mails as a smear tactic of some sort.

To pop up this fast only points to validating all that’s coming out at this juncture of exposing the real workings of corporate controls and how long its been going on, to me is now evadent.

This video isn’t for the slaves and workers of corporate America, its for the bosses above him that he’s squirming for and hoping for penance from on high.

Silence would have put the burden of proof on Wikileaks. And the plot thickens. And I’m quite sure the annalists will have a field day with this volunteered public evidence. OOOOOPS.

[Solstyse]

There is a lot of stuff here so far, but the real question, how much of the information has been illegal? There has been a little info on insider trading, but nothing that is going to really condemn anyone.

Also on a side note, no words about a secret group, illuminati, cabal, freemasons. nothing. You would figure that some of the people this high up would be parts of such a group. And txt/e-mail back and forth and let a code word slip, or something odd.
Lots of info, nothing damning, no "secret groups"

[D-Day]

I really don't expect to see too much of this in the mainstream media,... after all the PTB control it, but it should go viral on the net.
Thanks for the news and updates folks!

The fact that we're not yet hearing about tthis story in MSM tells me it's big (serious) news!
I don't think they're gonna be able to keep it under wraps like this for too much longer, personally.
I think they're doing what they can to buy time for those who know they are about to be implicated in a MASSIVE scandal.
I don't think we've seen the half of it yet.
JA is nobody's fool, and he's not the type to create a storm in a tea cup if you catch my drift.
He eluded to the fact that more significant and revelatory information will be forthcoming in the next few days.
I might be wrong, but at this point I'm taking his word for it and waiting to see what transpires.

[TargeT]

There is a lot of stuff here so far, but the real question, how much of the information has been illegal? There has been a little info on insider trading, but nothing that is going to really condemn anyone.

Also on a side note, no words about a secret group, illuminati, cabal, freemasons. nothing. You would figure that some of the people this high up would be parts of such a group. And txt/e-mail back and forth and let a code word slip, or something odd.
Lots of info, nothing damning, no "secret groups"

the last big "wikileak" was a bunch of crap also, it acutally SUPPORTED the war in afganistan & lead one to believe that with more troops something would be acomplished.

I see backstab burn here, StratFor got burnt for one reason or another & it doesn't seem to affect any "real players"... so far this is just confirming (for me) that Wiki-Leaks is BS & controlled oposition at its finest (hell Julian A. HIMSELF gives me that feeling when one does a bit of checking).

[humanalien]

We got nothing even close to 5 million emails yet.

[Cjay]

The fact that we're not yet hearing about tthis story in MSM tells me it's big (serious) news!

Be careful with your words, D-DAY, and check your "facts". It IS in the MSM.

ABC News (Australia): Wikileaks releases documents from US government agency (video)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-28/wikileaks-releases-documents-from-us-government/3856636

ABC News (Australia): WikiLeaks dumping secret intelligence emails
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-27/wikileaks-begins-publishing-confidential-intelligence-emails/3854838


Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper, Tuesday Feb 28, page 16. Small story. Almost missed it. The headline: Wiki gushing

A quick search of the Murdoch media (news.com.au) finds many stories with more detail:

The Australian: WikiLeaks says Stratfor emails to expose sinister spies and insider traders
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/wikileaks-says-stratfor-emails-to-expose-sinister-spies-and-insider-traders/story-fn775xjq-1226283556641

Adelaide Now: WikiLeaks release more than five million Stratfor company emails
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/wikileaks-release-more-than-five-million-stratfor-company-emails/story-e6frea8c-1226283389864

Herald Sun: WikiLeaks publishes trove of leaked intelligence company emails
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/wikileaks-publishes-trove-of-leaked-intelligence-company-emails/story-fn7celvh-1226283550415

Herald Sun: WikiLeaks releases 5m Stratfor emails
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/wikileaks-releases-5m-stratfor-emails/story-e6frf7jx-1226282623777

Adelaide Now: Leaked emails expose private spies
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/world/leaked-emails-expose-informants/story-e6frea8l-1226283457786

The Daily Telegraph: WikiLeaks publishes more secret emails from US spy agency
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/wikileaks-publishes-more-secret-emails-from-us-spy-agency/story-e6frev00-1226282705423


From Fairfax Media's The Age: WikiLeaks publishes 'millions' of global intelligence firm's emails
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/wikileaks-publishes-millions-of-global-intelligence-firms-emails-20120227-1txm4.html


NineMSN: WikiLeaks publishes 'millions' more emails
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8426217/wikileaks-publishes-millions-more-emails

Yahoo7: Five different links


Point made.

[Solstyse]

Ok, I'm starting to get a better sense of the big picture here now.
Got too bogged down in the detail, as usual (I have a tendency to do that lol).
I dot think this story is gonna be "going away" any time soon... much to the dismay of Stratfor and it's CEO/Directors/Clients ;)
Once this bad boy hits the MSM it's gonna blow up to be huge! IMO
The implications for Stratfor and its clients/collaborators (once fully realised) has the potential to be quite devastating.
Not to mention the flow on effects for others who are involved behind the scenes but not yet implicated/identified.
It'll be interesting to see how this story develops over the next few days.

Back now, anymore info apart from 'Stratfor' ?? not that its of no relevence...

viking

Ok just listened to the last part of this...and yes it was mostly all about 'Stratfor' ...

Yes Dday, the next few days should be interesting ...

viking

Yes and it also mentions how ET's helped with the work, and how a global meditation brought about the change, and other unsubstantiated crap.

[D-Day]

The fact that we're not yet hearing about tthis story in MSM tells me it's big (serious) news!

Be careful with your words, D-DAY, and check your "facts". It IS in the MSM.

ABC News (Australia): Wikileaks releases documents from US government agency (video)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-28/wikileaks-releases-documents-from-us-government/3856636

ABC News (Australia): WikiLeaks dumping secret intelligence emails
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-27/wikileaks-begins-publishing-confidential-intelligence-emails/3854838


Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper, Tuesday Feb 28, page 16. Small story. Almost missed it. The headline: Wiki gushing

A quick search of the Murdoch media (news.com.au) finds many stories with more detail:

The Australian: WikiLeaks says Stratfor emails to expose sinister spies and insider traders
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/wikileaks-says-stratfor-emails-to-expose-sinister-spies-and-insider-traders/story-fn775xjq-1226283556641

Adelaide Now: WikiLeaks release more than five million Stratfor company emails
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/wikileaks-release-more-than-five-million-stratfor-company-emails/story-e6frea8c-1226283389864

Herald Sun: WikiLeaks publishes trove of leaked intelligence company emails
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/wikileaks-publishes-trove-of-leaked-intelligence-company-emails/story-fn7celvh-1226283550415

Herald Sun: WikiLeaks releases 5m Stratfor emails
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/wikileaks-releases-5m-stratfor-emails/story-e6frf7jx-1226282623777

Adelaide Now: Leaked emails expose private spies
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/world/leaked-emails-expose-informants/story-e6frea8l-1226283457786

The Daily Telegraph: WikiLeaks publishes more secret emails from US spy agency
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/wikileaks-publishes-more-secret-emails-from-us-spy-agency/story-e6frev00-1226282705423


From Fairfax Media's The Age: WikiLeaks publishes 'millions' of global intelligence firm's emails
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/wikileaks-publishes-millions-of-global-intelligence-firms-emails-20120227-1txm4.html


NineMSN: WikiLeaks publishes 'millions' more emails
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8426217/wikileaks-publishes-millions-more-emails

Yahoo7: Five different links


Point made.

Hey Cjay, heard anything about this story through MS television or radio news sources yet??
I know I hadn't when I wrote the above post... and I still haven't!
"IN FACT", I've barely heard anything at all about this story on MS television or radio here in Australia.
Funny that... don't you think?
Oh, but the story CAN be found by someone who is already aware of it and uses story-specific search criteria to Google search for information.
Good to know, thanks for pointing that out Cjay.
Gee, I guess now EVERYBODY around the world should be well aware of this story any minute now ... right?

Here are some of the MS Aussie news sources you so graciously offered up and referenced in your response to my post.

I took the liberty of posting specific site links to either 'World News', 'Top News Stories' or 'Just In' etc in an effort to demonstrate (to myself) the point you were "attempting" to make about how MS this story is... but alas, such stories were not as prevalent as you had led me to believe.

Here:

News.Com.Au: http://www.news.com.au/
ABC (Just In): http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/
ABC (World News): http://www.abc.net.au/news/world/
The Australian (Top News Stories): http://www.theaustralian.com.au/
The Herald Sun (World News): http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world

I don't know about anyone else, but if you can find some information on this story on any of the above websites without using Cjay's story-specific links I'd say you doing pretty well.

Point made.

[Calz]

Story was covered on mainstream in USA but not in depth. Here is a snippet (also remember CNN and MSNBC stories yesterday)

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Leaked emails shine rare light on Stratfor

(AP) SAN ANTONIO — Coca-Cola and Dow Chemical are among the once-secret clients of the private intelligence firm Stratfor that have now been revealed by WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange says his anti-secrecy group has more than 5 million Stratfor emails that will be released in the coming weeks. The first batch published Monday reveals Stratfor clients ranging from local universities to global megacorporations.

None of what WikiLeaks has released so far is particularly scintillating. The emails do, however, reveal clients that the Austin, Texas-based company has long safeguarded and refused to disclose.

Founded in 1996, Stratfor claims in one document released by WikiLeaks to have 292,000 subscribers who pay for its geopolitical analyses.

Stratfor CEO George Friedman condemned the publication of the emails and speculated that some could have been altered or forged.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57386387/leaked-emails-shine-rare-light-on-stratfor/?tag=contentMain;contentBody

[ThePythonicCow]

Ah - I've been wondering to myself why the FBI or some such is not on this case - for theft of property. This was NOT a "classic" Wikileaks, where some whistleblower went to Julian Assange with some inside information. This was a clear cut case of breaking into the computers of a business (Stratfor) and stealing their private email. That's a crime. Assange was not given this email; his "organization" stole it. If I had done that, and told anyone about it (much less issued a world wide press release) ... I'd be filing this report from jail.

Gordon Duff, Senior Editor at Veterans Today, explains why this criminal break-in is being overlooked. He has been figuring that Wikileaks is a Mossad operation. One motivation for this latest Wikileaks operation: Stratfor is a competitor to Mossad's own Debka. Another motivation: restore Wikileaks "reputation", after it became a bit too obvious that they were a useful resource of Israel and Mossad. Duff rambles a bit ... but I'm guessing he's more right than not. Read the details at Wikileaks and Stratfor, Israel Busted Again (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/02/27/wikileaks-and-stratfor-israel-busted-again/).

[Referee]

RT Caught it................

VRnQLfXLJ2I

[Calz]

Ah - I've been wondering to myself why the FBI or some such is not on this case - for theft of property. This was NOT a "classic" Wikileaks, where some whistleblower went to Julian Assange with some inside information. This was a clear cut case of breaking into the computers of a business (Stratfor) and stealing their private email. That's a crime. Assange was not given this email; his "organization" stole it. If I had done that, and told anyone about it (much less issued a world wide press release) ... I'd be filing this report from jail.

Gordon Duff, Senior Editor at Veterans Today, explains why this criminal break-in is being overlooked. He has been figuring that Wikileaks is a Mossad operation. One motivation for this latest Wikileaks operation: Stratfor is a competitor to Mossad's own Debka. Another motivation: restore Wikileaks "reputation", after it became a bit too obvious that they were a useful resource of Israel and Mossad. Duff rambles a bit ... but I'm guessing he's more right than not. Read the details at Wikileaks and Stratfor, Israel Busted Again (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/02/27/wikileaks-and-stratfor-israel-busted-again/).


Good point(s).

I expect there is some of the usual reasoning as with government/military classified information. Feds don't want to go to court due to what would need to become public knowledge to prosecute the case.

In this case I suspect we shall see. Perhaps it will yet happen.

[Cjay]

Hey Cjay, heard anything about this story through MS television or radio news sources yet??
I know I hadn't when I wrote the above post... and I still haven't!
"IN FACT", I've barely heard anything at all about this story on MS television or radio here in Australia.
Funny that... don't you think?
Oh, but the story CAN be found by someone who is already aware of it and uses story-specific search criteria to Google search for information.
Good to know, thanks for pointing that out Cjay.
Gee, I guess now EVERYBODY around the world should be well aware of this story any minute now ... right?

Here are some of the MS Aussie news sources you so graciously offered up and referenced in your response to my post.

I took the liberty of posting specific site links to either 'World News', 'Top News Stories' or 'Just In' etc in an effort to demonstrate (to myself) the point you were "attempting" to make about how MS this story is... but alas, such stories were not as prevalent as you had led me to believe.

Here:

News.Com.Au: http://www.news.com.au/
ABC (Just In): http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/
ABC (World News): http://www.abc.net.au/news/world/
The Australian (Top News Stories): http://www.theaustralian.com.au/
The Herald Sun (World News): http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world

I don't know about anyone else, but if you can find some information on this story on any of the above websites without using Cjay's story-specific links I'd say you doing pretty well.

Point made.

I avoid MSM television and radio. I asked my dad if he saw anything on TV or heard it on the radio. He said no.

I agree, the stories are well-buried in those news websites. I had to search for the reports in those links.

No doubt, they are keeping it buried as much as possible, for the time being. I suspect that when they can no longer suppress the information without it being too obvious that they are supressing it - and if they are ever criticised for not reporting it sooner, they could say, "what are you talking about? we reported it the very day the leaks were announced".

I dream of the day when the media are truly open and honest.

[ponda]

Revealed: US plans to charge Assange


Revealed: US plans to charge Assange
Philip Dorling
February 29, 2012
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''If I thought I could switch this dickhead off without getting done I don't think I'd have too much of a problem.'' … Stratfor's Chris Farnham on Assange.

UNITED STATES prosecutors have drawn up secret charges against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, according to a confidential email obtained from the private US intelligence company Stratfor.

In an internal email to Stratfor analysts on January 26 last year, the vice-president of intelligence, Fred Burton, responded to a media report concerning US investigations targeting WikiLeaks with the comment: ''We have a sealed indictment on Assange.''

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He underlined the sensitivity of the information - apparently obtained from a US government source - with warnings to ''Pls [please] protect'' and ''Not for pub[lication]''.

Mr Burton is well known as an expert on security and counterterrorism with close ties to the US intelligence and law enforcement agencies. He is the former deputy chief of the counter-terrorism division of the US State Department's diplomatic security service.

Stratfor, whose headquarters are in Austin, Texas, provides intelligence and analysis to corporate and government subscribers.

On Monday, WikiLeaks began releasing more than 5 million Stratfor emails which it said showed ''how a private intelligence agency works, and how they target individuals for their corporate and government clients''.

The Herald has secured access to the emails through an investigative partnership with WikiLeaks.

The news that US prosecutors drew up a secret indictment against Mr Assange more than 12 months ago comes as the Australian awaits a British Supreme Court decision on his appeal against extradition to Sweden to be questioned in relation to sexual assault allegations.

Mr Assange, who has not been charged with any offence in Sweden, fears extradition to Stockholm will open the way for his extradition to the US on possible espionage or conspiracy charges in retaliation for WikiLeaks's publication of thousands of leaked US classified military and diplomatic reports.

Last week the US Army Private Bradley Manning was committed to face court martial for 22 alleged offences, including ''aiding the enemy'' by leaking classified government documents to WikiLeaks.

In December the Herald revealed Australian diplomatic cables, declassified under freedom of information, confirmed WikiLeaks was the target of a US Justice Department investigation ''unprecedented both in its scale and nature'' and suggested that media reports that a secret grand jury had been convened in Alexandria, Virginia, were ''likely true''.

The Australian embassy in Washington reported in December 2010 that the Justice Department was pursuing an ''active and vigorous inquiry into whether Julian Assange can be charged under US law, most likely the 1917 Espionage Act''.

In recent answers to written parliamentary questions from the Greens senator Scott Ludlam, the former foreign affairs minister Kevin Rudd indicated Australia had sought confirmation that a secret grand jury inquiry directed against Mr Assange was under way.

Mr Rudd said ''no formal advice'' had been received from US authorities but acknowledged the existence of a ''temporary surrender'' mechanism that could allow Mr Assange to be extradited from Sweden to the US. He added that Swedish officials had said Mr Assange's case would be afforded ''due process''.

The US government has repeatedly declined to confirm or deny any reported details of the WikiLeaks inquiry, beyond the fact that an investigation is being pursued.

The Stratfor emails show that the WikiLeaks publication of hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables triggered intense discussion within the ''global intelligence'' company.

In the emails, an Australian Stratfor ''senior watch officer'', Chris Farnham, advocated revoking Mr Assange's Australian citizenship, adding: ''I don't care about the other leaks but the ones he has made that potentially damage Australian interests upset me. If I thought I could switch this dickhead off without getting done I don't think I'd have too much of a problem.''

But Mr Farnham also referred to a conversation with a close family friend who he said knew one of the Swedish women who had made allegations of sexual assault against Mr Assange, and added: ''There is absolutely nothing behind it other than prosecutors that are looking to make a name for themselves.''

While some Stratfor analysts decried what they saw as Mr Assange's ''clear anti-Americanism'', others welcomed the leaks and debated WikiLeaks's longer-term impact on secret diplomacy and intelligence.

Stratfor's director of analysis, Reva Bhalla, observed: ''WikiLeaks itself may struggle to survive but the idea that's put out there, that anyone with the bandwidth and servers to support such a system can act as a prime outlet of leaks. [People] are obsessed with this kind of stuff. The idea behind it won't die.''

Stratfor says it will not comment on the emails obtained by WikiLeaks. The US embassy has also declined to comment.



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/revealed-us-plans-to-charge-assange-20120228-1u14o.html#ixzz1ngZlX5y0

[jaybee]

.

I watched the whole of the Press Conference last night and the implications of a privatized Intelligence Service are just sinking in.

Privatized = need for profit = giving the 'client' value for money/want they want...ie a real danger of stretching the truth or even relying on informants who have a political vested interest or just make stuff up....for money?

The potential for a futher muddying of the waters that are already very muddy.

Privatized Intelligence must surely give far too much power to unaccountable individuals and groups...which is the point and the educational value of the latest WikiLeaks releases, for me.

I read somewhere that Stratfor emails were hacked by Hacktivists Anonymous? who passed the material to WikiLeaks. I'm sure Stratfor will have done their own email hacking in the course of their 'work'....so what's good for the goose is good for the gander, imo.


the video of it all is still on this site for anyone who missed it or wants to watch it again.


http://www.ustream.tv/frontlineclub

[Calz]

Revealed: US plans to charge Assange


...


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/revealed-us-plans-to-charge-assange-20120228-1u14o.html#ixzz1ngZlX5y0


Clearly "they" were already in the process of taking JA down with trumped up sex charges.

JA raised the stakes a bit this time as alleged hacking into a private corportation (yes I know fascism rules) is not the same as reporting a whistleblower's testimony.

It could well be his best (perhaps *ONLY*) defense in the same manner as whistleblowers have more safety in getting the word spread.

Thanks for the post ... gonna be an interesting week me thinks :)

[modwiz]

The Lord James and white hat story is the real news, IMO. The other big news to day with wikileaks is probably a well timed distraction with expendable irritants being thrown under the bus. Wikileaks has been shown to be a Mossad asset, at least in the past. I thought maybe Julian might have felt burnt and perhaps would now bite the hand that feeds him. Probably not. Just as his views on 9/11 not being important have probably not changed. Good story about that from Gordon Duff at VT here:http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/02/27/wikileaks-and-stratfor-israel-busted-again/

This little tidbit is particularly nutrient rich:
That time is now, in the “hack,” against STRATFOR, the competitor to Israel’s DEBKA.

My guess is this wikileaks story is hoped to be a cover for the big one here. People will be looking for the latest emails instead of keeping their eyes on the big dung ball the WH/Lord James story is for the elite.

This is a post from another thread and some of what I am saying here duplicates some of Paul's points.

[jaybee]

.

there are new 'tweets' on the Wikileaks Twitter page....


http://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks



WikiLeaks ‏ @wikileaks

Due to the embargo breach by Fairfax, all partners may publish all Stratfor derived WikiLeaks/Assange stories NOW (otherwise, embargo holds)



15m WikiLeaks ‏ @wikileaks

After all our questions to the AU/US/UK/SW governments about US plans to prosecute #Assange, we have to find out in a #wikileaks release...



19m WikiLeaks ‏ @wikileaks

Follow @wikileaks for an imminent response to the US indictment against Assange https://shop.wikileaks.org/donate



19m WikiLeaks ‏ @wikileaks

Follow @wikileaks for an imminent response to the US indictment against Assange https://shop.wikileaks.org/



25m WikiLeaks ‏ @wikileaks

FavoritedFavorite · Close Open Details "Not for Pub --We have a sealed indictment on Assange. Pls protect" http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/375123_fw-ct-assange-manning-link-not-key-to-wikileaks-case-.html #Assange #wikileaks wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/3…



52m WikiLeaks ‏ @wikileaks

ALERT: The US government has charged Julian Assange. Keep us strong: https://wlfriends.org/ https://shop.wikileaks.org/donate



at the moment some links 'cannot be displayed' mmmmmmmmm????


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[ponda]

The Veil is thinning

[jaybee]

The Lord James and white hat story is the real news, IMO. The other big news to day with wikileaks is probably a well timed distraction with expendable irritants being thrown under the bus. Wikileaks has been shown to be a Mossad asset, at least in the past. I thought maybe Julian might have felt burnt and perhaps would now bite the hand that feeds him. Probably not. Just as his views on 9/11 not being important have probably not changed. Good story about that from Gordon Duff at VT here:http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/02/27/wikileaks-and-stratfor-israel-busted-again/

This little tidbit is particularly nutrient rich:
That time is now, in the “hack,” against STRATFOR, the competitor to Israel’s DEBKA.

My guess is this wikileaks story is hoped to be a cover for the big one here. People will be looking for the latest emails instead of keeping their eyes on the big dung ball the WH/Lord James story is for the elite.

This is a post from another thread and some of what I am saying here duplicates some of Paul's points.


From what I have seen from him and what my instincts are telling me...


I don't trust Gordon Duff.

[toad]

Wikileaks has been shown to be a Mossad asset, at least in the past


..... what?..




*nevermind just read the link

[TargeT]

The Lord James and white hat story is the real news, IMO. The other big news to day with wikileaks is probably a well timed distraction with expendable irritants being thrown under the bus. Wikileaks has been shown to be a Mossad asset, at least in the past. I thought maybe Julian might have felt burnt and perhaps would now bite the hand that feeds him. Probably not. Just as his views on 9/11 not being important have probably not changed. Good story about that from Gordon Duff at VT here:http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/02/27/wikileaks-and-stratfor-israel-busted-again/

This little tidbit is particularly nutrient rich:
That time is now, in the “hack,” against STRATFOR, the competitor to Israel’s DEBKA.

My guess is this wikileaks story is hoped to be a cover for the big one here. People will be looking for the latest emails instead of keeping their eyes on the big dung ball the WH/Lord James story is for the elite.

This is a post from another thread and some of what I am saying here duplicates some of Paul's points.

Even with out that link the actions alone are clearly "controlled opisition" in my mind,, WIKI-LEAKS is a part of the military-industrial complex & is used (pathetically) as a distraction / agenda pushing tool.

if wiki-leaks and anonomous are now working togther I will lump anon. in with them as well..

IN FACT I just got an email today that pertains to this subject (this is unedited except forthe senders name):


Subject: **exempt** Operation V | 'Anonymous' Declares War on the US
Government

'Anonymous' released a new video statement yesterday announcing the
commencement of "Operation V". In the statement they declare war on the
U.S. government and issue a 'call to arms' to U.S. citizens to assist them
in overthrowing the US government. 'Anonymous' states "to rebuild our
government, we must first destroy it". A PDF copy of the statement has been
attached and the link to the YouTube video statement is provided below.

[Excerpt] We are not calling upon the collective to deface or use a
distributed denial of service attack on a United States government agency
website or affiliate. We are not calling upon the people to occupy a city or
protest in front of a local building. This has not brought on us any
legislative change or alternate law. It has only brought us bloodshed and
false criticism. For the last 12 years, voting was useless. Corporations and
lobbyists are the true leaders of this country and are the ones with the
power to control our lives. To rebuild our government, we must first destroy
it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAaCZWQndqA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAaCZWQndqA&feature=youtube_gdata_player>

V/r,
XXXXX


XXXXXXXXXXX
Defense Continuity & Crisis Mgt Liaison
National Operations Center
Department of Homeland Security


its causing a bit of a stir over here, and what this will do is bad for the US population (IMO)

[Kimberley]

For those following this big story.... I followed several of the twitter posts and found all of this:

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WikiLeaks: Emails Leak Exposes Inner Workings of Private Intel Firm Stratfor, a "Shadow CIA"
JfZExzKGkIc

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What's Next for the WikiLeaks 'Global Intel' Files: Feb. 28 Updates
http://www.thenation.com/blog/166484/whats-next-wikileaks-global-intel-files-tuesday-updates

this is of interest.. from the above article
9:30 The official @WikiLeaks feed says that due to “embargo breach” by Fairfax all of the 4000 e-mails that relate to Assange or WikiLeaks may be released today by its twenty-five media partners instead of emerging slowly.

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PRESS RELEASE - STRATFOR EMAILS: US HAS ISSUED SEALED INDICTMENT AGAINST JULIAN ASSANGE

Tuesday 28th February 2012 18:30 GMT Confidential emails obtained from the US private intelligence firm Stratfor show that the United States Government has had a secret indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for more than 12 months. Fred Burton, Stratfor’s Vice-President for Counterterrorism and Corporate Security, is a former Deputy Chief of the Department of State’s (DoS) counterterrorism division for the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS).

http://wikileaks.org/Stratfor-Emails-US-Has-Issued.html

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Sweden will grant extradition of Assange to US if not stopped by international political pressure

http://ferrada-noli.blogspot.com/2011/11/likely-swedish-extradition-of-assange.html

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WikiLeaks' Stratfor dump lifts lid on intelligence-industrial complex, WikiLeaks' latest release, of hacked emails from Stratfor, shines light on the murky world of private intelligence-gathering

http://ferrada-noli.blogspot.com/2011/11/likely-swedish-extradition-of-assange.html

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[Kimberley]

I am finding that the twitter link is the best way to keep up with this story as it evolves... I am not going to keep posting every new update although I am watching it closely.

So for those that want to watch this unveil be sure to check in on this twitter link:

http://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks

I will continue to post the best of the best like this one!!:

http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1628042_re-watch-item-wikileaks-insurance-file-.html


much love to us all!!!! this is so fun!!!

[humanalien]

We need a separate area, just for the wilileaks links with no posting
on what anyone thinks about them.

As it is now, links keep getting quoted and reposted everywhere with
tons of peoples thoughts in-between and the whole thing is becoming
a mess.

[Anam Cara]

"The whistleblowing website Wikileaks has started releasing over 5 million emails from Statfor, a private intelligence-gathering firm based in Texas with clients ranging from corporations to government agencies. Wikileaks reportedly obtained the emails from the hacktivist group Anonymous. While there hasn't been anything particularly groundbreaking released yet, the documents do reveal several huge corporations working with the intelligence firm. Regardless of what details come out of the emails, they do reveal yet another layer of something we bring much attention to at RT: The massive and profitable military industrial complex. Charlie McGrath of WideawakeNews.com joins RT's Liz Wahl to talk more about this. "

WikiLeaks vs Strafor: Who is to blame?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FunWR345pQs&feature=BFa&list=WL242D7379FD77F736&lf=BFp

[Anam Cara]

This link was posted earlier and I am doing it again because it is from Assange in particular and others related to this who know what different emails are about.

Frontline Club February 27, 2012 1:22 PM

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/20736311

[Anam Cara]

A special interview with Julian Assange by the Frontline Club on February 27, 2012 about the recent Wikileaks. It's only him being interviewed.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/20736311

[Calz]

Somewhat interesting article regarding some of the emails as they pertain to Israel

_____________________________



Wikileaks Global Intelligence Files: Israel

February 28, 2012 9:56 am


The website WikiLeaks has begun releasing what it says are 5 million e-mails sent between July 2004 and late December 2011 from the private intelligence company Stratfor. The emails were obtained from a series of hacking attacks against Stratfor in December 2011, carried out by the online activist collective Anonymous.

Stratfor describes itself as a provider of “strategic intelligence on global business, economic, security and geopolitical affairs” and has about 300,000 subscribers. The Texas-based company has issued the following statement: “Some of the e-mails may be forged or altered to include inaccuracies; some may be authentic. We will not validate either. Nor will we explain the thinking that went into them. Having had our property stolen, we will not be victimized twice by submitting to questioning about them”.

The emails are part of what WikiLeaks calls “The Global Intelligence Files” and one of the first items released is a document titled “The Stratfor Glossary of Useful, Baffling and Strange Intelligence Terms” which was attached to an email sent by Stratfor CEO George Friedman in 2007.

The “glossary” (http://wikileaks.org/IMG/pdf/The_Stratfor_Glossary_of_Useful_Baffling_and_Strange_Intelligence_Terms.pdf) contains some terms and definitions about U.S. government agencies, ranging from humorous to derogatory. The following terms are taken directly from the Stratfor e-mail sent out by Mr. Friedman:

Clandestine:



Operation that has no open connection to anyone. Israeli maxim: “If you’re captured, we don’t know you. If you’re killed, we won’t bury you. So…don’t get captured and don’t get killed.” Clandestine is synonymous with suicidal.”


Duplicitous little bastards:



Israeli Intelligence


Megawatt/Kilowatt:



Megawatt: Israeli term for CIA. Kilowatt: Israeli term for themselves. They don’t really mean it.


Sigint and ELINT:



Signal intelligence and Electronic intelligence: from wiretaps to satellite intercepts. Usually expensive, dangerous and requires physical effort. Good first mission for BYM (bright young man). Suggest that he try planting a bug in the Israeli Embassy in order to get good first hand experience in ELINT. You can find him the next morning at the curb in a plastic garbage bag.

Target—hard:



A tough target. A thirty year veteran of Israeli intelligence who has gone totally paranoid.

Approximately 3 months before the Gaza flotilla incident, Turkish prime minister, Erdoğan, was looking to “break with Israel and the United States”, according to an internal email conversation involving Stratfor CEO George Friedman and several Stratfor staff. The same email chain mentions that “Erdogan has made it clear to him that he plans to break with Israel at some point and reorient toward the Islamic world. He intends to be their leader.”

This email also mentions that former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, believes that Israel will attack Iran.

George Friedman says “I believe the US will preempt. But there is no clear time line”,when replying to a question about a possible Israeli attack on Iran. Another Stratfor staff member states, “All my sources – regardless of factional affiliation – are convinced that Iran is preparing for war and one that will make the regime more stronger.”

An email dated November 14, 2011, refers to a deadly munitions blast at an Iranian Revolutionary Guards base. The email lists the following claim from a source: “The Israelis already destroyed all the Iranian nuclear infrastructure on the ground weeks ago. The current ‘let’s bomb Iran’ campaign was ordered by the EU leaders to divert the public attention from their at home financial problems.”

This was later clarified as: “Israeli commandos in collaboration with Kurd forces destroyed
few underground facilities mainly used for the Iranian defense and nuclear research projects.”

A different email dated July 21, 2011, refers to a source described as a former Pakistani intelligence officer. The source refers to “Pakistan bashing” and states “…covert and overt influence Israel enjoys through funding American congressmen and the control Israel has on American policies through coercion and fear of Jewish lobby.”

In another email dated November 17, 2010, a Stratfor staff member refers to former Spanish PM Azner as “…hardcore.. Way more extreme than even the Israeli officials I’ve heard speak.”

George Friedman has not resigned despite some media reports to the contrary.


http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/02/28/wikileaks-global-intelligence-files-israel/

[Kimberley]

Happy Leap day!!

This link includes a video and the Wikileaks part starts at about 12 minutes in....

February 29, 2012
Leaked Stratfor Email Suggests Secret U.S. Indictment of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/29/leaked_stratfor_email_suggests_secret_us

[ThePythonicCow]

The “glossary” (http://wikileaks.org/IMG/pdf/The_Stratfor_Glossary_of_Useful_Baffling_and_Strange_Intelligence_Terms.pdf) contains some terms and definitions about U.S. government agencies, ranging from humorous to derogatory.
That glossary is a hoot :).

(I formatted the sample entries from it that your quoted article quoted, and I tracked that glossary down and made an active link to it.)

[Kimberley]

This is a mainstream report from msnbc.msn.com yesterday:

Leaked emails shine rare light on Stratfor
WikiLeaks slowly releasing more than 5 million of intelligence group's private emails

By PAUL J. WEBER, RAPHAEL SATTER
Associated Press
updated 2/28/2012 9:10:21 AM ET

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46555168/ns/us_news-security/t/leaked-emails-shine-rare-light-stratfor/

[Kimberley]

Hey this just came to my attention .. very interesting indeed!!!

Posted: February 16, 2012
Alex Jones Cancels Speaking Tour 3 Days After Exposure As Possible STRATFOR Double Agent

http://truthernews.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/alex-jones-cancels-speaking-tour-after-exposure-as-stratfor-double-agent/

[humanalien]

They are only jumping to conclusions about AJ being a double agent.
I seen no proof at all that he is......

[ponda]

WikiLeaks: Russia gave Israel Iranian codes

Latest round of leaks suggest Russia gave Israel codes to access Iran’s Tor- M1 air-defense systems.

Russia provided Israel security codes to access Iran’s Tor- M1 air-defense systems in exchange for an Israeli handover of codes to “hack” drones sold to Georgia, according to a leaked email from a private American intelligence company.

more: http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=259954

[Solstyse]

Homeland Security is Tracking OccupyWallStreet - VIDEO:

http://t.co/Q9giuvzC

[Anam Cara]

This is very revealing and why Julian Assange really doesn't want to go back to Sweden. It's for very good reason and the more that know about this the better.

'Well you're from the Expressen newspaper which fabricated an entire story, made it front page in four additional papers last week, and as a result, the foreign minister of Sweden has been on some defensive rampage against this organisation.

'Completely absurd. Sweden in relation to Carl Bildt is acting like a political kindergarten. It is totally absurd. And as a result, we simply do not answer questions to your organisation.

'As you know, your organisation works hand in hand with the Moderate Party, it is owned by the Bonniers - come on!'

- Julian Assange's reply to Expressen's reporter, WikiLeaks press conference 2012-02-27

http://rixstep.com/2/20120229,00.shtml

[ViralSpiral]

Hey this just came to my attention .. very interesting indeed!!!

Posted: February 16, 2012
Alex Jones Cancels Speaking Tour 3 Days After Exposure As Possible STRATFOR Double Agent

http://truthernews.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/alex-jones-cancels-speaking-tour-after-exposure-as-stratfor-double-agent/


Hi Kimberley

Not recommending you watch the whole show (I haven't) however, here is the Dallas 19th Feb one.

cancel schmancel ;)



Venb9aReAP4

[Anam Cara]

Another Swedish perspective showing the politics behind this case with Assange:

Anatomy of an untruthful scoop: Sweden’s psychological warfare against WikiLeaks, and the political case VS Julian Assange. Part One

http://ferrada-noli.blogspot.com/2012/02/anatomy-of-untruthful-scoop-explaining.html

additionally...

http://ferrada-noli.blogspot.com/

[InCiDeR]

This is very revealing and why Julian Assange really doesn't want to go back to Sweden. It's for very good reason and the more that know about this the better.

'Well you're from the Expressen newspaper which fabricated an entire story, made it front page in four additional papers last week, and as a result, the foreign minister of Sweden has been on some defensive rampage against this organisation.

'Completely absurd. Sweden in relation to Carl Bildt is acting like a political kindergarten. It is totally absurd. And as a result, we simply do not answer questions to your organisation.

'As you know, your organisation works hand in hand with the Moderate Party, it is owned by the Bonniers - come on!'

- Julian Assange's reply to Expressen's reporter, WikiLeaks press conference 2012-02-27

http://rixstep.com/2/20120229,00.shtml

In my view, there is also a high probability that the Swedish Government eventually will hand over Assange to USA.

It has happened before that the Swedish Government acted as puppets on a string when USA put some pressure on them...

[Anam Cara]

I'll hold out on any conclusion about that right now. Have you checked out those 2 links I posted about the Swedish? How about the Australian Prime Minister? There is so much about to break in news about all the connections going on to Bradly Manning, controlling the internet and so much more that the goons aren't going to know what hit them. Also, here's an interesting article about cell phones and satellites and the internet. Satellites are getting hacked and it's scaring the bejesus out of many a corporate government official all over the globe. We live in very very interesting times and I love it.

Hacking satellite communications and possible implication

http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/231 ... ation.html

a couple of journalists were killed in Syria because of being tracked on their cell phones...it's all connected and why we need WikiLeaks.

[Anam Cara]

Another link with vid and transcript about Assanges sealed indictment.

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/29/leaked_stratfor_email_suggests_secret_us

[Anam Cara]

Lol I just realized InCIDeR you ARE Swedish. Perhaps, you have some insight being there, that the rest of us would be interested in knowing as well? ;)

[modwiz]

The “glossary” (http://wikileaks.org/IMG/pdf/The_Stratfor_Glossary_of_Useful_Baffling_and_Strange_Intelligence_Terms.pdf) contains some terms and definitions about U.S. government agencies, ranging from humorous to derogatory.
That glossary is a hoot :).

(I formatted the sample entries from it that your quoted article quoted, and I tracked that glossary down and made an active link to it.)

It is a hoot. I am reading it a bit at a time. It is hard to not like the intelligence and dark, dry humor of Mr Friedman. Gordon DUff says his website VT is a more serious intelligence angency with better sources than Stratfor. I am inclined to agree with him. This Stratfor seems like a man trying to run a business, has clients that are paying him and is employing a fair amount of misfits, based on some conversations he has with his people in the field.

My observations, and Duff's as well as many other minds that I respect, see wikileaks as an Israeli asset, probably Mossad. I have no need or desire to debate my conviction about wikileaks. Disagree with me, but don't expect a reply on the subject. I do not care what other people think about a subject I have spent some real time looking at.

I was willing to give Assange a second look after all of the harassment he has suffered. He catches a lot of crap considering who he works for, but he looked fairly well dressed and relaxed at the conference and much of the news about this and that country or agency being after him is most likely disinfo theater for public consumption. I am sure the officers of Stratfor want him dragged behind a vehicle through glass strewn streets though.

Mr. Friedman seems to not be a big fan of the Israelis and he may actually be more of a 'patriot' than the whole of D.C. This would make him unpopular with the zionist entity and they would then put their nasty little asset, Assange, to work onto someone doing independent work that does not bend reality to the liking of Tel Aviv and the politicians they pay in the UK and USA.

One of his gems:

Duplicitous little bastards:
Israeli Intelligence

I think this Friedman guy may be a relatively decent man by political standards. I understand how low the bar is there. We are learning, over and over again, decency will not be tolerated by the Zio-Anglo-American axis. Friedman's enemies cast a far better light on him than I first thought. Please be discerning as to who is shining a light onto subjects for discussion. Almost everything is backward and 'upside down' and the opposite of what it seems, especially when it is big news. Even alternative big news because we are a target for being a little awake. Another thing detested by the elite: People who can smell them and hear them moving.

Recommended perusal. Link to the full glossary:http://wikileaks.org/IMG/pdf/The_Stratfor_Glossary_of_Useful_Baffling_and_Strange_Intelligence_Terms.pdf

[Anam Cara]

Further evidence of secret US indictment of Julian Assange

Internal emails obtained from the US private intelligence firm Stratfor indicate that the Obama administration has had a secret indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for more than 12 months. The emails, published by WikiLeaks this week, also point to the close involvement of the Australian Labor government and intelligence agencies in the operation against Assange, an Australian citizen.

The emails were sent by Fred Burton, Stratfor’s vice-president for counterterrorism and corporate security. Burton is a former Deputy Chief of the US Department of State’s counterterrorism division for the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS). The DSS is playing a leading investigative role in the ongoing operation to extradite Assange to the US, where he would be tried under the Espionage Act of 1917 and could face the death penalty.

In January 2011, Burton revealed in Stratfor correspondence that a secret Grand Jury had issued an indictment: “Not for Pub—We have a sealed indictment on Assange. Pls protect.” According to Burton: “Assange is going to make a nice bride in prison. Screw the terrorist. He’ll be eating cat food forever.”

A few weeks earlier, following Assange’s release from a London jail, where he had been remanded as a result of a Swedish prosecutor’s arrest warrant, Burton told SkyNews: “extradition [to the US is] more and more likely.”

Burton’s emails indicate that the US government is employing the same “counter-terrorism” methods against WikiLeaks as against Al Qaeda, “Take down the money. Go after his infrastructure. The tools we are using to nail and de-construct Wiki are the same tools used to dismantle and track aQ [Al Qaeda],” he wrote.

Later Burton pointed to a relentless dirty tricks and destabilisation operation. “Ferreting out [Assange’s] confederates is also key. Find out what other disgruntled rogues inside the tent or outside [sic]. Pile on. Move him from country to country to face various charges for the next 25 years. But, seize everything he and his family own, to include every person linked to Wiki.”

The Stratfor emails undoubtedly reflect sentiments inside the Obama administration to exact revenge on Assange and destroy WikiLeaks for having exposed US war crimes all over the globe. These exposures began in April 2010, when WikiLeaks released a video of a massacre of civilians in Baghdad by a US attack helicopter. Since then the site has released thousands of documents detailing US killings of civilians and complicity in torture in Afghanistan and Iraq, and numerous other conspiracies carried out by Washington and its allies.

Burton’s emails help confirm earlier reports, dating back to December 2010, that a secret Grand Jury had been empanelled in Virginia, near Washington, to prepare a sealed indictment under the Espionage Act.

In the past, this reactionary law has mostly been used to prosecute government officials who make classified information available to foreign agents. Now it is being employed to blatantly censor publication of politically damaging information. In earlier periods, the Act was invoked to imprison American socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs, execute Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for allegedly passing nuclear information to the Soviet Union, and prosecute Daniel Ellsberg for leaking the Pentagon Papers, which exposed the US war crimes in Vietnam.

Responding to the Stratfor disclosures, Assange said: “For over a year now, the US Attorney General Eric Holder has been conducting a ‘secret’ Grand Jury investigation into WikiLeaks. This neo-McCarthyist witch hunt against WikiLeaks may be Mr Holder’s defining legacy. Any student of American history knows that secret justice is no justice at all.”

The Stratfor correspondence makes clear the connection between Assange’s indictment and the imprisonment of alleged WikiLeaks source Private Bradley Manning. In an email to Stephen Feldhaus, Stratfor legal counsel, Burton remarked: “I look forward to Manning and Assange facing a bajillion-thousand counts [of espionage].”

Manning has been held in US military brigs for more than one and a half years, and subjected to months of solitary confinement, forced nakedness, sleep deprivation and other cruelties amounting to torture. This brutal treatment is aimed at forcing him into a plea bargain to help the US government’s case against Assange. Currently under house arrest in Britain, Assange is awaiting a decision in his UK Supreme Court appeal against extradition to Sweden on baseless sex charges, which could quickly lead to his extradition to the US.

Assange’s arrest, in December 2010, came just after WikiLeaks began publishing 251,287 leaked US embassy cables, the largest collection of confidential documents ever released into the public domain. WikiLeaks was subsequently subject to a block on financial donations by Visa, MasterCard and PayPal, forcing it to suspend its activities.

It is clear that Australian authorities, acting on the instructions of the Gillard government, are heavily involved in the conspiracy against Assange. In July 2010, Burton wrote to George Friedman, Stratfor CEO and founder: “We probably asked the ASIS [Australian Secret Intelligence Service] to monitor Wiki coms and email, after the soldier from Potomac [Manning] was nabbed. So, it’s reasonable to assume we probably already know who has done it. The delay could be figuring out how to declassify and use the Aussie intel on Wiki.”

Because of the widespread support for Assange in Australia and internationally, the Australian government has repeatedly denied any knowledge of his indictment. Yesterday, in parliament, the government’s Senate leader, Chris Evans, again stated: “I can tell you that the Australian government is not aware of any charges by the US government against Mr Assange.”

These denials fly in the face of the record. The Labor government publicly backed the persecution of Assange from the outset. In December 2010, Prime Minister Julia Gillard improperly declared the WikiLeaks publication of the US cables “illegal.” Without any legal basis, the then attorney-general, Robert McClelland, claimed that obtaining classified information was also an offence under Australian law. The government authorised an investigation, involving ASIS, the Australian Federal Police and other security agencies, to assist the US witch hunt.

The Labor government’s complicity in the drive to railroad the WikiLeaks founder to jail is entirely in line with its unequivocal alignment behind the Obama administration’s aggressive measures to confront China and other deemed threats to Washington’s geo-strategic and economic interests. Canberra’s involvement in the Assange operation is a piece with Gillard’s agreement to station US troops and host more US military planes, ships and submarines.

Assange and WikiLeaks are being pursued because their cable leaks have helped lay bare the criminal objectives and operations of US imperialism and its allies, including Australia, which stand in direct opposition to the interests and sentiments of the broad mass of the world’s population.


http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/wiki-m01.shtml

[Anam Cara]

Time for Government to Stand Ground and Protect Assange

by Jennifer Robinson

WikiLeaks's latest release of confidential emails obtained from the US private intelligence firm Stratfor indicate the US Department of Justice has issued a secret, sealed indictment against Julian Assange. While the Department of Justice has refused to confirm the existence of the Assange indictment - it refuses to comment upon any alleged sealed indictment - the Stratfor email is the best confirmation we have of the long-stated concerns about the risk of Assange's extradition to the US to face criminal prosecution for his publishing activities with WikiLeaks.

The email was from Fred Burton, Stratfor's vice-president for counterterrorism and corporate security, and former deputy chief of the Department of State's counterterrorism division for the Diplomatic Security Service. On Australia Day last year, Burton revealed in internal Stratfor correspondence: ''Not for Pub - We have a sealed indictment on Assange. Pls protect.''

Following the announcement by the US Attorney-General, Eric Holder, of criminal investigation into Assange in December 2010, the US government has refused to give further comment on its plans to prosecute him. The grand jury is secret. Our appeals to military courts for access to the Bradley Manning proceedings were denied. The Australian government has consistently claimed to have no information from the US as to whether they will prosecute Assange and seek his extradition.

The question we must now ask: if a Texas private intelligence firm knew of the sealed indictment for more than a year - why doesn't our government? Did the government know? Was its denial of knowledge dishonest?

It is rather ironic, and an embarrassing indictment of the US-Australia alliance, if the Australian government learnt this information, as we have, through a WikiLeaks release. Indicting Assange represents a dramatic assault on the First Amendment, journalists and the public right to know. Assange, recently awarded the Walkley Award for most outstanding contribution to journalism, faces criminal prosecution - marking the first time a journalist has been prosecuted for allegedly receiving and publishing ''classified'' documents.

The Australian government must rectify the damage to its international reputation by our failure so far to acknowledge - and protect - our most celebrated journalist and be mindful of the impact it will have on free speech in Australia and around the world. The Prime Minster, Julia Gillard, has bent to US pressure on WikiLeaks and wrongfully accused an Australian citizen of illegal conduct, and the former attorney-general Robert McClelland pondered cancelling Assange's passport but Kevin Rudd, as foreign minister, told the pair to back off. He may be on the backbench now, but Rudd was right.

The correct legal analysis, provided by other lawyers in Parliament, Malcolm Turnbull and the shadow attorney-general George Brandis, SC, is that publication of classified material of foreign powers - even friendly ones - is not a crime in Australia; nor is it a crime in the US. That is also the legal advice of the Australian Federal Police, who concluded Assange had committed no crime here. Prominent academics in the US agree Assange is entitled to the protections of the First Amendment.

But any constitutional challenge for Assange will come years down the track. The Stratfor emails disclose a strategy: ''move him from country to country to face various charges for the next 25 years'' and ''[bankrupt] the asshole first … ruin his life. Give him 7-12 years for conspiracy''.

What happens to Assange in the US in the meantime? We need only look to the treatment of WikiLeaks's alleged source, Manning, who has been kept in degrading conditions, including solitary confinement, for more than 18 months pending trial. According to Burton, in another Stratfor email disclosed yesterday: ''Assange is going to make a nice bride in prison. Screw the terrorist. He'll be eating cat food forever.''

The Australian government must learn from its mistakes in the David Hicks case and act now. Assange is an Australian citizen and we must protect him, and protect our country from international condemnation for our failure to act, knowing the treatment Assange will receive in the US.

National sovereignty and the protection of Australians abroad have so far been sacrificed to US interests in this case. A real friend of the US will, at times, criticise, as all friends must. Australia must ask serious questions of the US about its plans to prosecute Assange. Australia should exercise diplomatic protection and seek undertakings regarding his treatment. Assange deserves the protection any of us as Australian citizens deserve. What if it were your son or brother or friend? Would you feel satisfied with our government's response?

In the case of Schapelle Corby, the former attorney-general Philip Ruddock sent senior lawyers to Indonesia on our government's behalf to arrange her defence. They said, ''the fact is, she is an Australian national in trouble overseas, and the consequences are extremely severe, so there just wasn't any hesitation''. Assange is surely as worthy of our protection as the ''Bali boy'' who, having admitted drug possession, received a phone call from Ms Gillard and the highest level of consular assistance. Assange has not received anywhere near that support. Quite the opposite.

Whether or not the government knew before, it certainly knows now. The Prime Minister, the Attorney-General and the new foreign minister must take action. Nicola Roxon, the Attorney-General, campaigned hard in opposition to bring Hicks home, urging the Howard government ''to take urgent action to protect this Australian citizen they have so far neglected for such a long period of time''. She has so far remained silent. But if she can go into bat for Hicks, she can go into bat for Assange. The government must protect Assange, not just because of who he is, but because he is Australian. And, as the Stratfor emails confirm, an Australian is at risk.

© 2012 Sydney Morning Herald

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/29-11#.T09HRYpK2rE.twitter

[modwiz]

The reason Assange has exposed the USA for war crimes in the countries it is in is because his paymasters wish to either distract what they are doing in Gaza and the West Bank and/or at least have some unsavory company with blood dripping from their hands. They have already used the Native American genocide as a reason they should be allowed to do what they are doing in Palestine. We have countered with it being hundreds of years ago and that it is not civilized behavior anymore and therefore unacceptable. They counter with wikileaks showing the US government and its' military engaging in war crimes. Wikileaks also showed many governments in an unfavorable light, except one borderless entity in Palestine. That omission is the trail of turds that leads back to Tel Aviv.

Assange is also on record dismissing 9/11 as basically irrelevant. Make of that what you will.

I fully understand Stratfor and their animus towards wikileaks. I believe Stratfor sees themselves as businessmen in intelligence who believe they are leaning towards the white hat direction in a grey hat world. Anybody who has a morsel of love for the USA and is above the common moron intelligence of much of said country, knows who the real enemy is. Assange aids and abets this enemy and is their asset. The fact that I am not the only one who knows this probably means that his days are numbered and short. He is beginning to fall into adjacent territory to this "glossary" term:

Israeli maxim: “If you’re captured, we don’t know you. If you’re killed, we won’t bury you. So…don’t get captured and don’t get killed.” Clandestine is synonymous with suicidal.”


This is a message from Tel Aviv. 'We want you (USA) to handle Iran and we are growing impatient with your foot-dragging'. This is the horses' head in the bed.

[ponda]

WikiLeaks names ex-Senator as informant


Former National Party senator and businessman Bill O'Chee has been revealed as the most prolific Australian informant of a controversial private global intelligence company that is the target of a new campaign by WikiLeaks.

Intelligence reports of the company, Stratfor, identify Mr O'Chee as ''Source CN 65'', the author of a steady stream of confidential economic and political reports since 2008. He is referenced in more than 2000 Stratfor emails obtained by WikiLeaks.

Mr O'Chee's reports and commentaries cover subjects including the Chinese economy, global resources markets, mining developments across Asia, shipping and logistic issues, and political developments in Australia, Papua New Guinea, China, Burma and elsewhere.

In one case Mr O'Chee sent Stratfor advance information given by a source ''in a very high govt position'' relating to President Barack Obama's October 2011 visit to Australia.
Now a Brisbane based business consultant, Mr O'Chee is described by his Stratfor ''source handler'', China and International Projects Director Jennifer Richmond, as ''my Aussie intelligence source'' who is ''well-connected politically, militarily and economically''.

When contacted by Fairfax Media, Mr O'Chee declined to comment on what he described as ''private business''. He said he had no ties to any government and his business activities ''didn't require advertising''. He said he had no contractual relationship with Stratfor and was not on the company's payroll, but declined to respond when asked about whether he received any payment for his prolific reporting or analysis.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/wikileaks-names-exsenator-as-informant-20120301-1u4gw.html#ixzz1nrOsh7qu

[Anam Cara]

Thursday, December 01, 2011

The “Duck Pond” Theses. Explaining Swedish journalism and the anti-Assange smear campaign

http://ferrada-noli.blogspot.com/2011/12/duck-pond-theses-explaining-swedish.html

¤=[Post Update]=¤

modwiz do you have links and/or sources to support your allegations against Assange? I would appreciate seeing them. Thanx in advance.

[modwiz]

Thursday, December 01, 2011

The “Duck Pond” Theses. Explaining Swedish journalism and the anti-Assange smear campaign

http://ferrada-noli.blogspot.com/2011/12/duck-pond-theses-explaining-swedish.html

¤=[Post Update]=¤

modwiz do you have links and/or sources to support your allegations against Assange? I would appreciate seeing them. Thanx in advance.

Assange and wikileaks are all public record. Connecting dots is my own due diligence and I have no links to the deductive and inductive reasoning that occurs in the privacy of my head. I have shared my observations about the same information we all have. Try hanging upside down. The view is different.

Here's the latest link I have that you may find of interest:http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/02/27/wikileaks-and-stratfor-israel-busted-again/

BTW Allegations is a weasel word oft used by our adversaries. It is a way to mislead others to think what has been said is spurious and not to be taken seriously without producing documentation, which is impossible because sound reasoning is a proprietary kind of thing. It is a way to burden someone with tedious homework to prove an observation or opinion, however sound it might be.

Your allegation remark is a tactic, only useful on idiots.

[Anam Cara]

Just as I thought, thank you modwiz.

[InCiDeR]

(...)In all these revelations, as characterized by Christian Engström, a Pirate Party member of the EU Parliament , Sweden is presented as a willing "marionette government" whose USA-loyalty goes well beyond the interest of their own Swedish nation and the integrity of its citizens.(...)

2. CIA connection, or Swedish honeytrap?

War is classically defined as the continuation of politics (von Clausewitz, 1827) and intelligence operations as a part of that war. In this context honeytraps are just a political weapon in a politically motivated war campaign. And as it is informed, war was declared by some top U.S. Republican politicians to Assange and Wikileaks. Honeytraps are of rather common use, and they are not at all a privilege of the CIA. In fact high rank CIA officers have themselves been targeted of honey traps, such as Andrew M. Warren in Alger 2010, or U.S. diplomat Kyle Hatcher - a CIA officer according to Russian newspapers - in Moscow 2009. Thus, the apparent disbelief or skepticism showed by Swedish journalists while naively disregarding this method as "incredible stories" or "absurd" - as referred in Svenska Dagbladet in an editorial on the Assange case by a Sanna Rayman ("Absurditetsnivå gredelin är passerad för länge sen", SvD 10/12-2010) - appears itself as unbelievable.

Further, each mentioning of a CIA connection of the "women" in the Assange case has been easily converted by Wikileaks detractors in detrimental for Assange's interests. The reason is simple. As the media in this case has chosen not to reveal the names of the women used in the accusation of Assange, it would not be possible to conduct any publishable investigation on the possible CIA connection of one of the women, a Cuban born émigré, as reported in an article of Gramma, the main newspaper in Cuba. Hence, the identity protection - used in Sweden discriminatorily - in this case is instrumented to inhibit research or disclosures of further political motives in the constellation of interests against Assange and Wikileaks.(...)

http://www.newsmill.se/artikel/2011/01/11/the-swedish-political-crusade-against-assange-and-wikileaks

[Anam Cara]

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Further devious reports on Julian Assange in the Swedish National Television. Update

http://ferrada-noli.blogspot.com/2011/11/further-devious-reports-on-julian.html

[modwiz]

Just as I thought, thank you modwiz.

All you have done is copy and pasted from other websites. World Socialist Website? You know who the socialists are? Who the Bolsheviks were/are?

You have not posted any of your own thoughts, you simply cut and paste. You question me? You haven't even put a paragraph of thought together. You asked me a question and then reply with a smarmy sentence. I think we have each established our credentials. You have nothing to offer us from your own mind. If you have an opinion, you need another to speak for you. Basically you do not make your own mind up, but find your opinion on the web. Somebody else does the thinking and then you nod your head in agreement and think you have an opinion. It is how most people come to their opinions, and it is why 1% of the world rules the other 99%. They are too intellectually lazy to think for themselves.

[Anam Cara]

10 actually that's only 2 numbers in binary.

[Anam Cara]

That's interesting modwiz do you frequent the GLP forum often? I really don't care for your opinion or what you think of mine. You don't know much about research and Journalism huh? Oh well...

[modwiz]

That's interesting modwiz do you frequent the GLP forum often? I really don't care for your opinion or what you think of mine. You don't know much about Journalism huh? Oh well...

I never go there. Another of your trollish accusations again? Having nothing interesting or intelligent to say must be a terrible existence if one had the wits to to perceive the dearth of any depth.

Journalism has been the province of the few since its inception. If it is not owned by the Orcs it must be a podunk outlet of no consequence. If it grows relevant, it will be acquired. Most journalism is mind-fark swill made to be poured into the minds of people who believe they are intelligent because they can read. Journalism and propaganda are in most cases synonymous. Those that are not are usually drowned out in the din of infotainment and disinfo.

[ThePythonicCow]

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[Anam Cara]

http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1128694316/4cd7a702-1b01-4f1f-beee-09d7db0cd6fa_normal.png WikiLeaks ‏ @wikileaks
Australian Senator Mark Arbib, revealed by #WikiLeaks as a frequent US Embassy informant has resigned. #auspol smh.com.au/technology/tec…

THE federal Labor minister and right-wing powerbroker Mark Arbib is one of the US embassy's valued confidential contacts, providing inside information and commentary on the workings of the government and the ALP.

Secret embassy cables obtained by WikiLeaks and made available exclusively to this website reveal that Senator Arbib has been in regular contact with US embassy officers. His candid comments are incorporated in reports to Washington with requests that his identity as a ''protected'' source be guarded.

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A strong supporter of Australia's alliance with the US ... Mark Arbib. Photo: Jacky Ghossein

Embassy cables refer to Senator Arbib as a strong supporter of Australia's alliance with the US. They identify him as a valuable source of information on Labor politics, including the former prime minister Kevin Rudd's hopes to forestall an eventual leadership challenge by his deputy, Julia Gillard.

''He understands the importance of supporting a vibrant relationship with the US while not being too deferential. We have found him personable, confident and articulate,'' says an embassy profile written in July 2009. ''He has met with us repeatedly throughout his political rise.''

Senator Arbib issued a short statement this morning in response to the revelations.

Other Labor politicians reported as regular contacts include the former minister Bob McMullan and Michael Danby, a serving MP.

A former state secretary of the NSW branch of the Labor Party, Senator Arbib was a key backroom figure in the ''coup'' last June in which Ms Gillard replaced Mr Rudd. He has been a senator since July 2008 and was appointed a parliamentary secretary for government service delivery under Mr Rudd in February 2009. Mr Rudd elevated him to minister for employment participation from June last year.

Since the election in August Senator Arbib has been the Minister for Indigenous Employment and Economic Development, Sport and Social Housing and Homelessness.

US diplomats were quick to focus on Senator Arbib as a ''right-wing powerbroker and political rising star'' who had made ''a quick transition from the parliamentary back-rooms into the ministry''.

The US embassy noted that ''the NSW Labor Party's kingmaker was integral in raising the numbers for Rudd to overthrow Kim Beazley as Australian Labor Party leader in 2006'', and that Senator Arbib was ''a close adviser to Rudd and is his key conduit to the ALP factions''.

''Arbib is an influential factional operator who has forged strong political connections with Rudd,'' the embassy noted. ''We have been told that Rudd respects Arbib's political expertise, and a contact noted that Arbib is brought into Rudd's inner circle when politically important decisions are made.

''Arbib is said to be loyal to, but frank, with Rudd, and is one of Rudd's closest advisers. Yet, publicly, Arbib has denied being part of Rudd's inner circle.''

US diplomats also found Senator Arbib was ''an astute observer and able conversant on the nuts and bolts of US politics''.

Senator Arbib first appears as a contributor to US embassy political reporting while he was NSW secretary.

In May 2006 Senator Arbib told diplomats Australia was at risk of becoming a ''quarry for the Chinese and a tourist destination for the Japanese''.

He warned that it would be ''a tough struggle for the Labor Party to win the federal elections in 2007'' but that he thought Mr Beazley, because he was the opposite of the volatile Mark Latham, was the right man to lead the ALP at the present time.

Senator Arbib also told embassy officers that, unlike Mr Beazley, he supported Australia's military commitment in Iraq ''as well as the war on terrorism in general''.

After the election of the Rudd government, Senator Arbib offered reassurance about Ms Gillard's political leanings, describing her as ''one of the most pragmatic politicians in the ALP''.

He confirmed Mr Rudd's tendencies towards micro-management and told the embassy ''Rudd's staff would like to get their boss to spend less time on foreign policy and delegate more, but that they recognise that this is a hopeless task''.

In October last year, as Mr Rudd's popular support began to sag, Senator Arbib openly canvassed leadership tensions within the government, telling diplomats Mr Rudd wanted ''to ensure that there are viable alternatives to Gillard within the Labor Party to forestall a challenge''.

Mr Rudd's brother, Greg, told embassy officers a similar story.

Senator Arbib said Mr Rudd still appreciated Ms Gillard's strengths, while another unidentified adviser to Mr Rudd told diplomats that ''while the PM respects Gillard, his reluctance to share power will eventually lead to a falling-out, while Gillard will not want to acquiesce in creating potential rivals''.

Last June Senator Arbib threw his hand in with other Labor Right figures moving to depose Mr Rudd from the leadership, thereby precipitating the events that led to Ms Gillard's becoming prime minister. In recent months there have been media reports that Senator Arbib has been undermining Ms Gillard but Labor insiders deny this.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/yank-in-the-ranks-20101208-18pwi.html

[jaybee]

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@ Modwiz.....with your damning of Assange and praise for Stratfor...you are sounding more and more like a Stratfor 'asset' yourself...:)

Two words spring to mind....

damage limitation


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[modwiz]

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@ Modwiz.....with your damning of Assange and praise for Stratfor...you are sounding more and more like a Stratfor 'asset' yourself...:)

Two words spring to mind....

damage limitation


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C'mon. Most of those guys can barely write their thoughts. Too 'fuzzy' on wine. If they make me an offer I might consider.:sarcastic: Seems like they have a lot of people who would be homeless if they didn't work for Stratfor.

I will take your counsel about damage limitation though, Jaybee. It is sound counsel. I will leave this thread to the able talents of cut and paste.

[InCiDeR]

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Further devious reports on Julian Assange in the Swedish National Television. Update

http://ferrada-noli.blogspot.com/2011/11/further-devious-reports-on-julian.html

Anam Cara, I salut your day and being.

I noticed that you link to many "reports" regarding Wikileaks and Assange in relationship to Sweden and Swedish journalism. Many of your links points to articles written by Professor Emeritus Marcello Ferradda de Noli.

In order to keep some form of balance in the discussion considering Assange and Sweden, I like to extend following:

Marcello many times express controversiall thougts regarding the Swedish Government and how they handle things. Not only regarding the situation with Wikileaks and Assange, but also when it comes to other things in the Swedish society. I am not saying he is totally wrong, but he is not totally right either. I believe Marcello have an agenda as well, especially considering his background (the left wing) and who is holding the power in Sweden as of now (the right wing).

There are many other sources and well founded opinions in Sweden which do not agree with Marcellos point of view... even from his own "wing".

The discussion in Sweden concerning this issue is very complex though, it is not easy to pin summarize the whole debate in just a few lines in this post. But I do think it is important to consider both sides and try to find a balance in the middle... then connect the dots by yourself.

My dots have point me into this direction:

The whole thing is probably a honey trap.
I think there is a high probability that the Swedish Government will eventually hand over Assange to USA.
My thoughts are based on previous experience of the Swedish Government, their relationship to USA, research and finally but not least my gut feeling.

[ulli]

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@ Modwiz.....with your damning of Assange and praise for Stratfor...you are sounding more and more like a Stratfor 'asset' yourself...:)

Two words spring to mind....

damage limitation


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I see neither praise nor damning, but an investigator's mind that doesn't take things at face value.
Modwiz has proven himself to be a highly intuitive observer.
I pay attention to what he has to say, not matter how provocatively he voices his opinions.
At least he can be called a 'thinker'.

[Anam Cara]

Anonymous: Interpol Site Down After Hacktivists Arrested

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9_OF9pL7Gs&feature=youtu.be

[Moz]

It is my understanding that no such thing as Anonymous actually exists and that its like Al Qaida and is being used much the same way, that is, to show the public the need to "regulate" and enforce the "law" on the internet in a even tighter manner when any such need is required by the elite.

I also have that impression about Wikileaks: it leaks what is needed when its needed...hmmm coincidence?

Moz

[Straker]

For those of you here in Australia, you might have seen this story on Bill O'Chee and his connections to Strator and Wikileaks.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/wikileaks-names-exsenator-as-informant-20120301-1u4gw.html

DAMN! This comes as news to me, as I photographed his wedding!

Actually, I was friends with his (now-ex) wife Tara and she asked me to be their photographer. I recall warning her about Bill at the time (around 1997) that he seemed two faced, but I couldn't put a finger on it...he just seemed very shady and untrustworthy to me, I got a very wierd vibe from the guy. Well at least I got a ride in his Lotus before it was sold...

J