WikiLeaks is at it again!

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  WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE
  
  
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  EMBARGOED EMBARGOED EMBARGOED
  
  
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  OR ANY INFORMATION DERIVED FROM IT BEFORE
  
  
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  Monday 27 February 00:01 GMT 2012
  
  
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  The Global Intelligence Files
  
  
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  http://wikileaks.org/gifiles
  
  
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  Twitter tag: #gifiles
  
  
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  Monday 27 Feburary, noon, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, Paddington,
  
  
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  LONDON--Today 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:
  
  
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  "[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.
  
  
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Too bad they released it on Oscar weekend, this will be buried in a pile of "Best and Worst dressed at the Oscars" articles.

I love the smell of vengeance in the morning:

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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.

Not minding the timing wrt the Oscars too much, btw. In this age of ADHD media, it's the persistence that counts. In a week these Oscars will be forgotten.

  On 2/27/2012 at 2:40 AM, goDel said:

I love the smell of vengeance in the morning:

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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.

 

vengeance indeed!

awesome, *hi 5 mr. assange*

Shit, this happened like, 2 hours ago. I wonder what the public reaction will be.

WATMM is clearly right at the bleeding edge of reality!

  On 2/27/2012 at 2:24 AM, YO303 said:

Too bad they released it on Oscar weekend, this will be buried in a pile of "Best and Worst dressed at the Oscars" articles.

troooooooooooooooooooooooooooooof

oh who fucking cares

Well, after the final episode of As the World Turns, a lot of people are looking for a new shot of daily plots and gossip. I'm hopeful there might be some "feels like having a big bowl of chocolate ice cream in your lap and eating away all your sorrows" moments in there.

Honestly, I'm afraid the newspapers are not going to care as well. They're supposed to do all the hard work of sifting through that "buttload". If they don't, probably nobody with some kind of authority will.

fuck it. so the world's a horrible corrupt fucked up place. tell me something I don't know...

just gotta make the best of it innit. no point getting all up in arms about a bunch of people you've never met or heard of before. nothing anyone can do about it anyway. what did the last lot of wikileaks actually accomplish? fuck all.

  On 2/27/2012 at 10:48 AM, BCM said:

fuck it. so the world's a horrible corrupt fucked up place. tell me something I don't know...

 

just gotta make the best of it innit. no point getting all up in arms about a bunch of people you've never met or heard of before. nothing anyone can do about it anyway. what did the last lot of wikileaks actually accomplish? fuck all.

It seems as if you expect that one swift stroke will expose and eliminate planned world domination that has been developing since the church began to exist, and bring peace to the world. Assange is doing what every other media should do by its definition. His aparent Don Quixote stance is just the most obvious proof that you can currently get for that.

Holy.....Bradley Manning nominated for Nobel Peace Price!

  On 2/27/2012 at 10:48 AM, BCM said:

fuck it. so the world's a horrible corrupt fucked up place. tell me something I don't know...

 

just gotta make the best of it innit. no point getting all up in arms about a bunch of people you've never met or heard of before. nothing anyone can do about it anyway. what did the last lot of wikileaks actually accomplish? fuck all.

If everyone in the world thought like you, we'd get no where.

  On 2/27/2012 at 10:48 AM, BCM said:

fuck it. so the world's a horrible corrupt fucked up place. tell me something I don't know...

 

just gotta make the best of it innit. no point getting all up in arms about a bunch of people you've never met or heard of before. nothing anyone can do about it anyway. what did the last lot of wikileaks actually accomplish? fuck all.

  On 2/27/2012 at 12:38 PM, goDel said:

Holy.....Bradley Manning nominated for Nobel Peace Price!

Holy shit.

Manning is more deserving of the Peace prize than Obama.

There was a documentary posted on the Huffpo today, completely trashing Manning. Horrible stuff. It's as if there was an anti-Manning Super PAC at play.

I really hope he wins. I doubt it though. Gene Sharp would be the more obvious winner, I guess. Just because it's the safest choice.

  On 2/27/2012 at 6:50 PM, azatoth said:

Manning is more deserving of the Peace prize than Obama.

Most certainly.

  On 2/27/2012 at 12:38 PM, goDel said:

Holy.....Bradley Manning nominated for Nobel Peace Price!

i thought nominations mean fuck-all for nobel prizes?

THiS is fun it's basically a "Glossary of Terms" which includes some real sarcastic stuff about other intelligence agencies.

I can't imagine it will go over well with any of the people listed, though. Some real gems:

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ATF Alcohol Tobacco and Fire Arms. Rednecks with a license to kill. Never, ever, ever ask for their help on anything.

Background Check Check of history of someone to determine reliability. Usually meaningless. A perfect credit rating does not mean you aren’t devious scum. Does run up the client’s bill and makes it appear that you are busy. Clancy move. Pros run tests. [Ed. The same document later states that a “Clancy” is “Somebody who has read a lot of Tom Clancy novels and thinks he knows the Craft. Total moron. Really dangerous if he is the Customer. Never let a Briefer be a Clancy. “]

Black Op If you heard even a hint of it, it ain’t black. Anyone who tells you about a black op is a liar. Does Stratfor do black ops? You’ll never know.

Backgrounder General analysis that gives the customer better situational awareness. The customer never actually reads the Backgrounder. Its primary use is as cover when the customer screws something up. Backgrounders are the basic intelligence tool for shifting blame to the customer.

Brief the Times When the Briefer has obtained zero valuable intelligence from analysis, he finds something in the inside of the morning paper, powers up a view graph, and “Briefs the Times.” Customers are frequently impressed. It’s a hoot.

CIA Central Intelligence Agency. Also called “Langley” or “up river.” Owns human intelligence (directorate of operations) and analysis (directorate of intelligence). Director, CIA is supposed to oversee all of the intelligence community. Isn’t that a joke? Imagine the Post Office with a foreign policy.

CIA Appetite/Botswana budget A customer with limited resources asking for enormous amounts of intelligence. Defines most of Stratfor’s customers.

Duplicitous little bastards Israeli Intelligence

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation, aka the Downtown Gang. Very good a breaking up used car rings. Kind of confused on anything more complicated. Fun to jerk with. Not fun when they jerk back.

Green-carder A source working for you because he believes that you will take him to America where he will own a Seven-Eleven. Try not to disabuse him until after you’ve squeezed his sorry ass.

Secret Service They catch counterfeiters, break up child pornography rings and guard the president. Continual identity crisis. Very nice people. Not, shall we say, the most sophisticated crew you’ll ever find

that was great.

fascinating stuff this leak