Wikileaks avslöjar hemlig diplomatpost:

"Det var under ett möte i Tokyo i december 2008 som en anställd vid IAEA varnade Japan.

Japan uppgavs ha ett "ett allvarligt problem".

Enligt IAEA hade de japanska säkerhetsföreskrifterna bara setts över tre gånger på 35 år.

Uppgifterna avslöjas av The Daily Telegraph som också rapporterar att Fukoshima-verket hade ett säkerhetscenter som bara klarade av jordbävningar som nådde upp till 7.0 på Richterskalan.

Fredagens skalv nådde betydligt högre än så - 9.0."

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article8723895.ab

En analys i SvD som verkar stämma alltför väl:

Jag håller inte med Jönsson när han (ej citerat) kallar det "bisarrt" att anta fula trick från stater och underrättelsetjänster – om det nu är det han menar; jag håller med honom om han menar att paranoians omfattning i det här fallet har blivit bisarr.

Ännu oskönare, det lilla jag har orkat hänga med, är den utbredda aningslösa sexism som har avslöjats i den (mestadels manliga) gemenskap som ser sig som frihetens förkämpar och den ovilja att reflektera över sina värderingar som folk fortsätter visa även sedan de har fått den påpekad. Sådant kan ju få folk att tycka att det är rätt åt en sådan gemenskap om den inte återhämtar sig efter det här och att den här vägen att få tillgång till viktiga dokument uppenbarligen var en engångsföreteelse, ska den följas upp så måste det ske på något helt annat sätt. (Märk väl att jag inte tar ställning i skuldfrågan, utan bara i det jag skriver om.)

Dels så vägrade aldrig Assange att förhöras, han erbjöd sig frivilligt att inställa sig hos svensk ambassad.
Något som alltid annars accepteras i likn ärenden, vilket ratades av Sverige. (Hett stoff för konspirationsteorier)
Någon på Svenska åklagarmyndigheten läkte lite väl mycket till pressen.(Ytterligare stoff för konspirationsteorier)
Att Sverige med nuvarande regering vid flertal gånger visats följa USA blint ger fog för rädsla, när flera politiker i USA kräver avrättning på Assange.

Wikileaks har gjort många stora och viktiga utsläpp. Men de har också gjort en del riktigt vidriga saker som det inte pratas om.
Bla så har de underlåtit att anonymisera angivare, så uppgifter om regimkritiker som redan innan levt under hot har fått vara kvar.
Undrar om de lever än?

Enskilda privatpersoner som inte har med makten att göra finns ingen anledning att sprida känslig info om.
Assange och Wikileaks kan gott lämna över till nya aktörer.

Det där om inställningsvägran minns jag för dåligt, men det var inte heller något sådant jag tänkte på. Ja, en måttligt utvecklad rättsstat, nu dessutom med reaktionär regim, som lyder USA eller annan stat som regelmässigt åsidosätter respekt för människors liv och lem ger alltid anledning till oro. Men dessa konspirationsidéer om själva anklagelserna, och denna sexistiska misstro mot kvinnorna och folks sätt att göra sig lustiga över Sveriges rättssystem av den anledningen, gör det tyvärr inte lättare för någon balanserad (verklig) demokrat att sätta tro till uppgifter om det som faktiskt finns att oroa sig för.
(Obs. återigen: jag säger inte att all tänkbar kritik mot kvinnorna måste fördömas för att den jag tänker på är sexistisk.)

En sådan sak borde de (Wikileaks den här gången, inte bara Assange) ställas inför rätta för. Var nu det skulle göras.

Samtidigt visar ju USA:s finansieringsbojkott och hot om dödsstraff hur viktigt det är att nya läckagekällor inrättas med det snaraste. Sådana som inte bara säger sig verka för öppenhet och demokrati utan också, trots och just på grund av svårigheterna i den sortens verksamhet, ger exempel på det.

Inte mot kvinnorna
Men den åklagare som trots att ärendet var nedlagt då det inte fanns misstanke om brott längre, väckte åtal direkt efter de offentliggjorde materialet.
Så det känns lite grann som köpt jobb av någon.

På tal om det, jag tror jag har förhörsprotokollen någonstans, jag fick ju tag i dem innan datorn havererade.
*Sneglar på backupdisken*

WikiLeaks ‏ @wikileaks

Everyone should follow the WikiLeaks twitter feed closely. Extraordinary news sometime in the next 96 hours.

Via BNO News Wire Service:

WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE
EMBARGOED EMBARGOED EMBARGOED

DO NOT DISCLOSE THE EXISTANCE OF THIS RELEASE
OR ANY INFORMATION DERIVED FROM IT BEFORE
Monday 27 February 00:01 GMT 2012

The Global Intelligence Files
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles
Twitter tag: #gifiles

OFFICAL PRESS CONFERENCE 12 hours after EMBARGO ENDS:
Monday 27 Feburary, noon, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, Paddington,
London, W2 1QJ.

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:

"[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 Fuck 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.


Public partners in the investigation:

More than 25 media partners (others will be disclosed after their first publication):

Al Akhbar – Lebanon – http://english.al-akhbar.com
Al Masry Al Youm – Egypt – http://www.almasry-alyoum.com
Bivol – Bulgaria – http://bivol.bg
CIPER – Chile – http://ciperchile.cl
Dawn Media – Pakistan – http://www.dawn.com
L'Espresso – Italy – http://espresso.repubblica.it
La Repubblica – Italy – http://www.repubblica.it
La Jornada – Mexico – www.jornada.unam.mx/
La Nacion – Costa Rica – http://www.nacion.com
Malaysia Today – Malaysia – www.malaysia-today.net
McClatchy – United States – http://www.mcclatchy.com
Nawaat – Tunisia – http://nawaat.org
NDR/ARD – Germany – http://www.ard.de
Owni – France – http://owni.fr
Pagina 12 – Argentina – www.pagina12.com.ar
Plaza Publica – Guatemala – http://plazapublica.com.gt
Publico.es – Spain – www.publico.es
Rolling Stone – United States – http://www.rollingstone.com
Russia Reporter – Russia – http://rusrep.ru
Ta Nea – Greece –- http://www.tanea.gr
Taraf – Turkey – http://www.taraf.com.tr
The Hindu – India – www.thehindu.com
The Yes Men – Bhopal Activists – Global http://theyesmen.org
Nicky Hager for NZ Herald – New Zealand – http://www.nzherald.co.nz

From: eisenstein@stratfor.com
To: "Marko Papic"
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 8:56:11 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: INSIGHT - SWEDEN: Carl Bildt

Believe grant Perry knows Bildt. Check with Grant if you need

Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 17, 2009, at 7:30 PM, Marko Papic wrote:

SOURCE CODE: SW501 (SW501 is a very well connected Swedish MEP with
extremely close links to both the FM Carl Bildt -- his closest ally
basically -- and the Balkans).
PUBLICATION: No
ATTRIBUTION:
SOURCE RELIABILITY: NA
ITEM CREDIBILITY: NA
SUGGESTED DISTRIBUTION:
SPECIAL HANDLING: Secure
SOURCE HANDLER: Marko

I got a lot of info on Carl Bildt. Our Swedish MEP contact is basically
his main ally. Bildt is apparently super tall, has photographic memory
and is very smart. He has a very rocky relationship with the current
Prime Minister because Reinfeldt was the youth leader of the Moderate
Party when Bildt was the Prime Minister briefly and the two did not get
along.

Bildt believes that Sweden should become a world power. He talks a lot
about the traditional sphere of Swedish influence in the Baltic (sort of
like our monograph). From his experiences in the Balkans he has decided
that he does not like Croats and Albanians.

He is also very critical of Russia. He called Putin a "chetnik" in the
middle of a meeting with an MEP group. He is essentially a personna non
grata in Moscow. He is also at odds with Sarkozy because before Sweden
received its EU Presidency he essentially told the French not to pull
the same stuff they did with Czech Republic.

He is very involved with enlargement. Sweden sees enlargement as a way
to break the German-Frenc stranglehold on the EU. His personal goal is
to see every Balkan state make one step forward towards accession during
his premiership.

I did meet his wife, who is also an MEP in the Parliament. She is
apparently Italian and does not speak really good Swedish, so she
couldn't get into the Swedish parliament. Instead, she campaigned for
the European and got in.

Obama förlorar valet

Och bildt får kanske lite smisk



http://www.stratfor.com/hacking-news