Wikileaks: Roundup Harder

fruitycuties.com. Hilarious.

NATO beats the same dead horse trying to have it both ways: "Wikileaks is putting people in danger by releasing information that isn't at all important".

Glenn Greenwald continues his work on being my favourite person on the internet by twitter feed alone. Set 'em straight, Glenn Old Boy.

Anonymous rips a hole in Gawker for sassing about 4chan. I didn't need another reason to be wary of those folks, but hey, here it is. Also Amazon went down in Europe for a while...but they say it's a hardware issue. Merry Christmas, online shoppers!

The Nation's weekend liveblog made me laugh out loud in public. "Vatican responds to damaging cables carried by The Guardian. Calls them 'unreliable' of course.   Surprised they aren't just trying to transfer them to another parish." You win, sirs.

Assange has a barrister working for him that's got an interesting track record... his cases tend to change the world.

Donald Rumsfeld, the Skeletor of US Foreign Policy, is publishing 100 previously-classified US gov documents to support his new book (which I'm not linking, because it's going to be ridiculous). He is quick to point out on Facebook that it's not at all like wikileaks. Mostly because he's Donald Rumsfeld, his agenda is not going to go against state-secrecy interests, and the US government will declassify whatever he tells it to. Surprise!

Steve Yelvington writes a media blog that talks about Five Sad Reasons the American Press Isn't Outraged. Read it, it's good. If you need more coercing, read this:

"The network news organizations are hollow shells speaking to dying audiences, fearful of accelerating their own demise by taking a stand...It used to be that telling a lie about a person or a corporation could get you into trouble. Now governments and corporations can claim injury when someone states a fact, and, stunningly, act to enforce silence without any judicial oversight." 

Crazy world, folks.