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According to a 2010 Wikileakscablefrom Doha, Qatar, the US government has previously had a say in what content appears on theAl Jazeerawebsite. The cable documents a meeting between Al Jazeera’s Managing Director, Wadah Khanfar, and US government officials, referred to only as PAO. PAO met 10/19 with Al Jazeera Managing Director Wadah Khanfar to discuss the latest DIA report on Al Jazeera and disturbing Al Jazeera website content. Khanfar is preparing a written response to the DIA points from July, August and September which should be available during the coming week....

Apple organised a team headed by a former FBI special agent in 2008 to address the escalating problem of the manufacture and selling of knockoffs of its products in China, according to an electronic memo from the Beijing Embassy leaked by Wikileaks,as reported by CNN. John Theriault, who now heads Apple’s global security unit, has previously had success in cracking down on the manufacture of counterfeit Viagra in Asia as Pfiezer’s security chief....

Wikileakstodayposted a conteston Australian design crowdsourcing website99designs, asking designers to try their hand at creating the non-profit’s next official t-shirt. The contest follows Wikileaks’launch of an online storeearlier today, where the t-shirt will be sold to raise funds to keep the site up and running. While crowdsourcing has been known to generate controversy in some quarters, it seems an appropriate way for a non-profit, particularly one that survives on the volunteer participation of sources from around the world, to give its users a hand in creating part of the Wikileaks brand....

Despiteawaiting extraditionto Sweden on sexual assault charges, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is still the subject of much media interest. Russia Today (RT) interviewed Assange, getting his viewpoint on political unrest in Egypt and Libya, particularly probing what the Wikileaks founder makes of social media’s roles in the recent revolutions in both countries. In his interview, Assange focuses particularly on Facebook calling it the “most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented”....

A Swiss whistleblower has handed documents, which he claims contain details of widescale tax evasion, toWikiLeaksfounder Julian Assange at a press conference in London this morning. The documents are said to contain details of wealthy individuals and organisations from the US, Europe and Asia who are using the secretive nature of the Swiss banking system’s offshore Cayman Islands accounts to avoid paying tax in their native countries. The data has been handed to WikiLeaks by Rudolf Elmer, a former Swiss banker who previously handed a much smaller cache of banking data to Assange’s organisation in 2008....