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Wikileaks news
December 9, 2010 at 4:18 am
1. Julian Assange is currently the top candidate for Time Magazines "Person of the year" as voted by the readership. Even when only paid subscriptions are taken into account (which is what Time colud be pressured into doing) Assange is still the most popular...
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packag...37,00.html
2. It now seems that the IP addresses and name resolution for hundreds of wikileaks mirrors are being prioritized by search engines  Google is rumored to be updating wikileaks records more frequently than those of resources in it's own domains - Taking wikileaks offline just became that much more impossible.
3. China is having it's own peace prize to spite the Nobel award going to an imprisoned Chinese national, and there is a lot of support for Assange to win this award to spite the US. I'm not sure if he'd be happy about that with China being a human rights disaster and all...
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RE: Wikileaks news
December 9, 2010 at 4:46 am
The chance of china awarding a prize to a champion of government transparency is approximately equal to the chance of genesis being true.
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RE: Wikileaks news
December 9, 2010 at 5:07 am
The suggestion was from a state media official in China, obviously suggested to piss off the USA, I just thought it was interesting
I just checked and it appears I missed the announcement It went to a General involved in Tienanmen.
Bravo china, you scary enormous cunt of a nation.
*UPDATE*
It gets worse... The prize was awarded by a U.N. Undersecretary General for Economic and Social Affairs...
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RE: Wikileaks news
December 9, 2010 at 6:16 am
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Daniel Ellsberg praises Wikileaks.
Quote:Ellsberg strongly rejects the mantra "Pentagon Papers good; WikiLeaks material bad." "That's just a cover for people who don't want to admit that they oppose any and all exposure of even the most misguided, secretive foreign policy. The truth is that EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time."
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RE: Wikileaks news
December 9, 2010 at 1:30 pm
WikiLeaks: Texas Company Helped Pimp Little Boys To Stoned Afghan Cops
Quote:Since this is Afghanistan, you probably already knew this wasn't a kegger. Instead, this DynCorp soiree was a bacha bazi ("boy-play") party, much like the ones uncovered earlier this year by Frontline.
For those that can't or won't click the link, bacha bazi is a pre-Islamic Afghan tradition that was banned by the Taliban. Bacha boys are eight- to 15-years-old. They put on make-up, tie bells to their feet and slip into scanty women's clothing, and then, to the whine of a harmonium and wailing vocals, they dance seductively to smoky roomfuls of leering older men.
After the show is over, their services are auctioned off to the highest bidder, who will sometimes purchase a boy outright. And by services, we mean anal sex: The State Department has called bacha bazi a "widespread, culturally accepted form of male rape." (While it may be culturally accepted, it violates both Sharia law and Afghan civil code.)
Evil & for once not Islam's fault!
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RE: Wikileaks news
December 9, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Last I read Anonymous wanted to hack Amazon but couldn't raise enough computers to do so. They are encouraging people to download their hacking software, personally I wouldn't do it. The Iraq War whistleblower Coleen Rowley, a former special agent/legal counsel at the FBI's Minneapolis division says WikiLeaks could have prevented the Iraq War.
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RE: Wikileaks news
December 9, 2010 at 4:00 pm
(December 9, 2010 at 2:38 pm)lilyannerose Wrote: Last I read Anonymous wanted to hack Amazon but couldn't raise enough computers to do so. They are encouraging people to download their hacking software, personally I wouldn't do it. The Iraq War whistleblower Coleen Rowley, a former special agent/legal counsel at the FBI's Minneapolis division says WikiLeaks could have prevented the Iraq War.
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What did we know about the Iraq WMD program? We didn't have humintel to inform us. We had Saddam making threats to use what he had used before. How is Rowley's career working out now?
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RE: Wikileaks news
December 9, 2010 at 4:54 pm
(December 9, 2010 at 4:00 pm)Mishka Wrote: What did we know about the Iraq WMD program? We didn't have humintel to inform us.
We had Hans Blix, the UN's WMD inspector saying that they didn't have WMD.
(December 9, 2010 at 4:00 pm)Mishka Wrote: How is Rowley's career working out now?
Just fine, really.
Quote:Rowley testified in front of the Senate and for the 9/11 Commission about the FBI's internal organization and mishandling of information related to the September 11, 2001, attacks. Mueller and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) pushed for and got a major reorganization, focused on creation of the new Office of Intelligence at the FBI. This reorganization was supported with a significant expansion of FBI personnel with counterterrorism and language skills.[citation needed]
Rowley retired from the FBI in 2004 after 24 years with the agency. She jointly held the TIME "Person of the Year" award in 2002 with two other women credited as whistleblowers: Sherron Watkins from Enron and Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom. She also received the Sam Adams Award for 2002.[citation needed]
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RE: Wikileaks news
December 9, 2010 at 10:53 pm
(December 9, 2010 at 4:54 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: (December 9, 2010 at 4:00 pm)Mishka Wrote: What did we know about the Iraq WMD program? We didn't have humintel to inform us.
We had Hans Blix, the UN's WMD inspector saying that they didn't have WMD.
(December 9, 2010 at 4:00 pm)Mishka Wrote: How is Rowley's career working out now?
Just fine, really.
Quote:Rowley testified in front of the Senate and for the 9/11 Commission about the FBI's internal organization and mishandling of information related to the September 11, 2001, attacks. Mueller and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) pushed for and got a major reorganization, focused on creation of the new Office of Intelligence at the FBI. This reorganization was supported with a significant expansion of FBI personnel with counterterrorism and language skills.[citation needed]
Rowley retired from the FBI in 2004 after 24 years with the agency. She jointly held the TIME "Person of the Year" award in 2002 with two other women credited as whistleblowers: Sherron Watkins from Enron and Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom. She also received the Sam Adams Award for 2002.[citation needed]
We had taps of Iraqi communications between military units about moving material in advance of inspector visits. How does Rowley, who hasn't been an agent for 6 years, figure into the Iraq war scheme of things? Her participation was of the so called 20th hijacker captured and how the FBI wouldn't search his computer till after 9/11 occurred? Where was she ever involved in the foreign intel concerning Iraq?
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RE: Wikileaks news
December 10, 2010 at 5:26 am
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(December 9, 2010 at 5:07 am)theVOID Wrote: The suggestion was from a state media official in China, obviously suggested to piss off the USA, I just thought it was interesting
I just checked and it appears I missed the announcement It went to a General involved in Tienanmen.
Bravo china, you scary enormous cunt of a nation.
*UPDATE*
It gets worse... The prize was awarded by a U.N. Undersecretary General for Economic and Social Affairs...
It actually appears to have been awarded to a politician from Taiwan who was in favor of china. But that politician did not show up to accept the award.
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