December 2010
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Defense Department Wrongfully Discharges Nearly...
Defense_Department_Wrongfully_Discharges_Nearly_26,000_Veterans.pdf (45 KB) View this on posterousThe complaint, filed today at the U.S. District Court in New Haven by the Veterans Legal Services Clinic of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School, charges that, since the beginning of the Global War on Terrorism, DoD has systematically discharged nearly 26,000...
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Last Minute Gifts to Six Groups in Need of Help...
Last Minute Gifts to Six Groups in Need of Help This Christmas …a letter from Santa (Credit: flickr user kevindooley) 1 of 1 By Michael Moore Ho! Ho! Ho! And a Merry Christmas to you all! It’s that time of year again and I’ve been so busy making Xboxes and E-readers and blankets with arms in them that I sometimes forget...
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How Unequal Are We?
Inequality Index · Percentage of U.S. total income in 1976 that went to the top 1% of American households: 8.9. · Percentage in 2007: 23.5. · Only other year since 1913 that the top 1 percent’s share was that high: 1928. · Combined net worth of the Forbes 400 wealthiest Americans in 2007: $1.5 trillion. · Combined net worth of the poorest 50% of American households: $1.6 trillion. ·...
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WTF? OMG, LOL! CIA gives WikiLeaks taskforce...
The CIA has formed a WTF unit to deal with any fallout from the WikiLeaks disclosures. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters/Corbis The CIA has launched a taskforce to assess the impact of 250,000 leaked US diplomatic cables. Its name? WikiLeaks Task Force, or WTF for short. The group will scour the released documents to survey damage caused by the disclosures. One of the...
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Congress passes aid package for 9/11 responders...
WASHINGTON — Congress has passed a $4.2 billion aid package for survivors of the September 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and responders who develop illnesses because of breathing dust from the ruins. The House passed the bill on a 206-60 vote Wednesday about two hours after the Senate cleared it. President Barack Obama has said he is eager to sign it. The package provides money...
Message From Critical Resistance;It's time to STOP...
Dear Allies and Anti-Prison Activists Nation-Wide, please help critical resistance new orleans (cr-nola) spread this video! right now it is vital that we stand in solidarity with all people standing up to the state demanding lasting social change. solidarity with the striking prisoners in georgia should inspire you to do more than just sign a petition (but you should definitely sign the...
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Columbia j-school staff: WikiLeaks prosecution...
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism faculty and officers tell President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder that “while we hold varying opinions of Wikileaks’ methods and decisions, we all believe that in publishing diplomatic cables Wikileaks is engaging in journalistic activity protected by the First Amendment” and that “as a historical matter, government overreaction to...
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Napolitano Says DHS to Begin Battling Climate...
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) (CNSNews.com) - At an all-day White House conference on “environmental justice,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that her department is creating a new task force to battle the effects of climate change on domestic security operations. Speaking at the first White House Forum on...
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NYPD trains to counter Mumbai-style terror attack
Earlier this month the New York Police Department ran an anti-terrorism exercise simulating an attack on the city. But it was an exercise with a difference, the Wall Street Journal reported in its Tuesday edition. A team of terrorists unleashed a coordinated series of bombings and gun attacks around the city in the simulation. At one point, terrorists attacked New York police officials...
FBI accused of planting backdoor in OpenBSD IPSEC...
In an e-mail sent to BSD project leader Theo de Raadt, former NETSEC CTO Gregory Perry has claimed that NETSEC developers helped the FBI plant “a number of backdoors” in the OpenBSD cryptographic framework approximately a decade ago. Perry says that his nondisclosure agreement with the FBI has expired, allowing him to finally bring the issue to the attention of OpenBSD...
Appeals court: warrant required before Feds can...
The government must obtain a valid search warrant before infiltrating your e-mail in a criminal investigation, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. The appeals court ruled Tuesday on US v. Warshak, noting that e-mail “requires strong protection under the Fourth Amendment,” and that law enforcement can’t demand for an ISP to give up e-mail with just...
WikiLeaks Wars Is StarWars (video)
Julian Assange is Luke Skywalker. If you don’t believe it now, you will before the end of this fantastic video. (5:07 great minutes) ***************************************************************************** via gaia-health.com Posted via email from Street_Visuals | Comment »
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Mass Rape in the Congo - The Top 10 Everything of...
The U.N. has called the Democratic Republic of Congo the “rape capital of the world,” and with good reason. Sexual violence against vulnerable civilians has become a standard tactic of the combatants in a brutal civil war that has raged for more than a decade and claimed more than 5 million lives. Limited international appetite for engagement with an apparently endless horror story...
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Assange issues plea from jail for his supporters...
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has issued a plea from jail for his supporters to keep fighting. THE founder of WikiLeaks has issued a plea from jail for his supporters to keep fighting, accusing Visa, Mastercard and Paypal of being instruments of US foreign policy. In a world exclusive statement provided to the Sunshine Coast Daily via his mother, Julian Assange said he was...
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Day 3 of Historic Prison Strike in Georgia-Blacked...
Former Black Panther Party chair Elaine Brown has been on the case keep[ing everyone up to speed on this historic Prison Strike in GA.. Click HERE to listen to interviewOn Thursday morning, December 9, 2010, thousands of Georgia prisoners refused to work, stopped all other activities and locked down in their cells in a peaceful protest for their human rights. The December 9 Strike became the...
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WikiLeaks - not so dull, after all | Gideon...
In previous posts, I dismissed WikiLeaks as not such a big deal. Well, that was obviously wrong. I argued that everybody already knew that - for example - Nicolas Sarkozy is vain or Russia is a brutal and corrupt place, so the cables did not add much to the sum of human knowledge. But that was wrong on two counts. First, there is a difference between an idea being conventional wisdom in the...
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Personal Democracy Forum Presents: A Symposium on...
Watch live streaming video from pdfleaks at livestream.com Posted via email from Street_Visuals | Comment »
Naomi Wolf: Espionage Act: How the Government Can...
This week, Senators Joe Lieberman and Dianne Feinstein engaged in acts of serious aggression against their own constituents, and the American people in general. They both invoked the 1917 Espionage Act and urged its use in going after Julian Assange. For good measure, Lieberman extended his invocation of the Espionage Act to include a call to use it to investigate the New York Times, which...
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Watch: "WikiRebels – The Documentary" and Demand...
via svtplat.se Julian Assange supporters plan protests worldwide People hold images of Julian Assange in front of their faces at a demonstration in Brisbane, Australia. Photograph: Steve Gray/EPA Protests will be held around the world today against the detention of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Demonstrations are planned in the capitals of Spain, the Netherlands,...
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The case of a hacker with Asperger's threatens the...
Briton Gary McKinnon leaves the High Court in central London on Jan. 20, 2009. (Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images) LONDON, United Kingdom — Within the high gossip of state revealed in the WikiLeaks State Department cables being published this week is something that touches on one small, important story that has the ability to damage the relationship between the United States and Britain. ...
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WikiLeaks Assange given web access
Reuters SUPER-GEEK: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Relevant offers Wikileaks editor-in chief Julian Assange has been transferred to the segregation unit of a UK prison where the authorities are planning to give him limited access to the internet. The Guardian reported that Assange met his legal team after being sent to Wandsworth prison on...
World For All People / Beautiful Beginning
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Chavez to camp in Gaddafi tent as rain evacuees...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez plans to govern temporarily from a tent given him by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi after inviting families made homeless by recent torrential rains to live in his palace. The worst rains in a decade have wrought havoc in South America’s top oil exporter, killing more than 30 people and leaving homeless more than 100,000 people from coastal villages and...
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Fascism ( Recognize it)
Over at Rense.com they have printed a list of the defining characteristics of a fascist state. The list was compiled by Dr. Lawrence Britt, who studied the fascist states of Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Franco’s Spain, Suharto’s Indonesia and several Latin American fascist regimes. He found that all of them had the same 14 characteristics, which are listed...
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More than 80 Groups Demand Real Net Neutrality |...
More than 80 organizations and businesses are today urging Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski to enact real Net Neutrality rules, not the empty compromise the chairman has proposed. The letter highlights five key areas in the rules that should be improved to protect the free and open Internet. The Commission is slated to vote on Net Neutrality on Dec. 21. The...
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The Internet Society Statement on the Wikileaks...
Recently, we have witnessed the effective disappearance from the Internet of a website made infamous through international press coverage and political intrigue. The Internet Society is founded upon key principles of free expression and non discrimination that are essential to preserve the openness and utility of the Internet. We believe that this incident dramatically illustrates that those...
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WikiLeaks: Julian Assange Getting Messages Of...
Picture of Assange on the website’s homepage Julian Assange, being held over alleged sex offences in Sweden, was refused bail at an extradition hearing earlier this week. He could be in jail until at least his next appearance in court on Tuesday. Assange was arrested as WikiLeaks continues to release secret cables from US embassies. A source at the prison said that among...
2010 Comparing Open Source Content Management...
FULLY REVISED IN DECEMBER 2010! We’ve taken our popular 2009 report comparing four free and open source systems — WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone — that can help you to build and manage a website, and completely updated it to the newest versions of the systems. We provide both a feature summary and detailed reviews, as well as a directory of consultants. Which are...
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UN Climate Change Delegates Support Prank Petition...
I’ve got to hand it to the folks at the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. They‘ve come up with a creative new way to expose the scientific ignorance of many of today’s climate change fanatics. In a Penn & Teller-style prank, CFACT asked attendees of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Cancun, Mexico, to sign two different petitions. The first asked participants to...
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Sen. Reid and Obama donors back company seeking...
WASHINGTON — Top Democratic fundraisers and lobbyists with links to the White House are behind a proposed wind farm in Texas that stands to get $450 million in stimulus money, even though a Chinese company would operate the farm and its turbines would be built in China. The farm’s backers also have close ties with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who, at the height of his...
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Cuba opens up... with or without the United States...
By Heather Berkman In September, we noted that Cuba was likely on the verge of major economic reforms, given a struggling economy and Raul Castro’s announcement of state-worker layoffs, agricultural reforms, and the granting of licenses for some types of self-employment. Since then, Cuba’s president has laid the groundwork for an upcoming April 2011 meeting of the ...
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NAB still using misinformation to defeat low-power...
One call from you could stop a big corporate lobby group from killing the future of community radio. For 10 years, a movement of pastors and firefighters, civil rights groups and musicians have fought to put media in the hands of our communities in the form of low power FM (LPFM) radio stations. These stations saved lives after Hurricane Katrina and have put hundreds of churches, schools,...
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DNS Provider Mistakenly Caught in WikiLeaks Saga...
A DNS provider that suffered backlash last week after it was wrongly identified as supplying and then dropping DNS service to WikiLeaks has decided to support the secret-spilling site, offering DNS service to two domains distributing WikiLeaks content. EasyDNS, a Canadian firm, was attacked last Friday after media outlets mistakenly reported it had terminated its service for WikiLeaks. The...
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Assange not alone: Russia wants the Nobel, Lula...
Assange not alone: Russia wants the Nobel, Lula defended him, and the UN said he was not pursued. Posted on 09 December 2010 by jesus Russia has asked several non-governmental organizations to take into account the figure of Assange “as a candidate for the Nobel Prize.” Services of Long Island A Day www.Lialdia.com Lula As pointed out by...
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Visa & MasterCard: KKK Is A-OK, But Wikileaks Is...
Well, it looks like we can add Visa to the list of companies pressured into no longer working with Wikileaks, following a similar move by MasterCard. At least, unlike MasterCard, Visa isn’t already claiming that Wikileaks was convicted of a crime. Instead, it’s just said that it’s suspended any work with Wikileaks “pending further investigation into the nature of its...
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PayPal Releases Funds to WikiLeaks | Tricia Duryee...
PayPal has just released the remaining funds in the account associated with WikiLeaks today, after restricting access to the account last week, according to a PayPal blog post. The release of funds follows a number of denial-of-service attacks earlier this week that were aimed at the document-leaking site’s providers. Most of the providers are now refusing to work with WikiLeaks after the U.S....
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Icelandic company feels heat from Visa and...
Datacell, a website hosting company in Iceland and Switzerland, says it is under increasing pressure from outside sources including Visa and Mastercard, to stop hosting the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks. This despite the fact that it is just one of many companies hosting Wikileaks around the world, and that Datacell has thousands of other customers besides Wikileaks. In an extended...
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Attorney: Julian Assange Endangered by Bail Denial...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will remain in custody until at least December 14 when a British court will take up a Swedish request for extradition. Assange hasn’t been charged with a crime, but is wanted for questioning in Sweden on allegations of unlawful sexual contact with two women. Assange has maintained his innocence and called the case a political witch-hunt that has...
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Accuser in WikiLeaks saga has ties to Cuban...
The bizarre saga of WikiLeaks yielded an arrest and yet another unexpected wrinkle on Tuesday: One of the Swedish women who has accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes was revealed to be a supporter of Cuban dissidents. Anna Ardin’s links to Cuba were posted on several websites Tuesday after Assange surrendered in London to answer a warrant issued for his arrest by...
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Julian Assange: Aftonbladet's 'Inside Story' A...
A timeline including excerpts of case testimony. STOCKHOLM (Radsoft) — Aftonbladet claim to have a copy of the Assange case files. They’ve published a special supplement to their hardcopy edition with details of the Assange case they’ve not revealed online. Aftonbladet is a tabloid - meaning they arbitrarily mix truth with fiction and hyperbole. Their articles are at best...
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Vote For Julian Assange (WikiLeaks Founder)- Who...
Use the slider to rate influence Thanks! POST MY VOTE TO 100 1 50 100 Least influential Most influential Dan Kitwood / Getty He is a new kind of whistle-blower: one made for the digital age. Those before...
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Standing FIRM: Vigils for the DREAM Act Today
With a vote on the DREAM Act expected to come as early as Wednesday, grassroots groups throughout the country are organizing vigils Tuesday night to show their support and solidarity with DREAMers everywhere. Candlelight vigils are being planned in California, Washington, Kansas, North Carolina, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, New York, Arizona, Oregon, New Mexico, Colorado, Iowa and other...
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GOP strike deal to extend Bush-era tax cuts for...
President Obama, while acknowledging the disappointment within his own party, announced Monday that he has agreed to sign a two-year extension of all of the Bush-era tax cuts. Obama addressed reporters after meeting with Democratic leaders and said he reluctantly agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans in exchange for a 13-month extension of unemployment insurance benefits....
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Pirate Party of Germany helps Wikileaks
In a spontaneous action, the Pirate Party of Germany as their Swiss sister ensure that press freedom in the form of Wikileaks maintained. In http://wikileaks.piratenpartei.de is the whistleblower website accessible immediately. “Right now found a cyber war going,” says Wolfgang Duddy, the board of the Pirate Party of Germany. “It all technical approaches will be...
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Nebraskans For Justice call for national...
Tariq Al Amin of Nebraskans For Justice issued call for COINTELPRO reconciliation commission The Nebraskans For Justice, a citizen action group founded to provide litigation support to the Omaha Two, has issued a “Call to Action” urging a national COINTELPRO reconciliation effort. Operation COINTELPRO was an illegal and clandestine program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation directed at...
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Tea Party Caucus Takes $1 Billion In...
via Youtube Members of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus may tout their commitment to cutting government spending now, but they used the 111th Congress to request hundreds of earmarks that, taken cumulatively, added more than $1 billion to the federal budget. According to a Hotline review of records compiled by Citizens Against Government Waste, the 52 members of the caucus, which pledges...
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Dirty Little Secrets in NYPD's Internal Affairs...
Ashlei Quinones Persecution complex: The Internal Affairs Bureau at 315 Hudson Street C.S. Muncy Filing a lawsuit as “John Doe,” a gay detective in IAB says he is constantly harassed. C.S. Muncy Detective Michael DePaolis is in official limbo as he is watched by IAB cameras while he works. C.S. Muncy Detective Michael DePaolis ...
Fights Over Medicaid Could Threaten New...
Photo by Aldo Cavini Benedetti Politics might be bad for your health. As the state confronts huge budget deficits, Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo will almost certainly face enormous pressure to slash spending on health care, particularly the Medicaid program for low-income people. So it may come as a surprise that one expert and key player in state health care policy, Richard Gottfried, who...
Exclusive: TSA frisks groom children to cooperate...
Exclusive: TSA frisks groom children to cooperate with sex predators, abuse expert says An expert in the fight against child sexual abuse is raising the alarm about a technique the TSA is reportedly using to get children to co-operate with airport pat-downs: calling it a “game”. Ken Wooden, founder of Child Lures Prevention, says the TSA’s...
Google Charges Government $25 to Spy on You; Yahoo...
Google is said to receive “tens of thousands” of requests annually from the United States government to turn over user data, and it may come as a surprise for the “Do no evil” company, but they will happily comply with any request they deem legitimate. Of Google is a business, so they won’t do it for free, but they won’t charge an arm and a leg either. ...