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Clinton to Syria: Implement Reforms Now. U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is running out of time. Clinton, in a speech Monday, called on the Syrian president to implement genuine reforms after the reformers registered their biggest day of protests since the Syrian uprising began about four months ago. Clinton warned Assad that he would have more, organized resistance unless he allowed a genuine transition to democracy, guardian.uk reported Tuesday.
On Monday, Syrian authorities permitted an unprecedented opposition conference to take palce in Damascus, even as political analysts and regional officials continued to debate whether this marked a substantive move toward reform, or more mere superficial gestures by one of the most authoritarian, and human rights-violating, regimes in the world. Look, I mean, from our perspective, he [Assad] has lost legitimacy, Clinton said, ABCNews Radio reported. Earlier Tuesday, France condemned Syria and said the U.N. Giant body of water found in space. RFC - Act-on-ACTA. Billions meant for struggling homeowners may pay down deficit instead. By Pro PublicaThursday, August 25, 2011 20:52 EDT With housing prices dropping sharply, and foreclosure filings against more than 1 million properties in the first half of this year, the Obama administration is scrambling for ways to help homeowners.
One place they won’t be looking: an estimated $30 billion from the bailout that was slated to help homeowners but is likely to remain unspent. Instead, Congress has mandated that the leftover money be used to pay down the debt. RT Exclusive: Full Assange presser after UK court hearing (part 1/2) The Government Clampdown on Anonymous for ‘Operation Avenge Assange’ Widely reported yesterday was the arrest of sixteen individuals alleged to be members of the hacktivist group Anonymous, known engaging in cyber operations for political and social reasons.
The FBI raided homes seizing computers and computer-related accessories. The Justice Department claimed fourteen of the individuals had been part of the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on PayPal back in December 2010, when PayPal suspended WikiLeaks’ accounts making it impossible for the organization to receive donations via PayPal. The unsealed indictment accuses each of the various individuals arrested of conspiracy to commit intentional damage to a protected computer and aiding and abetting intentional damage to a protected computer. 07-23 From the Metroon to #WikiLeaks: People, power and the archive #wlcat. What is an archive?
What is its purpose? Timing of EAW and INTERPOL Red Notice - Sweden vs. Assange. Timing of EAW, Cablegate, and US reactions 27 October 2010: CIA can neither confirm nor deny records of plans to assassinate Julian Assange CIA Response to Assange Assassination FOIA 20 November: Sweden authorises Interpol to make a public Red Notice for Julian Assange 26 November 2010: Sweden issues an invalid EAW 27 November 2010: US State Department sends an intimidating letter in reply to a letter from Julian Assange, which requested input from the State Department to minimise harm in the light of the imminent Cablegate publication.
Political Interference - Sweden vs. Assange. What Does it Cost to Change the World?
Contents US and Sweden: Informal Talks about Assange Extradition to US since December 2010 Media reports that Wikileaks is planning what they describe as a "smear campaign" against Sweden. Good to know. expressen.se/nyheter/wikile… — Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) February 22, 2012. Counting the Dead in Afghanistan. The War in Afghanistan A military data set of civilian casualties, provided exclusively to Science, indicates that the war has become more lethal to the Afghan population, largely because of indiscriminate insurgent attacks.
Dangerous protectors. As the conflict in Afghanistan drags on, civilian casualties are increasing. New Court Filing Reveals How the 2004 Ohio Presidential Election Was Hacked. Lies Linking Social Security to the National Debt. Great #Vid ~The Plan #economy Don't rely on "money" #usdor Give Us a Year to Remember. #nowplaying ~ @dredeyedick ~ 26 July 2011 Wee Hours Playlist ~ #Music #JacksonBrowne #EltonJohn. How to Avoid Repeating the Debacle That Was the Space Shuttle. Good night, space shuttle.
Now that Atlantis is safely on the ground and astronauts will never again face the risk of flying in a space shuttle, maybe we can at last take a clear-eyed look at this disappointing episode in our nation’s history. This isn’t purely a historical exercise but a practical one—a cautionary tale showing how to avoid repeating the same mistake we made with the shuttle. When I say “we,” I don’t mean the people working on the craft, or NASA, or even our representatives in the U.S. government. BREAKING BURNING MAN NEWS: Burner Condemns BurnerMap, Schedules Map Burning. The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling - Atlantic Mobile. It's this one, from yesterday's New York Times.
Click for a more detailed view, though it's pretty clear as is. It's based on data from the Congressional Budget Office and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. View from 149249513 km above 42 7'N 89 20'W. Japan Passes Law To Cleanse Internet Of "Bad" Fukushima Radiation News - Jersey City Civil Rights. Japan has passed a law that will enable the police and contractors to monitor internet activity without restriction to "cleanse" the Internet of any "bad" Fukushima radiation news.
As I previous reported, Japan has officially ordered the censorship of any reporting of the truth about the Fukushima nuclear radiation fallout by ordering telecommunications companies and web masters to scrub any stories negative stories from the about the disaster. Japan Officially Orders Censorship Of Truth About Fukushima Nuclear Radiation DisasterThe government of Japan has issued an official order to telecommunications companies and web masters to censor reports which contradict the state media reports that the Fukushima nuclear radiation disaster is over.
#wlfind Give Us a Year to Remember, CrowdSourcerers. Over the past week, WikiLeaks has released 133,887 US diplomatic cables from around the world - more than half of the entire Cablegate material (251,287 cables). The new release was met with a sustained Denial of Service (DOS) attack during the first 36 hours. WikiLeaks had to rely on back-up servers for some hours. #wlfind Cable Digging and Discovery Tools compiled by @x7o @wikileaks #cablegate #wikileaks #news. Submitted by x7o on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 05:49 Wikileaks' Cablegate site is well laid out and easy to navigate, using the metadata navigation links on the left sidebar. This is the most up to date place to search for Cablegate material. Drawbacks: No search function. #wlfind Combined Custom Search US Dipolmatic Cables, #Afghanistan & #Iraq #Warlogs, & #WLCentral articles. Wlfind. Kabels.
Cablegate's cables: Full-text search. #cablegate #wikileaks torrents. Main page. Detecting gzip... LeakFeed - WikiLeaks API and RSS Feeds - Cablegate XML and JSON API. Main Page - WikiSpooks. Main Page - CableWiki. Wikileaks diplomatic cables, by OWNI. Fusion Tables. Browse all cables from WikiLeaks. Late Late Night FDL: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Twitter conversation with dredeyedick. The Cable Search WLFind Daily. Greek default almost certain, warns Moody's. Https-everywhere-0.0.7. Persona Management Software. From Aaron Swartz on April 28, 2011: Google Translate. Create a New World!" Episode 104: Headers, DDoS & Malware Movies Shoot the messenger: never trust 'FROM' headers: se. CRCFinalReportEmbargoed. JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech Part 2 - June 5 2008 JK Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech Part 1 - June 5 2008
Cenk Uygur "I Gotta Tell People The Truth! Which Is Democrats & Republicans Are Here To SCREW YOU!" Adventures of Polo: wordless picture book is a bedtime delight. Recent war vets face risk of homelessness. By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY Updated 7/26/2011 5:48 PM More than 10,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are homeless or in programs aimed at keeping them off the streets, a number that has doubled three times since 2006, according to figures released by the Department of Veterans Affairs. By Evan Eile, USA TODAY By Evan Eile, USA TODAY The rise comes at a time when the total number of homeless veterans has declined from a peak of about 400,000 in 2004 to 135,000 today. "We're seeing more and more (Iraq and Afghanistan veterans)," says Richard Thomas, a Volunteers of America case manager at a shelter in Los Angeles.
Greg Mitchell: White House Cover-Up: When Harry Truman Censored the First Hollywood Movie on the Atomic Bomb. One of the great tales of Hollywood "censorship" remains little known today, nearly 65 years after it transpired. And who was right at the center of it? None other than President Harry S. Who owns America? Hint: It's not China : Information Clearing House: ICH. 07-25 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Cablegate Releases & #WikiLeaks. This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression.
Lundbeck Won't Pull Controversial Drug. Fragmented sleep ‘harms memory’ 25 July 2011 Last updated at 17:20 ET. Oil giant BP sees $5.3bn profits. Cyber defence centres in Italy and Germany attacked, as US-CERT director resigns following attacks. July 26, 2011. Hero Bradley Manning. The # wankers Daily. Obama should act on his own. If Republicans in the House of Representatives continue to reject all responsible options for raising the debt limit, President Obama should assert constitutional authority to raise the limit on his own.
Saving the Euro: Sarkozy Gets His European Monetary Fund - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. In the end, there were important resolutions to announce after all. Secrets of the Legal Industry How WikiLeaks Books Came to Be Liberated & No Longer Categorized Under ‘Extremist Websites’ Dave Manchester: @Asher_Wolf SCOTUS ruled l... S.978. Who Needs NASA? Life as an Independent Astronaut - Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg - Technology. Nuclear scientist assassinated in Tehran, reports say - IRAN. Norway suspect laid out detailed plans for violence against "traitors," Muslims. Anders Behring Breivik saw himself as a holy warrior and crusader engaged in a war against a “Marxist-Islamist alliance” that he feared would take over Europe if not stopped. He hoped by his actions to inspire “thousands” to follow in his path.
He described himself as a “martyr” and “resistance fighter.” Why I Don't Support Enlistment in the US Military AMAZING SPEECH BY WAR VETERAN John Cornyn Would Destroy The Internet .. S.978. Thank you for contacting me about Senate Bill 978 (S. 978). The WLCentral Daily. The YASaves Report. WikiLeaks’ Struggle against Visa and Mastercard. In the initial days of a collaborative release of a database of 250,000 State Department cables by WikiLeaks and its media partners The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, El País, and The New York Times, WikiLeaks faced a wide spectrum of attacks on its infrastructure and financing.
On 7 December 2010, DataCell Ltd (which had been processing credit card donations to WikiLeaks since early Fall) announced that Visa Europe had contacted them requesting suspension of all donations to WikiLeaks, a request which DataCell refused at that point, stating that “there is no jurisdiction ground to do so.” In a statement to Dagens it, DataCell founder Olafur Sigurvinsson said that the donations to WikiLeaks from the day of 7 December alone would have amounted to €130,000. In a letter obtained by Associated Press, Teller’s chief executive Peter Wiren said. You hack, we shoot: Pentagon discusses armed counterstrikes to cyberattacks. The US Day of Rage Daily. #dr3d #in The Path Ahead @dredeyedick cc @dcmdailygroup (Originally published on presstorm,
The Revolution Truth Paper. The FixNSWLegal Daily. The Liam Fox Daily. Irreverence Cafe. Where's the Uproar? History Is Knocking: Join the October 2011 Coalition. The LookingGlass. The dcmDaily. Why McLuhan's chilling vision still matters today. World_4deg_warmer. Words DO Hurt EXCLUSIVE: An Interview With Former Guantanamo Detainee David Hicks. Sweden vs. Assange. InformationWeekTelex Promises Path Around State-Sponsored Net Censorship - security Blog. Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers. Video: The revolution will not be firewalled: Gabriella Coleman on the ‘hacktivist’ underground.
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