That's the basic message Wednesday from secrets blog Cryptome, which published an essay outlining why the release of secret US State Department cables effectively struck a death knell to WikiLeaks as a service to the whistleblower community.
WikiLeaks as a secrets outlet was once a thriving, vibrant online community: a technology apparatus that allowed for the transmiss... (more)
I see nothing wrong with Wikileaks' media whoring, in fact, I think it was genius.
Regardless of how Wikileaks is run, competition is entering the Wikileaks marketplace. If Wikileaks drives itself into the ground, it won't matter because there will be multiple other Wikileaks ready to pick up the slack.
Incidentally, I don't think they're going anywhere, they'd have to be murdered in front of the whole world at this point. (Granted, that's a real possibility.) - Chris
P.S. One other thing I would add, the way they're demonizing Julian in the media is straight out of the cointel-pro documents. They talk about how the way to destroy a movement is turn someone into a figurehead and act as though that person "is" the movement, then demonize the person with endless accusations. They're following the book exactly.
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City workers destroy a Ford Explorer trying to free a snowbound front-loader in Brooklyn Heights, New York after the storm of 2010. The crazy thing here....the vehicle WAS....wait for it....A NYC Dept of Buildings city owned vehicle. I went down, I ... (more)
...The survey found that 70 percent of Americans think the leaks are doing more harm than good by allowing America's enemies to see confidential and secret information about U.S. foreign policy.
Just 22 percent think the leaks are doing more good than harm by making the U.S. government more transparent and accountable, the stated goal of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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We've heard the various stories of folks getting weapons past the TSA's new scanners -- such as Adam Savage's famous video from earlier this year, or the more recent report of a guy getting past the scanners with a 6" hunting knife. Both of those stories appeared to just be about the bag sca... (more)
I'm sorry but this is just so idiotic I couldn't not comment.
Your children are not your slaves, you don't own them, you don't control them, they're not your slaves.
What they choose to do with their lives is entirely their decision, they don't "owe" you anything and the purpose of their life is not to live up to your expectations and please you.
If "Miley" wants to smoke a bong, good for her, that's her choice to make, the more responsibility someone takes for their own life the better. - Chris
A member of a group of former intelligence professionals that has rallied behind WikiLeaks suggested in a recent interview with Raw Story that the world would be a different and better place had the online secrets outlet come into existence years sooner.
“If there had been a mechanism like Wikileaks, 9/11 could have been prevented,” Coleen Rowley, a former special agent/legal counsel at the FBI's Minneapolis division, told Raw Story in an exclusive interview. ... (more)
The increased amount of controversial full-body scanners at airports across the U.S. is a serious concern to many who will be flying over the holidays. Unfortunately, as we learned on last night’s episode of “Conan” the alternative search method (a manual pat-down) isn’t much more comforting. Conan brought a real TSA Agent to the show last night to demonstrate the pat-down method on an audience member, and let’s just say things got really weird, really fast.
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As a stray on the war-ravaged streets of Afghanistan, she had been shot by the Taliban and blasted by explosives. In fact, the plucky German Shepherd cheated death so often that U.S. soldiers named her Target.
She had even become a life-saving hero by sniffing out a suicide bomber on a military base. But, sadly, these dangers paled against the threat from a clerical error at a U.S. dog pound. An employee at the Pinal County facility was today on administrative leave after euthaniz... (more)
Ahh government! Next they'll be controlling your health care!
