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Wikileaks Says It Has Half-a-Million 9/11 Pager Messages
The document-leaking site Wikileaks says it’s preparing to release 500,000 intercepted wireless pager messages from a 24-hour period encompassing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Site operators say they plan to start rolling out the texts beginning at 3:00 a.m. New York time, paced to display as they were broadcast at the corresponding time on September 11, 2001.
Continue reading »Christine ‘3 strikes’ Albanel fired
In the continuing French ‘three-strikes’ farce, entertainment industry minister of culture Christine Albanel, who’s been fronting it for president Nicolas Sarkozy, Hollywood and the Big 4 music labels, has been fired “as part of broader government reorganization”. She’s replaced by writer and TV producer Frédéric Mitterrand (right) who is, by an amazing coincidence, the nephew of former French president François Mitterrand, says Billboard . HADOPI’s ‘three strikes’ is finally buried ,” wrote Jérémie Zimmermann, director of La Quadrature du Net in Paris.
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