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WikiLeaks ‘Afghan War Diary’
An panic investigation to find out who leaked tens of thousands of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan to WikiLeaks has been launched by the US military. Said the whistle-blower site on Sunday > > > 25th July 2010 5:00 PM EST WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary, an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers, and mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related details.
Continue reading »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 »Hacktivists ransack Hitler defender’s email
David Irving’s private musings bared Self-proclaimed anti-fascist hackers have struck a major blow at controversial World War II historian David Irving by taking down two of his websites and publishing scores of his emails and private information.…
Continue reading »EU vote opens the way to 3 strikes law
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The bitter war between online communities and the entertainment cartels has just been escalated. With the EU parliament scheduled to vote on a controversial EU telecom reform package, member states agreed to add a new paragraph, “prohibiting national authorities from excluding users from the internet without a court order,” p2pnet reported in May. However, in a move that in political doublespeak is being hailed as a ‘victory’ for consumers, and at the 11th hour, the clause, which would have protected people from the depredations of the Hollyood and the major record labels, has been drastically watered down.
Continue reading »Germany says ‘No!’ to 3 strikes law
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Do you think the cartels have an actual war-room — a dark, dank place where they do their futile plotting and planning? Their Three Strikes bidniz plan has absolutely no chance of any long-term success. It looks good in mainstream press corps(e), largely owned and/or directly or indirectly controlled by elements of the entertainment industry, but when it hits the streets, it’ll splatter right back into the faces of the politicians behind it, and Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Disney, News Corp, Time Warner, Viacom, NBC Universal and Sony Pictures.
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