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Pentagon Seeking Out Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange 628

Posted by timothy from the just-a-few-words dept.
a user writes "The Pentagon is desperately seeking the 'cooperation' of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in order to stop him from releasing over 250,000 pages of confidential foreign policy documents. The documents were allegedly provided to Assange by Bradley Manning, the same solider who leaked a video showing a US Army helicopter killing unarmed civilians and international press correspondents."
Government

Submission + - Wikileaks Founder, Hunted By Pentagon, Hit Squad? (huffingtonpost.com) 5

Submitted by linzeal
linzeal writes: The US government has been giving signs in the past 48 hours that it is increasingly worried that Wikileaks may be on the verge of publishing a batch of up to 260,000 secret State Department cables involving raw commentary on Middle Eastern leaders, investigators are searching for founder Julian Assange to no avail. Early this morning the Wikileaks twitter page posted the following. " Any signs of unacceptable behavior by the Pentagon or its agents towards this press will be viewed dimly. " than 2 hours later announced that Julian would be appearing at an .investigate journalism conference in Las Vegas tonight, but did not show up. Daniel Ellsberg, the military analysis who leaked the infamous Pentagon Paperssuggested the pentagon might be willing to kidnap or kill him to keep him quiet. Nixon allegedly organized a hit squad for Ellenburg with the threat to " totally incapacitate him on the steps of the capital building " and since Obama has given orders for an extra-judicial execution of an American citizen abroad there is a worrying reality that the US is willing to use force to control those whose actions would incite violence against the United States. Whatever is in those cables may be worth killing over.
Transportation

Submission + - Hydrogen car to be open-source

Submitted by krou
krou writes: The BBC is reporting that a hydrogen car that can go 80km per hour and can travel 322km before refueling is to go open-source. The company behind the car, Riversimple, claims they are distributing the engineering designs to the 40 Fires foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which will make them open source. "The idea, they say, is to allow local manufacturing in small plants .. designs can be adjusted for local markets, using locally sourced parts or materials [and the] agreement will be such that if the designs are improved by a local manufacturer, those improvements will be sent back" to improve the production line. The car only weighs 350kg, is made of carbon fibre composites, has no combustion engine, gearbox, or transmission, and "its four motors are powered by a fuel cell rated at just six kilowatts". "Riversimple's solution is to power the car also from so-called "ultracapacitors", which store large amounts of electric charge and, crucially, can release that charge nearly instantly to provide the power needed to accelerate from rest. The ultracapacitors are charged as the vehicle brakes to a halt, converting the energy of the moving car into stored energy." Riversimple have also partnered with gas company BOC to install hydrogen stations in areas where prototypes of the car will be launched.

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