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WikiLeaks Gives $15k To Bradley Manning Defense 321

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 13, 2011 @12:36PM from the gonna-be-brutal dept.

wiredmikey writes "The Web site supporting Bradley Manning, the Army soldier charged with leaking a massive number of US classified information to WikiLeaks, posted an announcement on its site today, saying that WikiLeaks had transferred $15,100 to the legal trust account of Manning's attorney. WikiLeaks has been publicly soliciting donations specifically for the expenses of Manning's legal defense following his arrest in May 2010. The contribution by WikiLeaks brings the total funds raised and transferred to Bradley's civilian legal defense team, led by attorney David Coombs, to over $100,000. Supporters say that a 'vigorous defense' for Manning is estimated to cost $115,000."

Submission + - Arizona Shooing Due To Failed Mental-Health Policy (wsj.com)

Submitted by sackvillian on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @06:30PM

sackvillian writes: With widespread speculation on the possible factors leading to the recent shooting of US Congresswoman Giffords and 18 other victims, Dr. E. Fuller Torry suggests the blame should be placed on failed US Mental-Health policy."These tragedies are the inevitable outcome of five decades of failed mental-health policies. During the 1960s, we began to empty the state mental hospitals but failed to put in place programs to ensure that the released patients received treatment after they left. By the 1980s, the results were evident — increasing numbers of seriously mentally ill persons among the homeless population and in the nation's jails and prisons."

Submission + - Media Abandon Tunisia to Twitter, YouTube (readwriteweb.com)

Submitted by juicegg on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @06:29PM

juicegg writes: The shortcomings of the so-called mainstream media have become something of a stale trope. Traditional media does some things well, other things poorly, vice-versa for blogging and other social media. But the neglect of the situation in Tunisia by the media in general, and American media in particular, is beyond the pale.

Since a young Tunisian, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire on December 17 to protest conditions in his North African country, and the country went up in flames, most Western, and all American media has been unearthly silent.

Submission + - Tunisian gov't spies on Facebook - does the U.S.? (itworld.com) 2

Submitted by jfruhlinger on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @03:01PM

jfruhlinger writes: Tunisians logging into Facebook encountered extra JavaScript, probably a sign of their repressive government's attempt to spy on them. The question is: does the U.S. government do the same thing, just more subtly? We're not talking about agents friending you on Facebook to get more information about you; we're talking monitoring your supposedly private information behind the scenes.

Submission + - Revolt and Censorship War in Tunisia (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by juicegg on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @02:24PM

juicegg writes: Massive protests have erupted in Tunisia against unemployment and political oppression. In response, the government has step up Internet censorship and has blocked access to Facebook. Additionally, police have "kidnapped" members of Pirate Party Tunisia. Supporters are concerned that anti-censorship activists could be harmed.

Comment Crappy facebook broken link, sorry. (Score 1) 1

by juicegg on Friday January 07, 2011 @03:10PM (#34794662) Attached to: Pirate Party Members Kidnapped by Tunisia Police

Sorry, the link is broken can some admins fix it: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=184949728200130

Submission + - Pirate Party Members Kidnapped by Tunisia Police (facebook.com) 1

Submitted by juicegg on Friday January 07, 2011 @02:48PM

juicegg writes: Currently the government of Tunisia, a small country on the north coast of Africa, is facing intense protests against corruption, lack of freedom and unemployment. The government has responded by tightening it's censorship of the Internet and with repression against the protesters. Yesterday, three member of Tunisian Pirate Party, which is currently fighting to circumvent censorship, were arrested without a warrant and their computers were confiscated. No one, including their families, knows where they are being held and there are reasons to believe they could be tortured.

More information about Tunisian protests can be found here.

Submission + - Zimbabwe govt websites hit by pro-WikiLeaks DDoS (sophos.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 31, 2010 @04:22PM

An anonymous reader writes: Pro-WikiLeaks hacktivists have struck a blow against the-powers-that-be in Zimbabwe, bringing down three government websites through denial-of-service attacks.

The distributed-denial-of-service attacks appear to be in support of newspapers who published secret cables in the ongoing WikiLeaks saga, to the annoyance of the-powers-that-be in the country. Grace Mugabe, wife of Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe, was recently reported to be suing a newspaper for $15 million after it published a WikiLeaks cable that claimed she has benefited from illegal diamond trading.

The Zimbabwe government's online portal at www.gta.gov.zw and the official ZANU-PF website continue to be offline, and the Finance Ministry's website now displays a message saying it is under maintenance.

Comment Re:Nothing for us furrinners? (Score 1) 750

by juicegg on Monday October 25, 2010 @07:29PM (#34019366) Attached to: Excitement about U.S. mid-term elections:

Some folks who don't think there is any point to voting wrote an article on that idea: "You mean they actually vote for Lizards?"

UK Scientists Leave Labs To Protest Expected Cuts 315

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 10, 2010 @05:05AM from the labour-practices dept.

uid7306m writes "The UK government is planning an austerity budget, in the wake of the financial crisis and banking bailouts. This involves a 25% overall cut in the government budget, and the indications are that it will hit UK science and university budgets strongly. In response to this, a campaign has started that has managed to get scientists out of their labs and into the streets."

Submission + - First US Resistance to Outsourcing in WV (huffingtonpost.com)

Submitted by juicegg on Monday September 20, 2010 @02:31AM

juicegg writes: When a group of programmers and other IT professionals learned that their employer, the Office of Technology for state of West Virginia, was planning to outsource Information Services their reactions were mixed. For the most part employees accepted this as inevitable, but a handful of IT pros decided to take unprecedented action to stop outsourcing of their jobs. They contacted United Electrical Workers (UE) Local 170, which represents other public employees, and started organizing a political pressure campaign against the state. They reached out to all 600 state IT workers and organized a rally of 75 IT professionals on the Capitol Complex. On Tuesday, September 14th, IT workers spoke to a joint House and Senate subcommittee against outsourcing. It seems like their efforts have been partially successful as West Virginia is moving to audit the outsourcing plans at the Office of Technology .

Submission + - 4chan DDOS... BPI's turn!

Submitted by ThePeopleNotPig on Monday September 20, 2010 @02:07AM

ThePeopleNotPig writes: The "Operation" appropriately called "Payback is a Bitch" which was launched the other day against MPAA and Aiplex Software( http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/09/18/2016207/DDoS-From-4chan-Hits-MPAA-and-Anti-Piracy-Website ) and the new target is The British Recorded Music Industry( http://bpi.co.uk/ ).

(It's currently up: 1AM CST) But has been going up and down for about an hour now and if they have their way it will stay down for enough time to get some T.V. media coverage(If it is still going when people wake up!).

Submission + - Captain Obvious Fact: Tobacco Smoke is Bad for You (colonista.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 20, 2010 @01:52AM

An anonymous reader writes: We all know it by now: smoking is bad for you. The chemicals and additives in cigarettes contribute to lung cancer. Additionally, there's a connection between tobacco smoke and colorectal cancer. The smoke delivers carcinogens to the colon, which increase polyp size. The larger a colon polyp becomes, the higher the risk of it developing into cancer.

Submission + - Beam me up, VM World (solarwinds.com)

Submitted by SukhdeepS on Monday September 20, 2010 @01:27AM

SukhdeepS writes: Welcome to the Geek Speak Blog authored by Josh Stephens. Read his thoughts on technical topics in the areas of network management, network engineering, systems management, security, and etc. The blog will evolve over time, based upon your feedback. Let us know your thoughts and if there are specific topics that youd like to see discussed in the future please send your ideas to headgeek@solarwinds.com

Comment Re:I Hate to Be the One to Point This Out (Score 1) 604

by juicegg on Wednesday June 02, 2010 @06:09PM (#32438058) Attached to: 'Peak Wood' Offers Parallels For Our Time

As far as I see it communism (lowercase) is a movement and a form of society that abolishes (exchange) value. Actual existing Communism (USSR being best example) most certainly did not abolish valuing human endeavors in proportion to material things - workers were paid wages and exchanged that money for a portion of the products they produced. The Communist state did everything it could to accumulate this exchangeable material wealth (capital) in forms that would allow it to stand up and challenge the better accumulated capitalist rival states. Stuff like infrastructure, industry, etc. You could say the Communist countries had some deformed sort of capitalism with the state as a single buyer/seller. It worked fairly well (in terms of capital accumulation, not in life quality for workers) for USSR's early development, but it couldn't keep up with free market capitalism in the end.

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