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Wikileaks in danger of closing

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Like wikipedia, they are a nonprofit. Only, instead of collecting the mass knowledge of humans, wikileaks seeks to expose corrupt businesses and governments.

I, unfortunately, am broke. However, I will do what I can, and spread the word around.

“ … serves as an uncensorable and untraceable depository for the truth, able to publish documents that the courts may prevent newspapers and broadcasters from being able to touch. ”
— In praise of… Wikileaks – The Guardian, October 20, 2009

I’m sure there are many in goverments and businesses around the world that would love to see this website shuttered because they expose ugly truths that otherwise would not see the light of day. They’ve been involved in some pretty heavy-duty shit.

A copy of Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta – the protocol of the U.S. Army at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp – dated March 2003 was released on the Wikileaks website on 7 November 2007.[42] The document, named “gitmo-sop.pdf”, is also mirrored at The Guardian.[43] Its release revealed some of the restrictions placed over detainees at the camp, including the designation of some prisoners as off-limits to the International Committee of the Red Cross, something that the U.S. military had in the past repeatedly denied.[44] emphasis mine

So, they exposed a lie the US goverment told. They have faced legal challenge after legal challenge, and one of their spokepeople’s houses was raided in Germany. They are considered very dangerous. Knowledge, after all, is power. And power is dangerous to those who jealously hoard their own power over others.

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The way you phrase it.

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

In this NYT article, there is a photo, and then this caption:

A memorial for the 13 people shot at Fort Hood in Texas in November. It was the deadliest domestic terrorism attack of the year.

This article is actually about how, for the most part, “terrorist” activity in the US last year was disorganized, and, in part, armed by dud weaponry supplied by FBI informants. Later in the article, there’s this:

Exactly 14 of the approximately 14,000 murders in the United States last year resulted from allegedly jihadist attacks: 13 people shot at Fort Hood in Texas in November and one at a military recruiting station in Little Rock, Ark., in June.

So why the scary caption on the photo? It was the deadliest attack by 90+%.

The Internet continues to prove a powerful tool for radicalization, as long-distance propagandists stir the ire of young Muslims about American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Yeah, but for the most part, these retards on the internet are just retards on the internet, and nothing but bitching will come of it as they sip their lattes. Just remember they are young, and young people are dumb. They will make mistakes (one of them becoming the terrorist in the first place, i suppose) but I bet your chances of dying from non-al qaeda associated violence in your own home is higher than dying from al qaeda related violence anywhere in the world.

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Murderers sue to have names removed from Wikipedia

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

In July 1990, Sedlmayr was found dead and mutilated in his bedroom. Through lurid reports in the Munich tabloid press, his homosexuality became a matter of public knowledge for the first time. In 1993, half-brothers Manfred Lauber and Wolfgang Werlé, former business associates of Sedlmayr, were sentenced to life in prison for his murder. They were released on parole in 2007 and 2008.

Hey guess what you stupid idiots? Trying to change history or get your name and notorious crimes removed from the public knowledge gets you this: published everywhere. So go ahead, murderers Manfred Lauber and Wolfgang Werlé, sue me too. Sue me because you brutally murdered and mutilated Walter Sedlmayr and now want history to forget about it.

You two had life sentences and were released less than twenty years after your crime.

You can read about the details on the UK Guardian, who can’t publish their names because they publish a German edition.

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Why advertising fails on the intelligent

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

I wondered who was behind those stupid “residueisevil.com” commercials that’ve been showing up on Adult Swim (Hey, Adult Swim’s the highest rated channel on cable) lately. But I knew they were trying to get people wondering what it was to check it out. I knew it was some stupid cleaning product or something. So I googled it. It’s a deodorant thing from Old Spice.

But thanks to me understanding their tricks, some obscure internet forum got some ad impressions from me. What I’m most curious about, though, is exactly how effective such a trick is at generating A) pageviews and B) new sales.

And I’m guessing the answer is probably “depressingly effective.”

Also, I’d like to note that those health and beauty products are not government regulated. Despite the fact that your skin is the largest organ in your body and highly chemically permeable, there’s no safety standards for cosmetics.

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MANDOM

Friday, August 7th, 2009

About a minute in, shirtless Charles Bronson bathes, Axe-style, in this Japanese cologne called “MANDOM”

What I’d like to know, though, is where that manly pipe he was just gripping in his teeth moments before, when he flung grinning his shirt across the room with a manly pirouette? He has it in his mouth when he uncorks the MANDOM, but when he lifts the MANDOM in front of his manly cut chest, the pipe has disappeared.

It IS Charles Bronson though. Maybe he just ate that fucker.

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