With World Watching, Wikileaks Falls Into Disrepair
Wikileaks’ submission process, which had been degraded for months, completely collapsed more than two weeks ago and remains offline, in a little-noted breakdown at the world’s most prominent secret-spilling website.
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- Wikileaks Closes Operations Temporarily Due to Budget Woes
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Too Scary to Fly, Not Scary Enough to Arrest
The government has not offered any explanation for plaintiffs’ “apparent placement” on the no-fly list or any other watch list.
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- Threshold for Getting Onto No-Fly List Lowered
- No-Fly List Includes the Dead
- Bombing Arrest Followed Law Enforcement Slip-Ups, Triumphs
- Professor: Bashing Bush Got Me on Watch List
- Portrait of A Young Airport Security Hacker
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/aclu-surveillance
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Welcome to the surveillance society.
That’s what the American Civil Liberties Union concluded Tuesday with a report chronicling government spying and the detention of groups and individuals “for doing little more than peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights.”
The report, Policing Free Speech: Police Surveillance and Obstruction of First Amendment-Protected Activity (.pdf), surveys news accounts and studies of questionable snooping and arrests in 33 states and the District of Columbia over the past decade.
The survey provides an outline of, and links to, dozens of examples of Cold War-era snooping in the modern age.
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- President Ford Approved Warrantless Domestic Surveillance
- Alleged Assassins Caught on Dubai Surveillance Tape
- Google Talks Transparency, But Hides Surveillance Stats
- Court Kills ‘Round the Clock’ Surveillance Case
- California Police Camera Surveillance Increasing
- Attorney General Pulls Immunity Trigger
- Court Says Bush Illegally Wiretapped 2 Americans
- Report: U.S. Surveillance Society Running Rampant
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100701/national/afghan_cda_mission_development
For the first time in decades, the Dahla Dam is channelling badly needed water into the Arghandab district's once-parched fields. During a recent flyover of the dam and its surrounding environs, lush green orchards resembling those in the Okanagan Valley could be seen for miles.
Some Kandahar locals have complained about the fact the province still doesn't have a reliable source of electricity, but Canada simply couldn't tackle every challenge, Rowswell said.
"We focused on a certain number of sectors, and that involves some tough choices."
William Crosbie, Canada's ambassador to Afghanistan, said he is often asked by Afghan journalists about what happened to all the international money that's been pumped into the country.
His answer is the people of Afghanistan themselves, who are getting vastly improved education and health care.
( Infrastructure allows leisure for education...from the pressing business of starvation and sickness. Water and power are both basic needs for any realistic modernization to take place. Otherwise...the dam becomes a time bomb for flooding. Repairs may delay that problem. )
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