Hi all - I thought I would have a peek in here... since I am an expat after all.
I have been up pretty much all night on this leak - so it's time for a nap methinks. I am the founder of expatforums.org - a two year old site for english yapping expats in Europe. Most of the folks live in the Netherlands - as do I. I think this might be a good second home for me.
From Empire Burlesque - members of the "I'll Publish the al Jazeera Memo" group who had it up soon after the email came through from Blair Watch - the coordinators - who have assembled hundreds of bloggers to publish the the al Jazeera memo but gave us a trial run late last night. The link for the article and RSS viral watch Track this project virally in real time (well... almost) with an RSS scraper and comprehensive links to the blogs initially involved on both sides of the pond . It automatically searches for keywords related to the Murray Torture Telegrams (as opposed to the Downing Street Memos) on Technorati, Google News and Yahoo News UK, to give the latest updates on where the story is going and how it is being disseminated. This is an experiment of sorts as we are in a unique position to see the 'internet blog effect' of a leaking story which the MSM could not touch in the UK due to the draconian Secrets Act. It's essentially information warfare. Keeping people quiet is not as easy anymore when a former United Kingdom Ambassador for Uzbekistan can make a decision in a fraction in time - and six hours later tens of thousands of people have seen the evidence... it's unstoppable at that point.
From Empire Burlesque - members of the "I'll Publish the al Jazeera Memo" group who had it up soon after the email came through from Blair Watch - the coordinators - who have assembled hundreds of bloggers to publish the the al Jazeera memo but gave us a trial run late last night.
The link for the article and RSS viral watch
Track this project virally in real time (well... almost) with an RSS scraper and comprehensive links to the blogs initially involved on both sides of the pond . It automatically searches for keywords related to the Murray Torture Telegrams (as opposed to the Downing Street Memos) on Technorati, Google News and Yahoo News UK, to give the latest updates on where the story is going and how it is being disseminated. This is an experiment of sorts as we are in a unique position to see the 'internet blog effect' of a leaking story which the MSM could not touch in the UK due to the draconian Secrets Act. It's essentially information warfare. Keeping people quiet is not as easy anymore when a former United Kingdom Ambassador for Uzbekistan can make a decision in a fraction in time - and six hours later tens of thousands of people have seen the evidence... it's unstoppable at that point.
We have the very, very fresh Channel 4 interview with Murray streaming on the Empire Burlesque podcaster to help take some of the stress of BlairWatch. You can stream it on the page or download it. We use Loudblog Open Source software if anyone interested. Don't forget to check on our rss scraper - it's getting interesting now that the mainstream media is starting to pay attention. If you are blogging on this - Empire Burlesque is an excellent source for research. Atlantic Free Press
Welcome to eurotrib in any case!
PS - you are associated with Chris Floyd, right? In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
