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This document is a classifed (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S. counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks.
"The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the U.S. government are providing
sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks.org cannot be ruled out". It concocts a plan to fatally marginalize
the organization. Since WikiLeaks uses "trust as a center of gravity by protecting the anonymity and identity of the
insiders, leakers or whisteblowers", the report recommends "The identification, exposure, termination of employment,
criminal prosecution, legal action against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistlblowers could potentially damage
or destroy this center of gravity and deter others considering similar actions from using the Wikileaks.org Web site".
[As two years have passed since the date of the report, with no WikiLeaks' source exposed, it appears that this plan
was ineffective]. As an odd justificaton for the plan, the report claims that "Several foreign countries including China,
Israel, North Kora, Russia, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe have denounced or blocked access to the Wikileaks.org website".
The report provides further justification by enumerating embarrassing stories broken by WikiLeaks--U.S. equipment
expenditure in Iraq, probable U.S. violations of the Cemical Warfare Convention Treaty in Iraq, the battle over the
Iraqi town of Fallujah and human rights violations at Guantanmo Bay. Note that the report contains a number of
inaccurances, for instance, the claim that WikiLeaks has no editorial control. The report concludes with 13 items of
intelligence to be answered about WikiLeaks.

Does anyone else have experience applying for jobs lately?

If Thomas Jefferson knew what passed for informed opinion in this country in 2010, he'd roll over in his slave.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

I saw this over at the BBC: A breakdown of traffic for the top 100 sites.

Their infographic was helpful, but it needed a slight correction. After careful study (many hard hours), I have concluded that this updated Infographic more accurately represents the traffic breakdown:

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Prior to 1982, a tap system operated where the government would set the interest rate and then supply bonds to investors up to demand. Sometimes investors did not take up as much as the Government desired. The extra funds came from contra entries in the RBA-Treasury accounts (the government borrowing from itself!).

Want to improve the look of your next photo or video, but don't want to spend big bucks to do it? Well, we've got you covered with these DIY projects, from the MAKE archives:

So I checked to see if our local one was online yet.

I, too, have been immortalised.  Well, my car has, driving along Lincoln Road.  Obviously, I knew where I'd seen the cameras  ;)