11-12-2010, 08:48 AM
Peter Presland Wrote:This thread is a doozy. Posts 373 and 374 from Jan and Ed above illustrate just how personally awkward this and similar issues can be. They are an object lesson in how to deal with such awkwardness in IMHO.
I read that Engdahl article yesterday on GS and agree; it makes for both uncomfortable and enlightening reading - induced cognitive dissonance I think is the approximate psycho term. I too keep all of Jan's possibilities on Assange open too
BTW - for info, I have now got a working mirror of the entire Wilileaks site up and running on Wikispooks: WikiSpooks Wikileaks mirror. That's well over 500 working mirrors now!
I was uncomfortable about using their form and giving WikiLeaks techies access to my server so I had to mount a DIY effort which was a bit of a struggle. I will refresh it to the latest release version this morning. Also, I intend altering the home page so that I can quickly point the various sections (Cablegate, Afghan Diaries, Iraq, collateral Murder etc), at the mirrors/archives of my choosing.
On a slightly ominous note, when I came to log on this morning I found the database server had crashed or at least was not running. It's NEVER done that before. There has been massive activity recorded in the logs but too soon to say if it was malicious yet.
Could well be malicious....it would be light work for the DIA or NSA computers to simultaneously do mischief to hundreds or even thousands of websites. Since they claim to be able to do denial of service and other ways of bringing down servers and sites en masse, if not universally, this is easy pickins. I think for now they don't want to have any such traced back to them...for now.
mokin:
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass