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[The Hot Word Blog] Wiki is the abbreviation of WikiWikiWeb, which was the first wiki software. It’s actually a Hawaiianword that means “fast.”

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[Countercurrents.org] War Revealed: WikiLeaks Releases 75000 Secret US Military Reports: When browsing through the messages, underlined abbreviations pop up an little explanation, when the mouse is hovering over it. The meanings and use of some shorthands have changed over time, others are sometimes ambiguous or have several meanings that are used depending on context, region or reporting unit.

[the buzz in news] All about Afghan War Diary (AWD) and logbooks: It got hugely popular in the world and people praised and applauded it a lot when it released the Afghan War Diary reports and the videos (uncensored) showing the US military that killed several citizens including the two reporters of Reuters. WikiLeaks’ releasing the 92,000 secret military documents have really shocked the world and due to this, the website had got hugely famous in the entire world.

[Registan.net] Talking Wikileaks in Afghanistan ”” Registan.net: found that the American-trained police force in Afghanistan is largely incapable of carrying out routine law enforcement work, and that managers of the $1.1 billion training program cannot say how many officers are actually on duty or where thousands of trucks and other equipment issued to police units have gone.” At best, stated the report, fewer than half of the officially announced number of police were “trained and equipped to carry out their police functions.”

[Something About The Law] UIDAI Leaks: By way of correction, Wikileaks is not associated with Wikipedia in any manner. It uses the system that relies upon community contribution and collaborative content, which we now know simply as Wiki.

[Defense Tech] Actually New York Times, Military Has Said The Taliban Use IR ...: new acronym sounds like a feminine hygiene product for men) like the SA-7 (or its successors) or the Stinger by claiming the aircraft were shot down by RPGs and ground-fire? if it has, then the Wikileaks documents are providing new information .

[Center a new Political Faction] The Multi-billion dollar industry of Social Network Spying ...: Why not list the ubiquitous "other" areas of concern to INDECT's secret state partners? While "hooliganism, terrorism, vandalism, etc.," may be the ostensible purpose of their "entity attributes identification" project, surely INDECT is well aware that such schemes are just as easily applicable to local citizen groups, socialist and anarchist organizations, or to the innumerable environmental, human rights or consumer campaigners who challenge the dominant free market paradigm of their corporate sponsors.

[Craig Murray] Craig Murray - A Ramsgate Blog: You seem to be confused or confounded by the changes in British society which on the one hand have produced more eating out opportunities for the Guardian reading classes and at least some hope to the homeless, poor and destitute from other lands. It’s this contradiction which is also apparent to those who support the aims of the BNP, which I understand is popular in parts of Kent on the blunt end of an open door mass immigration policy.

[Abu Muqawama] Wikileaks' Afghanistan adventure | Center for a New American Security: Sullivan on the info: "When one weighs the extra terror risk from remaining in Afghanistan, the absurdity of our chief alleged ally actually backing the enemy, the impossibility of an effective counter-insurgency when the government itself is corrupt and part of the problem, the brutality of the enemy in intimidating the populace in ways no civilized occupying force can counter, the passage of ten years in which any real chance at success was squandered .the logic for withdrawal to the more minimalist strategy originally favored by Obama after the [2008] election and championed by Biden thereafter seems overwhelming."

[The Global Awakening] EU social network spy system, INDECT. « The Global Awakening: that was leaked to wikileaks, describes development of an EU-funded intelligence gathering system (“INDECT work package 4″) designed to comb weblogs, chat sites, news reports, and social networking sites to in order to build up automatic dossiers on individuals, organizations and their relationships.

[Acronym Required] Wikileaks and the Churches - Hacking, Journalism, Government ...: Competing organizations in the *important leaked documents space* also criticize Wikipedia and the personal motives of Assange. The owner of Cryptome calls Wikileaks' mission corrupted by money.

[جمیل حسین کا بلاگ] Pakistan secretly helping Afghan Taliban; wiki leaks report, Pak ...: Under the heading “Afghan War Diary”, the revelations released by online organisation WikiLeaks emerged as Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned of greater NATO casualties in Afghanistan. The documents were provided first to The New York Times, Britain's The Guardian newspaper and German weekly Der Spiegel.

[Swampland] Another Wikileaks Exposure: The Lady Gaga-National Security ...: But the cost is far less than it will be if we get hit, for example, with a weapon that Saddam Hussein might provide to al-Qaeda, the cost to the United States of what happened on 9/11 with billions and billions of dollars and 3,000 lives. And the cost will be much greater in a future attack if the terrorists have access to the kinds of capabilities that Saddam Hussein has developed.

[Nemo235's Blog] Freedom of the press? « Nemo235's Blog: _qoptions={qacct:'p-18-mFEk4J448M',labels:'language.en,posttag.nonconformity,posttag.peace,posttag.politics,posttag.protest,posttag.violence,posttag.war,posttag.lies,posttag.obama,posttag.afghanistan,posttag.morals,posttag.tyrrany,posttag.injustice,posttag.freedom-of-the-press,posttag.the-consitution,posttag.wikileaks'};

[The Mahablog] The Mahablog » Not Really Secret: Someone on a website referred to NPR as National Pentagon Radio, and I certainly was struck by the way their unusually strict analysis of Wikipedia’s very being contrasted against their lesser discussion of its facts (some of which they admitted to), that NPR had not been terribly aggressive in ferreting out. Had NPR obtained these documents, would we even have heard of them?

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