UPDATE: El Pais, Le Monde, Speigel, Guardian & NYT will publish many US embassy cables tonight, even if WikiLeaks goes down
4 minutes ago via web

From: http://twitter.com/wikileaks
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Wikileaks 'hacked ahead of secret US document release'

Source: BBC

Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks says it is under attack from a computer-hacking operation, ahead of a release of secret US documents.

"We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack," it says on its Twitter feed.

It adds that several newspapers will go ahead and publish the documents released to them by Wikileaks even if the site goes down.

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The newspapers set to publish details of the US embassy cables include Spain's El Pais, France's Le Monde, Germany's Speigel, the UK's Guardian and the New York Times.

Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11858637

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BREAKING NEWS 5:13pm UK, Sunday November 28, 2010

WikiLeaks Claim: 'We're Under Cyber Attack'

Alison Chung, Sky News Online

Thousands of potentially embarrassing US documents are due to be published by whistleblower website WikiLeaks - but the organisation says it is under cyber attack.

The secret files - believed to be the first batch of up to 2.7 million documents to be published - are expected to be released this evening.

But Wikileaks has written on Twitter: "We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack."

Sky News has been able to access the whistleblower website and news outlets that have already seen the documents insist they will go ahead in publishing the contents.

The internet relies on DNS. DNS translates names like "wikileaks.org" into an IP address used by computers. At the moment, wikileaks.org translates to 46.51.186.222

There's nothing to prevent changing that DNS record, and the US Gov't owns the 'root' DNS servers. So they could change it so that "wikileaks.org" comes back as 72.14.204.103 (google.com). Or any other address they felt like using.

Now, if you happen to know the old address for wikileaks, you could still get there. But if you didn't happen to save that (and who would?) then you're going to go to the new address.

Just listened to Hillary Clinton’s statement on the stolen cables and thought she did an excellent job minimizing any damage and basically saying the people who did this are not heros by any stretch of the imagination.

It reminded me that if the liberal dominated press had treated John Edwards like they would have treated any Republican, they would have exposed his affair earlier. Had they done that, his delegates would have swung to Hilllary and with her lead, the later states would have still likely voted for her in droves. If you recall, Obama lost many of the later primaries. As the Democratic nominee, she would likely have beaten McCain as well.  If she had, this silly Obamacare wouldn’t have happened and it’s doubtful the mega-bailout would have occurred. As it stands now, Obama is probably a one term President. All because creepy little Johnny got his tail covered by his media pals.

buttgoat1 wrote on 11/29/10 at 14:38:32:




Im gonna hafta call that
Funcky


Funny AND tacky, all at the same time..

thanks JOG
glad you appreciated it

its funny, barry once forced a political opponent to drop out of a race by suing to have his sealed divorce records unsealed, yet the chickensh1t has everything of his locked away,

oh, and in todays irony, low wage union members are losing theirs kids insurance:

"One of the largest union-administered health-insurance funds in New York is dropping coverage for the children of more than 30,000 low-wage home attendants, union officials said. The union blamed financial problems it said were caused by the state’s health department and new national health-insurance requirements"

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/11/20/union-drops-health-coverage-for-wo...

talk about morons, the SEIU made barry, and under the bus they go...
suckers........

OB's plan? Hell, the whole thing was written by insurance companies & Big Pharma, not our representatives & sure as hell not Bammy.


If OUR people wrote it, they could have explained it, Since no one in DC could actually explain what was in the bill, that pretty well says

We Didnt write it

now dont it?

Mick, it’s laughable to say Obama trusted Republicans……he strong-armed them from the beginning. It didn’t matter to him what the Republicans thought. (or his fellow Democrats for that matter) He took advantage of enough stupid Democratic congressmen to get the bill passed and then many of them lost their seat because of it.

Besides, as JOG said, the insurance companies wrote the bill to begin with. President Hopey-Change never let anyone in Congress get involved. That’s why they didn’t know what was in it, they were not significantly involved in its creation.  

How is a bureaucrat with no profit motive, but plenty of other motives, making your healthcare decisions is  preferable over a for-profit insurance company?