http://www.ask.com/videos?ch=vid&l=dis&o=101881&pg=1&q=collateral%20murder%20wikipedia&qsrc=180
I remember seeing this and crying when I heard the laughing when these guys were talking......... children in van........ "That's what they get for taking kids to work." OMG!!!
Collateral Murder video
http://www.ask.com/videos/watch-video/collateral-murder-http-wikileaks-org/irl8ULzKL1RpHjL8LaSDPw?ver=11&domain=ask.com
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/apr/08/wikileaks-collateral-murder-video-iraq
EXCERPT:
Regardless, for many viewers the most shocking part is the chatter between the helicopter pilots. A Black Hawk pilot-turned-blogger, who uses the handle Starbuck, is harshly critical of the pilot's reactions during the action, for firing on those attending to the wounded, and for this:
Upon hearing that one of the victims is a young girl, the pilots laugh, "Well, it's their fault for bringing their kids to a battle".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Collateral_Murder
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/12/01/2010-12-01_julian_assange_wikileaks_founder_up_for_times_person_of_the_year_with_obama_pali.html
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, up for Time's 'Person of the Year,' with Obama, Palin and more
Originally Published:Wednesday, December 1st 2010, 1:25 PM
Updated: Wednesday, December 1st 2010, 11:35 PM
Updated: Wednesday, December 1st 2010, 11:35 PM
Ralston/Getty; Ericson/Getty; Wong/Getty
Pop singer Lady Gaga, Wikileaks' Julian Assange and ex vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin are all up for Time magazine's 'Person of the Year.' More than 90,000 readers have voted for the 39-year-old Australian, placing him in third place, alongside comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
Strangely, leading the pack is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey. And in second place is pop singer Lady Gaga.
"For better or for worse, Julian Assange has changed the accessibility to knowledge of the two wars that involve the U.S., within a matter of months," Lauren Zalaznick, president of NBC Universal Women and Lifestyle Entertainment Networks, told Time. "He has also put journalistic integrity on a knife-blade edge: What is the responsibility of the journalist to make public or keep private?"
Assange's whereabouts are unknown since WikiLeaks' latest release of more than 250,000 top-secret U.S. documents on Sunday. Interpol has put him on their wanted list in a separate issue involving Assange, who allegedly sexually assaulted at least one woman in Sweden. He has vehemently denied the charge.
The WikiLeaks founder is beating several candidates -- including news personalities, politicians, athletes and entertainers -- for the magazine's prestigious prize. On the list are Fox News' Glenn Beck (fifth place), former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (10th place), the Chilean miners (ninth place), basketball player LeBron James (22nd place), President Obama (sixth place) and the unemployed American (eighth place).
Time's editors will make the final decision, but if Assange wins, he won't be the first whistleblower to receive the award. In 2002, “The Whisteblowers,” made up of Cynthia Cooper of World Com, Sherron Watkins of Enron and Coleen Rowley of the FBI all won the prize after they blew the lid on their respective employers.
Of course, if he wins, Assange would also join some of the world's most hated figures including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Ayatollah Khomeini.
ashahid@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/12/01/2010-12-01_julian_assange_wikileaks_founder_up_for_times_person_of_the_year_with_obama_pali.html#ixzz17AYzAc00
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101112/en_afp/usmediamagazinesmilitaryinternetwikileakstime
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, up for Time's 'Person of the Year,' with Obama, Palin and more
Originally Published:Wednesday, December 1st 2010, 1:25 PM
Updated: Wednesday, December 1st 2010, 11:35 PM
Updated: Wednesday, December 1st 2010, 11:35 PM
Ralston/Getty; Ericson/Getty; Wong/Getty
Pop singer Lady Gaga, Wikileaks' Julian Assange and ex vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin are all up for Time magazine's 'Person of the Year.' If it were up to the magazine's readers, Julian Assange, founder of the controversial whistleblower website WikiLeaks, would certainly have a shot.
More than 90,000 readers have voted for the 39-year-old Australian, placing him in third place, alongside comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
Strangely, leading the pack is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey. And in second place is pop singer Lady Gaga.
"For better or for worse, Julian Assange has changed the accessibility to knowledge of the two wars that involve the U.S., within a matter of months," Lauren Zalaznick, president of NBC Universal Women and Lifestyle Entertainment Networks, told Time. "He has also put journalistic integrity on a knife-blade edge: What is the responsibility of the journalist to make public or keep private?"
Assange's whereabouts are unknown since WikiLeaks' latest release of more than 250,000 top-secret U.S. documents on Sunday. Interpol has put him on their wanted list in a separate issue involving Assange, who allegedly sexually assaulted at least one woman in Sweden. He has vehemently denied the charge.
The WikiLeaks founder is beating several candidates -- including news personalities, politicians, athletes and entertainers -- for the magazine's prestigious prize. On the list are Fox News' Glenn Beck (fifth place), former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (10th place), the Chilean miners (ninth place), basketball player LeBron James (22nd place), President Obama (sixth place) and the unemployed American (eighth place).
Time's editors will make the final decision, but if Assange wins, he won't be the first whistleblower to receive the award. In 2002, “The Whisteblowers,” made up of Cynthia Cooper of World Com, Sherron Watkins of Enron and Coleen Rowley of the FBI all won the prize after they blew the lid on their respective employers.
Of course, if he wins, Assange would also join some of the world's most hated figures including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Ayatollah Khomeini.
ashahid@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/12/01/2010-12-01_julian_assange_wikileaks_founder_up_for_times_person_of_the_year_with_obama_pali.html#ixzz17AabWO64
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
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http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N58/wikileaks_cp.html
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Volume 130 >> Issue 58 : Friday, December 3, 2010
Opinion: WikiLeaks serves the global community by keeping governments in
check
By Nils Molina
STAFF COLUMNIST
December 3, 2010
Nihilist and criminal labels aside, WikiLeaks has done a lot of good. In
2007, WikiLeaks published the Kroll Report, a secret report detailing
extensive government corruption by the richest man in Kenya, Daniel arap
Moi. The news came out shortly before the Kenyan national election and
received intense airtime on Kenyan TV. According to a Kenyan
intelligence report, the leak shifted the vote by 10 percent, changing
the result of the election.
In 2009, WikiLeaks published documents showing suspicious loans carried
out by the Kaupthing Bank just before the Icelandic financial crisis.
Public uproar over the banking procedures that WikiLeaks exposed
galvanized Iceland into enacting the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative.
The proposal, unanimously passed by the Icelandic parliament,
strengthened free speech protections, turned Iceland into an
“international transparency haven,” and established the Icelandic Prize
for Freedom of Expression.
In 2010, WikiLeaks released the “Collateral Murder” Baghdad airstrike
video. In the video, an American helicopter crew, mistaking a camera for
an RPG, kills two Reuters journalists along with other armed and unarmed
men. Soon after, three unarmed men rush out of a van to help a wounded
survivor and are promptly killed by the Americans. Finally, a few armed
men enter a building. The Americans destroy the building with missiles,
killing both armed and unarmed people. In its report, the American
military labeled everyone killed, except for the Reuters journalists, as
insurgents. The video clarifies what the U.S. military means by
“insurgent,” putting the war in a different light from a humanitarian
perspective. And from a strategic perspective, is killing Iraqi
civilians with overwhelming military force an effective way to establish
a peaceful, democratic Iraqi state?
WikiLeaks helped expose the looting of Kenya, the corruption of a
banking system and sloppy killings committed by the U.S. military.
WikiLeaks should be lauded for using truth to pressure these
institutions to re-evaluate themselves. Thinking that the U.S. military
does not need outside scrutiny to effectively serve the public is as
foolish as thinking that the MIT administration can by itself design a
good undergraduate dining plan. The entrenched bureaucracy that
generates military decisions can fail spectacularly, with history
providing examples ranging from the Vietnam War to the often irrational
Soviet military build-up. Leaking information that changes how one
evaluates a war is free press doing its job. Transparency matters.
In July, WikiLeaks released its most controversial leak yet, the Afghan
War Diary. Unlike children playing with fire, before the release
WikiLeaks’s volunteer journalists pored through the documents, trying to
minimize the harm they could cause. They withheld 15,000 documents
naming informants, with editor Julian Assange saying these will be
reviewed “line by line” to remove the names of “innocent parties who are
under reasonable threat.” Before public release, WikiLeaks provided The
Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel with the documents. All
three newspapers decided to publish the leaks, with Der Spiegel stating
that “the editors in chief of Spiegel, The New York Times and the
Guardian were ‘unanimous in their belief that there is a justified
public interest in the material.’”
U.S. officials responded to the massive leak by saying it endangers
countless lives. But so far there is no evidence that the leak has cost
a single American life, and recently a NATO official told the CNN there
had not been a single case of an Afghan needing protection because of
the leak. The Afghan War Diary enumerates casualties, reveals increased
Taliban attacks and examines Pakistani and Iranian involvement. In view
of the thousands of lives and trillions of dollars already lost in
Afghanistan, the grim picture the Diary paints for the public is far
more important than the unsubstantiated risks it poses to the current
U.S. military effort.
Only a month ago, WikiLeaks released a huge batch of documents related
to the Iraq War. The documents are still being processed. Already, the
Iraq Body Count project has identified 15,000 Iraqi civilian deaths from
the logs. Important information about torture, rape, murder and private
contractors is coming to light. For example, the leak suggests that
Danish soldiers knowingly handed over prisoners for mistreatment,
spurring Denmark to begin an investigation.
Keith Yost is correct in asserting a few of WikiLeaks’s documents go too
far. Publishing a study in 2008 detailing vulnerabilities in certain
U.S. countermeasures against IEDs was probably unjustifiably risky, even
though by then the U.S. had mostly phased out those countermeasures. But
focusing on these isolated, relatively insignificant details ignores the
big picture. Institutions, like the U.S. government, classify too much,
letting them hide wrongdoing. On the whole, WikiLeaks does the world a
great service by revealing the wrongdoing and pressuring these
institutions to improve.
The next big leak will reveal material from pharmaceutical companies,
finance firms and energy companies. Assange claims the leak will make it
easier to run a good business. For example, if businesses that cut milk
powder with melanin are exposed, Assange argues, other businesses will
not need to sell fake milk powder to remain competitive. Just like a
business, the government should respond to the leaks by becoming more
open and honest, better hiding the little information that must remain
secret and re-evaluating its bureaucratic activities. WikiLeaks is a
resilient and powerful organization of journalists. Designating it as a
terrorist group, as the incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security
Committee has suggested, or engaging in an expensive international
chase, as Keith Yost recommends, would be a public relations nightmare.
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